Chapter 854: Three Thousand Prisoners
But unfortunately, even if they tried their best, they had a huge disadvantage in numbers, so under the command of Xiao Huaijing and several generals under his command, the first deserter appeared in the rebel army with heavy casualties!
Relying on absolute superiority and fast speed, the cavalry pursued the rebels and fled with the crushing power of extremely fast war machines!
From time to time, a few cold arrows will be released, how can these rebels who are only wearing cotton cloth or tattered clothes resist these almost invincible crossbow machines in a short range!
In this way, the entire battlefield suddenly fell into a one-sided situation, Li Mi took a deep breath at this time, he had already experienced the humiliation of the three generals being captured, and the shock caused by the arrogance of the opponent's cavalry!
And the anger of his own soldiers being killed, and now he finally felt the fear!
"I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it to have such an impact on the battle situation! !
Li Mi once carefully deduced that if Zhang Xutuo commanded this war, he would definitely crush it with absolute troops, and this would be able to achieve his purpose of containing the other party!
And if Xiao Huaijing commanded this battle, it could even drag time for an hour through grappling!
By then, the number of soldiers crossing the river behind him would have exceeded 5,000, so that he could fight head-on with the cavalry and infantry that appeared in the Tiger Prison Pass!
But he never expected that this battle would be commanded by Emperor Yang Guang of Sui, and from the very beginning when the two generals fought, Emperor Yang Guang of Sui was looking for his flaws and arranging tactics!
The capture of the three generals ignited the fuse of the inevitable defeat of the war, and Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty sent carefully prepared heavy cavalry, and the two charges scattered the elite of Li Mi's men.
And before Li Mi could react, behind Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, there were archers to suppress them from a distance, and the infantry continued to advance at this time, they actually charged to the center of the army first, and then counter-encircled and suppressed outside!
This is no longer a tactical mistake, which can affect the direction of the battle situation, and can even be called a complete crushing of tactics and strength, but these rebels are just ordinary people!
Now they have been bewitched by these literati and have lost their lives on the battlefield, and these people are facing such fast-paced command tactics, roots
There's no way to deal with it!
These soldiers can only choose to flee for their lives, and this kind of thing has happened, and the terror will spread, so that the whole army is completely thrown into chaos!
Many soldiers don't know where the general is, and the general's orders cannot be given to their own soldiers!
Therefore, the situation on the battlefield is one-sided, and more than 1,000 civilian cavalry led by Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty have already come to the rear army where Li Mi's army is located, and at this moment, it seems that no less than 2,000 infantry are coming here to support!
On the opposite side of the hazy riverbank, there were many soldiers pushing small boats to jump into the water, seeing this situation, Emperor Yang Guang of Sui frowned.
"Where is Wang Kuishan!"
Wang Kuishan immediately caught up from behind, his eyes swept over what was happening in front of him, and he turned his head and said to Emperor Yang Guang of Sui!
"General Xiao, these rebels are very fast, and now the number of infantry crossing the river is probably more than four thousand, once these people participate in the battle, I am afraid it is likely to bring us a lot of unexpected trouble!
Are we going to stay and exterminate these more than a thousand people left in the wilderness, or do we go up and fight these people! ”
Zhou Jie shook his head slightly when he heard this!
"There are more than 1,000 people on this wasteland who are not worried, and the order is passed down, so that the whole army can be stabilized, and the generals of the Tiger Prison Pass will gather to the Chinese army!
Then send an order to inform the cavalry and heavy cavalry we have sent out, so that they can join me as soon as possible!
The rest of the people let the sword and shield hands in front and form a defensive formation!
Send someone to get all the crossbow arrows from the city at once, and we'll wait for the next opportunity to shoot these rebels who have come ashore!" ”
After Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty finished speaking, Wang Kuishan took it to heart, and immediately conveyed the order, and then a drum sounded!
Several large drums were beaten on the chariot behind Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, and the heavy cavalry on the battlefield, as well as the scattered infantry, after hearing this sound, immediately left all the chasing enemies and quickly converged here
The cavalrymen who were chasing the deserters also stopped their pursuit and gathered in this direction
One of the rebels was terrified, because the blades of the opposing cavalry were already fast
I'm going to cut on his neck!
But at this critical moment, the sound of war drums suddenly came, and the knife in the cavalryman's hand suddenly crooked by three points, and he didn't even fancy him!
At the same time, the cavalry cursed in his mouth, and then immediately thought that the direction of his own military camp would gather!
The rebels escaped with their lives, and at the critical moment, the enemy gave up the pursuit!
A burst of surprise flashed in the rebel's eyes, where did he dare to stay, he threw down all the things that hindered his speed with a hula, and fled in the direction of the river bank with a puff of smoke!
Only a few hundred cavalry commanded by Li Mi were still resisting to the death!
But it's a pity that even if they have the means to resist, they can't delay for longer!
Therefore, there was no way to reverse the situation of inevitable defeat, and at this time, Li Mi let out a long sigh, he already knew that the other party would not care about these soldiers he sent to contain the cavalry!
The other party's purpose is to prevent most of the soldiers and horses from meeting, and as for the people he sent out to intercept, in Xiao Biao's eyes, I'm afraid it's really just snacks!
If he had nothing to do, he might have taken a bite, but once he was hosted, he felt that it was a waste of time to even glance at it!
Li Mi let out a long sigh, now he was isolated by Emperor Yang Guang of Sui under the riverbank and the tiger prison, and the remaining people under his hands did not exceed five hundred, even if he had strategies and abilities far beyond ordinary people, it was difficult to exert his wisdom!
And he saw that Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty once again put out a barrel formation, which can be said to be the most effective defensive formation on the battlefield, once Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty formed such a formation, unless Zhishilang Wang Bao wanted to start a decisive battle!
Dispatch at least 6,000 people, otherwise it will be difficult to break through the opponent's formation!
And if you choose such a way of fighting, it is very likely that Yang Guang, Emperor Yang of Sui, will seize the opportunity and come forward to harass him from time to time!
Over time, the White Horse River will be completely turned into a rebel graveyard!
Lin Li, at this time, already knew very clearly that the value and power he had now were very small!
If he provoked Emperor Yang Guang of Sui at this time, it would really be the way to die, so he quietly retreated to the rear of the army and commanded the only remaining people to come to the side of the battlefield!