Chapter 1097: Pursuing while Victory
The soldiers beside Jin Yibei suddenly said to him: "General, look." As he spoke, he pointed to the north.
Jin Yibei turned his head to see that the cavalry of the Sui army had already rearranged about one hundred and fifty paces away, a military horn sounded, and the cavalry phalanx of the opposing party began to jog, and those Sui army special combat reconnaissance cavalry with very strong personal combat strength retreated towards the infantry formation one after another.
Jin Yibei couldn't help but shudder, he didn't think much about it, according to this style of play, as long as there were two more rounds, he would have to lose all his people, and the young master who was sitting in Annan County would definitely eat him, and the most important thing was that he had no confidence to win, and now he had to leave here quickly.
However, the opposing cavalry had just rushed through their entire cavalry team, and instead occupied the north side, and they had to pass through their blockade, and if they fled from the hills on either side, the enemy would easily take the official road ahead of them, and the team would be completely scattered in those difficult terrains. If you just want to bypass them, these cavalry occupying the inner line are not slow, and a direct flank attack on them will be more deadly than a frontal charge.
So even if he didn't want to, he had to rush hard with the other party again, and the other party's step formation was less than two hundred steps, so he had to leave as soon as possible, otherwise he would fall into a realm of no return, and I was afraid that no one would be able to run at that time.
Jin Yibei was also a general in the army in the early years, and later committed an accident, was rescued from the prison by Yuan Taizuo, became a general, and recently found an opportunity to make him come, so Jin Yibei is also experienced in a hundred battles, at this time quickly thought of a way, and said loudly to the two pro-soldiers around him: "Blow the trumpet, follow those who can follow, and those who are dragged will not wait, they will all rush behind the Lao Tzu banner, don't pull away......"
Goguryeo's horn sounded differently from the Great Sui, and the flag of Kim Yibei moved to the north, and some officers howled, causing nearby subordinates to follow the banner of the commander-in-chief.
There were more than 300 scattered Goguryeo cavalry surrounded between the infantry and cavalry of the Sui army, and there were hundreds of Goguryeo rangers on both wings who began to fight and rise. After the approach of the infantry phalanx, they began to flee far into the flank.
However, some of these rangers were extremely strong, they ignored the entanglement of the special combat team's reconnaissance cavalry, dismounted with casualties and attacked the two wings of the Sui cavalry formation with their rifles, they knew that the long-range damage to the scale armor was not great, and they were all aimed at the horses they were riding, so that seven or eight people were shot down at the edges of the two wings of Wei Chi Jingde's cavalry array.
The hundred-step distance quickly disappeared, and among the people shouting and neighing, it was another round of cavalry collision, Jin Yibei took the assembled more than 2,000 cavalry to concentrate on the assault, these veterans of a hundred battles have learned from the previous experience, and the interval between the front and back is larger, so as to avoid being blocked by the chaos caused by the collision.
Jin Yibei personally took the lead, with his own soldiers as the front, and opened the gap with his life, but the opposing cavalry still maintained the formation and passed by, and did not fight with them.
The cavalry of Wang Junlin's side in the fourth row got out of the way and used a burst of crossbows to aim at the Goguryeo cavalry, and the Goguryeo cavalry fired back with a wave of light arrows, and the large array broke away, leaving more than 500 people behind, and fled north without stopping.
At this point, they had more than 3,000 cavalry, and at this time there were less than 2,000 left.
The cavalry phalanx led by Wei Chi Jingde continued to speed up, crossing the hillside like an iron brush, and the Goguryeo cavalry who were dragged by the special combat reconnaissance cavalry were already powerless, and they almost became a single soldier. After being combed by Wei Chi Jingde, none of them are still alive.
More than 1,700 cavalry from the Goguryeo siege fled to the north, and they had only come from there a quarter of an hour earlier, and the Goguryeo rangers on both wings saw that they had been abandoned, and no matter how strong they were, they did not dare to stay, so they jumped on their horses and galloped desperately. In fact, they ran faster, realizing that the situation was not good as early as the completion of the first round of assault, and many Goguryeo cavalry, frightened by the indomitable ferocity of the Sui army, made an early detour to the north on both flanks.
Wang Junlin said something to Zhang Tiangang, and the latter personally led more than 400 special combat teams to gallop out, abandoning the Goguryeo rangers who were scattered and fleeing on both wings, and rushed ahead of the cavalry phalanx of Wei Chi Jingde, who was reorganizing and turning around, and pursued the main Goguryeo force along the official road.
At this time, Luo Chunlai rushed to the battlefield with 5,000 officers and soldiers of the Naval Division, killed more than 100 wounded Goguryeo soldiers who begged for mercy one by one, and then began to carry the wounded on his own side.
Wei Chi Jingde withdrew to the north slope and restarted the whole team, and the two rounds of the attack fell more than 1,200 Goguryeo cavalry, and the main formation of Goguryeo's fierce spirit was damaged by nearly half in the blink of an eye, plus the losses of those guerrillas, this Goguryeo army was lost by nearly half, and the rest were also bent on fleeing for their lives, and it was no longer an organized combat force in the short term.
This bandit-born cavalry howled excitedly, they were killed and wounded and fell off their horses only more than 130 people, the cavalry hedged and fought so that everyone was in a state of confrontation at any time, everyone was on the edge of life and death twice, and those who survived naturally needed to be soothed.
After a moment of relief, Wei Chi Jingde ordered the remaining trumpeters to blow the assembly trumpet and wait for Wang Junlin's order. Sure enough, Wang Junlin's order arrived quickly: "Your Excellency has an order, General Wei Chi immediately pursues the whole team, and cooperates with the special combat team to bite the enemy's tail so that he does not dare to enter the city." ”
Wei Chi Jingde agreed, and gave a loud order to his detachment leader, only to find out that only nine of his twelve detachment leaders were left, and the other three were injured or killed, it is not yet known, the detachment leader rushed to the front, and held a flag gun, which was originally the focus of the enemy's attack, and the proportion of three dead and wounded was actually very small.
Wei Chi Jingde had been the leader of the bandits for four or five years before this, and he had already seen a lot of casualties, so he had no time to be sad at this time, so he temporarily appointed several outstanding squad leaders as team leaders to supplement the command system.
At this moment, Wei Chi Jingde's heart was full of admiration for Wang Junlin, although he knew that this cavalry combat method should be very good, but he did not expect that the effect would be so good, and now he was full of great confidence, thinking that Goguryeo would be defeated sooner or later, and now he needed to expand the results in the pursuit.
A marching horn sounded, and Wei Chi Jingde led the cavalry phalanx to restore quiet, and marched in turn to the north in pursuit.
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When Lu Han and Guan Xiaotong also headed towards Da Luo City with their respective men and horses, the soldiers of the Luo Chunlai Naval Division came and went around the battlefield, and they were carrying the wounded and corpses of their side to twenty steps away, so that the medical soldiers there could take care of them. Although there is a lack of more effective medicines, as long as the wounds are properly cleaned, their survival rate will be much higher than that of other armies of this era.