3. Catch the flying birds
Lee Hee-yeol's eyes were bleeding.
The front part of the dummy army that was cut off, three or four hundred of his dummies, most of them were the children of the Pinglu army who crossed the sea (during the Daizong period, a Pinglu army entered Huaixi from Ziqing, constituting the backbone of the army in Huaixi Town, Li Xilie, Wu Shaocheng, etc. were born here, so Li Xilie said that Huaixi Town only has the rules of Heshuo, and does not hear the royal court), and it is also the top team he carefully cultivated.
But this group of fake sons were directly squeezed to the shore of a section of Jushui by the city spirit cavalry of the White Grass Army, and there was no way to advance or retreat, they were hit by arrows, and their flesh and blood flew sideways, and they soon turned into ghosts and ghosts in a foreign land.
This destruction came very quickly.
The cavalry annihilation battle is so clean and neat.
At this time, Gao Yue, who was under Pixiu, looked at this scene and thought, "Li Xilie, don't underestimate my White Grass Army!" ”
After the defeat of Lee Hee-yeol's false army, the situation on the battlefield was reversed.
The Huaixi army could only fight a battle with one drum, Xin Jingzhen was killed in battle, and after the frustration of the fake army, the morale and momentum of their attack obviously melted and declined, although under Li Xilie's strict orders, they attacked the position of the Baicao Army several times, but they were all easily repelled by Gao Gu.
After the middle of the day, Li Xilie's entire Huaining army began to panic, everywhere people led mules, or rode mules back and forth, full of meaningless hustle and bustle, some said that if they attacked again, the White Grass Army was about to be unable to support it, and we could break through Jushui and go to Nanyang; Some are so depressed that they even shout that we are defeated, and it is all over, and it will be futile to fight again.
Over there, the main army of Jia Tan and Fan Ze was also pressing step by step from behind, making the chaos of the Huaining army still prevail.
"King Chu, you can only rush again in person." Li Yuanping knocked on Li Xilie's mule head and suggested.
Before Li Xilie could react, someone in the whole team shouted, over there, on the side of Shijian Mountain, our reinforcements are coming!
"What?" Like a drowning man grasping at a life-saving straw, Li Xilie looked in the direction of Shijian Mountain.
Sure enough, in the dusty mountains there, rows of soldiers on mules were rapidly approaching him, followed by a large number of men and horses.
"Yes, it's the soldiers and horses of Feng Youlin." When Li Xilie saw that the other party was also riding a mule, he subconsciously thought that this was definitely a reinforcement from Nanyang, and couldn't help but be overjoyed.
The group of mule soldiers ran very fast, getting closer and closer to Li Xilie's soldiers and horses on the left, and then they suddenly pulled out their respective weapons in the cheers of the crowd, and then raised the black sealed pig battle flag, whirring and stretching in the wind, "This is the son of the Fengyi army, Cai Kou can be tied to death." ”
The swords flashed, and the unprepared Huaixi infantry were cut down like a whirlwind, and those who came back to their senses hurriedly fled.
"What's going on again!" Lee Hee-yeol almost collapsed instantly.
It turned out that when the Gaoyue Baicao Army set up a formation in the Jutan City River Meander to intercept and stick to Li Xilie's main force; Wei Gao led the Fengyi army, and after the forced march, he cleverly ambushed between Jutan and Nanyang City, waiting for the soldiers and horses of Feng Youlin.
Sure enough, Feng Youlin, who was about to respond to Li Xilie, was ambushed by Wei Gao's infantry on the way, and was immediately annihilated, Feng Youlin's head was beheaded, and all his troops were captured - then Wei Gao took the captured horses, mules and clothes, and let the jumping team of the Fengyi Army ride and put them on, and then pretended to be Feng Youlin's department, appeared on the flank, and attacked Li Xilie fiercely.
As the sun approached, the desperate Huaining army no longer dared to attack the White Grass Army, but turned to the defensive ground to death: in the huge plains, more than 10,000 Huaining soldiers and soldiers, according to Li Xilie's orders, lined up in a large circle, bows and arrows and weapons were the same to the outside, like a huge porcupine.
And Jia Tan, Fan Ze, Wei Gao, and the Gaoyue Baicao Army, which launched a counteroffensive, gathered over and surrounded the "porcupine" from the periphery.
"Lee Hee-yeol is going to run!" Soon, with this angry shout, the Huaixi disciples in the circle turned their heads one after another, and then they saw Li Xilie wearing armor, riding a tall mule, followed by dozens of fake athletes, throwing down the knots and umbrella covers, cutting down several of their own disciples who blocked the road one after another, rushing out of a passage, and running in the direction of Jushui without looking back - there, because the number of men and horses of the White Grass Army was limited, and the defense line was not completely killed, Li Xilie could only drill this gap like a hasty mouse, leaving all the teams and ignoring it, and Li Yuanping, Anwar and several other henchmen, who broke out and escaped by themselves.
The Huaixi disciples who followed behind scolded and shot Li Xilie and his mount with arrows.
As Li Xilie's small core escaped in front of the formation, the large circle formation of the entire Huaining Army fluctuated rapidly, many soldiers cried, threw long and short weapons and bows and arrows on the ground, and then knelt down in pieces, no longer willing to fight, and many people ran lifelessly in the direction of the White Grass Army, they hoped to take advantage of the chaos and stand out like Li Xilie, even if there was only a glimmer of hope, they would return to Shen Guangcai's hometown.
At this time, Jia Tan, the deputy marshal of the Sanchuan Xing Battalion, stood on Gao Fu and twisted his beard with satisfaction, "The duty of the cavalry is to cut off the road and chase the distance, and quickly send three thousand elite cavalry to pursue Li Xilie; The foot soldiers all surrounded and disarmed the rebellious Cai Kou. ”
"Congratulations!" The wingmen of the camp rolled up their sleeves together to congratulate Jia Tan on this battle and completely killed the main force of Huaining.
"The huge man who has accumulated years and is captured once he is captured, which is not only the blessing of the Holy Lord, but also the result of your efforts." Jia Tan was very modest, and then he looked at the noisy chrysanthemum in the distance, and thought to himself:
Although Li Xilie was defeated, how should Huaixi Town deal with it?
After nightfall, Gao Yue rode a horse to patrol the battlefield, and the White Grass Army alone captured more than 3,000 prisoners.
In fact, the casualties on both sides were not serious, and under the double blow of Li Xilie's erroneous command and desertion, the Huaining army collapsed and most of them surrendered.
At this time, the three brothers of Ming Huaiyi rode to Gao Yue's side.
"No trace of Lee Hee-yeol?"
Ming Huaiyi shook his head.
At this time, Gao Yue asked Changshi Du Huangshang what to do.
Du Huangshang said, along the road between Jutan and Nanyang, quickly search and arrest - Gao Shaoyin can order the Baicao Army, the Wei Army mission is the Yijun, the foot soldiers will leave one-third of the guards at every intersection, and the rest of the people will continue to chase down, and when they encounter the next intersection again, they will let the cavalry respond to all sides, and they will be able to catch the traitor Li Xilie, "Unless Li Xilie has wings, he can fly out of this kind of net." ”
According to Du Huangshang's arrangement, after night, the soldiers of the Baicao Army and the Fengyi Army ignored their fatigue, holding torches as many as stars, stretching along the queue between the roads and fields, pulling nets to search for Li Xilie's whereabouts.
In a dry ditch in a barren field, the mouths of several horses and mules were put on to prevent them from making a sound, and Li Xilie and several fake men squatted in the ditch, looking at the sky full of stars and torches all over the ground, and shouted one after another, closer and closer, more and more dense.
"Give me up, and seek glory and wealth!" Li Xilie couldn't hold it back and cried in a low voice.
Lee Hee-yeol's fake sons all fell to the ground and wept.
"Don't cry so loudly!" Li Xilie gritted his teeth again, slammed the armor of these people, and flew out of the dust.
"It's all to blame for Yuan Ping's mistakes, so that the king of Chu ended up like this." Li Yuanping also came over and burst into tears.