Chapter 588: Binghe Goes to the Meeting (3)
Seeing that he pretended to be weird, Mooney's face was hot:
"How dare you humiliate me like this!"
Bai Liyan raised her head and answered:
"Does this general have it, this general admires Your Excellency for being so wise and powerful, and he actually saw through this general's clever plan at a glance, so he is deeply ashamed, how can he be humiliated."
"Arrogant, arrogant!"
"Yes, General Ben is arrogant, what, want to fight? Hehe......" Baili Yan sneered, pretending to be contemptuous, and then continued: "Ben will finally advise Your Excellency, stop the war for the sake of peace, send our army out of the country, and turn the war into jade silk It is still too late, otherwise Hugh blames Ben for being ruthless!" ”
"Wishful thinking! I also advise you, pack up and go back immediately, and prepare to die! ”
"Alright then, you and I will battle it out here today, and you have a kind of signing a war letter!"
Bailiyan signaled to Bai He and sent the war book forward, Mooney took the war book and glanced at the liver and lungs:
"Shameless! Sondya is the land of my people, and you dare to be so arrogant. ”
"In that case, what if Your Excellency is defeated? Could it be that our army has won, and we have to tie our hands and feet to apologize. ”
"Phew! You dream, go! ”
In a fit of rage, Munil turned to his horse and left. Bai He stepped forward to pick up the battle book, looked at the words of the ghost drawing talisman, and asked puzzledly:
"General, what is written in this war book to make them angry like this?"
"What is written? Go, send some new subjects who can speak the Jinxuedi fluently across the river, and call me out, and say that in the battle of Dolandon, if the Jinxuedi people are defeated, they will cede all the land outside the pass forever, and if they break their promise, they will be punished by heaven. As soon as Jin Xuedi made a move, he immediately ran back. ”
"Hah, this, I'm afraid it's impossible!"
"You don't care if he can or not, I don't believe in this kind of nonsense, if you let you go, you can go, nonsense!"
"Oh......"
The war letter has no actual political significance, but is just political propaganda by both sides of the war to promote their political correctness and war morality.
Cession of the two provinces of Po Song and Songdia to the Central Plains, as Mooney himself said, is a dream. But if the war ends with Mooney's defeat, then the war letter has in a sense its political legitimacy and legitimacy.
Of course, this is an unequal treaty, but in fact, the first party to wage war is not trying to force the other side to accept unequal slavery. In another sense, it's equal. As the saying goes, "come and don't be rude", if you do it, why can't I do it.
Bai He sent men and horses to cross the river, shouting and running, Bai Liyan quickly returned to the west bank, stepped on the war horse, and said to Fang Liang:
"Later, the Jin Xuedi people will cross the river, and the new annexed armies on both wings of our army will be the first to break and flee, you don't care about them, after counterattacking as planned, flee westward with all the horses in your headquarters, run as fast as you can, the faster the better, and then wait for our cavalry to attack."
Fang Liang was shocked when he heard the news:
"General, since you can't fight, what are you going to provoke, isn't this looking for your own death?"
"Do what you want, and you'll understand in a while!"
"Oh......"
Of course, Bai Liyan knew that the hundreds of thousands of people under his command were all rabble, and he still had this self-knowledge, and he knew very well that he was not the opponent of Mooney's 80,000 cavalry at all. But blindly escaping, the result can only be a worse death, which Bai Liyan knows better, and Mooney also knows it.
After explaining the details to Fang Liang, Baili Yan ordered Bai He to lead 10,000 cavalry to continue to stay in the big array, and led the guards alone to break away from the big array and quickly go west, and join the main force of the cavalry.
Mooney was already annoyed and angry at this time, and when he saw Bailiyan leaving, he was even more angry:
"Despicable villain, I'm going to tear you to pieces! Come! ”
The soldiers on the side stepped forward to listen to the order:
"What do you command?"
"Order, the whole army crosses the river, and give me a crush of them!"
"Yes!"
In his youth, the battle horn was furious, and 80,000 cavalry stretched for miles from south to north, like a flood that opened the floodgates, and launched a full-line assault on the west bank of the Dolanton River, which was overwhelming and invincible.
As soon as the Jin Xuedi cavalry crossed the center of the river, the defense lines on both flanks on the west bank quickly collapsed like an avalanche, and before the Jin Xuedi people set foot on the west bank, tens of thousands of new civil troops scattered like birds and beasts, discarding their armor and fleeing westward in embarrassment.
Fang Liang's face was like ink, and his back was cold, since he entered the war, there had never been a worse situation than today:
"I don't know what the general thinks, what kind of thing is this, alas...... Throw it at me, brethren. ”
Fang Liang urged his grenadiers to hurriedly throw out hundreds of gunpowder canisters, and explosions came and went. Fang Liang also knew very well in his heart that a gunpowder jar the size of a fist would fall on the ice with a thickness of more than one or two feet, and it would be impossible to explode the ice, at best, it would only injure the cavalry who were charging.
Seeing that the enemy cavalry rushed to the west bank, Fang Liang couldn't resist it, and immediately decided:
"Brothers, withdraw! Evacuate! ”
Shouting to retreat, Fang Liang rode his horse and ran away first, at this time, Bai He led more than 10,000 cavalry to respond to Fang Liang's westward escape, and fought and retreated. The defense line on the west bank was lost in the blink of an eye, and more than 100,000 people fled like lost dogs, fleeing in the snow for miles from north to south, in a state of great disarray.
The West Bank was about to collapse at the touch of a button, and the victory came so quickly that Mooney on the East Bank was suspicious:
"It's going to collapse so quickly, is Bailiyan a fool! Or is it his machinations again! ”
As far as the eye could see, at least 130,000 or 40,000 people were rushing for their lives like local chickens and tile dogs, and Mooney really couldn't imagine that Bailiyan had any ambush soldiers who could ambush him in the middle of the road. It is even more impossible to dig tens of thousands of traps on Bailiyan's own retreat. The damage of rudimentary gunpowder weapons to cavalry is even more meaningless in the face of the superiority in speed and maneuverability.
When he hesitated, a crisp sound was shocking, and suddenly someone shouted:
"Oh no, ice, the ice on the surface of the river is cracked!"
I saw countless cracks opening on the surface of the river stretching for more than ten miles from south to north, and the cracks expanded rapidly, and they quickly cracked and shattered in all directions in a disorderly manner. The cavalrymen who were crossing the Dolandon River, like drunken drunks, stepped on the surface of the river with their horses, and fell into the water in waves, and pressed them into the water with their horses, struggling to drown.
At this time, the vanguard cavalry had just come ashore, and tens of thousands of men and horses behind them were trampling on the cracked river and falling into a desperate situation, and the sound of people shouting and neighing came and went. Thousands of warriors, engulfed in the icy waters of the river in the blink of an eye, struggled.
In the cold winter, the ice water of Layue was biting, and the people of Jin Xuedi were stubbornly planted in the river, even if they were not drowned, they were lucky enough to climb on the shore, and they had to be frozen to death by the cold of more than 20 degrees below zero.
Seeing this tragic situation, Mooney almost wanted to vomit blood, and he knew that he had fallen for Bailiyan's evil.
"Retreat, retreat, ......"
No matter how to shout, and even the eyes were split, tens of thousands of men and horses were planted in the river and could not extricate themselves. The enemy cavalry, which had just crossed the west bank, returned to the shore again to rescue the overboard robes, despite the pursuit of the newly dispersed annexed army.
Seeing this scene from afar, Bailiyan put away the binoculars, and he gave an order:
"All battalions obey the order and drive all the deserters back!"
The battle horn was fierce, and the allied cavalry intercepted the rout in three ways, driving the rout fleeing west back to the river again. Fang Liang and Bai He fled west with the men and horses from the middle road, and were bumped into head-on by Bai Liyan's troops. Fang Liang reined in the war horse, panting and hurriedly said:
"General, the surface of the river, the surface of the river is cracked, and the people of Jin Xuedi are planted in the river."
"Ben will see it, immediately gather your men and horses, and kill me back, this time they can't escape!"
"Yes!"
Fang Liang and Bai He turned around and went to the river.
At this time, the shore was crowded with people, and the enemy cavalry who had just crossed the river was busy returning to the shore to rescue, and the coalition forces instantly counterattacked the shore, making the enemy cavalry who had choked enough to make matters worse.
"This bloodthirsty butcher will crush your corpse into thousands of pieces, and it will be difficult to solve the hatred in my heart, and I curse you for not dying well!"
Mooney cursed violently, but like a willful child, powerless to save the struggling warriors on the line of death, watching them be mercilessly killed in the icy waters, and there was nothing he could do.
The fierce fighting on the west bank lasted less than two hours, and only four or five thousand enemy horsemen arrived on the west bank in a hurry. In the face of the siege of hundreds of thousands of new annexed troops, thousands of enemy horsemen trapped on the shore, busy saving people or saving themselves, could not advance or retreat, and were already turtles in the urn, or were killed, or driven down the river and froze to death.
At dusk, when the sun set in the west, the Dolanton River stretched for more than ten miles from south to north, frozen with stiff corpses, and the face still retained the hideousness and pain before death, and the river surface once again froze, and the desolation was like a moment frozen in time, forever staying at this moment.
Before dark, Bai He rode the captured war horse and came to the riverside camp, where Baili Yan was roasting the fire:
"General, this battle is really a god, even sharper than the battle outside the city of Kelownas!"
Bai Liyan said expressionlessly:
"yes, if it's our army, I'm afraid you won't be happy."
"How can it be, with the general here, our army is not a hundred victories."
"Hehe......" Baili Yan laughed to himself: "All soldiers, the major affairs of the country, the place of life and death, and the way of survival, must not be ignored." However, the belligerent will perish, and they must not go unnoticed. Mooney could have escaped this fate, but he did not listen to the general's dissuasion, and insisted on fighting to the death, and now he was defeated and lost in the first battle, I am afraid that this life will be ruined from now on. ”
"General, why bother to be a barbarian general, now that our army has won a big victory, morale is unprecedentedly high, and people's hearts are returned. It only takes one or two months of training to be able to use the general's life, so why should our army worry about not succeeding next year! Bai He didn't care about Bai Liyan's face at all, and talked about it to himself.
"Enough!"
Bailiyan broke off drinking, and Bai He was taken aback:
"Uh......"
"Let the weapons and horses be collected, and all the men and horses shall be taken back to the camp. Another 40,000 people will be brought back to Montina by the royal guests to hold on, don't be carried away by victory! ”
"The last general obeys!"
Bai Liyan did not have the slightest sense of joy of victory, as long as she thought of the scene of the struggle of the corpse in the frozen river, there was even a sense of guilt that lingered in her heart.