Chapter 844: Offense and Defense

The enemy is on the run, and Li Xiaoqi is chasing after more than 100 people. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info The two sides have not been fighting for a long time, this is the biggest feature of cavalry combat, the time to decide the winner is very short, the Qi army lost about half of the cavalry, turned around and ran, Li Xiaoqi took more than 100 cavalry in hot pursuit, for the cavalry, now is the best opportunity to expand the results, because now for the winner, it can already kill the opponent without loss.

Li Xiaoqi stood on the horse's back with his feet very strong, pulled out his big bow, took aim slowly, and then shot an arrow with a whoosh, and someone in front of him would fall off the horse. He still shoots horses but not people, and the Qi cavalry who fell off the horse will naturally die soon, because the Ming cavalry chasing behind him will unceremoniously give them a lance.

Li Xiaoqi only brought more than 100 people, and the rest were cleaning the battlefield, 500 Qi troops, about 300 people fell there, and the Ming army itself also fell more than 100 people, the enemy who has not died yet needs to mend the knife, the wounded comrades need to help them return to the base camp, as for the brothers who died in battle, the body will naturally have to be brought back.

Li Xiaoqi stopped suddenly, and as soon as he stopped, all the brothers behind him also stopped. Not only did they stop, but the Qi army, which was already being chased in disarray, also stopped. They turned their horses around and looked viciously at Li Xiaoqi, who was still standing on horseback.

The ground was shaking, and that was a sign that a large group of cavalry was approaching. The cavalry came from the east, so naturally it would not be the Ming army, but only the Qi army.

The Qi army, who had just fled in embarrassment, shouted and pounced on his horse.

Li Xiaoqi shouted, with one leg, sat on the horse with a bang, turned the horse's head, and shouted: "Brothers, run!" ”

In an instant, the chasing and fleeing sides exchanged positions, and now it was Li Xiaoqi who fled for his life.

The two chirping dwarps screamed and flew into the air, and Li Xiaoqi had to signal the brothers in the rear to flee first, and they carried the remains of the wounded soldiers and the dead brothers, which was much slower.

They fled from Rich, and the endless cavalry behind them rushed up in the smoke and dust, shouting.

Li Xiaoqi turned around: "Obediently, thousands, run, run brothers." ”

The main force led by Cao Ge was slowly advancing, and opposite him, there were 10,000 Ming army infantry and 5,000 cavalry. Cao Ge was not worried about the opponent's infantry at all, the only thing that made him pay some attention was the opponent's cavalry, because when he advanced forward, he had not caught the trace of the opponent's cavalry.

The cavalry came and went like the wind, agile and maneuverable, and if it could not catch the traces of the opponent, it could be a threat to the army at any time.

Cao Ge had no doubt about the victory, his 20,000 soldiers and horses were not ordinary Qi troops, but elites who were qualified to be selected for the Dragon Inlay Army. Just as Qin Feng's miner battalion has a reserve army, the Qi people's dragon inlay army also has a reserve army, first select personnel from all over the country to enter the reserve, after training, elimination, and the last to stay can enter the real dragon inlay army troops.

The 20,000 men are one such reserve force. They are not the new army, they are themselves selected from the national army. This time, because the battle with the Ming army was very important, and it was impossible to transfer other troops, and it was impossible to transfer the Son of Heaven's pro-army Long Pinjun out of the situation, they became the troops to aid Guo Xiancheng.

As long as the Ming army's wind-chasing battalion was found and their location was determined, Cao Ge believed that the battle would basically be decided. Because in addition to these 20,000 troops, Guo Xiancheng also equipped him with 10,000 county soldiers. With 30,000 horses, what reason do you have not to win this war?

A horse galloped over, arrived in front of Cao Ge, turned over and dismounted.

"General Cao, I have found the Ming army's chasing wind battalion, they are in the direction of Xiaotangshan, and General Hu Yu has already chased them." Cao Ge's face was happy, and he waved his hand, and a personal soldier behind him immediately opened a map, Xiaotangshan was about fifty miles away from their current location, and more than thirty miles away from their target this time.

"Kill them!" Cao Ge waved his hand, "The whole army picked up speed and went straight to the grinding plate." Defeat their right flank, and then assist General Guo in besieging Wangjiazhuang. ”

Now that he had found the enemy's cavalry, Cao Ge had no worries, and the whole army accelerated to the enemy's main force and grinding. There, the Ming army's Shaking Mountain Battalion, the Cheetah Battalion was waiting for them.

It's just a question, Cao Ge didn't think about it, what if his cavalry lost? Or in his mind, the cavalry under his command did not have a reason to lose. He brought a substitute for the Dragon Inlay Army, even if it was a line off, it wasn't much worse. But he forgot that the cavalry opposite him had experienced a vicious battle with the Qin army's iron cavalry, which was a mature army that had experienced actual combat and defeated the Qin army's iron cavalry.

When Cao Ge confidently advanced in the direction of the mill, on another battlefield, the battle had officially begun.

High dam, an important fulcrum of the defense line across the river, Xian Bisong is equipped with a full 5,000 people here, guarding the high dam, it is like guarding the backbone of the entire defense line, and losing here, the entire defense line will become a fragmented point, and can not be connected into a whole line of defense, the importance of the high dam can be imagined.

And it was the Ruijin battalion of the Ming army that attacked Gaoba.

Xian Bisong knows that in this battle, as long as he holds the first line of the river rock, he can be regarded as completing the task, 20,000 Qi troops, facing more than 30,000 Ming troops, in terms of troops, he does not suffer, after all, he is defending, the opponent is attacking, although there is no strong city to rely on, but he can build some simple fortifications, coupled with the combat effectiveness of the Qi army itself, he is confident to block the opponent's attack.

Of course, as far as he is concerned, it is definitely not possible to simply defend, and only by defending and attacking can he reduce his pressure greatly. And he also has the strength to counterattack.

Gaoba was the fulcrum of the entire defense line, and he not only equipped 5,000 defenders here, but also set up his base camp in Shawan, which was only ten miles away from Gaoba, where he had 5,000 mobile troops at his disposal.

High dam many years ago, was a huge reservoir, built in the Tang Dynasty, when the Tang Dynasty, the national strength was prosperous, sufficient financial resources, in order to solve the problem of local irrigation water sources, the Tang Dynasty allocated a huge amount of money, between the two mountains to build a dam, water storage into it, formed a large reservoir of tens of thousands of acres, but more than 100 years ago, the Tang Dynasty extinguished, Qi replaced it, Yue, Qin, Chu and then rose, the water level of this reservoir continued to decline every year, a few years later, this huge reservoir dried up. Now the land behind the dam has been transformed into tens of thousands of acres of fertile land, because the land is extremely fertile, basically what is planted and what grows, what is harvested, and because although the reservoir is dry, there are still some low-lying places with water sources, which also provides the most basic water resources for these tens of thousands of acres of fertile land.

And the position of the Qi army is built around this dam, from the bottom of the dam, layer by layer of positions to build up, to the top of the dam, is a row of daunting huge trebuchets, a rough look, at least hundreds, because the terrain is extremely high, the range is also extremely far, the trebuchet above this position is a huge threat to any long-range weapons of the Ming army, because only he hits you, you can't hit him.

And in order to ensure the defense of the high dam, Xian Bisong even invited a grandmaster from Nantianmen to sit here.

In the view of the Qi army, this place is impregnable, as long as the high dam is not breached, the connection point of the entire defense line will not be interrupted, even if there are problems in other places, remedial measures can be quickly taken, and the high dam does not fall into the hands of the Ming army, and they do not dare to go straight in, deep behind the Qi army's defense line.

Cheng Song, the general of Qi State, is responsible for commanding the defense of Gaoba, he is Xian Bisong's deputy general, a master with a ninth-level upper cultivation, here, Xian Bisong has sent a grandmaster, a ninth-level master, which can be said to be extremely important.

On the eighth day of October, when the sun just emerged from behind the top of the mountain, in the rumbling drums, the Ming army appeared in the field of vision of the Qi army on the high dam.

"What's that?" Standing in front of the rows of trebuchets, Cheng Song pointed to several small black houses moving slowly in the distance, a little puzzled. Standing beside him was Lan Yongchuan, a grandmaster from the South Heavenly Gate.

"Never seen before." Lan Yongchuan also shook his head.

Cheng Song took a deep breath, if something goes wrong, he is a demon, even if he has never seen this kind of thing, but the Ming army dragged him here with great difficulty, naturally he is not a decoration. He beckoned, beckoned the officer in charge of the trebuchet, and pointed to the black houses, "See, start a war in a while, kill those things first." ”

"What's that?" The general looked at the black houses inexplicably.

"I don't care what he is, but I can smell danger in him." Cheng Song said in a deep voice.

Cheng Song's intuition was not wrong, these black houses were indeed extremely dangerous guys for them. When Cheng Song arranged to kill these unknown things at the first time, the monk was also frowning at the towering trebuchets on the high dam in the distance.

"Is the range enough?" He asked.

"General, if we can advance to the front of the enemy's position about a hundred paces, we will be able to do it." One of the lieutenants took a visual look at the distance.

"Damn, you have to advance to the front of the position for about a hundred steps, the enemy counterattacks, how many people does Lao Tzu need to protect you, and replenish the troops, you must rush through the attack range of those trebuchets, such a long distance, how much sacrifice."

"Then we can only hit his position first." The lieutenant looked at the tall trebuchets: "General, all they have are the oldest-fashioned trebuchets, once installed, the firing angle and firing distance are fixed, if you want to adjust, it will take an extremely long time, unlike our thunderbolts, we can move to their shooting corners, destroy their defensive positions first, and then move forward." The lieutenant said.

"Right now!" The monk said with a glare.