Because a large number of strong crossbows appeared in the Xiliang army, they caused a lot of casualties to the Northern Xinjiang army. In this regard, although Li Yi was heartbroken, he did not blame anyone. This can be regarded as his mistake, he actually forgot that Dong Zhuo occupied Luoyang and took all the powerful weapons made by the imperial court for his own use.

Li Yi asked, "What are the strategies of the military advisors?" ”

Liu Bowen bowed and replied: "My lord, although there were occasional small setbacks in today's pursuit, it played a confusing role in the attack on the enemy army around tomorrow, and it seems that Yiji will be able to defeat the enemy army in one fell swoop tomorrow." ”

Li Yi asked, "What do you mean by this?" ”

Liu Bowen said: "Back to the lord, today's Xiliang army with a bow and crossbow arrow array blocked the footsteps of the lord's army, so it seems that tomorrow will fight again, in the rear of the formation is also the bow and crossbow troops, then as long as the lord's army in front of the Xiliang army to break through the front army and the middle army, General Yuwen Chengdu led the hussar guards to attack from behind, the Xiliang army is unprepared, its bow and crossbow arrow array will inevitably be broken, so the lord army attacked, the enemy army can not be defeated under the front and rear attacks, so Ji thinks that although there are occasional small setbacks today, but there is no need to worry. ”

Li Yi nodded and smiled: "What Berwyn said is reasonable, tomorrow we should defeat the enemy army in one fell swoop." It's just that the scouts can't hear the news that the enemy army has a heavy crossbow, and everyone should take this as a warning, when you know that an occasional small mistake will lead to the rout of the army, you still have to be vigilant, today you go down to rest, and tomorrow the battle should be fought forward. ”

The generals responded in unison: "No......"

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The next day, Li Yi once again led the Northern Xinjiang army out of the city to line up, and the Xiliang army on the other side did the same, but as Liu Bowen expected yesterday, the cavalry was in front, and the infantry and crossbow troops were behind.

However, Li Yi was fearless, and said to the generals with a laugh: "Today is the time to break the Xiliang Army, please use your life." ”

Everyone responded in unison: "No......"

After the formation, there was no dialogue today, and there were no fighters. Obviously, Dong Zhuo knew that he couldn't win at all in the fight, so he directly ordered the army to attack.

Li Yi was also unambiguous, and let Huang Zhong and Wei Yan attack the left and right flanks of the Xiliang army, and then take Zhang Fei's department as the front army, and lead the remaining troops as the middle army, and start a frontal fierce battle with the Xiliang army.

In ancient warfare, in addition to talking about the elite soldiers and the level of morale, the most important point was the generals, the so-called soldiers. That's what happens when you put a nest of bears. The role of a strong general in ancient warfare was not as simple as one enemy and one hundred, especially frontal hard combat.

Today, whether it is the quality of the soldiers, or the morale, or the bravery of the generals, the Northern Xinjiang army is on the overwhelming side.

After the outbreak of the war, I saw several generals of the Northern Xinjiang Army coming out, and Huang Zhong on the left led the troops to rush and kill; Wei Yan on the right took the lead; The middle lane is even more starry, and Zhang Fei of the former army has the courage of ten thousand people. The Chinese army led by Li Yi gathered generals such as Lu Wenlong, Tai Shici, Dian Wei and Yu Ban.

On the other hand, in the Western Liang Army, only Zhang Xiu and Hua Xiong can still compete with the generals in Northern Xinjiang, and the others are ordinary generals, even if they are generals such as Li Dao and Guo Yan, who have a high status in the Western Liang Army. Compared with the generals of Northern Xinjiang, it is completely inadequate. Not to mention some other ordinary generals, who fought with the generals of Northern Xinjiang, they often fell off their horses and died in front of them.

The seven generals of the Northern Xinjiang Army came out together. Soon took the lead in the army, defeated the front army of the Western Liang Army, and soon threatened the Chinese army of the Western Liang Army.

Dong Zhuo saw that the situation was not good. Ordered the three armies to go out together. He knew very well that in the case of the defeat and retreat of the previous army, the Chinese army in his hands alone could not withstand the impact of the Northern Frontier Army.

It was also at this time that Dong Zhuo really saw the powerful combat power of the Northern Xinjiang Army. Even if the most elite Xiliang Army under his command faced the Northern Frontier Army head-on with the same number of them, it would have no chance of winning. Not to mention the 100,000 troops under his command, in fact, only about 30,000 people and horses are the elite of the lineage.

Now, only when the three armies attack together can they have the strength to fight with the Northern Frontier Army.

But not long after the three armies of the Xiliang Army attacked, there was a sound of horses' hooves behind the Xiliang Army, Dong Zhuo looked back, but saw the smoke and dust billowing behind, but it was an iron cavalry rushing to kill. The rumbling sound of horses' hooves told Dong Zhuo that there were definitely thousands of soldiers and horses behind. Even, Dong Zhuo had already recognized through the banner which army was attacking from behind.

Dong Zhuo was a little stupid, the Northern Xinjiang army was obviously in the city, how could he kill it behind his back? And he is also a hussar who has been following Li Yi's side.

How did he know that at the third watch this morning, the six thousand hussars and guards were under the leadership of Yuwen Chengdu, wrapped the horse's hooves with cotton cloth, and then quietly slipped out of Luoyang City, and then sneaked to the rear of the Xiliang army with the cover of Beibi Mountain, and finally suddenly killed from behind at this critical juncture.

Seeing the hussar guards sneaking up from behind, Dong Zhuo's face changed drastically. With the army in his hands, he is no longer an opponent with Li Yi's army, and now there are more elite hussar guards behind him to sneak attack, and the danger of the situation can be imagined.

However, Yuwen Chengdu, who commanded the hussar guards, did not give Dong Zhuo much time to think, and before the Xiliang army could react, he crashed in from behind, and the first to kill was the bow and crossbow arrow array that blocked Li Yi's pursuit yesterday. The formations lined up by these crossbowmen were all aimed at the large army of the Northern Xinjiang Army in the front, and there were also defenses on the flank, but they were completely defenseless behind them, after all, Dong Zhuo did not expect Li Yi to send hussar guards to sneak attack from behind.

When the hussar guards arrived, only the soldiers behind the Xiliang army's bow and crossbow arrow array knew that the enemy was sneaking up from behind, but they didn't know why the enemy was coming from behind.

The unprepared archers went close to the most elite hussar guards in the world, and the result was predictable. The hussar guards had not killed enough time for a stick of incense, and the bow and crossbow arrow array that had made the northern Xinjiang army suffer a lot yesterday collapsed directly. The scattered soldiers fled in all directions. This opened the prelude to the collective rout of the Xiliang army.

Dong Zhuo saw that the front army and the rear army had collapsed, and with the Chinese army in his hands alone, he was powerless to return to the sky, even if the Chinese army had the most elite 3,000 flying bear army of the Xiliang Army, it would be difficult to recover the defeat.

In desperation, Dong Zhuo had no choice but to order the army to retreat, and he himself withdrew to the west under the protection of the three thousand Flying Bear Army.

The front and rear armies of the Xiliang Army, which had already collapsed, were even more out of control after hearing Dong Zhuo's order to withdraw their troops, and they were truly defeated. In particular, the rout of the former army even impacted the retreating Chinese army, causing the collapse of the Chinese army.

The Xiliang army was collectively defeated, Li Yi was overjoyed, raised his gun and shouted: "The big thing is done, send orders to the generals, and each lead the army of the headquarters to pursue." ”

When Xu Maogong saw that Li Yi ordered the whole army to pursue, he immediately leaned into his ear and said: "My lord, the defeat of the Xiliang army this time has already hurt his vitality, and for the sake of the lord's hegemony, he still needs to be let go." ”

After listening to Xu Maogong's words, Li Yi immediately reacted, if Dong Zhuo was captured in this battle, he would really miscalculate his previous calculations with Xu Maogong.

Li Yi nodded imperceptibly, then summoned the herald behind him, and said: "If the order goes down, the poor Kou Mo will chase it, and the generals can only pursue it for ten miles." If it exceeds ten miles, even if there is great merit, it will be severely punished. ”

After Li Yi's order was handed down, the generals were basically able to execute it very well, unlike some civil servants, the generals in Northern Xinjiang were absolutely loyal to Li Yi. Although they did not understand Li Yi's order, no one questioned it.

The various departments pursued and killed the Xiliang army for ten miles and returned, and Li Yi gathered the generals to count the results.

In this battle, the 100,000 troops of the Xiliang Army were defeated, with nearly 10,000 killed and more than 20,000 captured. The Northern Xinjiang Army also lost more than 3,000 killed and more than 7,000 wounded, with a total of nearly 11,000 casualties.

In fact, the casualties of the Xiliang Army were far more than that, and many of the fleeing Xiliang Army were also injured, and many soldiers deserted directly and did not return to the Xiliang Army at all. When Dong Zhuo returned to Hangu Pass to collect the rout, he found that the 100,000 army had shrunk by half, and there were only more than 50,000 troops.

The only thing that made Dong Zhuo feel a little comforted was that the casualties of the Xiliang Army under his command were not large, only more than 5,000 casualties. Today, he still has almost 25,000 elite troops under his command, which is the capital of his life.

However, the war that began in the Jingluo region since September not only caused the Xiliang army to lose 70,000 troops, but also caused him to lose Hedong County and most of Henan Yin. The entire Yin 21 counties in Henan are still in the hands of the Xiliang Army, and there are only four counties in the west and southwest, including Gucheng, Henan, Xincheng, and Liangxian. Although the eleven counties east of the Tiger Pass, including Chenggao, Xingyang, Juan County, Yuanwu, Yangwu, Zhongmu, Kaifeng, Yuanling, Xinzheng, Mi County, and Jingxian County, have not yet been mastered by Li Yi for the time being, with this great defeat of the Xiliang Army, it is only a matter of time before it falls.

For this fiasco, Dong Zhuo was heartbroken. Now the 150,000 army under his command has shrunk by nearly half, and only 80,000 troops remain. Fortunately, perhaps because of the lack of food and grass, the Northern Frontier Army did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, giving him a chance to breathe.

After this fiasco, Dong Zhuo finally knew the true combat strength of the Northern Xinjiang Army. He knew very well that if Li Yi had no intention of occupying Chang'an, with the power in his hands, he would not be able to stop the pace of the Northern Xinjiang army at all.

In desperation, Dong Zhuo had no choice but to send an envoy to Luoyang again to negotiate peace with Li Yi.

After Dong Zhuo suffered a crushing defeat and suffered a great loss in strength, Li Yi did not intend to continue to chase and fight, so he did not put forward any harsh requirements, but just asked Dong Zhuo to recognize the occupation of Hedong and the surrounding areas of Luoyang by the Northern Xinjiang Army.

After the peace talks were completed, Li Yi led the hussars and guards to return to northern Xinjiang on a naval ship. However, he left Zhang Fei, Chang Yuchun, Huang Zhong, Wei Yan and Yu Ban and other five generals to garrison Luoyang and Hedong, of which Chang Yuchun was stationed in Hedong, Zhang Fei was stationed in Luoyang, Huang Zhong was stationed in Yique Pass, Dagu Pass and Xuanyuan Pass and other three passes in the south of Luoyang, Wei Yan was stationed in Hujiao Pass, and Yu Ban was stationed in Xingyang. (To be continued.) )