Chapter 13 Victory
Li Zheng led five hundred horsemen into the battle.
If Li Congjing personally brought all the gentlemen into the battle, stirring a pool of stagnant silver carp, making it impossible for the Liang army's infantry army to form a formation, then Li Zheng's subsequent five hundred horsemen were the giant eels that washed away this stagnant water. Five hundred horsemen broke through the middle of the front formation, corresponding to the front and back of the gentleman.
The battle was half-loud, and the two divisions of the Hundred Battles Army converged.
The most complete front of the Liang army's infantry was immediately broken.
"Marshal, it's too late!" Seeing Li Congjing, who was scarlet with people and horses, Li Zheng was greatly ashamed, "Military marshal, leave the rest to the last general, please rest for a while!" ”
Li Congjing glanced back at the gentlemen who were less than a hundred horsemen.
He was silent for a moment.
At this time, the 1,000 infantry troops led by Ding Mao also came closer.
"Lin Ying, you wait and rest!" Li Congjing said, "The rest of the soldiers, follow the commander to drive the Liang army into the river!" ”
The Liang army was backed by the Tanshui River, and it was naturally easier to drive people into the river than to kill them all.
Lin Ying didn't agree, his mouth was still swollen because he was bitten by poisonous insects in the mountains and forests, "Gentlemen are willing to break the formation with the marshal!" ”
Lin Ying's voice fell, and only the gentlemen of the hundred horsemen shouted in unison: "I am willing to break the formation with the army commander!" ”
Li Congjing's throat was hard and his eyes were hot, but he didn't say anything, glanced at Liang Jun, who was already out of formation, and raised his lance: "Kill!" ”
"Kill!" Five or six hundred cavalry, one thousand foot soldiers in a strict formation, crushed the Liang army.
The large array of infantry soldiers that the Liang army had finally formed was broken, and seeing that the hundred battle troops were coming, where could they still resist it, they retreated one after another.
This retreat was to the river.
The Hundred Battles Army would not give them a chance to breathe, and the killing momentum did not stop, driving the Liang army into the river.
In the middle of the battle, the other 1,000 soldiers drove the remaining Liang army to the river.
The army closes.
The Liang army was defeated, you drove me and I drove you, threw away the armor, and fled forward screaming for life.
The whole situation, the situation of a living wolf pack driving away the sheep.
On the side of the Tanshui River, four or five thousand Liang troops were driven by nearly three thousand hundred war troops, and became an inverted bead curtain, many people fled into the river, rolling up countless splashes, and at a distance of several hundred steps wide, there were fish and shrimp everywhere, and more Liang troops and Zhang Huang fled into the river.
There were pursuers in the back, and there was a big water in front, and they went deep into the river not far away, and gradually the Liang army drowned in the river, or was washed away by the water.
By the river, in the rear of the infantry of the Hundred Battles Army, bursts of arrows flew and smashed into the river.
The Liang army collapsed.
I don't know who it was, first raised his hand and cried and shouted surrender, one pass two two pass three, and the Liang army dropped their weapons and shouted to surrender.
These Central Army, which came from the Sixth Army of the Great Liang Emperor, went out to Huaizhou with confidence this time, thinking that the military exploits would come easily, and the Tang army would inevitably collapse everywhere they went, but before they crossed the Yellow River, they suffered a lot of losses, and they were attacked as soon as they entered the territory of Huaizhou. At this time, the so-called Tianwei Tianwu Army was defeated in one fell swoop, and there was no way to fight back.
"The Liang army hurried to the river, to surrender, to the river to take off their armor, hand over their weapons, and then make a statement." Li Congjing immediately went to the river, looked at the rout of the Liang army that was almost endless, and gave the order.
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In the open space by the river, the hard work of the battle was actually only the task of the Hundred Battles Army and the Horse Army, and the task of the foot soldiers was just to defeat the Liang Army and beat the Liang Army on the entire battlefield into an inverted bead curtain, so that the Liang Army had no chance to reverse the situation, so their battle was not difficult.
The difficulty was the 500 foot soldiers blocking the mountain pass.
The road in the mountain pass is not wide or narrow, and it can accommodate ten people side by side, so Li Shaocheng ordered that five hundred foot soldiers line up in fifty rows and nail them to the mountain pass.
The only advantage of these five hundred battle soldiers is that they have concentrated all the big shields in the whole army, so they can almost everyone have a shield, so that no matter whether the archers of the Liang army throw and shoot, they can block these sharp arrows with an impenetrable large shield array.
If this is not the case, let alone five hundred people, no matter how many foot soldiers there are, they will soon be wiped out.
The large shields erected in the front row are especially important and take the most impact.
First of all, the Liang army infantry attacked the shield with a shield, trying to push the hundred battle army away, but the hundred battle army did not retreat a step, the Liang army was fruitless in this battle, the casualties in the front row of the two sides were almost the same, after leaving more than 20 corpses, the Liang army changed the tactics of war.
In the second formation, Liang Jun smashed the shield with his sword and axe. The big axe, which weighed more than twenty pounds, smashed on the shield with amazing power, and the big shield in the front row was smashed open a lot in a few moments. At this time, Li Shaocheng ordered the pikemen to attack from behind the shield, and after stabbing down a row of Liang * axemen, he immediately retreated, and waited for Liang * axe men to move forward again, and fought again. After a tragic battle, the Liang army suffered more than 50 casualties and failed to break the formation.
In the third formation, most of the Liang army retreated, leaving an open space and charging with heavy cavalry. This formation is the one with the most casualties among the infantry of the Hundred Battles Army so far. The heavy armored cavalry rushed into battle, and the power was as powerful as Mount Tai, and the big shield hand in the front row of the Hundred Battles Army was immediately hit violently and vomited blood to death.
The Liang army's heavy cavalry broke into the formation twenty paces and fell into the spear formation of the Hundred Battles Army, and Li Shaocheng took the lead in cutting off the Liang army's horses and feet regardless of life and death, which stopped the Liang army's offensive. In this burst, the Hundred Battles Army suffered dozens of casualties.
Horse and human corpses blocked the passages, and blood flowed everywhere, leaving people with nowhere to put their feet.
The Liang army cleaned up the corpse, lifted out the giant tree, and used the large array of infantry soldiers of the Hundred Battles Army as a city gate, and crashed into it.
The casualties of the Hundred Battles Army increased again. Li Shaocheng once again disregarded life and death, led people to rush forward, and killed the Liang army on both sides of the giant tree. The Liang army took advantage of the situation to fight back, and the two sides fought fiercely, and Li Shaocheng was almost killed.
After this formation, the Hundred Battles Army sent archers to wait behind the big shield to fire a volley, and only then did they resolve the Liang Army's method of colliding with the giant trees.
In the end, the Liang army, which was almost helpless, relied on the large number of people and used the tactics of crowds to exchange lives for lives. As a result, the two sides fell into a bloody battle.
Corpses continue to pile up on the avenue, gradually becoming a mountain of corpses. Soldiers from both sides climbed the mountain of corpses, stepped on the corpses of their comrades or enemies, and then turned themselves into part of the mountain of corpses that was bleeding.
The battle has reached this point, and the intensity of the battle is appalling.
Both sides had no intention of stopping the fighting, the comrades in front died one by one, and the sergeants in the back made up for it one by one, and no one on both sides could take a step forward in exchange for their lives. So, that middle line is still the middle line.
The Liang army wanted to support the comrades in front, because it was dark in the morning, they could only hear the sound of fighting in front, but they didn't know how many people from the Hundred Battles Army came, but from the sound of the battlefield, how could the generals in the Liang army not hear it, and the situation on the battlefield showed a one-sided situation.
Since there is still a part of the Hundred Battles Army that is stubbornly defending here, it is impossible for the Hundred Battles Army to be defeated in front, so the Liang Army is becoming more and more anxious. If the heart is in a hurry, the offensive will naturally be fierce, and if the offensive is fierce, people will die faster.
Five hundred soldiers of the battle army, dead in the front row, the back row is filled, there is no front, the middle is filled, there is no middle formation, the back is turned into the front.
No one turned back, whether they were killed in battle, those who were fighting, or those who had not yet fought.
Ahead is their battlefield.
Li Shaocheng didn't even need to shout or say anything. The battle is now very simple, and it can be described in two simple words: no retreat.
If you don't retreat, you mean death.
The mountain of corpses was already piled up very high, and the blood had already gathered in one place.
In the end, there is no need to go back and count, Li Shaocheng also knows that there are only five rows of soldiers, which means that there are only fifty people left in the Hundred Battles Army.
Pulling out the horizontal knife, Li Shaocheng led forward, and took the lead in stepping forward: "Hundred Battle Army, forward!" ”
"Hundred Battles, forward!" The last fifty people, lined up and lined up, rushed forward.
Some were shaking, some were crying, some even fell as they went up the hill, but no one retreated.
Holding the two spears on one side, Li Shaocheng waved his hand, and the blade swept across the necks of the two pikemen, spilling blood on his face; He took another step forward, bent down while holding the knife behind his back, blocking a cluster of spears, and with his left hand, he pulled out another long knife from his waist and swept it in front of him, cutting off the legs of a row of Liang Jun.
Liang Jun howled miserably and rolled down the mountain of corpses, but more Liang troops rushed up.
A long* pierced Li Shaocheng's shoulder, which meant that there was no longer a guard by his side, and he held the barrel of the gun with one hand and cut off the spear with one sword.
In the dark night, the dense Liang army was rushing upward.
Li Shaocheng shouted: "Hundred Battles Army, forward!" ”
No one responded.
Because there was no one around him anymore.
Standing alone on the mountain of corpses, looking at Liang Jun who rushed up, blood flowed down the wound, Li Shaocheng was a little unsteady on his feet, he had no strength. Holding his shoulder with his left hand and holding the long knife with his right hand, looking ahead, Li Shaocheng suddenly grinned, "Big brother...... I'll go first. ”
Liang Jun arrived in front of him, spears stabbing out in unison.
"Let's go fart first!" An angry curse rang out from behind him.
Then Li Shaocheng felt a hand on his shoulder, pulling him back from the tip of the spear, and a figure rushed up, and swept the Liang army in front of him one by one.
"Big brother......" Li Shaocheng saw the person clearly.
Li Congjing handed Li Shaocheng to Lin Ying and said to him, "Leave the rest to me." ”
Li Shaocheng smiled, exhausted his strength, and fainted.
The torrent-like infantry of the Hundred Battles Army rushed up the corpse mountain and killed the Liang Army, they took the baton from Li Shaocheng's hand and shouted: "Hundred Battles Army, forward!" ”
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Early the next morning, Li Shaocheng woke up, he walked out of the big tent, and saw the camp set up by the Hundred Battles Army by the Tanshui River. Because the baggage was discarded when walking the mountain road, the hundred battle army camped, and the tent of the Liang army was still used.
Not far away, at a glance, the specific number of Liang army prisoners who could not be seen at all were held together, and Li Shaocheng estimated that there were more than 4,000 people.
After Li Shaocheng cut off the mountain road yesterday, the Liang army in the front was about 6,000 people, except for the dead and wounded, basically all of them were here.
Then Li Shaocheng saw Li Congjing. This guy actually took off his armor, rolled up his trousers and fished in the river. It's a tie, not a scratch. He held a spear in his hand, motionless, staring intently at the surface of the river, looking like a statue.
Suddenly, Li Congjing's spear was plunged into the water like lightning, and then Li Shaocheng saw him lift the spear, and there was a small fish nailed to the tip of the spear, and its tail was still flicking.
Li Congjing laughed, turned around, and saw that Li Shaocheng was by the river. Striding towards Li Shaocheng, Li Congjing smiled and said: "You kid is blessed, you just wake up and have fish to eat." ”
Li Congming took the fish and threw it to Lin Ying, who was still carrying a bucket in his hand, he put the fish in the bucket and went ashore with Li Congjing.
Li Shaocheng stepped forward to take a look, and there were four or five fish in the bucket.
"Big brother is really interested, it seems that I woke up at the right time." After the war, his stomach was empty, and Li Shaocheng had a lot of appetite.
Li Congjing sat down by the river, Li Shaocheng handed him the general's boots, and Li Congjing said while wiping his feet: "This battle was fought well, 3,000 won 12,000, happy." It's a pity that I just didn't see Dai Siyuan. ”
Li Shaocheng was about to say something, Li Zheng rode his horse, and after rolling off the saddle, he saluted Li Congjing and Li Shaocheng, and said: "The last general was ordered to hunt down and kill the Liang army, and now he comes back to restore his life." ”
"Last night, the Liang army in the rear broke and fled, and I asked Li Zheng and Ding Mao to lead a thousand people to chase them out." Li Congjing explained to Li Shaocheng and asked Li Zheng: "What are the results?" ”
Li Zheng was quite excited, and said with a smile: "I didn't get much, but I relied on the meaning of the commander to disperse the Liang army." If the Liang army fled to Mengzhou, it would be good to have 3,000 people! ”
"Well done, go down and rest." Li Congjing was very happy.
Li Shaocheng and Li Congjing walked back to the barracks together, and muttered on the way: "Dai Siyuan led 3,000 people to flee back to Mengzhou, but it was also a trouble. ”
Li Congjing glanced at him, pointed to his nose and asked seriously, "Do you think I look like an idiot?" ”
Li Shaocheng was stunned and puzzled: "What does the eldest brother mean by this?" ”
Li Congjing smiled yin, "Since I know that the Liang army that has broken down from here will flee to Mengzhou nearby and join forces with the Heyang army, which is a trouble, then how can I really let this situation really occur?" ”