Chapter 0722: Three Captures
More than 3,000 Ding zero cavalry frantically attacked Li Yi's central phalanx, and opening the gap was victory. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
And the Northern Frontier Army needs to complete the encirclement and annihilate the enemy.
Li Yi's armor was already stained with blood, and he had no fear in the chaos, he had only one thought, that is: "Kill!" "Kill!" "Kill!"
There is nothing more morale-boosting for ordinary soldiers than to see their leaders fighting bloodily and fearlessly on the front.
Li Yi's fearlessness of death greatly boosted the morale of his own soldiers. They will follow their leaders and fight, and they will die without regret. At the same time, they are also fighting for their own families, their mothers, and their brothers and sisters. They have to protect the hard-won good life at home, which is also one of the important reasons why the Northern Xinjiang Army is extremely powerful.
"Impossible! That's impossible! Zhai Yu was almost crazy, the results in front of him made him can't believe that most of his 10,000 cavalry had suffered casualties, but Li Yi's 10,000 Northern Xinjiang Army had very few casualties.
Baliyan rode his horse covered in blood and shouted: "King, the Han army is about to form an encirclement, our light cavalry cannot resist the Han cavalry, and the Han army is assisted by a large number of archers, if it is surrounded, the whole army will be annihilated!" Retreat! ”
"Fart!" Zhai Yu scolded angrily.
It turned out that while Li Yi led two thousand light cavalry to resist Zhai Yu's frontal charge, the rest of the troops under his command were about to complete the roundabout encirclement of Zhai Yu. Looking down from the sky, the front that stretched for a circle of kilometers was shrinking, and the dust that was constantly pressing towards the center was the best witness, and the Ding Ling people in the center seemed so small, and the last gap was about to close!
At this moment, Zhai Yu's blood-colored eyes widened, and the green tendons on his head twisted and burst out like centipedes, trembling with the flow of blood.
"Withdraw, King!" Baalyan cried out.
Zhai Yu yanked him off his horse and shouted angrily, "What do you know! If our army retreats from the gap, the Han army will definitely be surrounded by the left and right, what will our army do then! Even if the Han army stands still, just shooting arrows, and our army passes through the middle, it is also a life of nine deaths! ”
"What then!" Baalyan clasped his horse's belly between his legs, so that he did not fall down.
"Today's decisive battle, either Li Yi dies or I die!" Zhai Yu let go of him, raised the sharp scimitar in his hand, and roared, "The whole army is assaulted!" ”
Ding Ling's last 3,000 cavalry followed Zhai Yu to launch the final charge. He wanted to concentrate all his forces on one point, and he also knew very well that compared to the encirclement of the heavy cavalry around him, the light cavalry front in front of him, which was already much thinner, was the most advantageous breakthrough point.
In addition, Li Yi is there, if you can catch him, kill him! Even if the Han army completes the encirclement, even if Ding Ling's 10,000 troops are annihilated, Zhai Yu will also win the final victory.
In the decisive battle between Zhai Yu and Li Yi, he himself limited himself to a disadvantageous situation. Although the troops on both sides participated in the battle were 10,000 people, Li Yi's 10,000 horses not only had 6,000 iron horses, but the other 4,000 horses were also the elite of the Northern Xinjiang Army, and their combat effectiveness far exceeded Zhai Yu's 10,000 Ding Ling light cavalry.
In fact, judging from the configuration of Li Yi's troops, don't say that Zhai Yu only dispatched 10,000 light cavalry, even if it is doubled, it is not an opponent. Just like the current battlefield, Zhai Yu's 10,000 light cavalry is less than 4,000 men and horses, but the loss he caused to Li Yi is only a thousand people, and the battle loss ratio between the two sides is about six to one.
What is even more unfavorable to Zhai Yu is that now his remaining 4,000 men and horses have been surrounded by the large army led by Li Yi and are in a desperate situation.
Zhai Yu, who was surrounded, made a desperate gamble and threw the last of his strength into the battlefield, and he also moved forward bravely, vowing to break through the central front where Li Yi was.
With the sound of horses' hooves, the last 3,000 or so cavalry of Ding Ling launched a decisive charge. On the battlefield of Shura, where blood rained down and corpses and limbs were everywhere, they were not afraid of attrition, but they became crazy because of it.
The Last Madness!
The so-called poor people do not chase, and the desperate enemy is the most terrible. Their minds have frozen, and they will tear apart everything in front of them.
Therefore, Zhuge Liang shook the Ling flag again.
Li Yi immediately understood his intentions, and immediately ordered the light cavalry facing the enemy to retreat to the left and right.
In just a breath, a gap half a mile long appeared.
The Ding Ling cavalry, who charged to the death, was stunned for a moment, but they were cornered, but at this moment, when they saw that there was life, they were overjoyed, and their horses were about to escape from this gap without slowing down.
"King, the gap has appeared, let's go quickly!" Baliyan, who was followed by the collapse, said loudly in surprise.
Desperate, desperate! Zhai Yu was also alone, so he immediately slackened his plan to die just now, and immediately ordered: "The whole army retreats, retreat!" ”
Hardly need his order, the remnants of Ding Ling cavalry, who also let out a sigh of relief, are no longer desperate warriors, and have long become vast fish that have slipped through the net.
When Li Yi found that Ding Lingren had begun to retreat, he stopped continuing to retreat and opened the gap, but ordered the army to advance under the city.
Zhai Yu, who was galloping on his horse, looked at Li Yi from afar, and this time he was defeated, but fortunately he was not caught. He was furious, rode his horse from the retreating army to the edge, and shouted: "Li Yi, don't be proud, I will make a comeback in the future!" I will definitely be back! ”
Listening to Zhai Yu's words, Li Yi suddenly remembered the gray wolf, he would never let Zhai Yu become a small powerhouse that could not be beaten, so he must catch him, and he is already moving towards this goal.
Li Yi laughed loudly: "Zhai Yu, don't be busy and make big wishes, you look south first, you are about to hit the south wall!" ”
"Hit the south wall!" Zhai Yu was stunned for a moment, he understood the meaning of hitting the south wall, but he didn't understand why Li Yi said so. He subconsciously looked to the south, and saw that the tall city of Dragon City was getting closer and closer.
This is the north gate of Dragon City, and relative to Zhai Yu's direction, isn't it the south wall!
Zhai Yu instantly understood Li Yi's plan, Li Yi did not really make way for him to live, but forced him to a complete dead end. If Li Yi used his light cavalry to fight him, he might have achieved some results. But let him take these more than 3,000 Ding Ling light horses to hit the dragon city as high as ten zhang, it would definitely be a dead end.
What's more, Lao Tzu was deceived by Li Yi again!
The heart of being humiliated was suddenly born, but Zhai Yu was helpless about it, and ordered: "Retreat to the east!" ”
However, things did not go as smoothly as Zhai Yu imagined, Li Yi's army continued to oppress Ding Ling's light cavalry under the city, and Ding Ling's light cavalry could only keep approaching the city because of his momentum, so as not to be intercepted.
But the result of this is that Ding Ling's light cavalry was forced to a Jedi, at this moment in front of them is the wide moat of Dragon City, as well as the high wall of Dragon City, and the other three sides, there are about 9,000 Northern Frontier troops, including nearly 6,000 mounted iron horses, and more than 3,000 elite light horses.
The neighing of Herod's horses continued to sound, and Ding Ling's retreating cavalry was forced to stop.
At this time, Dian Wei, Yuwen Chengdu and Lu Wenlong had each led about 2,000 personal guards to rush over with iron horses.
The heavy cavalry galloping at full speed rammed into the light cavalry that had stopped, and the outcome could be imagined.
In the midst of the screams, the armored iron cavalry of the pro-guard army was like a necromantic knight, wielding sharp weapons and slaughtering the morale-free Ding Ling light cavalry.
In order to escape for their lives, many Ding Ling soldiers jumped into the moat of Dragon City. However, for Ding Lingren, who rarely knows how to be water-based, the wide moat that communicates with the Anhou River is a giant mouth that devours life, and it is still impossible to escape death if you jump into it.
"It's over!" Baliyan was gathered together with a large number of tribal leaders, with only a thousand cavalry by his side, and they looked helplessly at the slaughtered warriors of their own tribe.
Zhai Yu, who was at the end of the road, went completely crazy, and rode out of the horse like crazy, looking at Li Yi and leaving.
Who knew that a white-robed general was killed halfway, and the silver gun in his hand was smashed, and Zhai Yu was hit in the chest. Zhai Yu spat blood from his mouth and fell off the horse.
Needless to say, the person who made the shot was Zhao Yun. Dian Wei, Yuwen Chengdu and Lu Wenlong led the iron cavalry to launch an attack, but he hadn't made a move yet.
Ding Lingren became more and more panicked, and under the siege of Li Yi's thousands of troops, the last two thousand people were huddled together like lambs.
Li Yi immediately ordered to stop the attack, and rode his horse to Ding Lingren, and Baliyan and the others looked at Li Yi who was coming slowly in horror.
Casualties are inevitable in the battle between the two armies, and if one side has already given up resistance, it would be unjust to kill again.
Li Yi wanted to subdue Ding Lingren, so he planned to release these remaining Ding Ling soldiers and horses. He said loudly: "You and others have a family and relatives. Why don't you live a stable life at home and come to invade our Han land? ”
"This ......" Baliyan and other leaders were speechless, after all, they took the initiative to invade others, and now they ended up like this, and they couldn't complain about others, and they hung their heads one after another.
Li Yi saw that his face was ashamed, so he continued: "I think your parents, brothers, and wives must be leaning on the door, if they know that you are defeated, they will definitely be worried and full of tears. This battle is really not Li Yi's wish, and it hurts me so much. Today I will let you go back to your heart, in order to appease your parents, brothers, and wives. ”
"Zilong, you quickly go to the city to get wine, food, rice and grain."
Then he said to Baliyan and the others, "Take these and go back." ”
Baliyan and the others felt their kindness deeply, and they were speechless in shame, so they dismounted and bowed: "Thank you for the grace of the general not to kill!" ”
So, the two thousand people hurriedly rolled the saddle and dismounted, and bowed: "Thank you for the general's grace not to kill!" ”
Many people cried excitedly because they were able to save their lives and go home to see their wives and children, and at the same time they were even more grateful to Li Yi.
Zhuge Liang saw it on the head of the city and sighed: "The lord is benevolent and righteous, I will do my best to assist the lord to achieve the great cause, which is the blessing of the people of the world!" ”
Li Yi sent these defeated soldiers away, and asked Dian Wei to pick up the unconscious Zhai Yu on the ground and return to the city, while the rest of the people cleaned up the battlefield. (To be continued.) )