Chapter 425: Thousands of Soldiers, Fighting a Million Sungrown
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When cleaning the battlefield, Wang Jian saw the war horse that saved his life lying quietly on the battlefield, sighed, and simply worked with his old partner who used to sell salt, and now Jin Hui, who is also one of the eight generals of loyalty and martial arts, as well as his own clansmen Wang Zongshou, Wang Zongkan, Wang Zongbi, Wang Zongruan, Wang Zongdi, Wang Zongbo, Wang Zongji and others to dismantle the dead horse into eight pieces, and prepare to boil a large pot of horse broth to comfort the brothers who followed him.
When Wang Jian was young, he also specialized in killing cattle and donkeys in his hometown of Xuzhou, but when he skillfully dissected the horse's belly, he found a strange animal similar to a small snake, wriggling near the heart of the war horse, and couldn't help but be shocked. Jin Hui, Wang Zongshou and the others couldn't help but change their faces in surprise at this time.
Just when everyone was surprised and at a loss, Wang Zongshou said to Bugling Wang in a low voice: "On the battlefield today, the three crossbow arrows were supposed to take Bugling Wang, but when it was critical, it was all thanks to this war horse to avoid it, so that Bugling Wang would not die." Now that this thing has been found in this horse, I think this is a good omen. ”
Cutting the horse and seeing the snake, this thing is too strange, when Wang Zongshou said this, everyone also remembered that Wang Jianduo escaped the killing because of this war horse. They all felt that this thing was unusual.
"This thing is like a snake and not like a snake, but it actually grows in the heart of a horse, can it be said that this is a dragon horse? Today is chaotic. Could it be that Myna Wang has the appearance of destiny? ”
They say so. Wang Jian also felt that he had a faint destiny. I can't help but feel excited, it seems that the catastrophe will not die, and it will really be a blessing. At that moment, he stewed a large pot of horse broth with everyone, and his brothers all got a share. As for the strange snake, it was directly boiled and eaten by the bold Wang Jian.
That evening, the army collected its troops and returned to the camp, and the towns counted the numbers and found that there was a battle today. More than 5,000 people were killed in the battle, and thousands more were wounded. This huge number of casualties made the faces of Zheng Congyan and the other six town commanders very ugly.
At this time, Tuoba Sigong and Helian Duo were a little glad that they didn't attack the city that night, otherwise, maybe they would have to throw all their men and horses into the city. After this battle, the generals suffered heavy casualties, and they were a little reluctant to continue the onslaught.
Wait until the next day, the nine thousand cavalry of the three tribes sent by Li Jing arrived, and they arrived. made Zheng Congyan and the others excited.
"Commander, the enemy is stubbornly resisting. The fighters suffered heavy casualties. It's better to stop the attack for the time being, our army will only besiege and not attack, and directly trap them. Li Chong, the envoy of the Yicheng Army, proposed that his Yicheng Army was the weakest among the towns, and yesterday it was also the heaviest casualties, and he only brought 3,000 soldiers and horses to Hedong this time, and he lost almost 1,000 soldiers and horses in this battle. After two more battles like this, he will have to become a handsome man.
"No, it must be attacked!" Zheng Congyan went against the norm this time and categorically demanded to continue the attack.
The plain and gentle Zheng Congyan Xiangguo was so stubborn at this moment, which shocked the town marshals present.
Zheng Congyan's gaze swept over everyone, and his eyes shone brightly: "Everyone, the strength of the defenders is beyond our expectations. I judged that there were at least 10,000 men and horses in the city. Li Keyong now has a limited number of troops on his hands, and since he is heavily garrisoned in Shuozhou City, the other defense lines must be empty! Shuozhou is not easy to fight, then we will put Mayi! ”
The town marshals all understood, and Li Chong asked: "Dashuai, do you want to attack the east and the west?" ”
"Exactly!" Zheng Congyan turned around and said, "Yu Jieshuai! ”
Yu Xuan got up, "Here!" ”
"I'm going to let you lead the cavalry to raid the Mayi, are you willing to take on this mission?"
Yu Xuan did not refuse, "Yu Xuan takes the order!" ”
"Okay, Tuoba Sigong, Helian Duo, Qi Bizhang, Shi Jingsi, Mi Haiwan, you all lead your headquarters to be under the command of Shuai Jiedu."
The generals responded to the order, and finally decided that because Xuan led the Wufan cavalry and the Zhenwu army cavalry, a total of 18,000 cavalry went to raid Mayi City. The remaining 40,000 soldiers and horses were still led by Zheng Congyan and continued to besiege Shuozhou City.
In the middle of the night, Yu Xuan led 18,000 cavalry to the north. With 18,000 cavalry, this was an extremely large-scale cavalry concentrated operation. Zheng Congyan and Yu Xuan both believed that with this cavalry, it should not be a problem to take Mayi, there are only so many soldiers and horses of the Shatuo people, at most 20,000 or 30,000 people, and the elite is only about 10,000 at most. Now there are tens of thousands in Shuozhou City, so the Jincheng, the nest of the Shatuo people, will definitely not be less than 10,000 people, so calculated, the soldiers of Mayi will never exceed 10,000 people, and there will definitely not be so many elites in Shuozhou City.
As long as you fight a raid battle, you have a great chance of taking Mayi.
When Xuan led 18,000 cavalry to leave Shanyang, Li Keyong, who had been secretly stationed in Mayi City between Shuozhou City and Jincheng, also used all the 8,000 elite cavalry in Mayi City and was killing Shuozhou City.
The two soldiers and horses marched almost at the same time, but they did not meet at all along the way.
Yu Xuan walked to the east, while Li Keyong walked to the west.
When it was almost dawn, Li Ke had fewer troops and was faster, and he was the first to reach the vicinity of the Shanyang Tang Army camp. Li Keyong had already found out that the baggage and grass of the coalition army were piled up in the left camp, so he directly killed the left camp. Eight thousand Shatuo elite cavalry came out, and the Tang camp was preparing to rest and fight again tomorrow, but they didn't find the appearance of this Shatuo cavalry at all. The two sides immediately started a scuffle, although the Tang camp still had 40,000 troops, but the soldiers and horses in each town were originally separated from each other, and at this time, the chaos was even more chaotic.
Finally, Zheng Congyan figured out what was going on, and commanded the armies to try to surround Li Keyong. Li Siyuan, Kang Junli and others in the city over there got the news, and they knew that Li Keyong had killed him, and immediately ordered 5,000 cavalry in the city to go out of the city to respond.
The two sides fought all night, and at dawn, Li Keyong and Li Siyuan retreated into Shanyang City.
After dawn, Zheng Congyan asked the towns to count the losses, and last night's battle, he was sent out and entered by the Shatuo people. The 40,000 troops of the Tang Army suffered more than 10,000 casualties. More than 5,000 people were killed in the battle. There were also more than 2,000 serious injuries, and countless more were lightly injured. However, the biggest loss was not the casualties, but the fact that the tens of thousands of troops in the battalion had all turned to ashes in January.
Now, the whole army is left without even a grain of food.
Li Ke returned to the city in victory at dawn, and after a night of scuffle, the loss was no more than a thousand horsemen, and Li Keyong was very happy. With more than 1,000 horsemen, nearly 10,000 enemies were killed. Moreover, the grain and grass of the coalition army were completely burned, and how the coalition army fought this time would inevitably have to retreat.
Just as he was happy and proud, Li Kening, who was left behind by Ma Yi, suddenly arrived.
"Third brother, Ma Yi is lost!" Li Kening's face was full of embarrassment, after Li Keyong led 8,000 cavalry away, only 3,000 newly recruited infantry were left in Mayi City. As soon as Li Keyong left, Yu Xuan's 18,000 cavalry arrived. With so many cavalry, Yu Xuan directly attacked and attacked the city from all sides, and Li Kening's recruits were not defeated at all. Before dawn, the city was breached. Li Kening finally escaped from the city and ran to Shanyang to report the news.
Lick almost froze on the spot. He had just burned the grain and grass of the coalition army, and the coalition army took his horse in a blink of an eye.
Ma Yi lives in Shanyang and Jincheng, and now Ma Yi is lost, Shanyang is surrounded on both sides and loses its connection with Jincheng.
"What now?" Li Youjin said worriedly, the joy of the victory just now had been washed away by the defeat lost by Ma Yi. "Let me lead the troops back to Mayi and recapture Mayi."
"Nope." Li Keyong shook his head, just after a night of fighting, at this time to rush to Mayi, the soldiers can only be exhausted, then Mayi, the other party still has a city defense available, they want to take Mayi, how can it be so easy. Rick gripped the sword tightly in his palm, one eye contemplative.
"Let the brethren eat first, and then rest immediately after eating. Tonight, let's go out of town again! Rick said.
"Are you going to retake Mayi?"
"No, tonight we are going to break the Tang soldiers outside the city, destroy the Tang army in front of us first, and then return to the division to recapture Mayi."
In the camp of the Tang Army, Zheng Congyan stayed awake all night, his eyes were red and bloodshot, his eyes were black, and his face was pale. Without food and grass, tens of thousands of troops have no way out. Even if you want to go back at this time, what to eat these days.
"Li Jing, Li Jing, where are you at this time?" Zheng Congyan was thinking about Li Jing at this time, if Li Jing was here, this young man should have a way to deal with it.
A rush of footsteps finally interrupted Zheng Congyan's thoughts, and a herald hurriedly walked in: "Report to the marshal, Yu Shuai's special order is a small return, and before dawn, Mayi City has been captured." There were only 3,000 recruits in the city of Mayi, and after interrogating the prisoners, it was learned that Li Keyong led 8,000 cavalry to Shanyang, and hoped that the marshal would be on guard. ”
Zheng Congyan sighed: "It's late, Li Keyong has already broken through our army's camp last night, not only killed thousands of soldiers and horses of our army, but also burned up our army's grain and grass." ”
However, this news still made Zheng Congyan's depressed mood a little happy, "At least Mayi City has been taken, and they still have Li Jing and Yu Xuan." The key now is that as long as you survive this hurdle, victory will be yours immediately. ”
"Pass the order, the whole army is on alert, tonight as expected, Shatuo will definitely attack!" Zheng Congyan cheered up and gave orders.
That night, Li Keyong led 10,000 elite horsemen out of the city again to attack the Tang camp at night. This time, Zheng Congyan had already taken precautions, and Li Ke attacked the camp with a fierce attack, but Zheng Congyan stuck to the camp, and the two sides attacked and defended all night, with countless casualties. But Li Keyong didn't want to retreat, if Ma Yi was in hand, he only needed to stare at this team without food and grass like a wolf, and in just a few days, this Tang army would be defeated.
But now that Ma Yi is in the hands of the enemy, Jincheng is directly surrounded by Yu Xuan's cavalry and Li Jing's soldiers and horses in the clouds, and when he thinks of Li Jing's subordinates, who have not yet found a trace, Li Keyong has a deep uneasiness in his heart.
This Tang army must be destroyed first, and then return to Mayi, for which he will do whatever it takes.
Li Ke is fierce, and Zheng Congyan is also ruthless at this time. He had already asked Zhang Chengye to go back to Li Jing, and also sent people to Yu Xuan's place to ask them to send troops to help. Now as long as he drags Li Keyong and waits for Li Jing and Yu Xuan's soldiers and horses to come back, the final victory in this battle is still theirs.
In the dark night, the Shatuo cavalry kept hitting the Tang army camp like a tide. The soldiers in the battalion were hungry at this time, desperately fighting back, and the corpses in front of the camp fence were covered layer after layer.
Zheng Congyan continued to ride horses on the front line and took the lead in boosting morale.
"Brothers, hold on for a little longer, the army of Li Zhenguo and Yu Zhenwu will arrive soon, hold on for a little longer, and the victory will be completely ours!" (To be continued......)