【Chapter 764】 One Ride

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Even so, Zhang He, who was shocked back by the huge force, was still almost planted off his horse, and the iron spear was also lost from his hand, and his right arm, which had lost his weapon, was paralyzed and drooping, and his right hand was dripping with blood, obviously suffering heavy injuries.

When his life was at stake, he saw that Zhang He took advantage of the rapid retreat of the war horse to hold the reins in his left hand, and after stumbling to the ground, he immediately beat the horse and fled to the military formation, trying to get rid of Li Li's pursuit as soon as possible.

At the same time as the sword shook Zhang He back, Li Li was stunned and missed the best opportunity to take advantage of the situation to kill Zhang He.

At this moment, a "fluttering" rain of arrows roared over his head, and fell obliquely into the Yuan army's array, instantly killing hundreds of giant shield soldiers and archers. Obviously, this was caused by the cavalry shot of the Jin Yiwei. Due to the distance, the arrow and Li Li arrived in front of Yuan's army almost at the same time, if Li Li was not blocked by Zhang He, I am afraid that he himself will also be in the middle of the stray arrow.

"Where the enemy will flee, quickly dismount and die!"

Among the three rounds of arrows, Li Li single-handedly killed dozens of giant shield soldiers, and forced a piece of red ground in front of Yuan's army, tearing a big gap in the impenetrable giant shield array. After the arrows passed, Li Zhi had led 20,000 cavalry to rush behind him, at this time Li Li jumped his horse and rushed into the Yuan army's formation, and saw that the enemy general who was wounded by himself shouted loudly, while swinging his knife to slash and kill Yuan soldiers, and went straight to the direction of the enemy's escape.

And the reason why he kept chasing after him was not to insist on killing the enemy generals who fled in the wilderness, but to try to follow the escape path of the enemy generals to kill a bloody way for the war horses behind him, and break through the enemy formation as quickly as possible. Then he directly took Yuan Shao's army, joined forces with Zhang Yan's department, and joined forces to intercept and kill Yuan Shao.

As Cao Cao said. In this decisive battle of Loudiyuan, Li Li didn't care how many allied princes and generals the Xiliang army could kill, what he really cared about was the victory of the entire decisive battle. In other words, Li Li is based on the overall situation, aiming to achieve the final victory of the whole battle, not just against a certain prince or a single force, and wants to kill them all.

Therefore. In Li Li's eyes, the top priority at the moment is to defeat Yuan Shao, the leader of the princes' alliance, and his Jizhou army. As for whether or not the Allied generals can be killed, it is not the overall situation. After all, as long as hundreds of thousands of allied troops are defeated, what can more than 100 generals do, and they can't make big waves at all. No worries.

Running in pursuit. Li Li took the lead, and the Jin Qi war knife flew left and right, setting off a bloody storm between the knife in his hand, and the blood mist was filled. Wherever the Golden Lion Beast King went, Yuan Bing avoided it one after another, and those who couldn't avoid it became the soul of the sword, and their heads were in a different place. Thousands of Yuan soldiers did not have a single general under Li Li's knife, and the sword light flew and flickered. If you touch it, you will die next to each other, and you will die vertically and horizontally. Invincible.

And the Xiliang cavalry that arrived later did not disappoint Li Li, and Li Zhiqin led Jin Yiwei to take the lead, and rushed into the formation before Yuan's army blocked the gap in front of the formation. With just one charge, more than 3,000 Jinqi Guard cavalry rushed the giant shield array in front of the formation, clearing the way for the Black Mountain cavalry that followed. Immediately afterwards, the Jin Qi Wei cavalry rushed into the archer camp hiding behind the giant shield array like a tiger in the mountains, causing thousands of Yuan archers to retreat, and they fell under the Tiege halberd of the Jin Qi Wei cavalry in an instant, and were killed and wounded.

At the same time, the Black Mountain cavalry that followed closely behind Jin Yiwei also looked good. Under the leadership of Wang Dang, the three leaders of the Montenegrin army, the 20,000 Montenegrin cavalry were all brave and fierce, like hungry wolves pounced on food, slammed the giant shield array, killed the archers who fled in a hurry, and then smashed into the enemy formation.

The ensuing battle was exactly as Li Li had predicted. Because the more than 20,000 infantry troops under Zhang He's tent were suddenly attacked before they could complete the military formation, the Yuan army was caught off guard, and the battle array did not play any role at all. In addition, his main general Zhang He was injured in a blow, and then retreated in panic, and the direct command of the zhì army not only did not play its due attack and defense power, but was dragged down by Zhang He's defeat and escape, and gave way to him one after another, and Li Li then pursued and killed, causing the already very fragile army formation to be chaotic before the battle, and tens of thousands of soldiers were crowded into a regiment and chaotic.

Since then, the more than 20,000 soldiers under Zhang He's tent have not been able to form a joint force, let alone cooperate with each other to kill the enemy, and their combat effectiveness can be imagined. In the face of the fierce wolf-like cavalry of more than 20,000 Xiliang iron cavalry, under the frontal battle of equal strength, these Yuan army soldiers could not stop the cavalry rushing at all, and it could even be said that they were vulnerable.

In addition, it was late at night, and all the centaurs on the battlefield were lit by torches, and the scenery beyond fifty paces was blurry and difficult to see. Therefore, the soldiers of the Yuan army did not know how many men and horses they were facing the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and they only felt that all they could see were the figures of the Xiliang Cavalry.

People in the world have an instinctive fear of the unknown, and this is the case with more than 20,000 soldiers under Zhang He's tent at this moment.

Seeing that the Xiliang War Cavalry was fierce and rushed like a flood beast, Yuan Bing, who was in the crowded chaos, did not resist desperately, but instinctively chose to escape. Moreover, the direction in which they fled was not the same, where there was no Xiliang cavalry, they ran there. It can be said that he panicked and fled in a panic.

However, the fleeing soldiers of the Yuan army forgot that in the face of the war cavalry charge, the more they fled without a fight, the faster they died. Because they gave up resistance, they were at the mercy of the cavalry, but how could a two-legged man outrun a four-legged horse? It's a pity that people can't make the right choice at all when they are panicked, and they just blindly want to run away for their lives, but they don't know that the more panicked they are, the easier it is to make mistakes. And at this time, the cost of making a mistake will be extremely heavy, and a single thought will cost you your life.

In just two teas, more than 20,000 soldiers under Zhang He's tent fled, and more than sixty percent of the soldiers were easily killed on the spot by the Xiliang war cavalry, and less than thirty percent of the soldiers really escaped from the pursuit of the war horse, and the remaining adult horses fled directly to Yuan Shao's army with Zhang He.

After defeating Zhang He's troops, Li Zhi and the war cavalry led by Wang Dang joined forces again and caught up with Li Li, who was leading all the way.

Under the flickering night sky, Li Li Shendao stopped and looked coldly at the battlefield of Yuan Shaozhong's army two hundred steps away in front of him.

There, Zhang Yan's 50,000 Black Mountain troops were fighting head-on with Yuan Shao's descendants. At present, the fierce battle between the two sides is in full swing, and judging from the flags flying in the night sky, the banners of the Montenegrin army are obviously less than those of the Yuan army, which is obviously at a disadvantage, in a worrying situation, and is always facing the danger of being surrounded and annihilated by the Yuan army.

However, Li Li did not rush to lead the army to rush over at this time, nor did he chase after the enemy generals who fled in a hurry, let alone rush into Yuan Shaozhong's army alone. Today's Li Li is no longer the Wuwei Taishou who used to be alone and dangerous, like the situation of escaping from under the horse's hooves in the Battle of Dongshan Pass, it is absolutely impossible for it to happen to him again.

Before, the reason why he took the lead and personally led the army to charge into battle was because the whole army needed an example to drive morale, so as to move forward bravely and kill bravely. Therefore, he stood up without hesitation, one person rode a sword, one rode the dust, and was unstoppable.

But at this moment, Li Li no longer led the army to charge into battle. Because the morale of the whole army has reached its peak, the blood of all the officers and men is boiling, and the fighting spirit is high, and everything he should have done has been done. However, as the commander of the whole army, there is no need for him to continue to fight, let alone take the lead and take risks in person.

In addition, until now, Li Li did not know that the enemy general who fled in panic after being injured by him was Zhang He and Zhang Junyi, one of the four court pillars in Jizhou. Otherwise, I'm afraid that Zhang He won't be able to escape from him so easily, and if he can't be captured alive, he will be beheaded by him.

"My lord, under the First World War, our army's war cavalry lost 5,000 people, and all the soldiers killed in the battle were mixed cavalry, that is, the 5,000 cavalry under the tent of Zhang Yang and Sun Ce, who were temporarily handed over to Zhang Yan's command. And my Jinyi Guard battalion only lost more than 100 people, and the Feiyan light cavalry led by Wang Dang also suffered little loss, only more than 1,000 people were killed in battle, and a total of more than 16,000 people of Yuan's army were killed, and the remaining thousands of remnants all fled. ”

Taking advantage of the short gap in recuperation, Li Zhi quickly gathered his forces and roughly estimated the results of the battle.

"More than 6,000 casualties?" Li Li frowned slightly after hearing this, and said in a deep voice: "It seems that the Yuan Jun we just met is not simple, and it is far from being as vulnerable as we see. At this time, in retrospect, our army really won a fluke just now, and attacked it unprepared, which caught Yuan's army off guard; Otherwise, the casualties of our army's war cavalry are probably far more than 6,000 cavalry, and the casualties will inevitably be heavy. ”

Li Zhi nodded in response: "The lord is right. This infantry army of 30,000 men is quite powerful, and if they are allowed to complete the formation, it will be difficult for our army to break through the battle formation within an hour. Fortunately, the lord made timely action and defeated his commander and general at the first time, disrupting the enemy's position, so that our army could take advantage of it and defeat it in one fell swoop. ”

While speaking, Li Zhi's voice paused slightly, and his tone changed sharply: "However, in this battle, our army lost more than 6,000 cavalry, except for more than 1,000 casualties of the Jinyi Guard Battalion and Feiyan Light Cavalry, the last general suspected that the other 5,000 mixed cavalry were not all killed, at most half of them were killed, and the other half of the cavalry took the opportunity to escape." After all, these cavalry were not Zhang Yan's soldiers and horses, but the soldiers and horses left in the Allied camp by Hanoi Zhang Yang and Jiangdong Sun Ce. Now that the situation on the battlefield has changed abruptly, these people must not dare to resist us, nor do they want to join our army, so they sneaked away while the two armies were fighting. ”

"Well, Zicheng's words are not unreasonable." Li Li bowed slightly, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Actually, it's good that these soldiers leave by themselves, so that we don't have to worry about it after the war." In particular, most of the cavalry under Sun Ce in Jiangdong came from the south, and some of them were not adaptable, and it was useless to forcibly stay in the army, and even left hidden dangers. Now they have escaped secretly, but it is also worry-free. Hehehe! ”

“??? Oh, by the way, the general of the Yuan army who fled just now has good martial arts, and the arrangement of troops is quite orderly, who is he? Li Li asked with a chuckle.

"Zhang He, the word Junyi, one of the four pillars of Jizhou, is strong in martial arts, good at commanding troops, and is a famous general in the Jizhou army in recent years." Li Zhi replied without hesitation.

"Zhang He, Zhang Junyi? It turned out to be him. Li Li groaned in surprise, his face changed suddenly, and he waved his hand: "It's not good, Zhang Yan is in danger!" Immediately ordered the whole army to set off and smash Yuan Shao's army! Hopefully, it's not too late??????"

———————————— (To be continued......)