Chapter 600: Collision
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At dusk, the horses galloped to report that the leader of the company, Yelu Dara, led 6,000 cavalry, had reached the north of the city twenty miles and was speeding towards the mountain city.
When Li Jing heard the news, his heart suddenly lightened, and the Khitans had entered my place.
Originally, he was worried that this plan would not work and would be discovered by the Khitans, but now it seems that he is too careful.
"Great marshal, Yelu Dara led 6,000 men to come, and only 3,000 men and horses were left in the cities of Jian'an. As long as this army of soldiers and horses is annihilated, the entire Jian'an Prefecture will be at your fingertips. Congratulations to the commander, and he will take the land of another state. Li Liang congratulated Li Jing.
Li Jing nodded, the Khitans from Jian'an Prefecture came one after another, which really surprised Li Jing.
Yelu Dachi and Yelu Da Ra came twice with 12,000 men and horses, and the main force of the entire Jian'an Prefecture was almost exhausted, and the remaining 3,000 men and horses could no longer pose any threat to Li Jing, who had 100,000 soldiers and horses.
"Are the soldiers and horses ready?"
Li Jing asked with a smile.
"It's all ready, but why didn't the marshal set up an ambush in the twin cities as he did last time, but chose the ambush battlefield twenty miles north of the twin cities?" Zhang Chengzong asked.
Li Jing smiled at this confidant general, nodded and said to Li Liang, Jing Xiang, and Gai Yu: "You can ask the three gentlemen this question." ”
As strategists, Li Liang and the three of them are naturally very clear about these. In fact, Li Jing was going to use the military talisman to write a fake request for credit to deceive the Khitans, and they had already thought of such a strategy. It's just because Yelu Dachi refused to cooperate, and Gongsun Lan only took one night to get Yelu Dachi to obey. Let the big surprise them.
"Ambush outside the city. Better than an ambush in the city. Gai Yu shook a folding fan. It's a bit of a military strategist, "The last time I was able to ambush Yelu Dachi in the city, it was because he didn't take precautions. This time, although Yelu Dara led his troops to come, if he arrived at the city and did not find Yelu Dachi and other Khitan soldiers and horses, he would definitely be suspicious. And the big marshal just didn't give him this chance to be suspicious, and Yelu Dachi came all the way. After walking for two days, it was the time of exhaustion. Twin cities are in sight, and this is the time when the Khitan soldiers are most vigilant and the least vigilant. At this time, the ambush can have the best effect of being unprepared. ”
Gai Yu explained this, Zhang Chengzong and Liu Shouqian immediately understood.
Li Jing immediately ordered Guo Zhenshan Yanyun Army, Lin Wuyin Spear Xiaojie Army, Qiu Shengong Shenwu Army, and Xuancheng Xiongwu Army, who were waiting to ambush Yelu Dara.
He himself led the Jinjia Shengjie army and Zhao Lifei's Xiong army, Zeng Yuanyu's Shenjie army, and Gao Zhaokang's Korean army to dispatch later.
Zhang Chengshou led the Leopard Cavalry, Liu Shouqian led the Flying Eagle Army, and stayed in Shuangcheng.
Li Jing was ready to be ambushed by the Fourth Army. He led the four armies in pursuit.
Twenty miles north of the city, outside the north mouth of the valley, Yerodharat led his troops in a hurry. I was about to enter the valley. If he entered the valley, Jerodara might have carefully sent someone to check it out first. But now, after all, it is still more than ten miles away, and he has no precautions at all.
At this moment, suddenly there was a slight vibration under his feet, and there was a muffled thunderous sound.
As a Khitan warrior who grew up on horseback, Yelu Dara's face changed slightly, and he immediately understood that a large group of cavalry was galloping forward. Judging by the voices, he deduced that there were quite a few enemy soldiers, and that they were actually galloping from all sides.
"It's not Jerodachi's greeting procession, absolutely not!" In the blink of an eye, Jerodharat understood. "It's a trap, retreat!"
As the advance tribe of the Diera, Yelu Dara was able to conquer Jian'an Prefecture all the way, and even almost won Jili Prefecture last year, relying on his rich battlefield experience. Although it is not clear how many people in the Tang army are waiting for them here, he will never respond to the battle casually. It's like a cunning fox that runs away as soon as he sees movement.
The whining horn sounded, and the Khitan cavalry quickly turned around.
However, although Yelu Dara reacted quickly, Tang Jun was a hunter who had been waiting for a long time, so how could he allow the prey that entered the trap to escape?
The Shenwu and Xiongwu armies under the Pinglu Army, the Yanyun Army under the Fifth Army of the Zhenguo Army, the Silver Spear Xiaojie Army under the Five Yazhong, and the four armies fired together, killing from all sides from the 6,000 Khitans who broke into the ambush circle.
Yeroda raised his sword and looked around, only to see that the Tang army was surging like a tide everywhere in all directions.
The flaming red battle flag, the galloping war horse, and the silver battle flag, silver armor, and all white high-headed horses.
Seeing this scene, Yelu Da Ra didn't know that Ye Lu Dachi must have been defeated by the Tang army a long time ago, and the letter asking for help was really as Mr. Feng Duo said, there was a problem. Unfortunately, it's too late.
He had heard of the bravery of the Zhenguo Army and Li Jing's good strategy and ability to fight, but he never thought that those were not exaggerated, they were all true.
Now, witnessing the fierceness and bravery of the Tang Army made Yeludara's heart tremble.
These Tang troops are not like the Youzhou Lu Long Army at all. In his memory, the Tang army should be like the Lu Longjun in Youzhou, who seemed to be brave in appearance, but in fact they were not the opponents of the Khitan warriors at all. Lu Longjun is also very strong, but he has never been as fierce as the Zhenguo Army, where is the Tang Army in the impression, this is obviously more powerful than the knights of the grassland tribe.
The momentum of the Zhenguo Army is unstoppable.
Jerodharat didn't even dare to turn back and fight, but fled, and fled north, the farther away the better.
The Khitans ran fast, and the Tang army also pursued quickly. The ambushed Fourth Army had 23,000 soldiers and horses, waiting for work, and among them, the Silver Spear Jie Army had 3,000 elite cavalry, and the Yanyun Army itself was a large establishment of 8,000 people, and its troops had 3,000 cavalry. The Shenwu and Xiongwu armies also had 2,000 cavalry each. The four armies had 23,000 men and horses, and 10,000 cavalry. The cavalry alone surpassed these Khitans by 4,000 people.
The Khitans had been walking for two days, they were already tired, hungry and tired, and they were ambushed here, and they wanted to break out of the encirclement, but it was not easy to say.
To the north where the Khitans wanted to break through, the five thousand infantry of the Yanyun army had already arrived on horseback, and then quickly dismounted. Rapid formation.
The five-foot iron shield on the front row has been erected. It forms an iron wall. And behind the shield array, there were countless eight-foot spears that pierced through the big shield, blooming cold and bright thorn flowers on the iron wall. Countless spears have sprung up, forming a formidable place of death.
On either side of these shieldmen and spearmen were the sword-and-card jumpers, and in the middle of them were three thousand crossbowmen. On both sides of this suddenly erected wall, the cavalry of the Yanyun Army had already stepped up on the horse. Always ready to strike.
Guo Zhenshan looked at the Khitan cavalry who were rushing closer and closer, like a frenzy, couldn't help but swallow his saliva, drew his sword out of its sheath, swung it forward vigorously, and roared: "Crossbowmen prepare!" ”
"A hundred steps away!"
"Eighty steps!"
"Sixty steps!"
"Fifty steps!" The observer in front of the formation shouted nervously, his voice sharp.
With a wave of the long sword, Guo Zhenshan shouted: "Release the arrow!" ”
The trumpeter and standard-bearer behind him immediately sounded the horn and waved the flag to give the order, and the order continued to be passed back, and then the three thousand crossbowmen picked up the crossbow machine and pulled the crossbow string. Suddenly, countless crossbow nails roared like flying locusts over the shield soldiers and spearmen, and rushed straight into the Khitan cavalry charging array.
The Khitan cavalry that rushed in front suddenly turned on their backs. One by one, they fell to the ground, and the knights behind couldn't dodge, the horses stumbled, and a large number of war horses fell to the ground.
After the crossbow arrows, the crossbowmen quickly picked up the bows on the ground, pulled up the arrows stuck in front of them, and opened their bows to shoot arrows.
At this time, you don't need to care about accuracy, what you need is speed.
One arrow after another was shot out, forming an arrow curtain, flying above the Khitans' heads, and then in a sharp whistling sound, they fell in an instant, enveloping the Yan Yun army within fifty steps in front of the formation. A dense rain of arrows fell overhead, and although the Khitan cavalry had armor, the horses were unable to guard against it.
"Rush over!" Jeroda hissed and roared, but he had already been hit by several arrows, and his blood was bleeding.
The Khitans dare to rush to fight, but before such a strong wall, how easy is it to rush over?
What's more, the Zhenguo Army is not the only one to intercept the wall.
When the Khitans were blocked by the strong wall, the Tang army behind them had already killed them from three sides. The cavalry in front and the infantry in the rear, like a pack of wolves besieging a flock of sheep. Although the Khitans kept rushing forward, every time the Tang army could pounce and bite off a large piece of meat.
The front could not be broken, and the Tang army on three sides of the rear pounced fiercely.
The outcome of the battle was already predestined, and the Khitans were just dying. Their bodies were already covered with prismatic wounds from the spears, and under the Y-shaped wounds, they couldn't suture the wounds, so they could only watch the blood flow and die.
Yelu Dara never imagined that he would die here after half his life.
After all, he was careless after all, Feng Duo reminded him, but he didn't care at all.
Thinking of this, he felt remorseful in his heart.
"Abandon your weapons to avoid death, surrender and not kill!" The shouts of the Tang army have begun to ring on the battlefield. Yerodara could speak Chinese and understood that the Tang army wanted them to surrender.
Jerodara shouted: "Fight to the end, never surrender!" ”
A burst of strength suddenly surged all over his body, and the fanged stick in Yelu Dara's hand flew over, smashing a close Tang cavalry off his horse with a stick, and then roared: "Erlang'er, the warriors of the Khitan would rather die in battle than surrender." ”
Guo Zhenshan heard the sudden burst of shouts from the Khitans, and his morale was greatly improved. Turning his head and asking the officer next to him who understands Khitan dialect, after understanding. Leng snorted, "Since you want to die, then fulfill them." ”
Yan Yunjun blocked the Khitan's retreat, and the archers hid in the formation and kept firing their bows and arrows.
The other three armies also joined in from behind, and the Khitan soldiers were completely surrounded. And as time passed, the encirclement became smaller and tighter.
The Khitans were left with less than 2,000 men, and they had completely turned into a bleeding and mad beast.
"General Yelu is dead!" Another shout on the battlefield.
Guo Zhenshan raised the clairvoyant mirror and looked over, and sure enough, the eagle flag of Yelu Dara in the Khitan army had collapsed in the military formation.
Lin Wu led the silver spear to serve the army like a white tiger, with the momentum of thunder, suddenly cut into the Khitan army, directly penetrating the formation that the Khitan people were struggling to support.
As soon as Yelu Dara died, the remnants of the Khitan could no longer hold on, and after being constantly divided and surrounded by the Zhenguo army that pounced on them, they were defeated and captured.
Under the golden light of the setting sun, the battlefield was in shambles, with countless Khitan cavalry corpses piled up on the battlefield, and the wailing of the wounded war horse. The victorious soldiers of the Zhenguo Army stained their robes with blood, and the horses were cleaned in teams. (To be continued......)