Chapter 903: Attack while you win
Although the Wei army did not retreat, Han Mo was already in a good mood when he heard the military report from the scouts.
The remnants of the Iron Horse Cavalry have been surrounded by the Yan Army, although they will not be annihilated immediately for a while, but there is no doubt that today is the end of the Iron Horse Cavalry, and the iron horse cavalry that is extremely brave across the world will eventually be completely destroyed in their own hands.
Lin Chengfei also knew the situation of the iron horse being surrounded, and he couldn't help but show surprise on his face, he really couldn't imagine that Han Mo's trick would be so effective.
He immediately made a decision and ordered: "Order the soldiers on the right wing to rush up, the iron horse is surrounded, the Wei people can't hold out for long, and in one fell swoop they will defeat the left wing of the Wei army and cut their middle army!" ”
The herald quickly sent out the signal, and the Qing army on the right flank immediately rushed forward next to the Yan army formation and rushed towards the Qing army formation.
Lin Chengfei was right, seeing that the powerful and incomparable iron horse cavalry not only lost most of it, but also the remnants were surrounded by the Yan people, and the morale of the Wei army fell to the bottom for a while.
The Wei people wanted to break through the Yan army, open a gap, so that the iron horse horse could break through the gap, but the Yan people's tiger shield barrier was to block them to the death, and they could not break through at all, the most terrifying thing is that the Wei people had not fought with the Yan army head-on before, and they had not tried the trinity of the Yan army at all. The rich smell of blood went straight to the nostrils of the soldiers on both sides, and the blood splattered out was also stained with the robes of the soldiers on both sides.
The blood-stained battlefield is back, and a few people have come back to fight in ancient times!
The Qing army had already rushed back from the flank, and the shield barrier of the Yan army was also moving forward.
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Until noon, when the Yan army paid a lot of price and killed the last iron horse knight in the encirclement, the iron horse rider who was in a storm was finally annihilated.
The fall of the iron horse cavalry also made a huge change in the situation on the battlefield, the right wing of the coalition army drove straight in, and it did not take too long to defeat the left flank of the Wei army in one fell swoop, and then the Yan army turned and cut inward, just as the Wei people feared the most, directly cut the waist of the Wei army, and the Qing army on the right flank continued to pursue the scattered troops on the left flank of the Wei army, and went straight to Nanyang Pass.
Although the Wei army was brave in battle, the morale that maintained the battle had fallen to the bottom due to the destruction of the Iron Horse Cavalry, and the shock brought by the Yan army caused the entire left wing to be completely defeated.
Although the Chinese army is the main battlefield of the entire battle situation, and the Wei army has achieved a lot of upper hand in the middle, but the rout of the left flank is equivalent to being cut off an arm, and the Yan army attacked from the flank, the formation of the Wei army immediately appeared chaotic, and the Qing army in the middle was even more demoralized, and in the rumbling war drums in the rear, bravely rushed forward.
Xue Po stood at the head of the city at night, looking at the situation on the battlefield, from early morning to noon, countless soldiers on both sides fell on the battlefield, and now the situation of the Wei army has entered an extremely bad environment.
The army of the Yan army annihilated the iron horse cavalry, and launched an attack from the flank, Xue Poye knew that the general trend had gone, even if the Wei army could hold on to the battle with fierceness, but the result of this battle was already doomed, the overall strategy had failed, and holding on was nothing more than increasing the number of dead and wounded, so he had no choice but to raise his hand and order Mingjin to withdraw the army.
In the rear, the Wei army immediately retreated, and the Yanqing coalition army pursued the Wei army and went straight to Nanyang Pass.
Xue Poye also knew that once the iron horse was lost, with the morale of the Wei army now, it was impossible to resist the attack of the coalition army on the dilapidated Nanyang Pass, so he immediately ordered a soldier to temporarily use Nanyang Pass to resist the attack of the coalition army and cover the retreat of the army.
Countless Wei troops have withdrawn from Nanyang Pass like a tide, although the Wei generals organized the army to block the back, but in the face of the morale of the coalition army, it has been powerless to stop, and the defeat is like a mountain.
At Nanyang Pass, Xue Poye ordered the archers to stop the coalition army from approaching quickly, and even threw boulders into the coalition army with a siege catapult to slow down the advance of the coalition army.
Han Mo had already ordered the Yan army to attack on all fronts, holding a bloody copper stick, sitting on a shadowless horse, leading the Yan army to rush forward like a pack of wolves.
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When the flag of the coalition army fluttered in Nanyang Pass, the Wei army had retreated from the whole line of Nanyang Pass, leaving a large number of baggage, except for a part of the troops still pursuing, more soldiers quickly went to fight the fire to rescue the grain and grass, but the fire was extremely vigorous, and most of the grain and grass were destroyed in the fire.
After the Wei army was forced to abandon the Nanyang Pass, they withdrew into the Tingshui Pass, the gateway of the Wei state.
After taking Nanyang Pass, the main generals of the coalition army, Han Mo and Lin Chengfei, immediately got together to discuss the next battle plan, according to Lin Chengfei's meaning, it was to hold Nanyang Pass for the time being, strengthen the defense of Nanyang Pass, and then transmit the news of the victory back to the capital, waiting for the will of the capital.
Lin Chengfei's military philosophy is to focus on defense after all, and now that the Wei army has withdrawn into the Tingshui Pass, he does not dare to advance easily.
However, Han Mo's opinion was just the opposite, not only advocating continuing the attack, but also taking advantage of the current high morale of his own army and the decline of the morale of the Wei army, without resting, immediately launched an attack on Tingshui Pass, as long as Tingshui Pass was taken, it would be equivalent to opening the door of Wei State, and he could enter Wei State at any time.
Lin Chengfei was naturally taken aback by this opinion.
Attacking Tingshui Pass would be tantamount to launching an attack on the Wei State itself, could it be that Han Mo really wanted to attack the Wei State?
Sending troops to attack Wei is not a trivial matter, Lin Chengfei insisted on asking for instructions to go to the capital, and said solemnly: "Tingshui Pass is the gateway to Wei, it is not easy to take, and we are in a hard battle, the men and horses are tired, we need to rest for two days, and wait until the imperial court makes a decree before making the next plan." ”
Han Mo said indifferently: "What General Lin said is good, Tingshui Pass is indeed not an easy pass, and it is precisely because of this that we must take advantage of the fact that the Wei army has not yet stabilized and take the Tingshui Pass in one fell swoop, otherwise wait for a few days, the Wei army will stabilize, and then the Tingshui Pass will really not be an easy pass." Although our army is tired, General Lin should not forget that the Wei army has also fought hard, and its morale is low, and it is even worse than our state. ”
Lin Chengfei hesitated, and Han Mo said directly: "If General Lin doesn't want to take this opportunity to capture Tingshui Pass, the general will not be embarrassed." Now that our army has assisted your army in repelling the Wei army, if we do not attack again, our Yan army will immediately withdraw to the Yan homeland! Han Mo's expression was extremely serious, and he even passed the news that his generals were going to order the immediate withdrawal of the army.
Although Lin Chengfei was very annoyed by Han Mo's attitude, he also had to admit in his heart that he was able to repel the Wei army and capture Nanyang Pass in one battle, Han Mo can be said to be a great contribution, and the current situation, although Nanyang Pass has been recaptured, if the Yan army withdraws, the Wei people may not be able to kill it again.
The fear of the Wei army was not because of the Qing army, but because of the appearance of the strange hook and sickle gun of the Yan army, the Wei army was different from the Qing State and the Yan State was mainly infantry, on the contrary, half of the Wei people were cavalry, and it was precisely because of the strong cavalry corps that the Wei State dared to go out of the Tingshui Pass and attack the Qing State.
However, in the battle of Nanyang Pass, the cavalry jumped out with a deadly weapon, and in one fell swoop, the iron horse was completely annihilated, which made the Wei people have a fear of the Yan people in their hearts.
At this time, once the Yan people withdrew, the Wei people would not have fear of the Qing army, and would even fight again, and the hatred of losing this battle would be snowed.
So at this moment, Lin Chengfei never wanted Han Mo to withdraw his troops.
Lin Chengfei also knew very well in his heart that if the coalition broke up this time and Han Mo withdrew, if he wanted to join forces again after that, he was afraid that it would not be so easy.
He thought about it, no matter what, if he could really win the Tingshui Pass in one fell swoop, it would be considered a great achievement, and he should be very happy when he went to the capital.
Han Mo saw that Lin Chengfei finally relented, and immediately ordered the coalition baggage troops to prepare catapults and a large number of ladders, Tingshui Pass, as the gateway pass of Wei, although it is not as strong as Nanyang Pass, but it is also one of the most important passes in the world, and it is not easy to overcome.
The officers and men of the coalition army only rested for less than two hours, and they didn't even have time to deal with the corpses on the battlefield, so they had already received the military order, and the whole army went out of Nanyang Pass and went straight to Tingshui Pass.
Tingshui Pass is only more than 30 miles away from Nanyang Pass, between the two passes is a wasteland, standing at Nanyang Pass, you can vaguely see the thick and simple outline of Tingshui Pass 30 miles away.
The Wei army retreated into the Tingshui Pass, and without gasping for breath, they heard the rumbling sound of horses' hooves outside the pass, and the guards on the pass had already sounded the horn, and countless Wei soldiers showed anger and helplessness in their eyes.
The coalition forces are endless, and the war has just ended, and they actually chased them to Tingshui Pass.
After Xue Poye and his generals withdrew into Tingshui Pass, they held a military meeting, but he felt that the Weiqing coalition army was very likely to continue to attack Wei after resting, so the military meeting was held to prepare how to defend Tingshui Pass, at least to urgently raise grain and grass from the country, otherwise once the logistics were lost, the trouble would be even greater, but he never expected that the coalition army would come so quickly.
He could even guess that with Lin Chengfei's cautious character, he might not dare to attack so quickly, and the idea of launching an offensive against Tingshui Pass so quickly was the meaning of Han Mo, the main general of the Yan Kingdom.
He led his generals to the pass, and saw that countless fires on the wasteland were moving towards this side, and the rumbling hooves of war horses also sounded on the wasteland.
Xue Poye's face was solemn, and he ordered: "The whole army is on alert, prepare for a night battle, and defend the Tingshui Pass!" ”
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