Chapter 436: Singing a Song of Triumph
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The Shatuo infantry roared wildly, slapped their chests, spit wine, and their eyes were red, and they rushed to the middle camp of the Tang Army without fear.
Li Youjin, who was in charge of commanding the operation, did not have any formation at all, nor did he try any military techniques, and his command only had one sentence, and they all rushed forward. This battle is a battle that does not seek victory, and the purpose of this battle is only to make a momentum, and at the beginning, it is necessary to press all the forces up, rely on a single blow, put pressure on the Tang army, let them transfer the cavalry on both flanks, and then the cavalry used by Li Ke can break through from the flanks.
This is a real battle in which a strong man breaks his wrist and abandons his son to protect the car.
So many soldiers and horses, crowded in front of the big battalion, they were side by side, you pushed and squeezed, crowded with each other, densely packed. Li Youjin now only expects to rely on this momentum and use these soldiers to directly submerge the Tang camp under the stimulation of high rewards and alcohol. Although in fact, the front of the Tang army camp was already full of Shatuo infantry. But Li Youjin did not stop transferring troops, he was increasing troops, no, it was a large pile of troops.
The 3,000 men of the front army have already gone up, and half of the 10,000 men of the Chinese army have also gone up, and he still has not stopped, preparing to send all the remaining 5,000 infantry of the Chinese army. He personally led two thousand of the most elite infantry, pushing the troops in front in the back.
Such a fatal attack in front of the camp made the defenders happy and worried. The joy is that the other party has such a way of playing, they don't need to aim when they stand behind the camp fence and shoot their bows, they shoot directly from their backs, and every arrow can hit the target. But what worries them is that the Shatuo people rushed up like crazy, saying that the defense line of the camp fence would really be broken through by their deadly fighting style.
Zheng Congyan personally sat at the forefront. With a calm face, he observed the crazy and abnormal attack method of the Shatuo people.
The Shatuo people want to break through. That's for sure. But this method of breaking through is simply no different from sending to death. He was looking for the cavalry of the Shatuos. But after watching for a long time, almost all the infantry of the Shatuo people came up, and the cavalry was still nowhere to be seen.
"It seems that the Shatuo people are ready to abandon their pawns and protect their chariots, and use infantry to cover the cavalry to break through." Yu Xuan walked up to Zheng Congyan with a sword and expressed his opinion.
Cui Anqian also rushed over, "Do you want to transfer cavalry to directly assault the camp of the Shatuo people, and directly kill the Shatuo cavalry first?" ”
The proposal was quite bold and risky, and the infantry of the Shatuo people were all killed at the moment. They don't care about the back at all. At this time, it was almost certain that the Shatuo people must have wanted to use infantry to cover the cavalry to break through. At this time, if 15,000 cavalry were directly transferred from the two flanks, directly bypassing the Shatuo cavalry, and directly encompassing the Shatuo cavalry, this was a tactic that was very likely to succeed. After all, although the Shatuo cavalry was strong, they only had 5,000 cavalry, which was one-third of the cavalry of the Tang Army.
However, Zheng Congyan had to think more, first of all. At present, the Shatuo infantry is fighting so fiercely, if the cavalry is transferred to fight the Shatuo battalion. Can the 15,000 infantry in his own battalion hold back the same number of Shatuo infantry?
And one more, what if this is a trap for the Shatuo people, and their cavalry is waiting for the Tang cavalry to kill it?
The cavalry of the Shatuo people is too powerful, especially the Shatuo cavalry led by Li Keyong.
It can be said that the battle has been fought so far, and the defeat of the Shatuo people is a foregone conclusion. After experiencing a thrilling experience in Shanyang City last time and almost being defeated and killed, Zheng Congyan is now more stable.
If the cavalry of the Tang Army sent cavalry to kill the Shatuo battalion like last time in Shanyang, but Li Keyong took the Shatuo cavalry directly to the camp, then they would definitely not be able to stop it. If Li Keyong is allowed to run away, Zheng Congyan will not be able to bear this failure.
After thinking about it, he decided to fight steadily, "The enemy situation is unknown, deal with the Shatuo infantry first, as for the Shatuo cavalry, if the enemy does not move, I will not move, if the enemy moves, I will move again!" ”
Cui Anqian was a little disappointed, but he also knew that his plan was still a bit risky, so he stopped talking at the moment.
In front of the Tang army's formation, rows and rows of archers took turns to shoot intensively, and thousands of strong bows kept "squeaking" into a full moon, and the arrows poured down on Shatuo's head like a continuous torrential rain.
On the ditch that had been filled in by the corpses of Han slaves, countless Shatuo soldiers fell to the ground with arrows. The corpses slowly formed a long embankment in front of the camp, but the Shatuo people were undaunted, and they still charged.
The sharp arrows of the Tang army poured into the heads of the Shatuo people, and the Shatuo people kept firing arrows in front of the Tang army while charging. The ability of the Shatuo people to shoot arrows is even stronger than that of the Tang army, and arrows come and go.
Although the Tang army in front of the camp gate was facing a shield array, the dense back-shooting arrows were the most able to block it. Rows and rows of Don troops fell!
The 3,000 elite infantry of the front army had almost lost everything an hour after the battle, but Li Youjin had no intention of letting them retreat. They just want to retreat at this time, but they can't retreat. Countless Shatuo people rushed up behind, and many of the former Shatuo soldiers were only injured, but the most Lu was knocked down by the soldiers behind, and the most Lu was trampled to death.
The corpses of the Shatuo people in front of the camp fence have been piled up with a second causeway, but the fierce attack of the Shatuo people is still continuing. Under the supervision of 2,000 elite soldiers led by Li Youjin, the 10,000 infantry of the Chinese army continued to advance, and these Shatuo people seemed to rush to death.
However, Li Youjin's tactics were also successful, and after the death of the previous army, the Shatuo soldiers of the Chinese army finally broke through a camp fence along the road made of countless corpses.
"Kill!" The Shatuo army erupted in earth-shattering cheers, and for a while, everyone was excited, and finally opened a gap, and they would be able to break through the encirclement immediately.
At this time, the two sides had already put down their bows and arrows, and finally began a melee with spears and horizontal knives.
The Shatuo people in the back saw that the gap was opened in front, and they all shouted wildly and kept coming, and the barracks of the Tang army camp were like a broken embankment, which was just a small opening at first, but the galloping Shatuo soldiers were like a flood peak crossing, and the gap was suddenly expanded. More and more Shatuo finally stormed the camp, and many of the archers in the camp had to take up their spears and swords in close combat.
Cui Anqian led only 3,000 Zhongwu Badu to kill, and they successfully contained the momentum of the Shatuo people. But it was only a wave, and then the impact of the Shatuo people was even stronger. The 3,000 loyalists were soon overwhelmed by the wave. had to retreat again and again.
Soon. After the Tang Army battalion was lost in Haogou, the most important battalion fence defense line was also completely lost.
"Marshal, you have to transfer the cavalry over, otherwise, the battalion will collapse if it doesn't last long!" The Yicheng Army has almost become a bare-bones commander, and almost all the soldiers under him have been exhausted.
Li Zhuo's Heyang army also suffered heavy losses, and Zhuge Shuang scolded while retreating: "This group of bird shatuo people have all taken spring and medicine damn well." It's so fierce! "Li Hanzhi's bald head was conspicuous outside the camp, and he was also poked and shot at this time, and he sighed while covering his wounds." These shatuo wolf cubs of his mother, there are even fewer Li Jingbing on the other side, why don't his mother believe in Beida, but every time he looks for our bad luck. ”
As soon as Li Jing was mentioned, Zhuge Shuang was a little unhappy, which reminded him that he was replaced by Li Jing with only one war horse, and he replaced two fierce generals with a hundred enemies. If only these two were there. I won't be so embarrassed by the Shatuo people now.
Zheng Congyan also saw the camp being broken by the Shatuo people at this time, and these Shatuo people really saw the hell today. It's not enough to be crazy. But for now, the most important thing is to stabilize the situation.
However, what he was most worried about was the Shatuo cavalry, the cavalry on both wings came over, and the Shatuo cavalry might take the opportunity to break through. But if the cavalry does not come, if the Shatuo cavalry comes directly towards the large battalion, then the large battalion will collapse immediately.
It seems that the Shatuo people are really ruthless and want to abandon these fifteen thousand infantry, this move is too ruthless, it is simply impossible to crack.
He remembered Li Jing's 15,000 army, but unfortunately it was still on the other side of the river, and he couldn't come to help immediately.
It's really fatal, Zheng Congyan looked at the camp several times again, and said helplessly: "Order the left wing Tuoba and Helian two divisions of seven thousand cavalry to come to help, and order the right wing of the three tribes to continue to standby!" At this time, Zheng Congyan felt more and more that the Shatuo cavalry seemed to be snooping on the side, and at this time, he had to leave a mobile reserve force to deal with the Shatuo cavalry.
A total of 7,000 cavalry, including Tuoba Sigong and Helian Duo, as well as the Zhenwu Army, quickly rushed to the aid of the battalion and joined the battle.
With the reinforcement of seven thousand cavalry, the situation in the Don Army began to improve. Just when all the generals breathed a sigh of relief, suddenly a violent vibration sounded in the direction of the left flank, and the sound of thunderous iron hooves sounded, and the Shatuo cavalry dispatched, and they directly rushed to the left flank that was just vacant at the moment.
Zheng Congyan's face changed, and the Shatuo people were about to escape.
"Immediately order the cavalry of the three tribes on the right flank to attack, and you must stop the Shatuo cavalry!"
Eight thousand cavalry of the three tribes dispatched, and when they came to kill, they found that the five thousand Shatuo cavalry had galloped all the way to the south, and they did not love to fight. The cavalry of the three tribes pursued for half the night, and until dawn, they failed to intercept the Shatuo cavalry.
At dawn, the Zhenguo army built two pontoon bridges over the Purple River and rushed to the camp that was still fighting.
15,000 Zhenguo troops were killed, and 8,000 cavalry of the three tribes returned in vain, and the entire battalion of Tang troops gathered more than 40,000 horses.
On the battlefield, the envoys of the Eight Towns and Festivals, Zheng Congyan stood in the center as the envoy, and Yu Xuan and Li Jing, the deputy envoys of the envoy, stood on the left and right. In addition, several prison envoys participated in the surrender ceremony.
Li Youjin stripped off his armor and clothes, wore only a pair of calf nose pants, tied a few thorns with ropes on his body, knelt on the cold ground, and officially surrendered to the Tang army.
After a night of bloody fighting, 15,000 Shatuo infantry were killed as high as 8,000, more than 2,000 seriously wounded, and countless minor wounded. It can be said that except for the 2,000 men and horses around Li Youjin, who basically maintained the establishment, the rest, the 3,000 people of the front army were all wiped out, and the 10,000 people of the Chinese army were almost dead.
Although Li Ke ran away with 5,000 cavalry, but in the eyes of the imperial court to recruit the generals of Zhuzhen, the military envoys of the three tribes of Shatuo, the Zhenwu Army Jiedu made Li Guochang captured, and the soldiers and horses of Shatuo made Li Quanzhong captured, and now Li Youjin, the governor of Shatuo, also surrendered, plus the previous Sage Mi Haiwan, Anqing Shi Jingsi, and Gao Wenshun brothers, Fu Wenda brothers surrendered, Shatuo's rebellion has been pacified. (To be continued......)