Chapter 14: Closure

Standing in the golden morning light, the wind and snow stopped, and the snow covered with thick snow was dazzlingly white, making it impossible to look at it for a long time.

Up and down the stone-built sea pond, extending out for two or three miles, are all the figures of the Dongyu cavalry, the Jiangdong Left Army and the Cangnan Zhai soldiers. The white snow, the black armor, the red blood, and the blades that shimmered with silver light were particularly dazzling in the morning light.

Lin Tie led the first battalion to spread his feet across the Cangnan Plain against the blizzard, leading the horse to travel at night, mainly borrowing the horse body to block the wind and snow, which was more economical than riding directly on horseback.

Rushing to the stone embankment of Haitang in the East China Sea of Xiaobotou Village, most of the generals were exhausted, and Lin Jian also felt that his legs were weak, but the more than 1,000 cavalry of the Yan Department were by no means better than them.

This section of the seawall is a stone seawall, mainly built by the people of Cangnan to prevent the sea tide, from the outer side of the field is one zhang two or three feet high, the top of the embankment is wider, a skilled horse riding and shooting enemy cavalry is chasing from the north coastal pond.

No matter how wide the top of the embankment is, there is a limit, and the four flying contradictory vehicles have blocked the sea pond tightly, and one hundred and fifty or sixty crossbows are loaded with arrows and wound up, and they are lined up to take turns to shoot at the seawall, and after shooting, they go down to the seawall, and four or five rounds of crossbow arrows are fired into the air quickly, and the Mo knifemen, sword and shield hands, and spearmen are under the cover of the flying contradictory vehicles, and they charge back against the pursuing enemy cavalry.

The cavalry of the Jiangdong Left Army was not yet elite enough to be able to kill the enemy at high speed on the sea pond with wide talents, and the battle on the sea could only be handed over to the armor soldiers, and Ma Po Monkey rushed forward with a team of armor soldiers.

Due to the narrowness of the limited impact surface, it only takes one team of soldiers to launch a counter-charge in the sea pond.

There are also two teams of armor guards around Lin Lian, and the other armor soldiers and cavalry are lined up with the sea pond under the Ao Canghai Sea to wait for battle, and they are forced to rest all night, and they need to rest as much as possible to avoid throwing them into battle immediately, otherwise many people will be exhausted.

In addition to the more than 300 enemy cavalry who wanted to outflank the first battalion from outside the seawall to the fifth battalion led by Ning Zechen, who was killed from Xiaobotou Village, most of the Dongyu cavalry also gathered in the southern section of the sea pond and did not have time to deploy. These Eastern cavalry formations were chaotic and crowded, the men and horses were exhausted, and many of them were still preparing to boil hot water and eat some dry noodles to fill their stomachs and fight with all their might, where would they have thought that a night of pursuit would be lured into an ambush circle? Cao Ziang, Zhao Qingshan, and Zhou Pu personally led the second, fourth, and third battalion soldiers to form a joint encirclement and suppression of the enemy cavalry from three sides......

Hungry and shriveled in such bad weather for a long night, no matter how elite the cavalry was, there were times when their legs were weak.

Lin Tie led the first battalion and the Nayan Department to maneuver between Yangxin and Jiyin for five days, Cao Ziang and others led the main force of the Jiangdong Left Army to Xiaobotou Village in a roundabout way and rested for three days, and Sun Shangwang came forward to contact Cangnan and still held on to the dock village waiting for help, gathered four or five hundred Cangnan Township soldiers, in Cangnan, the main force of the Jiangdong Left Army not only waited for work and was unprepared for the attack, but when the first battalion returned, it was close to 4,000 people in terms of strength, which was three to four times that of the Dongyu Nayan Army.

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Na Yan stood on the seawall, except for the cold sea water behind him, three sides had been encircled, and there was no possibility of breaking out.

Only Azig led a small number of cavalry to rush out before the encirclement was formed, but the 300 soldiers he led were cut off by the Jiangdong Left Army, except for a few Azig who escaped, suffered heavy casualties, and the rest were forced into the encirclement.

The Jiangdong Left Army had five or six hundred cavalry on the periphery, and the fifty or sixty exhausted cavalry led by Azig alone harassed on the periphery could not shake the encirclement on this side at all. Because the Azig people and horses walked all night, they were very tired, but the cavalry of the Jiangdong Left Army and the spirit of the horses were sufficient, and the gap between the combat strength of the two sides was eliminated, and the cavalry of the Jiangdong Left Army was able to take advantage of the numerical advantage to kill the Azig troops on the periphery.

Nayan made the guards wave their banners and give orders, and asked Azig to ask for reinforcements. Na Yan knew that the reinforcements would not be able to catch up, and if they could not fight their way out of the encirclement, they would be annihilated here, but he didn't want Azig to give his life for a breakthrough with a slim chance.

The generals of the Jiangdong Left Army were very cunning, and did not give them time to breathe, and when the encirclement was formed, they used crossbow arrows to snipe, and the crossbow arrows had no feathers, and they were picked up as riding bows and arrows to shoot, and the accuracy and stability were extremely poor.

The array of the Jiangdong Left Army dragged the cart slowly forward several bed crossbows are even more desperate, the distance from the outer circle to the sea is less than the range of the bed crossbow, which means that every arrow fired by the bed crossbow, there are two or three people here who will inevitably shoot through the body.

In the past few days, Na Yan has carefully observed, this Jiangdong Left Army often fights in groups of four or five people, and a flying contradiction car can provide sufficient protection for three or four groups in the fight against the cavalry impact with the cooperation of Gao Dun.

The tactics are so flexible, and the combat consciousness of ordinary soldiers is so strong, how can it be a new soldier, that Yan is still unwilling to believe that the Jiangdong Left Army in front of him is a new army that has only been organized for more than two months.

On the open and unobstructed seawall, it is undoubtedly a daydream to hold on until the reinforcements arrive, Na Yan and the retreating Na Tuzhen said: "Only at this time will you break through, the longer it drags on, the less strength everyone will have......"

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"The Eastern Barbarians are ready to break through ......"

The north and south sides of the narrow sea pond are easy to form an unbreakable defense line, only the side of the sea pond is wide and facing the Cangnan Plain is the only direction that the Donglu cavalry can break through, and more than 1,200 armor soldiers of the six posts on the inner line are under the unified command of Cao Ziang and Zhao Qingshan in front, and Zhou Pu rode to Lin Tie to come forward, ready to be after the Donglu cavalry highlights the inner line, the second line and the third line have generals who can be worthy of the heavy task of encirclement and annihilation.

Lin Jian sat on a tree stump, chewing flatbread with sweet fruit wine, he could clearly see the deployment of the coastal pond slope of the Yan Department sitting here, he saw Sun Shangwang coming in a hurry, and asked him: "Has the river ice been chiseled?" ”

"It's so thick that the entire riverbed is frozen in ice, and I'm afraid it won't be ......chiseled until noon," Sun Shangwang said.

"Then send someone to tell Cao Ziang and ask him to lead the six sentry guards to hold on until noon......," Lin Jian said to Zhou Pu.

Cangnan is close to the sea, the river is shallow in autumn and winter, and a large amount of seawater is recharged, so that the river ice in the coastal waters of Cangnan is not very thick, but this year it is particularly cold, although the sea water has not frozen, the ice of several rivers is thicker, but it is much better than the entire riverbed in the middle and upper reaches to be tightly iced.

There are also two people who came with Sun Shangwang, one of them is the head of Xiaobotou Village, and also the head of the Sun family of the Shouwang clan in Cangnan place, Sun Fengyi, about forty years old, Kong Wu is powerful, and came over to Lin Tie and saluted: "Cangxian Sun Fengyi see Lord Lin's ......"

"There is not much else in Gyeonggi, and the little Qipin Metropolitan Supervisor is definitely not valuable, Mr. Sun should not be too restrained," Lin Jian invited Sun Fengyi, Sun Shangwang, and a township representative to sit down and talk together, "The Jiangdong Left Army has disturbed Xiaobotou Village a lot, and I haven't thanked Mr. Sun yet...... Let's not mention other things for the time being, let's see that we will work together to annihilate these more than 1,000 Eastern barbarians, so that we can ask the court for credit to the Cangnan fathers and fellow villagers. ”

Sun Shangwang squinted at the sea pond in the distance, and nearly a thousand Eastern cavalry were densely scattered on the side of the sea pond.

Since the Donglu cavalry broke through the border in six ways, except for the first battle of Gaoyang under Yang Zhaoqi's department, in which thousands of Donglu were killed and wounded, there are very few records of officers and soldiers destroying more than 1,000 enemies. After all, the battle of Gaoyang was a great defeat for the imperial court, and 20,000 elites were folded in, and if Lin Jian could successfully annihilate the vast majority of the Eastern Barbarian cavalry, it would be a great merit.

What's more, many of the more than 1,000 cavalry were royal tent soldiers who were regarded as the pride of the Donghu people. There are only more than 9,000 people in the Donghu Wang's tent guards, and if four or five hundred people die at once, probably even the leader of the Eastern Barbarians will feel distressed for a while.

Sun Fengyi said respectfully: "My lord is really modest...... "The Jiangdong Left Army, which can command an independent army, can also annihilate the courage and ability of more than a thousand Dongyu in this icy, snowy and cold weather, and it is by no means an ordinary seven-grade capital prisoner.

Lin Jian smiled slightly, and at this time, the cavalry of the Eastern Prisoners who were surrounding the sea pond began to move and began to break through.