Chapter 709 Dragon and Tiger Fight

In the rain and fog, Wang Bodang and Xu Yuanlang led 20,000 light cavalry to attack from the east, Xie Yingdeng and Meng Haigong led 20,000 troops to attack the wings of the Jianghuai Army! On the battlefield, Li Mi told Wang Xuanying what Jiang or Lao's sex is with his skill.

Li Miluo's ambush 120,000. On the surface, after a battle on the second day of the lunar calendar, the Wei army had lost nearly 30,000, and less than 100,000 troops were left. On today's battlefield, the camp that Li Mi set up does seem to have so many people.

But in fact, the Wei army camp at the foot of Mangshan today only had more than 70,000 people, nearly 20,000 fewer than Li Mi's actual troops. What the Jianghuai Army did not expect was that this was all arranged by Li Mi.

After Li Mi took over the war with the Jianghuai Army on the second day of the lunar month, he immediately transferred 20,000 troops from Baihua Valley and Luokou Cang to reinforce. Since these people arrived in Luokou, Li Mi has been hiding in his hands and did not make the Jianghuai Army splendid.

Forty thousand light cavalry, these are all Li Mi's cavalry. Today, the cavalry behind the array is mostly filled with the slow horses and infantry in the Wei army. Li Mi, who was scheming and conspiring, successfully avenged Luokou and used a trick of defeat to break Wang Xuanying's infantry formation.

The three generals Hao Xiaode, Liu Heita, and Li Junxian ran back from the front line with dozens of guards. The three of them were all generals who had been through the battle formation for a long time, but the situation of the Wei army on the battlefield at this time was very strange.

Wang Bodang, Xu Yuanlang, Xie Yingdeng, and Meng Haigong's 40,000 elite cavalry ambushed from the battlefield, with a grand momentum. However, the Wei army's central army formation could not be restrained at this time, and the fraud was almost a defeat.

The messy army of sixty or seventy thousand fled back from the front. Although the situation had just been successfully attracted the Jianghuai army to throw away the formation and chase after him. But now, the Wei army itself could no longer stop and was completely in chaos.

On the battlefield of more than ten miles, the 60,000 to 70,000 Wei troops were no longer sure whether they were defeated or fake, but they just squeezed people and fled to the back with their lives. Hao Xiaode's three former generals had just faced the greatest pressure when they were fighting with the Jianghuai Army. Their subordinates were basically stabbed into rows of corpses full of holes by the row of spear soldiers. At this time, they were also surrounded by countless scattered soldiers and retreated.

"King of Wei, the last generals are in dereliction of duty, please punish the King of Wei!" Liu Heita, who even threw away the helmet on his head, knelt on the ground and said uneasyly!

"Do you still have the face to come back?" Li Mi looked gloomy and glared at the three former generals of Liu Heita, Hao Xiaode and Li Junxian who were kneeling in front.

Shen Luoyan grabbed Li Mi and whispered, "King of Wei, it is important to stabilize the situation on the battlefield." After saying that, he walked straight to the three generals, "It is not the time to discuss merits and demerits. There is no need to say more about the three generals now. How many soldiers and horses do you have around you now?"

"When we came back, we gathered some people, and now there are about 3,000 people." Li Junxian said nervously. However, in his opinion, the central army's array had completely collapsed. Although the ambush on the left and right wings had already attacked, which could save the result of the Central Army's great defeat. However, he had missed a great opportunity to fight the Jianghuai Army. Although there are still 3,000 people in his hand, it does not seem to have much effect on the 60,000 or 70,000 defeated soldiers like frightened birds.

"We are not short of soldiers ahead." Chen Luoyan said frankly, "What they lack is the confidence to fight to the death. Three generals, you will immediately bring the three thousand people you have gathered to form a formation here. You will be the supervisors. All soldiers must form formations on the spot, then return to the battlefield, and attack the Jianghuai Army with the left and right wings. If you dare to continue to retreat, you will be killed immediately without mercy!"

Liu Heita was shocked when he heard this, his muscles twitched a few times, and he turned his head to look at Li Mi.

"Mr. Shen's words are Gu's orders. Go quickly. This is your opportunity to make meritorious service with crimes. Don't let Gu down again!" Li Mi said dissatisfied.

Liu Heita and the other two hurriedly saluted and went down to arrange the supervisory team. Three thousand Wei soldiers were hurriedly stood behind the array. The symbolic significance of this action was far greater than the actual significance. Once the sixty or 70,000 main troops in front of them collapsed, the supervisory team would definitely not be able to suppress it. However, after shooting dozens or hundreds of deserters, the effect had already come out. Seeing that the supervisory team was arranged behind them, the soldiers who had no way to retreat roared, but were surprised to find that the flags were flying everywhere on the left and right wings were everywhere. The Jianghuai army, which was originally like a ghost asking for life, could no longer see them, so they all roared, turned around and started running to the north battlefield.

At the same time, the Wei army's 40,000 light cavalry, which had already launched a charge on both wings, even directly attacked the central army of the Jianghuai Army. The 20,000 light cavalry on both sides dragged their long cavalry and spears and shouted and killed them all the way.

They were violently resisted by the Jianghuai Army, who had just stopped pursuing and were sorting out the formation on the spot. The two sides began to fight, but the Jianghuai Army had been fighting for a long time, and the momentum was not as fierce as it was at the beginning. What's more terrible is that the Wei army's escape just now caused the pursuit of the Jianghuai Army troops to have already opened up the formation.

The left wing formation retreated one by one. Taking advantage of the fact that the Jianghuai Army had not yet completed the formation, the Wei cavalry on the right wing suddenly attacked and cut into the gap between the attacking Jianghuai cavalry and the central army, and then launched an attack from the backward direction of the Jianghuai light infantry.

The rear route was cut off! In an instant, the Jianghuai Army was in a very unfavorable position. It had already cut deep into the Wei army's ranks. The only rear route was cut off by the opponent's cavalry, as if it was surrounded!

The soldiers were panicked, and this panicked was caught by the keen Shen Luoyan watching the battle. She immediately ordered the command of the Wei army's central army troops that had regained control and launched a powerful counterattack. The simple defense line that had been gradually pulled was instantly defeated by the Wei army. The light infantry, lineup of spears, light cavalry, and archers were constantly shuttling through and shuttling by the light cavalry of the Wei army. Tens of thousands of Wei troops behind were turning around and rushing over, surrounding the cut Jianghuai army formations.

The battlefield situation changed rapidly. Just now, the Wei army was defeated on its entire line. The Jianghuai army took advantage of the pursuit. In a blink of an eye, the Jianghuai army was ambushed by the Wei army. The 100,000 troops were cut into square formations of different sizes. The most sharp large array of spear-row infantry formations of the Jianghuai army also became hedgehogs surrounded by floods. The light cavalry of the Jianghuai army had even lost their way in the torrent of the Wei army and lost their direction.

Such a harsh battlefield situation not only made the Wang family generals in the formation extremely frightened, but also made Wang Xuanying and others watching the formation behind frown and sweating coldly.

"We go to find Marshal Zhang, hoping that he can help us escape from the current crisis." Wang Xuanying, who gritted his teeth, said in a deep voice. Although Wang Xuanying was very tolerant and had more real talents than he showed. However, in the face of this battle that concerns the life and death of the Jianghuai Army, he was also worried at this time. The Jianghuai Army was completely in trouble, and the 40,000 Wei army elite cavalry that suddenly came out completely made Wang Xuanying lose his inch.

"Master, do we have to take action? I'm afraid the Jianghuai Army will not be able to withstand it?" On a viewing building behind Zheng Jun, a navy captain said to Zhang Zhongjian who was watching the battle.

Zhang Zhongjian was wearing high leather boots, a bright set of bright silver armor on his body, and the brass and gold helmet on his head was golden. The brass and beard on his face were full of curly cheeks, but he felt an indescribable sense of luxury and leisure. At this time, he was watching the battle with a smiling hands holding a Qianli Mile Mile Mile Mile with the same gems, while watching. While watching, he was still smiling.

"Yang Hu, you said that we knew that Li Mi had hidden 40,000 people in the battle today, but we didn't tell Wang Xuanying, are you a little unkind?"

The captain named Yang Hu also chuckled, "If you want to be unkind, they are unkind. Although we knew that they had more than 100,000 Jianghuai troops in their hands, they didn't know that they had 30,000 rows of spear soldiers, 20,000 elite light cavalry and 5,000 heavy armored cavalry. I heard that when His Highness Chen heard that Wang Xuanying was hiding such elite soldiers, he was shocked."

"Hehe." Zhang Zhongjian grinned, like a simple fisherman at the sea. However, those who are familiar with him know that he is a simple smile. In fact, the worse his idea is.

"Wang Xuanying's little boy was not only scared King Chen, but even me was shocked. You know, these days in Luokou, my bearded man has not slept soundly for a day, for fear that Wang Xuanying would suddenly attack in the middle of the night and would throw me down the Yellow River to feed the fish. Now, it's time to let Li Mi teach him a lesson and cut off some troops for him, so that I can't sleep well at night."

"I'm afraid this is not good. If the JAC Army is defeated, we will only have 5,000 people, and we have no place to run. What's more, King Chen has an explanation to borrow the JAC Army to hold Li Mi for some time." Yang Hu said blankly.

"Don't worry." Zhang Zhongjian said calmly, "Wang Xuanying is not simple, and there is no simple one in the Wang family. Do you think they will be defeated so easily? The Jianghuai Army is much more elite than the Wei Army and has better equipment. They suffer at most a small loss this time, but it is impossible to lose a big defeat. Look, Wang Xuanying has already come over, probably because he wants to bargain."

Wang Xuanying did come to Zhang Zhongjian to find a solution, but this is also half true and half false. Although the situation of the JAC Army seems to be not good on the surface, in fact, the strong combat power of the JAC Army is there. The 100,000 Jianghua Army is not something that the 110,000 Wei Army can swallow.

Wang Xuanying was just taking advantage of the situation, hoping to cover up the strong performance of Jianghuai before and hide the true strength of the Jianghuai Army. Zhang Zhongjian understood this very well, but he did not point it out.

Instead, he immediately took over the battlefield command of the Jianghuai Army. Although the Wei army successfully entered the rear of the Jianghuai Army on the battlefield, their front lines were still very chaotic and could not form an effective strike. He immediately ordered the entire Jianghuai Army to turn their horses, form a square formation, and attack backwards with each formation. He also sent the 5,000 heavy cavalry that the Jianghuai Army had not been on the battlefield, and the 1,000 powerful crossbow troops of the Jiangbei Army to the field.

The Wei army's cavalry could not compete with the Jianghuai cavalry that had been through the battlefield for a long time, and the formation was torn apart and cut off from the middle. The Jianghuai cavalry opened a bloody road and protected the army to calmly return to their positions.

The Jianghuai Army slowly retreated. With the efforts of Zhang Zhongjian and the generals in the formation, the team finally maintained a certain formation to prevent the Wei army from chasing them. Under the cover of the Hebei engineers' crossbow beds, catapults, and other places, a new front was built behind. Fortunately, the tired Jianghuai Army seemed to be satisfied with such results and did not launch a new attack.

Above heads, the sun began to set westward. Dusk had arrived. Both armies began to break off contact, and the crowd gradually left the battlefield like a tide, leaving behind corpses all over the ground.

Standing on the high ground of the battlefield, looking at his blue army that barely stabilized the front and was depressed, Wang Xuanying remembered the Wei army who was beaten in a mess by his iron armored army two days ago. He smiled bitterly: Feng Shui turns, he has today!

The Zheng army generals next to them couldn't even laugh. The Wei army's combat capabilities were not stronger than those of the Jianghuai army, and their equipment was not as good as that of the Jianghuai army. However, today's battle made them realize again that Li Mi had been circulating in the Central Plains for so long, and his ability was indeed very strong.

Especially on the battlefield today, the Wei army's previous deception was already in a situation of defeat. If it were an ordinary rebel army, it would be good to use the cavalry on both wings to cover the retreat in such a situation, and it would be impossible to turn around and fight again. However, the Wei army reacted quickly today. Under such circumstances, it could quickly stabilize the collapsed central army, command the central army to quickly counterattack the Jianghuai Army formation, and almost defeated them. The sharp vision and decisive judgment of the generals commanded by the Wei army made all the generals of the Jianghuai Army admire that the command of the Wei army today could be called a famous general.

As for the Hebei Army, as the Allied Army, it seemed that it was nothing extraordinary, as if the Hebei Army relied on their excellent equipment and advanced gunpowder weapons. When the Jianghuai Army had the same excellent and elite platoon soldiers, the Jianghuai Light Cavalry, and the Jianghuai Heavy Cavalry, they always felt that they were no worse than the Hebei Army.

But today, facing the critical moment of being divided and surrounded on the battlefield and facing the critical moment of defeat, Zhang Zhongjian's smooth command made them pay only a small price that was completely unexpected, and they got rid of the Wei army and stabilized the defense line. In particular, the powerful crossbow army and engineer troops dispatched by the Hebei Army were small in number, but their performance on the battlefield was unforgettable.

Once they go to war, the Hebei Army will immediately show its terrible strength. They are not of the same level as the Jianghuai Army and the Wei Army. This army has defeated the million-dollar coalition forces in Goguryeo, defeated various tribes on the Turkic grassland, and scattered across the entire Liaodong desert.

Now their target is the Central Plains world. Just ordinary crossbow army and engineer battalion have such terrible strength. Zhang Zhongjian is not the most outstanding general in the group of generals under Chen Pojun. If one day he has to face the famous generals in Hebei: Chen Kefu, Li Jing, Li Benlei, Yu Qinming, Luo Yi, Wang Rengong, Qu Tutong, Chen Ling... and the famous elite troops they commanded: Liaodong Pojun Camp, Imperial Guard Camp, Modao Chong Infantry Battalion, Hailong Guard Navy, Mohe Cavalry, Khitan Cavalry, Silla Infantry, Turkic Cavalry...

It's impossible to imagine what it was like. The sunset was setting and the setting sun was like blood. Wang Xuanying only felt mixed feelings in his heart, and an indescribable discomfort was pressing on his heart.


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