Chapter 280 Li Fei's Sword Points at Khitan
Just as An Lushan's army crossed the Yellow River, connected to Lingchang, Bianzhou, and Chenliu, and led troops to the front line of Rongyang and Luoyang, Li Fei finally took action.
Outside Liaoyang City, 27,500 Andong Army soldiers were arranged neatly.
The Khitans Yelucha and Princess Yangu also brought aside the thousand Khitan cavalry formed by Li Fei for them, waiting for Li Fei to arrive.
After Li Fei bid farewell to his two beautiful wives in the city, he rode his horse in armor, followed by eighty special soldiers wearing only leather armor but with a blue dragon and white cloth embroidered on his arms. It was the battlefield medical team trained by Li Fei.
After more than two years of experience, and the surprise attack on the Khitan Chifeng royal city and the counterattack of the Bohai Kingdom, they have officially started from the Liaoyang Medical Academy.
Not to mention ordinary knife and arrow injuries, they can handle even more complicated wounds.
The reason why the white cloth on his arm is embroidered with a blue dragon, not a red cross is because it is only the Tang Dynasty now, and Li Fei does not intend to explain the origin of the cross to the people of the Tang Dynasty. Anyway, it is just a sign. He likes it as a blue dragon, which is the blue dragon.
"I believe all the soldiers are familiar with the Blue Dragon battlefield medical team!" Li Fei and eighty members of the Blue Dragon Medical Team stood before the 27,500 soldiers, seriously introduced the Blue Dragon Medical Team he trained to all the soldiers again.
"A arrow is injured by the knife, as long as there is still a breath, they will have a great chance of saving you, and no one will die of suppuration afterwards. Even if the abdomen is cut off on the spot and the intestines flow out, and if it is saved in time, it will not be dead, but---"
Li Fei glanced at all the soldiers and generals with his eyes: "But I want you to fight bravely, advance and not retreat, because only if you fight back the enemy, or even defeat the enemy, your injured comrades on the battlefield can be saved. Even when you yourself are injured and fall on the battlefield, the rest of the other comrades will also fight back the enemy and let you save you."
Although Li Fei's words were a little exaggerated, they did not deceive the Anton Army soldiers under his command. Moreover, these Anton Army soldiers were willing to believe Li Fei because they had seen examples.
In the last battle against Bohai Kingdom, many soldiers were cut on their abdomen and their intestines were flowing out. If they were dead according to their previous perception, they would not need to be saved. However, the Blue Dragon Medical Team rescued most of the people who did not die on the battlefield on the spot, including those whose intestines were exposed.
What is the greatest motivation for morale is to have strong enough medical insurance to let the soldiers know that as long as they are not killed directly on the battlefield and have a breath left, they may be rescued, allowing them to greatly reduce their fear of death.
It was not Li Fei who said unfairly that this Blue Dragon battlefield medical team composed of 80 people had an impact on the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, even far exceeding the Divine Arm Crossbow.
Sure enough, the Anton Army soldiers, from generals to ordinary soldiers, all had red faces, looked very excited, their morale was extremely high, and their combat effectiveness was at least 30% higher than usual.
"Go to the expedition, target the Khitan and Xi clan!" Li Fei felt that the time was coming, and ordered loudly with a cold expression.
After giving the order, Li Fei took the lead, and generals such as Lu Xin, Wu Sheng, Zhang Shuo followed closely, followed by 27,500 Andong Army and 1,000 Yelucha, Khitan cavalry, a total of nearly 30,000 troops.
Although the Modao Formation is mainly used for infantry battles and is considered an infantryman, Li Fei and Andong Protectorate are not short of horses. In order to march quickly, they also equipped the soldiers of the Modao Formation, but their horses are far less majestic and excellent than those of the official Iron Knight soldiers.
Originally, most of the Khitan and Xi tribe were rebelled by An Lushan and went south to attack Luoyang and Chang'an City. The power left in the territory of Khitan and Xi tribe was limited. Li Fei only brought 20,000 Andong Iron Cavalry to completely flatten the Khitan and Xi tribes. However, the soldiers of the Modao Formation had just experienced a war with the Bohai Kingdom. Now that the Anshi Rebellion was started, there would inevitably be more wars in the future. Li Fei hoped to give the Andong soldiers as much as possible and train them to become more elite.
At this moment, the Khitan and the Xi tribe are the two best whetstones.
Li Fei led his army to Khitan territory, which triggered panic among the Khitan people in the Khitan territory.
Because most of the Khitan cavalry followed An Lushan to rebel and went south, they had already crossed the Yellow River, and the Khitan cavalry who remained in the Khitan territory were only 12,000 people in total, how to resist Li Fei's 27,500 Andong Tang Army.
Li Fei's sharp sword undoubtedly pointed directly at the Chifeng Royal City.
The three major stone cities of the Khitan faced Shixiu City in the direction of the Xi tribe, Gehan City in the Uighurs and Pugu, and Chifeng Royal City in the Anton Protectorate.
Because Huaixiu Khan died in the decisive battle with An Lushan, and the Chifeng royal city was attacked by Li Fei, all the Khitan people in the city were captured by Li Fei and went to Andong. An Lushan established another Khitan leader, and the new Khitan leader Muer and his tribe occupied the Chifeng royal city and the most abundant water and grass belt in the Khitan around the Chifeng royal city.
At this moment, the leader of Muerhu was rebelling with An Lushan, and of course he was not in the Khitan territory. The person who stayed in the Khitan territory was the leader of the confidant Sheller.
"Li Fei, the Anton Protectorate, is not weak. At that time, he led an Anton army to attack the Chifeng royal city and captured Huaixiu Khan's tribe. Now the leader is not here, and the Prince of Dongping does not have much troops left in Pinglu. Even if he asks for help, he doesn't know if he will come to rescue our Khitan!" Shele gritted his teeth, was under great pressure, and his face was very gloomy.
Regardless of whether the army left by An Lushan to stay in Pinglu would come to rescue the Khitan, their Khitans would need to resist Li Fei's Andong Tang army for one or two days first.
Shele asked the women and children of the leader tribe in the Chifeng royal city to temporarily retreat westward, while he himself gathered all the Khitan cavalry that could be assembled from each tribe, with a total of 12,000 cavalrymen, preparing to rely on the favorable terrain in the Chifeng royal city to block the attack of Li Fei's Andong Tang Army.
Shele brought 12,000 Khitan cavalry back to the empty Chifeng royal city, waiting for Li Fei and Andong Tang army to approach.
When the Chifeng royal city was only five miles away, the 7,500 soldiers of the Modao Formation got off their horses and formed a war formation to advance towards the Chifeng royal city. On both sides were 20,000 Andong Iron Cavalry and 1,000 Khitan cavalry of Yelucha and Princess Yangu.
There were nearly 30,000 troops in total, and everyone had armor and morale was like a rainbow. On the other hand, the number, equipment, and morale of the Khitan cavalry were far behind the Andong Tang Army.
The pressure faced by Khitan cavalry such as Shele was extremely high, and even Shele couldn't help swallowing, let alone other ordinary Khitan cavalry.
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Chapter completed!