Chapter 333 Retreat and Attack
Under the crushing of Li Fei's absolute strength and Linghu Chao was too incompetent, the 10,000 anti-army quickly collapsed and surrendered. The price Li Fei paid was that only more than twenty Andong Iron Cavalry were casualties, and only six of them were killed directly in battle, so this loss was ignored.
In addition, there are more than 270,000 stones of grain stored in single county, which is enough for 100,000 people to eat for about four months.
When the quantity was just counted, Li Fei was also very surprised.
The anti-army army attacked Suiyang had only about 60,000 soldiers, and they could not use so much food. But it doesn't matter, it's already at his hands now, and the more it is, the better.
"Without food, Yang Chaozong should evacuate!" Li Fei said with a smile.
Immediately, Li Fei specially released a hundred anti-army prisoners to the anti-army camp under Suiyang City, and asked them to tell all the anti-army soldiers there.
As Li Fei foresaw, as soon as the news reached the anti-military camp under Suiyang City, the entire anti-military camp was in chaos and there was no intention to attack Suiyang City.
Yang Chaozong was so angry that he cursed Linghu Chao as a waste. He gave Linghu Chao a 10,000 army, and it would be fine if he could not transport the food and grass. Even Dan County was lost. It was not just the military rations of his army, but also part of them were ready to be transported to Luoyang. They are all gone now. Your Majesty still doesn't know how to blame him at that time.
"No, we must find a way to retake Shan County!" Yang Chaozong looked gloomy. Now the army's food and grass are only enough for another two days. It is obviously impossible to continue to attack Suiyang. It is more important to regain the nearly 300,000 stones of grain stored in Shan County.
Now, Yang Chaozong has 50,000 troops in his hands. He doesn't have much confidence in capturing Suiyang City, which is guarded by Zhang Xun in a short period of time, but he is still full of confidence in recapturing Shan County.
Immediately, Yang Chaozong ordered the suspension of attack on Suiyang City, the army retreated, and turned to retake Shan County.
On the Suiyang city wall.
Zhang Xun used a telescope to watch the movements in the anti-military camp.
"Sir, you are so imaginary that the anti-army is really going to retreat!" A deputy general next to Zhang Xun said to Zhang Xun in admiration.
As early as Li Fei's intercepted the first batch of grain and grass in the anti-military camp, Zhang Xun learned from various analysis that there were problems with the anti-military food and grass in the anti-military camp, estimating the consumption of grain and grass in the anti-military camp, etc.
"The new emperor ascended the throne in Lingwu. It should be that the new emperor sent a reinforcement army to our Suiyang. The reinforcements robbed the anti-army's food route and even captured the anti-army's food and grass. Otherwise, the anti-army would not react like this at this moment." Zhang Xun saw that 10,000 anti-army troops left the camp yesterday and had not returned yet. The anti-army is suddenly in such chaos and is ready to retreat, so he directly analyzed.
"It's a pity that I don't know the specific trends of the reinforcements. Otherwise, I should have led the army out of the city and killed the anti-army, causing the anti-army to be severely damaged, so that the anti-army would not dare to threaten Suiyang again in a short period of time!" Zhang Xun sighed.
I have to say that Zhang Xun is indeed not an ordinary person. He only observed the trends of the anti-army through a telescope, but he guessed most of the matter, and he almost misunderstood. That is, Li Fei was not the reinforcements sent by the new emperor Suzong. The new emperor Suzong is now thinking about how to recover Guanzhong and Chang'an City, but he never thought about the importance of the little Suiyang at all, let alone sending reinforcements here. If he really has that power, he will also find a way to transfer to Lingwu or attack Guanzhong and Chang'an City.
On a high slope in the distance, Li Fei sat on the horse's back and looked indifferently at Yang Chaozong and other anti-army slowly withdrew from the camp.
"When the anti-army line is in a long queue, we will first cut the anti-army into three sections, and then 5,000 iron cavalry attack the anti-army front army, 5,000 iron cavalry attack the anti-army rear army, and the rest will be with us to attack the chief commander of the anti-army central army." Li Fei ordered.
"Abide by the order!" Everyone will go down and prepare immediately.
Yang Chaozong had 50,000 anti-army troops, and only the 6,000 soldiers in the central army were considered orderly. More than 40,000 ordinary soldiers were very chaotic, and all of them were very low in morale. In addition to the long-term attack on Suiyang, they suffered heavy casualties, and the food was cut off and even the Dan County, which stored food, was lost. These newly recruited ordinary anti-army soldiers were not loyal to An Lushan. Most of the reason why they became anti-army soldiers under An Lushan was because An Lushan and the senior anti-army leaders were forced to take their homes. They were unwilling to do so. If they could not even guarantee a full meal, who would be willing to work hard for An Lushan?
When the last anti-army soldier also left the camp and walked about one hundred meters away from the abandoned camp, the sound of the rumbling cavalry galloping sounded.
"Enemy attack, welcome the enemy!" Yang Chaozong is worthy of being a general who had followed An Lushan to fight against the Xi tribe and the Khitan tribe for many years in Youzhou. In an instant, he heard the sound of the iron cavalry galloping, and immediately roared and ordered the enemy to be welcomed.
Yang Chaozong's core strength, the 6,000 most elite soldiers of the central army were from the elite soldiers who first went south of Youzhou City with An Lushan. They had extremely high combat quality, were very experienced in resisting cavalry, and quickly formed formations.
The other 40,000 ordinary anti-army soldiers were not so calm, and they were shocked and looked very panicked.
Because the ambush was not far away, Andong's cavalry quickly came out.
Like two sharp swords, one on the left and the other on the right cuts the long dragon of the anti-army into three sections in front, middle and back.
"Swish! Swish!" The arrow flew, and the cold horse spear pierced the body of the rebel soldiers, and then pulled it out suddenly, bringing out bright red blood splashing on the ground.
The anti-army that was cut into the third section had 20,000 anti-army soldiers in the front section and the back section, and only 10,000 anti-army soldiers in the middle. However, the central army had Yang Chaozong's six thousand elite troops who had quickly formed a formation.
After cutting the rebel dragon into three sections, three other Andong cavalry rushed out and each "crashed into" the rebel army.
The 20,000 anti-army troops in the front and rear sections were Lu Xin, and Wu Sheng each led a team of 5,000 Anton cavalry to attack.
Although the anti-army soldiers in the front and rear sections each had about 20,000, which was four times that of the Anton Iron Cavalry, they were just some low-spirited mobs. Not only did they not form formations to resist, but they were in chaos. They were directly killed by the Anton Iron Cavalry, bringing up a bloody scene, just like a flock of sheep slaughtered by tigers, and their resistance was too weak.
"Kill!" Li Fei personally commanded the anti-army central army, with more than 11,000 Andong Iron Cavalry.
Compared with the chaos of the anti-army soldiers in the front and rear sections, Yang Chaozong and 6,000 anti-army elites in the anti-army army seemed less chaotic, especially the 6,000 anti-army elites in the anti-army army, who quickly formed a formation to attack or defend. If ordinary anti-army soldiers dared to approach their battle formation, they would also be ruthlessly killed by them. The battle formation was most taboo to be disturbed. Yang Chaozong did not see the life and death of ordinary anti-army soldiers at all. As long as the elite soldiers in the six,000 battles were not in chaos, Yang Chaozong would still have confidence.
Chapter completed!