Chapter 354
This is not the first time that the Anton Iron Cavalry has used gunpowder to restrain the enemy cavalry. Sun Liancheng has also heard that the Anton Iron Cavalry has a secret weapon that can restrain the enemy cavalry, which makes the enemy cavalry sit down and uncontrollably become a mess.
However, it is one thing to hear about it, but I have never seen it before, and I don’t even know what it is. It is impossible to be prepared in advance.
Although Sun Liancheng was angry, his army was in chaos and suffered heavy casualties. If he continued to fight, there might be danger of annihilation of the entire army. It would be better to evacuate and rest first.
"The whole army retreated!" Sun Liancheng ordered the retreat unwillingly.
The rebel cavalry desperately controlled the frightened war horses and fled towards Liaoxi City.
After all, this place is only thirty miles away from Liaoxi City, which has been captured by the anti-army. Even if the defeated anti-army cavalry is chased, as long as the anti-army cavalry flees to the vicinity of Liaoxi City, the main force of the anti-army who captured Liaoxi City can be rescued at any time. Therefore, Luo Ying did not blindly chase Sun Liancheng and other defeated anti-army cavalry.
Instead, he concentrated all his forces and intercepted and surrounded some of the anti-army cavalry.
About a thousand anti-army cavalry were intercepted and surrounded by Luo Ying and other Andong cavalry.
"Swish!Swish!"
"Puff!Puff--" The God-arm Crossbow kept shooting and killing the surrounding anti-army cavalry.
Although the surrounding anti-army cavalry also fought back, they found that the main general and others were defeated and fled. They were trapped in a heavy siege, their morale was low, and they were very desperate. The strength of the counterattack was limited and they could not bring much casualties with the Anton cavalry.
After less than half a stick of incense fighting, more than 400 rebel cavalry were killed. The remaining more than 500 people saw that they had no hope of breaking through, and in despair all surrendered to Luo Ying.
Luo Ying simply cleaned the battlefield and moved away the intact war horses, and then quickly evacuated.
When Sun Liancheng returned to this battlefield with a rebel army of tens of thousands of people, only corpses were left.
"Hateful!" Sun Liancheng was so angry that his face turned pale.
This battle was obviously a head-on battle. His cavalry under him was more than Anton's Iron Cavalry, but he suffered a crushing defeat and suffered more than 2,700 cavalry losses, and his heart was bleeding. And after he returned, the governor Lu Zhihai would definitely punish him and call him a waste.
Compared to Sun Liancheng who wanted to vomit blood, Luo Ying was full of energy.
Lord Wu believed in him and asked him to command the 5,000 Andong Iron Cavalry who remained in Anton. This was his first time to command a war on his own. Although he failed to directly annihilate the 7,000 anti-army cavalry, he also defeated the anti-army cavalry, killing and injuring nearly 2,800 anti-army cavalry, while the Andong Iron Cavalry itself suffered less than 700 casualties, of which only more than 160 were killed in battle. Even if the seriously injured were included, the Andong Iron Cavalry was only about 300.
The loss of 300 people was exchanged for more than 2,700 rebel cavalry, and the gap of nine times was a great victory no matter how you look at it.
It is said that killing one thousand enemies will damage eight hundred of them.
But sometimes when two armies fight, the loss of the fleeing side is often far greater than the winning side.
Because the defeated party must escape from the battlefield and leave the battlefield to the victorious party. No matter who is left on the battlefield, no matter who is killed directly or injured, no one can escape. On the contrary, the winning party can not only capture the injured person on the other side, but also receive timely treatment...
In Liaoxi City, Lu Zhihai had the intention to kill Sun Liancheng.
The core of his army was the 17,000 Modao Army and these 7,000 cavalry soldiers.
If he could wipe out 5,000 Andong cavalry, then if he lost more than 2,700 cavalry, Lu Zhihai would not only not be angry, but would be very happy. But the situation was exactly the opposite.
Sun Liancheng took his seven thousand cavalry against the five thousand Andong Iron Cavalry but was defeated and had to come back to bring reinforcements. It was fine. The reinforcements moved there, but they couldn't find the place. The Andong Iron Cavalry had already run away.
Lu Zhihai scolded Sun Liancheng so bloody. If it weren't for the time of employing people, Lu Zhihai really wanted to remove Sun Liancheng from his post and replace him with someone else to command the cavalry.
"Send the whole army to take Yingzhou City directly!" Lu Zhihai was originally planning to rest in Liaoxi City for a day, but the losses of Sun Liancheng's cavalry made him very angry and immediately wanted to kill the city of Yingzhou.
As long as Yingzhou City is captured, there will be no dangerous city behind him. He will soon approach the city of Liaoyang. After capturing Liaoyang City, the Andong Protectorate will be the item in the bag of "Dayan".
After reaching the city of Yingzhou, Lu Zhihai immediately ordered the siege.
After building a high wall more than a year ago, Yingzhou City was a strong city similar to Liaoxi City. Lu Zhihai's anti-army spent three days under Liaoxi City, so it was naturally impossible to capture Yingzhou City so quickly.
In fact, when Lu Zhihai rebelled against Yingzhou City, he encountered almost the same situation as Liaoxi City.
Yuan Kui was still in charge of defending Yingzhou City. Arrows, rolling wood, bricks and stones and other objects to defend the city were used regardless of consumption, and only wanted to use the minimum casualties and kill several times or even ten times the anti-army soldiers.
Lu Zhihai's anti-army attacked the city for three consecutive days, and after more than 5,000 soldiers were killed or injured, he attacked Yingzhou City when Yuan Kui took the initiative to abandon the city and break through.
Faced with Yuan Kui and other Yingzhou defenders breaking through and retreating to other cities, Lu Zhihai once again sent Sun Liancheng to chase after him with the remaining 4,000 rebel cavalry.
There is no doubt that Sun Liancheng and other rebel cavalry were intercepted by Luo Ying and other Andong Iron Cavalry.
Last time, the seven thousand anti-army cavalry were defeated against the five thousand Anton Iron Cavalry. This time, the number of the two sides was almost the same, and the anti-army cavalry was even less than the opponent of the Anton Iron Cavalry.
Luo Ying and other Andong cavalry not only steadily suppressed the anti-army cavalry such as Sun Liancheng in terms of hard power, but also used the "shocking thunder" as the last time, causing the anti-army war horses to run wildly without control.
Sun Liancheng and other rebel cavalry were immediately defeated, and about 2,000 people were lost.
When Lu Zhihai learned that Sun Liancheng was defeated again, he almost vomited blood when he was so angry that he scolded Sun Liancheng for being a waste.
The rebel cavalry was defeated twice, and about 4,800 people had been lost, leaving only 2,200 cavalry. On the contrary, Luo Ying and other Andong cavalry still had more than 4,000 people, and the rebel cavalry was no longer able to compete with the Andong cavalry.
Without the threat of the anti-army cavalry, Yuan Kui was more calm in resisting the city, killing and injuring the anti-army in the city, and having vitality.
Although Lu Zhihai's anti-army advanced step by step from western Liaoning to Liaoyang City, it seemed to be unstoppable. But only Lu Zhihai himself knew how angry he was.
Because he not only had to spend a huge price to attack the city one by one, but after the city captured it, because the people in the city had already evacuated the Jianbi Qingye in advance, he could not get any supplies and could only rely on transportation from Pingzhou City, which was a drop in the bucket.
The closer they got to Liaoyang City, the longer the logistics supply line was. But Luo Ying and other Andong cavalry still went around to his rear to sneak attack his food route.
In order to protect his food route, Lu Zhihai had to send out the remaining 2,200 rebel cavalrymen such as Sun Liancheng again.
After another contact, Sun Liancheng and other anti-army cavalry were undoubtedly defeated again, with losses of more than a thousand, and the remaining number was less than one thousand.
Lu Zhihai was very aggrieved and angry, but fortunately, Liaoyang City was already in front of him.
This is the core of the Anton Protectorate, Li Fei's old nest. If you don't believe that the Anton Defender can retreat to any other place.
Chapter completed!