Section 449, 450 Famous generals wither... Victory is like defeat(1/2)
Li Luo almost laughed when he saw the Mongolian cavalry suffered heavy losses.
Good job! Chen Riyan is a real famous general! When he met, Yesu Dier suffered a great loss.
The arrogant and arrogant Mongolian cavalry, under the terrifying number of war elephants, fire bull assaults, and Vietnamese cavalry, suffered a huge casualties of seven or eight thousand people.
A whole team of ten thousand people was almost ruined.
Although the Khitan Jurchen cavalry who took the lead suffered huge losses, they only suffered 5,000 or 6,000 casualties in total.
At this moment, the huge elephant herd still maintained a considerable speed, rushing towards the Yuan army's infantry formation like a prehistoric monster. The first ones were the Yue traitor army and the Han army.
"Kill!" Chen Riyi in the Vietnamese army saw the defeat of the Yuan army's cavalry, but he didn't know that this was a fleeting opportunity? He had no time to think about it, so he issued a military order for the general attack of the entire army.
The morale of the Vietnamese infantry was also greatly boosted. More than 100,000 people shouted and trotted forward in formation, following the elephant herd, fire cattle and cavalry in front of them.
Although the 30,000 cavalry was defeated at this time, Li Luo still had more than 20,000 cavalry on both wings to suppress the formation.
But it is obvious that under the charge of thousands of elephants, these more than 20,000 cavalry no longer have the ability to stop them.
A critical moment!
Chen Riyi's nervous heart was about to jump out of his chest.
Rush up! Rush up! As long as you break down the Yuan army's formation, you can win a terrible victory. Even if you can't kill Li Luo, Dayue will have a chance to turn the tables!
In fact, as a good general, Chen Riyi knew very well what it meant if he could not break through the Yuan army formation. It would mean that he would be wiped out. However, he didn't care about these things anymore, so he could only take a gamble, which was the only chance to bet.
I hope God blesses Dayue!
Although Li Luo was happy, he was also frightened. Today he realized the power of the Xiang army! If the group of elephants broke through the formation, not to mention that the Yuan army would definitely be defeated, even he, the general of the Southern Expedition, would probably "died before he succeeded."
Fortunately, he made arrangements in advance, not without preparation.
Hundreds of tall shield cars were protected between the infantry formations, like a city wall, with dense spears on it. The gaps between the shield cars were various muskets, cannons, rockets, and tank bombing machines.
The terrifying elephant group rushed to the vicinity and saw the "city wall" composed of tall shields and chariots. They immediately began to slow down and their momentum stuttered.
Immediately afterwards, thousands of firearms were fired together.
"Boom! Boom!"
"Bang bang!"
"Chi!Chi!"
In front of the Yuan army formation, which was more than one mile wide, clusters of fire rose, accompanied by a huge roar, and the smoke filled the gunpowder, as if the sky collapsed and the earth was cracked. Not to mention the lethality, at least the momentum was amazing.
The elephants were timid, especially afraid of firelights and explosions. The bombardment of so many firearms made them frightened and stopped and became a mess.
Some were staggering, while others ran wildly toward both sides. However, because the elephants behind were still rushing, the cattle behind the elephants were driving the elephants. There were also Vietnamese cavalry behind the cavalry and Vietnamese infantry behind the cavalry, so the whole torrent did not stop moving forward.
It's just that the speed has been greatly reduced.
Li Luo suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. As long as the speed of the elephant group dropped sharply, even if he broke through the formation, he would not be afraid.
Because, he still has a central army formation!
That's right, from the direction of the Yue army, the Yuan army formation was integrated. However, what Li Luo arranged was actually two large formations isolated from each other. The front was the Yue traitor army and the 10,000 Han army. The back was the 20,000 chieftain barbarians and 10,000 Han army.
"Boom boom!"
Seeing the elephant group with a sharp drop in speed rushed in front of them, the firearms in the Yuan army finally roared again.
The elephant group was even more in chaos, and there was no longer the momentum of moving forward before, and its speed became moving forward.
However, under the huge inertia and the entanglement, the terrifying elephant herd still hit the wall of the shield car.
"Crack!"
In an instant, hundreds of tall shield cars were smashed, and spears on the shield cars pierced into the elephant's body. Amid the heart-wrenching elephants' roar, elephants fell down, blocking the road to the elephant herd behind.
However, there were still elephants who could not stop walking and rushed in.
At the same time, the front line of the Vietnamese traitor army also collapsed.
The Vietnamese army with tens of thousands of people exploded with a loud bang.
Li Luo suddenly stood up and waved the flag. The central army's formation stepped back, revealing a row of shield cars again, preventing the attack of the defeated army in front.
The elephant group that was as strong as the last of the crossbow was also stopped by the second row of shield cars. The huge torrent was finally contained.
The Yuan army infantry, the Vietnamese army elephant soldiers, fire bulls, cavalry, and the infantry behind them were actually crowded together.
The Yuan army formation only collapsed halfway at most.
"Kill!" Chen Riyan shouted loudly, rode his horse and carried the last thousand cavalry, holding a spear, and rushed forward desperately.
Win or lose is right in front of you, and you must not give up now!
He knew very well that now was the most vulnerable moment for the Yuan army and the most vulnerable moment for the Vietnamese army. Especially the cavalry on both wings of the Yuan army were the most dangerous.
But Chen Riyan's worries still happened.
Li Luo then waved the flag again. More than 20,000 cavalry who had been waiting for him to wave the flag to issue the order immediately rushed towards the Vietnamese cavalry with a sharp drop in speed and the Vietnamese infantry trotting.
At the same time, the remaining Khitan Jurchen cavalry and Mongolian cavalry also attacked from behind and on both wings.
"kill!"
More than 300,000 people were killed together, shouting, screaming, and horses neighing and roaring, resounding throughout the sky.
Li Luo's central army was always as stable as Mount Tai, unmoved and firmly nailed there. The hundreds of personal guards around him even protected Li Luo.
Because the central army did not collapse, the previously defeated Vietnamese traitors and Han army did not all flee the battlefield, but instead reorganized them and resisted the Vietnamese army around the central army's formation.
However, the Yuan cavalry rushed the Yue cavalry and infantry into a storm.
In fact, because of the elephant herd, the cattle herd and a large number of cavalry, the military formation was useless at this time, and the battlefield evolved into chaos and became a nest of porridge.
The only thing that was not in chaos was Li Luo's central army.
The two armies fought together and killed each other. Although the Yuan army had few soldiers, due to too many Yue army troops and too many cavalry in the Yuan army, as Yue army continued to flee from the battlefield, the Yuan army began to gain the upper hand not long after.
"Kill!" Chen Riyi led a thousand personal guards and desperately drove the Vietnamese infantry to attack forward, intending to break through Li Luo's central army. Unfortunately, the number of Vietnamese imperial guards was too small and he could not rush in no matter what.
"Boom!" At this time, the Yuan cavalry gathered together once again launched a cluster charge against the chaotic Vietnamese infantry. I don't know how many Vietnamese soldiers were killed by the cavalry, and the casualties were extremely heavy.
"Kill!" Chen Riyan's war horse was injured, so he simply jumped off his horse and rushed towards the Yuan army with his personal guards on foot.
Just like a look back, the nearby Vietnamese troops saw Chen Riyi charging in person, their eyes were red, and they shouted and followed them, gathered together to charge with Chen Riyi.
By the time he rushed to the front of the Central Army, nearly 10,000 people had gathered around Chen Riyi, and the Vietnamese army was constantly following him, like a torrent.
The Vietnamese army, which was originally in chaos, was once again twisted into a rope by Chen Riyan.
Under the leadership of Chen Riyi, the Vietnamese army burst out with great courage and ascended as if they were injected with chicken blood. They braved the dense rain of arrows from the Yuan army, bypassed the elephants and buffaloes, climbed the shield chariots, or stabbed the Yuan army through the shield chariots.
"boom!"
Li Luo's central army was finally defeated by the Vietnamese army with a desperate attack. The water-like Vietnamese infantry rushed into the central army's formation, only dozens of feet away from Li Luo's tent.
Li Luo's heart was pounding, feeling that he had never had the danger today. If it weren't for the 30,000 elite soldiers in the central army, and if the general trend of the battlefield was still in his hands, he would have escaped at this time.
The 30,000 central troops were in chaos but not defeated, and they blocked the Vietnamese army from attacking the commander's tent. The Yuan cavalry gathered again to attack the back of the Vietnamese infantry.
Although the tens of thousands of Vietnamese troops led by Chen Riyi rushed to the vicinity of Li Luo's tent, they were trapped in a situation of attacking from front to back and forth, and could not advance or retreat.
At all times, hundreds of soldiers from both sides died in battle.
After half an hour of fighting, the Vietnamese army, which had 70,000 or 80,000, finally couldn't hold on and was defeated.
On the battlefield within a few miles of radius, there were Yuan cavalry who were chasing the north and Yue army troops who either fled or surrendered.
The entire Vietnamese cavalry had been wiped out, and Chen Riyi was left with only thousands of imperial guards.
"Kill the enemy!" Chen Riyi was injured several times and fought to the death.
Soon, the only thousands of people were also scattered and killed by the Yuan army cavalry.
Chen Riyan's eyes were covered in blood and said to the sky: "Die before he succeeded, it was not the time to die, but it was incompetent! A general was incompetent to bury the three armies, and a general was incompetent to bury a country! I have no face to see Emperor Taizong in the Nine Springs!"
After saying that, he raised his sword to slid his face and shouted to the West: "Brother, I have done my best!" He suddenly committed suicide by slashing his sword. In the blood, Gao Da Angzang's body slowly fell into pieces.
All his personal guards were killed in battle.
A famous general of Yue Kingdom finally withered outside the ancient ritual city.
After another half an hour, the Yuan army cleared out the Vietnamese deserters and controlled the prisoners of war.
On the huge battlefield, there are all human corpses, horse corpses, elephant corpses, cow corpses, and broken battle flags and weapons.
A fresh Shura field.
Li Luo sat in the camp without moving, looking indifferently at the generals who entered the tent to report the results. Although he was secretly happy, his face was covered with a cold look.
After half a day of fighting, although they still won the final battle, all the generals looked solemn and had no joy.
It was really this battle... a miserable victory was like a defeat. It almost made the Vietnamese army turn defeat into victory for a time.
Although the Vietnamese army was wiped out, the Yuan army actually killed and injured 60,000 people, almost collapsed.
Nearly half of the loss.
What kind of victory is this? For the Yuan army, which has always been arrogant, such a big casualty is a defeat.
To be continued...