Section 580, 581 Bloody battle in Qiyang, the enemy and me are neighbors
The next day, although the sky was clear, the Yuan army still did not leave the camp. Li Luo had to wait. The snow melted a lot on the third day, and the Yuan army finally left the camp and the coalition forces also came out of the camp.
At the morning of the morning, the two armies faced each other again, with tension.
Yesen Timur and Li Luo stood in Gaocheshan in front of the big flag, looking at each other's formation.
"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
The sound of desolate and majestic trumpets in the Yuan army sounded. At the command of the King of Yunnan, a huge cavalry cluster began to slowly approach, and the 50,000 Duan infantry and a large number of slaves behind also advanced, like a covered black cloud.
This is the best attack space for closer distance and adjusting the cavalry.
The three coalition formations were also ready to fight and remained unmoved. Li Luo was wearing dazzling black armor, squinted his eyes and looked at the Yuan army brigade that was pressing towards him like a tide, and his heart was filled with solemnity.
He did successfully mobilize the Yuan army and gained a local advantage in military strength. However, if he wanted to win the battle, he would have to exchange a large number of casualties for it.
This is a hundred thousand iron cavalry!
The coalition generals were also a little nervous. They had never faced more than 50,000 enemy cavalry. Needless to think, once a hundred thousand enemy cavalry was launched, it would be an offensive like a tsunami.
The Yuan army light cavalry at the front finally entered the five-li area. Five-li is the best distance for cavalry attacks, which can reach the highest speed and the best condition of the war horse.
Yesen Timur rode a tall black horse, rode alone to the cavalry formation and began patrol.
This is also the tradition of the Golden Family. In fact, it is a kind of etiquette. Because each knight participating in the war may return to the embrace of the Heaven of Eternity, the commander will ride a horse in front of the formation and communicate with the knights one by one with his eyes, which is an encouragement, tribute, and farewell.
In front of the cavalry that lasted for miles, the war horses were sniffing and swinging their manes. The knights and horses were spraying white mist in the cold wind. Even in winter, a strong sour smell of sweat and fishy smell could be smelled at the end of the nose.
It’s time for men who haven’t taken a shower and often sweating gather together. Just think about it.
Yesen Timur slowly rode his horse through the huge team, and his eyes swept across the pair of eyes full of fighting spirit. Many Mongolian Seminary Knights nodded silently to pay tribute.
The King of Yunnan, who looked resolute, had a little wet eyes.
It took him half an hour to complete the pre-war inspection ceremony.
Although the Yuan army had 80,000 light cavalry, they were not mixed and had different tasks.
After 50,000 Mongolian Semu cavalry who are good at cavalry and shooting, they will use bows and arrows to deal with the coalition infantry formation. While 30,000 Duan clan and the Southern Barbarian cavalry are not good at cavalry and shooting, they will launch traditional cavalry charges with cavalry and spears under the cover of Mongolian Semu cavalry.
The combination of the two can fully exert the power of the cavalry.
After that, there were elephant groups attacks, then 20,000 heavy cavalry, and finally 50,000 infantry. The attack levels were clear, with waves of superimposed attacks. Yesen Timur and others believed that with such a fierce offensive, the thieves would definitely collapse.
There will be no temptation or a tactic of adding fuel to it. Instead, there will be one full blow to completely defeat the bandit army formation dominated by infantry.
Once the thief army collapses, all the cavalry will cover up and kill them in a big victory.
Li Luo understood that without powerful firearms, the worst result of the Yuan army could save its strength and retreat.
"Mordoga." The King of Yunnan said softly.
"Mordauga!" The soldiers shouted together, and the war drums suddenly sounded like raindrops.
The Yuan army cavalry issued a terrifying shout that made people scalp numb, and they each urged their horses to trot at a speed. Duan and the Southern Barbarian cavalry were holding spears, while the Mongolian Seminyak cavalry took off their cavalry bows one after another.
The sound of horse hooves became louder and louder, from the sound of the sea tide at the beginning to the earth-shaking thunder, the whole earth was trembling.
The sound of horse hooves was accompanied by the neighing of war horses,
Under the 80,000 horses galloping, Li Luo's high car was also trembling slightly.
"Boom-" In a blink of an eye, the Yuan army cavalry destroyed two or three miles apart, and then began to divert, turn, and encircle.
"Let it go!" The coalition general who received the order also ordered the firing of stone cannons and bed crossbows.
Large pieces of stone bullets and crossbows roared out and rushed towards the Yuan cavalry, which could almost neglect the casualties. Many stones fell down even after reaching the distance.
If the bed crossbow and stone cannon could really restrain the cavalry, the Song Dynasty would not have perished.
The coalition's powerless long-range counterattack made the Yuan cavalry even more crazy and rushed up even more without fear.
Yesen Timur, who was behind, saw this scene, showed a sarcastic smile.
Li Luo, what's the use of more soldiers? If there are many cavalry, it's really useful. If you lose gunpowder, I will see how long you can last for this battle.
"Boom-" Yuan army cavalry swept over like a rush, and its momentum changed the weather. Many Mongolian semen cavalry had skillfully pulled out feather arrows and were preparing to shoot arrows with horse speed.
Although the spears on the periphery of the thief army looked terrifying, they would sooner or later collapse as long as they were peeled repeatedly.
In the blink of an eye, the Yuan army cavalry had rushed within a mile and came in a fierce momentum. Even their murderous and ferocious faces could see clearly.
"Huwuhehaoning!"
"Mordauga!"
Tens of thousands of cavalrymen were galloping like thunder, advancing but not retreating.
At this time, if you look down from a high altitude, you can see three iron streams of cavalry that crash into three coalition formations, and the Mongolian Semu cavalry began to circumnavigate and force towards the coalition.
But at this moment, the dongdong war drums sounded from the coalition forces, accompanied by a sharp whistle, and then the spearmen on the outside turned around and trotted back. The entire formation suddenly contracted, revealing a large number of firearms and soldiers behind.
The front is a row of musketeers, and behind the musketeers are a group of black cannons.
All the gunners were in their place and the ammunition was loaded.
Although the Yuan cavalry in the front discovered an abnormality, it was not clear on the one hand, and it was impossible to retreat.
"put!"
"put!"
A large area of black smoke suddenly rose, almost at the same time, there was a thunderous roar.
One thousand or hundreds of large and small cannons of three large formations roared together. In the loud noises like landslides, large pieces of metal shells blasted into the dense Yuan cavalry team.
At this distance, the Yuan cavalry's bows and arrows were not accessible, and the range of artillery was more than enough. Therefore, the Yuan army immediately fell into a completely passive attack and was stunned by a sudden round of artillery strikes, and many people did not react.
Under this round of fierce artillery fire, large areas of Yuan army cavalry flew over and over, with flesh and blood flying. Especially hundreds of ten-pound cannons, one shot, and a long groove was blasted into the Yuan army, killing and killing, shattering the Yuan army.
The entire coalition formation was filled with black smoke, filled with the strong smell of gunpowder.
Thousands of Yuan army cavalry were killed and injured in this round of artillery baptism.
Even the Liang army and the Song army were stunned by the sharp firearms of the Tang army.
However, due to the huge inertia, the Yuan cavalry behind continued to rush over and did not stop immediately. In fact, the cavalry behind only heard loud noises, and they didn't know how miserable it was in front.
"put!"
Immediately afterwards, the Tang army's 25,000 musket soldiers also pulled the trigger in rows and shot the Yuan army cavalry thirty feet away.
Amid the sharp sound of swans and bangs, a large number of Yuan cavalrymen who were preparing to shoot arrows were shot to death. The scorching lead bullets penetrated their leather armor and penetrated into their bodies. They couldn't help but scream in pain.
After several rows of fire guns were fired, thousands of Yuan army were killed and injured. The Yuan army and the coalition had become an insurmountable line of fire.
The loaded musket soldiers fired again, then the next row, firing alternately. Then the loaded cannons also fired again.
Finally, the reloaded cannon roared again.
Under the continuous and dense rain of bullets, the huge Yuan cavalry team was in chaos, trampling on each other, rushing left and right, losing control of advance and retreat, and baptizing within the attack range of the firearm.
The Yuan army cavalry cluster became a bloody place, with dead people and horses everywhere, with extremely heavy casualties. What's even more terrifying is that the sudden bombardment of the Tang army by firearms destroyed their courage and frightened the war horses.
The extremely frightened Yuan cavalry shot arrows and retreated one after another, intending to widen the distance and escape the attack range of the firearms. However, because the team was messy, there were too many people and horses, and the horse speed was lost, it was in chaos for a while.
However, the Yuan army's arrow rain still caused casualties to the coalition forces.
However, the casualties of the Yuan army's cavalry have exceeded 10,000, more than ten times more casualties than the coalition forces.
"Cabinet attack!" Li Luo, who was calm on the surface but was actually sweating with nervous palms, immediately issued a military order for cavalry to attack.
A torrent rumbled out of the central formation of the coalition forces, and rushed to the messy Yuan cavalry that had lost their horse speed.
More than 30,000 Tang cavalry all dispatched!
"Infantry attack!" Li Luo ordered again without any notice.
At the same time, the war drums in the coalition army were shattered and the horn sounded suddenly. The coalition infantry of the two major formations attacked the entire line and rushed up with the cavalry.
Firearms are also nervously loading ammunition.
More than 30,000 Jurchens, Khitans, and Dangxiang cavalry rushed into the Yuan army's cavalry fiercely, threw out hand axes, swung maces and other weapons and chopped and killed them. As a result, the Yuan army's cavalry was bitten, making it even more difficult for them to escape from the battlefield.
More than 100,000 coalition infantry, whether it was the Tang army, the Liang army and the Song army, took the opportunity to rush forward and surrounded and blocked the formation, no longer cared about the formation.
It's...siege and kill!
What the cavalry cluster fears most is the chaos of fighting after losing the horse speed, and is surrounded and intercepted by infantry with the advantage of the number of infantry. For cavalry, losing the horse speed is a disaster.
Immediately afterwards, the heavy infantry in the coalition also rushed up. The three thousand Modao teams of Li Luozhong's army also held the long Modao and strode towards each other.
When the Mo Dao advances into the wall, and with one knife, it will often break up and be invincible.
The archers in the coalition also abandoned their formation and blocked the periphery of the Yuan cavalry cluster, and fired dense rain of arrows to prevent them from escaping.
The two sides completely became the most feared hand-to-hand combat that the cavalry had. Many Yuan army cavalry could only dismount and fight in the field after fighting desperately.
Of course, the Mongolian Seme cavalry on the horse had strong combat power, but once they lost their horsepower, they would be inferior to the Tang army veterans who had been training hard for a long time in hand-to-hand combat.
Especially the Tang army warriors who were ready to die, had no other choice in their personal combat power or fighting will, and soon suppressed the fierce Mongolian seductive eye-catching soldiers.
Dali and the Southern Barbarian cavalry were also very brave, but they were not rivals of the Tang army's veterans. In addition, they were defeated by a small number of enemies, and they were killed one after another.
Even the new recruits of the Tang army were very powerful. They stabbed the enemy on the horse with long spears and dragged them off to kill them.
Relatively speaking, the performance of the Liang army and the Song army was much worse. However, they still fought bravely to fight the enemy. Although there were many casualties, the results were also quite large.
At this time, those who did not participate in the war were the Firearms Army and Li Luo's central formation. The Firearms Army all retreated into the Central formation and began to move forward slowly, forcing Yesen Timur several miles away.
Most of the cavalry of tens of thousands of yuan were in desperate situations, and only more than 20,000 cavalry successfully distanced themselves and escaped from the interception of the coalition infantry and cavalry.
All this sounds very long, but in fact, it only took less than half a quarter of an hour from the charge of the Yuan army.
More than 20,000 Yuan army cavalry who had escaped from the quagmire did not escape, but instead increased the distance and accelerated, rushed towards the coalition infantry that had no formation protection and participated in the suppression of the Yuan army cavalry brigade.
But at this time, the Tang cavalry, which had already penetrated the Yuan cavalry cluster, also ran out from the side and rushed towards the more than 20,000 cavalry. Both sides had horse speed, and when they collided together, they were bloody and bloody.
The Mongolian Semu cavalry tried hard to distance themselves and used the majestic tactics to deal with the Tang cavalry. The Tang cavalry, who was good at horse fighting, tried hard to close the distance and bite it in hand and blade to kill.
The entire battlefield was completely in chaos. The sound of fighting, shouting, screaming, and the neighing of horses were shocking and extremely tragic.
The King of Yunnan and others from miles away were stunned and looked full of disbelief.
"Li Luo has gunpowder!"
"There is gunpowder!!"
"Damn it!!"
The King of Yunnan's eyes were red. Eighty thousand light cavalry, how could it be beaten like this? The rebel's firearm... is so sharp!
Hiding in the formation again, suddenly attacking, how can you not suffer a big loss?
Before they could take the battle elephant and heavy cavalry, the light cavalry was defeated?
Li Ting and Bo Luo Huan were also ruptured and furious.
Li Luo was deceived! They were deceived!
If they knew that Li Luo had so much gunpowder, they would not have formulated this tactic no matter what!
Thieves!
The King of Yunnan has issued an order to withdraw his troops, but the battlefield several miles away has become a melee, and the enemy is too small and we cannot retreat at all.
It would be meaningless to bet the battle elephant and heavy cavalry at this time. The heavy cavalry did not have the cover of the light cavalry and would only attack the Li Luo Central Formation with firearms alone, and the situation would only be worse.
Heavy cavalry has always been used in combination with light cavalry.
As for the war elephants, they will only turn around and escape under firearm bombardment.
"Send the order! Infantry rushed forward!" The King of Yunnan roared with bloody eyes, "Duan Qing! Your infantry rushed forward and fought!" At this moment, the most useful one was the infantry.
Duan Qing and his son were also in a state of dismay at this time. Among these 80,000 light cavalry, 25,000 were Dali's soldiers.
How many more can you survive now?
Lost, defeated.
"Duan Qing!" The king of Yunnan looked at him as he wanted to kill, his face turned pale, "Didn't you hear me? Let your infantry attack!"
Duan Qing trembled, then he came to his senses and said with a bitter face: "Christ!"
Even if he was defeated in this battle, he would not dare to disobey the military orders of the King of Yunnan.
"Let's go!" Li Ting stopped him with a ugly face, "King, the cavalry was defeated. If these 50,000 Dali infantrymen join the battle group, they must at least run four miles in armor. When they rush over, their physical strength will be greatly reduced! I guess not only will they not be able to rescue the cavalry from the trap, but they will also get in again!"
Boluo Huan also said: "King, Li Ting is right. It's a waste of 50,000 infantry troops to go up. We have too few soldiers and horses. We can't do this with only a small number of enemies! Look, Li Luo's central formation has been forced over."
The King of Yunnan gritted his teeth and looked at the central coalition formation that was slowly coming, and could only give up the idea of infantry reinforcements.
Now, he can only watch tens of thousands of cavalry fall into desperate situations, but cannot rescue them, and even do nothing!
It was not until this time that he realized that his troops were weak. If he had not divided his troops, even if Li Luo had firearms, the battle would not have been like this.
Yes, divide the troops. Why do you want to divide the troops? Why do you believe that Li Luo has no gunpowder?
This is all because of that wool, what wool...
"Where is that surrendered general named Wang?" asked the King of Yunnan.
Soon, Wang Wei, who was pale and as if he was betrayed, was brought up.
From the moment he heard the sound of artillery, he realized that he was finished. He was not stupid, even if he didn't understand being used at this time?
It turns out that all this is a trap.
If Dong Huchen had known that he wanted to surrender to the Yuan Dynasty, he deliberately acted and leaked fake news, and deliberately gave him the opportunity to surrender and report it.
So stupid.
It's over.
When Wang Wei was taken to the King of Yunnan, he was so scared that he had become a pile of mud.
"King, I'm really... I'm really... I'm fooled, no... I'm not intentional... I'm really loyal to the king..." Wang Wei was so scared that he stuttered as the King of Yunnan was about to turn into a substantial murderous intent.
The King of Yunnan looked at Wang Wei with great disgust, "You are a fool like a roe roe, it's okay if you are stupid yourself, but I'm going to make me stupid with you! You can't live anymore."
Li Ting and Bo Luo Huan also turned red and furious. They knew that Wang Wei was really surrendered, but this idiot was used by Li Luo, which made them fooled and ruined so many cavalry. It was a great shame.
Wang Wei kowtowed like pounding garlic, so scared that he was so scared that he said, "Good king, please spare me! Slave..." But before his head was finished, his head flew up.
The King of Yunnan personally slaughtered Wang Wei and shouted: "Send the order! Stop the troops and defend the camp!" Seeing that Li Luo's central formation was getting closer and closer, he did not dare to delay any longer. He quickly abandoned the cavalry that was trapped in the quagmire of hard fighting and ordered to return to the camp to defend.
As a commander with great ability, he knew very well that he could not do anything today, so he could only stick to the camp and wait for the other two troops to join.
Although he was defeated in this battle, he might not be able to turn over. In Huang County and Baoqing, he still had more than 200,000 troops.
There are also more than 100,000 troops in Jiangling, and more than 100,000 troops in Fujian.
Not to mention, there are also the surprise troops arranged by my grandfather to cross the Yangtze River and attack the empty Jiangnan.
He still has a chance!
Li Ting and Bo Luo Huan both breathed a sigh of relief. The king of Yunnan could bend and stretch, and the hero cut off his arm, so they finally didn't need their advice.
The King of Yunnan looked at the battlefield several miles away with a tragic expression and shouted loudly: "I, Yesen Timur! Swear to Changshengtian that as long as Borjijin Yesen Timur does not die for a day, as long as Yesen Timur can still step on the war horse, he will not forget to avenge you!"
Of course, this is for the soldiers around you to listen to.
By the time Li Luo personally led more than 100,000 people from the Central Formation to force him over, the remaining 70,000 troops had retreated into the camp and defended closely.
The Yuan army camp was set up on a gentle slope of a mountain, and it was built relatively sturdy, and this terrain was very convenient for heavy cavalry to charge.
The Yuan army camp continued for several miles and occupied the entire foothills. But many of them were empty because this camp was built before the Yuan army divided its troops. The King of Yunnan retreated into the most solid and highest-level central army camp at this time.
Li Luo relied on the firearms to bully the young soldiers of the Yuan army, and simply entered the camp empty by the Yuan army, and occupied the nest. This camp was on the right side of the King of Yunnan.
The two became neighbors, only between two Muzhai, less than one mile apart.
Li Luo posted this because of course he was afraid that the King of Yunnan would withdraw his troops and escape.
The King of Yunnan could not have expected that Li Luo would lead his army into the vacant military camp and look at him nearby.
Bullying my King's Soldiers' defeat? Is this too shameless and too arrogant?
The King of Yunnan could only order 50,000 infantry to guard against the village walls, and to ask slaves to dig up earth and stone to strengthen the wooden villages, so as to prevent Li Luo from bombarding with artillery. His central army camp was very high, and if a high rifle was added, the arrows could be shot into Li Luo's camp, which was not without counterattack methods.
In fact, if the King of Yunnan left behind infantry, baggage, slaves and led 20,000 cavalry to escape at this time, it would still be possible.
But he was unwilling to fail in the end, and he still had hope for the battle, so he did not escape.
Li Ting and Bo Luo Huan also had no intention of escaping. If they did not escape, they would have the opportunity to turn defeat into victory. Once they escaped, the battle situation in Hengyang would collapse completely.
At this time, the battle had stopped on the battlefield.
Except for more than 8,000 cavalrymen who fled from the battlefield and were chased by Tang cavalry, the others were either killed or captured.
Among them, there were more than 10,000 people who died under the firearms, and more than 40,000 people were surrounded and killed by more than 100,000 coalition forces.
There were also tens of thousands of Duan's cavalry who chose to surrender.
The coalition seized more than 20,000 intact war horses.
There is no doubt that the firearm played a key role. Although the firearm only eliminated more than 10,000 cavalry, if it weren't for the firearm, the Yuan army's cavalry would not have been in chaos, nor would they lose their horse speed, and would not have fallen into the quagmire of being surrounded and killed by infantry.
At dusk, the Tang cavalry who were pursuing the Yuan cavalry and defeated the Yuan army came back. Hu Gu, Yelu Zhongjie and others reported that they had chased more than 3,000 people, and more than 4,000 people fled to Daozhou.
At this point, the 80,000 cavalry was almost wiped out.
However, the casualties of the coalition forces in this battle were also very heavy.
When the number of casualties was counted, Li Luo took a look and took a deep breath.
More than 3,000 veterans of the Tang army were killed, and most of the brigade lost their troops. More than 8,000 new soldiers were killed. More than 15,200 veterans and new soldiers were killed, and as many as 15,000!
The Liang army suffered as many as 20,000 people, and the Song army had the least number of troops participating in the battle, but the number of people was as many as 8,000!
The coalition forces were killed in battle, more than 40,000.
Add to the injuries, and that's even more.
Even if the Yuan army cavalry fought by hand, they were still real elite soldiers. Especially the Mongolian soldiers, their combat power was even stronger. Even the chieftain cavalry was as fierce as a wolf. That is, the Duan cavalry had poor combat power.
The tragic victory is not worth mentioning, but the price is really greater.
Moreover, this battle has not been completed. Now Yesian Timur led the remaining troops of the Yuan army to defend the camp. If he did not solve it, he could not really win.
Not to mention Li Luo, even Xiao Yan was heartbroken. Most of the 20,000 Liang troops were veterans of Daliang and old brothers in the sect!
"Around the Yuan army camp, don't let Yesen Timur escape!" Li Luo said hatefully, "The losses in this battle are so huge. Be sure to wipe out the Yuan army in Lu, and you will be able to achieve complete success!"
"No!" The generals took the order together.
On the next day, more than 200,000 coalition troops surrounded the Yuan army's central camp and blocked the way for the Yuan army to escape.
Chapter completed!