At this time, looking down from a high altitude, within a radius of dozens of miles, the Bingdai army was faintly surrounding the Tang army.
It's just that the leading generals at the front did not focus on cutting off the Tang army's retreat as Li Po said before...
After more than two days of testing, Yu Chigong, Bu Qun and others agreed that harassing the Tang army's food road would not cause much harm to Li and Tang's army. The distance from Pingyao to Jiexiu was too close in the usual sense.
The grain road was not suitable for the Tang army.
Then it is better to send Xue Wanche to unite with another unit to hold off the Tang Army's front troops first...
And in this way, the direction of the main attack of the army was clearly revealed. It was still the Tang Army's rear army. Undoubtedly, this was the weakness of the Tang Army, and the attack of tens of thousands of cavalry troops was never a small fight.
In fact, in terms of scale and number of participants, it is no different from a decisive battle.
A large-scale battle is actually determined by such battles.
Just like this time the battle between the two armies, the starting point will definitely not be when the Tang army left Jiexiu and headed north, but started from the battle for Queshu Valley and continues to the present. In the past month, the two armies, large and small, have fought ten battles.
In the remaining battles, there were more than 10,000 casualties.
But now for the Bingdai cavalry, the time has come.
With everything in place, apart from making some detailed adjustments, other stories are unlikely to change their determination to attack.
The arrow is on the string and must be fired.
Yuchi Gong slowly raised his arms, and a low horn sound sounded among the army.
Li Nian led 3,000 heavy cavalry to serve as the vanguard of the army. This was the position he had snatched from Luo Shixin by luck. Under the flag, Li Nian took the lead in urging the horses and moved forward slowly.
As the forward troops moved forward, the army began to move in rows, and the horses slowly opened a certain distance with small steps.
Flags of various colors were flying fiercely above the heads of the army. The soldiers inspected their swords, bows and armor for the last time on their horses. Their eyes slowly became bloodshot and filled with murderous intent.
The warriors of Hundred Wars were ready to attack, and murderous intent filled the surrounding areas, making the lingering summer rain seem to have turned cold.
The black army gradually expanded, like a rising tide, covering the ground for several miles horizontally and more than ten miles vertically, truly revealing his huge and ferocious body.
The sound of horse hooves echoed in the wilderness like rolling thunder, excluding all other sounds, and the ground began to tremble non-stop, like a small earthquake.
With such great momentum, Tang Jun soon discovered something strange...
At such a critical moment, the misjudgments of the Tang army's generals and their inability to discover the enemy's situation in time all led to the Tang army's hasty battle.
Of course, this is also a very common situation in cavalry and infantry field battles.
It's just that such a large-scale cavalry attack on an infantry formation has not been very common since ancient times. A wise general will never let the infantry be exposed in the wild and allow the cavalry to attack.
In fact, the front army of the Tang Army was attacked, and the rear army was also waiting for battle. It was just that they did not expect to suffer such an attack.
When King Yong'an Li Xiaoji received the report, he had already sent orders to all the ministries to defend the flank defenses, and the Hit Army and the ministries on the left flank were fortified at all levels.
More than 20,000 cavalry came from the wild, and they were so close that there was no need to report. Li Xiaoji already knew that the army seemed to have reached a life-or-death moment.
At this time, Li Xiaoji could no longer think about why the enemy had so many cavalry, and why he waited until this moment to appear in front of the army. Those were irrelevant. What mattered was the position of the enemy and the way forward.
Looking at the direction, his rear army must be the target of enemy attack.
Similar to other members of the Li clan, Li Xiaoji's talents are quite average, not much worse than Li Shentong, nor much higher.
In addition to deploying a large army for defense, he also immediately sent people to ask for help from the front army, and strictly ordered Pei Ji, who was huddled by the river, to lead his troops closer to the Chinese army.
At the critical moment, Lee Hyo-ki showed no incompetence.
But everything is already too late. Generally speaking, when large armies compete, they will take advantage first. By the time a head-on battle involving swords and guns comes, the victory or defeat has already been decided for most cases.
There are not many cases where the elite soldiers can win the battle by force, and that situation mostly occurs in the war with Beihu.
The battle between the Tang army and the Bingdai army undoubtedly belonged to the former. Strategic decision-making was the key to the outcome of this war.
When the battle came, Bingdai's army had already taken advantage of the right time and place.
When Li Xiaoji's military order was passed to the front of the formation, the figures of the Bingdai cavalry in the northeast were clearly visible.
The more than 100,000 Tang troops were in a commotion. The generals on the right wing of the army went to Li Shentong and Li Xiaoji for orders and support.
Li Shentong was so shocked that his heart dropped.
The front army was being harassed by more than ten thousand cavalry, how could they rescue the rear army? Even at this time, the first thought that came to Li Shentong's confused mind was that he was lucky that the enemy's main force did not attack his leader.
of the former army.
The sad thing about being the commander of a large army is that, with no plan, you can only let the various units rely on their fate.
This is not only the sorrow of the first army coach, but also the most failed performance...
Judging from the series of performances of the Tang army, Li Po was indeed erring on the side of caution. Like many others, he was intimidated by the number of more than 100,000 people.
He only wanted to choose a place for a decisive battle with the Tang Army, but intentionally or unintentionally ignored the fact that the Tang Army was only a makeshift military force and was not that elite.
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The long-planned attack, without any pause, only reached a suitable distance. Li Nian pulled out the steel knife with force, raised it high above his head, and urged the war horse to move. At the same time, the horse's hooves shook the earth.
In the middle of the voice, he screamed loudly, "Kill, kill, kill."
Finally, he pulled out the steel knife, followed closely beside him, and shouted in unison, "Kill, kill..."
A roar full of murderous intent spread through the army, shaking the surrounding areas, reaching into the sky, and even drowned out the sound of horse hooves for a few moments.
The sounds of steel knives being unsheathed merged into one, forming a forest of knives in the rain.
The fierce and wild cavalrymen, equipped with horses and horses, swarmed forward like fast-moving steel monsters and rushed towards the Tang army's formation.
Bursts of arrow rain rose from the Tang army's formation, and fell heavily on the heads of the cavalry, hitting the armor of the heavy armored cavalry with a clanking sound.
Occasionally, someone would dismount his horse without saying a word, making a heavy muffled sound. That was when the most unlucky guy was shot in the eye or through a gap in his armor.
The heavy cavalry assault was the most commonly used and most adept tactical mode by the Sui army at that time, and this was also a tactical style that gradually formed during the war of unification of the Central Plains.
The cavalry broke out, the light cavalry followed, and the infantry followed.
The Heng'an Town Army, which started in Daizhou, actually abandoned this extremely rigid tactic at the beginning due to various reasons.
The first time Li Po used heavy cavalry to break through the formation was when he was fighting the Tang Army at Yanmen. Today's target was the Tang Army again. It can be seen that the main battlefield for the heavy cavalry was actually to break through the infantry formation.
As long as the civil war in the Central Plains continues, the possibility of heavy cavalry withdrawing from the battlefield is not too high.
Once the heavy cavalry charges, it will bring a violent and terrifying impact, which is also one of the nemesis of the strong shield spear.
Throwing axes and short guns cannot bring any damage to heavy cavalry.
There was a loud bang on the battlefield, and the sound spread far away. The heavy cavalry in the front row had hit the shield wall that looked like a hedgehog. Suddenly, the shield was broken and the gun was broken.
Under the impact of these several tons of weight, countless soldiers of the Tang Dynasty flew out like puppets with a series of fractures and blood spurting from their mouths.
Just like tearing a piece of paper, countless ferocious monsters broke through the formation and entered.
Like an extremely heavy sharp knife, it penetrated diagonally into the rear of the Tang Army's front army, and quickly rushed toward the southwest.
The momentum was overwhelming and the snow and mist filled the air. Rows of Tang troops were trampled like straw by the rampaging heavy cavalry. Their bones were broken, or their intestines were pierced and rotted by the trampling.
Wherever the three thousand heavy cavalry passed, the place was filled with blood and chaos, and the horrific scene was like Shura Hell.
The heavy cavalry opened a wide gap, and the survivors who were lucky enough to escape didn't even have time to show their fear. Then they were faced with light cavalry wearing half-length armor, swarming in. Therefore, there were no survivors here.
More than 25,000 cavalry troops were like a long dragon, cutting into the Tang Army's formation arrogantly, sweeping past the rear of the Tang Army's front army, and then rushed into the Tang Army's rear formation.
Scenes of war on this scale are rare.
Horse hooves rumbled, arrows flew across the sky, blood filled the air, and corpses lay everywhere.
The sound of horse hooves, shouts of death, screams of death, the whine of war horses, and so on, covering a radius of more than twenty miles, were completely enveloped by the sonata of war.
The cavalry flowed over like a flood that burst a dike, killing corpses of Tang soldiers strewn across the fields and blood flowing into rivers.
At this time, there was almost no distinction between generals, soldiers, or even civilians. Anyone who stood in front of the cavalry would be submerged by the torrent.
The Tang Army's rear army collapsed... For the Tang Army's soldiers, this was a nightmare and also a disastrous defeat.
It is worth mentioning that the first person to escape was not the most vulnerable civilian husband, but Pei Ji, the deputy general manager of Jinzhou Road March. He did not follow Li Xiaoji's order to move closer to the Chinese army.
When the rumble of horse hoofs echoed in Pei Ji's ears, Li Yuan's favorite immediately led his troops along the river and became the first person in the rear of the Tang army to escape from the battle.
At this time, no military merit, no glory and wealth, no loyalty, were as important as his own life.
(Monthly pass, monthly pass, it’s a bit late. This chapter is not easy to write. It has been laid out so far that it should be a victory in one battle, but it needs to be exaggerated. Otherwise, everyone should say it ends in an anticlimax. Please forgive me.)