Wang Yong left 10,000 people to clean the battlefield and garrison Yuyang City. The remaining troops left Yuyang City immediately after taking a short rest.
Li Gang, who was one step ahead, was already racing to track down Xu Rong and the others!
Xu Rong threw away all the disposable equipment, took only 10 days of rations and weapons and armor, and continued to flee towards the south. Unfortunately, no matter how fast two legs could run, they could not run faster than a four-legged war horse!
Li Gang chased until the evening of the next day, and finally caught up with Xu Rong's army 100 miles away from Yuyang City!
They ran 100 miles in two days. It has to be said that Xu Rong and the others ran fast, but for Li Gang, the 100 miles was just half a day's journey for a war horse. If Li Gang's men hadn't fought for a day, they wouldn't even have to chase Xu Rong.
Two days.
After catching up with Xu Rong's army, Li Gang discovered that Xu Rong and the others had not received the news that Yuyang City had been breached, and were completely unprepared for their pursuit.
Li Gang thought about it and planned to use cavalry to attack Xu Rong's army. Although Xu Rong's army consisted of 50,000 people, these 50,000 Han troops were already frightened with low morale. Although they had the upper hand in numbers, Li Gang thought that there would be a chance
Without careful mental calculation, his 10,000 cavalry can completely defeat the 50,000 unsuspecting Han army!
Especially since they don't know the news about Yuyang City yet. Li Gang estimates that Xu Rong and others thought that Yuyang City has not been breached yet and that they are still safe. At this time, they will definitely neglect their defense, let alone these 5 people.
A large army of ten thousand must be exhausted after marching hundreds of miles in two days. This is a great opportunity for a sneak attack.
They decided not to think that the Tengjia Army would conquer Yuyang City in one day, let alone that they would be overtaken two days after leaving Yuyang City.
For Li Gang, now is the best time to raid Xu Rong. If they really wait a few days, they will definitely think that Yuyang City has been breached and start to strengthen their alert! It will be more difficult to raid them in a few days!
Thinking of this, Li Gang decided to raid Xu Rong's army in the middle of the night, so he led his cavalry to hide in a hidden place to rest. He waited until midnight before starting to lead his cavalry to carefully approach Xu Rong's army!
At this time, no one in Xu Rong's camp would have thought that there would be 10,000 cavalry behind them that had already been eyeing them. The soldiers guarding the camp were already exhausted after two days and hundreds of miles of marching. They were all beaten one by one.
He held his spear and closed his eyes to rest. He didn't notice that not far away, tens of thousands of cavalry were already sharpening their swords!
Li Gang divided the army into three parts: left, center and right. The 3,000 cavalry on the left were led by Wan Lang, the 3,000 cavalry on the right were led by Song Yi, and Li Gang himself commanded the 4,000 cavalry in the middle.
After approaching Xu Rong's camp, the three armies pointed at Xu Rong's camp like three iron cones!
Then Li Gang raised his spear and stood at the front of the army and said: "Brothers, fight with me!"
The soldiers of the three armies all shouted: "Kill!"
Then all three armies charged towards Xu Rong's camp!
Li Gang understood that Xu Rong's army was five times larger than his own. He wanted to take advantage of the darkness and the Han army did not know how many soldiers he had to attack them. He wanted to completely defeat them and make it difficult for them to assemble to resist his cavalry.
In this way, Xu Rong's army can be defeated at a relatively small cost.
If he could not defeat Xu Rong's army and allowed them to gather instead, even if he could win, his 10,000 soldiers would suffer heavy casualties.
Therefore, Li Gang told Wan Lang and others not to give Xu Rong and others a chance to breathe. As long as they saw them trying to assemble, they would immediately defeat the Han troops who wanted to assemble.
These three armies must support and supplement each other and attack continuously, giving the Han army a strong sense of oppression so that they cannot tell how many people are attacking them, thereby completely disintegrating the morale of the Han army and striving to defeat it completely in the shortest possible time.
Han army!
Xu Rong, who was in the main camp of the Chinese army, had just fallen asleep when suddenly there was an earth-shattering roar, the sound of horse hooves, and the shouts of soldiers, and then he felt the ground under his feet shaking violently. Xu Rong stayed in Xiliang for several days.
Years later, he naturally knew that it was the sound of horse hooves and someone was about to attack them. Xu Rong woke up immediately.
He didn't take off his armor, but he didn't need to put it on. Instead, he immediately picked up the sword beside him, rushed out of the tent, looked at the soldiers guarding the camp, and asked, "What's going on?"
The soldier pointed at the war horse not far away and shouted in horror: "The cavalry of the Tengjia Army are coming to kill!"
"General, the Tengjia Army is coming. There are many cavalry. We are no match for them. Let's run away! It's too late to escape now!" his bodyguard shouted loudly.
Xu Rong followed the direction of the guards' fingers and saw the figures of cavalry attacking their camp one after another. Because of the darkness, they couldn't see how many people were attacking them!
Xu Rong was surprised and said: "How could the Tengjia Army catch up so quickly!"
This is the second day after they left Yuyang City, and now the Tengjia Army is chasing them. This does not mean that Liu Yu and the others did not hold on for even a day. How is this possible?
"General! Let's run! If we don't run, it'll be too late!" the guard shouted again!
But Xu Rong pulled out his sword and said: "It's too late. It's impossible for us to outrun the cavalry with two legs. If we run now, we will soon be overtaken by the cavalry of the Tengjia Army and killed!"
"Now we can only fight desperately. The Tengjia Army must not have many cavalry. Only by killing them can we retreat safely! Follow me and assemble the army to resist the Tengjia Army's surprise attack!"
"You follow my general and shout, and gather towards the commander's camp!"
The soldiers around Xu Rong immediately shouted: "Gather towards the commander's camp!"
"Gather towards the coach's camp!"
The Han soldiers were already in a deep sleep, and the big man's sudden shout of death woke them up. But when they came out of the camp, they found countless cavalry charging towards them, killing them until they were like wolves, crying and screaming.
Mother, run around.
The soldiers of the Han army wanted to fight back, but they had no armor, could not find swords, bows and arrows, and could not even find their own captain or camp commander. The dark sky made it impossible for them to see anything clearly. They could neither see the enemy nor the enemy clearly.
Not knowing their comrades, they could only run around in panic, and their shouts of death filled them with fear.
The three iron cavalry of the Tengjia Army were like three floods, sweeping away any enemies along the way with overwhelming momentum. Wherever they swept, they left only a pile of corpses and blood that formed a stream.
The 10,000-strong Tengjia Army used a thunderous force to completely destroy the Han army's rear camp. Especially Li Gang and Wan Lang, who had agreed in advance, specifically targeted the Han soldiers who wanted to assemble. Anyone with such intentions
The Han army will become Li Gang's primary attack target!
After being massacred by half of the camp by the Tengjia Army, Xu Rong finally gathered thousands of soldiers. He shouted loftily: "Today everyone will die or live. Everyone, follow me and kill!"
The Han soldiers shouted in unison: "Kill, kill, kill!"
They want to use this method to drive away fear and boost their morale!
Li Gang was having a great time today. He thought he would completely defeat the Han army like this, but he heard the Han army shouting to kill, and then discovered Xu Rong's team of thousands of people!
Naturally, he could not watch the Han army gather, otherwise they would be trapped in a bitter battle with tens of thousands of Han troops!
Li Gang shouted: "Kill the Han army on the opposite side! Kill!"
After saying this, Li Gang drove his war horses to kill Xu Rong!
The cavalry following Li Gang saw Li Gang's movements and rushed after him!
Xu Rong and the others obtained camp wood, tents and other items they could find to hinder the cavalry charge, and they piled them in front.
But it didn't have much effect. Under the leadership of Li Gang, the 4,000 cavalry turned their horses' heads diagonally, turned around these obstacles, and then charged towards the flank of Xu Rong's army. Originally, the cavalry had an advantage over the infantry, but the battlefield was still at the end.
In such a plain terrain where the power of cavalry can easily be brought into play, even Li Gang and other cavalrymen were warriors wearing iron armor. It can be said that the Han army did not have an advantage in terms of the right time, location, people, or the number of weapons and equipment.
Xu Rong and the others only managed to resist Li Gang's charge a little, but were quickly defeated by Li Gang's cavalry!
"Xu Rong!" When he got closer, Li Gang discovered that there was actually a big fish here. Now that Liu Yu was dead, it would be a great achievement to catch Xu Rong, the commander of the Yuyang garrison. Although Xu Rong's status was not as good as
He went to Liu Yu, but he was Huangfu Song's right-hand man and the second-ranking figure in the Jizhou Army. Catching him would be equivalent to breaking Huangfu Song's arm.
So Li Gang shouted excitedly: "Where can Xu Rong run away!"
But Xu Rong didn't want to run away at all. Yuyang's 50,000-strong army was completely defeated by the Tengjia Army. He did not bring this army back to Jizhou, which was a shame for Huangfu Song's trust in him and Huangfu Song's reputation.
To protect their retreat, they fought with the elite of the Tengjia Army for several days to kill the Han soldiers.
He also discovered Li Gang and knew that Li Gang was one of the important leaders of the Tengjia Army. He was the number two figure in the Tengjia Army attacking Yuyang City this time. Xu Rong had decided to fight to the end. If he could lead the Tengjia Army before he died,
He is an important general of the Tengjia Army, which is quite good!
So instead of following the soldiers and running away, he instead picked up a spear on the ground, and then continued to accelerate towards Li Gang. When he was close to Li Gang, he jumped up and rushed towards Li Gang with the spear!
Li Gang naturally aimed his spear at Xu Rong!
"Phew!" Li Gang directly pierced Xu Rong's chest with his spear, and Xu Rong also stabbed Li Gang with his spear. Unfortunately, Li Gang's hardened armor was strong, and Li Gang was knocked off his horse by the spear.
But it didn't pierce Li Gang's armor!
Li Gang got up immediately after falling off his horse. He was horrified when he saw the dented spear marks on his armored man. This was probably the closest he came to death. Fortunately, the Tengjia Army updated the general's armor, allowing him to
Withstand Xu Rong's life-saving blow!
Xu Rong looked at Li Gang and found that he was not injured at all. He smiled bitterly: "What a pity!" and then died!
Li Gang immediately ran to Xu Rong and found that he had expired. He clapped his hands and said, "Another big fish wasted!"
But he immediately remembered that although Xu Rong was Huangfu Song's right-hand man, he did not have much prestige among the entire Han Dynasty. As long as he was caught, whether he lived or died, Huangfu Song's arm would be considered broken, it seemed the same!
Thinking of this, Li Gang couldn't find a way to cut off Xu Rong's head with his sword, raised it high and shouted: "Xu Rong will die, surrender and avoid death!"
After saying that, Li Gang got on his horse and kept repeating what he just said!
The cavalry following Li Gang also shouted: "Xu Rong will die, surrender and avoid death!"
"Xu Rong will die, surrender and avoid death!"
When the Han soldiers heard this voice and looked over, they discovered that what Li Gang was holding was the head of their commander. They were all grieved, but they quickly lost their swords and surrendered to the cavalry of the Tengjia Army!
Then the surrender seemed to be contagious. As long as Li Gang and the others passed by, the soldiers there would quickly drop their swords and surrender to the Tengjia Army! "Dang, Dang, Dang!" The sound of discarding the swords was like a voice.
The rhythm is normal!
The Han soldiers were already depressed due to their retreat, but now a cruel and bloodthirsty army suddenly appeared in the middle of the night. These soldiers broke their courage.
And now that even their commander is dead, the soldiers can't think of any reason for them to continue to resist, so they surrender to the Tengjia Army one by one. Now they just want to end the battle as soon as possible and save their own lives!
The sun was rising high, and the Han army's camp was filled with blood and corpses were strewn across the field. It was so horrific that the camp could no longer be seen at all. The soldiers of the Tengjia army began to collect the weapons of the Han army soldiers and directed them to clean up the battlefield.
, to contain the corpses of soldiers from both sides.
Of course, these are mainly the bodies of Han soldiers. In last night's sneak attack, 5,000 Han soldiers died, and tens of thousands were lightly or seriously injured. There were 30,000 Han soldiers who became prisoners of the Tengjia Army, and only 5,000 took advantage of them.
They fled without a trace in the night, but the soldiers of the Tengjia Army suffered less than 1,000 casualties, which can be said to be a great victory!
One day later, after Wang Yong led 40,000 troops to support him, he found that the war was over. Xu Rong, the commander of the Yuyang Army, died in the battle, and the 50,000 Han soldiers were basically wiped out. However, Wang Yong did not share this military achievement!
Wang Yong said jealously: "When did you become so good at fighting? Ten thousand cavalry actually defeated 50,000 Han troops! You didn't even leave any Han troops for me to fight!"
This kind of war in which a small number defeats a large number is very rare among the Tengjia Army. After all, their commander, Lei Gong, advocates defeating the small with more and using the strong to bully the weak. In the words of their commander Qu, equal promotion is the way to go. Li Gang
To the Tengjia Army, this method of warfare is an evil heretic!
Li Gang laughed and said: "You are still worried that there will be no war. Although I wiped out Xu Rong's 50,000 troops, don't forget that Huangfu Song still has hundreds of thousands of troops in Changping, and we are not even 100 miles away from Changping."
, we continue to raid Huangfu Song, cut off Huangfu Song's retreat, and help Qu Commander annihilate Huangfu Song's army of hundreds of thousands, so that the entire Han Dynasty will not have an organized army in Hebei, and our army can sweep across the entire Youji and Hebei provinces.
Prefecture, drinking horses from the Yellow River, occupying the entire land of Hebei!"
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The lockdown has been lifted and I have gone to work. Now I can no longer maintain 10,000 updates per day. Six thousand is already the limit. Please forgive me, readers.