War is nothing more than you killing me and me killing you, whether it is life or death, each is determined by his fate. If you kill the opponent's personnel, you will smile, but if your own personnel are killed, you will try your best to target them, which seems a bit unplayable.
However, war is not a game in the first place, and life and death are also very different. Especially when we are born as human beings, it is impossible to be absolutely fair and respectable.
Regarding Guo Yan's death in battle, although Li Tai did not express too much emotion, he was still very sad and regretful in his heart. Especially because of the fierce fighting of Guo Yan and others, the Jinyang troops of the Northern Qi Dynasty failed to seize the Jia's Ridge Road and thus escaped from the north of Wusu City.
When they were attacked from the front, they had to turn to the south, so that the Western Wei army could start a duel with the enemy even though their strength was far inferior to the opponent's.
No matter what the outcome of the current battle is, Guo Yan and others have made great achievements and died well-deserved. What Li Tai can do, in addition to praising and giving posthumously, is to make full use of the situation they fought for with their lives and let their
Sacrifice becomes more valuable.
In addition to the huge gap in military strength between the armies of the Western Wei Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty, there was no obvious gap in terms of combat effectiveness, whether it was individual combat qualities or group battle formation coordination.
Even though today's Guanzhong Fubing has completed localization, the Fubing was not the mainstream armed force in Guanzhong before, and it was not because of poor combat effectiveness, but because it could not gain the complete trust of the Bafu and lacked an overall coordinating organization. Without these two constraints,
, today's Guanzhong Fu soldiers are no worse than any opponents in the world.
Li Tai's personal reward for Xue Guyan boosted the morale of the Wei soldiers who were fighting in the front line, and the counterattack became more fierce. The pressure was immediately passed on to Xue Guyan, who was leading his troops to fight in the front line.
Although many Wei soldiers did not know Xue Guyan, they could always identify him by the enemy general's attire and the ranks of his followers. Stimulated by the high rewards of official titles, money and silk, many Wei soldiers were not afraid of death.
Go straight to where the enemy generals are, and Xue Guyan is naturally among them.
Xue Guyan was a strong and brave general, and even dared to fight against thunder. However, when he heard the soldiers in the enemy formation shouting his name as if they were crazy, running around in the battle formation looking for traces of him, he felt deep in his heart.
Also restless.
At the beginning, he was not too worried about his own safety, but the swarming enemy troops made it difficult for him to run on the battlefield, and the transmission of some orders was also greatly hindered. He was very angry in his heart, while riding his horse to attract the crowd.
Running in the open area on the side, he shouted angrily: "How can a man be frightened by thieves? Xue Guyan is here, and the thieves will come and die quickly!"
Xue Guyan's roar immediately attracted the attention of all the Wei soldiers on the battlefield. Then these Wei soldiers abandoned their current opponents and ran straight towards Xue Guyan's position. The entire battlefield began with
With Xue Guyan as the center, it turned into a huge whirlpool!
"Xue Guyan, the dog thief, please don't leave. Someone is coming to take your dog's life!"
For the Wei soldiers on the battlefield, although they targeted the enemy general Xue Guyan because of the bounty issued by Tang Gong, the reason why they risked their lives and fought so hard was not just for the sake of the bounty.
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There must be a reason why Tang Gong issued a reward for this person alone. They may not know the reason, but since Tang Gong wants this enemy to die, what reason does this tiger have to live?
On the battlefield at this time, although Xue Guyan was not intimidated by the enemy, the attendants and guards around him were complaining incessantly. The enemies seemed to be crazy and rushed in from all directions.
Naturally, the first to bear the brunt were the soldiers around the general. Xue Guyan was still clamoring to kill the enemy like weeds, but now it was them who were being harvested like weeds. The soldiers of the Wei army who gathered around them wanted to kill them.
The general he was protecting had the power to block the killing god. If the soldiers around him were not careful at all, they would be stabbed several times and died miserably on the spot.
"My lord, the traitor is really too fierce, so we should retreat to our main formation for the time being and plan for the future!"
Seeing that the guards around him were constantly dying in battle, Xue Guyan's closest confidants couldn't help but give advice.
Xue Guyanfang waved his horse spear to kill an enemy soldier who had gone around to intercept him. Hearing this, he immediately glared and shouted angrily: "You want me to laugh at a thief..."
Before he could finish his words, the wind blew suddenly from the side. When he turned his head and looked around, he saw a horse galloping towards him. On the horse was an enemy general in his thirties holding a large spear. Before he could reach him, the enemy general came forward.
At this time, before the confidant who had been advising Xue Guyan to retreat temporarily could turn around, his head was directly smashed off the neck by the horse, and the spurting blood splashed directly on Xue Guyan's face.
Xue Guyan was shocked when he saw this, and hurriedly waved his sword to block the enemy general's attack. The enemy general also had strong arms, which made his jaw numb. He couldn't help but asked quickly: "Who is the thief general?"
The man kept attacking with his sword, and cursed in his mouth: "The traitor is disgusted by heaven, but he bothered my Lord to announce his reward! You are still greedy for life and refuse to commit suicide. I will enter the battle to finish you off now. You will never see me again."
Whole corpse!"
When Xue Guyan heard the curse, he was filled with anger, and immediately started to fight with it. However, he was no longer in his prime, and after several battles with the enemy generals, he was already weak, and his two arms were shaking.
Feeling sore and numb, seeing the enemy general approaching, he simply gritted his teeth and threw out the horse stall in his hand, taking advantage of the enemy general's sideways avoidance, turning his horse and fleeing backwards.
At this time, the battlefield was full of melee. As a general in the army, Xue Guyan had a group of cronies around him who would never give up. As he abandoned his weapons and left, he no longer showed off his skills on the battlefield and had a group of people who had been waiting for him for a long time.
The soldiers came forward and sacrificed themselves to stop the enemy.
After the Wei general killed the few enemy soldiers in front of him, he turned around to look for him again, only to see that Xue Guyan had escaped several feet away. There were several men and horses separated from each other, making it difficult to catch up.
After experiencing the short battle just now, Xue Guyan also realized that he was not invincible on this battlefield. After all, he still couldn't accept death as his own. When the courage in his chest was exhausted, a chill came into his heart. He was reluctant to give his life to the enemy in exchange for the founding of the country.
Duke, so he evacuated toward the rear under the cover of the soldiers.
But now many Wei soldiers on the battlefield were attracted to fight because of the previous roar. At this time, as their people fled in defeat, the battlefield naturally moved with it, sweeping towards the west side of the Qi army's battle formation.
go.
At this time, the troops at the rear of the Qi army were forming a long and narrow battle formation from east to west on the north bank of the Tongda River. Because Xue Guyan and his troops were retreating from the battlefield to the west, a gap opened up in the battle formation to receive the returning troops.
However, the Wei army soldiers at the rear were chasing after them fiercely. Although Xue Guyan successfully retreated into the battle formation, the gap in the formation did not close with it, but was completely torn open by the pursuers from behind.
The soldiers of the Qi army in the formation were instantly killed and wounded by the charge of the Wei army's cavalry, and even the battle formation was shattered to pieces by the impact.
After the Qi people's battle formation collapsed here, many Qi soldiers continued to flee backwards in order to avoid the attack. Some even jumped directly into the unfilled Tongda River swamp behind them, struggling to retreat to the south bank.
Fortunately, the formation here was a long and narrow horizontal formation from east to west. Although a side collapse involved thousands of soldiers and could not defend it, it also bought a certain amount of reaction time for the enemy formation to the east.
After Xue Guyan entered the battle, although he was still in shock, he quickly summoned the heavy armored infantry to form a battle formation to contain the pursuers. After the bloody battle of these heavy armored infantry, he gradually stabilized the formation and finally stabilized the formation.
The enemy did not take advantage of this opportunity to defeat all the formations, and still managed to maintain certain results.
However, after experiencing the encounter just now, Xue Guyan did not dare to leave the formation and attack easily. Instead, he stayed in the formation and ignored the provocations of the enemy forces outside the formation. He concentrated on building and strengthening the Tongtan River.
The camp defense line on the north bank finally fulfilled His Majesty the Emperor's order and established a stable offensive camp on the north bank before dark in the evening.
However, due to the enemy's attack and obstruction, the area of this offensive position is not large, and it can accommodate more than 10,000 soldiers to assemble the entire team. Although as the sky gets darker, the enemy troops outside also begin to shrink back, and the attack
The intensity of harassment has been reduced, but the established front cannot be abandoned.
So Xue Guyan then extended some protruding parts from the built camp. Although the internal capacity did not expand, the overall area and scale of the camp increased a lot.
Xue Guyan felt that he could use this to report to the emperor. However, the Forbidden Army Governor who was watching the battle from behind had already recorded the battle on the north bank in the Chinese army's tent. This naturally included Xue Guyan's passive conservatism in the second half of the battle.
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In the evening, when the sky was dark, Qi Lord Gao Yang came across Hebei in person, lightly dressed, and inspected the camp. Although he didn't say much outside, his expression was serious and his eyebrows were furrowed, which showed that he was quite worried in his heart.
dissatisfied.
Xue Guyan, who was accompanying him, played the drum secretly. After following the emperor into the camp, he knelt down on the ground and said loudly: "Your Majesty, the reason for today's battle is..."
Gao Yang was too lazy to listen to Xue Guyan's explanation. After entering the account, he immediately pulled out his saber and placed it on the side of Xue Guyan's neck. At the same time, he said angrily: "Who is immune to death? Since we are wearing armor and going into battle to kill the enemy, why should we fear death!"
I gave you tens of thousands of powerful troops and fought fiercely for the whole day, but the harvest was only this size of land. It is really ridiculous!
If you cherish your life, you should immediately resign from your position as a vanguard to show respect for your old service and spare your life! If not, if you are still timid and dare not fight in the future, it will not only be the Qiang thieves who can take your life! In fighting with the thieves today, there is no room for failure, as if
If you win and return, you will be rewarded with the title of king. If you cannot return, your heir will attack you. Whether to fight or retreat is up to you!"
When Xue Guyan heard these words, his face also changed. After a while, he bowed to the ground and said with a trembling voice: "Your Majesty has given me so much kindness, which really makes me ashamed. There is indeed a way to avoid the enemy in the front line.
I think, but from now on, I will advance but never retreat, and I will never return to my country until I defeat the Qiang thieves!"
Seeing Xue Guyan make this statement, Gao Yang's expression improved slightly. Based on his past temperament and this guy's passive and lazy performance, even if he was not taken to trial on the spot, he would never be retained.
But now was the critical moment of the decisive battle. Even if he did not consider the impact on morale caused by changing generals on the spot, he could not find anyone with enough talent and qualifications to replace Xue Guyan. The young and strong generals he had appointed in the past,
There are very few people who perform well in battles with the Wei army, but in the current war, people are not so reassured.
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