The battle that just ended outside the White Horse Temple can be described as a hearty victory.
The soldiers who accompanied Li Tai north from Jingzhou only regarded it as a continuation of their winning streak. However, for the Heluo Yishi such as Han Xiong, Wei Xuan and others who had been suppressed for more than two years, this great victory was
It’s so exciting!
In this battle alone, nearly a thousand horses were captured on the battlefield, and most of them had no injuries on their bodies, but were just a little tired, and could continue to be used after a short rest.
As for the captured soldiers of the Northern Qi Dynasty, there were even more soldiers. There were more than 3,000 dead and wounded. It should be noted that the total number of soldiers invested by the Northern Qi Dynasty in this battle was only more than 10,000 soldiers, which directly resulted in the loss of nearly one-third.
, even if other troops successfully return, without a long period of rest and reorganization, it will be difficult for them to exert much stronger combat effectiveness.
In addition to the capture of men and horses, the most important thing is the collection of armor and supplies. When the Northern Qi men and horses evacuated the battlefield outside the White Horse Temple, they were actually in a state of panic and collapse. In order to be able to
He sped up and left the battlefield, discarding all discardable armor and items in order to lose weight.
Therefore, the soldiers of the Western Wei Dynasty also collected a large number of armors and artifacts on the battlefield, and transported them all back to the White Horse Temple in carriages that were also abandoned on the battlefield. They piled them high in the temple's vestibule, filling the vestibule to the brim.
Seeing this scene, Han Xiong, Wei Xuan and others seemed to have returned to the scene when they followed Li Taiyong to capture Heyang and plunder supplies. However, many of the people who fought side by side at that time could not wait for this moment of victory and died.
During the difficult battles of the past two years or so.
For a time, several people couldn't help but feel a lot of emotions. Wei Xuan couldn't help but shed tears, lowered his head and sobbed: "I wish General Li could forever suppress Heluo and lead a certain class to defeat the bandit army! Although a certain class of people did not lose
He has the ambition to serve the country, but he only has the courage of an ordinary man. If a wise general like General Li takes charge of the command, the thieves will not be able to defeat him..."
These words also speak to the aspirations of many righteous soldiers. If the last time they fought side by side was during the Hou Jing Rebellion in the Eastern Wei Dynasty and all the armies of the Western Wei Dynasty came out together, then this time it was Li Tai who single-handedly defeated the enemy.
The army was spinning around.
After this great victory, although the situation between the enemy and ourselves in Heluo cannot be said to have completely reversed, it has undoubtedly been greatly improved compared to before. At this time, it was only only a short time before Li Tai returned to the Heluo area.
It’s just more than ten days of scenery.
With such a huge disparity in power between the enemy and ourselves, these Heluo Yishi were still able to persist in fighting the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi. Their ambition and combat effectiveness were indeed very tenacious.
But as Wei Xuan said, they lack a commander who can coordinate the overall situation and coordinate all parties, so battles with the enemy often have to be head-on. And they themselves are weak, so naturally they cannot take advantage of such battles.
What advantages.
Han Xiong knew that Li Tai's situation in Jingzhou was now more powerful, and it was not up to him to decide which side he would sit in. If this topic continued, it would be a bit embarrassing, so he quickly said: "The general has already led his troops.
After fighting a battle first, the bandits were defeated and fled. However, there were still city and garrison camps for thieves among the rivers. In order to prevent the bandits from coming back, it was time to take advantage of the panic in their hearts to carry out a large-scale raid so that thieves would not be able to come.
Get a foothold!”
After Li Tai heard this, he nodded. Although the outcome of the battle just now was brilliant, the current situation was still one in which we were outnumbered and the enemy was outnumbered. But now Zhu Hunyuan was busy cleaning up the mess of the defeat, and could not care about repairing the encirclement he had set up for the time being.
If they are allowed to react and continue to arrange a siege, the effectiveness of this battle will undoubtedly be greatly reduced.
So Han Xiong and Wei Xuan, who had been leading their troops to stay at the White Horse Temple, each led their troops towards the rivers on both sides of Luoshui and Gushui, and swept away the remaining enemy forces along the river.
Although there are still a lot of Northern Qi troops remaining in these places, after witnessing the retreat of the army during the day, I was already at a loss. Now that I was attacked and swept away by the enemy army, I naturally lost my will to resist.
They all abandoned the strongholds they were guarding and fled towards Jinyong City.
After a sweep, Han Xiong and others burned and destroyed some of the enemy fortresses. Although there were still a few fortifications that could not be destroyed, it was difficult to build the airtight encirclement that they had before.
After this sweep, Han Xiong and others obtained a batch of food that was most important to them at the moment. They collected it from various camp strongholds and collected nearly a thousand stones of food. This was for them who were about to run out of military food.
, undoubtedly greatly alleviated the urgent need.
Early the next morning, Li Tai, who had just regained some energy, led his troops to seize the Qianjincang City that he had occupied before. However, the Cangcheng was already in dilapidated condition, and Northern Qi did not search for it.
To repair it, we could only set up a temporary fort based on some remaining rammed earth wall foundations.
While his army was still setting up a camp, there was a cavalry team of 100 people in the upper reaches of Luoshui in the southwest heading along the Hebei River. Soon they came to a position several miles away from the camp and looked around.
Li Tai thought this was a scout team from Northern Qi and ignored it. At the moment, he didn't need to conceal his whereabouts. Instead, he needed to be more public to emphasize his presence. He just ordered the soldiers to continue working.
But the scout team was extraordinarily bold. Seeing that the camp ignored them, they continued to advance. Their behavior could be described as very bold.
So Li Tai simply sent a team out of the camp to expel them. However, when the team came out of the camp and approached the opponent, they mixed together and returned to the camp.
"Servant Quan Xu came to see Mr. Lang. He was ordered by Governor Shi to go north to report the military situation to Mr. Lang. He was originally going to Mang Mountains, but unexpectedly he met Mr. Lang here. He also heard that Mr. Lang made a great victory over the bandit army yesterday. Servant
I deeply regret not being able to take orders in the formation and fight bravely to kill the enemy..."
It turned out that this group of troops was actually the tribe that Li Tai had sent to Yique before. The leader was a strong young man in his twenties, who was born in the Quan family of Tianshui. His name was Quan Xu, and he was also from the Quanjingxuan family.
After entering the camp, he paid homage to Li Tai and flattered his master with admiration and admiration.
Li Tai has always been an approachable person. When he is not busy with business, he never gets tired of hearing the flattery from his subordinates all day long. However, because he is concerned about the situation of other people passing by, he interrupts Quan Xu's words and signals.
He waived the courtesy, and then quickly said: "You don't need to be polite, Mr. Quan. How is the progress of your troops?"
"Reporting to Master Lang, Yique divided its troops a few days ago. A certain group of people followed Governor Shi and went deep into the mountains. Under the leadership of Li Yitong, they visited the barbarians. With the great general's reputation, they successfully attracted more than ten barbarians.
Tens of thousands of disciples have now surrounded Baiting City!"
Although Quan Xu and others did not follow the general to march north, they did not waste these days. The task was much more arduous than that of Li Tai and his party. They worked tirelessly over the mountains and ridges, and finally completed the mission of the general with flying colors.
When talking about the task assigned to him, he even clapped his hands with excitement and sighed: "It's time for the general to defeat the bandits here. If we can lead the troops south to join together, the barbarians will be even more happy after seeing the general. The day of defeating the bandits will be around the corner."
In front of you!"
After Li Tai learned the news, he couldn't help but be overjoyed. Last night, he interrogated many Northern Qi prisoners overnight, trying to figure out whether Zhu Hunyuan's sudden attack on White Horse Temple was related to the changes in the situation elsewhere, but none of the prisoners gave any details.
, it seems that Zhu Hunyuan deliberately concealed this news.
Now that he finally got the accurate information, Li Tai couldn't help but feel overjoyed that it was indeed a reward for his hard work. If he hadn't generously shared the spoils with the people of Heluo back then, he might not have such a strong appeal now.
However, regarding the second half of Quan Xu's words, after thinking about it, he shook his head and said: "It is not suitable for me to go to Baiting City for the time being. I have to stay here to keep an eye on the thieves in Jinyong City and prevent them from going south for rescue. Military affairs there are still
It will be jointly controlled by Li Yitong and Governor Shi. There is no need to rush to attack Baiting, it can be strictly besieged."
Although he had defeated Ke Zhu Hunyuan and broke the siege of his troops, Ke Zhu Hunyuan's main force was still intact and he still had the power to fight.
If Li Tai gave up here and went to Baiting to join the barbarians, although the army would be stronger, there would be no restriction on the differentiation of enemy forces between Heluo and Heluo. However, Zhu Hunyuan could integrate and dispatch the Heluo forces.
All the horses in the room come to fight with him again.
Although the number of barbarian soldiers is large, their combat effectiveness is very low. It is difficult to expect them to be able to achieve the same good results as yesterday. Once they see the enemy's strength, they may directly collapse, which will harm Li Tai's troops.
Centaur.
Now Li Tai is stationed here in Qianjincang City, directly trapping Zhu Hunyuan, so that he does not dare to divide his troops south to reinforce Baiting City. At the same time, the defenders of Jiuqu City are worried about the possibility of the same-track defense on the opposite side at any time.
The Kansai army that emerged from Nanxiao Road also had no time to look back.
As a result, Baiting City, which was originally the link between Yiyang and Heyang, became an isolated city, and the entire situation between Heluo and Heyang came to a stalemate. This was exactly what Li Tai wanted to achieve.
Once such a situation is formed, the seemingly unified Northern Qi Heluo defense will be disintegrated into isolated strongholds. As the situation becomes stalemate and time goes by, there will inevitably be a point that cannot stand up and collapses, which will then cause
The entire Heluo defense chain collapsed!
Li Tai asked Quan Xu some detailed questions, and then quickly returned to Baiting City to tell Shi Jing and Li Renjie, while he continued to supervise the construction of the fortress here.