Chapter 902: Kill the General and Capture the Flag
There is a tributary to the east of Gushui called Xiaoshui. It was originally the place where Wang Xiang, the king of Langya in the Western Jin Dynasty, lay on the ice to beg for carps. Now it is the deep winter season when the wind and snow are very cold and the rivers are frozen, but there is no Xiaoshui here.
What kind of filial son is lying on the ice looking for carps? He only has thousands of troops and horses, hunting with flags.
After arriving at Xin'an Hanguan, Li Bi has been trying to break through the defense system deployed by the Qi army around the vicinity, thereby expanding the scope of his army's activities. However, the layout of the city forts set up by the Qi people nearby is tricky and tight, and every time
If a stronghold is attacked, there will be one or several nearby strongholds that can respond to the rescue. It can be said that a single move can affect the whole body.
These fortifications are distributed like chess pieces in the wilderness of western Henan. Each fortification alone is not a dangerous fortress, and the number of soldiers stationed there is not too many. However, when combined with the Ranger Brigade, it becomes a whole.
, it becomes dense and tough, making it impossible for people to break through.
Although Li Bi was both wise and brave, and had rich military experience, when faced with such enemy defense, he felt a little helpless for a while.
If he were to press forward with a large army, he could use his powerful troops to pull out these fortresses one by one. However, his current army only has less than 10,000 soldiers, and he does not carry heavy siege equipment. If he really wants to push it all the way.
, I am afraid that the teacher will be exhausted before he can break out of the blockade of this area, let alone meet up with Heluo again.
Faced with such a situation, the only way to quickly break the situation is probably to attract the enemy's main force and seek opportunities in the field to defeat them. But now the enemy is waiting for work and has such a comprehensive and meticulous defense arrangement.
I am afraid that they will not easily take the initiative to fight, giving up their geographical advantages and engaging in field battles.
Therefore, Li Bi is also planning to advance the entire army when necessary and use his body as a bait to attract the enemy's main force for battle. If the enemy still refuses to fight, then he will directly abandon the confrontation at the border city, just like Li Boshan did before.
The troops moved to the vicinity of Xishui in the northwest corner of Heluo, and exerted control over the entire Heluo area.
However, before Li Bi decided which plan to adopt, the enemy army, which he thought would not take the initiative to attack, actually took the initiative to form a formation in the field and came to invite a fight, which greatly cheered him up.
Although the enemy's response was exactly what Li Bi wanted, he still needed to defeat the enemy to break the situation, and this was by no means an easy thing to accomplish.
Tens of thousands of enemy troops came in force from Jinyong City, and based on the two fortifications between Gushui and Xiaoshui, they set up two large-scale formations. The hard ice sealed the river, making this river valley a
A complete battlefield.
Accompanied by the exciting sound of war drums and the fresh wind blowing from the north, Li Bi also led his troops to form a formation in the field. Each other's formations advanced separately. When they were close to a certain distance, the cavalry teams in their respective formations seemed to be off their strings.
The arrows generally go straight towards the enemy formation.
In the vast wilderness, the torrent of steel formed by the soldiers of both sides collided without any tricks, and a group of people at the front of the contact suddenly fell over, with their muscles broken and their bones broken.
Since the Northern Qi army had several times the number of troops in the Western Wei Dynasty, the number of cavalry was also greater. The enemy cavalry was divided into several teams, two of which were responsible for attacking and blocking the Western Wei's light cavalry, while the other cavalry teams were targeting the enemy in the wilderness.
The square step formation was used to attack.
"Stick to your position and don't retreat!"
Li Bi stood under the Chinese army's banner. In order to have a full view of the battlefield, he did not wear a battle helmet. The biting cold wind blew his gray beard and hair. His eyes were like an eagle watching the entire battlefield, and the war drums were accompanied by
The change of the flag conveyed his orders to every part of the formation.
Real famous generals have the power to turn decay into magical energy, and the Kansai Prefecture soldiers who have been reorganized over the years are by no means a bunch of decay and weakness. It is just because of the suppression of their arms that they have to form formations to defend themselves in the wilderness and resist.
The enemy rangers bite and attack like wolves and tigers.
Under Li Bi's exquisite command, although the enemy cavalry gathered and dispersed around the formation and launched attacks repeatedly, the entire formation remained motionless in the wilderness like a rock covered with thorns. Instead, those
The enemy knights on the attacking side continued to suffer losses when they fell into battle.
The Western Wei Dynasty had only a little over two thousand cavalry. Li Bi's brother Li Gu led a thousand of them to attack the enemy formation. However, in front of the enemy's heavy and solid formation, this thousand-man cavalry was as small as a dancing mayfly, and it was in vain.
Wandering in vain.
Although Li Ge was short in stature, he was courageous and did not hold back in fear because the enemy was outnumbered. When the battle in front of him could not move, he immediately led his troops to flee elsewhere and once again chose the direction and angle to attack the enemy formation.
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After several such tests, his troops had wandered to the side of the enemy formation. When they launched another charge, the enemy formation here finally wavered. As the soldiers on the periphery panicked and shrank inward, the soldiers in the formation began to recognize the flag.
They also tilted and shifted involuntarily, which caused all Sakon's sergeants to lose their adjustment, and the enemy formation within a dozen feet in radius became somewhat chaotic.
"The thief will be punished!"
Li Gao leaned his body close to the horse's back, and the man and horse became one, jumping like a dragon and rushing into the enemy's formation. Chao Feng stretched out the horse's body nearly ten feet away, sweeping up and down, thrusting like the wind, with his own strength
, actually fought out of a no-man's land that was more than ten feet wide in this battle. The armored soldiers behind them rode into this no-man's land, tearing a shocking huge crack in the side of the enemy's formation!
"Bang the drum! Keep attacking, we must capture and kill the enemy general!"
Gao Guiyan, who was in the midst of the Gushui formation, saw that the battle situation was unfavorable, and suddenly felt anxious. He ordered his troops to continue attacking the enemy's formation, hoping to use his strong force advantage to overwhelm the enemy's formation in the countryside.
As the enemy troops invested more and more troops, the Western Wei army formation, which was almost surrounded by enemy cavalry, suddenly felt more pressure. The range of the formation was suppressed, showing a thrilling death curve, and Li Bi's Chinese army was
The location of the army was locked by several enemy cavalrymen, who were constantly trying to attack and get closer.
Finally, an enemy cavalry broke through the obstruction of the dense array of crossbows and spears on the outside, and charged towards the Chinese army with great momentum. The enemy general even sneered ferociously on horseback.
However, at this time, the cavalry at the front seemed to have hit an iron plate, and their momentum was blocked. What blocked them in front were heavy armored infantry who were almost armed to the teeth.
They were arranged in front of the Chinese army's banner at the core of the military formation. Like a copper heart wrapped in layers of iron sheets, they collided and smashed all the enemy soldiers who had gone through all the hardships to get here. And surrounded by these strong and heavily armored soldiers
Under the protection, Li Bi still stood unmoving under the flag, but his gray beard and hair were buried in the pockets to prevent stray arrows.
The enemy cavalry was unable to charge into the formation, but was trapped in the formation. As the Wei soldiers on both sides re-established the formation under the guidance of flags and drums, there were seven to eight hundred enemy cavalry lying dead in the formation in this confrontation alone!
"Your Majesty, the thieves are too tenacious, so we should temporarily withdraw our troops and take a short rest before fighting again!"
The governor of Luozhou suddenly saw the heavy casualties on the battlefield, and he couldn't help but feel worried for a moment. He came to Gao Guiyan's tent and suggested to Gao Guiyan.
It should be noted that the people in front of them are not the only ones who are attacking this time. According to the current strategy, even if this enemy army is eliminated at any cost, they will inevitably suffer heavy losses. If the enemy army from the south breaks through the blockade again and comes, they may suffer heavy losses.
Will be unable to fight anymore.
Gao Guiyan was also frowning at this moment and his face was tense. It was not that he had not experienced battles. In the past year, he followed Gao Yue to put down Hou Jing's rebellion and faced the Nanliang army. In recent years, he has followed Qi leader Gao Yang to fight in the fortress many times. In addition to
A few years ago, he led his army to encounter Li Boshan of the Western Wei Dynasty in Huainan and was severely defeated. He had rarely suffered a defeat in his life, and naturally he was quite arrogant.
He had also heard the name of Wei General Li Bi, but he had never seen it with his own eyes. After this fight, he saw the tenacity and difficulty of Li Bi, the general of the Western Wei Dynasty, and the soldiers of the Kansai Prefecture. After hearing Bao Xian's suggestion,
Then he nodded slowly and said, "Then let's withdraw our troops for now!"
As the drum order for the Qi army to retreat rang out, those Qi army cavalry who were still gathering and circling on the battlefield also retreated in whole units one after another, like the tide returning to the sea.
After the enemy retreated, the huge pressure on the Wei army suddenly dissipated. As the battle progressed, although the military formation was still strong, it suffered heavy casualties.
However, at the moment, Li Bi did not bother to count the battle losses. Instead, he took advantage of the enemy's retreat to regroup the hundreds of remaining war horses that had been scattered in the general's formation, and led hundreds of his trusted followers to ride on their tails and kill towards the enemy.
Enemy position.
At this time, Li Ge, who had been wandering on the flank and unable to return to the formation, saw his brother leading his troops to charge out. He immediately ordered his troops to mount their horses again with a tacit understanding, march parallel to each other from the side, and charge towards the enemy formation together.
The soldiers of the Qi army who were called back to the formation had already lost their fighting spirit and were being pursued by the enemy. Even though there were only a few hundred enemies, no one wanted to fall behind and continue to fight with the enemy, so they all rode fast.
As a result, the originally orderly retreat suddenly became chaotic. Many sergeants panicked and did not retreat to the prescribed position. Instead, they plunged directly into their own military formation, causing a considerable impact on the military formation.
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"What a courageous thief, he wants to die! If you want to fight, I will fight!"
When Gao Guiyan saw that the enemy troops still dared to persist, his fighting spirit that had faded was suddenly aroused. When he saw that the enemy troops had dared to persist, he immediately ordered to stop calling back the sergeants and instead ordered them to return to the battlefield to continue the killing spree.
However, as the drum order suddenly changed, the retreating Qi army soldiers on the battlefield suddenly became more confused and panicked, and returned to the main formation even faster.
"Enter the enemy's formation, kill the enemy and capture the flag!"
Seeing that the enemy's formation was on the verge of collapse, Li Bi shouted loudly on his horse, waving the big spear in his hand and showing a heroic figure that was not inferior to that of a young man!
"Beat the general and capture the flag!"
The soldiers of the Western Wei Dynasty shouted loudly to attack the Qi army, which was gradually showing its defeat. At this moment, a northwest wind swept across the land in the wilderness, carrying violent wind and snow. Along with the Wei army's cavalry, they smashed into the Western Exhibition Formation.
The Qi army.
For a time, the sound of wind and snow in the wilderness, the neighing of horses, and the shouts of killing were all mixed together. The Qi army's formation rolled back like a wild wave, bursting into pieces, and Ping Qin King Gao Guiyan saw that the situation was over, and his hands and feet became cold for a while.
With the help of his trusted aide, he climbed onto his horse, then beat the horse with all his strength and ran backwards.