An experienced Lao Jianghu would have immediately been able to tell that the strange aura emanating from the second floor of the teahouse was murderous aura. However, the guards and Sichuan soldiers did not notice it. They just felt that the place made them very uncomfortable.
Ignoring the others, the guard walked directly up to Tang Yin, cupped his hands with a smile and said, "I wonder what your surname is?"
Tang Yin turned his head, looked at the guard with a smile, and said: "In the early Tang Dynasty, I wonder what your eldest brother has to do?"
"I came here specifically on the orders of my general to ask you to wait here for a moment."
"Oh?" Tang Yin raised his eyebrows in confusion and asked, "What are you waiting for? When will you wait?"
The guard said: "I will meet you again after my general destroys the rebels outside the city and returns to the city."
"Your general is..."
The guard straightened his back, his face naturally showed pride, and said loudly: "My general is the commander-in-chief of Dachuan's 17th Army, General Chai Songchai!"
"Oh, it turns out to be General Chai." Tang Yin nodded, then continued to drink his tea slowly without saying anything more.
Seeing that he acted so calmly after hearing the general's name, the guard subconsciously frowned and looked at Tang Yin carefully from one glance to the next.
However, he did not refuse, and the general warned him not to be rude. Even if he was dissatisfied, he suppressed it and did not get angry.
The Sichuan army passed through the city in batches. In the end, Chen Lihua left two regiments to garrison Qijia City. He himself led the main force of about 100,000 Sichuan troops to hunt down the rebels who abandoned the city and fled.
The rebels had left more than an hour earlier than them, but at a very slow pace. When the leading troops of the Sichuan Army chased them twenty miles out of the city, they saw the tail of the rebels.
Due to the distance, the specific situation could not be clearly seen, but one could vaguely see the dust in the sky as the army marched ahead.
Knowing that the front army could see the tail of the rebels, Chen Lihua made a prompt decision and ordered her cavalry to attack first, catch up with the rebels, and disrupt the rebel formation as much as possible.
Now, the number of cavalry in the Sichuan Army was less than ten thousand. They charged with such amazing momentum that the ground was shaking and the thunderous roar could be felt from miles away.
No matter how fast the rebels ran, they could not run faster than the four hooves of the war horses. It didn't take long for the Sichuan cavalry to clearly see the fleeing rebels in front.
The leader of the cavalry roared loudly, and then the Sichuan cavalrymen raised their spears one after another, with the tips of their spears sticking out of their horses' heads, ready to charge into the enemy formation.
Seeing that they could not avoid the Sichuan cavalry charge, the rebels simply stopped their retreat. Under the shouts of the rebel generals, the entire army immediately changed from the rear to the front, and quickly got into a fighting posture, ready to fight.
The attack of the hard enemy Sichuan cavalry.
At this time, the distance between the two sides was less than twenty meters, and the Sichuan cavalry rushed forward with all their strength. The galloping hooves of the horses were like flying arrows, piercing the rebels' chest.
In the array.
Cavalry is a powerful weapon to restrain infantry. As long as the difference in strength between the two sides is not too great, the infantry will be completely vulnerable to the cavalry's charge. But at the moment when the two sides are about to come into contact, a continuous whistle suddenly comes from the rebel camp.
, as the whistle sounded, the huge rebel formation was immediately divided into two, and the tightly packed soldiers spread out to both sides like a tide. In just an instant, a wide line appeared in the center of the rebel camp.
There is a big gap, and this gap just avoids the sharp edge of the Sichuan cavalry.
The Sichuan cavalry almost ran headlong into the gap in the rebel camp.
The cavalry is not afraid of your infantry confronting them head-on. They can use the impact of the horses to flatten the enemy in front of them in a single pass, and can also disrupt the entire enemy formation. This is the scary thing about the cavalry charging into the formation. And this is
The tactics of the rebels at that time were very skillful, and they did not give the Sichuan cavalry a chance to fight head-on. The soldiers cooperated in an orderly manner and cleverly avoided the sharp edge of the Sichuan cavalry. At this time, the Sichuan cavalry's charge was like a punch thrown out with all its strength.
On the soft cotton, this surprised all the Sichuan cavalry soldiers.
The Sichuan cavalry rushed into the hinterland of the rebel camp almost unimpeded. Looking forward, the expressions of the Sichuan army officers and soldiers all changed drastically. They saw huge wooden shields suddenly erected in the rebel camp in front.
These wooden shields are like wooden rafts. They are made of several wooden stakes tied together with hemp ropes. They are two meters high and one meter wide. The shield surface is also filled with sharpened bamboos.
sign.
But at this time, it was too late for the Sichuan cavalry to change the direction of the charge. The cavalry in front almost hit the giant wooden shield solidly. With a muffled banging sound, the cavalrymen and their horses were stabbed with bamboo sticks.
Wear it until death, and the bodies of men and horses are hung on the wooden shield.
Of course, behind the wooden shields were the huge crowds of Zhen soldiers, and they relied entirely on manpower to collide with the hard-top cavalry.
The powerful impact also made the soldiers in front spit out blood. Some of them were squeezed to death on the spot and shocked to death, but their bodies were still standing under the backlog of pressure from the front and back.
With the obstruction of the wooden shield, the galloping Sichuan cavalry stopped, and the most terrifying charge of the cavalry disappeared. At this time, the Zhen troops who had retreated to both sides fought back.
Oops! The general of the Sichuan Cavalry took a deep breath, and at the same time he realized that something was wrong. The rebels were not escaping at all. This was completely a trap set for his own cavalry. He did not have time to think carefully, and hurriedly ordered that the rear team should become the front team.
Everyone withdraws from the enemy position.
But now that he wanted to withdraw, it was already too late. The gap that had originally opened in the Zhenjun camp had been closed again and sealed. Looking at the situation on the battlefield, earth-shaking changes had already taken place.
About 10,000 Sichuan cavalrymen were surrounded by tens of thousands of Zhen regiments in the center. They looked around them. Everywhere they looked, there were Zhen people, and they could not see the edge at a glance.
When the cavalry charges, no one can stop it, but once the cavalry stops and is trapped in a small space, its combat effectiveness drops sharply, and it is even worse than the infantry.
Soon, the Zhenjun's all-out siege began. I saw the Zhenjun officers and soldiers all staring with blood-red eyes, charging forward like wild beasts. Many Sichuan cavalry were sitting on their horses, and they didn't even see clearly where the enemy came from.
The soldiers who flew over were knocked off their horses. Many of them had their neck bones broken on the spot, and their helmeted heads were twisted to the side.
The battle was extremely bloody and fierce from the beginning. The Sichuan cavalry were on horseback and people were holding spears, stabbing or prodding, killing the Zhenjun who were swarming around. The Zhenjun were even more ferocious, rushing forward one after another, and shooting arrows from time to time.
Arrow, kill and injure the cavalry on horseback.
When the two sides were fighting, the main force of the Sichuan army, led by Chen Lihua, arrived. Seeing that the front was already in a group and her own cavalry was still trapped in the enemy's formation, Chen Lihua was so anxious that she immediately ordered the entire army to suppress it and fight with the rebels.
The army fights to the death.
With the arrival of the main force of the Sichuan Army, the whistle sounded again in the Zhen Army camp. This time the Zhen Army no longer wanted to fight, and the entire army retreated, letting out the Sichuan cavalry trapped in the center of their own camp.
The battle between the two sides was not long, but after all the Zhen army retreated, more than half of the 10,000 Sichuan cavalry were killed or injured, leaving only more than 3,000 cavalry. If the main force of the Sichuan army had arrived even half a step later, what would have happened?
Ten thousand cavalrymen had to be made dumplings by Zhenjun. I am afraid not even one of them would survive.
The leader of the Sichuan Cavalry was now covered in wounds. He and his horse were like gourds of blood. He couldn't tell which was his blood and which was the enemy's. He galloped up to Chen Lihua and stopped.
His body tilted to one side and he almost fell off his horse.
He breathed heavily and said quickly: "General, the rebels used giant wooden shields to restrain our cavalry. They were obviously well prepared. The rebels' retreat may also be a tactic they used to lure the enemy..."
The rebels ran first, but were easily overtaken by our own army. If you think about it carefully, there are too many things that are unreasonable.
Before he could finish his words, Feng Yu, the commander of the Sixteenth Army, was dissatisfied and scolded: "Don't try to increase the enemy's morale and destroy my own prestige. There are only 30,000 to 40,000 rebels left.
It’s a flat plain, where’s the plan to lure the enemy?”
"That's right!" Gao Peng, the commander of the Eleventh Army, also said in a strange tone: "The defeated army, which was chasing down 30,000 to 40,000 people with ten thousand cavalry, actually lost most of its troops, was besieged by the defeated army, and was almost annihilated. It's really...
I don’t know how you fought this battle.”
Listening to what they said, Chen Lihua said dissatisfiedly: "Okay, now is not the time to talk about this."
As he spoke, he looked at the general of the Sichuan Cavalry and said in a softer tone: "General Zhang, thank you for your hard work. For the time being, you can lead your brothers back to the city to rest."
"General, the rebels are indeed abnormal. General, please don't be careless..."
Chen Lihua waved her hand, interrupted what he was about to say, and said, "I have a sense of proportion in my heart."
After the remnants of the Sichuan cavalry retreated, only the Sichuan Army and the Zhen Army were left on the battlefield, facing each other from east to west.
The strength of the Sichuan Army was 90,000, and that of the Zhen Army was around 40,000. The difference between the two sides was more than double.
Chen Lihua specially urged her horse to come to the front of the two armies, looked at the Zhen army opposite, and shouted loudly: "I am the commander-in-chief of the Ninth Army of Sichuan, Chen Lihua, please call Li Shu to come out and talk to me!"
After waiting for a long time, a horse came out of the Zhenjun camp. Sitting on the horse was a Sichuan general. He looked to be in his thirties, with an average figure and average appearance. There was nothing unusual about him.
This person raised his hand to Chen Lihua and shouted loudly: "I have heard about General Chen for a long time, and I am really lucky to see you today!"
Chen Lihua squinted her eyes and looked carefully at the opposite side. Because the distance was too far, he could only vaguely see the outline of the other side. As for the specific appearance, he could not see it at all. He asked: "Your Excellency, is Li Shu?"
"I'm Yinli!"
Yin Li? Chen Lihua's face was full of confusion. Who is Yin Li? Among the main generals of the rebel army, there seems to be no such number as Yin Li! His face darkened and he shouted: "Young man, let Li Shu come out and meet me instead."
say."
"General Chen may still be unaware of this. I am now the commander-in-chief of the Zhen Army. If General Chen has anything to say, just tell me and there is no need to trouble the general to come forward."