On the day of October 14th, the valley on the southeast bank of the Fen River seemed particularly quiet.
Liang Jun raided and captured the two cities of Quwo and Jiangxian. Relying on the two cities and the remaining camps abandoned by the enemy, Liang Jun non-stop consolidated the defense line in order to besiege tens of thousands of defeated enemies in Jiangxian, Yuhe, Fenshui and Xiangxian.
Eat it calmly between the mountains.
However, the problem is that the many camps built by the Mongolian army were mainly distributed in echelons facing the northern slope of Wangwu Mountain to prevent the Liang army from advancing from the northern slope of Wangwu Mountain to the Fenshui River.
These camps were connected horizontally and quite thick, but vertically they were very thin, leaving gaps for the enemy troops to cross vertically and flee northward in Jiangxian and Quwo.
The defeated Mongolian army to the east of Jiangxian County was in Anyi throughout the day, and the west of Wenxi County and Jiangxian County were gathered in the Quwo area - not to mention the generals and officers, the families and children of those soldiers were not in the Fenshui River Valley.
Within the basin, who would not want to return to their homeland before the end of the river is reached, but would rather surrender their weapons and become prisoners of war?
After nightfall, the cold wind picked up, the wind was dry and cold, like a knife cutting through the face.
It is impossible for the Mongolian army to turn defeat into victory. Its organization has been broken up and disrupted, and a considerable number of troops even abandoned their weapons and armor in order to escape for their lives.
Most of the soldiers were panic-stricken and only wanted to escape for their lives. They had no morale at all.
Under such circumstances, the Mongolian army did not even dare to pass through Jiangxian and Quwo during the day.
However, when night fell, instead of fighting in an open area with the Liang Army generals who were in high morale, the Mongolian army took a step forward and found a gap in Jiangxian and Quwo to pass through, along the
In the open terrain between the Fenshui River and Taiyue Mountain, one could at least run faster than the Liang Army infantry in neat armor if they fled toward Yicheng in the north.
But in the dark, it would be much more difficult for Liang Jun to leave the camp at night to intercept.
Defeat and defeat are two different concepts.
Liang Jun was able to organize night battles with sentries as units, but he did not want to suffer too many casualties from the counterattack of the Mongolian cavalry, and the troops could not be further divided.
But for the enemy who just want to escape, as long as they have a general direction, their escape is completely interrupted, but there is no pressure.
The difference is huge, equivalent to scattering tens of thousands of pigs and intercepting, capturing or killing tens of thousands of pigs within a radius of a hundred miles.
At this time, Wu Su Dashi and Xiao Yiqing also tried their best to assemble cavalry troops in the southern ridge of Yicheng to prepare for the response. This further increased the difficulty and danger for Liang Jun to set out to intercept at night.
At dusk, Xiao Yiqing piled firewood and lit a fire on the hills south of Yicheng as a sign; Xiao Siqing and the two generals Minshan gathered the direct cavalry who had finally gathered together and stationed them directly in Jiangxian County, where Liang had the largest number of soldiers.
The two cities of Quwo were approaching, and the night quickly darkened.
It was night, the weather was thin and sunny, there were only a few lonely stars in the sky, and tens of thousands of scattered troops and horses were rushing towards the northwest like a torrent.
The Liang army stationed in Jiangxian and Quwo could not sit back and watch the defeated enemy pass through the territory. Relying on the fortresses of the camp, they dispersed thirty integrated infantry battalions into the open Fenshui River Valley to form formations and set fire to the enemy.
Hundreds of bonfires were set up, and open areas were blocked off with bed crossbows, scorpion crossbows and other war weapons, and the defeated enemies who tried to cross the border were shot and killed.
However, it is undeniable that the elite cavalry of the Mongolian army have amazing field combat capabilities. Even after such a huge rout, in just one day and one night, they were divided into hundreds of cavalry. Taking advantage of the dark night, one team after another avoided the solid cavalry.
At the camp, they attacked Liang Jun's interception position outside the camp regardless of casualties, and coerced the infantry to turn northwest.
No one knew how many casualties each of the two armies suffered that night. Xiao Siqing was covered in blood and fought to Lingxi Valley and Wusu Dashi. When Xiao Yiqing met Xiao Yiqing, a touch of fish belly white just appeared on the horizon.
Lingxi Valley is a valley in the southern part of Yicheng County. It is sandwiched between two low mountains. A winding stream flows down from the southern foot of Taiyue Mountain and merges into Fenshui River in the west.
The stream is more than ten feet wide, full of pebbles, and the gurgling water is muddy after being trampled by war horses.
Fortunately, after winter, there was less rainfall in Taiyue Mountain, and the streams could not even cover the knees. The cavalry could directly cross the water, while the infantry fleeing north could go north via a few simple pontoon bridges.
If the water level rises sharply in summer and autumn, most of the soldiers and horses will be blocked to the south by this stream, and it will be really hard to cry at that time.
Although the first batch of cavalrymen who broke through the encirclement and met at Lingxi Valley was less than a thousand, Xiao Siqing breathed a sigh of relief.
They were cavalry and naturally ran fast. They thought that after the sun rose, the thousands of soldiers and horses behind them would be able to withdraw, and then they would build defenses based on the low mountains to the north to delay the pursuers.
Yicheng County is a strategic area connecting northern Jinzhou and western Zezhou. However, Xiao Siqing came in a hurry. It was not clear whether Wusu Dashi had the idea of defending Yicheng, or whether he wanted to temporarily build a defense and wait until the troops went to the southern foot of Taiyue Mountain.
After withdrawing from Huo County and Huo County in the north, will the entire Jinzhou including Yicheng be abandoned?
"..." Xiao Siqing swallowed and saw Wusu Dashi and his clan uncle Xiao Yiqing standing on the rock with stern expressions. He walked over and didn't know what to say. If he just gave up Jinzhou, he also
There is no way to ask the exit directly.
This battle was so frustrating that most of the generals were defeated without even knowing what was going on.
Looking at Wusu Dashi, clan uncle Xiao Yiqing turned a blind eye to his arrival and kept his eyes fixed on the southwest. Xiao Siqing thought that he had escaped too early and did not stay behind to cover the other defeated soldiers fleeing north, which made them dissatisfied.
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He bravely called for a fight and said: "Liang Jun will surely come after us. There is a mountain ridge in the southwest that can block the enemy's army. I will lead my troops there and wait there!"
To cover more troops fleeing north, there must be brave and capable rear troops to entangle and contain Liang Jun's pursuit.
"You passed through Jiang County and came from Quwo. Have Liang Jun's cavalry been dispatched in the two cities?" Wu Su Dashi asked Xiao Siqing with a worried look on his face.
"The enemy cavalry must have been exhausted and did not dispatch from the city camp." Xiao Siqing said.
"No, Han Qian is not such a cautious person." Xiao Yiqing shook his head and said.
"The enemy's cavalry suffered heavy casualties the day before yesterday, and the remaining six to seven thousand cavalry who left the city and fought at night could not stop us," Xiao Siqing said.
This battle was so frustrating that Xiao Siqing had many cavalry officers under his command. He even wished that Liang Qi would go out at night so that they could regain some face. However, throughout the night, Liang Jun did nothing but send infantry out of the camp to close the city.
Outside the gap blocked by the formation, only a few cavalry remained motionless.
Xiao Siqing thought that the Liang Army's cavalry suffered too many casualties and was unwilling to be used in the chaotic night battle. Instead, he wanted to recharge his batteries and wait for dawn to fight in coordination with his infantry and horse infantry, chasing down their defeated troops from behind.
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In his view, this was also a sound tactical choice for Liang Jun to expand his results after having achieved a decisive victory.
Wu Su Dashi and Xiao Yiqing didn't ask any more questions, they also hoped so deep down in their hearts.
More and more deserters gathered, and the world became noisy.
At this time, the sky became brighter, and the peaks of the distant mountains revealed clear mountain crest lines. From a distance, we could see birds flying over the mountains and forests to the south.
Wusu Dashi's expression suddenly became solemn. He took the bronze telescope from the guard and looked toward the north slope of Wangwu Mountain in the southwest. His hands trembled and he almost dropped the bronze telescope.
Xiao Siqing's eyesight was very strong, and he saw a column of soldiers and horses climbing over a hillside more than 20 miles to the southwest, emerging from the hillside, and the darkness was like a huge wave surging out from behind the hillside.
His heart also skipped a beat. Such an organized cavalry array was definitely not their troops escaping from the southwest.
It was not that Liang Jun's cavalry did not dispatch at night, but they went around from the periphery of their northward escape route, close to the mountainous area on the northern slope of Wangwu Mountain, to the south of Yicheng County.
These are definitely not the soldiers and horses of Liang Jun who entered Jiangxian County and rested in Quwo, but the cavalry reinforcements transferred from other places. Their purpose was to intercept their fleeing soldiers and horses!
Judging from the direction they were traveling, they were heading directly to the Meihe Ancient Road, which was thirty miles away.
Xiao Siqing felt a chill in his heart:
Going east from Yicheng into the southern foothills of Taiyue Mountain, all the way to Qinhe County, there are four passes and fortresses on the Meihe Ancient Road and Qinshui River Valley, and they all have soldiers and horses ranging from hundreds to more than a thousand people stationed in them.
They are not worried that these four checkpoints will be taken away by Liang Jun in a short period of time, but the problem is that Liang Jun, who is looking at the darkness and has seven to eight thousand people, if they are asked to block directly in front of Meihe Checkpoint, how much time will they spend?
Only in this way can the Liang army be defeated and the channel for troops to retreat eastward to Zezhou open?
The defeated troops fled to Yicheng and fled eastward via the Meihe Ancient Road, which was the fastest way.
The defeated soldiers and horses can even be assembled and reorganized on the spot as long as they enter the southern foot of Taiyue Mountain, and can even restrict the Liang army from continuing to pursue their retreating soldiers and horses along the Fenshui Valley along the Fenshui River Valley towards Huoxian County.
If the eastward evacuation route is blocked, and we can only have a chance to rest and recuperate by escaping northward into Huo County, it will take us nearly 1,560 miles more.
For the hungry fleeing infantry, it would take at least three or four days to cover the 1560 miles.
And in the past three or four days, they hastily assembled more than 10,000 cavalry. Can they really stop the tens of thousands of Liang Jun's main infantry and cavalry who were chasing north to the south of Yicheng County?
Thinking of this, Xiao Siqing's hands and feet were also cold.
When Wusu Dashi was panicking, he sent several groups of cavalry south to attack his flank. However, he soon saw that the Liang army divided into three groups of more than a thousand cavalry to intercept them. The other troops continued to move quickly along the low hills and hills.
Turn in the direction of Meihe Ancient Road.
Soon they received news that in Jiangxian County, in the direction of Quwo, the Liang Army troops who had left camp for a night battle yesterday had all retreated to the city to rest and recuperate. However, the more than 30,000 elite Liang Army troops who were stationed in the camp or recuperating in the city last night, at this time
They are gathering out of the city one after another and will be chasing towards Yicheng at any time...
