At this time, Li Zixiong was also fleeing for his life. Just now, Wang Junlin personally led hundreds of cavalry troops to break through the guard of his own soldiers, and almost handed the blade to his eyes. Wang Junlin personally shot an arrow.
Shot six people in front of him and almost missed him.
He could tell that Wang Junlin came here in a targeted manner and wanted to take the head of his army commander.
At the very beginning, when Wang Junlin led the cavalry in front of the army formation, Li Zixiong still thought about taking advantage of the sea of people to give it a try. When the more than 4,000 cavalrymen frantically attacked the front formation like a single unit, he did not think about retreating.
.However, everything was really too fast. So fast that his five thousand cavalry did not even show their power, and were disrupted by his ragged infantry.
If infantry is fighting against cavalry, if you want to fight a tough battle, you need to rely on an airtight crowded formation, when thousands of people are squeezed into one big piece. The front formation cannot escape, and the rear formation moves forward bravely, forming a huge formation, and the cavalry can't.
An unbreakable human wall.
However, the statement is the same thing. When the threat of death appears, the front line of the queue will subconsciously want to avoid or retreat.
If we consider the entire army as a whole, the extent to which bravery exceeds cowardice determines whether the formation is strong or not.
Wang Junlin led more than 4,000 cavalry and quickly smashed the physical and mental defenses of this sea of people. This was more or less related to Wang Junlin's invincible reputation.
After all, strictly speaking, these 20,000 people were defeated by the Goguryeo people. However, according to legend, the Goguryeo people who defeated them were easily defeated by Wang Junlin. Even the Goguryeo coach and Prime Minister Yeon Taejo who defeated them was captured by Wang Junlin and sent to Luoyang.
He was tortured by His Majesty the Emperor in a variety of very inhumane ways that were worse than life.
Because Yang Guang ordered this news to be reported to the entire army, Li Zixiong's 20,000 troops knew it. It was impossible not to be in awe of Wang Junlin in his heart. It would be okay if they had the upper hand from the beginning, but they were at a disadvantage from the beginning.
This kind of awe was invisibly amplified too much, thus accelerating the loss of their morale and causing the defeat to be much faster.
Such is the so-called name of a person and the shadow of a tree.
The flying flesh and blood would be shocking even to generals who have experienced battles. Among them, Wang Junlin led the cavalry of hundreds of people to tear through the sea of people and rush straight to Li Zixiong's banner. Li Zixiong tried to block the cavalry with the elite of the army.
However, the sea of blood that had been set off earlier seemed to have only aroused Wang Junlin's fierce and bloody nature. They resisted attacks from all directions, and at the same time, they frantically attacked Li Zixiong's personal formation.
Of course Li Zixiong knew that Wang Junlin was the soul of these four thousand cavalrymen. As long as he killed Wang Junlin, the other party should collapse immediately. But the problem was that it was impossible to do it now. Even if he hesitated at all, he would be killed by Wang Junlin.
Killed by an arrow.
Li Zixiong once organized his own soldiers to resist for a while, but Wang Junlin personally charged forward and killed them. The huge pressure caused them heavy casualties, and Li Zixiong was terrified.
When Wang Junlin fired arrows at him in the chaos, he would have been shot to death if his own soldiers had not blocked the arrows with all their lives. After that, he began to retreat quickly, and at the same time mobilized other troops in the army to come here to block him.
attack.
However, after such mobilization, the entire army began to fall into chaos.
In fact, this is the effect Wang Junlin wants to see, to chase down the general and make the general lose his mind due to fear and only think about mobilizing troops to protect himself, thereby disrupting the opponent's overall deployment.
Wang Junlin led more than 4,000 cavalry to kill everything under the night sky. Li Zixiong's control over the army under his command had failed. They gradually turned to fighting independently.
Since the defeat in Goguryeo half a year ago, the Sui Dynasty has fallen into a financial crisis. Many armies have even been in arrears with their military pay. As for the rewards for the soldiers who have made military achievements in Goguryeo, or the pensions for those injured and killed in battle, none of them have been paid. This is very important to the army.
The blow to morale was fatal.
Although Li Zixiong tried his best, he secretly used a sum of money sent by Yang Su to secretly distribute some to his soldiers in his own name, so that his army began to only recognize him and not the court, but because the court rewards and pensions were not distributed
The resulting decline in troop morale and lack of morale were still unchecked, and this sequelae began to show at this time.
For example, the troops on the fringes of Li Zixiong's army have begun to flee crazily. The soldiers in the battle formation are fighting fiercely or turning in under the leadership of mid-level officers, but the slaughter has become the main theme of the entire battlefield. There are so many people, and the massacre is too much.
convenient.
Wang Junlin's purpose in the battle was very clear. It was not enough to simply defeat them, but also to completely rout them. The killing was so frightening that the Youzhou army, who was Fanyang County's neighbor, would fear him, Wang Junlin, and would not offend him easily in the future.
They are from Fanyang County. Therefore, they have to continue killing people for a while.
At this pass, the large army that could not run was chased by a cavalry of more than 4,000 people and massacred one after another.
Large swathes of broken troops rushed into the nearby woods, but Wang Junlin's cavalry surrounded and circled the edge of the woods, and then began to light fires in all directions. It was winter now and the weather was dry. After a while, a large number of open fires began to burn brightly.
Light up the whole forest.
By a nearby river valley, nearly five thousand Li Zixiong's soldiers were massacred and forced into the river. Soon Luo Shixin led more than 400 cavalry to chase them and began shooting arrows into the river, staining the entire river red with blood.
The entire cavalry charge as one unit also shattered the resistance of the infantry team and cut the entire battlefield into several large pieces.
On and off the battlefield, when Wang Junlin and his men dispersed the troops mobilized by Li Zixiong, and Li Zixiong was so frightened that he fled the battlefield with hundreds of people at all costs, the morale of Li Zixiong's army completely collapsed, and all the troops lost resistance and began to break up and flee.
Wang Junlin's cavalry circled around the edge of the battlefield to sweep away the disintegrating crowd, and then gathered together after Wang Junlin gave the order. There were more than 3,000 people left out of the 4,000 people. They also lost more than 1,000 people in this battle.
people.
Wang Junlin knew very well the power of the Dugu clan, the Yuwen clan, the Hongnong Yang clan, and even the queen and prince in the Sui Dynasty. They might be able to mobilize a large army, so he did not stop and rushed through the pass. More than an hour later
, and entered Fanyang County. Soon they met Yuchi Jingde who came to meet them.
Yuchi Jingde came in a hurry because Wang Junlin sent someone to meet him. Wang Junlin led nearly 5,000 cavalry, confident that as long as Yang Guang didn't want to kill him and didn't use the power of the whole country to surround him, he would be able to return smoothly.
Fanyang County, so Fanyang County was not notified of the army's response.
Yuchi Jingde led his 20,000 cavalrymen not to meet at the border of Fanyang County. They were supposed to rush out of Fanyang County as quickly as possible to Linjun to meet Wang Junlin. This was because Shen Guoer had inquired about Li Zixiong in Youzhou in advance. The troops were suddenly mobilized, so I quickly sent a message to him and asked him to mobilize troops to respond.
ps: The next chapter begins, which is the sixth volume, which will set off a chaotic world——some familiar heroes, traitors, and heroes will appear one by one————