Because of the proportion of protein in the diet structure, the Longxi soldiers were obviously stronger than the Sui Army soldiers, who were mostly agricultural soldiers in the Central Plains, in terms of height and physical strength. Soldiers also have two disadvantages. One is the small population and insufficient soldiers, and the other is poor organizational discipline. The more troops you fight against, the more complicated the battle situation is, and the greater the possibility of chaos in Longxi soldiers.
The lack of organizational discipline is not easy to expose when the Longxi soldiers have the upper hand. Although they are attacking the masses with a small number, they still face difficult problems, but because the soldiers of the Sui Army always stick to their camps, Xue Renguo's army, who has taken the initiative on the battlefield, is still high-spirited Even if the coach Xue Renguo temporarily left the battlefield, at least on the surface Xue Renguo's army still seemed to be in order, advancing and retreating freely.
That is to say, this can be achieved for the time being. With the rising smoke in the Sui army camp, the east gate of the Sui army camp that had been opened before was opened again, and the three thousand Sui army infantry led by Qiu Shili and Qiu Xinggong suddenly attacked and turned around. The main right wing of the infantry who came to charge Xue Renguo's army, Qiu Xinggong, who was famous in history books for his bravery, took the lead with a long knife in his hand, and kept yelling, "Kill! Kill all these Longxi dogs!"
Until now, Xue Renguo's army still hadn't panicked, and Shizheng, who temporarily replaced Xue Renguo in command of the whole army, was also extremely disdainful. He just ordered the right wing to fight without making any adjustments. He was absolutely confident in the combat effectiveness of his own army.
If Mao Shizheng quickly sent out the situation of the mountains and forests behind him, then he would definitely not have such confidence. Seeing the rising of the wolf smoke, the soldiers of the Bao Guojun who had been waiting impatiently were dispatched immediately. Under the leadership of Yu Le, the standard-bearer at that time, he led the horses away from the forest where they had ambushed beforehand, and came to the edge of the forest to line up the horses. With Yu Le's order, two hundred and eleven soldiers of the Nationalist Army charged in order, their white robes fluttering, He rushed out of the forest in the blink of an eye, and suddenly appeared behind the enemy line like a divine soldier, and rushed directly behind the unsuspecting Xue Renguo army with a grin.
When he saw the iron cavalry of the Nationalist Army appearing suddenly, Xue Renguo's army finally began to panic, and shouted to call the police. At the same time, Wu Shizheng was also taken aback. Let’s face the battle, stand firm against me! Quickly, send a fast horse to warn the prince, and ask him to come back immediately!”
At the same time, the infantry of the Sui army led by the brothers of the Qiu family also ran into the right wing of Xue Jun with their feathered arrows and javelins. Qiu Xinggong, who took the lead, swung his long knife and slashed two enemies in a row, opening a small gap in Xue Jun's battle formation. , the infantry of the Sui Army who followed behind took the opportunity to rush up, and started a scuffle with Xue Jun in some places. Fighting back, where the two armies met, the sound of killing was loud, and the collision of swords and guns continued.
Li Jing's greatest hope for a surprise attack is to serve the national army. The soldiers of the national service army, who are famous for fighting fierce battles, did not disappoint Li Jing. Like a steel knife, it had been inserted straight into the center of Xue Jun's horizontal lineup. The armored horse breathed out scorching fire, and with inertia, it directly hit Xue Jun's soldiers. Just the huge impact force has already knocked Xue Jun's soldiers upside down, and some soldiers were even thrown into the air.
The horseshoes with hooves trampled on the soldiers of Xue Jun and continued to advance. The soldiers of the Baoguo Army who had long been accustomed to this situation undulated their sabers, stabbed their spears, and chopped down the enemy soldiers who were blocking them one by one. At this moment, the weakness of Xue Renguo's poor discipline was also immediately exposed. At the critical moment when the soldiers of Xue Renguo should have resolutely formed a dense formation to offset the impact of the soldiers of the Nationalist Army, the soldiers of Xue Renguo had no choice but to attack the heavy cavalry. Even the generals at the grassroots level did not work hard to restrain the soldiers from lining up. As a result, the Bao Guojun's charge continued unabated, and they directly stabbed into Xue Jun's rear Team, also directly stabbed a double penetration.
Xue Renguo's army finally started to panic, especially when they saw the flag formation where the Baoguo army was heading straight towards them, the generals and soldiers of Xue Renguo's army were even more flustered. Fortunately, the Shizheng reacted quickly and immediately ordered the Chinese army to line up Facing the battle, the fierce general Hungan also came to the front of the formation to command, and loudly reprimanded the soldiers to line up. This prevented the Chinese army from fleeing, and quickly formed a new dense horizontal formation.
It's a pity that the Baoguo Army still has a golden finger. When it was about to collide with Xue Renguo's Chinese army, a dozen gunpowder bottles suddenly flew out from the Baoguo Army's ranks, and fell into the enemy's dense horizontal line before they exploded, causing a violent explosion Not only did Xue Jun's horizontal team be in chaos, but also many Xue Jun soldiers who encountered gunpowder weapons for the first time lost their courage and lost all courage in the face of unknown fears they had never faced, and ran away subconsciously. Being frightened on the spot, he exclaimed, "What is this?"
After using gunpowder weapons to confuse the enemy's dense formation, the Baoguo Army easily plunged into Xue Renguo's central army again. During the impact, they even slashed and wounded Qinggan. The forward also directly faced Xue Jun's command platform and threw another shot Use the powder bottle to confuse the enemy. Disobedient Shizheng, who was also frightened by gunpowder weapons, subconsciously flattered his horse and left. The soldiers around him also hurriedly followed. The originally neat flag array suddenly fell to and fro, and it was no longer possible to command the entire army through flags, drums, and horns. .
Li Jing was waiting for this moment. After waving the command flag, the main gate of the Sui army camp opened wide. Niu Jinda, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, immediately led his army to attack and launched a counterattack against the enemies outside the camp. Already distracted by the loud noise from the rear, demoralized, and then rushed by Niu Jinda, he was defeated and fled as a matter of course. Niu Jinda's army kept on walking, chasing the enemy's defeated soldiers, chasing after them, and attacking Xue Jun with all their strength front.
The Qiu family brothers also succeeded at this moment, and benefited from the destruction of the enemy's flag array by the national army. The Xue army that could support it quickly collapsed, and many soldiers ran for their lives, driving and affecting the soldiers of the Xue army who were fighting the Sui army on the front line. At the end of the gap, I didn't know that it was the soldier of Xue Jun who shouted, run, Xue Jun's right wing collapsed in an instant, and the generals and soldiers fled everywhere.
The left wing of Xue Renguo's army collapsed on its own. Seeing that the situation was unfavorable, the soldiers of Xue Renguo's army, who had been exhausted and injured in the previous battle, didn't even have the intention to resist a little bit, so they rushed to the Wentang River pontoon bridge, scrambling to cross the river. Fleeing for their lives, fighting for the pontoon bridge, pushing and shoving, falling into the water countless times, and falling into the river in winter, waiting for these soldiers of the Xue army who fell into the water, only drowned or frozen to death.
The situation of the battle was completely reversed in almost a moment. Niu Jinda was from the front, and the Qiu family brothers were from the right flank, advancing side by side. Xue Renguo's army, which still had the upper hand, was in chaos. All the generals and soldiers rushed for their lives and rushed towards the snow-capped Wentang River. The generals of Xue Jun, such as Mao Shizheng and Hungan, originally wanted to hold on until Xue Renguo came back to help, but no matter how loudly they shouted orders, they couldn't stop the army from collapsing one after another, and finally even the number of soldiers around them decreased rapidly.
Seeing that the situation was not good, generals such as Wu Shizheng and Hungan had no choice but to join the fleeing team, and fled westward with the troops who could still command around them, while the Sui army's various ministries were chasing and fighting fiercely. Crossing the river, many of them were drowned and froze to death. Many generals of Xue Jun had no chance to get up after falling into the water because of the heavy armor on their bodies, and were smothered to death in the chest-deep water. The soldiers of the Sui army slashed and killed in the back, prompting Xue Jun to flee eastward in a panic, capturing countless gains, and causing Xue Jun's soldiers to drown and freeze to death countless times.
At the same time, Xue Renguo, who had been transferred from the mountain by the Sui army cavalry, also vaguely sensed that something was wrong, and took the initiative to order to stop the pursuit, turned around and rushed back to the Wentanghe battlefield, ignoring the Sui army cavalry's provocations, although Liu Shishan, who had received Li Jing's prior instruction, did not attack. However, he led the Sui Army cavalry to follow them far away, and always kept within Xue Renguo's field of vision, exerting psychological pressure on the Xue Army cavalry, so that they did not dare to return to the Hekou battlefield without distraction.
On the way to retreat, Xue Renguo finally received the urgent news sent by the fast horse sent by the disobedient government. In shock, Xue Renguo ordered the whole army to return to help at full speed, and Liu Shishan also ordered the cavalry of the Sui Army to speed up and bite, keeping a distance from Xue Jun's cavalry Wait for the fighter to show up. In the end, everything was under Li Jing's control. When Xue Renguo returned to the camp with his cavalry, his main force of infantry was completely defeated. The dead bodies almost stopped the Wentang River. At the same time, a Sui army infantry stopped Xue Renguo. The road for the cavalry's westward march and return.
After losing so badly so quickly, Xue Renguo, in a rage, led his army straight to the interception position of the Sui army, wanting to kill some Sui soldiers to avenge the infantry of his own army, but Xue Renguo soon found out that he had done something wrong. What a stupid thing, the infantry of the Sui army who were waiting in the formation not only warmly entertained him with strong bows and crossbows, but also suddenly used musket weapons on the battlefield. , but suddenly saw a loud noise and flames emanating from the Sui army's formation. Not to mention that the soldiers of Xue Jun were frightened, even the horses of Xue Jun's cavalry were frightened and everyone stopped, causing many unlucky Xue Jun cavalry to fall dismount.
Liu Shishan was so stupid that he would let go of such a good opportunity. After a little reorganization, the cavalry of the Sui army charged at full speed and attacked the cavalry of Xue Jun at full speed. Forced to lead his troops around the Sui army's infantry position and flee westward with all their strength, Liu Shishan chased after him, relying on the infantry's help to defeat the crowd with a small number, and hacked to death a considerable number of Xue Jun's cavalry.
It was also after Xue Renguo led the cavalry to escape Wentang River that Li Jing ordered to launch a general attack, and led the army to chase Xue Renguo's army to the Weishui Ferry, where Xue Renguo's army was defeated again at the ferry, forcing Xue Renguo to rely on cutting the pontoon bridge Only then did the Sui army stop their pursuit and suffered heavy losses.
Of course, Ma Sanbao was not polite. Seeing Xue Renguo's army fleeing back in defeat, Ma Sanbao immediately sent troops to counterattack. Five thousand troops were left behind, and they sent troops in time to block Ma Sanbao's attack. Otherwise, Xue Renguo's army would have suffered an even worse defeat in this battle. But even so, after escaping the Weishui River, Xue Renguo still didn't dare to continue fighting on the Meixian battlefield, gathered the defeated soldiers a little, and abandoned the camp and fled to the way he came from that evening.
As Xue Renguo analyzed, the Sui army can now tolerate Xue Jujun temporarily controlling Longxi and Tianshui, but they will never allow Xue Jujun to occupy Fufeng County, which is very close to Daxing. Hearing that Xue Renguo abandoned the camp and retreated, Li Jing immediately ordered Ma Sanbao's new force to launch a pursuit , I led the army to cross the Wei River overnight, took a rest under the city of Mei County, and then concentrated the elite soldiers to launch a pursuit, not giving Xue Renguo's army the time and opportunity to take down Fufeng County and govern Yong County.
Under such circumstances, Dou Jing, the prefect of Fufeng, suddenly became an important figure in the Guanzhong battlefield. Although he only had a few thousand local troops in his hands, Dou Jing still had a well-defended city in Yong County. Na, or send troops to attack the defeated Xue Renguo who hastily entered the mourning dog. Even if Xue Renguo is not wiped out, he can only obediently get out of Fufeng County. But if Dou Jing opens the city to welcome Xue Renguo's army into the city, and falls directly into Xue Ju's arms after secretly informing Li Yuan's rebel army, then even Li Yuan, the god of war, may not be sure to win the city of Yong County, and Chen Sangliang can only be in Daxing Under the new situation, they will be forced to dispatch the main force to take back Fufeng County, and they may even be forced to start a decisive battle with Xue Ju's army due to serious lack of preparation.
Both Xue Renguo and Li Jing were very aware of this powerful relationship, and they both sent fast horses to Yong County to contact Dou Jing. Xue Renguo asked Dou Jing to welcome the self-armed army into the city, and Li Jing asked Dou Jing to close the city gates, and Xue Renguo's defeated troops were not allowed to set foot in Yong County. step. At the same time, Xue Renguo and Li Jing kept urging their own army to speed up their pace, racing against time to rush to Yong County to gain time to respond. From Meixian to Yong County, Xue Renguo's army and Sui army only walked for one day.
On the afternoon of the second day after Wentanghekou was defeated, Xue Renguo's army arrived at the outskirts of Yong County first, but Li Jing's army was still more than ten miles away from Yong County. As a result, the panting Xue Renguo soldiers were overjoyed that when they came to the south gate of Yongxian County, the gate of Yongxian County immediately opened by itself, and Dou Jing, who had met Xue Renguo before, climbed onto the south gate wall and shouted loudly : "Prince Xue, please enter the city quickly, the officers and soldiers are only ten miles away from here, enter the city quickly!"
"Prince, hurry into the city."
Disobeying Shizheng and the wounded Hungan were overjoyed, and hurriedly asked Xue Renguo to enter the city immediately to avoid the pursuers. However, at this critical moment, Xue Renguo, who had been on tenterhooks before, suddenly calmed down, and shouted: "Let the two hundred soldiers enter the city first, and we'll see the situation."
"Prince, does this hurt the heart of Governor Dou too much?" Qu Shizheng asked worriedly.
"Be careful!" Xue Renguo replied viciously: "If there is no accident when our people enter the city, I will kowtow to him and apologize to him after entering the city! But we must not take the risk of entering the city. If there is any ambush in the city, we will all It's over!"
Disgusted by Shizheng and the others, they hurriedly arranged for two hundred infantry to enter the city first. After seeing this on the city wall, Dou Jing could only shake his head helplessly. Only then did he know that the brave and ferocious Xue Renguo is actually a rough and fine guy, so he had to order: "Ambush the soldiers out of the city, and capture Xue Renguo."
The war drum suddenly sounded, and arrows were fired on the city wall. At the same time, the sound of killing in the city was loud, and the defenders of Yong County who were ambushing in the houses on the street shouted and killed. Seeing this scene, Xue Renguo, who was almost captured alive, was startled and angry, pointing at Dou Jin on the city and roaring like thunder, "Mr. Dou Jin, I swear to kill you! You shameless traitor, first betrayed Yang Guang and then Li Yuan , you must die! You must die!"
Hearing Xue Renguo's scolding vaguely, Dou Jing, who came from a famous family, smiled slightly and said: "Xue Renguo, who said that I betrayed the Sui court? I bowed to the traitor Li Yuan before, but I followed Chen Liushou's order. Pretending to be rebellious and protecting a useful body, waiting for the opportunity anyway, now that the old thief Li Yuan is dead, and Chen Liushou is in charge of Daxing, if I don’t hurry to make meritorious service, anyway, do I still want to serve you, a commoner, as a slave?"
"Uncle, after you see Deputy Envoy Li, please try to test Chen Liushou's attitude on my father's behalf." Xiao Kai, the second son of the Great Uncle Xiao next to him, said nervously: "My father was ordered to pretend to be a rebel. There is also correspondence with the traitor Li Yuan, if Chen Liushou holds grudges and refuses to admit that my father is pretending to be a traitor, then my father will be finished."
"Don't worry, Chen Liushou can even forgive Chai Shao, and he can still care about those little things with your father? Compared with Chai Shao, what are your father's things?" Dou Jing smiled and comforted: "I bet that in the future you After following me to Daxing to meet Chen Liushou, not only will he not care about the past, but he will definitely reward you for your merits, so you just wait to be appointed as an official."
In normal times, with only a few troops in Dou Jing's hands, if he dared to go out of the city to fight Xue Renguo, Xue Renguo could kill Dou Jing's army with one hand tied, but it was different at this moment. After fleeing, Xue Renguo's army was already tired, hungry and exhausted, and their combat effectiveness dropped drastically. With Li Jing leading the Sui army in hot pursuit behind them, it could only be called a miracle that Xue Renguo's army could still win against Dou Jin. As a result, after the Yong County defenders suddenly broke out, Xue Renguo didn't even have the thought of counterattacking to vent his anger. He led the defeated soldiers and fled to the northwest. At the same time, Sui Jun also took the opportunity to chase from behind, and kicked Xue Renguo's army from behind fiercely again.
The nightmare of Xue Renguo's army is not over yet. After getting rest and supplies in Yong County, Li Jing led his army to pursue him endlessly. The precious horses unexpectedly launched a surprise attack while he was resting exhausted, and killed many of his men and stole many of his horses. In the end, among the 20,000 soldiers and horses that Xue Renguo brought out of Dazhen Pass, there were less than three Thousands of people fled back to Tianshui County, and suffered heavy losses. Xue Ju executed Li Yuan's envoy Wen Daya in a rage, and was forced to temporarily give up his plan to march to Daxing because of the lack of food and grass and threats from Li Gui and Zhang Long in the rear.
After Li Jing's Baojietang newspaper was sent back to Daxing, the Daxing officials who were once worried about the emergency on the western front inevitably cheered, and they were all surprised at the speed of Li Jing's defeat of the enemy. However, Chen Sangliang, who has now become the local emperor in Daxing, did not take it seriously. He said calmly, "Of course."