Although there is also a brilliant idea of attacking first to prevent Wang Shichong's army from forming a successful formation, strictly speaking, Sima Dekan, who actually commanded this decisive battle, is not a handsome man, but an excellent general who can charge and use Some contingency tactics are lackluster in coordinating the overall situation and using various armies. In particular, they failed to make good use of the cavalry, which has the greatest advantage of the Xiaoguo Army, and gave the Wang Li coalition army too many opportunities to use their strengths and avoid weaknesses.
It was the same when Li Mi launched a surprise attack calmly. Sun Changle's 5,000 infantry slowly advanced, and two cavalry with a size of 1,000 soldiers attacked left and right, harassing and covering. Even if an experienced commander can't guess Li Mi's real purpose, he should be dispatched. A cavalry with an absolute advantage attacked one of the two harassing cavalry of Li Mi's army, quickly killed it, and then found an opportunity to attack the flanks or rear of the infantry of Li Mi's army, eating up Li Mi's attack bit by bit However, Sima Dekan chose to send two cavalry of the same size to meet the two cavalry of Li Mi's army separately, and ordered the infantry to stabilize their positions to meet Li Mi's infantry with a firm formation.
It cannot be said that what Sima Dekan did was wrong. The left wing of the Xiaoguo army actually has the upper hand, and the Chinese army uses defense instead of attack to preserve its strength. The main force of the Chinese army. However, Sima Dekan's seemingly safe choice, which did not seem too bad, brought opportunities to Li Mi, and also brought the danger of failure to the self-army.
The biggest danger for the Xiaoguo Army is of course Zhang Tonger, who brings his own dry food to serve as internal support for Li Mi. The letter was being held in Li Mi's hand, and he could take it out at any time to kill Zhang Tong'er. Several direct subordinates and ten school lieutenants who actually commanded the troops had already contacted each other, knowing that Zhang Tong'er was going to rebel At any time, the wind may leak out and bring disaster to Zhang Tonger, so when he saw the infantry of Li Mi's army approaching the self-army position, Zhang Tonger was immediately forced to make a choice.
Stabilized their ground and resolutely blocked the infantry of Li Mi's army. As soon as the messenger who conveyed Sima De's military order left, several subordinates from the same village gathered together and asked Zhang Tong'er in a low voice, "General, what should we do? Do you want to do it?" ?”
With a gloomy face, he looked at the Li Mijun infantry slowly approaching ahead, and then turned his head to look at the Huajixiong banner formation behind him. Under the banner formation, a large number of Xiaoguo cavalry soldiers were lining up for orders. Zhang Tonger's expression was even more hesitant— This is taking a risk with your head tied to your belt, and you can't do it without hesitation. The subordinates next to him were inevitably even more anxious when they saw it, and they all urged: "General, it's time to make up your mind. If you don't decide whether to act, it will be too late."
"Get ready first, and wait for my order." Zhang Tong'er replied with a hoarse voice, her heart continued to be overwhelmed, and cold sweat also seeped into her forehead in the cold wind.
The cavalry of the Li Mi army led by Yang Defang and Zheng Detao is fighting and walking with the cavalry of the Xiaoguo army, and the Li Mi army cavalry led by Sun Changle is also slowly advancing. Although the speed is slow, they are gradually approaching the range of Zhang Tonger's bow and arrows. Just when Zhang Tong'er was becoming more and more hesitant and nervous, a horse from behind Sun Changle's army suddenly rushed towards Zhang Tong'er's army with a white flag in his hand. He rushed to him and shouted: "General Zhang Tong'er, the time has come. If it's not going to happen now, when will it be? Are you going to break the promise you sent an envoy to Duke Wei?"
Hearing the yelling of the soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army, Zhang Tong'er had no choice but raised his knife and shouted: "Brothers in Jiangdong, it's time to fight, all turn around and charge to kill Yu Wenhua!" And rebels, go back to Jiangdong's hometown!"
"All turn around!" Zhang Tong'er's more than a dozen comrades shouted loudly one after another, roaring: "Turn around and charge, kill Yu Wenhua and the traitors, and return to Jiangdong's hometown!"
Zhang Tonger's army was in chaos for a moment without fighting. Some soldiers turned around immediately or reflexively turned around under the requirements of the military order, and pointed their guns at the Huaji brother flag array in the rear, but most of the soldiers were dizzy and didn't know what to do Cuo, his eyes widened and he couldn't believe that all this was true. Sun Changle's army took the opportunity to charge forward, shouting and striding forward, and quickly rushed to Zhang Tong'er's army with almost no suppression of bows and arrows.
Chaos appeared in the square formation of the Xiaoguo Army, which was originally fairly neat. Countless soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army were stunned, and Brother Hua, who was yawning on the handsome chair wrapped in a bearskin blanket, also jumped up, startled. He shouted: "What's the matter? Zhang Tong'er, why is there such a sudden chaos?"
At this time, Zhang Tong'er had led a part of the army that obeyed the command to launch a shouting charge, brandishing knives and guns, and directly charged into the brother flag formation. Tong'er rushed directly into the Xiaoguo Army's phalanx, and the ace cavalry of the Li Mi Army behind them charged without hesitation while being overjoyed.
The situation on the battlefield where the Xiaoguo Army had a slight upper hand suddenly reversed. The Xiaoguo Army on the left and right flanks saw the sudden change in the central army. Immediately launched a counterattack on the spot, killing the panic-stricken Xiaoguo army to the point of being overwhelmed, and gained the upper hand almost in a blink of an eye.
At the same time, Li Mi also gave the general attack order without hesitation, beat the charge drum, and personally led the main force of the Chinese army to rush into the Chinese army position of brother Huaji. Brother Huaji, Sima Dekan and others didn't wake up like a dream until now, and hurriedly ordered the cavalry to stop the traitor Zhang Tong'er, trying to block the gap to buy time, but the cavalry of the Xiaoguo Army who attacked in a hurry were unable to charge at all. The advantage, before the horses could exert their force, they had already encountered Zhang Tong'er's army. Zhang Tong'er took the opportunity to lead the infantry into the gap between the cavalry, stabbing people and chopping down the horses, killing the cavalry of the Xiaoguo Army who were still running It was difficult to parry, and then Sun Changle also rushed forward with the army, and cooperated with Zhang Tong'er to attack the Xiaoguo army who was in a hurry.
The balance of victory began to tilt towards the combined forces of Wang and Li. The Xiaoguo Army, which was affected by Zhang Tonger's rebellion, was in chaos from top to bottom. Not to mention facing the general attack of Li Mi's army with a strict formation, they just wanted to effectively command all armies and departments Facing the battle was full of difficulties, especially the Xiaoguo army adjacent to Zhang Tong'er. They had to face the impact of the enemy and their own defeated troops, and also had to guard against the main force of Li Mi's army who was charging to kill them. Li Mijun, who had successfully entered the Xiaoguo Army's phalanx from Zhang Tong'er's position, kept the formation intact. When the main force rushed forward, several troops in the southeast corner of the Xiaoguo Army also collapsed, fleeing from top to bottom, and then disrupted the other Xiaoguo Army positions.
Wang Shichong also gave the general offensive order without hesitation. More than 20,000 Dongdu soldiers used the Huainan warriors as arrows and cavalry cavalry to beat the flustered Chen Zhilue, and then quickly smashed the Xiaoguo infantry who was also flustered. Drive them to Hua and Brother Zhongjun and advance quickly. The situation of Fan Wenchao and Meng Jing on the left wing is slightly better, but they can barely maintain the appearance of being defeated, and the morale of the army is also declining rapidly. The cavalry fought bitterly and quickly gained the upper hand.
The wind and snow were obviously stronger, and the situation of the battle was much more unfavorable to the Xiaoguo Army. Although Brother Huaji still had more than 10,000 cavalry at his disposal, the sudden collapse of the front army severely reduced the charge of the Xiaoguo Army cavalry Space, the cavalry who can't charge can't take advantage of the group charge at all, and can only step forward to block the enemy at the same speed as the infantry. The fight was miserable and difficult to parry, and the situation of the battle could not be reversed at all.
The most important thing in cold weapon warfare is the morale of the army. When the morale of the army is flustered and the morale declines, the weakness of the Xiaoguo army who is seriously injured is also quickly exposed. Following the rapid decline in morale, the generals and soldiers were all panicked, subconsciously looking for escape routes, no longer just wanting to kill the enemy in front of them and regain their way of life, Brother Hua Ji even jumped on the horse in disappointment, ready to run away at any time Get ready. Wang Li's allied army advanced triumphantly, defeating the Xiaoguo army steadily, and gradually showing signs of complete collapse.
At this point in the battle, the Xiaoguo army dare not say that the defeat is settled. Basically, as long as there are no accidents, a disastrous defeat is doomed to be inevitable. Both Wang Shichong and Li Mi understand this truth, so Li Mi and Wang Shichong both I couldn't help laughing wildly on the battlefield, "We're sure to win!"
"Woo! Boom, boom, boom!"
At a critical moment, an accident suddenly occurred. The sound of war drums and horns suddenly came from the depths of Mang Mountain in the northwest. At the same time, there were three blue and white smoke going straight into the sky, which quickly attracted the attention of many soldiers on the battlefield. Li Mi and Wang Shichong also quickly noticed the sound of war drums and horns. At this point, when I looked up and saw the wolf smoke, I couldn't help being stunned, and said to myself: "What are you doing with the wolf smoke? Is there an ambush?"
There was indeed an ambush, and soon, about a school of cavalry rushed out of the mountain forest with the banner of the Xiaoguo Army, and went round to the flag formation where only a few drummers and horn players were left. The Wang Li Lianjun of the various ministries of the Guo army had no time to stop them. Seeing this scene in the rebellious army, Brother Hua Ji, Sima Dekan and others were also dumbfounded, and exclaimed: "When did we ambush the army there? Who arranged the ambush, why don't I know?"
It doesn't matter who arranged the ambushes, seeing the sudden appearance of the ambush from the own army at a critical moment, although the number is very pitiful, all the soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army who saw this situation were still greatly encouraged, and their morale rebounded. Crashed, began to be able to resist the enemy's attack effectively. The cavalry of the Xiaoguo Army, whether soldiers or horses, were obviously carefully selected. The speed of the charge was astonishingly fast, and the formation was always intact. Wang Shichong sent hundreds of infantry forward in his busy schedule. They quickly bypassed them and watched them fly towards the flag array left by Li Mi.
Although a little caught off guard, the few remaining defenders in Li Mi's banner lined up quickly to intercept them. However, before they could fight the cavalry of the Xiaoguo Army, more than a dozen gunpowder bottles flew on their heads first. Their formation was in chaos, and the cavalry of the Xiaoguo Army also took the opportunity to rush through their position, rushed to the Li Mi flag formation and quickly chopped down several military flags, and then rushed to the back of the main force of Li Mi's army.
The furious Li Mi's rear army immediately turned around to fight, but what stunned Li Mi's army was that the cavalry of the Xiaoguo army suddenly pushed out a man who looked like Li Mi and shouted neatly: "We have caught Li Mi! We caught Li Mi! We caught Li Mi!"
Shouting, the cavalry of the Xiaoguo Army did not engage in battle with Li Mi's rear army at all. They adjusted their direction slightly to avoid the interception of Li Mi's rear army, and then quickly approached the other troops of Li Mi's army, shouting that we have captured Li Mi. slogans, and kept making the man who looked like Li Mi publicize in front of the various armies, proving that they had indeed succeeded in raiding Li Mi's army banner and successfully captured Li Mi himself.
Not to mention, this team of Xiaoguo army really played a role in pulling a thousand catties. Hearing the shouts and seeing the captives who looked like Li Mi's thief, Li Mi's army was in chaos, and the Dongdu army under Wang Shichong was also dumbfounded. Li Mizhen was unfortunately captured, but the best result was the Xiaoguo Army. Hearing these shouts, the soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army immediately boosted their morale, yelling and fighting the enemy with their lives, regaining some advantages Chen Zhilue, the general of the Xiaoguo Army who had close contact with this mysterious Xiaoguo Army, lived up to his name. He was so blessed that he made his soldiers shout the slogan of capturing Li Mi, which inspired the army and attacked the morale of the enemy.
One can imagine how angry Li Mi was when he received this report, and when he saw the mysterious Xiaoguo cavalry fled westward after ostentatiously, Li Mi woke up and cursed: "It's the Guanzhong army! It's the Guanzhong army!" That gang pretended to be Xiaoguo army to trap us! Come on, let Yang Defang lead the cavalry in pursuit, no matter where you chase, you must catch up with me, and bring some prisoners back!"
It was quite difficult to deliver news among the chaotic army. When Yang Defang received the order, the mysterious cavalry of the Xiaoguo Army had already fled to the edge of his field of vision, but Yang Defang led his troops in pursuit without hesitation. Leaving aside the Xiaoguo army, the morale of the Xiaoguo army has risen because of the disturbance of this mysterious friendly army. Even though they are still at a disadvantage, the army is no longer as chaotic as before. At the same time, the three forces that were fighting fiercely also gradually noticed a new change - several blue and black smoke rose from the south direction! The wolf smoke went straight into the sky, and I don't know where the emergency is!
Li Mi and Wang Shichong also quickly noticed the existence of the wolf smoke in the south, and when they quickly identified the location in shock, Wang Shichong was immediately relieved, because the wolf smoke was far away from the city of the eastern capital, and it was obvious that the eastern capital was not in a hurry, so they also observed the location But Li Mi's black face turned white all of a sudden - because the position of those few beacons was exactly where Wang Bodang's camp was!
(The author can't verify how far the beacon can send the signal, but it is clearly recorded in "Wu Jing Zongyao" that the Tang Dynasty set up a beacon tower every 30 miles, so the straight-line distance is more than 20 miles. You should be able to see the wolf smoke from Wang Bodang's camp. At the same time, in terms of map scale, the distance between Jinyong City and Luoshui is also slightly closer than the distance between Heishibao and Luokou Cang, which was once hit in history. Wang Shichong at the base of the city retreated in a hurry because of the six fires of fire at Heishibao, where the grain was stored, and was defeated by Li Mijun's counterattack.)
Li Mi did not agree with Wang Bodang on the emergency signal of the wolf smoke in advance, but the more this happened, the more anxious Li Mi became, fearing that his lover was in danger and forced to call for help, so he could only send a quick horse south to find out the news. At the same time, the Xiaoguo army also woke up, Sima Dekan and Fan Wenchao and other quick-minded people immediately yelled and ordered, "Shout loudly, Li Mi was successfully attacked by us behind the back, we will win, kill! !"
"We succeeded in sneak attacking Li Mi's back, we are sure to win! Kill!"
"We burned the food and grass of Li Mi's bandit army and captured Li Mi himself. We are sure to win! Brothers, kill!"
Amidst the shouting and shouting, I saw with my own eyes that Li Mi was in a hurry at the rear. The morale of the Xiaoguo army suddenly rose sharply, and quickly reversed the situation that was about to collapse. With red eyes, they swung their knives and guns and fought desperately with the Wang Li Lianjun. Although the result was irreversible However, the battle situation also brought a large number of casualties to Li Mi and Wang Shichong's army, forcing Wang Shichong, Li Mi and them to fight the meat grinder-style war of attrition that they least wanted to fight. Under the command of Sima Dekan, he launched a roundabout charge, detoured to win the charge space, and then violently charged Wang Shichong and Li Mi, who had messed up their formation during the general attack, effectively sharing the pressure for the main force.
If Li Mi had clairvoyance and could see and hear what happened on the south bank of Luoshui, then Li Mi would definitely be so angry that he vomited blood on the spot.
In fact, at the same time that the mysterious Xiaoguo army ignited the smoke, Pei Shufang also returned to Wang Bodang's army with Li Mi's verbal order, conveyed Li Mi's order to Wang Bodang who was confronting Li Keshi, and agreed to let Li Mi Li Keshi bypassed Wang Bodang's camp and went eastward. Wang Bodang gritted his teeth, endured the humiliation, and patted his horse out of the battle, asking Li Keshi to come out and answer. However, at this moment, something that surprised Wang Bodang happened. , but several piles of bonfires were lit one after another. The bonfires lit with a mixture of wormwood, reeds, stems and leaves, cow and sheep dung, and hay emitted green and black smoke, which went straight up and quickly rushed tens of feet into the sky, as if they were heading towards the sky. Where is the signal.
"Who is Master Li asking for help? Could it be that he has a rear army or an ambush?"
When Wang Bodang was thinking hard about this problem, Li Keshi had already stepped out of the battle, and shouted first: "General Bodang, I have some bad news for you. I just received an urgent report from Kuaima, your mentor, Mr. Unfortunately, he was captured alive by the Yuwen bandits on the battlefield!"
"What did you say?!" Wang Bodang's shock was no small matter, he exclaimed and asked, "How is it possible that my teacher was captured alive by the bandits?"
"If you don't believe me, you can send someone to Jinyong City to investigate." Li Keshi said calmly, "Or you can wait a little longer. Your scouts should have news coming soon."
Seeing Master Li's confident attitude, Uncle Wang naturally did not dare to neglect, so he quickly sent a fast horse across the north to investigate. : "General Bodang, thank you very much, but now that your mentor has been captured by the bandits, we need to re-discuss whether to continue eastward. You should retreat back to the camp first, and I promise not to pursue."
Wang Bodang finally realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly shouted and asked: "Master Li Ke, why is your army lighting wolf smoke? There is no reason, why do you want to light wolf smoke!"
"Ping Anyan." Master Li's nonsense skills are really good, and he replied casually: "Just like the beacon tower reports safety every day, it reports the safety of our army's camp, so that our soldiers guarding the camp can feel at ease."
"Damn!" Wang Bodang couldn't bear it any longer. He roared and asked, "There is wolf smoke in the north. You must have planned to light it here too! Say, what do you want to do?"
"Wang Bodang, what kind of thing are you, you dare to question me like this?" Li Keshi immediately tore his face, and said with a sneer: "This official is the son of heaven's minion, the fifth-rank Sanqi servant canonized by Emperor Yining of the Great Sui Dynasty, you alone A reckless villager, dare to speak like this in front of this official?"
Wang Bodang was furious, raised his spear and shouted: "Master Li Ke, you man! How dare you fight me for three hundred rounds?"
"I can't ask for it!" Master Li Keshi, who was less qualified as a soldier, really couldn't ask for it. As soon as he moved his horse, he slapped his horse and charged, and shouted loudly, "Grass bandit and wild thief, take your life!"
Wang Bodang stepped forward to face Li Keshi with a straight lance, which was actually very rare in the era of cold weapons. However, after only a few rounds of fighting, Wang Bodang began to regret it, because Li Keshi Ke Shi's martial arts skills are really good, especially his arm strength is even more astonishing. During the impact of the lance, the horse lance in Wang Bodang's hand was almost smashed by Li Keshi. Dare to compete with Master Li Ke again in the sniping method, sell a flaw and go away, quickly steal the bow and arrow while running, nock the arrow to the string, and suddenly turn back immediately when the bow is full of moon! However…
However, Wang Bodang's pupils contracted violently, because when he turned his head, he suddenly saw that Li Keshi had also drawn the fabled sheep's horse bow, and Li Guang left the rhubarb arrowhead as bright as silver, shining brightly. Wang Bodang has been pointed at. Wang Bodang had no choice but to roar and shoot an arrow, "Go to hell!"
"Looking for death!" At the same time as he yelled, Li Keshi's sharp arrow also fell off the string. At the same time, Li Keshi came and rolled over to avoid arrows, and Wang Bodang quickly dodged with his saddle...
On the west side of Jinyong City, the Li Mijun cavalry led by Yang Defang finally caught up with the mysterious Xiaoguo cavalry after more than 30 miles of pursuit without hesitation. His face was ashen and frightening, because the mysterious Xiaoguo cavalry reined in their horses by themselves. The reason they reined in by themselves was that they had already joined up with the Guanzhong Sui army from Xin'an, and entered directly into the The cavalry team brought by Xian Yuzhi was protected.
Knowing that the self-army is still an ally of Chen Sangliang in terms of reputation, Yang Defang sent an envoy to come forward rationally, asking why Xian Yuzhi accepted the subordinates of the anti-thief Yu Wenhuaji? In the end, I got an answer that was even more ridiculous than Li Keshi, "They have already surrendered to us, of course we must protect these captives who voluntarily surrendered."
"Are you tearing your face apart? Go directly to war with the subordinates of Chen Yingliang's traitor?"
Like Wang Bodang, Yang Defang also faced this difficult choice. In the end, considering that this was not the way to go, Yang Defang simply threatened and lured Xian Yuzhi himself, demanding that Xian Yuzhi hand over those so-called prisoners—at least a few of those so-called prisoners. In the end, Xian Yuzhi replied straightforwardly: "Dream! How could we give up the captives we captured to you? If you want captives, come and take them if you can!"
"Brothers, go! Capture those thieves!" Yang Defang couldn't bear it and ordered to attack, "I will bear the consequences! Kill them!"
Yang Defang's army shouted, but Xian Yuzhi raised his hands coldly, and the cavalry of the Sui army lined up also raised their bows and arrows neatly. They shot at the cavalry of Li Mi's army who had exhausted their physical strength between charging and chasing.