There was a big river in front of him, and Gai She's 200,000-strong Black Mountain Army could not get through.
In the firelight on the other side of the river, you can see wolf cavalry galloping freely, and you can see that the Han infantry has gradually dispersed. On the big river, the naval warships of the Han people began to withdraw slowly. When the situation of the battle could no longer be changed, it was reasonable for the navy to leave for self-protection.
Gai She's brows were furrowed deeply, and he was full of doubts.
Why did Fang Jie make such a mistake
It is definitely not a good thing for the Black Banner Army to let the big ship take all the wolf cavalry to the other side of the river. Hard to win. How could someone like Fang Xie fail to consider such a situation
Gai She firmly believes that Fang Jie is not someone who will feel that everything is safe after a paper agreement.
Because of this suspicion, Gai She always felt that what he saw was false. No matter how real the fight on the other side seemed, he still felt it was fake. If it were someone else, they might have ordered the building of a pontoon bridge to prepare to cross the river, because neither side on the other side of the river had enough power to prevent the Black Mountain Army from crossing the river. During the period of fighting in the Central Plains, especially in the many battles preparing to forcibly cross the Yishui River, the Montenegrin Army had already learned how the Han people built pontoon bridges.
Although it will be dawn until the pontoon bridge is built in a hurry, this opportunity is undoubtedly a great temptation for the Black Mountain Army.
In one battle, Meng Ge and Fang Jie can be eliminated.
but
Gai She is an excellent general. His experience in leading troops in hundreds of battles tells him that such temptations look delicious, but they are often traps. If you rush over because of gluttony, the delicious food on the opposite side will turn into a ferocious and terrifying beast in an instant.
"General?"
The confidant next to him called him tentatively: "Do you want to order to prepare to cross the river? If you start preparing the pontoon bridge now, it will be ready before dawn."
Gai She shook his head: "If we go there now, we will be ambushed halfway through the river. I decided to come back before because this is indeed an opportunity. But now it seems that this sudden opportunity may be the enemy. An illusion created by joint efforts."
"Then what shall we do?"
asked his cronies.
Gai She turned his head and glanced at the Xiao cavalry school who fell unconscious on the ground not far away, and his frown deepened. He has already sent his men with good cultivation to cross the river to find out. If there are really great practitioners fighting against each other, they will not be able to hide it from others. If it is confirmed that Fang Jie is really entangled by a great practitioner of unknown origin and unable to separate himself, then it is somewhat possible that Meng Ge took the opportunity to lead the army to attack.
Before this matter is confirmed, Gai She decided to wait and see here.
Time passed slowly, and the moon slowly moved from one side of the sky to the other. The sound of fighting on the other side has gradually subsided, and when the east was showing its belly, there were not many people on the other side of the river. However, through the clairvoyance, the corpses in that place can be seen.
There are war horses that have lost their masters and stand there, waiting for their masters to wake up and fight side by side again.
Gai She didn't sleep all night, he walked up to the high slope from time to time to observe the situation on the opposite side.
When the sun became brighter, Gai She's expression was still a little anxious. Analyzing from the scenes seen so far, there is no doubt that the Han people were defeated. Looking at the clothes, most of the dead bodies on the ground belonged to Han Chinese. Although there are also corpses of Mongolian wolf knight soldiers, the number is much smaller than that of the Han people.
The fact that there are not many people on the other side does not mean that the fighting is over. It should be that the Mengyuan people are chasing and chasing the retreating Black Banner Army. On the other side of the river is the Shujing Road of the Sui Dynasty. There is no dangerous place on the Shujing Road. From Yishui to the east, until the junction with Jiangbei Road, there are endless mountains.
If the Han people are defeated, they can only be hunted down by the Mongolian people on at least a few hundred miles of plains. When Emperor Taizu of the Sui Dynasty Yang Jian fought the first battle with the Mengyuan people in the northwest, he relied on the spear array to make the light cavalry suffer. Coming and going like the wind on the grassland is used to rushing and killing wolf cavalry, and it is indeed too arrogant to face the Han infantry in formation for the first time. According to their habits, they thought that a single charge would kill all the enemies, but when they rushed over, they realized that it was not a delicious cake at all, but a quagmire.
After falling into the gun formation, it was difficult for the light cavalry to move, and the soldiers sitting on horseback were simply the targets of the spearmen, and they were all right.
Because of that arrogance, the Mengyuan people paid a very painful price in the first battle. Some people may not believe that the Sui soldiers were far inferior to the wolf cavalry in that battle, and they fought against the cavalry with infantry. As a result, the number of soldiers killed by the wolf cavalry was more than double the number of soldiers killed by the Sui soldiers. .
But this is not absolute. The reason why the Han Chinese infantry were so brilliant in that battle was firstly because of the arrogance of the wolf cavalry, and secondly because the wolf cavalry did not understand the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty.
With such a great victory, of course, don't forget the nearly 700,000 elite soldiers who were buried on the grassland during Emperor Tianyou's first western expedition. Once the spearmen and shieldmen form an formation, the light cavalry really has nothing to do. But once the infantry turns around and starts to flee, what else can the light cavalry do besides slaughter to their heart's content
On the grassland, the nearly 700,000 elite infantrymen who exposed their backs to the wolf cavalry were chased and slaughtered by the wolf cavalry in this way.
It seems that the defeat of the Black Banner Army is exactly the same as the defeat of the Sui Army on the grassland.
"A scout is back!"
A personal guard came over and bowed his head to Gai She: "General, some of the scouts sent across the river have returned, and they brought back very important news!"
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"General."
The scout centurion who had just rushed back from the other side looked a little tired, and his face looked a little yellow because he hadn't slept all night, and he was running around, so his face was very bad. But even so, the excitement on his face could not be concealed. So in this tired yellow, there is another kind of excited red.
"Last night, the people of Meng Yuan really won."
The scout's voice was a little dry and hoarse, perhaps because he hadn't drank any water: "My subordinates found a few families of Han people who had taken refuge in a forest. People suddenly killed them, and the Black Banner Army was caught off guard and even the camp was breached. These people fled to the woods to hide, and escaped the massacre last night."
The scout centurion straightened his wording and continued: "According to the Han people, it seems that Fang Jie took the initiative to send a large boat to pick up the wolf cavalry. They were transported separately from the horses. When the wolf cavalry first arrived on the other side of the river, they were also stationed in camps divided by the Black Banner Army, and the horses were guarded by the Black Banner Army."
Hearing this, Gai She couldn't help asking, "Why did you fight later?"
The centurion said: "The few Han people don't know the details, but after dark, something happened suddenly in the camp of the Black Banner Army. They lived far away and saw visions in the camp. One of them happened to go to the camp. He just came back after delivering fish from the camp, and he saw a large cloud of blue mist suddenly appearing in the distance, with a radius of tens of meters, and immediately after that, the surrounding area of the mist shook like an earthquake, and even the ground was cracked. "
"At the beginning, the Han people were curious, and they leaned over to take a look. He said that many tents were rolled up by the hurricane, and then when he saw the place where the wind blew, people were immediately ground to pieces. He was too scared to stay and ran away, saying that he would never forget that terrible scene in his life."
The centurion swallowed and continued: "The subordinates speculated that it should be a battle between the great practitioners. Then someone saw the blue mist moving outside the camp, as if they didn't want the camp to be damaged. As if, he quickly moved outside the camp, and then headed east."
"Shortly after this vision, the Mengyuan people moved. It is said that the Mengyuan people took advantage of the chaos to attack the camp of the Black Banner Army, snatched the horses back, and then began to attack the camp of the Black Banner Army. I don’t know what’s wrong, the command of the Black Banner Army is in chaos, and there is almost no coordination among the battalions, so that the wolf cavalry rushed in at an extremely fast speed, killing through the Han camp in just an hour.”
After Gai She heard this, his tightly frowning brows relaxed a little.
"The cyan mist should be Fang Jie's Qingjie."
Gai She remembered very clearly what Fang Jie's world looked like. The two fought that day, although the time was short, the shock it brought to each other was immeasurable. Fang Jie fought head-to-head with Jie Hua Dao and his Dao Hua Jie, but Gai She failed to kill the enemy with a single blow, so Gai She retreated in fear.
After muttering something, Gai She asked, "Have you ever inquired about any old Taoist in the old Taoist robes in the Black Banner Army camp?"
"have!"
The centurion scout nodded vigorously: "Many people have seen this, and the few Han people on the riverside saw it with their own eyes. When Fang Jie sent a big boat to pick up the Mengyuan people across the river, the man in the worn-out Taoist robe The old Taoist appeared, and the reason why those Han people remember it so clearly is because the old Taoist was very strange... They said that the old Taoist was holding a chain in his hand, and the other end of the chain was wrapped around a person's neck It's like leading a dog, and the person being led is wearing a white monk robe and has handsome features."
"Comfortable!"
Gai She's expression changed suddenly.
The centurion didn't notice the change in Gai She's face, and continued: "The old Taoist led the man in the white monk's robe to talk to Fang Jie and Meng Yuan Dahan Mengge by the river, and then left. West."
Meng Ge's heart is like overwhelming!
Now it is almost certain that Da Zizai disappeared because he was captured by that old Taoist named Xiao Yijiu. As for where they went, Gai She guessed that nine out of ten they went to the Great Snow Mountain. And just after Xiao Yijiu left, a person with extremely strong cultivation came to fight Fang Xie, so that Fang Xie had to leave the camp in order to avoid losses. At that time, Meng Ge must have seen it with his own eyes. So Meng Ge immediately made a decision, ordered the wolf cavalry to snatch the horse back and then launched a surprise attack on the Black Banner Army.
All of this should be a coincidence.
If it wasn't for Xiao Yijiu's departure, and Fang Jie didn't have a great practitioner to help him, the mysterious visitor would never have dared to help him. After all, Xiao Yijiu's cultivation is so strong that few people in the world can match it.
Fang Jie fought fiercely with the mysterious great practitioner and left, giving Meng Ge hope. For someone like Meng Ge, he would naturally not give up such a golden opportunity. Therefore, the wolf cavalry suddenly showed their power, and it became easy for the Black Banner Army to be defeated without any precautions.
Gai She took a deep breath, his face gradually calmed down.
"Is this a coincidence?"
Gai She said to himself, although he had guessed all this in his heart, he was still a little puzzled.
"Prepare the pontoon, but don't act rashly without my order."
Gai She turned around and said: "I want to cross the river to see the situation in person. If there is no ambush, I will send a signal and you all cross the river immediately!"
"Obey!"
All the generals of the Black Mountain Army clasped their fists in response, and everyone's expressions were solemn and solemn.