Before Zhu Li finished speaking, he rode his horse and charged towards the enemy's formation.
Li Hanzhi behind him and more than a thousand Yue cavalrymen who had gone out of the city to watch the battle immediately heard the news and moved without any hesitation. They rode their horses and rushed towards the direction where Zhu Li was rushing.
If a general is willing to brave a rain of arrows, how can his soldiers be afraid of death
"Go ahead, kill all the Di dogs."
"Kill! The general is mighty and our army will surely win."
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Not to mention the rest of the cavalry, as soon as they saw Zhu Li charging forward, they immediately rushed out of the city gate and charged towards the enemy formation without stopping.
Gao Yuan, He Huihu and Zhang Guimou, who were on the city wall, saw this scene. Gao Yuan immediately told Zhang Guimou to guard the city. He and He Huihu immediately ran down the city wall and commanded the Xianzhen Camp that was ready for battle. They rushed out of the city gate with other palace guards and attacked the coalition forces.
Once the number of people exceeded ten thousand, there was no end in sight.
In the eyes of ordinary Di soldiers, they saw countless Heshuo soldiers coming out of Yizhou city with great momentum, one after another, endlessly and they had no idea how many troops the other side had.
But not all the coalition forces were incompetent, for example, the Khitan commander Yelu Pugu, and the Mighty Army commander Li Quanzhong, both believed that Zhu Li's reckless behavior would not end well.
Although the general of the coalition army was defeated, causing the morale of the entire army to drop, the coalition army had a large number of troops. The Khitan elite cavalry alone had nearly 100,000 people. Add to that the Xi people, the Mighty Army, the soldiers of Weizhou Prefecture, and the troops who followed Liu Rengong in the rebellion, and the total number of troops should be at least 200,000.
Zhu Li led 20,000 troops to charge into the battle line. Isn't this courting death
But in fact, conquest does not rely on large numbers of people. If there were more people, the Han nation would have occupied the world long ago.
Just when Yelu Pugu and Li Quanzhong were about to mobilize infantry archers and spearmen to encircle and kill Zhu Li, they suddenly saw the Xi leader Tules, who, without saying a word, immediately turned his horse around and led the Xi army to retreat in panic, like a rabbit in a rage.
When two armies confront each other, only if they advance and retreat in an orderly manner and their military formations are not in disorder can their morale be guaranteed.
But if the retreat is disorganized and resembles a hasty escape, then you can only wish for the best. To put it bluntly, the rout of more than a thousand people could lead to the collapse of the entire army.
What’s more, the Xi people’s elite cavalry number more than a thousand.
The Xi people's retreat was very sudden and hasty, which instantly caused countless commotions among the coalition forces.
The Khitan knights, the Mighty Army soldiers, and the Youzhou rebels, who were originally ready for battle, suddenly became hesitant, with uncertain expressions on their faces. They didn't know whether they should escape or continue to hold their positions.
Tule's escape not only affected ordinary soldiers, but even Li Quanzhong, who was eager to try, was dumbfounded.
"Bastard, what is he doing?" Li Quanzhong was extremely furious and immediately pointed in the direction of the Xi people and shouted.
It's no wonder that he was so angry. He and the Xi people were like grasshoppers tied to the same rope.
Li Quanzhong marched westward to Jizhou and attacked Youzhou. His greatest reliance was the elite cavalry of the Xi people. Now the very people he relied on didn't even say a word and just turned around and ran away. How could he not be angry
One of Li Quanzhong's generals looked at the Xi cavalry retreating in panic and said in a daze, "General, they, they seem to want to run away."
"Asshole." Li Quanzhong naturally knew what Tule was doing, and when he got the confirmation from Ya Jiang, he was furious.
Tules was no mediocre man. If his two brave generals, Wu Zhiyi and Qu Tuquan, were still alive, he would never have left in such a hurry.
Zhu Li slaughtered two pillar generals like chickens and dogs. He no longer has any capable generals at his disposal. If he stays, who will guarantee his life
At this time, anyone who looked back would know why Tules ran away so easily.
There was no other reason. The direction in which Zhu Li was riding his horse was exactly where the Xi people were. Having witnessed Zhu Li's bravery with his own eyes, how could Tules dare to joke with his life without the protection of a brave general
To put it bluntly, with Zhu Li's strength, it is not difficult for him to take the general's head in the midst of thousands of troops.
Tules was unwilling to take the risk, and even more unwilling to be used as a gun by the Khitans. Once something happened to him, the entire Yingzhou would definitely fall into the hands of the Khitans. This was simply a louse on a monk's head, an obvious thing.
The Di people outside the Great Wall not only had occasional conflicts with the Tang court, but also had many conflicts with each other. The Xi people, the Khitan people,
They are in a relationship of mutual exploitation and competition. At this time, expecting Tules to fight at the front is like looking at the moon on the 30th night. There is no hope.
"Kill him! Capture the Khan alive and make him a general."
"Charge! The Di people are escaping. Don't let them get away."
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The Xi people fled, and the Heshuo soldiers rushed forward like tigers. Officers at all levels, as if they had drunk too much stimulant, dared to say anything to motivate their subordinates.
The speaker may not mean it, but the listener may take it seriously. After hearing such slogans, Tules ran away even faster.
In addition, Zhu Li rode at a speed far beyond the enemy lines and had already charged into the rear of the Xi people. He swung his double-edged swords like rain and swept across the land invincible. After his Red Hare passed by, all that was left was a mess and body parts strewn all over the ground.
A Xi knight just heard the noise behind him and turned back in horror to look at the situation. In just this moment of delay, a bloody hole suddenly appeared on his throat. The spurting blood made the soldiers around him look even paler.
In the eyes of the Xi knights, Zhu Li was not a human being, but a world-destroying devil. Instead of swinging the scimitars in their hands at Zhu Li, they stabbed them into the buttocks of their horses. They just wanted to stay as far away from Zhu Li as possible.
When Li Hanzhi led the Yaqi to charge into the army, the Xi army formation completely collapsed. The commander fled without fighting, which had doomed their fate. The remaining knights had no choice but to be slaughtered.
The defeat of the Xi people made Li Quanzhong, whose face was so gloomy that water could be squeezed out of it, no longer have any extravagant thoughts and immediately led his troops to retreat.
At this time, Gao Yuan's trap camp, like an old hedgehog that had survived millions of years, shouted the slogan "Determination to break through the enemy lines, only advance and never retreat", and rushed into the formation of the Mighty Army. Wherever they passed, blood flew all over the sky and wails were heard.
Although Li Quanzhong had numerous brave generals under his command, the formation of the Xianzhen Camp was tight and watertight. Facing such a formation, even the bravest general would have no idea where to start.
Many brave generals of the mighty army attacked desperately for a long time, but not only did they fail to shake the large shields on the outside, but their own horses were pierced with countless bloody holes in an instant.
The war horses were exhausted and fell down with a scream. The mighty generals riding tall horses immediately fell to the ground in a standard dog-eating-shit posture. Those who were lucky could still get up and run back in the same direction; those who were unlucky had already been trampled into meat paste by countless other horses' hooves.
That's not all. Occasionally, several cold rays would suddenly shoot out from the gaps in the giant shield. Those were crossbow arrows from powerful crossbows. The Xi people's simple leather armor could not defend against such piercings at all. They were caught off guard and shot into a hornet's nest in an instant.
Faced with this unbreakable and indestructible military formation, Li Quanzhong could only fight and retreat in frustration, and wherever the Xianzhen Camp passed, there were mutilated corpses and, of course, bloody trenches left behind.
Looking at the Khitan army again, Zhu Ya was in high spirits and invincible. Without Tuoba Yi and Juqu Mengxun, almost no one could match him. Unable to catch up with the fleeing Tuoba Yi and the other two, Zhu Ya immediately locked his sights on the general's flag.
As the Overlord Spear flew around, the Khitan warriors along the way were either killed or injured. Although he was charging into the battle alone, no one had been able to touch him until now. Even the warhorse under him was protected by him and was completely unharmed.
When Yelu Pugu saw the ferocious Zhu Ya, he no longer cared about surrounding and killing Zhu Li.
I cursed secretly in my heart, is this guy in bright armor and a helmet on his head really a human
The feather arrows couldn't even penetrate the armor on his body, and he was wearing a helmet on his head that looked like an iron shell. It was like a lump of iron that could not be broken or smashed.
What's even more hateful is that this guy actually rushed towards him desperately. What does the other party want to do? When Yelu Pugu thought that the other party was going for his head, he felt a chill down his spine.
Will he give Zhu Ya a chance
Obviously not. Yelu Pugu turned around and walked away, directly into the crowd of countless cavalrymen, leaving Zhu Ya with a resolute back.
On the other side, He Huihu, waving the machete in his hand, rushed towards Liu Rengong's army fiercely and swiftly.
Although Liu Rengong lost the brave general Liu Ao, he still had the generals Zhao Ba and Zhang Wenli to use. What's more, his three tiger sons were all there. He was not afraid of the attack from the He Uighurs.
But now, the Xi people were defeated, and Li Quanzhong was unable to take care of himself. Even the Khitan commander's flag was moved to the rear of the army again and again.
At this time, unless he was mentally ill, he would not get entangled with He Huihu.
Liu Rengong decisively ordered Zhao Ba to cover the rear. He took Zhang Wenli and his three sons with him and rushed into the army, retreating quickly towards the Juma River.
If a general is incompetent, the whole army will be exhausted.
The commanders of the various coalition forces were not incompetent, but they all had their own calculations and were not on the same page. In addition, Zhu Li and Zhu Ya were like tigers out of a cage, and wherever they went, gods and ghosts were afraid.
There was also Gao Yuan's trap camp, which only advanced and never retreated. Anyone who stood in the way would die, and any general who tried to stop him would die. Not to mention, the morale of the Heshuo Army's soldiers was at its peak, and almost all of them were vigorous and fearless.
Under this powerful force, the coalition forces' collapse began to expand gradually, affecting a wider and wider range.
When Zhu Ya, like a follower, chased and killed the Khitan commander Yelu Pugu, Yelu Pugu no longer cared about giving orders and fled on his horse. At the critical moment, he still chose to save his life, and the Khitan elite cavalry immediately began to collapse completely.
Only water with a dam can flow downstream; water from a broken dam will rush in all directions.