Chapter 902 Kill the general and capture the flag

Chapter 902 Kill the general and capture the flag

There is a tributary to the east of Gushui called Xiaoshui. It was originally the place where Wang Xiang, the king of Langya in the Western Jin Dynasty, lay on the ice looking for carp, hence the name. Now it is the deep winter season when the wind, snow and cold freeze the rivers, but here in Xiaoshui there are no filial sons lying on the ice looking for carp, but only thousands of troops and horses hunting with flags.

After arriving at Xin'an Hanguan, Li Bi has been trying to break through the defense system deployed by the Qi army around Zuojin, thereby expanding the scope of his army's activities. However, the fortifications set up by the Qi people nearby are very sophisticated and tight in layout. When any stronghold is attacked, there will be one or several nearby strongholds that can respond to the rescue. It can be said that one move can affect the whole body.

These fortifications are distributed like chess pieces in the wilderness of western Henan. Each fortification alone is not a dangerous fortress, and the number of soldiers stationed there is not too many. However, when combined with the Ranger Brigade, it becomes a whole. , it becomes dense and tough, making it impossible for people to break through.

Although Li Bi was both wise and brave, and had rich military experience, when faced with such enemy defense, he felt somewhat helpless for a while.

If he were to suppress the enemy with a large army, he could use his powerful troops to pull out these fortresses one by one. However, his current army only has less than 10,000 soldiers, and he does not carry heavy siege equipment. If he really wants to push it all the way. , I am afraid that the teacher will be exhausted before he can break out of the blockade in this area, let alone meet up with Heluo again.

Faced with such a situation, the only way to quickly break the situation is probably to attract the enemy's main force and seek opportunities in the field to defeat them. But now that the enemy is waiting for work, and with such a comprehensive and meticulous defense arrangement, I am afraid that they will not easily take the initiative to fight, giving up their geographical advantages and engaging in field battles.

Therefore, Li Bi was also planning to advance the entire army when necessary and use his body as bait to attract the main force of the enemy's army for battle. If the enemy still refuses to fight, then they will directly abandon the confrontation at the border city and move his troops to the vicinity of Zhangshui in the northwest corner of Heluo just like Li Boshan did before, thereby gaining control over the entire Heluo area.

However, before Li Bi decided which plan to adopt, the enemy army, which he thought would not take the initiative to attack, actually took the initiative to form a formation in the field and came to invite a fight, which greatly cheered him up.

Although the enemy's response was exactly what Li Bi wanted, he still needed to defeat the enemy to break the situation, and this was by no means an easy thing to accomplish.

Tens of thousands of enemy troops came in force from Jinyong City, and based on the two fortifications between Gushui and Xiaoshui, they set up two large-scale formations. The hard ice seals the river surface, making this river valley a complete battlefield.

Accompanied by the exciting sound of war drums and the new wind blowing from the north, Li Bi also led his troops into the field. Each other's formations advanced separately, and when they were close to a certain distance, the cavalry teams in their respective formations went straight towards the enemy's formation like arrows off their strings.

In the vast wilderness, the torrent of steel formed by the soldiers from both sides collided without any tricks. At the front of the contact, there was a tragic scene of people being turned upside down, with muscles and bones broken.

Since the Northern Qi army had several times the number of troops in the Western Wei Dynasty, the cavalry also outnumbered them. The enemy cavalry was divided into several teams, two of which were responsible for harassing and blocking the light cavalry charging from the Western Wei Dynasty, while the other cavalry teams were attacking the enemy's infantry formations in the wilderness.

"Stick to your position and don't retreat!"

Li Bi stood under the Chinese army's banner. In order to have a full view of the battlefield, he did not wear a battle helmet. The biting cold wind blew his gray beard and hair. His eyes were like an eagle watching the entire battlefield, and the war drums were accompanied by The change of flags conveyed his orders to everyone in the formation.

Real famous generals have the ability to turn decay into magical energy, and the Kansai Prefecture soldiers who have been reorganized over the years are by no means a bunch of decay and weakness. It is just because of the suppression of their arms that they have to form formations to defend themselves in the wilderness and resist. The enemy rangers bite and attack like wolves and tigers.

Under Li Bi's exquisite command, although the enemy cavalry gathered around the formation and launched attacks repeatedly, the entire formation remained motionless in the wilderness like a rock covered with thorns. Instead, those The enemy knights on the attacking side continued to suffer losses when they fell into battle.

The Western Wei Dynasty only had over 2,000 cavalrymen. Li Bi's brother Li Ge led a thousand of them to attack the enemy formation. However, in front of the enemy's heavy and solid formation, this thousand-man cavalry team was as small as a dancing mayfly. It was in vain. Wandering in vain.

Although Li Ge was short in stature, he was brave and courageous. He was not frightened because the enemy was outnumbered. When the battle in front of him could not move, he immediately led his troops to flee elsewhere and once again chose the direction and angle to attack the enemy formation. .

After several such tests, his troops had wandered to the side of the enemy formation. When they launched another charge, the enemy formation here finally wavered. As the soldiers on the periphery panicked and shrank inward, the flag-recognizing troops in the formation began to move. They also tilted and shifted involuntarily, which caused all the Sakon sergeants to lose their adjustment, and the enemy formation within a dozen feet in radius became a bit chaotic.

"The thief will be punished!"

Li Li leaned close to the horse's back, and the man and horse rushed into the enemy formation here as one, leaping like a dragon. Zhang Feng reached out from the horse's body nearly ten feet away, sweeping up and down, thrusting like the wind, with his own strength , actually fought out of a no-man's land that was more than ten feet wide in this battle. The armored soldiers behind them rode into this no-man's land, tearing a shocking huge crack in the side of the enemy's formation!

"Bang the drum! Keep attacking, we must capture and kill the enemy general!"

Gao Guiyan, who was in the Gushui formation, saw that the battle situation was unfavorable, and he suddenly felt anxious. He ordered his men to continue attacking the enemy's formation, hoping to use his strong strength to overwhelm the enemy's formation in the countryside.

As the enemy troops invested more and more troops, the Western Wei army formation, which was almost surrounded by enemy cavalry, suddenly felt more pressure. The range of the formation was suppressed, showing a thrilling death curve, and Li Bi's Chinese army was The location of Zuo was locked by several enemy cavalrymen, who were constantly trying to attack and get closer.

Finally, an enemy cavalry broke through the obstruction of the dense array of crossbows and spears on the outside, and charged towards the Chinese army with great momentum. The enemy general even sneered ferociously on horseback.

However, at this time, the front cavalry were like hitting an iron plate, and their momentum was blocked. What blocked them in front were heavy armored infantry who were almost armed to the teeth.

They were arranged in front of the Chinese army's banner at the core of the military formation. Like a copper heart wrapped in layers of iron sheets, they collided and shattered all the enemy soldiers who had gone through many hardships to get here. Li Bi, who was surrounded and protected by these strong and heavily armored soldiers, still stood unmoving under the flag, but his gray beard and hair were buried in the pockets to prevent stray arrows.

The enemy cavalry was unable to charge into the formation, but was trapped in the formation. As the Wei soldiers on both sides re-established the formation under the guidance of flags and drums, there were seven to eight hundred enemy cavalry lying dead in the formation in this confrontation alone!

"Your Majesty, the thieves are too tenacious, so we should withdraw our troops temporarily and take a short rest before fighting again!"

The governor of Luozhou suddenly saw the heavy casualties on the battlefield, and he couldn't help but feel worried for a while. He came to Gao Guiyan's tent and suggested to Gao Guiyan.

It should be noted that the people in front of them are not the only ones who are attacking this time. According to the current strategy, even if this enemy army is eliminated at any cost, they will inevitably suffer heavy losses. If the enemy army from the south breaks through the blockade again and comes, they may suffer heavy losses. Will be unable to fight anymore.

Gao Guiyan was also frowning and his face was tense at this moment. It was not that he had not experienced battles. In the past year, he followed Gao Yue to quell Hou Jing's rebellion and faced the Nanliang army. In recent years, he has followed Qi leader Gao Yang to fight in the fortress many times. In addition to A few years ago, he led his army to encounter Li Boshan of the Western Wei Dynasty in Huainan and was severely defeated. He had rarely suffered a defeat in his life, so he naturally had a lot of arrogance in his heart.

He had also heard the name of Wei General Li Bi, but he had never seen it with his own eyes. After this fight, he saw the tenacity of Li Bi, the general of the Western Wei Dynasty, and the soldiers of the Guanxi Prefecture. After hearing Bao Xian's suggestion, Then he nodded slowly and said, "Then let's withdraw our troops for now!"

As the drum order for the Qi army to retreat sounded, those Qi army cavalry who were still gathering and circling on the battlefield also withdrew in whole groups one after another, like the tide returning to the sea.

After the enemy retreated, the huge pressure on the Wei army suddenly dissipated. As the battle progressed, although the military formation was still strong, it suffered heavy casualties.

However, at the moment, Li Bi did not bother to count the battle losses. Instead, he took advantage of the enemy's retreat to regroup the hundreds of remaining war horses that had been scattered in the general's formation, and led hundreds of his followers to ride on their tails and kill towards the enemy. enemy position.

At this time, Li Ge, who had been wandering on the flank and unable to return to the formation, saw his brother leading his troops to charge out. He immediately ordered his troops to mount their horses again with a tacit understanding, and charged towards the enemy formation together from the side.

The soldiers of the Qi army who were called back to the formation had already lost their fighting spirit and were being pursued by the enemy. Even if there were only a few hundred enemies, no one wanted to fall behind and continue to fight with the enemy, so they all rode fast.

As a result, the originally relatively orderly retreat suddenly became chaotic. Many sergeants panicked and did not retreat to the prescribed position. Instead, they plunged directly into their own military formation, causing a considerable impact on the military formation. .

"What a courageous thief, he wants to die! If you want to fight, I will fight!"

When Gao Guiyan saw that the enemy dared to persist, his fighting spirit that had faded was suddenly aroused again. He immediately ordered to stop calling back the sergeants, and instead ordered to return to the battlefield to continue the charge.

However, as the drum order suddenly changed, the retreating Qi army soldiers on the battlefield suddenly became more confused and panicked, and returned to the main formation faster.

"Enter the enemy formation, kill the enemy and capture the flag!"

Seeing that the enemy formation was on the verge of collapse, Li Bi shouted loudly on his horse, waving the big spear in his hand and showing his heroic appearance, which was not inferior to that of a young man!

"Beat the general and seize the flag!"

The soldiers of the Western Wei Dynasty shouted loudly and attacked the Qi army, which was gradually showing its defeat. At this moment, a northwest wind swept across the wilderness, carrying violent wind and snow, and accompanied by the Wei army's cavalry, they smashed into the Western Exhibition Formation. The Qi army.

For a time, the sound of wind and snow in the wilderness, the neighing of horses, and the shouts of killing were all mixed together. The Qi army's formation rolled back like a wild wave, splashed and shattered. Gao Guiyan, the king of Ping Qin, saw that the situation was over, and his hands and feet became cold for a while. With the help of his trusted aide, he climbed onto his horse, then beat his mount desperately and ran backwards.