Chapter 1104 Burning the Enemy Formation

Chapter 1104 Burning the Enemy Formation

The battlefield incident that happened to the troops on the right side of the Qi army was quickly reported back to the Chinese army camp. Gao Yang, who was rejoicing at the breakthrough on the front, suddenly changed his face after learning about it. After a moment, he sighed. : "The Qiang thieves are really treacherous in their use of troops. They risked their lives and I was punished by the thieves."

Previously, He Baren was unwilling to launch a large-scale attack on the flanks, but Gao Yang persisted and increased his troops several times. Now that the enemy has risked fighting on two fronts and trapped them in a trap, Gao Yang is indeed going to have to bear the burden. main responsibility.

He really didn't expect that the enemy army would retain a fresh force to lay traps under such strong pressure. But if you think about it more carefully, this situation is actually more reasonable.

The enemy army originally had the idea of ​​​​fighting and retreating to lure the enemy deeper. This new group of troops may be the troops returning to the division. By failing to attack the camp, he took the initiative to make a move and gave up part of his own position to lure the Qi army on the right to underestimate the enemy and advance rashly. Then they gathered their forces to eliminate them. After removing the pressure from the battlefield mountains on the flanks, the Wei army could concentrate on resisting the enemy. They gradually retreated under the pressure of the frontal battlefield.

From this perspective, it cannot be said that Gao Yang fell into Li Boshan's scheme, but took the initiative to break the trap.

If the Right Army still has only about 10,000 troops as before, once it falls into this trap, it is really possible that the enemy will gather superior forces to quickly kill them all, eat them all and then quickly evacuate.

However, Gao Yang sent more troops to the Right Route Army. Now there are more than 30,000 troops. Even if such a large number of troops rush into the enemy's trap, it is completely impossible to encircle and eliminate them in a short time. . On the contrary, his intentions are exposed more and more, so that his evil plan cannot succeed.

In the face of absolute strength, any conspiracy will pale in comparison. Although Li Boshan was cunning and scheming, Gao Yang had the confidence and strength to surrender to Shihui. After experiencing the initial shock, Gao Yang said in a deep voice: "Send a message to King An Ding and order the troops to stick to their positions. Do not He was frightened by the thief and fled rashly. Although the thief had a treacherous plan, he was still facing the enemy from the front and back. After defeating the enemy's formation here, his troops were out of danger! "

After making this explanation, his attention turned back to the frontal battlefield. The 10,000 additional divisions and brigades previously deployed to the battlefield are already conducting orderly rotation operations with the front line formations, and are still maintaining an extremely fierce offensive.

However, Gao Yang still felt that this was not enough. While he sent more troops to the north to form a majestic formation to frighten the enemy, he also ordered Xue Guyan to continue to strengthen the offensive, making sure that the enemy was overwhelmed and overwhelmed.

As the Qi army's offensive further intensified, the situation of the Wei army on the Piyuan also took a turn for the worse. However, Li Tai, who stood under the Chinese army's banner on the top of the platform, still looked calm.

Tian Hong, who had just withdrawn from the first front line, was wounded several times. With the help of his subordinates, he came down to the bottom of the banner and said with a look of regret and shame: "I am ashamed of myself for not being able to hold the line until noon. I have to bear the lord's responsibility." Entrusted..."

Li Tai stepped forward to help Tian Hong, who was unsteady on his feet, and glanced at the exhausted soldiers who had withdrawn from the front line one by one, almost all of whom were injured. He said in a deep voice: "You are brave enough to face an enemy several times stronger. It is very valuable to fight hard and hold off the enemy for a long time. If the battle can turn around, you will not have to wait for the follow-up battle, but you need to stay in the camp to watch the enemy!"

As he spoke, he arranged for the soldiers who had been fighting for a long time to return to the camp to be properly placed. But in fact, there was little pure land in the Wei army's camp at this time. Although there was fierce fighting on the plateau in front, most of the positions in the northeast behind the plateau had been occupied by enemy flankers. They were attacked both front and rear. The situation was very bad.

On the battlefield at this time, the Western Wei army's military strength had also been used to the extreme. The 8,000 divisions led by Tian Hong resisted the Qi army's frontal offensive for a long time, and eventually more than half of them were killed or wounded. On the side battlefield, the 10,000 troops on the left led by Gao Le, plus the 5,000 additional troops sent by the Chinese army, have been encircling and resisting the Qi army's partial division coming across the river.

At this time, there are still more than 10,000 new troops on the top of the mountain who have not participated in today's war. They have been watching the war and recharging their strength. This group of troops is Li Tai's real trump card for today's comeback!

In front of Piyuan, the enemy's offensive was fierce, and the fiercer the enemy's offensive, the more at ease Li Tai felt. The war not only kills people, but also affects people's hearts. The more a person's emotions reach the peak of excitement, the stronger the feeling of frustration and destruction after being suddenly interrupted.

The biggest advantage of the Qi army compared to the Wei army was that it had more troops, but it also had the biggest negative blessing, that is, their emperor visited the battlefield in person and led the army to conquer in person.

The leader of Qi, Gao Yang, cannot be said to be ignorant of soldiers, but at least he cannot be called a first-rate general. The most fundamental point lies in his disregard for human life. Looking at his military actions, human lives are rarely included in his calculations. Those who rely on strength will succeed, but those who need to judge the situation will often fail. The limit of his ability is this wave of recklessness. If he is not reckless enough, he will start to fail.

Not to mention the cliche saying that one is kind and does not control soldiers. In ancient times, soldiers were like gods, such as Wu Qi in the Warring States Period. It is not cruel to kill his wife to seek generals, but he sucked the sores of soldiers to show benevolence. Gao Yang is cruel and arrogant. Even if he understands this truth, he is too lazy to pretend. His cruel temperament, which regards human life as nothing, is the same on the outside. This is especially obvious in war, which is a matter of great consumption of human life.

Such a person does not have the patience to work step by step, carefully weigh the trade-offs, and seek final victory at a reasonable cost. He will only continue to intimidate and squeeze, and only sees the result of victory, and all the efforts made in the process are in his eyes. It's a natural price to pay.

The current battle situation between the Wei army and the enemy is in line with Li Tai's prediction of Gao Yang. In fact, this rapid attack and quick decision cannot fully utilize the Qi army's strength advantage. Due to the limitations of the battlefield environment, The number of troops that can be put into combat at the same time is limited. The Wei army can resist several times the enemy by holding its position, and the Qi army's strength advantage cannot be fully reflected.

But this gave Li Tai an opportunity to counterattack with a small gain and a reversal. He only had to wait until the time was right to activate all the arrangements.

When he saw that the men and horses on the battlefield on the flank of the Qi army were still holding on to their lines and had no intention of retreating, and the enemy's offensive on the front battlefield became more and more fierce, Li Tai understood that the fish had already been bitten. Whether it can explode or not depends on the next battle.

He raised his hand and ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops, and ordered all the soldiers defending the second front to withdraw to the rear, handing over the second front.

The officers and soldiers of the Qi army during the battle were pleasantly surprised when they saw the Wei army retreating on its own initiative. Xue Guyan, who had been accompanying the army to supervise the battle, was even more overjoyed and shouted loudly: "The thieves are now surrounded by enemies and are in dire straits. They are exhausted. Attack quickly, attack quickly. Capture the enemy camp and capture the traitor general Li Boshan!"

Encouraged by this, the soldiers of the Qi army rushed forward and occupied the positions vacated by the retreating Wei army. The soldiers at the front even pushed forward to the third line of defense of the Wei army. The divisions and brigades that followed behind did not forget to destroy the chariots in the formation, so that the cavalry team that had been waiting for a long time could attack smoothly.

But when they happily chopped open the outer walls of those chariots, they discovered that the chariots inside the second line were not filled with earth and rocks like those in the previous line to increase their stability, but were filled with Firewood, lint, and ointment in earthen jars!

"Oops, get back!"

The quick-thinking sergeant suddenly changed his face when he saw this scene, and he hurriedly wanted to retreat. However, the warriors from behind were rushing forward, intending to seize the credit for entering the battle, and they could not retreat for a while.

The soldiers of the Qi army did not know that a disaster was coming, but the soldiers of the Shesheng battalion, who had been on standby in the third line of defense for a long time, did not miss the chance of fighting. As the military order was issued from the rear, they immediately ignited the rockets, pulled the strings and fired.

The rockets accurately hit the tanks on the second line of defense, instantly igniting the charcoal grease accumulated in those tanks. At this time, many chariots had been hacked and destroyed by the Qi Army's sergeants, and the firewood contained in them were also scattered among the Qi Army's formation. After being ignited by rockets, the fire immediately spread among the Qi Army's formation. spread.

"The Qiang thieves are so treacherous that they attack with fire..."

The sudden fire caught the soldiers of the Qi army off guard. Those who were close to the fire naturally tried their best to escape, but the crowds surging behind still blocked the way back. Seeing that the fire was about to spread to them, some people even directly Paoze brandished his knife towards the back road, causing chaos in the scene.

The burning fire cut off the Qi army's formation. The soldiers who had rushed to the third line of defense were originally happy that they had achieved great success, but now they were shocked to find that they were alone in the attack. The soldiers behind were caught by the fire. Intercept and force them back, abandoning them in front of the formation, helplessly facing the enemy's ferocious blades!

"Bang the drum and attack!"

Following Li Tai's order, the soldiers who had been waiting for battle for a long time on the top of the mountain suddenly rushed out of the last line of defense in front of the camp like tigers coming out of the fence, towards the panicked and lost enemy soldiers in front of the defense line. Cull away.

"Steady, steady! The fire is still under control and has not spread. Stay in formation and don't let the Qiang thieves come back to kill you!"

The incident happened suddenly, and Xue Guyan was shocked, but after reacting, he immediately shouted orders and tried to stop the retreating soldiers.

However, water and fire are merciless, and people's fear of them is deeply rooted in their hearts. At this moment, everyone is panicked, and few people obey the orders. The entire battlefield in front of Piyuan is full of chaos. Even the war supervising soldiers sent by Xue Guyan to intercept the retreating troops were immediately routed by the frightened crowd.