sweeping the world

Chapter 338
As night fell again, Hu Yansheng led a group of remnants of the defeated generals and fled desperately on their horses. Behind them was a large number of Qing cavalry from the Han army.

This is a night with a full moon, and the moonlight can provide enough light under the cloudless sky. It seems that the troops led by Hu Yansheng will not exceed [-], but they are actually a group of nearly [-] people on the run. Scenes of escape and pursuit are staged everywhere.

Hu Yansheng led the army to intercept the cavalry of the Han army. Since the Han army crossed Jishui this way, the situation of the battle was not good for the intercepted Qiang troops.

The same is cavalry, but the cavalry is also divided into ranks, not only the difference in weapons and armor, but also the pros and cons of sitting horses. The Han army is only a tiger army, which puts Hu Yansheng under great pressure. There are also nearly [-] assault cavalry and light cavalry. It seems that there are more Han army cavalry crossing the river. Huyansheng's troops persisted for almost four days. , staged a horse stepping joint venture to make it collapse.

There were not many cavalrymen on both sides who died in the battle, and the number of people who died in the pursuit and escape was estimated to be very limited. The real fatal thing was that Hu Yansheng lost control over the troops under his command.

The cavalry of the Han army who were chasing and killing Hu Yansheng was led by Qian Jiantong, a light-looking light cavalry.

Qian Jiantong was ordered to hunt down this enemy army of about a thousand people, but a red line was drawn, and he could only chase it five miles closer to the main battlefield. When he arrived there, he should head towards the bank of the Yellow River.

Most of the Han troops chasing the defeated Qiang troops received similar orders, that is, chasing the enemy could only be the third sequence of goals. The first goal was to destroy the pontoon bridge built by the Qiang troops, and the second goal was to move to Zhu'a. County direction.

They were asked not to be captured alive, so after the forced landing of the enemy soldiers, they were first tied into strings and then killed one by one.

"Hurry up!" Qian Jiantong shouted, "Turn around!"

In front of them was the main battlefield that was blazing into the sky, and even if it was five miles away, they could still hear the sound of horns and drums.

Zhu'a County is on the southwest side of the main battlefield, which is the west exit of the narrow section between the Yellow River and Jishui, and it is actually relatively close to Dongping County.

Liu Yan took such a big risk and used himself as a bait, of course, with the intention of annihilating the Qiang people. They set up a big game, not only the main battlefield and the peripheral battlefield, but also the Han army in the direction of Dongping County and Yuzhou. Serving the overall grand strategy.

The furthest from Luoyin to the Yellow River is sixty miles, and the Qiang troops are too numerous, so the camps they set up are actually closer to the Yellow River.

First, a group of defeated Qiang soldiers fled back, and then several batches followed one after another. Each group of defeated Qiang soldiers must be followed by a Han army, and the result was that the two sides came one after the other.

Hu Yansheng's first question after entering the camp was: "Where is the military leader?"

The Qiang soldiers who stayed in the camp were already panicking. It was because a large number of routs fled back and brought news of the defeat. In addition, the Han army followed the routs and rushed into the camp, causing chaos in the camp to the east. fire situation.

Yao Yizhong still waited for the chaos in the rear camp to know what happened.He didn't need to guess too much, he knew in an instant that one of the two lines of Han army that was in charge of blocking the line was defeated, and the defeat was extremely ugly.

It didn't take long for Hu Yansheng to appear in front of Yao Yizhong. When he was far away from Yao Yizhong, he pushed Jinshan down on the jade pillar and knelt down, saying "guilty", with a heartbroken look on his face.

Yao Yizhong is actually a very self-cultivated person, but at this time, all self-cultivation and demeanor were put aside, he went over and kicked Hu Yansheng down with a ferocious face, and asked viciously: "I'm so defeated that I even sent someone?" Is there no time to come back and be warned!?"

Hu Yansheng wailed, and shouted: "The enemy army has created the illusion of being powerless to attack in the past two days. We did not rush out of the camp to fight, nor did we relax our vigilance, but...they rushed into the camp with assault cavalry regardless of the cost, and finally..."

Yao Yizhong was stunned. Of course he knew that if the cavalry charged regardless of the cost, they would not be able to stop them without sharp enough bows and crossbows. Moreover, the cavalry of the Han army on the main battlefield had also launched a desperate attack.At that time, he understood a little bit that he already had the idea of ​​retreating, and Liu Yan must have guessed it, but the result was that the Han army didn't care about casualties at all, and began to get ruthless.

There was no extra time to recall anything, Yao Yizhong didn't talk to Hu Yansheng, he yelled at his confidant: "Take people to defend the Yellow River pontoon bridge!"

The troops from the periphery continued to come, and the Han army naturally discovered that bursts of cheers were shouted out, and the non-systematic troops that had been transferred to rest also began to mobilize.

"Brothers, it's our turn to counterattack!"

In the past half a month, the Han army has always been in a defensive posture. Only some counterattacks have been made, and the battle has been quite passive.

The officers were yelling loudly to boost morale, and the soldiers were excited by the arrival of the reinforcements. They had no confusion or hesitation for a long time, and they all yelled that they would kill every single one of the enemy troops.

The rise and fall of morale has never been unilateral. The morale of the Han army has been boosted, and the morale of the Qiang army has naturally been frustrated.

The cavalry of the Han army who came to help did not rush to the main battlefield to join Liu Yan's headquarters after they came. They rushed into the camp of the Qiang army to create chaos when they had the opportunity, or they rushed to the position of the pontoon bridge.

Speaking of which, Yao Yizhong still attached great importance to the defense of the pontoon bridge, and the guard troops he arranged were all elites under his command.His arrangement wasted the few elites he had before, but when the Han army killed him, he became extremely wise.

When the Han army came, Yao Xiang was leading a large number of old and weak women and children to go from the pontoon bridge to the north bank of the Yellow River. He saw his elites facing the Han army cavalry and forming a line to block them. Be cautious" is such a sentence.

[If the guards are not elite...] Yao Xiang watched the people in front of him turn their backs on their backs, and thought with a little fear: [I am afraid that facing such a fierce Han cavalry, they will be defeated at the first touch? 】

The sudden killing of the Han army changed things quite a bit. The Qiang soldiers who had risked their lives to attack the last line of defense where Liu Yan was located, they retreated in large numbers for the first time. Hope for the discouragement afterwards.

Hope was born and then dashed, nothing hurts people more than this. Seeing his own attacking troops retreat, and seeing the Han army counterattack in the camp, Yao Yizhong turned his horse and headed to the core camp without any nonsense. He wants to arrange camps to hold on to the issue, and he should also concentrate his elites. It's time to plan the future.

(End of this chapter)