Royal road

"What?!" Shi Le was startled, "Where is the ambush? How many people are there?!"

"Yeah, it's not an ambush......" The scout turned red and said in a low voice, "The Jin army that intercepted us earlier lured the partial division into a narrow passage. General Wang ordered me to ask the general for help..."

Shi Le was speechless for a moment.Aren't there only more than 5000 soldiers and horses out of the city for field battles?He left behind his confidant, Wang Yang, to lead the division, with three times as many people as the opponent, why is it still like this? !

etc!Could it be that this is the Bingzhou Army?

Wanting to understand the key points, Shi Le's face became even colder.This tactic was really bold, and with thousands of soldiers and horses, half of his troops were divided.If troops are sent to rescue, will they still have to ambush halfway?He underestimated his subordinates too!

"Stop attacking the city, retreat three miles, and set up camp to defend against the enemy!" Shi Le ordered loudly.

"General, don't you want to save General Wang?" The confidant beside him frowned.

There are 5000 people in the partial division!If you really don't save them, let those thousands of soldiers swallow them up?

Shi Le sneered: "Of course we need to rescue them! And we need all the cavalry!"

This is a typical strategy of dividing troops to lure the enemy.He still has 3000 cavalry and [-] infantry in his hands. If he only sends [-] to [-] people to rescue them, he might be intercepted and killed halfway.But with all the cavalry and fast horses to support them, the enemy army that was used as a bait can be beaten to pieces.As for the remaining [-] pawns, as long as they don't attack the city and stick to the camp, they can survive until their return.

Only in this way can the superiority of troops be used to the extreme.The tactic of "adding troops" is the most taboo in war. The soldiers and horses are put in in batches, and they are always left alone to be defeated one by one.Only when the army moves together, is it right!

Not all of the confidants below understood Shi Le's tactical arrangements, but they obeyed his orders.It is only because of the strength of General Shi Da that everyone knows it.Soon, all the attacking men and horses withdrew, and chose a place to camp again, while Shi Le personally led [-] horsemen to rescue the partial division.

The distance between the two battlefields is less than [-] miles, and they can arrive there in a matter of seconds.Shi Le didn't go at full speed, instead he suppressed the speed of the horse, and there were scouts on the left and right.Once an ambush occurs, a counterattack can be launched immediately.These cavalrymen are all his confidantes who have followed him for the longest time. They have experienced many battles, and they are by no means anyone who can take advantage of them.He wants to see what tricks these Bingzhou soldiers want to play!

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"Yingzheng, the enemy has sent reinforcements. They are cavalry, five thousand in total!"

Hearing the latest news from Tanma, Liu Gong took a deep breath.As expected by the general, it was not bad!He was ordered by Yiyan to bring 5000 troops to stop the rebellious army.If the enemy attacks with all its strength, this little force may not be able to stop it.But the bandit chief didn't keep all the troops, but allocated [-] to deal with them.

His task is to lure the enemy to divide his troops and hold back this group of enemies.So while fighting and retreating, Liu Gong led his troops to the preset battlefield, using the terrain to hold the enemy.It didn't take much effort to disrupt the opponent's position.Both sections of the narrow road were guarded by soldiers, and the chaotic enemy army could not break through, so they had to ask for reinforcements from the camp.This is exactly what Liu Gong needs!

"Pass the order down, get out of the way on the west side, and let the enemy break through!" Liu Gong ordered loudly.

In fact, using these recruits to besiege the enemy is quite stressful.Thanks to the sufficient training of the soldiers, the complete battlefield settings, and the support of guns and arrows, they can support it with all their strength.With this order, the soldiers on the periphery began to retreat slowly, and quickly gave way to the passage.

How could the thieves, who were still unable to get out of trouble, rush left and right in the formation, miss such an opportunity?Like an exhausted bird, when it sees a hole in the net, it immediately rushes out.However, no matter how troubled Jizhou, this group of people are also refugees who have never received military training. How can they know how to retreat?

They were besieged before and didn't hurt many lives, but now they have a chance to escape, but there is a situation of mutual practice.Like a flood that broke an embankment, the breakout turned into a rout in a short period of time!

"Beat the drum! The front is advancing!" Liu Gong rode on the horse and roared loudly.Behind him, five hundred cavalry also stepped on their mounts, and rushed out of the formation with the humming horn!

At any time, chasing routs is an effective way to kill the enemy.The recruits under him have seen blood in the war just now, and with courage, as long as the formation of the pursuit is not chaotic, they can make the defeated army flee in the direction they want.

His general was not wrong.Pulling out the long knife, the blood in Liu Gong's chest also boiled.He was not from the Yongrui Battalion of the Liang Mansion, but joined the army after the formation of the Tiger Wolf Battalion, and climbed to the position of battalion deputy step by step with his military exploits.This time Wang Long was ordered to return to Bingzhou, he was the number two in the army.This is an opportunity to really show off your talents and make contributions, how can you not seize it?

Like a wolf driving a flock of sheep, the five hundred cavalry pierced straight into the defeated army with the sound of drums and horns.

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"General! There are enemies ahead!" The scouts were the first to discover the enemy.

However, before the voice settled down, someone exclaimed again: "It's not the enemy army, it's Wang Yang's department!"

That's right, I saw defeated soldiers fleeing all over the mountains and plains.One by one, they threw away their helmets and armors, ran away with their heads in their arms, and even threw away their weapons in all directions.For them, the command flags are useless, fear overrides reason, no one dares to turn around and fight, on the contrary, they wish to smash and tear all obstacles in front of them, just to escape and ascend to heaven!

Facing such a rout, no one can gather them together, let alone stop them!

"Raise your bow! Anyone who dares to charge into the formation will be shot!" Shi Le shouted with a livid face.

If they are ignored, this group of rout soldiers is very likely to break through their own formation, and when the enemy troops catch up, even their support soldiers will suffer!This is not the time to show kindness, you must stop these frightened deserters!

They are all brothers of their own family... The army of refugees is different from the real imperial army after all.Even among these cavalry soldiers, there were relatives and friends among them.Someone hesitated, but Shi Le didn't. With the longbow in his hand, the arrow feathers were like lightning, and he shot towards the defeated soldiers in front of him.

One soldier was shot down, followed by ten, hundreds... More and more cavalry shot arrows, either at people or at the ground, leaving an empty field in front of the formation.The same threat of death finally made those rout soldiers come to some sense and began to detour.

Seeing the broken soldiers splitting up in front of him, Shi Le didn't relax.He is still waiting, waiting for the group of Bingzhou soldiers to come and kill them in chaos.However, when all the defeated soldiers scattered and fled, the enemy did not appear.

"Oops!" Shi Le's face changed drastically, "Go back to the camp quickly!"

What they wanted to sneak attack was not the reinforcements at all, but the camp left outside Qinghe City!

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Within a moment of the horsemen's departure, Zhao Lu, a confidant who was left in the camp by Shi Le, spotted the enemy.

"It's less than two thousand, and they're all cavalry? Just relying on this small number of troops, you want to attack the camp!" Zhao Lu snorted coldly, "Order the spearmen and archers to go out and stick to the camp!"

He was also born in horse warfare and knew the weaknesses of cavalry best.As long as there are spears, bows and arrows, plus horses and antlers set up when camping, it is enough to resist.Even if the soldiers are bloody and brave, the horses are also very delicate, and it is impossible to forcefully rush into the camp.All the formations breached by the cavalry were either unprepared, or cowardly and defeated, resisting head-on, and could only swim and shoot.But with this little cavalry, even if they shot freely, they would not pose a threat.

As long as the attack is blocked, the general will be able to return soon.At that time, [-] cavalry will fight against [-] cavalry, and if they don't kill them, they will be turned on their backs?

With a strategy against the enemy in mind, Zhao Lu put on the clothes himself and came to the front of the formation.In the distance, smoke and dust billowed, and the hooves of thousands of horses struck the vast wilderness like thunder.The sound was so powerful that it was even more threatening than his own horse army.

Zhao Lu narrowed his eyes.No, the array of enemies seems to be unusual in some places...

Two hundred steps, one hundred steps, fifty steps, when the two armies were within a stone's throw away and finally able to see the whole picture of the enemy army clearly, Zhao Lu suddenly opened his eyes wide.That horse...that horse is wrong!

The ones rushing forward were five hundred tall horses wrapped in iron armor.Like the knights riding above, these horses were tightly bound from head to toe, galloping towards the camp like a moving iron mountain.What's this? !

Zhao Lu had never seen an armored cavalry, but he knew that such cavalry was completely different from what he knew!

"Let the arrows! Let the arrows!" Zhao Lu roared loudly.Behind him, hundreds of archers fired their arrows together.At such a short distance, the arrow can penetrate most of the armor of the light cavalry, and even some of them are so accurate that they can hit the cavalry's face.But now, it was like a torrential rain hitting the iron plate.There were five horses in a row, and the heavy cavalry was not damaged at all, and everyone had raised their long carbine in their hands.

With a bang, the heavy cavalry collided with the array of defenders.Wooden spears, swords, and even horses with antlers could not stop this terrifying cavalry who was like a strong shield and a barrier.In an instant, the front line was torn apart, and even Zhao Lu, who was guarding the front, was knocked out by the galloping horses, and his tendons were broken.Wherever the heavy cavalry passed, there were blood-stained corpses everywhere, and this was just the beginning.After the heavy cavalry came the armored light cavalry.With long swords and fast horses, and bows and crossbows, the soldiers immediately harvested the enemies in front of them at high speed and effectively.

Who ever saw such cavalry?

Without the main general, the defense was broken, and after a brief struggle, the entire camp collapsed.All preparations are no match for the ferocious enemy who rushed into the camp, wielding knives and shooting arrows.These rogues with knives and guns were still farmers farming more than ten years ago.What will they use to resist this unstoppable charge?

Shi Le's reaction speed was nothing short of unpleasant.However, when he rode his horse back to Qinghe City, what greeted him was a piece of dilapidated ruins and soldiers and horses waiting in formation beside the ruins.

The camp was breached within half an hour.Ren Shi Le has done so many precautions, can such a thing be expected?

"General!" Among the cronies, someone roared, "Let's attack! We want to take back the camp!"

There is the wealth they have accumulated over the past few months, as well as the piles of food, grass and supplies.If you don't seize it, wouldn't it be in vain to fight with your life.

Shi Le's teeth were also chattering, but only for a moment, he gritted his teeth: "Withdraw! Gather the remnants, let's fight out!"

Qinghe, I can't wait any longer.These five thousand cavalry are his old man, how can he take the risk?However, if you can hold this city, can you also hold this state?Change another city and see what you can do to me!

Full of resentment and a bit of inexplicable fear, the group of cavalry fled towards the distance without stopping.In the opposite army formation, Liu Gong whispered: "General, they have escaped."

In fact, they set up an ambush in the barracks beside them, just waiting for the red-eyed enemies to charge up and catch them all.But I didn't expect that this bandit army was so cunning, the rout failed to disperse, and the ambush was useless.It's like setting a trap, but the fox can't catch it.The enemy general's skill in using troops is really unexpected.

Wearing thick and cold iron armor, thick blood condensed on the tip of his nose, but the smell and the crazy battle did not make Yiyan lose his composure.Looking at the disappearing cavalry, he said coldly: "Clean the battlefield. Others, follow me into the city!"