Chapter 231 The Four Great Generals of the Warring States Period
The first row, the second row, the third row...
The six thousand heavy armored cavalry, led by the four powerful generals Sun Xiong, Fang Hu, Han Zhang and Han Rui, directly penetrated the eighth row of infantry formations of the Roland Empire.
Although Yermak, the commander of the Third Legion of the Roland Empire, asked his heavy cavalry troops to attack and tried to stop the Zhennan Wolf Cavalry who was following the six thousand heavy armored cavalry, unfortunately, the Zhennan Wolf Cavalry only divided the troops of three towns on both sides of the left and right sides, he entangled the heavy cavalry of the Roland Empire that rushed up from the left and right wings.
So the remaining four towns, the Wolf Cavalry, followed by the heavy armored cavalry, rushed into the infantry formation of the Roland Empire under the leadership of Li Bin.
Originally, each row of the Roland Empire infantry formation had more than a dozen square formations composed of more than a dozen infantry teams, and six thousand heavy armored cavalry broke through each row of infantry square formations, and at most they could destroy an infantry team of ten thousand.
However, the chaos of the infantry formation of four towns was further aggravated by the fact that the four towns of Zhennan Wolf Cavalry rushed in, which made the Roland Empire's infantry formation even worse.
Seeing the infantry formation of the Roland Empire becoming chaotic under the impact of the heavy armored cavalry and the Zhennan wolf cavalry, hundreds of thousands of heavy cavalry of the Zhennan Army also took the opportunity to charge.
What made Yermak, the commander of the Third Legion of the Roland Empire, felt even more collapsed. After the heavy armored cavalry of Zhennan Army penetrated the eighth row of infantry formations, they did not turn around and continue to attack the infantry formations of the Roland Empire, and actually headed straight for the camp of the Roland army.
The camps of Roland's army in the desert were surrounded by carriages, just like Zhennan Army.
Such a camp could not block the impact of the heavy armored cavalry. Soon, the heavy armored cavalry began to rush around in the camp of Roland's army.
Roland's army did not come out in full today, and there were still hundreds of thousands of troops in the camp. Unfortunately, these hundreds of thousands of troops were unable to stop the heavy armored cavalry from the rampant.
When Li Bin led the Seven King Kong, the Eighteen Cavalry of Yanyun, the Forty-Eight Wolf Generals, the Glory Knights, the Guards and the Tens of Thousand Towns of the Wolf Cavalry of the South also rushed into the camp of the Roland army, the Roland army in the camp was completely exhausted.
The cavalry troops were defeated, the infantry phalanx was defeated, and the camp was destroyed. In just one day, the situation of the decisive battle in the desert underwent a drastic change.
During the battle on November 14, 2016, the Roland army was deceived by the heavy armored cavalry and the Zhennan wolf cavalry that suddenly emerged from the Zhennan Army, and eventually turned into a great defeat, and even the camp was occupied by the Zhennan Army.
The water and rations reserved by the Roland army in the camp, as well as a large amount of other combat supplies, became the spoils of the Zhennan Army.
Thanks to some heavy cavalry units in the Roland Empire fought back to the death during the defeat, the other Roland troops had a chance to breathe, allowing the thirteen commanders of the Roland Empire to take the opportunity to gather the defeated troops.
However, in the end, the thirteen legion commanders of the Roland Empire only gathered less than 500,000 troops, of which the vassal army was less than 50,000.
You should know that before the war started today, the Roland army's strength still exceeded 2.6 million, of which the vassal army's strength was still more than one million.
More than two million troops were lost in just one day, which made the thirteen legion commanders of the Roland Empire unacceptable.
Yermak asked hoarsely: "Everyone said, what should we do next?"
Mavrik, the commander of the Seventh Legion, said with a wry smile: "Duke Yermak, now we can only save the remaining army by withdrawing from the Thuz Empire first. With the water and food carried by the soldiers, we can no longer hold on in the desert. Moreover, after today's defeat, we have no strength to continue confronting the southern army of Yanguozhen."
Ye Feimd, the commander of the Sixth Legion, said in a deep voice: "Our current location is more than a thousand miles away from the southern border of the Tuz Empire. It is probably difficult to walk through the more than a thousand miles of desert by the water and food carried by the soldiers."
Yermak sighed and said, "Marquis Yefmd, it's time to do this. Just say anything if you have anything to say!"
Ye Feimd pondered for a moment, "Duke Yermak, we have gathered nearly 500,000 people, of which the number of cavalry accounts for about three-fifths. If we can confiscate the water and food of the remaining 200,000 people, then we still have the hope of bringing the 300,000 cavalry back to the Thuz Empire."
Ye Feimde's words made the other legion commanders look gloomy on their faces. They all knew that what Ye Feimde said was very reasonable.
Now the camp of the Roland army has fallen into the hands of Zhennan Army. With the current strength of the Roland army, it is impossible to retake the camp again.
If the camp cannot be taken back, there will be no water and food supplements. It is almost impossible for nearly 500,000 defeated soldiers to withdraw the Thuz Empire from the desert.
"Marquis Yefimud, what should I do if the remaining 200,000 infantrymen?"
"Duke, you can let them surrender directly to the Zhennan Army of Yan State. There is no way to do that, at least they can survive."
"Oh--I never expected that we would be defeated so badly that the light cavalry of the tens of thousands of servants handed over the war horses and left them to our soldiers of the Roland Empire. We should guide the soldiers who stayed behind and stop causing any trouble."
At this time, the commander of the 16th Legion, Rovgni, said: "Duke, the more than 200 knights sent by the Golden Knights did not rush out, so it may be too bad."
Yermak said bitterly: "We have lost all the millions of troops, and it is not bad for the more than 200 knights of the Golden Knights. How should we explain to His Majesty the Emperor for such a crushing defeat!"
During the fierce battle during the day, more than 200 knights from the Golden Knights of the Roland Empire were very unlucky to be entangled by a group of wolf cavalry in the south.
When the deputy commander Vanya and the knights of the Golden Knights finally rushed out of the interception of the Zhennan Wolf Cavalry, they were surrounded by a larger number of Zhennan Army heavy infantry.
Faced with the battle formation composed of heavy infantry in the Zhennan Army, the knights of the Golden Knights rushed left and right, but were unable to break out. Finally, under the dense crossbow attack of the heavy infantry in the Zhennan Army, the remaining seventy-three knights of the Golden Knights, under the order of the deputy regiment commander Vanya, put down their weapons and chose to surrender to the Zhennan Army.
Among the seventy-three knights of the Golden Knights, there are five red-light knights, twenty-six purple-light knights and forty-two blue-light knights.
When Li Bin learned that he had captured 73 knights of the Golden Knights of the Roland Empire, including five red-light knights and twenty-six purple-light knights, he was happy and couldn't help but feel a little regretful.
Unfortunately, the medicine that can make people turn into a Vajra or a wolf general has been used up by Li Bin. Hua Tuo and Bian Que have not yet developed any clues about this medicine that was accidentally prepared by Lu Zhishen.
Otherwise, the captured knights of the Golden Knights alone would add five more King Kongs under Li Bin, and the Wolf Cavalry could add twenty-six people at once.
Of course, Li Bin can also absorb the captured knights of the Golden Knights into the Glory Knights. However, it is unknown whether these knights of the Golden Knights can truly be loyal to Li Bin.
Fortunately, Li Bin has another choice that will not leave any future troubles.
That night, the seventy-three captured knights were executed by Li Bin, and a group of captured Roland Empire generals were also killed by Li Bin.
These generals of the Roland Empire who were killed by Li Bin personally reached the level of the Blue Light Knight, which is equivalent to the martial artist.
So the next day, when Li Bin summoned the generals to discuss matters, twelve new faces appeared in Li Bin's tent.
These twelve people were newly summoned by Li Bin from the Tai Chi Bagua Chart last night, including two civil officials and ten military generals.
The two civil officials are Fan Zhongyan and Wang Anshi.
Fan Zhongyan, whose courtesy name was Xiwen, was a famous official in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Fan Zhongyan studied hard and was appointed as the manager of Guangde Army to join the army.
Later, he served as the magistrate of Xinghua County, the Secret Pavilion, the General Principal of Chenzhou, and the General Principal of Suzhou. He was repeatedly demoted for his impartiality and frankness.
In the first year of Kangding, he and Han Qi served as deputy envoy of Shaanxi's strategic sanctions and recruitment, and adopted the policy of "maintaining land for a long time" to consolidate the northwest border defense.
In the third year of Qingli, he served as the chief political affairs officer and initiated the "Qingli New Policy". Soon after, the new policy was set and Fan Zhongyan was demoted from Beijing. He was in charge of Binzhou, Dengzhou, Hangzhou and Qingzhou.
In the fourth year of Huangyou, he was reborn as the governor of Yingzhou. Fan Zhongyan took office with illness and died on the way. At the age of 64, he was posthumously awarded the title of Minister of the Besieged War and Duke of Chu. He was posthumously named "Wenzheng", and was known as Fan Wenzheng.
Wang Anshi, whose courtesy name was Jiefu, was a famous official in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Wang Anshi served as the magistrate of Yangzhou, the magistrate of Yin County, and the magistrate of Shuzhou, and his political achievements were significant.
In the second year of Xining, he served as the chief minister and became the prime minister the following year and presided over the reform. Due to the opposition of the conservative faction, he was dismissed from the prime minister in the seventh year of Xining.
A year later, Emperor Shenzong of Song appointed him again, then stopped his prefecture and retreated to Jiangning.
In the first year of Yuanyou, conservatives gained power and all new laws were abolished. Yu Ran died of illness in Zhongshan and was awarded the title of Taifu.
In the first year of Shaosheng, he was given the posthumous title of "Wen", so he was called Wang Wengong.
Among the ten military generals, six are powerful generals at the master level, and the remaining four are powerful generals at the master level.
The six powerful generals at the level of the master are Hua Xiong, Wei Yan, Wen Pin, Gao Shun, Yu Jin and Le Jin.
Hua Xiong, a general under Dong Zhuo in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, was killed by Sun Jian's army when the Kwantung warlords jointly attacked Dong Zhuo.
Wei Yan, whose courtesy name was Wenchang, was a general of Shu during the Three Kingdoms period. He was in charge of Hanzhong for nearly ten years. Later, he followed Zhuge Liang to the north repeatedly and made significant achievements.
Wen Pin, whose courtesy name was Zhongye, was a famous general of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period. When he was defending Jingcheng, he led troops to stop Guan Yu's army many times and was one of the generals whom Cao Cao leaned as a barrier.
Gao Shun was the General of the Central Army under the tent of Lu Bu at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
According to historical records, Gao Shun was innocent and majestic, and was not easy to drink. The troops he commanded were very elite, and he was known as the "Stealing Camp".
Yu Jin, whose courtesy name was Wenze, was one of the five good generals under Cao Cao's command during the Three Kingdoms period. He was the only one with a fake qiyue among the foreign generals under Cao Cao's command.
Le Jin, whose courtesy name was Wenqian, was one of the five good generals under Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms period. He followed Cao Cao with his courage and heroes, fought south and north, and made military achievements several times and was promoted to the right general.
The four powerful generals at the level of the Grandmaster are Bai Qi, Wang Jian, Li Mu and Lian Po. They are also known as the four famous generals of the Warring States Period.
Bai Qi was familiar with military tactics, good at using troops, assisting King Zhao of Qin, and made many military achievements.
In the Battle of Yi Que, the alliance of Wei and Han was defeated; in the Battle of attacking Chu, the capital of Chu was captured.
The Battle of Changping severely damaged the main force of Zhao State.
He served as the chief general of the Qin army for more than 30 years, captured more than 70 cities, and made great contributions to the unification of the six countries of Qin. He was named Wu'an Jun.
Later, he was shocked by the master because of his great merits, offended the Hou Ying and demoted him one after another. After fifty years of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, he was sentenced to death by Du You.
Wang Jian liked military affairs when he was young and served King Ying Zheng of Qin.
Wang Jian led his army to capture Handan, the capital of Zhao State, wiped out the Three Jin areas, and led 600,000 troops to defeat Xiang Yan, and eliminated Chu State.
Together with his son Wang Ben, he became the greatest hero in Qin Shihuang's unification of the six kingdoms and expanding territory. He made outstanding achievements. He was appointed as the Grand Tutor and was named Marquis of Wucheng.
Li Mu was the only good general who relied on to support the crisis in the late Warring States Period. He was known as "Li Mu died and Zhao died."
Li Mu first fought against the Xiongnu on the northern border of Zhao State, but later severely damaged the Qin army in the Battle of Yi'an and was awarded the title of Wu'an Jun.
Unfortunately, King Zhao Qian was captured by Qin's plan of alienation, believed in slander and seized Li Mu's military power, and soon killed Li Mu.
Lian Po was brave and courageous, and made many military achievements, and was famous among the princes.
In the 32nd year of King Nan of Zhou, he led his troops to attack Qi, achieved great victory, captured Yang Jin, and was named Shangqing.
In the early stage of the Battle of Changping, Lian Po adopted a defensive approach and successfully resisted the attack of the Qin army. Later, it was replaced by Zhao Kuo, resulting in a disastrous defeat in the Battle of Changping.
Nine years later, Lian Po repelled the invasion of Yan State, killed the commander of the Yan army, Li Fu, marched to encircle Yandu in March, and ordered the other party to cut off five cities to seek peace, and appointed him as prime minister, and appointed him as Xinpingjun.
After King Daoxiang of Zhao ascended the throne, Lian Po was depressed and fled to Daliang, Wei State, and died of old age in Chu.
Two civil officials, six master-level generals and four master-level generals were summoned in succession, but Li Bin was not very happy.
After summoning Fan Zhongyan and Wang Anshi for the last time last night.
The Tai Chi Bagua Chart tells Li Bin that due to the excessive amount of dark matter absorbed by the Tai Chi Bagua Chart, the speed at which the Tai Chi Bagua Chart absorbs the essence of the sun and the moon will be reduced by half in the future.
If the eight hexagram positions of the Tai Chi Bagua diagram independently absorb the essence of the sun and the moon, it would take ten years before to fill the eight hexagram positions of the Tai Chi Bagua diagram with energy once, and it would take twenty years in the future.
Similarly, Li Bin killed people with his own hands and quickly absorbed the essence of the sun and the moon, and the effect will be reduced by half.
In the past, Li Bin needed to kill 360 Mingjin warriors with his own hands in order to get a chance to summon the Tai Chi Bagua Diagram. Then, in the future, he had to kill 720 Mingjin warriors with his own hands.
In addition, the Tai Chi Bagua Diagram also reminds Li Bin that if the Tai Chi Bagua Diagram continues to absorb a large amount of dark matter, the Tai Chi Bagua Diagram may enter dormant and digest the absorbed dark matter bit by bit.
The time of dormant will be calculated over ten thousand years.
What made Li Bin feel a little relieved was that after the Tai Chi Bagua diagram entered dormant, it would not affect the Chinese historical figures who had been summoned.
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Chapter completed!