Chapter 45: A Wise Decision
Dou Jiande led dozens of civil and military generals to gallop along the way under the escort of more than a thousand personal soldiers, and escaped for more than fifty miles in one breath and slowly stopped. At this time, it was already dawn, and Dou Jiande felt sad. He turned around and looked at more than a thousand personal soldiers. Thinking that the 100,000 troops were wiped out, he couldn't help but feel sad and squatted in the wilderness and burst into tears.
The generals looked at each other, shook their heads and sighed. Kong Deshao turned over and dismounted, came to Dou Jiande, and comforted him in a low voice: "Victory and defeat are common in military affairs. Prince should not be sad. Although the army is gone, the main generals are there. Moreover, we can take over the disabled army, and there may be tens of thousands of people. Now the prince needs to cheer up and deal with the Sui army going south!"
All the generals advised him one after another. Dou Jiande wiped his tears and stood up and said to everyone: "The responsibility for this failure is with me. I regret not not listening to your advice and blindly intervene in the battle in Youzhou. I, Dou Jiande, will remember today's shame and point out my ambitions with a break!"
Dou Jiande pulled out the dagger from his boots. Amid the screams of everyone, he waved his knife and cut off his little finger with his left hand. He suddenly felt like a spring of blood. Two personal soldiers rushed up and bandaged him in a hurry. The civil and military officials knelt down together, "Please take care of yourselves!"
Dou Jiande sighed and helped everyone up one by one. At this time, a personal soldier pointed to the north and shouted: "Prince, there are cavalry coming!"
Everyone turned their heads together and saw a black line appearing in the hazy dawn in the north. At this time, the earth began to shake slightly. Everyone's faces changed drastically, and they all turned over their horses. Several anxious generals had already rushed for more than ten steps.
"Wait!" Dou Jiande shouted loudly, he stared at the north and said to a personal soldier: "Go and take a look!"
Before the personal soldiers could come forward, a team of cavalry rushed to the distance. Seeing that it was Dou Jiande's army, Dou Jiande knew the person in charge and Liu Heita's personal soldiers. He was overjoyed and he guessed it right.
The leader of the school captain arrived, and turned over and dismounted and knelt down on one knee, "Report to Prince, General Liu, will return with 10,000 cavalry!"
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out to be Liu Heita's cavalry. After a moment, Liu Heita led 10,000 cavalry to arrive. The cavalry stopped a mile away. Liu Heita rushed forward. He was ordered to attack Luo Yi's camp. He just avoided the night attack of the Sui army. He bypassed the camp from the other side, but met Dou Jiande halfway.
Liu Heita stepped forward and clasped his fists and said, "Liu Heita is late to rescue, please punish the prince!"
Dou Jiande received 10,000 new cavalry and felt relieved. He hurriedly asked, "How is Luo Yi's military camp?"
"Report to the prince. Luo Yi's 30,000 troops have collapsed, and the soldiers have all fled. Most of them have fled with their armor. If they were soldiers from Hejian County, they would definitely escape back."
This news made Dou Jiande happy again. At least 20,000 people fled back to Hejian County, and with some remaining troops gathered, the losses were not too heavy. At this time, Kong Deshao stepped forward and suggested: "Prince, the Sui army is blocked by Gaoyang County, so we must take a detour."
He reminded Dou Jiande immediately, and he nodded and said to everyone: "Go around from the east and avoid the Sui army in Gaoyang County!"
More than 10,000 cavalry guards rushed to the southeast.
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In the Dou Jiande camp in the south of Zhuo County, before dawn, the war had just stopped, the camp gate had been demolished, and the tent had been pulled out. Sui soldiers busy confiscating food, weapons and other supplies in the camp, burying the dead bodies of the enemy troops deep. Teams of prisoners were escorted to the Sui camp by the Sui army. Hundreds of female guards were busy treating the wounded soldiers in the camp with first aid kits.
At this time, Yang Jiachen rushed to Yang Yuanqing and bowed to report: "Report to the general manager, the prisoners of war have been counted, with a total of 43,450 people, killing more than 12,000 enemies, and the rest of the enemy's troops have fled, and Dou Jiande did not catch it."
Yang Yuanqing nodded, looked at the fertile and empty land around him and said to Yang Jiachen: "The injured can stay in Sui Camp for treatment first. The other prisoners of war ordered them to farm in Zhuo County. You will temporarily lead 3,000 troops to supervise and tell them that as long as Dou Jiande is destroyed, they will be allowed to return to their hometown to reunite with their families."
"Abide by the order!"
Yang Jiachen turned around and arranged prisoners of war. Yang Yuanqing's eyes turned to the dark Zhuo County County in the distance. The reason why he did not chase Dou Jiande was because his strategic focus at this time was not Dou Jiande, but Youzhou Luoyi.
A scout rushed over from a distance and bowed to report: "Report to the general manager, the Youzhou army in the city has left the city gate and fled northeast."
"These bunnies are so lucky!"
Yang Yuanqing cursed in a low voice and immediately ordered: "30,000 cavalrymen are rectified, follow me to chase the Youzhou army!"
Thirty thousand cavalrymen were resting in concentration and received the order to fight again. They all got on their horses and followed Yang Yuanqing to chase northeast.
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Xue Wanche seized the opportunity of a battle between the Sui army and Dou Jiande army, led 20,000 troops out of the city gate and fled northeast. Although Xue Wanche had the idea of surrendering to the Sui army, he would not take any action before reaching a consensus with his brother Xue Wanqianjun.
After escaping for more than thirty miles, it was already dark. Seeing that there were no pursuers behind him, Xue Wanche ordered the troops to rest for half an hour. The soldiers were resting in a forest. A stream was filled with people drinking water. Xue Wanche sat on a big rock and slowly chewing a piece of dried meat. In fact, he was very conflicted at this moment. He saw Luo Yi's camp being defeated with his own eyes, which made him feel a dead end to follow Luo Yi. He knew that Luo Yi was finished and they had to find another way out.
He also saw the Sui army breaking into Dou Jiande's army's camp and defeating Dou Jiande's army. This made him feel awe and grateful for being rescued. In fact, it was a good opportunity for him to surrender, but he hesitated for a long time and gave up the opportunity for this surrender. He was unwilling to implicate his brother.
Xue Wanche sighed, he felt confused, and he didn't know what to do.
At this moment, everyone stopped moving, and a sense of uneasiness and fear appeared on their faces, as if they felt something. Xue Wanche also felt the earth was shaking slightly, but his astonishment was only in a moment. Xue Wanche suddenly jumped off the stone and shouted: "It's the cavalry, the enemy's cavalry are here!"
"General, it's too late!"
A soldier pointed to the distance and shouted, and Xue Wanche also saw that a black line was pushing towards this side. A kind of courage for the general broke out in Xue Wanche's heart. At this time, he had thrown the idea of surrender without a trace. He shouted loudly: "The army is on the horse, ready to fight!"
The cavalrymen boarded the horses one after another, and his five thousand heavily armored cavalry quickly pierced the armor and helmets, and the war horses were also covered with armor. With the help of the horsemen, the cavalry boarded the horses and tied the laces tightly. The grooms were actually ordinary cavalrymen, so they immediately boarded the horses and lined up on the plains to prepare for a decisive battle with the Sui army.
Yang Yuanqing led 30,000 cavalry to chase him. He saw that 20,000 Youzhou troops were lined up to prepare for war from a distance. He raised his hand, and the cavalry began to slow down, ran out another mile, and stopped.
"Cross!"
The Sui army also began to quickly organize the team. Yang Yuanqing immediately sent a personal soldier to answer with Xue Wanche. The personal soldiers rushed to the front of the Youzhou army. Dozens of soldiers surrounded him. The personal soldiers whispered: "I am here to pass on a sentence to General Xue at the order of the general manager."
Xue Wanche looked at the Sui army deeply. It turned out that Yang Yuanqing was among the pursuit. He slowly urged him to come forward and asked, "What do Yang Yuanqing wants you to spread?"
"My chief manager hopes that the general can understand the general's trend and not kill the lives of the Youzhou soldiers because of a temporary fever. The chief manager also said that he had also been in charge of Youzhou and he was unwilling to fight with the same family."
Xue Wanche sighed in his heart, lowered his head and said without saying a word, "The general also said that if the general hesitated, he would make a bet with the general. He would use 5,000 cavalry to defeat the heavy armored cavalry within two quarters of an hour."
Xue Wanche was stunned, with a look of disbelief in his eyes, "What if General Manager Yang loses?"
"If the general manager loses, he will let you go back and will never chase you. If he wins, he will surrender or not, just be the general!"
Xue Wanche pondered for a long time and said resolutely: "Okay, then just say it's a matter of determination!"
The rumbling drum sounded in the wilderness, and five thousand heavily armored cavalry lined up to fight slowly. Yang Yuanqing looked at the other party and shook his head gently. He knew that Xue Wanche had actually wanted to surrender, but he couldn't let it go. He insisted on fighting such a battle with him, and he would find a step to surrender.
Wang Junguo stepped forward and bowed and said, "Master, please let Bei Yi fight this battle!"
Yang Yuanqing shook his head, "You don't know my tactics. I can actually use only a thousand cavalry to break him. You can press the formation for me and see how I defeat this heavy armored cavalry."
He took out a horn from his arms and blew it hard, "Woo---
The sound of low horns resounded throughout the field, and then dozens of horns sounded. A thousand personal guards followed Yang Yuanqing slowly out of the formation, forming a square formation, and a thousand spears were raised up suddenly, densely packed like a forest, running towards the wilderness step by step.
Five thousand heavily armored cavalry had appeared three miles away. They were still in a row of hundreds of people, in forty-nine teams, and five thousand long spears pointed coldly at the Sui army. The morning glow shone on the cold armor, turning into a magnificent red color, and a powerful murderous intent was revealed in the strict cavalry formation.
At this time, Xue Wanche had already felt a little wrong. He saw that the Sui army was prepared and only one thousand cavalry went to fight, but the arrow was already in the string and he could not stop him from firing. He had to grit his teeth and say, "Let's attack!"
‘Dong!Dong!Dong!’ The rapid sound of war drums sounded, and the five thousand heavily armored cavalry burst out with a shocking cry and began to launch. Teams of iron cavalry rushed towards the Sui army cavalry with an unstoppable force.
"Kill!" Yang Yuanqing roared wildly, waved the Sky-Breaking Spear and ran out quickly. A thousand cavalry also shouted, rushed out on horseback, followed the commander and rushed towards the five thousand heavily armored cavalry...
In the wilderness of three miles wide, the two cavalry teams were rushing closer and closer. Seeing that they were about to collide, all the soldiers turned their heads unbearably. At this moment, an accident happened. A thousand Sui cavalry were like two black dragons breaking through the sea. Suddenly they split into two, quickly split into two teams, passing by the heavy armored cavalry, which attracted the exclamation of the soldiers on both sides. Xue Wanche slowly closed his eyes. He knew that the great weakness of the heavy armored cavalry had been captured by Yang Yuanqing, and the heavy armored cavalry had completely lost.
Chapter completed!