0952 Surrounding the Bandit Army
The Jin army's siege of Heluo gradually became increasingly serious, making the situation in Heluo increasingly serious. In particular, the other side only sieges but not attacks, which made Taobao's army more anxious.
If we continue like this, not to mention the subsequent fierce killing moves of the Jin army, we are afraid that Taobao's army will collapse without fighting like Li Yang Shikan's army.
Therefore, the Taobao army has been thinking about how to make a counterattack recently. Even if we don’t expect a complete victory, we should at least boost our morale.
However, it is really hard to find where to fight back. Yique in the south is not the main force of the Jin army, but Yique itself is a He Pass. After being trapped, it is difficult to repel the enemy without more than several times the force, and it is possible to make a breakthrough. Once so many troops are deployed, it is equivalent to giving up Luoyang City and providing the Jin army with an empty gate to attack Luoyang from the river.
The road in the Suyuan Pass is too rugged and narrow, and it is more suitable for dangerous raids. Once the enemy is prepared, you only need to arrange some troops to defend the pass, and you can't rush out between these narrow mountains and valleys.
The generals were more interested in breaking the siege to the north. Through Mengjin, Xiaopingjin arrived in Hebei, or wandered northward into Mangshan, or rushed back to Hebei from Hanoi with abundant horsepower.
But when I think of the huge warships that the Jin army was cruising on the Yellow River waterway, and then look at their simple small boats and rafts, this kind of breakthrough is more like seeking death.
Moreover, even if some soldiers were able to successfully reach the other side by rushing through the Jin navy's obstruction, once they left Heluo, the soldiers would be afraid that they would immediately lose their constraints and flee in all directions. What's more, there were still thousands of Jin cavalry in the land of Hanoi, and how many of them could escape in the end was really desperate.
After choosing, the only direction that can be used to attack seems to be Hulao. The guards here in Hulao are firm, which is convenient for increasing troops. Moreover, the terrain outside the city is open and flat, which is convenient for cavalry to charge and raid.
Although the main force of the Jin army gathered not far outside Hulao Pass, it is precisely because of this that the soldiers will inevitably be negligent and underestimate the enemy and believe that they will not be attacked.
Taobao didn't expect to directly defeat the Jin army that had just won the Liyang victory with the impact of thousands of cavalry. However, as long as he could take advantage of the slack battle to win the first battle and win a small victory, he could greatly stabilize the morale of the army, which was more conducive to subsequent defense.
Due to his serious obstruction of the ears and ears, Taobao did not know that the Jin army received a large number of prisoners in Hebei, but this did not prevent him from using the Jin army's logistics supplies as a fighter plane to reverse the situation.
There were nearly tens of thousands of troops from various Jin army, and it is conceivable how much logistics pressure would be. Once he won a victory at Hulao Pass, he would stabilize the turbulent morale and arouse the soldiers' stubbornness, and he might not be able to delay the war with the Heluo natural danger.
As long as the waterways are exhausted in winter, the Jin army will be difficult to maintain such a huge force. When it retreats, it will be a good opportunity to turn defense into offense.
In fact, Taobao also learned this tactic from Shen Weizhou. Just like in the early battle of Huai Shang, the Zhao army arrived at Huai Shang with great momentum, but was defeated by the Huai Nan army and was defeated by the Huai Nan army. As a result, the morale was lost. Then the Huai Nan army guarded the Huai River front line, delaying the war and finally won a great victory.
At present, including the terrain and environment of the Yellow River, Taobao has no flood help. However, the magical use of military tactics is in one's mind, and there is no need to stick to the similarities and differences of form. Although Taobao cannot borrow the power of heaven and earth, he has powerful cavalry.
He did not expect to achieve the brilliant results of the Huainan Army on Yingshui. He only needed to win a small game, which was of great significance to him.
So two days ago, Taobao secretly increased troops to Hulao Pass City, just waiting for the enemy to relax a little, and immediately ordered an attack. He remembered that the enemy's general Guo Song, the enemy's general opposite Hulao, was Yingkou's guard in the early battle in Huai, and now he used the opponent's means to apply it to the opponent's head!
Sure enough, after arriving at Hulao, Taobao found that the defense of the enemy camp opposite was quite relaxed, and he did not realize that Hulao Pass would have the possibility of an external attack and counterattack. There were even some scattered village warriors who crossed the front line and rushed to the vicinity of Hulao Pass City, wandering and shouting, showing their madness.
In order to make the raids have the greatest effect, Taobao ordered the soldiers not to attack, but also removed the flags of the walls in succession. The soldiers left the day and returned at night to make the illusion of withdrawing troops, deliberately showing the enemy as weak.
Sure enough, the enemy's behavior became increasingly arrogant, and even took the initiative to slap the many fortifications set up previously that blocked the cavalry's charge, as if they were planning to go directly to the city.
"In this battle, the future and life of tens of thousands of soldiers are only allowed to succeed, not fail!"
Taobao is now old and hard to show off his blood and courage. He cannot lead the charge personally, but he stands in front of the city gate and personally sends the three thousand cavalry soldiers responsible for attacking out of the city, inspiring his voice.
The three thousand knights were all selected for elite troops, both cavalry and martial arts, and were the best in the army. They were all equipped with bows and swords. Once they rushed out of the city, the weak and weak breathing tilted in the past few days and rushed straight towards the enemy's front!
The front lasted for several miles, and it was difficult to gallop because of the large number of fortifications set up. Although there were still many remaining at this moment, when the back formation was completely blocked by the enemy army, a mere obstacle was not enough to stop these elite knights, and they soon rode over these remaining defenses.
At this time, the Huainan army on the opposite side had already been in chaos, and the camps were filled with figures of Yue camp fleeing, and the camps in front had already been empty.
Seeing this, the cavalry soldiers rushing out of Hulao Pass couldn't help laughing wildly, and even whipped their horses to speed up to rush towards the enemy camp, rushed directly into the empty camp gate, and overturned the abandoned camp tents.
They also remembered the mission of this attack, aiming to create greater turmoil and chaos, so they turned a blind eye to all the equipment and supplies abandoned in the camp, and set fire directly in the camp, and then rushed to the camps in all directions!
At this time, Guo Song saw the enemy trampling and galloping in the camp, and his face became even more gloomy for a moment. The enemy's momentum was so fast that it was obvious that he had to have been preparing for a long time. Although he made a quick decision to give up the central camp, he gained a short time to reorganize the army and use the original camp to limit the enemy's rush, the current situation is still not optimistic.
If he could not cause severe damage to the enemy troops attacking this way and let them go, then he would be very guilty of losing his attention at this time!
"Be careful to guard the camp and fight to the death without retreating!"
Guo Song wandered among several border camps, ordering the drums to strictly guard the remaining camps, and also ordered fire to the abandoned camps. Fortunately, when he set up camps, he fully considered fire prevention. The gap between camps was quite large, and there were also many sand and soil items to prevent the fire from continuing to spread outward.
Soon, the smoke from the abandoned camps rolled up. Seeing this scene, Guo Song breathed a little relieved. At least after the smoke rose, the camp behind Xingyang would be alert.
But this is far from enough!
"The Supervisor Battalion follows me and cut off the enemy's retreat!"
Guo Song shouted loudly, grabbed the long-handled sabre with both hands, and led hundreds of brave soldiers to the formation to rush out from the side of the border camp and rushed straight to the border mound outside the camp.
At this time, the enemy troops who rushed into the camp gradually realized something was wrong. At the beginning, they were indeed invincible, almost without any obstacles, setting fires everywhere, creating a huge scene. But the problem was that it was too smooth. Almost no enemy soldier was encountered, and they saw all dead objects, as if the other party was actively giving up the camp and thinking of a trap, rather than being shocked by them.
Especially when they continued to rush to the other camps, they soon encountered strong resistance, and arrows fell like rain. They had to be distracted by horse control and could not attack with all their strength.
"Get out of the camp and attack the whole formation again!"
The generals' orders sounded in the messy camps. In fact, the cavalry was not suitable for rushing to the camp, but the problem was that they rushed too quickly and the Huainan army had no time to line up outside the camp to fight. What's more, several empty camps were placed in front of them. If they still couldn't enter the camp, what's the significance of this attack?
This is also the mystery of Guo Song's voluntary abandonment of the central camp. The cavalry is not suitable for rushing to the camp, and that is when both of them maintain a certain level of combat effectiveness. The Huainan Army was in a hurry this time, and the soldiers of the headquarters were mainly concentrated in several central camps.
The surrounding battalions were the garrisons who came to join the army. The garrisons themselves had little organization and fought for themselves. In a hurry, they would only become more chaotic. It was inevitable that the camp would escape from the camp.
If the enemy launches an attack from the border camp, they can directly attack these border camps and village warriors, flee inward, and then destroy the central camp where the Huainan Army headquarters is located, so that the entire camp can shake. Even if Guo Song is determined to resist stubbornly, he will find it difficult to do anything else in the chaos of the entire army.
This kind of flexible response when fighting is the quality of a general. Although more weapons were gathered in the central camp, Guo Song still gave up without hesitation in order to ensure the integrity of the defense line. The rural heroes of the border camp were long expelled from the camp by the Huainan army, and created the illusion that the battalion was completely shaken.
As for the enemy's generals when fighting, they were first confused by the empty camp, and secondly, they were overly convinced of their own impact and wanted to make a center blossom, but they fell into a difficult situation of being surrounded by all directions. When their army realized that something was wrong, they were about to withdraw, and the momentum of the previous momentum was no longer there, and the military formation could no longer maintain its original integrity and impact.
"kill!"
Seeing more than a dozen enemy knights rushing out of the smoke-rolling camp in a mess, Guo Song suddenly slashed down diagonally with his slashing sword in his hand. The first knight flew from a man to a horse!
Hundreds of soldiers in the supervising formation held sharp blades, and condensed into a solid iron blade battle wall with Guo Song as the center, roaring and killing all the enemy knights wrapped in thick smoke!
After more than a dozen people were killed or injured, the enemy retreated and rushed out from another direction. After realizing that the young soldiers in this place, they rushed forward with a grim smile.
Seeing that the enemy was gradually becoming a surround, the soldiers in Huainan army immediately turned from a square wall to a round formation inside and outside. The soldiers on the outside were still slashing with swords and slashing. Once a soldier in a certain area was killed and buried, there were soldiers inside quickly making up for the gap in the formation.
Guo Song saw that fewer and fewer soldiers were around him, and the round formation gradually contracted. He bit his teeth and wiped away the blood from his face. He resolutely stepped forward with a knife and stepped into the outer circle formation. He did not hate that his reputation was destroyed here for half his life, but he hated that he was confused about his hometown feelings for a while, which caused the soldiers under his command to sacrifice their lives in vain!
"Guo Song is here, who can kill me!"
He roared and killed an enemy knight who rushed up, looking like a mad tiger, hoping to target himself and attract more enemy troops to the nearest side, so that the soldiers in Huainan outside could surround and kill more enemy troops here.
"Mr. Guo Hou is not worried. I have been waiting for the bandit army for a long time under the order of the Grand Governor!"
Amid the chaotic fighting, a large number of Jin soldiers suddenly surged out from the flanks of the battlefield. Xu Ning, the general of Xuzhou, held a strong bow and pulled the strings left and right, shouting loudly, rushing towards the most tragic place of the battle.
On the wider battlefield, the Jin army cavalry walked out of the blockade of the battlefield outside the Hulao Pass City, with several other swords, shields, and powerful crossbows coming out from all directions, surrounding the enemy troops that rushed out of the way!
Chapter completed!