Chapter 894 This is impossible!
An urgent report suddenly came and resounded throughout the Central Army commander's tent!
"I found that the Qin cavalry troops were moving quickly towards Baishuilu, and the horse was probing their horses and issued an emergency report.
"The unknown enemy cavalry that appeared was not the Liu Xun Wansheng Legion in the direction of Yunzhou, nor the Shatu people under Li Siyuan's command in Niupi Pass. Instead, the cavalry that appeared from the east was advancing towards us and was about to contact our army!"
"What, how is this possible?"
Yelu Shilu couldn't help but sit up straight from his wolf-skin handsome chair and said in an incredible tone.
Shi Yan picked up a Guanzi scroll on the table in front of him, which recorded a lot of military information. In this document, he made some of his own judgments based on the military information he received.
"Two consecutive days of strong attacks have suffered huge losses. After the fierce artillery fire on the first day, although the Qin army did not expect that such a kind of destructive artillery bombardment would appear as he expected, the Qin army's skillful control of long-range crossbows, catapults, flying thunder cannons, etc. still had great long-range suppression on them. The originally inconspicuous six trenches inside and outside the camp, as well as the barbed wire and horse-rejecting formations that appeared in the night of the raid on the first night, caused great damage to them. After repeated attacks on two days and three fierce attacks,
Not only did they fail to defeat the Qin army and captured Li Jing alive, they were getting farther and farther away from Li Jing. The ratio of war losses between the two sides was huge, and what is even more worthy of being wary is that Liu Xun's troops and Shatuo's troops in the direction of Yunzhou south have not appeared yet. This makes people have to doubt that Li Jing was not alone and was surrounded, but it is increasingly possible that he took the initiative to pursue this place. Moreover, the pursuit is very likely to be deliberately luring the enemy. The purpose is not to have more than 10,000 tribal soldiers such as Tatars who had been annihilated, but to point directly at their last main force of the Hu tribe from the beginning."
"...Li Jing's goal at the beginning was to wipe out all the Hu army to the south, not letting go, not just to capture Beihe and repel the tribal coalition. If he just wanted to repel the tribal army, with the strength shown by Li Jing in Baishuilu, he could go directly to Jincheng with Liu Xun's troops first, and then go to Yunzhou. However, Li Jing went north first, rescued Li Siyuan, and deliberately lured the Hu army of the Tatar tribes, but defeated it without completely extermination. Instead, he made a Hu people escape. He pursued the enemy alone and went deep into the enemy's back. This was obviously a very clumsy strategy at the beginning. But at the beginning, no one believed it, or the temptation to capture and defeat Li Jing was indeed too high. After the two days and one night of Baishuilu, the tribal coalition now has less than 40,000 left, while Li Jing's casualties are less than 5,000.
Although there are more than 10,000 people. On the surface, Li Jing seems a bit dangerous, but now it seems that the Hu people are the people who are dangerous. The Qin army and Shatuo people who have been obvious in the south have not arrived for two days and one night, which seems to be increasingly problematic. It turns out that it is still a little doubtful, but now it seems that this can prove Li Jing's trick. His plan is to use his body as bait to lure the main force of the Hu people to siege him to siege him. He has long been preparing to concentrate a large number of long-range weapons to fight position wars with the tribe army on the grassland. It seems that the tribe army has an advantage in the battle outside the frontier, but in fact, this is another trap. The Qin people's position war is really too strong. And if we follow this prediction, then the next battle development is very likely to be the Qin army's encirclement and annihilation of the few remaining Hu people."
"The 30,000 people in the south and 20,000 Shatu people under Li Siyuan's command have been moving slowly. This is a huge trap. They have been moving slowly, so they numb the vigilance of Yelu Shilu and others. As expected, Li Jing has been waiting for the subsequent troops in the east to arrive. Now, Li Jing has successfully lured Yelu Shilu to Baishuilu. He dragged him here for two days and one night, and consumed nearly half of his troops. Now that the troops in the east have arrived, it means that his big net is finally going to be put away."
"There were only more than 40,000 left in the 200,000 Hu army. The continuous attack was frustrated, which made their soldiers exhausted, lacked morale and greatly reduced. Li Jing's eastern troops arrived, so Liu Xun and Shatuo people in the south would definitely arrive soon. Even, Li Jing, who has always been cunning and likes to use reserve teams, is very likely to have ambushed an ambush nearby. This tactic is not very clever, but the most rare link is that Li Jing personally used it as bait, and he could not bring too many soldiers by his side, so that the Hu people had great confidence in the attack at the beginning. This is also the result of Li Jing's only leading 20,000 troops by his side and choosing the battlefield on the grassland by Baishuilu Lake outside the Great Wall. Everything is just to make the entire annihilation combat plan more perfect..."
Shi Yan closed his record and couldn't help but feel the urge to cheer for Li Jing. Li Jing was indeed as cunning as a fox, but often times, he was extremely brave. He glanced at Yelu Shilu and others, sighed for them, they had found the wrong opponent.
When the confirmation of the "Qin army approached rapidly" was confirmed, the Khitan Yu Yue from the Baishui-Lu Hu people's camp, and the Marshal Yelu Shilu of the Southern Expedition was shocked.
Ascending the high looking tower, a black line appeared in the sky in the distance. In a blink of an eye, the black line had rapidly expanded like a surging tide. The sky was full of a navy blue color, like a huge ant colony, moving forward. Seeing this scene, everyone was frightened and dry.
"What's going on?" Yelu Shilubiao pointed to the navy blue wave coming from the east, muttering to himself with trembling lips, "Why did the reinforcements of the Qin army arrive so quickly? Liu Xun and Shatuo people in the south have not arrived yet, why did the Qin army, who were all locked in the army arrive first? Didn't the information a day ago that the Qin army, who was all locked in the army, just left the customs? Could they fly? The roads in the states behind the mountain are difficult to walk, how could they arrive all at once?"
At this time, the leaders of some tribes felt that Yelu Shilu was a little out of control, and the speed of the Qin army's troops was unpredictable. Before, when Liu Xun reinforced Jincheng, he had already come to this point and suddenly appeared on the battlefield, thus defeating Yelu Sala's and annihilated the troops southward. Now, the Qin army's Liu Xun army's army's army's army is moving slowly, while the reinforcements of the army are in quick action. This speed is obviously to surround them and intend to wipe out their troops. It is difficult to see through this layout, or when looking back at this time, everything seems so clear. But before this, before this layer of fog was unveiled, no one expected that Li Jing would be so bold that he had set up such a big net early.
According to their original estimates, the first Qin army to approach Li Jing would be Liu Xun and Shatu people from Yunzhou. Faced with the news that Li Jing was surrounded, Liu Xun would definitely come to reinforce him with all his might. Therefore, to a large extent, as long as they closely monitor Liu Xun and Shatu people, they would still be able to take the initiative, attack and defend when they advance.
Then, Li Jing was even more crazy than they thought. He really didn't take his life seriously. He had already set up a plan to lure the enemy with 20,000 people, and was confident to fight against them on the grassland outside the border for several days.
"Damn it, did Li Jing take the courage of the bear heart and leopard? Where did he get this confidence at the beginning? He is completely in danger. How could he be a vassal king but he still serve as bait himself? Will they use troops? How could they play like this?"
A tribal leader unconsciously said these stupid words. He stood on the high watchtower and wiped the sweat beads on his forehead with the back of his hand. In July evening, the earth burned by the fire during the day was still steaming and steaming, which made people breathless.
"Master, what should I do?"
The leaders of the other small tribes were as pale as paper at this time, and their tone was filled with restlessness and panic.
Yelu Shilu had suspected that Li Jing was luring the enemy, but these tribal leaders were moved by the temptation to defeat Li Jing by the few words of Qing Guzhi, and agreed to Qing Guzhi's attack proposal, and they all arrogantly threatened to cut off Li Jing's head with their own hands. However, within a few days, their attitude completely changed.
There are more than 42,000 troops in the tribe. There are more than 16,000 people from Li Jing in the Qin camp in Baishuilu. Now, according to observations, the Qin army coming from the east has a total of 50,000 people. Not far from their south, there are also 30,000 Liu Xun and 20,000 Shatuo.
The offense and defense are changing, and the situation and strength of both sides are completely reversed.
Li Jing blocked their way to the north, and the Qin general Lin Wu led 50,000 troops from the northeast to block the northeast. Liu Xun and 30,000 Shatuo rushed from the south and blocked the west. They were besieged, which was completely different from the original expectations, and the whole situation reversed.
The number of Qin troops in the three routes reached 116,000, nearly three times that of the Hu army.
"Retreat now!" someone said in panic.
"Immediately prepare to break through and break through the northwest direction. We walk towards the Zhenwu Army, and cross Yinshan through Baidao and return to the grassland!" Yelu Shilu ordered that at this time, no one dared to say that he would fight the Qin army again. Even if there were 70,000 people, how could he fight over 110,000 people?
Several tribal leaders responded, but their movements and expressions were full of despair. Lin Wu had sent several cavalry troops to bypass the battlefield and appeared in the west, preparing to intercept their retreat.
"Yan Guzhi, you bring five thousand Khitan warriors to open the westward retreat!"
Yelu Shilu shouted vigorously, and the sound of Qin reinforcements and cavalry's railway treading on the ground made his face pale a little.
The Qin army began to launch an attack. The 50,000 troops led by Lin Wu rushed straight towards the tribal camp without resting.
Iron hooves are like thunder, arrows are like rain!
In a blink of an eye, Lin Wu's troops were approaching the tribal army. For a moment, arrows flew everywhere, and the shouts of killing were shocking.
Yelu Shilu waved the scimitar in his hand vigorously and shouted: "The whole army retreats and breaks westward!"
In the Qin Army camp.
"Report to the king, the Huhu ordered the entire army to retreat and break out to the west."
The military order that Yelu Shilu had just issued soon reached Li Jing's ears. On the arrow tower in the camp, Li Jing's black eyes were filled with a cold sarcasm, and he shook his head lightly and said, "I'm just starting to retreat, don't you think it's too late?"
"Immediately release the beacon cannon and urgently summon Li Wei and other four troops to attack and encircle!"
The person who issued this order was Jing Xiang, who was excited to fight, and the good situation at this time made him feel joyful. No matter how risky this plan was at first, everything at this time proved that the King of Qin once again won the war.
"Your Highness, General Lin Wu's speed is so fast, a day earlier than expected!" Gongsun Lan finally completely let go of her worries. Lin Wu's early arrival also made this war lock in the victory in advance. The nervous worries that had been continuously for many days can finally be relaxed.
"Well, the third brother is indeed coming soon!" Li Jing nodded.
Chapter completed!