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The general is so fierce. Chapter 166: When the defeated soldiers rose, the backbone was the elite cavalry that swept across the foreign countries and drove the Khitan forces out of the northwest. However, after crossing the Daxianbei Mountain, they attacked the eastern foot of the Daxianbei Mountain and the heartland controlled by the Khitan to the east. Facing the complex rivers, hills and many strong camps on the eastern foot of the Daxianbei Mountain, some of the cavalry had to get off their horses and fight.

However, for the Chihu people, the cavalry dismounted and used for attacking difficulties was a waste of resources.

At this time, Chihu successively organized the surrendered soldiers and captured soldiers from the Khitans and their affiliated British tribes into infantry, and conscripted them from the foreign tribes north and south of Daqing Mountain and west of Jinshan, and the looted Ding Zhuang attacked the city and captured the village.

In recent years, these infantry formed by people of various names have gradually matured in cooperation with the main cavalry of Chihu to fight in all directions.

On the morning of October 29, the seventh year of Tianxuan, there was snow all over the world. This was the third day when Chihu officially declared war on the Southern Dynasties. Infantrymen formed by various names, holding swords and spears and holding shields. Under the cover of the cavalry on both sides, they first launched an attack on the Right Army camp of the Yan army from the west wing.

In order to avoid the mistake of Tianxiong Army being besieged in Datong City, the main force of the Demon Yan Army was stationed outside the city. However, after October, the land on both sides of the Huihe River was frozen strong, and the trees that could be cut down nearby to build camps were extremely limited. The village built in a short period of time was quite simple, and it was soon torn apart by the Chihu infantry.

Xuanwu Army and Xiaosheng Army, as elite Western Army, still had a certain combat effectiveness in defending the city walls. At first, they did not retreat and could still compete fiercely with the Chihu infantry around the simple village.

However, Xuanwu and Xiaosheng's army combined had only more than 5,000 cavalry. Under the leadership of Liu Yan and other generals, they fought several times, and were killed by the powerful elite cavalrymen and fled back in shame. Tens of thousands of generals and soldiers guarded the small and simple camp. How many days can they last?

On November 3, Chihu infantry also transported the catapults seized from Linhuang, Dading and other places to the Datong battlefield and assembled them for attacking Zhazhai. In just one day, several Zhazhai camps in the Right Army were successively lost.

When thousands of soldiers of the Right Army fled to Datong City and other camps, they were slaughtered by the Chihu cavalry who were interspersed in. In just one day, seven or eight thousand corpses were abandoned on the plains of the valley between Datong City and Hui River. The blood melted the snow and froze firmly in the extremely cold weather, as if the earth was torn apart one after another.

At this time, Liu Shizhong, Cai Yuanyou and the others dared not expect to regain the North City Gate from the Chihu people. According to Datong City, they held the imperial court to organize new reinforcements and went north through Yanmen. Seeing that the Zhanzhai could not provide them with any sense of security, they stood until the next night, taking advantage of the bright moon and starry sky above the night sky, they led the main force of the Yan army to break out in Yingzhou.

In order to confuse the Chihu people, Liu Shizhong and Cai Yuanyou also drove tens of thousands of Han people and Datong surrendered troops to Shuozhou and Yingzhou to break through.

The dark blue sky was not covered with clouds, and the earth was covered with snow. It seemed like a dusk in the middle of the night, with high visibility. More than 100,000 breakout soldiers seemed to rush out of the gate, flowing everywhere.

Xu Huai did not dare to let the limited elite scouts penetrate deep into the chaotic battlefield on both sides of the Huihe River. Therefore, he did not know how tragic it was when the main force of the Yan army broke through the south bank of the Huihe River.

When the magnificent morning glow covered the sky on the top of the distant mountain, Xu Huai stood in a sparse forest with branches and leaves falling down on the eastern foot of Jingong Mountain. At this time, he had already seen soldiers running away and fleeing along the Hui River.

At this time, there were also thousands of Red Guard cavalry galloping on the south bank of the Huihe River with murderous intent.

In addition to preventing the defeated soldiers from fleeing to Xingling south after crossing the frozen Huihe River, they also divided up more than ten cavalrymen of more than a hundred people to continuously intersperse and kill among the defeated soldiers.

The Chihu Cavalry uses superb cavalry and precise and fast archery to leave bloody corpses in the snow; when encountering a gathering of defeated soldiers, the Chihu Cavalry will not be entangled, nor will they force the defeated soldiers with unnecessary casualties when they have already won a great victory.

However, with so many Red Guards interspersed, the defeated soldiers who were stalking together were targeted, and the speed of escaping to the southwest became even slower.

Xu Huai, Wang Ju, Xu Xin'an, Yin Peng and others hid in the sparse forest. After watching for a while, the rope slid down the steep slope behind him and walked into the depths of the valley.

"How is the battle outside?" Xu Xin, Yan Xiaoyi, Yuan Lei, Wu Chihai, Wei Daya and others who were waiting in the depths of the valley surrounded him and asked.

Because Huairen City is in the southeast of this valley, Xiao Linshi's troops have two thousand troops stationed there. Not to mention the defeated soldiers fleeing to the southwest Lanzhou, the pursuing Chihu cavalry also intentionally avoided this side. Wang Xian, Yuan Lei, Wei Daya and others hid in the valley and could not hear the movement outside.

Before the Chihu people officially launched an offensive, Xu Huai led 300 cavalry from Shuozhou and lurked to this valley on the eastern foot of the Jingong Mountain at night. In order to avoid exposure as much as possible, everyone rode a white horse. In addition, the soldiers were wearing white robes outside the armor and covered with white cold-resistant cloaks.

"Not it?" Xu Huai didn't know how to describe the tragic situation they saw when they stood in the sparse forest of the cliffs. He sat on the rocks that swept away the snow and talked in detail about the tragic situation of chasing and defeating the two sides of the Hui River.

Xu Huai originally thought that the enemy cavalry was chasing and defeating, and the scene would be quite chaotic. They could choose the right time to fight out of the valley, and use the super high mobility of a small group of elite troops to bite the small group of enemy cavalry to attack, so that the defeated soldiers could escape to Shuozhou more smoothly.

Xu Huai did not expect that the Chihu people were very adept at chasing the death and rushing to defeat. The main force of the cavalry chasing on the west wing did not disperse, and was mainly concentrated on the south bank of the Huihe River. On the one hand, they tried their best to prevent the defeated soldiers from fleeing to the Changshan Mountains to the south. On the other hand, there were about 1,500 cavalrymen advancing west at a faster speed. It was obvious that they wanted to go directly to the front of the defeated soldiers and intercept the passage for the defeated soldiers to escape to Shuozhou.

If they emerge from Jingong Mountain at this time, they will be easily targeted by the main force of the enemy cavalry.

Xu Huai hoped that the soldiers of Tongbai Mountain could try to fight with Chihu soldiers as soon as possible, but he was not arrogant enough to take the initiative to attract hatred from the main force of Chihu cavalry.

Not to mention anything else, just the 1,560 elite Red Hu cavalry that were quickly penetrated towards Shuozhou, Xu Huai didn't think that the Tongbai Mountain soldiers would have a chance of winning if they were thrown out.

The Xishan Fan Cavalry they encountered before were all very skilled in riding and shooting, and the elite cavalry of the Chihu cavalry would only be stronger; while the Chihu cavalry crossed the desert grasslands, what is really scary is the ability of cluster mobile combat, which was tempered by countless bloody battles.

The Tongbai Mountain soldiers have now been changed to horse infantry, and there are six or seven hundred skilled in swords and bows on horseback, but they have not experienced real cavalry training. Why do you fight with the big Red Hu cavalry in the hinterland of the River Valley Plain?

"We just do nothing and stay up until dark and go back to Shuozhou?" Wang Xian and others asked in a little frustrated hearing Xu Huai's statement and the situation on both sides of the Huihe River.

Huairen and the Huihe River Valley in the Jincheng area are nearly a hundred miles deep in the north and south. No matter how strong the Chihu cavalry is, they will not set up a net of heaven and earth. It is quite easy for them to find gaps to escape back to Shuozhou.

Even if you encounter a small group of enemy cavalry intercepting it, it is not a problem to fight a path.

However, they planned for so long that they mainly hoped to attract more defeated troops, fled back to Jingyuan, Huanqing and other places through the Xishan Mountains, and accumulate strength for the subsequent battle to fight for the king.

It would be frustrating enough to prepare for so long but not be able to do anything about it in the end.

"Don't be anxious," Wang Ju said with a serious expression. "Although the Chihu people attach much more importance to the West Wing than we imagined, they only have 50,000 soldiers and horses in the Huihe Valley. In addition to occupying Datong City, the main vision of the Chihu people should be on Yingzhou and Yanmen line - which is the main direction for the defeat of Yan army to escape. Xiao Linshi did not have the intention to join the Chihu people, and the Chihu people's west wing soldiers would never gallop on the north bank of the Huihe River without any scruples. Whether the Chihu people are now thinking about driving more defeated soldiers to the direction of Jingong Mountain so that more soldiers can gather in Yunshuo in the future and can be wiped out more calmly, or after seeing the south and west of the enemy cavalry, the defeated soldiers have to escape to Jingong Mountain. As long as the defeated soldiers gather enough to the southern foot of Jingong Mountain, and the enemy cavalry dare not chase them in large numbers, we should still have a chance to take action!"

Xu Huai thought about it, even though the defeated soldiers fled westward, even though the passages to the Changshan ridges were blocked by enemy cavalry, they still thought they could escape to Lanzhou, so they mainly moved along the Huihe River to the southwest, and tried their best to avoid being driven to the Jingong Mountain in the north.

There is another flat horse along the Hui River, and enemy cavalry enters and goes in and out quickly. It is easy for defeated soldiers to form a group, but it is impossible to gather on a large scale. The Chihu people will never give them this opportunity.

However, as long as they are forced to escape to Jingong Mountain in the north, the rugged hills will become their best cover and will be able to limit the enemy cavalry to intersperse and massacre unscrupulously, not to mention that Jincheng on the south side of Jingong Mountain, Huairen is still under the control of Xiao Linshi's troops; and Shuozhou between Jingong Mountain and the west mountain is even under the control of Tongbai Mountain.

The Xiaosheng Army and the Xuanwu Army, as the elite of the Western Army, were stronger than the defeated soldiers of the Tianxiong Army who had abandoned their armor and swords before escaping from Datong City.

Although the military discipline of the Western Army was also very poor, the military officers and generals were also arrogant, they fought with the Dangxiang people for many years, and most of the soldiers also knew that the swords, shields and armor were their last reliance on their way to escape, and most of them did not abandon them.

This makes the Red Hun cavalry mainly use bows and crossbows to attack and intercept them, and does not pursue the annihilation of many defeated soldiers as soon as possible.

Xu Huai just saw that many powerful military officers of the Xiaosheng Army and Xuanwu Army usually had more than a dozen or even twenty or thirty people around him fled in groups. These people were still relatively safe, and the Chihu cavalry chasing to the west wing would not rush to kill them.

As long as these people can escape to Jingong Mountain in time, as long as they have a chance to breathe, they can gather more people together. At that time, they will be dispatched...
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