125. Hot pursuit
The emergence of a team of cavalry has made the situation increasingly develop in a direction that is unfavorable to the Gengshi Army.
The three songs of Yingyang Camp are Tian Wuji, the third son of General Tian Kuang, the North General. He has been cruising on the battlefield with his soldiers, specially carrying places with few people to walk through the sky of the enemy and our team. Tian Wuji's first goal is the East Gate of Chang'an City, because he is ready to pick up the Prime Minister's army back to the city at any time, the gate is not closed.
Tian Wuji's intention was very clear. He wanted to circumnavigate the city and seize the gate.
The flag of the Yulin Army is the traditional yellow flag of the Han Dynasty. It is similar to the flag of the Gengshi Army. The troops on the battlefield move back and forth, and they all hold the same flag. The three songs of Yingyangying did not attract the attention of the enemy at the beginning. They walked around from afar, avoiding the enemy on the battlefield, slowly approaching the city wall, and even traveled through the air between the two teams. At that time, they were only six or seven hundred steps away from the Gengshi Army.
When the two sides were fighting head-on, Tian Wuji led this team of 4,000 people to approach the city of Chang'an without knowing it. At this time, the soldiers on the top of the city discovered something was wrong and hurriedly warned, and the city of Chang'an was suddenly in chaos.
At this time, the Dongdu Gate was not far from them. Tian Wuji quickly gathered all the cavalrymen, hoping to raid over by horse speed and seize the city gate.
Hundreds of cavalry were ready to go. Tian Wuji was about to give orders, but a group of cavalry rushed out from the city gate and rushed towards them. Behind the cavalry, there were still people and horses constantly coming out. At the same time, the crossbows on the top of the city also began to shoot, and several Yulin doctors fell to the ground.
The soldiers under his command shouted, "Chang Qu, let's go, it will be too late if we don't leave!"
Tian Wuji was located between the battlefield and Chang'an City at this time. When he looked at it twice, he immediately made a judgment in his heart. It was too late to leave at this time. Sanqu would probably be wiped out by the enemy cavalry.
At the moment, he had only formed a formation to resist. As soon as he thought of this, he issued an order: "Each township has formed a formation to block the enemy!"
The reason why the formation of a formation is based on the tun unit is that the enemy arrives immediately after riding a horse. It takes time to form a large formation. It is probably scattered before it is formed, so it has to form several small formations to defend the enemy separately.
Forming formation is the main content of daily training. The soldiers have already mastered it. Immediately, under the leadership of the garrison leader, they stood in place layer by layer, including crossbowmen and soldiers outside, and spears and halberds facing the outside, forming several round formations like big hedgehogs.
The circular array is tight and has strong impact resistance, and is the most effective defensive array.
After Tian Wuji ordered the formation, he said to the army Sima: "I will lead the cavalry and fight back to the enemy. You will command the infantry here to block the enemy here. Do not allow them to reinforce the enemy outside the city! After I defeat the enemy, I will return to the army to rescue you and others."
Tian Wuji seemed to be heading towards the Sima of the Army, and also towards the entire army, shouting loudly: "If anyone retreats without authorization, behead them!"
After saying that, a bunch of horse heads, he rushed straight to the back of the Third Battalion of the Northern Army under Li Song with the only three hundred cavalry.
After receiving the order to hold on the edge of Chang'an City, the army was stunned. Before he could question it, Qu Chang was already dead, so he had to turn around and order to shoot at the enemy cavalry that had already rushed in front of him.
His situation can be said to be a desperate situation. This team of 4,000 people is right next to Chang'an City. The army in the city is coming out continuously and can immediately surround them. The order he received was not allowed to retreat.
For the army Sima, this order was a bit unacceptable, but for the entire battle situation, Tian Wuji's arrangement coordinated the overall situation.
The soldiers in the city seemed to not only come out to deal with their squad, but to reinforce Li Song.
Although Li Song's army was at a disadvantage at this time, it was still trying hard to support it and was not defeated. If someone reinforced it, it would likely lead the situation back. This is also the reason why Tian Wuji ordered them to block it on the spot. Before the Gengshi army collapsed, reinforcements must not be allowed to arrive. He led the cavalry to turn around and attack to accelerate the defeat of the enemy. As long as the enemy in front collapsed, the reinforcements here would immediately retract back to the city, and Sanqu's siege would naturally be lifted.
Tian Wuji took his three hundred cavalry and ran all the way to the Northern Army, which was fighting fiercely, pointed to the banner of the Prime Minister Li Song, and said, "Do you dare to follow me to kill in, take the head of the thief, and build a great achievement?"
More than three hundred people shouted, "Abide by the general's order!"
The newborn calf is not afraid of tigers. The young man suddenly became passionate and rushed over without hesitation with an indomitable aura.
Only a few of the three hundred cavalrymen of Tian Wuji were children of the Red Eyebrow Army, and most of the others were local good families. With his partners in Shiliwu, the powerful men who worked for him, and the new recruits recruited by Zheng County, the good families who joined the army were generally good at riding skills. Many people could shoot arrows and dance swords and guns at the horse. As for Tian Wuji himself, he was a rare civil and military genius in the Yulin Army, and his martial arts skills were very good immediately.
Tian Wuji took the lead and slashed the enemy's neck with a knife. Blood suddenly splattered, and the corpse was spreading on the spot. The war horse under his crotch seemed to be violently stimulated by blood. The horse's hooves were stepping between the chest and abdomen of an infantryman, kicking him to the ground. The man did not stop for a moment and broke into the formation.
Tian Wuji seemed to be the sharpest sword tip, and instantly cut a small hole in the enemy formation. Three hundred young men followed closely behind, tearing the hole bigger and bigger until the enemy separated to the sides like flowing water, allowing them to pierce head-in.
The banner of the Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty was surrounded by the soldiers. At this time, Li Song, who was under the banner, was sitting upright, looking at the infantry who were driven back by a group of Yulinlang carrying a sabre of horses, and the central army whose formation was loose and retreating step by step. Finally, he suppressed the idea of turning around and running away, drew out his sword, ready to throw all the last power around him into the battlefield and make a desperate attempt.
"Prime Minister! Prime Minister! The enemy is coming from behind!" The soldiers beside him suddenly shouted.
Li Song looked back and saw a team of cavalry coming with a broken bamboo force. No one could stop him wherever he went. At this moment, he had reached about a hundred steps behind him.
"Stop them!" Prime Minister Gengshi pointed the knife he wanted to swing forward behind him.
There were hundreds of people around him who were his own private soldiers, who were extremely loyal to him and had very strong combat power. They did not fight in battle and only protected his safety by Li Song. At this time, they came in handy and surrounded Li Song in the middle.
Tian Wuji and others rushed within dozens of steps from Li Song. Seeing the prime minister's flag in front of him, they could not rush. After the horse's speed increased, the impact was extremely powerful and it was difficult to stop it. However, when the horse was chopping in, the horse's speed decreased, the knight's physical strength also decreased, and the people and horses were a little tired, just holding on with a force. Moreover, the closer they got to Li Song, the more enemies, the greater the resistance they faced, especially when they encountered Li Song's private soldiers, they immediately felt like they were hitting a wall and could not enter no matter what they said.
Tian Wuji was very energetic and was determined to kill Li Song and make a great contribution. He was not willing to retreat easily. At this time, even if he encountered a solid wall, he would break into the wall.
The biggest advantage of cavalry is mobility and impact. If they are trapped in one place, they are no different from infantry. Tian Wuji was blocked by the Prime Minister's banner twenty steps away, unable to advance, and unwilling to retreat, and he fell into a hard battle for a while.
However, this time his surprise attack achieved the expected effect. Although the team of 300 people was not big, the impact was huge. The soldiers in the distance saw a large flag galloping in the army, and even rushed to the vicinity of the main general, and their mentality immediately changed.
The morale of the Red Eyebrow Army was greatly boosted, and the morale of the Gengshi Army was in chaos. The Gengshi Central Army, which had already retreated step by step, had no intention of fighting again and began to flee. Li Song knew that the situation was over, so he sighed helplessly and ordered the withdrawal of the troops. He turned his horse's head, but found that there were pursuers behind him and there was an obstruction in front of him, and there was no way to retreat. In desperation, he could only take hundreds of private soldiers to kill the side.
Li Song did not expect that his choice of direction was completely wrong, because not far from the left was the team of Wang Hu, the Yingyang Camp, which was rushing to the sword and shield soldiers.
Wang Hu carried the horse-killing sabre and led his horse-killing team to fight all the way. The gods blocked the gods and the Buddhas blocked the Buddhas, and I don’t know how many unlucky ghosts were split into two sections, and the two hundred people along the way became bloody people.
He was about to kill, but suddenly heard someone beside him shouting, "Qu Chang, a big fish is coming!" Wang Hu looked up and saw Li Song's big flag floating across, sixty or seventy steps away from them, as if he was going to circle back to Chang'an City from in front of them.
Wang Hu was a scheming person. He looked at the big flag and if he killed directly towards the big flag, their infantry would not be able to catch up with the other cavalry on both legs. But looking at the other party, he would first avoid the Yulin cavalry behind them, and then turn north and retreat back to Chang'an City.
If he leads his men to kill the northwest with a diagonal line, he may catch up before the flag turns north and kill the opponent's chief general.
General Wang Hu waved his sabre and shouted: "Brothers, come with me, don't let the thief chief run away!"
Two hundred people rose up Yu Yong, followed Wang Hu, and rushed to the northwest.
The sword of the horse-slashing sword is long and thick. Except for the same heavy weapons, ordinary weapons cannot resist it at all. A team of two hundred people swung the sword, and even the wall was split. The Gengshi army could not get close to it at all. Especially now that the army has collapsed, everyone is only concerned about escaping. Who would have been willing to come forward to block these evil spirits?
Therefore, Wang Hu killed at about a hundred steps and almost walked up. He almost walked with a knife. Seeing the fleeing enemy in front of him, Wang Hu was too lazy to swing the knife to cut. He had swung many swords in this battle, and his arms were almost unable to lift. He took advantage of this time to recover his strength.
His eyes were staring at the big flag, predicting the trajectory of both sides so that they could catch up faster, but the big flag suddenly disappeared.
Wang Hu guessed that the opponent's chief must have given up the flag that attracted the wind in order to escape, so that he could get involved in the crowd of soldiers without attracting attention.
Although the flag was not visible, the team of hundreds of people was still conspicuous. This was almost the only organized Gengshi army on the battlefield.
Chapter completed!