Chapter 436
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The Shatuo infantry roared wildly, slapped his chest, vomited alcohol, his eyes were red, and he rushed towards the Tang army camp without fear.
Li Youjin, who was responsible for commanding this battle, did not arrange any formations or attempt to military tactics. His command only had one sentence and rushed forward. This battle was a battle that did not seek victory. The purpose of this battle was only for momentum. From the beginning, all the troops were to be suppressed. Relying on one go, it put pressure on the Tang army and let them transfer the cavalry on both wings, and then Li Keyong's cavalry could break through the flanks.
This is a real battle for a hero to cut off his arm and abandon his son and protect his car.
So many soldiers were crowded in front of the camp, and they were one after another, pushing and squeezing each other, densely packed. Li Youjin is only looking forward to relying on this momentum to use these soldiers to directly subdue the Tang camp under the stimulation of high rewards and alcohol. Although in fact, the front of the Tang army camp was covered with Shatuo infantry. However, Li Youjin did not stop mobilizing troops. He was increasing his troops, no, it was a large number of soldiers.
The three thousand soldiers of the front army had already gone up, and half of the ten thousand soldiers of the central army had gone up. He still did not stop and was preparing to send all the remaining five thousand infantry soldiers up. He personally led the two thousand most elite infantry and pushed the troops in front from behind.
Such a lifeless attack method in front of the camp made the defenders happy and worried. What was happy was the opponent's fighting style. They stood after the camp and fired their bows without aiming. They directly turned their backs and each arrow could hit the target. But what worries them was that the Shatuo people rushed up like crazy. It was hard to say that the defense line in the camp would be really broken by their lifeless attack style.
Zheng Congxian personally sat on the front line, observing the crazy and abnormal attack methods of Shatuo people with a calm face.
It is certain that the Shatuo people want to break through. But this method of breaking through is no different from dying. He was looking for the Shatuo people's cavalry. But after watching for a long time, almost all the infantry of the Shatuo people came up, and the cavalry was still missing.
"The Shatu people seemed to be preparing to abandon their soldiers and protect their chariots and use infantry to cover the cavalry to break through." Yu Yan walked to Zheng Congsheng with his sword and expressed his opinion.
Cui Anqian also rushed over, "Do you have to directly attack the Shatuo camp and kill the Shatuo cavalry first?"
This proposal was quite bold and adventurous. The Shatuo people's infantry were killed now, and they ignored the back. At this time, it was almost certain that the Shatuo people must have wanted to use infantry to cover the cavalry's breakthrough. At this time, if they directly transfer 15,000 cavalry from both wings, and directly bypass the Shatuo infantry and tie the Shatuo cavalry directly, this is a very likely tactic. After all, although the Shatuo cavalry is strong, they only have 5,000 cavalry, which is one-third of the Tang cavalry.
However, Zheng Congxian had to consider more. First of all, the Shatu infantry is so fierce now. If the cavalry is transferred to the Shatu camp, will the 15,000 infantry in his own camp block the same number of Shatu infantry?
Another thing is, what if this is a Shatuo trap and their cavalry are waiting for the Tang cavalry to kill them?
The Shatuo people's cavalry were so powerful, especially the Shatuo cavalry led by Li Keyong.
It can be said that at this point, the final defeat of the Shatuo people is a foregone conclusion. After experiencing the last thrilling experience of Shanyang City and almost losing and dying, Zheng Cong-sei has now become more stable.
If the Tang army cavalry sent cavalry to the Shatuo camp like last time in Shanyang, but Li Keyong took Shatuo cavalry to the camp directly, they would definitely not be able to stop it. If Li Keyong ran away, Zheng Congxian would not be able to withstand the failure.
After thinking about it, he finally decided to fight steadily, "The enemy's situation is unknown, so deal with the Shatu infantry first. As for the Shatu cavalry, if the enemy does not move, I will not move. If the enemy moves, I will move again!"
Cui Anqian was a little disappointed, but he also knew that his plan was still a bit risky and stopped talking now.
In front of the Tang army's formation, rows of archers were constantly striking and striking. Thousands of strong bows kept "squeaking" into a full moon, and suddenly shook it out, and the arrow poured over Shatuo's head like a continuous rainstorm.
On the moat ditch filled with the corpses of Han slaves, countless Shatu soldiers fell to the ground by arrows. The bodies slowly formed a long dike piled up in front of the camp gate, but the Shatu people were not afraid, and they were still charging.
The sharp arrows of the Tang army poured over the heads of Shatu people. While charging forward, the Shatu people kept firing arrows in front of the Tang army. The Shatu people's ability to shove arrows was even stronger than that of the Tang army, and arrows came and went.
Although the Tang army in front of the camp was facing a shield formation, the dense backward arrows were the most blocked. The Tang army fell in rows!
The three thousand elite infantry of the front army were almost completely lost after one hour of war, but Li Youjin did not mean to let them retreat. They wanted to retreat at this time, but they could not retreat. Countless Shatu people behind were rushing up, and many Shatu soldiers in the front army were only injured, but were finally rushed down by the soldiers behind and finally trampled to death.
The corpses of the Shatu people in front of the camp were piled up with a second long embankment, but the fierce attack of the Shatu people continued. Under the supervision of the two thousand elite soldiers led by Li Youjin, 10,000 infantry in the central army continued to advance, and these Shatu people were rushing to death.
However, Li Youjin's tactics were also successful. After the death of the front army, the Shatu soldiers of the central army finally broke through a camp along the path made of countless corpses.
"Kill!" Shatuo army burst into earth-shaking cheers. For a moment, everyone was extremely excited. Finally, a gap was opened and they could break through the siege immediately.
The two sides had already put down their bows and arrows at this time, and finally began a close-range melee with a spear and a sword.
When the Shatu people behind saw the gap in front of them, they were shouting and kept coming. The camp of the Tang army camp was like a broken dam, which was just a small hole at first, but the rushing Shatu soldiers were like a flood peak passing through the border, and suddenly expanded the gap. More and more Shatu people finally rushed into the camp, and many archers in the camp had to pick up spears and cross the sword to fight in close combat.
Cui Anqian led Zhongwuba, who had only three thousand people left, to kill him. They successfully curbed the Shatu people's rush. But just one wave, the Shatu people's impact became even greater. The three thousand Zhongwu troops were soon overwhelmed by this wave and had to retreat continuously.
Soon, after the loss of Haogou, the most important defense line of the Tang army was also completely lost.
"Master, you have to transfer the cavalry to come, otherwise the camp will collapse if it can't hold on for a long time!" Li Zong, the governor of the Yicheng Army, has almost become a bare-headed general, and almost all his soldiers have been fought over.
Li Zhuo's Heyang Army also suffered heavy losses. Zhuge Shuang retreated and cursed, "These group of Shatuo people have taken chun and the medicine, they are so fierce!" Li Hanzhi's bald head was particularly conspicuous in the camp. At this time, he was also shot and covered his wounds. "There are even fewer Damn Shatuo wolf cubs on the opposite side. Why don't he believe in the North attack? He always asks us for bad luck."
When Li Jing was mentioned, Zhuge Shuang was a little unhappy, which reminded him of the fact that he had replaced two powerful generals with a hundred-man enemy by Li Jing. If these two were there, he would not have been beaten so miserably by the Shatuo people now.
Zheng Congxi also saw that the camp was broken by the Shatu people. These Shatu people really saw ghosts today. It is not enough to describe being crazy and desperate. But now, the most important thing is to stabilize the situation.
However, what he was most worried about was the Shatu cavalry. When the two wings of cavalry came over, the Shatu cavalry might take the opportunity to break through. But if the cavalry did not fall off, if the Shatu cavalry came directly towards the camp, the camp would collapse immediately.
The Shatuo people seemed to be cruel and were determined to abandon these 5,000 infantry soldiers. This move was too cruel and could not be cracked.
He remembered Li Jing's 15,000 army, but unfortunately he was still on the other side of the river and could not come to support immediately.
It was so terrible that Zheng Congxi looked at the camp several times again, and finally said helplessly: "I ordered the left-wing Tuoba and Helian two divisions to come to support, and ordered the three right-wing tribes to continue to stand by!" When this happened, Zheng Congxi felt more and more that the Shatuo cavalry seemed to be peeping around. At this time, he had to leave a mobile reserve force to deal with the Shatuo cavalry.
Tuoba Sigong, Helianduo, and Zhenwu Army, a total of 7,000 cavalrymen rushed to the camp and joined the battle.
With the reinforcements of seven thousand cavalry, the situation of the Tang army began to improve. Just as the generals breathed a sigh of relief, a violent vibration suddenly sounded in the left wing direction, and the sound of thunderous iron hooves sounded. The Shatuo cavalry moved, and they went straight to the left wing that was just empty.
Zheng Congyue's face changed, and the Shatuo people were about to escape.
"Immediately, order the cavalry of the three right-wing tribes to attack and must stop the Shatu cavalry!"
Eight thousand cavalry of the three tribes were dispatched. When they came to kill, they found that the five thousand Shatuo cavalry had already rushed south and did not want to fight at all. The cavalry of the three tribes pursued them in the middle of the night, and until dawn, they could not intercept the Shatuo cavalry.
At dawn, the town built two floating bridges on the Zihe River and rushed to the camp where it was still fighting.
The 15,000 towns were killed, and the three tribes and eight thousand cavalry returned in vain. The Tang army in the entire camp gathered more than 40,000 troops. Li Youjin, who had fought for a night of blood, saw this and directly surrendered to the Tang army.
On the battlefield, the governors of the eight towns gathered together. Zheng Cong-si stood in the middle as the recruitment envoy, Yu Vin and Li Jing stood on the left and right. Several other military commanders attended the surrender ceremony.
Li Youjin took off all his armor and clothes, only wore a pair of calf pants, tied a few thorns with ropes, knelt on the cold ground, and formally surrendered to the Tang army.
After a night of bloody battle, the 15,000 Shatu infantry were killed by 8,000, more than 2,000 seriously injured and countless minor injuries. It can be said that except for the two thousand soldiers around Li Youjin, they basically maintained the system. The rest, 3,000 front troops were wiped out, and 10,000 middle troops were almost killed.
Chapter completed!