Northern Dynasties

Chapter 483
"The enemy general named Xue Guyan, with more than [-] elite cavalry under his command, has arrived at Jinguchuan the day before yesterday, set up camp on the weir, and has besieged Jingucang City..."

Gao Le, who led the ranger scouts out to investigate the enemy's situation, reported the situation one by one, and Li Tai frowned after listening.

He knew that the Eastern Wei Dynasty was by no means a soft persimmon. The success of the previous attack was only due to the chaos in the defense of the Heluo area caused by the Hou Jing Rebellion. When the enemy reacted after a series of blows, they would definitely try to counterattack, but he did not expect this The counterattack came so fast and so violently.

No matter the enemy general Xue Guyan or the more than 5000 elite cavalry he led, Li Tai did not dare to neglect.

Xue Guyan was a well-known fierce general of the Eastern Wei Dynasty. He was the rear guard of the army in the Battle of Xiaoguan, and cut off more than a dozen swords in one day. Such a heroic deed made people feel fearful when they heard it.As for the [-] elite Jinyang soldiers, they are an invincible armed force capable of crossing Heluo at the moment.

"Although the thieves are coming fiercely, most of them are lightly armed and don't have enough supplies to accompany the army. Or they are good at riding and shooting, but they are not good at attacking fortifications. They just need to stick to the city defense. When their food is exhausted, they will definitely escape. Go, the soldiers will be relieved."

After pondering for a while, Lieutenant General Tian Hong said: "Besides, Taiwei Li also gave an order to tell me and other vanguards to guard the pass and cover the flanks of the army. Steady defense is the best strategy to deal with the enemy."

After hearing the words, several other generals also nodded and said, even if they don't consider who the enemy general is, the five thousand cavalry alone is a powerful force, especially in the flat Heluo Plain, even if it is The brigade, which is several times larger than the enemy, must also be prepared carefully.

Li Tai's real combatants are only more than [-] people. Even if several cities were captured successively and thousands of soldiers were captured, it would be difficult to join the battle without sufficient reorganization.

Although Li Tai's cavalry has more than [-] troops, they still do not have an advantage in quantity, and the quality may not be sure to beat Xue Guyan's troops.

Although many of them had followed him into Jinyang, the enemy country, and fought against famous generals like Liu Feng and defeated them, there was also a great element of trickery, which did not mean that his trilogy was more elite than Baizhan The Jinyang soldiers are even more courageous.

After listening to the opinions of the generals, Li Tai said, "Although the thieves are advancing lightly and don't have enough supplies, there are in the Golden Grain Cang City. Today, General Han is alone with more than a thousand troops guarding the Cang City. If I don't save And let Cangcheng return to the hands of the thieves. The thieves can take over the city and linger, and because of their quick advance and retreat, they will attack all sides. If they just stay in the city blindly, how will they stop them? I don’t know if the progress of the army will be disturbed. I'm afraid that the offense and defense of all parties will change unexpectedly!"

Hearing this, all the generals were speechless for a moment. After a while, He Ruodun stood up again and clasped his fists and said: "Since the thief must attack and I must save, there is no clever trick to do, the only thing to do is to fight bravely." Victory. I ask the master to send thousands of people to rescue Jingu City. Qingqi stalks the thieves so that they cannot attack the city with all their strength. When they are exhausted and chase them, they will surely defeat the thieves in the wild!"

Although He Ruotun often offended people with his venomous tongue, this suggestion can be regarded as a relatively appropriate way to deal with it right now.

But as soon as his words fell, Li Quji said again: "A few days ago, I went to Jingu City to supervise the transport of supplies and return. The city is fifty miles away from Guancheng. The thieves are besieging the city to lure rescuers. I will send Qingqi to rescue them. As expected, it will not be too easy to advance and retreat with the exhausted journey and the elite fighters."

A distance of more than 50 miles is not too far, but running lightly will inevitably consume a lot of physical strength of the horse, especially the physical strength of the horse. If you want to fight with horses, you can know that there must be more bad luck than good luck.

He Ruodun thought for a while and then said: "If you have two riders..."

No one answered this question, and even He Ruodun felt a little stupid after asking it, and it was not worth discussing.

"Although the bandits are fierce, they are not invincible. In the midsummer season, the rivers are soaring, and it is difficult to walk between the ravines and tidal flats. Now I am advancing by water and land, and there are mixed vehicles. Although there are many bandits, it is difficult to stop them."

The living will never be suffocated to death by urine, and Li Tai will not be so conceited that he can defeat Xue Guyan's elite troops in a field battle, but it does not mean that the enemy is invincible.

The most powerful thing about cavalry is naturally its super mobility, but if mobility no longer exists, or if mobility is no longer the key to victory in battle, then the enemy is not as scary as it seems.There are actually many ways to limit and offset the mobility of cavalry.

"But, but, Li Taiwei's previous order is for us to stick to the pass..."

Seeing that Li Tai had decided to send troops to rescue Han Xiong's troops in Jingu City, Tian Hong hesitated and said that he was also a brave general himself, and he was not timid to fight, but he had some scruples about the commander's military orders.

"That's why General Laotian will stay here to guard the pass city. I will lead my own troops to reinforce Jingu City and repel the bandit army, so that the army's flanks will have no worries."

If the enemy breaks through Jingu City and regains this Luoxi base, then the five thousand elite cavalry can exert even greater power on the Luoxi battlefield. Even if Li Tai wants to go further, he will be defeated. Blocked in Guancheng and cannot advance an inch.

Therefore, Li Tai had to rescue Han Xiong's troops because of emotion and reason, and he couldn't be ashamed to answer when Han Qinhu asked him where his father had gone in the future.

So after some preparations, Li Tai led [-] paces of horses and horses to leave Guancheng and head towards Jingu City along the Gushui River.

Several boats followed the army, carrying more than 500 soldiers and a lot of ordnance.However, there are still more than 50 large carts on the shore, with tall walls hanging on them and hardwood protruding corners on each cart. There are 20 soldiers in each cart, equipped with half swords, shields, and half spears.

In addition to the armored soldiers assigned to the vehicles and ships, there were more than [-] cavalry, divided into three battalions: the front, the middle, and the rear.These cavalry did not leave the army formation, but advanced together between the chariot column and the boat. The actual effect seemed to be that the chariot formation protected the cavalry.In order to match each other's marching speed, the cavalry in the chariot formation even simply led the horses and walked in the formation.

Not long after this group of troops left the city, they were spotted by enemy scouts and quickly reported to the general.

Because of the lack of repairs in recent years, the Qianjin Weir in Luoxi has been silted up and down, and now it is no longer the grand occasion of collecting thousands of gold every day, and has become a pond filled with odor. It overflows from the east side and pours into Luoshui.

The Golden Barn City is located on the south side of the pond, half on the trestle bridge on the water surface, and half on the river embankment. The stone embankment on the river bank is also part of the city wall of Cangcheng, extending several miles to the left and right.

At this time, a large-scale military camp has been built outside the river embankment. The military camp is distributed on several sides and blocks all the passages on the bank of Cangcheng. The formed floating platform, these floating platforms are placed on the muddy river bank, can carry people and horses through, and can bypass the embankment wall to launch an attack on Cangcheng.

But capturing the golden granary city is not the only purpose of Xue Guyan's trip. Recapturing Guancheng and sweeping the western thieves out of Heluo is his goal. To achieve this goal, this Cangcheng is an extremely Good bait, so he didn't rush to order the troops to attack Cangcheng. While preparing for the siege in an orderly manner, he dispatched troops to bring the surrounding area of ​​Luoyang back under control.

Xue Guyan couldn't help but sneer when he learned that the enemy army in Guancheng finally couldn't hold back and sent troops for reinforcements. Dang even led a thousand light cavalry from the battalion to go west along Gushui to test the strength of the enemy army first.

The two sides rushed to each other, and soon encountered each other on the south bank of Gushui. When they saw the strange marching formation of the Western Army, many Eastern Army knights looked suspicious.

"Hmph, I also said that the leader of the bandit army is so wise and brave. He dared to attack my Guancheng and attack Luoyang. He is just a cowardly and mediocre rat!"

Xue Guyan pointed to the marching army formation by the river and said with a sneer: "This formation is a tortoise formation created by the southerners because of their timid cavalry. Cars are used as a barrier to prevent me from attacking. There are many bows and crossbows on board. Make me dare not bully me. This thief general is especially timid today, although he has considerable horsepower, he dare not use outside the formation, and he hides in the formation thinking that he will not be damaged, but he only shows his ugliness and cowardice even more!"

When all the soldiers heard Xue Guyan's explanation, they all burst into laughter, and each of them was gearing up for a fight.

Xue Guyan ignored the clamor of his subordinates. Although he explained the mystery of the enemy's formation, it didn't mean he knew how to crack it. This formation dominated by the car battalion was called the box formation by the southerners. It was originally used to restrain Qingqi in field battles. It is often set up near water, and it is difficult to attack it with fire.

Just as many people know that cavalry wins quickly, they cannot conclude any miraculous tactics against cavalry.When the Qingqi team encountered this kind of turtle shell box formation, they could only break through the formation by force.

"The thieves will imitate the southern chariots, but the chariots are much simpler than the southern ones. Erlang, wait and see carefully, this attack will definitely destroy the bandit army!"

Xue Guyan roared, and with a shake of the horse in his hand, he rushed straight to the front of the enemy line. The distance between the two sides quickly narrowed, and the soldiers of the Western Army between the car camps retreated to the back of the car.

(End of this chapter)