On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 431 The Battle of Jin Yong (2)

When the deafening sound of horse hoofbeats came from the northeast of the battlefield outside Jinyong City, Yu Zhongwen was pleasantly surprised.

In his opinion, this must be Yang Yichen and Duan Wenzhen leading the troops.

Yu Zhongwen looked around and saw that among the dust in the sky, the first thing to rush out was a group of black-armored cavalry holding the Yan flag high.

"No! This is impossible!"

Yu Zhongwen couldn't believe it. He thought he must be hallucinating.

He watched with his own eyes as Yang Yichen defeated the left army of the Eastern Sui Dynasty and chased towards Mang Mountain. Duan Wenzhen had 20,000 infantry and cavalry as an ambush there. How could he be defeated!

However, the Eastern Sui Central Army, which was struggling to hold on in front, suddenly burst out with shouts:

"Duan Wenzhen is dead! Your right army has been defeated!"

Amid the shouts, a head was thrown out from the Eastern Sui army and was picked up by a Western Sui general. He picked it up and saw that it was the head of veteran general Duan Wenzhen.

The head was still staring, its eyes wide open, as if staring at itself.

The general was frightened and hurriedly rode back to Yu Zhongwen and presented his head.

Yu Zhongwen didn't answer. He had already seen the appearance of the head clearly. At this moment, he finally understood why it was not Yang Yichen who returned to the battlefield.

It turned out that Duan Wenzhen had been attacked and killed by Cui Che a long time ago, so his nephew Yu Zhe, who was sent to contact Duan Wenzhen last night, must be in trouble now. No wonder the cavalry said that Yu Zhe wanted to talk to Duan Wenzhen in detail, he clearly wanted to stabilize the situation.

I asked him to go out to the camp and fight as promised.

The Western Sui soldiers who were attacking Cui Che's army on the front line were also in panic now. They did not want to believe the news that Duan Wenzhen was dead, but the panic of the general just now was clearly reflected in everyone's eyes.

The defeat of the right army was further evidenced by the cavalry of the Eastern Sui Dynasty who came towards them from the east.

The Central Army of the Western Sui Dynasty was on the verge of collapse.

Yu Zhongwen shouted loudly:

“This is all Cui Ni’s trick!

"General Duan and General Yang are currently attacking the enemy at the southern foot of Mang Mountain. That cavalry is just Cui Ni's reserve force. Don't let him deceive you."

When everyone was doubtful, among the black-armored knights rushing from the northeast, a young general held a head high and rushed out of the team.

That young general is none other than Shen Guang.

In later generations, Shen Guang was known as the number one horse racer in the Sui Dynasty. Now he had already shown his superb riding skills. Just as he was about to let go, there were so many cavalrymen in the Eastern Sui army, and everyone could catch up with him.

Therefore, although it was Liu Heitai who killed Yang Yichen in formation, it was Shen Guang who emerged from the crowd with Yang Yichen's head.

Shen Guang came to the edge of the Western Sui Army's arrow range and stopped. He shouted:

"Yang Yichen is dead, his head is here!"

Many people saw Yang Yichen's head clearly, and the black-armored knights behind Shen Guang also rushed towards him without stopping.

At this time, the 30,000 cavalrymen of the left route army of the Western Sui Dynasty were finally defeated by the 10,000 silver-saddled Khitans and 5,000 Han troops led by Cheng Yaojin.

Cheng Yaojin also did not pursue the deserters, but followed Cui Che's instructions before the battle and quickly joined the Chinese army on the battlefield.

Seeing that both the left and right wings were defeated, especially the right army, even the main general was beheaded.

It is not known who dropped their weapons first, and more than 100,000 Western Sui soldiers dispersed in a rush. No matter how much Yu Zhongwen shouted, he could not stop them from escaping.

Yu Zhongwen had no choice but to flee after being persuaded by his cronies.

The defeated soldiers fled to Jinyong City, but the defenders of Jinyong City did not dare to open the city gate. Behind them were the pursuing soldiers of the Eastern Sui Dynasty. Once the city gate was opened, the defeated soldiers rushed in. If they tried to close it again, it was just a dream.

At this time, the pursuing troops can take advantage of the situation and rush into the city.

Seeing that the guards of Jinyong City refused to open the door, the defeated soldiers cursed and fled towards Luoyang. However, because there were pursuers behind them, the guards of Luoyang's gates also did not dare to let these defeated soldiers enter the city.

Seeing that there was no hope of entering the city, Luozhou's soldiers abandoned their weapons and surrendered.

The Jingxiang soldiers fled to the south together with the previously defeated left route army, namely the Luzhou soldiers and the Yizhou soldiers.

When encountering a defeat, the instinctive reaction of soldiers is always to flee towards their hometown.

This is also the reason why Yu Zhongwen could only take away his own soldiers. It is also the same reason why Lai Huer abandoned the army in Hebei. The soldiers were unwilling to abandon their families and live in a foreign country with the defeated general.

Cui Che detached some of his soldiers to take in the surrendered soldiers, and sent troops in front of the tent to pursue a five-mile southward pursuit, capturing a large number of armored soldiers along the way.

When Su Dingfang, Shen Guang and others returned with their full load, the cleaning of the battlefield was coming to an end.

Because during the duel between the two wings, both Cheng Yaojin's right army and Dou Jiande's left army only defeated the enemy. In order to support the Chinese army on the battlefield, neither chose to pursue the deserters.

Even when the troops in front of the tent chased the defeated soldiers of the Western Sui Dynasty, they mostly picked up the abandoned armor battles. Therefore, in this battle, Cui Che defeated more with less and defeated 180,000 Western Sui soldiers, but only just

More than 50,000 people were captured and killed.

Among them, 30,000 people were captured, with Luozhou soldiers accounting for the vast majority. 20,000 were beheaded and more than 200,000 pieces of armor and weapons were seized.

In the Eastern Sui Dynasty, there were one hundred thousand infantry and cavalry, and there were nearly 10,000 casualties, most of which were Cui Che's infantry of the Chinese army.

Cui Che's idea for this battle was to use the Chinese army to stall for time, and only allocated 10,000 cavalry to Dou Jiande, asking him to lead the right army of the Western Sui Dynasty to an ambush point and engage in a pincer attack with the Xiaojie army in front of the tent.

At the same time, compared with Dou Jiande's command, the more elite Silver Saddle Khitan Army and 5,000 Han troops were handed over to Cheng Yaojin. In addition to Dahe Jinzhong, Li Han and other Khitan cavalry generals, the father and son of the Pei family, who were famous for their bravery, were also mobilized.

The purpose is to concentrate the elites and break through the left route army of the Western Sui Dynasty.

Cui Che had previously attacked and killed Duan Wenzhen, and all the 20,000 elite troops from Lu and Yi Prefectures had been wiped out in one sweep. He certainly knew that although the remaining left army troops picked up by Duan Wenzhen were more numerous, they were by no means a match for Cheng Yaojin's elite cavalry.

In this way, we can recreate the scene of the Battle of Xiangzhou, where three armies besieged the enemy's central army.

But what was different from the Battle of Xiangzhou was that Cui Che's cavalry had an absolute advantage at that time, completely defeating Li Jing's two wings head-on.

But today, I spent a lot of time on arranging the troops.

Cui Che gathered his army again. He did not attack Jinyong City immediately, but led his army to the outside of Luoyang City.

As long as Luoyang is captured, Jin Yong City will naturally not be able to hold it.

The governor of Luozhou had already received news that Yu Zhongwen was defeated outside Jinyong City. He came to the tower tremblingly. At this time, Cui Che had already re-formed outside Luoyang City, showing off his power to intimidate the Luoyang defenders.

Yu Zhongwen gathered more than 200,000 troops in Luoyang, but when he left the city, he only took away 200,000 horses and left 10,000 to 20,000 defenders in Luoyang.

But these people are just old and weak. If they were really elite soldiers, Yu Zhongwen would naturally take them out of the city to participate in the battle.

Now that the main force has been defeated and the people in the city are in panic, how can Luoyang be defended by just a few to 20,000 old and weak men?

At the same time, the Eastern Sui army retreated after showing off their power, but an envoy wearing regular clothes without armor came towards Luoyang alone.

There are only three chapters today, and my hand is already pretty good. I will definitely be able to add more chapters tomorrow.

(End of chapter)