The five thousand Sui army cavalry were divided into five thousand-man teams, and in a wild goose formation, they charged towards the middle left side of the Khitan army. The menacing horses were like roaring waves, stirring up dust that covered the sky and the sun. Once the cavalry Starting at full speed, there is no way to stop. The only way is to move forward and charge forward with all the strength of the front cavalry.
The sweeping Sui cavalry saw a Khitan army coming in a relatively complete military formation. They controlled the horses with both legs, raised the cavalry's special horn crossbow with one hand, and held the spear with the other hand.
In a cavalry-versus-cavalry battle, soldiers on both sides only have the chance to fire one round of arrows. The horn bow crossbow is a single-shot crossbow specially used by the Sui cavalry. It can be fired with one hand. All you need to do is load the crossbow before charging. Far more convenient than a two-handed riding bow.
The surging horses hit the ground hard, and the huge impact almost stopped the hearts of the Khitan soldiers who hurriedly responded. They bit their lips, stretched their bows and arrows with both hands, and rushed towards the Sui cavalry in an almost desperate manner.
"Whoosh whoosh..." Outside the shooting range, soldiers from both sides fired crossbows and bows at the oncoming enemy soldiers. Then they put down their crossbows and bows in unison, clamped their legs on the horses' bellies, and continued to charge forward.
The difference is that the Sui soldiers crouched slightly in front of their horses, using the armor on their backs to face the arrows in the air, while also protecting the horses underneath them. They held their weapons tightly with both hands and pushed forward flatly. Although the Khitan soldiers were also crouching down, they knew that their leather armor could not protect themselves from the crossbow arrows blessed by gravity, so they held a shield in one hand and a spear or sword in the other!
"Dang-dang-dang, puff-puff-puff..." The arrows fired by both sides crossed in the air, forming a short black arch bridge, and then fell towards the sprinting soldiers of the other side.
The Khitan arrows hit the armor on the back of the Sui soldiers, making a "dang-dang-dang" sound, and were either bounced away; or they penetrated through the seams of the armor, but were caught by the inner armor. The crossbow arrows of the Sui army were streamlined iron arrows, which were extremely lethal. Even two layers of leather armor and a leather-covered wooden shield could not stop the iron arrows falling from the sky. When the arrow hit the target, the heavy The iron arrows penetrated the simple shields and leather armor, and penetrated deeply into the bodies of the Khitan soldiers.
In just this round of shooting, hundreds of Khitan soldiers screamed and fell off their horses. In this case, falling off their horses meant death. The out-of-control horses became an obstacle for the soldiers behind them. When the soldiers collided with them, another group of people fell on their backs.
Although some Sui soldiers were shot in the face and fell from their horses, the death rate was almost negligible compared to the Khitan army.
But no matter which side it was, regardless of the effect of the arrow, they held their weapons tightly and rushed forward, and soon hit a place. At this moment, it was like the collision of the opposing tide, and the soldiers flying out were like splashing waves, but It does not affect the surging tide.
In an instant, soldiers from both sides rushed forward and rushed into the other side's team, engulfing the soldiers in front of them. The horses behind continued to charge forward, and the soldiers on horseback slashed with swords and stabbed with spears.
Although the Khitan soldiers resisted desperately, they encountered the well-equipped elite Sui soldiers. These Sui soldiers had experienced hundreds of battles and had a will stronger than steel. The forwards ignored life and death and mercilessly killed the enemies in front. Fang's pair of "wings" went outflanking on both sides, attacking the enemy from the side. The Khitan soldiers were split into dozens of pieces in an instant, and their positions were shattered into pieces.
Compared with this head-on cavalry, the Sui army's cavalry who outflanked them from the rear were much more relaxed. They broke into the chaotic enemy army and launched a one-sided massacre; the fleeing Khitan army rebels were pursued and killed by iron hooves. They fell to the ground wailing, their heads were chopped off, and their chests were pierced from behind by spears and war spears.
While the two cavalry were in confusion with the enemy, the infantry phalanx led by Yan Xun had arrived on the battlefield. They used the spears and war spears in their hands to kill the enemy from the south. The archers behind them moved towards the "pikemen" "Aerial ejection from the front. Compared with cavalry, they appear more flexible, calm and steady.
This infantry is an elite force transferred from Tongding Town and Tongyuan Town. There are 5,000 people in total. The two major military towns now have 500 elite soldiers stationed in each, which can be said to be extremely dangerous. This was also Huangfu Wuyi's previous worry.
Therefore, in the current battle, in addition to the soldiers fighting, the commanders of the two armies were competing in the air.
The great He Duluo believed that Liaozhou was surrounded by enemies on three sides, and the local garrison and state soldiers were all restrained by Goguryeo. The army that Li Zixiong could finally use was the 10,000 reinforcements in his hands, plus at most 3,000 to 5,000 young civilians.
However, Li Zixiong saw that Goguryeo was not ready to march westward; he concluded that Goguryeo did not dare to send troops until the situation was unclear. So he boldly mobilized all the available soldiers and young people among the people, laying the foundation for victory.
On the other hand, Li Zixiong considered the situation and strength of the country; although no one knew what was wrong with the Khitan, the Khitan's small size did not have the basis for a protracted war. The only way out was to quickly conquer several place, and then negotiate terms with the Sui Dynasty. Therefore, once the Great Sui Dynasty sends troops, he will adopt a quick battle method in an attempt to eliminate himself.
It is precisely because of these two considerations that Li Zixiong is as stable as a mountain and waits for the enemy to come. He will set up a net to wait for him, and he will fight and wait for work.
On the battlefield, the Sui army continued to wreak havoc among the Khitan army, harvesting lives one after another.
As the war progressed, the number of Khitan soldiers became smaller and smaller, and the circle became smaller and smaller, while the Sui army soldiers gradually formed a three-sided encirclement.
For an army, the most terrifying thing is that the morale of the army is shaken. Once the morale of the army is supported and the people are panicked, the fear will spread quickly like a plague to the entire army, causing the entire army to fall apart.
The Khitan soldiers were a tired army after a long journey. When they fled here from the first ambush, they were already exhausted and frightened. Their fighting spirit to fight their way out was exhausted by traps and ambushes. The thought at this time was that the Sui army was outnumbered and invincible, and the most important thing was to return home alive.
Great Heduluo was already in despair at this time. The direct troops and rebel soldiers he had placed high hopes on did not buy him time, not even two quarters of an hour. Moreover, the Sui cavalry knew their weak points very well and the importance of them. From the moment the cavalry at the back came out, they actually only had a thousand-man team fighting against the defeated troops; the other four did not care about the defeated troops at all, and just went to kill large-scale places. As long as they gathered a few people, He will be killed and scattered; as long as he gathers a few people, he will be killed and scattered.
In the end, not only were a large number of soldiers killed, but all the remaining morale of the entire army was killed.
"Stand firm, warriors form a formation, and fight them with bows, arrows, and spears." Great Hoduluo roared loudly with a hoarse voice. He longed for a miracle to happen and for his army to fight for their lives, but the miracle did not happen - instead a demonic Sui army arrived:
"Brothers, kill all these thieves!" Just as the war turned from a stalemate to a close victory, 3,000 state soldiers and more than 2,000 young and strong civilians who were ambushed in the north joined the battlefield. They were in a situation where all three sides were enemies. Liaozhou is always tense, and there are battles almost every month. Therefore, the fighting spirit and combat effectiveness of Liaozhou soldiers are no less than those of Beijing soldiers. In addition, their families have Liaozhou and Yanzhou.
For them, this war is not only a fight for their country, but also a fight for themselves.
As for the young and strong people who followed them, their ability, fighting spirit, military discipline, and battle formation skills were not as good as those of the regular army, but they were very good at fighting such smooth battles.
When this high-spirited and energetic new force wedged itself into the chaos from the rear and right, the Khitan army suddenly fell into the dilemma of being surrounded on all sides, which also accelerated the Khitan army's defeat.
The Sui army's encirclement was about to close, causing the Khitan army to collapse quickly. The Khitan soldiers screamed in horror and began to flee in extreme panic.
One person led ten people, ten people led a hundred people...the defeated soldiers were like snowballs, and the momentum of their escape became more and more massive. The remaining Khitan soldiers abandoned their helmets and armor and fled in all directions.
But where can they escape to?
"Father, all the soldiers have fled. We can't defeat the Sui army. Withdraw!" Da Hemohui gathered more than a hundred soldiers, and other high-level generals also came with their soldiers to assemble. Everyone spoke out together , to persuade.
Dahe Duoluo smiled miserably: "Evacuate? This is Liaozhou in the Sui Dynasty, and the Liao waterway has been blocked. Where can we retreat to?"
"Chief Dahe!" said a Japanese company general: "We can take advantage of the chaos and hide in the woods first, and when it gets dark, we can go north along the Liao River."
"Yes, father!" Da Hemo Hui said: "The horses cannot walk on the blocked road, but when we get there, we can abandon the horses and walk."
"That's fine!" Da Heduoluo glanced around and saw that the northeast seemed to be the weakest point. He gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go to the northeast and kill, don't get lost."
Every word he said came out from between his teeth, and he was really unwilling to do so.
If they were defeated in a head-on confrontation, He Duoluo would have nothing to say, but from the beginning, that damn Li Zixiong had never had a head-on confrontation. He had always used various devious plots to plot against them, always making him powerful. Nowhere to use.
The defeat was now determined, and he would definitely die if he stayed here, so no matter how unwilling he was, he could only hold it in his stomach. The important thing was that all the elite troops of He Dahe Department had been lost, and they had been reduced from the second largest department to the last one.
If he cannot go back alive, the old, weak, women, children, and wealthy livestock of the Hedahe tribe will definitely be devoured by Siwandan Zhangke and his tribe of followers. Therefore, he cannot die now and must go back alive to take charge of the overall situation.
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Li Zixiong, who was standing at a high place, saw the Khitan soldiers being divided and surrounded bit by bit and being devoured bit by bit. A happy smile appeared on his face. He felt that they were almost killed, so he shouted excitedly: "Send the order, the whole army will surround them." The enemy troops shouted in Turkic language, 'Whoever surrenders will not be killed'!"
"Dong dong dong, dong dong dong..." the drum beat was loud. Groups of Sui soldiers on the periphery quickly left the battlefield and intercepted the fleeing Khitan soldiers. These soldiers grew up in border towns such as Youzhou and almost all met them. Even if you are not proficient in the Turkic language commonly used in the grasslands, you can still communicate simply and "don't kill anyone who surrenders".
When they heard these drumbeats, they, led by the grassroots generals such as the Fifth Chief, the Fire Chief, and the Duizheng, shouted at the top of their lungs, "Those who surrender will not be killed."
Soon, the roars of "Those who surrender will not be killed" came one after another and filled the entire battlefield.
The Khitan soldiers were waking up from a dream. They dropped their weapons one after another, stopped their horses, and began to cry for surrender.
While the Khitan soldiers gave up their resistance, senior figures such as Da He Du Luo and Da Ho Mohui, escorted by 300 cavalry, desperately broke out to the northeast. However, they had not yet broken out of the battlefield. A Sui army with only 500 people The cavalry stabbed in from the side, and everyone pulled the trigger together. Hundreds of crossbow arrows shot through the air like a storm, and the few remaining soldiers fell from their horses screaming.
Even Da He Duoluo was hit by two arrows. Fortunately, he was wearing Mingguang armor made in the Sui Dynasty, so he was not killed. However, although he could hold back the pain, the horse that was hit by the arrow neighed and jumped forward several times. He took one step and fell heavily to the ground, lifting the owner on his back more than two feet away.
Before others could come forward to protect them, Sui soldiers rushed in and stabbed to death all the Khitan guards who resisted, leaving only those high-ranking people wearing armor.
Dahe Duuluo, who was in pain all over from the fall, stood up from the ground. Just as he was about to pull out the sword from his waist, the tip of a horse spear hit his chest. Looking along Ma Shan, he saw a very elegant middle-aged general looking at him coldly.
The middle-aged general was Li Zixiong. He said calmly: "I am Li Zixiong, and you are Da He Duo Luo, right?"
"I am Da Ho Du Luo!" Da Ho Du Luo smiled miserably: "General Li, you win."
Li Zixiong glanced at him and told everyone else to give up their weapons, then said: "Put down your weapons and I will spare your life!"
Da He Duo Luo shook his head and said with a firm attitude: "They can surrender, but I can't. I am the senior leader of the Da He tribe. Once I surrender, it will be a shame to the Da He tribe."
"If you don't surrender, if you seek death, I will let all the prisoners be buried with you. From then on, I will personally destroy the young Dahe tribe." Li Zixiong took back the horse and emphasized coldly: "Hello, King Wei Kill, I, Li Zixiong, am not bad either. If you don’t believe it, you can give it a try.”
This is a Chieftain where life is worth more than death.
Not to mention the distance, at least it can help him appease the prisoners in front of him; and once such a chief surrenders and cooperates, then one will have two, and in the end he will have no choice but to fight all the way to the end.
Daheduoluo's face turned pale and he bit his lip in silence.
Li Zixiong said: "I don't have the patience to play with you. I will give you ten breaths to think about it, one, two, three..."
"That's it, that's it! I surrender, can't I surrender?" Da He Duo Luo took off his sword and threw it heavily on the ground.
"You know the current situation!" Li Zixiong ordered to the commander of the personal guards: "Take him away and let him help us recruit enemy soldiers and appease the prisoners. If he dares not to cooperate, kill five hundred prisoners for me."
"I will obey your orders!" The commander of the personal guards accepted the orders.
Li Zixiong ignored Da He Duoluo and stepped aside, letting others set up his own flag.
Soon, Yan Xun came over with a group of soldiers, and happily said: "General manager, we won."
"Yes, we won!" Li Zixiong showed a smile on his face and told him: "Prefect Yan, you lead the state soldiers to clean up the battlefield in the north, and at the same time let the people open the Liao Waterway as soon as possible."
"General, I obey!" Yan Xun responded and asked, "General Manager, are you planning to go north to Khitan?"
"Yes!" Li Zixiong nodded and said with a smile: "I, the Sui Dynasty, do not have the habit of passively being beaten. Now that we have wiped out all the young men in the central Khitan, how can we not take advantage of the situation and go north?"
He was the deputy general manager of the march in Liaodong Road. Yang Guang also mentioned in the secret edict Yang Ji's strategy of leading the Turkic army into Khitan, but no one knew how many troops Yang Ji had borrowed; so Li Zixiong must go north to Khitan as soon as possible. If Yang Ji cannot borrow enough troops, he will adopt the method of attacking Huanglong directly to lure away part of the Khitan army to reduce the pressure on Yang Ji and Yingzhou; if Yang Ji does not need him, he will really attack Huanglong directly. The Khitan's lair was destroyed.
Yan Xun said: "General, I finally understand."
"It's easy to talk about other things, but the road must be opened today. I will use it tomorrow." Seeing that Yan Xun was relatively young, Li Zixiong emphasized again for fear that he would not be able to distinguish the importance.
"Here!" Jiang Xun clasped his fists in salute and hurried back to gather the soldiers.
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In the early morning of the third day, the interception battle that took place in Kaiyuan Town, Liaozhou, and its results were reported to the Khitan army camp north of Longshan City by deserters who escaped by chance. The Khitan soldiers looked at Longshan City in the distance with flags fluttering, swords and guns avalanche, heavy security, and thunderous cheers, with shock in their eyes.
Yesterday afternoon, the Sui troops in the city shouted loudly at the city gate, saying loudly that the great Hodu Luo was defeated and captured in Liaozhou, and more than 30,000 elite soldiers were wiped out. The Khitan soldiers were all suspicious of the enemy's words; they never thought that they would be confirmed this morning.
The originally high morale was severely damaged by the news brought back by these prisoners.
The Khitan soldiers were in a low mood and gathered together in twos and threes to talk in low voices.
Many of them were soldiers and herdsmen who came to fight from the central and northern Khitan under the orders of the chief. They knew that there were no more warriors in the central and northern parts of Khitan to fight. If the Sui army marched north along the Liao River, they could kill the central and northern parts until corpses littered the fields and blood flowed into rivers. What would happen to their families then?
"Brothers, what should we do now?" A captain of the Fufuyu tribe gathered his soldiers and asked loudly: "Should we fight the Sui army here, or go home immediately?"
"General, we choose to go home!" More than a thousand Khitan soldiers chose the latter without hesitation, and said one after another: "No more fighting, let's go home!"
Their tribe is located north of the Yazhang Huanglong and the Xinkai River, a tributary of the Ruoluoshui River. Once Huanglong is lost, their tribe will be the next to suffer, and then it will be the turn of the Piji tribe and the Tuliuyu tribe further north. How can they Can you not worry about your parents, wife and children at home?
At this moment, someone shouted: "The chief is here."
Everyone looked back and saw Fufuyu Xirong, the chief of their Fufuyu tribe, walking quickly with more than a hundred soldiers.
The soldiers swarmed forward, surrounded Fufuyu Xirong, and asked all at once: "Chief, shall we go home?"
Fufuyu Xirong was smiling all over his face. He stepped on a big stone and said loudly: "Warriors, I know what you are worried about, but we have just received news that our reinforcements and Turkic troops have marched eastward. Tomorrow We can get here. So in this battle, not only are we Khitans fighting the Sui Dynasty, but also the Turks and even Goguryeo may send troops. By then, the Sui Dynasty will be full of enemies and there will be no extra troops to reinforce Longshan City. We Just persist for a while and you will win.”
"As for Huanglong, the chief has asked the remaining warriors to go south. They will block the passage from Liaozhou to the north. The warriors can rest assured."
"Really?" The soldiers were surprised and happy.
"I'm more worried about the people in the tribe than you are. How could I lie to you?" Fufuyu Xirong said loudly: "Warriors, the Turkic reinforcements have really come and helped us. Just fight with peace of mind. Can."
"Yes!" The soldiers were overjoyed.
At the same time, this good news was also spread to other tribes. When the news came out, the entire Khitan army cheered and their morale was high.
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