Sun Tzu Yi saw that his two favorite generals were surrounded by the Jin army and were in a very difficult situation. He was very anxious and had to continue sending troops to attack.
At this time, some generals tried their best to dissuade him.
"General, the Golden Thieves cavalry have a large number. If we continue to send troops to attack, two legs will not be able to outrun four legs. Without a stable military formation, no matter how many infantry there are, they will not be able to fight against the cavalry. It is really not the best idea to attack rashly."
"Then send the cavalry to attack! We must rescue them!"
Sun Tzu Yi became fierce and gritted his teeth to fight back.
"General! Our army only has one cavalry. If we use it rashly and the losses are too great, the situation will be very critical! Our army will no longer have cavalry to use!"
His subordinates quickly dissuaded him.
But Sun Tzu Yi was unwilling to follow this suggestion.
"Then we can't just watch our brothers fight in bloody battles! If we don't use the cavalry, how can we just watch them die? We must respond to them! Isn't the cavalry trained just for this time? If we don't use it, what's the use of having cavalry!"
So Sun Tzu Yi directly dispatched his only organized cavalry team and asked them to perform the response task.
More than 2,000 cavalry troops rushed out of the camp to meet the trapped Xue Li regiment, and started a fierce battle with the Jin Army cavalry.
When Xue Li's regiment saw the cavalry coming to meet them, their morale was boosted. They took the opportunity to form a formation and moved quickly towards the military camp. They continuously killed the lone and slow-moving Jin Army cavalry. The two armies were very motivated to complete the contact.
On the local battlefield, Sun Tzu Yi's two armies jointly attacked a cavalry force, and the situation of the battle was greatly reversed.
As a result, at this moment, Wanyan Alin saw Sun Tzu Yi's cavalry dispatching, and immediately judged that it was a desperate fight by the army in front of him.
The cavalry is a high-level technical arm. It is absolutely impossible to train cavalry that quickly. The Liberation Army's uprising lasted only seven or eight months, so it is impossible for them to have more cavalry during this period of time.
This may be their only cavalry, the only mobile force they can use.
Destroy them completely right here!
As long as they are eliminated, the main force of this Liberation Army will be lambs to be slaughtered, and what awaits them is death!
Wanyan Alin gave an order, and the main cavalry force of the Jin Army, ten thousand people, launched a group charge, aiming directly at the only organized cavalry team in Sun Tzu Yi's army. They quickly arrived at the battlefield and attacked Sun Tzu Yi's cavalry and Xue Li's regiment from the outside. Surrounded again.
The battle situation, which had just improved, suddenly deteriorated due to the addition of the main force of the Jin Army's cavalry. The Jin Army's cavalry, which had greatly increased in number and momentum, greatly dealt a huge blow to Sun Ziyi's cavalry unit.
Now the battle situation was finally irreversible.
Under the absolute advantage, although Sun Tzu Yi's cavalry troops were very brave and fought bravely, they fought a very fierce battle with the Jin Army's cavalry, but they were not strong enough and were really invincible.
Being shot off their horses by bows and arrows, stabbed by spears, or hacked off by swords, Sun Tzu Yi's cavalry could not compete with the Jin army. With their small number, they were quickly divided and surrounded by the Jin army's cavalry with skillful tactics.
Then they are defeated one by one.
They are unable to fight when they are together, and they are said to be divided and surrounded, losing their mobility. Now it is difficult to even escape.
So in less than half an hour, Sun Tzu Yi's cavalry army was completely wiped out.
The defeat of the cavalry directly caused the collapse of Xue Li's army.
Seeing the cavalry's defeat and severely depressed morale, Xue Li's infantry formation also collapsed. Once the infantry formation collapsed, what followed was a one-sided massacre.
Sun Tzu Yi watched his troops being slaughtered, but he never had the idea of organizing troops to go out for rescue operations.
Because he finally realized that in the wild and in front of the powerful combat power of this Jin Army cavalry, what he did was just in vain.
There is no defensive terrain or buildings, and if you go out directly to fight with the elite cavalry of the Jin Army, the chance of victory is the same as the chance of lighting a torch in the strong wind.
No matter how many infantry are arrayed to attack, without the support of cavalry, they will not be able to come back under the attack of the opponent's cavalry. The advantage of infantry is nothing in front of the cavalry that comes and goes like the wind.
Although Xue Li's army fought hard, they still could not win.
Xue Li himself fought bloody battles under the protection of his own soldiers, trying to find a way to escape back to the military camp, but in the end he failed to break out of the encirclement.
He was trapped deeper and deeper under the heavy siege of the Jin Army's cavalry, but he still kept fighting. He fought hard, broke three spears, chopped three long knives to pieces, and killed more than ten Jin Army cavalrymen. The army's cavalry caused a certain amount of damage, causing hundreds of Jin soldiers to lose.
But this doesn't change the overall situation.
In the end, Xue Li exhausted all his strength and died heroically.
All his soldiers were killed in the battle, and none of them surrendered.
A quarter of an hour after the cavalry was destroyed, Xue Li's army, which had lost all its energy, was completely wiped out by the cavalry.
At the same time, Du Yongtao's army was defeated after a long period of persistence.
Due to running out of arrows, he could not try to break through the encirclement. However, the infantry formation was difficult to withstand the highly mobile cavalry, and Du Yongtao was trapped in a tight encirclement.
The Jin Army's cavalry surrounded and did not attack at first, but continued to carry out flanking charge tactics, deterring the infantry by repeatedly charging but not attacking by force.
They often just galloped back and forth around the military formation and fired arrows, or pretended to charge with their lances raised, but when they were a few dozen steps away, they suddenly turned their horses and dispersed, but did not attack.
This was repeated many times, constantly wearing down the mental will and physical strength of Du Yongtao's army, and eventually the infantry were exhausted and unable to continue to fight, and there was a tendency to retreat.
In the end, the infantry on the front line collapsed one after another, and the military formation also slowly collapsed.
After catching this phenomenon, the Jin Army generals immediately organized a commando team with heavy armor, plunged into the military formation with indomitable momentum, and tore apart Du Yongtao's army in an extremely bloody way.
The heavy weapons and the huge kinetic energy brought by the charge directly caused the infantry to collide with flesh and blood flying everywhere, and the broken limbs and arms flew everywhere.
The Jin Army's heavy armored cavalry, Tiefutu, which had suppressed the Song Army in the Central Plains, seemed to be resurrected. Although the number was not too large, it was more than enough to deal with the infantry that was about to collapse.
The man was wearing heavy armor, and the horse was also wearing armor. The man and the horse were one, like a steel monster, rumbled into the collapsed military formation, causing a bloody storm.
Du Yongtao's army was on the road to annihilation in a very tragic way.
Du Yongtao tried to fight his way out under the protection of his own soldiers and a small number of cavalry. However, his troops were limited and he could not break out no matter how hard he tried. Instead, he fell deeper and deeper, exhausting his strength.
Seeing that the breakout failed, Du Yongtao, who knew he would die, paid a military salute to the military camp and led all the remaining soldiers to fight the last bloody battle with the Jin army.
In the end, he and his soldiers were all killed in the battle, and no one survived.
After the First World War, the Shenwu Army, which was considered an absolute elite among the Restoration Army under Sun Tzu Yi, suffered tens of thousands of casualties and was severely defeated.
The rebel army is currently completely unable to compete with the elite cavalry of the Jin Army in the wild, and its shortcomings of insufficient combat effectiveness are clearly visible.
The Shenwu Army is a personal army that Sun Tzu Yi modeled on Su Yonglin's Shengjie Army. Unlike the rest of the Restoration Army under his command, the Shenwu Army is significantly higher than other units in terms of treatment, training, and loyalty.
This is also Sun Tzu Yi's greatest reliance.
But after the first battle, tens of thousands of troops and horses were lost, and half of them were directly defeated.
This battle not only knocked out the spirit of Sun Tzu Yi's Shenwu Army, but also allowed Wanyan Alin to eat through the combat effectiveness of the Liberation Army.
Wanyan Alin quickly realized that the Liberation Army could still defend the city, but the field battle was really useless, especially in the cavalry, which had fatal flaws.
The cavalry regiment he led happened to restrain the Liberation Army.
Next, as long as they maintain the siege for a few days and wait until their food reserves are exhausted, the army will collapse without a fight, or as long as they dare to take the initiative, of course, what awaits them is ruthless massacre.
Without the protection and defense of the military camp, they would not be able to survive.
Wanyan Alin was confident. He felt that he was about to achieve a glorious victory, annihilating the main force of the Liberation Army, and firing the first shot of victory in the Jin Kingdom's counterinsurgency war.
Just one day later, shocking news came from behind.
A group of rebel cavalry with unknown origins raided Lizhou, Anzhou, and Mozhou, attacked three counties one after another, burned all the grain depots and arsenals in the three counties, and also attacked Wanyan Alinn. The logistics supply troops under their command destroyed all the logistics supplies prepared for them.
Now Wanyan Alin's cavalry is facing a serious problem of no logistical supplies.
Wanyan Alin was stunned on the spot.
He found that the entire battle situation had suddenly been reversed.
