Chapter 220
Amidst the conch horns and shouts that resounded throughout the world, the Qingzhou cavalry, which had completed the regrouping first, completely defeated the still scattered Hu and Han cavalry with an overwhelming momentum.
In just one wave of charges, more than 300 Hu and Han cavalry were knocked off their horses. Including the previous round of charges, at least 700 to 800 Hu and Han cavalry were killed and injured.
For the Hu and Han cavalry, which numbered no more than 3,000, such a terrifying casualty rate was enough to completely collapse these herdsmen and bandits who had just escaped from the rabble category.
Even with Shi Hu's natural bravery, he was no longer able to restrain the collapsed tribe.
Shi Hu, who knew that he was helpless, made the most correct decision at the first time, that is, to escape. The farther away the better, as long as he could escape the first charge of these Qingzhou cavalry, then the rider and It was impossible for the Qingzhou cavalry, whose horses were all armored, to catch up with the lightly armored and nimble Hu Han cavalry.
Therefore, Shi Hu ignored the screams of the people behind him, and just kept beating the horse and running wildly. As long as he could escape far away, he could fight for a chance of survival.
When the Hulu cavalrymen turned on their backs, Liu had a premonition of great satisfaction.
This was a crushing victory. The heavy cavalry covered in simple horse armor was still unable to confront the light cavalry head-on.
If it weren't for the scorching sun, the Qingzhou cavalry put on blouses to prevent their armor from being burned by the sun, causing the Hulu opposite to make a wrong estimate. The Han cavalry would never make such a stupid mistake.
Moreover, the training and discipline of the Qingzhou Cavalry are obviously superior. This can be easily seen when the entire team regroups and launches a charge.
The Qingzhou cavalry, which was crushed at all levels in terms of ordnance, equipment and training discipline, was simply an invincible opponent to these Hulu cavalry who "were like tigers descending from the mountain when they were successful, and dispersed like birds and beasts when they were defeated".
During the two rounds of charges, Liu Yu, who was in a relatively safe position in the back row, did not get even a trace of blood on the horse in his hand. This feeling of not being able to fight to his heart's content made him feel quite itchy.
"Wu Xin, take a cavalry and seize the pontoon bridge on the Whistle River quickly. Don't let the Hulu escape from the pontoon bridge!"
Seeing that the Hulu's defeat was certain, Liu Yu immediately ordered Wu Xin to seize the pontoon bridge and cut off the Hulu's escape route.
"Yes, General!" Wu Xin immediately accepted the order, and then waved his cavalry to head towards the vortex pontoon bridge behind.
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When the battle outside Bucheng ended, less than half an hour had passed.
"General Qi, except for the hundreds of Hulu who escaped quickly, we have wiped out the rest."
The general Cao Yi, who was covered in blood, reported to Liu Yu with great pride.
Cao Yi's troops, which were mainly composed of light and fast horses, did not participate in the attack during the charge, but roamed far away from the periphery.
When the Qingzhou armored cavalry defeated the Hu and Han cavalry with a devastating momentum, the light cavalry led by Cao Yi played its due role and pursued the defeated troops.
Due to the cooperation of the Qingzhou Army's cavalry, due to the obstruction of the eddy water, only a hundred or so Hulu cavalry were able to break out of the encirclement. The rest of the Hulu cavalry were either killed off their horses, captured, or both men and horses. If you run into a vortex with swollen water, whether you can escape with your life depends entirely on your luck.
"General, we caught a lackey of Hu Han!" Wu Xin, who was responsible for guarding the pontoon bridge, had already arrived in front of Liu Yu.
"Who?" When Liu Yu heard this, he guessed that it was one of Shi Le's important subordinates?
"It's Diao Ying, one of Jiehu Shile's "Eighteen Cavalry"." Wu Xin waved his hand behind him, and a Hulu officer who was tied into a rice dumpling was dragged up by two Qingzhou soldiers.
"Diao Ying?"
Liu Yu kept talking about this name while talking about Diao Ying.
I saw that Diao Ying was wearing a Jin army-style sleeved armor. The helmet on his head had disappeared because his hands were tied behind his back. After being roughly pushed down to his knees on the ground, Diao Ying lost his balance and his face changed. Almost buried in the mud.
"General, this Diao Ying is the powerful general under Jie Hu Shile and the deputy general of Hulu in this battle." Wu Xin continued.
"Lieutenant general? Who is the general?" Liu Yu didn't care about this Diao Ying. In his impression, he had almost no impression of this Diao Ying. Thinking about it, he should be a small fish with little role beside Shi Le.
For this kind of miscellaneous fish, they are often killed with one blow.
"Shihu." Wu Xin said.
"Shihu, Shihu?"
When Liu Yu heard the name, he was immediately surprised.
"Where is Shihu? Have you caught him?" Liu Yu asked immediately.
Among Jiehu Shile's forces, apart from Shile and Zhang Bin, the other person who left a deep impression on Liu Yu was definitely Shi Hu.
Shi Hu is a ferocious and cruel animal, especially Shi Le. It is no longer like humans. From the age of sixteen or seventeen until Shi Hu died of illness in his later years, nearly a million Han people died directly or indirectly at the hands of Shi Hu.
"I haven't caught him, but I have ordered people to take the prisoners to search among the dead bodies. If they are found, they will be reported to the general immediately." Wu Xin replied.
"You must search confidently. If someone comes, send more soldiers and horses to carefully identify and search among the prisoners and corpses. As long as there is no escape, I will die to see the corpses and live to see the people!"
Liu Yu did not hesitate to be hostile and vigilant towards Shi Hu, the number one tyrant of the Wuhu.
"General, what should we do with this Diao Ying?" Wu Xin asked immediately.
"Diao Ying? Did you ask anything useful?" Liu Yu was first concerned about whether Diao Ying had disclosed any useful information.
"These are all ordinary things. It's nothing more than the size of Jie Nu's troops and where they are now." Wu Xin said with some dissatisfaction.
When Wu Xin led his troops to capture Diao Ying and several other Hulu who were trying to escape by storming the pontoon near the pontoon, he thought he had captured a big fish, but he never expected that after a simple inquiry, he only got some ordinary information. An ordinary Hu-Han prisoner can tell it.
"In that case, let's chop it off, marinate the head, and hang it on the Bucheng." Liu Yu said casually.
Since these Hulu have no useful value, there is no need to keep them. At this time, the Qingzhou cavalry is unable to guard any prisoners.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Liu Yu said these words, Diao Ying, who originally fell to his knees and trembled like a pig or sheep waiting to die, suddenly let out a roar and straightened up.
"General, please spare my life. I know important military information! As long as the general spares my life, I am willing to work for the general!!"
Diao Ying's tears and snot had flowed down unconsciously due to the huge fear, and four clear ditches rushed out on his dirty face.
"What military situation?" Liu Yu was almost amused by Diao Ying's funny look, he asked in a joking tone.
"General, I know the place where food and property are hidden in Jiannu Shile, as well as the families of military sergeants and soldiers!" Diao Ying's words were filled with the desire to survive.
"Bah! Hulu thieves all carry the looted property with them, not to mention they don't have any family members!"
After hearing what Diao Ying said, Wu Xin immediately kicked Diao Ying hard and cursed.
"General, I don't think this is credible. It must be the nonsense of this Jiehu who is greedy for life and afraid of death!"
"Jie Nu is like an animal, no words can be trusted!"
Wu Xin, who lost his homeland during several Hu and Han invasions, hated the Hulu from the bottom of his heart.
"General, please forgive me, I am not a Jie slave, I am also a citizen of the Jin Dynasty!" Diao Ying defended while kneeling on the ground and crying bitterly.
"Oh, you are not Jienu?" Liu Yu was very surprised when Diao Ying said this. He had always thought that the members of Shi Le's "Eighteen Cavalry" must have been the Xiongnu from Bingzhou or the Jiehu and Wuhuan types. Where are the barbarians?
"It's true that the villain is from Wuxiang, Bingzhou, but he is not from Jie, but from Jin for generations."
Liu Yu no longer cared whether Diao Ying was a Jiehu or a Han. He waved his hand and said.
"Okay, even if you are not Jiehu."
"Then what are the things you mentioned about Shi Le hiding food and property, as well as the families of the sergeants and soldiers?"
Liu Yu knew that Shi Le's army was no longer just bandits at this time, but had absorbed many refugees and powerful forces. These people all had families and relatives. When they followed Shi Le to fight, these people I definitely won’t follow him wherever he goes.
"Please, General, please promise to spare this villain's life first! As long as you don't die around me, I will tell you everything I know, and I won't tell you anything!" Diao Ying did not let go immediately.
Liu Yu almost laughed when he heard this. This cunning Hulu would not give up until he saw the Yellow River.
"Are you threatening me?" Liu Yu said coldly.
"I don't dare, I just..." Diao Ying was interrupted by Liu Yu before he could finish his words.
"Well, if that's the case, then I don't want to know anymore. Just drag it on. It's not Jiehu. As a descendant of the Zhou and Han Dynasties, he helped the Zhou Dynasty to commit evil. The crime will be increased. When he enters the bitter city, he will be cut in half in public!" Liu Yu didn't care at all! After all, he was not very interested in the group of thieves and traitors under Shi Le.
Immediately, two Qingzhou soldiers stepped forward and dragged Diao Ying down. Seeing this, Diao Ying immediately started howling.
"General, the villain doesn't dare anymore, I say, I say, I say!"
Immediately, Diao Ying burst into tears and told everything he knew about Shi Le's hidden property and the sergeant's family.
When Liu Yu heard that it was actually in a mountain in Chenliu County not far from here, and seeing that Diao Ying's demeanor and tone were not fake, he believed it.
"Take him first and keep him under guard. Don't let him die."
In the end, Liu Yu decided to save Diao Ying's life first. As for the other Hu and Han prisoners, they were not so lucky. They were stabbed and thrown into the Wishui River. This was their final outcome.
"Liu Xun, take a group of soldiers and horses and enter the bitter city first. Let them prepare food, accommodation and horse materials. If there is any neglect, military law will be followed!"
After taking care of the battlefield, Liu Yu already had thousands more horses in his hands. Although the horses of these Hulu cavalry were not very good, and many of the horses were not in good condition, they were equipped with armor for carrying horses. , is more than enough.
Therefore, Liu Yu decided to enter Bucheng immediately to quickly restore the strength of the Qingzhou cavalry who had just had a small battle, to replenish the war horses and pack horses with some fine materials, and to prepare for tomorrow's attack!
Of course, whether this would cause great pain to the people in the dilapidated and suffering city was something Liu Yu no longer wanted to consider.
Under the current situation, if Liu Yu had not oppressed them, then there would be bandits and barbarians oppressing them in the future. Rather than doing this, it is better to get used to it early.
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Yuzhou, Liang State, Ningping City.
During the reign of Yin, the Jin court platform in Ningping City poured out from three city gates.
Most of these 100,000 people are soldiers of the Chinese army, and there are more than 10,000 officials and servants who have accompanied them.
When the troops of the Jin Dynasty marched out of the city, they could still maintain their pre-arranged array arrangements. They could basically march step by step, covering each other and marching alternately.
The Hulu cavalry led by Shi Le had already expected that the Jin Ting Xingtai in Ningping City would break out of the encirclement, and they immediately noticed that the Jin Ting Xingtai opened its doors and left the city.
However, because the soldiers of the Central Army of the Jin Dynasty could still maintain basic formation and order, the cavalry under Shi Le could only wait and watch from a distance, and did not dare to rush forward to harass easily.
After all, in the dim sight of the early morning, they could only see the Jin army in strict formation, and if they stepped forward rashly, they would most likely be counterattacked by infantry and bows.
Wait until Chenshi, when the sky is bright.
All the Jin troops in Ningping City have completed their retreat.
More than 100,000 people from the Jin court left Ningping City and began to break out of the siege eastward.
At the beginning, the 100,000-strong army could still maintain their own marching formations, with elites as the backbone, protecting the ministers and officials in Xingtai in layers of military formations. Although the marching speed was very slow, they could still maintain The deterrent power of the military formation prevented the Hulu cavalry following them from daring to act rashly.
However, although the distance traveled increased, the Hulu cavalry who clung to the rear of the Jin court's army had already seen through the Jin army's reality.
Shi Le personally led the cavalry and clashed with the Jin army in the rear formation to find out the strength of the Jin army. There were not many archers in these Jin armies. Even if there were some, they were already too weak to be used. And as they marched As the distance increased, the array of these Jin troops became more and more scattered.
It's impossible for a hundred thousand hedgehogs to gather together without causing chaos.
What's more, as the Hulu cavalry became more and more bold in their probing attacks, the Xingtai officials sitting in the center of the Jin army began to feel waves of panic, and many of them began to urge the military commander, Taiwei Wang. Yan issued an order, requiring all armies to speed up their march. Some people even directly passed the Taiwei Wang Yan and gave orders to their own battalions to seize the marching order first.
Finally, the Jin court's military array in Taichung, which had been maintained for several hours, began to collapse due to the efforts of the ministers.
