Xu Sancai's attack target was not the enemy, and even the wounded soldiers did not attack. The enemy's rear army was mainly composed of wounded soldiers and materials. His first goal was to destroy the enemy's food, and the second goal was to seize the enemy's war horses. [】There are only more than a thousand infantrymen that can continue to fight. Therefore, the cavalry temporarily acted as infantry to attack the city, while the war horses were uniformly stocked in the rear army.
In order to keep the war horses in the best condition, of course, the war horses were not equipped with saddle armor. Xu Sancai asked the troops to take the war horses as much as possible, and the war horses that could not be taken away should be dispersed as much as possible. Although the cavalry did not shout, the sound of the horses galloping horses still quickly alarmed the enemy.
Less than one mile away, the cavalry rushed to the full speed in just one minute. The enemy's rear troops were mainly wounded and were unable to resist the impact of the cavalry. The cavalry directly passed through the wounded camp and came to the material area where the food and grass were piled up. Xu Sancai's target of burning was food and grass, and he also destroyed all the equipment that stored drinking water.
All the materials transported by the enemy to the battlefield were piled up in the management material area. The guards were the enemy's logistics soldiers and a small number of guards. Since most of the transportation teams returned to Xiaoyue City, all the materials were piled up here. Xu Sancai ignored other materials, especially bulky equipment, and just asked the troops to set fire to ignite all the food and grass.
The materials were piled up, and a 100-man team that had been prepared was specifically responsible for setting fires. In a moment, the enemy's materials office turned into a sea of fire. Xu Sancai led his troops and rushed to the war horse stocking area without any pause. All the soldiers pulled the reins of two or three war horses, and a team of soldiers finally drove the war horses away as much as possible.
Xu Sancai's surprise attack did not seek to hurt the enemy. The cavalry troops did not fight with the enemy. During the rushing into the rear army, they only solved the small number of guards blocking the road. In less than five minutes, the troops had retreated.
The enemy itself had more than half of the newly recruited soldiers, and the continuous siege during the day made them very tired. There was a distance of hundreds of meters between the front and rear troops. The combat troops of the current army were alarmed by the attack of the cavalry and sent out an emergency assembly signal. It took nearly eight minutes to complete the assembly of the troops. When the combat troops arrived at the rear troops, it took a total of ten minutes.
When the combat troops arrived at the rear army, Xu Sancai led the troops to retreat long ago. The rear army was in a mess, and the food and grass piled up had turned into a sea of fire, and the area for free of war horses was empty. The two enemy generals screamed in anger. While commanding the troops to put out the fire, they ordered the troops to re-arrange their defenses and sent soldiers to chase them.
However, Xu Sancai had been leading the troops for a long time, and the enemy lost most of the war horses. Only hundreds of cavalry and guards who had not been put into the siege were preserved because the war horses were on the edge of his camp. Without war horses, the infantry of course could not catch up with his cavalry troops, while hundreds of enemy troops did not dare to chase them alone. In the end, they only collected dozens of dispersed war horses.
Xu Sancai led his troops to run for more than twenty miles in one breath and stopped to rest. The troops who counted the results of the war actually robbed more than 2,000 war horses. He asked the more than 100 cavalry who had been temporarily pieced together to escort these war horses to the base of Wangjia Village, while the remaining troops were left locally and sent five scouts to monitor the movements of the enemy.
The enemy's food is burned, not to mention continuing to attack the city, even survival has become a problem. We will inevitably find ways to rob the food. Of course, it is impossible for the entire army to rob the food. As long as the enemy divides troops to plunder the villages and towns, there will be a chance to defeat the enemy.
Although the two enemy generals organized troops to put out the fire, the food and grass were flammable products and had been burned for nearly ten minutes. The water stored in the troops was emptied, so a small number of soldiers could only use marching shovels to extinguish the soil. When the fire was finally extinguished, the food and grass were basically burned to ashes, and the food and drink of thousands of troops immediately became the primary issue.
The two generals discussed and temporarily stopped the siege after dawn. The garrison re-arranged defenses, sent 200 infantry and transport teams to the nearest village to find drinking water, and sent four cavalry teams to the villages and towns to plunder food. There were thousands of enemy troops, and robbing one or two villages was not enough to provide the needs of the army.
Most of the transport team had returned to Xiaoyue City, and the remaining vehicles and horses were dispersed. The transport team went to find drinking water. The looting village was more than ten or twenty or thirty miles away from the battlefield. Therefore, the two generals could only send cavalry to loot. Of course, the two generals were also worried about being intercepted by Xu Sancai's troops, but they had to do so, just to prevent the robbery troops from fighting.
The scout soon discovered the robbery team sent by the enemy. Xu Sancai immediately asked the troops to be divided into four teams, with two hundred people in one team, and two-on-one naturally gained the upper hand. However, he did not let the troops strike head-on. He had already guessed that the enemy sent so few people to plunder, and he must have planned to escape. If the enemy attacked head-on, the enemy would inevitably retreat to the position.
Therefore, Xu Sancai sent troops to let the enemy army go and pursue them from behind. In this way, the enemy soldiers would be difficult to retreat and could only escape forward and eventually had to fight. Two hundred people against one hundred people, and the enemy was determined to escape back to the army. Our army's morale was far higher than that of the enemy, so the result could naturally be imagined.
After defeating the enemy, the troops still returned to the original temporary assembly site to gather. The four troops brought back the horses and prisoners. Xu Sancai returned to his garrison and joined forces with another cavalry team that rushed back, leaving some people to guard the prisoners and wait for the other troops. He led 300 cavalry to pursue the enemy infantry transport team again.
After half a day passed, some of the escaped enemy robbery teams returned to the troops' garrison. The two enemy generals naturally understood that sending small troops could not get the food they needed. Moreover, it was difficult for the troops to capture Qingtiengcheng, but now there is another cavalry team behind them that it is constantly harassed. Without food, the troops are naturally even more unlikely to take Qingtiengcheng.
After discussion, the two generals decided to save their strength and temporarily retreat to Xiaoyue City. However, the troops now have only 200 remaining horses, many of the equipment used to attack the city, and more than 3,000 wounded soldiers, so it is naturally difficult to march quickly. The problem is that the troops are thirsty and hungry, and their morale is seriously depressed, and there is no other choice except retreat.
The enemy troops set off, carrying a large number of wounded soldiers and equipment, and the war horses were temporarily allocated to the transport team. The army's target was the nearest village. However, when the army arrived, there was no one in the village and no food was found. Instead, drinking water was replenished from the two wells. It was spring, and there were no crops and fruits for food at all, so the enemy soldiers could only satisfy their hunger with wild grass and leaves.