Lu Xiaoyou tightened the reins, slowed down his horse, and drove it onto a small plateau. Then he took out his sight tube and looked toward the battlefield where the fighting was going on.
The shouts of killing continued, and through the thousands of troops, one could see Li Xia's tall banner.
He also saw the five general flags of red, yellow, blue, white and black, and knew that the blue one among them belonged to Li Zeyi.
Lu Xiaoyou was very proud of Li Zeyi.
He believed that Li Zeyi would definitely surpass him in military achievements in the future, and he took this as a matter of course, because he knew that Li Zeyi was more capable than him, and a capable person would of course take the lead.
Then I put down the watch tube and saw Li Zengbo also jumping on his horse.
Li Zengbo set out from Gongchang and took the Fanxukou Road.
Lu Xiaoyou saw this bumpy journey and was really worried that Lao Jieshuai's body would fall apart...
"Commander, please take a look."
Li Zengbo took the lookout tube and looked at it for a while, but did not immediately order an attack. Instead, he readjusted the array, and then dispatched troops and horses to support Li Xia.
Every time he recruited a general, he took the trouble to explain it over and over again.
"The trapped beasts are still fighting. They must surround three towers and let the Mongolian army go through the gap in the south."
"Advance slowly, and the formation must not be broken up, so as not to push the Mongolian army into a hurry and disrupt our formation, or turn around and counterattack to the east."
"..."
This battlefield is neither big nor small. During the battle of Qianshui Plateau, more than 100,000 troops from both sides could be deployed, but after all, it is an ancient road, called "Jinghe Ancient Road" or "Xiaoguan Ancient Road".
To the west is Guanshan Mountain, to the east is Ziwu Ridge, and to the north is the Loess Plateau. Only the valley through the Jinghe River and several tributaries is still open enough for marching.
It is not as difficult as the Shu Road, but it is still a valley in nature.
Ashu's Mongolian army has been blocked in the valley.
Liu Jinsuo and Yang Ben blocked their way to the northeast; Li Xia divided them into two from the middle; Li Zengbo surrounded them from the west.
If you look at it from the sky, you will understand that the Mongolian troops on the east and west sides should attack Li Xia at the same time.
However, the generals and soldiers on the battlefield can only see it from their perspective, and it is impossible to see the complete battlefield situation.
The Mongolian army in the east looked around and saw that the Song army's defense line had been broken to pieces by them, and they could break out immediately; the Mongolian army in the west only saw that they were surrounded by the Song army and had to disperse as soon as possible.
Under this situation, no one could order the two divided Mongolian armies to attack together at the same time.
What Li Zengbo had to do was to first annihilate the Mongolian army in the west.
In the past, when he fought in a war, it was as if he was guarding a dilapidated house to guard against wolves, nailing the windows with all his strength, and accidentally allowing wolves to break into the house and wreak havoc.
And in this battle, he is the hunter.
This is his trap.
Now that the wolf is in the trap, you can trap its hind legs...
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When Ashu saw Li Zengbo's flag approaching, he was furious.
He did not intend to abandon half of his troops, but planned to annihilate the Song army blocking the road first, and then surround Li Xia's troops.
Li Zengbo arrived too quickly, making him feel like he was being held back.
I wish I could just kick that old thing to death and then run away.
But he was furious. Ashu could no longer contact the divided Mongolian army and could only let them be surrounded by Li Zengbo.
Like a wolf whose hind legs are trapped and has lost consciousness.
Ah Shu had no choice but to bite off his own hind legs and try his best to escape from the trap.
This bite was so bloody that he became so cruel.
He is twenty-eight years old this year, and is at the peak of his physical strength and willpower.
He is the strongest wolf who has been angered by the trap and is at his most furious.
Grinning his teeth, snatching people away and devouring them...
"puff."
A Shu's long spear could easily stab a Song soldier to death with the help of his horse's close range momentum.
He pulled the reins and the horse turned around, avoiding the dozen or so Song troops arrayed in front.
Meng Qi behind him had already bumped into them, disrupting the formation of more than ten Song troops.
Ah Shu immediately turned back and stabbed at random with his spear, breaking through this layer of defense.
The number of corpses and wounded under the horses' hooves gradually increased, and he led the troops to charge forward.
This was also the fiercest battle A Shu had fought since joining the army.
In fact, the Mongolian army rarely fights tough battles. They are good at using prisoners and servants to consume enemy soldiers, intimidating enemy soldiers through massacre, and using the advantages of cavalry to continuously weaken enemy soldiers...
All in all, the key to the Mongolian army's tactics always lies in the four words "taking advantage of the enemy's exhaustion".
To take advantage of the enemy's exhaustion is to seize the initiative and maintain a state of attacking the weak with the strong.
Ah Shu is well versed in this tactic, so every defeat in the past was a small defeat, and every victory was a big victory.
He claims to be undefeated, but he has never fought as fiercely as he did today.
…
The battle lasted until noon.
The shallow water plateau has been dyed red with blood.
This is the battlefield with the heaviest casualties today.
The two troops of Yang Ben and Liu Jinsuo took advantage of the terrain and were better at melee combat, so they killed a lot of Mongolian troops;
The Mongolian army tried their best to rush out, which also caused a large number of casualties to the Song army.
The soldiers of the Song Army who wanted to kill A Shu one by one fell down, with angry eyes and unwillingness when they died.
Many of them wanted to accomplish a great feat by killing the capital marshal.
There are also many people who simply hate the Mongols. Most of them are from Sichuan and Sichuan, and a small number are soldiers from Longxi. They feel hatred when they see their hometown being burned, killed, robbed and taken captive.
Unfortunately, it didn't work out.
The cruelty of the battlefield, on the one hand, is that the cold iron tools will hit any soft part of the human body, and life has no dignity; on the other hand, it will always be mercilessly crushed, even if someone desperately wants to protect the innocent, desperately
It doesn't care if it wants to kill villains.
"Retreat to the plateau!"
Liu Jinsuo roared, finally letting go of the defense line and retreating to the plain.
At a glance, he saw that the shallow water plateau was littered with corpses, and there were nearly a thousand casualties under his command alone.
It can only be withdrawn.
In the chaos, Liu Jinsuo turned to look at Yang Ben's flag. After searching for a while, he saw that half of Yang Ben's body was blood red, as if he had snatched a horse and wanted to chase Ah Shu.
He quickly ordered his personal guards to stop Yang Ben...
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Ah Shu finally broke through the Song army's defense line on the shallow water source and broke out.
He led six thousand soldiers and horses towards the confluence of Jing River and Pu River, preparing to cross the river and head north to Qingyang Mansion.
Just take the Qingyang Yanma Ancient Road. Ah Shu is very familiar with the terrain of Longdong, because he has gone to Liupan Mountain to worship Genghis Khan more than once or twice.
He hoped that the soldiers and horses besieged by Li Zengbo could escape halfway back to Liupan Mountain, so that he could bring eight or nine thousand troops back to Liangzhou.
So, looking at the entire war, Li Xia was held back from responding to Li Fen, and he rushed into Longxi and wiped out 50,000 enemies... Thinking of this, A Shu didn't bother to regain his dignity, because he was really defeated.
Too miserable.
Only by killing Li Xia can this defeat be reversed... This thought flashed through his mind, and he quickly calmed down. This time, the timing was not good.
Next time.
The next time the Great Khan sends his army to attack, Li Xia will be killed.
It won't take too long.
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The valley of the Jinghe River is wide, usually more than one mile wide, while on the Jingchuan side it is five or six miles wide.
As he rode his horse through these few miles, Ah Shu had another bad premonition in his heart.
But his recent premonitions had been too accurate, so he tried not to think about it at this time, lest he guessed it right again.
Finally, he looked at the Jinghe River... carefully observing the other side, he did not find the Song army.
The trees on the loess plateau are not dense enough to hide an ambush.
Ah Shu was a little surprised.
He was worried that Li Xia would set an ambush here.
But it's not surprising that there was no ambush. After all, it only took him more than half a month to get here from Hezhou, leaving little time for Li Xia to mobilize his troops...
"Dismount and prepare for battle, prepare to cross the river."
Before the Song army could catch up, A Shu quickly ordered his soldiers to dismount their horses and line up at the river to meet the enemy, and at the same time ordered people to cross the river to pull away the enemy.
The Fei River is a rope connecting the two banks. The water in the Jing River is not too turbulent. The soldiers can cross the river by pulling on the rope, and the horses can also swim in the water.
After just arranging these, A Shu looked back and saw that Li Xia's big bamboo pole had begun to move this way, and he was about to catch up so quickly.
This time, Ah Shu did not avoid the battle.
There is no way to avoid it, so just fight with your last resort.
He bandaged the wound unhurriedly, looked up at his big banner, and murmured in his mouth, asking for the blessing of the Immortal God.
He firmly believes that the Immortal God will let him live, just like every war in the past...