Chapter 1250: Drawing fire from the bottom of the cauldron
Tian Yue led eight thousand cavalry from behind to rush through the woods, but found that the woods were on fire, and the entire forest for several miles was burning rapidly. It was obvious that the opponent had arranged a fire trap, and it seemed that the thousands of people trapped in the woods were already fierce.
A lot of good luck.
Tian Yue was anxious and had no choice but to shout, "Follow me!"
Tian Yue led eight thousand cavalrymen to rush eastward along the burning woods. The only way was to bypass the woods.
The eight thousand cavalrymen ran for more than ten miles at a stretch and finally bypassed the woods. Unexpectedly, there were loud shouts of killing in the darkness and arrows like locusts. They escaped the trap of the woods, but fell into the encirclement of the Tang army. Tens of thousands
The cavalry surrounded and attacked from all sides.
Tian Yue fought desperately to break through, but the Tang army's encirclement was like an iron wall. He couldn't get out even if he rushed left and right. There were fewer and fewer soldiers behind him. More than half of his 8,000 men had been killed, and the remaining thousands were also killed by the Tang army's cavalry.
Cut into pieces.
Tian Yue was in a state of distress when he suddenly discovered that there seemed to be few enemy troops in the northeast. He didn't care if it was a trap or not and shouted: "Follow me to break through!"
There were three hundred cavalry behind him, following Tian Yue to break through. At this moment, an arrow came towards him with a "Whoosh!" The speed of the arrow was unparalleled. Tian Yuegang saw that the arrow had already reached his eyes. It was bad.
!Tian Yue had no time to dodge.
"Poof!" The arrow hit Tian Yue's eyebrows, the force of the arrow penetrated his head, and the tip of the arrow came out from the back of his head.
Tian Yue opened his mouth wide, fell off his horse and died.
A hundred steps away, Li Ye put away his bow and coldly ordered: "Kill them all, leaving no one behind!"
Two thousand Tang Army cavalry rushed forward and surrounded hundreds of enemy cavalry. In just a moment, all the hundreds of cavalry were killed, leaving no one alive.
Eight thousand people fell into an ambush of 30,000 Tang army cavalry, and none of them escaped. All of them, including the general Tian Yue, were killed.
The more than 5,800 cavalrymen who rushed through the woods were intercepted by the Tang army's 6,000 heavy armored infantry and 10,000 cavalrymen. Most of the 5,800 cavalrymen were killed by the heavy armored infantrymen, leaving only one thousand.
The remaining people did not escape, and they were all surrounded and annihilated by 10,000 Tang army cavalry.
At this point, all the 30,000 cavalry troops brought by Tian Yue were destroyed, and no one left alive. Even the wounded soldiers who were shot by arrows were all executed by Li Ye's order, leaving no one alive.
This also means that the hundreds of thousands of Donghu soldiers who followed Shi Siming and Cai Xide to massacre Hebei were completely destroyed, ending their criminal life. Of course, there were thousands of Donghu cavalry around Tian Chengsi, but the main force had all been wiped out.
Wuqiang County is the northernmost county in Jizhou. The Zhangshui River runs through the county, and another river, the Jiangshui River, also runs through Wuqiang County. It meets the Zhangshui River in Wuqiang County and flows northward through Hejian County.
At five o'clock in the evening, more than a thousand flat-bottomed tugboats loaded with grain and supplies came from the north, and ten thousand infantrymen guarded these more than a thousand cargo ships on both sides of the Zhang River.
At this time, they were two hundred miles away from Changlu County, and ten miles ahead was Wuqiang County. To the east of Wuqiang County, the fleet would sail into Jiangshui, and then continue northward.
The fleet was walking, but it slowly stopped. The captain of the escort on the shore was named Pan Xi. He was stunned when he received the report, and quickly ordered: "Hurry and check, why did you stop?"
Before the soldiers could investigate, someone from the former army came to report, "There is a fleet of boats on the river, blocking the way of our fleet."
Pan Xi suddenly became nervous. What was going on? Did he encounter bandits?
At this moment, the army in front was in chaos. Countless soldiers were seen running away to this side, and also on the other side, with soldiers running desperately.
"What happened?" Pan Xi stopped a soldier and asked.
"The cavalry is coming!"
"What?"
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Pan Xi was shocked and asked anxiously: "Where are the cavalry?"
"I don't know, at least several thousand people!"
Pan Xi's heart suddenly sank into the abyss. Thousands of people, needless to say, must be Tang Jun.
At this time, the shouts of killing came before him, and he saw countless cavalry charging towards him. They were less than a hundred steps away from him. Several arrows flew over his head. Pan Xi also panicked, turned his horse's head and ran away.
The cavalry they encountered was the 20,000 cavalry led by Xi Wanli. On both sides of the Zhang River, 10,000 cavalry were deployed on one side, and the 10,000 guards were killed until they cried for their mothers and knelt down to surrender.
On the river, hundreds of vehicles and ships intercepted the baggage fleet. More than a thousand soldiers on the vehicles jumped onto the cargo ships and took control of more than a thousand baggage ships. The fleet could no longer go north. After reaching Jiangshui, it turned south.
After traveling for dozens of miles, we entered another branch of Zhangshui River and headed towards Beizhou.
Li Ye's strategy was to draw fuel from under the cauldron and use Wang Lun to persuade Tian Chengsi to go west, so that his logistics and troops would inevitably be separated.
Take away Tian Chengsi's food, grass and baggage and see how long his army can sustain it?
Tian Chengsi's 80,000-strong army failed to enter Hejian County. Li Baochen flatly rejected Tian Chengsi's suggestion of cooperation between the two armies. He knew Tian Chengsi too well. This was a weasel paying New Year's greetings to a rooster. He had no good intentions, let alone Wang Lun.
They also sent someone to notify him in advance.
The four gates of Hejian County were tightly closed, and the city was full of soldiers, staring eagerly at Tian Chengsi's army several miles away.
Although Tian Chengsi's troops were large, they did not carry siege weapons. He could only watch the tall and solid Hejian County with no solution.
In order to deceive the city gate into opening, Tian Chengsi promised to return 10,000 troops from the joint army to Li Baochen, but Li Baochen did not fall for the trick.
They just asked these 10,000 people to garrison in Bowang County, a hundred miles away to the west.
What is even more desperate is that not a single tree within a radius of fifty miles has been cut down by Li Baochen, and not a single house has been demolished.
This was originally intended to clear the country for the Tang Army, but unexpectedly it was used on Tian Chengsi in advance. This shows the importance of intelligence. If it could be predicted in advance, Tian Chengsi might have used another countermeasure.
I stayed there from morning until night, still unable to do anything.
Seeing that there were only two days of dry food left, Tian Chengsi had to make a decision.
Tian Qianzhen, a clan brother, suggested: "It is better to go to Dingzhou, get supplies in Dingzhou, then go to Hengzhou, use Hengzhou as the foundation, and then find a way to capture Jingxing, so that we can move to Hedong."
Tian Chengsi sighed and said: "I think so too, but our supply fleet has not yet arrived, and Tian Yue's 30,000 cavalry, so be it! The army will go south first, and we will consider the plan after receiving the fleet."
This is their only choice. Instead of being stuck here with low morale, it is better to take action and give the soldiers hope.
The 80,000-strong army packed up and set off, marching southward along Jiangshui River.
On the top of the city, Li Baochen watched Tian Chengsi's army retreat. General Xin Zhongyi whispered: "Tian Chengsi is going south, is he going to fight the Tang army?"
"You are overthinking. Tian Chengsi had the courage to fight decisively in Weizhou. You see he did not carry any baggage. I guess his baggage traveled by water and he went to pick up the baggage."
Xin Zhongyi sighed and said, "I wonder what the situation is like in Zhaozhou?"
Li Baochen frowned. He was also most worried about Zhaozhou. He only knew that Lei Wanchun's army was attacking Zhao County. Whether Zhao County was breached or defended, there was no news at all.
Li Baochen's mood suddenly became bad, and he immediately ordered: "No one is allowed to open the city gate without my order. Anyone who violates this rule will be killed immediately!"