Chapter 40: Torture and Attack to Destroy the Enemy
The mobility of the cavalry was so strong that the infantry could not match it. Even though the cavalry under Li Zhiyun had not received strict training, with such hard power, how could Zhu Can's infantry be an opponent.
In several encounters, Zhu Can was tortured to death by the Tang Army's cavalry. He wanted to fight to the death with the Tang Army's cavalry, but whenever this happened, the Tang Army's cavalry would quickly retreat. When he went back to rest, the Tang Army's cavalry would try to attack on the flanks again.
It made him anxious.
This is the first time Zhu Can has seen this style of play. It is really cheap.
He sent someone to rebuke Li Zhiyun, didn't he say that he wanted to fight to the death in an honest and fair manner? What kind of hero is he who is afraid of sneak attacks? He has the ability to fight to the death.
Li Zhiyun's answer was one sentence: You eat too much feces and it clouds your mind and you think too much.
Li Zhiyun had scolded him before, but Zhu Can didn't feel anything at that time. But at this moment, Li Zhiyun scolded him again, making him furious.
"He just eats too much feces, and his whole family eats feces, ah!"
Zhu Can furiously waved his riding whip and summoned an army to storm the Tang army's camp.
That's right, when Li Zhiyun's army moves, it must first build a camp and then hide the two-wing cavalry. As long as Zhu Can dares to attack the camp head-on, the two-wing cavalry will teach him how to behave.
"The emperor issued an order, let go of the arrows!"
"The emperor issued an order, let go of the arrows!"
An array of arrows covered the sky, and their sharp edges were so strong that they would kill hundreds of Zhu Can's troops in an instant.
The arrow feathers trembled when they hit the ground, and the hearts of Zhu Can's soldiers also trembled. Some soldiers died so tragically that it made people feel heartbroken.
His whole body was pierced by arrows, and he was truly shot into a hedgehog.
When Zhu Can's army finally approached the camp, huge wooden boards slowly rose up.
"The emperor issued an order and set up barriers!"
"The emperor issued an order and set up barriers!"
As a sound came out, pieces of thick wood slowly rose up, and the sharp points of spears poked out from the round holes in the wood.
Phew!
As the spears stretched and retracted, Zhu Can's soldiers were stabbed one after another to the point of being heartbroken.
"I can't take it anymore, I can't take it anymore!"
Soldiers with poor psychological endurance collapsed in an instant when faced with the tortoise-shell-like Tang military camp, and fled without their armor.
However, before the soldier could escape from the battlefield, a sharp blade penetrated behind him, and the tip of the blade pierced his chest. Blood and cold light intertwined, bloody and cruel.
At the last moment, the soldier saw the world turned upside down.
"Who dares to say retreat!" Military Colonel Zhu Can grabbed the heads of the fleeing soldiers and threatened them to continue to storm the camp.
Through the telescope, Li Zhiyun took in this scene.
His current position is on the archery tower, where he can have a panoramic view of the battlefield.
"So cruel."
Taking back the telescope, Li Zhiyun shook his head.
The fight over the past half month has made him deeply understand that Zhu Can is indeed an anti-human beast.
Xue Shou said: "Your Highness, please go back to the camp first, it is not safe here."
As soon as he finished speaking, a stream of arrows came out and nailed Li Zhiyun at his feet.
"It doesn't matter." Li Zhiyun bent down and pulled out the arrow, and asked Li Zhen to get his bow.
Open your bow and nock an arrow, aiming the tip of the arrow at an enemy within range.
With one breath and one breath, the arrow came out of his hand and hit the enemy's neck the next moment, killing him on the spot.
"Your Majesty, you have good arrows!" Xue Shou praised.
Why does this sound so strange? Li Zhiyun waved his hand and said, "It's just a small trick."
As a descendant of Guanlong, not knowing how to ride and shoot is equivalent to the second generation of rich people not knowing how to drive.
Even Du Ruhui can shoot arrows, but his accuracy is not very good.
At this moment, Li Daozong ran up to the arrow tower.
"Your Highness, there are soldiers and horses of Zhu Can's army on both the east and west sides of the camp. There are about five thousand people."
"It seems that this is his killing move." Li Zhiyun smiled and ordered: "Order people to guard the east and west sides. Send an order to Xie Shufang and Qin Qiong to immediately attack the rear of Zhu Can's army!"
"As you command!"
Not long after, the two cavalrymen rushed out of the camp and conveyed Li Zhiyun's order to the cavalry commanders Xie Shufang and Qin Qiong.
After receiving the order, the two men immediately led their cavalry to surround Zhu Can's army's rear formation.
At this time, Zhu Can's troops and horses were densely surrounded by the Tang army's camp, and the two sides were fighting inextricably.
As for Zhu Can, he had already killed him. This time he vowed to kill Li Zhiyun, a bitch, otherwise he would not be able to leave Nanyang peacefully.
"attack!"
He yelled and asked the elite to press forward.
Seeing the pressure on the main entrance increasing, Li Zhiyun immediately gave the order.
"Gase the oil!"
"As you command!"
After receiving the order, the archers skillfully rinsed the arrowheads from the barrel of kerosene, then lit them in the brazier and shot towards the enemy formation.
Rockets fell from the sky and hit the array.
The strong fire oil ignited immediately, and no matter how much the enemy rolled over, they could not put it out. Then rounds of rockets fell from the sky, and flames and black smoke began to fill everywhere.
"ah!"
The enemy soldiers covered in fire screamed and ran rampant in all directions, and the flames burned everywhere with his footsteps.
For a moment, Zhu Can was caught off guard by the sudden fire oil counterattack.
"Quickly put it out!"
"Your Majesty, this rocket is weird and can't be extinguished!" the soldier said loudly.
"You fart!" Zhu Can yelled and asked someone to put out the fire.
But soon, he knew that the soldiers did not fart, because the rockets used by the Tang army were indeed different from ordinary rockets.
Can't put out the fire!
As the formations of soldiers and horses in front were in chaos, the Tang army took the opportunity to counterattack wildly, causing Zhu Can's army to retreat steadily.
At this moment, Zhu Can heard a thunderous cry for help.
"Your Majesty, the cavalry of the Tang Army attacked the rear formation, and the brothers suffered heavy casualties!"
"Put..." Zhu Can didn't say anything. When he turned around, he saw the soldiers in the rear fleeing in a panic.
Among the crowd, the marching flag of the Tang army was fluttering and dancing.
Even though Zhu Can claimed to have an army of hundreds of thousands, the soldiers had already lost their morale in the face of successive tortures by the Tang army.
At this time, they were in agony from the burning fire in front. The sharp cavalry of the Tang Army in the rear killed them and they were completely defeated.
Collapse, breaks out at this time.
"Run!"
At this moment, no one cares about Zhu Can's threat. They are desperate to escape. Because if they stay and fight to the death, they will die. If they escape hard, they might still survive.
This battle lasted from morning to evening, with both sides not stopping for a moment. As the Tang army's cavalry arrived, Zhu Can's troops began to rout.
The defeat of the enemy army was the signal for the Tang army's victory.
Boom!
As the three gates of the camp fell down, the soldiers of the Tang army rushed towards them.
"Brothers, kill!"
Cheng Yaojin, Li Junxian and others rode their horses to kill the enemy.
Like a tidal wave, the Tang army rushed into the fleeing enemy troops, harvesting fresh heads one after another.
Behind the enemy's back, the Tang Army's cavalry were like death's scythes, and every charge they made meant a ruthless massacre.
Zhu Can no longer has the will to fight, he just wants to escape now!
He originally thought that relying on the forced refugees, he could capture the Tang army's camp with the human wave tactic.
But Li Zhiyun slapped him hard, causing him to become dizzy and run away in confusion.
"Little thief Li, I will definitely come back for revenge!"
Zhu Can lay on his horse, surrounded by about 3,000 soldiers and horses, guarding him and escaping.
He claimed to have an army of 200,000, but in fact there were not that many at all. Just like Li Zhiyun deceived him, Zhu Can also deceived the world.
The number of soldiers and horses that actually obeyed his command and had combat power was only about 30,000. The rest were basically the refugees who followed him.
These people either have nothing to eat, are being coerced, and some are just here to fish in troubled waters.
How can they be opponents in front of the regular army?
Even if Zhu Can threatened them with their lives to attack the camp, it was just a short-term coercive attack and could not last at all.
Li Zhiyun had previously released news of a hundred thousand troops, and then used cavalry to follow him in mobile warfare, which had already tortured Zhu Can's troops.
But now, Zhu Can ran into the Tang army's camp, giving Li Zhiyun the chance to defeat him.
In positional warfare, the attacker's casualties are always the heaviest. Not to mention that Li Zhiyun also prepared kerosene and cavalry for Zhu Can to attack from behind.
If Zhu Can is undefeated, then there is a ghost!
The setting sun was like blood. Li Zhiyun led his troops and mounted their horses to pursue the enemy.
He danced with the spear in his hand, stabbed the enemy soldiers who fell to the ground and wailed to death. On his side, hundreds of guards surrounded him in the center.
On the battlefield, leading the charge is the best way for a general to boost his morale, but safety is equally important.
So it makes sense that Li Zhiyun has so many people protecting him.