Three thousand cavalrymen died in one battle, but the distance of less than ten miles was like a natural chasm.
The damage to the Tang army was the second worst. The blow to the Tang army's military morale was so severe that it can hardly be expressed in words.
The fierce and wild Bingdai cavalry roared back and forth on the wild ground, displaying their bravery and ferocity wantonly. They calmly cut off the enemy's heads, gathered groups of war horses and surrendered soldiers of the Tang army, leaving some
People continued to circle around the Tang army, while the rest rode their horses contentedly and gradually disappeared into the distance.
It was not until the sunset that Xue Wanche decided to lead his troops back with a little regret, because there were no Tang army infantry trying to rescue his comrades. Otherwise, he could have taken advantage of the situation to expand his victory.
Of course, Xue Wanche was also very satisfied with the current result. He wiped the sticky mud on his face, whistled, and ordered his troops to retreat.
After a long day of fighting, the slightly tired cavalry, with unquenchable killing intent, drove groups of horses out of sight of the Tang army.
It was not until an unknown amount of time passed that the Tang army sent out scouts to carefully detect the enemy's tracks. After learning the news that the enemy troops were far away, the soldiers of the Tang army, under the order of the general, were filled with fear, mixed with some anger and anger.
Hated, I went to clean up the messy battlefield.
It took half an hour for the battle situation to be reported to Pei Ji.
Liu Xuanying, a member of the Jiangzhou Sima army, died in the battle, Li Guangzuo, the heroic cavalry officer, died in the battle, Yu Wenda, the Qianniu soldier, died in the battle, Xiao Chengdao, the tiger general, was missing, and he was probably captured...
Hearing the series of names, Pei Ji was dumbfounded. After a long while, he muttered something that made everyone feel extremely sad, "Liu Xuanying mistakenly..."
Well, I didn’t even ask why this happened, I just wanted to blame Liu Xuanying.
The left and right sides were silent, and they lost 3,000 cavalry. They didn’t know how Liu Xuanying led the troops. It is true that the blame cannot be evaded, but as the leader of an army, you don’t care about the situation of the battle, and you don’t want to appease the soldiers. You just want to commit suicide.
It's really chilling to be too human.
No one dared to say what happened to Pei Ji, but the chief military officer of Jinzhou Road, Yongkang King Li Shentong, did not care about this anymore.
In the evening, the army had only traveled less than twenty miles that day. It was already a little annoyed. At this time, the losses suffered by the attack on the rear army were also reported.
Pei Ji sent someone to ask for help. He also said that the enemy army was fierce and invincible. He also said that Liu Xuanying was not leading the army well and that he had lost a lot of troops. There were a lot of rhetoric. In summary, there was only one sentence. He suffered a big loss. I can't stand it.
Stay here and send some more troops.
Li Shentong was furious. In his opinion, the loss of troops and generals under an attack was nothing. How could it be possible for a large army to fight without dying?
What actually made him angry was that Pei Ji sent people to talk for a long time, but he didn't tell him how many enemy troops came and who would lead them. Could it be the main force of the enemy's cavalry that could stop the army of more than 100,000 people?
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What are you talking about? Are you scared out of your wits? If you look like this, do you still need the morale of the army?
In fact, Pei Ji's cover-up words were really clumsy. It would be strange if the Chinese army turned a blind eye to such a war and only listened to his side of the story.
The enemy force is quite powerful, but the number of troops coming is not large.
Li Shentong received a report that there were only 5,000 cavalry, divided into five teams, and they were attacking and harassing the rear army.
At that time, Li Shentong ordered the Chinese army to stand ready. There were no more than five thousand cavalry, but they were certainly not the main force of the enemy's cavalry. He would not mess up his position just because the rear army was attacked, giving the enemy a chance to sneak attack on the main force of the army.
But in the end, the rear army's three thousand cavalry were killed in a battle. The details were definitely not heard from Pei Ji. Even though he was very angry, he saved Pei Ji enough face and neither sent anyone to call Pei Ji to come for questioning.
No one was sent to the rear army to inquire about the details of the war.
But the news always reached his ears. Pei Ji ordered Liu Xuanying to lead the troops into battle. Less than ten miles away from the main army, in just a moment, he was defeated by the enemy army and almost completely annihilated.
After hearing this, Li Shentong could no longer get angry. At this time, besides wanting to strangle Pei Ji to death, he also regretted that he should not have handed over 100,000 people into Pei Yuanzhen's hands.
Pei Jizhi's incompetence made him frightened. This was simply something more frightening than the ferocity of the enemy.
Li Shentong thought about it again and again, and then sent an order to Li Xiaoji, the king of Yong'an who was commanding the left army, ordering him to take charge of the rear army affairs on Pei Ji's behalf, thus depriving Pei Ji of his military power cleanly.
Of course, he also left room for Pei Ji, the emperor's favorite, to assist Li Xiaoji in commanding the army.
The shortcomings exposed by the Tang Army in this battle were so obvious that Yuchi Gong and Bu Qun, who were stationed in the northeast of the Tang Army, seemed to have smelled the strong smell of blood. It was an opportunity to severely damage the Tang Army in the first battle.
That night, the Tang army was restless, but the generals of the Bingdai cavalry army had a lot of time to discuss it. They all felt that the Tang army was nothing more than this. If they were to be let go, it would be time for them to truly see the Bingdai cavalry army.
It's awesome.
The only bad thing is that the Tang army marched along the shore of Fen River, which made the army have some scruples...
At this time, when Yu Chigong, Bu Qun and others were waiting for the battle to come, they were all thinking, or even saying, that Xue Wanche was lucky. He took the lead in the first battle, which made people
Quite jealous.
When the battle report of that night was sent back to Pingyao, when Li Po learned the result of the generals' discussion, he immediately couldn't sit still. He felt that he seemed to be too cautious.
The harassment of five thousand cavalry had stopped more than 100,000 Tang troops from advancing, and also killed and wounded countless Tang troops.
Li Po knew very well what this meant. In addition to the lack of combat power of the Tang army, I am afraid that the people leading the army were also extremely cowardly. Why should such an opponent be too polite to them?
That night, Li Po summoned the infantry generals to discuss it. At dawn the next day, the Pingyao army broke out of camp, a day earlier than scheduled, and took the lead to head south and enter the scheduled battlefield.
At this time, Li Chu not only had the unexpected intention of a decisive battle with the Tang army, but also revealed his intention to lead his troops south to join the battle depending on the situation of the battle.
These changes were all determined by the performance of the Tang army. It can be said that the Tang army was tempting the enemy to attack, which was also an external manifestation of the decline in dominance of the war.
When Li Shentong decisively changed his generals, he did not realize that the decisive battle he hoped for would probably come early.
(Monthly pass, sorry, sorry, while I was finishing coding a chapter, Ah Cao went to buy a mobile phone. The old one should have been replaced a long time ago, but it finally broke down tonight, so A Cao went to buy a new one.
, after some time delay, there are still two updates tonight, but one thousand words are missing...)