Chapter five hundred and thirty sixth leave without looking back
Victory and defeat on the battlefield come and go. It doesn't matter that Cao Yi's army of more than 10,000 soldiers was defeated by Dang Xiang's 5,000 cavalry. This was a defeat rather than a total annihilation.
Dangxiang killed less than 500 Song troops, but captured more than 800 people. The Song army collapsed immediately with nearly one-tenth of the battle losses. It cannot be said that the combat power of the Zhenrong army was not good, nor could it be said that Cao Yi's
What's the problem with the command? It's just that the party members used plain cavalry tactics too powerfully.
There is just a plain between Qingping Pass and Hulukou, which is most suitable for cavalry to charge and roam. With the powerful impact, it is difficult for the flanks of the Song Army to effectively resist the cavalry charge. As long as the military formation is loose, it will definitely be attacked like wolves and tigers.
The party members opened their mouths.
It is extremely difficult to cross mountains and ridges at night. Shi Xin and the Xiqiang guide were lucky enough not to get lost in the mountains and forests at night. They found their horses hidden in the woods at dawn and quickly headed to Qingping Pass.
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The military situation was so fierce that there could be no delay. Shi Xing rushed to Qingping Pass as quickly as possible and saw Cao Yi standing on the city wall examining the body. He was obviously a Han man.
"There are also informants in the Zhenrong army who inform the party members. This is something a certain family never thought of. Last night, he tried to sling off the city wall and was shot down by Sun Laizi. Looking at you, you have news about Ye Hou.
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Seeing Shi Xin coming back, Cao Yi breathed a sigh of relief and told him in a relaxed tone. After all, he was from the Imperial City Department, and he should know about this kind of thing.
Shi Xin looked at the corpses lying on the ground indifferently, and sneered: "Ye Hou has already said that Dang Xiang makes good use of intermediaries, and all the armies in the border states should counterattack! Ye Hou asked the general to stand still and stick to Qingping Pass, and he also asked the low-ranking official to take care of this person.
Give it to the general!"
Cao Yi's face changed slightly when he saw the wooden carving handed over by Shi Xin. He took it in his hand and looked at it carefully before sighing: "This is another gamble. I don't know where he got the confidence. This Party Army has a certain amount of advance and retreat.
The killing must be decisive and should be led by an extraordinary general, so I’m afraid he won’t be easily fooled!”
No one knew what Cao Yi was talking about, but Cao Yi ordered the army to prepare for war, and they must be on guard at night and not leave their posts without permission.
The moonlit night was very bright, and Cao Yi was slightly lost in thought as he looked at the exquisite wood carving in his hand. This fortress-like wood carving was on the sand table that he and Ye An used before, and it represented the Xiamao Village in the northernmost part of Huanzhou.
"Boom...boom boom!"
Following the unclear muffled sound in the distance, Cao Yi was surprised to find that the grease in the oil lamp was rippled in circles. Cao Yi stood up and rushed out of the barracks, looking straight in the direction of the gourd mouth.
But he could hardly see anything in the night. Although he didn't see anything, he was sure that the two loud noises were related to Ye An. Qingping Pass was more than ten miles away from Hulukou. Only he could make such a sound.
The sound!
"Sun Gongfeng, gather the army and set off!"
Following Cao Yi's military order, Sun Laizi immediately conveyed the order to other generals, and the entire Zhenrong army suddenly set off. No one knew why the general would abandon such a dangerous place as Qingping Pass, but the military order was like a mountain, and no one dared to do it here
Sometimes I question the general Cao Yi.
In the night, the Zhenrong army quickly advanced along the official road in front of Qingping Pass, while the party members on the other side were cut off by a sudden "sky chasm"...
Ye An didn't expect the landslide to be so serious. According to the amount of gunpowder, it shouldn't have caused such a serious landslide, but the fact was that the explosion caused the landslide.
The resonance and shock wave generated by the simultaneous explosion of two opposite cliffs were so powerful that they triggered an even more powerful landslide. This scene even shocked Ye An, the instigator.
Ye An was just stunned, but the others were frightened by the sight of the earth collapsing and the mountains being destroyed. This was simply not a power that human beings could create. The soldiers of the Anhua Army were in a daze in the smoke and dust coming towards their faces.
The sound of the landslide has covered up all the noise, and the people standing not far away were even shaken to the point of tinnitus.
The world fell into a brief silence, and then everyone looked at Ye An differently. Originally they still respected Ye An, but now they have begun to turn into awe, like awe of a god who has descended into the mortal world.
The Dangxiang army launched a sneak attack at Zishi, and after hearing the movements of the Dangxiang people, the Xiqiang mountain people stationed on the cliff lit all six fuses according to Ye An's instructions and left quickly.
Ye An had tested the burning time of the fuse before, otherwise the few Xiqiang people who lit the fire would have died. The purpose of the six fuses was naturally to ensure the success rate of ignition.
Cheng Gongshou was the first to react. He pushed Xu Yongzhang beside him and said, "Are the party members passing through the gourd mouth?"
Xu Yongzhang was startled by his sudden blow, and after trembling for a moment he said: "Probably yes, how many people are going to die now? How can you break the cliff? Have you seen the thunder and fire?"
Cheng Gongshou nodded stiffly: "I just happened to see the fire flash across the cliff, and then the cliff collapsed..."
Ye An was the first to react. He hid behind the tent, but he was still unable to escape the overwhelming smoke and dust. Of course, he also heard clearly what Cheng Gongshou and Xu Yongzhang said.
In fact, people in the Song Dynasty had already begun to use gunpowder, but their proportions were not perfect, their combustion efficiency was not high, and they were not used militaristically. Instead, they were made into gunpowder puppets and turned into beautiful fireworks.
"You said that Ye Hou is not really the Pojun star from the sky who came down to earth, right?"
"Why didn't Wu Qu come to the world?"
"Is this something a human can do?"
Ye An walked around from the back of the camp in dissatisfaction and stared at the two of them: "What are you talking about! This is what my family learned! It's just that I used a special method to increase the power of the gunpowder in the medicine puppet.
Don’t even look at how much gunpowder I used and how long it took!”
Cheng Gongshou chuckled and said: "Anyway, we believe that you are the Pojun star in the sky who came to this world, otherwise why are the party members so miserable?"
Looking towards the direction of the collapse of Hulukou, Ye An felt a little uneasy: "It is not suitable to stay here for a long time. The party members are very powerful. Even a landslide can only stop them for a while. They have been angered this time. They will fight back fiercely. Pass on the order."
, the army sets out!"
Under normal circumstances, Ye An will definitely adhere to the principle of "taking advantage of your illness to kill you", but this time it is different. A short landslide may bring a strong shock and psychological deterrent to the party members, but it may not necessarily make them lose their will.
depressed.
Especially the party's army at the moment gave Ye An a very strange feeling. Whether it was commanding or setting up camp, or the most basic patrols and sentry horses, it was extremely safe, as if all these were ordinary things that came easily.
, the entire party army was under the control of the opponent's general.
This is a sign of extreme danger. Ye An doesn't know how troops were used in ancient times, but he knows that in later generations, if the core leader of an army can calmly command a large and complex army, he must be extraordinary.
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You can ambush or even cheat with such a person, but if you want to defeat him on the frontal battlefield, you have to pay a considerable price and even risk being killed by him.
So Ye An took the 3,000 Anhua Army that had just been replenished and evacuated Qinggang Gorge as quickly as possible, without even looking back along the way...