Outside Yizheng City, in addition to more than a hundred cavalry who escaped, a thousand Southern Tang cavalry were killed, injured, and killed in front of tens of thousands of Southern Tang infantry.
Zhao Kuangyin used a beautiful side attack to hit the Southern Tang army hard, letting them see what the Yongliang cavalry looked like, which could defeat the Khitan cavalry in a frontal cavalry battle.
Tens of thousands of people from the Southern Tang Army watched, but no one dared to come to the rescue. At this time, no one regarded Zhao Kuangyin as a white-faced kid anymore.
The only one who was dispatched was Bian Hao, who sent him to defeat hundreds of people.
But when these hundreds of people went up, Yang's defeat immediately turned into a real defeat, because among the remaining one thousand cavalry in Yizheng City, five hundred cavalry rushed out again.
These were originally used to support the cavalry, but now they were no longer needed, so under the call of Zhao Kuangyin's flag, they quickly came out of Yizheng City and completely defeated the hundreds of Jiankang troops who were preparing to be defeated with a single assault.
Bian Hao's so-called attracting enemy cavalry to attack was not accomplished at all.
Uh! In fact, it's not that they haven't completed it. If we just focus on attracting enemy cavalry to attack, they have completed it.
Because after Zhao Kuangyin defeated the Southern Tang cavalry, the Southern Tang armies did not dare to move forward. His danger was relieved, so he was ready to test the strength of the Southern Tang Forbidden Army. If they were vulnerable, he might as well defeat them now.
This made Bian Hao very angry. He had ten thousand people, and Zhao Kuangyin was not satisfied with eating his cavalry. He actually wanted to eat his main force again in the eyes of tens of thousands of people.
Zhao Kuangyin's tactics are very simple. The five hundred cavalry who left the city came with one person and two horses with equipment, so now the shock cavalry with cloth-covered iron armor can put armor on the horses and turn them into gallant cavalry. The archers on both sides can also
Add a layer of simple ring armor and become a hussar.
The valiant cavalry charged from the center, and the hussars attacked both wings. Three hundred valiant cavalry were sent out first to test the waters. If the Southern Tang army panicked, they would immediately swarm up and kill them.
Amidst the sound of Dongdong's war drums, three hundred Zhou Kingdom cavalry slowly began to move forward.
The charging distance of this kind of heavy armored cavalry will not be too long. It will usually accelerate within a hundred steps, and accelerate to the maximum within sixty steps, so that the war horse has enough physical strength to ensure the speed and intensity of the impact.
However, this time was different. Sheep Attack's three hundred hussars were already at full speed two hundred steps away.
The three hundred horsemen were separated, and the dust kicked up by the horses' hooves was as if thousands of troops were attacking.
Bian Hao knew very well. He knew that if he couldn't resist this temptation, he might really fall into trouble here.
But don't underestimate the charge of only a few hundred cavalry. Heavy cavalry can cost hundreds. Once they charge, their power will be earth-shattering.
The soldiers also don't have a God's perspective and can clearly see that there are only a few hundred riders on the opposite side. They can't calmly calculate in their hearts that there are not many people on the opposite side and they will definitely not be able to defeat us.
Faced with the threat of death, the soldiers could not calm down and take measures. What's more, the Southern Tang Dynasty had just experienced a heavy blow in which tens of thousands of people witnessed the cavalry being defeated.
Bian Hao looked left and right. This famous general of the Southern Tang Dynasty, who was known as Bian Bodhisattva because his subordinates were too kind in history, was also really angry at this moment.
He also knew that he could not let Zhou Guo's heavy cavalry rush in front of him. In that case, some of the tens of thousands of people might not be able to withstand the pressure and choose to flee.
And as long as one person flees, it is very likely to cause the entire army to flee.
Therefore, Bian Hao quickly sent out his personal guards holding silver swords to supervise the battle team, and then asked the two most elite battalion crossbowmen who had been prepared long ago to go up.
One hundred steps!
Eighty steps!
Until they reached this distance, under the threat of the supervising team, the crossbowmen of the Southern Tang Army remained motionless.
Just when the three hundred heroic cavalry crossed the eighty-step position, the Southern Tang Army suddenly fired thousands of arrows. The two thousand crossbowmen were divided into two groups and fired alternately. Their respective shooting areas were also clearly divided.
There was a sound of people shouting and horses neighing, and the first dozen or so of the three hundred cavalry who rushed over were hit by Southern Tang crossbows and fell down immediately.
Fortunately, they were not here to rush into the formation, but to increase the sense of pressure, so they immediately stopped charging and went around.
Upon seeing this, Zhao Kuangyin immediately followed the unstoppable preparation plan. Some of the cavalry were responsible for retrieving the injured comrades, while those responsible for covering dismounted and used crossbow arrows to shoot at the Southern Tang crossbowmen to prevent them from coming forward to cause greater damage.
The hussars on both wings began to tentatively intersperse, suppressing the remaining infantry of the Southern Tang Dynasty and restricting their movement.
Seeing that the Zhou troops were performing their duties and cooperating in a tacit understanding, Bian Hao immediately stopped the officers below who were about to make a move.
The personal guards supervising the battle carried silver swords and went to the two wings to prevent the soldiers on both wings from running away in fright.
Zhao Kuangyin also whispered to Xue Guizhong beside him: "Since the Great Dynasty, Jianghuai crossbowmen have been famous all over the world. It is true that they cannot be defeated casually. We will wait until the Duke of Qinghai comes."
As a result, the two sides gathered their troops in a very harmonious manner. Zhao Kuangyin returned to Yizheng City, and placed Xue Guizhong's 500 cavalry in the north of the city. They built a camp and formed a corner with Yizheng City, and waited peacefully for Murong Nobunaga's return.
Bian Hao, who was lucky enough to resist, did not dare to pursue him at all, and Li Jingda was so frightened that his face turned pale.
What is even more worrisome is that when the Jinghai navy to the west was defeated by Zhao Kuangyin, the army deployed envoys on the right, and the Jinghai navy envoy Yao Yanhong had already fled up the river.
Although he hurriedly ran back after seeing Bian Hao stabilizing the situation, Jingjun's soldiers were frightened, their morale was low, and they were unable to defend the west.
Bian Hao could only divide his troops and let the two battalions of the Jiankang Army go to the west as the main force. He asked Li Jingda to let him remove Yao Yanhong from his post, and Jing Haijun was transferred back to be responsible for transporting grain and grass. Only then did he stabilize the situation in the west.
But this was not enough. After Bian Hao discussed with Li Jingda, Li Jingda immediately wrote to Li Jing in the name of the Jiangbei Metropolitan Envoy.
The imperial court of the Southern Tang Dynasty was asked to transfer the last force of the Southern Tang Dynasty to defend the western capital of Jiangning, 6,000 men from Runzhou Navy Commander Li Jinquan, to the north of the Yangtze River to take over Jing Haijun's original defense.
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Li Jing received Li Jingda's letter and immediately began to sweat.
Although Li Jingda whitewashed the situation in his petition, Li Jing still saw that the Zhou Kingdom defeated Jing Haijun with only two thousand cavalry, and suppressed what he called a hundred thousand troops so that they did not dare to move.
Li Jinquan's 6,000-strong naval force was not only the last elite force to defend the Western Capital, but also a barrier to prevent Qian from crossing Suzhou and marching northward as the Wu Army's military governor.
Once Li Jinquan is asked to move his troops north, what if Qian Yue comes to make a surprise attack?
In fact, at this moment, Li Jing already felt in his heart that the tens of thousands of troops in Jiangbei were likely to encounter something unexpected, and he did not even have any hope of regaining Dongguan.
Therefore, we did not want to move Li Jinquan's Zhenjun across the river. If we were defeated again, it would really be doomed.
However, as soon as Li Jing revealed this idea, the two political opponents, Feng Yanji and Yang Cheng, agreed for the first time that they must not abandon the idea of defending Jiangbei.
Feng Yanji pulled Li Jing's sleeve and said: "Our Tang Dynasty does not have all Jiangnan, and there are still money and Yue threats behind us. If we give up Jiangbei so easily, how can we survive?"
It would be better to let the Zhenhai navy cross the river first, and then order the King of Yan to deploy defenses along the river, using large river boats as communication.
As long as we can defend the Guabu area, the Zhou army has been marching south for several months, the place is unfamiliar, and the people are not sympathetic, so we may be able to send envoys to negotiate peace."
Han Xizai also stepped forward and said to Li Jing: "The Wuchang Army and the Fujian Forbidden Army are about to return, but within a few days the imperial court will have another 20,000 available troops.
Before that, we must increase troops to stabilize the situation in Jiangbei. Even if there is a peace negotiation, we must have the power to fight back before we can negotiate.
As for Qian Yue, his king just killed Du Zhaoda and Kan Fan in succession. Qian Yue's officials and generals were so frightened that they didn't even have time to make the customary tribute to the Central Plains. If the sage sends an envoy to lobby, he will definitely be able to stabilize Wu King Qian Zuo."
Seeing that his ministers all had a rare unified opinion, Li Jing was finally able to calm down the panic in his heart and spoke after a long while.
"Then with the wishes of all the ministers and workers, we will mobilize the navy to cross the river and order the King of Yan to keep it tight.
With Qiao Kuangshun, a doctor in the driving department, as his envoy, he went to Wuyue to stabilize Qian Zuo, and then ordered the privy envoy Chen Jue to speed up and return to Jiangning."
Therefore, after Li Jing's order was issued, the Southern Tang army in Jiangbei became more numerous than Zhao Kuangyin in Yizheng, so they took a defensive position.
Bian Hao suggested that Li Jingda set up beacon towers in various places to monitor Murong Nobunaga's return reinforcements, with the intention of waiting for the Wuchang Army and the imperial army that conquered Fujian to return reinforcements before engaging in a decisive battle.
Of course, Zhao Kuangyin would not take the initiative to attack. Instead, he sent Xue Guizhong, Yang Guizhong and others to continuously attack with small groups of cavalry to destroy the beacon towers set up by the Southern Tang Dynasty around Yizheng.
Because after the Southern Tang Army stopped putting up a siege posture, its forces shrank to one piece, making it even more difficult to deal with.
The two sides started a strange sit-in. Now it was up to Chen Jue of the Southern Tang Dynasty to arrive at Jiangning with the Forbidden Army and the Wuchang Army, or Murong Nobunaga came first.