Chapter 68 Small victory
"It's okay, Niu Gao is brave and meticulous, and nothing will happen. Besides, it's just tens of thousands of light riders. I believe Niu Gao can handle it."
Li Jing naturally understood everyone's worries, but he didn't care. In Li Jing's view, just tens of thousands of light cavalry in Liao Kingdom would not pose much threat to the Xiaoguo Army, at most it would be more troublesome.
The most important thing for him now is to try every means to drag hundreds of thousands of troops of Liao Kingdom to Zhucheng. As for victory or defeat, it has no meaning to Li Jing at all. As long as he can achieve his goals, it will be the greatest victory for him.
"Yes, deputy coach!"
Seeing that Li Jing had made up his mind, everyone refused to mention it even though they still had doubts.
"I expect the main force of the Liao army will arrive in Zhucheng soon. The troops and horses of our army will gather together, and there are many local government troops. The cooperation is really unfamiliar. You have to work harder and get more involved in the army. Be sure to make the army like an arm and a finger."
Li Jing still had doubts when he looked at everyone, but did not say much, but said to everyone with a smile.
When everyone heard the order, they stood up and agreed to the promise and then left the account.
Seeing that all the generals had left the tent, Li Jing breathed a sigh of relief and his face became a little more serious. His relaxed look just now was just for the generals to see, so as not to put too much pressure on everyone to affect the morale of the army.
Even though Li Jing was tenacious by nature, he could not feel at all comfortable facing such a situation where the enemy was under pressure. You should know that there were as many as 400,000 Liao troops, and the army gathered by the Great Zhou Dynasty was less than 270,000. Nearly half of them were local government troops, and their combat power was worrying and they lacked coordination between each other. In this case, it would be a waste of time to fight against the Liao army head-on.
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In early April, the mountains of the Yongzhou Plateau were filled with flowers and greenery.
Yelu Chucai was leading tens of thousands of cavalry to march on the official road to Zhucheng.
"Report, Marshal! There are about tens of thousands of people in the Zhou cavalry three miles ahead!"
Just as Yelu Chucai was looking around intently at the scenery completely different from the grassland, a horse speared from the front, rolled down from the saddle, and knelt in front of Yelu Chucai's horse and reported.
"Oh?" When Yelu Chucai heard the Zhou cavalry ahead, he was stunned and couldn't help but remember what he had happened to Mangshan. His eyes immediately turned red and his teeth creaked.
"The whole army obeys the order, reorganize the army and move forward, and destroy the Zhou army!"
Yelu Chucai had red eyes, raised his hand suddenly, and shouted loudly and issued an order to move forward.
"Huho, Huho..."
Yelu Chucai ordered, and the Liao army officers and soldiers immediately started to shout, and they were really powerful.
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"Report, General! The Liao army is rushing towards our army!"
"Array!"
In front of the Xiaoguo Army, Niu Gao stood on his horse. When he heard the report of the horse probing, he waved his hand and shouted.
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Soon, there was smoke and dust rising in front of me, and countless Liao cavalrymen were galloping on horseback.
"Let me hear it all. The Khan has orders. Only win this battle, not defeat, otherwise the entire army will be killed!"
Looking at the Zhou cavalry who was waiting for the battle ahead, Yelu Chucai held up a scimitar and shouted loudly to his subordinates.
"Huho, Huho..."
Hearing Yelu Chucai's shouts and threats, the wildness in the hearts of the Liao soldiers was immediately aroused, and they all roared with red eyes, waving the scimitar in their hands to kill Zhou army.
"Hanting, nonsense!"
Seeing the Liao army shouting and yelling, Niu Gao shouted loudly.
"The last one will be here!"
As soon as Niu Gao finished speaking, the two riders behind him flashed out.
"You two lead 1,000 cavalrymen in the headquarters to attack in two groups, attacking the Liao army in two wings!"
"The last general will receive the order!"
Wang Hanting bowed to his promise, and rushed back to the formation, shouting and leading his army to disperse to both wings.
"Woo, woo..."
"Arrow ready!"
Seeing that the Liao army was getting closer and closer, Niu Gao ordered loudly.
"put!"
The Xiaoguo Army was indeed well-trained. After hearing Niu Gao's orders, the soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army drew their bows and shot arrows almost at the same time. A wave of feather arrows rose into the air in the row, roaring through the sky, and falling into the Liao army formation like raindrops. For a moment, countless Liao troops were shot down and were trampled into meat paste by the horse's hooves before they could even scream.
The six-stone hard bow used by the Xiaoguo Army is far from comparable to the small-angle bow of the Liao army. It has a long range and the special arrows are extremely penetrating. It can kill a Liao army almost every three or four arrows in the rain of arrows.
"put!"
"put!"
After several consecutive rains of arrows of the Xiaoguo Army passed, the galloping Liao army became much empty for a while. Almost before they arrived in front of the Zhou army, at least one-quarter of the troops were wiped out by the Xiaoguo Army.
Even Yelu Chucai was hit by several arrows. Fortunately, he was wearing a rare armor in the world and kept his name, otherwise he would have been on the way to charge.
"Quick! Hurry! Hurry!"
Seeing that the situation was wrong, Yelu Chucai became a little anxious and roared while galloping.
"Rise the knife!"
Seeing that the Liao army was approaching, Niu Gao led his troops to slowly press forward, then roared loudly. In an instant, countless sharp horizontal swords were raised up in one go, like a forest of swords, flashing with dazzling cold light in the sun.
"kill!"
After Niu Gao raised his sword and shouted "kill", he rushed towards the Liao army first. Ten thousand cavalry of the Xiaoguo Army had been waiting for a long time and shouted like a tornado. The sound of horse hooves like thunder shocked the earth. For a moment, smoke and dust rolled up, and the murderous aura soared into the sky made the Liao army, which was already a little panicked, even more chaotic.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
However, after a moment, Niu Gao led the Xiaoguo army into the Liao army formation. In an instant, many Liao troops were knocked away by the huge impact force of the Xiaoguo army.
With just one charge, the formation of the Liao army was cut into several segments by the Xiaoguo army. In an instant, the screams of killing sounded one after another in the Liao army formation, making the Liao army unable to look after each other and could only fight each other.
The soldiers of Xiaoguo shouted and killed, and as they raised their swords, they killed the Liao troops beside them one after another, and then killed the Liao troops around them.
The Liao soldiers in the melee held scimitars and chopped towards the Xiaoguo Army, but apart from the sparks, they could not even leave a mark, which made the Liao army cut a little desperate.
Escape, run away quickly! Seeing that he could not cause any harm to the Zhou army, he saw thousands of Xiaoguo soldiers shouting and rushing over on the left and right wings. For a moment, the Liao soldiers who were afraid of being in their hearts no longer cared about the order of death. They turned their heads and fled backwards. Seeing this, the other Liao soldiers also slapped their horses to escape, and the Liao army collapsed in an instant.
Yelu Chucai also led his personal guards to fight with the Xiaoguo Army. Speaking of which, Yelu Chucai was also a powerful general. He saw that a Xiaoguo Army cavalry was split into two pieces by him. There was no enemy in the attacks and killing everywhere.
But no matter how brave he was, he could not save the fate of the Liao army's defeat. He could only watch his troops split into small pieces by the Zhou army and strangled them to flee everywhere.
When he saw more and more Zhou cavalry rushing towards him, he was shocked and rushed out of the battle formation with the defeated soldiers. As soon as he came out of the battle formation, he saw more than a hundred cavalrymen staring at him in front of him.
"Yelu Chucai! I'm watching you run!"
A burly general in the leadership shouted at Yelu Chucai, staring at Yelu Chucai with murderous intent like a copper bell. The person coming was Niu Gao, the commander of the Xiaoguo Army.
"Kill... Kill..."
Seeing this, Yelu Chucai's heart suddenly became cold. Seeing that there was no way to escape, Yelu Chucai gritted his teeth and red eyes and took the lead in killing the cavalry in front.
"snort!"
Niu Gao, who blocked Yelu Chucai's retreat, saw Yelu Chucai coming to him, snorted coldly with disdain, and snorted a little on his feet, then rode his horse forward.
"kill!"
When he was about to arrive in front of Yelu Chucai, Niu Gao roared and lifted his knife and slashed over.
"Clang..."
When Yelu Chucai saw Niu Gao slashing at him, he quickly raised his knife to block it. With a clang, the two swords collided violently. The scimitar in Yelu Chucai's hand flew out instantly, and the person was hit and was about to fall off his horse.
"Come here!"
Both of them were very fast. In the moment of intertwining, Niu Gao quickly grabbed the belt around Yelu Chucai's waist, roared, and pulled Yelu Chucai, who had lost balance, and threw it on the ground with force with his hand.
"ah!"
Yelu Chucai was suddenly thrown to the place and screamed in severe pain.
But life is important. He didn't care about the soreness all over his body and turned over and ran away. But before he could move his legs, dozens of cavalrymen of the Xiaoguo army had already reached the front like the wind and surrounded Yelu Chucai.
It's over! Yelu Chucai is not a person who looks like death. When he saw that he was pointed at by dozens of long swords, he couldn't help but close his eyes and raised his hands with a sad expression.
"Tie him up for me." Niu Gao ordered, and then led his troops to the battlefield where the fierce battle was in full swing, leaving only more than twenty cavalry guarding Yelu Chucai.
At this time, the Liao army had already been defeated and was killed and slashed by Niu Gao, who was like a tiger down the mountain. The Liao army even fled in all directions.
But the Xiaoguo Army was all heavy cavalry, not as fast as the Liao army's light cavalry, and could only watch many Liao troops escape. In desperation, they surrounded and killed the remnants of the Liao army who had not yet had time to escape.
Soon, the remnants of the Liao army were killed by the Xiaoguo army, leaving only countless unmanned war horses roaring on the battlefield.
"General! All the remnants of the Liao army have been eliminated!" A Xiaoguo Army captain reported to Niu Gao.
"Well! Clean the battlefield as soon as possible and withdraw!" At this time, Niu Gao only gave a breath and ordered
"Bring this guy with you, go!" As he said that, he glanced at Yelu Chucai and said, then he rode his horse towards Zhucheng.
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In the Zhucheng camp, Li Jing, dressed in military uniform, was sitting in the central army tent, but was not studying any tactics, but staring at a book without turning around, looking at a leisurely and contented manner, without any tension at all of the battle, and only a calm and calm demeanor.
"Reported to the deputy commander, General Niu Gao returned to the camp with great victory and has now arrived outside the tent."
As soon as the curtain of the big tent was lifted, Yue Yun, wearing neat armor, walked in quickly from outside the tent and reported to Li Jing excitedly.
"Let him in!"
A big victory is naturally a happy event, but Li Jing did not show too much excitement, but just gave a light command, not even raising his head.
After all, Li Jing knew the strength of the Xiaoguo Army. Winning the Liao army was a matter of what it should be. If it was defeated, it would be a strange thing. All Li Jing wanted to know was just how much victory had reached.
"promise!"
When Yue Yunsheng heard Li Jing’s words, he responded simply and strode out of the tent, then walked in from outside the tent with Niu Gao.
Chapter completed!