Turbulent Times Chapter 1210: Back to Fanyang County
And Li Zixiong was also fleeing desperately at this time. Just now, Wang Junlin personally led hundreds of cavalry to break through the guards around him, and almost handed the blade to his eyes. One arrow shot through six people in front of him and almost hit him.
He could tell that Wang Junlin had been targeted to kill him, and what he wanted to take was the head of the chief general of his army.
At the beginning, when Wang Junlin led the cavalry and appeared in front of the army. Li Zixiong was still thinking about taking advantage of the crowd to give it a go. When the more than 4,000 cavalry rushed into the front line like a whole, he didn't think about retreating. But everything is really too fast. Almost to the point where his five thousand cavalry didn't even show their power, they were disrupted by their rout infantry.
Infantry fighting cavalry, if you want to fight a tough battle, you need to rely on an impenetrable crowded formation, when tens of thousands are crowded into a large block. The front line couldn't run away, while the back line moved forward bravely, forming a huge human wall that even the cavalry couldn't break through.
However, the argument is the same thing. When the threat of death appears, the front of the queue will also subconsciously want to avoid and retreat.
If you look at the entire army as a whole, how much bravery outweighs cowardice determines whether the formation is strong or not.
Wang Junlin led more than 4,000 cavalry, and quickly smashed the physical and mental defenses of this sea of people. This is more or less related to Wang Junlin's invincible reputation.
After all, the 20,000 people are strictly counted as the defeats of the Goguryeo people, but according to legend, the Goguryeo people who defeated them were easily defeated by Wang Junlin. When he arrived in Luoyang, he was tortured by His Majesty the Emperor with various inhuman methods.
This news was reported to the whole army because of Yang Guang's order. Li Zixiong's 20,000 people knew about it. It is impossible for him not to be in awe of Wang Junlin in his heart. Disadvantage, this kind of awe has been magnified too much invisible, thus accelerating the loss of their morale, resulting in a much faster rout.
The so-called name of a person and the shadow of a tree are like this.
The flying flesh and blood would be shocking even to experienced generals. Among them, Wang Junlin led a cavalry team of hundreds of people to tear through the sea of people and head straight for Li Zixiong's banner. Li Zixiong tried to attack the army
The elite blocked the cavalry, but the sea of blood that had been set off earlier seemed to only arouse Wang Junlin's ferocity and bloodiness. They resisted attacks from all directions, and at the same time slashed madly towards Li Zixiong's personal formation.
Of course Li Zixiong knew that Wang Junlin was the soul of these more than four thousand cavalrymen. As long as he killed Wang Junlin, the other party would collapse immediately, but the problem is that it is impossible to do it right now. Wang Junlin shot dead with an arrow.
Li Zixiong once organized his own soldiers to resist for a while, but Wang Junlin personally rushed forward, and the huge pressure caused them to suffer heavy casualties. Li Zixiong was terrified.
When Wang Junlin shot arrows at him in chaos, he would have been shot to death if his own soldiers were not desperate to block the arrows. Block the attack for him.
However, after such a transfer, the entire army has already begun to be in chaos.
In fact, this is the effect Wang Junlin wants to see. After chasing and killing the general, the general loses his mind because of fear, and only wants to mobilize troops to protect himself, thereby disrupting the opponent's overall deployment.
Wang Junlin led more than 4,000 cavalry to kill everything under the night sky, and Li Zixiong's control over the army under his command had failed. Gradually turned into fighting on their own.
Since the defeat in Goguryeo half a year ago, the Sui Dynasty has fallen into a financial crisis, and many troops have even been in arrears with their salaries. As for the rewards for soldiers who have made military achievements in Goguryeo, or the pensions for those who were injured or died in battle, they have not been paid at all. This was a fatal blow to the morale of the army.
Although Li Zixiong tried his best, he secretly used a sum of money sent by Yang Su to secretly distribute some money in his own name to the soldiers under his command, so that the army under his command only recognized him and not the court. The decline in morale and the demoralization of the army caused by the lack of pensions have not been stopped, and this sequelae are reflected at this time.
For example, the troops on the fringes of Li Zixiong's army have begun to flee frantically. The soldiers in the battle formation are either fighting fiercely or turning in under the leadership of middle-level officers, but the massacre has become the main theme of the entire battlefield. With so many people, it is too convenient to slaughter.
Wang Junlin's combat purpose is very clear. It is not enough to just kill them, but also to completely defeat them. The killing is frightening, so that the Youzhou army, who is the neighbor of Fanyang County, will fear Wang Junlin.
Will not easily offend Fan Yangjun. Therefore, they have to continue killing people for a while.
At this pass, the large troops who couldn't run were chased by more than 4,000 cavalry and slaughtered.
A large number of routs rushed into the nearby woods, but Wang Junlin's cavalry surrounded and circled the edge of the woods, and then started lighting fires in all directions. It is winter and the weather is dry. Soon, a large number of open fires will start Burning blazingly, lighting up the whole forest.
At the edge of a nearby river valley, nearly 5,000 Li Zixiong soldiers were massacred and forced into the river. Soon Luo Shixin led more than 400 cavalry in pursuit and began to shoot arrows into the river, blood staining the entire river.
The entire cavalry charged as if in one body, and also smashed the resistance of the infantry, cutting the entire battlefield into several large pieces.
On and off the battlefield, when Wang Junlin led Shengsheng to disperse the troops mobilized by Li Zixiong, frightening Li Zixiong to flee the battlefield with hundreds of people desperately, the morale of the army under Li Zixiong completely collapsed, all the troops lost resistance, and began to fight. Break up and run away.
Wang Junlin's cavalry circled around the edge of the battlefield to sweep away the scattered crowd, and after Wang Junlin gave an order, they gathered together. There were more than 4,000 cavalry and only 3,000 were left. They also lost in this battle. More than a thousand people.
Wang Junlin is well aware of the power of the Dugu family, Yuwen family, Hongnong Yang family, and even the empress and the crown prince in the Sui Dynasty. He may be able to mobilize an army, so he didn't stop and rushed through the pass. After many hours, they entered the territory of Fanyang County. Soon they met Yuchi Jingde who came to meet him.
Yuchi Jingde came here in a hurry, it wasn't Wang Junlin who sent someone to inform him to respond, Wang Junlin led nearly 5,000 cavalry, confident that as long as Yang Guang didn't want to kill himself and didn't use the power of the whole country to surround and kill him, he would be able to He returned to Fanyang County smoothly, so he did not notify the Fanyang County army to respond.
The 20,000 cavalry led by Yuchi Jingde did not go to meet Wang Junlin at the border of Fanyang County, but originally wanted to rush out of Fanyang County to Lin County to meet Wang Junlin at the fastest speed. Li Zixiong in Youzhou suddenly dispatched troops, so he sent a letter to him quickly, asking him to dispatch troops to respond.
PS: The next chapter begins, which will be the sixth volume, which will set off a chaotic world---- some familiar heroes, villains, and heroes will appear on the stage one by one--