Chapter 1112: Easy Victory
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On October 24th, Zhao Yun led 30,000 cavalry to an unnamed valley ten miles away from Yisun Town. They would rest here overnight. When it gets dark tomorrow, 30,000 cavalry would march towards Yisun, ten miles away. The town launched an attack.
At the third watch of the next day, people and horses began to move in the nameless valley. The 30,000-strong army had already woken up. Everyone stuffed dried meat into their mouths, and then grabbed some refined grains to feed their horses. . As time passed, all the soldiers were ready. At the fifth watch, at the exit of the Nameless Valley, Zhao Yun looked up at the slightly white sky in the east, and softly ordered: "Send the order, let the army set off!"
Subsequently, his military order was passed to the generals in the valley behind by the messengers. The armies were quickly prepared. According to the prior arrangement, the battle would be preceded by white horse Yicon and cavalry, and 10,000 cavalry would Rush to the 5,000 cavalry camp at the rear of the Xianbei army as quickly as possible and annihilate them as quickly as possible. Then, various ministries will begin to annihilate the herdsmen trying to escape.
The Baima Yi Cong will cross the distance from Yisun Town to Siheyong Town at the fastest speed, and then run to the south of Siyonghe Town, trying to block the people and horses trying to go south to the Suli Department, and will follow News of the attack on the battalion was suppressed as long as possible.
Half an hour later, the 30,000-strong army finally arrived at the north of Yisun Town. Seeing the smoke starting to rise from the town, Zhao Yun stopped his horse, raised his gun and pointed at it, and shouted: "The reason for righteousness is life and death. Obey me, my white horse will obey me, and I will kill the enemy with you!"
"White horse Yi Cong, kill kill kill!" Five thousand white horse Yi Cong shouted in unison. Following Zhao Yun, they formed a cone formation and charged towards the military camp in Yisun Town. On both sides of them, Hu Yan The capital's five thousand cavalry. Ten thousand cavalrymen were now rushing towards Isun Town in a rolling torrent.
At this time, in the Xianbei rear camp, most of them, whether they were cavalry or ordinary herdsmen, had not yet woken up, and only a few old people were preparing breakfast in the town. When the thundering shouts of killing rang out, the people in the town reacted. But at this time, Bai Ma Yicong had already killed outside the town gate. For a moment, amid the thunderous sound of horse hooves, ten thousand Tang Army cavalry were like a flood that broke the embankment. They poured directly into the town and ran towards the Xianbei cavalry camp in the town.
When Baima Yicong arrived at the military camp, hundreds of riders hurriedly gathered to resist Baima Yicong's attack. However, when they saw Baima Yicong, they were all shocked and rushed toward them. The Baima Yi killed them all in an instant. Then the Baima Yi who rushed into the camp killed all directions and scattered most of the 5,000 Xianbei cavalry in the camp. Then the 5,000 Baima Yi left the town without returning. They passed straight through and rushed towards Siyonghe Town in the south. Behind them were five thousand assault cavalry.
Behind these 10,000 pioneer cavalry were 20,000 cavalrymen. They were divided into teams of 1,000. After being rushed to death by the vanguard troops, the panicked people inside and outside the town searched and gathered the Xianbei cavalry and ordinary herdsmen who were fleeing in all directions. , drove them all away, and then ordered the herdsmen among them to drive cattle and sheep, dragging supplies, and follow Baima Yicong towards the direction of Siyonghe Town.
The army's surprise attack on the rear camp of the Suli army went extremely smoothly. Under the assault of the white horse Yi Cong and the cavalry, the Xianbei cavalry in the rear camp was slaughtered with almost no resistance. The 20,000 cavalry that followed were almost gathering Supplies for herders and cattle and sheep.
After running for three hours with ten thousand cavalry, Zhao Yun finally stopped ten miles south of Siyonghe Town. Turning his horse's head, Zhao Yun looked up to the north in the direction of Siyonghe Town. The following cavalry were already on their way. The town inside and outside was now in chaos, with countless people running around.
Cattle and sheep were also running around.
Although such a battle is not difficult, considering Zhao Yun's character, it is still carried out meticulously. After all the 10,000 cavalry stopped to recuperate, Zhao Yun called Hu Yandu over and ordered: "General Hu Yan, the army will rest here for a quarter of an hour, and then arrange for a thousand cavalry to intercept the Xianbei people who are trying to go south. Send a thousand assault cavalry to continue southward along the Yanbei Road until they are twenty or thirty miles north of Longhua, intercepting all the Xianbei people who try to go south, and try to delay the attack on the remaining eight thousand cavalry in Suli's rear camp. Together with me, we will collect all the Xianbei people and their cattle and sheep supplies."
"No! General!" Hu Yandu immediately ordered the army to dismount and rest.
Zhao Yun also turned over and dismounted to rest. He also knew that he could intercept most of the 80,000 Xianbei people, but there would still be some who slipped through the net. What he could do was to delay as much as possible the time for Su Li to get the news. Knowing that in this Xianbei people's rear camp, there are hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep alone, as well as tens of thousands of horses of all levels, I must try my best to preserve them. Such a large number of livestock is very important to the Tang army. , for Yanbei County, it is extremely helpful.
After the army rested for a quarter of an hour, at Zhao Yun's order, the nine thousand cavalry got on their horses. One thousand of them headed south under the leadership of Hu Yandu, while the eight thousand men headed towards Siheyong under the leadership of Zhao Yun. The direction slowly approached, driving all the fleeing Xianbei herdsmen together, forcing them to gather their cattle, sheep and horses. The remaining one thousand cavalry continued to stay where they were, intercepting the Xianbei people who were trying to go south.
When leaving Longhua, everyone had already considered this situation. After repeated consideration, Huangfu Chaobo decided to send 5,000 infantrymen and hundreds of craftsmen to follow Zhao Yun's cavalry to Sihe Yongzhen. Their task was to use the army to defeat the Xianbei rear camp and quickly reinforce Sihe Yongzhen. At the same time, all the captured Xianbei people and their cattle, sheep and horses were imprisoned in the valley behind Sihe Yongzhen. The role of these 5,000 infantrymen was to defend Sihe Yongzhen. It would not take long, as long as they could hold on for two or three days.
There were 5,000 infantrymen for defense inside, and 30,000 cavalrymen led by Zhao Yun outside. In addition, after Suli learned that the rear camp was destroyed, I believe that the more than 100,000 Xianbei army would not be able to calm down. At that time, the army that was busy retreating would not have the mind to attack the heavily defended Siyonghe Town.
This is also the reason why Zhao Yun wanted to delay Suli's news of the attack on the rear camp as much as possible. The longer the time was delayed, the more dangerous Suli's troops would be, and the faster they would retreat.