Chapter 821
After dawn, Wang Rengong had already led his troops to cross the White Road of Yinshan and entered the south of Yinshan. When he went there, he brought a full 50,000 elite cavalry, but after only one night, when he came back, there were only more than 35,000 elite cavalry left.
During the battle of the camp, Qin Qiong and Luo Shixin's troops were most seriously injured. Especially the most fierce Luo Shixin's troops, almost everyone was injured by cavalry below the Fire Clan. Five thousand cavalrymen could cross Bai Dao less than three thousand, which could be said to have more than half of them were killed or injured, and their vitality was severely damaged. Qin Qiong's five thousand subordinates were led by him, but there were more than a thousand casualties. The remaining 800 warriors in the Flying Tiger Camp, and almost only 500 people came back.
The other ones with heavy casualties were the 5,000 cavalry of Cheng Yaojin's troops in charge of the palace. Facing the 30,000 Fuli Wolf soldiers who were chasing Ashina Simo, who were chasing and biting him wildly. Although Cheng Yaojin's troops fought desperately, the strength of the two sides was too different. To cover the retreat of the brothers, the other was to avenge him. Especially among the 30,000 soldiers of Ashina Simo, there were 5,000 Silver Wolf Guards of Yili Khan. These Silver Wolf Guards who lost their commander should be killed according to the rules. Asina Simo pleaded with them to Tongye Hu, allowing them to fight to revenge Yili, and clearly stated that as long as they made contributions in the battle, they would only pursue their current positions after the war, and not guilty of their families and not confiscate their families as slaves.
With this promise, the five thousand Silver Wolf Guards were chasing them like crazy. Facing the blocking Chen Qi, they launched a suicide attack. Although Cheng Yaojin's troops had not participated in the battle before, they had replenished their energy and had strong armor and excellent weapons, they also suffered heavy casualties when facing the Silver Wolf Cavalry that was completely desperate. The Turks completely exchanged their lives for their lives, and they even changed one by three or four. They were not afraid of damage at all.
If it weren't for the old general Wang Rengong setting up an ambush near Baidao and ambushing the pursued Ashina and Simo's troops, and annihilated most of the Silver Wolf Guards in a row. He also severely injured Ashina and Simo's troops, making him more cautious and dared not pursue and fight as before. Cheng Yaojin's five thousand men would have been unable to go to Yinshanzi again. Even so, the five thousand soldiers and horses of Cheng Yaojin's troops who had escaped from the pursuit of the Turks, eventually killed and injured nearly two thousand men.
In a one-night battle, the Chen army killed more than 20,000 Turks, and lost more than 5,000 of them. Although the ratio of one to four was large, this number still made it difficult for Wang Rengong to calm down. If one to four was replaced by the troops of other forces in the Central Plains, such a number of damages was quite impressive. After all, the Turks have been brave since ancient times, and they fought against the Turks outside the frontier. They could even exchange one to four, and the other heroes didn't know how to celebrate.
But the Chen army was not good. Let’s not say that this battle was a surprise attack. It was determined to attack without preparation. What’s more, the Chen army was not an ordinary army. It was a carefully built professional army. These 50,000 troops went out of the frontier were the elite among the elite. The generals were all senior generals of the court, and the officers in the army were more experienced and professional officers who had been studied in the orthodox martial arts hall. Even the 50,000 cavalry were all experienced veterans who survived blood and fire and experienced battle formations.
Such a cavalry has a training value of more than five times that of the Chen army's infantry. A raid was more than 10% lost. This did not include a large number of wounded soldiers. When retreating, in order not to make these wounded soldiers captured by the enemy, more than 5,000 injured soldiers were escorted by Wang Rengong to quietly retreat from another road by generals Shen Guang and Zhang Biao, with 5,000 cavalry and the remaining brothers of the Flying Tiger Camp.
The wounded soldiers could not move quickly, and behind them were more than 100,000 Turkic cavalry who were completely overthrown by the Chen Qi. Wang Rengong had to send these injured cavalry into the mountains to temporarily avoid the enemy.
Wang Rengong was an old horse general. I don’t know how many times the Yinshan Mountains under my feet had crossed. As early as the beginning of the founding of the Sui Dynasty, he had already joined the army. In his early years, he followed Yang Su to conquer the Turks, followed Shu King Yang Xiu to fight against the Southern Barbarians, and later even quelled the rebellion of the King of Han and Yang Xuangan, and fought against the Battle of Goguryeo.
After he was finally demoted to the prefect of Mayi, he was even more powerful in the northern border of the Hu people, and the Hu people dare not look down on him.
But to be honest, this was his second defeat of the Turks and returned to victory after he defeated the Turks. The first time was Yang Su defeated the Turks and Lingwu. At that time, he was only a young man over twenty years old. In the blink of an eye, he won again and returned to the fork, but decades later, his hair and hair were white. However, the first time he was just a young general, following the general Yang Su out of the army. This time, he was already an old general. He had just led 50,000 Chen troops to raid the Turks, and used 50,000 to 200,000, not only burned the food and grass of the Turks, but also killed one of the four little khans of the Turks, and even beheaded more than 20,000 and returned.
However, although he returned from a big victory, the old coach was still full of anxiety.
In front of the generals, the old marshal showed joy, but in the dark, the old marshal was extremely anxious. The Turks gathered in Yinshan and prepared to gather 400,000 troops to move south. This pressure was unprecedented. Although the Turks had launched a large-scale expedition after 400,000, the current situation was different from the past.
In the past, when the Turkic expeditions were in a southern expedition, one was when the internal instability of the Turkic reign, and the other was when the Central Plains were unified. But now, the Turkic people were unified, but the Central Plains were still divided. Although the Turkic people fought in a southern expedition, although there were many heroes in the Central Plains, the pressure was only faced by the Da Chen family alone.
Although the emperor was extremely tough on the surface, he would rather break the mountains and rivers than bow to the Turks and swear to deal with the Turks to the end. But in fact, the old marshal knew that the emperor was not as relaxed as he seemed.
The Turkic wolf cavalry had 400,000 soldiers and generals, but there were seven separatist forces in the Central Plains who were spying behind the scenes. If you were not careful in one move, the great cause of unification of the Great Chen Dynasty might collapse.
This time he led 50,000 troops out of the frontier, and the emperor gritted his teeth and handed over the most elite 50,000 cavalry to him. In a bloody battle, all the casualties were lost, and 20,000 troops were lost, which only resulted in 40,000 to 50,000 casualties from the Turks.
Although he won this battle, Wang Rengong knew very well that the first sword had been released, and it was now the turn of the angry Turks to fight back. Although the Turks commanded 40,000 to 50,000 troops, there were still 150,000 people in the Turks camp, and even 200,000 troops were constantly emerging.
But no more, Chen Jun used his equipment and training advantages to attack and severely attack the Turks once, but there would never be a second chance. Wang Rengong would never have such a decisive battle in the head-on battle with a few enemies to fight against the Turks.
After this battle, he knew that the Turks would definitely go south early.
If the Chen army could resist the surprise attack, the only way to defend the city and fight against the Turks was to defend the city. But would the Turks really be allowed to go south and go to Yanmen to fight to the death? Although Yanmen is strong, the Turkic soldiers are numerous, and no matter how strong the city is, there will be a time when the city is broken. When Yang Guang guarded Yanmen, he finally broke the city several times?
But what can they do if the Turks don’t go south?
The old marshal was worried. With the 35,000 cavalry in his hand, he really couldn't think of a good way to resist hundreds of thousands of Turkic people.
Unfortunately, Chen Guang killed the little Khan of Yili. It would be great if he killed Tongyehu. Tongyehu was the foundation of the Turkic Khanate. If Tongyehu died, the Turkic Khanate would definitely fall into internal strife again, and it would be impossible to continue to move south at this time. Unfortunately, Tongyehu was not so easy to kill. Chen Guang was overjoyed and surprised that he could kill Yili.
Thinking of this, the old general was extremely tired and even had the idea of giving up. Perhaps he retreated back to Yanmen as a way to protect him.
But the old marshal did not want to let down the trust of the soldiers, nor did he want to let down the trust of the emperor. He had been in the eastern border of He for decades and had a deep affection for this land. What's more, he had been moved by the words of Emperor Chen Kefu in recent years to restore the Han family and revival of China. He really did not want to see the beautiful and beautiful mountains and rivers of the Central Plains, but he was lost in front of himself.
"Send the order and the whole army accelerates. Before dark, we arrived at Dali City. The Turks chased them so hard. Let's treat them well in Dali. Just in time, I will send them to meet the five thousand Turkic wolf cubs I killed the day before yesterday." Wang Rengong ordered loudly, and continued the marching and raid for many days, and his subordinates were all exhausted. Although he knew that the Turks were following behind were only more than 20,000 to 30,000.
But with such a tail tied behind them, they could not rest. If this continues, even if the more than 30,000 elite Chen army soldiers can still hold on, those expensive war horses cannot hold on. If this tail is not cut off, the entire army will be dragged to death by the Turks. Once everyone is exhausted, the subsequent Turkic army will be killed.
In any case, only by solving this tail first can they be considered temporarily safe and have time to plan what will happen next.
The autumn wind is bleak, and the white dew turns into frost.
Dingxiang in September is completely considered the scenery outside the frontier. The Dingxiang grassland, which is as remote as a no-man's land, is even more dazzling withered grass, swaying with the wind. Looking around, there are bare trees besides the dead grass, and looking around, there is no one in the world.
"Blow the horns and inform the brothers to speed up!"
"Woo...Woo...Woo...Woo" The sergeant walking at the front of the team, blew up the horn loudly under the command of the commander, reminding the brothers behind to follow quickly. There is still a long way to go in front and there is no need to delay any delay. "Woo...Woo..." In each section of the team, soldiers raised their horns to respond.
The sound of horns echoed quickly in the mountains, first one, then one string, one piece. Suddenly, there seemed to be a sound of horns coming from the top of the mountain in front, echoing the horns of the march.
Woo woo!
Woo woo!
Woo woo! ~
The wind blew across the mountains with the sound of horns. In the dark light, the wind blew the battle flag, the war horses were like dragons, and the knights were like tigers!
Chapter completed!