Chapter 318 Victory in the first battle
On August 19, the main force of Yanbei Army dispatched, and 97 regiments set out from their respective lurking locations and advanced rapidly towards the Bailang Pass.
On the same day, 37 regiments of the prepared army carried various war materials and advanced along the north bank of the Sanggan River toward the White Wolf Sage. Because the battle was about to begin, there was no need to hide the traces, and the speed of advancement was greatly accelerated.
On the same day, Jia Lanshu told Liu Xuan, who was staying at the Yanbei headquarters, that the decisive battle had begun. In the following time, whether the Yanbei army could defend the White Wolf Envoy depends to a large extent on whether the Yanbei headquarters could continue to provide various military supplies such as food, grass, weapons, etc. to the battlefield.
The war materials secretly transported from Zhuo County to Yanbei were secretly hidden in Anyang Town, the westernmost end of Yanbei under the careful and thoughtful deployment of Jialan and the officials of the headquarters. Anyang has a special geographical location, with two mountains and one river, and the Sanggan River runs across the east and west, and the north and south, which is very suitable for hiding the army and military supplies. This is about 400 miles away from the White Wolf Pass, and the road is difficult and dangerous. The transportation mainly relies on manpower and animal power. Therefore, after the decisive battle begins, the headquarters must collect corvee service as soon as possible, organize a large number of civilians, ox, carriages, and carriages to transport them to the front line.
Giving supplies. Fortunately, Yanbei is an important frontier town, and the war never stopped year after year. The whole people are soldiers here. When the drums ring, men, women, young and old are ready to go and can be put into battle at any time. The headquarters is headed by Liu Xuan, accompanied by Hu Shidan, Zhao Huaiyi, Wang Zhou and Yu Chuo. In addition, there are many disciples and students who follow Liu Xuan obey orders. They are proficient in government affairs and can fully bear heavy responsibilities. The combination of these two advantages can organically organize a vast transportation team in the shortest time to ensure the decisive battle.
At dusk on the 19th, Lu Long and Jiang Chengzhi each led a horse army to enter the White Wolf Side battlefield first.
Lu Long commanded the headquarters to attack the northern part of Bailang Pass. The original Dragon Guards, with the main force of the Devil's Corps, was brave and good at fighting, killing Goose Feather's mouth. With just one meeting, it destroyed the unprepared Beilu people and successfully seized the natural obstacle of Goose Feather River and cut off the connection between Bailang Pass and Yunnei City.
Jiang Chengzhi led his troops to attack the southern part of Bailang Pass. This horse army, mainly composed of the northwest elite cavalry, first captured the Huanghuadui with thunder, and then went down with the momentum, clearing the Beilu people on the Jinsha Beach like a storm. In this way, the Yanbei Army successfully blocked the connection between Bailang Pass and Shenwu City with the natural danger of Sanggan River, and also cut off the connection between Bailang Pass and Shanyang City.
The Beilu troops stationed in Bailang Pass did not realize that a tragic decisive battle was slowly beginning. They did not expect that the army, which was fighting smoothly, would be hit by a fatal "block" from behind by the imperial army. They even arrogantly believed that this was a harassing attack by the remnants of Daibei, who fled sporadically. Therefore, under the order of the command of the commander of the army, the Senei army flocked out and launched a counterattack on the imperial army that captured the Goose Featherkou and Huanghuadui, trying to regain the outer key pass of Bailang Pass as quickly as possible.
The main purpose of Galan's attack at dusk was to seize the outer key pass of the White Wolf Pass with lightning speed, cut off the connection between the White Wolf Pass and Yunnei City in the north, and the southern Shanyang and Shenwu City, thus giving the Yanbei Army a whole night to attack the White Wolf Pass.
The Northern Barbarians were good at cavalry and shooting, and were good at cavalry. They were not good at defending cities or fighting at night. The Yan Northern Army was the main force of the infantry, and they were good at attacking tough and fighting at night. They just happened to attack the enemy with their own strengths. Therefore, after the Yan Northern Horse Army captured the outer pass of the Bailang Pass, the main force of the infantry immediately rushed towards the Bailang Pass like a tide under the command of Liu Heita and Cao Dan.
At this moment, the battle situation suddenly changed. The Northern Leg Knights in the White Wolf Sene rushed out and wanted to launch a counterattack against the Imperial Army in the dark.
Galan made a quick decision and ordered the Yanbei infantry to suspend the attack and stand by on the spot; ordered the main force of the cavalry on both wings of the infantry to immediately dispatch and launch an attack from the north and south directions to the North and south directions. While surrounding the North and south, he divided the North and the North and the North and the North and the North and the North and the North and the North and the North and the North and the North and the North and the North and the North and the North and the North and the North and the North and the North and the North and the North and the North so as to minimize the North and the North so as to win more chances for the main force of the infantry to capture the fortress.
Feng Yi commanded the main force of the horse army to rush into the battlefield. The Beilu people were shocked. Only then did they realize that they had made a wrong judgment on the situation. This mistake was fatal. Not only did their lives end, but they also ended the survival of the entire Beilu army, and even affected the future of the situation in the north and south.
The two sides fought melee. The dark night made the unprepared Beilu people lose their direction. Not only could they not recognize their friendly forces, but they could not even find the way to retreat. In a hurry, they naturally sounded the horn of seeking help. Seeing the critical situation, the northern barbarians who remained in Senei were simply seeking death. The most urgent task was to evacuate. The direction of the evacuation was of course north and to the direction of going home. So they abandoned the fortress without hesitation, rushed to the darkness wildly, trying to join the large army and escape from the battlefield together.
The dark night is actually not conducive to the Yanbei Army. Fortunately, the Yanbei Army has already prepared for the night battle and has done sufficient drills in the early stage. However, actual combat is different from drills. Especially when encountering a group of Beilu people who are going crazy to break through, if they insist on fighting with them, the result will inevitably be to kill one thousand enemies, damage eight hundred of them, and both lose. Therefore, when Jialan saw that the Beilu abandoned the White Wolf Pass, he immediately ordered the Yanbei Horse Army to make way and let the remaining Beilu enemies flee in a hurry to Yunnei City.
At the beginning of the 19th hour of the Hai Dynasty, the northern Yan army successfully captured the Bailang Pass.
Jialan ordered the soldiers of Yanbei to build fortifications overnight, and used the amazing number of horse-resisted horses and deer forts prepared before to build a blocking position between the goose feather mouth and goose feather water in the north of the White Wolf Stop, and between the yellow flower pile and the golden sand beach in the south of the White Wolf Stop.
That night, Galan took off his battle robe, dug up the trench with his soldiers, and inserted sharp wooden stakes into the trench.
The Northern Barbarians were numerous, and they were good at riding and shooting, and were good at field battles. The speed was extremely fast. This was the enemy's advantage. With the strength of the Yan Bei Army, if they wanted to successfully block the main force of the Northern Barbarians from the White Wolf, the only way was to maximize their advantages and transform the advantages of the Northern Barbarians into shortcomings. So Jialan came up with a way to build solid fortifications with key passes, hills and rivers, and then forced the Northern Barbarians to dismount and fight one-on-one with the imperial soldiers. In this way, the Northern Barbarians were numerous, with fast speed and better than riding and shooting.
On the morning of August 20, the 37th regiments of the Preparatory Army arrived at the Bailang Pass after a day and one night of rapid march, bringing a large amount of baggage, food, weapons and other military supplies were supplemented. In addition, the cattle, sheep and other spoils seized last night could fully meet the needs of the main legion for four to five days of combat. The next military supplies would be relied on the Yanbei headquarters to organize civilians to transport them to the battlefield. During this period, the Preparatory Army would continue to travel back and forth in the mountains and ridges between Qingpi Road and Bailang Pass. The materials secretly hoarded in the lurking points in the early stage were transported to the Bailang Pass, and most of them were heavy weapons such as super spears used for defense that were made by soldiers from Yanbei in the past few months.
The arrival of the Preparatory Army Corps greatly accelerated the construction of the White Wolf Pass fortifications. At this time, the Bai Wolf Pass was beyond recognition when viewed from a high place. The roads that had previously penetrated the north and south were gone, and were replaced by crisscrossing trenches. The ditches were temporarily piled up with ditches. The front and back of the earthen walls, including the ditches, were covered with sharp wooden stakes. On the earthen walls, there were Jumalu Village, which was connected by thick ropes. Similar defenses composed of trenches and horses were spread throughout the entire White Wolf Pass battlefield, densely packed and endless.
The soldiers of Yanbei fought continuously despite their fatigue. The soldiers had been full of doubts and resentment about Jialan's ordering each of them to use a shovel and an axe to increase the load of individual soldiers. They ordered them to train digging trenches every day, fight close to each other, and even marching with heavy loads. They were still in the process of training to rush to resist horses, deer villages, weave thick ropes, and create super spears. Today, their doubts were answered. Jialan wanted to fight the Northern Lu, and the decisive battle was fought. The solution is to force the Northern Barbarians to dismount and force the Northern Barbarians to give up their advantages such as cavalry and shooting, so as to turn the strengths of the Northern Barbarians into shortcomings, and then use their strengths to attack the enemy's shortcomings. The resentment in the hearts of the soldiers was replaced by admiration, and their belief in defeating the Northern Barbarians increased unprecedentedly. If you want to defeat the brutal enemy, if you want to survive, you must use your strengths to the extreme. For this reason, the soldiers worked hard to build defensive fortifications after capturing the White Wolf Pass.
At noon on August 20th, the scout called the police, and the northern lords who occupied Shenwu City were dispatched and were coming to the White Wolf.
Shenwu City is located on the south bank of Sanggan River, only fifty or sixty miles away from Bailang Pass, but because it was separated by a river, Yanbei Army specially deployed many scouts on the north bank of the river before attacking Bailang Pass, focusing on blocking the enemies who fled to Shenwu City, resulting in the Beilu army occupying Shenwu City not receiving news of Bailang Pass's fall until dawn. Later, after repeated inquiries by the scouts, it was confirmed that Bailang Pass was indeed captured by an imperial army, so he decided to launch an attack.
The White Wolf Pass is so important. Especially when Shibi Khan has gone south to attack Yanmen and the main force of the Northern Barbarians has penetrated more than a thousand miles deep into the Middle Earth, the White Wolf Pass has actually become the "pivot" that determines the life and death of the Northern Barbarians. Once it is captured by the imperial army, it will be equivalent to making the imperial army stuck the Northern Barbarians' throats. The serious consequences can be imagined.
The northern barbarians of Shenwu City stared at the White Wolf Sage, but they didn't know that the White Wolf Sage's Jalan was even more looking at them and wanted to take their heads to sacrifice to the flag.
Galan must achieve a decisive victory in the First Battle to encourage the morale of the soldiers and strengthen their belief in winning.
At noon, more than two thousand Northern Le knights rode their horses across the Sanggan River, entered Shenwuchuan, and then headed straight for the Golden Sand Beach, quickly approaching the White Wolf Pass.
At the same time, on the outer outer pass of the White Wolf Pass, Galan was immediately on the horse, and behind it were twenty horse corps that had been resting for four hours.
"Woooooooo..." The big horn sounded into the sky, followed by the drum horns.
The fire carried Galan and flew out. The horse soldiers followed closely behind, galloping in a fan shape, spreading down like a roaring sea tide. For a moment, the sound of hooves was like thunder, shocking the earth, and the momentum was like a tiger.
The two sides met at the Golden Sand Beach.
The Northern Barbarians underestimated the enemy. They had been invading as strong as they had never encountered threatening resistance from beginning to end. This basically confirmed the news transmitted by the Goguryeo people. In the battle of Sashui, the 300,000 soldiers of the Empire were wiped out, and at least half of the soldiers fell from the Northern Frontier Army of the Empire. The Northern Frontier of the Empire was empty, which was an excellent opportunity for invasion. However, today, on the Golden Beach, they saw a huge imperial horse army, and the leader wore a golden wolf head protective gear. It was the legendary killing people like slaughtering dogs, almost destroying Goguryeo with one's own strength, slaughtering Asura from the western border of the Empire, the terrifying devil from the eighteen levels of hell, who had killed hundreds of thousands of people from the western border of the Empire, and the terrifying devil from the eighteen levels of hell.
The cruel reality gave the Beilu people a heavy blow, and the imperial horse army and the golden wolf-headed protective gear that roared over the sky and represented death, blood and darkness, instantly destroyed the morale and courage of the Beilu people. Without morale and courage, they would be defeated in momentum, and they would definitely lose this battle. Soon after the two sides fought, the Beilu army collapsed, ran away, and turned around and fled.
However, a greater disaster came, and the Shenwuchuan, which had been unobstructed before, suddenly started to burn. The fire took advantage of the wind and swept across the grass and woods in a blink of an eye, and thick smoke rose into the sky.
The Beilu were both scattered and instinctively turned around and fled westward, trying to escape along the north bank of the Sanggan River to Shanyang City. However, before he could run two miles, there were fires ahead, and even dense arrows fell like rain.
The Northern Barbarians were desperate and had no choice but to fight to the death, but their morale had collapsed and they had no courage. In the end, they had to dismount and surrender.
At the time of sunset, Galan ordered to kill and surrender, and all surrendered northern enemies would be killed.
The sunset is like blood, and the white wolf is outside the border, and on the golden sand beach, corpses are everywhere.
At the same time, the Beilu army in Yunnei City rushed south quickly, while the Beilu army in Shanyang City advanced north quickly, with its troops aiming directly at the Bailang Pass.
On the night of the 20th, when the soldiers of Yanbei Army built fortifications while celebrating the victory of the first battle, Jia Lan summoned military officers at the Huanghuadui to discuss the military affairs.
In the dark night, Galan's voice was intense and powerful, and the hoarseness was even more tragic. "Today's battle is the first time that the Yanbei Army used the horse army in this decisive battle, but it may be the last time. Next, the strategic intention of the decisive battle in the northern border of the empire will undoubtedly be exposed. The northern captive hundreds of thousands of string control strings will gather in the white wolf in the future to launch a fierce and bloody battle with our Yanbei Army."
"Each of us may die in this decisive battle, and even the Yanbei Army may be wiped out in this decisive battle. However, this battle is related to the survival of our Middle Earth and the peace of the millions of people in our Middle Earth. We have no hesitation and no choice. We should be happy that we are lucky to participate in this battle and leave a reputation for our eternal success. We should cheer for the brilliant light of our limited life at the last moment."
Chapter completed!