tkworld Chapter 185
Chapter 185
Chapter 185
"Can you find out who the leader of the army is?" Xu Rong asked again, the so-called know yourself and the enemy, and you can win a hundred battles, he is well versed in this.
"The first one is a banner with the word Xue, it should be Xue Li and Xue Rengui who shot and wounded Grand Master Dong in front of Hulao Pass!"
"Xue Li? This is a bit tricky. This man is very skilled in martial arts. When I and the other six generals besieged him, he actually killed four people one after another. Even if his martial arts is not as good as Marquis Wen, I'm afraid he is only as good as Marquis Wen. It's just a little bit weaker." Xu Rong didn't expect that it would be Xue Li, his old opponent. If he hadn't been vigilant, he would have died in Hulao.
"Even if you are not only brave, but also able to march and fight, I don't believe that your five thousand infantry can still fight me against five thousand elite cavalry. It's just a matter of breaking up old and new grudges."
Xu Rong's face turned cold, and he said loudly: "Everyone get on their horses, and while Xue Li's army is not stable, let's go to make a surprise attack."
"Here!" These Xiliang soldiers are all wolves, tigers and leopards. After hiding here for several days, they have been aggrieved for a long time. Now that they heard Xu Rong's words, they all became excited. .
Xue Li didn't know that Xu Rong had already targeted him and was leading the cavalry to surprise him.After he arrived at the southern border of Mengjin, he chose a relatively high hillside as the place where the army camped.This was his first time leading the army alone, and he seemed more cautious.
The slope of this small hill can effectively counteract the cavalry's charge ability, and he obviously knows that the defense is the main focus of this battle, and he is fighting steadily, not greedy for merit and taking risks.
Not only that, he also sent soldiers to dig horse traps around the hillside, and covered them with vegetation to camouflage them, making them difficult to detect at the speed of the cavalry charge.The horse traps are full of sharpened wooden stakes. Once they fall, the horse will die, and there will be absolutely no life.
"Everyone, be vigilant. I would guess that Xu Rong has waited for so long. Once he knows that we only have 5000 people stationed here, he will probably be unable to hold back and come to attack. Their cavalry is extremely fast, and they might arrive at any time. We have to Careless." Xue Li held Fang Tian's painted halberd, he was very heroic, and he became famous in the next battle at Hulao Pass, these soldiers were very convinced of him.
"Everyone collected all the broken rocks on the mountain and built them in a circle around the camp. This will not only prevent the enemy cavalry from sneaking into the camp, but also push them down and turn them into rolling stones to attack the enemy during the battle." Xue Li adapted to local conditions and made full use of them. The terrain is based on local materials.
With the horse pit and the stone wall, Xue Li was still uneasy. Hearing the faint rumbling sound coming from his ears, he couldn't help but smile, and a meaningful smile appeared on his face.
"General, Xue Li's camp is three miles away. This man is really extraordinary. He camped on the hillside, obviously he was prepared for us." The small colonel pointed to a hillside like a small black dot in the distance, and said to him Xu Rong said.
"This Xue Li is not simple. If I guess correctly, there must be traps such as horse traps around the hillside. He should be waiting for us to attack him now." Xu Rong smiled faintly and was not impressed by Xue Li's arrangement. Not surprisingly.
"Then what should we do? They only have 5000 people. If we don't take the opportunity to eliminate them now, once we are discovered by Zhao Yun's Baima Yicong and the two sides attack, our life will be difficult. And we are running out of food and grass. If we don't take food from the enemy, we won't be able to hold on for long." Xiaoxiao asked worriedly.
The Xiliang cavalry, like the barbarians outside the Great Wall, did not bring much food and grass in order to maintain the speed advantage of the cavalry.But now they have [-] soldiers and horses, and they need too much. Apart from snatching food and grass from Liu Xie's army, there is no other way to supply them.
"It's very simple, we can't go up, can't we find a way to lure him down?" Xu Rong looked into the distance, confidently, and said lightly.
"Look, general, the Xiliang cavalry has really come!" Next to Xue Li, a school lieutenant pointed to the distance and suddenly appeared in the distance, and said in surprise that the Xiliang cavalry was becoming more and more obvious.
Xue Li shot Wushuang, his eyesight is far beyond the reach of others, he not only saw the Xiliang cavalry rushing towards them early in the morning, but also saw that they were gradually dividing their troops, only a thousand Xiliang cavalry came towards them, The other [-] Xiliang cavalry, led by Xu Rong, plundered south regardless.
"No, it seems that Xu Rong is determined to go south to invade the grain road. Most of these thousand cavalry are here to stop us from sending troops."
Xue Li yelled something bad, he didn't know that Xu Rong probably did it on purpose, or he wanted to force him to lead his troops down the mountain and lose all his geographical advantages, and even the traps he had set up in advance were useless.
But this is a conspiracy, Xu Rong must also know that with Liu Xie's vigilance, he will not achieve any results if he stays in Mengjin.Therefore, he is not afraid that Liu Huihui will completely cut off his retreat. If Xue Li is really indifferent, he will take advantage of the situation and go south to harass the grain and grass supply lines of the princes' army.In this way, he will most likely be defeated and killed under the siege of the coalition forces, but before he dies, he will definitely cause huge damage to the coalition forces, even enough to affect the outcome of the two armies.
Xue Li didn't dare to gamble, and immediately ordered someone to light the horse dung and firewood smoke, hoping that Zhao Yun's Bai Ma Yicong would find out the fighting situation and come to rescue when he was patrolling.Surrounded by Xiliang cavalry, it is impossible for him to send soldiers to seek support now.
Seeing the thick smoke billowing on the hillside, Xu Rong felt a little more admiration for Xue Li in his heart.Under such an emergency situation, this Xue Li is still calm and thoughtful, he is really a respectable opponent.
"However, since you lit the fireworks, it also proves that you have fallen for the trick. You want to give up the advantage of the land and use infantry to fight my Xiliang iron cavalry."
The numbers were equal, fighting on the open plains, elite cavalry fighting against groundless infantry, Xu Rong couldn't think of any possibility of losing.
Xue Li looked at the Xiliang cavalry stopped in the distance, and then listened to the faint and inaudible sound of galloping in his ears. His eyes flashed with a breathtaking light, and he said loudly to his soldiers: "The enemy is right in front of you. And they are well-trained and well-equipped Xiliang cavalry, tell me, are you afraid?"
"The general is joking, who in the Yanzhou army is not afraid of death! Don't say it's just a mere Xiliang cavalry, even if the Feixiong army is in front, our Yanzhou army will never frown!" It's a raging fighting spirit!
"Sacrificing one's life to go to the country's calamity, seeing death as home!" Yanzhou soldiers shouted.
Ever since this sentence came out of Su Lie's mouth during the First Battle of Rencheng, all Yanzhou soldiers took it as a slogan to boost their morale, and now they shouted it in unison, with unparalleled momentum!
"Sacrificing one's life to go to the country's calamity, seeing death as home!"
(End of this chapter)