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Chapter 2029 The two armies fight for their lives

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    Huang Mingliao knew that it was already midnight in the morning when Li Yuan sneaked across the Weishui River.

    It has to be said that from beginning to end, neither Huang Mingliao nor Zhang Wenyuan made any mistakes in the entire battle, but some things were really unexpected.

    Huang Mingliao set up an ambush against Li Xiaoji at Dongwei Bridge. In order to end the battle faster, he had to mobilize the Weishui shore defense troops.  Huang Mingliao did not have many troops under his command.  Two thousand troops were first mobilized to go to Chang'an, and they had to defend Xinfeng and Weinan counties at the same time. They also had to watch Yang Tun, which had surrendered, so there were even fewer troops that could be mobilized.

    The entire Wei River defense line has actually been depleted of troops.

    But Huang Mingliao is not worried.

    First of all, the distance between Xinfeng, Dongweiqiao, Chang'an, Gaoling and other places is no more than fifty miles.

    Within a range of fifty miles, Sui cavalry can quickly reinforce the battlefield.  The Tang army had tens of thousands of troops, and it would not be possible to cross the river in a short time.

    So Huang Mingliao is not afraid of you crossing at all.

    Secondly, Zhang Wenyuan¡¯s tens of thousands of horses were behind Gaoling City, waiting for Li Yuan to cross the river.  As long as Li Yuan dares to move, Zhang Wenyuan can appear behind Li Yuan at any time and strike halfway.

    Therefore, in the plan, the deployment of troops along the Wei River defense line will not affect the entire battle situation.

    The change in the situation began with the Battle of Dongweiqiao.

    Huang Mingliao led his troops to successfully defeat Li Xiaoji's troops.  However, in the face of a sudden attack by the Sui army, although Li Xiaoji's troops were defeated, Li Xiaoji himself led the available troops and defended with his back on the Weishui River.

    Whether Li Xiaoji fled to Chang'an or crossed the river to Gaoling, Huang Mingliao could smoothly annihilate the opponent in mobile warfare.  But Lee Hyo-ki held on, and the battle had to turn into a critical battle.

    Li Xiaoji¡¯s men actually numbered less than a thousand, and their strength and combat effectiveness were average. However, relying on the terrain and tools, they stubbornly blocked the Sui army for two hours.

    By the time the Sui army cut off Li Xiaoji's head and ended the battle, it was already past midnight.

    The three armies lay in wait for most of the day and fought another battle. They were very exhausted.  Therefore, after the war, Huang Mingliao ordered that the entire army, after cleaning the battlefield, rest on the spot and wait for tomorrow morning to cross the river from Dongwei Bridge to the north and take advantage of the situation to surround Gaoling City.

    Huang Mingliao¡¯s order is still no problem.

    After all, crossing the river from the Weishui River is far less convenient and faster than crossing the river from the East Weiqiao Bridge.

    Everyone used the tents carried by the Tang army to camp and rest by the Dongwei Bridge.  It was not until around 9 o'clock in the morning that Li Yuan received an urgent report from Zhang Wenyuan, and Li Yuan took advantage of the night to break through to the lower reaches of the Wei River.

    After getting the news, Huang Mingliao was not in a hurry.

    The Tang Army's ships were lost in the previous two river crossings, and now the Tang Army is extremely short of ships to cross the river.  According to Huang Mingliao's prediction, even if the Tang army only had half the troops and four or five hours, it would be impossible to cross the river completely smoothly.

    From Dongwei Bridge down the Wei River to Xinfeng, it was only more than ten miles away, and the Sui army had time to intercept it.

    Huang Mingliao sent out scouts to find traces of the Tang army while preparing for war.

    In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the army, Huang Mingliao even let the troops have breakfast.

    The three armies did not set off eastward until it was approaching Chen hour. At this time, it was when the Tang army was crossing the river at the ferry.

    The Sui army was very fast. The total distance from Dongwei Bridge to the mouth of Xinfengbeidu River was less than fifteen miles. It took the Sui army cavalry less than half an hour to arrive at the battlefield.

    The vanguard of the Tang army was Ashina Danai.

    When Ashina Danai rushed to the battlefield, he was a little confused because he found that a considerable number of Tang troops had already crossed the river and had arranged a formation on the river bank.

    This is completely unexpected.

    However, Ashina Danai immediately launched an attack on the Tang army.  Even though he didn't know the reason, he also understood that the Sui army must be prevented from crossing the river as soon as possible.

    A battle on foot and on foot began immediately.

    To be honest, although the Tang army suffered repeated defeats, it does not mean that the Tang army was weak in combat effectiveness.

    The Sui army had more cavalry, while the Tang army had less cavalry.  The Sui army broke into the Guanzhong Plain and started a mobile war with the Tang army.  The Tang army used the weak to attack the strong and the short to attack the strong. If they were not defeated, they would be in trouble.

    But this kind of well-prepared positional warfare is what the Tang army is best at.

    The Tang army attacked with heavy infantry in front, followed by crossbowmen, and cavalry on both sides.

    The Sui army arrived in surprise, and thousands of crossbows were fired at the opposite side.

    Ashina Danai's army was an army adapted from the Western Turks' tribes in Huining.  Since it was newly attached, this unit has not yet changed its uniforms. Not to mention the iron armor, even the leather armor is not complete.  As for the cavalry,There is absolutely no rugged heavy equipment.

    Huang Mingyuan positioned this unit as light cavalry cruising on the battlefield.  The reason why Ashina Danai was sent as the vanguard was simply because this unit was the fastest.

    But I have to admit that in the face of a tough battle, the combat effectiveness of this unit is really not good.

    Ashina Danai led his army to attack, but was blocked by the Tang army's crossbows.  Arrows all over the sky hit the soldiers in leather armor, and the attacking cavalry immediately fell on their backs.  The Sui army's attack was blocked.

    And after this momentum, the horse slowed down.

    Li Yuan was indeed a master of military affairs. Seeing that the Sui army's attack was frustrated, he immediately ordered the cavalry on both wings to attack, flanking the opponent from the left and right sides, without giving the Sui army a chance to adjust.

    Ashina Danai has less than 3,000 troops in his hands. If the forward momentum weakens, he will no longer be a match for the opponent.

    However, Ashina did not dare to retreat, so he had to fight desperately with the Tang army.

    The two troops started a fierce battle evenly matched.

    The two sides fought fiercely for nearly half an hour, when Huang Mingliao finally arrived with his army.

    At the same time, almost all the Tang army crossed the river.

    On the battlefield, the number of Tang troops was about twice that of Sui troops.  At any other time, Li Yuan would have had a head-on confrontation with Huang Mingli, but what he lacked most now was time. Therefore, facing the arrival of the main force of the Sui army, Li Yuan ordered that the cavalry be cut off and the rest of the infantry, in addition to the necessary ordnance,  and food, gave up all supplies, and ran all the way south.

    ??It is only thirteen miles straight from the ferry to the south and into the remaining veins of the Qinling Mountains.

    At this time, everything depends on two legs.

    The Tang army carried their weapons and ran forward.  Some people even don't even need to wear armor in order to speed up.

    Li Yuan didn't care. When he got to Bashu, what he lacked was veterans, not armor.

    Huang Mingliao was stunned for a moment from the opposite side. He finally understood Li Yuan's intention.

    Li Yuan is going to retreat to the mountains.

    Huang Mingliao immediately drove his troops to attack the Tang Army cavalry on the opposite side.

    But the Tang army on the opposite side also fought hard. If they wanted to win a quick victory, it would not be something that could be accomplished in a short time.

    Huang Mingliao was really panicked. He was not afraid of wherever Li Yuan fled, but he could not enter the Qinling Mountains.  The entire Qinling Mountains are so big that even if a hundred thousand people were scattered there, they might not be able to find him, let alone Li Yuan.

    In order to stop Li Yuan, Huang Mingliao also fought with his life.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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