Chapter 1584: Broken Bridge
The fire was burning, reflecting half of the sky red. Other places had already been shrouded in the night, but on both sides of this Gaoliang River, the battlefield was in full swing.
Guo Yi frowned tightly. He never expected that the thousands of Ming troops in front of him would be so difficult. By now, the Ming army's camp had been completely destroyed by himself, and all the food and supplies had been burned. He originally thought that under such circumstances, these persistent Ming troops would be destroyed and their will would be defeated.
When the two armies fight and kill the most, they are never the time when the two armies confront each other, but because they are chased by the other side after one side is defeated and disbanded.
Guo Yi originally hoped that these Ming troops would flee and then allow him to easily kill these people in pursuit, but for a whole day, the three thousand Ming troops were actually less than three thousand. Because at the beginning of the battle, Guo Yi saw that there were many wounded soldiers among them, but he had not completely taken them down.
There are about a thousand people who are still struggling to support them now.
Guo Yi was surprised and indignant in his heart. These people were all the Western Army of the Great Chu court. It was a consensus between the government and the country, otherwise they would not have been transferred from the west to the east to participate in the war against Qi. But no one expected that this was a double-edged sword. Now, he showed his other side.
"Chen Bing, prepare to retreat!" Guo Yi said quietly.
The blood-stained deputy general Chen Bing was shocked, "General, how can you leave now? You haven't killed them all yet. Leaving them is not good for our entire plan! Our casualties are not too great, but the other party's turtle shell is too hard, and it takes a little longer. Their camp has been burned by us, and there must be problems with their supplies. Haven't you noticed that their crossbows are now launched at half the number of time?"
The plan Chen Bing mentioned was the plan to completely annihilate Suqian and Yan's troops on the river. If the remaining more than a thousand Ming troops could not be wiped out, once they retreated, the remaining Ming troops would definitely build a trestle and build it to the other side, thereby connecting the two sides again. You should know that the giant trees they put down from the Guaizi River were only destroyed by the floating bridge above the water surface, and the pile foundations rooted in the water were actually very limited in damage. As long as the foundation was still there, it would not take long to build a bridge on the water surface.
Guo Yi sighed: "At this time, I care more about the cavalry of Jiang Shangyan. At this moment, Suqian has been entangled by us, and it is not so easy for him to retreat. Even if he builds the bridge again, he cannot retreat in the entire division. However, Jiang Shangyan, our infantry can't stop him for long. It's already dark. We must cross the river immediately, intercept Jiang Shangyan, and then join with the infantry and wipe them out all the way by Gaoliang River. After a long time, if they are allowed to escape, our carefully designed combat plan will inevitably fail most of the time."
Chen Bing looked at the Ming army formation that was already in danger in the distance and spat hard, "It's really a bargain for these traitors." He could still tell the difference. As Guo Yi said, even if these remaining infantrymen built bridges again, Suqian could not easily retreat across the river. However, for Jiang Shangyan, who is a cavalry, it would be really difficult to catch them if they get rid of the entanglement of infantry.
"Let's go!" Guo Yi stopped talking, turned around and galloped towards the night.
The sound of golden gongs sounded, and the Chu cavalry surrounding the Ming army attacked suddenly retreated, and fire dragons quickly moved towards the upper reaches of Gaoliang River in the night.
The Ming soldiers who were almost dead and still alive were unknown, so they looked at the departing Chu army in a daze. They did not dare to relax at all, because the cavalry came and went like the wind, or the next moment, they would suddenly kill a shot back.
In the night, the torches gradually faded away, slowly turned into a glimmer of light in their eyes, and finally disappeared from everyone's sight. Until this time, the remaining Ming army believed that they had indeed escaped from death.
They were sore all over, and they sat on the ground and could hardly get up again. Some even tilted their bodies almost immediately and fell asleep as soon as they sat down.
"General, general, the enemy retreated." A soldier shouted ecstaticly beside a general covered in blood, and from time to time he reached out to shake the general who seemed to be unconscious.
"Stop, do you want him to die faster?" The doctor of the Suijun, who rushed over, also covered in blood on his body, stopped him loudly. At the last moment, he also participated in the battle.
"The enemy is gone?" The unconscious general seemed to want to open his eyes, but after working hard for a while, he was unsuccessful. "How many of us still have?"
"General, there are still thousands of people." The soldier replied happily.
"Why are you still stunned? Build the bridge, quickly build the bridge, find all the things that can build the bridge, repair the trestle on the river, tell your brothers, push it up again, repair the bridge first, and repair one first." The general gave a difficult order, and his head tilted, and fainted again.
In the night, dozens of war horses were racing. Soon, a war horse fell to the ground with a sad and neighed because of a hoof. The horse was extremely agile behind it. The moment the horse fell, it had already risen up, and the companions on one side reached out in time. When they put their hands on, the knight flew on the back again. The two rode together and galloped in the night.
These more than a hundred people were Huo Guang and his group who rushed over from Xiangzhou County. Now they were in the war zone, full of dangers and had no idea where there were enemies. Naturally, they did not drive to the open fire and could only move forward in the dark. This made the war horses under their crotch, and from time to time, some horses fell down because of their broken hooves.
A fire appeared faintly in front of him. After walking forward for several miles, the group arrived at a high ground. The flames reflected half of the sky. Here, they could clearly see the battlefield not far away. The sun and moon flags of the Ming Dynasty were circling and fighting desperately with the Chu army besieging them.
"At least one hour, we will defeat the Chu army and win a great victory." In the darkness, one person said with joy, "Master Huo, why not help him."
Huo Guang snorted coldly: "What can we do when we go to the battlefield with tens of thousands of people? Will we die? Besides, didn't you say that Jiang Shangyan will win soon?"
"You are the master!" The man's voice became a little weaker.
"I am a master, not a god!" Huo Guang said, "You have good martial arts skills. If there are a hundred strong men holding spears and stabbing you, can you hold on?"
The man laughed a few awkwardly.
"You can't stand it? I can withstand more than a hundred people, or I can withstand even more, but no matter how many, I can't stand it!" Huo Guang said lightly: "Besides, Jiang Shangyan's crisis is not here, but on the other side. If Guo Yi rushed over, Jiang Shangyan would be over. Let's go and destroy the road to Guo Yi's return."
After giving up this sentence, Huo Guang turned around and ran upstream. The knights behind him responded with a loud bang, turned their heads and rushed into the darkness again with Huo Guang.
In the distance, a floating bridge made of ships was brightly lit, and two torches were inserted on each small boat. More than a hundred soldiers were guarding the edge of the floating bridge. When they heard the sound of horse hooves, the people showed a warning light on their faces and they all turned on their horses.
"Who?" a captain led by the leader shouted loudly.
A chuckle came from the darkness: "Your life is the one who wants your life!" A big sword flew out of the darkness quietly, and with a loud puff, it penetrated the chest and abdomen of the captain. It was endless and it cut one into two. Huo Guang rushed out of the darkness like a big bird, and caught up with his big sword in the air, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, the big sword flew up and down, and each knife would inevitably take away a life.
The horse's hooves sounded like thunder, and dozens of cavalry rushed out of the darkness and rushed towards the Chu cavalry guarding the pontoon bridge.
Huo Guang brought not many people, only more than a hundred people. At this time, many people were not even horses, but these people were all good players among the hawks and falcons. They were not very good at fighting military formations, but fighting wars was their specialty.
Hundreds of cavalry of the Chu army were stationed here, but Huo Guang was disrupted by the formation. They took the opportunity to enter, and they were like a group of tigers entering the flock of sheep.
The equipment on the Eagle Falcon is the essence of the history of the development of weapons in the Ming Dynasty. The best and latest equipment will always be the first to appear on them. More than a hundred people faced the Chu army several times theirs, but they were the ones who had the upper hand, not to mention that they had a master to fight against the formation?
When Huo Guang stepped onto the first ferry with his feet, there was no Chu army standing behind him, and it was just a cup of tea.
At this time, the hooves on the other side were thunderous, and fire dragons were rushing towards them.
"Fortunately, it's timely!" Huo Guang laughed and said, "Boys, do you have something to attract fire on your body?"
"Master, what you said, how could people like us not keep the weapon of killing and setting fire with you?" The blood-stained men burst into laughter.
"Okay, let Guo Yi watch the Fire Boat Dance!" Huo Guang said with a smile.
Chapter completed!