Although it cost more than expected, it achieved its goal after all.
Surrounded by personal guards holding torches high, Wang Bodang entered the General's Mansion in Jin Yong City under the cover of night, and sat down on the Grand Master's chair in the lobby with great satisfaction.
He had long forgotten Shan Xiongxin's request for support.
The two military commanders who reported the news one after another were sent away by him five hours ago.
When Shan Xiongxin heard the order's return, he cursed angrily.
But now is not the time to think about how to settle accounts with Uncle Wang, because the army coming to protect the child is coming soon.
He had even seen some reconnaissance horses and cavalry from the Sui army.
Shan Xiongxin can't withdraw even if he wants to.
The opponent's advance speed is much faster than his.
If he makes an emergency retreat at this time and is followed by the opponent, he may be defeated thousands of miles away.
Shan Xiongxin had no choice but to bite the bullet and gather all his troops to set up a formation before returning to Luocheng to fight the Sui army to the death.
The war situation far exceeded Shan Xiongxin's imagination.
He originally thought that he was only slightly inferior, but unexpectedly, once the war started, the situation became one-sided.
First of all, the Sui army began to fire arrows from a distance, and these arrows were heavy arrows that could penetrate the armor of the Wagang soldiers.
Those who are hit by arrows will definitely fall regardless of whether they are wearing armor or not.
As soon as the Wagang army saw the shadow of the enemy, they began to fall to the ground with arrows, and the soldiers suddenly became panicked.
Those with shields raised their shields, while those without shields crouched down, trying to let the soldiers in front block these heavy arrows for themselves.
The entire Wagang Army's formation became chaotic.
Shan Xiongxin knew that apart from shortening the distance between Liang Jun as soon as possible and allowing the opponent to enter his attack range, there was no other way to solve this problem.
So, he loudly ordered the whole army to move forward and get close to the Sui army as soon as possible.
At the same time, he asked the cavalry to attack the enemy formation from both wings first.
These Wagang cavalrymen waved their sabers, shouted and galloped towards the Sui army.
When they arrived at the formation, the long archers of the Sui army targeted them.
A leader of the Sui army was pointing at the country on the saddle, indicating the direction of the attack of the cavalry he led, when his head was pierced front and back by heavy arrows with a pop.
The leader tumbled off his horse and landed just in front of his mount's galloping front hooves.
In an instant, the rolling iron hooves trampled his body into pulp.
Before the Wagang Army's cavalry could cross the center line between the two armies, 30% of them were hit by arrows and fell from their horses.
The morale of the remaining soldiers was demoralized.
They all turned their horses' heads and ran towards both sides of the Sui Army's formation.
In this way, they could maintain the appearance of charging against the Sui Army.
You can also try to stay away from those terrifying long archers.
At this time, amid the sound of drums and trumpets, there was a commotion in the Sui army's formation, and dust rose up from behind the formation.
There were also two large groups of cavalry attacking the Wagang Army from the left and right wings.
Eighty percent of them were iron cavalry from the Xiaoguo Army, and the rest were light armored flying cavalry from the Tianxing Army.
These Sui Army cavalry collided with the Wagang Army cavalry a moment later.
The cavalry of the Wagang Army were not used to the non-contact mounted combat of the light-armored flying cavalry.
They went to chase and kill the light-armored flying cavalry, but they could not catch up with their short mounts that ran as fast as wolves.
Receive an arrow from their back horse.
If one ignores these flying cavalry and only concentrates on fighting the Xiaoguo cavalry, these flying cavalry will circle and release cold arrows.
The already demoralized Wagang Cavalry fought with the opponent for three or four rounds and were completely defeated.
At this time, they were out of ten, with a casualty rate of 60 to 70%.
The remaining Wagang Cavalry dispersed with a blast.
While the cavalry of the two armies was engaged in a fierce battle, the Sui Army's military formation finally appeared within the range of the Wagang Army's crossbowmen.
Shan Xiongxin immediately ordered all the crossbowmen in the army to fire a volley, and arrows rained from the sky towards the Sui army.
When the arrow rain struck, a thousand royal court heavy cavalry in the Sui army's formation lined up in a neat row, pressing towards the Wagang army like a sea tide and a mountain wall.
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The heavy armor on their bodies was enough to offset the damage of the opponent's arrows.
At the same time, the three mountain spearmen phalanxes of Tianxing Army were under the orders of the commanders of thousands and centurions.
The entire phalanx moved quickly, and its speed was only a little behind the heavy cavalry.
At the same time, they also rapidly shook the barrel of the five-meter long gun.
The arrows that passed over their heads were knocked down or redirected.
The spear phalanx collided with the sword and shield soldiers on both sides of the Wagang army like three giant hedgehogs moving at high speed.
Five-meter long spears were fired at the Wagang Army's shield wall intensively.
Although many of those gleaming gun blades were blocked by the large shields, there were still many long spears piercing through the gaps between the shields, the upper and lower spaces of the shields, and piercing into the bodies of the Wagang soldiers behind the shields.
The spearmen in the center of the Wagang Army's formation were attacked by heavy cavalry.
Before their spear blades even touched the opponent's hair, they were hit by javelins like a majestic rain.
The entire military formation suddenly had more than a dozen huge gaps and became chaotic.
The heavy cavalry swarmed in from the gap, charging into the depths while riding their horses, waving their steel swords, slashing rapidly to the left and right, trying their best to widen the gap.
The last ones to fight with the Wagang Army were the Xiaoguo Imperial Guards.
They took advantage of the chaos in the opponent's army and marched together in a charge formation, fighting bravely.
In close combat, four or five Wagang soldiers are often unable to defeat a Xiaoguo Imperial Guard.
After the cavalry of the Wagang Army was defeated, the cavalry on the left and right wings of the Sui Army quickly attacked the sides of the Wagang Army's formation.
At this time, no matter how much Shan Xiongxin and his generals roared and commanded, they could not restore the defeat of the Wagang Army.
Lai Hu'er, who took the lead, was already covered in blood, but it was other people's blood.
He had already seen where Shan Xiongxin was, and under the protection of more than a dozen Xiaoguo soldiers, he quickly attacked Shan Xiongxin.
When Shan Xiongxin saw Lai Hu'er, he sneered and shouted loudly: "Well done, if we can kill this Sui general, we might be able to turn defeat into victory."
After that, he straightened up his long body and fought with Lai Hu'er.
The soldiers were also killed in a group.
Shan Xiongxin's bravery and martial arts were also remarkable.
The two sides were in a stalemate for more than ten rounds.
But Shan Xiongxin's army is already in danger.
Sima Dekan, who returned to the tower in Luocheng, had a clear view of the battlefield and immediately ordered the two thousand elite soldiers in the city who had been prepared to attack suddenly.
The attention of the Wagang troops who were fortifying Huiluo City was attracted by the battlefield not far from Huiluo City.
They did not expect that the Sui army would come out of the city, and the two thousand Sui troops immediately broke through the defense line.
By this moment, the Sui army seemed to be attacking from all directions inside and outside the Wagang Army's formation, causing heavy casualties among the soldiers.
Their morale could no longer support their fight, and more and more soldiers began to flee, eventually leading to a complete rout.
Shan Xiongxin, who was still fighting, looked at the defeated soldiers passing by him, feeling anxious but helpless.
Finally, he tried to escape with a single shot, but he was surrounded by hundreds of Xiaoguo cavalry
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