The Southern Tianzhu Allied Forces were overwhelmed by the harassment of the Western Qin Army.
Sometimes they could not sleep well all night.
They even just fell asleep when the Western Qin Army's cavalry entered the camp again, burning and setting fire everywhere.
The weather is dry, and even if this is the south, it is easy to set fire to it.
Being harassed for several days in a row, a large number of tents in the Southern Tianzhu coalition camp were burned down and a large number of soldiers and horses were lost.
This also directly caused the coalition soldiers to wake up quickly and never sleep again as long as the sound of a large number of horse hooves was heard.
Unconsciously, this is not the most important thing.
What annoys the coalition kings the most is that hundreds of thousands of coalition soldiers have been in particularly bad mental condition these days, and they have been pounding all day long.
After four days of this, the kings of the Southern Tianzhu Alliance realized that they could not continue like this.
If they continued like this, they would collapse without another attack by the Western Qin Army.
So after discussion, the kings decided to counterattack.
They also sent cavalry troops to attack the Western Qin army camp at night.
On the night of December 15th, the coalition forces sent a cavalry force of 5,000 people to secretly approach the Western Qin Army's camp.
Unexpectedly, they encountered the Western Qin Army's cavalry halfway.
It was the brave who met on a narrow road, and the Western Qin Army's cavalry had already advanced.
I am used to night combat, sneak attacks, surprise attacks, etc.
However, this was too sudden and unexpected for the coalition cavalry who used night sneak attack tactics for the first time.
At the moment of the encounter, they could not determine the identity of the Western Qin Army cavalry.
They formed a neat attack formation and launched a charge.
Before the two sides formally came into contact, the coalition cavalry was hit by the overwhelming and dense arrows of the Western Qin Army and suffered heavy casualties.
They scurried away and were struck by five consecutive waves of arrows.
No one of the coalition cavalry was still in place.
The remaining coalition forces The cavalrymen were so frightened that they turned around and ran away.
In the process of turning around and escaping, countless people were knocked off their horses, knocked to the ground, and hacked to death by their companions.
What's even more terrible is that these fleeing coalition cavalry fled towards the camp one after another.
They swarmed towards the camp gate.
The coalition general guarding the camp gate thought it was his own army returning from victory, and ordered someone to open the camp gate to let them in.
The tragedy happened.
The Western Qin Army cavalry, under the command of its leading general Zhao Lei, followed the fleeing coalition cavalry into the camp.
The coalition cavalry who fled into the camp rushed in a panic and rushed to the ground.
Countless tents, a large number of tents in the camp were set on fire, and countless coalition soldiers ran out of their respective tents, but were quickly overwhelmed by the fleeing cavalry.
Zhao Lei led the Western Qin Army cavalry into the coalition camp and set fire everywhere.
A large number of tents burned, and the Tianzhu people who were still sleeping inside rushed out with their bodies on fire.
Chaos quickly spread.
"Fight with me!"
Zhao Lei shouted.
He pointed the three-pointed two-edged sword forward in his hand, squeezed the horse's belly with both legs, and killed a large group of coalition soldiers who were gathering.
"Swish, swish, swish", arrows rained down from the sky in waves, and a large group of coalition soldiers who were gathering suddenly fell down in large pieces, and the others scattered like birds and beasts in fear.
After killing this large group of coalition soldiers, Zhao Lei led his soldiers to continue to attack other coalition soldiers who were gathering.
Wherever there was a large group of coalition soldiers gathering, he would immediately lead the Western Qin cavalry to kill them. , first Several waves of arrows struck one after another, and then they rushed over on horseback.
Almost no coalition army could withstand such a blow.
It was night again, and under the sneak attack, the scattered coalition soldiers no longer had the courage to assemble.
Fighting with the Western Qin Army.
Chaos and panic spread like a plague to every corner of the coalition camp at an extremely fast speed.
In fact, Zhao Lei only brought three thousand cavalry, but in a short period of time, the coalition camp was turned upside down, and more and more people fled.
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There were many, and the coalition soldiers who didn't know what happened were swept away by the fleeing army as soon as they walked out of the camp.
More people were carried away from the camp and fled to the south.
The kings of the coalition forces were protected by their generals and waiters and were forcibly taken away from the camp without knowing exactly what happened.
Zhao Lei led the Western Qin cavalry army to pursue them all night, and did not return with his troops until daybreak.
On the way back, he encountered a large number of allied troops that were defeated, and he had to continue fighting, killing those who were unable to escape.
The coalition soldiers were killed until they cried for their fathers and mothers, and many people had to kneel down and surrender.
Zhao Ziliang, who got up early in the morning to practice martial arts, heard the news and immediately sent a large number of troops to clean the battlefield and count the loot.
At noon, Zhao Ziliang had just had lunch.
Zheng San, who was responsible for cleaning the battlefield, counting the loot, and tallying the results and losses, walked into the tent and said, "Your Majesty, the statistics are out.
We found at least 100,000 weapons in the coalition camp.
The corpses of allied soldiers, various tents and flags Banners, weapons, armor, crossbows, arrows, horses and other military supplies were scattered everywhere.
It was impossible to make an accurate calculation for the time being, but our army only lost 81 people in this battle.
This is the greatest victory since the war in Tianzhu.
The eldest prince is truly a powerful warrior."
"You are telling the truth?"
Zhao Ziliang couldn't help but stood up and asked.
Zheng Sandao: "How dare a humble minister talk nonsense about such a major military and state matter?"
Zhao Ziliang slapped the table and said in annoyance: "Why didn't anyone tell me that the people of Nan Tianzhu were beaten and all fled?
If I had known this, I would have sent tens of thousands of cavalry to chase them quickly.
We can definitely defeat Nan Tianzhu in one battle.
Now At that time, it was too late to send a large group of cavalry to pursue them.
They were afraid that they had already established a firm foothold and re-established their camp.
Someone came to tell Zhao Lei to come over."
"Yes, Your Majesty" At this time, the Southern Tianzhu Allied Forces had indeed regained a foothold and set up camp thanks to the efforts of the kings.
They sent extra manpower to defend and detect the movements of the Western Qin Army.
After counting, the kings found that they had lost more than ten soldiers after being attacked by a sneak attack last night.
Thousands of people, plus the losses in the past few days, the total losses exceeded 120,000 This result made all the kings almost vomit blood.
Well, before the decisive battle, the soldiers had lost more than 100,000 people, with less than 300,000 left.
The army had lost armor, weapons, bows, crossbows, arrows, and other military supplies.
Countless, the coalition forces of less than 300,000 people are now like a huge team of refugees, and their combat effectiveness has dropped sharply.
The kings discussed urgently, and in view of the current situation, they decided to immediately lead the coalition forces to continue to retreat southward to Peacock Pass in Kadamba Kingdom, and then rely on the solid city defense and steepness of Peacock Pass to resist the attack of the Western Qin army and restore the combat effectiveness and safety of the army.
It buys time for morale, but also delays time for them to recruit more troops and raise more supplies.
Peacock Pass is one hundred and twenty miles away from the coalition's previous camp.
It has been used as a grain and grass base for the coalition forces.
Before the coalition forces retreated to Peacock Pass, the kings of various countries received news that more than half of the grain and grass stored in Peacock Pass had been burned.
The kings of the coalition forces almost vomited blood again.
The kings rushed to Peacock Pass with their troops and saw the grain and grass warehouse burned to ashes.
They felt like crying without tears.
After counting, the kings learned that the remaining grain and grass were enough to feed the coalition soldiers for a month, which made them feel a little relieved.
On the one hand, they sent people back to various places in the south to collect grain, grass and weapons, and on the other hand, they organized manpower to reinforce Peacock Pass and sent troops to capture them.
The people of nearby Tianzhu asked the people of Tianzhu to build and strengthen the city walls and build and collect defense equipment and materials.
Western Qin army camp.
The generals and officials all praised the eldest prince Zhao Lei in front of Zhao Ziliang for his bravery, courage and strategy in achieving such a great victory, which was unique since the Western Qin army entered Tianzhu to fight.
After listening to the praises of the generals and officials, Zhao Ziliang looked at Zhao Lei and asked: "Uncles and uncles all said that this is the biggest victory since our army entered Tianzhu.
They think that you are brave and resourceful, which is rare.
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General, what do you think?"
Zhao Lei was a little embarrassed, touched the back of his head and clasped his fists and said: "Thank you uncles for the compliments.
Actually, I am not as good as you said.
The results of this battle are indeed great, but I don't take all the credit.
As long as the soldiers serve with their lives and obey command.
Afterwards, I also analyzed why we achieved such a great result this time.
General Li Sheng, General Ma Sui, General Xuansi and several other generals had led cavalry to attack the Southern Tianzhu coalition forces at night.
Why did they not achieve such a great result?
Result , but I was able to achieve such great results this time.
This was the second time I led the cavalry to attack the camp.
After analysis, I found that there were several coincidences in this battle: First, we encountered an enemy on the way who came to prepare for a sneak attack.
The coalition cavalry in the camp had never fought at night.
They were all stunned after encountering us.
Our army took the lead in attacking and quickly defeated them and fled.
This was due to the lack of ability of their leading generals to adapt to the situation and the lack of ability of their soldiers.
It has to do with things like this.”
"The second coincidence is that the defeated coalition cavalry fled directly back to their camp while our army was still chasing after them.
This is unbelievable.
Don't they know that this will allow us to follow them and kill them?
The campground?”
"The third coincidence is that the coalition general guarding the camp gate actually opened the camp gate and put them into the camp when the defeated troops fled back.
Therefore, our army could rush directly into the coalition camp.
I have thought about this, maybe It was too dark and the coalition generals could not see clearly, and they did not know that our army was chasing behind them."
"Besides these coincidences, the reason why the Southern Tianzhu Allied Forces suffered a large-scale defeat was mainly due to our constant harassment in the past few days, which made them fearful all the time.
Last night, I led the troops into the camp to let them That worry has arrived , many people couldn't stand it, so they fled on a large scale.
Only a small part of the 100,000 people were killed by me and my soldiers.
Most of them were killed by each other, trampled on each other, or were burned.
"Dead, killed by a war horse or an elephant":