The rout of the army meant a loss of order, and the extremely panicked rout of the army did not care where they were ahead, they were driven by fear to run around.
Returning to the Han army twenty miles west of the main battlefield, they did not have much time to find an absolutely advantageous terrain to arrange, but in fact, in the middle of the rapid march, they suddenly noticed that a large number of enemy troops were rushing in the direction of the main battlefield, and temporarily arranged to block the west bank.
The anti-Han axis coalition forces coming from the direction of the main battlefield did not seem to have any formation to speak of, that is, the kind of three or three appeared first, and then a large number of large numbers appeared all over the mountains, and in an instant, the Han army judged the other side to be a rout.
The roundabout Han army really didn't expect the battle on the main battlefield to come to an end so quickly, and for a while it was surprised by the sudden rout.
If a large group of enemy troops appeared together, even if the Han army could intercept it, it would definitely not have time to expand the formation, and it could only intercept a small part of the rout behind it.
After the Han army unfolded the formation, it crossed a battle line about two thousand meters long, but in fact, it was impossible to intercept all the routs, after all, the enemy routs were running all over the mountains, not rushing to the same position together.
What El Bata saw was that the rout of his own side that ran towards the interception line organized by the Han army was swept by the firearms of the Han army one by one, and the rout troops who did not run from the position of the Han army's interception line were only chased and killed by the cavalry of the Han army.
"Let's get around" Elbata decided that he chose to bypass it because he was not afraid, but that his current state was not suitable for further fighting.
The rout that appeared before was basically disorganized, and the appearance of Elbata with this still organized Persian army was actually very conspicuous, and it was immediately discovered by the Han army.
"Mobilize the cavalry of a song."
Yang Rui could see through the binoculars that the Persian cavalry remained in formation: "Try to disperse." ” Soon a trumpeter blew the horn, and the Han cavalry, which was originally dispersing and chasing the enemy's rout, joined the squad and formed a large team, and it was easy to see the Persian cavalry galloping to the side of the battlefield.
Yang Rui only had 2,000 cavalry on hand, and the biggest intention of mobilizing Yiqu to engage the organized Persian cavalry was actually a means of insurance.
Most of the anti-Han Axis coalition forces were in a state of collapse, and there was an enemy army that was still in order, and if this organized enemy force was allowed to move, there would be a great threat.
Of course, Elbata found that there were Han cavalry chasing straight after his own troops, and an unprecedented grievance filled his mind.
He kept scolding in his heart, he had to run away regardless of it, and the Han army didn't kill those easy-to-kill routs, but stared at himself.
The Persian cavalry, who maintained their organizational strength, even if they did not rush into the Han army's interception line, still caused trouble, first of all, their detour, which led a large number of anti-Han axis coalition forces to follow and run to the side.
The number of anti-Han axis coalition forces rushing towards the Han army's interception line decreased, so the number of anti-Han axis coalition forces eliminated by the Han army naturally decreased.
The roundabout Han army was only 10,000, 5,000 riflemen and 2,000 cavalry were the main force, and the rest were 3,000 cold-armed soldiers on foot.
There were only 10,000 Han troops, and they had to intercept the rout of the anti-Han Axis coalition army, and they had a group of cavalry to pursue the organized Persian cavalry.
The terrain on this side is flat, and it is not an ideal blocking terrain at all, it is basically a place of luck for how much can be intercepted and how much can be killed.
Yang Rui knew two things at the same time.
The first point is that it is actually a rational approach to block only one position so that the enemy army will not have no other way to run, and if the enemy army does not even have a place to escape, it is likely to force them to fight hard.
The second point is that their troops are too small, and the enemy's rout looks like it is all over the mountains, and there will be enemy routs running over in the future, and it is very ideal to be able to stabilize the front line and intercept it.
Stretching the interception line longer and thinner, or even dividing the troops to block it, will not be able to fold the 10,000 troops into it.
There was a very strange scene on this battlefield, the Han army set up an interception line to block, and there were constantly routs crashing into them and then becoming corpses, and the rout of the anti-Han axis coalition forces in the rest of the directions endured the tail pursuit of the Han cavalry, becoming murder, being killed, fleeing, and no one cared about whom.
Near evening, a cavalry unit came over on the main battlefield first, and the officer leading the team informed Yang Rui of the situation on the main battlefield, and then this unit joined the pursuit of the anti-Han axis coalition forces.
Even if an hour or two passed, the enemy soldiers who had been defeated in the direction of the main battlefield were still not cut off, and they didn't know if they didn't see the corpses and Han troops in front of them, and they bumped into them and became corpses.
"It's almost a pile of corpses on this side."
"They're still climbing the mountain of corpses, and they're coming up for us to kill."
"This is a rout."
If people are occupied by the thought of running for their lives, their minds will indeed become stupid, and they will lose their usual reason, ignoring some stupid actions that should have been avoided at a glance.
In front of the Han army's interception line, a row of corpses stacked on top of each other was about to become a wall of flesh and blood, but there were still routs crawling upwards with twisted faces, some of them were hit by bullets as soon as they came up and became part of the corpse wall, some of them were shot down the corpse wall a short distance forward, and it didn't take long for the new corpses on top of each other.
Even as night fell, the defeated forces of the anti-Han Axis coalition that had retreated from the main battlefield were still not broken, but the number was much smaller than during the day.
It wasn't until midnight that the retreating anti-Han Axis coalition army was divided into threes and threes, and the exhausted Han soldiers found that the number of new routs had dropped sharply, and they didn't know whether to relax or be disappointed.
"What's the new instruction?"
"Back to the school captain, there is no new order from Du Hu."
Yang Rui was still disappointed, they didn't have time to rush to the established position, they stopped temporarily to block the attack, and did not play the biggest result of this detour.
Their blocking on this side is equivalent to the rout of the enemy army that runs through this "line", which can at least reach the third line of defense established by the anti-Han axis coalition forces.
And because of the relationship between blocking and defeating the army, they could not achieve the end of the enemy's rout and enter the enemy's third line of defense, which became the result of failing to complete the set marching goal and not achieving the most ideal results.
It was about early in the morning when Li Kuang came up with the follow-up troops.
It was a force of 20,000 men, and the riflemen of the main battlefield were left behind in the pontoon defense line of the Pench River, replaced by new troops transferred from the rear.
Yang Rui did not lead the army to continue westward, but stopped in place and waited for the arrival of the follow-up troops.
"The number of enemy troops left behind is probably about fifteen thousand."
Yang Rui watched the whole process of blocking the enemy's rout, and the number of visual elimination was that: "If you fail to complete the plan, please protect the crime." ” Li Kuang already knew the situation here, and in the face of Yang Rui's plea, he just nodded, he didn't get angry, and he didn't say anything, whether Yang Rui was guilty or not would naturally have a result in the outcome evaluation.
"Then in this battle, the enemy army was wiped out by about 70,000," Song Ping calculated the results of the main battlefield.
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He glanced at Yang Rui, who was full of guilt, and then at Li Kuang, who had a calm face, and said with a smile: "Destroy 70,000 enemy troops in one day, and the results are full of glory."
In fact, there will not be more than 20,000 people who really die among the Han army, and the enemy army has the most people killing and trampling each other in the chaos, not only on the main battlefield, but also on the side of the interception line.
Therefore, once an army collapses, even if the enemy army on the belligerent side does not do anything, the collapsed army will have many deaths.
Li Kuang asked: "How many enemy soldiers have fled to the enemy's third line of defense?"
"The enemy army is fleeing all over the mountains, and many of the enemy soldiers will not run back to rebuild because of the fear of fighting us."
What Song Ping said is also common sense: "If you can go back two or three tenths, it is too much."
The enemy has 50,000 defenders on the third line of defense, plus the routs that ran over, it should be between 80,000 and 90,000."
Li Kuang said lightly: "It's a pity" Yang Rui lowered his head, with regret and embarrassment on his face.
Song Ping was guessing what Li Kuang's words meant.
The next day, the Han army, which had not rested much, met with 30,000 men after the rendezvous to march.
While they were still on the march, the scouts who had set out in advance sent back information that the enemy's third line of defense was empty.
It took about two months, I don't know how much money and manpower was spent to build the defense line, it is mainly composed of a city wall with a length of about 2,500 meters, some sections of the city wall are also built similar to the urn city, in front of the city wall there are perfect fortifications, such as moats, earthen walls, fence walls, horse belts, pits, etc.
The defense line was mainly composed of Roman and Persian vassal races, with a small number of Romans and Persians, and some other races.
It was only at night that they learned that their more than 200,000 troops in front had been defeated, and it was a shocking defeat.
From the Han army's attack to the defeat of their own army, the whole process was less than six hours It was also during the night that the rout in front fled, bringing with them some specious news, and no one could tell the story of the development of the battle, but only told some hairy information according to their own impressions.
For example, how many people on their own side rushed towards the Han army, and thousands of people were killed and wounded before the Han army even touched a single hair.
Another example is that a strong city wall is reduced to ashes after an explosion, and there will always be shells falling from the sky, even if it is not safe to hide in the rear.
Too many horrible descriptions of the Han army kept coming out of the mouths of the rout, and the fear spread, especially when the vassal races of the Persians learned that the Persian army in front of them was likely to be wiped out, and they immediately fell into vain.
His master faced the Han army, and he was completely annihilated in less than a day, so if he went to fight with the Han army, how long could he hold on The most shocking news is that the Han army only dispatched 10,000 people, which is only 10,000 people A Han army of 10,000 was able to defeat a coalition of 200,000 troops with an absolute superiority, and it also happened that the Romans and Persians sent their own strong armies were almost completely wiped out, and the city walls that took time and effort to build did not hold up for even half an hour.
The more news of the rout, the more fears of the soldiers who were not involved in the front-line engagements.
I don't know if the rout fled again, or if the garrison of the third line of defense, which was filled with fear, fled first, until someone found the Han army on the defense line, although the Han army that was found was only a five-person squad, it caused another wave of escape.
Li Kuang came to the defensive line that looked empty, and out of caution, he sent a team to explore first.
After a period of exploration, only a few enemy soldiers who did not have time to run clean because of the transportation of supplies were discovered, and after a period of interrogation, they learned the reason why the enemy troops on the defensive line broke and fled without a fight.
"The so-called coalition army consisted of only seventy or eighty thousand Persian regular troops and less than five thousand Roman legions, most of which were people from small tribes and tribes."
Li Kuang stood on the city wall and made his own evaluation: "We all know what the situation of people in a small country is, and we know what the hell people of small tribes and small tribes look like."
There are no strong men in a small country, and there are no heroes in the ignorant crowd.
That's the status quo.
"They have pulled up so many allies, I'm afraid I didn't expect it to become a burden to themselves."
Song Ping said with emotion: "Our ancestors knew early on that self-improvement is really strong, and never pinned the victory or defeat of a war on the so-called allies. ” In fact, what really made Zhu Xia understand that the unreliability of allies was that there were so many examples of the Warring States, at that time, the six countries repeatedly formed alliances, but not only was they helpless against the Qin State, but there were a lot of filthy things inside, all of which repeatedly proved that the alliance can only be driven by one big brother, as long as there are two countries with similar strength in that alliance, the so-called alliance is more of a drag.
Li Kuang looked at Song Ping and said, "Those small countries and small tribes will be handed over to you in the future." ” Song Ping nodded with a smile.
He knows exactly what he should do next, and he believes that he will achieve good results.
The reason why those small countries and tribes were drawn into the so-called anti-Han axis was, firstly, that the Han Empire did not hide its hegemony, and secondly, because it was under the powerful deterrence of Rome and Persia.
Li Kuang had already discovered the disadvantages of not hiding his domineering, which was also an important reason why the Romans and Persians could easily pull together such a large group of allies.
Although the Han Empire did not take those small states and tribes into account, it may have been able to prevent them from siding with the Persians and Romans, but it was natural to avoid them.
"This time, Du Hu led an army of 10,000 to defeat 200,000 coalition troops, and the news will soon spread all over the world."
Song Ping is not complimenting Li Kuang, he is really complimenting him.
He reasoned with the facts: "The prestige of the Han Dynasty is even greater, and the people of these small countries must be afraid of the liquidation of the Han Dynasty, and they all want to try to dissociate themselves from Persia and Rome."
The Han Empire didn't need allies, but it wasn't so stupid that it didn't understand that weakening the enemy was strengthening itself, and it didn't intend to rally those small countries, but it was still happy that those small countries turned around and went to trouble the Persians and Romans
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