Frontier Army Warrior

Chapter 444 The Gap is Too Big

As time went on, facing the bloody battlefield, the soldiers of the government army gradually could not hold on.

The Tatar cavalry became more and more courageous as the battle went on, as if they had endless energy in their bodies.

Many soldiers from Yinzhou Prefecture were frightened by their ferocity and saw the corpses and blood all over the ground.

The soldiers who usually served the people began to retreat unconsciously.

I have a wife and children at home, and several acres of land that produce food. If I die, what will happen to my family?

As soon as I thought about these things, my fighting power was immediately gone.

Some people started to turn around and run outside. When those inside saw those outside starting to run, they turned around and ran too.

In a desperate battlefield, once someone collapses, the situation will spread to the entire battlefield in an instant.

That's how the battle was lost.

The so-called defeat is like a mountain collapsing, and the defeat began with a fleeing soldier.

Faster than charging forward.

Zhang Enyi was immediately on the gentle slope, watching his team scatter in all directions like mercury pouring out of the ground.

No matter how loud the war drums behind him beat, no one paid any attention.

The soldiers were only concerned about escaping, and their entire body and mind were focused on whether there were pursuers behind them.

Zhang Enyi gritted his teeth and widened his eyes, looking helplessly at the Tatar cavalry on the battlefield, chasing his soldiers everywhere.

It's over, irretrievably defeated.

Retreat is impossible now.

Most of them were infantry and could not organize a retreat at all. Facing the Tatar cavalry, retreating in an organized manner was tantamount to suicide.

Zhang Enyi regretted it. If he had known this would happen, he should have allowed the team in Qing County to join in.

Forty thousand versus five thousand, that should be a sure win, right?

There is no medicine for regret in the world. Zhang Enyi saw that the Tatar cavalry had broken through the last line of defense and was charging towards him.

He immediately gave orders, asking his guards to intercept him from behind, while he turned his horse around and started running backwards.

Of course, your own life is more important.

Even if we lose this time, we still have Yinzhou and the entire Western Xia Kingdom behind us.

Don't risk your life because of one failure.

As soon as Zhang Enyi ran away, it announced the complete failure of the entire war.

No one knew how many of the five thousand Tartar cavalry were left, but fierce Tartar cavalry were seen everywhere, chasing the fleeing Yinzhou army.

Ren Duoliji was indeed brave, but after fighting for a while, he found that there were no one left around him.

There were Tatar cavalry everywhere.

He was stunned.

What about people?

Before he could react, several Tatars rushed towards him.

There was no way, the situation was stronger than the people, and Ren Duoliji knew that he could not defeat so many Tartars.

He immediately turned his horse around and started to flee.

He didn't even care about the great achievements.

In this battle, Nuxi Lie defeated the 30,000-horse army of Yinzhou Prefecture with only 5,000 cavalry.

It made him feel refreshed and happy all over, just like drinking a glass of ice water in the hot summer.

Although they also suffered a lot of casualties.

There will always be casualties in war, and all I want is victory.

By this time, victory was already decided. Nu Xilie shouted loudly and led her own guard team to join the pursuit of the Yinzhou army.

He had already set his sights on Zhang Enyi, who was hiding on the gentle slope behind the battlefield.

Ignoring everything else, he urged his horse to chase in the direction Zhang Enyi fled.

There is no greater achievement than capturing the army's commander.

But it was not as he wished. Zhang Enyi's guards stubbornly blocked Nu Xilie's team in front of the gentle slope.

Although the palace army's combat effectiveness is not good, Zhang Enyi's guards are all experts.

Nu Xilie's guards were unable to break through their defense line for a while.

By the time they dispersed these brave guys in front of them, Zhang Enyi had already disappeared without a trace.

Nu Xilie had no choice but to give orders to gather the cavalry, clean up the battlefield, and count the casualties.

Although they won this time, it was a pyrrhic victory.

The Tiezhen cavalry lost more than 1,500 cavalry, but killed more than 8,000 soldiers of the Yinzhou Prefecture in battle.

The news quickly reached the Yinzhou Military Headquarters, and the battle report was lying on the ground in front of Li Jiping's desk.

Zhang Enyi stood beside the battle report with his head down.

Li Jiping, the commander of Yinzhou Army, was silent for a while.

"30,000 against 5,000, and you let the battle turn out like this?"

Zhang Enyi was filled with shame. "Alas, I never thought that the Tartar cavalry would be so fierce and powerful. They are impossible to kill."

"Where's Rendorikichi?"

Zhang Enyi shook his head. "It was a chaotic time. He led his cavalry into the Tartars and disappeared."

"Is this...I can't come back?"

The two have known each other for many years and understand each other's thoughts.

At this time, they looked up and looked at each other.

Ren Duoliji was the commander of the army of Yinzhou and a senior general. If he died in this battle, this battle would be ridiculed by the bigwigs in the court.

"Have you sent someone to look for it?"

"We have already sent out more than a dozen troops."

Just as Li Jiping was about to order more troops to be sent, a soldier ran in to report.

"Report, Commander-in-Chief, General Rendorigi has returned."

Li Jiping said hurriedly.

"Let him in."

Soon, Ren Duoliji, who was in a dishevel, walked in, supported by a guard.

The two military commanders in the hall looked at Rendoriji, whose body was covered in blood and whose armor was in disarray.

I wanted to scold her, but I swallowed the words back when they came to my lips.

"Commander-in-Chief, I have failed to live up to your expectations. Although I fought hard, the Tartars were so ferocious that I..."

Li Jiping waved his hand to stop him from continuing.

"Sit down and talk."

A soldier brought a chair to Renduoliji and helped him sit down.

Because he was injured, Deputy Commander Zhang Enyi had to stand the whole time.

Renduoliji was very grateful.

"Commander-in-Chief, Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Rendoriji has done his best..."

Li Jiping nodded slightly. He had learned from Zhang Enyi that this guy was very brave in battle and personally led the cavalry to charge into the enemy camp.

"Give your opinion."

Rendorigi swallowed.

"My Lords, the Tartars are too powerful. Our cavalry can't kill them at all. I encountered a bronze-armored Tartar in the battle line and was nearly hacked to death by him..."

Speaking of the situation on the battlefield, Jin Duoliji still felt a lingering fear.

Several people already knew the situation on the battlefield, but Li Jiping still couldn't believe that there were 30,000 troops in full force.

In less than half a day, they were killed and dispersed by 5,000 Tartar cavalry.

The three of them were silent.

Suddenly, they looked up at each other almost at the same time, wanting to say something but stopping themselves.

It was Li Jiping who spoke up and asked what was on his mind.

"Tell me, how did Lin Feng fight against the Tartars?"

The other two people also had the same question in their minds.

The Tatar cavalry were so ferocious, how could they be killed by Lin Feng's Qingshui Army within the country?

Li Jiping knew that neither of them had the answer in their minds, so he could only lean back on the chair.

He sighed: "Alas, the gap..."

Everyone is in a bad mood, but the Tartars are still wreaking havoc in Yinzhou, so we have to find a solution quickly.

Li Jiping calmed himself down, picked up the pen on the desk and began to write a letter.

He was determined to impress Lin Feng with his sincerity and ask Lin Feng, who was close to the border of Tiezhen, to lend him a hand.

Yinzhou does indeed still have nearly 80,000 provincial troops.

However, facing the mobile and agile Tatar cavalry, they were outnumbered and could not defeat them at all.