Chapter Eighty-Four: Bloodstained Sand
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Yangguan, holding the throat of the western part of the Great Song Dynasty, once broken through by the enemy, there will be no danger to defend from here to Tongguan, and the Guanlong area will be directly exposed. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Since ancient times, there have been many unjust ghosts on the battlefield, and fierce battles are being fought outside Yangguan.
The west wind is tight, the weather is cold, the Liao army iron cavalry is killing with the wind, the Yangguan defenders are in a headwind position, and the wind and sand are big and charming, but the Liao army iron cavalry is not an ordinary guard general, but a group of capable people from the nine major sects.
The so-called capable people are different from ordinary people, these people are dressed in the armor of the Great Song Dynasty soldiers, and even the coat of a Yipintang samurai, but after the three-way cannon sounded, they became demons, and the weapons in their hands waved like a wall, and the wolf tooth arrows that were shot were swept away, and the group of people who followed out from behind were like tigers in the mountains, riding different mounts, driving fierce beasts to rush towards the enemy.
They are not afraid of the wind and cold, only the sword is like a rainbow, and these beasts of assistance also breathe fire and mist.
These beasts alone frightened the war horses under the crotch of the Liao army's iron cavalry, but the warriors of the Yipintang of Western Xia were well-informed and had their own pets to help in the battle.
The first to be injured and fall was the war horse, and the blood splattered, and the yellow sand gradually turned into red sand.
Snowflakes fell in the sky, and the fierce battle continued, and the commander of the Liao army, Yeluchar, released all the previous 90,000 cavalry, and the elite marksmen he brought with him assisted in the back.
A wolf's tooth arrow shot Yang Wenguang off horseback, but the Songlin Zen Master used the Zen staff in his hand to pass under him, and with a strong pick, he threw it to the city, and Lien, who had been watching the battle at the head of the city, was also nervous, but he couldn't catch General Yang, and Ah Qing next to him immediately threw out a white practice, entangled Yang Wenguang in mid-air, and pulled him back into the battlements.
Dai Shuqi immediately shouted loudly: "The enemy's main general has been killed, let's rush into the pass quickly!" ā
However, a group of iron cavalry came out of the city gate and drove the attacking enemy army back, and the north and south sides of the Liao army were also flanked.
Yeluchar Khan anxiously waited for reinforcements to arrive, and he had 50,000 reinforcements coming here from the direction of the Mogao Grottoes.
Yelu Temujin had 10,000 soldiers blocked at the foot of Sanwei Mountain, but they were violently attacked by martial arts masters.
It was a fierce battle of a hundred against ten thousand.
In the early Song Dynasty, the combat effectiveness of soldiers was generally inferior to that of the cavalry on the grassland, usually two to one or even three to one, because the soldiers on the grassland grew up on horseback since childhood.
The soldiers of the Liao army generally underestimated the enemy, but they encountered not ordinary soldiers, nor elite soldiers, but martial arts masters.
Although Commander Wan also heard the sound of cannons and war drums from Yangguan, he could only defend his position without orders from his superiors.
It wasn't until more than half of the 10,000 iron horsemen were injured that the commander received an urgent letter from Yelu Tiemujin, ordering him to divide his troops to support the main battlefield of Yangguan.
Commander Wan hesitated, but still accepted the order, divided the remaining more than 5,000 troops into two groups, and led 3,000 to Yangguan to rescue, and the messenger soldiers left the remaining 2,000 or so to continue to intercept the martial arts masters who broke through from Sanwei Mountain.
But this only accelerates their deaths.
The enemy was reduced by more than half at once, and the pressure on these martial arts masters was immediately reduced, and they took the opportunity to drink horse blood to satisfy their hunger, and their mounts and pets were also given the opportunity to eat and rest.
After an hour's truce, it was a more fierce attack, Gao Jin took the opportunity to shout that the Liao army would be defeated and retreated, and the more than 2,000 enemies left behind had no intention of fighting, and were chased all the way and fled to the direction of Yangguan.
Yeluchar had to wait not for these 10,000 reinforcements, but for 50,000 iron cavalry from the direction of Mogao Grottoes, and this cavalry was left to clean up the remnants of the Song army.
Only a few of the Great Song soldiers who retreated from Yumen Pass were lost in the desert, and were soon swallowed up by the yellow sand, and the 50,000 soldiers only found their armor and bones, and then they received the order of the main general, and they were rushing to Yangguan, but they passed through the Mogao Grottoes and met a group of young people in rags.
Although these people are unkempt, like begging for food, their fighting power is amazing, and seeing them is like a hungry wolf seeing a sheep.
This group of people is the people in the rivers and lakes who toasted at the wedding banquet in Lien, they were dispersed by the previous Liao army iron cavalry, retreated to the treasure cave, found some treasures in the cave, and were worried that there was no mount to transport back to the Central Plains, just happened to meet these 50,000 iron horses.
One of them was Wang Shiyi, who had less than 200 people, but the other party had 50,000 people.
However, in addition to the advantage of the other party in numbers, the others are at a disadvantage.
This group of warriors in the rivers and lakes is gaining momentum, they were chased by 100,000 enemy troops outside Sanwei Mountain before, and now the enemy army is less than half, and they have traveled a long distance, have no intention of fighting, and are eager to move forward.
In the desert, a spectacular scene of more than 200 horsemen chasing and killing more than 50,000 iron horsemen was staged.
However, the 50,000 iron horsemen were not idiots, leaving 5,000 soldiers to stop these crazy beggars, and the rest of the soldiers still rushed to Yangguan, but they came to the foot of Sanwei Mountain after dark, and found that there were already corpses all over the field, and birds and beasts were devouring frozen corpses, and these corpses were their companions.
Most of the Liao army soldiers were deflated when they arrived, thinking that they were a step too late, but the four commanders thought that this was only a part of the 200,000 iron cavalry, and their commander was still in Yangguan, so they left 5,000 soldiers to clean up the battlefield, and the remaining 40,000 soldiers continued to rush to Yangguan.
The battle lasted for three days and two nights, the Liao army's chief general Yelu Zar had red eyes, and did not wait for the arrival of reinforcements, Yelu Tiemujin also wondered that his 10,000 cavalry was not far from here, and he should have arrived a long time ago, but half a person did not see it, and finally only waited for a messenger, bringing a frustrating belief that the 10,000 cavalry under the Sanwei Mountain had been dispersed, and it was not the Song soldiers who repelled the 10,000 cavalry, but the people trapped in the rivers and lakes on the Sanwei Mountain.
What's worse is that this group of red-eyed people are now rushing here.
Yelu Tiemujin immediately asked the commander to withdraw his troops, so that at least the main force of the Liao army could be preserved, but the commander did not agree, because Zardu was not waiting for these 10,000 people, but 50,000 reinforcements.
But the last of the 50,000 reinforcements came, and Wang Shiyi led his companions to break through the barrier of the 5,000 enemy troops, and caught up with the 5,000 enemy troops who were cleaning the battlefield at the foot of the Sanwei Mountain, and all of them were wiped out.
On the way to Yangguan, 40,000 enemy troops encountered the masters of the Nine Great Sects led by Gao Jin and Gu Wuwu, who had already wiped out the previous 3,000 iron horsemen, and only let go of one of the enemy's messengers.
Now that they had eaten and drunk enough, and had finished recuperation, they were about to rush to Yangguan, when an army of 40,000 came behind them, and when they saw that it was still an enemy army, they turned around and fought again.
The elders of the Nine Great Sects can fight at least one against ten, and they also have pets to help them fight.
After 40,000 enemy troops fought fiercely with them for a day and a night, they fled in the direction of Yumen Pass.
Wang Shiyi and his companions also rushed over to meet them, and after the two groups of people met, they took a short rest and hurried to Yangguan.
When Jeruzar received the battle report, his hands trembled and he had to give the order to retreat.