Chapter 131: Heavy losses

The southern battalion of the Yongzhou Xiang Army commanded Fei Wen to lead the troops and the Hu troops led by Li Daocheng to face off against each other, and Huang Wenlong fought against Balati, using the strategy of dragging the knife to cut the armor of Balati. Balatin did not dare to fight and was defeated back to the camp.

Seeing that Huang Wenlong had defeated Balatian, Fei Wen hurriedly waved the spear in his hand and ordered: "Listen to my orders, the whole army charges!" ”

In an instant, the Xiang army troops rushed towards the Hu troops like a swarm of hornets.

At the same time, Li Daocheng also issued an order for the whole army to meet the enemy.

So the two armies fought together twenty miles north of Dingbian City. Suddenly, on the battlefield, the war drums roared, the flags flew out, the war horses neighed, and the shouts of killing rushed straight to Xiao Han.

The two sides have already killed red eyes. Whoever doesn't work hard will be killed by others.

It was another simple and brutal massacre scene, where all the hatred in the hearts of the soldiers could be vented with impunity.

The soldiers of the South Battalion of the Xiang Army have just come to the front line, and they are in full swing, and the newborn calves are not afraid of tigers; The soldiers on the Hu people's side were superb in horsemanship, brave and fierce, and despite repeated defeats, the emaciated camels were bigger than the horses, and they were still fierce and abnormal.

The generals on both sides also rushed into each other's formations and slashed and slashed. Li Daocheng rode his horse and danced with a spear, leading Balatian, Han Qianhu, Yeli Brothers, Zhang's uncle and nephew, and Chibu Gou and other generals to fight into the battle, as if entering a no-man's land. Blades are everywhere, flesh and blood flying.

Unlike Li Daocheng, Fei Wen only stopped far behind the battlefield to direct the battle, and he did not rush into the battle to kill the enemy. The generals under Li Daocheng rushed into the camp of the Xiang army, and they were invincible and unstoppable. Huang Wenlong, the only one with strong martial arts on the side of the Xiang army, was attacked by the Yeli brothers, and he was in danger.

There are more than 50,000 people on both sides, and a total of more than 100,000 people are fighting together, what a huge scene!

However, fighting on such a plain, the infantry still suffered a lot after all. The infantry of the Xiang army was simply unable to stop the rampage of the Hu cavalry. The formation that had been formed was scattered by the cavalry.

Therefore, the battle lasted only one hour, and the side of the Xiang army had already suffered heavy losses. Not only were there too many soldiers killed and wounded, but even the generals were killed by Balati and others.

Nabalatin had already re-tied his armor with a rope at this time, and he was killing on a whim, when he suddenly saw Fei Wen standing far behind. He knew that Fei Wen was the commander of the Xiang army, so he rode his horse and rushed towards Fei Wen.

Fei Wen was watching the battle there, and suddenly saw Balatin riding a horse towards him, and he was so frightened that he quickly turned his horse and fled. He knew that without Huang Wenlong's two hits, how could he dare to fight against a fierce general like Balatian?

The commander of the army is the soul of the army. As soon as the commander fled, his soldiers were immediately in chaos, and they all followed Fei Wen's defeat. The defeat of the Xiang army is terrible. Li Daocheng saw the opportunity and hurriedly ordered to follow and kill. As soon as they were killed, the Xiang army left more than 1,000 lives on the battlefield.

Huang Wenlong was also killed by the Yeli brothers, and he was defeated and retreated, almost taking his life.

In order to get rid of Balati, Fei Wen beat his horse again and again and ran towards Dingbian City, but Nabalatin followed closely behind. Fei Wen took the time to peek in, only to be frightened.

Balatian chased after him, and suddenly took the longbow from his back, took the arrow and put it on the string, aimed it at the back of Faven's heart, and shot it.

But he was also alert, and as he was running, he suddenly heard the sound of a bowstring behind him, and guessed that Balatin might have released an arrow, so he fell forward and fell on his horse's back.

The feather arrow did not hit Fei Wen's heart, but instead hit the helmet of Fei Wen's helmet, and it happened that the strap of Fei Wen's helmet was not fastened tightly, and the helmet was shot off by the feather arrow and rolled to the ground.

Fei Wen felt a light on his head, and thought that he had been shot in the head, he was so frightened that he howled "Mom", hugged the horse's neck and didn't dare to get up again.

ran all the way to Dingbian City, and Yang County, who was guarding the city, opened the city gate and let Fei Wen in. Only then did Balatien give up the pursuit. The defeated army of the Xiang army then poured into Dingbian City. The Hu army was stopped outside the city.

Li Daocheng did not give the order to take the opportunity to attack the city, because the city was already full of archers, holding bows and arrows at them. The thousands of defenders in the city are all fresh troops, but they have been fighting on the battlefield for most of the day.

After all the remnants of the defeated army retreated into Dingbian City, they counted the number of people, and found that the 50,000 army at the time of departure was now not even 25,000, and more than half of it was lost, which was really a heavy loss!

Yang Xianling looked at Fei Wen, who was still trembling there, with resentful eyes, and secretly scolded this pig's head in his heart, he had clearly reminded him not to fight hard with the enemy in the field, but he didn't listen, and he had to find the enemy's main force to fight against him. Now it's a good thing to do, and it's a big defeat. It's a pity that so many soldiers died unjustly.

Li Daocheng collected his troops and returned to the camp, sent people to clean up the battlefield, and found that in today's battle, his side did not take much advantage, and the number of casualties exceeded 10,000. At present, there are only more than 40,000 people left in the army, and it is unlikely that these tens of thousands of people will capture the three small cities in front of them.

So Li Daocheng wrote a letter to the emperor of the Great Xia Kingdom, hoping to continue to send tens of thousands of troops to him. After sending someone to send the letter back to the Great Xia Kingdom, he came to the big tent of the Chinese army and held a meeting to discuss how to break the enemy.

At the mention of how to attack the city, several generals all bowed their heads and remained silent.

Recently, they have deeply realized the strength of the Great Song Kingdom's city defense army. No matter how you storm it, other people's cities will be as solid as a rock, and they will not be able to shake it at all. If you let them go into battle and kill the enemy, they will all be brave and fierce, and if you ask them how they can break through the city, they will be helpless.

"I think, let's wait for reinforcements for the time being, and as soon as the reinforcements from my Great Xia Kingdom arrive, it's not too late for us to launch a general attack." The military advisor Mao Yanshun was still brushing his beard unhurriedly.

Li Daocheng nodded, he still believed in the words of this military advisor, and was about to speak, when suddenly a soldier came in to report: "His Royal Highness the Emperor, there is a messenger from the Great Song Kingdom outside the door to deliver the letter.!" ”

"Bring the messenger into the account!" Lee Daocheng ordered.

"Yes!" The soldier withdrew, and after a while, walked into the tent with the messenger from Dingbian City.

"See His Royal Highness the Prince of the Great Xia Kingdom!" The messenger bowed to Li Daocheng.

"Are you the Messenger?" Lee asked.

"Yes, my head coach Fei sent me to write a letter, this is a letter, please take a look!" The messenger took out the letter from his bosom and handed it to the soldier beside him.

Li Daocheng took the letter from the soldier's hand, opened it and looked at it, and then understood the purpose of Fei Wen's book.

It turned out that after Fei Wen returned to Dingbian City, he was so frightened that he couldn't recover for a long time, and he trembled all over, and others thought he was injured.

Later, Lang Zhong came over to help check it, and then said, "It's caused by being too frightened." ”

At this time, everyone knew that Master Fei, who was still showing off his martial arts yesterday, was frightened on the front line.

Lang Zhong prescribed a calming medicine, and after a soldier helped to fry it, he fed it to Fei Wen to drink, and Fei Wen got better. My mind gradually cleared up.

When I asked my subordinates, I learned that the war had ended, and the Xiang army had lost more than 25,000 people today, and more than a dozen low-ranking officers had also been killed by enemy generals. Fei Wen also felt a little remorseful in his heart, after all, those were all his subordinates brought over.

At this time, he suddenly remembered Yuhou Bian Hongtai, he and Bian Hongtai have been friends for a long time, the two have a good relationship, they often eat, drink, prostitute and gamble together on weekdays, and they can be regarded as good friends who have "carried guns together, went to the countryside together, and prostituted together". Bian Hongtai became the Marquis of Yu by tying him up at the beginning.

I don't know if Bian Hongtai was killed after becoming a captive of the Hu people. Thinking of the captives, Fei Wen suddenly thought again, didn't he say that the border city had also captured the generals of the Hu people, so it was better to discuss with the leaders of the Hu people and exchange the prisoners.

So Fei Wen wrote a letter to Li Daocheng, explaining that he wanted to exchange Kangle Country for Bian Hongtai, and also used the more than 100 Hu prisoners captured last time to exchange for the soldiers of the Xiang Army who were captured by the Hu people on the battlefield today.

Li Daocheng read the content of the letter and understood what Fei Wen meant, so he secretly agreed. He handed the letter to the military advisor Mao Yanshun to read, and then asked Mao Yanshun for his opinion.

The exchange of prisoners between the two sides, as long as there is no deception, is beneficial to both sides. What's more, in the hearts of the Hu people, the lives of their Hu warriors are much more valuable than the lives of those soldiers in the Great Song Kingdom. So Mao Yanshun doesn't have any opinions.

On the battlefield today, there are also 1,200 captives who captured the Xiang army, which were exchanged for more than 100 Hu warriors. Of course, none of them have an opinion.

Li Daocheng wrote a reply to Fei Wen, explaining that his side agreed to exchange prisoners and agreed on a time and place. After giving the messenger the letter, he sent the messenger back.