Chapter 15: Outside the City

"Hurry up and remove the corpse!"

Xu San shouted: "Clean up the city wall first!"

The Song army took control of the southern wall, the artillery was erected, the soldiers marched in, the sword and shield men protected the perimeter, and the pikemen and grenadiers turned inward in turn, quickly occupying the entire southern wall.

The feather arrows roared, constantly shooting from the houses between the inner and outer cities, although there were shields to cover them, but the feather arrows covered the sky and the sun, and many Song troops fell to the ground one after another, letting out a terrible scream.

Xu San's eyes were hideous. With each fallen soldier, his heart trembled.

"Grenadier, get rid of the party members in the houses!"

"Pong! Disheveled! Ponto!"

Shotguns erupted like a tide, five- and seven-pound iron balls tore through the air, flying wantonly, the walls of low earthen houses collapsed, houses collapsed, smoke and dust rose everywhere, countless party soldiers screamed in amazement, some were crushed inside, some escaped in embarrassment, and the other side's artillery shotguns rushed to the face again.

Several sharp arrows shot out from the houses, blood burst out, and dozens of Song soldiers fell down screaming. More than a dozen Song Army grenadiers stepped forward, lit earth-shattering thunders, and threw them in, and the loud sound of "Tongtong" continued, and the inside of the house suddenly became quiet.

The grenadiers threw earth-shattering thunder from house to house in front of the mud houses of potential Tibetans, and everywhere there were "all-through" explosions, smoke and dust billowing everywhere, and screams were incessant. The surviving party soldiers came out of the houses and met the pikemen of the Song army, and a hand-to-hand combat began.

"Thorn!"

The angry shouts of the Song army officers rang out, and countless Song army spears stabbed out, the tips of the guns were cold and shining, with blooming blood flowers, which made people shudder.

Countless party warriors wielded long knives and spears, fought bravely, and slashed desperately. As soon as they saw each other, it was extremely tragic, and countless soldiers on both sides fell screaming. In close combat, soldiers kept falling to the ground, soldiers were constantly making up for it, and the earth-shattering sound of fighting even drowned out the sound of violent explosions.

A party warrior slashed down a Song soldier, drenched in blood, and before he could retract his long knife, he was stabbed into it from under the ribs with two spears.

A Song soldier had just stabbed the party soldier on the other side, the barrel of the gun had been cut off, and a throwing axe came at him, deeply embedded in his facial bones. Song Bing fell to the ground with a shocking scream, and his body twitched.

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More Song soldiers were silent, like lifeless machines, stabbing out one shot after another, just like they did during training on a regular day.

The two sides fought fiercely, the loyal and righteous army became more and more courageous and kept advancing, while the party soldiers were frightened and retreated step by step.

No matter how fierce the party warriors were, they had to meet several spears stabbed at the opposite side at all times, and in their hurry, they would often be stabbed to the ground, and then countless people would step on their corpses.

The Loyal Rebels marched forward, corpses and blood on the ground where they had fought, and the blood pooled into a stream and flowed among the corpses.

"My party warriors!"

Seeing countless party soldiers being stabbed here one by one, Richard Ge's face turned pale and his body trembled. He is a veteran of the battlefield, but he can't think of a good way to break the enemy.

"Lord Wang, I didn't hide Gui and take his subordinate cavalry out of the city from the east to attack the Song army outside the east city!"

Brother Richard was dumbfounded, and it took a long time for a sentence to come out of his mouth.

"Didn't hide this idiot, how could the Song army's big array be crushed with one blow!"

Wu Zanggui took the lead, pointed to the right flank position of the Song army in front, and said viciously: "Brothers, kill these Song dogs in front of you, break the Song dogs' artillery array, and see how long they can be rampant!"

Storming the Song army at the gate of the city, losing thousands of cavalry, he held his stomach, and was about to fight hard and take revenge at this moment.

The party knights on the opposite side rolled in, and Lu Tianlai, the commander of the artillery battalion, shouted loudly.

"Ready, load!"

The gunners were not slow and quickly loaded their ammunition.

Thousands

The party knight came on horseback, the smoke and dust were billowing and earth-shattering, and Wu Zanggui pulled out his long knife and pointed diagonally in the air.

"Warriors, kill Song Dog!"

"Kill Song Dog!"

The party knights followed behind the nobles, riding spears like a forest, the archers stretched their bows and arrows, the crowd shouted loudly, the horses' hooves sounded rapidly, and the earth vibrated as if the ground was moving, which was terrifying.

"Fire!"

Seeing that the other party had entered the range of three hundred steps, the red flag in Lu Tianlai's hand waved down heavily.

The 100 guns in the first row were fired together, and the party knights in the front row fell off their horses one after another and swept away.

"Fire!"

"Fire!"

The 100 guns of the second and third rows opened fire in unison, and the smoke was filled, and countless party cavalry fell off their horses.

The earth-shattering sound of artillery and grenades came, and Richard Brother, who hurried to the inner wall of the eastern city, couldn't help but hang his head in pain.

With such ferocious artillery fire, how many people will be able to come back?

The repeated bombardment of artillery made Wu Zanggui's face look like ashes. Seeing that the party knights beside him fell off their horses one by one, they did not hide their courage and gradually lost their courage, but what came to their minds was dazed and fearful.

Suddenly, the artillery sound in front of him stopped, and Wu Zanggui looked up to see that his cavalry was already close to the Song army's artillery position.

"Warriors, ...... with me"

Before he finished his words, the long knife in his hand had not been raised, and countless iron bumps emitting white smoke fell into the remnants of the cavalry.

The sound of "all-through" explosions resounded one after another in the party cavalry, countless columns of smoke rose up, and the front of the artillery positions was filled with gunpowder smoke and shrouded in smoke and dust.

Song Yan clamped his legs between the horse's belly, brandished a long knife, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, kill the thief!"

Countless village soldiers rode out in unison, heading straight for the remnants of the party cavalry in front of them.

Yu Ping rode out of his horse and shot an arrow over a stunned and overwhelmed party knight, and when the prancing horse stepped over a mournful wounded horse, in the blood stain next to him, a bald party general was holding his calf and wailing desperately.

Yu Ping could see clearly that the injured party general was the party general who led his troops to attack.

Looking at his broken leg and hungry wolf-like gaze, Yu Ping frowned slightly, and the spear shot through his throat.

Pingxia City, on the wilderness outside the West City, the left flank position of the Loyal and Righteous Army.

The rangers of the Loyal Army came and went, and these scouts were all strong soldiers in the army, agile and good at riding and shooting.

Suddenly, the sound of chirping broke through the air, and three shots were fired in a row, dozens of horsemen rushed with their lives, and the small flag in their hands waved back and forth. Li Yanxian's heart couldn't help but sink.

"Li Xianggong, one of the Western Xia reinforcements came from Nanmuhui, and the other came from Tongxia Village, the two armies combined, at least more than 50,000, with infantry and cavalry, are coming!"

Li Yanxian's face was solemn, a big battle was inevitable.

"Pass the order, the Western Xia reinforcements have arrived, and the armies are ready to fight!"

The military order was given, the drums sounded, and the whole team immediately got busy.

The desolate horn sounded from afar, and on the horizon, smoke and dust rose everywhere, and a black line came into the eyes of the Song soldiers. As the men and horses got closer and closer, there were first dense party cavalry, followed by endless party foot soldiers.

Li Yanxian looked carefully from the clairvoyant mirror, and saw that the front row of cavalry of the Western Xia army were all wearing iron armor, and even the horses were wearing protective gear, and a team of three hundred horsemen was arranged into several teams like fish scales, with about a thousand people.

These people were all dressed in battle clothes, but they were not wearing armor. On each side of these cavalrymen, there is a war horse, on which armor, helmets, protective gear and other things are carried, and the horses between the knights are connected by iron cables, and the weapons in their hands are mostly copper hammers and maces. The configuration of these knights looks very similar to that of the Golden Man's Iron Float.

Behind the "Iron Harrier" heavy cavalry, the lightly armored knights were full of horses

There was a horned bow on the horse, a quiver full of feathered arrows on the back, and various weapons on the horse. The number of people is dense, and it seems that there are at least tens of thousands.

As for the foot soldiers, they are boundless, about 30,000 in number.

"Liu Tong, in front is the elite heavy cavalry of the Western Xia people "Iron Harrier", and in the back is the light armored cavalry, this time it's up to you!"

Liu Hongjin nodded emphatically and said in a deep voice: "Li Xianggong can rest assured!"

The Dang Xiang Cavalry came to a halt about five miles away, and the unarmored knight in front dismounted, began to put on his armor, put on his helmet, and then mounted his horse with the help of the soldiers, and fixed himself with the warhorse.

The knights were dressed in heavy armor, their helmets covered their faces, noses and ears, and their horses were protected by protective gear and leather armor on their faces.

The horn of the Western Xia reinforcements sounded, and Brother Richard at the head of the eastern city could hear it clearly. He had 10,000 foot soldiers left to defend the inner city, and he withdrew from the north gate with 5,000 elite light cavalry and two teams of iron harriers, and joined the reinforced Xia army.

"King Zhengxian, King Shu, you are here at the right time!"

Li Qianshun looked at Song Jun in the distance and frowned.

"The Song army has sharp weapons, you have to be extra careful."

"King Jin, how is it in Pingxia City, do you want to send reinforcements in?"

Wang Weiming, who was offering Wang Weiming, looked at Pingxia City, which was rumbling with cannons on the side, and also frowned.

In his opinion, his cavalry was enough to destroy the Song army on the opposite side, and Pingxia City, which was in the midst of a fierce battle, made him worried.

"Song Gou broke the south gate of the outer city and is fighting in the outer city."

Brother Richard said in a deep voice: "There are still seven or eight thousand foot soldiers in the inner city, and I have already arranged to fight in the streets." It's hard for Song Dog to take advantage!"

"King Jin did the right thing!"

Shu Wang Renli nodded and said, "There are not many Song dogs, and the place in Pingxia City is small. Destroy these Song dogs outside the city first, attack inside and outside, and annihilate the other party in one fell swoop!"

The battle was about to break out, the rangers on both sides had already returned to their own formation, the horses snorted uneasily, and the soldiers were solemn, clenching their weapons in their hands, and their breathing became short.

"Hold it all for me!"

Li Yanxian rode his horse, swept in front of the team, and shouted angrily in the face of the commotion.

"There are many people in the party, but they are just local chickens and dogs! Today, there is no advance or retreat, there is death and no life, kill all the enemies in front of you, and you can live! Whoever escapes from the battle will be court-martialed!"

In the Pingxia army, there were 7,000 of Liu Zhengyan's old subordinates, as well as the new army trained by Shaanxi. Now, seeing that the opponent's army is violent, the Song army's array is really a little unstable.

"Kill!"

Li Yanxian raised his spear and shouted loudly.

"Kill! Kill!"

The officers and men of the Loyal and Righteous Army were enthusiastic, raised their swords and guns together, and shouted loudly.

The shouts shook the earth and spread far away. In the field, several birds in the trees flew out.

"These Song dogs know how to pretend to be ghosts!"

Shu Wang Renli shook his head and said: "In the first year of Jingkang, the Jurchens defeated 2,000 Song troops with only 17 horses, and when they crossed the river, the army of more than 100,000 Song people collapsed without a fight. Such a force, even if it is a million, is not under the vertical and horizontal of iron horses, and it will collapse at the touch of a button!"

"King Shu, don't be careless, you didn't hide Gui and his cavalry headquarters, most of them died under the firearms of the Song army!"

Brother Richard shook his head and said: "In the siege battle just now, it was only a little more than an hour, and our army lost four or five thousand people. This is Wang Song's loyal army, don't be careless!"

Recalling the tragic situation of his subordinates' soldiers whose flesh and blood were blurred, Brother Richard still had palpitations.

Since the battle between Song and Xia, it was the first time he had encountered such a tragic battle.