In 16 AD, Zhao Yue, who was only 16 years old, led 120,000 cavalry and Xia Guo's horses and infantry elite troops, totaling 170,000, against the wasteland about 40 miles north of Helan Mountain.

The terrain is extremely open, with few hills and woods, making it an ideal place for a decisive battle with a large cavalry army.

Chage, the king of the Western Xia and Jin Dynasty, divided the army into five divisions: the forward, the reserve army of the middle army, the left and right flanks and the logistics baggage army in the rear.

Among them, the 20,000 baggage troops are also elite soldiers drawn from all over the country by the Xia Kingdom, mainly infantry, but there are also cavalry to assist in defense or strengthen the impact force, this time it also belongs to the elite reserve army part of the army that is ready to participate in the war at any time, not the common battlefield soy sauce combat corps attached soldiers.

Brother Cha undoubtedly wanted to use the greatest natural advantage of his country's horseback national army - horse warfare, and test the pirates with the posture of Armageddon.

The army of the pirates this time is a full cavalry, and the number of people should still be superior to the numerical advantage of the summer cavalry, and Brother Cha didn't pay too much attention to it.

I don't believe it, the brave soldiers who grew up on horseback will be the pirates who grew up playing with boats and waters, and they can also match the boat and water battles that they are good at.

The pirate horse looks good and so on.

Can he still compete with the elite land warfare of the Song Western Army, who specializes in horse training and wants to restrain the cavalry of the Xia Army in cavalry?

Even the cavalry of the Western Army, which has been trained for a long time the day after tomorrow, can't compare, and the pirates who hastily rode horses to land warfare dare to dare to compete with the Xia army on horseback?

Is....... Naive and arrogant, he lost his mind.

The pirate's numerical superiority was not a concern.

Not to mention that there are only tens of thousands of extra horses, or hundreds of thousands of extra horses, which are rushed by the elite cavalry of the Xia Kingdom, and they will collapse and be defeated if they can't withstand the cavalry of the Xia army......

In the decisive battle of the Grand Army, the superiority of troops has never been the fundamental factor determining victory or defeat from ancient times to the present.

Otherwise, there is no need for the two sides to start a war, and the various arms and the total number of troops that each can show up will be over.

Often, on the contrary, the more troops there are, the easier it is to be defeated, the worse the defeat, and the more casualties are killed and wounded in the rout, the more unbearable the loss of national power becomes.

During the Song Renzong Dynasty, the Song army was a five-way army to attack Xia, with a total of one million troops, and the momentum seemed to be unstoppable at that time, but it was blocked by only 130,000 main forces of the Xia State and was defeated by a small victory and then a big defeat, and even collapsed without a fight.

There are too many examples of battles in the past, Brother Cha knows it in his heart, and he is also a famous soldier who is old on the battlefield, and I believe that even if the pirate army has any secret advantages in weapons, it will be greatly weakened in the rapid impact of 100,000 cavalry in the melee, or even useless at all, and in the chaos of the battle, the only thing that can be relied on is still the sword and bravery......

Besides, even if the pirates have the confidence to destroy the Great Xia Kingdom in their weapons, what guarantee can they have to crush the Xia Army's incredible advantage?

Ranged crossbow?

Gunpowder weapons?

Song Jun is not without these, and especially in the application of gunpowder, there are quite a lot of tricks, Xia Jun has already seen it, Song Jun is not still killed by Xia Jun again and again, and he is beaten to the point of crying father and mother......

In the final analysis, weapon superiority is only a battlefield support, and it is the unstoppable cavalry that determines the victory.

This is the fundamental reason why the horseback people can wantonly oppress the farming people, this time the opponent is replaced by a fishing pirate, and the pirate can change the cavalry advantage of the nomads?

That's impossible.......

Brother Cha is confident that he will fight this battle well. The generals under his command and the elite soldiers who have been killed in a hundred battles also understand this truth, and they don't need him to comfort, explain and encourage them much.

The whole army of the Xia army has the confidence of victory, feed the war horses, and polish the war swords....... Waiting for the pirates to seek a big battle, arrogant and take the initiative to find death......

Zhao Yue had to report that the Xia army had set up a big battle formation in front of Helan Mountain, obviously wanting to fight a battle in front of the mountain in the name of He, and he was very happy to hear the news.

He didn't care what Brother Cha and the Xia army thought, he didn't care whether the morale of the Xia army was high or low, and he wasn't afraid of what clever military tactics the Xia army wanted to play.

He even shrank the travel range of the scout army, so he checked and controlled that there was no heavy ambush of the Xia army within ten miles of the surrounding area, and just opened a good road for the army by the way.

In order to avoid unnecessary losses and prevent the scouts from being lured into chasing and encountering the Xia army's trick of accumulating small victories into big victories, Zhao Yue not only ensured the combat effectiveness of the patrol team with the collective patrol of scouts and heavy soldiers, but also specially and sternly told the "Four Evils of the Town House" that the four temperamental murderers who were also easily provoked or lured and acted recklessly should not pursue the enemy without authorization and go beyond the range of the sentry.

"All four of you have listened to me. This battle doesn't need those inconsequential little feats. It's to kill the past as a whole. I warn you in advance that if you dare to be reckless and willful, and violate the order without permission, you will be beheaded regardless of whether you have merit or not. ”

"The four of you are my generals after all, and you all know my temper very well. Don't mess around, watch your heads......"

The four villains squinted their eyes when they saw Zhao Lao Er's dark eyes, and when they saw Zhao Lao Er's dark eyes glowing with a demonic crystal luster, they knew that Zhao Yue was serious and the killing machine had risen, their hearts were cold, they had always been arrogant and bold, and they kept making big mistakes and not making small mistakes, and they couldn't help but tremble, how could they dare to play the second tiger like before, and mess around without authorization when patrolling the sentry.

"Yui-"

subconsciously bowed down and patted his chest...... Honestly led the team to patrol the sentry.

While steadily advancing the army, Zhao Yue listened to the general reports on the situation of the enemy's formation from all walks of life, and when he got closer, he also carefully observed it with a telescope at a high place, and roughly grasped the situation of the opponent's camp, and regardless of what kind of clever military formation the Xia army deployed, he ordered the army to continue to move forward and approach a mile to the opposite side.......

He wanted to teach the Western Xia barbarians the most vivid lesson in the way of modern warfare, what is the power of thermal weapons, and what is called thermal weapon warfare, and tell the barbarians: You are outdated........

On the opposite side, the pirate cavalry who solemnly watched the black pressure overwhelmingly approached Brother Cha and the Xia army were shocked to see: the battle is about to be engaged, and the big war that will really decide the fate of the two countries is going to be launched, and the pirates have been maintaining the overall way of advancing like a hedgehog with nowhere to go down after entering the Xia realm, and at this most critical moment, they actually divided their troops, and the central army is still coming slowly, and will eventually begin to stop on the opposite side, while the left and right sides are divided into two wings, and countless cavalry are separated from the army like encountering a flood obstructed by boulders in the river, The fast horses galloped towards the sides of the Xia army's camp, as if they were preparing to meet the left and right flanks of the Xia army, but when they arrived, they were surrounded by most of the Xia army's array.

What are the pirates trying to do?

Not to mention Brother Cha, the king of Jin who is not often in the army, even the generals in the Xia army who have been on the battlefield all year round are also confused.

They looked at the semi-encirclement that quickly formed, and watched the people pull apart the small independent formations of pirate armies that were inevitably spread out in thin formations, and the general of Xia Guo burst out laughing after being stunned, and couldn't help but mock: "Pirates...... This is to encircle and annihilate us in one fell swoop..... Ahaha......"

His words caused a burst of laughter.

"The troops are spread out, how can such a weak small formation withstand the rush of our brave cavalry...... Haha......"

"Do pirates not understand land warfare, or are they actively looking for death......"

"Haha....... They thought they were fighting a water war, but they were still accustomed to besieging the big ships with many small fleets against our army......"

The Admiral laughed a few times, but then turned into anger: 'Hmph, the pirate is trying to eat us in one bite..... I'm so arrogant, and I don't know where he got his confidence......"

His angry shouts resonated strongly with the generals.

After laughing, I felt a strong sense of humiliation pervade my heart.

The general Hao Rong roared angrily in this sense of humiliation: "The pirates are not staying overseas honestly, and for no reason the expedition to collapse the country is blocked to provoke the door, not to mention, it is really crazy to dare to despise and humiliate our army so contemptuously...... If you don't teach you a good lesson, how can this hatred be eliminated......"

The vicious eyes of the commander of the right army, Jiu Yanmu, glanced at the small pirate formations that were quickly set up in formation about a mile on the opposite side, slammed his fist on the palm of his hand, and said coldly: "If you don't kill the pirates this time, and let them have no return, this humiliation will be difficult to go, and I am not a heroic man......"

All parties of the Xia army have the same hatred and hatred, and they are all paying close attention to the side of the Chinese army Shuaiqi, and they are all waiting for the attack order of the big handsome Chage, and as soon as they are called, they will immediately wipe out the pirate encirclement with the momentum of the flood breaking the embankment.

The two sides faced each other, one side was high-spirited, and the other side was indignant...... The Great War is on the verge of breaking out.

Brother Cha was extremely calm at the moment.

Seeing that the pirates actually dared to confront the Xia army with a weak encirclement formation, his actually very nervous heart suddenly put down, knowing that the battle had been won...... did not impulsively and hastily ordered the whole army to attack from all sides, taking advantage of the opponent's unstable foothold to crush the ...... in one fell swoop It's impossible to actually do it. He thought it would be better to be cautious and more certain.

After all, pirates are famous, pirate states are powerful, and they are mysterious and unpredictable...... This battle is related to the fate of the Xia Kingdom, and there must be no mistakes.....

In addition, he also wondered why the pirates had to go to such trouble to defeat the Xia Kingdom for no reason.

Could it really be that the so-called Xia Kingdom wantonly looted the caravan of the pirate country and disrupted the trade to retaliate and exert pressure?

Or is it the habit of robbers, imagining robbing the wealth of Xia Guo like robbing Song Liao?

The only thing that can be determined is that the pirates have easily succeeded in sacking the Song and Liao, and it is inevitable that they are greedy and arrogant and want to loot even the small Xia Kingdom, which is far less than the comprehensive power of the Liao and Song Dynasty, which not only robbed countless wealth, but also further enhanced the prestige of the pirate country......

After about 500 meters, Brother Cha knew that the only tall flag on the pole was the pirate's Chinese army marshal flag, but he really couldn't see what name was written on the small broken flag that also seemed to be not majestic at all, but was very embarrassing. And the only person wearing white armor near that banner who stood out among the simple black oppressive pirates should be the mysterious pirate prince who commanded the robbery of the Liao Kingdom......

Brother Cha's eyesight couldn't see the details of Zhao Yue clearly, but Zhao Yue couldn't clearly see Brother Cha's appearance without a telescope, and compared with the photos that the spy had already transmitted to China, it confirmed that the commander of the King of Jin of the Xia Kingdom was indeed present and his current position, and he also saw the generals of the Xia Kingdom and his elite pro-army subordinates around the commander of the Chinese army.

The most powerful elite of Western Xia, the Pingshan Iron Harrier Army, is listed in front of Chage, and it is also in the front row of the Xia army's cavalry, looking at the number of people who are subordinate to the master and slave, there are thousands of people, and it can be speculated that about the two thousand Iron Harriers who participated in the battle by spy telegram and the remaining 900 or so are on Chage's side, as always, as the vanguard of breaking the formation.

In front of the Iron Harrier cavalry there were infantry, but they were made up of Tibetans and Uighurs...... The servant army composed of criminals of the Xia Kingdom, that is, the slave soldiers who served as cannon fodder in every battle. There are also Han Chinese in this cannon fodder infantry, but they don't seem to be many, and even belong to a small number of members in proportion, but they are all extremely vicious, more like barbarians.

In fact, these cannon fodder soldiers of the Xia army, who were originally the Song army, were more brave and fierce than the slave soldiers of other races when they fought with the Song army and killed the Han people of the same race, and burned and killed the Han people more viciously, cruel and ruthless, because the Song court, which already despised martial arts, hated these rebels who surrendered to the enemy country even more, and refused to forgive, and caught them more ruthlessly than killing the indigenous soldiers of the enemy country, and it was also to warn the Song army not to surrender to the enemy country easily when it was unfavorable on the battlefield, but after becoming a prisoner of the Song army, he could easily be forgiven as a Han person. There is no cheap thing that you want to descend and return. The Song captive slave soldiers had no way to retreat, so they could only serve the enemy country with all their hearts, for merit, for getting rid of the identity of cannon fodder slaves, and for money, beauty, wine and meat rewards....... Particularly brave to kill the Song army and plague the Han people. Only this performance is the only way to survive and find a way out in the Xia Guojun.

Zhao Yue understood: There are actually not many Han soldiers in the Xia army, in the decades of Xia and Song disputes, the Xia State has repeatedly committed the Han men and women plundered by the Song Border and the captured Song army, plus the scholars and craftsman families who took the initiative to betray their own country and want to show their talents in the Xia State and become rich and noble...... The total number adds up to a lot, and the Xia Kingdom can have skilled craftsmen to form strong soldiers, have developed agriculture, and be able to ....... With the barren and bitter cold land, the small country stood tenaciously in front of the Song Liao and never fell, and the Han people played an important contribution in it.

There are so few cannon fodder soldiers in front of the Han army, not because the Han people are cannon fodder, and the captive soldiers of other races are brave and fierce, nor is it that the vast majority of the Han slave soldiers who were captured and surrendered were not elite enough to be drawn to participate in this war, but most of them were specially placed in the west by the Xia State to deal with the Uighurs and other enemies, far away from the homeland of the Song State in the east. This arrangement is so that even if the Han soldiers are loyal to the Song State, no matter how homesick they are, they can no longer endure the abuse of the Xia State, and they will not be able to wait for the opportunity to escape back to the Song State.

Xia is a small country, but it mainly refers to a small country in the sense that the population is too small, and the territory actually controlled is not so small that it can be easily crossed, and it can be called a big country by counting the territory alone, but it is not as big as Song Liao, especially the eastern and western territories are very long.

The Song army captured as slave soldiers and wanted to flee back to the motherland from the northwest of the Xia Kingdom, even if they were not pursued, they had no food or clothing, it was simply impossible, and they didn't want to die in the vast and wild wasteland of the Gobi Desert and were filled with wolves or something, and they didn't want to die for the country, so they could only resign themselves to serving the Xia army honestly and fighting in the west.

On the other hand, as the number of Han Chinese in the army increased, it was difficult to control, and the Xia State had to be resettled in this way.

Otherwise, in the battle against the Song Dynasty or in the Xia garrison, the Han slave army suddenly mutinied or defected to the country en masse, or became a scourge of the rogues, and the consequences were ......

Don't look at the Song court's contempt for the life and death of the soldiers, and hate the soldiers who surrendered on the battlefield, it seems that the Han people who have become the soldiers of the Xia State have no way out but to serve the Xia State, but the Song State is not dead-eyed, the Song State doctors are cunning and flexible, and they are very good at playing the soft power of intrigue and trickery, and they change their attitude to welcome the rebels home and engage in rebellion......

Whether or not the rebellious Han slave army will be truly forgiven and accepted after successfully returning to the motherland is another matter...... had to guard against Song Guo's hand.

.............

Chago stared intently at the White Armor's movements, waiting to see what the bandit boss who stood in the front row of the pirate cavalry would come out and say to him.

But unexpectedly, the pirate once again showed a different way of doing things,

There was no customary pre-war period in which the commanders of the two sides shouted at each other, insulted, accused, established the name of justice, and challenged each other. As soon as the pirate encirclement situation was formed, the attack came immediately, and with such a weak and passive formation, he dared to take the lead .......