Chapter 875: Almost in the Urn? The build-up of enemy troops
A few more horns sounded in the ranks of the Xia Guo's horse infantry army, and the knights with bows poured out from both wings, opening their hands to ride the bow, and the more than 300 horsemen of the battalion following Hua Rong were also unambiguous, but listening to the sound of the bowstring beating one after another, the whistling arrows suddenly shot out from the archers on both sides.
Whether it was the light cavalry of the Song army or the Xia army, they all turned their horses around the moment they saw that they were about to collide, and at the same time they had to turn around and draw their bows and shoot again! The light cavalry relied on flexible mobility, and both sides were archers who were good at cavalry, so they began to use the tactic of riding horses to open up distances and then shoot the enemy with their bows rather than engaging the enemy in short combat. At this time, hundreds of horses galloped on the side of the mountain, and the terrible roar of arrows was also endless. A group of people shouted the sound of neighing horses, and from time to time someone on both sides was hit by an arrow and fell from his horse. The group of Song soldiers who were killed by the Xia army saw that there was a force to help, and they also cheered up, and tightened their weapons to fight the Xia army's foot soldiers for life and death.
And the Xia army archers also knew that their own forces now had some advantages, and if the light cavalry was intercepted and entangled and galloped, they would only be surrounded and killed. It was a few Xia army cavalry generals who ordered their knights to rush the Song army's bow and cavalry straight to the direction of their own foot soldiers, and some Xia army knights drew their sabers and urged the cavalry to rush towards the Song army's light cavalry and cut indiscriminately.
These more than 300 archers and cavalry of the Song army are all brave and healthy of the Western Army who are accustomed to fighting with the Xia army, but the cavalry of the Xia army are also nomadic tribesmen who have grown up on horseback since childhood, and have been able to pull the bowstring since the age when they can pull the bowstring, so the two sides are either longitudinal horses and bows, or short soldiers are inseparable for a while, but the Song army also has Hua Rong and Yan Yun cavalry and cavalry fighting bravely, and they were shot through the body by sharp wolf tooth arrows, and the cavalry who fell from the horse and died was more than the Xia army.
But seeing Hua Rong struggling to let go of the bow, he shot out more than 20 wolf tooth arrows one after another, and there were already many corpses of Xia army knights lying on the cold ground, and some cavalry had not yet died, and were rolling and wailing with the wounds of the arrows, and one of the cavalry generals on the Xia army's side also neighed and scolded when he saw this: "This Song dog, the bow and horse are so good!" ”
The cavalry general of the Xia army scolded angrily, and immediately beckoned fifty or sixty horsemen to rush towards Hua Rong to rush over the horse, trying to kill the Song general, the divine arrow that posed the greatest threat to his own soldiers and horses. Hua Rong stretched out his hand to probe but felt empty, and the two bags of quivers hanging on the saddle for a while had been shot empty, seeing that the enemy horses were surrounded from all sides, blocking the way of the gallop of the horse under his crotch, Hua Rong's sword eyebrows were upside down, and he drank clearly. Remove the silver-wire iron gun from the saddle victory hook, and dance the spear like a pear blossom in snow!
Hua Rong, who also had superb marksmanship, flew up and down with the silver wire iron gun in his hand, and the Xia Jun knight with the spear blade immediately shot out a blood flower! But immediately, there were more Xia army knights around, and they raised their sabers in unison, and in an instant, the snow and bright sword light was shining and cold, but before the blades in the hands of those Xia army cavalry fell on Hua Rong, several Yan Yun cavalry shot and grabbed spears, stepped on the stirrups, and rushed with invincible momentum.
"Whew!" Suddenly, there was a sharp sound of breaking the air suddenly, and the Xia army cavalry who was leading the cavalry to intercept and kill Hua Rong was shocked to find something wrong, Huo Ran turned around, but only saw a flash of cold light in front of him, and immediately felt a chill in his throat, the rider slowly lowered his head, and saw that a wolf tooth arrow had been inserted in his throat, and blood also gushed out of his mouth and nose, and the rider learned that his life was short, and he was very unwilling to raise his head to see who shot him, but he fell off the horse and did not move at all.
Behind the hills to the south, a horse suddenly flashed, and the afterglow of the setting sun shone on the horseman's crotch, which was originally red, like a coal, and a large chiseled spear that glowed golden in the sunlight was lifted into the sky, and suddenly a large group of black cavalry poured out from behind the hills, and a large number of soldiers and horses gathered near the hills, all staring coldly at the fierce battle situation under the hillside in front of them.
"Song Jun! It was the Song Army's brigade that came to help!! The terrible warning sounded, and the light cavalry of the Xia army also saw countless enemy troops pouring out, and at the same time, there was also an endless sound of horns on the other side of the hills, and the soldiers of the Xia army also raised their heads in fear, and saw that the vicinity of the low hills on the south side had long been crowded with black and oppressive Song soldiers and horses.
Xiao Tangxuan was about to slash the chisel gold spear in his hand, and when he landed, the Song army's soldiers and horses were full of killing sounds, until the sky and the earth were about to collapse, first there were three thousand strong horsemen surging down like a flood that broke the embankment, and immediately galloped to the light cavalry of Hua Rong's department!
Arrows and meteors, Xia rode bow horses and fell off their horses one after another, galloping and rolling, and the Xia army's foot soldiers were also brushed to the ground like harvested straw, swords and guns were chopped, and blood splashed with the sharp cold. Heads were tossed, limbs fell to the ground, shouts and neighing horses rang out one after another, and the one-sided killing began, staining the muddy ground beneath the mountains red.
Xiao Tang still stood on the hill on his horse with a solemn expression, watching his own soldiers and horses in front of him chase the Xia army, but he wanted to slaughter all the enemies who killed the Song army. At this moment, the Song army's strong cavalry, which rushed to kill the past, rushed over from the two wings like two sharp knives, trampled on the horse's hooves, and shot arrows, intercepting the remnants of the defeated Xia army who had fled in defeat.
If the shadow of the spear of the dancing pear blossom suddenly converged into a point, turned into a cold light, and went straight into the heart of the Xia army cavalry general who was finally stubbornly resisting, Hua Rong was about to pull out the silver wire iron gun, but the Xia army cavalry general on the opposite side suddenly stretched out his hands and held the silver spear that pierced into his heart. The Xia army cavalry general vomited blood from his mouth, but he still opened a pair of blood-red eyes and said with great resentment: "Song dog... Hugh to be proud... You guys won't be going to live long......"
Hua Rong saw that the Xia army cavalry general showed a hideous smile before he died, he frowned, and vaguely felt a little strange, but the Xia army cavalry general had already fallen straight down the horse.
Maybe the bird was just cursing and cursed before he died....... Hua Rong thought in his heart, and now he couldn't ask anything from the dead man's mouth, so he had to clamp his legs and urge the horse to go and give orders to Xiao Tang.
The Xia army that was chasing and killing the Song army here was all annihilated and almost no one survived, and Xiao Tang's military Jian also immediately brought in the Song army colleagues who had picked up their lives, and brought them to Xiao Tang, one of the officers saw Xiao Tang, and immediately stepped forward to greet him, and said in a loud voice: "If it weren't for the Xianggong and your robes to lead the army to rescue in time, I'm afraid that our lives will be gone!" ”
Xiao Tang also asked the officer, "Which military division do you belong to?" Xining Prefecture, Lanzhou and other border military states are now also garrisoned by the Song Army on the West Road, but why were you easily killed by the Xia Army? ”
The officer hurriedly replied: "I want to teach this minister to know that the lowly position is the commander of the infantry army under the Xihe Road Shuai Division under the jurisdiction of Rongwei Xiguan Fort. Because General Liu Fa led the army to cross the Huangshui diagonally, under the order of Tong Xuanshuai Jun, he was transferred to Zhenwu City with the Shangguan of Xiguanbao, but he knew that there was a Xia army halfway out, the enemy army was strong, and Li Dujian of Xiguanbao was killed in battle, and the soldiers and horses transferred from Jingyu Fort, Dongguan Fort, and Zhigu Fort were almost all destroyed by the Xia army. fled all the way south, and was about to go to Xining Prefecture to report to Tong Xuanshuai that the Xia army had assembled, but he was entangled by the enemy army and killed him with his own death, so he was rescued by the general! ”
Xiao Tang chuckled in his heart when he heard this, and he exclaimed in his heart: It's not good! Now that General Liu Fa has been coerced by Tong Guan, he has no choice but to send troops to the army, and he is going to drill into the ambush circle of the Xia army!?