Chapter 472: Under Mu Na Mountain
Chongyan Ya led the army of Chongjia along the Yellow River. As a striker of strikers, the role of this team is purely to find their way and be a decoy.
Qin Mu's tactical positioning for them was to startle the snake. The family army is the army of this time and space, and the Tangut people will not feel strange when they see it.
If they engage the Plantation Army, the Guards behind can quickly form an encirclement of the enemy in all directions.
With sheer speed and sheer firepower, all enemies will be wiped out cleanly and completely.
This was the main task of the Guards - to annihilate all the living forces of Western Xia.
If the Guards had appeared first, the Tanguts would have been scared away. With such a vast territory, Qin Mu didn't have time to catch wild ducks all over the mountains.
Figuratively speaking, the planter army is a flower, to attract bees, or disgusting, the planter army can also be a pile of rotten meat, so that flies stink.
Whether it's flowers or rotten meat, the army of planters is bait.
Chong Yanya was extremely dissatisfied with the positioning given to him by Qin Mu, but he was strictly ordered by the seed master to listen to Chong Yanchong's words, and even more so to listen to the words of Young Master Qin.
The fourth elder of the family was still more afraid of his grandfather and eldest brother, so he still entered Western Xia along the Yellow River under the guidance of Qin Mu according to Qin Mu's orders.
After entering Western Xia, they soon encountered the army of Western Xia.
The Guards marched north and then west along the Yellow River, starting from Yongbyon, taking the riverside, east Shengzhou, passing through the lower Hetao, and entering the middle of the Hetao.
This place belongs entirely to Western Xia. At the Muna Pass, the Western Xia established the Muna Mountain Castle. This is the first front line against the Liao State.
Although the Liao State is gone, the defense here is still very strong.
The 3,000 people of the seed army were discovered by the Western Xia army of Mu Na Mountain, and the defender of Mu Na Mountain did not hide Bojie. The Muzang family was the upper class aristocracy of Western Xia, and the most famous figure was Wuzang Heiyun.
Wuzang Heiyun is the wife of Li Yuanhao of Jingzong in Western Xia, and the Wuzang family was once powerful in Western Xia. Although it has declined a lot compared to its heyday, just looking at the Western Xia Emperor Li Jiqian's arrangement for Wuzang Bojie to garrison Muna Mountain, you know that the strength of the Wuzang family is still there.
Muna Mountain can be said to be the northern gate of Western Xia.
There were 5,000 Western Xia troops stationed here, as well as 300 Iron Harriers.
Such a force is already very powerful.
The Iron Harrier was a national treasure-level army in Western Xia, but it was accidentally lost in half by Qin Mu, and Li Jiqian almost couldn't figure out why half of his Iron Harrier disappeared.
Every war was fought too weirdly, which made Western Xia very honest.
Now that the Iron Harrier has been replenished, there are only 1,500 people, and putting 300 in Mu Na Mountain is a great trust and support for Wuzang.
When Bojie received the news that there was an army of about 3,000 people, he was rushing towards Mu Na Mountain, and he immediately sent a messenger to deliver a message to Xingqing Mansion while reorganizing his men and horses out of the city.
The 3,000-strong army of planters dared to come to my Muna Mountain to spread wilderness, and they simply looked down on me for not hiding Bojie.
He left 1,000 men to defend the city, and the remaining 4,000 men and 300 Iron Harriers all went out on the expedition.
Bojie soon saw the men and horses of the Breeder Army.
The place where they are located is very suitable for war. This is a vast meadow, with the wide Yellow River on the right hand and the majestic Muna Mountain on the left. Between the mountains and rivers, there are verdant grasslands.
The four thousand Western Xia troops and the three thousand family troops were far away from each other, and both sides stopped.
In fact, it is very strange that he did not hide Bojie now. How could the Song army march from Muna Mountain?
This place was not suitable for the Song army to attack Western Xia at all.
In the Great Song Dynasty and Western Xia, there were many battles in history, but each time they fought they would not go to Muna Mountain. The Song army did not go to the Hetao at all.
First, the Hetao is not within the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, which is the territory of the Liao State. Second, it is far away from the river loop, and it is a big bend.
There is no light burden for thousands of miles, and this is especially true for large armies. The food and forage needed by so many people and horses, as well as all kinds of supplies, are massive. With the economic level of the agrarian era, it is not enough to support a long journey.
Qin Mu studied the battles of the Song and Western Xia, and he found that the previous battles, if the marching routes on both sides were drawn, they were actually centered on Xingqing Mansion, the capital of Western Xia, and emitted several radial lines.
The Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty both followed the shortest distance to fight.
This time, the Guards marched in the Hetao, in fact, they marched in the direction away from Xingqing Mansion first, which was impossible in the Great Song Dynasty, or even in any country in this time and space - this bend was too big.
If you don't hide Bojie, you can't understand the seed army in front of you at all.
How did the breeder come to Muna Mountain? If they want to fight Western Xia, they should fight from the south, and if they go around here, let alone fight, they are tired to death.
On the battlefield, the main general can think, but there is no need to talk nonsense. Now that the enemy is in front of you, can you still persuade the other party to go back with your mouth?
"Order, array." The Western Xia army was the first to act.
The shield-bearers were lined up in neat rows one after another, and the large shield was more than half a man high, firmly held in the hands of the soldiers.
The spearman was behind, his spear more than a foot long pointed diagonally at the sky, and the head of the spear glowed with a cold light in the sunlight.
The axeman has a round shield in his left hand and a knife or axe in his right hand, following the spearman.
Finally, the crossbowman had pulled the crossbow machine, and the crossbow bolt was wound.
This is the basic combat method of this plane battle. As the two sides finished arraying, they began to move in the opposite direction. In the position that the commander deems appropriate, the first is a long-range weapon attack - archery.
Then the other party had to stop, and everyone cowered behind their shields carrying a rain of arrows, or stones, thrown by a stone thrower.
At the same time, the side that is beaten decides whether to resist for a while and then fight back or immediately fight back with a bow and arrow.
In fact, the course of warfare has not changed much from ancient times to the present.
The current war began to be fought with cruises, then bombed by aircraft, finally bombed by naval artillery, and finally, it was the army that came on the field - this is the mode of US imperialism fighting Iraq.
If we do not consider the content of the weapon, and only compare it in the same generation of weapons, we will find that this is long-range, short-range, and finally hand-to-hand.
Bows and trebuchets are long-range, spears are short-range, and swordsmen and axes are hand-to-hand.
This process is inevitable, not to say that anyone's head can be transferred. If the enemy hits with a long-range weapon, and you don't use the long-range weapon to fight back, but wait until you get close and slash with a knife, isn't that brain-dead?
Before reaching the close distance, the enemy's long-range and short-range weapons were brought into play, and their own side could only bear losses.
When it comes to white-knuckle warfare, all bows and arrows and spears are useless, so isn't this kind of weapon of your own completely wasted?
Therefore, war has its own laws, and no one can change them.
The same is true of the family army.
The two armies marched in the opposite direction, but the Western Xia army walked with firm steps and a steady pace, while the seed army was scattered.
I didn't hide Bojie in my eyes, and my heart was very stable. This army of breeders is like a lamb on the grassland, weak and chaotic.
The meat that comes to your door is not eaten for nothing. This feat, maybe you can make yourself king!
In the past few years, Western Xia has not seriously fought a battle, so if he does not hide, he will have no chance of promotion. Now, at last, it's a chance.
"Attack!"
With the order of Wuzang Bojie, the Western Xia army sounded the horn of attack.
The team that didn't hide Bojie were all veterans, and they knew when to release the arrows. Now that we are a little far away from the enemy, we have to walk a few dozen steps to get the most out of the bow and arrow.
The Western Xia army calmly moved forward step by step.
The Iron Harriers and Hussars also warmed up the horses, constantly trotting behind the array.
Chongyan Cliff rode on a horse, looking at the Western Xia army on the opposite side for a while, and then turning his head to look back. He was looking for the Guards.
His own 3,000 people were completely unready for battle. After seeing the strength of the Guards, the Plantation Army was completely deflated. They felt that there was no point in fighting the same war as before.
At the same time, they also understand that they are bait, not the main force, and they are even less motivated. Of course, they are a special bait. With the invincible Guards on their backs, they will not be sold, they will not die.
The Plantation Army stopped advancing almost as soon as the trumpet sounded of the Western Xia Army, and they piled up all the shield bearers to the forefront. Big shield and small shield, withstand the enemy's attack, just don't die yourself.
Even the pikemen didn't even hold a gun, but they didn't know where to get a shield in front of them.
This made Bojie more than puzzled.
It's not like you're here to fight, it's all about being beaten!
How strange does the situation look like, could it be that the enemy is cheating? But there is no place for Tibetans here, so where is the enemy's ambush?
He immediately stood on horseback and climbed to look out.
I saw that behind the seed army, there was a yellow line, which was rapidly advancing towards him.
The enemy really has an ambush! Bojie is experienced in a hundred battles and is not a rookie on the battlefield.
Ambushers are also people, and if you ambush a bunch of lambs, it can only be to add a dish to your dinner.
He looked at it calmly for a moment, and suddenly a bad omen rose in his heart. That yellow line is moving too fast.
He was accustomed to seeing the horses running on the prairie, and he could estimate the speed of the horses from the smoke and dust brought up by the horses' hooves.
However, the approaching speed of this cloud of smoke and dust completely broke the upper limit of his understanding of speed.
Cai Yan used the best Arabian horse in the world at present, completely lightly armed, without a piece of armor, to run a top speed of 70 kilometers in a short time.
A normal cavalry charge, especially a heavily armed cavalry, such as an Iron Harrier, can run at a speed of forty kilometers is not bad
Even the light cavalry is only fifty kilometers.
But the yellow line represents a speed of 80 kilometers.
There was no such scale on the speedometer in Bojie's mind, and the speed was already out of the charts for him.
With such speed and such distance, he clearly knew that he couldn't run away at all. How did the infantry outrun the cavalry, and the enemy's speed was so fast.
He immediately ordered the army to halt its advance and hold the ranks.
The only thing that can be done at the moment, and the only correct response, is to defend well before the enemy attacks.
The Western Xia army completely abandoned the attack on the seed army, and all of them stopped, quietly waiting for a new enemy to appear.
The enemy soon appeared in the sight of the Western Xia army, but it was also the last time they saw such an enemy.
By the time they could barely see the enemy rushing towards them in strange vehicles, the overwhelming volley of shells had exploded over their heads.
Artillery is always the first to speak.
The first round of shelling claimed the life of Muzang Bojie. This actually made him suffer a lot less.
Because the dead are freed on the spot, and those who are not dead have to face the merciless pursuit of the guards.
The first to arrive at the battlefield were the 1st Guards Regiment, 1st Battalion, 1st Company. Their company concentrated the best drivers in the battalion, so it drove the fastest.
Under the leadership of the battalion commander Dong Rui, thirty jeeps rushed to the front of the seed army, and then immediately slowed down to give the shooter a stable shooting platform.
The MG-42 in each car began to spit out tongues of fire in a frenzy. The bullet struck the collapsed Western Xia army like an invisible whip.
Whether it is a shield or armor, even the family heirloom armor of the Iron Harrier cannot stop the bullets of the MG-42 at all.
Every Western Xia soldier who was shot seemed to be dancing the last dance of his life. Their bodies twisted to an exaggerated angle before they crashed to the ground.
The blow from heaven has not yet ended, and such a group of demonic people have appeared on the ground. The Western Xia army collapsed at that time.
Where are they still standing in the array, how far can they run.
What the Western Xia Army saw in his eyes and heard in his ears was not the voice of this world at all. They thought they had come to hell. They are not fighting with people, but they are in the hell of pulling out their tongues, and they are being dug out of their lungs, disemboweled, and fried in water by the imp judges.
Their only thought is that they can't die here, and they must escape from this hell on earth. Otherwise, you will suffer for the rest of your life.
Four thousand people died almost half in the first wave of blows. Now is not World War II, not after the various wars of the long era of firearms, the tactics of war against firearms have been summed up.
In the current war, dense formation is the only tactic. The Western Xia army was like a dense formation in later generations, which made it impossible for shells and bullets to miss the target. There's no room for a miss.
The only reason why the Western Xia army did not die was that there were enough people to shoot through the bullets for a while.
Therefore, the Western Xia army, which was still active, desperately fled in all directions - except in the direction of the Guards.
Dong Rui achieved the biggest result, but he was not satisfied. The Guards had a clear purpose for this operation - to kill all the living forces of the enemy.
Any Western Xia army that did not die was a living force. They must not be allowed to escape. Not a single one can run!
The infantry of the Western Xia army also had horses. They were infantry when they fought and rode horses when they marched.
There are clever ones who grab a horse and run so that they can live a little longer.
Stupid people run on only two legs, so of course they can't get faster than bullets. The carts of the first battalion did not move, and they killed all these people who were running on foot.
At this time, the men and horses of the 2nd Regiment of the Guards also caught up. How could they not understand the situation when they saw this?
The enemy has been beaten and herded sheep, so they will split up and chase them.
At this time, the guards immediately dispersed the formation, and the two chariots formed a small group and pursued separately.
The roar of engines, the roar of machine guns, and the neighing of horses on the battlefield are intertwined into a real hellish scene.
The family army is stupid. For the first time, they saw the Guards in real combat. Such a devastating blow would not be able to withstand it by anyone.
Tane Yanya's face turned pale, and he sat on the horse and staggered.
His own soldiers hurriedly came over to support his commander.
"We must have machine guns, artillery, and cars!"
The soldiers only heard Tan Yanya grit his teeth and squeeze out this sentence, and then saw the coach fall off the horse with a shake.