The arrival of the Tielin Army made the attack on this medium-sized tribal army slightly flustered, under the premise that the army's heart was taken away and it did not occupy an advantage, as long as a little cause and benefit were the guide, a big victory was very possible, but it was a pity that the commander of the Tielin Army made the wrong choice.

The asymmetry in the intelligence made them not know how much strength Yuan Hao's subordinates had, and there were 10,000 people, even if there were some survivors when they swept the grassland, but these survivors could only provide an approximate number, for example, more than 10,000, 10,000 or 20,000, but the specific number was really unclear.

This kind of error makes them naturally think that Yuan Hao will not divide the troops and directly carry all the troops, which is also the practice of most nomads.

How attractive Yuan Hao is, not to mention the killings he has made in the Liao State now, just saying that he used to be the emperor of Western Xia, it is enough to attract everyone.

It was this desire for military exploits and rewards that made the commander of the Tielin Army ignore the danger, and even chose the method of siege and killing when facing the opponent.

Encirclement and killing, different from the attack method of encircling three without one, is the whole regiment surrounding, not giving a trace of survival, and the requirement is at least the result of the surrender of all members.

The battle of trapped beasts, even if it is a beast, when there is no way to live, it will fight to the death, and the rabbit will bite when it is anxious, not to mention, the heavily armed warriors, on the premise of knowing that they can't escape, they can only fight to the death.

As for surrender, maybe when Yuan Hao recruited them at the beginning, there was still the possibility of surrender, but now, every soldier in the prime of life, in their hands, has more than dozens of killings, more than 40,000 people, a total of more than 4 million killings, on average, each person is as high as a hundred, such a result, even if it is surrendered, there is absolutely no way to survive.

This point is not for them to see, but for Yuan Hao to pass on it in the previous subtle way, in order to let them maintain enough fighting spirit and fight to the death when fighting the Liao army.

Now, there are only 12,000 troops left, even if the vigor is gone, even if the equipment is combative, under the premise that it does not have an advantage, it still stabilizes its position and fights with the Tielin Army.

Perhaps, before, the commander of the Tielin Army still guessed, but now, the ordinary light cavalry of 12,000 people can actually fight with the 20,000 Tielin Army, and the victory or defeat is flickering, at least, the first few attacks did not break through their camp.

At this time, I have to say that Yuan Hao was ruthless, obviously, his main elite troops were already nearby, and they could save these 15,000 people, but they didn't save them, and watched them fight with the Tielin Army.

The location of the hill is not far from the battlefield, and standing in the dense forest of the hill, you can see everything clearly.

The focus of Yuan Hao's focus is not on how much killing the Tielin Army has caused, but on silently calculating physical strength.

Yuan Hao is the emperor of Western Xia, and Western Xia also has a strong country of heavy cavalry, as the main force of the entire kingdom, he is very clear about the use of heavy cavalry, knows his strengths, and knows his weaknesses.

Heavy cavalry, known as the tank of the cold weapon era, full body armor, not afraid of bows and crossbows, on the battlefield, except for the strongest bed crossbow or weapons such as the divine arm bow, other weapons have no way to do heavy cavalry, especially such things, not alone, every time, it is a batch of appearances, at least 10,000 horses.

When 10,000 heavy cavalry came in a mighty way, there was nothing but the city that could withstand such a torrent of armor.

Such a perfect one, almost concentrated speed, protective attack power, all things that can be taken into account, in the case of total victory, can almost be an undefeated class on the battlefield, but he has a crucial problem, that is, the problem of durability.

Even if the heavy cavalry chooses the most majestic horses, the strength of this kind of horse in all aspects is much stronger than ordinary horses, even ordinary war horses, so that they can carry knights and armor of more than 250 catties.

But there is always an end to strength, this heavy burden, this is not something that the machine can bear, just like later generations, everyone knows that making the armor a little thicker can improve the protection ability of the tank and increase the survivability on the battlefield, but while ensuring speed and attack power, it is also necessary to ensure the protection ability, which becomes a problem, how to balance, is the key to the designer.

In the 21st century, this is the case, and it is also applicable to the tanks of the cold weapon era, and even the heavy cavalry has no way to choose, endurance is an important issue, generally speaking, at most about an hour, the horsepower will be exhausted.

That is, for the improvement of the Northern Song Dynasty steel, a set of vests, if all of them are made of stainless steel, and the surface treatment and quenching will reduce the overall weight by more than half.

In addition to the weight of the knight itself, the weight of the horse armor and armor occupies a large direction, just this, you can save 50 to 80 pounds of weight, which is very good for the heavy cavalry, and the endurance can be improved a lot, which is also the role of the new heavy cavalry armor.

At present, in Liao, only Xiao Hui's subordinates, there are some new heavy cavalry, and the Tielin Army left in Zhongdu uses the original armor, this kind of heavy cavalry is very similar to Yuan Hao's heavy cavalry, and he knows very well the endurance of this heavy cavalry.

Even if there is a cruel battlefield below, almost every minute, there are soldiers who die, these are the soldiers under the command of Yuan Hao, but he still has a cold face, looks calmly, and silently calculates the consumption of the Tielin Army.

Charging is absolutely different from ordinary battles, consumption is absolutely different, because of the confidentiality relationship, coupled with the prevention of leakage of news, Yuan Hao did not send personnel for this war, 15,000 people were abandoned by him, but abandonment also has a price, if 15,000 people, even a little effect, they were defeated by the Tielin Army, which is not in line with Yuan Hao's ideas.

However, everything is developing in a normal direction, these troops who have high hopes for Yuan Hao have also really played their role, in the battle to the death, they are very smart, and they did not confront the Tielin Army head-on, but harassed, fight, and even divided and surrounded in a small area.

It's a pity that the gap in strength makes any action futile, and the result of them doing so is just to make them survive, and maybe it has caused greater losses to the Tielin Army, but it is only a little more on the basis of insignificance.

Fortunately, Yuan Hao didn't think about it at all, 15,000 troops, how much lethality can be caused to 20,000 Tielin Army, heavy cavalry as the ace of the war, can deal with heavy cavalry, only heavy cavalry, sometimes, the number of people does not have the strength to maintain the amplitude has a role, only as much as possible to consume the physical strength of the heavy cavalry, energy, it seems that there is not much loss, but in fact, the balance of war has begun to tilt.

Because of the battle between these soldiers, not only did the Tielin Army consume enough physical strength, but also supported enough time, except for the first charge, which caused the loss of more than 1,000 people, at other times, the losses were to a certain extent, in order to solve this unit as much as possible, the Tielin Army actually organized 7 charges in just 1 hour.

This is a deadly, short-distance rapid charge, which is the most important attack method of heavy cavalry, and when you add knights and armor, the heavy cavalry that is close to a thousand pounds, when they come in a sea of mountains, there is no camp that can withstand such an attack.

When the opponent is defending and fighting, charging is the best solution, when the accelerated heavy cavalry can cut off the opponent and inflict damage on the opponent.

Each of these 7 charges took away hundreds or thousands of results, and in an hour's time, the 12,000 cavalry was quickly reduced to about 8,000 people, distributed on the huge battlefield, and was divided into at least 10 parts.

In an hour, 15,000 people, the loss reached less than 6,000 people, and almost collapsed, although the Tielin Army did not have too many losses, only one or two thousand, most of which were caused by the impact when charging, not by the counterattack.

For the Tielin Army, this battle has basically come to an end, before, the cavalry gathered together may have a certain threat to the Tielin Army, but now, divided into 10 parts, each part, the maximum is only about 1,000 people, under the premise of losing armor and losing morale, this part of the troops, for the Tielin Army, what is the threat, they can only run as much as possible, for fear of being caught by the Tielin Army.

Perhaps, during this time, as long as they are touched by the main force of the Tielin Army, or by the charge, then these people, with almost no possibility of being rescued, are directly torn apart by the cluster of heavy cavalry, and the rest are all in panic.

This is an ordinary version, and even to a certain extent, the commander of the Tielin Army is ready to capture Yuan Hao alive and completely disintegrate this attack.

But he didn't realize that danger was coming.

On the hill, I have been paying attention to the situation of the whole battlefield, silently calculating, perhaps, the physical strength of the heavy cavalry, has not yet reached the bottom, but it is almost there, in a continuous hour, 7 impacts, of which the first impact, the distance, is the longest, a full 5 li, the rest, or two or three, or three or four li, but together, the entire heavy cavalry cluster charge, at least more than 40 li.

It looks inconspicuous, even if it is a heavy cavalry, it can fight for 2 hours in a row, but these two hours, it is not that they do not listen, and the 2 hours and 2 hours of continuous short-distance impact are at most about 80 miles, and not all of them are charges.

In other words, the physical strength of the entire heavy cavalry has been consumed by more than fifty percent.

Ordinary troops, about 5 percent of the physical strength, at most makes people feel tired, unable to continue, combat effectiveness, will be weakened, but for the heavy cavalry, the loss of the horse's physical strength, represents a significant reduction in the entire strength, as long as Yuan Hao's heavy cavalry team, in a short period of time, when the Tielin Army did not find out, enter the battlefield, the final result has been decided.

At this time, Yuan Hao was already ready, in the col, the hidden very secret 20,000 cavalry, began to wear armor, heavy armor hung on the battle, giving these knights great confidence Some people kept agitating in it, mainly to tell the advantages of both sides, and these advantages further established confidence.

Yuan Hao also returned to the cluster, as the emperor, but Yuan Hao in the past 10 years, he kept going to the battlefield, and almost all of the invasions of the Northern Song Dynasty were experienced by Yuan Hao himself, and it was this experience that made Yuan Hao full of confidence in the next war.

20,000 elites, all carefully selected by Yuan Hao, are outstanding in all aspects, the most important thing is that in the period of more than half a year, under the deliberate envelopment of Yuan Hao and his subordinates, they have already obeyed Yuan Hao's words, not to mention that they are just the same clan, even if the following are parents and brothers, they can also know it tacitly.

Compared with the well-trained Tielin Army, the whole armoring process is carried out very slowly, compared with the same time as the Tielin Army's half a cup of tea, it is several times slower, about a stick of incense, or even a little more, the heavy cavalry finally completed the process of armoring and began to prepare for the expedition.

At this time, on the battlefield, it has entered the end, a tea time, the Tielin Army continued to carry out several attacks, and left almost 1,000 results, in the battlefield, the Western Xia Army, which was still breathing, was only about 5,000 people, but the Tielin Army, but further separated, has lasted for an hour of war, if there was an ambush, it would have come out a long time ago, and the more and more intense resistance made them feel that Yuan Hao was among them.

Even the commander of the Tielin Army, if he catches Yuan Hao, he will be rewarded infinitely, not to mention these soldiers at the bottom, for them, it is almost a step to the sky.

Therefore, the vast majority of the troops of the Tielin Army are not in the war, or in the pursuit of the remaining Western Xia Army, but in the frenzied capture, even if they are killed, they will be identified one by one, they may not know what Yuan Hao looks like, but the bright yellow clothes are the first to choose, as long as they wear this, it is very likely to be.

Cleaning up the corpses, looking for characteristics, this is what these people do, such a bad job, further reducing their strength, they didn't realize at all, the powerful army of 20,000 people, right around them, has been waiting for 1 and a half hours, now, all the preparations have been completed, they have been gearing up, ready to attack the Tielin Army, the nearest less than 3 miles, but they don't feel it at all, the war, from the moment it began, the final result has been decided.