The north bank of the Yellow River.

Wang Fubao and Liu Heimin were arguing fiercely, they led their army south quickly, but after arriving here, there was a dispute.

Faced with the news that the scouts reported that there was a large army stationed on the south bank of the Yellow River to intercept it, Wang Fubao thought that it was prudent to wait for the arrival of the Xia army in the back before heading south.

However, Liu Heimin thought that emergency rescue was like fighting fire, so he should first kill this vanguard across the river.

In the end, Liu Heimin said to Wang Fubao, "If you don't want to cross the river, I will go alone." ”

This made Wang Fubao have to agree to Liu Heimin's plan to take risks.

"We only have 8,000 men and horses now, but there are 80,000 soldiers and horses on the opposite side, and Li Mi may lead a large army to rush to reinforcements at any time, and now Dongjun is a huge trap, I believe that Li Mi must have been waiting on the periphery for a long time, just waiting for us to cross the river."

Liu Heimin said, "What about 80,000? Soldiers are not expensive! ”

Wang Fubao had no choice but to say, "Then we, the 8,000 people, must rush to the crossing, and then fight a decisive battle with the enemy, we will be outnumbered, and even face the danger of being attacked by the half-crossing." ”

"I know, so what?" Liu Heimin said.

Dou Jiande's Xia army, since the incident, has encountered only a handful of defeats, and among the rebels from all walks of life, it can be regarded as extremely smooth. And they have gone from a group of salt-making grass thieves in Douzigang to the Daxia General School, which now occupies most of Hebei, which also makes them extremely confident.

Especially after defeating the famous Li Jing, their confidence was inflated.

On a cold windy night.

Wang Fubao and Liu Heimin led the army to cross the river quickly at night, and before the Wei army on the south bank could react, they crossed the Yellow River first, and quickly assembled on the south bank.

At this time, the Wei army in the camp on the south bank of the Yellow River also quickly arrived after detecting the situation and blocked them by the river.

The Xia army lined up with their backs.

This was the first head-to-head battle between the Xia army and the Wei army.

Zhu Cang's time should not be counted.

The Wei army did not understand the combat methods of the Xia army, they just regarded the Xia army as an ordinary anti-army, or even as an army like themselves.

In the eyes of these Wei troops, anti-army generally means poor military discipline, poor equipment, and even poor combat effectiveness.

They don't know.

In fact, although Dou Jiande's Xia Jun started from recklessness, his tactical thinking was always under the influence of Luo Cheng. Dou Jiande, Liu Heimin, Wang Fubao and others, who were born in Luo Cheng's army, have not forgotten the victories in the tough battles they won when they were under Luo Cheng, so they have been learning to imitate Luo Cheng's tactics.

Xia Jun's tactical thinking has always been that good steel is used on the blade.

Although there are many soldiers and horses in the Xia army, there is always a distinction between soldiers and auxiliaries, and there are also elites among the elites such as jumping, ascending, and selecting forwards.

Even among the 8,000 soldiers and horses who came south this time, there was also an armored cavalry.

Liu Heimin personally led a thousand heavy horses, although these heavy horses were not comparable to Luo Cheng's iron horses, they were only half armored horses, the knights only had heavy armor on the upper body, and the front half of the war horses were only equipped with thick horse armor.

But this practice of concentrating the elite to create a semi-armored cavalry is also extremely rare in other rebel armies, even if there are any, but it is generally a dozen horsemen, dozens of horsemen, at most a hundred horses, and most of them are the personal guards of the main general.

It is rare to combine thousands and hundreds of elites to form heavy cavalry.

This semi-heavy cavalry under Liu Heimin is only a thousand people, and it is built with the strength of the whole Xia army, with the best equipment and the best soldiers.

And Wang Fubao also had a heavy infantry under his command at this time, with two thousand. Among them, there is a battalion of Mo swordsmen, a battalion of elite jumping knife players, a battalion of elite crossbowmen, and a battalion of infantry on horseback.

These two thousand elite infantry can be used as one as ten.

Compared with.

The Wei army paid more attention to numbers, and Li Mi claimed to have a million soldiers, but in fact, after annexing Meng Rang's subordinates, his soldiers and horses reached 600,000.

But there are too many rabbles in it.

And the real elite, Wei Wushu, was directly controlled by Li Mi, and was equivalent to the arch guard like the Praetorian Guard.

The Wei army, which intercepted the Xia army, relied on a large number of soldiers, so it set up a military array on the plain that was several miles long.

This super-long infantry formation, in addition to being long, has another characteristic, that is, thin.

A thin layer, that is, a dozen rows.

And then there was no one behind.

The Wei army put on such a long snake formation, obviously wanting to stop the Xia army, and even wanted to encircle the Xia army and annihilate it in one fell swoop.

The battle begins.

The light cavalry of the Xia army took the lead in the charge, but they did not take advantage.

Because the infantry of the Wei army was basically pikemen, coupled with the shields in the front row and a small number of crossbowmen in the back row, with a huge numerical advantage, they repelled the light cavalry charge of the Xia army.

The light cavalry of the Xia army rushed in several waves, but could not break through the thin army formation, and began to retreat.

The commander of the Wei army was overjoyed.

"The whole army will attack and drive all the damned Hebei Yankees into the Yellow River!"

The battle on the south bank of the Yellow River, Cao Bao in the White Horse City also knew, he climbed the tall building, and watched the Xia Jun brothers fighting on the shore in the distance, so he also led the army to open the city gate and kill.

However, Wang Bodang had already built a wall outside the city, so that after Cao Bao left the city, he was trapped in his fortifications.

Wang Bodang's subordinates were able to stand on top of the earthen wall and condescendingly shoot arrows to attack Cao Bao who was out of the city, and Cao Bao's army also suffered heavy casualties for a while, even more heavy than when defending the city.

On the banks of the Yellow River.

The Xia army was defeated and retreated.

The Wei army was on the offensive, and the whole army pursued.

Soon, however, the situation on the battlefield changed subtly.

Although the Xia army was defeated and retreated, it did not collapse from beginning to end, even if it was defeated, it retreated very neatly.

But on the contrary, the pursuit of the Wei army was much more chaotic, and as soon as the pursuit was far away, the infantry and cavalry began to separate, and even the infantry was dragged and scattered.

The already thin military formation has completely become a skirmishing line.

This is also the phenomenon of many peasant armies such as the Wei army, which has many soldiers, but they are always not refined.

The Wei army was chasing hard, and no one was aware of this problem at all, let alone thinking, where was Liu Heimin's half-equipped thousand-man armored cavalry?

Where are Wang Fubao's 2,000 elite infantry!

They only knew that the Xia army had been defeated and retreated, so they scrambled to pursue it first, eager to drive the Xia army into the Yellow River immediately.

The Xia army had soon retreated to the edge of the Yellow River, with the Yellow River behind them.

Although there is no water in the waves, and there is ice on the river that can be crossed, Xia Jun will not just retreat across the Yellow River when he comes.

Wang Fubao's flag was raised on the bank of the river, and then no longer retreated.

So one after another the banners of the summer army generals and regiments and battalions were raised, and they all stood still.

Xia Jun no longer retreated.

They lined up by the river, and they had to fight against the water.

Look at their banners and beckoning, the army is neat, how can there be a scene of half a point of defeat. On the contrary, the Wei army on the opposite side chased all the way and had already run into stragglers.

A general of the Wei army who rushed to the front couldn't help but be shocked when he saw the Xia army's military formation, but it was impossible to stop the team at this time.

"Crossbowmen ready!"

In front of the Xia army, an officer was giving orders.

The enemy is approaching.

The crossbowmen, who accounted for 20% of the military formation, had already raised their crossbow machines one after another and aimed them at the front.

"Two hundred paces from the enemy!"

Someone shouted.

"Steady, steady!"

The leaders of the team who led the battle shouted with all their might.

"One hundred and fifty paces from the enemy!"