Chapter 328: Overnight Ambush

The Liao army was ready to attack, they went to bed early, and got up in the early morning, taking advantage of the day, quietly began to eat breakfast, and even in order to prevent being discovered, they were all gnawing dry food.

The darkness of the night and the caution of the Western Xia army made it impossible for the observers who were close at hand to notice it.

Until they left their hiding place, crept out of the mountain pass, and began to make their way to the camp.

30,000 cavalry, no matter how much they hide their voices, the movement will not be small, and the huge movement, of course, alarms the people around and are responsible for monitoring them.

In the dark night, they disdained to say a little, it seems that the patience is still not enough, originally thought that it would be five or six days later, but they did not expect it to be so soon.

They hid themselves to another place, and sent out a light signal, which would have been detected in the past, but in the darkness, in the obscuration and reflection, a very directional light was formed.

Of course, if you look closely, you can still see the faint image of the light shining on the dust, but if you don't pay attention, it is difficult to see clearly, their vision is different from the vision of the cavalry below, which is more secure.

Soon, in this direction, the Northern Song Dynasty army, which had already been prepared, had begun to assemble forward, and they had already calculated that the Western Xia would be dispatched today, and they would also start eating in the early hours of the morning.

In any case, the result is already doomed, if the Western Xia can attack the walled city, it will be found that the walled city is not even less than a small defensive city, and the most important thing is that there are a large number of traps on the road.

These traps were secretly dug at night, 20,000 people, thousands of people were dispatched, digging this at night, maybe thousands of them in one night, but in 3 nights, at least tens of thousands, these traps are densely packed on the route, which is the key to resisting them.

In the daytime, the trap may not be completely effective, but at night, when they can't see anything, and even when they don't even prepare lighting tools such as torches, there will definitely be problems.

For a large force of cavalry, even a little bit will have a huge effect, not to mention, in key positions, a large number of regular troops of the Northern Song Dynasty have been densely packed.

15 li, for the cavalry team that could not run completely, it would take half an hour, the Western Xia army had already calculated the time, and almost when they arrived, the night was about to pass.

They are here to charge the battle, not to discredit the siege, otherwise, they would have attacked the city last night, attacking the fixed camp, if they can't see it, maybe some traps and city defenses won't be able to see it, then there will be a big problem.

It was almost 2 miles away from the position of the barracks, and for the cavalry, it was already the final charge.

War horses, when charging at high speed, can even exceed 80 miles in an hour, that is to say, 2 miles, which is only less than 100 breaths, which is a very short, even negligible time for anyone, for any time, and even more so here.

General Xixia looked at the sky, in the black sky, in front of him, a particularly bright star was very eye-catching, he knew very well, what this is, Sirius, also known as the morning star in later generations, it was the darkest time of the day, the moon had already set, there were not many stars, but the sky, about to dawn.

The war horse under the crotch began to accelerate non-stop, moving forward quickly, led by the Western Xia generals, full of the pleasure of killing, these hateful Song people are the initiators of his current tragic fate, it's time to take revenge.

People are like this, they are too fierce and vicious, they can't be provoked, of course they will hate, but they can only be buried in their hearts, but this vent, there must be an outlet It is unfortunate, this vent is Song Jun.

The weak is a natural reason, when it is impossible to retaliate and attack the strong, a weak person has become an inevitable choice, especially now, with the report of the Liao State, when the situation of the other party is fully grasped, even if it is to impact the fixed camp, he does not think that he will lose, there is no such reason.

Confidence is the key to a general's victory, and with enough confidence, man will win the day.

But blind self-confidence is reckless, at this time, what this Western Xia general did was just that, he kept urging his subordinates and began to move forward quickly.

In their opinion, taking advantage of the night, approaching the opponent's camp, and finally capturing the opponent's camp with the help of a salvo, a large camp tent that accommodates 450,000 cattle, how much protection capacity can there be, this, the leading Western Xia general, is quite confident.

The sound of popping suddenly came, and a series of chaos began in the camp in front of him, and he was very strange, what the hell was going on, and he dropped the chain at a critical moment.

The general doesn't think that after careful selection, among the iron harriers and even the personal guards of Western Xia, these elite warriors will casually fall off their horses, this must be what happened.

It was impossible for the cavalry to reduce their speed quickly, and it took a few minutes to reduce the speed of their advance, and at this time, the problem ahead came, and the horse was trapped.

Obviously, the other party has not been idle in the past few days, they dug the county horse pit, and under the wrapping of the night, they did not find the existence of the horse pit, and suffered a big loss.

Although there were not many people trapped, less than 30 horsemen, which was not a problem at all for more than 30,000 elite cavalry, the timing was very awkward.

In the dark night, facing the number of horse traps that they don't know how many, if they choose direct impact, it would be a stupid decision to make, if there are as many as 10,000 horse traps, how many knights will he need to be able to fill the way forward.

After falling into a horse trap, it does not disappear, it still exists, and those horses and knights who fall into the trap will also become an obstacle, and it is very disgusting when the army is marching.

The best defense of the cavalry is speed, and it is under speed that he can avoid a lot of total, and now he has reduced his speed, and he doesn't even know what to do, whether they will continue to move forward, or bypass this position.

The Western Xia general just thought that this was a defense made by the other party, whether they had been discovered, or it was preset.

If the former, there will be a lot, and if the latter is the case, there may only be a few, this is a difficult decision, so difficult that he can't do it, he doesn't know, during the time he hesitated, the god of death has begun to prepare to come, and the initiative on the battlefield, because of his hesitation, has begun to reverse.

Just in the position of the west of the Xixia side, only more than 200 steps away from them, taking advantage of the night, a group of people were ambushed, they were the main force of the Song army of 40,000 people, they were already in the best position, and even yesterday, they had already seen the terrain, even in the dark night, they could not block the position of the Liao army.

In the camp, there are less than 1,500 foot soldiers, they can only maintain the camp, it is impossible to be broken by a blow, not defense, everything, everything is placed on this side, and the trap is not for killing, but for hindrance.

This in the daytime, on the frontal battlefield, there is no way to play a role, the ancient defense, as long as it is in the daytime, no matter how much it gets, it is only to control the direction, it is impossible to completely resist, but it shows a miraculous effect in the night, which requires a strong sense of smell on the battlefield, not only needs to be predicted, but also needs the cooperation of the other side.

Now, when the prediction and cooperation are perfectly agreed, this ancient defense immediately shows a terrible effect.

As long as this part of the cavalry is blocked here, there is a certain amount of time, and everything else is fine, and their longbow team has enough time to carry out several rounds of attacks.

It was difficult for them to even escape, for just behind them were improvised a number of triangular pyramids, the best weapons for industrial cavalry, laid by two adventurous knights.

It is also a very small arrangement, but it is like an encirclement, enveloping the 30,000 cavalry of the Western Xia, unless the Western Xia people can make the most correct judgment at the beginning, otherwise, what awaits them will be a catastrophe.

The Song army took advantage of the darkness to approach within 200 meters, and set up camp, strict training, so that all this was quiet, and after everything was done, the attack could start at any time.

At this time, the cavalry was still hesitating, whether to go forward or backward, the darkest time before dawn, at this time, it was the place with the least open vision, when the elite Northern Song Dynasty was not right, and when the secret assembly was made, these cavalry did not realize it at all.

Ready, a low command sounded, in this unique environment, it was impossible to hide at all, 200 steps, too close, and the surroundings were too quiet, this voice was heard by those Western Xia soldiers who were at a loss.

The nerves themselves are tense, the dark night represents the horror of the unknown, in the dark night, it seems that there is malicious existence everywhere, this obviously ill-intentioned voice, the cavalry over there heard it, some cavalry were a little confused, and some officers found out.

There are people, there are enemies, and the son is very close to the position.

The sudden change made the whole cavalry a little messy, the discipline of Western Xia, which was not good, suddenly appeared in the horse pit, so that the cavalry lost a lot of sharpness, and now I don't know where the voice is, what the hell is going on, ambush?

From the very beginning, they didn't think about whether the other party dared to attack, 20,000 infantry against 30,000 cavalry, was it a bad brain, but this situation was the most terrible, and they suddenly felt that everything they had done before was wrong.