Xu Zizhen's heart sank a little, the Deshun army will not arrive until tomorrow, but now the Xixia army has arrived in front of the pass, and even the equipment for attacking the city has been prepared, and he is about to fight when he speaks.

Jincheng Pass is built on the mountain, there is a certain degree of steepness, and the cavalry of the Western Xia army can not play their role, but there is also a special type of military in the Western Xia, called Bubazi, which is composed of Ding Zhuang of the mountain tribe, going up and down the mountain as if walking on the flat ground, is the best at climbing high and falling low.

Xu Zizhen frowned and thought hard about countermeasures, but he couldn't think of any way to crack it, he subconsciously touched the fire gun on his waist, and couldn't help but sigh secretly.

The time is too tight, and there is no time to mass-produce firearms, otherwise it will be a sharp weapon against the horse army at the head of the Western Xia army.

Just thinking like this, the Western Xia army outside the gate suddenly blew a dull horn, followed by a war drum.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

The Western Xia army has obviously been prepared, a catapult has been placed in the distance, the huge body of the car points to the Jincheng Pass, and hundreds of Western Xia soldiers are leading a camel in twos and twos, and there is a thing on the back of the camel, which looks similar to the catapult, with a basket on each side, and a pile of stone balls placed in it.

Xu Zizhen pointed to the thing and asked, "My lord, what is that?" ”

Wen Chengyan's face was a little unsightly: "This thing is called a whirlwind cannon, it is quite powerful, and it is easy to move between the humps. ”

Xu Zizhen suddenly realized, isn't this the simple original version of the mortar?

I only heard Wen Chengyan and said: "The whirlwind cannon is a weapon for close attack, and the Xixia people have another heavy weapon for long-range attack, called the Divine Arm Bow, which can shoot two or three hundred steps away with a heavy crossbow. ”

Xu Zizhen was taken aback, two or three hundred steps? Back then, Li Guanghuarong was known as piercing Yang in 100 steps, so it was already amazing, and an arrow shot 200 steps away was not equivalent to a heavy machine gun?

The Tanguts had already begun to suppress their voices, and the cavalry was moving slowly in formation, not in a hurry, and the infantry moved with the cavalry, closely following the rear.

Meng Du, the head of the soldiers and horses of Jincheng Pass, had already closed the gate, looking at the Xixia soldiers in front of him, who were not many more than his own, his expression was calm, he raised two tokens in his hand, and shouted: "Xu Xuan, Xin Chou!" With the two of you each leading 500 horsemen, be sure to disperse the Western Xia cavalry, don't let the foot bazi get close to the pass, there must be no mistake! ”

"Yes!"

Two generals flashed out next to him, and ran down the gate quickly, only to hear a creak of the door after a while, the drawbridge was slowly lowered, and two columns of men and horses jumped out like arrows, and it was the two generals who led the way.

Xu Zizhen This is the first time to see the marching army fighting, mixed blood can't help but boil, he climbed the pass to look out, only to see the two columns of military horses neat and fast, immediately the soldiers all looked solemn, without the slightest fear, as if they did not put the 100,000 army in their eyes at all.

It is rumored that the Song army is cowardly and incompetent, and Xu Zizhen has always believed in this, otherwise how could he be beaten into the Southern Song Dynasty by the Jin State? But how can the current thousand Song cavalry have half a cowardly appearance, Xu Xuan Xin Chou two generals took the lead, rushed into the Western Xia army on both sides, and each led five hundred iron cavalry behind him, like two sharp arrows, and tore two holes in front of the Western Xia cavalry formation.

"Kill!"

The roar was like thunder, and the killing intent shook the sky, although the Western Xia army had already seen them rush out, they didn't take them in their eyes at all, but they didn't expect that the Great Song cavalry would be so iron-blooded, and they still resolutely rushed over in front of an array dozens of times larger than them.

The Western Xia army was in a commotion, but this mere 1,000 men and horses did not have much impact on them at all, the cavalry was originally in a horizontal formation, Xu Xuan and Xin Chou's rush in, the leader of the team raised his long knife and changed the formation immediately, and the two sides immediately surrounded the 1,000 men and horses into two battle circles.

Xu Zizhen saw clearly on the close, although he had already expected such a result, he still shouted: "Not good! I'm afraid they won't be able to come back. ”

Meng Du looked at the outside of the pass expressionlessly, he didn't know that they couldn't come back, but what could he do, the sudden attack of the Western Xia army made him completely unprepared, and now even if the Deshun army arrived immediately, then these thousand soldiers would not be spared.

Xu Xuan is a young general, silver helmet, silver armor and silver gun, he knows the strength of the armor of the Western Xia army, so when he rushes into battle, he will go straight to the soft points such as the throat of the enemy general, his marksmanship is obviously from the hands of famous masters, and he has taken the lives of several enemy generals in just a few ups and downs.

It's just that the characteristics of the young man are good and bad, he is full of physical strength and high morale, but the same lack of experience, in the dangerous environment of the army looking around, he actually committed an impulsive mistake, the more he killed, the more excited he became, and gradually broke away from the soldiers behind him, and actually broke into the depths of the Western Xia army alone.

Xin Chou leopard's head is ringed, his face is full of beard, and he has a big axe in his hand, he doesn't care what soft gear is not soft, rushing into the Western Xia cavalry is a burst of slashing and smashing, the axe is as big as a millstone, no matter how hard the Xixia armor is, those cavalry who are hit by him will immediately spray blood and knock off the horse.

But Xin Chou looked at the coarse person, but in fact, he was coarse and fine, he never separated too far from the soldiers behind him, and in line with the belief that he could kill one by one, he only gritted his teeth and blindly fought fiercely.

Xu Xuan's five hundred iron horsemen suddenly fell into an obvious disadvantage after losing the figure of the general, but they still did not have the slightest timidity, and kept slashing and killing until they were cut off their horses by the long knives of the Western Xia iron horses.

There was silence in Jincheng Pass, and even the sound of breathing could be heard clearly, and everyone was staring at the battle situation outside the gate, tugging at their hearts.

The two battle circles gradually changed significantly, although Xin Chou's team fell into a hard battle, but they could barely resist in a group, which also slowed down the advance speed of Bu Bazi, and Xu Xuan's five hundred soldiers were not so lucky, and people in the battle circle kept falling off their horses, even if they were not hacked to death, they were also trampled to death by Western Xia war horses, and when Xu Xuan came back to his senses in shock, the five hundred soldiers were far away from him, and at this time there was only one percent left.

Seo Hyun was furious and turned his horse's head to return for help, but his impatience made him make a mistake again, and it was a fatal mistake, and a long knife slashed at his back when he turned back.

"Humph!" Xu Xuan was extremely tough, he only snorted and turned his head, and stabbed the enemy general who attacked him with a single shot, but at this time, two long knives attacked, and no matter how high he was, it was difficult to dodge, and he suddenly fell on this desolate field.

In the distance, Xin Chou could see it clearly, and roared angrily: "Summer dog! Lao Tzu fought with you! ”

With a shout, Xin Chou split the people and horses around him into two, and Xu Xuan died, which means that the battle circle is about to be closed, and his five hundred horsemen are about to be annihilated.

Meng Du clenched his teeth, he knew that this delay was unsuccessful, and the only thing he could do at the moment was to continue to send troops out of the pass to charge the battle, until all the 8,000 soldiers were martyred and helpless, because after Jincheng was already Lanzhou City, he couldn't lose!

He took out two more tokens, and was just about to open his mouth to send troops to punish the general, Xu Zizhen rushed over and snatched it, and said word by word with a blushing face: "This one is mine!" ”