Chapter 574: You Can't Get Out, You Can't Win
The situation on the battlefield is as devastating as the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves.
The Western Xia cavalry, whose horse head was held down by the black beans on the ground, was no longer a threat at all, although they had tens of thousands of troops, but they had no backhand in the face of the five thousand pro-army iron cavalry that had been gathering strength for a long time. Besides, the combat power of the hussars and horsemen is not weak, even if they open up the formation and hedge, they will not necessarily weaken the party members.
Now he has taken the absolute initiative, and even taught them a hard lesson.
The army swept straight if it was chopping melons and vegetables, and after the battle, the casualties were counted, and the casualties of the pro-army iron cavalry were less than 200 horsemen. Their opponents, tens of thousands of Western Xia cavalry, were slashed and killed by more than 3,000 people, and the rest ran away by a third at most, and the rest all surrendered and were captured.
When they came, there were tens of thousands of cavalry, but when they left, only 2,000 horsemen were left to flee in a hurry.
Lu Qian looked at the cavalry whose morale was high and their fighting spirit was still high after fighting for a while, and he didn't say a word, just waved his hand, and the black cloud-like cavalry group spread its horses' hooves and chased after the fleeing Western Xia soldiers.
Then the armies also attacked, the cavalry went first, and the infantry army arrived later.
Wei Ming Qu Huai fled in the wilderness, galloping all the way back to the Xixia military village, and there were only a thousand cavalry left on each other's side. The rest was pulled on the road.
The speed of the war horse is very fast, but the endurance is also limited, can An be able to travel sixty miles round trip in a short time without eating or drinking?
Those who only care about walking fast in the escape, and do not move a side horse, run a certain distance, and after the horsepower is insufficient, will they fall behind?
There was no fighting in front of Yongle City, and there were not even Western Xia soldiers, Lu Junyi saw an embarrassed Western Xia cavalry rushing towards his camp, which was to open the city gate, so he led the troops over.
If so, after a collision, Wei Mingqu Huai's department folded another two or three hundred horses.
By the time the cavalry of the Liangshan Army arrived, Li Heda's face was already dark and shining. He had never seen such a bad move, and he had never seen such a miserable defeat. Tens of thousands of cavalry were cut down in less than half an hour, as if they were chopping melons and vegetables. Twenty percent escaped, and the rest were taken prisoner.
Half of the two percent that ran out were lost on the road, and the remaining half was cut off in the blink of an eye when they approached the camp......
It's a nightmare that never wakes up, and when you think you're going to wake up, you're still in a nightmare; When you think you're awake again, you're still in a nightmare. That's an endless cycle......
Look.
Li Heda saw that the situation was not good, and just as he was about to lead his troops away, the horse army of the Liangshan army had already arrived. They have lost nearly 10,000 cavalry, and this strength has been greatly reduced, and the large face can still suppress the Liangshan army before - the cavalry is strong, and now it can only be said that it is half a catty. It's still only on the surface, not on the inside.
Without these tens of thousands of cavalry troops, their strength has tended to be inferior. But with more than 5,000 iron cavalry and the defenders in Yongle City staring at him, he really didn't dare to act rashly. But he also knew that at most, tomorrow, the main force of the Liangshan Army's infantry army would arrive, and what awaited him at that time would be the ultimate nightmare!
Therefore, isn't the fate of this Western Xia army constantly spinning in layers of nightmares.
At dawn the next day, at the beginning of the hour, the sky was already bright. On the horizon, a large army poured out, first a thin line, and in the blink of an eye, it became a sea of fire.
The sound of war drums from far and near, one after another, resounded straight into people's hearts.
There were ten drum carts in Lu Qian's infantry army, and the strong men with bare bodies held drumsticks the thickness of duck eggs, all of them had enough strength.
The 20,000 infantry marched to the beat of drums, and the crimson robes were connected into a sea of red, as if it was an endless sea of fire, from far to near. A wave of overwhelming momentum arose.
The head of the city looked at the army arriving from the south, and his eyes flashed with endless excitement. This battle is really going to be safe.
"Open the gates!" shouted the order, according to the news that Lu Qian sent people last night, the soldiers and horses in Yongle City had to fight as a whole.
Two thousand five hundred infantry armor rushed out to form the simplest phalanx, lined up on the side of the cavalry.
Li Heda's face was as cold as a Helan mountain stone in the cold winter. This kind of situation of walking, not getting out, fighting, and not being able to fight, really made him angry. He had already sent someone to report to Richard, but the high and horizontal hills cut off the connection between the two armies, and no matter how timely Richard sent his troops, it was impossible for reinforcements to arrive overnight.
All he can do now is to hold on to the village and hold on until the Jin King's reinforcements arrive.
"Kill ......"
The battle on the battlefield entered the white-hot at the beginning, and the Liangshan army was in high morale, facing the rain of arrows of the Western Xia soldiers, and one by one the sword and axe men wearing heavy armor stepped on the filled trenches and rushed straight to the camp of the Xia army. Outside the simple camp, there were only some horse-repellent antlers, most of which were made by the Western Xia army overnight yesterday. How can you stop them from moving forward?
Whether they were pulled down with ropes or cut off one by one with axes and knives, the remaining thin fence could not stop them. Then the Western Xia army poured over.
The armor of the Tangut people is still quite famous, because their forging skills are cold tempered by the Central Plains that were eliminated many years earlier.
In later generations, there are still some brain-dead people who respect the cold calcination of Xixia and blow it to the old bull, but in essence, the cold calcination is calcined without heating, which is more beneficial to the improvement of the strength of the material, and also saves the need for heating, and avoids oxidation and burning loss in the heating process. Doesn't it seem like there are many benefits? Unfortunately, there is one thing, the material must be the same.
In terms of the quality of iron ore in Handi, after smelting the iron, you can try it? That can't be.
In this way, some people say that the quality of China's iron ore will be known by later generations, and the whole country is garbage. Why can Xixia be cold calcined? Isn't that in China? So, it's still highly skilled and skilled.
But the fact is that in later generations, there is no longer heard of the Hengshan Mountain Range, where there are still iron mines, but in the current season, it is the benefit of more salt and iron, and the Xia people persist in living. The iron tools unearthed in the Qingtang and Tang Qiang regions in later generations also prove that the steel raw materials there are more resistant to corrosion.
But in any case, the Xixia people's Qizijia and Xia people's swords are still quite powerful.
These people also know that if they can't hold the camp and withstand the impact of the Liangshan army, they will be dead and lifeless. Compared with the Hengshan Mountain, which stretches for thousands of miles, the mountain road in the Hengshan Mountain is as thin as a capillary-like path, but it is also one or two hundred meters wide. It was possible to cross by cavalry, the only flaw was the ruggedness of the mountain road.
How do they escape?
The Liangshan army is different from the Song army, and the cavalry capital is abundant. Once defeated, they fled into the mountain road, and it was impossible to escape the pursuit of the Leung Mountain Army.
Therefore, they have no choice but to resist this way of life. In this way, the two sides immediately entered a white heat.