Chapter 330: Complete Victory
Finish, this may be a desperate thought, but in reality, these cavalry are really about the same.
The heavy longbow and the ordinary longbow cooperate with each other, and the strength displayed has made the Western Xia army unable to resist.
The camp of the Western Xia cavalry is not particularly dense, and the hit rate is not very high, but the advantage of the longbow is never a single attack, but a dense covering attack.
The rate of fire of heavy archers is a little slower than that of ordinary archers, but it is also slow, in 20 rounds, heavy longbowmen shot 200,000 arrows, even if the hit rate is only three percent, they also hit 6000, plus the covering attacks of other longbows, they fire faster, more numerous, and more effective, when a quarter of an hour later, the stormy longbow, when it stopped a little, the Western Xia army had lost more than 12,000 people.
Heavy archers are more of a devastating attack, as long as they are hit by a huge armor-piercing bow, it is enough to take out this cavalry, as for more damage, it is caused by a longbow, more longbowmen, more arrows fired, and the hit rate is also higher than that of heavy longbows, especially the kind that hits horses, which are hit by stimulated horses, or tripped up, are also among them.
About 4 percent of the loss, I don't even know where the opponent is, in this case, no one can imagine, every minute and every second someone falls, every time, there are cavalry arrows, in the crazy attack, arrows in the sky, it is really a rain of arrows, the arrows that keep falling, and they keep making killing.
The darkness can block their tracks, but it also restricts the command of the generals.
The most fortunate thing for the Western Xia generals is the choice of time, the last moment has also passed, when the sky ushered in a glimmer of sunshine, the sky is finally about to dawn, they can finally see who attacked them.
The dawn of the day means that the trap will not work, and the most difficult moment of the cavalry will pass, in his opinion, it is just the archers, as long as they can rush through, they should be able to kill the opponent, which is also the advantage of the cavalry over the archers.
After dawn, they found that they were facing a phalanx of heavy infantry of at least 7,000 people, with the help of erected tower shields and extra-long spears, forming a steel forest, which could not be survived at all.
The spear and the tower shield, shining with steel, had just been baptized by the longbow, and the cavalry, which was already in confusion, could not impact such a complete phalanx.
Looking at the other side, it was those who were stationed in the camp, the Western Xia army, and they also took a breath of cold air, and the horse pits were dense, and they were everywhere.
If they rush over, they don't know how many soldiers and horses they will lose. They can't get over at all, there are Jedi on both sides, and the rain of arrows is constantly appearing, and if they stay like this, the final result will be very terrible.
Obviously, if they continue like this, they will not be able to achieve victory at all, and their only purpose is to run and leave this place.
If they run away, they have to run out of range, and before the speed of the horse increases, they need to bear at least 10 waves of arrow rain, that is, they may have to pay about 5,000 casualties, which is equivalent to saying that an army of 30,000 people will lose 60%
They never thought that the Northern Song army would be so difficult, they didn't realize at all why this was happening, but if they didn't leave, then they all had to stay.
At this time, when running for their lives became the only option, they began to flee frantically, and the only direction they could go was backwards.
It's a pity that they moved too late, if there are still 20,000 people in the Western Xia army, the cavalry of the Northern Song Dynasty will definitely not be able to take it out, but when there are only about 10,000 people, then it must be taken out.
In the entire army, the Northern Song Dynasty army has only 5,000 cavalry, or selected from many cavalry, the horses may not be as good as the war horses of the Western Xia, but they are also the choice of the moment, the 10,000 war horses given by Liao Xingzong, although they have been checked, they are not bad, but some problems have been found, some are disabled, some are some hidden worries, and they must be trained for a long time to be able to use them.
Even if the horses are a little weaker, the advantages in equipment are enough to solve all the problems, even Zhou Wenxiu has excellent equipment, as his own son, the Northwest Forbidden Army of the Northern Song Dynasty, how can he not have it, but it is an establishment of 5,000 people, this is no problem, everything is the best, and even the Daimyo Mansion himself refined.
All armor is made of fine iron, lightweight, and is also covered with carbon.
This process is Zhao Xin told Niu Dali, Niu Dali tried to do it, but did not make an excellent armor, but it can be regarded as a thing that can be used, this armor with very strong protective ability, the light type is at least 40% lighter than the previous armor, and the overall effect is very terrible.
This is already a very large number, Zhou Wenxiu's reduction of 10% is enough to move them, this is 40%, the protection force does not decrease but increases, under this premise, the combat effectiveness of this 5000 cavalry is a little small, and the tactical literacy of the Northern Song Dynasty army, as well as combat sensitivity, is far stronger than that of Western Xia, and they outflanked it early.
Barely holding the camp, and when he retreated quickly, he happened to collide with the outflanked cavalry troops.
When the cavalry of the Northern Song Dynasty appeared, the Western Xia was very disdainful, the Northern Song Dynasty may have done something in the infantry, or archers, but the cavalry, did the Northern Song Dynasty have cavalry, their cavalry was more than one grade worse than the Western Xia and the Liao State.
But soon, the face of the Western Xia general was iron and blue, because of the preliminary collision, the cavalry of the Northern Song Dynasty, whether in terms of combat effectiveness or neatness, was far above the other party, in this case, how to fight, in the initial contact, after paying more than 2,000 casualties, the rest surrendered.
The whole battle lasted for more than half an hour, from the beginning to the end, very quickly, it was a fast-paced war, but when it was over, Han Qi breathed a sigh of relief.
This is very tactically demanding, and the slightest problem in any one place can have unpredictable consequences.
Han Qi had already taken everything into account, but the battlefield was full of unknowns, he could only consider the worst outcome, fortunately, everything was perfect, they successfully used 40,000 people, with minimal damage, to kill the 30,000 troops of Western Xia.
But this is not the final end, the 30,000 Western Xia army is not all the forces they face at all, this is just a temptation sent by the Liao State, destroying them, it just represents their temporary safety, the Song army still has these spoils, if the Liao army comes, can they still replicate this result, no, Han Qi did not dare to have the slightest stay, and immediately ordered everyone to return to the east immediately.