Chapter 507: Overwhelming
When all the teams were draped and ready, they immediately came out of the side of the mountain, and then quickly rushed towards the Iron Forest Army.
The location of the mountain, near the battlefield, the angle chosen by Yuan Hao is very suitable, compared to the Tielin Army, the angle of entry is better, only less than 2 miles away, at most more than a hundred breaths of time, the heavy cavalry can cross the distance between them.
The sudden sound of horses' hooves broke the situation on the battlefield, and the knights belonging to the Dangxiang clan, with a burst of excitement, a Tielin army was enough to kill them, so that they could not escape, even if other Liao troops came, they would not gallop so fast.
Then, there is only one possibility, that is, reinforcements from Yuan Hao, these frightened knights, they haven't realized that Yuan Hao has used them as bait, but the feeling of escaping from the ascension still makes them extremely happy.
Unlike the happiness of the Dangxiang clan, the Tielin Army was in a panic, in order to take down these cavalry as much as possible, they put all their strength into it, not even a little reserve remained, and even the commander personally went into battle, and the temptation to capture Yuan Hao, like a devil, devoured him and made him attack frantically.
No one thought that these cavalry, not all, there were ambushes, maybe you can't think of it, how did these people get to the vicinity, but if you don't concentrate your forces, you will be passive.
It's a pity that more than 100 breaths of time, on the battlefield, is only a very small, very small time, and the Tielin Army, which is scattered for several miles around, is only about 2,000 people, and it can't be concentrated at all.
In a short time, the commander of the Tielin Army made a trade-off and ordered the nearest part to turn around on the spot and carry out a counter-charge.
If it is said that it is just ordinary cavalry, the light cavalry cannot compete with the heavy cavalry, let alone 2000 heavy cavalry, even if it is 200 heavy cavalry, they have a strong ability to charge into battle, but unfortunately, what they are facing is relying on the armor of the Northern Song Dynasty, the heavy cavalry assembled, in terms of equipment, it is a level higher than the Tielin Army, this first collision, from the beginning, is doomed.
The distance was too long, coupled with the smoke and dust rolled up by the horses, so that the commander of the Tielin Army could not judge what he was encountering, but it was closer, less than a mile, no matter how much smoke and dust, this black knight could not be stopped.
All over his body, shrouded in hideous iron armor, with a huge momentum, the heavy cavalry rushing over, which made him desperate.
Both sides are walking opposite each other, in just more than 100 breaths of time, collided together, the war that was originally evenly matched, because of the physical consumption of one side and the disparity, in the first collision, at least 1000 cavalry Tielin Army, was knocked down, in contrast, Yuan Hao under no more than 30.
The 10-to-1 battle damage made this battle, from the very beginning, doomed to end.
The heavy cavalry that rushed into battle in 2000 was not an order of magnitude in itself, let alone a huge difference in number, with the recuperation and recuperation, in the best time.
The final result of the 2,000 heavy cavalry was the result of less than 100 people, but they fell to the dust forever.
I knew that 2000 cavalry would definitely be defeated, and the number of 10 to 1 could still be victorious, which was almost impossible, but such a quick defeat still made the rest of the Tielin Army panic, obviously, these troops, I am afraid that they are even better than when they are all victorious.
The Tielin Army has never encountered such a bad situation, in order to take down these cavalry, they fought hard for an hour, whether it is physical strength, or sharpness, they have been consumed to a considerable extent, in this case, a force that is not inferior to them, stronger has always appeared, the result is doomed.
This is also the reason for the error of the Tielin Army's judgment, if according to the general thinking, the cavalry of more than 10,000 people, more than half of the losses, and even the rest, are in danger, and they may collapse at any time, pay such a big price, and these people are also fighting to the death, and there is no hidden situation at all.
This bait is inevitably too similar, almost using tens of thousands of lives, and finally exchanging this battlefield situation, such a cruel commander, are they really not worried that their subordinates will mutiny?
This has something to do with Yuan Hao's situation, these subordinates, except for a small part, the rest are not the elite forces under Yuan Hao's command, to put it bluntly, these are all sacrificeable, as long as the final result is achieved, not to mention the loss of more than half of the 15,000 people, even if it is a total loss, then what's the problem.
Yuan Hao has always been a very utilitarian person, most of his choices are made in the interests of the choice, when the Western Xia Emperor, maybe he has to consider the bottom line, there is some surface work to cover.
Now after losing everything, there is no bottom line to do it, for him, as long as he achieves his goal, anything can be sacrificed, and even these party cavalry, they found out that they were used, and if they wanted to resist, he didn't care about killing them all.
When the first 2,000 men were killed, the whole war, in fact, was over, and the heavy cavalry, which had consumed most of their physical strength, could no longer escape from the enemy's pursuit, so there was only a fight to the death.
However, even if the general of the Tielin Army made the choice of fighting to the death, he found that he had no way to concentrate his troops at all, in order to chase and kill those cavalry, he divided 20,000 people into more than ten parts, so that the efficiency of the pursuit was greatly improved, but in the face of sudden attacks, they would be broken by each one.
Even if it is rectified as much as possible, and the troops are brought together as much as possible, but all efforts are in vain, Yuan Hao's combat experience is very rich, of course he knows that the opponent, what he wants to do, he finally occupies an absolute advantage, of course it is impossible, give up this advantage.
20,000 to 20,000 to the death, perhaps the strength of each other is almost the same, whether it is morale or physical strength, are exhausted, 20,000 heavy cavalry, nightmarish opponents, one after another broke through the defense line of the Tielin Army, when the number of annihilated people is finished, it has become the last straw that overwhelms the camel, the strong attack, directly let the Tielin Army collapse, 20,000 Tielin Army, except for a few, less than 2,000 people fled, and the rest were all annihilated.
On Yuan Hao's side, the losses were minimal, with only less than 2,000 casualties, and most of them were still injured that could be recovered within a certain period of time.
Scattered and fled the heavy cavalry, Yuan Hao did not let go, and continued to send personnel to chase behind, he had a bigger plan in his heart, he must ensure that these defeated soldiers cannot leak his true strength.
After killing the Tielin Army, even the tribe that had not yet broken through finally chose to surrender, but the result was that Yuan Hao handed them over to those surviving cavalry.
Having lost more than half of their strength, the cavalry, faced with the culprit, began a killing spree.
For this, Yuan Hao has already seen no surprise, in the past eight or nine months, I don't know how many similar killings have been carried out, the killing of 4 million people, Yuan Hao's heart has been as hard as iron, these dark killings, it is better to consider the harvest.
The reason why the hardest bones are chosen, after killing these bones, everything is a smooth road, as long as its own losses are within the range of bearing, next, the other parts will not be able to block Yuan Hao's soldiers.
In the same way, the Tielin Army is a heavy cavalry, and he has all the armor, which is the foundation that Yuan Hao can use and expand with it.
After entering the grasslands, creating terrible slaughter, and plundering a terrible amount of wealth and livestock, the improvement of equipment is still in place.
This is also the fundamental reason why Yuan Hao, knowing that the Song people harbored evil intentions, or decided to change the Song people's deal, staggered this opportunity, and it was impossible for him to form a strong army.
It is a well-established fact that only heavy cavalry can deal with heavy cavalry, and it is possible to gain in the confrontation on the frontal battlefield.
Now, the 20,000 Tielin Army has almost been completely annihilated, even if some of them are lost, the remaining equipment is enough to satisfy Yuan Hao.
After cleaning the battlefield and selecting and reorganizing, Yuan Hao's heavy cavalry increased from 20,000 to 30,000, and his power increased greatly.
20,000 Tielin Army, in fact, the captured equipment is about 18,000 sets, some of which are damaged, disassembled as parts, and there are 15,000 complete sets, as well as many trained war horses.
These real war horses, perhaps, the best, are not as good as Yuan Hao's selection from millions of horses, but they are carefully selected and most suitable for heavy cavalry horses.
In the replacement of horses, almost all of them were replaced, and by that time, after the armor had been replenished, there were almost 5,000 sets left, which was also the origin of the 30,000 heavy cavalry.
When a large number of troops surrounded him, he chose to fight back, and achieved the result of killing 20,000 Tielin troops, such a result, even when he was the emperor of Western Xia, was dazzling enough, but this was not Yuan Hao's ultimate goal.
If it is the ultimate goal, he will choose the Tielin Army, which is only 10,000 people, or even less than 10,000 people, so that it will not be arranged or set up traps, and it will only succeed after consuming a lot of physical strength of the Tielin Army.
Under the premise that the number of people is about the same, and the level of training is even more than once, their ambush, if it is discovered by the other party, will be used slightly, and it will probably be them.
Even the largest and most powerful Tielin Army of 20,000 people can be defeated, and the rest, distributed in different places, only 10,000 Tielin Army at most, is even more of a problem.
Yuan Hao's ambition is very big, after a little training, the 30,000 troops led by him continued to set off, and the scouts and cavalry all over the grassland began to continuously transmit all kinds of information to Yuan Hao, Yuan Hao After careful analysis, he keenly found that after killing 20,000 people, the camp of the Liao State was somewhat broken.
In itself, the Liao State is centered on the 20,000 Tielin Army, which is the strongest force, and the commander of the Liao Army does not think that there is anything that can threaten their Tielin Army.
This is a manifestation of confidence, but it also laid the foundation of defeat, Yuan Hao played cards so unreasonably, and in the midst of adventure, he obtained a good foundation, and naturally had the foundation of each break.
In this slaughtered tribe, he stayed for two days to further figure out the information of the Tielin Army, and two days later, Yuan Hao set off again, this time, his goal was a team of 10,000 people.
Repeating the old trick before, it is impossible, in this era, there is no convenient and reliable way to ensure the connection between the legions, coupled with Yuan Hao's carefulness, the Tielin Army really doesn't know that Yuan Hao has formed such a huge force.
With 30,000 people as the base, there is no need to set up the bait in the time-consuming and laborious way, as long as you find the right team, just rush over directly, at most, it is a surprise, choose the most unlikely angle to attack, and let the heavy cavalry lay some advantages.
In the next few days, everything went very smoothly, starting from the first pair of 10,000 people, in 5 days, 2 pairs of 10,000 people were killed, and in just a few days, 40,000 Tielin troops were killed at once.
Even for the wealthy Liao State, the 40,000 Tielin Army is a huge number.
Such a huge loss, of course, caused the shock of the Liao State, not only the generals who led the troops, their families were greatly affected, even Liao Xingzong, was surprised, his 100,000 troops, is coming, relying on the center and their troops, almost 200,000, encircled and suppressed Yuan Hao, but not only did it have no effect, but let Yuan Hao begin to grow.
It is conservatively estimated that at least Yuan Hao's men have 40,000 elite cavalry.
At this time, Yuan Hao has made enough preparations, all the belongings, either with the Northern Song Dynasty to exchange the city armor, or was transported to Suzhou, it can be said that when he came to Liao, most of the purpose has been achieved, and even some of the captured armor and some of the fine Northern Song Dynasty armor have been sent back to Suzhou, even if the 40,000 people can't go back, they are enough to have 20,000 preparations, which is the capital to live in troubled times.
After doing all this, even if all of them are lost, there are some back moves, Yuan Hao reorganized his mood, he is ready to use the current elite force of almost 40,000 people, which will become the knife in Yuan Hao's hands, the Liao army from Zhongjing, after losing 40,000 Tielin Army, can only hold the current position, and can not participate in the process of besieging Yuan Hao, and the main force responsible for attacking Yuan Hao is Liao Xingzong.
An emperor, in a short period of time, went to the battlefield twice, which seems to prove that he is extraordinary, but he participated in the battle under his command, he may not necessarily win, under Helan Mountain, under Xingqing Mansion, these battles, if it were not for Han Qi's help, would have been defeated a long time ago, and now, in order to deal with Yuan Hao, he once again chose war.
War is always mutual, Liao Xingzong hopes to use the method of war to defeat Yuan Hao, Yuan Hao is the same, especially knowing that Liao Xingzong is coming day and night, Yuan Hao also finally made a decision, he still wants to give Liao a profound lesson.