Chapter 153: The War Is Over
Although the island country has lost half of its combat strength, the enemy still has the strength of an integrated cavalry division at this moment, and now the opponent's cavalry has already charged into battle, and they can rush to Ling Xia and them in an instant.
"Spearmen ready!" With a roar, ten 10,000 people armed with three-meter spears rushed to the front of the camp, and the soldiers raised their spears and pushed the bottom of the spear to the ground, the tip of the spear was tilted at an angle of forty-five degrees, and if the enemy's cavalry rushed forward, they would inevitably be pierced by the spear.
The spearmen scattered their positions, not only to ensure that they could stab the enemy cavalry, but also to ensure that they could evacuate safely and avoid being swept away by the opponent's war horses, the cavalry division was getting closer and closer, and Ling Xia had already smelled the violent aura emanating from the opponent's body.
"Charge!"
"Kill!"
When the cavalry of the island country rushed into the front of the battle guards, they threw out the short spears in their hands, and more than 30,000 short spears flew towards the battle guard camp like meteors under the blessing of the cavalry's rapid inertia.
After throwing the short spear in his hand, the island cavalry pulled out two meniscus waist knives from their waists, the blade was more than three feet long, in the shape of a meniscus arc, which was specially designed for cavalry, the cavalry held a waist knife in each hand, rushed to the soldiers, and the cavalry was attached to the horse, waving the waist knife with both hands and slashing.
The cavalry of the island nation used their horses as cover to avoid the oncoming spears, and although some cavalry avoided the main parts of the spear stabbing, some of the outer parts such as the legs and shoulders were inevitably stabbed by the spears, but the cavalry did not care at all.
Ignoring their own injuries, the cavalry began to take advantage of the horse's advantage to charge, and after the horse knocked people over, the cavalry took the opportunity to wield their waist knives to reap the lives of the soldiers around them, and the waist knives took the life of a soldier of the war guard in a single stab.
Seeing that the cavalry had rushed in, the guards picked the cavalry off their horses with their spears, pressed them to the ground, and shouted loudly: "Give up resistance, surrender and don't kill." But the cavalry paid no heed, got up from the ground, and continued to attack with their swords.
Seeing that the cavalry of the island country was so fierce, the war guards were also anxious, the spearmen kept hooking, picking the cavalry on horseback, the archers aimed at the cavalry to shoot, hook chains, three-claw ropes, fish hook nets, and all kinds of weapons against the cavalry emerged in endlessly.
The battle guards even brought a section of wooden stakes and threw them on the ground to hinder the horses, and many soldiers rushed under the horses, cutting the legs of the horses with a weapon that resembled a sickle, and some people put rope locks around the necks of the cavalrymen and dragged them off their horses.
The battle was very fierce, and it took two hours to end the battle, but at this time the battle at the city gate was not over, 60,000 cavalry plus 10,000 archers, 70,000 men fought 30,000 men, and the battle was not won or lost for two hours.
The battle at the city gate was even more tragic than that in the inner city, the smell of blood was smelled thousands of meters away, there were corpse fragments all around the city gate, and the blue brick city wall had been dyed blood red, Ling Xia couldn't stand this kind of scene, so he had to let someone carry an official sedan chair.
After sitting in the sedan chair, with the sedan curtain blocking, Ling Xia finally couldn't see the blood outside, he breathed a long sigh of relief, felt left and right, Ling Xia was secretly moved, and turned around He designed a sedan chair by himself, as long as he sat in the sedan chair, he didn't have to worry about seeing the blood outside.
When he led his people to the gate of the city, he saw that there were still four or five thousand cavalry left in the island country, and the cavalry on his side had lost more than 20,000 people.
In addition to being stunned, Ling Xia was reluctant to let his side have any more losses, he gave an order, the siege crossbow was fired at the island cavalry as if it didn't need money, 200,000 spearmen threw spears at the same time, and the archers also took turns to fire volleys, relying on the absolute numerical superiority, the remaining cavalry was wiped out at the city gate.
After the battle, Ling Xia ordered to clean up the battlefield immediately, collect and repair the equipment that could still be used, sort out the damage data, transport the enemy's corpses out of the city and burn them, restore the city walls and ground, treat the wounded soldiers, block the news, create mystery, and not let anyone know about tonight's battle.
At the same time, Ling Xia sent out 100,000 soldiers from Ziyanjiang and asked Situ Chenfeng to rush to the entrance of Yanxiujiang overnight.
The next morning, after hundreds of thousands of soldiers were urgently busy, they finally finished cleaning the battlefield after dawn, and at this moment, except for Ling Xia, Xia Ning'er, and the twenty general soldiers of the two Xinjiangs, no one knew that there was a bloody battle here last night.
In the council hall of the Governor's Palace, Ling Xia's expression was a little heavy, looking at the tired look of those commanders of the general army, Ling Xia first encouraged everyone, and then he told everyone about the losses in the battle:
"Ladies and gentlemen, in that bloody battle last night, five True Qi cultivation masters, including the commander of the opposing team, and a hundred warriors with internal strength cultivation were captured, in addition, the island cavalry corps was completely annihilated, and 62,000 excellent war horses were captured.
To be honest, I underestimated the military quality of the other party's soldiers, before I wanted to capture the other party's 100,000 cavalry, let those prisoners do coolie mining, now think about it, that idea is too naïve, the other party's 100,000 cavalry did not surrender, all chose to die on the battlefield.
After talking about the losses of the other side, let's talk about the losses on our side, this time we gathered 500,000 soldiers, calculated intentionally, set up a trap in one place, and fought more people than others, but that's it, we also lost 23,000 cavalry and 24,000 soldiers of other arms.
Together, our side lost a total of 47,000 soldiers, and the other side killed 100,000 soldiers, although on the surface it seems that we won, but in fact we lost, everyone should not forget, our side dispatched 500,000 troops.
With five times more troops than the other side, we still lost so many people, if the two legions met, we would never be the opponent of those invaders, and fortunately we gathered so many people this time, if there were fewer of them, it was estimated that both would be defeated. ”
When Ling Xia and Xia Ning'er summarized and sorted out the war data from the conference hall, in the base camp of the island country, Zhongyuan Yingzi stood in front of the sand table of the camp tent with a frown, looking at the military staff officers who came in and out of the surroundings, and she whispered secretly: "Strange? Yesterday Taro passed the word that he was ready to act, and it stands to reason that he should have succeeded last night, so why hasn't there been any news yet? ”