Chapter 21: Tragedy

The night of scuffle has finally passed, the sound of fighting that has been shouted all night has finally stopped, the dawn is breaking in the east, the morning glow is full of sky, and today is a rare good weather.

But many people never see the rising sun again.

In last night's battle, the army of more than 100,000 Western thieves was defeated, and the entire army was almost wiped out!

Speaking of which, the strength of the Western Xia Army, even though it is inferior to the Liangshan Army in many places, such as weapons, organization and discipline, and tactical tactics are also restrained, but the individual quality of the Western Thief Cavalry is stronger than that of the Liangshan Army, and the combat experience is much richer, and the number of people is absolutely superior, and it is a local battle.

Originally, it was impossible for the Western Thief to be defeated so badly.

The defeat of the Western Thief was mainly due to the serious damage to morale and the collapse of will.

It's human nature, and when chaos arises, it's not surprising that some people pretend to be a captive army and attack their comrades, incessantly incite, and Richard is dead, and despair spreads like a plague, and it is not surprising that many people can't bear the pressure and go crazy and kill each other.

Not to mention that the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Western Thieves were not monolithic in the first place, more than half of them were party members, and a small half were Tubo, yellow-headed Uighurs, and the Han people who were plundered by them and used as cannon fodder.

These people originally had a feud with the party members, but for various reasons they had to serve as mercenaries and cannon fodder for the party members. If the party members can defeat the Liangshan army, the national strength of the Western Xia State is still strong, and these people will not dare to betray easily even if they have two hearts.

But now the party is not the opponent of the Liangshan army at all, and the Western Xia Kingdom has been surrounded by the Song Dynasty for more than half a year, and it is now that the country is about to be destroyed.

Last night, the special combat personnel of the Liangshan Army killed people and set fire to the camp of the party members, creating chaos, and then carried out the tactic of beheading, taking advantage of the chaos to shoot Brother Richard to death.

But even so, it is still impossible to completely annihilate the remaining party troops, because it is impossible for the Liangshan special combat team members to assassinate all the party leading generals, and not all party soldiers are not firm-minded.

Seeing that the overall situation had been decided, they did not forcibly reverse the defeat, but the strong man broke his wrist and wanted to escape here with the party soldiers and soldiers who had not yet been in chaos, so as to protect the vitality of the Great Xia State.

But at this time, the army of the Tubo people and the yellow-headed Uighurs took the opportunity to enter the camp of the Dangxiang people, and the Han war slaves in the camp also took advantage of the chaos to seize weapons and fight with them.

In peacetime, the Dangxiang people were naturally not afraid of them, but at this time, the army had no fighting spirit, and the defeat was like a mountain, and the Dangxiang people, who only wanted to escape, still had the slightest will to fight, and they were blocked and beaten in the camp by the Tibetans and the yellow-headed Uighurs.

However, Rao is like this, after all, the Dangxiang people have stronger combat power, better weapons and equipment, and they only want to rush out and escape, and the casualties on the side of the Tubo and the yellow-headed Uighurs are still not small.

It was still the head of the Tubo tribes, Xin Mu Duoji, who had the wit to send people to persuade him to surrender, and seeing that if he continued to fight, he would lose both, and these party members really surrendered.

On the contrary, it was a night attack on the camp of the Liangshan army, and the 40,000 elite party members of Kuma Caiwei's department carried out a very stubborn resistance, so that the Liangshan army suffered a lot of losses.

In fact, this is not surprising, the morale of the army is so low, at this time, it must be the elite of the Western Thieves who dare to launch a night attack on the Liangshan Army, and all the soldiers must have prepared for the worst before the battle and completed the psychological construction.

At this time, they were suddenly surrounded, and they fell into the trap of the Liangshan army, and the 40,000 western thieves became mourning soldiers, and when all of them chose to break through the siege and rush out desperately, blocking them The Liangshan army naturally had to bear huge pressure.

The battle was at the beginning of the battle, when Lin Chong appeared in the center of the camp on horseback, archers and spearmen standing in front of him and behind him, in front of the archers and spearmen, there were many temporary deer and spear repulsion pistols, which were not hidden and buried, Kuma Cai Wei Ming immediately made a decision, he could not rush hard, but could only return the same way.

At this time, the signal flare was raised, and soon after, the camp of Richard Brother Zhong was on fire, and there was a neat and heavy footstep outside the camp, seeing that the situation was critical, the eyes of the 40,000 Western thieves were immediately red, and they kicked and beat the horses desperately, and launched a fierce charge against the Liangshan soldiers and horses who intercepted them.

At this time, they quietly went around to the outside of the camp, and before the Liangshan infantry formation behind them could finish the formation, the Liangshan cavalry had to rush up as soon as possible to buy time for the infantry formation.

The frontal cavalry hedged, and the Liangshan army was naturally dispatched by heavy cavalry.

The two heavy cavalry teams, which were mainly composed of Runing heavy cavalry (Huyanzhuo ironclad chain horse) and Xi Wangfu armored cavalry, lined up in a neat array, collided with the cavalry of the party for the first time.

After all, the Western Thief Cavalry is mainly light cavalry, and when they are hit by heavy cavalry in a dense formation, where can they have the slightest strength to fight back, they were immediately broken through the array of six or seven layers, and everything they said was destroyed and crushed.

However, after all, there are few people in Liangshan heavy cavalry, and the heavy cavalry relies on speed to rush into formation, and the speed of these heavy cavalry breaking through the six or seven layers of array is slowly decreasing, and continuing to charge will only fall into the formation and fight with the Western Thief Cavalry.

So they had to be divided into two, and under the leadership of Hu Yanzhuo and Xiao Wenshunu, they temporarily withdrew from the battlefield and regrouped.

But the western thieves were also desperate at this time, even if the six or seven platoons of cavalry in front were almost swept away by the Liangshan heavy cavalry, but they were surrounded by people from front to back, and there was no way to retreat, and they could only survive by rushing out.

All the western thieves did not slow down slightly, but still frantically increased their speed and speed, desperately crashing into the Liangshan army's infantry formation.

Fortunately, at this time, the large formation of the Liangshan Army's infantry army that was intercepted in the rear was finally barely completed, and the leading generals Xu Ning, Shi Jin, Fan Rui, Shan Tingqi, Wei Dingguo, Zhang Xiucen and others immediately raised the command flag in their hands and ordered loudly.

I heard a buzzing sound in the air like a wasp flapping its wings, and countless short crossbow arrows burst out, rushing straight at the cavalry brigade of the western thieves.

The power of the Divine Arm Bow was completely revealed in such a close range of flat shots, and more than a thousand crossbow arrows crashed into the array of the Western Thief Army like flying locusts, and immediately blood splashed, and screams rang out in the sky.

I saw that the front rows of the Western Thief cavalry fell almost simultaneously, and the men and horses rolled into a ball, and the Liangshan Army crossbowmen swept away the front rows of cavalry again.

And after the first round of shooting, the crossbowmen in the back did not continue to step forward, but handed over the crossbow machine in their hands, and the result was that the front line was empty, and then the second round of intensive shooting, and finally the third round.

Such a tactic similar to the three-stage shooting of later generations can make the crossbow bolts fired continuously without interruption at all.

In addition, the divine arm bow is at such a range, even if it is not a problem for one arrow to penetrate two, there is also a problem of shooting in the air, so the damage caused by the arrow array to the Western Thief Cavalry can be imagined, and suddenly I saw these Western Thief Cavalry falling in rows like dumplings, and the corpses of men and horses almost covered the entire battlefield.

But even so, these western thief cavalry still did not slow down, let alone retreat, because behind them, they were also greeted by a rain of arrows like locusts.

In such a desperate situation, these Western Thief Cavalry, who were in ruins and fighting against the water, also broke out with amazing blood and bravery, forgetting their fear, and only having a crazy look in their eyes, but they recklessly charged and charged, speeding up and speeding up, and really let them rush to the front of the Liangshan Army's infantry formation.

It was the first time since the Liangshan Army was formed that it was rushed to such a close distance in front of the infantry army on horseback, and no matter how strict the military discipline of the Liangshan Army was, no matter how many similar exercises there were on weekdays, most of the crossbowmen were still inevitably terrified.

However, at the critical moment, it was the strict military discipline and training of the Liangshan Army that played a role, even if everyone was afraid, nervous and sweaty, with a dry mouth, and trembling legs, but no one dared to scream in shock, let alone turn around and run.

All the crossbowmen were just stupid, relying entirely on instinct to rewind the bow of the Divine Arm by stepping on the string, and then immediately pulling the trigger to fire, or listening to the roar of the officer, mechanically and frantically bending their bows and arrows.

At this time, the spearmen of the Liangshan army had also come out of the crowd, blocking in front of the crossbowmen, nervously nailing the handle of the spear to the ground as the usual training instructor taught, holding the shaft of the spear with both hands, and silently reciting the mantra of the spearman to ride on foot in his mouth.

"The body should be small, the spear should be steady, the tip of the spear should be obliquely upward, do not poke, and wait for Hu Qi to collide with himself......"

Just as he was silently thinking, soon the first cavalry of the Western Thief Cavalry had already flown straight over, and the officer-like Western Thief Knight's eyes were red, and he shouted wildly, and he waved the mace in his hand vigorously, and smashed it on the head of the Liangshan sergeant in front of him.

The thief officer charged so fast that his crotch mount was almost flying into the air on all fours, and soon the two collided.

The Liangshan sergeant was also frightened, but his legs were weak subconsciously, and his body fell backwards, but at this time, the spear in his hand was still grasped steadily, and the front hooves raised by the war horse swept dangerously in front of his forehead.

Immediately afterwards, this majestic Hequ BMW slammed into the tip of the spear that was still raised diagonally upward, and the huge momentum was immediately added to the spear shaft, and the spear snapped and broke, and the Liangshan sergeant was also shocked backwards by the force of the anti-shock, and a small leg was pressed under the war horse, and was immediately crushed, and the screams inevitably sounded.

However, compared to him, the western thief officer was even more miserable, his war horse was stabbed by a spear in the horse's neck, and before the whole person could react, he was thrown to the side with the war horse, and was crushed under the horse's belly, and his head was still hit on the ground, and he fainted immediately.

The two were only seriously injured, and immediately afterward, more and more Western Thief Knights rushed in and slammed into the thin spear formation of the Liangshan Army.

A party knight's meteor hammer smashed the head of a Liangshan sergeant, directly smashing the helmet into a dent, red blood plasma and white brain pulp burst out, and he himself was stabbed into the neck and lower abdomen of the horse by two spears respectively, and even the man and the horse fell into the dust.

A Liangshan Army crossbowman nervously shot a crossbow arrow in his hand, and an arrow killed a Western Thief knight who had rushed to his eyes less than two feet, but the next moment a spear roared, directly hitting his chest and abdomen, Rao is body was wearing the latest cold forging armor of the Liangshan Army, and it was immediately penetrated, and the whole person was nailed to the ground by this spear!

Everywhere there was a scene of people turning over on their backs, flesh and blood flying, stumps and severed arms, human heads, and internal organs were sprinkled everywhere, shouting and killing shook the heavens and the earth, and the fighting between the two sides reached the most tragic and bloody point.

By this time, both sides were red-eyed, adrenaline was soaring, and everyone completely forgot about fear, forgot about pain, and just fought desperately, exchanging lives for lives.

Fortunately, at this time, the Liangshan heavy cavalry, which had just withdrawn from the battlefield, finally regrouped, and also desperately launched an attack from the left and right flanks of the Western Thief.

Because it was the absolute advantage of the flank attack, and it was from the left and right flanks, this time the heavy cavalry of the Liangshan Army was not forced to slow down and had to withdraw from the battlefield after breaking through the six or seven layers of the formation as it did before, but all the way to the ground, directly cutting off the Western Thief Cavalry.

On the other side, relying on the obstruction of the two rows of spearmen in front, the crossbowmen in the back finally completed a three-stage shot again, and at such a close distance, these three rounds of rapid fire immediately swept away the seven or eight rows of knights of the enemy in front of them, and the places with the most serious casualties, the corpses of men and horses were piled up almost one person high.

At this time, the speed of the cavalry of the West Thief finally slowed down, even if it was as brave as killing the red eye, but the West Thief finally collapsed at this time, and many people just strangled the war horse in a daze, looking at the scene of flesh and blood flying in front of them, and did not know what to do.

More people just threw away the blades in their hands, desperately patted the horses and just wanted to escape from both sides, and then stepped directly into the horse trap, or were entangled in barbed wire, and even the people and horses fell into the dust.

At this point, the battle finally ended, Rao is heart is like iron, Lin Chong, who witnessed all this from a distance in the center of the Liangshan military camp, couldn't help but have blood all over his body, heartache, and pride.

This battle was really too tragic, I didn't expect the Western Thief Cavalry to be in a desperate situation, and the will to resist was so strong, I still underestimated these Western Thieves and Robbers.

Even though they are a barbarian nation, even though most of the thieves have been seriously demoralized and shaken the morale of the army, when the nation is in danger, there are still some people who will stand up and fight to the end.

Compared with those Western thieves who killed each other in the camp of the Western Thieves, these Western Thieves are undoubtedly more worthy of admiration.

However, what made Lin Chong even more proud was the outstanding performance of the Liangshan army, at the moment of danger, when the Western Thief Cavalry rushed to the spear formation, Lin Chong was really worried that they would not be able to hold on, and he was directly frightened and collapsed, if that was the case, the loss on his side would be too great.

Fortunately, he is worthy of being a soldier trained by himself, and he did not disappoint himself at the critical moment!