Chapter 628: The Fall of Xiazhou
Since Helian Mountain City became the commander of ten thousand masters, it is not that he has suffered such a big loss, but he has never suffered such a big loss on Song Jun! So Helian Mountain City wants to take revenge! The troops formed a formation, and Helian Mountain City began to charge towards the Song army!
Seventy steps of muskets remembered, and then there was no more, Helian Mountain City's life came to an end, as the head of the wedge, he was facing at least a hundred muskets, so the first time Helian Mountain City and the people and horses fell to the ground.
The cavalry continued to move forward, sixty paces, fifty paces, forty paces, casualties continued to increase, but the charge continued, thirty paces, the Song army began to riot, twenty paces they touched the thistle terrestris, and when they were blocked, the Song army threw out a grenade.
This was a failure, because the grenade not only killed a lot of Western Xia cavalry, but also damaged a lot of thistles, and the Western Xia cavalry continued to charge, ten steps! Finally hit the heavy shield and knock the shield away! Fight into the Array of Musketeers!
The musketeers collapsed and began to flee in all directions, but the Western Xia did not achieve the victory he imagined, because he scattered only a battalion of the Song army, the Song army was a large phalanx stacked with small phalanxes, the rout retreated from the gaps between the small phalanxes, and the Western Xia cavalry had to face muskets from three directions if they wanted to pass.
At this time, the cavalry couldn't help but wonder why their generals hadn't given the next order, until this time, the remaining Western Xia cavalry was less than 5,000, and the number was decreasing at a rate of 1,000 per minute.
So a minute later, the Western Xia cavalry, who could not see their general, began to retreat, and the retreat was not as smooth as imagined, because in the end, there were less than 3,000 Western Xia cavalry who could really withdraw from the range of muskets.
When the remaining Western Xia cavalry considered whether to retreat or continue to stay here and wait for new orders, the Great Song cavalry helped them make a decision.
The Western Xia cavalry began to retreat to flee, and the panicked cavalry did not even return to the camp, and ran directly in the direction of Xiazhou, but the cavalry of the Song army waited for work, and the Western Xia cavalry had been running for a long time, so it is difficult to say how many could run away in the end.
Great victory! An unprecedented victory! For the Song army, which can blow up tens of thousands of enemies by killing a few hundred enemies, when it really kills nearly 10,000 enemies, it doesn't know how to blow it and kill hundreds of thousands of enemies? There weren't so many cavalry in the entire Western Xia.
So how to report the establishment of Tong Dafang's biggest headache this time, thinking that the other party claimed to be 30,000, Tong Dafang simply said that he would kill 30,000 enemies and send them to Tokyo, and the good news would be sent out, and the battle would still be fought.
The Song army occupied the enemy's camp on the same day and then camped on the spot, and then began to approach Xiazhou at a speed of 30 to 50 miles a day, and on the eighth day, when it was only 50 miles away from Xiazhou City, 20,000 Western Xia reinforcements from the direction of Yan'an entered Xiazhou City. Xiazhou City originally had 5,000 defenders, and the few hundred who fled back were less than 6,000.
After interrogating the cavalry who fled back this time, the general who came to help angrily killed several people in a row, because the other party was simply like telling a story, and the other party's more than 40,000 people dared to come to Xiazhou, and General Li Fu was ready to directly defeat the other party.
When Li Chuan came out of Xiazhou City with 20,000 Western Xia cavalry, the Song army also got the news, after learning the lesson of the last time, this time the Song army prepared three rows of thistles, and left a wider aisle between the small formations to ensure that their people could retreat calmly, and they didn't want to almost crush the military formation of the neighbors like last time.
Although Li Flip didn't quite believe the words of those deserters, he had to guard against such a thing, according to the deserters, when he lost about 3,000 people, he successfully rushed into the enemy formation.
Therefore, Li Chuan decided to charge with 10,000 people, and strive to break through the enemy formation at one time, if he can break through the 10,000 people behind him, if he can't break through, then his own 10,000 people can also be rescued.
Both sides on the battlefield were waiting patiently, Li Flip was originally the defender to wait as much as he wanted, but now because he took the initiative to attack, from the defender to the attacker, so Li Flip can't afford to wait now.
The cavalry of 10,000 people formed a wedge-shaped formation and began to charge with horses, muskets began to sound from a hundred paces, and then they continued one after another, Li Pan looked at his own soldiers who were constantly killed, and the cavalry that kept advancing, and did not hesitate to let the remaining 10,000 people also charge.
Because he understands a truth, he can't give the opponent a chance to breathe, and he must break through the opponent's formation in one go and crush the enemy in one fell swoop, because if the opponent shoots back and rushes, it is equivalent to facing casualties again.
Li Turn's cleverness was an unprecedented challenge for the Great Song Army, the muskets were continuously designed, but the enemy was also constantly approaching, when the enemy reached the first row of Tribulus terrestris, this time the Song army was not throwing grenades, and paid a greater price for destroying the Tribulus Terrestris Western Xia cavalry.
Then the second row, the third row, and the third row of thistles had already killed and wounded a quarter of the Western Xia cavalry, but the remaining 15,000 people still came in a row and slammed into the shield wall.
The first thousand-man array was broken, and the remaining musketeers hurriedly retreated from the gap between the small formations, and the Western Xia cavalry pursued, and the muskets were raised to shoot the Western Xia people on horseback, and the small formations were not defenseless, and there was nothing when their own people passed.
But when the Western Xia cavalry also tried to pass through the pursuit, one by one the tripping ropes were pulled up, and the cavalry could not pass through at all, this is also the method of summarizing the war of the Qi State, in addition to muskets and spears between the small phalanxes, there are also these triphorse ropes, which are enough to destroy the enemy who is trying to pass through.
How could Zhang San leave such a gap for the enemy, so when Xixia lost a hundred and ten riders, he did not dare to pursue in the middle of the small formation, but tried to break through the small formation in front.
It's just that when the cavalry has speed, it is possible to break through the heavy shield wall, after the cavalry loses the speed advantage, the contest between the two sides becomes much simpler, the Western Xia cavalry has broken through the six thousand formations, but the results of the response are indeed pitiful, and the Han people killed are less than two thousand.
When Li Flip saw that he had no hope of breaking the enemy, he had to order the troops to retreat, and when he returned to the place of departure, he counted the number of cavalry, and the cavalry in his hand was less than 8,000, and Li Flip finally used the blood of his soldiers to prove that those deserters were not lying.
The Song army sorted out the formation and began to move forward, Li Chuan had to lead his men to Xiazhou to retreat in a hurry, the next day the Song army camped ten miles outside Xiazhou City to build siege equipment, Li Chuan sent a messenger for help, Xiazhou was in a hurry!