"Drink it! You stay and lead the infantry army, and I will personally lead the horse army to Dingrong! "As the commander of the army, Yeruma Wu also took off his iron armor and threw away unnecessary equipment at this time. He wore only a leather robe and an iron spear. Seeing that the sun has deviated from the center, noon is approaching, there are still dozens of miles to Dingrong, and we must rush over as fast as possible! The marshal repeatedly instructed that this time the opponent was a famous breeder general of the Song army! There are also Xu Huer's two brothers! I'm afraid it's not easy to deal with! Moreover, the place where the main force is located is a narrow area south of Weishui and north of Dingrong City, and it is not easy to deploy heavy troops, which is the time for the infantry of the Western Army to exert its might! If I don't catch the brothers of the Xu family by surprise, the outcome of the battle will be unpredictable.

"Remember, Huazhou City is not far ahead, you must leave some troops to contain it, and you must not come out of the city to kill a single soldier!" When Ma Wu said this, he grabbed Sali and drank, "If this battle is won, Shaanxi will be in my hands!" Lost the land of Shaanxi's strong army, the Southern Dynasty is a fish on the chopping board! ”

Sa Li drank solemnly, and Ma Wu held high the iron spear and ordered the light cavalry to attack Dingrong!

Just when he rushed to the battlefield in a hurry, the main forces of the Song and Jin armies had been fighting bloodily for several hours! The three-way western army commanded by the division firmly grasped the situation, and without using bows and crossbows, the well-equipped heavy infantry alone killed the Jurchens and howled wolves! Between the two armies, blood flowed like a river, and corpses were everywhere! No matter how the Jin soldiers attacked, the Western Army always maintained a stable formation, steadily advanced, and strangled all the enemies who stood in their way.

Seeing that the opposing infantry was pressing more and more, forcing their own side to retreat again and again, the generals of the Jin Army asked the Ma army for support several times! Because if the distance is too close, the cavalry will not be able to give full play to the advantage of frontal impact, and can only rush in a roundabout way. But in this way, the terrain is very important. Look here, not far behind, is Weishui, to the east is a small hill like a tomb undulating, how to unfold the horse army? I'm afraid that before I even mention full speed, I have already entered the range of the Western Army's bow and crossbow!

The west side is complete, but don't you see the flag? That's the Tiger Army! The "Iron Floating Slaughter" was not able to bargain in the hands of the Purple Golden Tiger's troops, not to mention our light cavalry?

The army has already been increased three times in the seed division, and if it continues to be consumed, he is afraid that he will have to press both wings up! Not to mention, the main formation in the middle of the Western Army also arranged a cavalry unit of considerable size. Don't let more than 10,000 of our army ride here as decorations, but let the other party rush over!

Lou Su didn't say a word, and let the generals be so anxious that their faces were red. At this time, the Jin Army infantry on the battlefield once again couldn't support it, and they retreated one after another, and he still waved his hand expressionlessly: "Infantry army, go up again!" ”

The generals of the Jin Army were puzzled, what happened to the marshal? Don't you know that the infantry army is the strength of the Song army? You look at other people's equipment, they are wrapped in iron armor from head to toe, and they are full of long weapons in their hands, and they rely on the formation to advance step by step, and you still give way to the army? Isn't this going to die?

"It's already noon, why hasn't Ma Wu arrived yet?" In Lou Su's heart, he was actually more panicked than anyone else. The terrain of the Jin army is really not conducive to the deployment of a large-scale cavalry corps, and once the battle is unfavorable to retreat, it will be fatal Weishui. If this battle is to be won, we can only hope that Ma Wu will attack from behind the Song army. As long as I suppress the opponent's strong bow and crossbow, my more than 10,000 cavalry can also defeat the seed master even if they step on small steps!

Looking up at the sky, I saw that the sun had deviated from the center and was gradually sinking to the west. Lou Su's palms holding the reins were full of cold sweat, this expedition, the prime minister handed over the elite of the Dajin Kingdom to me, if I can't take the whole of Shaanxi, how can I explain when I go back?

"Report!" It seems that Wan Yan Xi, who defended the Pujin pontoon barrier, sent news again.

Lou Su reluctantly turned his head and stared at the cavalryman, and after listening to him say the words "no change in sight" from his mouth, he turned his head and looked at the tragic battlefield. When he watched the circle formation of the heavy infantry of the Song army, like chariots running over his own infantry, there was not even a trace of heartache, wavering, or uneasiness on his face and eyes. The three additions in the division were all well-equipped and heavy, and as a result, the protection of his main formation and the left and right flanks would be greatly weakened. Although I am limited by the terrain and dare not make a big impact on the horse army, as long as the horse arrives, the breeder can only suffer from the enemy on his back!

"Report!" As soon as the scout who had just passed on the military information left, another shout came from behind. Shocked, Lou Su looked back suddenly, staring at the horse that came to ride in front of him without blinking.

"Report! Marshal! Before noon, there were Song cavalry patrolling north along the Yellow River! The motive is unknown! When the knight reported the news, Lou Su Wei'an's body shook on the horseback!

The knight watched the marshal close his eyes tightly and staggered, and his heart was so frightened that he lost his mind for a moment! After a while, Lou Su still closed his eyes and asked, "Have you ever visited Yongle Town?" ”

"Xi is not fierce, and he does not dare to move lightly." The messenger replied in a deep voice.

"Idiot!" Lou Su suddenly scolded! "He doesn't know that I'm fighting the main force of the Song army! At this point, don't make the slightest mistake! Go back! Tell Yan Xi no! Send me troops across the river! Let's see what tricks the Purple Tiger is up to! ”

He roared, shook the messenger to the point of being overwhelmed, stammered, turned his horse's head, and wanted to leave.

"Slow! Order Xi No, abandon the pontoon barrier, and the whole army will cross the river and face off against the Zijin Tiger! No matter how many casualties there are, I will drag the Tiger Army to the east bank today! Don't let him have a chance to cross the river! Lou Su hissed. The soldiers around looked at each other, why, the purple tiger is here?

As soon as the messenger left, the commander of the Jin army made an incomprehensible move, he clenched his teeth, closed his eyes, and turned his back to the sky, as if racking his brain to think of something. As for the desperate fight between the two armies, he seems to have no care anymore.

Xu Hu'er, I blocked the pontoon bridge Tongguan, where else can you cross the river from? Are you really going to fight Tongguan? No, no, no, you're a smart man, you won't do that, you know it's going to take a lot of time, you must be in a hurry to get back to Dingrong now, you will definitely think of other ways! I can see through you, you like to be surprised, unprepared, Xu Hu'er, Xu Hu'er, where do you want to cross the river from?

Fenglingdu? No way, you don't have a boat, and it's impossible to wade across the water, I've checked the depth of the water, and you can't get out. Is there anything else you can do? No! Absolutely nothing! You're playing tricks! You're scaring me!

Suddenly, he opened his eyes, and in just a moment, the commander of the Jin army had his eyes red, and he struggled to pull out his scimitar, and he roared loudly: "Lie ahead, charge!" ”

More than a thousand steps away, all the Song army generals, including the seed division, involuntarily gasped! I have been in battle all my life, and I have never seen so many cavalry troops in my life! When you look at it from a distance, it's like a plague of locusts! The dense Jin army's light cavalry slowly launched, just like before the river burst the embankment, the trickle gradually converged, but soon, it broke through the embankment and roared! Its sound is like thunder in nine days! Its potential, such as Mount Tai pressing!

I believe that every soldier of the Western Army is beating wildly at this moment! I'm afraid that's more than 10,000 cavalry, right? Sky! The distance of more than a thousand steps is enough for the war horse to exert full speed! God! Bless the crossbowmen for inflicting heavy damage on enemy horses before they charge into battle! Otherwise, what kind of scene would it be if such a large horse army collided with our army formation? I really don't dare to think about it...... The seed master gritted his teeth and increased his troops three times, and finally forced Lou Su's cavalry out. Whether this battle can be won or not depends on whether the long-range crossbow troops can inflict heavy damage on the enemy's horse army! Seeing that the opponent's horse army was divided into two ways, attacking the Jingyuan soldiers and Shaanxi Hua soldiers on the left and right flanks, the commander of the Song army issued a military order, and the crossbowmen were ready!

Divine Arm Bow, Stepping Crossbow, Yellow Birch Bow, Black Lacquer Bow, all kinds of long-range sharp weapons immediately enter the combat state. The crossbowmen twisted their crossbow arms and put their arrows into the slots, while the archers drew their feathered arrows and put them on the strings. Because of the lack of war horses in the Song army, the proportion of crossbowmen in the army accounted for about half. The division led the three western armies, with a scale of 80,000 people, although because it was a joint operation, it was impossible to equip the military branches in strict accordance with this ratio, but in the three large arrays, the crossbowmen were also more than 20,000! Imagine a salvo of 20,000 crossbowmen...... The two cavalry, bypassing the infantry battlefield in the formation of the two armies, galloped with spears! Even the surging Yellow River has never had such a terrifying scene! This is the trump card of the Jin Army, the deadliest weapon of the Jurchens! The first thing that hit the cavalry troops like a monstrous wave was morale! Few troops could raise their courage in the face of such a large number of cavalry...... Five hundred steps! The roaring hooves rattled to the ear, and the pikemen who surrounded the three formations were eager to wring their guns out of the water, and if they didn't hold them tighter, the tension might have made their hands fall to the ground.

Four hundred steps! The huge sound was nothing, and the momentum of the enemy's cavalry charge was like Mount Tai collapsing in front of them, oppressing the soldiers of the Western Army so nervous that it was difficult to breathe! Some people looked anxiously at the Jurchen cavalry that was about to collide, and they wanted to rush forward and let it crash to death!

The Shaanxi Chinese Corps, composed of the Hujie Army, the Dingrong Township Army, and the Tongzhou Army, bore the brunt of the terrain! When the archers of the township soldiers in the first actual battle were nervous, and the hands holding the bows trembled, the Hujie archers beside him had already neatly mounted the arrows, and took advantage of the gap between the enemy cavalry and the firing range, the veteran also took the time to say: "This is a bird, compared with Xiaoxishan, these horse soldiers are just a target." ”

When the villagers were finally ready, the enemy cavalry was only more than 300 steps away from the main formation! If you don't let go of the arrows, in just a few blinks of your eyes, the cavalry will crash into the big formation!

"Divine Arm Bow! Put! With the order of the commander-in-chief, the bowstring of the divine arm arranged behind the large array exploded like a thunderbolt! The power of this Song Army's first-class killing weapon is not blown out! Just when the commander's order had not retreated, the golden cavalry that rushed over had already fallen! "Shoot more than 340 steps, half an arrow into the elm." This power ...... "Step on the crossbow, release!" "Before the second arrow of the Divine Arm Bow was launched, the crossbowmen who had already kicked the bowstring with their feet and put the iron arrows on it aimed at the target and pulled the crossbow machine! The sharp arrows that roared out sank into the body of the enemy's horse. The war horse galloping at full speed was hit by this fatal blow, and the whole horse body rose into the air, and the knight fell to the ground heavily!

Rows of Jin cavalry were shot down, but the successors were not intimidated by the bows and crossbows of the Western army, they stared at the enemy who was stationary not far away, and quietly held the guns in both hands, ready to launch a thunderous blow!

But it was at this point that the toughest test came. Because they were already within the range of the largest proportion of archers in the Song army.

Thousands of archers moved in unison, and at the same time pulled their bow arms! The arrows that glow faintly in the sunlight are beautiful, but they are a life-threatening weapon!

"Bow salvo!" As soon as the military order was given, countless sharp arrows rolled up and flew towards the cavalry group of the Jin Army. After the first arrow was released, the archers did not even look to see if they had hit, they immediately mounted the second arrow, opened their bows, fired, and repeated this sequence of actions as quickly as possible! A well-trained archer can fire more than six arrows before the enemy cavalry crashes into the formation!

When the Western Army's bows and crossbows fired in a volley, a strange sight appeared. In the sky, the sun shining on the earth is dark! Briefly plunge this battlefield into a haze! Not because of the sudden change in climate, but because of the dense arrows that obscured the sun's light!

Seeing that the enemy was close at hand, the cavalry of the Jin army found that the companions beside them fell one by one, and even one of the cavalrymen, men and horses had more than a dozen arrows stuck in them, and fell to the ground and died! This distance of less than 100 steps has become a ghost gate!

"Axe!" Wang Yan shouted! All the archers slanted their longbows and drew their short thick axes from their waists, ready to strike a blow to the enemy cavalry that burst into formation! Almost at the same time! The golden cavalry coerced the thunder and the momentum of Wanjun and collided with the Shaanxi Hua military formation! The pikemen in the first row are like a fan boat in a monstrous wave, and in the blink of an eye, they are drowned without a trace! Immediately afterwards, the cavalry with a huge impact force was like a bamboo, breaking through the spear formation in front of the Song army layer by layer, all of which happened in just one breath!

"Pincer strike!" Xu Sheng categorically ordered!

The Hujie heavy infantry on both flanks moved when they heard the sound, like an open pair of pincers quickly closed, strangling the invading enemy! This tactic, in the previous combat experience of the Hujie Township Army, has been repeatedly successful, as long as the opponent's cavalry impact power is reduced and the mobility is reduced, it will be blocked and killed by the heavy infantry that is pincer up. But this time, it doesn't seem that simple!

In order to force out the opponent's horse army, Captain Chong let the bow and crossbow inflict heavy damage on the enemy, and sent three additional heavy infantry to attack three times in a row. This reduced the ten formations of spearmen that the Hujie Township Army was blocking in front of the big formation by almost half! Therefore, the cavalry of the Jin army quickly broke the lance forest of the Shaanxi Chinese army and broke into the archer position. And the crossbowmen are the weakest protected troops in the entire Song army! They did not have the thick armor and shields of the heavy infantry, nor did they have the rapid maneuvers of the cavalry, and when the cavalry, who were a few heads taller than them, came head-on, they had no other way but to dodge and retreat. But how can a two-legged man be faster than a four-legged horse? How can an archer with a short axe be able to defeat a condescending cavalryman with a spear in his hand? The Dingrong Township soldiers, who participated in the actual battle for the first time, were shocked by the rampaging Jurchen cavalry and retreated! At the critical moment, an unknown petty officer of Hujie split two deserters in a row, and roared: "Chop off the horse's legs!" Chop the horse's legs! After finishing speaking, he suddenly felt a strong wind behind him, and when he looked back, a high wall of Jin cavalry was no more than three steps away from him. The cavalry of the Jin Army on that horse had already lowered their spears, and the sharp spears were aimed directly at him!

Without thinking too much, the petty officer bowed his head, and while avoiding the gun, he swung out the short and thick axe in his hand with all his might! This blow cut off the front legs of the war horse! The knight on horseback was thrown out by the powerful inertia, knocking down several archers. As he struggled to get up, he was chopped off with an axe!

Just when the two armies of Song and Jin were fighting, a catastrophe of annihilation was quietly approaching.

Dingrong City is not only the base of Xu Wei, but also the headquarters of the Song army of the Three Routes. Seed Division, Xu Yuan, and Xu Sheng led their armies to the battle, leaving less than 1,000 people to defend the city. At noon, the soldiers, who had just had their fill, cruised around the city. In fact, their main task is not to prevent someone from seizing the city, but to strictly prevent someone in the city from taking the opportunity to make trouble.

Moreover, there are nearly 1,000 people, almost all of whom are trained, but have not experienced actual combat, and are commanded by the head of a regular Hujie army. At this moment, with all the commanders of the front-line combat units dispatched, he can be regarded as the commander in Dingrong City.

"What sound?" On the enemy tower at the head of the city, a soldier holding a bent knife frowned and asked.

"What?" His companion leaned over and looked around.

"Listen! It's like thunder! The soldier listened. After a while, he was even more convinced, because the voice was getting clearer and closer!

"Did you hear that? Like the sound of horses' hooves? Seeing that his companion did not respond, he asked again. But after waiting for a while, there was still no response, he looked back, only to see his companion's mouth open wide, but he couldn't say half a word, and a pair of eyes were about to bulge! Looking west in the direction he was looking, the soldier's heart sank! He behaved almost like his companions, frightened and helpless!

After a long time, a shout finally sounded on the head of the city: "It's the Jurchens!" The Jurchen horse army! Hit the west and come! ”

Yelu Ma Wu was covered in sweat and clothes, and he rushed dozens of miles to Dingrong with the kung fu of a light horse meal! Looking at the small city a few miles ahead, he had no intention of staying. But suddenly, my heart moved, this is Dingrong City! Xu Wei's official position, isn't it said that "Quan Zhi Dingrong Military" is? Isn't this his lair?

The Song army retreated across Weishui and entered Dingrong, and at this time there must have been many people gathered in the city! There may even be the families of high-ranking generals of the Song Army! With this in mind, he commanded as he ran: "Tell the herald to drink!" After entering the territory of Dingrong, divide your troops and take the city! If you can break it, slaughter the whole city! ”