Chapter 456: Fighting the Earthquake Army (I)
(Cat flutter Chinese) 20,000 Western Xia light and heavy cavalry, facing more than 16,000 infantry troops temporarily composed of forbidden troops and box troops, and most of them were infantry Song troops without heavy equipment, the Western Xia people undoubtedly had an overwhelming advantage. Mo said that he was a Western Xia general, but the Western Xia soldiers in front of the battle looked at the Song army opposite, and their eyes were full of slaughtering lamb-like smiles.
Looking at the Song army opposite, the Western Xia coach Cha Ge just smiled with his hand and said nothing.
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Looking at the Song army on the opposite side, who was hurriedly arranging the formation, Brother Cha sighed: "In the past, I once said that Liu Fa was a generation of god generals, but now I see Liu Fa has a feeling of declining days, and he is quite old!" ”
There was a general next to him who looked at the handsome flag in the Song army in the distance, and sighed: "This Liu Nanman is hard, according to the spies who reported that he broke his leg outside Gaizhu City, he could still live and escape back to the Southern Dynasty, and this time he dared to use troops against my Great Xia, and he personally led the troops!" ”
Brother Cha said this sentence, in the hearts of the generals in the Western Xia army, it is not because they have taken advantage of the geographical advantage and the exhaustion of the Song army, and the victory or defeat may be another way. Besides, with a superior force of 30,000 troops, fighting a tired army of 20,000 people, although it is victorious, it is not worth much pride.
Hearing this, Brother Cha shook his head and said with a smile: "This Zhenwu army doesn't need to be taken, and it won't even be long before the Southern Dynasty will give up this city to my Great Xia!" ”
"Don't break this earthquake martial city, stay as a sick seedling in the Southern Dynasty!" Brother Cha just smiled, and the words that smiled back were very short.
When the generals heard this, they were puzzled, and asked the man: "General Qihu, what do you mean by the great handsome?" ”
And Tong'an City is also far away from here, and it is a lofty mountain range, and sending food and salary to this place is also worth the loss for my Great Xia, and the marshal means that if you don't capture this city, you will leave a chicken rib with the Southern Dynasty, and use it to drag down the Southern Dynasty. ”
Another Western Xia general stepped forward and said, "Great Marshal, why don't you take advantage of the unstable foothold of the Song army and let my Great Xia warriors defeat these Southern Barbarians in one fell swoop?" ”
Chage's meaning is obvious, the Song army at this time is on the march, the distance between the ranks is very wide, and although the cavalry charge can defeat the Song army, it cannot completely annihilate the Song army. On the contrary, if the Song army was given sufficient time to prepare and form a battle formation, it would make the Song army annihilated, after all, the foot soldiers were a group of lambs in the eyes of the cavalry.
In front of the two armies, a dry of objects such as horse rejection piles, iron thistles, tripping horse ropes, and horse rejection guns were all placed in front of the Song army, and then Lotte who had passed through the front army commanded the soldiers of the rear army to bring the trebuchet, bed crossbows, and hundreds of archers to the front army, but Lotte placed these soldiers behind the heavy infantry infantry armor that resisted the cavalry.
Looking at the Xixia soldiers and horses in the distance, and watching Lotte tinkering in the front of the army, Liu Fa sneered a few times before saying: "The Xixia people want to eat us in one go!" ”
Liu Fa's face was solemn, he just stared at the Western Xia army on the opposite side and didn't say a word.
Complaining about this, Qu Jin begged again: "Dashuai, the last general, please don't hand over the matter of facing the enemy to a half-big baby!" ”
Seeing that Liu Fa couldn't listen to his own persuasion at all, Qu Jin didn't talk much anymore, and returned to the headquarters to prepare for the front army from time to time.
In this case, any military general can only do defense, and under the impact of the opponent's cavalry, it is fortunate that he can keep half of the 16,000 men. Therefore, Liu Fa did not expect to be able to defeat the Western Xia army at this time, and a draw was the best result.
At this moment, Lotte lined up the five trebuchets found from the Huangzhou armory, ordered the craftsmen accompanying the army to measure the distance, and those bulky bed crossbows were also placed in the army, and the crossbowmen were loading arrows for the bed crossbows, as for the rest of the archers at the moment, they were just waiting behind the trebuchets and bed crossbows, waiting for Lotte's orders at any time.
In front of the two armies, the atmosphere before the war began to thicken, and even before the war began, the air seemed to be filled with a heavy smell of blood.
"Song Jun is interesting, this time he even got the heavy crossbow and trebuchet to defend the city!" Seeing that the Song army had completed the formation in the distance, Brother Cha smiled. Then he commanded: "Go and tell Nadoha, if you can't break through the formation of the real army at once, come back and I will beat him with a whip!" ”
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After speaking, Doha watched the army around him draw out his long knife, pointed to the front army of the Song army in the distance, and shouted: "Brothers, break through the Song army and kill these ...... of the Southern Barbarians."
Seeing the Western Xia soldiers and horses attacking in the distance, Lotte began to command: "Light the torch!" ”
Different from the war plots described in the classical commentaries, when the two armies faced each other in ancient times, there would never be a situation in which only the generals of the two armies fought each other in front of the battle, and the officers and men of the two armies watched from behind, let alone the appearance that one of the generals would be defeated and the whole army would retreat.
"How many Western Xia cavalry are there on the opposite side?" After all, he was a newcomer, and Lotte couldn't tell how many people there were on the other side from the sound of horses' hooves, so he had to ask Zhu Dingguo next to him for advice.
"20,000 people, front, middle and rear armies." Lotte nodded.
"Obey the orders of this officer!" Lotte nodded, and then began to command: "Bombs on the trebuchet, rockets on the bed crossbow!" ”
These new things are a little curious, but in the eyes of the old Xingwu Zhu Dingguo, what Lotte took out was just some ordinary oil and rockets, although it looked fancy and scary, in fact, the real role of repelling the enemy could only be regarded as average.
"Crossbowmen get ready!" Hearing this, Lotte first said, then raised his arms high, and shouted: "The catapult and the bed crossbow listen to the orders of the official, aim at the Xixia heavy horse, and launch!" ”
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