Chapter 33: The Battle to Destroy Western Xia II
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Under the city of Xingqing Mansion, the armies assembled by the opposing sides are not one million, and the difference will not be too much. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Song 250,000 entered the land of Hexi, in addition to staying behind, there were also Song troops led by Chong Ge, Yao Gu, and Li Xian to cut off the retreat, and there were 200,000 who drove to Xingqing Mansion. There were more than 60 troops gathered here in Western Xia and Tubo, and more than 800,000 troops were gathered under the city of Xingqing Mansion on both sides of the enemy.
If you look at it from the air, you can see a sea of people within a radius of dozens of miles, and the black pressure is like a sea tide, which is earth-shattering.
However, its advantages and disadvantages can be understood at a glance, the Song army is well-equipped, the momentum is shocking, and more importantly, the Song army is all elite, all Ding Zhuang.
However, the armies of Western Xia and Tubo were old and weak, accounting for two-thirds, and the Ding Zhuang of the armies of the two countries combined was less than one-third. These two countries have a common characteristic, that is, they are vast and sparsely populated, and the population is not large, and even if all the people are soldiers, there are only hundreds of thousands.
If it is calculated that it can go to the battlefield, Western Xia can mobilize an army of five or six hundred thousand, as it is now. It's just that among so many armies, there are not many that can really be considered elite.
The Western Xia and Tubo armies were uneven, and they could not be compared with the Song army, Wu Ji's words hit the nail on the head, and he only needed to defeat the Iron Harrier and the Tubo guards, and the overall situation would be decided, and it could be said that he had won.
"yes!" The generals thought the same, and they all nodded in agreement, and said: "Dashuai, let's kill the Iron Harrier and the Tubo guards first, and this battle won't have to be fought!" ”
"No!" Wu Ji shook his head and vetoed the generals' proposals: "This battle is to stand up!" If you want to be powerful, you have to have a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and you have to have countless dead! Anyone who is an enemy of the Great Song Dynasty must die! Since they are coming to die, we will fulfill them! In this battle, we will fight the weak ones first, and then we will clean up the iron harriers and the Tibetan guards! ”
"This ......" The generals were very surprised, Wu Ji's statement was too different. If you kill the Iron Harrier and the Tubo guards, the overall situation will be decided, this is a very convenient tactic, but Wu Ji does not use it.
"There is another important reason!" Wu Ji continued to analyze in the surprise of the generals: "If we fight the Iron Harrier and the Tubo guards first, once they are defeated, the armies of the two countries will inevitably flee. That's hundreds of thousands of people, and once we escape, we don't have so many troops to chase after us. ”
Not to mention the escape of hundreds of thousands of people, it is the escape of more than 100,000 people, and it is also a big trouble for the Song army to chase after it.
"Don't say it's a human being, even if it's a pig, hundreds of thousands of heads standing there for us to catch, it's tiring enough!" Wu Ji continued: "In order to avoid this situation, we have to leave the Iron Harrier and the Tubo guards to the end to solve it. As long as the Iron Harrier and the Tibetan guards are there, they will not run away! ”
That's true. The Iron Harrier is a very elite army, as famous as the leather room army of the Liao State, as long as the Iron Harrier is there, the backbone of the Western Xia army is there, even if they suffer heavy casualties, they will not escape. Once there was no Iron Harrier, the Western Xia army was frightened, and they couldn't escape either.
The Tibetan guards are similar.
"It's still handsome and calculating!" The generals once again saw Wu Ji's foresight and had to obey.
"In the middle of the building, you lead the army to attack the left side! Yao Youzhong, you lead the army to attack the right side! I led my own army to contain the Iron Harrier and the Tibetan guards! "Wu Ji began to send generals.
"Yes!" Seed Master Dao and Yao Youzhong received the order loudly.
Li Zongbao, Liang Xi and Dong Zhao gathered together to discuss. Li Zongbao frowned, and said: "You have all seen the situation, although we have many soldiers and horses, but the elite is not as good as the Song army. There are more than 600,000 troops in our two countries, and the real elite is only more than 200,000, and the rest are just enough to eat. In this battle, we don't have much chance of winning, you say, how should we fight? ”
"I didn't expect Song Jun to be so elite!" Dong Zhao couldn't help but take a cool breath: "I estimate that the Song army will come straight to our elite." Your Iron Harriers, our guards, are all elite, well-armoured, and use the finest weapons to defeat them, and the battle will be decided. ”
"yes!" Liang Xi strongly agreed with this statement: "If I were Wu Ji, I would use troops like this!" ”
"The problem is, we're not Wu Ji! Wu Ji's use of troops is strange and unpredictable, will he really attack our elite as soon as he comes? Li Zongbao couldn't help but stir his eyebrows, and asked a rhetorical question in deep thought.
"No matter how Wu Ji will fight, we will respond to all changes with the same, as long as our two countries work together, there is still something to be done in this battle!" Liang Xi thought for a while, and couldn't figure out how Wu Ji would fight.
"Exactly! Yes, extremely! Dong Zhao and Li Zongbao agreed loudly.
"The Song army has attacked!"
As soon as the words of the three of them fell, the guards came to report.
"The Song army has attacked?" The eyes of the three of them widened, and they looked ahead, only to see that the Song army was divided into three routes and launched an overwhelming offensive against the Western Xia and Tubo coalition forces.
"Leave no mouth alive!" The Song army roared, like a fierce tiger out of the sky, and rushed towards the coalition army.
The crowd is surging, surging, magnificent, and unstoppable!
"There are three ways to divide the soldiers, nothing surprising!" Dong Zhao raised his eyebrows, a little disappointed: "Wu Ji's use of troops is nothing more than this, it can't be surprising!" ”
When the two armies face each other, they are generally divided into three ways, the left and right sides and the middle army, which is a conventional way of playing, and there is nothing surprising at all.
"No!" Li Zongbao and Liang Xi vetoed Dong Zhao's conclusion in unison: "Wu Ji is already surprising. He wants to knock out our left and right flanks first, and then deal with our Chinese army. ”
"Our Chinese army is our elite, first fight the weak, then the strong, this is not surprising, a general will be!" Dong Zhao still didn't understand.
"Wu Ji is ruthless!" Li Zongbao and Liang Xi glanced at each other, without interest in explaining to Dong Zhao, and the two saw the horror in each other's eyes.
The Song army was divided into three routes, with 50,000 men on each road, and 50,000 people were reserved as reserves. Generally speaking, the Chinese army is the most important, and more troops must be sent to attack the Chinese army, and Wu Ji's Chinese army is only 50,000 people, which is the same as the left and right roads, which shows that Wu Ji's attack target is not the elite of the coalition army, but those old and weak, and the two wings.
The elite of the Western Xia and Tubo coalition armies were concentrated in the middle road, and the left and right wings were all old and weak, vulnerable, and to defeat them, they didn't need 50,000 people, only 30,000 or 20,000. Wu Ji sent 50,000 elites, it was not as simple as defeating, it was a massacre, and they were all killed!
The roar of "leaving no living mouth" is Wu Ji's real intention.
In this battle, Wu Ji wanted to kill all the Western Xia and Tubo armies that participated in the war, which was Wu Ji's real intention. There are more than 600,000 troops in the coalition of the two countries, and if they want to kill them all, what a great appetite and how much hatred they have!
Recalling the matter of stabilizing the Five Cities, how could Li Zongbao and Liang Xi not be shocked.
Just when the two of them changed their minds, the left and right flanks of the Song army had already started fighting with the coalition forces.
The Song army was surging like a tidal wave, and the coalition forces were all frightened when they saw the Song army rushing like a mountain and a mountain, and their momentum weakened before the two armies engaged.
When the Song army arrived, they shot with crossbows from a distance, and the crossbow arrows rained down, covering the coalition forces. With each wave of arrows, the coalition forces suffered countless casualties, and fell in pieces, as if they had been toppled with straw.
The equipment of the coalition army is not good, there is no fine armor, where can it stop the rain of arrows of the Song army, and it is impossible to avoid heavy casualties.
The Song army's offensive was too fierce, as if it was a storm, and it didn't give the coalition army a chance to react at all, and after only a while, the coalition army suffered countless casualties.
"This ......" Li Zongbao and Liang Xi have been fighting with the Song army for decades, and they have never seen the Song army's long-range strikes so fierce, and they are so shocked that their eyes are about to fall to the ground.
In the past, although the Song army had sophisticated equipment, it did not give full play to it, and it was weak in long-range strikes. After Wu Ji's innovation, the Song army brought into full play the power of its equipment, and the power of long-range strikes increased exponentially.
Even the elite Liao army could not withstand the long-range attack of the Song army, let alone the rabble of the coalition army.
"Goo-goo!" Li Bingchang watched the fall of the coalition troops in the city, and he was so shocked that he couldn't even speak, his throat gurgled and made a strange sound.
This is just the beginning, and more powerful blows are yet to come.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”
One explosion after another rang out, one after another, like the roar of thousands of explosions, shaking the ground and trembling. One after another, the fireballs flashed, like countless meteors flashing, extremely spectacular, this is a thunderbolt.
Although the thunderbolts were good, they were limited in number, and it was impossible to arm all the Song troops. However, Wu Ji still made the decision to give each Song army ten thunderbolts, so that when the two armies met, the bombardment was particularly fierce.
The 150,000 Song troops threw thunderbolts into the formation of the coalition army, and the scene can be imagined, it was very spectacular, and the lethality was extremely amazing. Compared to the strong crossbow, the thunderbolt is too fierce to kill.
In the earth-shattering explosions, the coalition forces fell like straw for the farmer.
The ground was littered with severed limbs, shattered entrails, wounded soldiers rolling and wailing, and splatters of blood!
Li Bingchang and Dong Yu saw the city very clearly, and they were also extremely frightened, and it felt like seeing countless demons wreaking havoc in the Western Xia and Tubo armies, tearing apart the bodies of the coalition army at will.
"Kill all the Xixia dogs!"
"Kill all the Tibetan dogs!"
"Leave no mouth alive!"
The Song army erupted with a terrifying roar, and they were indomitable, surging up like a tidal wave against the coalition army.
The Song army is like a stormy wave, where they flock, where the coalition army no longer exists, where is red!
"Sizzle! Sizzle! ”
The ministers of Western Xia and Tubo who were watching the battle at the head of the city couldn't help but let out the sound of inhaling cool air, and they were all frightened.
"That's yes, yes, it's Modao!" Some ministers pointed to the city, their faces frightened, and they stammered.
"Mo Dao?"
For the party people, for the Tubo people, the Mo knife was their nightmare, when the Tang army swept the world, their ancestors died under the Mo knife I don't know how many.
At first glance, when I saw the knife, it felt as if it was not on the soldiers, but on them, and I couldn't stop retreating, and some ministers even closed their eyes and didn't dare to look at it again.
The sword flashed, blood splattered, and the cry shook the sky...... A massacre has begun!
(To be continued)