When the fortress built on the border was on fire, Zhao Xiaoxi, who led the cavalry army out of the city in advance, quickly based on the intelligence of the reconnaissance cavalry. He constantly sent his thousand-man cavalry team to follow the Western Xia cavalry who crossed the border and attacked the city, and saw the opportunity to deliver a fatal blow.

Compared with other thousand-man teams besieging the city, it is not a broken muscle, these thousand-man cavalry teams lying in ambush behind. You have to be honest, and you can't just cover up from behind.

According to Zhao Xiaoxi's conditions for allowing their cavalry to attack, these Western Xia thousand-man cavalry team only had more than half of the casualties. When the enemy's strength reaches 1 to 2, these cavalry teams of 1,000 men will be allowed to attack.

The first few border cities could not meet this standard, so that the cavalry officers and soldiers who were watching from the rear felt a little pity. Only the Shuizi battalion that led the troops to follow behind this cavalry team knew that the time was ripe when they saw these Fanbang cavalry attacking the city before.

As the only Wu Dingyuan in the cavalry who has been promoted to five thousand cavalry generals, he is Zhao Xiaoxi's real hardcore henchman compared to the other four thousand cavalry generals. Of course, among the cavalry, he is also a thousand cavalry generals from ordinary people's families.

This time, the cavalry went out to form five battalions, and most of the cavalry in the Shuizi battalion came from the civilian cavalry selected into the camp later. Compared with the other four battalions, the number of children of martial arts officials, the Shuizi battalion is undoubtedly a cavalry team with the fewest children of official eunuchs.

For these officers and soldiers who are qualified to be selected for the cavalry battalion, they are more eager for merit. The first few times I went out of the city to fight with the scout cavalry, most of them fought in the form of a squad, but this was the first collective battle since the establishment of the Shuizi Battalion.

For the time being, it is not clear what the situation of the other cavalry battalions is, but Wu Dingyuan knows that the Western Xia thousand-man cavalry in front of him will become the first Fanbang thousand-man cavalry team to be annihilated since the establishment of the Shuizi Battalion.

Although it is not possible to win by fighting more and smaller, in Wu Dingyuan's opinion, Zhao Xiaoxi will give such an order. Sort of. I don't want the elite cavalry that has been cultivated with great difficulty to be consumed in such a small local war.

According to the plan for the formation of the cavalry battalion, the expedition will be over, as long as the cavalry officers and soldiers can survive. In the new round of expansion, they have the opportunity to act as the backbone of the cavalry.

As the commander, Zhao Xiaoxi naturally cherishes the lives of every cavalry officer and soldier. If in this battle. If you lose too much blood and bones of the cavalry, then this cavalry can be said to be crippled before it becomes an army.

Looking at the brothers under his command with anticipation, Wu Dingyuan calmly ordered to attack. The cavalry team, which had already increased its number to 1,000 people, rushed towards the opponent in a fan shape, striving to annihilate the opponent in one round.

Attack unprepared with preparation, face the tired army with full spirit, plus more than double the opponent's troops. If he can't win the other party in one round, Wu Dingyuan is embarrassed to deal with Zhao Xiaoxi.

Wu Dingyuan, who was in the cavalry assault array, shouted from time to time the order to 'get on the arrow, prepare' to 'shoot' at the end. The attack force of the entire thousand-man team. Promoted to the largest and most centralized, the results are naturally very gratifying.

Looking at the cavalry of the opponent who kept falling off his horse, when he was about to engage in hand-to-hand combat. Wu Dingyuan issued another order to 'change hands and crossbows', and concentrated on killing a few fish that slipped through the net.

A wave of crossbow arrows ended, and the entire cavalry team of the Shuizi Battalion stopped attacking in front of the city gate, leaving behind the corpses of Western Xia cavalry. As for the Shuizi battalion, there were only a few wounded cavalrymen who were hit by arrows but were blocked by chain mail, and not even a single one was killed.

For the first battle of the Water Word Battalion, there is such an attack power. As a thousand cavalry generals, Wu Dingyuan was naturally very happy. But he knew that he couldn't be too happy at this moment. Immediately have someone shout to the defenders of the city and ask them to send someone to clean up the battlefield.

As for the cavalry of the Shuizi Battalion, they took all the war horses that had become ownerless and brought them back. As for the merits, it should be the merits of their cavalry battalion.

The weapons and armor of those Fanbang cavalry were left for the city defense army as a good reward for cleaning the battlefield. That's a bit of kindness. It will also help the cavalry to cooperate with the city defense army in the future, and everyone will be more familiar with each other.

In the face of the departure of the cavalry of the Shuizi battalion with a gust of wind, the defending general also sighed that with such cavalry, Fanbang would easily attack the border pass in the future, and he would also have to consider the consequences.

Soon the order was given to open the gates. The corpse collection team formed earlier, under the command of officers and soldiers. All the Fanbang cavalry who died in battle were cut off and dug a pit and buried outside the city.

As for the weapons and armor that can be used, the young and strong people of the corpse collection team are also unceremoniously cleaned up. Some of them were able to wear clothes that worked, but they were also stripped naked.

As the saying goes, there is great strength in numbers, and hundreds of large pits dug by young people quickly took shape. Those officers and soldiers who cut off their heads quickly organized the young men to throw the headless bare corpses into a big pit and sprinkle lime to bury them.

The booty and horse corpses were dragged into the city by the people who left the city. In addition to the armor and weapons, the rest of the horse corpses and clothes were the trophies of these corpse collection teams. That's a reward for them!

When the corpse collection team all entered the city and the gate of Jingbian City was closed again, there were only blood stains left outside. There was no sign of any fighting. The poor and frightened people even cleaned up the broken iron that the officers and soldiers did not want.

These broken arrows are melted at the city's blacksmith shop, and they can also be used to make kitchen knives and hoes. This can also save a lot of expenses for the people who are diligent and thrifty. And those stripped clothes, after washing and drying, can also be modified and worn by the family.

As for the clothes worn by the dead, the border people did not have such concerns. After living on the border for many years, both officers and soldiers and ordinary people have become indifferent to life and death. As long as they are alive now, they think more about the living.

While the officers and soldiers rejoiced in the victory, the people of the city rejoiced that they had received so much loot for the first time. Even if these trophies are just some horse corpses and things that officers and soldiers don't want, it's a lot of wealth to clean up!

In the past, I only had to pay for it every year, but this year I was able to get a windfall. This is a real surprise for border residents living on the border. And this atmosphere of joy soon diluted the grief of the casualties caused by the previous war.

While the people of Jingbian City rejoiced with the officers and soldiers, the Western Xia cavalry in other cities made several temptations. I feel that these small border towns this year seem to be more difficult to bite than in previous years.

Originally, he wanted to find some border people from the surrounding villages to threaten, but he ended up sending out a small group of cavalry to arrest people. Most of them have gone and never returned, as if the whole of Lanzhou is full of crises. Unless you stay together in a group, the team will go out and never return.

This strange phenomenon made many vigilant thousand-man cavalry generals quickly join forces with the thousand-man team that attacked the surrounding cities. Since a team of 1,000 people can't take a border city, then join forces to besiege a border city.

With just one opening, they believe that this stalemate will be broken. At that time, aren't these die-hard Song troops defending the city still in their pockets?

With this expectation of a great victory in the future, the first batch of Western Xia thousand cavalry to enter the Song Realm quickly formed the opinion of joining forces to besiege a city. After some discussion, several thousand cavalry generals chose Qingyuan City, not far from Jingbian City, as a breakthrough to break the deadlock in this winter operation.

The reason is that this Qingyuan City has the shortest height of the city wall. The number of defenders inside also seems to be smaller than that of other cities. Relying on their several thousand-man cavalry teams to attack and harass in turn, I believe that taking Qingyuan City is just around the corner.

Even if they couldn't capture Qingyuan City, relying on the way of attacking from all sides, they were convinced of the defenders of Qingyuan City. will definitely set off wolf smoke and ask Lanzhou City to send troops to support. As long as Lanzhou City sends troops, their plan will be half successful.

In addition, these thousands of cavalry generals knew that it was a thankless task to attack the city with cavalry. The ability to cavalry to attack reinforcements out of the city is their strong point. Therefore, regardless of whether Qingyuan City is broken or not, they will be able to reap the merits of the battle this time.

After each thousand cavalry team entered the border of Lanzhou, they had already discovered that the villages that were still populated in previous years were now empty. Even if it is a problem to find something, then these border cities must be rich in both population and materials.

If they can take a border city, it will save them the fatigue of searching everywhere. This kind of thing that kills multiple birds with one stone, after several thousand cavalry generals summed it up, they determined the plan to besiege Qingyuan City.

The battle plan was determined, and these thousand cavalry will freely send scout cavalry to contact the thousand cavalry team besieging the city nearby. Among them, of course, is Jingbian City, which is not far from here.

But when the detectives arrived, they saw that there was no one outside Jingbian City. Not to mention the Thousand Cavalry, you can't even see a figure outside the city. This army of 1,000 cavalry is nowhere to be found.

After returning the unexpected news, several thousand horsemen were also confused. It stands to reason that they had just entered the country today, and there was a death order from the general. Before the army entered Lanzhou, they were not allowed to go deep into the hinterland of Lanzhou.

Now they all obeyed the generals, and they had been attacking around the border close to the Western Xia side. So where will the thousand cavalry team that originally attacked Jingbian City run to?

At this moment, a thousand horsemen suddenly said, "Mutu, they won't encounter an ambush, right?" ”

Regarding this assumption, several thousand cavalry generals were shocked but quickly said: "Impossible, with the soft egg of the Song army, they still dare to go out of the city to set up an ambush." In order to besiege Mutu's thousand cavalry, they needed at least 10,000 infantry to set up an ambush.

Even if Mutu's thousand cavalry were ambushed, it was impossible for not a single soldier to break through, right? According to me, this guy must have been suffocated in Jingbian City, and he plans to go a little deeper to get back face. Perhaps, at this moment, his thousand cavalry ran to the city of Lanzhou. ”

It is clear that this Mutu Qianqi is a general, but he is a member of Helian Tieshu's henchmen. This kind of violation of the general's order has not happened to this thousand cavalry generals.

Therefore, everyone felt that the latter's inference was reasonable, and soon sent scouts to find the vanished Thousand Cavalry. As for them, they also prepared to attack this ruined Qingyuan City. I hope that from here, the gap in the annexation of Lanzhou will be opened! (To be continued......)