287.Chapter 287
Reinforcements from the Liao army arrived and tried to counter-encircle the Song army from the outside. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
To be exact, they wanted to make an internal and external attack.
Because, at the same time as the Liao reinforcements appeared, the gate of Xiongzhou City ...... It's on.
From the city of Xiongzhou, a large number of cavalry suddenly poured out.
Wu Da's face was slightly pale, Tong Guan was also full of solemnity, and the Great Song soldiers inevitably had riots.
This is the weirdness of Liao!
It was already obvious that Xiongzhou City was just a bait to lure the Great Song army to attack, but in fact, the Liao State had already prepared for support.
Moreover, looking at this posture, in addition to the 30,000 soldiers guarding the city, there are actually more than 20,000 cavalry hidden in Xiongzhou City!
When Xiongzhou City was about to break the city, Liao finally revealed his hole cards.
Inside and out!
Counting the Liao soldiers who came to help, the Liao army already had more than 30,000 cavalry, and with the soldiers defending the city, their number was close to 70,000.
Among the 70,000, 30,000 who defended the city have suffered heavy losses, but the 150,000 troops of the Great Song Dynasty also suffered heavy casualties during the siege of the city.
The most important thing is that the more than 30,000 cavalry of the Liao State are too strong.
As we all know, the Great Song Dynasty lacked horses, even after the emergence of Wuda, the imperial court used refined salt to exchange a lot of war horses from the northwest departments, but after all, the time was still short, and there were very few large-scale cavalry formations.
The cavalry of the Liao State was extremely fierce, which is well known, and the Great Song ...... Oh, hehe.
In this way, the key point that will affect this big battle depends on whether the Great Song Dynasty can stop the cavalry of the Liao State.
In other words, most of the burden fell on Wuda, who was on the battlefield for the first time.
Wu Da's face was full of bitterness, his heart was even more bitter, and his palms were full of fine sweat.
Although he had long expected that the Liao army would have a backhand, Wu Da never expected that the Liao army's hand would be so big.
Moreover, this pressure actually fell on me.
……
The cavalry is approaching, and an earth-shattering, ghost-weeping hand-to-hand battle is about to begin.
The outcome of this battle is directly related to the life and death of Wuhan University, and it is also related to the overall situation of the success or failure of the Song-Liao dispute.
The soldiers of Song Liao all had the heart of death, and everyone fought bravely to be the first.
On the battlefield, people shouted horses neighing, arrows were like flying locusts, and the violent impact of weapons and the shouting of killing played a mighty war song, which resounded in the sky and never dissipated for a long time.
Wu Da's face was very calm, even too calm, calm and a little terrifying.
The cavalry had quickly approached, but Wuda had not given the order to attack.
Until this time, Wu Da coldly ordered:
"Put!"
Most of the nearly 100 Wufu henchmen have been doped to various important positions, and with the order of Wu Da, the first to do it is the ballista!
The ballistae used in the previous siege have all been transferred by Wu Da.
The attack of these ballistas is very long and powerful, but why does Wuda have to wait for the cavalry to get close before firing?
The reason is that Wuda believes in the impact of these ballistas.
The huge arrow, which was nearly two meters long, shot out angrily under the powerful thrust, turning into a roaring dragon, whistling and roaring, directly penetrating a cavalry at the front of the Liao army.
However, then put the second place in the third place...... Skewered together, like a skewer of mutton, skewered through six cavalrymen until it was exhausted.
A large number of huge arrows were fired at the same time, and the cavalry of the Liao army suffered heavy losses immediately, with stumps all over the ground, and even many war horses were directly crucified.
If there really are eighteen layers of hell on earth, this is the nineteenth layer of the blood domain!
Wu Da's belly was tumbling so badly that his face was pale, and he wanted to vomit.
This scene is too scary.
But, he is the commander, and he must remain as calm as he deserves.
So, he waved his hand again.
This time, the power is still the ballista, but this time the arrows they are equipped with have been changed, and they have been replaced with slightly smaller ones, but all of them carry improved versions of the crossbow arrows of the Heaven-Shaking Thunder.
"Boom, boom!"
In this era of cold weapons, the role played by the earth-shattering thunder is unparalleled.
Lethality aside, this earth-shattering roar made the war horses under the Liao army frightened and messed up.
However, the number of improved Skyshaking Thunderbolts is limited, and the huge crossbow arrows on the ballista have been almost exhausted after the siege.
Wu Da glanced at Zhang Liang, and the order flag in Zhang Liang and Wu Gang's hands waved down at the same time.
The old-fashioned, fire-driven earth-shattering thunderbolts were ignited one after another, and then placed on a stone-throwing cart and thrown.
After another roar, as soon as the cavalry servants of the Liao army appeared, they had already lost one-third.
However, instead of suppressing the momentum of the Liao army, they became more and more imposing, and rushed over at the end of their lives.
Wu Dachang took a breath and waved his hand again to order.
The distance of the cavalry was sufficient, and the infantry in the horse-rejecting pile formation threw out all the earth-shattering thunders in their hands, and there was not a single one left.
Yes, there is not a single one left, go all out.
This is what Wuhan University requires.
The Earthquake Thunder is gone, and he can make it again, but he wants to make the soldiers die as little as possible, and eliminate the cavalry as much as possible before the hand-to-hand engagement.
However, at this moment, the foggy sky suddenly became completely dark.
Then, the weather changed suddenly, and the sharp north wind was coming, and hailstones as big as chicken eggs hit the armor of the soldiers.
This was followed by rain and snow.
Wu Da's face suddenly became gloomy.
This kind of bad weather had a great impact on the combat effectiveness of the Great Song Sergeant, and it also seriously affected the power of the earth-shaking thunder.
In an instant, the morale of the Liao army was greatly boosted and they charged frantically.
It's close, it's close, it's finally here!
However, the Liao cavalry suffered a big loss again.
Outside the large array of horse rejection piles, there were a large number of iron nail spikes, and the war horses were in pain and panicked, causing the cavalry to be in chaos, and even many of the cavalry in front of them stopped abruptly, and were directly knocked away by the cavalry rushing up from behind, and then they were trampled into flesh.
Wu Da's face was cold, and he raised his right hand high, "Ready!" ”
"Put!"
The cavalry of the Liao army officially collided with the horse rejection pile, and the infantry behind the horse rejection pile resisted to the death, while the other infantry, in accordance with the previous instructions of Wu Da, began to operate the horse rejection gun in an orderly manner.
"Puff puff ......"
The ground was full of the wailing of war horses and the screams of the Liao army before they died.
Even if the front of the large array has been broken through by the Liao army, the layers of horse rejection piles and horse rejection guns can make the Liao cavalry who came with the general trend suffer heavy losses.
Coupled with the Great Song Dynasty infantry who swore to fight to the death, mending their swords in the middle, the invincible cavalry of the Liao army, suffered from the enemy on their backs and gradually lost their support.
Of course, if they continue like this, sooner or later they will break through the big formation and kill in front of the Song army.
But at this moment, Wuda suddenly ordered.
Withdraw!
Let the enemy in!