Chapter Twenty-Four: A Bitter Battle, a Final Victory

Yang Wenguang led the cavalry to gallop out of the camp along the gap vacated by Di Qing, but as soon as he ran out of the camp, he saw Zhao Lei cleanly defeat the cavalry led by Tashi, and beheaded Tashi and other Qiang army generals. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½//qb5/

Yang Wenguang was shocked when he saw this situation, and immediately observed the nearby terrain left and right, he knew that the heavy armored cavalry of the Western Xia Capture Army was not something that the light cavalry led by him could fight against, and the only way to defeat the enemy was to rely on the terrain and take advantage of the mobile gap between the heavy cavalry and the light cavalry to fight guerrilla warfare and drag down the Western Xia heavy cavalry.

But Yang Wenguang was disappointed, where he is now, behind the camp is the camp, and the cavalry of the Western Xia Heavy Capture Army blocked their left front direction, the only thing that can be detoured is only the right, but there is a high mountain cliff, the Western Xia cavalry occupies the advantageous position, Yang Wenguang has no room for detour at all.

Thinking of this, Yang Wenguang gritted his teeth and rushed towards the Xixia cavalry with more than 2,000 Qingzhou cavalry behind him.

The two cavalry quickly collided together, Yang Wenguang held a silver spear, took the lead, and met a cavalry general of the Western Xia Army, and the silver spear in his hand went straight to the throat of the enemy general.

When the general of the Western Xia Army saw the silver spear stabbed by Yang Wenguang, he waved the long knife in his hand, blocking the silver spear and slashing at Yang Wenguang.

Yang Wenguang leaned over to avoid the long knife, and the silver spear in his hand turned into a little silver light. Shroud the Western Xia generals in it.

The tall and strong Western Xia general is not a simple lord, in the face of Yang Wenguang's stormy attack, his expression is calm and unwavering, but the long knife in his hand is as fast as lightning, seeing the move, to defuse Yang Wenguang's attack.

"Good knife technique! Look at your knife skills, you are definitely not an unknown person. Who will come? Yang Wenguang asked loudly while wielding a silver spear to maintain pressure on the enemy general.

While! The Western Xia general held Yang Wenguang's silver spear and said proudly: "This general is Xiping Mansion Renduo Baoren!" ā€

"The first fierce general of Xiping Mansion, Renduo Baoren!" Yang Wenguang heard the words of the Western Xia general, his heart was shocked, of course he had heard of the name of Renduo Baoren, the general in front of him was a famous Western Xia general who followed Yuan Hao's father Deming to conquer the Northern War in the south and conquer the territory of Western Xia, experienced in a hundred battles, famous for his courage and fearlessness, but he was not on the right path with Yuan Hao, and Yuan Hao demoted him to Xiping Mansion as soon as he came to power. I didn't expect it to appear in Gyeongju now.

At this time, the Gyeongju cavalry had collided with the Western Xia cavalry, but it was completely suppressed by the Western Xia cavalry, and the Western Xia cavalry was all dressed in heavy armor restructured from the Great Song Buren armor, which was basically able to defend against several key attacks on the body, and the Gyeongju cavalry. Only simple leather armor, only some generals wear the same heavy armor as the Western Xia army, although the weapons in the hands of these Gyeongju troops are also sharp, but it is difficult to break through the heavy armor of the Western Xia army, and the Gyeongju army is originally inferior to the Western Xia army in terms of equipment. In addition, the Western Xia cavalry was a cut above the Gyeongju army in terms of combat experience and combat quality, so when the Western Xia cavalry and the Gyeongju cavalry came into contact, they were superior.

A Gyeongju soldier holds a saber. With the help of horsepower, he slashed at the chest of the Western Xia cavalry, but the flesh and blood flew sideways, and the situation of the Western Xia cavalry being disemboweled did not appear, the heavy armor on the Western Xia cavalry was full of defense, except for the harsh sound of metal resonance, there was only a string of ground sparks, and the Western Xia cavalry actually did not suffer any damage.

The Gyeongju soldiers were stunned, but they reacted quickly and galloped on their horses. Preparing to separate the distance and charge again, he suddenly felt a pain in his stomach, looked down, and a spear head appeared in his abdomen, the Gyeongju soldier roared, and the saber in his hand struggled to throw it at a Western Xia cavalry, but it was bounced away by the heavy armor on the Western Xia cavalry, and the Gyeongju cavalry saw this situation, opened their eyes wide, and fell off the horse without blinking their eyes.

By now, the Gyeongju cavalry has finally tasted the bitter fruits of the equipment gap.

In the battle between the Gyeongju cavalry and the Western Xia cavalry, there were constantly soldiers who were injured and fell off their horses, but of the five soldiers who were injured and fell off their horses, four were Gyeongju cavalry, and only one was the Western Xia cavalry, and the gap in strength was clear at a glance.

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Di Qing commanded more than 2,000 Qingzhou foot soldiers under his command to resist the fierce attack of the Qiang army, while not forgetting to look at the form of the nearby battlefield.

The Qiang army in front of him is not worth mentioning at all in Di Qing's eyes, they are equipped with messy equipment, and their weapons are even inferior, although they are aggressive and good at fighting, but there is no discipline and organization in the chaos, and when they encounter these well-equipped Qingzhou infantry under their command, there is no possibility of victory at all, and the only thing to worry about now is the Western Xia cavalry that is mixed with the Qingzhou cavalry, once those cavalry defeat the cavalry under Yang Wenguang, it will be the time when Di Qing's two thousand foot soldiers are mortally attacked.

Di Qing looked at the left and right and still attacked the Qiang army, carefully calculated that these Qiang troops were less than 1,500 people, but the sense of battle was not reduced at all, and they were still crazy and ferocious.

Yang Wenguang fell into a bitter battle, but Di Qing had no choice, after all, the Qingzhou cavalry and the Western Xia cavalry were completely entangled, except for Zhao Lei's five hundred cavalry on the battlefield, it was difficult for the foot soldiers under his command to join the battle, and the only thing he could do now was to quickly defeat the Qiang army in front of him, and then form a formation to prepare to meet the defeated Qingzhou cavalry, he had no confidence in Yang Wenguang defeating the Western Xia cavalry.

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"Brother is in danger, the strength of the cavalry of the Western Xia Army is above the Gyeongju cavalry, and the Gyeongju cavalry has suffered heavy casualties, and they won't be able to hold out for long." Yang Jinhua watched Yang Wenguang fall into a bitter battle, and said anxiously to Zhao Lei next to him.

Zhao Lei clenched the 92-type pistol in his hand, and struggled very much, the 92-style pistol is a double-row supply magazine, with a capacity of fifteen bullets, and he has two full magazines, a total of thirty bullets, these things he carries with him, just shot Tashi and the three Qiang generals beside him, used four bullets, and now there are twenty-six, but these twenty-six bullets are the foundation of his life, and even if they are all used, in the face of two thousand powerful Western Xia cavalry, these twenty-six bullets, what effect can they have!

"If this official kills all the generals of the Western Xia Army, will the Western Xia Army immediately be chaotic and run away!" Zhao Lei held the pistol and asked solemnly to the people around him.

"Nope! Remember Sunuer! He was defeated and captured, Yuan Hao reduced all the soldiers who escaped to slaves, even his family, the Western Xia army stipulated that the main general died in battle, and everyone would be reduced to slavery, and even the family, so once the general died in battle, the other soldiers would definitely fight to the death until everyone died, and there would be few Western Xia troops who surrendered. Yang Jinhua, who was familiar with the affairs of Western Xia, immediately replied.

Hearing Yang Jinhua's words, Zhao Lei was shocked in his heart, he didn't expect that the military system in Western Xia was so similar to the Mongols, and they were all engaged in Zhulian, and they were defeated, and Zhulian was the whole army, no wonder the Western Xia army was so brave and good at fighting, it seems that Yuan Hao really has a hand.

While Zhao Lei admired Yuan Hao, he didn't know how to deal with the situation in front of him, after all, he only had 500 cavalry under his command, even if he entered the battle, he probably couldn't influence the situation of the battle.

"My lord! If you don't make a decision, I'm afraid General Yang will be in danger. Zhao Ming looked at Zhao Lei, who was still hesitating, and said anxiously.

"Let's go, attack the back of the Western Xia cavalry!" Zhao Lei saw that the situation of the Gyeongju cavalry was becoming more and more threatening, and he made up his mind and said.

"Good sons and daughters of the Gyeongju Army! Your brothers are fighting hard to resist the attack of the evil wolves of Western Xia, how can we stand by and kill all the thieves who invaded the Great Song Dynasty! Zhao Lei finished speaking, holding a long knife in his hand, and galloped towards the chaotic battlefield with five hundred personal guard cavalry.

In the melee, the Western Xia cavalry has been watching the movements of Zhao Lei and others, and seeing that they have finally moved, among the Western Xia cavalry, a thin Western Xia general, holding a spear, led at least five hundred cavalry around him, turned his head and rushed towards Zhao Lei and others.

Brush! Zhao Lei took the lead, rode his horse and rushed past the side of a Western Xia cavalryman, and with a wave of the long knife in his hand, he slashed into the neck of the Western Xia cavalry with great accuracy.

The blood of the Western Xia cavalry sprayed Zhao Lei's face, and the baptism of blood made him suddenly tyrannical, and the Jindan Avenue that he had cultivated since childhood suddenly turned into torrents and rushed into his limbs.

Yes! Zhao Lei felt that his whole body suddenly became hot, and a feeling of annoyance and tyranny filled his body, he shouted, and the long knife in his hand turned into a bolt of lightning, slashing at the body of a Western Xia cavalryman who rushed next to him.

The surprising thing happened, Zhao Lei's long knife successfully slashed at the body of the Western Xia cavalry, although it did not break the armor of the Western Xia cavalry, but it knocked the Western Xia cavalry into the air, flew more than ten meters away, and collided with another Western Xia cavalryman.

The Gyeongju army behind Zhao Lei, seeing that the commander was suddenly mighty, cheered in unison, mustered up all his strength, and slashed towards the enemy troops around him.

Xiao Ruoruo, who was dressed in red armor, held a halberd, like a tiger descending the mountain, beckoning to chase the soul, and quickly killed four Western Xia cavalry, and Yang Jinhua, who was dressed in a green war cannon, already had the demeanor of his brother Yang Wenguang with a silver spear in his hand, and he conjured up ten thousand points of silver light, and the eyes of the surrounding Western Xia cavalry could not be opened, and if he was not careful, he died tragically on the silver spear.

Zhao Ming and Fan Quan, the two Qiang brothers, both had a big axe in their hands, wielding them left and right, and the flesh and blood of the Western Xia cavalry who would soon usher in them were blurred.

Among the people, the strongest combat effectiveness is none other than Zhu Dali, who is holding a hundred catties of broadswords, he is holding a dragon knife, which is called death when touched, although the Xixia army has strong defensive heavy armor, but these heavy armor can not block the sharpness of hundreds of catties of broadswords, and they have been cut into several pieces, and the death is very miserable.

Although Zhao Lei and others killed a lot of Western Xia cavalry, but the situation on the entire battlefield, there was no change in the slightest, the cavalry around Zhao Lei was completely suppressed by the Western Xia cavalry, and Yang Wenguang reduced the pressure of five hundred Western Xia cavalry, and barely recovered the defeat situation.

The entire battlefield was once again in a scuffle, and everyone was caught in a bitter battle.

The remnants of the sun were like blood, and the battle in Gyeongju had been going on for an afternoon, and both the physical strength and spirit of both the enemy and the enemy had reached the verge of collapse.

Di Qing held a Pu knife in his hand, calmly looked at the Qiang army that was still attacking frantically, a sneer flashed on his face, there were at least 1,500 infantry under his command, and the Qiang army, at most, was less than 300 people, but 2,500 heavily armoured, well-equipped heavy infantry, actually lost thousands of people to eat the same number, messy and inferior Qiang army, which made Di Qing feel very dissatisfied, after all, like the Gyeongju army, an army equipped with heavy armor, only the three battalions of Bianjing Longwu, Yulin, and Shenwujing in the entire Great Song Dynasty had this kind of treatment, Other places are not right, only 200 people can be assigned to heavy armor at most for a thousand foot soldiers, that is to say, Di Qing is equivalent to leading the most elite heavy infantry of the Great Song Dynasty, and paying the price of 1,000 people to completely annihilate the same number of Qiang troops, maybe this is already a great merit in the eyes of others, but in Di Qing's opinion, this is a shame.

Di Qing, who had a sneering face, slowly took out a green hideous bronze mask from his arms and put it on his face solemnly, and several generals around him knew that Di Qing was preparing to charge at this time, and they all pulled out their weapons and ordered the surrounding soldiers to prepare to counterattack the Qiang army.

"Kill!" An earth-shattering slogan shouted out of Di Qing's mouth, and the Gyeongju army, which had been prepared for a long time, heard the commander's order, and immediately changed from a circular formation to a triangular formation, divided its troops into two ways, and charged towards the remaining Qiang army enemies.

"Kill!" A Gyeongju foot soldier shouted. The spear in his hand stabbed out, and he couldn't avoid the target, and watched the spear stab at his body in amazement.

"Brother!" At the same time that the Gyeongju infantry stabbed the enemy, a Qiang soldier holding a short axe next to the enemy shouted angrily, ignoring the slashing of a simple knife. He slashed the short axe at the Gyeongju soldier who had killed his brother.

The Gyeongju soldier had just stabbed the enemy to death, and the spear in his hand had not been withdrawn, so he had no way to resist the enemy's counterattack, and he wanted to abandon the gun in a panic, but it was too late.

Is it just dead! The Gyeongju soldier thought of surprise in his heart.

At this moment, a crossbow arrow suddenly flew behind the Gyeongju soldiers, and the crossbow arrows accurately shot into the chest of the Qiang soldiers, and the huge force slammed the Qiang soldiers' bodies into a stagnation, and the desperate attack failed, and the Qiang soldiers also fell down with a look of resentment.

The 300 Qiang army was originally the end of the strong crossbow. It didn't last long, and the Gyeongju infantry led by Di Qing had been training these days in terms of physical strength and sustained combat ability, and the Gyeongju infantry who still had spare strength were led by Di Qingdi, and soon killed hundreds of Qiang troops, and the commander of the Qiang army. also died under Di Qing's knife, and the remaining Qiang troops finally lost the will to fight, and either scattered and fled, or knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.

"The wounded rest in place. Go with Shogun to rescue your adults without being hurt! After Di Qing defeated the Qiang army, he looked at the cavalry battlefield that was getting farther and farther away, and said loudly to the surrounding soldiers in fear.

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Zhao Lei's hand rose and fell. The long knife smashed the enemy's head directly, he frantically killed the approaching enemy, in his mind, full of red tyrannical killing**, the long knife in his hand has already rolled the blade, now it is not a slashing person, it has become a smashing person, his body is full of the enemy's blood and broken meat, and the original silver armor. Now it has turned the color of blood red, and the Western Xia cavalry who died in his hands has more than thirty people.

Zhu Dali rode his horse close to Zhao Lei's side, the dragon knife in his hand was still as fast as lightning, and the Xixia cavalry that rushed to Zhao Lei's left side was split in half with the people and horses, protecting Zhao Lei's safety, the dragon knife in his hand was stained with the blood of the enemy, and the partial general who led the Xixia cavalry to charge also died under his dragon knife, although the commander died, but the remaining Xixia cavalry not only did not retreat, but became more crazy, and rushed towards Zhao Lei and his party of six people without fear of death.

Zhao Ming and Fan Quan, the two Qiang people, charged at the forefront of Zhao Lei, and the people behind them resisted most of the attacks of the Western Xia cavalry, and their bodies were already scarred, if it were not for the heavy armor that Zhao Lei assigned to the two of them, they would probably have been seriously injured and died.

Ding! Several sabers of the Western Xia Army slashed at Zhao Ming and Fan Quan, and several weapons attacked at the same time, most of them were slashed at Fan Quan, and most of them were attacking Fan Quan's vital points, and the two of them who cooperated with the tacit understanding had no time to think, Zhao Ming ignored the sabers that attacked him, and blocked the weapons that slashed at Fan Quan with all his might, and Fan Quan also blocked the two sabers that attacked his vital points, and several weapons collided together, making a crisp metal sound.

Poof! The support from the rear arrived, and Zhao Lei, as well as Xiao Ruoruo and Yang Jinhua beside him, rushed to Zhao Ming and Fan Quan's side at the same time, and waved the weapons in their hands in the air, killing all the nearby Western Xia cavalry.

Zhao Lei and Xiao Ruoruo and other six fierce generals charged forward, resisting the greatest pressure of the Western Xia cavalry, and the Qingzhou cavalry behind them, inspired by the main general, rushed to kill, and actually completely suppressed the Western Xia cavalry, when Zhao Lei and they charged back and forth three times in a row, only to see that the Western Xia cavalry was less than fifty people.

"They want to escape, soldiers! We chase! Zhao Lei looked at the Western Xia cavalry with a look of fear on his face, and slowly retreated towards the main force of the Western Xia cavalry, Zhao Lei shouted loudly and said to the people around him.

At this time, there were less than two hundred cavalry left around Zhao Lei, and they were already two miles away from Yang Wenguang, five miles away from Di Qing.

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Yang Wenguang panted and looked at the opponent in front of him, his eyes were full of respect, this is a good opponent, although he is at least fifty years old, his agility, reflection and strength are not as good as before, but the experience gained in a hundred battles has made up for his shortcomings, Yang Wenguang has fought with him for hundreds of rounds, and there is still no winner or loser.

Good knife technique! Yang Wenguang sighed in his heart and thought that his marksmanship came from the family heirloom Yang family gun, which paid attention to illusion, fast and accurate, in today's autumn sun. The silver spear in his hand can also reflect the sunlight, blur the enemy's eyes, and increase the power of the Yang family's marksmanship, but he didn't expect that Renduo Baoren's knife skills are like mountains and flowing water, endless, plus years of experience in battle. has repeatedly seen through his killer moves, and he still can't win with a hundred moves.

Yang Wenguang was panting in shock, but Renduo Baoren was so tired that he almost lost his strength, the inner lining of the armor on his body was already soaked with sweat, his hands and feet were weak, and he felt that the big knife in his hand was as heavy as a thousand catties.

"General! We're here to help! Seeing that Yang Wenguang and Renduo Baoren were temporarily separated, the two generals immediately abandoned the Gyeongju cavalry around them and patted their horses to help in the battle.

"The Light of the Rice Beads!" Yang Wenguang looked at the two Western Xia army generals who rushed over and snorted coldly. The silver spear in his hand slanted, and a dim reflex shone through the eyes of the two generals.

The two generals only felt the light coming, subconsciously closed their eyes, and then only felt a pain in their throats, and then fell to their deaths.

to two partial generals died in battle. More Western Xia cavalry rushed towards Yang Wenguang, while the veteran general Renduo Baoren sat still with a cold face and recovered his exhausted physical strength.

Yang Wenguang looked at the fewer and fewer Gyeongju cavalry around him, and secretly anxious in his heart, looking around. Only now there are less than 500 cavalry in Gyeongju, and there are at least more than 1,000 cavalry in Western Xia.

What to do! Just when Yang Wenguang was worried. Di Qing and Zhao Lei had already eliminated their enemies and were pressing here.

At this time, the Western Xia veteran general Rindo Baoren also saw that the Qiang army had been completely defeated, looking at the only remaining 1,200 cavalry of the captured army around him, as well as 700 cavalry and 1,500 foot soldiers of the Gyeongju army, Rinda Baoren knew that even if he defeated the enemy in front of him, the planned plan of sneak attack on Gyeongju could not be realized.

Nito felt that his body's recovery was getting slower and slower, and he knew that it would not work if he was not convinced, even if he continued to fight. Let's leave some spark of revenge for Western Xia!

"Retreat!" Thinking of this, Renduo Baoren drank loudly, and took the remaining cavalry of the Capture Army to leave slowly and methodically in the direction he came.

"Don't chase it!" Zhao Lei, who came to Yang Wenguang's side, looked at the direction in which Renduo Baoren left, waved his hand to stop Yang Wenguang and Di Qing from preparing to pursue.

"Why don't you chase?" Yang Jinhua looked at the retreating cavalry of the Western Xia Capture Army and asked eagerly.

"What if you catch up? With the little strength we have left, are we looking for death? Zhao Lei looked at the battlefield where the corpses were everywhere, and said with a sore heart.

"Di Qing! Immediately clean up the battlefield, bury the enemy's corpses on the spot, bring back the corpses of our army, wait for their families to claim them, and prepare for the wounded and sick immediately! Seeing that the Western Xia cavalry had run without a shadow, Zhao Lei instructed Di Qing.

"My lord! What if the Western Xia cavalry came back and forth? Yang Wenguang said with some concern, he still can't figure out why the Western Xia Army, which obviously has the strength to fight and has the upper hand, retreated?

"They won't come back, there is no Qiang people to lead the way, they are like wolves without eyes, no matter how powerful they are, they can only go around in the mountains of Gyeongju, and without the help of the Qiang army, the military plans of the Western Xia army in Gyeongju will all fail, unless they find the Qiang tribe that has taken refuge in the Western Xia, they will never step into Gyeongju, but! The official will not give the Western Xia a chance to win over the Qiang people in Gyeongju, and the official will kill the chickens and respect the monkeys, so that the Qiang people will know the fate of offending the Great Song Dynasty. Zhao Lei looked at the corpses of the Gyeongju army around him and said murderously.

Hearing Zhao Lei's gloomy and bloody words, no one refuted it, the Qiang people in Malingzhai were injured, stained with too much blood of the people of the Great Song Dynasty, and the grievances were not enough to make the people angry!

Zhao Lei, Yang Wenguang and others looked at the countless corpses on the battlefield with a sad face, as well as the pitiful moans of the wounded, and their hearts were full of resentment.

"Your Excellency!" Di Qing came to Zhao Lei's side with a blue face, and said in a low voice.

"Say it! What about casualties? Zhao Lei has seen the entire battlefield at a glance, and he already knows in his heart that it makes people blush.

"Our Gyeongju army killed 2,400 Qiang troops, captured 460 people, killed more than 600 Western Xia cavalry, and did not take prisoners, our Gyeongju army cavalry killed 1,900 people and wounded more than 800 people, Gyeongju infantry soldiers killed 400 people, wounded 600 people." Di Qing looked at Zhao Lei with flickering eyes and said.

Can it be called victory if you killed 3,000 enemies, lost 2,300 yourself, and wounded 1,400 people? Even if it wins, it's a heart-wrenching victory! Zhao Lei thought with emotion in his heart.

Reforming the army, looking at the fighting quality of those Western Xia captured troops, and wanting to train cavalry to compete with the elite cavalry of Western Xia and Liao, I am afraid it is an unrealistic plan at all! Just the high-grade war horses that can afford heavy armor, I am afraid that even after a hundred years, it will be difficult to compete with the Western Xia and the Liao State, and the reform of building cavalry to resist strong enemies is right or wrong! Zhao Lei looked at the lessons that this war brought him, and thought confusedly.

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