Chapter 437: Golden Beach
Brother Yelu Hugh was ecstatic, could it be that Yang Sanlang's injuries were too serious, and he was unconscious at this moment? No, his gaze was obviously blazing at himself, so why didn't he dodge?
Yelu Xiuge didn't understand this question, the golden knife in his hand had already slashed into Yang Sanlang's shoulder!
And at the moment when the golden knife was about to cut into Yang Sanlang's shoulder, Yang Sanlang suddenly threw out the armor-piercing golden gun in his hand!
The tip of the spear flashed with cold light, like a devil's claw sticking out of hell, and pounced on Yeluxiuge!
Yelu Xiu Ge was horrified and wanted to parry or dodge, but his moves were already old, his stamina had been lost, his stamina was not born, and he was unable to dodge and block, so when the knife slashed into Yang Sanlang's shoulder, the spear also galloped, swished, pierced into his chest, pierced through, and the strength was so great that Ye Lu Xiu Ge flew upside down, landed a few steps away, and nailed to the ground!
Only then did Brother Yelu Hugh understand that Yang Sanlang, a desperate Sanlang, was going to fight with him as soon as he came up!
However, he knew too late.
Blood gushed out of his mouth, and he struggled to look up at Yang Sanlang.
Yang Sanlang also fell off the horse, and his golden knife was still deeply stuck in his shoulder. He was staring at him, his eyes full of sneer.
"You're ......!"
Yelu Hugo only had time to say this word, and the countless iron hooves of the heavy armored cavalry of the Liao army, which swept up like a raging storm, couldn't stop galloping at all, and stepped on him in an instant! In an instant, he was trampled into pulp!
And Yang Sanlang's figure also disappeared in the galloping of ten thousand horses!
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The 1,000 dead soldiers of the Song army by the river only resisted the effort of the Liao army's heavy armored cavalry for a meal. They all died on the riverbank.
The sandy area of the river beach has long been stained red with blood, in the rising sun. A golden piece.
Later, this river beach turned golden.
Locals call it Golden Beach!
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The deputy marshal of the Liao army, the prime minister of the Southern Courtyard, Yelu Sha Zema, came to the Fushui River, and saw that the last wave of Song troops had landed on the other side of the river, and rushed to the mountains and forests in the distance in a panic.
There, it was the direction in which the main force of the Song army retreated and disappeared!
Jerusha could not accept the Song army's successful breakthrough from their heavy encirclement, and the direction in which the Song army fled. It is Yanshan, the hinterland of the Liao army. In the vast mountains and forests, they can't escape far!
With a wave of his sword, Jerusha roared, "Cross the river!" Give me chase! β
The heavily armored cavalry of the Liao army began to rush towards the Fushui River. The weight of the heavily armored cavalry. Far from being able to withstand the soft sand at the bottom of the river, the first cavalry reached the center of the river and had already drowned two or three percent of them!
Only then did Jerusha realize this major mistake and immediately give the order. Remove the horse and armor. Ride across the river lightly.
This time, the number of deaths was greatly reduced. The first cavalry finally landed on the other side of the river, wet. Began to serve as a vigilance.
Subsequently, the Liao army continued to cross the river. Jerusha was also the first to cross the river. Behind him, twenty or thirty thousand Liao army cavalry successfully crossed the river. Jerusha decided to hit this part of the force first and pursue the Song army.
Although after a day and a night of fighting yesterday, the Song army suffered heavy casualties, but there were at least more than 100,000 troops, and it was inappropriate to use these two or thirty thousand soldiers to pursue the Song army, but he knew the defeated army too well. The so-called defeat of the army is like a mountain, and it is impossible to form combat effectiveness at all. As long as it catches up, it's a one-sided slaughter!
He longed for that kind of scene.
Yerusha immediately waved his long knife and prepared to order a pursuit in the mountains and forests where the Song army had fled.
However, without waiting for his order, there was a faint sound of thunder in the distance, but if you listen carefully, it doesn't look like thunder, he looks at the sky, the sun is shining, it doesn't look like thunder, where does this sound come from?
At this moment, he found that the Liao soldiers around him began to shout in a panic. And pointed to the mountains and forests in the distance and said something. He hurriedly put his hand on the pergola and looked at it, and this look, he couldn't help but be pale and dumbfounded.
I saw that the Song army was overwhelmingly outflanking them from three directions, and judging from the black and oppressive scene, the strength of the troops far exceeded the 20,000 or 30,000 people who crossed the river and landed on the shore!
The Song army actually killed one of them!
Jerusha hurriedly ordered the whole team to meet the enemy.
The Liao army was also well-trained, and the formation was quickly formed. The Song army had already rushed to the front. Jerusha gave an order: "Charge!" β
He hoped to show the scene of yesterday's powerful heavy cavalry strangling the Song army like a meat grinder.
However, when he was about to give the order, he suddenly found that the horses of the two or thirty thousand iron horsemen who had climbed the river bank had no armor at all!
Only then did he remember that when crossing the river, in order to prevent the war horse from sinking too heavily into the mud and sand at the bottom of the river and drowning the soldiers, he had ordered the soldiers to take off the armor on the horses!
How can a war horse without protection be called a heavy cavalry? And how to face the stormy crossbow of the Song army?
Yerusha's face was pale, and his head was quickly calculating, but he couldn't find a way to deal with it!
However, the Song army that rushed up did not give him more time to think, and after entering the range of the divine crossbow, the Song army immediately stopped advancing.
Then the hum of the bowstring was heard, and the clear sky immediately turned black, and the rain of arrows obscured the daylight. The storm fell on the Liao army's position!
Immediately, screams resounded all around!
Yerusha watched as countless soldiers around him were hit by arrows from their horses and threw them off their horses. And the soldier didn't have time to get up, and he was shot into a hedgehog by the crossbow arrows that came after him!
The bows and crossbows of the Song army are really powerful, and they are well-trained, they step forward to release arrows in echelons, and immediately retreat after shooting, and the crossbowmen behind rush up to release arrows, and so on, so the rain of arrows in the sky has not stopped from the beginning. The soldiers of the Liao army did not even have a chance to breathe. One by one, they screamed and died of arrows.
When Jerusha saw that the situation was not good, he turned his horse's head and ran.
However, his horse also lost the protection of its armor, and several crossbow arrows pierced the horse. The horse fell and threw him down. He got up and had to run again, but in order to increase his defense, he relied on his physical strength and physical strength, so the armor on his body was almost twice as heavy as that of others!
Wearing such heavy armor, running like a big stupid bear, Song Jun's arrow rain clanged and fell on his back, and several strong crossbows pierced his back through the armor, and the severe pain made him tense his nerves.
He didn't stop, still running awkwardly forward.
Finally, he rushed into the Fushui River, and as long as he swam across the river, he could survive!
The river soon overflowed his waist, and he realized that the armor on his body was too heavy, and he was afraid that he would sink into the water. He doesn't know water. So, he unfastened his armor as he walked forward.
However, there were so many soldiers in the river that they collided and pushed each other, and he could not untie his armor properly.
He pushed away the soldiers around him hard, and when he stood and lowered his head to untie his heavy armor, with a bang, he was knocked into the water by the Liao soldiers and war horses that rushed madly from behind.
He tried to get up, but the two horses were already full of arrows, and they became the end of the crossbows, and when they hit Jerusha, the horses also fell into the water and died. The horse's corpse was pressed right on Jerusha's body!
His own heavy armor already made it difficult for him to move in the water, and the weight of the two war horses pressed him to the bottom of the river, and the Liao soldiers who fled in a panic around him had no idea that their commander was actually crushed to the bottom of the river beside them! So no one went to help him.
A generation of famous generals Yerusha drowned alive in the Fushui River!
While Jerusha fled for his life and drowned, the battle on the riverbank continued.
In the face of the powerful rain of arrows of the Song army, the Liao army also began to release arrows, but the range of their bows and arrows was only half of that of the Song army, and they could not shoot the Song army's position at all.
In the past, the Liao army faced the bow and crossbow warfare of the Song army, and the successful method was to use the rapid impact and armor protection of the cavalry to rush into the Song army's position after withstanding the first wave of bow and arrow attacks of the Song army, and start a short hand-to-hand encounter, so that the bow and crossbow lost its power.
After discovering their passivity, the Liao army immediately organized a charge, trying to use the old method to counteract the power of the Song army's bow and crossbow. However, the horses without armor were simply too vulnerable. I didn't run halfway in, but I fell halfway down.
When they were not afraid of death and finally rushed through this half, they found that they were greeted by archers who were faster in the Song army's exchange of arrows and therefore more intensive!
As a result, half of the Liao cavalry fell in front of the Song army's position.
A small part of the Liao army's iron cavalry, which finally rushed into the Song army's position, found that they had no good fruit to eat, and the war horses without armor protection broke like papier-mΓ’chΓ© lanterns in front of the spear array and the long axe array! It took less than a meal for all the cavalry who rushed into the Song army's position to be stabbed and hacked to death.
After organizing two or three such suicidal charges, the Liao army found that it was impossible to deal with it at all, and in the face of a situation where it was only beaten and did not fight back, the Liao army could only choose to retreat.
As a result, the Fushui River was like dumplings, and the soldiers who came from the other side of the river and the soldiers who retreated from this side crowded the Fushui River to the brim.
The Liao army retreated this time, and it was no longer as orderly as before. Because in the face of the powerful bow and crossbow attack of the Song army, those who remained behind could only die! So they rushed into the river.
Finding that the Liao army was defeated, Yang Dalang ordered: "Charge!" β
The Song army, which was three or four times larger than the Liao army that crossed the river, swept into the Liao army's position like an autumn wind sweeping away leaves, chopping melons and vegetables and slashing at the Liao soldiers who had lost their armor protection. Although the Liao soldiers still have armor on their bodies, they are all heavy armor, and this kind of heavy armor can only play a role on war horses, but after the war horses are killed and the soldiers land, they become a great burden, unable to move quickly, and become a live target for the Song army's pikemen and axe soldiers.
On the river beach, the soldiers of the Liao army were in a mess, frantically retreating to the Fushui River, many soldiers drowned, and the lower reaches of the Fushui River were full of corpses of the Liao army!
The battle lasted until the evening. Of the 30,000 or 40,000 Liao troops who crossed the river, half were annihilated on the beach by the river, and the remaining half were drowned in the Fushui River, and less than 10,000 were able to cross the river to escape! The losses are enormous. (To be continued......)