The snow on the steppes was covered by the transportation of grain and grass and huge siege equipment. It is constantly rolled by the wheels, and it is mixed with the mud into a mixture, and after the upper layer freezes, it is barely able to pedestrians, but the uneven and slippery road surface is easy to fall on. The carts full of food and ordnance were too much for the mud to bear, and as soon as the carts left, the ground turned into mud again, making it very difficult to walk.

However, the Song army had no choice, they were not familiar with the ground in the northwest, and there were no signs along the way, if they were rerouted indiscriminately, God knows where they would go. Besides, the snow that has crystallized on the surface may not be easier to walk on than this muddy road. So, they had no choice but to bite the nail on and continue along the road.

The route they traveled was traceable, and it was easy for the rangers of the Eight Clans of the Dang Xiang to catch their team, and the huge baggage transport team in front of them had already fought with the Xia army several times along the way. It seems that the Xia army was really broken up by the Song army, and after such a long time, the number of people and horses roaming the grassland to attack the Song army's grain transport team was very limited. It is difficult to organize a large attack and a blocking battle.

However, they are small in number, but they take advantage of the Rangers' mobility, and you don't know when they will come, so you have to be on high alert at all times. Once their attacks are blocked, they will immediately flee, and no matter how strong your combat power is, you can't keep up with the speed at which they can escape, so you can only repel them, not effectively kill them. The Xia army came and went, retreating at the slightest touch, although it was always a shallow way of fighting, but it made the Song army troops carrying grain exhausted.

At this moment, it was only a few dozen miles away from Xiazhou City, and according to the convention, the Xia army rangers would not attack in the place where the main force of the Song army was under Xiazhou City, and the Song army team couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The military flag hunting, fluttering in the cold wind, Huangfu Xiangjun was shot in his hand, dismounted from his crotch, and sat on the horse very jīng god. This general, wearing an iron helmet with ear protection, wearing fish scale armor, gossip goggles on his chest, a shoulder swallowing beast on his shoulders, eight pieces of battle skirt on his lower body, and a line of snow-white underwear under the battle skirt, although he fought with the Xia army rangers more than once on the way, and the road was muddy, he was still spotless and majestic.

The Song army, who was escorting grain and grass, was carrying a crossbow on his back. The red cherry spears in their hands are all forbidden army jīng, but even if they wear seven or eight layers of cloth clothes, they can't stop the cold wind from whistling into their necks, one by one their lips are blue, and a pair of boots on their feet are stained with a thick layer of mud, becoming as if they weigh more than ten pounds, even if they travel lightly on foot, they are already tired of such a long journey, not to mention such road conditions, if they can't rush to Xiazhou City immediately, drink a sip of hot water, and lie in the tent to warm their bodies, they really can't hold on.

The Song army was on the barrel of his gun, and he tried his best to rush to the camp tonight, so that he no longer had to stay in the wilderness, and he didn't have to stay awake all night to prevent a sneak attack, and at this time, the goshawks hovering in the sky could be seen, in front of them in the left and right directions. The cavalry of 5,000 men each was like a pair of iron pincers gripping the long line of grain.

There is a wing on the left and right, 5,000 people on each wing, and a large group for each 1,000 people, arranged in five layers, advancing layer by layer. Every hundred people are a detachment, every ten people are a small team, outflanked in a roundabout way, ten miles away, the Song army scouts rushed to show the Chinese army jǐng, jǐng news just reached the army, the Xia army roared, only five miles away from its goal, for a while the sound of hooves thundered, with the wind, the Song army's grain transport team suddenly moved.

The left wing of the Xia army wore a gray wolfskin robe, a dogskin hat, and ear protection masks, only a pair of fierce eyes, and his hands were also wrapped in a layer of fur, and only ten fingers were drawn, and the steel knife was tightly held in his palm. This person is none other than the young patriarch of the Yeli clan, Ono Kerr.

The vanguard of the right wing is Yang Yanpu, Yang Yanpu is neatly draped, but he is just a light black sè leather armor, the red tassels on the top of the leather ash tremble suddenly, like a cluster of flames, a spear in his hand, as it approaches more and more. His gun was already under his ribs, and the tip of the gun was pointed forward, ready to charge.

"Xia Jun even dares to attack?"

Huangfu Xiangjun was shocked and angry, and was making people step forward to meet the enemy, only to see countless men and horses rolling on the left and right wings, several times more than the seven or eight times of robbing grain and horses encountered along the way before, only then did he know that this time the enemy was a little pierced, and immediately ordered: "Quickly, rely on the grain cart, and set up the three-ring moon array." ”

It's too late, the Xia army is very fast, the Song army relies on the grain cart, the three-ring array has just taken shape, the Xia army has rushed to the front, Ono Keer stepped off the war horse and spread the four hooves and galloped like an arrow, the steel knife in his hand was raised high, shining with bloodthirsty cold light in the cold wind. On the other side, Yang Yanpu clutched the spear in his hand, pointed the spear forward, and trampled on the iron hooves, sweeping through the snow like a whirlwind, fifty zhang, forty zhang, and thirty zhang......

"Tense and tense ......" There was a sound of bowstrings, and the first rain of arrows of the Song army, which had just taken down the formation, roared away. Yang Yanpu shook his spear, guarded the people and guarded the horse, dialed the arrows, the speed did not stop for a moment, behind him, the soldiers either dialed with weapons, or took out the horse shield, a rain of arrows went down, but there were also some charging soldiers who fell from the arrows, but there was no pace and speed of the entire army moving forward at all, and this canopy was a hasty and messy arrow rain. It's like a stone thrown into the raging river, splashing only a touch of insignificant waves.

On the other side, Ono Keer's men and horses are not like Yang Yanpu's people and horses are all standard weapons, unified training, the reaction is varied, each showing its ability, some people are hiding in the foot, some people raise shields to meet arrows, some people wield weapons to dial, some people shout and rush fearlessly, and some people react very quickly, they have already taken a bow to ride shè to counterattack, the main generals of the two armies will charge forward, countless heroic warriors roar behind, in the splashed snow and mist, as if the heavenly soldiers and generals rushed over.

Ono Kerr and Yang Yanpu gave full play to the mobility of the cavalry, quickly assembled, outflanked, assaulted and penetrated, and cut the battle, saying that Huangfu Xiangjun was commanding a tired army, even if Pan Mei was here, and the department was full of physical strength, in such a disadvantage, there was only failure, at most it would make the other party pay more sacrifices.

Along the way, the Xia army pretended to rob the grain seven or eight times, dragging the Song army to the point of exhaustion, and now it suddenly appeared when the Song army was the most slack...... Finally, it's time to lose my armor and let others slaughter it......

A small team of ten people of the Xia army, like a hundred sharp arrow clusters, chiseled through the long dragon team transporting grain, and the left and right wings were pinched at the same time, like biting sawtooth. The defensive front of the Song army was completely broken, and the entire grain team was cut into pieces. The first wave of charges was like a wave of waves, killing the Song soldiers on their backs, and then, the second wave of blows followed, the Xia army was a row of thousands of people, and there were five columns on the left and right.

When the last group of charging cavalry staggered by, the first group of Xia troops who rushed to kill the past had turned their horses back and started the next round of charge, spears and halberds, iron forks and steel knives, sharp blades collided, sparks flew everywhere, and countless corpses had been thrown in the convoy, in the face of this simply irresistible blow, the Song army gave up the grain cart and began to flee to the snowfield, so that it was easier to become the target of the other party's hunting.

Huangfu Xiangjun was furious, dancing a spear, like a tiger out of the right to block and kill, but how can there be 10,000 enemies in the battle array? The strength of one person was really small, and the dense charge of the Xia army's ten-man team was like a wave of never-ending cháo water, and Huangfu Xiangjun was sweating profusely, but he felt that the enemy seemed to be killing more and more.

His original spotless demeanor was completely gone, when his eyes were blurred with sweat, and his arms were so weak that he couldn't lift the gun, he suddenly found that the fighting had stopped, and around him was a circle of Xia army warriors who were sitting on horses and staring at him fiercely, one of them looked at him with mocking eyes, and with a slight stroke of his knife, more than seven lassos flew up into the air and covered his head.

"Damn, a lot of food. Wowha...... a lot of arrows......"

Ono Kerr excitedly inspected the carts, stabbed open a bag of grain, and the white rice flowed out, and took a handful, and in the sun, the grain of rice was as crystal clear as a pearl. Then Xian drove the linoleum cloth on a car, and saw that there was a box of sharp arrows inside, the arrow feathers were snow-white, and the arrows were cold. On the bottom are pieces of winter clothes......

"Rich, so fucking rich." Ono Ke'er drooled, and immediately ordered: "Hurry, hurry, everyone try to load it on the horse, take as much as you can, and burn the rest, hurry up!" ”

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The snow was pervasive, the world was confused, the whistling wind and snow hit the face, the knife was painful, and the foot soldiers of the Song army who were transporting grain trudged with difficulty against the wind and snow. They knew that the baggage transported to Xiazhou had been plundered many times by the Xia army, and they knew that the most powerful enemy that the robes besieging Xiazhou were now facing was not the army in Xiazhou City, nor the tribal army outside Xiazhou City that constantly attacked them, but the severe cold weather and the lack of food.

Since leaving the Lin Mansion and crossing the Hengshan Mountain, they have been constantly pursued by the small cavalry army of the Xia State along the way, regardless of the night, they know that they have been targeted by the Xia army, and when they are dragged to the exhaustion, a powerful cavalry team will suddenly appear in front of them, but ...... Xiazhou they have to go, they have no choice.

The earth trembled slightly, and the faint sound of horses' hooves sounded behind them, although this was a flat snowfield, but the confused snow blocked the view, and it was difficult to distinguish people from a hundred and ten meters away, they could not see how many enemies were coming, and they could only estimate a rough number from the trembling of the earth.

They were already very careful, trying to save their physical strength along the way, the mileage of each march was extremely limited, and they kept the jǐng ring at all times when marching, ready to enter the battle state at any time, and as soon as they heard the voice, they began to surround the barricade and prepare to resist from the barricade. The Song army is dominated by foot soldiers, in such a grassland, under the same strength, they have suffered in tactics and tactics, and their task is to transport grain and grass, grain and grass is their biggest cover door, the enemy can attack and defend, can advance or retreat, can come and go at any time, they can not attack and go, can only guard the grain and grass to be transported and beaten, how can such a battle win the chance is not few?

The pursuers were like a stream of iron, and the ruthless cavalry circled around the various chariots to besiege, impacting and riding, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep to destroy the withering and decaying. Huang Daole, the deputy head of Jinning Road, saw that a large number of Xia troops were chasing after him, and shouted in a deep voice: "Order, all departments defend on the spot, and must not act recklessly, so as not to be taken advantage of by the enemy, Long dares to love, you lead the people and horses of the headquarters to help the rear formation......"

Before Huang Daole could say a word, he heard a desolate horn sound, and suddenly another road of people came out of the white snow in front of him, and before the shadowy team rushed in front of him, countless sharp arrows had broken through the air, taking away countless lives, and then, it was like cháo water layer upon layer, wedged into the battle of the Xia Zhou soldiers. Immediately, there were also traces of the enemy on both sides, galloping wildly, flesh and blood flying, and the one was invincible.

Such a snowfield is the world of cavalry, with its own shortcomings, facing the enemy's strengths, tired divisions, and the big burden of food and grass, there is still suspense about the outcome of this battle. The horses neighed and shouted, the arrows and horizontal knives, and constantly people fell to the battlefield, but no one cared about it, only rushing, chopping, splitting, and colliding ......, and any formation coordination was useless, and the Xiazhou soldiers rushed wildly, and in the face of the dense formation of spearmen, they quickly lifted the reins and swept over, just more than ten steps in front of them, and rushed to another weak point in an arc.

The hastily formed formation of the formation was full of flaws, and the Song army watched them cut into their camp from the weak point like a sharp knife, and they had no time to go over to strengthen the defense there, even if they had time, they could not pass, as long as the formation moved, the dense formation on this side would immediately bend into a vulnerable attack, and the cavalry of the Xia army came and went like flying, they only relied on two legs, and they were in a dilemma when there were heavy vehicles to take care of, and they could only be led by the enemy.

One place was broken, everywhere was eroded, and the Song army, which was loosely formed, was divided, compressed, rushed, killed, cut and compressed by the Xia army's iron cavalry, and ...... was already a chaotic situation. Huang Daole saw that in the face of the powerful offensive of the Xia army, the soldiers who had been cut off could only fight on their own, and their own flags had lost their effectiveness, and he couldn't help but feel like dirt, he knew that it was only a matter of time before he died.

"Their style of play is simple, but it works!"

Under the city of Xiazhou, in the camp of the Chinese army, the generals sat on both sides, and at the top sat Pan Mei and Wang Jien, who faced the haze.

Pan Mei continued: "Fighting in the plains and snow, our foot soldiers are already at a disadvantage, and we have grain and grass to take care of, so we can only be beaten passively, while the Xia army is familiar with the terrain and comes and goes quickly, their horse team cruises on the grassland, constantly fatigue our grain transport team, and when the time is ripe, they quickly gather a large number of troops, their assembly speed is very fast, in the sāo disturbance attack, not only exhaust our army, but also test out the reality of our army, when assembling, they can always maintain superior forces, and strike a fatal blow, So it's almost a matter of not fighting, and one blow is done. We don't have a good way to deal with their tactics. ”

Wang Jien frowned, and said unhappily: "Knowing where their plan is, can't they be resolved?" ”

Pan Mei glanced at him coldly and said, "Lord Prison Army, the so-called people who know themselves and know each other are not suitable for all situations. On the battlefield, all kinds of tricks emerge one after another, and they are indeed the magic weapons for defeating the enemy. However, sometimes even if you know exactly what the other party is doing, you may not be able to crack his deployment, especially if you ...... The current situation. ”

Wang Jien said with a calm face: "When the soldiers went out of Hengshan and pursued the Xia army, this problem ...... Didn't you generals think about it? ”

Pan Mei was furious, he took a long breath, suppressed the fire, and then said: "We have never had the experience of fighting in the northern winter grasslands, and many difficulties are underestimated. And that's not the biggest problem, the biggest problem is...... Now it is certain that the Xia army was not defeated, but they took the initiative to abandon Hengshan and induce us to make a surprise attack, so that the supply of military supplies became our greatest difficulty. ”

Pan Mei said solemnly: "If the Xia army is really defeated in Hengshan and retreats in a panic, then we urgently pursue, and before it stabilizes its position, the troops are trapped in Xiazhou, isolating the inside and outside, which can completely make the surrounding rebels leaderless, unable to organize an effective counterattack, and it is impossible for them to attack our grain and grass in a purposeful manner like now." As long as we are safe, we can always trap Xiazhou, even if we can't conquer it this winter, we can keep it all the time, with the strong strength of our Song Kingdom, Xiazhou will be conquered sooner or later. But now, it's actually that we're stuck here, and ...... We won't survive this winter. ”

He looked at the silent generals and said, "Our biggest enemy is not the Xia army, but Tianwei and grain. The weather is getting colder and colder, there are not enough winter clothes to send up, there will be more and more soldiers who are frostbitten and sick, and there are not many of us with 100,000 troops who can survive this cold winter with their current clothes. If there is no food to be delivered, let's not talk about fighting, even if we just stay in this barracks, we will never last more than three days. ”

Wang Jien didn't understand military affairs at all, and after hearing what Pan Mei said so clearly, he also began to panic, couldn't help but let go of his arrogance, and asked nervously: "General Pan, what ......is that?" So what should we do now? ”

Pan Mei's gaze swept over the faces of the generals one by one, and said in a deep voice: "There is no other way, if we want to reverse the decline, we can only retreat!" ”

Wang Jien stood up suddenly, and said in disbelief: "Retreat? Yang Hao is in the city, he has been firmly trapped by us, and now they haven't even fought a decent battle with us, and we take the initiative to retreat? ”

Pan Mei's cheeks twitched, and she said lightly, "Haven't you seen it yet?" Yang Hao is not trapped by us, he is just a bait that attracts us to gather under the city of Xiazhou, and now that we are retreating, we can still preserve our strength and wait for a comeback. If we wait until that tempting bait pokes out the shiny hook beneath it, we'll ...... It became meat on his chopping board, to be slaughtered! ”

Wang Jien gasped and stared at Pan Meiliang for a long time before he asked compassionately: "If we don't receive the edict, if we wait for the army to retreat, who will bear the blame?" ”

Pan Mei puffed up her chest and said: "This commander is the commander of the three armies, so I will naturally bear this matter alone." ”

Wang Jien secretly breathed a sigh of relief, Pan Mei ignored him, his eyes became deep, and after a while, he muttered: "I'm only worried, Yang Hao...... Will you let us go? ”

ps: The description of the battlefield, I will try to minimize, but the retreat of the army is the key to the victory of the Xia army to lure the enemy into the depths, and it is always necessary to write about it. What did Yang Hao use to use Song Liao to achieve his goal, and he would gradually find out.