Brother Cha took decisive measures to eliminate all interference, and finally caught up with the defeated vanguard battalion in the afternoon, and rushed out of Chuankou, but the situation in front of him still made him gasp The Song army brigade has arrived, and laid a defensive line in Chuankou, he missed the best opportunity to break through, and looking at the follow-up men of the Song army that are constantly coming, Cha Ge understands that his remaining troops on the outer line are optimistic that they have been defeated, and the pessimistic view is that they have been completely annihilated. But in any case, the Song army was worry-free in the rear at this time, so it would gather here to participate in the battle, and his plan to cooperate with the Song army for a decisive battle fell through.

Brother Cha immediately re-analyzed the situation in front of him, and now that he had fallen into the encirclement of the Song army, the original plan to relieve the siege of Fengzhou to the north was now impossible to implement due to the loss of Fengzhou; To the east is Fuzhou, to the south is Linzhou, under the situation of the Song army encircled to capture the fortified city, breaking into the hinterland of the Song Dynasty, must be self-defeating; At this time, only the west, due to their own sweep and the Song army's Chibi Qingye, there must be an empty army, crossing the Quye River, taking the Tumao River, jumping out of the Song army's encirclement, and then replenishing grain and grass, mobilizing reinforcements, and then fighting a decisive battle with the Song army is the only way out.

However, the first problem facing the westward breakthrough was to cross the Quye River, but there was no ferry boat and no pontoon bridge, and only by recapturing the Lian Valley and occupying the ferry could the army cross the river. Looking at the defensive line that the Song army had just hastily constructed, Chage decided to ignore fatigue and take advantage of the opportunity when the enemy's foothold was not stable and all the divisions were not yet in place, so as to launch an attack and break down the Song army's defensive line. Realize the plan to break through to the west.

．．．．．．

The mouth of the turbidity wheel river is more than ten miles wide. The frequent diversion of the river and the impact of the flood silted up into a wide small plain at the mouth of the valley, and the city head of the valley could be seen as far as the eye could see, and the turbidity wheel river on the west side joined the Quye River, and now in summer, the glacier melted, it was the wet season, and the river was five or six miles wide, constituting a natural barrier.

On this small plain, there are a number of terraces formed by the impact of the river, although these terraces are not more than ten meters high, but they are rare commanding heights on this plain. Zhao Lian arranged a defensive line five miles outside the river mouth according to the order. Instead of forming a large formation as is customary, he ordered seven battalions to take the platform as a support point, and the distance of each support point was based on the effective range of the loyal army's firearms, forming an arc of defense. The entire valley was blocked. [].

This line of defense seems to be sparse, but the support point is two by two as horns of each other, attacking one of them, the other two can support each other, artillery positions are built on the terrace, trenches are dug between the terraces, machine gun positions are arranged, and muskets form a crossfire network, it is not easy to break through without leaving something behind. The gap behind the first line of defense is filled with friendly forces that are coming one after another, responsible for blocking the enemy who breaks through the first line of defense. It can be described as negligent but not leaky.

Although this kind of defense is safe, it is not without its shortcomings. When the Loyal Warriors were formed, the main task of the hussars was to 'carry out a devastating assault, repel the general attack of the enemy's infantry or cavalry, or wait for an opportunity to carry out a decisive cavalry charge'; dragoons were a multi-purpose arm in the Loyal Warriors, in addition to the cavalry's usual pursuit, reconnaissance, covering the lines of communication, storming the enemy's positions and other tasks, they could also use the dragoons to dismount and fight, carry out the defense and attack tasks of the traditional infantry, and combine the mobility of the cavalry and the firepower of the infantry, which was the 'motorized infantry' at this time. So attacking is the main function of the hussars.

But the main combat tasks in the Xiazhou direction were siege and defense. All the dragoons were sent to Xiazhou, and the hussars were left to prepare to fight with Chage on the grassland, but now the plan has changed a few times, and they can only give up their strengths and fight positional battles with the enemy. Fortunately, they had all carried out unified infantry basic combat training when they were in the new barracks, and they were not blind when they rushed into battle. …,

．．．．．．

After a short rest. In the sound of the horn of 'woo...', the Xia army slowly moved forward and began to line up, after entering five hundred steps away, first shot the position with a strong crossbow army, and then the foot soldiers stepped forward to arrange defense, and the light cavalry protected the two wings, followed by the Chinese army camp, the infantry army, the light cavalry surrounded the main general and the baggage to protect it, and behind the handsome banner was the special forces such as the Iron Harrier and the Poxi Army, and the rear army arranged a defensive line in the middle of the river to prevent the harassment of the state army.

Zhao Lian's front army command post was set up on a dirt hill 300 steps away from the front-line position, and the situation on the battlefield was fully visible, and a light cavalry of about 500 rushed out of the Xia army's formation, rushing to the left flank of the defense line in a loose formation, "Send a signal, artillery and machine guns are not allowed to fire without orders, and the bead guns are allowed to shoot at the enemy's entry of 100 paces!" Zhao Lian knew that this Xia Army's light cavalry was here to test the reality and conduct fire reconnaissance, and in order to prevent the Xia Army from finding out the truth and figuring out the range of firearms, he also used a small trick.

The light cavalry of the Xia army suddenly accelerated again when it was two hundred steps away from the defense line, and the Buddha wanted to storm the defense line, and after entering a hundred steps, he began to shoot arrows at the Song army. As expected, as soon as the guns rang out here, the cavalry of the Xia army immediately turned, swept past the formation, and after going around in a circle, they turned around and teased again, this time they were not as lucky as last time, they were shot in a row, and returned to the formation after leaving more than a dozen corpses.

After this game was repeated several times outside the Song army's defense line, the Xia army's lieutenant general's flag flashed one after another, and a large group of cavalry poured out, and they spread out into a column in front of the formation, and twenty horsemen stood side by side, forming a charging formation. Zhao Lian knew that the cavalry of the Xia army was good at cavalry and shooting, and was good at charging, and they often harassed with small groups of troops in turn when attacking, and then concentrated their absolute superiority forces after the enemy was tired, and the generals led the troops to take turns to attack the opponent's army formation, attacking a little with all their might, and waiting until the enemy formation broke through a corner of the flaw, and immediately launched an attack from the breakthrough. As soon as the Chinese army broke through the enemy formation, the generals immediately broke into the enemy formation, rushed into the enemy formation, and attacked the whole army after the last attack, and at the same time outflanked and covered from both flanks. Now that the commercial time is over, the drama is about to begin!

At a distance of three hundred paces, the Xia army was first attacked by the first salvo attack of the Song artillery, the volley explosion of the flowering shell shattered the advance of the team, the charging cavalry fell into confusion, the team paused, the riders immediately readjusted the formation of the charge, they could not avoid stepping on the fallen companions, some of them did not die to stand up, but the war horses were not lightly frightened.

The Xia army continued to accelerate the charge, the Song gunners quickly loaded the solid shells, these shells ploughed through the long cavalry column, the wounded horses and riders fell one after another, and one of the Xia army generals who led the charge was hit by the cannonballs, smashed down the horse, and before he could stand up, countless horse hooves had stepped over him and turned into a puddle of flesh. But the Xia army still did not stop, under the urging of the officers, at this time several adjacent Song army support points also began to shoot after the Xia army entered the firing range, the salvo of artillery brought almost hellish terror, people and horses continued to fall, the war horses that lost their riders still followed the team to charge, and the fallen soldiers rolled on the ground to avoid the chaotic hooves...

A hot and dry wind blew, the smoke covered the battlefield, when the Xia army rushed to within two hundred paces, the machine guns in the trenches began to fire, the rain of flying locusts swept the riders down, the horses were knocked down, the leather armor on their bodies was pierced like paper, their hands and feet were shattered, their bodies were pierced, and the riders who were about to release their arrows had to give up the attack, they lowered their bodies and clinged to their horses to try to dodge the deadly projectiles.

The Xia army's forward was almost wiped out at this time, and the formation was completely disrupted, although the losses were huge, but the Xia army's attacking team did not pause, and did not hesitate to continue to advance, but the brave could not resist the scorching projectiles, the layers of fire nets woven by machine gun crossfire tore the men and horses to pieces, the road of attack was stacked with corpses of men and horses, the earth scorched by the fiery sun quickly evaporated the blood, and the air was filled with a bewitching pink mist, wafting with bloody blood. …,

Within a hundred paces, the attack was more difficult, and the casualties were even greater, the guns of the loyal warriors rang out one after another, pouring rifle fire, and after the Song army entered the range of the crossbows, the crossbowmen also began to shoot, and the arrows falling from the sky were as dense as bamboo forests, taking lives one by one, and the terrified ownerless war horses rushed out of the smoke like thunder, and were shot down again.

The Xia army's attack was blocked by a hundred paces and could no longer advance forward. The moth-like charge was never able to move any further, and the heavy casualties were too much for them to bear, and the charging horses began to turn, and retreated in a circle around the battlefield, the wounded staggering back to their positions between the bleeding horses and their dead and dying companions. The sound of guns and cannons gradually thinned, leaving only the sorrow of the ownerless war horses looking for their masters, the miserable howls of the wounded and the blood red of the fields....

"Three thousand elite cavalry, most of them were damaged in just one charge!" Brother Cha watched the broken team retreat, his heart was dripping blood, and he was even more shocked, he suddenly realized that the frontal assault tactics he was good at were difficult to succeed in the face of the powerful firepower of the loyal army, and if he continued to fight, he would only increase casualties.

The moon is bright and the stars are sparse, and the cool breeze of Xi Xi is still bloody, although Brother Cha is sleepy, but it is still difficult to sleep, since he led the army, he has only been defeated in the battle of Bone Dragon City under the hands of Liu Fa, but after Liu Fa was destroyed, he thought he was invincible, but he didn't expect to taste the bitter fruit of defeat today. And the opponent in front of him is not only full of intrigues, but also has sharp weapons, and whether he can defeat him now seems to have lost his original pride.

But Brother Cha didn't know what to do, his opponent was also unable to sleep, the candlelight flickered in Zhao Tan's big tent, he looked at the map on the case and thought hard about how to swallow the huge cake on the other side... (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )