11-45 Break through Helan Mountain
In fact, the Western Xia army has already been beaten, 40,000 troops have been killed and wounded, and more than 10,000 new annexed troops have collapsed, and there are only less than 20,000 remnants left, who still has the courage to stop the Ming army, and retreated to Ningxia City early.
After several days of marching, after uprooting several small unguarded cities, finally advanced to the front of Ningxia City, which is a city with a strong exotic style, looking at the past from afar, you can see the circular dome of the Great Mosque, the Red Shirts are camped five miles in front of the city, build an artillery position, the muzzle of a huge cannon is pointed directly at the city, as long as an order is given, Ningxia City will become a pile of rubble, a solid city, for the Red Shirt Army, it can not play any role as a barrier at all, in order to remind the enemy to realize this, Liu Ziguang let the power parachute take off, dropped dozens of bombs to the barracks in the city, and exploded the Xixia army in the cityγ
Heavy artillery looked around the city of Ningxia, Gu Lunmu not only did not surrender, but also erected a blood flag, expressing his determination to fight to the death, he still has a trump card in his hand, that is, 100,000 people and the largest city in the Hetao area, he does not believe that the Han people have the courage to destroy the entire city, he still has 20,000 horses in his hand, which is several times that of the enemy outside the city, if the other party dares to fight hand-to-hand street battles, the chances of victory of the Western Xia army are very large, and in his opinion, the cowardly Han people will definitely not have the courage to rush in hand-to-hand combat.
Gu Lunmu has already sent a messenger to ask for help, as long as he can hold out for a while, the country will send a large army to kill these Han people, the Hetao area is a horse-producing and grain-producing area, which is equivalent to the lifeline of eastern Western Xia, and His Majesty the Emperor will never let such an important area fall into the hands of the Han people.
In the same way, Liu Ziguang will not let such an important area be occupied by the Tanguts, since the other party has a will to die, the intimidation tactics are no longer useful, so simply let go of their hands and feet to do a big job, so one day in the early morning, the five-inch tiger squatting cannon began to bombard, the artillery fire concentrated in a corner of the city wall, after a round of bombardment, the city wall became a pile of rubble, in front of the steam ironclad car equipped with a bulldozer shovel rushed up, straight to push a road, and then a large number of soldiers swarmed in.
Fighting in urban street battles, the Red Shirts are definitely experts, the configuration of the top soldiers is a shield and a fire gun, with a war knife behind the back, people blocking and killing Buddha, blocking and killing Buddha, plus grenades and flamethrowers, it is simply the god of street fighting, on the other hand, the cavalry of the Western Xia Army dismounted as an infantry, completely lost the advantage of mobility, and only relied on cold weapons such as scimitars and bows and arrows, which were not the opponents of the Red Shirts at all.
The battle was fought very smoothly, under the advantage of powerful weapons, the street fighting turned into a one-sided massacre, the red shirts advanced with shields and grenades, opened the way with firearms and grenades, invincible, and when they encountered obstacles, they directly hit it with a rocket, and took half of Ningxia City in just half a day.
At this time, Princess Xiangxiang's remnants of the Hui army had also gathered a lot of herdsmen and defeated soldiers, from three hundred to two thousand troops, and the armor and weapons were still supplied by the Red Shirt Army, so it looked like they were servant troops, and this army also participated in street battles, and performed outstandingly, brave and good at fighting, and took the lead in taking the gate of Ningxia City, Huo Lingyao took the head of Old Hoxha from the city gate, couldn't help but burst into tears, choked up, and said: "Daddy, you can look at it." β
Ningxia City, thick smoke covered the sun, killing everywhere, the trapped beasts were still fighting, the Xixia people began to set fire to the city, intending to burn the jade, but the redshirt army quickly transferred a few power parachutes, with propellers to blow the fire back, the Xixia army was burned to the wow wow how, and finally couldn't help but rush out, want to kill a bloody way to escape, the left rushed to the right, and finally from the west gate of Ningxia City, but after going out of the city, it was bombarded by the red-shirted ironclad car, Gu Lunmu led more than a thousand remnants of the army, had to run all the way to the west, the Hetao area is like the Shanxi Plain is a narrow strip, if all the way to the south, the road is easy to walk, but I am afraid that I can't get rid of the pursuit, the only way is to go west, and then to the west, over Helan Mountain, through the Tengger Desert to escapeBorn day.
Gu Lunmu's strategy was right, but he ignored the resilience of the Red Shirt Army, three ironclad cars followed them like maggots attached to the bones, and they bombarded and beat the team of more than 1,000 people of Gu Lunmu, leaving only a few dozen people, Gu Lun Mu was dignified, and the commander of the Xue army led tens of thousands of troops to conquer the Hui tribe, cut off the heads of the Hui men, looted their houses and sheep, and enjoyed their wives and daughters, and completely conquered this land of abundant water and grass in just a few months, providing countless good horses and food for the Western Xia Dynasty, Gu Lun Mu therefore also obtained the golden horse whip given by His Majesty Galdan, but it didn't take long for the Han people to expel their 40,000 troops with a faster degree, and the army of 40,000 fell apart in half a monthThe ruler of the Hui tribe shocked the powerful king of kings in the eight directions, His Majesty Galdan, the envoy of the Hui tribe, and the cowardly commander of the Xue army, His Excellency Gu Lunmu, has now turned into a coward who is holding his head and running around.
Gu Lunmu didn't have time to sigh at the vicissitudes of the world, now his mind is full of running for his life, fortunately, when he broke through, he brought a few more horses, and he was surrounded by die-hard soldiers, and they used all their whole body to do it, all the way non-stop changing horses, not changing people, and galloping to the foot of Helan Mountain, but looking back, it was still three roads of smoke and dust flying high, and the ironclad car of the Ming army chased after him unrelentingly.
Gu Lunmu slapped his horse and galloped away, he could only rely on the mountain of Helan Mountain to block these chariots, who knew that after these ironclad chariots stopped at the foot of the mountain, dozens of cavalry jumped out of the carriage to recuperate, and the knights roared loudly and chased after them.
Gu Lunmu sighed, it was really a death for me, he and his subordinates had been exhausted after hundreds of miles of running, and their morale had dropped to the lowest point, but the enemy was alive and well, and he was already exhausted before he was shot to death, so it was better to fight to the death while his strength was not completely exhausted.
Gulunmu whistled, and dozens of panting Mongol cavalrymen gathered their horses' hooves and stood still on the mountainside, quietly waiting for the arrival of their pursuers.
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At the foot of Helan Mountain, the sun was shining, the grass was green, the slow slope was full of white wildflowers, dozens of smoky and tired Mongolian cavalrymen were facing the same number of Han cavalry, Gu Lunmu stood in the middle of the team, he didn't speak, just silently pulled out his scimitar and pointed at the guy who seemed to be the leader in the other team.
The other party understood what Gu Lunmu meant, and ordered his subordinates to brush and draw, draw their swords, and line up in front of the Mongol cavalry, and then the two sides began to jog, and the horses became faster and faster, and finally collided together.
Gu Lunmu aimed at the other party's leading general, Erma, and his scimitar went straight to the throat of the other party, but he was easily dodged by the other party, and at the same time, there was a burst of sharp weapons into the flesh and the sound of the human body falling off the horse, a blow missed, and then rushed back at Gu Lunmu, looking around, there were no more people left around, and in the confrontation just now, he was proud of the cowardice Xue Jingrui, who had no achievements, and did not kill the other party.
Gu Lunmu waved his knife and roared angrily, and rushed over again, and several surviving soldiers also followed him to die generously, and sure enough, after the two sides collided this time, all the Mongolian cavalry except Gu Lunmu fell off their horses, Gu Lunmu's right hand was cut off by Qi Gen, but he still sat upright, and immediately he didn't look at the wound gushing blood like a fountain, and pulled out the mace that was placed behind the saddle with his left hand, and slammed the horse's belly again.
The other party gave him a lot of face, even in the face of one person, he still moved a collective charge, when Gu Lunmu's horse rushed into the ranks of the enemy, his mace was hit several times before he could swing it, and he was cut off the horse several times.
Gu Lunmu lay on the wild flowers on the slow slope of Helan Mountain, looking at the blue sky with his eyes, he didn't feel the slightest pain, and being able to die in a glorious battle was the only thing he could do, but let him die without turning a blind eye, and in the end, he couldn't take advantage of the cavalry that the Mongols were proud of, but was cut down by the Han people of the farming people.
The blue sky was dominated by a young and handsome face, who said in Mongolian: "If you had been born a hundred years earlier, you might have been a hero, but now you and your cavalry are doomed to be shameful losers." After saying that, the man stepped on Gu Lunmu's body and chopped off his head with a waist knife.
Gu Lunmu did not know until his death, and it was not the ordinary Han cavalry that defeated them, but Liu Ziguang and his Red Shirt cavalry, which were all composed of Turkic, Mongol, Uighur and other nomadic peoples.
Liu Ziguang turned over and put Gu Lunmu's head on the tip of the knife to show the soldiers who came down from the steam chariot to see the heroic posture of the handsome man standing on Helan Mountain, and the red sun setting in the west behind him, they couldn't help cheering, and then sang a passionate military song:
β¦β¦ Driving a long car to break through Helan Mountain......