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On the battlefield, Hogg, who was wielding a war knife, also spotted Li Xiangru standing in front of him, "The other party's handsome flag is over there, follow me." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 As soon as the words fell, the heavy armored cavalry around him immediately followed him closely and killed Li Xiangru.

For them, the defense of the new legion was simply useless, and in the formation of the great merchant army, they were simply unstoppable.

But they didn't notice that the scattered Great Merchant Army gradually infiltrated many soldiers with long knives from the rear, and they were organized to cross positions with the previous soldiers, and the area spread wider and wider, and gradually came into contact with the heavy cavalry.

The heavy cavalry has no weaknesses, only the horses of the heavy cavalry have weaknesses, and a heavy cavalry without a war horse has lost the qualification to continue galloping on the battlefield.

When Hogg saw a few big merchant soldiers with long knives running in front of him, he still accelerated the impact speed of his war horses as he was used to, and then waved the war knives in his hands. But when he raised his war knife high, he found that those people leaned down all of a sudden, and before he could figure out the reason, his war horse suddenly became shorter, and then a great inertia threw himself out, and the moment he landed, the huge impact made him unable to move, and he could only watch as the few big merchant soldiers in purple uniforms walked towards him with spears in their hands and sneered......

The heavy armored cavalry fell into the trap of Li Xiangru's long-prepared broadsword team, and these sudden sword and axe men did not seek to hurt people but only horses, and stubbornly transformed most of the heavy armored cavalry into heavy infantry.

But without the heavy armored cavalry of war horses, they still fought tenaciously, they relied on their heavy armor, and still forced the big merchant army to retreat little by little, slowly approaching Li Xiangru's chariot.

However, behind them, the rest of Simon's cavalry had to stop the attack due to the stalemate of the heavy cavalry and the new army of the Great Shang in front, but the archers of Xuantie City did not stop, and rows of arrows rained down on them continuously.

"These archers," said a Simon cavalryman who had been shot with a bow and arrow, and clutched his wounded arm and shouted angrily,

The Xuantie City army that hid behind and fiercely released cold arrows caused Simon's cavalry to suffer heavy losses, gritting their teeth but helpless.

Not long after, under the command of Ao Song, Simon's cavalry split up and made a detour from Li Xiangru's flank, aiming at the archers of Xuantie City.

After Simon's cavalry made a detour this time, the gap between them was very large, and it seemed that they had some scruples about each other's arrows.

To deal with a dense lineup, use a dense formation, and to deal with a dense archer, use a loose array, this passage is still what Ao Song heard a long time ago when he was an ordinary student at Simon Military Academy, for the imperial continent where archers have fallen, he didn't think that the words of that day would have a chance to be used today.

The effect of Ao Song's adjustment was obvious, and his adjustment made the arrow rain of Xuantie City shoot more on the empty grass next to the cavalry, and nearly 200,000 Simon cavalry rushed like thunder, and the earth was shaken.

At this time, the rapid rain of arrows in Xuantie City suddenly stopped, and Rick Wover was directing the soldiers to load arrows into the Xuantie crossbow, a trace of anxiety flashed in his eyes, and the Xuantie crossbow entered the loading period.

The blackiron crossbow is not a panacea, it can only be loaded with five arrows at a time, and it takes about three minutes to reload the arrows after firing, which is enough for Simon's cavalry to charge.

Without the support of the Xuantie crossbow, the new legion gradually fell into a panic, when the recruits of the new legion saw that they had been surrounded by Simon's cavalry that could not be seen at a glance, the shortcomings of poor psychological quality were finally exposed, they should have raised their spears but raised their shields in the face of the rushing cavalry, they should have switched formations, but they stood still in a daze......

The new legion was like a large field of duckweed floating on the plains, swaying from the impact of Simon's iron cavalry.

At the critical moment when the new army was about to be defeated, a majestic song suddenly came from the east in the distance, and all the people who were fighting fiercely on the battlefield looked in the direction of the song in surprise, this was the military song of the Great Shang Empire.

The long knife is in front, and the courage is indomitable;

Banner hunting, iron-blooded heroes;

The remnant sun is like blood, and the iron cavalry armor;

The yellow sand is long, and the bones are silent;

Blood-stained robes, pointed by the blade of the sword,

Fight with life;

The big business is mighty and invincible

Yanji, who has disappeared for a long time, is riding majestically on a war horse at this moment, pointing out the battlefield to several generals next to him with a horsewhip, followed by 200,000 elite troops who have been stationed in the Karen Fortress at the junction of the Demar Empire, at this moment, these strong soldiers, riding war horses, singing the military songs of the majestic mountains and rivers loudly, the momentum slowly appeared in people's sight, and the sound echoed in the sky above the suburbs of Shangdu, getting louder and louder.

Once again, the situation on the battlefield in Shangdu was reversed.

From the beginning of Simon's cavalry invasion, Yang Ji did not intend to make a desperate bet on Wo Tai He and Li Xiangru, more than 30 years ago, he advocated attack, 30 years later, his fighting spirit still has not diminished in the slightest, there is no word defense in Yang Ji's dictionary, decades have passed, many people have taken this once west to seize the iron Simon Iron Shield Fortress, north to attack the Mobei grassland, to seize the original Robben Empire Flame City Fortress, Yang Ji, the king of the Great Shang Empire who conquered the Dwarves of the Songfeng Plain and made immortal achievements, was forgotten, if it were not for the scruples of the neighboring Möngke Empire and the Demar Empire, which involved more military power of the Great Shang, in the most glorious moment of Yankee, the Republic of Simon and the Robben Empire might have been included in the territory of the Great Shang Empire.

Osson was surprised by the sudden appearance of the Karen Fortress army, but then he turned his gaze to the west.

Almost at the same time as the appearance of the army led by Yankee, a mighty cavalry appeared to the west of the Shang capital, a reinforcement corps led by Simon's other consul, David Sijo, consisting of 200,000 cavalry and 70,000 heavy armored cavalry.

In an instant, nearly a million men and horses gathered in the Shang capital, the high slopes on both sides were full of cavalry who came to reinforce, and in the open space in the middle were nearly 200,000 Simon cavalry and nearly 200,000 Shang infantry who were fighting.

The sky in Shangdu was full of dark clouds, lightning and thunder, and the dull atmosphere made people breathless, and a rainstorm was coming.

On a small hillside to the north, several cavalrymen in blue armor were looking at everything in front of them in amazement, and immediately dived back quietly after coming to their senses.

In the southern part of Mogusi Province, the traces left by the war horses and soldiers in front are obvious, and Robben's army is slowly marching in the direction of Shangdu,

"General, General. Several Robben scouts came to Landes's horse with a panicked look, and Landers looked displeased when he saw this, "Why are you so flustered, what kind of system." ”

"There are so many people and so many troops in Shangdu......," one of the scouts gasped, horror still on his face.

Empire Continent 173 Autumn

The Battle of Xishang Luo, which was known as one of the ten major battles in later generations, ended in Shangdu, in this battle, the Simon Republic invested a total of 500,000 cavalry, 80,000 heavy cavalry, and Dashang invested 200,000 cavalry and 400,000 infantry, including the defenders of the original Iron Shield Fortress of the treason, 10,000 archer infantry in Xuantie City, 5,000 archer cavalry, and 70,000 cavalry of the Robben Empire.

The Battle of Xishang Luo from the beginning of the battle has turned staggering, especially in the final stage of the battle of Shangdu, the two sides are evenly matched, the Republic of Simon with 80,000 heavy iron cavalry to impact the army of the Great Shang Empire, and the Great Shang Empire also used a dense rain of arrows to give a fierce counterattack, when the battle between the two sides was stalemate, the original allies of the Republic of Simon, Robben Imperial cavalry, appeared, just when Simon's two consuls Aosong and David Sijo thought that the balance of war was finally tilted towards them, Robben's cavalry suddenly showed their fangs, and the unsuspecting Simon cavalry was immediately disrupted by Robben's cavalry, and Rick Wover took advantage of the chaos to shoot the opponent's handsome flag, so that the Simon cavalry mistakenly thought that the commander was dead and had no intention of fighting, gave up the last resistance, and the whole line was defeated, and the combined forces of the Great Shang Empire and the Robben Empire pursued from the Shang capital to the territory of the Simon Republic north of the Iron Shield Fortress for 300 kilometers, and finally the Senate of the Simon Republic compromised and paid a total of 4 billion gold coins to the Great Shang Empire in war compensation, which was paid in installments.

Note: The average annual revenue of the Republic of Simon is only 820 million gold coins

In this battle, the Great Shang Empire lost 2,53,751 infantry, 62,455 cavalry, 368 commanders, 41 commanders, three commanders, and 43,725 wounded;

The Republic of Simon lost 367,981 cavalrymen, 43,059 heavy cavalrymen, 587 commanders, 429 commanders, 4,110 wounded, and 54,1111 captured.

The Robben empire lost 12,100 cavalry, 421 wounded, and 4 commanders;

This battle, both the Republic of Simon, as the losing side, and the Great Shang as the victorious side, paid a heavy price.

The victorious side of the Great Shang Empire not only paid the lives of nearly 300,000 soldiers, but also its northern border areas, Baibang, Anbei, Beiliang, Youyun and other places in the Cavas Province were due to Simon's wanton killing, resulting in a hundred miles of desolation and starvation.