Fan Ning stared at the other party for a long time, and smiled at Xu Yan: "It's very interesting, the other party obviously has thousands of war horses, but there are no cavalry!" ”

Xu Yan has participated in many battles with the Western Xia army and has a lot of experience, he smiled slightly: "The battles here are all in the mountains, and the cavalry is inconvenient, it is estimated that they have not trained cavalry, and horses can only be used as a means of transportation." ”

"Then are we using cavalry to directly attack the opponent's formation now?" Fanning asked.

Xu Yan shook his head, "The confrontation between the two armies is itself a contest of wills, I can feel that their morale is fading little by little, they will either collapse without a fight, or they can only take the initiative to attack, at that time, our bow and crossbow array will be able to work."

Xu Yan's words were not wrong, the murderous aura of the Song army was as dignified as a mountain, and the military heart of the Dewa army began to waver, especially the ordinary peasants recruited, under the strong pressure of the Song army, the weak-willed began to retreat, and some of the soldiers in the last few rows dropped their wooden sticks and ran away, and the generals couldn't stop drinking.

Qingyuan Wu was in a hurry, and stepped forward to say to his brother: "We can't wait any longer, there will be more and more deserters, we must attack immediately!" ”

Kiyohara wanted to buy more rest time for the soldiers, but now it can't be delayed any longer.

He had to nod, "Attack!" ”

Kiyohara Takenori waved his sword and shouted, "Samurai, show your strength and courage, destroy the enemy army, and attack!" ”

'Boom! Boom! Boom! ’

The war drums of the sortie sounded, and the army of 6,000 Dewa began to run, although they were generally small in stature, but their bodies were very agile, and they ran fast, and they slaughtered the Song army like a tide in the wilderness.

"Crossbow ready!"

The commander Zhang Kang shouted sharply, and a thousand soldiers stepped forward, knelt down on one knee, brushed the ground and raised the crossbow, pointing obliquely at the sky at a forty-five degree angle.

Instead of a divine arm crossbow, they used a slightly inferior powerful crossbow, which was shot in a parabolic manner with a range of about 150 paces, and because it fell from above their heads, its range was the killing distance.

The running enemy army was getting closer and closer, and it was three hundred paces, two hundred and fifty paces, and two hundred paces........

As the tide of enemy troops entered the killing distance of one hundred and fifty paces, the commander Zhang Kang shouted: "Shoot! ”

Only the sound of a crossbow crash was heard, and a thousand crossbow arrows rose into the air, shooting densely at the enemy crowd.

The soldier did not stop, immediately wound the crossbow, loaded the crossbow bolts, did not need to give the arrow command, raised it again to the sky, and pulled the hanging knife.

The arrows were like flying locusts, crackling and shooting at the rushing soldiers, the soldiers' bamboo armor could not block the powerful crossbow arrows, and the soldiers fell down with screams, and more than 300 people fell to the ground with arrows in the blink of an eye.

The soldiers of Dewa Province were stunned, the soldiers in front were lying on the ground, looking at the sky in horror, while the soldiers behind did not realize that death was coming, and they continued to run desperately.

Many people found the soldiers with arrows all over the ground, and their hearts began to feel a little uneasy, but they did not personally experience the situation of crossbow arrows killing them, and their resistance was not so strong, and they were still wrapped in the large army and continued to run.

When running to ninety steps, the second round of crossbow arrows shot intensively again, a thousand crossbow arrows shot into the running crowd like a storm, screams, wails, more than two hundred people fell to the ground again, followed by the third round of crossbow arrows, the number of people running became smaller and smaller, more people fell to the ground prostrately, the powerful crossbow array of the Song army suppressed the soldiers of the Deyu country to the death of seventy steps away.

Three rounds of crossbow arrows, more than 700 people were shot down, the companions on the ground screamed desperately, dying and struggling, the soldiers of Dewa Province were shrouded in the fear of death, which they had never encountered before, the soldiers' will to fight quickly collapsed, and more and more soldiers crawled from the ground and turned around and ran wildly.

The experienced Xu Yan knew that the enemy army would soon organize a second attack, and he immediately suggested to Fan Ning: "The enemy's will has collapsed, and you can use cavalry to attack!" ”

Fanning nodded, "Exactly!" ”

Xu Yan was overjoyed, he pulled out his war knife and shouted: "The cavalry team will kill me!" ”

Five hundred cavalry suddenly launched, they divided their troops into two ways, like two sharp swords suddenly killed from behind the infantry, the horses' hooves galloped, as if setting off a stormy wave, the spears stabbed, the tips of the spears flickered, pierced the backs of the enemy soldiers, spewed out streams of bloody arrows, the corpses rolled under the horses' hooves, blood splashed all over the grass, behind them, fifteen hundred soldiers brandished spears and ran.

If the Song army's powerful crossbow array disintegrated the enemy's morale, then the cavalry attack was a fatal sword that caused the enemy's army to collapse completely.

The first to collapse were the ordinary peasants recruited by the three thousand, who turned from individual escapes to mass flights, and the soldiers of Dewa Province, who had originally attacked, turned into a lifeless run in the wilderness, followed by the relentless pursuit of cavalry.

Kiyohara Mitsuyori tried to draw his sword to resist, but only to see a flash of cold light, his head was chopped more than a foot away, and his headless body fell to the ground.

Kiyohara Takeshi was picked over by a spear and fell to the ground, and countless war horses trampled past him, leaving behind a bloody corpse.

It was a battle of no comparison, a rivalry of no magnitude, the height and weight of the Song soldiers were enough to crush the opponent, and the sophisticated equipment and effective tactical deployment far exceeded the opponent's, which eventually formed a one-sided slaughter.

The war ended in an hour, with more than 1,500 troops killed and more than 4,300 soldiers captured, only a few escaped by jumping into the river, and all the generals of the three major families of Dewa were killed.

However, the Song army had only seven dead and less than 50 wounded, creating extremely brilliant results.

Most of the captives were recruited peasants, who were in front when they fled, and when the cavalry cut off their retreat, they knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, and after receiving the order of the commander Fanning, the Song soldiers put away their butcher knives and did not continue the slaughter.

However, the soldiers wearing bamboo armor became the target of the Song soldiers, and their deaths were extremely heavy.

At noon, the soldiers of the Song army cleaned up the battlefield, the corpses were burned and buried, the bamboo armor was also burned, the war knives were collected, and more than 2,000 Japanese horses became trophies.

At this time, the soldiers of the Song army escorted more than 4,000 prisoners of war to Akita Castle, and hundreds of 10,000 stone ships were moored in the sea outside Akita Port, and the 5.3 million taels of silver, 1 million taels of gold, 400,000 stone of rice and other materials accumulated by the three wealthy families of the Dewa Kingdom for a hundred years all became the spoils of the Song army, and were transported back to Kunzhou by the big ships.

"What does the envoy plan to do with these prisoners of war?"

Sima Yangjin smiled and asked Fan Ning, "Do you want to send them back to Kunzhou as laborers?" ”

Fan Ning shook his head, "You don't need to be sent back to Kunzhou, you can directly mine silver in the country of Deyu and release it after three years." ”

"That's a good idea!"

Yang Jin said with a smile: "Save the trouble of recruiting laborers, and after refining it into coarse silver, it will be shipped directly to Kunzhou." ”

At this time, a soldier brought several men from the city and reported to Fan Ningyu: "Qiqi Zhizhou, these people are Song Dynasty merchants!" ”

Fan Ning couldn't help but be stunned, how could there be Song Dynasty merchants here?

"You are merchants of the Song Dynasty?" Fanning asked.

These merchants were extremely happy to meet their compatriots in other places, and the businessmen led by them hurriedly stepped forward and said: "We are all Quanzhou merchants, doing business in Nagasaki, and we just happened to transport a batch of cloth to Akita Castle. ”

"Are there many Song Dynasty merchants who come here to do business?"

"It's not a lot, there are three groups of people, and we are one of them."

"Is that the language compatible?"

The leading merchant nodded, "Basically, there is no problem, their language is relatively simple and easy to learn!" ”

Fanning smiled: "Let's translate for a few months!" I won't treat you badly, and the business of Akita Castle will be handed over to you in the future. ”

The three of them glanced at each other, their eyes showed a look of joy, and the businessman hurriedly said: "Don't dare, it is our duty to serve the Great Song Army, but we need to go back and report it alone." ”

"No problem, I need you to translate it for me right now."

Fanning then ordered his men to gather the prisoners of war.

More than 4,500 Zhan Hei stood on the grass, Fan Ning stood on a high place, and said in a loud voice: "The Great Song army is tolerant and spares your lives, but you need to pay the price for the war, and this price is to mine silver for three years, and after three years, you can be free and go home to reunite with your family......."

A businessman loudly translated Fanning's words, and thousands of prisoners of war looked different, some happy, some desperate, and a little crouched down and wept.

Fanning continued: "The Song army is a benevolent army, and it will not abuse you, not only will it give you enough to eat, but also five hundred literary wages per month, and at the same time allow your family to live with you. ”

When the merchant translated Fanning's words, thousands of prisoners of war cheered.

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