Half an hour into the war, the walls of mud and sand have been toppled and leveled, mixed with the corpses piled up on the ground, contaminated with blood, and it is no longer possible to distinguish which is the sandbag and which is the corpse?

The first 10,000 party cavalry had all been killed, and the second 10,000-strong cavalry was engaged in a fierce battle with the Song army, and their task was to tear through the Song army's defense line and push the battlefield to a wide area behind, otherwise the 30,000 cavalry behind would be useless in a hurry.

The Song army did not give in at all, and there were forty or fifty thousand soldiers in the black press, crowded into the narrow open space, confronting the cavalry with sharp spears, the men and horses were intertwined, the shouts of killing shook the sky, and the soldiers and cavalry were so dense that they could not breathe.

The cavalry lost the advantage of high-speed mobility, although condescending, but the infantry's spears as long as one foot and three feet made the cavalry at a high place have no advantage at all, on the contrary, the advantage of long weapons made the cavalry lose the upper hand, and the cavalry was constantly raised in the air by spears, dozens of spears were stabbed at the same time, so that the cavalry was killed on the spot, and the war horses were quickly led away by the Song soldiers.

The soldiers on both sides continued to die in the high-intensity and fierce confrontation, and the time was constantly passing, and the time gradually came to the afternoon, and two hours had passed since the fierce battle between the two sides.

Fanning watched the battle in the rear under the escort of dozens of cavalrymen, he was the commander, and he only decided where and how to fight, as for the specific command of the battle, that was Di Qing's business.

At this time, one of Di Qing's personal guards rushed over, clasped his fists on the horse, and said: "Qi Xianggong, General Di said that the casualties of the Song army have increased, and I implore Xianggong to order a thunderbolt operation." ”

Fan Ning smiled, it seemed that Di Qing was already a little impatient, and he immediately ordered: "There is a sailor operation!" ”

Three rockets shot into the sky, and the sky exploded crisply, and ten 5,000-stone steamboats on the Yellow River rumbled out, lined up, and drove along the west bank of the Yellow River in the direction of the Western Xia cavalry, and at the same time, more than a dozen 3,000-stone warships also sailed along the east bank of the Yellow River in the direction of the Western Xia cavalry.

Immediately, a cavalry discovered the movement of the Song army, and hurriedly reported to the main general Wei Minglang, who had expected that the Song army would use this trick, and he cursed in his heart, and ordered: "Shoot at the ship with a bow and arrow!" ”

Due to the narrowness of the land, only two li, the 30,000 cavalry on the shore could not be avoided, only the middle part of the cavalry was not within the range of the Song army, and the cavalry on both sides were within the range of the ship.

Thousands of cavalrymen stretched out their bows and arrows and shot at the big ship, the arrows whizzed at the big ship, the ship was already prepared, and the defensive shield was erected early, close to the cabin and important parts, to defend against the arrows on the shore, this huge shield is not a shield carried by infantry or cavalry, but a defensive shield, eight feet long and wide, fixed on the ship at the bottom, and there are three brackets at the back, just like the shielded version on the construction site in later generations.

Unless the cavalry used a trebuchet or a bed crossbow, there was nothing ordinary bow and arrow could do with such a large defensive shield.

However, this large defensive shield also had the problem of hindering the arrows of the ship's soldiers, and when the ship rumbled past the shore, there were no soldiers on board to shoot at the shore, which puzzled many cavalrymen.

But soon a cavalry discovered that behind the giant shield there was a trebuchet.

"Trebuchet!" Some cavalrymen shouted at long throwing rods.

Before the soldiers on the shore realized the danger, the trebuchets on the steamships were the first to fire, and they were loaded with medium-sized trebuchets that could throw forty or fifty pounds of iron fire thunder a hundred and fifty paces away.

One by one, black and swarthy iron thunderbolts rose into the air, crossed the defensive shields, and shot at the dense cavalry on the shore, 'Boom! ''Boom! Earth-shattering explosions continued to sound among the dense cavalry on the shore, and at the same time, the warships in the Tanglai Canal also fired iron fire mines.

The 30,000 cavalry were caught off guard, and were blown to pieces, the soldiers wailed, the horses neighed, all kinds of screams resounded through the field, and black smoke shrouded the land on the shore, and the cavalry also stopped shooting arrows and fled in all directions, but the black iron fire and thunder continued to fly into the crowd and explode.

The cavalry was in chaos, the soldiers and horses were frightened, desperate to flee to the north, and the Western Xia cavalry who fought fiercely with the Song army in front also turned around and fled, and the Western Xia cavalry was defeated like a mountain.

Di Qing, who was wearing the mask of the fierce god, roared, "Catch up, kill!" ”

The cavalry of the Song army on both sides was like a torrent of breaking the embankment, and the Song army had prepared a cavalry passage on both sides, and 80,000 cavalry continued to kill from both sides, chasing and killing the fleeing Western Xia cavalry.

The infantry followed behind to clean up the aftermath, constantly killing the wounded Western Xia cavalry, collecting the war horses, and the main general of the Western Xia army, Wei Minglang, was blown up by an iron fire thunder that fell beside him, and some soldiers picked up his sword.

Tanglai Canal is full of warships, mainly small and medium-sized warships, the pontoon bridge that crossed the river before has been cut off by the Song army, and the river was successfully crossed before coming, but it is impossible to go back smoothly.

80,000 cavalry of the Song army pursued and killed all the way, although the party was fierce, but at this time they had no fighting spirit, just wanted to rush home with their wives and children, cattle and sheep to flee, they lost their armor, discarded their weapons, and abandoned all the items that hindered their escape, 35,000 cavalry were killed all the way, and when they fled to the northernmost ferry, there were less than 10,000 people, in front of the Yellow River, cutting off the retreat, and behind were the pursuers, only by crossing the Tanglai Canal in the west, there was the possibility of survival.

However, at this time, they found that the canal could not be crossed, there were no pontoon bridges, no rafts, and the river was full of Song army warships.

The cavalry of the Song army has been killed, the dust covers the sky and the sun, the earth is trembling, and the cold killing machine is swept in, and most of the party cavalry has no armor, and the long weapons are also thrown away, at most there is only a talisman sword, in front of the powerful weapons of the Song army, they are powerless to fight.

In desperation, countless people jumped into the river one after another, holding the horse's neck and trying to swim to the opposite bank, if there was no Song army warship, most of them would have succeeded, but unfortunately the Song army would not give them a chance.

The shooting of arrows and the merciless assassination of spears made the party soldiers die in the river one by one, and only a very few people seized the loophole that the Song army was unwilling to kill the horse, and hid under the horse's belly with all their anger, escaped, and after going ashore, they desperately struggled to turn over the horse and beat the horse and galloped.

But after all, only a very small number of soldiers escaped, and most of the soldiers died in the hundred-zhang-wide Tanglai Canal, and for a while, the river was stained red with blood, and the river was full of corpses.

The overwhelming cavalry of the Song army swept and killed, and the last six or seven thousand soldiers were cornered, so they had to draw their swords one after another, shouting and rushing up, and fighting to the death with the Song army, and the overwhelming Song cavalry instantly submerged the last remnants of the Western Xia army.

The war ended in just a quarter of an hour, and in this battle, 150,000 Song troops annihilated 50,000 Dangxiang cavalry, and at this time, the last living force of the Dangxiang clan was completely annihilated by the Song army, of course, the Song army itself also paid a great price, more than 5,000 people died in this battle, and countless people were wounded.

Fanning did not follow the army to pursue the enemy, and he led 30,000 crossbowmen back to the Xingqing Mansion camp first.

Han Jiang went out of the camp to welcome Fan Ning's arrival, and Han Jiang praised: "Xiao Fan Xianggong fights well, and he deserves to be a Confucian handsome, this is the Hong Fu of the Great Song Dynasty!" ”

Fan Ning waved his hand, "The Hongfu of the Great Song Dynasty may not be my Hongfu, Lao Han, don't promote me anymore, the battle is General Di's business, I only use my mouth, if you want to praise, praise the soldiers!" ”

Han Jiang was slightly stunned, and immediately understood, Fan Ning was worried about the high merit and wanted to be as low-key as possible, but the great power of destroying Western Xia was placed here, where you wanted to be low-key, you could be low-key.

Han Jiang didn't mention this matter, and said, "There is something wrong in the city." ”

Fanning suddenly asked with concern, "What happened in the city?" ”

"Last night we caught a deserter who climbed down the rope, he is from Xiazhou, and wanted to escape home, according to his confession, there seems to be an epidemic in the city, and it is quite serious."

The outbreak of the epidemic in the city, Fanning is not surprised at all, a million people are almost crowding Xingqing City, defecating everywhere, originally the party members still have some bad tribal habits, so that the sanitary conditions in the city are extremely bad, dead livestock, dead soldiers, once the corpses are not disposed of in time, it is strange that the epidemic does not break out in the hot summer.

"You know how serious it is?"

"It's not very clear, I heard that martial law has been imposed in the city, no one is allowed to go out, and some people in the army have contracted the epidemic."

"Are there any quarantine measures?"

"It's not clear."

"Then has this Western Xia deserter been isolated?"

"Yes!"

Han Jiang hurriedly said: "He has been quarantined, and the dozen or so people who interrogated him are also temporarily isolated, and I have ordered that no one is allowed to approach Xingqing Mansion without authorization, and no game can be hunted, and I have already reduced the number and scope of spies." ”

Fan Ning nodded, "Han Xianggong has done a good job, but it needs to be strengthened, including water source control, spread the news, and at the same time order all soldiers are not allowed to drink raw and cold water, all soldiers with diarrhea are isolated, and reduce the density of soldiers, I suggest that a second battalion be built twenty miles away, and then evacuate all the people of Jingzhou to Xinping Mansion, and ask the imperial court to allocate a large number of iron boats to Yansan, and ask the soldiers to soak in water every morning and evening to drink, which can effectively prevent and treat epidemics." ”

The dandelion and banyan root in Tiezhou have good anti-inflammatory and virus-killing effects, and if it is an early epidemic, it can be controlled and treated, not to mention prevention.

The two discussed for a while, and Han Jiang hurriedly went.