Chapter 594: The decisive battle is coming

Although the ghost pupil has never learned arithmetic, but her head is full of hair, and she is suddenly pushed into a bald scoop, and she will panic from the bottom of her heart.

That's how he feels now, a kind of heartache that blinks in the blink of an eye, the most beloved porcelain. However, it is only right that the two sides have been at war and have dealings. He immediately ordered the pursuit: "Pursuit! ”

Hula-la

Rush up.

Again, hulala

Catch up.

That's how it is to fight, you bite me, I cut you.

Ghost Hitomi pondered that nothing could make Song Jun leave comfortably, but he wanted the whole army to catch up, and even besiege Song Jun, which was a bit of a fool's dream. The armor of the Song army was strong, and the weapons were better than those of the Fan soldiers. The only equestrian skill is not as skilled as the soldiers, and the gap has also been erased in the battle of the army. He estimated the merits of the soldiers under his command and the Song army, and pondered that he let the Song army slash with his head, and then he should cut the Song army, right?

This is very much in line with Qingtang's tactics. But in the Central Plains Empire, war is never a matter of one person. The training of soldiers, the command of generals in battle, the protection of weapons and armor, and even the timely supply of logistics, etc

Fights are fought as a whole, not individually.

One person's excellence cannot save the weakness of an army.

The soldiers who were sloppy in military discipline may have fallen into the trap of the Song army because of their ignorance for a while. But in the field, even if the soldiers were hit, they were able to quickly regain their confidence. Because for them, field warfare is the housekeeping skill they rely on for survival. Any loss will be wiped out by a hearty victory.

Li Kui saw the soldiers rushing up, and said to Zhang Chuan: "Rush to the slope!" ”

Rushing to a hill is to charge towards a high place, so that the horsepower will be seriously consumed, and the speed will be reduced. It will give the soldiers a chance to rush up.

"Where are you going?" Zhang Chuan hesitated.

Li Kui said decisively: "Just rush to the place where we hide our war horses." If the opportunity is good, if you come again, the Qingtang soldiers should collapse. If you don't have a chance, you will retire. ”

Zhang Chuan wanted to refute Li Kui's order, he preferred to accept it when he saw it, and it was a wise choice to retreat. It's a pity that before Li Kui failed, he didn't have the confidence to argue with Li Kui at all. Especially on the battlefield, any non-cooperation from him will bring huge losses to the Fei Lian Army. As a last resort, he took the command flag in the first place and rushed up to another slope. The army behind him followed.

If there were more soldiers, if it was tens of thousands, it would be very dangerous to rush to the high ground like this. Because once the enemy army besieges the bottom of the mountain, the army at the high place will be isolated, and it will become a siege situation. Fortunately, there are not many soldiers, and there are a lot of deaths, at most seven or eight thousand. With such strength, it was completely impossible to besiege the Song army.

The Song army climbed the slope and the speed decreased.

The soldiers attacked with all their might, closing the distance.

Seeing this scene in the eyes of the ghost pupil, it immediately belittled the ability of the generals of the Song army by a few points.

"The Song generals will not be able to ride and fight, so unsympathetic, a few back and forth, the Song army will become sheep to be slaughtered."

The thought of changing into the cavalry armor of thousands of Song troops suddenly made Ghost Pupil's heart burn. If he had 3,000 under his command, he might not need so many at all, as long as 2,000 soldiers of the Song army were fully equipped, he would be able to become the most powerful general and leader in the land of Hehuang and even the entire country of Woo Luo.

Now, his only dilemma is to choose to bite the Song army, or wait for work, use his cavalry to stop the Song army, and then completely trap the Song army.

Hitomi Oni rode on his horse and quickly made a choice to distance himself. Break away from the Song army and stop the next charge of the Song army.

This choice is not a mistake.

Of course, it's not true.

Anyway, right or wrong, he always has to make a choice.

And he thought he had made a firm choice, but what made him vomit blood was that after the Song army crossed the mound, it disappeared......

The ghost pupil almost vomited out a mouthful of old blood on the horse, he held back his big move, Song Jun stopped fighting, can this work?

The ghost pupil, who lacked reconnaissance, was dumbfounded, and then he burst into a rage, feeling that he had been fooled by Song Jun's shamelessness. General Geng Zhi was fooled by shameless people, and the consequences were very serious, so serious that the ghost pupil held the hand of the war knife and wanted to draw the knife and kill people.

"Wow, I'm!"

"The whole army prepares, cross the mound, and kill the Song army!"

……

Listening to the hysterical roar of the ghost pupil, you can understand that he is going to fight with Song Jun endlessly. But such a mood is certainly inappropriate to command operations in the army. One of his subordinates caught up from the rear team, and when he saw that his generals were about to go crazy, he immediately stepped forward to stop the ghost pupil and shouted loyally: "General, think twice!" ”

"You're going to stop me?"

Oni Hitomi's face distorted by anger became even more hideous, and he was already on the verge of losing his mind like this.

On the prairie, try to stop an angry bull unless it is stronger than a bull.

"General, we just fell for the Song army. Whether the Song army is now running away or deceiving, I don't know. The subordinates are worried that the Song army will deceive! General, why don't you send scouts up the hill first, and then discuss? ”

There is nothing wrong with this. It seems to be a safe way, but the time consumed makes the army under the command of Oni Tong lose the opportunity to bite the Song army.

Of course, on the battlefield, any general understands a truth, in a war, don't think about how much you won, but think about not losing first. That's the way to go. The only bargaining chip in Ghost Hitomi's hand was that he had more cavalry horsepower reserves than the Song army.

After all, only a few of the Fan soldiers had leather armor, which was not as heavy as the armor of the Song army. Carrying more than 20 pounds of weight, even if it is a war horse, after running for dozens of miles, it will show fatigue.

What's more, on the battlefield where the battle is very fierce, Ghost Pupil has every reason to believe that the horsepower of the Song army has been exhausted. As long as the warriors under his command catch up with the Song army, victory must be his.

What's even worse is that Ghost Hitomi can't accept the low-hanging victory and is given up by him. What made him even more unacceptable was that once he gave up the pursuit, he seemed to be a fool and was teased by the Song army. If there were no losses, he might have really withdrawn, but with the loss of two or three thousand people, he couldn't accept such a result.

The advice given by the subordinates is very steady, and the soldiers are good soldiers, except that he is a fool, everyone is in the right place. Ghost Hitomi couldn't accept this result, he roared gloomily, his voice was suppressed, but with a full of wind rage, like an enraged leopard: "Get out of the way!" ”

"General, our army is the elite of the king, and we can't just bury it in the land of the Song people!"

"This is not the land of the Song people, it is ours, ours!"

"Get out of the way!"

"General, no!"

The ghost pupil trembled angrily on the war horse, slammed his legs between the horse's belly, urged the war horse to rush up, the long knife in his hand was raised high, and the moment it fell, even he himself felt incredible: "You still want to stop this general, the end is like this thief!" ”

At the moment of his roar, the blood dripping from the long knife fell into the dust, and was greedily sucked clean by the barren land.

Ghost Hitomi couldn't imagine that he went out of the city to seek a battle with the Song army, and the first to die under his butcher's knife was his own people. And he also knew that after he cut that knife, there was no way back. He had to pursue the Song army and swallow this Song army alive so that his prestige in the army would not fall.

The soldiers looked blankly at the general who killed his own people if they didn't agree with each other, and the chill in their hearts made them dare not object at all. Silent and rushed forward with the ghost pupil.

The simplicity of the people in the country does not mean that they do not play tricks. This small country established by the steppe tribe also has powerful vassals, palace rebellions, and even frame-ups and coercion of the Son of Heaven to order the princes. But they are easily deceived, especially in their dealings with the Song people, and they are often released for no reason, shoddy, fraudulent, and even fooled.

When emotions are simple, anger is simpler.

The only way to think of the people who can't tolerate sand in their eyes is to not die at the moment they are deceived.

Ghost Hitomi yelled, "What are you doing standing stupidly? Don't chase it yet! ”

After saying that, the ghost pupil rushed up the dirt slope first.

If it was the place where the soldiers were standing before, even if Li Kui wanted to rush to a high place and attack down, the soldiers would have enough time to react and distance themselves.

Once the distance of the cavalry is stretched in the land of three arrows, no matter how good your martial arts are, no matter how strong the army is, it will be in vain. After all, the Song army rode four-legged horses, and the soldiers of the country did not run on two legs. And no matter how fast the cavalry rushing down the slope is, it is limited. And it will become slower and slower as the horse's physical strength is consumed.

The ghost pupil rushed like this, and the seven or eight thousand soldiers could only follow the impact.

Seeing that he was almost halfway through, the Song army appeared on the top of the hillside.

The moment the big flag that made the ghost's eyes breathe fire came out, he was dumbfounded.

It turns out that Song Jun is really cheating!

Actually, it's not a fraud.

It's just that Li Kui saw that the soldiers didn't rush up, and he only wanted to climb half the height of the dirt slope, so he simply ordered the whole army to go up to the top of the slope. On the other side of the slope, on the flat ground, 3,000 war horses waited quietly under the guard of more than 100 soldiers.

After Li Kui simply went to the top of the slope, he ordered a change of horses.

Anyway, the war horse under the crotch has already sprinted twice, and the physical exertion is not small. I changed to a war horse with full physical strength and went back to the top of the slope.

If Li Kui found that there was no chance, as long as the ghost pupil was at the bottom of the slope with the soldiers, maybe he would really give up.

After all, in cavalry combat, space and distance are the most important external factors. Once the distance is pulled away, no matter how strong the Feilian army is, I am afraid that there will be no chance to defeat the Fan soldiers.

But when he reappeared at the top of the slope first, he was a little surprised, he found that the soldiers were stupidly climbing the slope, and the generals of Western Xia would never do such a stupid thing.

Of course, when using Western Xia soldiers to attack the Western Xia army formation, Li Kui didn't care about casualties at all.

Therefore, his reputation in Western Xia is very stinky, and the name of butcher and black whirlwind has spread far and wide.

But when he commanded the Song army, he had to consider the strength and size of the Song army.

The 3,000 cavalry of the Fei Lian Army is already the largest cavalry in the northwest.

Although the Great Song Dynasty had an astonishing number of cavalry troops, those were nothing more than useless appearances, nothing more than infantry marching on horseback. It can't be considered cavalry at all, because the horses of the Privy Council of the Great Song Dynasty can't adapt to the intensity of the war on the battlefield at all, and they can't run fast. Therefore, the cavalry of the Song army will only look like a little in the Western Army.

It can be said that the tens of thousands of war horses of the Feilian Army are the lifeblood of the Great Song Dynasty, and Li Kui is fighting with the Qingtang soldiers with the lifeblood of the Great Song Dynasty, and any loss needs to be treated with caution.

The previous rush was a surprise to kill the soldiers.

If it is facing an infantry phalanx, the cavalry does not need to run at all, looking for a suitable fighter. At this time, it is time to divide the enemy army and slaughter the Tibetan soldiers.

Unfortunately, he was faced with cavalry, and he had to take the safest means on the premise of considering casualties.

And the opportunity appeared after Li Kui changed horses, and the war horse with full physical strength snorted on the high slope, and wanted to gallop a little restlessly.

Li Kui ordered: "The whole army is attacking!" ”

In the face of such a good opportunity, if he didn't rush up and kill the soldiers, how long would he wait?

"Kill!"

Horses can be changed, but there are so many soldiers. It doesn't matter if one person has three horsemen, or one person has five horsemen, but the cavalry cannot be replaced. Although the soldiers who had been rushing for a while were a little tired. But the excitement of victory at their fingertips, and the tsunami-like attack on the battlefield, all the energy in their bodies began to burn.

Three thousand elites rushed down from the top of the dirt slope.

"The Song people are so despicable!"

As a main general, Ghost Hitomi can only make people laugh when he says such a thing.

But in addition to being angry, he thought of a way to protect himself and rushed forward. There must be the war horses of the Song army behind the soil slope, as long as the war horses of the Song army are robbed, the Song army has no horses to change, I am afraid that it is a pipe dream to win him. The only thing that made him feel relieved was that if the loss was too great, he would probably have to retreat to Lanzhou City with thousands of captured war horses.

But that was the only thing he could think of right now.

"Catch up!"

Ghost Hitomi ordered almost at the same time as Li Kui.

The Song army was condescending, and the speed of the war horse became faster and faster after running, but the mounts of the Fan soldiers were panting and trying to climb up because of the considerable consumption.

The two armies collided halfway up like a tide crashing against a boulder on the shore.

The soldiers were immediately scattered, and no one retreated. It's not that they don't want to retreat, it's that the way back is blocked. Only gritted his teeth and competed with Song Jun for endurance.

Li Kui took the lead, like a thousand catties of wild boars rushing into the crop field, even arching and planing, overturning the soldiers encountered within two zhang of the charge. And Zhang Chuan and Ruan Xiaoer behind him kept tearing apart the battle formation of the soldiers with their personal guards. Until the soldiers were completely defeated.

But after all, the time for the war horse to rush and kill is limited, and it can't be stopped.

When Li Kui found that the soldiers did not retreat and fell behind them, Li Kui was also a little nervous. Could it be that the other party has spotted the war horse behind the dirt slope?

But the price paid by the soldiers was not much smaller than before.

Xu is horse wrangler of the Song army behind the hillside also noticed that something was wrong, and immediately drove the war horse down from the high place of the dirt slope.

A hundred or so soldiers could not threaten a few thousand soldiers. But three thousand war horses are not fake. Finally, the ghost pupil saw the hope of reaching the top, but like Wang Ba, who was about to climb to the end, he was overturned to the ground here.

When he came back to his senses, he found that the Song army had rushed through his fragmented cavalry formation with his war horses and joined up with the main general of the Song army.

This scene made the ghost almost vomit blood in anger. In particular, after experiencing this battle, his soldiers are basically able to mix one person and two cavalry, or even one person and three cavalry.

This shows that unconsciously, his military power has been weakened again. Even the casualties may be more than half.

Unwilling tears fell from the eyes of the ghost pupil, and there was even remorse, but all this could not be reversed, and his only way was probably to retreat to Lanzhou City and wait for reinforcements.

But Li Kui will lose this mouthful of fat in front of his mouth?

He decisively ordered: "Pang Wanchun, take two commanded men and horses, and attack the enemy army with bows and arrows from the left side." ”

"Honorable Order!"

But Li Kui turned his head to Zhang Chuan and said: "The whole army is lightly armed, discard all the burdens except weapons, and prepare for a decisive battle." ”

Zhang Chuan shouted in surprise: "Deling"!

It's easy to get out of the city, but it's hard to get back.

Zhang Chuan had already guessed Li Kui's thoughts, the Song army was tired, but weren't the soldiers of the country tired?

Everyone is human, and the Song army has an absolute advantage in equipment and has stricter discipline. And after the soldiers rushed and killed twice in a row, 10,000 horses, at most four or five thousand.

The point is that the soldiers are now not brave enough to return to the city, but in fear. With a little more pressure, this army will collapse completely.

Li Kui raised his arms and shouted: "Annihilate all the soldiers, bloody Lanzhou!" ”

"Annihilate all the soldiers, bloody Lanzhou!"

Zhang Chuan also shouted, at this time, there is nothing more exciting than a loud slogan. Although, it's a bit weird to shout, Lanzhou seems to have belonged to the Great Song Dynasty before, and it was attacked by Qingtang people before losing Lanzhou.

But that didn't stop him from shouting hoarsely. It's like in the battle of Jinmingzhai, that kind of hearty battle, once in the military career is a lifetime of capital, and when you encounter it twice, this is the rhythm of going to the peak of life.

On the south bank of the Yellow River, a decisive battle between the Fan soldiers and the Song army was about to break out.

On the hill on the other side of the Yellow River, Li Bingqian, the emperor of Western Xia, who came secretly, and the military and political officials of Western Xia looked quite lost.

That's right, even they saw that the Qingtang soldiers were finished, three thousand against ten thousand, and it was almost tossed in half a day. At this time, Li Bingqian had a thought in his heart: "Fortunately, I am not impulsive." ”