Chapter Seventy-One: Rebuilding Miraculous Works
Wu Zhi and the people quietly waited in the Wuyan Gorge for two days, everyone was bored, suddenly, a fast horse galloped from the south of the Wuyan Gorge, the cavalry also raised a red colored flag in their hands, crossed the gorge, and the fast horse came to Wu Zhi. This is one of the scouts sent before, specifically to find information around Wuyan Gorge.
As soon as the horse stopped, the cavalry quickly jumped off the horse, quickly ran in front of Wu Zhi, and hurriedly reported: "Report! The enemy is coming! He was out of breath and sweating.
"How many centaurs can you see?" Wu Zhi hurriedly asked.
"Martial arts commander, there are many enemy troops, countless and countless, it is estimated that there are more than 100,000 people! We don't dare get too close! The scout hurriedly responded.
"Prepare for battle!" When Wu Zhi heard this, he was overjoyed and immediately gave the order to prepare for the battle. He also told the officers and men of the Red Guard Battalion to obey the attack instructions, not to act without authorization, not to launch an attack in advance, and to throw grenades as much as possible into the brightly armored mounted officers and the chariots of the Chinese army, so as to be sure to capture the thief and capture the king first.
Without a cup of tea, Wu Zhi and others found from a distance that the south of Wuyan Gorge was dusty, covering the sky and the sun, and the retreating army of 180,000 party items was coming north on horseback or on foot, ragged and broken, and it was the army led by the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang and Li Qianshun who had completely lost their spirit at this time. Seeing the arrival of the party's army, when the soldiers in the northwest were impressed by Wu Zhi's clever calculation, they couldn't help but raise their spirits, conceal well, and enter a state of imminent battle.
Watching the retreating army of the party slowly walk into the Wuyan Gorge, and after stepping into the ambush circle, Wu Zhi quietly took out a bamboo grenade from his body, held a fire fold in his right hand, and prepared to attack.
The long retreating army of the party slowly crossed the Wuyan Gorge, lined up a long winding dragon in the gorge, and when a cart came into front of Wu Zhi's eyes, Wu Zhi knew that the big fish had taken the bait, and hurriedly lit the bamboo grenade in his hand and threw it down the mountain. There was a loud explosion of "bang", which meant that the order to attack was given to the soldiers of the Red Guard Battalion.
The Red Guard Battalion was originally lurking on the slopes on both sides of the Wuyan Gorge, condescending and occupying the best geographical advantages. More than 1,000 officers and men of the Red Guard Battalion had combat experience in the Battle of Tiandu Mountain, and when they heard the loud sound of the beginning of the attack, all the officers and men fired at the same time, drew the grenades on their bodies, lit fires, and threw them vigorously. When it was too late, more than 1,000 bamboo grenades sparked into the ranks of the party's army from top to bottom, and the explosion sounded like thunder, and people suddenly overturned on their backs in the gorge, the cars were destroyed and people died, and the smoke of gunpowder spread everywhere, filling the entire valley and the gorge.
The retreating party army never imagined that it would be ambushed so tragically in its own territory, and it was unprepared, and in an instant, like a frightened bird, panicked, and began to scream and wail and squeeze forward or retreat, and at once the entire marching team was crowded.
Then the second round of earth-shattering explosions, and then exploded in the crowd, and another burst of people overturned on their backs, cars were destroyed and people died, and the party members heard the loud noise again as if they had been punished by a god and thunder, and their hearts and galls were broken, and they ran forward or backward like a tide even more frantically, and they ran wildly for their lives, and the generals instantly lost their restraint and control over the soldiers. At this time, Liu Zhongwu, Chong Pu and Wang Sunchen, who were guarding the north and south sides of Wuyan Gorge, hurriedly launched an attack when they saw this, and the cavalry rushed into the battlefield like divine soldiers descending from heaven. The soldiers only cared about fleeing for their lives, completely losing the ability to resist, and the party cavalry wanted to charge and resist, but they were scattered and blocked by their own people, and they could not play any role, so they could only flee with them.
As the third round of earth-shattering explosions sounded, the party members in the valley were even more chaotic, and they scattered like headless flies, and all the chariots had been blown up, and not a single car could escape from the smoke gorge. Wu Zhi saw that the Western Xia army had fled to both sides, and hurriedly ordered all the officers and soldiers of the Red Guard Battalion to move quickly on both sides, and dropped a fourth round of grenades. The grenades of the Heavenly Maiden scattered flowers fell, and the earth-shattering explosion then exploded in the Western Xia rout, the flesh and blood flew over, and the Xixia people whined and wailed, throwing away their armor and abandoning their armor, and the wolves rushed to the sudden, panicking all day long, just running forward or retreating, chaotic, completely losing reason and direction, and unable to form an army.
Wu Zhi saw that the Red Guard Battalion had completed the attack mission, so in addition to ordering the soldiers who still had grenades left to throw a grenade into the canyon from time to time to blow up the deterrent, he took the rest of the Red Guard Battalion to stand on the mountain beam and watch the play, watching the cavalry in the northwest of the Great Song Dynasty complete the final fatal blow!
On the one hand, they were like wolves and tigers, and on the other hand, they only cared about running away without fighting spirit, and the entire battlefield fell into a one-sided slaughter. The Dangxiang people completely lost the ability to resist, the cavalry of the Song Dynasty continued to harvest the heads of the Dangxiang people, and in half a day, the Dangxiang people who entered the valley of Wuyan Gorge were almost wiped out, with countless casualties, and almost all of them who were alive became prisoners, and some of the Dangxiang people who did not enter the valley in the south of Wuyan Gorge scattered and fled to the east and west sides after a little resistance, and ran away without a trace. Some party soldiers tried to climb the mountain, but they were also hacked to death and poked to death by the officers and men of the Red Guard Battalion guarding the mountain, and none of them were spared.
After the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, and after the battle subsided and there was no more entanglement and fighting in the entire Wuyan Gorge, Wu Zhi led the soldiers of the Red Guard Battalion to rush down the mountain beam, and cooperated with the cavalry to start cleaning up the battlefield, and killed those who were seriously wounded, and then cut off the two ears on the enemy's head, and the captured party members and captured horses, cattle and sheep were taken care of separately.
Wu Zhi deliberately walked to the area where the chariots were concentrated, only to see that all the chariots had been blown up, and the people in the chariots were killed and injured, and some of them became prisoners, almost all of these people were members of the royal family and princes and ministers of Western Xia, but now they were served by Wu Zhi! It was confirmed that the two people Wu Zhi cared about the most were finally settled: Empress Dowager Xiaoliang was killed on the spot, and Li Qianshun was injured and became a prisoner of the Red Guard Battalion!
When Wu Zhi saw Li Qianshun, he saw a half-grown boy of about fourteen years old sitting in the crowd of captives in dejection, covered in blood and mud, caressing his left foot in pain, his face was gloomy and pale, and three meters away to protect a group of captured party nobles and generals in bright armor. Seeing Wu Zhi coming, Li Qianshun's face was expressionless and trembling. The lord of Western Xia, who was about fourteen years old, was just a teenager who had not grown up, and he had completely lost his prestige as a human monarch on weekdays.
Wu Zhi hurriedly instructed Lin Chong to find a military doctor accompanying him in the army to treat Li Qianshun's injuries, he couldn't watch Li Qianshun die of his injuries. When the military doctor returned to Li Qianshun, he was just injured and his foot was broken, and Wu Zhi was relieved.
When the battlefield was cleaned up and the results of the battle were counted, everyone was shocked again: countless enemies were wounded, more than 80,000 enemies were killed, of which nearly 30,000 were killed on the spot by the Red Guard Battalion, no less than 20,000 were seriously wounded or killed by swords and guns, no less than 10,000 party members died due to panic trampling on each other, and only more than 20,000 people were really killed by the cavalry in the attack, more than 5,000 people were captured, more than 20,000 horses were captured, and countless cattle and sheep were captured; And what is even more amazing is that he actually killed the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang of Western Xia and captured Li Qianshun, the lord of Western Xia!
The cavalry of the Song Dynasty also suffered casualties, due to the chaos at that time, caused part of the command failure, and caused casualties in the melee, the cavalry of the Song Dynasty killed more than 500 people, injured more than 1,000 people, and lost more than 300 horses. There were no casualties in the Red Guard Battalion during the battle, but when they rushed down the mountain to clean up the battlefield, several soldiers accidentally fell down and scratched due to excessive excitement, which caused minor abrasions, which can be regarded as honorable injuries.
The soldiers of the Red Guard Battalion made another meritorious contribution in this battle of Wuyan Gorge!
Looking at the battle report in their hands, Wu Zhi and the generals were overjoyed, this was another great victory, and the results were even more brilliant and amazing! Especially when they saw the corpse of the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang and the captured fourteen-year-old Western Xia lord Li Qianshun, everyone suddenly had an ecstatic illusion, this Western Xia is equivalent to having been wiped out!
But Wu Zhi was very calm, he did not think that the Western Xia had been destroyed. Brother Richard, the king of Jin in Western Xia, that is, Li Qianshun's younger brother, is also a talented figure, and the Western Xia also has the royal family Ren Duo Baozhong, the royal minister Wei Ming Ah Wu, Wei Bao Wu, Wei Bao Yu, and others are also capable talents, with the death of the Empress Dowager Xiao Liang, the Liang family is considered to be the end of the curtain in Western Xia, but the Wei Ming family will definitely support Brother Richard as the lord of the country, and the Western Xia has not been forced to the point of destroying the country.
But Wu Zhi knew that he had changed the history of Western Xia, and the trajectory of Western Xia had deviated for the first time.
The only regret that Wu Zhi has now is that the Red Guard Battalion no longer has enough bamboo grenades. Without this kind of surprisingly winning weapon, the Red Guard Battalion would not have the effect of a surprise soldier!
If the Red Guard battalion still had enough grenades, he would lead the army to take advantage of the chaos to kill Xingqing Mansion, capture or kill Li Chage, Renduo Baozhong, Wei Ming Ah Wu and others, and then the Western Xia could be regarded as the real destruction of the country. Therefore, Wu Zhi inevitably had some regrets and losses in his heart, but the Western Xia in the future was no longer a problem, and the main force of the Western Xia army suffered heavy losses in these battles, almost losing more than half, and had lost the strength to fight against the Song Dynasty.
He finally helped the Song Dynasty basically solve the hidden dangers of Western Xia.
Judging from the two battles, Wu Zhi also found that the explosion effect of bamboo grenades is amazing, and the destructive power is also amazing, which can be very intimidating, but there are also shortcomings, that is, they can only play a lethal role in crowded places, and they will not have such a great effect of defeating the enemy when they are used in places where people and horses are sparse or farther away or when they are in close contact. And it can only be used on a sunny day, if it rains or snows, the grenade lead will not be lit at all after getting wet, and it will lose its explosive power and become a pile of waste. Wu Zhi and the Red Guards were very good, and both battles were fought on sunny days, and the bamboo grenades exerted great power. It seems that he will have to improve the bamboo grenade and find some other new weapons, such as guns and rockets, such as long-range strike weapons and individual combat weapons, in order to defeat the enemy faster and better.
Wu Zhi wrote two good news, one was handed over to Wang En for perusal, and the other was sent to Weizhou to be handed over to Zhang Qi. After the good news of Wuyan Gorge was urgently sent, Wu Zhi ordered people to collect the body of the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang and bury it in the Wuyan Gorge, and then ordered everyone to gather the dead corpses, and after burning them to ashes, he hurriedly ordered the troops to pack up the spoils, escort more than 5,000 prisoners, and with the ears of the party people, drive more than 20,000 war horses, countless cattle and sheep to quickly evacuate Wuyan Gorge, withdraw in the direction of Pingxia City, and return to the territory of the Song Dynasty.