Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Battle of Anping

That night was a grand bonfire dinner, of course, the celebration banquet was prepared for Xiao Ming, he not only snatched back Young Master Aguru, but also annihilated the cavalry of 5,000 people of the Jin Kingdom with only 2,000 people, but it was said that he had made a great contribution!

In the big tent, Xiao Ming and Xiao Biyang had a deep talk, Xiao Ming not only wants to trade horses with the Wuhuai Department, but also does not spend money, but barter trade, Xiao Ming provides the tea and salt needed by the Wuhuai tribe, this is undoubtedly robbing the business of the Han people who often come to the tribe to do business, but these things, Xiao Ming is completely handed over to the Yaxing Gang to deal with, they are doing this, anyway, there are these middlemen, no one will suffer, everyone is a winner!

In fact, Xiao Ming values the ore vein resources of the entire Wuhuai Ridge more, and the legendary gold mines here are more attractive to Xiao Ming! If the Khitans felt that they were at a loss in the process of bartering, Xiao Ming promised that the other party could exchange special ores.

For Xiao Ming's request, Xiao Biyang agreed to all of them, and there was only one way, that is, Xiao Ming must lead them to seize Anping City! Xiao Biyang is destined to seize Anping to minimize the threat of the Jin people, then again, in fact, Anping City was originally the city of the Wuhuai Department, which was personally rewarded by the emperor of the Great Liao State, and the last time in the battle of Beijing, it was taken away by the Jin people by the way, and it was only right to take it back.

The number of capable warriors that can be mobilized by the entire Wuhuai Department is probably more than 30,000, plus some dependent small tribes are more than 50,000 people at most, how can this person defeat Anping City?

According to the military system of the Liao State, the Liao army was roughly divided into the palace tent army, the tribal army, the Jingzhou army and the subject army. The palace tent army, composed of strong men directly under the emperor, is a pro-army of the Khitan tribe, which is used for guards and conquests. The tribal army, mainly composed of strong men from other Khitan tribes, is used to guard the four sides. The above two types of troops are the main force of the Liao army. The Jingzhou Army, also known as the Wuzhou Township Army, is composed of strong men of the Han and Bohai ethnic groups in the prefectures and counties of Wujing Province. The army of the subject country is composed of the strong men of the subject country. The latter two types of troops are auxiliaries.

The fighters of the Wuhuai Department must belong to the category of the tribal army, these people are the fighters within the tribe, who are engaged in grazing production in peacetime, conscripted into war in wartime, and prepare their own horses and weapons.

Most of the Liao countries are mainly cavalry, and the soldiers are equivalent to training when they usually hunt, which is basically the same as no training in Xiao Ming's view, the Khitans are brave and good at fighting, but they can't fight, and the cavalry is seriously not enough to fight against the infantry-based Song Dynasty army, but it can be won, but when facing the Jurchen cavalry, due to the improper weapons and tactics, it has caused a situation of defeat and defeat.

In view of this, Xiao Ming said that there is no problem in fighting Anping City, but the soldiers must be trained, and the last two thousand battles and five thousand relied on the soldiers to fight with the determination to die, and you can't expect every battle to be like this, so it is necessary to train, and this kind of training is to practice several real cavalry formations.

After the mobilization order was issued, all the young and middle-aged men of the entire tribe brought weapons and horses to the stone platform tent in the center to gather, to Xiao Ming's surprise, most of these people were very excited!

"It's time to fight Anping City! It's great that you can drive those Jurchen barbarians away! "There are not a few people who have such thoughts, and most people are used to it anyway, it turns out that the Khitan people are like this when they conquer the Quartet, this time they are fighting for their own tribe, and they should contribute more people, and the blood of the Khitan people is probably like this.

For Xiao Ming, most people are very curious, the legend about him during this time is simply amazing! There are people who are familiar with him, and people who are not familiar with him, and those who are familiar with him have reached some kind of mythological worship of him, but most people are just curious about him.

Xiao Ming rode Chi Yucong around in front of this group of people, as if he had magical power, and the young man with red eyebrows in front of him, like his mount, immediately gave the Khitan people incomparable confidence......

The next training is very simple, Xiao Ming is going to turn these tens of thousands of people into a huge grinding plate! Among the more than 50,000 people, Xiao Ming still picked out more than 30,000 elites, and the remaining more than 10,000 people were used as auxiliary troops, transporting grain and grass and using them as archers.

The cavalry attack should pay attention to the echelon, wave and level, which these Khitans do not understand, that is a skill that can only be mastered as a professional cavalry unit after the seventeenth century, and now Xiao Ming has taught this skill to the Liao cavalry in the early twelfth century, and the destructive power caused by this team in the future is simply incomparable!

Under the original wedge-shaped arrow pattern, Xiao Ming arranged several superimposed arrows, so that the layers can be achieved, the outer arrows use iron spears, the inner arrows use scimitars, the waves and echelons are all taken care of, the arrows and arrow tails are combined into a huge circle, forming a huge grinding disc, and even there are small grinders within the big mill! Xiao Ming couldn't help but sigh, these people are now a real war machine!

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Ten days later, the 50,000-strong army marched directly to the city of Anping! Anping City has more than 50,000 cavalry of the Jin Kingdom Jurchen, led by the second son of Jin Taizu Wanyan Aguta, Wanyan Zongqing, Wanyan Zongqing is the most incompetent one compared to his brothers, Zong Han, Zong Wang and others, but he is also the second wolf master of the Jin Kingdom!

On this day, I heard that the enemy was coming, and I reported that it was the 50,000 cavalry of the Khitan Wuhuai Department who came to attack Anping City. The second wolf master, you see, isn't it ......? ”

Wanyan Zongqing said: "You don't have to worry, we Jinguo people have always done our best to treat our friends, and Xiao Biyang, that old ghost, has repeatedly opposed Dajinguo!" This time it's just time to get rid of him all at once! ”

Abda sighed and said: "It would be nice if I could catch Princess Ami last time, he is the queen candidate of the Emperor of Liao, and catching her is definitely a great achievement for the second wolf master!" ”

Wanyan Zongqing said with a smile: "I heard that Princess Ami is also a flower in the Hanwo grassland!" But for her sake, I lost Ang Sticky! Last time, for his younger brother, I lost the Meng'an general Han Tierbuhua and 5,000 cavalry, and I heard that the other party used 20,000 people to strangle them, what happened recently? When did the Acacia become so powerful? ”

Abda said: "I heard that Ami recently brought back a righteous brother, named Xiao Ming, I think it is this person who is helping the Wuhuai Department, the second wolf lord must be careful of this person!" ”

"Haha......!" Wanyan Zongqing laughed and said, "Do I need to be careful of him? How many of them came this time? But 50,000 horses, the warriors of my Dajin country, have always been invincible immediately, first kill all these Khitan barbarians of the Wuhuai Department, and then swallow the Wuhuai Department in one go, and then that Ami will not be able to run, right? Ahaha! ”

What else does Abda want to say? Wanyan Zongqing interrupted him, waved his hand and beat the drum to gather troops, ordered 50,000 horses, opened the gate of Anping, and went out of the city to face the battle, Wanyan Zongqing was not brainless, he had already figured out that the real number of cavalry on the other side was only more than 30,000, and the other more than 10,000 people were actually auxiliary troops transporting grass.

According to the theory that the Jurchen cavalry is less than 10,000 and full of 10,000 is invincible, their own 50,000 Jurchen cavalry are all battle-hardened warriors, and they have fought with the Khitan cavalry of the Liao State more than once or twice, and each time the result is a big defeat for the other party.

The two sides opened their posture and prepared to fight, the Jin side had a clear banner and bright armor, and the leading Meng'an Mouke were all good generals, carrying heavy weapons such as Xuanhua axes, maces, and head mallets, on the other hand, the cavalry of the Wuhuai Department basically had no flags, and they didn't even have decent armor! Most of the Khitan warriors wore leather armor and held traditional iron spears in their hands!

War drums and horns blow loudly! The Khitan soldiers had dark faces one by one, and it was Xiao Ming who asked them to plaster the bottom of the pot, which was also a trick, and the specific effect would be clear when they arrived on the battlefield. Seeing that the Khitans did not have any special equipment and weapons, Wanyan Zongqing was even more relieved, and ordered the cavalry to form a team and prepare to charge!

The Khitan people of the Wuhuai Department are still old tactics, overturning hundreds of carts loaded with forage to form a defensive formation, a large number of archers are hiding behind, and the cavalry is arranged on both sides of the defensive formation, this has passed the drill, there should be no problems, the leaders and leaders of the Khitan people are generally the patriarchs and elders in the family, and there is no problem with the issuance and implementation of orders.

The battle began in the afternoon, the sound of hooves was like thunder and the sound of drums, the cavalry of the Jin State took the lead in attacking, and the cavalry soon entered the stage of charging from small steps, and the Jurchen warriors on horses shook the scimitars in their hands, and their mouths also let out "Whoa!" All the 50,000 cavalry who rushed to the sky launched an attack on the Khitans!

The battle was very fierce as soon as it came into contact, and the cavalry of the Jin Kingdom began to shoot arrows when they rode to the land of an arrow, and a large number of feathered arrows were blocked by the cart, but there were also people who shot people, but everyone was silent, and when it came time to counterattack, more than 10,000 archers shot arrows together, which was not a joke!

Under the cover of the rain of arrows that were thrown, thousands of people planted their horses in a single throw, and when the formation of the opposing cavalry charging was chaotic, the cavalry on this side began to kill from both sides, and then it would be combined into a big arrow, and it began to harvest the lives of the soldiers of the Jin Kingdom in the form of a circle!

Someone is constantly organizing the impact of this huge circle, it is constantly moving, endless, the arrow is followed by the arrow, each person will have two teammates on both sides to protect, naturally you can rest assured to kill the enemy, the Jin people have hit several times in vain, you know, the best defense object in the world is "circle!" "What's more, it's a spinning circle!

The Khitan cavalry stabbed the enemy with a spear, and it didn't matter if he succeeded, he had his teammates behind him to make up for the knife, he just aimed at the next person and continued to stab! So in the blood splash, one by one the Jin cavalry fell off their horses, of course, there were also strong generals, but two fists were hard to beat four hands, although he let him use a mace to smash down a few Khitan cavalry, but the endless people behind rushed up, under the stabbing of one person and one spear, he was also stabbed to the bloody ......holes.

The battle lasted until the evening, under the illumination of the blood-colored sunset, the earth was also bloody, the 50,000 cavalry of the Jin Kingdom lost nearly 40,000 people, and the rest hurriedly escorted Wanyan Zongqing to retreat into Anping City, and after closing the city gate, Wanyan Zongqing wanted to cry without tears after counting the number of people!

The ownerless war horses are running around, the Khitans are cleaning the battlefield, the undead and the wounded enemies will be killed, and there are "poofs" everywhere to mend the knife! The wounded on their own side will be carried back for treatment, and in such a battlefield situation, the chance of survival basically depends on their luck.

The Jin people retreated to Anping City, relying on this stone fortress to resist the attack of the Khitan Wuhuai Division, but Xiao Ming sent people to block the river in the upper reaches of the Volyn River, cutting off the water source of Anping City, without water, the city could not hold out for a few days, and everyone waited for the last moment to come.