The man known as Commander Fan ran over and saluted Yang Yanzhao. Yang Yanzhao smiled and said, "Your Excellency is the commander of the cannons? ”

The man clenched his fists and said, "The villain Fan Chao is the newly appointed commander of the artillery team of His Royal Highness King Yan. "It must be explained here that in the Yanyun Army, in addition to the ten major legions and the naval army, there are also artillery units directly under the Yanwang Mansion, this army is based on the artillery team, each artillery team has a thousand people, one hundred and fifty artillery, not subordinate to any legion, directly under the jurisdiction of the Yanwang Mansion, at present, Yanyun's artillery team has a total of five, and Zhang Chao is the most new city, all the personnel have just finished training not long ago, and all the cannons have just been transported from the ordnance factory with other ordnance materials and grain and grass baggage.

Speaking of which, by the way, all the personnel of this artillery team were recruited by the relevant departments, and then received special training in the military academy, and after a few months, these people became artillery officers. There is a unique institution in this era under the palace of King Yan, the Military Academy, which is used to train all kinds of military commanders and military division technical personnel, Chen Xiao is naturally the dean of this military academy, all the senior generals are professors of military academy command, there are no permanent professors, who has time to go to class, and the armory field supervisor Ling Zhen and the skilled technicians below him are professors of the technical department, which is used to program the training of technical talents, which definitely created a precedent in China for thousands of years.

Xiao Feng said happily: "With the cannon, if we can't capture the Great Wall Ridge, we won't be able to explain to King Yan!" The crowd nodded. Xiao Duli turned his head to look at the majestic Great Wall Ridge in the distance, and frowned: "Even if there is a cannon, it may not be easy to capture the Great Wall Ridge!" Li Tian next to him glanced up at the Great Wall Ridge and frowned, but did not speak.

Early the next morning, the roar of the cannons shook the wasteland valley within a radius of dozens of miles, and the cannonballs whistled and flew towards the mountains, constantly stirring up dust and gravel, and from time to time there were human bodies flying into the sky, the scene was thrilling.

After bombardment for half an hour, the sound of artillery gradually stopped. Yang Yanzhao raised his spear and waved it forward, the war drums rumbled loudly, and more than 10,000 Yanyun army infantry soldiers shouted and rushed towards the hillside like a tide, all the way to the foot of the mountain, until they rushed halfway up the mountain. Suddenly, countless Western Xia troops showed their figures, and then they saw the rolling stones and trees rumbling down, and at the same time, the arrows and locusts in the sky also seemed to fly wildly. I saw that Yan Yunjun was either knocked away by the rolling stones and skulls that rushed down, or was shot over by the arrows flying all over the sky, and the momentum of the attack was frustrated.

Yan Yunjun was extremely brave, but in such a situation, he still roared and rushed forward, without the slightest intention of retreating, but became more and more courageous. However, the situation was too unfavorable for their bravery to have no effect in the slightest, but they were defeated one after another, and their flesh and blood were sacrificed in the way of the charge.

Yang Yanzhao frowned, turned his head and shouted at the herald, "Tell them to retreat!" "The herald immediately ordered his trumpeters to blow their trumpets, and all they heard was woo, woo, woo...... The short, coherent sound of the horn sounded loudly and sounded far away. The red-eyed soldiers of the Yan Yun Army heard such a horn sound behind them, and although they were very unhappy in their hearts, they still retreated without hesitation.

When the Western Xia army saw that the Yanyun army had retreated, they cheered, and the entire mountain range was crowded with people, with flags surging, and cheers soaring into the sky.

However, at this moment, the terrible thunderbolt-like loud bang just now suddenly rang out again, shaking the heavens and the earth. Before the soldiers of the Western Xia army on the mountain ridge could react, there were suddenly bursts of 'waves' in the crowd, and the whistling cannonballs smashed into the crowds, destroying the withered flesh and blood, and in the blink of an eye, the Western Xia soldiers suffered heavy casualties. The Western Xia soldiers came back to their senses and hurriedly scattered to dodge, shouting and shadows on the mountains were chaotic.

The artillery team bombarded a few more rounds, then stopped firing, the horn sounded loudly, and another wave of Yanyun infantry surged towards the mountain. Seeing this scene, the Western Xia army hurriedly resisted. Yan Yun's army immediately retreated when it encountered enemy resistance, and then the strong storm caused by the cannon once again blew over the mountain range, causing heavy losses to the Western Xia army. The Yanyun army repeated this, first luring out the enemy with the impact of the infantry army, and then the infantry retreated, the artillery swept away, and each round of fire attack could always cause great damage to the Western Xia army; Li Zongdao had already seen Yue Fei's intentions, but in the face of the situation in front of him, he really had no choice, he couldn't let the army hide behind when Yan Yun's army attacked the mountain!

Such a battle lasted a whole day, and at dusk, the Yanyun army stopped its attack and retreated to the barracks. Li Zongdao stood on the mountain, looking at the corpses on the mountain ridge and his eyes were full of devastation, and his brows were furrowed.

General Li Yuantong rushed over, clenched his fists with a pale face and said: "Generalissimo, our army has more than 10,000 casualties, the specific is not clear, it may be more!" ”

Li Zongdao's heart couldn't help but sink, and he muttered: "More than 10,000 people, more than 10,000 casualties in just one day!" What kind of terrible weapon did Yan Yun use? Li Yuantong's face showed a look of fear, obviously thinking of the terrifying scene when the cannon was fired, "Legend has it that when Yan Yunjun and the Jin people were fighting, they used a terrifying weapon that could shoot thunderbolts, and destroying the city wall was like destroying the withering and decaying, presumably this is the kind of thing!" I thought it was just a legend, but I didn't expect it to be true, really, really ......"

Li Zongdao saw that Li Yuantong was afraid, his heart sank, and he said lightly: "It's nothing. Seeing that the generalissimo was so calm and composed, Li Yuantong's originally panicked and frightened mood couldn't help but calm down.

Li Zongdao asked, "What about the enemy's losses?" ”

Li Yuantong shook his head, "I don't know, it's estimated that there are only two or three thousand people." Then he said worriedly: "If the enemy army makes up its mind to consume with our army, our army is afraid that it will not be able to stand it for long!" I wonder when the reinforcements will come up? Li Zongdao said: "The mobilization of all aspects will take time, and it is estimated that it will be ten days at the earliest, and the reinforcements will arrive!" Li Yuantong didn't speak, his mood was very heavy, he felt that it was not easy to resist for ten days, and suggested: "Generalissimo, can General Li Fenglong's troops be transferred?" ”

Li Zongdao shook his head and frowned: "If his troops are transferred over, the Left Wing Divine Brave Military Division and the Xiangyou Military Division will not be able to hold it even if they are afraid." If only some of them are transferred, it will not make much difference. Raising his head, he looked at the Yanyun Army camp under the mountain, frowned and muttered, "So far, maybe there is only a dangerous move!" ”

When Yan Yunjun returned to the camp, Yang Yanzhao immediately gathered all the cavalry, selected three thousand particularly sturdy war horses from them, and then gave careful orders. Three thousand horses and three thousand knights went down at once.

In the middle of the night, Li Yuanzhong and Li Feng led nearly 10,000 Xixia cavalry to quietly descend from the mountain, and at the same time, Li Zongdao led the main force to prepare for an attack on the mountain.

Li Yuanzhong and Li Feng led the war cavalry to slowly approach the Yanyun camp in the distance, and the horses picked up the bells, and nearly 10,000 horses marched quietly. At this moment, the moon suddenly hid in the clouds and came out again, and the earth flickered and darkened.

The Western Xia army approached the Yanyun camp and looked into the camp, only to see that the lights were like beans, quiet, and the entire camp was obviously asleep. Li Yuanzhong became excited, feeling that the time for revenge had finally come, and turned his head to Li Feng and whispered: "Move the rejection horse outside the gate." Li Feng answered, beckoned a dozen soldiers to rush over, and removed all the horses that were placed in front of the gate. Li Yuanzhong raised his head and waved forward, shouting loudly: "Rush with me!" Immediately rushed into the gate, nearly 10,000 Xixia warriors roared and poured into the camp with Li Yuanzhong.

As soon as the Western Xia army rushed into the camp, they crashed into the tents on all sides and wanted to kill people, but every tent was empty and there was no one in the middle, "There is no here!" "Not here!" "It's all empty!" Exclamations came and went. Li Yuanzhong realized that something was wrong, and shouted urgently: "Hurry up!" Hurry back! Before he could finish speaking, a terrifying shout suddenly sounded all around, and at the same time, countless torches poured in from all directions.

At this moment, the sound of breaking the sky sounded loudly, and the Western Xia soldiers turned on their backs. Li Yuanzhong and Li Feng shouted and led the army to break out, but they crashed into the Modao army formation. The surging momentum immediately stopped, and I saw that the rows of Mo knives were flying up and down, and the knife light was like a wall of knives! The flesh and blood of the soldiers of the Western Xia Army flew everywhere, and the screams were loud, even the heavy armored cavalry would be extremely disadvantageous when they met the Modao Army, not to mention these light cavalry with thin armor and limited weight, only the men and horses were shattered everywhere, and the blood was flying!

At the same time, the rain of arrows on both sides continued to fall, and the Western Xia cavalry did not die under the blade of Modao, but also died in the flying arrows. The screams and neighing of horses rang out, and the Western Xia army retreated for two years and could not break through at all.

Li Feng shouted, urging the horse to rush straight away, trying to break out of the encirclement, Li Tian saw this and rushed out of the oblique stab, intercepting him and fighting. Both of them used spears, roaring and fighting for more than ten rounds, Li Feng was timid, and the speed in his hands couldn't help slowing down, but Li Tian became more and more brave the more he fought, roared angrily, and stabbed his spear into his chest. Li Feng wanted to dodge and want to block, but he was at a loss for a while, only to hear a click, and saw that the spear in Li Tian's hand had pierced Li Feng's chest. Li Feng looked down at the spear that had pierced his chest with a look of great fear. Li Tian struggled to pick it up, and Li Feng flew out with a scream, falling heavily to the ground, and his limbs twitched for a while and there was no movement.

The Western Xia soldiers were already flustered, and they were even more frightened when they saw this scene.

Li Tianrui immediately shot and shouted: "Those who descend will not be killed!" Those who do not descend, kill! ”

The officers and men of the Western Xia army were in turmoil and at a loss. Seeing this scene, Li Yuanzhong sighed and muttered: "The matter has come to this, if you continue to fight, you will just lose your life in vain, what good is it?" As he spoke, he threw down the blade in his hand and fell to the ground with a choking sound.

The soldiers of the Western Xia Army, seeing that the commander threw away his weapons, naturally threw away his weapons in a hurry, and then the soldiers of the Western Xia Army dismounted and knelt on the ground. Li Tian led people to escort the soldiers of the Western Xia Army, and Xiao Feng brought people over to collect weapons and horses, these are all trophies.

Although Li Zongdao couldn't really see what happened in the Yanyun military camp on the mountain ridge, he could see countless torches suddenly appear in all directions, and Li Zongdao's heart couldn't help but sink down. Immediately a fierce exchange was heard, and it was clear that the attacking army had been encircled and fought hard. Li Yuantong on the side hurriedly said: "Generalissimo, let's go and pick them up!" Li Zongdao frowned and shook his head, the palm of the hand holding the handle of the knife turned white because of excessive force, "No, the enemy is prepared, not only will we not be able to save Yuan Zhong and them when we go down the mountain, but we will also throw ourselves into the net." Li Yuan informed that what Li Zongdao said was reasonable, and not only sighed, but this sigh contained a lot of helplessness.

After a short time, the sound of fighting stopped, and then I saw the countless torches enter the camp, and then the torches were extinguished one after another, and the Yanyun camp returned to calm, as if the fierce battle just now had not happened.

After waiting for another half an hour, seeing that no one came back, knowing that the 10,000 cavalry sent out were all finished, Li Zongdao felt so surprised that he couldn't breathe, but he couldn't show it in front of the soldiers, and in the eyes of the soldiers, he was still the cold and calm generalissimo.

Early the next morning, Yan Yun's army lined up and prepared to continue the attack on the Great Wall Ridge. At this moment, a scout galloped over, reined in his horse, and presented a small bamboo pipe, "General, urgent military situation!" "When the scouts of the Yanyun Army deliver military information in front of the army, they often do not pass it orally, but use a note to convey the message, because if there is a bad military situation, the words spoken will be heard by the surrounding soldiers immediately, but I am afraid that it will affect the morale of the army.

Yang Yanzhao took the small bamboo pipe, a small paper roll everywhere, unfolded it and looked at it, his voice did not move, and the soldiers around him saw this situation, but they didn't pay attention to it when they didn't have anything to do.

Yang Yanzhao said to the scout: "Continue to investigate and report the situation at any time!" The scout answered, turned his horse's head and galloped down. Yang Yanzhao looked at the Great Wall Ridge directly in front of him and raised his voice: "Attack!" "Boom, boom...... The roar of artillery was earth-shattering.

The soldiers of the Western Xia army on the mountain were all hiding on the back of the mountain, only to hear the crackling and rumbling sound of the whole mountain, the whole mountain seemed to be shaking, and from time to time there were cannonballs whistling over everyone's heads. Many soldiers of the Western Xia Army scolded and scolded, and some people scolded one by one from the eighth generation of the ancestors of the Yanyun Army, after yesterday's battle, the Western Xia soldiers were no longer so afraid of the artillery of the Yanyun Army.

However, Li Zongdao was still frowning, he knew that Yan Yunjun had made up his mind to use this attrition tactic against himself, if there was no way to solve it, according to yesterday's situation, he was afraid that he could only hold out for five or six days! What to do?

At this moment, the general Li Yuantong led an officer to run over with his waist bold, and said infinitely: "Generalissimo, good news, the reinforcements have arrived in Hongzhou!" "Hongzhou, located in the north of the Great Wall Ridge, next to the Great Wall Ridge, is only more than 30 miles away, and the infantry army can be arrived in a day's march.

When Li Zongdao heard the news, it was nothing less than good news from heaven, both surprising and unbelievable, because according to his previous estimate, it would take at least ten days for the reinforcements to arrive, and he was helpless for this, but he didn't expect that the reinforcements had already arrived in Hongzhou. Li Yuantong pointed to the officer beside him, "This is the messenger sent by General Li Cunxiao!" The officer immediately bowed to Li Zongdao and said, "The villain greets the generalissimo!" ”

Li Zongdao asked happily; "Is Li Cunxiao here?" The reason why Li Zongdao was so happy was because Li Cunxiao was the most talented general in Western Xia, and his arrival made him feel that he had shared the burden; Li Cunxiao was originally stationed in the Snow Mountain to guard against Tibet, but he was transferred over, which shows that Western Xia has now made up his mind to fight to the death with the Yanyun army!

The officer replied, "It's the general of the right wing." "General of the Right Chamber, this is Li Cunxiao's official position.

"How many troops are coming?"

"Back to the Generalissimo, my general has brought a total of 80,000 cavalry, all of which are elite divisions stationed in the Snow Mountain!"

Li Zongdao was overjoyed, "Great! Then he asked puzzledly: "Why is Li Cunxiao so fast?" The officer said: "As soon as the general of my family received the order of the imperial court, he realized that the situation was serious, and immediately left 20,000 soldiers and horses to garrison the snow mountain, and then led a large army to advance lightly day and night. ”

"Good! Well done! Li Xiaochun is worthy of a generation of famous generals, and Ben Shuai really didn't misunderstand him! ”

The officer continued: "My general is on his way to the Great Wall Ridge with his army! The general sent a villain to inform the generalissimo that the 'Snow Mountain Army' will arrive at the battlefield this afternoon, please don't worry about it! "Okay, okay, Li Xiaochun is here, what else do I have to worry about!"

At this moment, the deafening sound of artillery stopped, and only someone could be heard shouting: "The enemy is coming!" Li Zongdao frowned, and immediately ran towards the mountain, and the surrounding soldiers all ran towards the mountain together. Before coming to the mountain, I saw Yan Yunjun rushing towards the mountain. Li Yuantong scolded, and then shouted at the top of his voice: "Prepare!" Get ready! ”

Yan Yunjun rushed up the hillside, the Western Xia army was ready to attack, and a sergeant in charge of pushing the sagile wood slipped on his hand, and the sagile wood rumbled down. The other sergeants were startled, and their hands uncontrollably retreated. At that time, Yan Yunjun had just gone up the hillside, and it was still far away, and the rolling stone and wood couldn't get up to them at all.

There was a horn of retreat in the Yan Yun army, and the Yan Yun army, which had just run up the hillside, immediately turned around and ran back. Seeing this, the Western Xia army on the mountain immediately knew that the Yan Yun army was about to open fire, and they didn't wait for the order to turn around and run towards the back of the ridge. Almost at the same time, the cannons of the Yan Yun army let out an earth-shattering roar, and in an instant, the mountain ridge was like an explosion, and the unlucky Western Xia army was smashed to death by the whistling cannonballs.

The two sides repeated such actions, and the officers and soldiers of the Western Xia army had a feeling of numbness.

The Yanyun army began shelling again, and the Western Xia army hurriedly rushed to the back of the ridge and hid. However, at this moment, the three thousand Yanyun cavalry troops suddenly rushed out of the military formation under the leadership of the general Li Tianyan, and rushed towards the steep slope west of the Great Wall Ridge like a whirlwind. The energy and attention of the Tangut people were all attracted to the gentle slope, until the Yanyun war horse rushed up the hillside, the Xixia suddenly realized it, and then the exclamations and shouts rang out, and some Xixia soldiers hurriedly ran towards the steep slope. At this moment, the cavalry led by Li Tian rushed up the hillside and entered the Western Xia army. Li Zongdao was shocked when he saw that the Yanyun Army's war cavalry had actually broken through from the direction of the steep slope, and hurriedly mobilized the army to counterattack. Li Tianyan faced the Xixia army that rushed up desperately, shouted loudly, and led the war cavalry to rush forward and kill.

However, after all, the mountains were not conducive to cavalry charges, and soon the Yanyun army fell into a bitter battle, and the Western Xia army surrounded it one after another, as if there was no end; The Yanyun army slashed hard, and the flesh and blood of the Western Xia army flew everywhere, but one by one the soldiers of the Yanyun army were on their backs under the opponent's knife mountain and gun forest; The roars and screams rang out, although the Yan Yun Army was unstoppable, the Western Xia Army was also completely crazy!

Yang Yanzhao couldn't help but cheer when he saw that Li Tian had successfully rushed up the mountain, and then ordered Xiao Duli to lead a 5,000-foot army up the ridge from the steep slope, and he himself led the main force to attack from the barren slope.

The guards on the gentle slope only saw the Yan Yun army under the mountain surging like the tide, and they couldn't help but change color.

Yan Yunjun swarmed up the mountain, attacking with their lives under the rain of rolling stones and arrows, and there were constantly soldiers who were smashed by the rushing down stones and trees, but the other soldiers completely ignored these; The soldiers of the Western Xia army desperately pushed down the rolling stone and arrows, desperately shooting arrows, but the main force was going to counterattack the Yanyun army attacking the mountain at this moment, so that the manpower here was very tight, and the suppression was obviously not as strong as before.

After paying a great price, the Yan Yun army finally rushed to the top, and immediately waved its blade to frantically attack, although the Western Xia army fought back, they fell in a pool of blood one by one.

Yan Yun's army broke through the frontal defense line of the Great Wall Ridge, attacked the mountain ridge, and stormed the Western Xia army, which was besieging Litian. The Western Xia army was originally very crazy, but suddenly saw Yan Yun's large army coming up, and the full of fighting spirit collapsed in an instant, under the fierce attack of Yan Yun's army, it suffered heavy casualties, retreated again and again, and finally collapsed completely.

Yan Yunjun took advantage of the situation to chase down the Great Wall Ridge, seeing that the Western Xia army was panicked and running around, and there were constantly soldiers who were cut down to the ground by the Yan Yun army that was catching up, and the mountains were full of slaughter, like a huge slaughterhouse. Li Tianyan rushed to the front, frantically slashing and slashing the rout, and the corpses of his cavalry were strewn all over the field

Just as Li Tian rushed forward to chase and kill the rout, a herald caught up, drove with Li Tian, and shouted: "General Yang reminds the general that the 80,000 enemy troops under the enemy army Li Cunxiao have passed Hongzhou, don't rush deep, be cautious!" Li Tian suddenly heard the news, but he didn't feel anything, and nodded, "Got it!" Then he led his army to continue the pursuit of the enemy.

Soon after, Li Tian led more than 1,000 cavalry over a mountain ridge, and saw an enemy cavalry of more than 2,000 people approaching him. That war cavalry was obviously different from the Western Xia army that I had seen before, they were all wearing white battle robes, and they were terrifying, and they were obviously elite divisions.

Without hesitation, Li Tian led his cavalry to rush up, galloping at full speed, and the murderous aura was fully unfolded; And the white-robed Western Xia cavalry also launched a charge, and its momentum was not weaker than that of the Yanyun army, and it was indeed an elite division.

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.