Chapter 52 Bloodstained Uncertain River

The Gao brothers originally wanted to defeat the Song army in one fell swoop with the superiority of cavalry, but the ban on the Yanzhou generals brought endless trouble to the Tangut people. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe Gao brothers tried several times to break through the defense line of the Yanzhou soldiers, but they all ended in failure.

The Gao brothers knew that they couldn't delay any longer, because under the blow of the Song Army's divine arm crossbow, the casualties of the Tangut people were getting bigger and bigger, and the longer the time dragged on, the more unfavorable it would be to the Tangut people. So Gao Yongneng weighed the two sides, and finally decided to rely on the Iron Harrier to break through the defense of the Yanzhou soldiers.

The Iron Harrier was the most elite heavy cavalry in Western Xia, and the Gao brothers did not want to take this army into the battle as soon as they fought. Therefore, it has always been for other troops to attack, and the Iron Harrier is only pressing behind to consolidate the results of the attack.

Now, under Gao Yongneng's order, the most powerful army finally showed its fangs and pounced on the Yanzhou soldiers.

The Iron Harrier men and horses are all wearing heavy armor, and under the blow of the Song Army's divine arm crossbow, they often insert several arrows into their bodies, and still impact left and right. All the soldiers were chained to their horses, and even if someone was killed in battle, the corpse would not fall, and as the horses rushed forward, the momentum remained undiminished.

Although the Yanzhou soldiers were well-trained, they were all infantry after all, and they were quickly defeated in the face of the attack of 30,000 iron harriers. In the command of the Chinese army, he hurriedly ordered the crossbowmen to shoot the iron harrier. But the crossbowmen shot a rain of arrows one after another, looking at the enemy's heavy armored cavalry, still undiminished, everyone was shocked, and their hands couldn't help but tremble.

Gao Yong could see that under the blow of the Iron Harrier, the Song army could not resist it at all, and his heart was also proud, and he saw that the seed under the Shuai banner was not far ahead, so he ordered the Iron Harrier to take the Chinese army banner of the seed directly.

"Okay, the party members actually came directly at me. Shen Zhizhou, you are familiar with the orders of the military formation, and this army is under your command for the time being. The others will come with me and will be called Iron Harriers. "The seed was aroused, and immediately took up his weapon and rode on his war horse, and was about to kill the Tangut people.

Mao Zheng was not to be outdone, and quickly rode his war horse and attacked the army killed by Western Xia with the handsome banner of the cultivator.

When the soldiers of the Song army saw that their main generals had come to fight in person, everyone had a reassurance in their hearts, and the morale of the Song army was greatly boosted, and they all killed the most elite iron harriers of the Western Xia people.

"Kill me in the Xuanfeng battalion, so that the party members also know the strength of our Shaanxi army. Under the order of the plantation, the only cavalry unit of the Song army was finally dispatched.

Since the beginning of its establishment, the Northern Song Dynasty lacked horses, so there was a shortage of cavalry troops. Among them, the most famous is the Jingsai army, which has repeatedly performed miraculous feats in battles with the Liao army. But by the time of the Divine Sect, the Jingsai army had already existed in name only because of the lack of horses. In order to deal with the attack of the Tanguts, the Shaanxi army spent a lot of money to buy horses and select elite soldiers to form a 3,000-strong battalion.

3,000 cavalry may be very small compared with 30,000 iron harriers, but as long as they need to block the offensive of the Tanguts, the surrounding Song army soldiers can surround the enemy, as long as they can stabilize the battlefield situation, the final victory must belong to the Song army.

Under the leadership of Chong Ge, the 3,000 Xuanfeng battalion fearlessly met the most elite iron harriers of the Western Xia people. Under the resistance of the equally strong cavalry troops, the momentum of the Iron Harrier's impact was blocked at once. After the order to besiege, he took the lead and killed the handsome banner of the Tangut people, and the morale of the other Song soldiers was also stimulated, and they bravely rushed forward, and fought with the most elite troops of the Tangut people with the fighting method of exchanging lives for lives.

The Gao brothers originally wanted to defeat the Song army in one fell swoop with their cavalry superiority, so as to relieve the danger of Mizhi City. But getting caught up in today's bitter battle is not what they want to see. The Song army outnumbered them, and the Song army officers and soldiers, under the command of Chong Ge, did not shy away from life and death at all, causing great damage to the 30,000 iron harriers. After a stalemate for a long time, Gao Yongneng had the heart to retreat and hurriedly gave the order to retreat.

"The Song people's military strength is not weak, and there are many people, if you fight hard with them, it seems that you will not be able to take advantage. For the sake of today, we can only go first and backward, and then find today's account back in the next day. After Gao Yongneng finished speaking, he gave the order to retreat.

The handsome banners of the Tangut people retreated backwards, and the cavalry in the middle of the battlefield also retreated one after another, wanting to get out of the battlefield. Seeing this, he was excited, and he knew that victory was not far from him.

"The party members want to escape! Haha, since they are here this time, I can't let them escape, and the soldiers will rush me. Give the order to go down, and let the ambushers cut off their back road as soon as possible. The seed commanded.

Mao Zheng was also excited when he heard this order, this plan was dedicated to him, if he could win, he believed that it would be a great achievement.

As the agreed drum sounded, shouts of killing were also heard from the dangerous places of the mountains on both sides. The soldiers who were ambushed there in the fog, after receiving the order to attack, appeared one after another, wanting to cut off the back road of the Western Xia army.

"The enemy wants to cut us off. Don't worry about anything, rush me, you must rush out. Gao Yong was also panicked when he saw the ambushed Song army coming out, and he no longer controlled the soldiers, leading his elite personal guards, just wanting to be the first to break out of the encirclement.

Because of the failure of the attack, the Western Xia army was already demoralized, but now they found that there was an ambush in the rear, and their own commander also took the lead in escaping. Everyone panicked and ran to the rear, for fear that if they fell behind, they would be surrounded by the Song army.

Not long after, the Song soldiers who were in ambush were killed, and the Western Xia army was divided into two. Gao Yongneng, who ran out, didn't look back, and fled in a hurry with the rest of the troops.

Chong Ge was much calmer, commanding the Song army to launch an offensive against the encircled Tanguts. The Tanguts have lost their coach, and they have long been scattered. Surrounded by the Song army, almost no one could run out.

"Wudingchuan, there is no one over there!"

I don't know who shouted, and the Xixia people ran towards the direction of the Wuding River desperately.

Although it was the time of the autumn dryness, the water of the Wuding River was still very deep, and the soldiers of the Song army were still chasing and killing, and few of the Xixia people who ran to the Wuding River could run out.

"What......'s that? Wudingchuan turned red. "The soldiers defending the city of Mizhi City were terrified when they saw that the Wuding River not far away had turned scarlet, and many of them had corpses floating down.

After the victorious return of the cultivators, the people of Mizhi City went out of the city and surrendered.