It is said that if there are tens of thousands of people, there will be no borders. The cavalry team of more than 20,000 people, carrying the captured war horses, dispersed in a charging formation. The scene was extremely spectacular.

The knights carried their spears and their bodies rose and fell with the horses' backs. There was no fear in their eyes, but there was no determination either. Some were just numb. That was because they had killed too many people and chopped down too many livestock in the past year.

, being surrounded by blood all day long brings a disregard for the lives of others and a disregard for one's own life.

The chaotic sound of horse hooves, whose rhythm synchronized at some point, became a clatter. It shook the earth and swayed far away. In the strong wind and the setting sun like blood, a long black shadow with no visible boundaries appeared.

The horizon came into view of the Xixia defenders who were forming formation outside the city. They stopped five miles away, and a murderous atmosphere rose.

Not long after the Fubei Army marched eastward, Xixia's scouts had already received the news. No one thought that this army would really attack Xingqing Mansion, but at this time, with a large encirclement of dozens of kilometers, it was already too late to come over.

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Looking at the cavalry arrayed in the distance and the infantry at least 50,000 people nearby, Wang Yan was not surprised why the front line was being beaten so hard and there were so many troops here.

Because this is easy to understand, he basically drove most of the people to the big cities in the south. In Xixia, all the people were in the army. At this critical time of life and death, they had to go to war even if they didn't have enough to eat. So the men of Xixia, ten

Most of the people who are many years old have gone to the battlefield. Moreover, the troops and horses facing the Liao Kingdom in the east have also been transferred to the south. This is to unleash all the war potential to resist this disaster. Therefore, there is no shortage of soldiers, but their quality has been reduced.

On the other hand, the Song Dynasty did not have cavalry troops, but the only elite unit that had become an organized unit was the Northern Army. If the Northern Army could be completely wiped out, it would not only improve the morale of the Song Dynasty, but also affect the Song Dynasty's morale.

Weakened. After all, if you let go of the Fubei Army, go out to rest, and then go back to the frontal battlefield, it is definitely not a joke. So this time it is serious. If the national destiny is put on the table, Xixia would rather give up the front line.

Even if a part of the battlefield is retreated, troops must be mobilized to completely destroy the Northern Army. This is called saving people and losing land, but both people and land are saved.

Therefore, if the Fubei Army is destroyed in this battle, then Xixia will have room for relaxation and can still struggle for a while. If it cannot be destroyed, then Xixia will be finished this time.

This is the largest team battle since the birth of the Fubei Army. In the past, when they encountered such a lineup, they would just run away and never challenge them head-on. But now it can’t be done anymore. The rear has been cut off and there is no place to run. If you trip the horse rope,

Traps, there is a high probability that there is no time to arrange these things. Of course, even if they are arranged, there is no other way but to rush. In a truly tough battle, if the Return of the North Army can survive a few thousand people in the end, with these people as the foundation, the Return of the North Army can be regarded as

It became the absolute number one light cavalry unit in the world.

As for saying that the whole army was wiped out, that is just an adjective. If Xixia wanted to kill everyone without leaving a single person, Xixia could not do it, and some of the troops fled. Anyway, he could not die, but it would be difficult to deal with Zhao Ji when he returned.

"Instructions are sent to each wing to send two armies of 5,000 men and horses to respond to the attack. The rest of the troops will be the vanguard and form the front line."

As his voice fell, the generals around him waved flags to convey the message. Soon, as the flags were passed, five thousand people were divided into two sides of the military formation. After a brief confusion, they quickly formed a formation for charging.

, attacked one after another.

The flanks need to take a detour, run far away, and mainly attack the infantry on the flanks, divide the battlefield, and destroy the enemy's formation. Wang Yan looked at the smoke and dust on the left and right, and said without looking back: "This battle is difficult to win.

You two must follow closely. If you fall off your horse, you will either be trampled to death by the enemy or by your own people."

He told the two supervisors behind him that the safest position in the entire military formation was behind him. After all, he was slashing in front, and there were gaps in the military formation, so there was always a vacuum behind him.

It is the key to the survival of the two supervisors until now.

After hearing Wang Yan's words, the two of them responded, holding the saber in one hand and holding the reins tightly with the other. Their buttocks were twisted back and forth on the saddle, and their feet were firmly pushed into the stirrups. They could not see the pressure on their heads.

The enemy troops are numb to anyone who looks at them.

Seeing the opponent changing formation and starting to fire arrows, but the cavalry in the middle did not move, Wang Yan casually pinned Ma Shuo horizontally in the groove on the saddle, then picked up the tied bow and took three arrows in his hand.

Following his movements, the cavalry behind him followed suit, all unified.

When the intensive clattering behind him stopped, Wang Yan let out a haha, rushed out of the formation with his legs sandwiched between the horse's belly, and began to speed up. The soldiers at the rear followed tacitly, and at the same time they drew their bows and nocked arrows, and began to fire according to the calculation in their hearts.

At a distance of five miles, there were soldiers coming from the opposite side, and the three rounds of arrows were almost perfect. Of course, the opposite side was also firing arrows, and it was all mutual. Some of the unlucky ones were shot by horses, and the unlucky ones were shot by people. They all died differently.

Law. Fortunately, the battle formation is reasonable and will not let one horse fall and delay the situation of the people behind. You can change positions.

Staring at the arrows, he rushed forward. After firing three arrows in a row, Wang Yan bent down calmly, clipped the bow in place to prevent it from falling off, and then picked up the eight-foot-tall Ma Shuo lying on the horse's back, tucked it under his arm, and slightly moved his body.

Fu, he slammed into the oncoming enemy troops.

In this era, the first cavalry leader was of course a fierce general. Just like the left and right wings he had just sent, one leader was Lu Junyi and the other was Dong Ping. They were not fierce and did not have the indomitable momentum to be the vanguard. They were generals.

Wang Yan was not interested in knowing who the oncoming opponent was. He just looked at the opponent from a distance. Both sides had a tacit understanding of holding weapons and adjusting their angles as their bodies rose and fell. This was a mental battle, and there was only one chance.

Psychological warfare. Look at predictions and courage. Whoever loses will die. But the enemy general may be disappointed, because he is always the one who wins.

Before the battle, the enemy general was still changing the trajectory of his spear, trying to confuse his judgment. It might be useful to others, but it was useless to Wang Yanjifei. I saw him swinging Ma Shuo in a wide range, and in the enemy general's disbelief eyes, he pushed aside the

He kept shaking the scheming spear tip, and then pierced his stomach directly. The armor was of good quality. Although it broke the defense, it only penetrated the general a little. The enemy general gave up his attack after suffering the pain.

Weapon, hold the gun head with both hands and plunge it into your stomach.

At this time, he was already flying in the air...

The principle of leverage is there. It's awesome to be able to hold a weapon over four meters long under your arm with your arm, let alone move it in a wide range like him. Although there are many people who can do it, after all

It's a battle, not just a single one, so it's a great test for the reasonable distribution of physical strength. It's rare for Xiang Wang Yan to be so fierce, and it's so easy and carefree, so powerful and fast, that he's caught off guard.

Wang Yan didn't stop at all. He used the impact force and his own strength to lead the enemy's body and hit the soldier who was following behind him. He directly hit the soldier and fell off his horse. Without waiting for him to think about anything else, he followed

The men behind Wang Yan followed the horse, nailed the horse's foot with a shoe, and stepped on the horse's face with a click...

Picking, poking, and poking, he does not need to kill all the enemies in front of him. In fact, as long as he destroys the balance of the enemy, the men following him will naturally hack him to death before the enemy soldiers recover. He is very efficient.

High, like a real arrow, it sweeps away the enemies in front of it.

The confrontation of thousands of cavalry only took a moment. Soon, Wang Yan penetrated the enemy army, but he did not stop because there were infantrymen holding shields and spears behind him.

Wang Yan was not afraid. He directly threw the Ma Shuo in his hand with great force, penetrating the shield and pinning the soldier behind it to the ground. His horse was not afraid, and jumped up high, and the horse's hooves stepped hard on the shield.

Above that, the cold light of the spear is not something to be afraid of. This is because most of their war horses are covered with a layer of light armor on their fronts, just to avoid being damaged by head-on collisions.

He picked up Ma Shuo who was nailed to the ground, held it with both hands and smashed it hard on the head of the enemy soldier. Long weapons, although difficult to use at this time, are undeniably more powerful. He was playing

An expert with a gun will basically not hit anything else, either hitting the head, picking on the head, or stabbing the head. To deal with such small infantry, shoot them one at a time.

Even the two supervisors who followed closely behind him held their sabers at an angle to see who would back them. Neither of them could move, so they used the speed of the horse to thrust the sword outwards and stabbed the saber.

With its sharp edge and speed, these soldiers can basically form a row with one stroke. This is the advantage of cavalry over infantry.

At this point, Wang Yan has understood that Xixia is going to be gone. Although this is the first time for such a large-scale team battle, he can also see the quality of the soldiers. The combat effectiveness of the troops fighting them now, whether cavalry or infantry, is

Neither of them were very good. He could see that the old was bringing in the new, but the old was bringing too much new, which was the crux of the problem. From this, Xixia was at the end of its rope.

Of course, maybe their real elites are intercepting him from behind. After all, there are four directions to go, true and false, false and true. Just like he doesn't know where the way out is, the enemy doesn't know where he will go.

Go, let alone think of him going to the most difficult place.

Now it seems that he is lucky.

As the killing progressed like cutting leeks, the troops from both wings finally came in from the side, and then without any orders, they made a U-turn without saying a word and continued to slaughter in the newly divided battlefield.

It was also at this time that Xixia's army began to collapse.

People had their own judgments about the battlefield situation. Seeing Wang Yan leading the team to kill the cavalry troops, like a tiger entering a herd of sheep, he swung the horse shuo, and some people even swung it on their backs. So many people died.

People, even the Northern Army's horses couldn't slow down, and they were about to be killed. How could they fight? Why not just run and wait to be picked up to the sky?

Therefore, the people behind the military formation became more and more frightened as they watched. They did not dare to move forward with their swords. They did not want to die, so the only way was to turn around and run away.

There are war supervisors at the rear. They also know that this group of soldiers is not good and that their opponents are strong, so they conscientiously perform their duties and kill those who run away when they see them.

It did frighten some people at first, but seeing Wang Yan and his men getting closer and closer, more and more people were frightened. Naturally, they broke through the supervising team and started running towards the city gate. More and more people were scared.

The large number of defeated troops drove more and more people to flee, and of course the whole army was defeated.

Instead of pursuing them to the city walls as a target, Wang Yan led his troops in a wide swoop, killing a bunch of fleeing soldiers, and then asked his men to wave flags and pass orders, turn their horses and go directly south.

The cavalry behind them were ignored. There were still many soldiers and horses behind them. They couldn't attack the city now, so there was no need to fight. It was just right to run away quickly.

The situation now is much better than he imagined. The Xixia soldiers' combat effectiveness is too poor, and they were forming formations when they first arrived, which shows that they were not fully prepared. In this case, there is no need to go north and go back in a big circle to take advantage of them when they are not prepared.

, and then stabbing it out from behind is the best option.

The Xixia cavalry was almost half damaged in the confrontation just now, and the remaining ones did not dare to continue the pursuit. So Wang Yan led the Fubei army and horses, no matter how dark it was, straight to Jingjing not far away.

Go to the state.

The last time he communicated with Yang Jian was a month ago. Xixia has such an arrangement today. The battlefield ahead must have changed a lot. He doesn't know these things. What he told Yang Jian was just the grand strategy, which place to take, and how to force the enemy step by step.

Xixia, etc., other than that, how many troops there are and how to deploy them is not his business, it will be supplemented by those generals.

Yang Jian knew nothing. All he could do was nod in agreement and endorse the actions of his generals. At the same time, he struggled with logistics to prevent the civil and military officials behind from being too greedy and to ensure the supplies of the army. Only doing these two things, Yang Jian

He is already a qualified commander, and he can run through eight streets.

Tong Guan was too greedy. As the head coach, no matter how he fought, as long as he won, he would get the credit. But Tong Guan was shameless and wanted to take credit from his subordinates. He wanted to let his cronies rise to the top. He was unsatisfied.

After searching for a way all night, Wang Yan, who only crossed the river the next morning, arrived outside Jingzhou City and discovered that the Song Dynasty army had already arrived in Jingzhou and camped thirty miles away to rest, and Yang Jian and Zhong Shidao were both here.

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When they heard that a large group of cavalry was invading, they were naturally on guard. However, after Wang Yan took out his Wangzi general and tied the Fubei army flag to his spear, the misunderstanding was avoided and no one started fighting.

"Prince-in-law, you are back in full swing. You don't know that over the past year, the official family has been asking questions every three days, and Chang Diji's letters have also been sent to us one by one.

, are all worried about you."

Yang Jian was very enthusiastic and personally led Wang Yan's horse, and his enthusiasm was beyond words. First, he took Wang Yan's money. Second, anyone who understood could see that Xixia would be destroyed this time, and he was the commander-in-chief.

When this battle is over, Tong Guan will be in trouble. This is his great benefactor, and he must serve him well.

Next to him was the seventy-year-old Zhongshi Dao. Looking at Yang Jian's licking style, and comparing it with the way he used to be humble to himself in the past, but in fact he was condescending, he couldn't help but secretly sigh, this damn thing has to be reduced to one thing.

However, he has no objection to Yang Jian. After all, he has cooperated with Tong Guan. In comparison, Yang Jian is quite serious and never acts blindly, which saves him too much worry.

Wang Yan waved his hand: "Okay, let's make some arrangements so that the soldiers of the Northern Army can settle down, boil water for bathing, and serve them with good wine and food."
To be continued...