Seeing the second son being tied up with iron chains and leather ropes, like dogs, and being dragged by several Chushan warriors in front of the formation, Master Cao's eyes widened with blood, and they were about to burst, and the anger in his chest was about to destroy him.
His sanity was blown away.
He breathed heavily, knowing that he was impatient at this time and could not be fooled by the place where he was about to die.
He suppressed his anger for a long time. After a while, Cao Shixiong released his hand that had been holding the handle of the knife. He wanted to draw the knife and chop it with his hand. He grabbed the riding whip and "snapped, hit, hit" the shields held by several generals who were so angry that they were about to move.
superior:
"This is Xu Huai's dog thief's treacherous plan. All generals and soldiers, please do not think of my son. Hold your ground! Hold your ground! The dog thief is so despicable and bullies my little son. It is really a trick of Guizhou's donkey. Don't fall for it!"
Cao Shixiong roared loudly, galloped his horse among the many infantry formations, whipped the shields held by the soldiers, and ordered the generals who were once again commotion to calm down.
"Jie Shuai!" Zhou Huan roared angrily.
"Shut up!" Cao Shixiong scolded angrily, "Xuanwu, Xuanxing is my second son, doesn't my heart hurt? But the generals who are fighting in formation by the Fenshui River today are your sons and nephews. What do you think?
Leading them to victory or defeat. Xu Huai, the dog thief, has such a cunning plan, which makes you and I impatient. How can we not deal with so many brothers and nephews? "
The veins on Cao Shixiong's neck popped out one by one, squirming like earthworms, and he was breathing heavily.
Zhou Huan held an iron halberd and stabbed the ground fiercely.
Cao Shixiong was able to contain his anger and avoid Xu Huai's trap, but not everyone was as hard-hearted as him. At the same time, he could only calm down the temper of the generals around him.
There were too few cavalry guards around Cao Shixiong, and they were not even enough to deliver military orders.
More than 4,000 infantrymen were arranged in several formations, spread out along the bank of Fenshui River for more than three miles in depth.
Although it has been snowing for days, the Fenshui River has not been completely frozen.
The river flowed gurglingly, and only the shallow water near the shore and the slow-flowing bay branches were covered with thin ice. The north wind was howling; Cao Shixiong's shouting at the top of his lungs could only be heard by hundreds of people around him.
The generals of the Qingshun Army further away looked at Cao Shixiong's two sons, who were like dogs, with ropes around their necks, and their hands were held by several Chushan generals on the edge of the battlefield. They fell down from time to time, and were pulled up again.
Or dragging them directly on the muddy ground, wailing constantly. Some people are angry, some are frightened, some are impatient, some are anxious and uneasy...
Whether he was guarding Shuozhou for the Khitan, or annexing Dayue to the south to lead Tianxiong's army, or rebelling against the Chihu people in Xianlanzhou, the size of the troops under Cao Shixiong's control increased, but the elite combat power of his direct lineage had always been
Being bled.
During the first northern expedition against Yan, the most elite 3,000 soldiers and horses of the Han army in Shuozhou, led by Cao Shili and Meng Ping, followed the Tianxiong army to raid Datong. In the end, less than one-tenth of the number returned.
When the Chihu people invaded the south for the first time, Cao Shi led his troops south to attack the city and take out the stronghold. His 4,000 direct troops were defeated in Gong County, and less than half of them returned to Lanzhou.
And after finally gathering up four to five thousand cavalry, they were led by Meng Ping and Cao Cheng and went south again with the Red Husbands. The last few elite cavalrymen in the governor's office were all destroyed in Zhufeng Gorge yesterday.
In the Tao.
The Qing Shun Army still has 14,000 to 5,000 troops in Lanzhou. Yesterday, they mobilized thousands of soldiers from military households to climb the city wall to help defend the city. However, these soldiers were all from Shuozhou Han people and Lanzhou Fanhu in the past year or two.
In Zhongxinzheng, most people have not even had the chance to go to the battlefield.
Now they are required to face the pressure of the cavalry on the flanks, face Xu Huai's repeated provocations in front of the formation with such "despicable" methods, and still want to defend the formation tightly without revealing any flaws, how is it possible?
The most critical thing is that Lanzhou has lost its last elite cavalry.
They simply could not stop the Chushan Cavalry from approaching the flanks from all angles and harassing them continuously.
Groups of Chushan Cavalry, numbering from ten to dozens of people, quickly approached the front of the formation from an oblique direction without stopping. They closed the distance with the enemy soldiers to the shooting range of their bows and crossbows.
He galloped and shot, then galloped diagonally to the other side.
Wave after wave of rapid fire shots continuously harass the enemy's positions.
Of course, the generals of the Qing Shun Army could hold crossbows and stand behind the cover of the shield formation to counterattack; the range of the infantry bow was longer than that of the cavalry bow.
However, in addition to Chushan's cavalry galloping and shooting, riding quickly in front of the formation without giving them a chance to take aim, the most important thing for the Qing Shun army's generals was the serious lack of elite shooters.
Lanzhou Fanhu have a tough folk custom, but Ge Boyi ruled Hedong and imposed strict restrictions on border province Fanhu, so few people have the opportunity to touch bows and crossbows; even if they do, not many are good at riding and archery.
Incorporated into the cavalry.
The Fan people of Lanzhou and the Fan people who are attached to the Khitan and Chihu people and still maintain their nomadic tradition are two different concepts.
The Han people in Shuozhou were young and strong, and there were not many who were good at riding and shooting. Some of them were old soldiers of the Han army in Shuozhou, and by this time they were almost completely worn out.
Chushan Cavalry fired a round, and the enemy soldiers were blocked by shields in front of the formation. It was impossible to achieve significant results, but they shot and injured three or five people at every turn, which had a huge impact on the morale of the enemy soldiers; the flank array also needed to be tense at all times.
I don't dare to relax even a little bit, and the physical exertion in the cold wind is also huge.
After more than ten rounds of galloping shooting, Pan Chenghu, Yin Peng and the others then organized elite archers on the flanks to gallop to the front of the formation and shoot at the enemy formation with walking bows. They organized small-scale armored cavalry to continuously try to attack the enemy formation, and then retreated when encountering slight resistance.
Never entangle, bleed the enemy's blood bit by bit, and attack their positions bit by bit...
Time passed little by little, but Cao Shixiong also saw that the flanks were being shaken little by little under the shallow attack of Chushan Cavalry. It was absolutely impossible to stay safe and sound until dark, so he had to take advantage of the advantage he still had in terms of strength.
Take the initiative to launch an attack.
The valley on the west bank of the Fen River in front of Lanzhou City is not wide, and the Qingshun Army still has an absolute advantage in strength. They only need to expel the Chushan Cavalry from the narrow valley on the west bank of the Fen River and drive them into the relatively narrow valley on the west side, restricting them.
The Chushan Cavalry can continue to launch attacks, so the Qing Shun Army can hold on longer.
However, in order for the Qing Shun Army to achieve this goal, they had to first defeat the Qin Feng infantry led by Zheng Jinqing, Xiao Yanhan, and the captured Tianxiong Army led by Chen Zixiao, who had entered the hinterland of the river valley and formed a formation.
Seeing that the Qing Shun Army finally couldn't hold back anymore and forced two groups of infantry to advance in formation, Xiao Yanhan's face was hidden in the Nuo God's mask, and her eyes showed a strangely excited look.
Seeing the front formation of the Qing Shun Army in the southwest of the river, they slowly rushed towards Zheng Jinqing and Xiao Yanhan's troops. The Chushan Cavalry occupying the low ridges and hills on the west side of the river valley even more intensively attacked the Qing Shun Army to the west.
Attack of the Wings.
Xu Huai, Wang Ju and others have not moved yet. Tang Pan, Wu Chihai, Shi Hu, Wang Zhang, Fan Zongqi and others led five hundred white-robed warriors and stood quietly behind them. They were waiting for Qingshun.
After the soldiers and horses in the front of the army engaged Zheng Jinqing and Xiao Yanhan's troops, they created a larger gap with the enemy in the rear.
The west wing of the Qing Shun Army was constantly being attacked. In order to stabilize the flank position, Cao Shixiong could only continue to send elite troops around him to strengthen and replace the troops with stronger combat effectiveness to the west wing.
However, Cao Shixiong had too few elites at his disposal. He had so few that he struggled with them for more than an hour. His heart was filled with panic. He could not control the trembling of the new generals even with their swords, bows, shields and crossbows.
Xu Huai now needs to find an opening, go directly into its heart, defeat it without any resistance, and break up its formation from the center in one fell swoop, in order to end this battle as quickly as possible with the lowest casualties.
"Woooooooo..."
The horn of the decisive battle finally sounded, like a low eagle roaring in the sky.
The wind blowing over the rocks and broken trees seemed to have stopped at this moment. Pan Chenghu and Yin Peng heard the order and rushed out first. Each led 300 cavalry to launch a general attack on the west flank of the enemy formation. After that, Xu Huai and Wang Ju personally led 500 white-robed war cavalry like milky white.
The torrent swept towards the foot of the pingan, like a sharp and lightning-fast sword, cutting into the enemy's center and front, which may be only fifty or sixty paces wide.
No one fired a bow or arrow. Everyone lowered their bodies as low as possible and covered their faces with their armor to avoid arrows that were shot head-on or diagonally.
Dozens of Qingshun generals rushed over to seal the gap. However, the sharp spear blades slashed at the thrusting spear shafts, and the sharp spears stabbed the chests and abdomen of the enemy soldiers. The neighing horses stood up.
He stood up, raised his front hooves and stepped on the shield like a heavy hammer...
The enemy soldiers who came in a hurry were not enough to see. Xu Huai was like a hungry ghost at this moment. How could his weak hands and thin skirt cover his tempting breasts?
Rip it apart ruthlessly, tear it apart violently.
Seeing hundreds of white-robed cavalry stabbing into the heart of the Qingshun army's infantry formation like plowing through holes, Meng Jian, who stood nervously at the top of the city and watched, almost suffocated at this moment.
In this diagonal direction, almost no one could stand up to block the incoming white-robed cavalry, and those who hurriedly stepped forward to intercept almost all collapsed at the first touch.
Meng Jian watched helplessly as heads were chopped off one after another, and bodies were pierced and stabbed through. It seemed that he could see the blood pouring out of their bodies, being ruthlessly cut like wheat.
Too much attention was drawn to the west wing, and almost all the veterans who were capable of fighting were deployed on the west wing to resist the attack.
There was a gap in the southwest corner, and the white-robed cavalry poked in, causing him to convulse almost at that moment.
There were no extra reserve elites to restrict the white-robed warriors from penetrating in from the flanks, and all frontal interceptions were ruthlessly chopped and destroyed almost immediately.
What else could Meng Jian do besides closing his eyes in despair?
All mistakes are made by them.
The Prince of Zhennan Zong originally planned to keep all the Qingshun troops in Lanzhou to prevent changes in the flanks, but everyone in Lanzhou disagreed with this arrangement, thinking it was too reserved, and thought that the threat from Fuzhou and Xishan would not be great.
Of course, the more important thing is that they expected that they would capture Bianliang this time. In addition to military exploits, there were also countless gold and silver treasures and beautiful women waiting for them to plunder.
Why are they willing to stay in Lanzhou?
Even if Fuzhou is left to them to attack in the future, how many good goods and good women are there in the impoverished Fuzhou that are worth their plundering?
