() At the critical moment, Li Ningming calmed down. He quickly estimated the situation. The sudden counterattack by the Song Army seemed to be limited to harassment. Overall, only the 800 cavalry rear troops led by him were harassed.
, caught off guard, three to four hundred cavalry were caught by more than a dozen snagging ropes, and the second echelon of cavalry, the main charging force, had already rushed unimpeded to the enemy.
Li Ningming looked around and found no signs of a large number of Song Army soldiers reinforcing and encircling him. Although it seemed that the Song Army deliberately designed to induce him to enter the valley, in fact the Song Army's strength was still as many as reported in detail, and
Not increased; dozens of Song troops on the top of the cliff lit beacon fire to rescue, and at the same time pushed down huge rocks and rolling logs to block the entrance of the valley. In fact, the effect was not obvious. After some tossing, a huge hole was still left at the entrance of the valley. It could have been
The passage that allows twenty riders to enter and exit has only become a little narrower, and at least there is still a passage that can accommodate ten people walking together and is not blocked.
Li Ningming was in high spirits. He must not be frightened to run back at this time. As long as he ran, the Song army would be chasing him. The cliff mouth had become narrow, and there would be no obstruction under normal retreat conditions. But if
If they flee, this place will become a bottleneck. Perhaps this is the real purpose of the Song Army.
"A ridiculous strategy. In the face of strength, any strategy is ridiculous." Li Ningming loudly ordered: "The front team's charge will not change, and the rear team will eliminate the enemies around us!"
The cavalry immediately dispersed like skirmishers and began to chase and kill dozens of Song soldiers who were ambushing underground to pull the ropes in the valley. These Song soldiers were originally death squads and lurked in the dug sand pits just to pull the ropes.
It was just a horse rope, and then they had to rely on their own skills to escape. Under the pursuit of hundreds of horse troops, dozens of soldiers had no way to escape, so they had to rise up to resist. Unfortunately, this resistance could not change their fate, and each of them became Xixia Scimitars.
The ghosts and corpses underneath were also trampled into disarray by horse hooves.
Although Tiao Masuo's strategy cost the lives of dozens of soldiers, the rewards in exchange were huge. Nearly three hundred Xia army cavalrymen lost their combat effectiveness. At the same time, under the obstruction of Tiao Masuo, the charging team in front followed up.
There was a big disconnect in the charging team; a thousand cavalry led by Yeli Xianzong and Mu Zangming each had charged to the east end of Yingzuiya Valley. In order to prevent the Song army from shrinking into the mountain road outside the east end entrance, the Xia army cavalry
The speed has been reached to the extreme.
Di Qing stood on top of a carriage and took in everything in front of him. Seeing that the enemy had already bitten the tail of the convoy, he shouted loudly: "Master Su, your clever plan is about to come into play."
Su Jin smiled and said: "Very good, this is my first time using such a strategy, I hope it doesn't make anyone laugh."
Di Qing laughed, turned around and ordered loudly: "Light the fire!"
The third sounding arrow shot straight into the sky. The retreating Song soldiers suddenly jumped off the cart, turned the cart around and quickly lined up in a row. Then one of them shouted an order, and everyone picked up the tiles on the cart.
The can smashed into pieces in the car, and then forty or fifty carts burst into flames. The flames turned into a huge fire. It was obvious that the bottom of the cart was covered with flammable tinder.
The fire was soaked in oil, and it suddenly got out of control.
The mules and horses were frightened by the fire on the cart behind them. In addition, the soldiers of the Song Army stabbed the animals' buttocks with knives several times. The mules and horses dragged the flaming cart toward the charging Xia.
The military cavalry rushed over.
The first person to bear the brunt was not the soldiers of the Xia Army, but the dozen or so grain trucks of the Song Army that were being chased by the Xia Army. The seventy or eighty soldiers on the grain trucks suddenly became the burning people before the Xia Army. In addition, those few
There was also kerosene hidden in the cart, and the fire was so fierce that it was out of control.
Su Jin sighed with tears in his eyes. His plan was still not thorough enough. He didn't expect that the enemy pursued them so fast that they were caught up and the seventy or eighty soldiers were killed in a sea of fire. The original plan was
When everyone arrived at the fortifications at the east end of the valley mouth, the enemy troops sent out trains to attack when they charged, but they did not expect such a situation. A rough calculation showed that our side had lost more than 150 soldiers, and the opponent was currently
It is not yet known how many casualties there were.
But the scene that followed made Su Jin feel a little relieved. The burning cart collided head-on with the oncoming cavalry. The Xia army soldiers were charging so fast that they couldn't avoid it. They watched helplessly as the cavalry rushed into the sea of fire.
Suddenly, the sky was filled with wailing, and the horses and soldiers burned into fireballs kept falling to the front, turning into hot wheels rolling on the ground. The screams coming from the soul were horrifying. In an instant, the cavalry charge was blocked.
Almost all of the more than 200 Xia Army death squads who were at the head of the Xia army were wiped out.
The thousand cavalrymen led by Mu Zangming who followed closely behind were also affected. The first few rows of more than a hundred cavalrymen had no time to stop their horses, and followed the death squads and ran headlong into the fire of hell. Their skin and flesh were instantly charred and burned.
There was a beeping sound and a burning smell filled the valley.
Wu Zangming's voice was almost hoarse from shouting, and he shouted loudly: "Lance! Spear."
The soldiers were startled and quickly dropped their machetes. They hurriedly lifted the spears on their saddles and thrust them forward. Only then did they place the remaining seven or eight rolling trains four feet away from the horses' heads.
The animals in the cart were already at the end of their game, but now they finally collapsed to the ground, completing their mission.
The fire was burning in the valley, and the scorching smell was mixed with the aroma of cooked animal carcasses and the black smoke of burnt human hair and clothes. The entire east end of Yingzuo Cliff turned into a hell on earth, too miserable to behold.
The soldiers on both sides were a little confused. They never expected that such a small battle would be so tragic from the beginning. Even Di Qing, who had been in battle for a long time, was a little dazed. All he had experienced were face-to-face sword attacks.
When the sword went forward, he wouldn't even notice it if he slashed the enemy opposite him with his sword until his intestines were all covered with greenery. However, to annihilate hundreds of people in one fell swoop with the help of foreign objects and strategies, and to burn them all to black coal in front of his eyes, this scene was really real.
It shocked him.
Su Jin originally had another plan, which was a move he learned from a certain leader of later generations. When the enemy army came to cover it up, the leader opened dozens of kilometers of trenches to drain the oil.
Fill the trenches and then light fires to block the enemy's path forward; that trick is extremely effective, but it's a pity that the kerosene on hand is too little, there are only dozens of barrels of kerosene in total. It is really unrealistic to dig a trench and fill it up, and such
On the sandy ground, even thousands of barrels of kerosene would seep into the soil. As a last resort, Su Jincai had no choice but to sacrifice animals and carts and staged a train formation.
Li Ningming led his team to catch up. What he saw in front of him made his pupils shrink and his heart was filled with panic. Song Jun was indeed well prepared. All signs showed that the opponent's coach was a resourceful man. From the very beginning, he discarded food, grass, money, and money.
Cai Bao pretended to be defeated and entered the valley, and the various countermeasures he has taken so far are all a series of carefully planned strategies. He has been led by this person from the beginning. He seems to know that he urgently needs this victory.
I was sure that I would pursue him into the valley at all costs.
The current situation makes it impossible to advance. If we retreat, we will lose more than 500 cavalry and gain nothing. How will we explain it after we go back? More importantly, after experiencing this defeat, brother Li Ninglin's great victory at Qinfeng Road became even more outstanding.
He will be a loser in the eyes of his father, and the title of prince will not be with him for too long. Li Ning, who has been coveting the position of prince for a long time, will definitely take this opportunity to take away the title of prince.
In Daxia, a country where kings are successful and enemies are defeated, no one has more say than those who have made military exploits.
"Your Highness, let's retreat. It seems that the Song army has been prepared for a long time. We only lost 500 cavalry. It's not a big defeat to retreat at this time." Wu Zangming's face was covered with oil and sweat, and there were already fire bubbles in several places.
Go to Li Ningming and say.
Li Ningming sneered and cursed: "Retreat? It's a joke. This is the Song Army's trick. I lost only 500, which is less than 20%. However, the Song Army has suffered two to three hundred casualties. The opponent's total number of casualties is only more than a thousand. The casualties have reached
Thirty percent, we still don’t know who will win, so you’re telling me to retreat at this time?”
"Your Highness the Crown Prince..." Wu Zangming almost spat out a mouthful of old blood. How could he have calculated it like this? The other party suffered about two hundred casualties in exchange for the death of five hundred of his elite cavalry. With less and more, this was already a great victory.
But this confused Crown Prince actually said that the outcome was undecided.
"Your Highness, what should we do if enemy reinforcements come to cover up the attack?" Yeli Xianzong couldn't stand Li Ningming either, and his tone was not very kind.
"That's why it's necessary to fight quickly. If you don't move forward before the whole team attacks, you are wasting the opportunity. Don't say anything. Order people to clear the way forward and continue the attack as a whole team. It's against the law.
Anyone will be punished with military orders."
Wu Zangming and Yeli Xianzong looked at each other, and their hearts were cold. It seemed that the two brothers, who had experienced hundreds of battles, were going to die today in the hands of the prince who was talking about war on paper but was as stubborn as a donkey. The matter had already happened.
There is no other way but to obey the order and attack desperately in order to have a chance of survival. As for disobeying the order, that must never be done. Otherwise, even if you can return to the camp, the whole clan will be killed. It is better to fight here.
Even if he died in battle, he would at least be known as a fearless fighter.
"Complete the team! Everyone is equipped with bows and arrows and ready to charge." Wu Zangming issued a rare order to equip bows and arrows. The Xia Army cavalry has always conquered the world with a scimitar. The bows, arrows and spears among the three major components of the cavalry are actually just decorations.
, if the cavalry of the Song and Liao armies were not equipped with such weapons, the Xia army would not even bother to use them. At this moment, in desperation, these soldiers' bow and arrow skills are not high, but they hope to be able to cover the attack with arrow rain and strive to suppress the enemy.
To avoid any mishaps on the road.
The burning carts and corpses on the road were cleared away, and the thick smoke dispersed. The scene on the other side came into view. On the roof of a cart, two figures, one tall and one low, stood high. After the obstruction just now,
All the Song troops have retreated to the east end of the cliff, where dozens of large vehicles are lined up. However, the piles of them are not grain supplies or the empty kerosene trucks just now, but are filled with sand and soil.
The Song army was indeed well prepared. The dozens of carts lying in front of them were a solid sand fortification. It was obviously not easy to dig fortifications in the valley, but with these carts piled with sand, this problem became easy.
Solved easily.
The men and horses on both sides faced off quietly, no one said anything, and even the Song soldiers who were smashing rocks and rolling logs on the cliff also stopped. In the open space about two hundred paces away, the sun burned the gravel.
The brief silence made a vulture hovering on the top of the cliff mistakenly believe that there was no danger. She couldn't resist the smell of cooked human flesh and animal meat, so she swooped down from a high altitude, landed in the open area between the two armies, and began to peck at it.
Suddenly, it seemed to have a premonition of something, and it flew up with its wings. At the same time, a heart-rending cry sounded in the valley: "Kill..."
Li Ningming's sharp voice was like the last cry of a dying person, making people's skin numb and trembling all over. He took the lead and rushed out with his sword raised high. Yeli Xianzong and Mei Zangming roared in unison, swung their swords towards
The more than 2,400 remaining cavalrymen were no longer divided into any echelons or formations, but they all rolled towards the Song army on the opposite side like a huge wave.