Chapter two hundred and eighteen wrong speculation
With more than 300 infantrymen who had gathered in a hurry, Mie Die fought against the advancing cavalry of the opponent. Although they knew that rushing over would result in a narrow escape, the soldiers who were aroused by Mie Die's will to die were no longer afraid.
Dead. They just want to use their own flesh and blood to stop those damn cavalry and give their companions a chance to live.
Seeing that there was actually a team rushing towards the cavalry, Liu Ling's eyes froze. He raised his arm and pointed with his scimitar at the attack formation composed of several hundred people. The one hundred heavy cavalry behind him quickly followed him.
He adjusted his direction and rushed towards the person in Midian.
Using Liu Ling as an arrow, a hundred heavy cavalry formed a sharp armor-breaking cone. On Liu Ling's two wings were Zhao Er and Huasanlang. With these two taking care of his flanks, Liu Ling could do it without any scruples.
He moved forward without hesitation. Seeing that he was less than ten steps away from the opponent, Liu Ling quickly stretched out his sword horizontally, then lowered his body and lay on the back of the red lion's horse.
puff!
The shaking feeling on his arm told Liu Ling that an enemy had been cut open by him. Then the horizontal swords of Zhao Er and Hanasaburo were also covered in blood. With the impact of the cavalry, the opponent's hastily formed attack formation began.
Like water that has been divided, it is fragile.
Liu Ling had his sights set on the leader's future. He could tell from the neat armor on his body that he was a senior general and the core and soul of the team. As long as he was killed, the team would completely collapse.
Liu Ling leaned over, swung his knife, and slashed at the bamboo stack.
Mie Die, who had experienced many battles, dodged Liu Ling's blade. He counterattacked with his sword, trying to pierce the belly of Liu Ling's horse, but the sharp scimitar in Mie Die's hand scraped the red lion's heavy armor.
A flash of sparks, but it didn't hurt the red lion at all. The angered red lion neighed, turned around quickly, and kicked out its two powerful hind legs towards Mie Die's chest.
Na Zhen Jue, who rushed behind M Die, rushed forward and threw M Die to the ground. The red lion's hind legs kicked him hard. With a muffled sound, Na Zhen Jue's body fell to the ground.
Like a cannonball, he was kicked away by the red lion. Naizhenjue, who hit two Xixia soldiers, fell to the ground and broke at least five ribs. He only felt that his vision went dark and he lost consciousness. Immediately, the heavy cavalry horse
Without any surprise, they stepped on him, one horse, two horses, three horses... After the team rushed over, it was nowhere to be seen that Naizhenjue's appearance had turned into a puddle of flesh.
After being pushed down, Mie Die was not spared. As he struggled to stand up, a sharp horizontal knife swiped across his neck. Immediately, Mie Die felt that his body was much lighter.
He flew up, flying higher and higher. From a high place, he could even clearly see the Shura patterns painted on the masks of the heavy cavalry. Then he felt himself spinning in a circle in mid-air, and then he saw another headless body.
The corpse was still standing on the ground, with hot, white steaming blood spurting out from its neck. The corpse looked so familiar, but before he had time to take a closer look, his increasingly heavy eyelids had been closed and would never be opened again.
open.
The formation of more than 300 Xixia soldiers was destroyed in an instant. When the heavy cavalry went in a circle to fight back, this group of Xixia soldiers already had less than a hundred people. After being attacked by the heavy cavalry for the second time, there were nearly a hundred more people on the ground.
Liu Ling then ordered the cavalry to disperse and attack, with several people in a team freely killing the enemy. The 900 light cavalry who followed the team and rushed into the camp also began to show off their power. The heavy cavalry had already cleared the road for them.
Without the danger, the light cavalry can kill people not as slowly as the heavy cavalry.
The Shura Battalion consisted of 600 heavy cavalry and 900 light cavalry. Because the heavy cavalry was at the front when they charged into the formation, the Xixia soldiers mistakenly thought that this was a powerful team composed entirely of heavy armored cavalry. The 600 heavy cavalry were
Cavalry, this is already the limit of what Liu Ling can mobilize, and the financial resources allocated by the Ministry of War cannot support any more. Moreover, it is not easy to select 600 strong heavy cavalry.
, that pair of heavy armor weighs a full thirty kilograms!
Compared with the heavy cavalry, which is like a meat grinder, the light cavalry kills people much more easily. Like the wind, they shuttled back and forth on the battlefield, and one Xixia soldier after another was hacked to death by their horizontal knives. From the moment they rushed into the camp to
It only took forty minutes to eliminate most of the Xixia soldiers, and less than a third of the 4,000 Xixia soldiers were still alive. In addition to those who went out to kneel down and surrender, there were hundreds of people running up the mountain.
Hanasaburo led a group of light cavalry to kill them like a whirlwind. After a burst of arrows and another impact, all the Xixia soldiers who were climbing up the hill were killed. The cavalry began to clean the battlefield and drove the Xixia soldiers who had put down their weapons to gather together.
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"Your Majesty, the two cavalrymen were killed on the way. They killed a total of 3,300 enemies and captured nearly 700 people."
Hanasaburo wiped off the blood on his face and reported the statistics to Liu Ling. This time they pretended to be Khitan wolf riders and went to Xixia to train troops, and they gained a lot. They killed several Xixia border patrol teams along the way.
, robbed several relatively large villages to replenish supplies, and this time successfully destroyed a barracks of Xixia soldiers. The fruits of victory were so heavy that people were ecstatic.
"How many people did we lose?"
Liu Ling pushed up his visor, revealing his handsome face.
"I just made statistics and found that the heavy cavalry lost more than 30 people, and about 70 people were injured, but it did not affect the battle. The light cavalry lost 19, and more than 100 people were injured, but it also did not affect the battle.
The military doctors accompanying the army are bandaging their wounds. Our armor is thick, so the wounds are not big."
Liu Ling grunted and urged his horse to walk toward the prisoner.
The first reason why this battle was such a brilliant victory was because of the proper use of tactics. The fighting spirit of the Xixia soldiers was completely destroyed before the battle began, and the Xixia soldiers suffered from hunger and cold all night.
After falling asleep and getting up again, my physical strength could not cope with the fierce battle. Secondly, the equipment of the cavalry was made with almost all the efforts of the Taiyuan Prefecture. Compared with the Western Xia German army, it was too much. The weapons of the Western Xia soldiers
It was almost impossible to break through the defense of heavy cavalry, and their cavalry were all killed by the Han army in batches on the way. The chance of winning with light armored infantry against heavy armored cavalry was zero.
"What to do with the prisoners?"
Hanasaburo asked.
"Kill him. If he is left alive, he will leave evidence. We, the Han, do not have the strength to start a war with Xixia yet. We are here just for training. If we cause unnecessary trouble to the Han, the gain outweighs the gain."
Liu Ling said calmly.
He stopped in the footsteps of the red lion and stopped walking forward. He knew that his words would wipe out the lives of nearly seven hundred unarmed prisoners. His heart was not as peaceful as it seemed. As a modern man who traveled to the
In this era, he is actually not used to bloody killings. But this does not mean that he is an indecisive person. He sympathizes with the fate of those Xixia soldiers, but he is not so benevolent as to get into trouble.
Prisoners without weapons are like lambs waiting to be slaughtered. They can't resist the cavalry who are armed to the teeth even with weapons in their hands. What's more, they have laid down their weapons? Killing 700 people didn't even take a cup of tea.
The hot blood flowing out of the corpse melted a large area of snow, and the blood and snow merged together, which was shocking.
After cleaning the battlefield in the shortest time and confirming that there was no one left alive, Liu Ling ordered people to bring enough rations for the team for three days, and burned the Tiande Army's camp to the ground with a fire. The team quickly left, wearing snow-white clothes again.
The cavalrymen in robes quickly blended into the white snow, as if they had never been there before.
Two hours later, the first wave of scouts who had gone out to inquire about the Khitan Wolf Riders returned to the camp. What appeared in front of them was not the smiling faces of the robes, but a raging fire and dead bodies on the ground. The camp was burned to the ground, and the robes were
After being beheaded cleanly, the Xixia soldiers who returned to the camp were so frightened by the tragic scene that they lost consciousness and howled loudly.
Two days later, news of the Khitan wolf cavalry's sneak attack on the Tiande Army's camp reached the Xixia Army's camp on the north side of the Qilian Mountains. After receiving the news, Chen Touxian dropped the silver cup filled with steaming milk tea to the ground. After recovering,
, he left and sent a cavalry team of 5,000 people to check in the direction of the Tiande Army's station. He knew that the Khitan Wolf Cavalry did not intend to sneak attack behind him. If the Khitan had that plan, the Xixia Army would now be attacked from both sides.
It can be inferred from this that this Khitan wolf cavalry does not have many people, and it can wipe out more than 4,000 Tiande forces left in the camp in one fell swoop. Even if the opponents are all elite heavy armored cavalry, their number is only about one.
There are about 1,500 to 2,000 people, and definitely not 3,000 at most. Three thousand heavy armored cavalry are already capable of charging into the formation, and they have not launched an attack on the back of the Xixia soldiers until now.
After sending out five thousand cavalry, Chen Touxian, in the name of the marching marshal, mobilized the five thousand cavalry of the Blackwater Weifu Army who had not yet participated in the war and were stationed three hundred miles away to search for the Khitan Wolf Cavalry within a radius of five hundred miles.
trace.
News came back to the camp every day, but there was no good news.
Ten thousand cavalrymen searched like a net, but they could not find any trace of those Khitan heavy-armored wolf cavalry. Today they destroyed a village, and tomorrow they slaughtered a garrison stronghold, but they could not catch the enemy's shadow.
Moreover, the opponent's advance trajectory was very erratic, with no trace to be found at all. Based on several days of news, Chen Touxian finally concluded that this small group of Khitan wolf cavalry simply ran to the rear of the Xixia soldiers to cause trouble!
It's just that the Tiande Army is stationed almost close to the border of Han. Could it be that the Khitans borrowed the road from Han? This reasoning is not very accurate, because Chen Touxian knew that Han had secretly reached an agreement with Daxia.
In the war between Daxia and Liao, Han would never let the Liao army enter Daxia from Han territory.
Thinking of this, Chen Touxian's mind suddenly lit up!
It's Datong! It's Datong that was just designated as Xijing by Emperor Yelu Xiongji of the Liao Kingdom! A while ago, the Han Dynasty sent an envoy to report the news, saying that the Emperor of the Han Dynasty had to dedicate Datong to the Liao Dynasty due to pressure from the Liao Kingdom.
Country! Thinking of this, Chen Touxian felt annoyed. He knew the news clearly, but he didn't pay attention to it!
The damn Khitans actually spotted the strategic position of Datong and put pressure on the Han to snatch it away. Those Khitan heavy-armored cavalry must have set out from Datong, otherwise they would not have appeared at the Tiande Army's station! The situation now is very serious.
It was a crisis. If the Liao Kingdom stationed more troops in Datong, it would not just harass Daxia's rear. Maybe there would really be an army of tens of thousands or even 100,000 people coming from behind!
Thinking of this, Chen Toutian broke out in a cold sweat. He immediately sent someone to send the news and a memorial written with his own conclusions to Xingqing Mansion for 800 miles.
PS: Those who don’t give it to collectors will have to urinate on the bed in the middle of the night...Those who don’t give it to collectors after reading this sentence will have to urinate for ten years....(To be continued)
