Chapter 298: Defeat the Xixia Iron Kites Army (End)
As soon as the horn of the Xia army was sounded, all the soldiers in Richard's army immediately followed the pre-arranged arrangements, and all teams cooperated and moved upon hearing the sound of the horn.
The King of Jin, Richard Brother, was riding on a war horse and was sitting in the army. He ordered Cang Lang to lead the ninth team and most of the tenth team's iron kite troops, totaling 500 horses, and lead 3,000 Jingzhou troops to charge head-on.
Song Ying.
Brother Richard only left a part of the tenth team of the Iron Kites, a total of one hundred riders, to protect him.
The sound of the Xia Army's horns signified the issuance of the general attack order arranged by Brother Richard in advance.
After hearing the sound of horns, Meileqimo led the left-wing iron kite army of 1,200 riders, charged at full speed, and struck diagonally towards the right side of the Song army's camp.
Wanderer Mi led the right-wing iron kite army with 1,200 cavalry, and also charged at full speed, cutting diagonally towards the right side of the Song army's camp.
"Come on!"
"Kill..."
At the same time, the east city gate of Xiping Mansion opened wide, and a group of 2,000 Xijing cavalry infantry came out. The front group was led by 500 cavalry, and the rear group was followed by 1,500 infantry.
The morale of the Xia army that left Xijing City was high. After they learned that the first god of war in Xixia Kingdom, Jin King Richard Brother, was the commander, he had brought Xixia's most powerful 3,000 iron kite troops and 5,000 Jingzhou soldiers to reinforce them.
When they raided and annihilated the Song army camp outside the east city of Xijing tonight, they seemed to have seen the scene of them receiving the reward after winning the battle tonight.
"Whoever kills the most heads of the Song army generals will be heavily rewarded!"
"Rush..."
"Kill..."
The soldiers and generals of the four Western Xia armies rushed towards the Song army camp, shouting and shouting, almost forming a siege.
Brother Richard, the king of Jin, who was protected by an army of hundreds of iron kites, sat on a war horse and supervised the battle from the front. His angular face showed a proud smile of victory, and the three-inch short beard on his chin curled up with his smile.
Woke up.
At this time, on the main road inside the Song Army camp, the commander Han Shizhong, who was riding on a war horse, heard the enemy's horn horns and the enemy's shouts of killing from four directions outside the camp. He did not panic at all, but instead
His resolute face showed his confidence that he would win this battle.
Part of coach Han Shizong's confidence comes from the fact that he and Yue Fei planned out in advance how to deal with the enemy's night attack;
Another factor comes from his many years of victorious experience on the battlefield, and the ten thousand elite soldiers he trained after receiving the orders of Zhao Guanjia, one against five;
The confidence in the final eight points came from the correct strategy of "raiding Xixia Zhengqi Xiangyi" formulated by the Zhao Guan family, as well as the large amount of gunpowder weapons given to them.
Han Shizhong was willing to use himself as bait, and he must catch the most powerful iron kite army commanded by Li Chage, the Jin king of Xixia Kingdom.
Now that the big fish has bitten the hook, it just depends on whether an elite army commanded by Han Shizhong and Yue Fei can successfully walk the fish, and then successfully lift the net to get the big fish ashore and pocket it.
Han Shizhong was riding majesticly on a war horse, pointing his spear at the night sky, and issued military orders:
"Thunder rings and war drums sound, and smoke rises."
"Follow the order!"
The eight war drums beside the main road of the Song Army's camp sounded in unison. Beside the giant firewood that had been piled on the mound more than ten feet high, the soldiers moved upon hearing the order and immediately lit the dry firewood. After a while,
The entire huge pile of firewood burst into flames, and a large amount of wet firewood and wolf dung mixed in it also burned, raising a large amount of thick smoke.
The sound of war drums and the sound of smoke were the signals that Han Shizhong and Yue Fei had planned in advance to launch a counterattack against the enemy.
Brother Richard, who was supervising the battle on the frontal battlefield outside the Song Camp, saw the fire in the center of the Song Camp and the thick smoke rising. He curled his lips and said with a smile:
"Haha! Song Jun is at his wits end!"
"I, led by the Iron Kites, suddenly attacked at night. Song Jun, you have already violated the taboo of going deep alone. Now you raise the smoke and ask for help. Who can come in time to save you?!"
"The Iron Harriers under my command will surely defeat the Song camp with just one charge!"
Brother Richard said confidently, and Tu Lunxia, the iron kite general who was riding on a war horse and responsible for the defense, flattered and praised:
"Goodbye, King Jin! Tonight, the commander of the Song army in this battalion will definitely become the second Song general Liu Fa to die at the hands of the king!"
"Hahaha..." Brother Richard laughed arrogantly and said:
"The commanders and generals of this Song army are all nameless men. How dare they be compared with Liu Fa, the natural war god of the Song Dynasty who died in my hands before?!"
Turunxia showed an even more admiring expression and said hurriedly:
"Yes, yes, yes! What the king said is absolutely true. The little one has learned a lesson!"
The King of Jin, Richard, was confident and even more arrogant. He drew out his machete and pointed it in the direction of Song Ying, shouting loudly in Dangxiang dialect:
"Send the order to all ministries and attack with the whole army."
"After breaking the Song camp, we first pretended to appease the Song soldiers and generals who asked to surrender, promising high-ranking officials generous salaries to induce them to put down their weapons. After they became our prisoners, our soldiers will kill them all. This is
After our army's great victory, not a single Song person was left alive!
Humph! I want the people of Song Dynasty to know: Anyone who offends our Daxia will be killed!"
"Follow the order!"
After Brother Richard's military order was issued, the Xia army's offensive became even more fierce...
At this time, on a hillside two miles away from Richard's headquarters, Yue Fei led 3,000 elite Song troops, who had been in ambush for a long time.
When Yue Fei saw the fire and smoke rising from the mound in Han Shizhong's camp, he knew that the Xia army was attacking the Song camp in a large scale and that they had fallen into a trap.
This was the best time for him and Han Shizhong to plan a counterattack to kill Richard's army.
In order to boost morale, Yue Fei pointed his spear at the foot of the mountain, where Brother Richard was attacking Song Ying, and said loudly:
"I predict that Brother Richard, the King of the Jin Dynasty of Western Xia, will be among them. The plan that General Han and I decided to lure the enemy to attack has come to fruition. The Xia army will be defeated in this battle!
You follow me and attack the main force of the Xia army. If we are surprised, we will win this battle!
Pass on my military order: Those who dare to kill the enemy will be rewarded, and those who shrink from the battle will be killed! Charge!"
Yue Fei took the lead, leading three thousand elite troops down the hillside, like tigers descending from the mountain, and went straight to the rear of Richard's troops to kill...
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! At the same time, the 1,200 left-wing iron kite troops led by Meileqimo rushed towards the right side of the Song camp under Han Shizhong;
The 1,200 right-wing iron kite troops led by Wanderer Mi led them to attack the left side of the Song camp;
The Xia army that came out of Xijing City also fought bravely in front of the Song camp...
Watch Cang Lang lead the Iron Harrier Army's 500 cavalry and Jingzhou's 3,000 soldiers and horses to attack the rear of the Song camp.
The Xia army divided into four groups and launched an almost encirclement-like general attack from the four directions of the Song camp where Han Shizhong was stationed: the southeast, northwest and northwest...
At the beginning, the Xia army's four-pronged attack went very smoothly. Their front cavalry did not encounter fierce resistance from the Song army, and smoothly charged into the Song camp's outpost.
Just when the four generals including Meileqimo and Langzhemi thought that they would attack the Song army tonight with Jin King Richard's night attack, they would definitely win a crushing victory with an absolute superiority of troops;
Little did they know that Han Shizhong and Yue Fei had devised a plan to first give up the Song camp's outpost positions in order to lure the enemy in. The Song camp's several-mile radius and outpost positions in four directions had already been measured by the Song army.
Best range for long range attacks.
Suddenly, hundreds of large rocks flew out of the Song army formation, which seemed to be retreating and shrinking back to the center of the Song camp.
Stones weighing dozens of kilograms were fired by hundreds of trebuchets that Han Shizhong had his soldiers prepare.
"Whirring whirring……"
"Whirring whirring……"
The dense rocks that roared down from the sky instantly killed and injured about 400 Xia troops who were besieging them from four directions.
After all the four armies of Xixia suffered this attack, the morale of the Xia armies did not decline. On the one hand, because the generals of the Xia armies were supervising the battle behind them, those who retreated without listening to the call to withdraw their troops would be killed;
On the other hand, most of these Xixia soldiers were veterans who had fought against the Song army. They had seen the Song army's trebuchets on the battlefield, and they were not too afraid.
They knew that the damage caused by the large stones thrown by the trebuchet was random, and they were unlikely to be unlucky enough to be hit by stones falling from the sky.
Moreover, they knew that after the first round of trebuchets was fired, they had to use a winch to pull the long arm back to an almost horizontal position, then reload the ammunition before firing, which was very time-consuming.
The Xixia soldiers and generals all realized that as long as they survived the first round of stone cannons from the Song army and rushed at the speed of their front cavalry until they were 180 steps away from the temporary formation in the Song camp, their front cavalry would
While riding the horse forward, they fired several volleys of bows and arrows at the same time. After seriously injuring the Song army, they then charged forward and were able to crush the Song camp and achieve a great victory.
Although the Song Army's stone cannons were the first to defeat the Xia Army, the Xia Army's morale was still strong and their fighting spirit was still strong.
The generals and squad leaders of the Xixia Army shouted party language with almost the same meaning in order to boost their morale:
"Taking advantage of the Song army's opportunity to reload stone bullets, our army quickly rushed into the enemy's formation, causing them to lose their advantage..."
"Come on!"
"Kill..."
"Rush..."
Xixia's four-pronged army, shouting to kill in Dangxiang language, with overwhelming momentum, rushed at full speed towards the Song army's formation huddled in the center of the Song camp...
"Bang bang bang..."
"Bang bang bang..."
Xia Jun was just glad that he had escaped the attack range of the Song Army's first round of stone cannons, but none of them expected that suddenly, they all heard a deafening "thunder" sound from the front of the Song Army's formation...
…
The sound of dozens of mountain artillery fire rang out from the main position of the Song Army, which was crisp, powerful and fast-paced.
The soldiers of the four Xia armies heard the loud noise, and many soldiers also saw dozens of meteor-like objects flying into their army.
"boom!"
"boom!"
"boom……"
More than a dozen shells fired by the Song army exploded among the four Xia armies.
In an instant, balls of fire rose up among the four Xia troops, and a large amount of thick smoke rose into the sky.
Countless shrapnel in the shells flew across the explosion range, penetrating the armors of the Xixia soldiers and Iron Kite Army horses within the explosion range, and piercing into their flesh and blood;
Even the heavy armor of the Iron Kites, which was difficult for bows and arrows to penetrate and impenetrable for spears and knives, was as vulnerable as a piece of paper to the blooming artillery shells developed by Zhao Guan's family.
In an instant, four Xia troops rushed towards the Song Army's camp. Under the bombardment of the first round of artillery shells by the Song army, dozens of Xia troops and dozens of horses were killed in each Xia army; each Xia army suffered serious or minor injuries.
There are no less than a hundred people...
"Woo chirp..." The iron kite army's war horses were frightened by the explosion of the artillery shells and ran away. Even the very experienced iron kite army cavalry could not control their frightened mounts.
"Ahhh..." The injured Xia Junbing screamed in pain and horror.
The psychological shock and panic this brought to the Xia army generals who were lucky enough not to be injured by the shells around the injured were unimaginably huge.
After all, in this kind of ancient battlefield dominated by cold weapon warfare, Xia Jun's soldiers witnessed and personally experienced the huge lethality of gunpowder weapons that they had never seen before. They all thought that they had experienced a catastrophe and lightning strike.
"Hahaha!" Han Shizhong laughed in surprise in the formation: "The artillery developed by Zhao Guan's family is really powerful! Keep firing the artillery, and supplement it with stone cannons to kill the invading summer dogs!"
"Follow the order!"
"Whoosh whoosh..." The trebuchet began its second round of firing stone projectiles.
"Bang bang bang..." More than ten mountain cannons began the second round of bombardment in the four directions of the four Xixia troops.
The Xia Army's left-wing iron kite army of 1,200 cavalry and the right-wing iron kite army of 1,200 cavalry rushed deeply into the left and right ribs of the Song army's formation. However, by this time they had become the artillery of the Song army.
The best target to attack.
Although Han Shizhong's troops left the red cannons to the Song army of Guo Cheng's tribe who were attacking Xia head-on in order to reduce their burden for a long-distance surprise attack on Xijing, the Xia Kingdom, the Han tribe only had a dozen or so mountain cannons that were lighter and easier to transport.
Although the power of the mountain artillery was weaker than that of the red cannon, it still caused great casualties to the Xixia army. These Xixia soldiers, especially the Three Thousand Cavalry Iron Kites Army, the most elite heavy armored cavalry in the Xixia Kingdom, were not afraid of the cold.
The weapons were shot with arrows and slashed with knives, but tonight they tested the artillery with their own bodies, proving that even the Iron Kites Army, which was strong in both offense and defense, was no match for the artillery brought by the Zhao Guan family.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In larger-scale wars, hot weapons will absolutely crush cold weapons.
"Boom, boom, boom..."
Cannonballs falling from the sky exploded again among the four Xia troops.
In an instant, Xia Jun's four armies suffered a total of four to five hundred casualties.
If it were a direct battle of cold weapons between the two armies, even if the Xia army suffered more than a thousand casualties, then under the command of King Richard of Jin, the strongest warrior in Xixia, the morale of the Xia army would never be in chaos.
However, after the Song Army used the artillery developed by Zhao Guan, a long-range attack weapon with huge lethality, it directly destroyed the morale of the Xia Army.
After the Xia army was hit hard by two rounds of stone cannons and artillery by the Song army, the Xia army's officers and soldiers lost all fighting spirit.
The four Xia armies, which were still very aggressive before, are now seeing large numbers of soldiers retreating in retreat...
In the rear formation of the Xia army, Brother Richard, who was commanding the Xia army, saw that the Song army only fired two rounds with artillery and stone cannons, and defeated the Xia army that had the upper hand and retreated miserably.
Before, he had put on an arrogant and proud face because he was confident that he would win this battle, but now he was livid with fear, and his heart suddenly sank to the bottom.
"No! I have fallen into the trap of the Song Army!" Brother Richard complained secretly in his heart:
"Previously, I reported from the scouting horse that the 'Thunder-inducing' artifact of the Song army under Guo Cheng was very heavy and difficult to transport;
However, this Song army that unexpectedly arrived outside the Xijing City of our Kingdom of Great Xia actually brought with them a large number of 'Thunder-inducing' artifacts?
Alas! Before, I underestimated the leader of this group of extraordinary soldiers of the Song Army!
Did the Song Dynasty really have a second Liu Fa?"
Brother Richard, who has experienced many battles, only took the blink of an eye to assess the situation and concluded that the Song camp had been prepared for a long time, and the strategy of sneak attack and siege of the Song camp tonight had failed.
Brother Richard frowned and shouted reluctantly:
"Ming Jin withdraws his troops! We will fight again tomorrow!"
"Follow the order!"
The eighteen messenger cavalrymen beside Brother Richard immediately picked up the horns that they had been blowing just now, and immediately took off the gongs and gong hammers hanging from their waists.
"Danglanglang..."
"Danglanglang..."
"Danglanglang..."
Brother Richard saw that the current battle situation was not good for the Xia army. Even if he did not have to withdraw his troops, the four Xia armies retreated and were defeated.
However, he knew that after ordering Ming Jin to withdraw his troops, the three armies he sent would definitely obey the military order and retreat back to his commander; this would preserve the combat effectiveness of the Iron Kites Army and the remaining troops of Jingzhou to the maximum extent.
Sure enough, after the four armies of Xixia heard Brother Richard calling for gold and withdrawing his troops, only the remnants of the soldiers and horses of Xijing in Daxia retreated towards the east gate of Xijing;
The remaining three Xia army soldiers and horses did not retreat in a chaotic manner like they did after being bombarded by the Song army at the beginning. Instead, they turned their horses and prepared to converge in the direction of Jin King Richard.
At this time, Han Shizhong, who was on the main road of the Song Army's camp, realized that after the Xia Army had experienced the huge lethality of the artillery developed by Zhao Guan's family, they wanted to retreat.
Han Shizhong roared: "Instruction: Our artillery will carry out the scheduled third round of artillery strikes and fire at the positions of the enemy's generals!"
"Follow the order!" The herald agreed and waved the flag in his hand. Then the eight drummers below changed their drumbeats to another rhythm and beat the war drums together:
"Boom, boom!"
"Boom, boom!"
When the artillerymen at the Song camp's artillery position heard the sound of drums, they knew they had to carry out the military orders assigned by the commander in advance.
They all quickly adjusted the angles of their mountain cannons, aiming at the position with the flag among the retreating Xia army, or at the center of the Xia army's key protective layer of cavalry, and then fired decisively.
"Bang, bang, bang..."
"Bang, bang, bang..." The rapid, short and rhythmic sound of artillery firing sounded from the Song Army's artillery position.
Suddenly, one after another, the artillery shells dragged their tails like fire dragons, streaking in the night sky like meteors for a moment, and pierced into the designated target of the Song Army's artillery - the suspected position of the Xia Army's general.
"boom!"
"boom!"
"boom……"
More than a thousand Xia troops who fled towards the east gate of Daxia Xijing were bombarded by several artillery shells before they could even take a few steps away.
"Ah, ah ah..."
"Ouch, ouch..." Suddenly, the soldiers of the Xixia Army who were hit let out pitiful screams.
Some of the countless shrapnel that exploded flew into the head of Xia Bingbing, causing them to fall to the ground with a bloody head; some of the shrapnel flew into Xia Bing's arms and legs, causing them to fall to the ground.
The bones and flesh were broken; the Xia army's wounded were wailing endlessly...
After the third round of shelling by the Song artillery of Han Shizhong's army, the other three Xia armies of Brother Richard's army suffered hundreds of casualties.
Previously, sister Le Qimo, who was responsible for commanding the attack of the left-wing iron kite army, saw that the situation was not good, and heard that the commander Jin Wang had ordered troops to retreat in the direction;
He immediately turned his horse around and was about to lead the remnants of the Iron Kites, less than a thousand riders, to retreat to King Jin. However, as soon as he rushed a few dozen steps away, he felt a strong wind coming from behind.
"Huh..." Sister Leqimo felt a strong wind behind her, blowing from top to bottom from mid-air.
"Boom!" Lechimo heard a deafening loud noise.
He felt a hot and huge wave of air, lifting his upper body off the horse he was firmly tied to, and flying into the air.
The moment Lechimo flew upwards, he used the bright moonlight and the fire of the exploding shells to see that the war horse he was riding was seriously injured and fell to the ground twitching. What shocked him even more was that the horse he was riding was
The war horse still retained the lower body of his sister Lechimo, which was already bloody and bloody...
"Ah?!" Before he could understand what was happening, he felt a heartbreaking pain in his waist.
It turned out that Lechimo was hit in the back by a cannonball. Although he was wearing thick armor, how could the armor that could protect against arrows protect against powerful cannonballs?
The exploding shell blew the girl Lechimo into two pieces from the waist.
Since the soldiers of the Iron Kites Army had to tie their legs to their horses before fighting, the lower body of Melekimo was still on the dying horse.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! And his upper body, after experiencing the air travel several feet high,
With a "pop" sound, it fell to the scorched earth.
"Ahhhh?! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…" After screaming several times, his breath gradually weakened.
Lechimo's urine and blood flowed all over the floor, soaking large pieces of soil. After two or three breaths, he passed out from the pain.
The cavalrymen who came from far behind him were frightened when they saw the miserable state of their commander. They galloped up their horses and fled as fast as they could...
The Wanderer Mi, who was in charge of commanding the Iron Kites on the right wing, was not much better. He was hit in the head by several shrapnel. The pain was severe, his eyes were black, and he died on the spot.
But his war horse was not fatally injured. It was still hunched and had become the owner of the corpse. Among the remnants of the fleeing Tie Yaozi cavalry, it galloped with all its strength, taking the lead, and galloped away in the direction of King Richard of Jin.
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"Ah??!" Tu Lunxia, the tooth general next to Brother Richard, exclaimed and shouted:
"Your Majesty, it's not good! Both the iron kite armies on the left and right wings suffered a disastrous defeat!"
"Your Majesty, look, the Song army is coming out in full force, coming towards us!
Let me cover you. Your Majesty, retreat quickly! If you don’t retreat, it will be too late!!!”
Brother Richard originally wanted to wait here for a while and gather the remnants of the defeated Iron Kite Army and the remnants of Jingzhou soldiers and horses into an army again.
He never expected that the commander of the Song camp, Han Shizhong, had already led 500 cavalry and 1,500 infantry, galloped out of the camp, and was chasing the remnants of the defeated Xia army back...
"Ah?!" King Richard of Jin looked at the Song Army cavalry led by Han Shizhong, with high aspirations, their armor shone with cold light, and their swords, guns, swords and halberds intertwined into a silver storm, sweeping towards him with the force of autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.