Hanwang Valley is not so much Yunzheng's choice for the decisive battle. It is better to say that the terrain here is not conducive to cavalry operations. The dense hills are the biggest obstacle to the running of war horses. When a war horse just starts to speed up, it encounters hills.
The cavalry had to slow down, so the powerful collision force of the cavalry was weakened by 30%.
Zhang Zhi is a strong general on the battlefield. He just glanced at the battlefield and knew Yunzheng's layout clearly. Horses, traps, gun formations, shield formations, crossbow formations, a small number of cavalry on the left and right wings, and behind them
This is the general's main formation. This formation is built on a hill. You can observe the entire battlefield. It is guarded by some soldiers. You can't see clearly behind the hill. Needless to say, there are reserves behind it...
Where are the troops like the Song Army that can throw gunpowder? Zhang Zhi looked carefully and found none. It seems that Yun Zheng arranged those people in the reserve team, which makes sense...
Without any warning, Li Qing's cavalry launched a charge...
The war model in which the two armies lined up in battle formations and then addressed each other belonged to the Spring and Autumn Period. Since the Warring States Period, such a war model has become a big joke. From that time on, war no longer requires any reasons or excuses. As long as it is beneficial to oneself, any
Anytime and anywhere is a good time to start a fight.
Zhang Zhi needs to find out Yunzheng's combat power. The Poxi Army led by Li Qing is the best pioneer. These people come from various tribes in Xixia, including Dangxiang people and Han people. Of course, they also have a common name called guilty prisoners.
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The prisoners became the vanguard, and it was their duty to explore the way for the army. As long as these people could survive, their guilt would disappear and they would become warriors again, but this required at least three heads of military merit.
More than 3,000 war horses rushed down the gentle slope, the sound of hooves was like thunder, and they were about to reach the front of the Song army's formation, and were about to enter the attack range of the Eight Bull Crossbows, when Poxi's army suddenly split from the middle, and some
The unmanned war horse, which was dragging branches behind its buttocks, passed through the middle and crashed into the open space in front of the Song army.
The branches raised dust all over the sky, and Po Xijun covered his mouth and nose with a wet handkerchief and followed closely behind the horses that opened the way.
The dust was very thick and the visibility was very low. The soldiers could only stare closely at the butt of the horse in front of them and rush forward recklessly. In their ears, they could hear the neighing of the horses falling to the ground, and the sound of eight oxen crossbows.
The screams of the thick iron guns that came out passed by him. Li Qing saw with his own eyes the knights around him being taken away by the crossbows, but he was not afraid of galloping on his horse. He believed that as long as he broke into the Song army, this army would
The army will collapse immediately. The Poxi Army has seen such a scene many times.
Yun Zheng looked at the dust and mist created by the Xixia people and said to Jiang Zhe: "These are the Xixia people. They may not be able to make such exquisite weapons, but this nation was born in the flames of war and grew up in the flames of war. It relies on
The skill of bringing simple things to the extreme, so the battlefield is always the domain of the smart and the brave."
Jiang Zhe snorted and waved the flag in his hand. The spearmen in the front row immediately squatted down. The soldiers behind the spearmen all lay down on the ground. They raised the crossbows in their hands and fired one after another.
Without looking at where the crossbow arrows landed, I put on the crossbow string with my feet and continued to shoot. Each shooting angle and the number of shot crossbow arrows were fixed. As long as five crossbow arrows were shot and one shot was fired, it would be completed.
The crossbow arrow flew high into the sky, and after reaching the highest point of power, it began to fall. The sound of the crossbow was like the breathing of death, covering the entire area of smoke and dust.
The smoke and dust faded away, and the ferocious faces of the Xixia people covering their handkerchiefs gradually became clear. After only a few breathers, the horses exploring the road ahead were exhausted...
Li Qing kept counting in his mouth. When he counted to ten, he immediately reined in the horse. After all the Poxi troops rushed up from him, he turned the horse's head while the dust and fog had not dispersed.
When he was running, he ran towards the road he came. The Poxi army was a prisoner, but Li Qing was not. His purpose was to find an offensive route for these Poxi troops.
The route I chose is very good. It is right between the spear formation and the shield formation. If there are many remaining cavalry, the Poxi Army with rich combat experience will choose to break through the spearmen. The prisoners in front will become the prisoners behind.
Break a bloody path.
If there are too few people who survive the rain of arrows, they will choose to attack the shield formation, and then fight a bloody path along both sides of the military formation. Whether they can come back depends on the combat power of the Song army. After all, Poxi
What the army does is to test the enemy's combat power.
In order to take care of the newcomers who were entering the battlefield for the first time, Yun Zheng deliberately placed the Jiazi Camp on the front line. There were not many troops in the Song Dynasty who could face the roar of the enemy cavalry without changing their expressions, but the Jiazi Camp was definitely the best among them.
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"Don't panic! The Xixia people are almost dead. Listen to my command, raise the spear diagonally, and touch the tail of the spear to the ground. Don't do anything else, the Xixia people will hit the tip of the spear by themselves! Repeat, raise the spear diagonally, and hold the spear
At the top of the tail..." The Song Army team roared at the top of their lungs. The first one raised his spear and kept repeating his words. His voice made the recruits feel much more at ease. According to their daily training, they followed
The team was forming a hedgehog-like gun array on the hillside.
There were still crossbow arrows shooting above their heads. The dense rain of arrows rustled towards the front line of the Song Army from a distance, and slowly stopped ten feet away from the front line. This was a very clever method. If not,
After thousands of trainings, the crossbow archers cannot control the distance so accurately. In other words, the crossbow archers' support for the front army will soon reach ten feet in front of the front army camp.
Three or five horses covered with crossbows were completely killed out of the smoke. The few Poxi soldiers who were about to die wailed like wild wolves, holding knives in tears and bravely rushed towards the gun array.
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"Hold it, hold it!" The team standing in the middle was keenly aware that there were not many enemy troops left. Even the Xixia people's customary white-feathered arrows were not shot, which meant that the remaining Xixia troops were coming.
To die.
The spears of the Jiazi camp soldiers were longer than the spears held by all the spearmen in the Great Song Army. The captain roared wildly and moved the tip of his spear slightly, aiming his spear at the chest of the war horse. At this time
What needs to be done is not to kill the enemy troops, but to prevent the cavalry from charging into the formation.
The steel spear sank silently into the chest of the war horse. The war horse was still moving forward. The captain had already let go of the spear and used his feet to hold the spear that was half-buried into the soil. The tip of the spear pierced the war horse, and then
It stabbed out from the neck of the war horse and penetrated into the lower abdomen of the cavalry. At this time, the war horse was already held up high by the spear. The front hooves of the war horse were hanging in the air and moving feebly along with the cavalryman sitting on him with his head hanging down.
It turned into an earth-yellow statue.
The dust dispersed, and the position in front of the Song Army was covered with the corpses of war horses and Poxi soldiers. Some Poxi soldiers who were lucky enough to survive lay on the battlefield and howled loudly. The soldiers who could barely move used their hands and feet in despair, trying to
Escaped back to the Xixia Army's main formation.
In one collision, two thousand Xixia cavalry were killed by powerful crossbows. The battlefield was like a wheat field about to be harvested, with dense crossbow arrows everywhere... Only a few hundred Xixia cavalry could rush to the front of the Song army's formation.
The military leader at the front of the Song army roared loudly. He held a shield in one hand and a knife in the other and walked slowly towards the battlefield. He used his knife to cut each Xixia body, regardless of whether he was still alive. As for cutting,
This kind of thing has always been done after the war.
Zhang Zhi looked coldly at the shield swordsmen who came out of the Vietnamese army without saying a word. He watched them hack the injured Xixia army to death, watched them take back the crossbow arrows like harvesting rice, and finally watched them return to the Song army's headquarters.
Array.
Li Qing licked his lips. He felt that his mouth was very dry. The Song Army's crossbows were too powerful. The foot-operated crossbows looked very similar to the Xixia people's divine arm crossbows, especially when they were wound, they needed to use their feet.
You can use the footrest in front of the crossbow to gain strength. There are also divine arm crossbows in the Western Xia army. Li Qing had one hanging on the butt of his horse. In any case, the Song army had too many of these crossbows.
Zhang Zhi laughed and rode his horse slowly to the front of his military formation. He pointed his riding whip at the Song Army in the distance and said to several of his subordinates: "See? This is the Song Army now. This is the Song Army before."
The Song army, which was on the verge of collapse, had grown up in a short period of time to the point where it dared to fight in the field with our Daxia soldiers. They came out of the tortoise-shell-like walled city. Since they have come out, there is no need to go back. Just now the two thousand Xixia warriors
Having already died in battle, have you ever felt timid?
Moruha, do you dare to charge into battle again?"
The dark-faced Moruha nodded expressionlessly, then returned to his main formation, said a few words to his subordinates, put on a larger round shield, and slowly led the team.
The ground moved forward. They were different from the Poxi Army. The Poxi Army only had leather armor and no one had iron armor. But Moruha's subordinates were different. Their whole bodies were covered in iron armor, and even their horses were covered with iron armor.
Wearing armor, the horse's head reveals two extremely fierce eyes.
In previous battles, Moruha's subordinates rarely dispatched, but whenever they did, they would defeat the enemy. His armored cavalry only numbered about 30,000 in the entire Xixia, and they were the number one combat force under the Xixia Iron Kites.
After the armored cavalry breaks the formation, light cavalry will follow and cover them up. They will use the powerful and unlimited collision force of the cavalry to tear the enemy's battle line into pieces, and then begin to divide and encircle them. Under such circumstances, in addition to destroying the enemy's troops,
There is no second way to go.
The charging distance of the armored cavalry needs to be very long, and the weight of the war horses is very high. Only in this way can they accumulate enough kinetic energy to break through the enemy's defense line. The reason why Moruha, a mixed race of party members and Uighurs, can become the commander of the armored army, is
It is inseparable from his bloodthirsty character. When the Xixia army was vomiting for eating human flesh, Wu Zangpang ordered the corpses to be ground into minced meat and mixed into gruel for consumption. Moruha did not need his likes.
Roasting and eating human flesh, especially the corpses of young women and children, was his favorite. According to his original words, the meat was comparable to plump lamb. (To be continued)