Chapter 0518 Although the enemy is strong, he still has to eat farts
"Since the founding of Tie Yaozi, we have never lost. You can defeat the 140,000 soldiers and horses of Huangtou Huihe, but it is just because of the geographical advantage. Only a fool like Naye would fight on his own territory.
You were defeated by your advantage.
That's not what I am."
Li Yuanhao inserted the gold knife inlaid with gems into the mutton in front of him. He frowned when he saw a trace of burnt on the mutton.
"Take it off and throw it away..."
Li Yuanhao withdrew the golden knife, wiped it with a clean hand towel, and gave an order.
The scout set up the roasted mutton, left the campfire, went far away, and threw it out.
Li Yuanhao stuffed the knife into his arms, took off his fox fur hat, wiped off the sweat on his bald head, shook the two pigtails on his temples, straightened up, and ordered: "Thirty thousand people, only nine
One hundred iron kites are enough. The remaining two thousand one hundred iron kites are returned
Shazhou City. Meile, if you are in trouble, you will be buried by those who appreciate it carefully. Li Nu, Qu Zejiu, Kuma Cai Langluo, and Ximu Quwu, the seven of you will lead a group of people to go there, outside Shazhou City.
Search carefully for me, and if you run into Kou Ji, pick off his head and bring it to me."
There are 3,000 Iron Kites in total.
Divide into ten teams, each team has 300 people.
Have a captain.
The captains are all carefully selected heroes.
Each of them can lead an army alone.
Li Yuanhao asked each of them to command three hundred iron kites, which was by no means overqualified.
When Tie Yaozi was founded, it had a record of three hundred fighting ten thousand.
Three hundred iron kites can be regarded as an army of ten thousand people.
Therefore, the leader must be a strong general.
Only strong generals can control strong soldiers.
The names of the seven people named by Li Yuanhao were the names of the captains of the first seven teams in the Iron Kites.
They are all the most powerful figures in Xixia.
In addition to the seven of them, there are three others: Li Yanyiyanming, Ximuweiming, and Buluo Mibu.
There are ten heroes in total.
As the captain of the first team, Meile stood up slowly after hearing Li Yuanhao's order, put on his helmet, and gave a solemn salute to Li Yuanhao.
The captains of the other six teams also stood up and saluted Li Yuanhao.
"Don't worry, general. If my subordinates encounter Kou Ji, they will definitely bring his head back and deliver it to you."
The civil and military ministers of Xixia like to call His Highness Prince Li Yuanhao.
Tie Yaozi, on the other hand, called Li Yuanhao general.
Compare the two phases.
Li Yuanhao prefers the title general.
Because he felt that the title "His Royal Highness" was a shame for him.
Xixia established the country in a hurry, and before it could gain a firm foothold, it was beaten by the Song Dynasty until it knelt down and begged for mercy.
In order to humiliate their father and son, the Song Dynasty also gave his father a very humiliating name.
Disobedience.
The last disobedient prince was named Li Yu.
The empress of the Southern Tang Dynasty.
The Southern Tang Dynasty was ruined in his hands, and his wife became Zhao Guangyi's plaything.
Li Yuanhao would never allow the same fate to fall on their father and son.
He wants to create a true Xixia.
Xixia is a powerful and vast country.
He wanted to change the title of His Royal Highness on his head into a title of supreme honor.
Rather than like now, whenever he mentions it, it makes him think about the humiliation of losing to the Song Dynasty.
After Li Yuanhao saluted Mei Le and the other seven people, he waved his hand and asked them to leave quickly. Then he said to the remaining three people: "Li Er Yi Yan Ming, Xi Mu Wei Ming, Bu Luo Burian Bu, you three,
Come with me and meet the 30,000 rabble for a while.
In this battle, not a single prisoner will be left alive.
We must let the people of Song Dynasty realize our strength.
We want the Song people to tremble and wail under our iron hooves."
Li Yuanhao roared loudly at the end.
Three thousand iron kites, six thousand auxiliary soldiers, and nine thousand soldiers and horses, their heads shining brightly in the moonlight, all saluted Li Yuanhao, as if to express their determination.
Since the founding of Xixia.
Li Yuanhao deliberately abandoned the Song Dynasty style.
He felt that the Song people's tactics would not only fail to make Xixia stronger, but would instead weaken the ambitions of Xixia warriors.
So he took the lead in shaving the hair on his head, abandoned the rules of the Song Dynasty, and restored the customs of the Dangxiang people in the past, so as to inspire the ambitions of the Xixia warriors.
Tie Yaozi is very loyal to Li Yuanhao.
So after Li Yuanhao made such a move, they chose to comply without hesitation.
to this end.
Li Yuanhao and his father Li Deming also had a quarrel.
Li Deming felt that if he wanted to conquer the Song people and conquer the Song lands, he had to learn from the Song people, transform himself into a Song person, and blend in.
Then after conquering the Song Dynasty, we can establish a long-term foothold in the Song Dynasty.
However, Li Yuanhao feels that the last word is to have a big fist.
If you want to conquer Song Dynasty, you must speak with your fists.
He took the Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures as an example and wanted to use this to convince Li Deming.
But he was scolded by Li Deming.
Now, father and son are fighting over this matter.
In order to persuade Li Deming to listen to him, Li Yuanhao decided to capture the Ganzhou Uighurs and Shazhou Uighurs, and planned to incorporate Ganzhou, Shazhou, Guazhou and other places into the territory and use his own style of governance to prove to Li Deming that he had a big fist.
That's the hard truth.
Li Deming knew that his son was a little rebellious, so he let him give it a try.
I plan to have a good talk with my son about how to govern the country and how to develop Xixia after his failure.
Now, the bet between father and son has reached a critical moment, and Li Yuanhao will never allow himself to lose.
"Set off……"
Li Yuanhao took the lead in climbing on the horse's back, and three thousand iron kites and six thousand auxiliary soldiers also climbed on the horse's back.
A group of nine thousand people rushed out of the low hill and divided into two groups.
Mei Le led people to the north, heading for Shazhou City.
Li Yuanhao took his own men and rushed to the stronghold of 30,000 horse thieves led by Zhang Yuan.
Everything is quiet tonight.
Only the sound of horse hooves echoed for a long time.
Li Yuanhao led his men out of ten miles away and saw 30,000 horse thieves led by Zhang Yuan.
There is no preparation before war or mobilization before war.
After Li Yuanhao saw the 30,000 horse thieves led by Zhang Yuan, he decisively chose to charge.
In his opinion, no matter how strong the enemy is, no matter how many there are, they are no match for his Iron Kites.
Iron Harrier met the enemy and had no choice but to charge.
It's a charge.
Only in this way can the iron kite's tyrannical fighting power be unleashed.
Only in this way can the other party feel intimidated.
"Rumble..."
When the heavy sound of horse hooves sounded.
Zhang Yuan already knew that the enemy had launched a charge.
Without any hesitation, he pulled out the scimitar from his waist and roared, "Charge up and kill them, and everything captured will be yours!"
In the hearts of horse thieves, no sentence can be more inspiring than this sentence.
I have been a thief for hundreds of years just for money.
The belief of horse thieves is to seize money.
They are far more greedy than those corrupt officials.
Horse thieves like to bully those with more people and those with fewer people.
No matter how strong the opponent's soldiers and horses are, as long as the horse thieves have an absolute advantage in numbers, they will rush forward without hesitation and fight the enemy together.
Either drag down the enemy or wear him out.
"kill!"
The horse thieves rushed out without hesitation, like a tidal wave.
Li Yuanhao took the lead, leading nine hundred iron kites to charge.
Rushed halfway.
He immediately began to change his formation.
Fish scale array.
A small team of ten formed a formation like fish scales.
Then collectively form a large fish scale shape.
This is the most common formation used by Iron Kites when fighting.
They not only put up a formation, but also connected them with iron ropes to form an iron fortress based on ten people.
Like huge pointed iron blocks, they crash into the enemy.
Even if the iron kite on the horse dies, he will not fall off the horse and the formation will not be disordered.
Very tyrannical.
"Bang!"
The horse thieves collided with Li Yuanhao's iron kites.
The first thing that sounded was not the cry of killing, but the dull sound of collision.
The iron kites had no intention of killing the horse thieves in front of them.
Taking advantage of their armor, they rammed into him brutishly.
The person who was hit by the horse thief who was rushing forward was turned over on his back.
Just like an iron shield grinding wheat, it can easily crush a piece.
As time goes by, it continues to move forward.
Seeing this, Zhang Yuan immediately restrained his confidants who were preparing to charge, frowned, and said in a deep voice: "It's so powerful... I'm afraid they won't be able to resist for long..."
"I thought they could buy us a lot of time, but I didn't expect that they were vulnerable..."
"I don't blame them, the enemy is more powerful than I imagined..."
"The heavy armored cavalry connected with iron ropes are like steel fortresses that are violently attacking... so powerful..."
"If the young master uses this method to build a patrol horse guard, the strength of the patrol horse guard will definitely rise to another level..."
"No... they are more likely to be targeted by artillery when they are together... Could it be that the young master brought up artillery just to target this powerful army..."
"The young master is really far-sighted..."
"..."
Zhang Yuan muttered a lot in a low voice for a while.
Li Yuanhao had already led the Iron Kites and killed through the formation of more than 6,000 horse thieves who were charging at the front.
They rushed towards Zhang Yuan and his party all the way.
Li Yuanhao was very arrogant on horseback, like a madman.
Every time a person's head is cut off, the blood spurts out from that person's neck and rushes past, letting the blood drip on him.
Then he laughed wildly.
"Avoid it!"
When Zhang Yuan saw Li Yuanhao leading Tie Yao Zi and rushing over wildly, he immediately ordered his confidants to rush out from one side to avoid Tie Yao Zi's frontal charge.
even so.
Some of the horse thieves at the end of the team behind Zhang Yuan were also brutally killed by the Iron Kites.
After Iron Harrier turned around, he still held his horse and shot arrows behind them.
Every arrow shot can take away the life of a horse thief.
After Zhang Yuan and his men regained their footing, they discovered that Tie Yaozi's charge had taken away two thousand of his men.
As far as Zhang Yuan knew, there were three thousand Iron Kites.
At present, Li Yuanhao only led 900 cavalry and more than 1,000 auxiliary troops. One charge caused him such huge battle losses.
He really couldn't imagine how many people under Li Yuanhao's command would be taken away in one charge if three thousand iron kites under Li Yuanhao were sent out together.
Li Yuanhao's charge had already scared some timid horse thieves.
The leader of the horse thieves swallowed his saliva, endured the pain on his body, and whispered to Zhang Yuan: "Leader Yuanshan, we are no match for them, let's escape... When we become stronger, we will find them again and regain the ground.
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Zhang Yuan had a cold face and gritted his teeth and said: "Crush again!"
The leader of the horse thieves widened his eyes in horror, "If the enemy charges, two thousand of us will be gone."
Zhang Yuan opened his eyes and roared angrily: "I said rush again!"
The leader of the horse thieves wanted to refuse several times, but in the end he did not say no.
He felt that Zhang Yuan probably couldn't accept the fact that 30,000 people were fighting against 900 people, and they were beaten and fled in panic.
He had no idea that Zhang Yuan was acting.
Little did they know that nearly 10,000 of them, under Zhang Yuan's restraint, had done nothing from the beginning to the end.
"kill!"
"kill!"
The cry to kill rang out again.
The two sides launched a charge again.
As Li Yuanhao charged, he shouted excitedly to the horse thieves: "I admire your courage! You are the only horse thieves who dare to fight the iron kite head-on after witnessing the iron kite's charge.
When I chop off your heads, I will never humiliate your corpses.
You can go to death with peace of mind."
"Poof!"
Once again the two sides collided.
With this first experience, the horse thieves faced the iron kite and made a series of counterattacks.
There was an iron kite, which was thrust into the eye socket by a strong horse thief with a long iron spear.
Some Iron Kites also had their hands chopped off.
But the more casualties were the auxiliary soldiers behind the Iron Kites.
In one charge, the horse thieves brutally killed four to five hundred auxiliary soldiers and four iron kites.
The horse thieves left behind another two thousand corpses.
"Hey……"
After the second charge.
Zhang Yuan returned to his original place, sneered, and fled the battlefield with the remaining people without any hesitation.
Li Yuanhao turned the horse's head and saw Zhang Yuan fleeing with his men.
Li Yuanhao's face was ashen and he yelled, "You are a cowardless fellow, I just praised you, and now you do such a cowardly thing. You are a worthless thing..."
After a pause, Li Yuanhao seemed to have remembered something, and smiled to himself, "What's wrong with me, that I would be angry because a group of horse thieves fled in confusion. They are horse thieves, and they have to run away after suffering a loss.
If you don't run away, you're not a horse thief.
The rabble is just the rabble and cannot stand on the stage at all.
I am destined to be a horse thief all my life."
"Chase me!"
Li Yuanhao immediately gave the order and followed Zhang Yuan and his party's escape route.
Zhang Yuan ran away while paying attention to Tie Yaozi.
Seeing the iron kite catching up, he was not afraid, but instead had a bright smile on his face.
"I'm afraid you won't chase me..."
Zhang Yuan reined in his horse slightly, fell a few steps behind, and said to the timid leader of the horse thieves: "Didn't you just want to run away? If we run together, we will be overtaken sooner or later.
You lead a thousand men and escape from the left side of the road ahead.
Escaped from their pursuit, we met at the Populus euphratica forest ten miles away."
The timid leader of the horse thieves agreed without thinking.
The suggestion put forward by Zhang Yuan is a common trick used by horse thieves when escaping.
Run away separately.
If the enemy is chasing a group, they will find a way to set up an ambush in front and give the enemy a hard blow.
If the enemy disperses in pursuit, they will find a way to get together and cannibalize the enemy.
"good!"
The timid leader of the horse thieves agreed.
After rushing out a hundred feet.
The timid leader of the horse thieves led a thousand people and fled from the left side of the road.
Li Yuanhao, who was chasing behind, saw this and frowned.
He pondered for a long time, and when he was about to run through the escape route of the small group of horse thieves, he ordered: "Twenty people go out and catch up with them... Lift their heads and the horses under their crotches to me.
return……"
Immediately behind him, twenty kites on iron kites ran out chasing the small group of horse thieves.
So back and forth.
Every time it passes a hundred feet.
Thousands of horse thieves led by Zhang Yuan broke away from the group and escaped.
After dividing the troops along the way and running five miles away, Zhang Yuan had less than 15,000 people left under his command.
Li Yuanhao led the Iron Kites, leaving 680 people.
Zhang Yuan laughed heartily while looking back at Li Yuanhao who was pursuing him.
"Ha ha ha ha……"
"Bang...bang bang bang..."
Accompanying Zhang Yuan's laughter was the sound of an explosion that was heard far away.
Those explosions came from all directions, covering up Zhang Yuan's laughter.