"As long as you can take my words to heart, you won't suffer such a big loss."
There was a lot of anger in Yeli Yuqi's chest, but now he vented it all out in one breath when he was asking the question.
Lang Nai Yu Yi stared at Ye Li Yu Qi with a cannibalistic look: "Now is the time to talk about this?"
Yeli Yuqi snorted coldly, "Retreat..."
Lang Nie Yu Yi raised the knife in his hand.
Ye Li Yuqi stared coldly at the knife in Lang Nie Yuqi's hand, snorted and said: "How can we fight the enemy head-on before we understand the weakness of the firearm in the enemy's hand?
When the enemy has weird firearms and their morale is high, rush forward and confront the enemy head-on?
We party members are accustomed to using the tactics of wolves, not wild boars.
Have you ever seen a wolf that goes head-to-head with a powerful enemy?"
After leaving these words behind, Yeli Yuqi turned around and roared at the cavalry behind him, as if he didn't see the knife that Lang Nao Yuyi had raised in front of him.
"retreat!"
The rangers of the Yeli tribe decisively fled the battlefield under the orders of Yeli Yuqi.
The shock to them from the artillery and muskets was too great, and they needed some time to digest it.
The iron kite has been disabled by artillery.
It is difficult to form effective combat effectiveness.
The opponent's heavy armored cavalry basically doesn't consume much.
At the end of the battle, less than a hundred soldiers were killed or injured, and the fighting force was still strong.
Even if they mobilize the remaining servant troops, they may not be able to trap the enemy.
The opponent's heavy armor will definitely fight its way through their heavy siege.
What's more important is that once they mobilize all their servant armies.
The enemy troops in Shazhou City will not sit still and wait to be killed.
They will definitely be stabbed in the back.
By then, their losses will be even greater.
There were wolves in front of them and tigers behind them, and they couldn't resist them.
Watching Yeli Yuqi lead his troops to retreat, Lang Dian Yu moved his teeth and gave an order to Tie Yaozi beside him.
"withdraw……"
Iron Harrier reluctantly followed Lang Nieyu and retreated outside.
Lang Nai Yu Yi rode his horse to catch up with Ye Li Yu Qi and said angrily: "You just let the enemy pass like this? The general will definitely not let you have an easy time if he finds out."
While Ye Li Yuqi rode his horse back, he glanced at Lang Nao Yu Yi with disdain, "Of course I won't let them pass easily..."
Lang Nian met Yi and asked: "What's your plan?"
Ye Li Yuqi snorted coldly: "The enemy is escorting troops and horses after all. Even though they are powerful in combat, their military strength is very limited. If they get together, we are naturally no match for them.
But if they transport food on the road, then our opportunity will come.
You won't forget how we destroyed the enemy's baggage transport team in the past, right?
Sneak attacks, sudden attacks, biting and tearing flesh from the enemy's body are the tactics we party members should use.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince does not like to use Song people as officials, but he likes to use the Song Dynasty's military tactics. In my eyes, that is putting the cart before the horse.
In my opinion, we in Xixia should use Song officials as officials to help us control the people, herd horses and sheep, help us accumulate wealth, and plan for more wealth.
But I, Xixia, should not use the Song Dynasty’s military tactics.
Our warriors on horseback fighting in Xixia are all party members.
Wolf nature has long been embedded in our blood.
Only the wolf's tactics are suitable for us.
The Song Dynasty’s approach is not suitable for us at all.”
Langyou Yuyi said coldly: "If you have the ability, you can tell the general what you said. But before that, I want to know how you plan to sneak attack and surprise the enemy.
We, the Iron Kites, want to participate."
Ye Liyu shook his head decisively, "Tie Yaozi has already killed many people, we can't die any more. If he continues to die, His Highness the Crown Prince will go crazy. So I won't let you participate in the following soldiers."
I will dispatch the soldiers and horses of the small tribes that are attached to my Yeli tribe’s tent."
Ye Liyu looked back at the charging horse guards and said, "The enemy obviously wants to take advantage of the momentum just now and rush over in one go. The enemy's soldiers and horses are fast, but the team escorting the baggage is not fast enough.
This is our opportunity.
As long as we send out men to continuously attack the enemy's baggage team and destroy their food and grass, what if they enter Shazhou City?"
Lang Ni Yu Yi said in a deep voice: "Didn't you say that the enemy has a firearm buried underground? It is very lethal, how dare you send people to it?"
Ye Li Yuqi suddenly looked at Lang Nao Yu Yi and said seriously: "It seems that I made a wise choice by not letting you go up to fight with the enemy. You have been frightened by the enemy's firearms.
Forgot some of the most basic common sense.
The enemy's firearms buried underground are certainly powerful in their lethality.
But it takes enough time to bury it, and it takes a lot of effort to lure us into the urn.
Now the enemy is close in front of us and will rush into Shazhou City soon.
How could they have time to bury that kind of firearm?
Even if there is time to bury it, with us watching from the side, can we still be trapped again?"
Lang Nian Yu Yi's face was so gloomy that he could bleed, but he said no more.
Yeli Yuqi didn't take care of him anymore.
After Yeli Yuqi led his men out of the battlefield, he stopped.
Yeli Yuqi ordered the soldiers and horses of the affiliated tribes under his command: "In a team of ten, rush out, burn, kill and loot... Your goal is to burn the enemy's food, kill the civilians among the enemy, and rob the enemy's horses.
...You must not do anything else, let alone greedily entangle with the enemy...if you miss a hit, retreat immediately..."
Xixia's soldiers and horses were very pure in traditional raiding tactics.
It's just that they are a little afraid of the firearms in the hands of the enemy.
In their eyes, Tie Yaozi was the most powerful soldiers and horses in Xixia. Such powerful soldiers and horses were defeated by the enemy's firearms. They did not think that they could escape under the fire weapons.
Ye Liyuqiu saw that the soldiers and horses of the affiliated tribes were motionless, and shouted angrily: "The enemy just has some powerful firearms. But firearms also have certain limitations. When the enemy's firearms explode, there is always a gap.
, as long as you look for the gap, you can avoid the enemy's firearm attack.
If you are too timid to fight, then offer your cattle and sheep, your swords, guns, and horses to the enemy, and then stretch out your heads and let others chop them off."
The soldiers and horses of the affiliated tribe heard Ye Li Yuqi's words and finally made some changes.
But they didn't rush out.
Ye Li Yu Qi gritted his teeth and appeared in front of the formation astride his horse.
"I will lead the charge!"
As soon as these words came out, the Xixia soldiers and horses had different expressions.
However, Ye Li Yuqi didn't give them much chance. He had already led his entourage and urged his horses to rush out.
The soldiers and horses of the vassal tribes of the Yeli tribe had no choice but to follow them.
After Yeli Yuqi led his troops back to the battlefield.
The soldiers and horses were instantly divided into countless groups.
Kou Ji, who had just embarked on his journey guarding all the trucks carrying food, frowned when he saw this.
He had expected the enemy to react like this.
Artillery is neither magical nor magical.
Anyone who has been to the Song Dynasty and witnessed the scene of the gunpowder taking off will understand how the artillery is activated. The smell of gunpowder smoke that permeates the battlefield is not so easy to dissipate.
The Song Dynasty was generous, so anyone from Xixia who has been to the Song Dynasty has seen the scene of drug-haired puppets rising into the sky.
The Song Dynasty even gave medicine-haired puppets as gifts to Xixia and Liao.
Therefore, no matter whether they are Xixia aristocrats or Liao aristocrats, they are no strangers to the smell of gunpowder.
Artillery can shock the enemy, but it is not enough to scare the enemy out of fear.
After the enemy realizes their purpose, they will definitely reappear on the battlefield.
The only thing that Kou Ji didn't expect was that the enemy actually gave up on blocking them head-on, and instead chose the tactics of surprise attack and sneak attack.
Then the thousand patrol horse guards he arranged for a frontal charge seemed somewhat useless.
But Kou Ji has no regrets about this.
Nowadays, the troops in his hands have been very dispersed, leaving behind a well-established, large, and lethal force to deal with sudden changes on the battlefield and avoid being divided and cannibalized by the enemy.
When Yeli Yuqi led his men to the battlefield.
The baggage team led by Kou Ji has all set off.
There are weaknesses everywhere in the long transportation queue.
Ye Li met a beggar and was overjoyed when he saw this.
He guessed correctly.
"Kill it..."
Yeli Yuqi shouted and led his troops towards the baggage team.
The cavalry he led were like wolves charging towards the sheep, targeting the weakest point of the sheep and rushing over.
Before anyone arrives, the arrow arrives first.
"Puff puff puff..."
Arrows fell one after another.
The civilian husbands and prisoners escorting the vehicle immediately suffered casualties.
Even though they were civilians and the prisoners were well hidden, they still couldn't escape the arrows falling from the sky.
The Japanese soldiers and horse guards who were guarding the car quickly counterattacked.
The Japanese soldiers were pure infantry people and were somewhat weak in the cavalry and archery battles.
The patrolling horse guards have muskets in their hands and have a certain ability to fight back.
The ones who had the suppressive shooting ability against the Xixia cavalry were the patrolling horse guards who drove hundreds of tigers galloping on the carriage.
"Bang bang bang..."
"Puff puff puff..."
The sound of muskets and crossbows instantly filled the entire battlefield.
Under the suppression of hundreds of tigers and muskets, the Xixia cavalry began to suffer a large number of casualties.
Kou Ji's men escorted the civilian husbands in the team, and the prisoners suffered more casualties.
The patrolling horse guards and soldiers are all wearing armor, so they are not afraid of the arrows of the Xixia cavalry.
But the civilians and prisoners didn't have much protection.
Although the Japanese soldiers were mounted in heavy armor, their horses were not armored.
After being hit by arrows, the war horses would knock them off their horses.
"Hahaha……"
Kou Ji has limited troops.
It is impossible to effectively protect all grain trucks and civilians.
The Xixia cavalry led by Ye Li Yuqi, after experiencing the rain of bullets and arrows, still rushed to the side of the car.
While fighting with the horse guards guarding the car, they threw bags filled with kerosene onto the car.
The kerosene splattered all over the car.
Huozhezi and torches were thrown onto the grain cart by the Xixia cavalry who followed.
The grain truck burst into flames instantly.
The peasants on the grain cart were contaminated by sparks and jumped off the grain cart shouting.
Some civilians hiding in the carriages were instantly plunged into the flames.
By the time the patrolling horse guards and Japanese soldiers formed an effective force and rushed over, Yeli Yuqi had already escaped from the carriage with the Xixia cavalry.
"Damn..."
Kou Ji saw a dozen grain trucks on fire and cursed loudly.
Liu Heng rode his horse to Kou Ji's side and said with a sullen face: "Fourth brother, how about I take a team of people out to fight with them, and you go there first with the grain team..."
Kou Ji glanced at the Xixia cavalry gathered outside the battle circle in the distance, eager to try, and gritted his teeth and said: "You will be given one hundred patrolling horse guards... You cannot fight to the death..."
Liu Heng nodded, led a hundred horse guards, and went out to stop Ye Li Yu Beggar's footsteps.
Kou Ji shouted at the team escorting the grain trucks, "Let's go! Don't worry about the grain trucks that are already on fire!"
Kou Ji urged the team escorting the grain truck and rushed halfway through the journey.
More than 40 vehicles were set alight, hundreds of civilians died, and thousands of prisoners died.
The Japanese troops and the patrolling horse guards all suffered casualties.
Liu Heng led a hundred patrolling horse guards to charge on the battlefield.
But Yeli Yuqi didn't fight with him head-on at all. Every time he encountered the patrolling horse guards led by Liu Heng, he left them to the iron kites sent by Lang Nian Yuqi to deal with them.
He led other soldiers and horses to continue to sneak attack the Song army's baggage team.
The baggage train was severely damaged, and Kou Ji had to dispatch 500 men from the horse guards who were at the forefront to come to the rescue.
But from beginning to end, he did not call back all the patrolling horse guards who were charging forward.
Kou Ji had a premonition that once he called back the patrolling horse guards who were charging at the front, they would be hit hard by the enemy.
Once there are no heavy armored cavalry in front, the enemy is likely to set up an ambush in front.
For example, send the iron kite to go ahead and rush to the front to wait for them.
When they arrive, kill them and destroy all their grain trucks.
Or you can place heavy troops in front and wait for them to rush in.
"kill……"
Raging shouts of killing suddenly rang out from Shazhou City.
The gates of Shazhou City opened wide, and a force of ten thousand soldiers and horses rushed out.
Kou Ji was overjoyed to see this.
"Quickly fill up the empty cars in the team with kerosene and drive them out!"
Kou Ji ordered loudly.
After hearing Kou Ji's order, the servants of the Kou Mansion immediately doused the empty carriages with kerosene, drove them towards the location of the Xixia cavalry, and then used arrows to set the carriages on fire.
The horses, attached to the burning carriage, rushed into the battlefield where the Xixia cavalry was charging, forcing the Xixia soldiers and horses to take shelter.
More than a hundred carriages rushed out, forcibly suppressing the momentum of the Xixia cavalry charge.
Kou Ji took this opportunity and shouted to Liu Heng and others: "Quickly guard the grain truck and rush into Shazhou City in one breath..."
Liu Heng and others quickly withdrew to the team and escorted the grain truck to Shazhou City.
Yeli Yuqi saw the burning carriage blocking the road and was stunned for a long time.
"Why didn't I think of using this method..."
If he used a fire chariot to attack Kou Ji's team transporting grain and grass, the harm would be greater than if he charged with soldiers and horses.
The reason why he didn't think of this method was not because he was stupid.
It's a habitual thinking that's at work.
In the eyes of the Xixia people, the most important things in combat are men, horses, and swords.
Almost all wars are inseparable from men, horses and swords.
All tactics that are separated from men, horses, and swords are almost not among their first considerations.
They fought with more bravery than wisdom.
Whenever they encounter a war, the first thing they think of is how many men and horses are needed to defeat the opponent.
Rather than using some plan to defeat the opponent.
Just when Ye Li met Qi Leng Shen, Kou Ji had already rushed to a place one mile outside the gate of Shazhou City.
The Song troops in Shazhou City also rushed out.
After the Song army in Shazhou City rushed out, they and the patrolling horse guards led by Kou Ji worked together to defeat the Xixia soldiers and horses guarding the city gate.
Then he quickly rushed out, preparing to guard the team escorting the food and grass.
However.
Even with the help of the Song army in the city.
After reacting, Yeli Yuqi immediately gave up all tactics with his soldiers and horses, rushed out in a swarm, and cut off nearly a hundred carts of food and grass from the team that Kou Ji was escorting.
Under the coercion of the Song army and the patrolling horse guards in the city, Yeli Yuqi did not continue to fight.
Instead, he ordered his troops to withdraw and return to camp.