Li Yuanhao split the iron kite into two parts in order to plot against the patrolling horse guards.
If the patrol horse guard is at Yangguan, then he can rely on the power of the iron kite to kill the Song army outside Yumen Pass, drive straight in, enter Guazhou and Shazhou, and burn the Song army's food and grass.
Once the food and grass in Guazhou and Shazhou are destroyed.
The Song army will soon run out of food.
The Song army had not yet opened up Hexi, so it was impossible to transport grain and grass through Hexi.
If we continue to use Qingtang, it will take a month or two for new baggage to arrive.
The Song Army's current front is very long. Once food and grass are cut off, the long front will be difficult to maintain.
The Song army will once again fall into a panic of lack of food and clothing.
Compared to last time, this time it will be more serious.
Because of the Song army, the number of Song people was quite large.
In war, having a large enough number of people certainly has an advantage.
But it is also a huge flaw.
The generals of the Song Dynasty could rely on military discipline to restrain the Song troops.
But he was unable to restrain his subordinates.
Hundreds of thousands of people are willing to do anything in order to survive.
Whether it is a riot or a rebellion, it is extremely beneficial to Li Yuanhao.
At that time, the Song army scattered in Hexi will be the lambs to be slaughtered under his hands.
Not only could he capture Hexi, but he could also cause the Song army to lose troops and generals in Hexi.
If the two elite imperial guards of the Song State, Zhenguo and Xingguo, could be wiped out in Hexi.
In the future, when Xixia invades south, there will be less resistance.
Relatively.
If the patrol horse guard is at Yumen Pass.
That Yang Pass will definitely be breached by his iron kites.
Once Yangguan is breached, Li Zhaoliang's troops of the Song Army, who have already conquered Yangguan and invaded Suzhou and are marching towards Ganzhou, will be out of food.
As long as he pays a certain price and guards Yumen Pass, Yang Pass will last for a while.
Yeli Wangrong, who had already arrived in Xiliang, was able to defeat Li Zhaoliang's troops when they were short of food and clothing.
At that time, the two men joined forces and used Yumen Pass and Yang Pass as their strongholds to continuously invade Guazhou and Shazhou.
The Song army in Guazhou and Shazhou will undoubtedly be forced to retreat.
The Song Dynasty court could not always support the tens of thousands of troops under its command to fight outside the territory.
The long supply line will consume the huge national power of the Song Dynasty.
According to the nature of the civil servants of the Song Dynasty, they would definitely advise the Song Emperor to withdraw his troops from the Western Regions.
If you plan on both sides, you will both gain.
This is Li Yuanhao's plan.
Li Yuanhao is full of confidence in his plan.
That's why he dared to defend Yumen Pass and fight against the Song army.
But confronting someone head-on does not mean sending someone to death.
So after Li Yuanhao saw the patrolling horse guards appearing, he gnashed his teeth and cursed a few times, and then ordered the messenger around him: "Sound the horn and let Li Nu lead the men to break through."
"Woooooooo..."
The unique horn horn sound spread throughout Yumen Pass and beyond.
The Iron Kites, who were fighting with the patrolling horse guards in the Song Army's formation, heard the sound of the trumpet, decisively broke away from the fight and gathered together.
Li Nu licked the blood from the corner of his mouth, looked at the patrolling horse guards charging towards Zhu Neng, and yelled arrogantly, "General Song, what a plan... You want to keep us, but it's not that easy.
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"Breakout!"
Without any hesitation, Li Nu led the iron kite and rushed towards the corner of the Song army's formation.
The angle of the formation is a powerful weapon to defeat the enemy externally, but it is very weak internally.
Because most of the powerful soldiers in the corner of the formation defend themselves against powerful enemies outside the formation.
The military formation is in the middle.
Zhu Neng heard Li Nu's shouting and was not surprised at all that Li Nu rushed halfway and turned around to break out of the encirclement.
"I staked the lives of thousands of soldiers just to keep you here. How could I let you go so easily?"
Zhu Neng snorted coldly and ordered coldly.
"Change of formation!"
The messenger holding the signal flag quickly conveyed Zhu Neng's order.
A corner of the trapezoidal military formation.
The direction in which the iron kites break out.
The veterans of the Forbidden Army who had been hiding for a long time laughed.
"It's finally time for us to take action..."
"Brothers, copy guys..."
"..."
A group of strong old soldiers, holding long swords in their hands, came forward with evil smiles.
"Zhanma Sword?!"
The moment Li Nu on horseback saw the sword appearing, his expression became much more solemn.
The horse-cutting knife is specially designed to chop horse legs.
The restraint against cavalry is very great.
Although Iron Kite is powerful, it is not without its weaknesses.
Horses are their weakness.
If the enemy targets them, they are not afraid.
They were chained up, and even if they died, they would sit upright on their horses and maintain the charging formation.
But when the enemy targets horses, it's different.
They were in teams of ten, linked together by iron ropes, with ten men and ten cavalry as one body.
Once one horse's leg is cut off, it will drag down the other nine.
One drags nine.
If you delay, you will die.
Hard rush?!
Split the troops?!
In an instant, two thoughts popped up in Li Nu's mind.
Also in an instant.
Li Nu gave up the plan of forcing a charge and chose to divide his troops.
If you hit hard, the damage will be great.
Every iron kite is very precious to Xixia and cannot be easily broken.
The Song general was certain that they would break through, so he set up an ambush.
But General Song was not a divine fortune teller and could not have accurately calculated the direction in which they would break out of the encirclement.
Even if an ambush is set, it is impossible to gather them together.
It is likely to be located at the corners of the formation on both wings.
Therefore, there should be no ambushes outside the formation corners.
With their impact, if they faced those ordinary Song Army soldiers, it would be a one-sided massacre.
"point!"
Li Nu had an idea in his mind and immediately gave the order.
More than a thousand iron kites were quickly divided into a dozen or so teams of a hundred people, and they rushed over from different directions.
The military formation is in the middle.
Seeing this, Kou Ji looked at Zhu Neng and said, "It's still a little difficult for you to eat them all in one go."
Zhu Neng stared closely at Tie Yaozi's changes, squinted his eyes and said: "I never thought I could eat them in one bite. I eat a few hundred here, and more than a thousand in Yangguan. After this battle, Tie Yaozi will only be left at most." Hundreds of people came down.
What's more important is that the iron kite's armor will fall into our hands.
If Li Yuanhao wants to gather three thousand iron kites again, he can only wait until he is dreaming at night.
If he wants to continue to dominate the battlefield with his iron kite, he can only do so while dreaming."
Kou Ji was stunned for a moment, nodded and smiled: "That's right... Tie Yaozi is a little more immature now, and so is Li Yuanhao..."
Zhu Neng looked at Kou Ji with some surprise, not understanding what Kou Ji meant.
"Li Yuanhao is still too young? The founding time of Tieyaozi is too short?"
Kou Ji didn't elaborate. He nodded and said yes, which was a response to Zhu Neng's words.
There were some things that he couldn't elaborate on with Zhu Neng.
There was no way he could tell Zhu Neng that he had changed history.
Changed the pattern of Xixia and Song Dynasty.
Forcing the Iron Kites to appear early, forcing Li Yuanhao to lead the Iron Kites to fight in all directions early.
How old is Li Yuanhao now?
He is only one or two years older than Kou Ji.
He is not the wily Xia Jingzong.
Nor was he the overlord who was forced to give in under the economic sanctions of the Song Dynasty, negotiate peace with the Song Dynasty, and agree to pay tribute to the Song Dynasty.
In later generations, many people believed that the Song Dynasty could only pay tribute to its opponents after defeating them on the battlefield.
Actually it is not.
In terms of economic sanctions, if the Song Dynasty won, it would also be eligible to pay tribute to its opponent.
According to historical records, in the third year of Qingli in the Song Dynasty (1043 AD), Xixia was forced to negotiate peace with the Song Dynasty under the economic sanctions of the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty promised to give Xixia a generous amount of 255,000 silver, silk, and tea every year, and
The mutual market that had previously been closed due to economic sanctions was opened, and Xixia envoys were allowed to engage in business in the post house in Bianjing, the capital of the Song Dynasty.
In terms of trade, the Song Dynasty gave Xixia great convenience.
The Song Dynasty's request was simply to let Xixia call itself a Song minister.
In order to prevent Xixia from receiving Song envoys with courtesy, Song envoys were not even qualified to enter the Xixia capital after arriving in Xixia.
I can only live in Youzhou temporarily.
Therefore, compared to the future Xia Jingzong Li Yuanhao, the current Xia Prince Li Yuanhao is far behind.
Zhu Neng didn't understand Kou Ji's thoughts.
Zhu Neng couldn't guess what Kou Ji was thinking.
So after Zhu Neng saw Kou Ji nodding, he never talked to Kou Ji again, but instead focused on the battlefield.
What he prepared for the Iron Kites was not just the saber.
Array angle.
After the Iron Yaozi divided their forces, they divided into more than a dozen groups to break through from the northeast.
The iron kite, which was the first to rush to the corner of the formation, hit the sabers held by the veterans.
"puff……"
The sword slashed across the ground, cutting off the horse's leg.
If you can't cut off the horse's legs, you can break the horse's legs alive.
A large number of them were knocked away by iron hoofs under the impact of iron kites and trampled to death.
They suffered a lot of damage, but they completed the tasks assigned to them by Zhu Neng brilliantly.
The horse's legs were broken and it was difficult to support the heavily armored body of the iron kite on its back.
One horse fell down, dragging the other kites into trouble.
The momentum of the charge was greatly restricted.
The other soldiers at the corner of the formation swarmed forward.
The forest of spears turned the horses under their crotches into hedgehogs.
Then he stabbed them again.
The bodies of the spears intersected to form a cage, trapping the iron kite on the horse's back.
Soldiers armed with blunt weapons rushed forward and smashed the kite hard.
They will not stop until the iron kite soldiers are knocked off their heads or until blood seeps out of their armor.
The Iron Kites, which rushed towards the corner of the formation, suffered heavy losses under their attack.
The other Iron Kites also encountered the same obstruction after rushing to the east and west wings of the military formation.
Bed crossbow, heavy crossbow, tripping rope, wooden fence, human wall, etc.
Zhu Neng's order was to keep Iron Kitten at all costs.
Therefore, the officers and soldiers of the Song Army used all their methods.
No means were spared that could be used.
Among them, the fighting was the most brutal on the side of the human wall.
A human wall of thousands of people blocked the iron kite.
Half of the nearly one hundred human walls were trampled by the iron hooves of the iron kite.
Many soldiers were kicked by horses' hooves until they vomited blood and died.
Many soldiers were thrown away by the collision.
The corpse became the only obstacle restraining the momentum of Iron Kite's charge.
Even so, it is difficult to stop the iron kite's charge.
Seeing the iron kite about to break through the human wall.
Two hundred men on horseback chased them and entangled them.
The two sides fought together again.
More than two thousand patrolling horse guards pursued Tie Yaozi at the height of the fiercest fighting between the two sides.
massacre!
massacre!
massacre!
Besides massacre, there is still massacre.
The iron kite is massacring the soldiers of the Song army.
The patrolling horse guards were killing the iron kites.
Both sides watching the battle were red-eyed.
Li Yuanhao did not expect that in order to deal with Tie Yaozi, Zhu Neng would not hesitate to use the lives of thousands of soldiers to entangle Tie Yaozi and buy time for the patrolling horse guards.
"Damn it! Damn it! You all deserve to die! One day, I will kill you all!"
Every iron kite is a treasure of Xixia.
Losing one is damaging the treasure house of Xixia.
Li Yuanhao watched Tie Yaozi fall to the ground one by one under the charge of the patrolling horse guards, and his heart was bleeding.
He felt distressed.
I feel sorry for those armors.
I feel sorry for those war horses.
In order to build the armor of three thousand iron kites, Xixia spent many years of accumulation.
In order to select a war horse suitable for the iron kite to ride, Xixia searched for all the best horses in the Western Regions.
Today, war horses are being slaughtered.
The armor became someone else's possession.
How could Li Yuanhao not feel heartbroken?
No matter how many iron kites on horseback die, Xixia can still bear it.
But the armor and horses were gone, and Xixia couldn't bear it.
Xixia has the power to cultivate more qualified iron kite cavalry, but it cannot create another batch of heavy armor.
Zhu Neng and Kou Ji were heartbroken and bleeding.
They are different from Li Yuanhao. What they care about is the lives of the soldiers.
In order to keep Tie Yaozi, Zhu Neng spent a lot of money. Thousands of soldiers fell on the road to block Tie Yaozi, and the number continued to expand.
A small number of them wish to stay in Hexi forever.
A small number of people will die from serious injuries after the war.
The remaining people may never want to leave the battlefield.
They will never be seen on the battlefield again.
"That's reckless..."
Kou Ji spoke for the first time to comment on the battle commanded by Zhu Neng.
His face looked very ugly.
Zhu Neng's expression was not pretty, "I know... given you enough time, you will definitely be able to kill these kites... but now, I don't have that much time for you...
If we kill the iron kite, the war in Hexi will be carried out according to our inner thoughts.
Even if he can't kill the iron kite, Li Yuanhao will still make trouble in Hexi.
We don't have time to think of other solutions now, we can only use human lives to fill the gap."
Kou Ji's face was gloomy and he said: "I want the iron kite's armor!"
Zhu Neng was stunned, frowned and asked, "Do you still want it?"
The implication.
You already have horse guards and thousands of iron kites in your hands. Do you plan to rebel?
Kou Ji glanced at Zhu Neng and said in a deep voice: "I will give it to Yuan Shan and give it to Jiao Si Luo, and get a lot of money from them and distribute it to the soldiers who died in the battle.
The imperial pension was very harsh.
Many people in the middle even asked for cards.
I don't want those soldiers to die without peace of mind.
I also don’t want to see their widows slowly die due to lack of food and clothing.”
Zhu Neng frowned and said, "With your supervision, who would dare to reach out?"
Kou Ji coldly snorted: "Never be too greedy and greedy."
Zhu Neng frowned again and did not refute Kou Ji's words.
"Give it to Yuanshan...don't give it to Jiao Siluo..."