Thirty thousand people charged head-on against 800,000 people, like eggs flying and slamming into a rock many times larger than themselves.
"Strike an egg against a stone and seek your own death!"
Black Khan Wang Yusufu's Chinese was not standard, so after he said this, Xiao Pidi was confused and guessed to understand what he meant.
Xiao Pidi sighed: "Very few people have this courage. Moreover, Zhong Shiheng's move has profound meaning."
"courage?"
Black Khan Wang Yusufu said with a sarcastic smile: "I don't see any courage, I only see stupidity."
Xiao Pidi felt that it was foolish to discuss the issue of courage with the Black Khan Wang Yusufu.
Because there is no courage in the soldiers and horses of the Black Khan Dynasty, they are used to using more to bully the less, and they are also used to pack wolves and eat tigers.
"Zhong Shiheng is a man who knows military skills. He knows very well that 30,000 soldiers and horses cannot stop us. Therefore, the 30,000 soldiers and horses rushing towards us now are most likely abandoned.
It is very likely that he will withdraw, or has already withdrawn."
Xiao Pidi pondered for a moment and expressed his inference.
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu sneered: "This Khan led 700,000 soldiers and horses to attack the border. The strength of the troops is more than ten times his. Of course he has to retreat. However, whether he can retreat smoothly, I still have to ask whether I agree.
"
"You can't stop it!"
Xiao Pidi sighed slightly.
Black Khan Wang Yusufu's face turned cold, "Are you in Xiaoxunbenhan?"
Xiao Pidi shook his head, "I don't dare!"
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu snorted coldly, "I'll let you see how I captured Zhong Shiheng, who even you Liao people couldn't do anything about."
Speaking of which.
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu ordered his ministers around him, "The whole army will attack, press me on this Khan, and capture Zhong Shiheng alive."
The ministers around the Black Khan King Yusufu agreed and went down to deliver the order.
It's just that it's a little more difficult to convey the military order this time than before.
Because soldiers can understand the orders given by the Black Khan King Yusufu, but horses cannot.
Horses are the main combat power of the Black Khan soldiers.
Sitting on horseback, the Black Khan soldiers are considered a complete soldier. Off the horseback, they can only be regarded as half a soldier.
Amidst the roar of artillery fire, the horses uneasily kicked up the sand under their feet with their hooves.
After receiving the order from the Black Khan King Yusufu, the Black Khan soldiers got on their horses one by one.
However, the horses did not rush out in a swarm like before, like a turbulent torrent rushing toward the enemy.
The horses either stood still, or frequently retreated, or raised their front hooves, knocking the black soldiers on their backs to the ground, and some dragged the black soldiers and ran blindly among the crowd.
According to the military order of the Black Khan King Yusufu, only a small part of the Black Khan soldiers rushed out.
The horses under their crotches should be unusual among horses and are not very afraid of the roar of artillery.
Seeing this, Black Khan Wang Yusufu frowned and his face looked very ugly.
As soon as he boasted in front of Xiao Pidi, his soldiers and horses showed such a miserable side, which made him feel shameless.
Xiao Pidi looked at the somewhat confused Black Khan soldiers and sighed slightly in his heart.
There are a lot of black sweat soldiers, but the quality is a bit unsatisfactory.
It is simply impossible to expect the Black Khan soldiers to tear a hole in the Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom to follow behind and take advantage.
Facing a tough battle with the Song people, it was still up to them, the Liao people, to fight.
I just hope that Qingtang Zanpujiao Siluo will not be so cowardly and can jump out at the critical moment to give the Song Dynasty a fatal blow.
In this way, the pressure on the Liao people will be less.
On the battlefield.
Although the Black Khan soldiers who rushed out were only a handful, they numbered in the tens of thousands.
Tens of thousands of cavalrymen, without rules or rules, were like bandits and bandits, waving their scimitars and swarming towards the Zhenxi Army and the Xizhou Uighur Captive Army.
There were horses leading the way, and there were many of them.
The other horses calmed down a little, and then rushed out obediently under the urging of the Black Khan soldiers.
Although they are still afraid of the roar of artillery.
But nature urges them to follow the leading horse, run together, and run in the same direction.
When all the horses were running in the same direction, the Black Khan King Yu Sufu's face looked much better.
The expression on Xiao Pidi's face was very complicated.
As a general who is accustomed to using military strategies, when he saw the fighting style of the Black Khan Dynasty's troops, he could only describe it in one word: it was terrible.
There are no rules and no rules for advancing or retreating.
There was no layout and no troops were sent.
Such soldiers and horses, no matter thrown on any battlefield in the east, will be suppressed and beaten severely.
Even the Goryeo soldiers and horses, which were recognized as the weakest in the eyes of the Liao people, could suppress them.
But all the flaws become less conspicuous in the face of quantity.
They have no rules and no rules for advancing or retreating, but there are many of them.
So many that it's crazy.
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses charged together, like waves, like a tidal wave, like locusts crossing the border, turbulent.
They have enough power to defeat everything they see in front of them, so they are not afraid of any plots and tricks, and they do not need any formations.
They just need to charge, charge again, charge with all their strength, and charge as fast as possible.
Even if the enemies standing in front of them will not be hacked to death by them, they will be crushed by their horse hooves.
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses charge together, creating a momentum that is enough to destroy all enemies.
Some timid enemies may even despair after seeing the momentum of their charge.
They are obviously a group of soldiers and horses that look like bandits, but they have gathered a momentum that is difficult for regular soldiers and horses to gather.
Xiao Pidi is difficult to understand.
That's why the look becomes extra complicated.
But he did not admire the fighting methods of the Black Khan Dynasty's soldiers and horses at all.
In his eyes, such a fighting method can be evaluated in four words.
Extravagant and stupid.
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses charge together, and they can actually gather the momentum to destroy the enemy's mind, but the shortcomings are also obvious.
First, using cannons to kill mosquitoes is certainly very powerful.
But killing a mosquito with one cannon is too extravagant and wasteful?
Since artillery is a weapon of war, it should be used rationally and used at critical moments to deliver a fatal blow to the enemy.
Instead of just treating any enemy you encounter with cannons.
Secondly, the black and white cavalry will naturally be hopeless and disadvantageous on the grassland.
But once you encounter natural chasms such as passes, mountains, and rivers, you can only stay away.
Often a barrier, a mountain, or a river can make it impossible for you to pass it in your life.
Thirdly, 90% of the troops are wasted, and during the charge, it is easy for one's own people to be injured.
Cavalry is not like infantry. Once the momentum of a charge is launched, it will be difficult to stop if the momentum is not reduced.
The greater the number of cavalry, the harder it is to stop the charge.
Some cavalrymen caught in the middle of the army had an accident during the charge, and only one died.
Fourth, the maneuverability is too poor.
The cavalry is mainly flexible, but the cavalry of the Black Khan Dynasty gave up the advantage of flexibility.
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses charge together, rein in their horses, and turn around, which is very difficult.
Often when a charge is launched, one must rush forward headlong. Once he stops, he is likely to be overtaken by the cavalry charging up from behind and trampled to pieces.
The reason why Xiao Pidi could see the problem with the Black Khan Dynasty cavalry at a glance was because the tactics currently used by the Black Khan Dynasty cavalry were leftover from their ancestors.
It was because they knew the disadvantages of frontal charging with large numbers of cavalry and suffered heavy losses that the Liao people began to learn Han art of war before they implemented Hanization.
The reason why the Liao people gave particularly high treatment to the generals who were recruited from the Song Dynasty was because the Liao people were good at martial arts and had suffered losses in the Han art of war, so they treated them extremely well and invited people back to teach them.
Xiao Pidi suddenly felt that it was not unreasonable for the Central Plains people to call them barbarians.
Because he now feels that the people of the Black Khan Dynasty are also barbarians.
Xiao Pidi can see the advantages and disadvantages of the Black Khan Dynasty's troops, and Zhong Shiheng can also see it.
Zhong Shiheng could actually lead his troops to withdraw from Shazhou and retreat to Guazhou before the war started, using the mountains and rivers to resist the troops of the Black Khan Dynasty.
But he didn't do that.
He chose to stay and see for himself how the troops of the Black Khan Dynasty fought.
For this reason, he did not hesitate to gamble the lives of 2,000 Zhenxi troops and the lives of 30,000 Xizhou Uighur captives.
Now, he saw it.
He saw the magnificent scene of hundreds of thousands of cavalry charging.
We also saw the advantages and disadvantages of hundreds of thousands of cavalry charges.
"Barbarians are barbarians. They have been barbarians for hundreds of years and have not made any progress at all."
Zhong Shiheng made a very fair evaluation of the troops of the Black Khan Dynasty.
Then, when the overwhelming Black Khan soldiers, who were swarming over like locusts, were packed together with the soldiers and horses he dispatched, he decisively ordered, "Drive out the Xizhou Uighur prisoners who have been assigned grenades."
"Here..."
"Civilians and auxiliary soldiers will help the artillery to withdraw from the battlefield as soon as possible and rush to Guazhou."
"Here..."
"When the artillery withdrew from the battlefield, the musketeers fired three salvos. After firing, they immediately withdrew from the battlefield and retreated to Guazhou."
"Here..."
"The sword and shield soldiers followed closely, and the cavalry pressed the formation. After all the soldiers and horses withdrew from the battlefield, they set fire to the forest!"
"..."
Zhong Shiheng passed on his orders one after another, and everyone in the Zhenxi Army started to move.
Shazhou is a vast area, so fighting the cavalry of the Black Khan Dynasty in Shazhou is definitely the stupidest choice.
Therefore, after Zhong Shiheng tested the depth of the Black Khan Dynasty's troops, he decisively ordered the withdrawal.
There was no hesitation in the middle.
Although Zhong Shiheng had powerful firearms in his hands, he had no choice but to confront the troops of the Black Khan Dynasty head-on.
The gap in numbers of more than ten times cannot be made up by more than firearms.
After the Zhenxi Army was streamlined, its combat effectiveness increased exponentially. With the help of firearms, its combat effectiveness was even stronger.
Facing 100,000 or even 200,000 enemies, the Zhenxi Army dared to fight.
But facing 800,000 enemies, the Zhenxi Army had to retreat.
Those are 800,000 wolves that grew up eating meat, not 800,000 sheep.
Even if there are 800,000 sheep rushing towards the Zhenxi Army, it will cause heavy damage to the Zhenxi Army.
On the battlefield.
The second batch of Xizhou Uighur captives was driven out.
The charge of the Black Khan Cavalry had already taken shape. The second batch of Xizhou Uyghur captives, faced with the surging charge of the Black Khan Cavalry, could not muster any fighting spirit at all, let alone dare to move forward.
In the end, it was the musketeers of the Zhenxi Army who killed a group of people with muskets, and then forced the captive army of Xizhou Uighurs to roar in despair and charge towards the Black Khan cavalry.
After the second batch of Xizhou Uighur captive troops rushed onto the battlefield, the artillery quickly withdrew from the battlefield.
The general cannon and the sky-shattering cannon were thrown into a four-horse cart. After being tied tightly, they hurried away.
After the artillery withdrew from the battlefield.
Musketeers took over the position.
Tens of thousands of musketeers were arranged in three rows, firing round after round.
One man shoots with one gun, and then runs away after the fight. He is not greedy for war, nor is he reluctant to fight.
After the musketeers withdrew from the battlefield, the sword and shield soldiers and cavalry followed closely behind.
Then there was a fire, igniting all the surrounding woods.
The trees that had been doused with kerosene ignited instantly, and when the wind blew, they connected together, forming a huge wall of fire.
"Bang bang bang..."
After the wall of fire was formed, dense explosions resounded across the battlefield.
The captive Uighur troops in Xizhou were forced onto the battlefield. Facing the surging black soldiers who were worshiping them, they were filled with despair.
As soldiers of a country in the Western Region, as warriors who grew up on horseback, they understand better than anyone what it means to charge hundreds of thousands of cavalry.
There is no room for survival and no room for surrender.
Because once hundreds of thousands of cavalry start charging, they cannot restrain themselves.
They couldn't accept the surrender, and they couldn't spare anyone's life.
The only thing they could do was to hold the horse's back tightly to prevent themselves from falling.
The Xizhou Uighur captive army was forced to become the dead soldiers sent by the Song Dynasty precisely because they knew that they could not survive.
One by one, they fired grenades, roared at the top of their lungs, and rushed towards the soldiers and horses of the Black Khan Dynasty.
"Stop charging!"
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu gave the decisive order at the moment when the wall of fire rose.
The army of Zhenxi sent by the Song Dynasty to die was limited, and the captive army of Xizhou Uighurs was also limited.
So even though they have endless methods, even if they fight the Black Khan soldiers like dead soldiers, the Black Khan King Yu Sufu is indifferent.
As long as you kill all the enemies, all the enemy's methods can be easily solved.
But that wall of fire and that forest of fire were different.
When the wind and fire were at their strongest, no matter how many soldiers and horses rushed in, they would be killed.
Although the trumpet sound representing the military order of King Black Khan sounded, the Black Khan cavalry gradually restrained the pace of charging.
However, the cavalry's momentum needs to be buffered for a certain distance before it can be stopped.
Therefore, the Black Khan cavalry who rushed to the wall of fire first were forced to be surrounded by the fire forest.
The screams have never ended since the war began.
After the Black Khan Cavalry was forced into the forest of fire, the screams became even louder.
"This battle has resulted in heavy losses!"
Xiao Pidi couldn't help but say after the Black Khan cavalry stopped their charging momentum.
The Zhenxi Army and the Xizhou Uighur Captive Army, which were the first to charge towards the Black Khan Dynasty's soldiers and horses, actually did not cause much damage to the Black Khan Dynasty's soldiers and horses.
At most, two for one, or three for one.
However, the subsequent Xizhou Uighur captured soldiers and Huolin caused heavy losses to the troops of the Black Khan Dynasty.
The Xizhou Uighur captured soldiers did not kill many soldiers and horses of the Black Khan Dynasty.
But it injured a large number of Black Khan soldiers and horses.
On the battlefield, soldiers and horses with slightly more serious injuries are no different from dead.
The Black Khan soldiers who were forced to rush into the forest of fire numbered at least tens of thousands.
The soldiers and horses of the Black Khan Dynasty have never encountered such a war.
To be precise, I have never seen an egg hit a stone, and I have never seen an egg knocking a stone into scratches.
In their understanding, once their cavalry launches a collective charge, no enemy can stop them.
But today, the enemy not only blocked their progress, but also beat them hard.
When the Black Khan King Yu Sufu heard Xiao Pidi's words, he said with a gloomy face: "You should understand that what I am most indispensable for is soldiers and horses. All the men under my account can mount horses and serve as soldiers.
The people of the Song Dynasty could use the Uighurs from Xizhou as soldiers, and so could this Khan.
Therefore, this loss is nothing to me, just me."
Xiao Pidi didn't understand why Black Khan Wang Yusufu had such a tough mouth when his face was so gloomy that it could bleed when he was clearly distressed.
Xiao Pidi thought for a while and said: "King Black Khan, you should probably know the art of war of the Song Dynasty. There is a minister in the foreign minister's tent who is familiar with the art of war of the Song Dynasty. If you need it, the foreign minister can lend him to you first.
you."
"No need! My Black Khan's iron cavalry is enough to destroy any powerful enemy that stands in front of this Khan."
Black Khan King Yu Sufu said stubbornly.
Xiao Pidi sighed in his heart, but said with a smile on his face: "What King Black Khan said makes sense, but the foreign minister made a mistake."
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu pointed to the woods that were still burning in the distance and said in a deep voice: "When the flames in the forest are extinguished, I will march into the Song Dynasty. At that time, I will annihilate the Song Dynasty and be a black khan for me.
The warrior takes revenge.”
Xiao Pidi frowned and admonished: "King Black Khan, according to the covenant you and I made with His Majesty, Black Khan and I, the Liao Dynasty, should march into the Song Dynasty next spring.
Now that you insist on going your own way, I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to deal with His Majesty.
It will also be difficult to form a pincer attack with you."
Black Khan King Yu Sufu glanced at Xiao Pidi and said, "Then you have to urge your Liao monarch to send troops as soon as possible. If he is late to send troops, this Khan will incorporate the Song Dynasty into my Black Khan's territory. If he comes again, then
He can only become an enemy of Ben Khan."
Xiao Pidi frowned and reminded: "The Song Kingdom is far more difficult to deal with than you think. You'd better be cautious."
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu snorted coldly: "The people I faced against this Khan just now were the elite soldiers of the Song Dynasty?"
Xiao Pidi hesitated for a moment, nodded and said: "They are elite soldiers of the Song Dynasty!"
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu sneered and said: "The elite soldiers of the Song Kingdom are trying to escape after seeing Ben Khan's troops and horses. Do you think there is anything else in the Song Kingdom that can stop Ben Khan's troops and horses?"
Xiao Pidi said in a deep voice: "That was just an elite soldier from the Song Kingdom. There are many more elite soldiers from the Song Kingdom."
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu asked, "Is there one million?"
Xiao Pidi was a little speechless, "There used to be..."
Black Khan King Yu Sufu said disdainfully: "Does that mean there is no more now?"
Xiao Pidi solemnly said: "The number of soldiers and horses in the Song Dynasty is reduced, but the combat effectiveness has become stronger."
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu sneered and said: "Have the soldiers and horses of the Song Kingdom become stronger, or have the soldiers and horses of your Liao Kingdom become weaker? Although I live far away in the west, I have also heard about your wars in the east.
In the past, when the Song Dynasty had millions of troops, it was almost overwhelmed by your Liao Kingdom and bowed to your Liao Kingdom.
But now that the Song Dynasty has fewer troops and horses, it is suppressing the Liao Kingdom and forcing you to surrender.
You always feel that the enemy is getting stronger.
Always put the blame on the enemy.
You haven't looked for the reason within yourself.
See if you are getting weaker?"
Xiao Pidi suddenly didn't know what to say.
Perhaps what the Black Khan King Yu Sufu said was right.
The reason why Daliao lost to Song was not only because Song became stronger, but also probably partly because Daliao's soldiers and horses became weaker.
Xiao Pidi recalled in his mind the reveling life of the Khitan nobles in Shangjing City.
I also recalled how much the Khitan nobles admired the literati of the Song Dynasty.
It seems that the Khitan nobles have become a bit like the nobles before the Song Dynasty.
The warriors among the people are still fighting for dominance on horseback.
But the nobles in the capital seemed to have begun to compare themselves with poems and songs, with the Song people raised in their houses, and with flying horses and eagles fighting crickets.
Those nobles were already living a life of luxury and lost their fighting spirit.
Daliao must have become weaker under their influence.
For a moment, the way Xiao Pidi looked at the Black Khan King Yu Sufu became a little different.
Before that, his evaluation of the Black Khan King Yusufu was very simple.
Reckless, arrogant, stupid, arrogant, arrogant.
But now Xiao Pidi felt that he needed to get to know the Black Khan King Yu Sufu again.
But since the Black Khan Wang Yusufu was a wise man, why did he behave so badly on the battlefield?
Xiao Pidi was a little confused.
He suspected that the Black Khan King Yusufu might be hiding his clumsiness.
But if Kou Ji were here, he would definitely not be so suspicious.
Kou Ji would definitely tell Xiao Pidi without hesitation that the reason why the Black Khan King Yu Sufu behaved so badly on the battlefield was purely due to the influence of Western wars.
In Western warfare, wisdom is only part of the battle.
But in the Eastern War, wisdom may be everything in war.
Xiao Pidi realized that the Black Khan King Yu Sufu was probably a wise man, so he decisively said: "The Black Khan King wants to take the lead in attacking the Song Dynasty, so the foreign ministers naturally dare not stop him. The foreign ministers feel that since we have sufficient military strength,
,should we divide our troops into three groups?"
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu looked sideways at Xiao Pidi and said calmly: "Aren't we discussing the weakening of your Liao Kingdom?"
Xiao Pidi said dryly: "The foreign minister admitted that the wealthy life has made some nobles of our Liao Kingdom forget the foundation of our Liao Kingdom, causing our Liao Kingdom's soldiers and horses to become weaker.
But this does not affect our alliance with the Liao Kingdom and the Black Khan."
The Black Khan Wang Yusufu stared at Xiao Pidi and continued to ask: "Will the elite soldiers of the Song Dynasty take the initiative to abandon the city and escape when they see your soldiers and horses of the Liao Kingdom?"
Xiao Pidi was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly and said: "No!"
King Yusufu of the Black Khan said calmly: "But they ran away after seeing my Black Khan cavalry. So you should not instruct me on how to fight.
I admit that there are certain flaws in cavalry charging together.
But at least there are no soldiers and horses who can fight head-on with my hundreds of thousands of Black Khan cavalry, right?"