The night breeze in April was very cold. This time, they went into battle lightly. The Xiliang soldiers did not bring anything for the night. They relied on their leather armor and strong body to fall asleep peacefully next to their horses.
The next day, before it was fully light, the Xiliang army began to move out. With two thousand halberd soldiers, one thousand archers, and one thousand swordsmen, Li Xiang bypassed the iron mine and came to the iron mine and Loufan City behind.
On the road.
There is loess everywhere and the ground is full of gravel. This is a lifeless land.
Along the way, Li Xiang led his soldiers while collecting weeds and shrubs on the roadside. How could we hide such a place without finding something?
They found a somewhat undulating mound, on the back of which about five hundred people could be hidden. Prime Minister Li had done some research before coming here, and it was really difficult to find a place to ambush in this vast land.
It's not the time for cavalry to be dispatched yet. All the forces outside the Northwest Pass know about the Xiliang army's cavalry, but the number is very small. At most, they can be used as scouts.
Li Xiang also regarded the three thousand cavalry in his hand as a fatal blow weapon. When the Qing army was unprepared, these three thousand cavalry would be the hand that decided the outcome.
The army was dispersed within two miles, and Li Xiang was quietly waiting for the Qing Army troops to come over. The scouts sent out yesterday found a troop of about two thousand heading towards the iron mine.
Xiliang soldiers leaned against the loess, ate the dry food brought from Xiliang City, and waited quietly behind the loess.
Total, total, total!
A Qing army troop trotted forward. There was a cavalry in front of them. Their actions were all under the eyes of the cavalry, Xiliang's light cavalry scouts.
Every time they see Xiliang Qingqi scouts, they know that they are under the gaze of Xiliang people.
"What the fuck!" Wei Zhu looked at the direction of the Xiliang light cavalry scouts and spat: "When we go back, let the general also get a group of war horses!"
The Xiliang Qingqi scouts made them very helpless. Their scouts could not catch up with the Xiliang Qingqi scouts. There were many Qinggong masters in the Qing Army. It was not difficult to catch up with the war horses at their speed.
But the problem is that the people on the war horses cannot just watch you catch up. The strength of the Xiliang Qingqi scouts is not weak, and their archery skills make many Qinggong masters unable to get close to them.
With these light cavalry around, it would be difficult for them to get rid of the Xiliang people's gaze. The best way to deal with these light cavalry is to use the same light cavalry to drive them away.
Wei Zhu trotted forward with his troops, not looking at the Xi Xiliang Qingqi in the distance. He wanted to reach the iron mine before dark.
The Seventh Army of Xiliang will arrive tomorrow morning, and he must reach the iron mine before the Seventh Army of Xiliang.
He was driving at full speed without paying attention to both sides. In his mind, the Xiliang army had not yet crossed the iron mine side.
It takes at least three days to get to the iron mine from Beixuan City!
Li Xiang heard the sound coming from far away and knew that the prey had arrived!
The distance between the mound where they were and the Qing army was about 200 steps. He was not in a hurry, waiting for all the Qing army to enter the ambush circle.
The archers held bows and arrows, the halberdier stood up and squatted on the ground, and the swordsman held a sword in one hand and a shield in the other.
The scorching sun was shining on the earth, driving away the cold. Wei Zhu, who was trotting, didn't know why, but felt a little cold behind him, as if something was watching behind him.
"Spread the flag!" Li Xiang stood up and shouted to the flag bearer next to him.
A soldier holding a battle flag immediately erected the flag, and a large flag spread out and fluttered in the wind. The Xiliang soldiers had been paying attention to Li Xiangzai's position. When they saw the battle flag erected, several locals
War flags were set up behind the hills.
The Xiliang archers got up one after another and ran forward in large strides. They wanted to reach a place of about 150 steps before attacking.
There were also some archers who were relatively close to the road. They picked up their long bows and pointed them at the Qing Army soldiers on the road, and shot out long arrows. Li Xiang drew his long sword and rushed to the front.
The Xiliang soldiers on both sides ran toward the Qing Army soldiers in the middle of the road.
Whoosh whoosh!
The Qing Army soldiers only saw battle flags erected on both sides, and then saw a large number of enemies rushing out from both sides.
The whistling long arrows easily took away the lives of the Qing Army soldiers. Wei Zhu shouted loudly for defense. He did not expect that the Xiliang army would ambush in this place. There were just some small mounds on both sides, but now those soils
The hill became a place where soldiers' lives were taken.
The Xiliang soldiers who were closer had already rushed into the Qing Army soldiers. These Xiliang soldiers were soldiers from the dark world, and their level generally reached level seven.
The soldiers of Xiliang were like tigers and wolves. The halberdiers formed small teams and tore apart the non-existent formation of the Qing Army. Then the swordsmen rushed up, split the Qing Army soldiers into small teams, and then eliminated them.
Xiliang soldiers divide and destroy them in an orderly manner. This is how the Xiliang army fights. In the dark world, they also destroy the fallen demons bit by bit in this way.
Wei Zhu shouted loudly to gather the troops. In the end, only 500 soldiers gathered, and the rest should be surrounded by the Xiliang army.
Glancing at the soldiers behind him who had sunk into the mud, Wei Zhu turned around and ran away without thinking, leading five hundred men and horses towards the iron mine.
The Qing Army soldiers on the battlefield were retreating steadily under the attack of Xiliang soldiers. Many soldiers dropped their weapons and ran away. Seeing the Xiliang soldier shouting surrender, many Qing Army soldiers knelt on the ground and did not dare to resist.
Li Xiang rushed to the battlefield. The fighting inside was almost finished. The resisting Qing Army soldiers were almost killed when the Xiliang soldiers rushed over. The remaining Qing Army soldiers threw their weapons to the ground and knelt down with their heads in their hands.
On the ground.
Li Xiang carried a man who looked like an officer and asked: "Who is your Qing Army?"
The officer was trembling when he was lifted up. He found that his head was not as big as the arms of the man in front of him, and he was trembling a little: "Come back, sir, we are soldiers from the fourth battalion of the third town of the Qing Army!"
"The fifth town that only started training in February this year?" The Qing Army and the Xiliang Army. The Qing Army is based on towns, and the troops in a town are 10,000.
The third town of the Qing Army is the latest town to be established among the Qing Army. Training only started at the end of February, and it is said that these soldiers are poor people pulled from the cities below under the Xuantian Sect.
The officer nodded repeatedly. Li Xiang took a look at the battlefield. He thought he could capture an elite force, but he didn't expect that he had worked so hard to ambush a cannon fodder force.
"Who is your camp leader?"
"Sir, our camp leader ran away with his men!" The officer's voice was a little aggrieved. The camp master asked him to come over to summon the soldiers, but he didn't expect that the camp master ran away with his men. He didn't even think about him.
!
"Lord!" The Xiliang soldier who was responsible for counting the prisoners came to Prime Minister Li: "There are 935 prisoners, and there are 455 corpses left on the battlefield!"
"Yes!" Li Xiang nodded. Not many Qing Army soldiers resisted. Those who dared to resist were almost killed when the Xiliang soldiers came in.
"How's the food?"
"Five hundred stones of grain were found, packed in a wheelbarrow!" said the soldier.
"Clean the battlefield and bring everything useful on the battlefield!" He threw the officer aside. This battle was not pleasant at all. These people had no fighting spirit.
As Li Xiang went away, the officer who had just been picked up by Li Xiang boldly asked a Xiliang soldier: "My lord, who was that just now?"
The Xiliang soldier proudly said: "That is my lord, the lord of Xiliang City!"
The lord of Xiliang City slaughtered Prime Minister Li!
The officer felt his back was wet, and then he was extremely excited, with a smile on his face. He actually survived the massacre of Prime Minister Li!
Who else!
"Another one is stupid!" The Xiliang soldier glanced at this officer. Many Qing Army soldiers on the battlefield became stupid after the battle.
Most of the soldiers in Qingjun's Third Town are farmers from Xuantian Sect's territory, and many of them are people who have been brought here to work. These people usually farm in the farmland.
Although they have practiced some crop tricks, can they compare with the battlefield? Many of them have never seen blood, and the fierce ones were killed by the Xiliang soldiers immediately, leaving a group of them
No one dared to fight, and as soon as Xiliang shouted, they surrendered immediately.
Just after the battlefield was cleaned, the dead people were buried in a big pit dug by Xiliang soldiers.
Very useful.
iron ore
Wei Zhu rushed to the iron mining area with the remaining 500 people, and saw that a series of tents had been set up not far away, and the Xiliang army had already arrived.
In the evening, a large army slowly passed behind the iron ore area. Wei Zhu and the defenders in the iron mine looked at the army. They could see that many prisoners in the army were dejected, and some were not looking back at them.
fortress.
The mountain where No. 1 Iron Mine is located is as conspicuous as a tree on the grassland. The fortress built on the steep mountain is very strong.
Li Xiang led the army back to the camp. It was difficult to capture this iron mine and it was difficult to ambush in this vast wilderness. In an ambush like today, as long as the other party is willing to send a few scouts, they can find something wrong.
If this is the case, Li Xiang will have an open and honest fight with the other party. He will buy the iron mine in front of him, and he will also buy the Yuan Mine, which is one day away from the iron mine!
"Lord!" Zhang Tiezhu and Hei Yun stood at the camp gate waiting for Prime Minister Li.
Prime Minister Li nodded, and the two of them followed Prime Minister Li. The decorations in the camp were very good, and they were strictly in accordance with Xiliang City's camping regulations.
When the army goes out, the camp is very important!
"The camp is set up well. Summon the officers above the centurion of the Seventh Legion into the big tent!"
....
When Song Cheng was ambushed by Xiliang City when the first unit he dispatched was received, he frowned for a moment and then smiled happily.
He was glad that he did not send the elite troops up first, otherwise it would be that elite unit that would be ambushed. Xiliang City dared to set up an ambush, which meant that they were sure to capture that unit.
Song Cheng led his army to march all night. When dawn was about to break, the army rested for three hours and then advanced at full speed to the edge of the iron mine.
Li Xiang was very interested in the iron mine, but he had no interest in the three-foot-high fortress in front of the iron mine.
Song Cheng's army arrived. The whereabouts of Song Cheng's army were in Li Xiang's eyes along the way. He also thought about whether to make a sneak attack.
With three thousand iron cavalry in hand, it is easy for him to sneak attack on the Qing Army, but the benefits of the sneak attack are not very good. The Qing Army is led by Song Cheng. The Qing Army is loose on the outside and tight on the inside. If he rushes in, it is very likely that
You will fall into the quagmire of the Qing Army.
The Iron Mine Fortress is not very big and can hardly accommodate 1,500 people, let alone the tens of thousands of people behind it.
Song Cheng led thirty bodyguard cavalry to the front of the Xiliang camp. Outside the Xiliang camp, there was a layer of horses with sharp thorns on them.
There are sentries and wooden walls in the camp. You can't see the situation in the camp at all. You can only see smoke rising from the camp from time to time, and the flag of Xiliang City is raised in the camp.
Xiliang City ambushed the soldiers of the Fourth Battalion of the Third Town. He did not know where Xiliang came from. According to their intelligence, the soldiers from Xiliang City's headquarters had not arrived, and the lord of Xiliang City, Li Xiang, was still behind the army.
He probably hasn't arrived on the battlefield yet.
After watching for a while, Song Cheng returned to his camp.
In the Xiliang camp, an urgent letter was delivered to Li Xiang.
"Soldiers from Loufan are attacking Yuankuang!" Li Xiang read the letter and found that all the troops in Loufan City were not killed in the last turmoil. At that time, the chief managers of Loufan and the chief managers of Ji Mo wanted to attack Beixuan City with their troops.
Before Beixuan City was captured, Loufan City and Jimo City were captured by the Qing Army. At that time, in order to reduce resistance, the Qing Army asked the traitors to send troops loyal to Loufan and Jimo to the two general managers, making the two groups
All troops are loyal troops.
After Loufan City and Ji Mo City were gone, the general managers of the two cities joined forces and relied on the supplies they brought with them and some secret strongholds in the northern wilderness to take in the old soldiers of Lou Fan and Ji Mo.
They were waiting for an opportunity to restore the city. They had no chance before, but when Xiliang City and the Qing Army were about to go to war, their opportunity would come.
Their goal is to first capture the Yuan Mine in Loufan City, and then cooperate with Xiliang City to completely annihilate the troops sent by the Qing Army!
This unit is attacking Yuan Mine, and the Qing Army's defenders in Yuan Mine are not bad either. Now the two sides are fighting fiercely, and Ji Mo and Lou Fan's company will probably not be able to take it down!
Li Xiang knows the role of the Yuan Mine, which is a top-notch cultivation object. The Yuan Qi in the Yuan Mine is much purer than the spiritual energy between heaven and earth. Absorbing the Yuan Mine can increase the speed of cultivation several times, which has always been very lacking.
Things to practice.
After reading the letter, a bold idea came to Li Xiang's mind. Why didn't he go and take down Yuanyu Mine? The reason why he didn't go before was because Yuan Mine City was high and there were many soldiers, so the cavalry couldn't attack the city!
Now that someone is helping him attack the city, he rushes over and just needs to open the city gate, so that the Xiliang cavalry can bloodbath Yuan Mine, and then directly cut off the retreat of Song Cheng's army!
But in this case, the previous plan will be disrupted again. I originally wanted to have a head-on fight with Song Cheng on the battlefield, but now it seems that there is no chance!
Li Xiang destroyed the letter. It would be better for fewer people to know what was in the letter, even if the camp was full of his own people. Then he turned around and asked people to recruit Zhang Tiezhu and Hei Yun...
