The middle part of the Yellow River is the Henan region of Xixia. There are large deserts and Gobi deserts here. But between the two large deserts, there is a narrow grassland oasis, which is tens of miles wide from north to south and about four hundred miles long.
, this is the Hangjin Banner of later generations.
This grassland is home to more than a dozen nomadic tribes from Xixia, but most of the young and strong men have joined the army, leaving only the old, weak, women and children of these tribes.
This morning, a Jurchen cavalry force of ten thousand people escorted thousands of camels slowly on the endless grassland. The grassland was covered with a thin layer of white snow. The cattle and sheep could no longer be seen, but the camels and war horses could see through the snow.
Found green grass.
Of course, one million taels of silver is only 62,000 catties, and two hundred camels are enough to carry it, but thousands of camels carry not only silver, but also sheepskins, animal skins, medicinal materials, bronzes, and thirty
Thousands of copper coins.
These silver supplies basically accounted for 80% of Xixia's official inventory. In order to keep Xixia alive, Xixia donated almost all of its inventory to the Kingdom of Jin.
Wuyan Puluhun led 10,000 cavalry to personally protect the wealth. Although Li Kan repeatedly assured him that the Song army would never cross the vast desert to intercept the central line, Wuyan Puluhun was still very cautious.
He declared that he has no plans to travel before next spring.
As for the actual departure time and route, they were very secret. They even left Xingqing Mansion in the middle of the night. Wuyan Puluhun was about to become frightened. The powerful infantry formation of the Song Army was destroyed in less than two hours.
, almost destroyed his entire army, and he was really a little scared.
"Captain, if we go east this time, will we come back again?" Captain Wanyanchamu asked.
Wuyan Puluhun sighed softly, "I don't know either. It depends on how the court arranges it! To be honest, I don't really want to come back."
Another captain said: "There are rumors that after we leave, a civil war will break out in Xixia. It's really worrying!"
Wuyan Puluhun said coldly: "If there is still internal strife at this time, the gods will not be able to save them."
He immediately ordered: "Speed up!"
The long queue speeds up and heads east...
Two days later, the team arrived at the border of Xixia. A mountain range appeared faintly in the distance. Crossing that mountain range was Hedong. They came through Xiakou Village and they would go back to this village as well.
There is still pure white snow on both sides. The snow is heavier on this side, with the snow half a foot thick. To the south is a low and gentle grass hill, only a few feet high. To the north is still a large grassland, covered with white snow.
The journey was uneventful, so the Jin soldiers gradually relaxed their vigilance and stopped sending spies to investigate in front. At this time, the team lengthened for more than ten miles, but mainly because the camel team was relatively long, while the Jin soldiers' queue was relatively neat and dense.
Wuyan Puluhun suddenly felt something. He stared at the white snow in the north. He seemed to see the snow moving. He suspected that he was dazzled.
At this moment, more than a thousand soldiers suddenly appeared in the snow outside the white cloth, and they all raised their crossbows and fired at the Jin soldiers.
"not good!"
Wuyan Puluhun reacted very quickly. He turned sideways and hid on the other side of the horse. His horse neighed and fell to the ground, pressing Wuyanhun Pulu under him. The other soldiers could not dodge and were hit by arrows one after another, but
Most of them were shot by war horses.
The soldiers rescued Wuyan Puluhun. He saw that the war horse was hit by an arrow in the head and fell to the ground twitching. It was dead. This was the war horse that had been following him for ten years, just like his brother.
An unprecedented anger exploded in his heart. He looked up suddenly and saw more than a thousand Song soldiers shooting arrows a hundred steps away. He shouted: "Charge up and kill them all."
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"Woo - Wu -" the horn sounded, and four thousand Jurchen cavalry rushed toward more than a thousand crossbowmen a hundred steps away.
More than a thousand crossbowmen turned around and ran wildly, with four thousand cavalry chasing after them. The horses were racing wildly, and they were about to catch up. At this moment, a series of explosions went off in the cavalry group. The cavalry were caught off guard and were blown away.
The men flipped on their backs, dense poisonous spikes flew in all directions, and screams came one after another. Then a fire broke out under their feet, and the wild fire engulfed the four thousand cavalry in an instant.
But this was not enough. Suddenly, densely packed Song troops appeared fifty steps ahead. There were as many as 20,000 people, appearing as if they were emerging from the ground. Each man wore a white cloak behind him and held a divine arm crossbow. Together they attacked the cavalry.
When the arrows were released, the more than a thousand crossbowmen were just bait, and they all fell to the ground.
The Song army fired thousands of arrows, shooting at thousands of Jurchen cavalry like a storm. Thousands of Jurchen cavalry screamed and fell in large areas on the snow.
Explosions, fire and powerful crossbows all appeared in just ten seconds, giving the cavalry a fatal blow. They struggled in hell. Many soldiers escaped from the crossbow bolts and ran for dozens of steps but were still alive.
The horse fell to the ground and was engulfed in flames.
Wuyan Puluhun was stunned. At this moment, a low horn sound came from behind. Wuyan Puluhun turned around and was frightened to death. An overwhelming number of cavalry appeared on the grassy hill to the south. The leader of the general was holding a square in his hand.
Tian Hua Ji seems to be Chen Qing.
The commander pointed his halberd with Fang Tian, and as if a flash flood broke out, 30,000 elite cavalry rushed down from the grass hill and charged into the Jurchen Army cavalry team...
This was a battle without any suspense. The Song Army's 30,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry encircled and suppressed 10,000 Jurchen cavalry. The key was that the Jurchen cavalry was ambushed at the beginning, and almost all 4,000 cavalry were destroyed.
How could the remaining 6,000 cavalry be worth the combined effort of 30,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry? In less than half an hour of fierce fighting, most of the 6,000 cavalry suffered casualties. They were gradually cut and surrounded by Song cavalry and infantry into seven or eight.
block, losing the power of group operations.
Wu Yanhun Pulu saw something bad and did not bother to rescue his other companions. He led hundreds of cavalry to fight their way out of the encirclement and ran eastward for their lives, with 10,000 Song army cavalry in hot pursuit.
Not long after, hundreds of cavalry rushed to Xiakou Village. Xiakou Village is a canyon more than 20 miles long. The Xixia Army and the Song Army have been facing each other for nearly a hundred years.
The Song army had long been abandoned, while the Xiakou village on the Xixia side had been defended for nearly ten years. It was also abandoned after Xiao Heda's rebellion. There were empty villages on both sides, passing through the two gates on the east and west and a long mountain in the middle.
The canyon entered Hedong controlled by the Jin soldiers.
Wu Yanhun Pulu led 300 cavalrymen like a gust of wind and rushed through Xiakouzhaiguan City and entered the canyon. However, after running for less than two miles, there was a sudden bang in front of him, and arrows were fired in front of him and on both sides.
The Jurchen cavalry were caught off guard and more than two hundred of them were shot dead immediately. The remaining soldiers were so frightened that they retreated one after another.
Wuyanhun Pulu's heart sank into the abyss. They were blocked in the canyon. Seeing that his soldiers were getting fewer and fewer, he gritted his teeth and shouted: "This is a battle between life and death. If you want to survive, just rush towards me."
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The soldiers shouted wildly and followed the leader to rush forward to break through, but it was in vain. They were surrounded and attacked from three sides. Before they could get close, most of them were killed by dense arrows. Wuyanhun Pulu was hit by seventeen arrows in a row.
Died tragically on the spot.
The Song army fired two more rounds of bows and arrows, but no more people or horses were left standing.
At the same time, the battle on the snowy field also ended. Two thousand peripheral scouts killed dozens of Jurchen cavalry who had slipped through the net, and the entire army of 10,000 Jurchen cavalry was wiped out. They were all killed, leaving no one alive.
The five thousand camels were controlled by the Song army from the beginning. They stood aside quietly until the battle was over.
Three hours later, 55,000 Song troops left quietly, and silence returned to the snowfield. No corpses could be seen anymore, only patches of bright red blood, indicating that a war had broken out here.
At night, it began to snow again, and there was a vast expanse of white snow between the sky and the earth, and all traces were covered by heavy snow.