After Li Xia divided the Mongolian army, he originally wanted to work together with Li Zengbo to annihilate half and then the other half.
But now that Ah Shu has broken through the defense line, he must immediately lead his army to pursue him.
Therefore, Li Zengbo had to be responsible for independently annihilating the Mongolian army that was divided in the west.
At this time, these Mongolian cavalry were fleeing south.
They probably wanted to use their riding skills to detour through the loess plateaus, thinking that in this way they could escape the encirclement of the Song army.
But when Li Zengbo arranged the siege, he actually deliberately left the valley to the south to allow the Mongolian army to escape.
This is not a new tactic. In order to reduce the enemy's will to resist, the Mongolian cavalry would thoughtfully leave a gap in the encirclement every time they encircled the enemy, allowing the enemy to escape. They would then pursue the enemy with light cavalry, slashing and killing them all the way.
Li Zengbo is similar, but there is one difference - he gives a dead end.
Therefore, the south side of Gao'an City seemed wide, but Ashu never thought of breaking out from this side.
Groups of divided Mengqi walked around a plateau called "Luojian Plateau". They thought they had escaped, but they heard the sound of water.
Not far further south, a river appears in front of you.
The name of the river is "Heihe", which is a tributary of the Jinghe River.
On the other side of the river, a Song army was adjusting the direction of their crossbows.
The fleeing Mongolian cavalry reined in their reins one after another.
That's too late.
"Whoosh!"
The huge crossbow arrows fired by the bed crossbow have penetrated into their bodies...
At the same time, the sound of horns also sounded north of Heihe River.
Following Li Zengbo's order, the Song army marched forward in unison.
At this moment, many Mongolian soldiers were no longer fierce, but looked panicked and somewhat pitiful.
People know how to plead when facing death.
But the generals of the Song Army, especially Lu Xiaoyou, who had just guarded Gongchang Mansion not long ago, became even more furious after seeing such pleading eyes.
What came to his mind were the corpses he saw roasted into oil in clay pots while guarding Gongchang City... The anger that had been suppressed for two months was finally released.
"Kill the prisoners!"
The Song army roared in unison and attacked the Mongolian army.
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When fighting on the shallow water plateau, one result is often similar to the past, as recorded in the old Tang books -
"It is impossible to defeat someone who dies by throwing himself into a gorge."
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Compared with the leaderless Mongolian army by the Blackwater River, the situation of the Mongolian army by the Jinghe River was much better with A Shu as their commander.
A Shu ordered the cavalry to dismount and fight on foot, and set up a defensive array in a short period of time.
The Mongolian army rarely fights on foot, but they will do so when encountering strong enemies.
For example, Muhuali had two infantry battles, and they were still during the main battle.
The first time was the battle of Shenshui County. He ordered half of his troops to dismount and fire arrows, and cooperated with the cavalry to behead more than 12,800 Jinzhou warlords;
The second time was the battle of Huanglinggang. At that time, 20,000 Jin troops lined up on the river bank to show a fight to the death. Mu Hua Li ordered his horse to dismount and fired arrows, defeating the Jin army and drowning all the troops.
The opponents A Shu encounters today are much stronger than the Jin army in the last years of the Jin Kingdom.
When this idea emerged, he suddenly realized a problem... Great Mongolia always seemed to face weak countries, and it seemed that it rarely encountered any that were prosperous.
Shaking his head, Ah Shu drove this damn thought out of his mind.
In short, he had to fight Li Xia on foot.
There is no room for movement in this kind of terrain, so infantry fighting has more advantages.
The Mongolian soldiers chopped down the injured horses and piled them in front of the formation.
The soldiers stood behind the horse corpses, bows and arrows drawn.
The distance between the two sides gradually came closer... Finally, a volley of arrows was fired, which was more powerful and had a longer range than when shooting from a horse.
"Swish, swish, swish..."
"Dong dong dong dong..."
When the arrows rained down, the soldiers of the Song Dynasty raised their shields to block the attack and slowly advanced. At the same time, they also fired back with arrows and thunder cannons.
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On a loess plateau behind the Song army, Li Xia was watching the battle and commanding.
It wasn't because he was tired that he didn't charge, but after A Shu broke through, the battle situation changed and he needed to readjust.
First, Liu Jinsuo and Yang Ben were ordered to attack the front of A Shu, also dismounting and fighting on foot.
Li Xia had less than three thousand cavalry left, divided into two teams.
He first ordered Li Zeyi to go around to the left wing and wait for the horn.
The generals received orders and began to advance.
Li Xia picked up the telescope and looked upstream of the Jing River.
It took a long time until he saw several small boats rowing out diagonally from the opposite bank and flags waving before he ordered the horn to be blown.
"Woooooooo..."
Following the sound of the trumpet, Li Zeyi attacked the left flank of the Mongolian army.
But the small boat on the Jing River had already rushed down and rushed towards the flying boat that the Mongolian army had finally pulled up on the river.
The soldiers of the Song Dynasty stood on the bow of the ship and slashed with their swords mercilessly, easily cutting off the flying pigeons.
The Mongolian army howled.
Their way to escape was cut off... They thought there was no ambush on the other side of the river, but the ambush was upstream.
Not all battles involving formations along the river are called last-ditch battles.
For example, in the Battle of Huanglinggang, the Jin soldiers lined up on the river bank to show a fight to the death, but were defeated by Mu Huali and drowned countless people.
Throwing yourself to death requires a very strong will to "put yourself to death and survive", otherwise it will be death...
It was time to test the will of the Mongolian army.
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Li Xia kicked the horse's belly, drove the horse down the loess plateau, and galloped to another group of cavalry.
This cavalry group was led by Hu Legen. When he saw Li Xia approaching, he followed them tacitly.
"Kill the enemy with King Jun!"
"Those who violate the will of Changshengtian are not worthy of being prairie people..."
Hu Legen kept shouting as he ran.
The horses trotted, gradually accelerated, and rushed towards the right flank of the Mongolian army...
Li Xia slightly bent over to protect his face and let the arrows hit his armor.
He suddenly remembered that the last time he fought with A Shu was after killing Wu Liang Hetai, and A Shu led his troops to pursue him.
That time, many people from the Qingfu Army died.
Many people have died today. Back then, there were only hundreds of people fighting, but now there are tens of thousands, and even more people have died.
Back then, Li Xia was chased by A Shu and had to swim across the Changning River to survive.
Today, he did not plan to let Ah Shu swim across the Jing River, lest there would be another fight and more people would die, even more innocent people...
Thinking of this, Li Xia had already rushed to the right flank of the Mongolian army.
He began to charge into battle himself without any distractions.
In order to achieve faster victory with smaller casualties.
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The sunset is like blood.
This is Li Xia's second time today.
After defeating the Mongolian army for the first time, Ah Shu fled in panic. But this time, Ah Shu had no way out.
As far as the Mongolian army is concerned, when the enemy's commander-in-chief repeatedly falls into battle, only Ah Shu can personally attack him in order to boost morale, otherwise the Mongolian army will be defeated soon.
No, the defeat of the Mongolian army seems to have become a fact.
Ah Shu no longer thinks about these things and puts aside victory, defeat, life and death.
In short, if you kill Li Xia, everything will be fine. If you can't kill him, just die. It's not a big deal.
Moreover, I am blessed by the God of Immortality.
"Step aside!"
"Get out of the way! Go around!"
Ah Shu roared and rushed towards Li Xia's banner.
He wanted to go forward in person to cheer up the warriors on the grassland.
Only when the commander is brave can the soldiers be brave.
He is the grandson of Subotai, one of Genghis Khan's "Four Mastiffs", and he inherited the ferocity of a mastiff...
As the distance got closer and closer, Ah Shu could already see Li Xia slaughtering the Mongolian soldiers wantonly.
Ah Shu held the spear tightly, raised it, gathered full strength... and threw it forward violently.
"Kill!"
The long spear flew out and was thrown at Li Xia's horse.
Li Xia had already noticed that A Shu's flag was coming. When he heard the wind, he grabbed the reins and hid.
The lance hit Hullegan's horse.
With a horse's neigh, Hu Legen fell off his horse and hurriedly directed his soldiers to step forward to protect Li Xia.
Ah Shu was faster. He rolled on the spot and rolled in front of Li Xia's horse. He pulled out his scimitar and chopped off the horse's legs.
Li Xia reined in the reins again and asked the horse to raise its front hooves, while stabbing Ah Shu with the horse's pin in his hand.
"puff."
Ma Cha was as fast as a shooting star and stabbed straight through Ah Shu's thigh. Li Xia pushed hard, and Ma Cha stabbed deeper and nailed Ah Shu to the ground.
"ah!"
Ah Shuzhong roared angrily, turned over, dodged Hu Legen's knife, and slashed Hu Legen open with his backhand.
And the flesh on his legs was torn from the horse's legs.
Pillars of blood spurted from bottom to top.
"puff!"
"Eh???..."
Pillars of blood spurted out from the horse's belly and splashed all over Ah Shu.
Li Xia dismounted from his horse and let out a mournful cry, raised his front hooves and fell to the ground.
The horse was still nailed to the ground, so Li Xia quickly let go and jumped off the horse.
A blood-red figure has rushed forward.
There was a flash of cold light, A Shu raised his scimitar and cut it down with all his strength.
Li Xia just landed and quickly turned sideways. The scimitar had already penetrated into the gap in his armor, and blood burst out.
At the same time, he drew his sword and slashed with the sword, directly hitting A Shu's hand.
Four of Ah Shu's fingers were cut off and fell to the ground one after another.
With a "clang" sound, the machete fell to the ground and hit the stone.
Only then did the Song soldiers react to the surrounding Mongolian soldiers and rush to attack them one after another.
Ah Shu was in severe pain, and he pounced with all his strength, throwing Li Xia into the Mongolian army's formation.
"kill him!"
"Kill him! Die! Die!"
Amidst the shouts in Mongolian, Ah Shu tried his best to hold down Li Xia with his bloody hands so that the Mongolian soldiers could kill him.
Li Xia was extremely strong, swinging his sword with one hand to slash at random, and pushing A Shu away with the other.
Ah Shu was also extremely strong, but his face turned red.
"Huh...huh..."
Both of them were breathing heavily, like two wild animals.
The difference is that one is determined and the other crazy.
In the end, Ah Shu still failed to hold down Li Xia, and was hit by Li Xia's helmet again, causing his nose to bleed.
Li Xia rolled on the spot and dodged a spear.
Ah Shu did not let him go and rushed forward again. He picked up an arrow with his left hand and pierced Li Xia's back. The arrow got stuck in the armor.
Li Xia was in pain and struck a sword with his backhand.
Since both sides were well-armored, each of his swords was aimed at such a place without armor coverage.
This sword was so vicious that it pierced into Ah Shu's eyes.
"puff……"
This time, the pain was excruciating. Ah Shu screamed like a ghost and even waved the arrow in his hand desperately, intending to stab Li Xia to death.
Li Xia had retreated, his steps were like flowing clouds and flowing water, and he retreated into the Song army's formation in two steps.
Ah Shu has gone crazy and doesn't care about the killer coming.
Li Xia thrust out his sword again, stabbing Ah Shu's left hand holding the arrow.
Several Song soldiers stepped forward and chopped at A Shu one after another.
Ah Shu was seriously injured one after another, screaming in agony, his face covered with blood, and he looked like a ghost.
The Mongolian soldiers were horrified and rushed to kill the Song soldiers. They grabbed A Shu and fled.
They just turned around, and Li Xia caught up with him and stabbed Ah Shu in the knee with his sword.
Ah Shu fell, but he was still able to use his legs to twist, and used his greatest strength to twist the sword out of Li Xia's hand.
The more injured he became, the more ferocious he became. He immediately picked up a scimitar with his pierced left hand and wanted to kill Li Xia.
Li Xia had already grabbed A Shu's hand, squeezed it, grabbed the scimitar, and chopped it off...
From the time A Shu rushed to Li Xia to this moment, only a few breaths had passed. The surrounding Song troops and Mongolian soldiers also took a few steps back and forth.
With this slash of the sword, the battle that lasted all day finally came to an end.
Simple and crude.
It's so simple and crude that it's just like Ah Shu himself.
Until his death, Ah Shu thought that the Immortal God would bless him, just like every time in the past.
However, the battlefield is cruel...
The cruel thing is that the murderer only has one life to pay for the innocent souls of tens of thousands of people and tens of millions.
Can't afford it.
Only end it and create a new order.
Li Xia couldn't describe how he felt after being cut off with a knife.
He is determined and always looks forward.
But it must also be filled with anger.
"puff!"
Blood spurted from his neck.
"Puff puff……"
There was blood splattered everywhere, and the smell was terrible.