Under the king's banner, Huo Chihaer thought in a daze that he had heard wrongly.
Song Jun is coming?
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This is the Gobi desert more than 300 miles away from Yumen Pass. There is no danger to defend. How dare the Song army, who is not good at riding horses, come out? And can they be so elusive? Do they think they are Mongolian cavalry?
"How many people came?"
"It seems that there are only more than a hundred people..."
Only then did Huo Chihaer feel relieved, and quickly looked back at the battlefield where he was fighting Tuolifa. It turned out to be the Song Army's scouting horse.
The people of Song Dynasty were so timid that more than a hundred people were required to even explore the horse.
"Go and keep an eye on them and see what they want to do." Huo Chihaer then dispatched a hundred-man team to defend to the east.
He didn't think the Song army would rush over.
It must have been that the garrison at Yumen Pass noticed signs of a large group of soldiers and horses to the west, and sent several hundred scouting horses out to watch the battle.
It's normal to watch the battle, and it doesn't matter if you just let Song Jun watch it.
The entire war, consisting of one small battle after another in the recent past, will completely put down the Ali Buge rebellion. The chaos will soon end, and the Great Mongolia will soon regroup its national strength... Of course the people of Song Dynasty were nervous.
.
Just like the silly roe deer on the grassland likes to poke its head when the wild beast is biting.
With such a reasonable speculation, Huo Chihaer's mind has returned to the battlefield with the Mongolian army.
Presumably it was because the troops he transferred were almost there and blocking the road to the west, so Tuoli found that his troops were weak and their horses were exhausted, so he still had to fight decisively.
This battle was very easy for Huo Chihaer. He deployed a defensive formation with superior strength and consumed Tuolifa's troops.
The battle started at dawn and lasted until noon. Even if it was not a hand-to-hand fight, the two armies
Still spreading more and more.
There are already falcons circling in the sky, waiting for a feast.
"The rebels will surrender if they can't hold on for too long." Huo Chihaer said to the generals around him: "You can shout now and tell them that the real Great Khan will..."
"Yidu protector, look!"
The shout interrupted Huo Chihaer's order.
He wanted to see which soldier was so panicked. When he turned around, he felt that the sun was dazzling. Just over a thousand steps away, dozens of defeated cavalry soldiers were rushing towards him.
Behind them, the more than a hundred Song troops finally appeared.
If it weren't for the red military robes in the armor that revealed the identities of those people, Huo Chihaer would have thought they were Mongols.
Because only Mongolians who have lived on horses since childhood have such superb riding skills...
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Huo Xiaolian held the horse's belly between her legs, but her hands were not holding the reins at all. Instead, she took out a crossbow arrow from her back, loaded it, and took aim.
"Sigh."
“咴咴咴咴……”
A Yuan soldier fell from his horse, and the horse continued to run forward.
Three hundred cavalry separated from the Yuan army's formation, ordered the defeated troops to turn around, and at the same time faced them in that direction, intending to block the vanguard camp.
Huo Xiaolian felt that the number of people on the other side was too small.
The cost of equipment, food, training, etc. for these 100 people is comparable to that of an ordinary 2,000 troops.
In other words, Huo Xiaolian believed that the vanguard camp could easily defeat the enemy with less than a thousand soldiers.
What's more, they are still stationed in Gaochang City and have not experienced war for a long time...
This kind of small group encounter did not require many formation requirements. The two sides rushed towards each other and each fired two rounds of crossbows.
"Ta, ta, ta."
There were three arrows nailed to Huo Xiaolian's body.
He didn't care at all, the arrow hadn't penetrated the armor yet.
Since two years ago, Li Xia's army has vigorously popularized cotton armor, and the armor of the Selected Front Camp is different. In addition to soaking the cotton, beating it, and drying it in the sun, layers of thin cotton are stacked on top of each other, and iron sheets are sandwiched in between.
, cowhide, silk and other materials, military craftsmen call it "composite armor".
This armor is light and thin, yet very tough.
It's just that the sun in the Western Region is too bright and a bit hot.
Thanks to the smuggling business with the Northland in recent years, there is enough leather and beef tendon for making crossbows.
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When he took a step forward, Huo Xiaolian fired another crossbow arrow, and a Yuan soldier on the opposite side fell down in response.
He finally put away his crossbow and picked up a hammer.
Lower your body, gather strength... get closer, thirty steps, ten steps, raise the hammer.
On the opposite side, a captain of ten men from the Yuan army came up to him and also gave him a head hammer.
"nail!"
The two hammers hit each other hard, and one of them broke with a "click".
As early as three or four years ago, Hao Xiuyang was improving the steelmaking method. He embedded pig iron sheets in coiled wrought iron bars, sealed the steelmaking furnace with mud, and smelted it. He called this method Tuangang.
After Sun Deyu took over the Gewuyuan, the conditions improved a lot. The blast furnace was built to be more airtight, more iron ore was available, and a small batch of fine steel weapons were built and provided to the front selection camp.
From the improvement of a smelting method, to repeated trials to determine the temperature, formula, etc., to the completion of the preliminary furnace construction and mine preparations, to now smelting a small batch of better steel, it took three or four years, and it has not yet been completed.
It is possible to make weapons for all soldiers in large quantities. But this is already very, very fast...
The steel hammer and the iron hammer intersected, and with the first blow, Huo Xiaolian broke the weapon of the Yuan army on the opposite side.
He quickly raised the hammer again, and with the second blow, smashed the head of the Yuan army on the opposite side.
Keep moving forward.
When they reached the third row, the Yuan army on the opposite side struck Huo Xiaolian's composite armor with a knife.
"puff."
The armor cracked, a layer of skin was broken, and blood seeped out. At the same time, the hammer had already knocked the Yuan soldier away.
The Yuan army further ahead was stunned for a moment. When Huo Xiaolian swung his sledgehammer, he had already pulled the reins and ran away.
Not long after the confrontation, the Selected Front Battalion actually broke through the Yuan army's line of more than 300 people.
They didn't stop and went straight towards Huo Chihaer.
Behind him, someone shouted in panic: "Is Song Jun's Tanma so good at fighting?"
"Isn't this Tanma?! Stop them quickly..."
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Huo Chihaer turned around.
The red cavalry in the wind and sand was getting closer and closer.
It was only at this moment that he realized that his judgment was wrong.
This is not a silly roe deer who came to watch the battle, this is also an eagle falcon hovering overhead. No, the eagle falcon at least knows how to wait for people to leave before eating the corpse. This is...
There was no time for him to think about this.
More than 400 people have been deployed to stop the more than 100 people, and the military advantage against Tuolifa has not gradually been lost.
Allocate more troops to stop it?
"withdraw!"
"withdraw!"
Huo Chihaer quickly ordered.
This is definitely the most correct choice at this moment.
If he had known that the 100 men to the east were not scouting horses, but elites trained by King Qin Li Xia with him personally, he should have made such a choice earlier.
By this time, there were only a few hundred riders left who could retreat with him.
"Go quickly..."
"咴咴咴咴......"
"Bang!"
Suddenly there was another loud noise.
This is the first thunderbolt thrown today.
After that, they didn't throw a few missiles in total, and the selected vanguard battalion had already entered the Yuan army.
Chaos quickly spread.
The ferocity of the Song army clearly exceeded Huo Chiha'er's expectations, and they actually killed the Yuan army like wolves among sheep.
"Let's go! Protect me!"
Huo Chihaer galloped his horse for more than twenty steps. When he turned around, several horsemen were already charging towards him.
He was horrified, and immediately thought of Lian Xixian's previous letter, and quickly shouted in Uighur language: "Lian Xixian?! Did you send someone here? Ah Nang is dead! Lian Xixian..."
Seeing the pursuers getting closer and closer, Huo Chihaer became more and more panicked.
A Song Army general raised his hammer high.
Huo Chihaer had to speak only a few words of Chinese.
"Lian Xixian... He wrote to me, and he wrote... Gaochang is a native of Han..."
"Bang!"
Hit it with a hammer!
Where the steel hammer hit, the golden armor shattered, and Huo Chihaer spurted out blood and fell to the ground.
He fell on the yellow sand, his eyes widened.
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In the bloody light, he saw a knight riding his horse next to him.
"Song people...are really despicable..."
Huo Xiaolian got off his horse and pulled out his saber.
He didn't understand what Huo Chihaer said in his last sentence. He did understand the previous Chinese sentence of begging for mercy, but it was of no use.
Because King Qin had an order to kill Huo Chihaer without mercy...
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Lian Xixian and Li Xia discussed the situation of Uighur in detail, saying that Huo Chihaer strongly supported Kublai Khan.
This inference can be made because Lian Xixian was originally from Gaochang.
Fifty-five years ago, when King Gaochang of that generation returned to Mongolia, Lian Xixian's father was just eighteen years old. He accompanied the king and was selected as a guard to serve in the Mongolian expedition, and then stayed in Yanjing.
In recent years, Lian Xixian has written to Huo Chihaer many times in accordance with Li Xia's wishes. From the ancestral foundation to the civil strife in Mongolia, he did not ask Huo Chihaer to immediately raise the flag.
It is enough to have the will to be self-reliant.
Unexpectedly, Huo Chihaer sternly refused.
To use an inappropriate analogy, this matter is like Kublai Khan's concubine in Yu. Li Xia and Lian Xixian are both romantic and suave people who are accustomed to doing such things, especially this concubine is Lian Xixian's hometown.
Good old friend, I thought I would catch him, but I didn't expect to meet a chaste and martyr woman, and a cup of tea was poured into Lian Xixian's face.
The reason why this comparison is inappropriate is because Li Xia did not decide to attack Huo Chihaer because he was so angry.
He regarded Gaochang as his homeland.
Although he often used the metaphor of stealing someone's concubine to express the wavering hearts of princes and kings, he never thought of it as stealing in his heart.
Gaochang was originally a Han native, and Zhongyuan was originally a Han native. He treated Huo Chihaer with the same attitude as he treated the Central Plains prince.
Li Xia was the only one in the world who held this sentiment. Although the Central Plains dynasty failed to incorporate it into its territory hundreds of years ago and hundreds of years later, in the end they were still inseparable.
Although Lian Xixian admired Sinology and believed that "Gaochang is a native of Han" was a compliment to Gaochang, he actually believed that Gaochang was a land of Yi and Di, and he felt unconfident. What he meant here was that even Kublai Khan had to use the Han system.
"Han", not "Song"
Li Xia also had a "natural" temperament because of this. He took it for granted that Wu Luhu Nai should surrender to him, so Wu Lu Hu Nai did not see that he was bluffing at all.
It was natural for him to get rid of Huo Chiha'er who was blocking him from restoring the Han Dynasty, so even if it was a small group sneak attack, even if it was clearly a sneaky and despicable tactic, this hundred-selected front camp still had the momentum of a king's division.
Some people may say that Kublai Khan is the historical trend. But Li Xia is a determined person who does not doubt himself. He believes in himself more and is determined to do better than Kublai Khan.
Therefore, this was never a war he launched against Mongolian herdsmen and Uighur herdsmen.
The vast majority of ordinary Mongolians and Uighurs are also the targets of plunder and drive by the Golden Family and clan officials.
…
"Huo Chiha'er rebelled and has been executed. Those who surrender will not be killed."
The screams continued for a while, and the shouts in Uighur language started to sound.
Although it was just an encounter, Li Xia was obviously well prepared.
Huo Chihaer's head was hung high, those who resisted were killed, and those who surrendered were disarmed. The Selected Front Battalion handled these matters with great experience.
The Mongolian army, which was still fighting the Yuan army just now, had retreated more than a hundred steps and began to rest and recuperate. At the same time, it was secretly guarding this side.
Li Xia just jumped onto the sand dune and heard a Mongolian shout from the other side.
"Are you one of Li Xia's people across from you?! I am a warrior under the Great Khan of Mongolia. I would like to discuss an alliance with you on behalf of the Great Khan and jointly attack Kublai Khan..."
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