The White Wolf garrison set off fireworks that towered into the sky, visible from far and near.
The Khitans were furious and attacked like crazy.
The flying dragon sergeants stood on the high slope with ease, raining down arrows. They were all leaving, so there was no need to save. Just give all these arrows to the Khitans as gifts.
A bold Khitan cavalryman rushed up the high slope, but was quickly pulled off his horse, his swords and axes fell, and blood spurted out.
"Raise the spear!" Seeing that the Khitan cavalry could not charge forward, Xue Li, the commander of Feilong Army, became anxious and gave the order directly.
"Huh!" The first row of stepsmen held their bows flat with their hands. Someone on the left and right wings abandoned their long bows and stepped forward with their bows.
There was the sound of rustling footsteps, and occasionally there was the sound of armor leaves and the clash of weapons. Two thousand infantrymen slowly walked down the high slope and launched an active charge towards the cavalry.
"Woo--" the trumpet sounded, and the foot archers picked up their strong bows with laughter and called names one by one at places far beyond the range of mounted bows.
No one panicked, which was good. Xue Li moved forward steadily with a smile on his face, holding a long ax in his hand.
As long as you don't panic, no one can defeat them. But 90% of the infantry in the world panic the moment they see the cavalry.
The arrows fired by the infantry archers were very vicious, biting the flesh, and the Khitan cavalry screamed one after another. They may not be dead, but it is inevitable that people or horses would be injured.
"Hold still!" Xue Li only gave a simple order.
However, many junior officers or veterans are very proactive. They remind each other and take care of each other. They maintain a good distance between each team and battalion. The entire formation is like a precision-operated machine, plunging towards the enemy like a hedgehog.
Their pace was neither hasty nor slow, and there was only a slight disorganization of formation during the descent.
The Khitan cavalry galloped left and right, charging but not daring to charge, but not wanting to run. They could only turn their horses' heads and retreat to create distance.
The cavalry bow's arrows are soft and close, and when facing the strong bows and crossbows of the infantry, they are almost powerless to fight back.
Yelv Zhenduo's eyes widened with anger. Why didn't they panic? The cavalry had just risked their lives and charged with such great momentum. Why didn't they break up? Even if they didn't break up, it's okay for your position to waver. Why don't you waver? Are your hearts made of iron?
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"Shasha!" The infantry had already descended to the flat ground in the valley.
"Nirakun, take the men and charge again." Yelv Zhenduo turned around and ordered.
Nierakun looked troubled and said: "Brother, we just rushed through and couldn't get in."
"Charge again!" Zhenduo said angrily: "If you dare to disobey orders, don't blame me for being cruel!"
Nierakun was startled, knowing that his brother was serious, he sighed secretly, ordered five hundred cavalry, and put more than a hundred people in armor in front, aimed at the joint between the Xia Renbu archer and the long-legged hand, and roared
, rushed over first.
The five hundred cavalry didn't look like much, but the power of the charge was very astonishing.
At first, there were more than a hundred horsemen wearing iron armor, holding long-handled bones, and their faces were ferocious. If you are timid, you will be scared to death.
"Whoosh! Whoosh!" The dense arrows were shot out, without aiming at anyone, and they were all directed towards the horses.
Horses continued to fall and die along the way, which affected the charging speed of the rear cavalry. They had to separate to both sides, and the dense charging formation suddenly became sparse.
After the archer shot the last arrow, he got into the long forest. Another group of infantry came up from behind, their sharp swords facing the direction of the Khitan cavalry.
"Hold on!" The veterans looked ahead and kept shouting.
On a chaotic battlefield, people are highly nervous. Sometimes they can't hear the golden drum, and sometimes they can't see the flag. At this time, if there are people around who are experienced in battles to remind you and use their experience to tell you what to do, use
Their actions and words soothe your overly nervous emotions are priceless.
"Don't wet your pants!" Several veterans who were separated from the team laughed loudly. They even took the initiative to come out of the formation and use their rifle bows to call everyone at close range. They seemed completely unaware of what would happen if they were approached by cavalry.
More and more horses fell dead on the road, and the Khitan cavalry became more and more scattered. Nierakun closed his eyes, and with dozens of armored cavalry, he was the first to hit them.
His luck is very good, but very bad.
The war horse refused to rush towards the sharp blade, and stood up in front of the infantry formation. Nierakun urged the horse desperately, but unexpectedly, the world started spinning, and he was directly knocked down by a long Ke axe.
He realized something was wrong, and just as he was about to stand up, a shield hit him in the face, and then a horizontal knife lightly grazed him.
"It doesn't seem to hurt..." The last thought came to Yerunelakun's mind.
Blood welled up and soaked the earth.
"What a child's play!" Xue Li sneered.
In the past, when the Turks attacked Su Dingfang's 5,000 infantrymen, they used 100,000 cavalry and divided them into several rounds of wheel battles. It's better for you. Just want to test 500 people. How stupid!
"Dong dong..." The drums sounded, and two thousand infantrymen launched an astonishing active charge.
The front line of the battlefield is full of dead people and horse corpses. The Khitan cavalry will definitely be unable to charge forward, so the infantry of the Feilong Army will take the initiative to meet them. Do you want to fight?
The Khitan people did not fight, but took the initiative to retreat. There was a chaos for a while.
"Woo——" the trumpet sounded again.
"Kill the thieves!" On the hills on both sides, the little expert Fan Ren Qingqi rushed out. Taking advantage of the Khitan people's chaos, they galloped and shot.
The rain of arrows intensified the chaos among the Khitans.
The problem of low organization has emerged. Everyone is rushing to run away, but no one is willing to stay and resist.
The party's Qingqi screamed and rushed behind the enemy. Their horses could not move faster, but it didn't matter. They stabbed with lances, chopped with knives, and smashed with maces.
The Khitans fell off their horses one after another, crying loudly.
It's so miserable! Xue Li can't bear to watch it. Once a person's morale collapses, there is no lower limit. They are no different from animals, they are all pigs and sheep waiting to be slaughtered.
A mob cannot serve as a soldier, and this battle once again confirmed this iron law.
The battle ended in the afternoon.
The Feilong sergeants calmly swept the battlefield and collected the ownerless horses. The Tibetan people scrambled for the armor left by the Khitan people, and almost came to blows.
A mob! Xue Li shook his head. They were no different from the Khitans. Because they had little combat experience, they might not be as good as them.
It's time to go! As the commander responsible for breaking up the rear, Xue Li knew very well that after giving the chasing Khitans a painful lesson, they could retreat calmly and no one would dare to pursue them again.
The military envoy Liang Hanyong left three or four days earlier than them, carrying a large amount of loot with him and he was very happy.
This trip has been very fruitful! There are more than 50,000 people and more than 200,000 miscellaneous animals. The Khitan people were complacent about penetrating into the back of the mountain area before, but this time they took them all in one pot. I don’t know how they feel - of course
, most of these people are actually tribes that originally relied on Youzhou, and later surrendered to Khitan, but no matter what, they are now the people of King Xia.
Come again next year!
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The right uppercut was withdrawn, and most of the left uppercut was also withdrawn, but there was a slight accident.
On the second day of September, the cavalry envoy Oritsugu ordered 5,000 men and more than 30,000 horses to go straight down the Huangshui River.
On the seventh day of September, we were near the old site of Qishou Khan City.
Along the way, we actually encountered some obstacles.
The Chute tribe, Ping tribe, Liubu Xi and other miscellaneous tribes tried their best to intercept them.
At this point, there are still people who are stupid enough to confront them. After teaching them how to behave, the Khitan people became honest and spread out, competing in archery at mid-range, but they were blocked for life.
However, the archery skills of the cavalry warriors are not weak. Most of them came from the personal followers of the chiefs of Helong tribes. They once had a Beiwei capital. After reorganization, they were divided into four commanders. They can fight in close combat, ride horses and shoot at the city.
, shooting the Khitans so far that they couldn't find the north.
But when it came to this, the Khitan people became red-blooded and would rather pay a higher casualty ratio to drive away the Xia soldiers who were attacking their faces. Even if several people exchanged for you, they would ride and shoot at each other.
It will consume you to death!
It was this decisive move that led Oritsugu to stop the advance and station his horse on the west bank of the Tuho True Water.
On the other side of the river, there were 60,000 to 70,000 Khitan cavalry who had finally assembled, almost ten times their number.
Oritsugu Yu is not stupid, and he will not think that all his men are invincible tough guys. Normally, without seriously damaging production, the Khitan can only assemble hundreds of thousands of strong men, and no more than 200,000 at most.
If the maximum conscription were to be carried out, and all young and old would be recruited, hundreds of thousands of infantry and cavalry might be gathered.
At this moment, he slapped the Khitan people firmly with a slap on the left and a slap on the right, which made the Khitan people dizzy. They were really anxious, and the whole people mobilized. But it was just a matter of time. Hundreds of thousands of people came over, and it would really kill the 20,000 people he went north to.
Soldiers and horses.
Of course, the Khitans would not do this if they were not in desperate situation.
National mobilization means slaughtering a large number of livestock to supply frontline consumption; it means there is not enough manpower to prepare hay for the winter and harvest grain; it means that the vassal tribes are panicking and doubting the ability of the "Khitan Heavenly Soldiers".
It has overdrawn the development potential of the Eight Parts of Khitan for a long time in the future, and has many disadvantages that I cannot finish talking about.
Oretsugu waved his hand, and the soldiers escorted a Khitan prisoner over.
"I will let you go back and tell Shi Lu that I have plundered hundreds of thousands of cattle, sheep and people, and gave them away without any effort." Zhejiyu said: "It is not easy for old Shi Lu to gather so many soldiers and horses, and it will delay the family's farming work.
It’s no longer beautiful. Let’s all disperse and go back to our homes.”
The prisoner glared at him.
"You don't want to send a message?" Oritsugu waved his hand, and the soldiers stepped forward, raised their swords in their hands, and cut him down by the river in the astonished eyes of the prisoners.
There was a commotion on the other side.
After killing the people, the soldiers took another prisoner.
Oritsugu Yu repeated what he said, and with the dead ghost in front of him as an example, the man nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, then mounted a horse, found a ford, and waded across the river.
There was a puff of smoke in the distance.
Abaoji and his five thousand Khan's personal troops finally arrived, hurrying and slowly.
Yelu Shilu glanced at him and ordered the prisoners who had just crossed the river to be beheaded.
The prisoner was horrified and opened his mouth to speak. Shi Lu drew his bow and shot an arrow, hitting the prisoner's open mouth.
"Bang!" The body fell to the ground with a bang.
Abaoji looked solemn, rode his horse and came closer, saying: "Uncle, why..."
"The Xia people are capable and good at fighting, but we are helpless. Abaoji, you are like Ta Ma Gong Shali, do you dare to lead your army directly into the enemy's formation and repel them?" Yelu Shilu asked.
Abaoji looked at his uncle's thoughtful eyes, nodded heavily, and said, "Why don't you dare?"
After that, he asked his subordinates to change their horses, waved the flag, and then looked for a ford and tried to cross the river.
Shi Lu also cooperated very well, and immediately ordered all the troops to move away from Jin, reorganize their troops, and cross the river in large numbers to cooperate with Abaoji's five thousand elite troops.
For a time, 70,000 horsemen took action one after another, looking for a crossing point.
Upon seeing this, the Xia army on the other side didn't waste any time, and immediately roared away on horseback.
Abaoji and Shilu seemed to have a clear understanding of each other, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Kill!" Abaoji chased after him like a god.
The Khitan people also became more courageous. With more than ten times their strength, they crossed the river in batches and pursued the Xia soldiers. It was very lively for a while.
But anyone who knows the inside story knows that the Xia people came here with the intention of taking them by surprise. They were just going to defeat you one by one before you gathered or mobilized. Since a large army has been assembled here, they will definitely not risk the whole army.
The risk of annihilation continues to bet against you, so leaving is inevitable.
The farce-like pursuit lasted for a whole day. Xia Jun took advantage of the cover of night and disappeared between the vast pine forest and grassland.
Abaoji pursued them all the way to Huangshui Stone Bridge, regained the flat pine forest, and then ordered to stop advancing.
It is difficult to say how many people each tribe lost, but most of them were vassal tribes. Among the Khitan tribes, only the Chu Te tribe, which had pastures in the flat pine forests, suffered heavy losses. The Ping tribe also suffered some losses, but not as much as the Chu Te tribe.
In this battle, the Xia people probably plundered 50,000 to 60,000 people and hundreds of thousands of cattle, sheep, horses and camels.
However, he first attacked the garrisons behind Zhenshan in Youzhou, then plundered Tieli Mansion in Bohai State, and captured Fuyu Mansion. The gains were about the same amount. In fact, it was still a loss, because he also lost a lot of livestock and killed many soldiers in the battle.
Next, it’s time to make a careful calculation. If you suffer a loss once, it’s enough. If you suffer a second time, you’d be stupid.