Chapter 504 The sun shines in the sky, and the soldiers can't sleep
"The sun is shining in the sky, and Xiqiang cannot sleep..."
Ye An is in a good mood today. Last night has made the Xiqiang people extremely tired. The grove outside Qingping Pass is now extremely peaceful.
Hearing Ye An singing an unknown tune again, Tieniu, Zhao Hu and others looked at each other. Whenever the Marquis was in a happy mood, he would always sing like this, even though he was always scolded by Mr. Yuan Bo as being vulgar.
But to be honest, Tieniu thought it sounded very good.
"Brother Tieniu, what is Mr. Hou singing?"
"Don't you understand? The sun is in the sky! The flowers are blooming too!"
Li Ergen was eating noodles by the side, giggling from time to time and saying: "Our "Hua'er" is not as good as our singing. The Hua'er from Longxi Man is louder and thicker!"
"You don't know, this is the song of the Marquis's family. Even Yangcheng County Lord can sing it. It's so good!"
Tieniu naturally felt aggrieved for Ye An. In his opinion, no matter what Ye An did, he was right and no matter what he did, he was the best.
It is a good thing to be praised by others, but he knows his own voice. Ye An helplessly picked up the sea bowl and squatted in front of everyone: "My singing is indeed not as good as the "Hua'er" from Longxi. Give me a clove of garlic."
, if you eat noodles without garlic, the taste will be half as bad!”
Zhao Hu smiled and handed over a clove of garlic and said: "Master Hou, we tortured the Xiqiang people very hard last night. It seems that they dare not knock the door today."
Ye An smiled, looked back at the envious guarding officers and said: "The enemy was tired last night, and today we are even more sleepless. Let us seize the opportunity to pursue the victory, and let our officers and soldiers of the Anhua Army nourish themselves with battle and temper themselves."
His spirit!"
Ye An was not sleepy after coming this night, but he still wanted to take a good rest. He knew that it was the excitement in his heart that was causing trouble. During the day, he did not need to personally direct the raid on the woods outside Qingping Pass. Guarding the pass
The security army commander Sha Wentian can lead the troops.
This guy is ready to go. This time, Ye An almost completely delegated the power to him for sending troops, and he didn't have too many requirements. The only thing is that the priority is to harass the Xiqiang people and avoid entanglement.
So Sha Wentian selected 800 Anhua troops and 200 security troops to attack, a total of a thousand people. This was already a very bold move. The size of the army of more than a thousand people was not small. He wanted to command the battlefield with restraint.
, which shows that he has some confidence.
More than a thousand people fought their way out of Qingping Pass. Ye An took a rest on a chair and turned his attention to the battlefield outside the city wall. Sha Wentian was quite smart and did not intend to attack the westward-moving rebels in the woods.
They burned the woods with rockets and forced the Xiqiang people to rush out of the woods to fight.
This forest seemed to have transformed from a sheltered place for the Western Qiang people into a cage. Ye An had to admire Sha Wentian's vision for leaving this forest outside Qingping Pass.
The woods burned by the fire forced the Xiqiang people to disperse their efforts to evacuate and evacuate. A fire in summer made people breathless. Even Ye An, who was as far away as Qingpingguan, could feel the rolling heat wave.
He closed his eyes slightly and felt the shouts of killing on the battlefield. Ye An knew that all this was the beginning of the blocking battle. More than 4,000 defenders of Qingping Pass must defend this pass. The Xiqiang people at the moment are just the advance guard. Defeat them and defeat them.
They are the most important goals at the moment.
The Xiqiang people suffered terribly under Sha Wentian's attack. Furious, Xianlingtuoye led the elite troops to attack, but they encountered the Song army, which was already well prepared.
The arrows hit them head-on, the shield wall formed an iron wall, and the cavalry swept through the formation. The military formation became unbreakable for a while.
Xian Lingtuoye was a little confused for a moment, especially after seeing the military formation in front of him, he felt inexplicably that these more than a thousand people were no match for the Song army.
Looking back at the army that was busy evacuating in the woods, Xian Lingtuoye knew that he had to resist this attack by the Song army, otherwise the army would lose morale right now!
The two armies were fighting, and the morale of the army was paramount. Xianling Tuoye still launched a charge against the copper wall and iron wall in front of him. The infantry, cavalry, and troops all launched a charge towards the Song Army's military formation. He had no choice but to fire arrows from the Song Army's military formation.
The longer you wait, the greater your losses will be.
Being prepared and unprepared, the Song army had an absolute advantage. Even if the number of Xiqiang rebels exceeded the Song army, Sha Wentian still stabilized the army's formation. As long as the army's formation was not chaotic, they would definitely be able to defeat the enemy.
The crossbow arrows easily penetrated the leather armor of the Xiqiang people. The moment the arrows penetrated the flesh, the Xiqiang rebels fell. What the Anhua Army was best at was shooting at the enemy from a distance, consuming the enemy's vitality to the greatest extent.
As for the arrows fired by the Xiqiang rebels during the attack, they were unable to cause much damage to the Song army's formation. The huge oar shield made a "click, click, click" sound, although it did not cause much casualties to the Song army.
But it also aroused the anger of Song Jun.
The arrows were fired more quickly. The shield was raised but some arrows fell into the army, and casualties gradually appeared. The firing range of the Song Army's highway was farther than that of the Xiqiang people, but as the distance got closer, the arrows of the Xiqiang people
Crossbows also began to pose a threat to the Song Army's military formation.
But this also shows that the distance between the two parties is very close, and they quickly collide together like tides, like the rapid merging of distinct rivers.
However, it was eventually replaced by waves of bright red. Shields, spears, and knives appeared in tacit cooperation in the hands of the Anhua Army, and the Security Army also followed suit.
This is a competition of bravery, but also a competition and fighting of technology and system. The Anhua Army is an army that Ye An has cultivated along the way, which is different from the ordinary Song Army. The Xiqiang people on the opposite side are no longer a small group of rioters, but
The elite among the Western Qiang rebels.
The strength that can defeat the Huanzhou frontier army is enough to represent the average level in cold weapon warfare of this era.
Ye An deliberately avoided taking command personally, and instead used Sha Wentian as the wisdom officer, in order to test the level of the Anhua Army as a guest officer. At this time, he stood on the city wall and watched everything nervously.
However, although the battlefield was stalemate, the balance of victory and defeat had begun to tilt towards the Song army. The two card players defended the enemy with shields and used long swords as support. The two spearmen cooperated from behind, and the archers came close to shoot.
Under such tacit cooperation, the Xiqiang people were a little confused. It was obvious that their numbers had the advantage, but they unknowingly turned into a situation where they faced several Song troops alone.
For wars in the cold weapon era, the military formation is as important as Mount Tai. However, when the two armies engage in melee, the military formation will waver. At this time, the formation of the small team can be maintained and tacit cooperation can be maintained.
Already on the winning side.
The battle on the battlefield quickly determined the winner. The Song army resisted the attack of the Xiqiang rebels as if they had roots under their feet, and at the same time had a slight momentum of counterattack.
The Xiqiang army was in chaos and was defeated. Even if Xian Lingtuoye tried to restrain them and even killed the deserters personally, it was of no avail. The only way was to withdraw.
The low horn sound sounded, and the Xiqiang rebels quickly retreated to the woods behind them as if they had been granted amnesty. The Song army covered them all the way to the woods. At this time, Xianlingtuoye was not worried. He knew that the Song army would not pursue them, and
He also hopes that the Song army will pursue...
Seeing the Song army's pursuit stopped at the edge of the woods, Xian Lingtuoye breathed a long sigh of relief and ordered the army to evacuate to the woods again, and at the same time ordered fire prevention and burning of the forest!