The five hundred and fortieth chapters two flowers on the battlefield
Although October has already entered autumn, the sun is still emitting its scorching energy in the sky, as if it is drying out the earth and all the creatures on it.
The battlefield is filled with the solemn smell of blood, but the blood dries up very quickly on the land. The blood sucked into the ground may become nutrients for the earth.
Ye An led his horse and walked silently on the battlefield, placing all the living people he could see on the stretchers behind the horse. Unfortunately, he could not find many people who still had hope of survival.
Cao Yi laughed crazily on the side: "Beheaded more than 3,000 enemies! This is a great achievement! Brother Ye An, although Li Deming escaped, most of his 5,000 men and horses have been lost. We sent out all the cavalry ranks.
If we pursue them, the remaining thousand or so people will definitely not be able to run far!"
Ye An didn't speak, but looked at the young man with a tender face in front of him, gushing out blood and mumbling words he couldn't understand.
"My lungs are damaged and I won't be able to survive."
Cao Yi's original excitement when she saw this scene disappeared. The battlefield was full of soldiers with white gauze on their arms treating the wounded, and death happened again and again around them.
This battle was so brutal that even with all-out efforts, many young lives were taken away. The lethality of the Dangxiang people was not comparable to that of the Xiqiang people.
The combat power of the Dangxiang cavalry was very strong. If the Song army had not defended the defense line, they would have been almost broken by the Dangxiang cavalry at the moment when the two sides came into contact.
But even if it withstood the full force of Dangxiang's cavalry, the Song army still needed to pay huge casualties to stabilize the military formation under constant impact, and the price for the stability of the military formation was the constant sacrifice of Song Army soldiers.
Although Li Deming was not left behind, he also suffered heavy losses in this battle. To defeat the army of more than 10,000 people, a huge price had to be paid. More than 3,000 of the 5,000 party members were killed and injured, and Li Deming only brought more than 1,000 people with him.
Everyone escaped, and not all of them were injured. There were many injured. Even Li Deming himself was injured in this battle. Fortunately, he was protected by iron armor. The injuries were not serious, but the arrow was stuck in the flesh.
The wound was only one inch deep, but such a wound still made Gu Lepu, Wei Mingshanyu and others nervous.
Stimulated by the blood, Li Deming was exceptionally brave. While leading his troops to break through the formation, he fought hard and killed no fewer Song troops than other party members.
In the end, the Song army broke through the encirclement. Li Deming was not aware of the grief. He put away the strong bow in his hand while riding on horseback. He laughed and said: "This battle is quite hearty! I never thought that the Song army in Huanzhou would be like this."
Fighting power!"
Wei Mingshan Yu could barely keep up with him and said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, this battle is truly extraordinary. It's a pity that most of my party's elite cavalry died in the battle!"
Li Deming didn't care. He followed the horse up and down and said with a relaxed smile: "This battle did not cause heavy losses to our party. At least we have discovered the armament of the Song Army. If the Song Army is like this, then we must be careful.
." From the beginning to the end, Li Deming was considering the benefits of this battle. As for the dead soldiers... the party has never lacked cavalry.
Being able to escape was nothing to Li Deming. Now he just wanted to reach Xiamao Village as soon as possible and join the army led by his son.
Ten thousand cavalry were enough to defeat the Xiamo stronghold, and could also make the Song Dynasty's defense line retreat dozens of miles inward. This was of great benefit to the party, and was also the layout of Li Deming's planning.
The purpose was to allow the Song people to focus all their energy on the land of Huanzhou.
But things were far from as simple as he imagined. The Dangxiang army stationed in Qintuokou, led by Li Yuanhao, attacked Xiamo Village, but Xiamo Village seemed to be defended by more than 10,000 people. After the soldiers on the wall were killed,
, and there will be a steady stream of soldiers swarming up the city wall, including many Xiqiang people.
At this time, Li Yuanhao discovered that Xiamo Village had instantly transformed from a small military fortress in the border state of the Song Dynasty into the hardest nut to crack. The Xiqiang people were so tenacious in guarding Xiamo Village that they seemed to have lost their lives in just over a month.
We live and die together with this military stronghold.
Unfortunately, even so, Xiamaozhai was crumbling under the attack of Dangxiang's army. Li Yuanhao planned to take down this thorn in Dangxiang's side in one go, but suddenly found that a large number of Song troops had appeared around him.
And formed a siege on the Dangxiang Army. If they attack Xiamaozhai again at this time, the army will suffer heavy losses. The sentries have not seen so many troops for a long time before, and they are all in high fighting spirit. They are completely different from those from other states.
He looked tired after rushing to the house.
For a time, Dangxiang Army was surrounded by enemies from all sides, and the Song Army also began their attack. Tens of thousands of Song troops began to advance gradually and orderly, with the purpose of surrounding Dangxiang Army.
As the formation continued to shrink, Li Yuanhao sent out cavalry to attack the Song Army's formation. As long as they could rush the Song Army along the way, party members with more cavalry would be able to exert their greatest advantage. Even if they defeated tens of thousands of Song Army, it would be difficult.
impossible.
However, the Song Army's military formation became more and more stable under the impact of Dang Xiang's army, and they continued to shrink their military formation in an attempt to divide and surround the cavalry, forcing them to return to the central army to look for opportunities to fight again.
When Li Yuanhao personally led the army to break through the encirclement, he also encountered great resistance. The Song army seemed to want to "bite them to death" here. He ignored the entanglement of Dang Xiang's army and immediately made up for any damage to the army's formation, in order to maintain the
The stability of the military formation also kept the party's cavalry in check.
Sha Wentian was guarding Xiamo Village, while Zhou Wenzhi and the generals of the army were cooperating with Xiamo Village to continuously strangle the weak flanks of Dangxiang's army, giving no chance for Dangxiang's people to breathe.
The numerical advantage of the Song army was revealed, and Zhou Wenzhi also used his steady and steady command ability. He did not seek speed, but stability, and used his numerical advantage to gradually encircle and suppress the party's cavalry. From the beginning to the end, he was recalling Ye An's explanation in his mind.
His words: "I don't want to defeat the party members, I just want to kill more cavalry."
Zhou Wenzhi thoroughly implemented Ye An's guidance. For him, Ye An was able to hand over so much military power to him and let him lead the troops to encircle and suppress party members. This was no longer as simple as a new appointment.
The more aware of the mistakes he made before, the harder Zhou Wenzhi will work hard to seize this opportunity. If he wins this battle, he can undo all his previous mistakes, and of course it can also free him from the fate of the scapegoat. If he loses, naturally
It is beyond redemption.
People can often reach their greatest potential when they are desperate. Zhou Wenzhi is desperately grasping the last straw and launching an attack on the Dangxiang people with all his strength.
Zhou Wenzhi, who was running among the armies, was also infected by the Song army. He shouted military orders to advance or defended the line tightly, but this action also attracted the attention of the party members.
An arrow came from the air and actually penetrated the Wenshan Armor on Zhou Wenzhi's body after more than 500 steps. Amid the exclamations of the soldiers around him, Zhou Wenzhi pulled out the arrow and shouted Luck: "Kill the bandits."
, Don't turn your heels!"
This roar once again aroused the fighting spirit of the Song army. The soldiers desperately shrank their formation forward, their spears like a forest, and they were indestructible.