() The wall of Dingchuan Village is one foot and two feet high, with a radius of less than a thousand paces. Except for the lower part of the long-abandoned wall, which was once built with rammed earth stones, the entire upper part was built by Weizhou citizens a few days ago.
It was built in a hurry, and the rammed earth plywood had not even had time to be dismantled.
Three thousand Song troops led by Ge Huaimin were stationed in Dingchuan Village. In the middle of the night, the sentry sent by Ge Huaimin reported that the leading troops of the Xia army were about to arrive. Ge Huaimin had already made preparations. He ordered the soldiers to kick out three meals of dry food into the
Huai, each person brings a large jug of water with him, because he knows that once the enemy begins to attack, there will not even be a chance to eat or drink, so it is better to prepare early.
The width of the village wall was only three feet, and there was no time to repair the wall stacks. However, it was not a problem for Ge Huaimin. He ordered people to insert the sharp corners of the shields into the rammed earth to serve as wall stacks. The soldiers hid behind the shields to defend the village.
At the gate, Ge Huaimin ordered people to load vehicles with earth and rocks and pile them up layer by layer to block the gate tightly.
When he ordered to block the gate of the village, he clearly saw some hesitation among the soldiers. Because the gate of the village was blocked, the way for his three thousand people was also cut off. The soldiers all understood this, but Ge Huaimin issued a strict order, and no one could
Don't dare to violate it.
In the morning light, a golden touch appeared on the eastern horizon, and thousands of rays of rays of rays of light poured out to the earth, illuminating the three thousand Song soldiers waiting with bated breath on the wall of Dingchuan Village as if they were covered with a layer of golden light. The slope to the north
Above, the densely packed Xixia cavalry were charging forward in skirmish formation. Strange shouts, shouts, and the sound of horse hooves filled the eardrums. The scimitar of the Xixia cavalry was dazzling in the sun, and the oncoming force was intimidating.
The enemy is approaching quickly. The small hillside is not steep, and the slope to the north is particularly gentle. This is why the Xixia army chose to charge on horseback. Such a slope has little effect on the speed of the horses. They only need to rush to the wall of the village and enter the arrow.
In this blind spot, the cavalry's self-prepared grappling ropes can be used. They can not only put up a low wall to climb at night, but also use sharp hooks to pull the Song army down to the city.
Yuan Dezhong, who commanded the battle, was originally worried that there would be horse traps all over the hillside and he would see a series of people tumbling over their horses. However, it turned out that there was no obstacle in the way. It seems that the Song army did not set up any obstacles on the hillside at all.
Ge Huaimin pressed his sword on the highest point of the stronghold wall, looking at the enemy soldiers rushing in front of him with expressionless expressions. Just like the habit he had developed in countless battles, Ge Huaimin gently adjusted his armor, and slowly and slowly adjusted his armor with his strong hands.
He reached behind his back and pulled out a large bow with iron arms. The guard standing beside him holding an arrow pot handed him an iron-tipped arrow with eagle feathers. Ge Huaimin took the arrow, flicked his wrist and slowly put it on the bowstring.
Every time the enemy advanced ten steps, the bowstring in Ge Huaimin's hand tightened. When the Xixia cavalry rushed up the hillside and came within a hundred steps of the village wall, Ge Huaimin's bowstring was already stretched like a full moon. The bowstring squeaked with great force.
A slight creaking sound.
"Fire the arrow!" Ge Huaimin yelled, and his voice like thunder resounded throughout every corner of Dingchuan Village. As soon as the words came out, the arrow in Ge Huaimin's hand drew a perfect curve like a shooting star. It was like a Xixia soldier.
The arrows fired from the powerful iron-armed bow were so powerful that they penetrated the soldier and his horse, and rolled down the hillside.
For a moment, bows and arrows poked out from behind the shield, and the arrows rained down on the hillside. Most of the arrows were in vain, but there were still seventy or eighty cavalrymen who were hit by arrows and fell from their horses, rolling down the hillside in blood.
"Fire the arrow!" someone shouted hoarsely.
The first row of soldiers of the Song Army who finished shooting arrows quickly retreated, and the soldiers of the second row who had set their arrows leaned out for the second round of attacks. Then the cycle started over and over again. In a few breaths, the Song Army had already fired seven or eight rounds of arrows.
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Even though the precision was not high, even though the north wall could only accommodate more than 700 archers, and even though the Song soldiers did not aim at all, such a blanket of arrows still caused a lot of damage to the Xixia cavalry who entered within a hundred steps.
Killing; after several rounds, more than 300 riders fell under the rain of arrows. The hillside was densely covered with arrows. It looked like the entire hillside was like a big porcupine crawling there.
The Xixia cavalry who entered the range suffered heavy casualties, but the cavalry behind them, under the supervision of Yuan Dezhong, rushed up without fear of death. They wanted to use the gap between the Song army's arrows to rush to the blind corner of the wall, but unexpectedly
The Song army did not care about accuracy and just poured arrows on the hillside.
More than 600 of the first echelon's 1,000 cavalrymen still rushed up the hillside. After more than 20 steps, they entered the blind spot under the village wall. However, suddenly there was a heavy dust. The more than 600 cavalrymen who rushed up the hillside suddenly discovered that
There was a huge trench in front of them. Unfortunately, the momentum was so fast that the horses could not be reined in. They heard loud screams and neighing sounds of horses, accompanied by smoke and dust. More than a hundred people rushed directly into the trench.
In the pit, the remaining soldiers quickly turned their horses and ran down, but were knocked down by more than a hundred Song troops along the way.
There were only 500 soldiers left out of 1,000. Yuande cursed angrily: "Turn around and charge forward. Those who retreat will be killed without mercy."
A cavalry soldier who rushed back shouted: "There is a moat, damn it, it's so wide and deep that you can't cross it, many brothers will fall down."
Yuan Dezhong was a little confused. This small Dingchuan village also has a moat? This is too nonsense.
But this is the fact. There is indeed a moat on the hillside to the north, but there is not a drop of water in this moat. It is not a specially dug moat. It is just a deep hole dug out by the people when they were collecting soil to build the wall a few days ago.
It's just a big hole.
Seeing that these pits were large and deep, Ge Huaimin thought they could be used, so he ordered all the people to collect soil from the north slope, dug the pits more than one person deep and connected them, and then threw some thorns, spikes and other objects inside to form a barrier;
In fact, these big pits are only found on the north slope, not on the other three sides. It's just that the enemy is coming from the north, and the slopes in the north are the gentlest and most conducive to impact. A fool will also know that it is better to charge from the north slope, which comes in handy.
Ge Huaimin laughed loudly and watched the hundreds of Xixia cavalry who fell into the pit struggling endlessly. He casually aimed at and killed one of them and shouted: "Send them to see the Lord of Hell."
This time it was not a targetless shooting. The Song army on the wall regarded the Xia army in the pit as a living target. They took full advantage of their free time to aim and fire, killing all the more than a hundred people who had no way out. However,
In this way, the trench has lost its function. Several deep pits have been filled up with hundreds of horse corpses and human corpses. You can get over by stepping on the corpses. But Ge Huaimin doesn't care. It's worth it to kill more than a hundred Western thieves.
After Yuan Dezhong figured out all this, his face turned pale. He didn't dare to turn around and look behind him. He knew that there must be a pair of angry eyes staring at him, and more than a dozen pairs of gloating eyes staring at him; he was too careless.
It was simply too careless. I thought that there must not be many Song troops guarding the small Dingchuan Village, and even if it encountered resistance, it would not suffer such a big loss. However, I did not expect that the firepower of Dingchuan Village was so fierce. Apparently there were at least thousands of soldiers inside.
Song Jun.
"General Yuan, what should we do?" The faceless men hurriedly came to ask for instructions. Five hundred of the four thousand cavalrymen were killed in one encounter. How could we fight this battle?
But Yuan Dezhong knew that he could not turn back. Unless he captured the stronghold today, he would be doomed. "Immediately ordered five hundred cavalry armored shield troops to attack. The formation spread wider and wider, inducing the Song army to fire arrows. The enemy
The army only relies on bows and arrows, and I don’t believe that the bows and arrows in this small Dingchuan village are inexhaustible. I estimate that after ten rounds at most, the Song army will definitely be out of arrows.”
"General, you have a good plan. I will go and deliver the order immediately." The personal attendant immediately went to deliver the order. After a while, five hundred cavalry, heavily armored, and even the horses were also wearing headgear and armor, rushed forward again.
The Song army was indeed fooled, regardless of the rain of arrows raining down on them, but this time because the formation was too scattered and covered by armor and shields, after several rounds of shooting, they only hit more than 20 knights, and the bows and arrows were consumed a lot.
Ge Huaimin saw the enemy's intention and sent the order: "Shoot his head, face, hands, feet, or horse's legs. There is no heavy helmet to cover them."
The Song troops took aim as instructed. Although the accuracy was not good, it was quite effective after deliberately doing so. After leaving behind seventy or eighty corpses, the armored cavalry could not withstand the excessive consumption and had to retreat again.
But after several twists and turns, the Song army's arrows gradually ran out. Seeing that the Song army's feathered arrows were becoming more and more sparse, Yuan Dezhong saw the dawn of victory.
"My sons, the time has come. Listen to my order and the whole army will attack. The armored cavalry will take the lead, and the rest will follow in skirmish formation. You are not allowed to retreat this time. Anyone who violates this will be killed immediately."
The remaining more than 3,000 soldiers and horses swarmed forward, and the Song army had to pour out all the few remaining arrows again, but the sparse arrows failed to stop the Xia army's advance. After paying the price of more than a hundred cavalry casualties,
, the large group of cavalry finally attacked the wall of the village.
As soon as they arrived at the wall, without waiting for the general to issue an order, the Xixia soldiers consciously took out the hooks from their arms and threw them up. If they caught something, they would pull it down hard. The place on the wall was really too small.
, they always have something to hook onto, hundreds of long ropes
One after another, the hooked Song soldiers were cut into several pieces before they even landed. Blood and flesh were everywhere, and screams could not be heard. In a short time, more than 200 Song soldiers died under the hooks, and the wall of the village was shattered.
Gao Bukuan's shortcomings finally brought disaster to the Song army.