Chapter 434 God's Twilight (3)
Jing Si was killed and actually fled back to Dingzhou City safely. Yelu Xiuge was furious.
It was an honor for Xiao Yanyan to give him a King of Song, but it also became a burden for Yelu Xiuge. In fact, at this time he could withdraw and continue to use the cunning tactics of the past, one by one, and one by one to fight for help. If Dingzhou saves them, kill them halfway. If they don't save them, just treat them as the lonely city of Zhuozhou last year. But the title of King of Song above his head forced him to fight.
Yelu Xiu Ge would not foolishly attack the city. It was not a small earth stockpile at the entrance of the Great Wall. This was the truly tall city wall of the Song Dynasty.
Therefore, he asked his subordinates to curse under the city wall, and were ashamed as he was, forcing the Song army out of the city to engage in field battles.
At this time, he regarded himself as a god and as the King of Song.
But I don’t know that there are reasons for winning. Gao Lianghe’s opponent is just an emperor of the Song Dynasty who knows nothing about lightly.
Qigou Guansheng is a Cao Bin with equally poor military capabilities, and a group of Song generals with dispersed sand.
The Junzi Pavilion defeated Liu Tingrang and was also inadequate in military capabilities.
However, this time it was different. He didn't even know that Guo Shouwen heard Yelu Xiuge pounce on Tang He in front, and then led thousands of soldiers and Fan Tingzhao to help, and he didn't know that there were a thousand armoured Jingsai troops in Dingzhou City.
Amid the insults of the Liao army, the city was arranged.
First, Tian Min's heavy-armored cavalry was revealed and the formation of the Liao army was torn apart. Li Jilong and Pei Ji led the central and rear troops to fight to expand the offensive. Guo Shouwen and Fan Yanzhao led Zhenzhou soldiers and Jing Si to attack the Liao army from the left and right wings respectively.
Yelu Xiuge didn't wait long.
The soldiers and horses in Dingzhou city gathered together, and Li Jilong rode his horse to the three armies and shouted loudly: "Sirs, do you hear the shame and insults outside the city? Can you bear it? Can you silently see them burning, killing and looting our fellow villagers everywhere? And the soldiers of the Jingsai Army. Your parents, wives and children were captured by the Liao people opposite. Don't you want to repay the knife and revenge them? Go forward and use our blood to forge the glory of the Song Dynasty!"
Li Jilong repeatedly teased him. At this time, the three armies all had a breath, just like a ball of fire. Then go burn it, either burn the enemy to death or burn yourself to death!
When the city gate opened, Yelu Xiu Ge's eyes became fond.
The Song Dynasty blocked the north and did a good job of keeping confidentiality. Yelu Xiu Ge didn't even know the establishment of this thousand-held cavalry.
Yuan Jizhong and Tian Min led a thousand Jingsai troops to attack first.
The three armies, from people to horses, were all wearing thick armor, and the armor pieces emitted a slight bright light under the slight snow light.
This is the real heavy armored cavalry, but the fake heavy cavalry of the Iron Lin Army.
But the Liao Kingdom may face this heavy cavalry in the future. This is not a problem of iron production or steel quality, but a problem of horses. Only tall Hetao horses can bear this heavy vest and a heavy armored cavalry.
In a short time, Yelu Xiuge felt that the crisis was coming, even though they had only one thousand people, compared to the 80,000 excellent Liao cavalry, its number was pitifully small.
He immediately issued orders.
However, at this time, the advantages of Hetao Ma's explosive power were demonstrated.
In the blink of an eye, Jingsai Army rushed to the front of us, and a big star rose slowly from then on.
It wasn't Yuan Jizhong. Yuan Jizhong was not bad either, so he kept rushing to the front. But after rushing to the Liao army, Tian Min quickly surpassed him.
Arrows flew out from the Liao army. They fell on the heads of the thousand Jingsai soldiers like rain, on the horses. But Yelu Xiuge was extremely disappointed...
At the beginning, with Li Jilong's suggestion, the Song Dynasty established the Jingsai Army and was defeated repeatedly, which made Song Jiu and Zhao Kuangyi cruel. The two of them supervised the creation of the Jingsai Army's armor and weapons from time to time. The entire vest and armor weighed nearly 200 kilograms, which was not to reduce the mass for the purpose of increasing weight. The same requirements as the steel of the Infantry Armor, were even worse than that. Including weapons, what kind of weapons were suitable, such as the Mongol sabers, which were curved and curved. Although it was more in line with the original mechanics, it was light and thin and could only be used on light cavalry, which was not suitable for this heavy armor.
So after thinking about it, after training from frontline soldiers, I finally created a new weapon, Jingshuo!
The length is more than one meter, and this length is far less than Mo Dao. Mo Dao is an eternal legend.
The length is long enough and the lethality is enough, but this weight will be a burden, so the thickness of the knife arm increases the chopping power, and at the same time reduces its width and thickness. The front is slightly arc-shaped to break through the air. The front looks like a Mongol scimitar, but the back looks like a combination of the Song Dynasty Pu sword, the Xixia heavy sword, and the Tubo straight sword.
The materials of Jingshu Knife are even more refined and hammered.
The cost of a set of equipment in Jingsai Jun alone reached nearly 300 pieces. If Song Jiu and Zhao Kuangyi had not been to supervise the situation frequently, the cost of craftsmen and officials would have been even higher.
Coupled with the fierceness of the people of Yizhou, a thousand monsters appeared on the front line.
The dense arrows fell like raindrops, but for a thousand Jingsai army, it was like a layer of misty spring rain. The arrows shot them, but only small white dots were left on them and fell to the ground.
There is a way to break it. Please ask thousands of super sharpshooters. Use them to shoot Jingsai Jun in high-speed sports with only exposed eyes. How many such sharpshooters can there be in Liao Kingdom?
Or learn from the Song Bing, roll on the ground, and cut a few horse hooves from Jingsai Army that were exposed outside.
Otherwise, it's happening below...
Yuan Jizhong raised his sword and fell, but before his sword could fall, a tall figure passed by him. The sword had fallen, blood burst out, and the head flew up.
A hundred people killed Tian Min and rushed up.
In the blink of an eye, the thick Liao army formation allowed the thousand monsters to break through. Although Yelu Xiu Ge felt his scalp cumbersome, he was still in command.
He immediately ordered the Pi Shijun and Tie Linzi to surround the two sides and attack the thousand monsters.
Facing these two evil Liao troops, none of them was afraid and continued to charge and break through the waves, breaking a wave of blood.
Keep rushing!
The Liao army was torn into pieces by Yuan Jizhong and Tian Chongjin, and then the dead bodies were left on the ground.
The majestic trumpet sounded.
Guo Shouwen, Fan Tingzhao and Jing Si rushed out of the city and rushed to the left and right wings of the Liao army.
Cavalry was in front, and infantry were behind. Horses were running, people were running, and bows and arrows were flying. Although one comrade after another fell, they failed to stop the two armies from advancing rapidly.
On the vast battlefield, there were trottings from several miles away, but in just a moment, the two armies rushed to the left and right wings of the Liao army, and the Pu sword in their hands slashed at the Liao army frantically. Some crossbowmen even threw the crossbows in their hands, picked up the big sword thrown by the Liao army, and killed them in from behind.
In the blink of an eye, tens of thousands of Liao troops were in chaos.
The horn in the city continued to sound.
Li Jilong arrived.
Thousands of central troops took the steps of a thousand Jingsai troops and harvested the messy Liao army.
The Liao army was even more chaotic.
Pei Ji also led the rear army to kill and carefully harvested the hasty scattered troops left by Li Jilong.
Yelu Xiu Ge continued to command, even though his forehead was sweating.
Tian Min raised her head, stared at the big flag, and suddenly said, "Come with me."
Rush towards Yelu Xiuge.
"Stop them." Yelu Xiu Ge said in a hurry.
However, how to block it, the thousand Jingsai Army was like a huge chainsaw, swaying from left to right, and every time it swung, flesh and blood flew everywhere. Li Jilong was escorting them tightly behind, allowing them to expand their results.
Seeing the flag in front of you, Gao Lianghe scene happened, but the situation was reversed. It was not the commander of the Song army, but the commander of the Liao Kingdom, and the god of war Yelu Xiuge himself, who escaped.
As soon as Yelu Xiu Ge fled, the Liao army collapsed completely.
Run away, I am a cavalry anyway. It seems that the thousand monsters are too heavily equipped and they don’t run fast. Let’s save their lives.
Tens of thousands of Liao troops were defeated and fled to Tanghe, escaped from Wangdu, Beipingzhai, and even to the north. However, when the Song army chased each other, they could not enter the city and continued to flee to Caohe.
In this more than 100-mile chase, countless Liao troops were continued to be killed. It was not until many soldiers' big swords were cut and rolled up, including Tian Min's Jingsai sword, that Li Jilong ordered the attack to stop.
In this battle, nearly 20,000 people were beheaded.
Unlike the Song army, once the Song army is destroyed, the number reported is relatively accurate because it cannot escape. The Liao Kingdom is a cavalry and can run. As long as it is not false, the number reported is generally much less than the actual number of Liao soldiers killed. In other words, the Liao army that Li Jilong actually killed in this battle can be more than one and a half times that of this number.
And unlike last year, although there are more Liao soldiers killed last year, the statistics are accurate and far less than this time. They are miscellaneous soldiers mainly focus on Caogu soldiers, and this time they are the real elite of the Liao Kingdom.
Yelu Xiuge, like Zhao Kuangyi back then, although he escaped, in order to cover him, countless personal guards died in battle, and he was lucky enough to escape back to Yizhou.
After this battle, the thick halo of gods on his head had been weakened into a looming ball.
The deadly Yelu Xiuge did not reflect on it. Instead, he thought he was careless and did not show his style, so he came back...
Upon hearing Yelu Xiu Ge's defeat, Xiao Yanyan decisively issued an order to withdraw from the front of the pass and retreat to the back of the mountain. However, because the Song army had few troops at the moment, when the Liao army contracted, they were unable to recover the forts behind the mountain. This is the advantage of the cavalry. Once the army was defeated, they could quickly gather and retreat. But don't worry, in the northwest, a powerful Song cavalry was training...
At the same time, because Yelu Xiuge was defeated quickly, he could not withdraw his supplies and weapons from 80,000 cavalry, and threw them all to Li Jilong, including the Song Dynasty materials plundered by Yelu Xiuge's subordinates and captured by the people.
More than 10,000 war horses were left behind, including last year's battle, which almost allowed the Song Dynasty to obtain 40,000 war horses. These war horses not only made up for the shortcomings of the Song Dynasty's cavalry, but also eliminated some weak horses from them and handed them over to the lost people for farming or to use them to get goods to make a living.
Moreover, compared to the delicateness of Hetao horses, these Khitan horses are hard-working and easy to raise. They are handed over to the troops stationed in Hebei to form a temporary cavalry.
It has many meanings. In the past, the Song Dynasty also had great victories, such as the Mancheng Victory and Yanmen Victory. The number of Song troops in these two battles was relatively small, but this battle was the real victory of the more with fewer people, and it was not the Liao Dynasty's miscellaneous army, but the real elite Liao army.
There is also more important significance. Song Jiu is very large in Xifu, and what he actually implemented is a plan to strengthen the army.
This includes arranging backward generals, further strengthening soldiers' equipment, cavalry being trained in the northwest, and a series of other plans.
However, because the Liao Kingdom invaded and entered a land without a man, it was strongly opposed by some ministers who "love peace". Many civil officials were eager to try. After this battle, these people could shut up together, and the Song Dynasty would not gradually move towards the "weak" country in history.
Song Jiu strongly supported Li Jilong, and even provided what Li Jilong asked for immediately. Once it failed, Li Jilong not only wanted to come down, but his plan to promote the backwards would also attract more criticism from countless people. After all, Zhao Pu was regaining the throne and was eyeing the Xifu, not coveting the Xifu, but trying to get Song Jiu down.
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"Report!"
News of the victory was quickly sent to the capital and to the Western Prefecture.
Song Jiu spent his days in Xifu like a year.
If you don’t seek a big victory, as long as you are not defeated, the task will be completed. And if you drag the Liao army to Dingzhou City, the rear preparations will gradually be improved, and there will be no mistakes in the rear. If you lose, the Liao army will move forward again, and the defense line of the Hutuo River cannot be stopped.
Even the morale that gathers bit by bit will be extremely low.
When the army reported it, Song Jiu almost didn't dare to read it. It was too fast. It was so fast that the possibility of victory was very small, but the possibility of defeat was extremely high.
Song Jiu said to Zhang Qixian: "Shi Liang, come and see."
Zhang Qixian opened the military newspaper and read it quickly. Li Jilong also knew that everyone in the capital was very worried, so he wrote this memorial in a hurry. It would take a day or two to arrive in the capital for a more detailed memorial.
The process was not written very clearly, but it did not prevent the two from understanding.
Zhang Qixian shouted: "Mr. Song, you won, you won."
Song Jiu took it eagerly, and shouted, "I won."
Then he lost his composure and hugged all the officials of all sizes in the Western Prefecture.
Chapter completed!