Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 653

Time gradually arrived in August, and the remaining troubles in Xixia territory were all eliminated. The [-] Xixia cavalry in Hexi were attacked and encircled by the Tubo, Song Dynasty, and Qiang coalition forces, causing heavy casualties. Wei Minglang had to lead more than [-] people back to Mount Henan.

With Wei Minglang's return to the north, He Nanshan's Dangxiang lair began to appear ready to move. In early August, Wei Minglang led [-] Dangxiang cavalry to cross the Tanglai Canal in Tianxing Valley, [-] miles away in the north of Dingzhou. Without the river to stop them, the Wan cavalry flew all the way south, heading straight to Dingzhou.

On the night when he learned that the Dangxiang troops were dispatched, Fan Ning convened an emergency meeting to discuss how to deal with the Dangxiang cavalry.

Everyone agreed that the hope of the Xingqing Mansion could be wiped out only by completely annihilating the Dangxiang cavalry in World War I. Fan Ning agreed with everyone's opinion and decided to send troops to face the 4 Dangxiang cavalry head-on.

Fan Ning immediately made a decision that Han Jiang would continue to lead an army of 30 to besiege Xingqing Mansion. He personally led an army of 15 to Dingzhou to face the last hope of the [-] party cavalry.

At the same time, there were 15 steamships and [-] thousand stone warships heading north. Fan Ning's [-] army included [-] cavalry and [-] elite infantry.

In addition, Fan Ning ordered Chen Yan, the commander of the capital, to lead [-] cavalry to detour northward to copy the lair of He Nanshan party members.

After the deployment of the army, the [-]th army set off overnight and rushed towards Dingzhou.

In the morning of the next day, Fan Ning led an army of 15 to about ten miles south of Dingzhou. The Tanglai Canal passed through Dingzhou and ran parallel to the Yellow River. The reason why Fan Ning sent troops urgently was to take advantage of the waterway to the greatest extent.

Tanglai Canal is connected to the Yellow River from Tianxing Gorge, all the way southward, and is always juxtaposed with the Yellow River. Dingzhou, Xingqingfu, Jingzhou, Shunzhou, and Huaizhou are all located between Tanglai Canal and the Yellow River. The distance between the two canals is narrow in the north and wide in the south. The narrowest point is in Dingzhou, the narrowest point is only two miles, from the east of Dingzhou City to the south of Dingzhou City about ten miles, in an area of ​​more than ten miles long, the distance between the two rivers is only two miles.

The army was setting up its position, with [-] crossbowmen in front, followed by a phalanx of [-] spearmen, [-] cavalry on each side, and a phalanx of [-] cavalry behind.

In fact, there is no battlefield here. To the north of the Song Army is the narrow road between the Yellow River and Tanglai Canal. It cannot accommodate [-] cavalry to kill at the same time. The Song Army's archers only need to face the assault of [-] cavalry at most.

This is the geographical advantage that Fan Ning wanted to seize. The two big rivers severely restricted the cavalry's battlefield, making the attack of [-] cavalry suddenly turned into four successive attacks of [-] cavalry.

The Song army used sandbags to build a low wall about six feet high and two miles long. Thirty thousand Song army crossbowmen held crossbows in their hands and stood behind the sandbag wall, followed by 15 spearmen. There are [-] cavalry, followed by [-] cavalry, and the [-] army is ready to fight.

The [-] Dangxiang cavalry slowed down when they approached Dingzhou. Wei Minglang was very familiar with the terrain. He knew that the Song army would definitely stop him in a narrow area two miles wide. He was not worried about fighting hard with the Song army, but Worried that the Song army would plant thorns on the narrow passage that was more than a dozen long.

Some generals also persuaded him to cross the river near Xingqing Mansion, but the intelligence told Wei Minglang that the Song army was full of warships in the section of the Tanglai Canal between Dingzhou and Xingqing Mansion, and his army would not be able to cross a hundred feet at all. The wide Tang Lai Canal, if forced to cross the river, will only cause half of the cavalry to die in Hanoi.

The cavalry walked slowly. They marched against the side of the Yellow River, trying to stay away from the city of Dingzhou. After passing Dingzhou, they did not find any thorns. Wei Minglang was relieved. He realized that the Song Army also had cavalry, so they did not deploy Tribulus terrestris.

At this time, spies came to report that the main force of the Song army was found ten miles away, with more than [-] soldiers.

Wei Minglang looked at the terrain on both sides. Although the plains are good, the two rivers are too close. The width of the ground is about two miles. It can only accommodate 1 cavalry at most. His [-] cavalry can't spread the battlefield at all. .

Wei Minglang had to secretly admire the opponent's coach for his excellent use of the terrain. His [-] cavalry were restricted by the terrain and lost at least [-]% of their combat effectiveness at once. They were really slowly worn to death by the Song army here, or retreated, but if the Song army did not move, it would not make much sense for them to retreat.

"The first army is ready to attack!"

Wei Minglang sternly issued an order that he must break through the defense line of the Song army and spread out the front.

The [-] cavalry quickly formed a formation. They formed a row of [-] cavalry in five rows. The second army also lined up in the back and also arranged in five rows. The [-] cavalry just occupied the width of two miles. The cavalry Holding a battle sword in one hand, a leather shield on the back, and a short spear hanging on the horse, pulling the rein with one hand, the horse snorted and hit the ground with its strong front hooves.

"Attack!"

Wei Minglang waved his sword and gave the order to attack.

'Woo--' the low-pitched horn rang through the field, and ten thousand cavalry took the lead in attacking.

Tens of thousands of horses are galloping, the ground is trembling, stirring up billowing yellow dust, the second cavalry team of [-] people is also slowly advancing, and is ready to attack. They are ordinary soldiers wearing leather armor, leather shields and short spears, and slung around their waists. Battle sword, this is the most common attire of the Xixia Army, but the general is wearing gilded bronze armor, a pocket on his head, a spear in his hand, and a long sword on his waist, which is extraordinarily murderous.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The war drums sounded hurriedly, and the 45 song crossbowmen raised their god-arm crossbows with a [-]-degree oblique angle, aiming at the sky.

The range of the God Arm Crossbow is 240 steps. Because it is a projectile, the arrow falls from the sky, and its lethal range is also 240 steps. Since its birth, it has made the Liao army and Xixia army terrified.

The Xixia cavalry was getting closer and closer, dust covered the ground and filled the sky. The first row of Xixia cavalry had already entered within 250 steps, but Di Qing still did not give an order. When the first row of cavalry gradually entered [-] steps, he ordered: "Shoot!"

The sound of the clapper sounded, and the ten thousand crossbowmen in the first row and the second row fired at the same time, and ten thousand crossbow arrows overwhelmingly rushed towards the cavalry, and the dense rain of arrows shot into the cavalry group like a storm, and countless cavalrymen rushed forward. The arrow fell down, the horse fell down, and at least thousands of cavalry were shot by the arrow or tripped by the cavalry in front.

After the first batch of shots, they immediately squatted down and wound up the strings, and the second batch of [-] crossbow arrows were fired again. The powerful crossbow arrows roared again, and the arrows were dense like rain. The Xixia cavalry fell behind their horses, but the horses had nowhere Dodging, the Xixia people were shot on their backs, causing heavy casualties. At this time, the third batch of [-] crossbow arrows were shot, but their target was the last row of cavalry.
In the first round of [-] crossbow arrows, more than [-]% of the [-] cavalry were killed or injured. However, the Xixia cavalry did not retreat. Wei Minglang wanted to sacrifice the [-] cavalry to break through the Song army's defense line. Soldiers also die in vain.

After shooting the first round of arrows, the cavalry at the front had already rushed 150 steps away. The second round of bow soldiers of the Song Army began. Ten thousand powerful crossbow arrows were shot into the galloping cavalry, which was equivalent to rushing to meet the crossbow arrows, increasing the armor-piercing strength of the crossbow arrows. After the first round of arrows, many soldiers held leather shields to cover them. , but it was still useless. The crossbow pierced through the leather shield, pierced the leather armor, and shot into the chest. Countless soldiers fell from their horses amidst screams.

Immediately afterwards, the second batch and the third batch of [-] crossbow bolts were shot out powerfully.

After the second round of [-] crossbow arrows, more than half of the galloping seven cavalrymen lost again, and only [-] cavalrymen remained from the [-] cavalrymen of the first army.

Wei Minglang's face was as cold as water, and when everyone thought he was going to call Jin to retreat, he snatched the drumstick and beat the attack drum himself, and the attack drum of the Xixia army was loud.

This is where the fierceness of the party members lies. Although nearly 3000% of the casualties were lost, more than [-] cavalry still rushed towards the Song Army's front amidst the drums of the attack.

And the [-] cavalry behind also speeded up, and they had already killed one mile away from the Song Army. Wei Minglang had a clear idea. Since the First Army could not break through the Song Army's defense line, they should be used to suppress the Song Army's crossbows , Create conditions for the Second Army to tear apart the Song Army's defense line.

Di Qing saw that the enemy had entered within seventy paces, and the crossbowmen had no time to shoot the third round, so he immediately ordered: "Like up! The crossbowmen retreat!"

The flag was flying, the bell for withdrawing troops rang, [-] crossbowmen quickly retreated, [-] spears rushed forward, and the dense forest-like spears rested on the sandbag wall. The only thing waiting for the Xixia cavalry was death.

fifty steps, thirty steps, twenty steps
The Xixia cavalry running at the front screamed in fear. Thousands of horses jumped up, jumped over the sandbag wall, and crashed directly into the spear forest.

(End of this chapter)