lady, please calm down

On the first day of the twelfth lunar month, it is morning and afternoon.

Shen Zaixing arrived outside the King of Chu's tent early in the morning, and saw the Huaibei generals coming in and out with solemn faces, as if something big had happened, so he had to stand in the cold wind outside the tent and wait.

In his early years, Shen Zaixing was considered a heavyweight in the Huaibei Clan.

At that time, Chen Chu only had the direct lineage of Tongshan in his hands. The fugitive horse army from eight mountains and nine villages organized by Shen Zaixing's authority became the former's most important arm besides the Tongshan lineage.

But Lao Shen was not very interested in becoming a general. Later, as Tie Dan gradually grew up, Lao Shen retreated to the background.

But even though he was just an orderly of the Second Guards Regiment, Erlang and Xiaoyi who were guarding outside the tent still respected him.

"Uncle Shen, if you have something to do with the King of Chu, just let me know and you can pay for it."

Seeing Uncle Shen shrinking his arms and folding his hands, Erlang took the initiative to speak.

Shen Zaixing didn't take it seriously, shook his head and said: "Don't panic, wait until Brother Chu finishes his business first, I won't be too late to see him again."

Inside the account, the atmosphere was indeed somewhat solemn.

In the morning, Chen Chu had received news that Zhou Guo's West Route Army was heading north from Jinghu Road, occupying Xinye, and rapidly advancing to Tangzhou.

Currently, only senior generals Chen Chu, Dalang, and Peng Er know about this matter.

At the beginning of the year, generals from all walks of life gathered together. Before Brother Chu could finish his words about waiting for a decisive battle, Lao Bai suddenly entered the account and reported: "The troops of Su Yuying, the magistrate of Teng County, were captured in the east of Tokyo. Wai."

Su Yuying was just a small county magistrate. When he came to aid Tokyo in mid-October, he unfortunately ran into the Jin army and lost all his 800 young men.

However, his organizational skills were very good. In just one month, he gathered several groups of stragglers and formed an army of two thousand. Tong Qi, who was eager for revenge, did not want to stay in the Central Army and took the initiative to serve as deputy general Su Yuying.

There are countless small units like this in the Qinwang Yishi that are responsible for the harassment mission.

For many days, the battle between the Qi army and the Jin Xia army to eat each other's small units occurred every day.

Therefore, the generals on the side did not take this matter as a big deal.

But Jing Peng, the son of Jing Chao, the commander of the Wei Sheng Army, and Zhe Yanwen suddenly became nervous when they heard this, and couldn't help but look at Chen Chu who was above them.

Chen Chu heard Su Yuying's name and blurted out: "Tong Qi, Colonel Tong, is serving as deputy general elsewhere?"

Jing Peng immediately came out and replied: "Back to the King of Chu, Tong Qi does serve as deputy under the command of Su Zhixian."

Chen Chu only took a few breaths to think, and immediately ordered: "Liu Jinglue, Marshal Jingjie, and Marshal Kuang Jie quickly prepare their cavalry troops. Governor Peng and General Zhe each lead their cavalry troops to follow me out of the camp. Dalang, you are in charge. Camp, wait for opportunities depending on the battle situation ahead."

Peng Er and Zhe Yanwen immediately responded.

The third general of the Western Army was a little confused. There was no precedent for small groups of troops being trapped in the past. In most cases, it was enough to send a few thousand troops to respond. Why did King Chu have to go in person this time?

Chen Chu glanced at a few people and said: "Shuai Tong of Baoan Prefecture has died for his country with his whole family, leaving only Colonel Tong as a solitary child. We must protect him no matter what, and we must not be loyal and have no heirs!"

This statement couldn't help but make the generals of the Western Army feel excited, and they all clasped their fists to accept the order.

But Chen Chu did this to save this sworn brother. The deeper reason was naturally related to the Huaibei military information he received this morning.

Now that the vigor of the Jin Xia Army has been almost worn away, and there are changes in Huaibei, it is time to find an opportunity for a decisive battle.

At the same moment, Chen Chu led his generals out of the tent, but saw Lao Shen outside the tent, whose face was red with cold. He couldn't help but stepped forward and said, "Uncle, is there something wrong?"

Anyone who is not blind can see that the King of Chu, with his murderous generals, must have new military affairs.

Shen Zaixing hesitated for a moment and finally said: "It's not a big deal, the old man has some personal matters. Let's talk about it after brother Chu is finished."

"Alright!"

This was indeed not a good time to talk about personal matters. Chen Chu cupped his hands towards Uncle Shen and strode over.

Uncle Shen looked at Chen Chu's back, then turned around and went to the camp of the Second Guards Regiment.

As soon as he arrived, the military order "Order the entire second regiment of the Guards to go to war with the King of Chu" came into Tie Dan's hands.

In order to avoid the previous situation where he could only run after his daughter, Uncle Shen turned to Pang Shengyi and used coercion and inducement to steal a war horse.
Mid-noon.

Dongweigang is four miles east of Tokyo.

This is a gentle hill. In the morning, Su Yuying and Tong Qi ambushed a Xixia cavalry nearby, but unexpectedly they were ambushed by a horse that was twice their size.

The Qi army fought and retreated, retreating to Dongweigang.

Instead, the Kaizi horses at the foot of the post stopped attacking. Just now, another five thousand Kaizi horses came under the post and surrounded the small Dongweigang, but they still did not attack.

At this point, Su Yuying and Tong Qi both understood that the other party was trying to surround the area for reinforcements.

Deliberately leaving the meat in his mouth uneaten, he ambushed the Qi army to aid them.

The more you worry about something, the more you worry about it.

At the end of noon, smoke and dust were seen billowing from the southeast side. Sure enough, reinforcements came as usual, even more than before.

Looking at the flag, almost all the cavalry troops of the Western Army and the Huaibei Army came out.

Seeing that our troops were arrayed a mile away, Su Yuying hurriedly asked someone to signal with flags that "the enemy may have an ambush."

One mile southeast of the Qi Army's center, Chen Chu saw Su Yuying's banner and took a telescope to the north of the city to observe for a moment.

Due to the Huaibei Incident, the Qi army was determined to fight decisively.

Wanyan Mouyan was also determined to fight decisively due to the gradual shortage of food and grass.

However, after the Jin Xia army entered the city of Tokyo, they first encountered thunder cannons, then explosive packs, and finally encountered 'hand cannons' that could break heavy armor. They lost four battles in a row and lost more than 20,000 elite soldiers. Fear.

In order to boost morale, Wanyan Mouyan ordered Tiefutu to lead Wanyan for the first time since the siege of Tokyo. Wanyan led all 3,000 heavy cavalry and an additional 2,000 Xixia iron kites to fight.

A few days ago, although the thousand heavy cavalry led by Tie Yaozi, led by Ximu Weiming, were completely wiped out, Wanyan Mouyan and Ren Dejing visited the battlefield in person afterwards and learned that there was another weapon in the Qi army that could be held in hand and could be reached a hundred and fifty paces away. Heavy armor's new weapon.

This incident caused considerable panic in the army, but the two also learned that although a thousand iron kites died in the battle, they finally reached the Qi army's formation.

If there had been more iron kites at that time, they might not have been able to disperse the central Qi army.

Today, seeing the main force of the Qi army's cavalry arriving again, Wanyan Mouyan immediately ordered all 5,000 heavy cavalry from the Jin and Xia countries to leave the camp.

At first, Ren Dejing did not agree with the all-or-nothing gambling behavior. Wanyan Mouyan changed his past domineering style and persuaded him nicely: "We can no longer care about the losses. If you and I can defeat the Qi army outside the city in one battle, we will win. How much wealth can we get from going to Tokyo to rebuild the Iron Harrier? If we don’t dare to give it a try at this time, sooner or later we will be wasted in the city of Tokyo.”

What Wanyan Mouyan said is true. If Tokyo wins the first battle, no matter how big the loss is, it can be made up for after the war.

If defeated, the Qi army will definitely follow them all the way, and it will be difficult to say whether Xingqing Mansion, the capital of the Western Xia Emperor, can be saved.

Finally, Ren Dejing was convinced.

At the beginning of the Wei Dynasty, the two countries of Jin and Xia used 20,000 Xixia light cavalry as the front formation and 5,000 heavy cavalry in the rear formation, slowly coming from the north of the city to the east of the city.

Such a big movement naturally alerted the defenders in the city.

Chen Jingan ran all the way from the north of the city to the east of the city. He saw the Qi army arrayed in a strict formation with no intention of retreating, and he immediately guessed something about Chen Chu's intention.

Chen Jing'an didn't know what was happening in Huaibei, but he could see that the Qi army seemed to be determined to fight decisively.

Although he was shocked, Chen Jingan did not hesitate at all. He bypassed the Qi State War Department, Fan Gongzhi and even Jiarou, directly found Jiang Huaixiong and Liu Baishun, and ordered: "Quickly order people to move away the two doors of Xincao and Lijing. Stones, sandbags, ready to attack the city at any time."

Not long after, Fan Gongzhi, Lu Qinzai and others gathered at the east city wall after hearing the news, and their hearts immediately rose to their throats.

Everyone knows that Tokyo has been besieged for nearly two months. The reason why the city has not felt huge pressure is because the Jin Xia Army has been involved in a lot of energy outside the city. If there is victory outside the city, there will be peace within the city.

If we are defeated outside the city, Tokyo will definitely not be saved.
However, the actions of the Qi army outside the city were a bit difficult to understand in Fan Gongzhi's eyes, "Is it worth it to save the remaining troops in Dongweigang?"

Wanyan Mouyan and Ren Dejing also thought so. They still believe that the Qi army's sudden attack on the enemy was a result of their own strategy of encircling the point and calling for reinforcements.

In order to prevent the Qi army from not being determined enough to fight, they even placed their killer 5,000 heavy cavalry behind the light cavalry to avoid scaring the Qi army away.

Outside the city, the generals of the Qi Army gathered around Chen Chu, and the latter made the last pre-battle mobilization, "In this battle, there will be advance or retreat! If there are those who retreat without orders and delay, the former will be defeated." No mercy!”

Outside Dongweigang, the Qi army gathered more than 40,000 horse and infantry troops. Thirty miles away in the rear, Dalang led the elite infantry and was approaching the battlefield.

On the Jinxia Army's side, more than 30,000 light and heavy cavalry also came out in full force, and Beiying Bubazi and other infantry were outflanking from the north.

For a time, the east side of the city was filled with smoke and dust.

A life-and-death battle to determine the fate of the Three Kingdoms of Qi, Jin, and Xia slowly opened the curtain.

After two months of fighting outside the city, both sides were almost always known.

At this moment, the role of strategy is minimal. What remains is the competition of fighting will and fighting skills between the two sides.

This battle naturally touched the heartstrings of countless people. Dongcheng was the best place to watch the battle, and not long after, the big guys from North Korea gathered.

Even Jia Rou, who was wearing casual clothes, appeared here at some point.

There was almost no testing. When the two sides were five hundred steps apart, they began to speed up and charge at about the same time.

Twenty thousand Xixia light cavalry attacked the left and right wings of the Qi army respectively.

The left wing of the Qi army consisted of Zhe Yanwen, Zhang Shuye, Geng Baoxi, Feng Shuangyuanbu, Pan Xiong and other horse troops.

The right wing is composed of the Western Army, the Shandong Road Only Brigade, Zhao Mengguang's Department, and Lao Bai's Horse Army.

The Chinese Army was composed of the 1st and 2nd Guards Regiments.

At the end of the day, the right-wing forward Western Army's Kuang Daogu and Jing Chao's cavalry troops took the lead in engaging the enemy.

Under the high-speed charge, as soon as the two sides came into contact, they were instantly overturned.

All the old soldiers know that in a large-scale cavalry duel, the first-line cavalry does not even need to wave their weapons at the moment of contact with the enemy. The most important thing is to sit firmly on the saddle and control the horse's reins.
In a dense formation, there is not even room for slashing and stabbing. As long as the horse does not fall off the horse, there is a 30% chance of survival.

Sure enough, under the violent impact of huge waves hitting the rocks, those knights holding guns in both hands and controlling their horses with only their waist and legs fell off their horses one after another.

With such a dense cavalry formation, falling off a horse means being trampled into a pulp.

After the first round of collision, the speed of both sides slowed down instantly because the horses lost their running space.

At this time, those veterans who had been fighting for a long time stood up from their crouching positions, took off their spears and began to stab them. It was rare to see anyone rounding their arms and slashing.

First, slashing is laborious and will quickly consume your stamina.

Secondly, there is no room for slashing.

Third, it is more effective and more accurate to pierce the nail.
The front lines of the two armies seemed to have erected an invisible wall. Knights from behind kept bumping into it, and then an inconspicuous flower of blood would rise up.

Either one's own or the enemy's.

At this time, what is at stake is will and courage. Once one party hesitates for a moment, it will be noticed by the other party immediately, and the other party will only attack the front line with a more determined and fierce attitude.

Then there will be a collapse of the front line caused by individual rout. The result is that they will be chased and killed by the enemy.

This truth is not only known to the leading generals, but also to the soldiers on the front line. But retreating is impossible, and it is difficult to save your life if you retreat. The only way is to fight to the death to give your side a chance of victory. At least after the war, your family can get something. pension.

For thousands of years, the duel between horses and armies has been like this.

It wasn't until a certain grassland hero in later generations formed an organized army that could wield a bow on horseback for the first time, and used the method of "mounted shooting" to sweep across Asia and Europe, that the way the horse army fought was changed.

At present, the Ma army still relies on impact as its main means of victory.

This is how Lao Bai and others used it.
The scout battalion of the 1st Guards Regiment, with more than 500 cavalry, did not participate in the charge. From the beginning of the battle, they cruised to the flank of the Xixia Horse Army.

Somewhat similar to the camp south of Jinxia City on the 18th, the scout battalion took a parallel route fifty steps away from the Xixia Horse Army, holding fire sticks, and frantically threw something at the Xixia Army.

This time, unlike the explosive packs last time, the scout battalion threw out iron cans as big as an adult's fist.

Every time an iron can is thrown into the Xixia Horse Army formation, there will be a flash of fire and a huge explosion sound after one or two breaths.

Within one or two feet around, people and horses were often injured and frightened, causing everyone to fall down. Then, the knights behind would be tripped by the horses and knights who suddenly fell down in front of them.
In total, the casualties caused by the iron cans were not huge, but they greatly damaged the charge route and density of the Xixia Qingqi.

Pan Xiong's department on the left is doing the same job.

There was turmoil in the rear, and there was no forward support. The thickness of the frontline Xixia horse army fighting with the Qi army was gradually thinned and worn away by the flesh and blood millstone.
Upon seeing this, the Xixia horse army broke away from the group and came towards Lao Bai and others.

But in this way, Xixia Qingqi, who did not have the numerical advantage, would be under greater pressure on the front line.

Lao Bai and others were very flexible. When they saw the enemy approaching, they quickly escaped. They introduced the pursuing Xixia horse army to Liu Shuping's subordinates who were responsible for guarding the two wings. The latter entangled the Xixia army. Lao Bai and others turned around. And once again returned to the two wings of the Xixia Army.

The Xixia horse army was annoyed by the constant explosion of tin cans on the battlefield. Just like two strong men of the same weight were fighting each other with all their strength, there was a rogue next to them who kept holding a knife on each person's butt and thigh. Stab.

Although not fatal, it is annoying.

More importantly, it involved a huge amount of energy from the Xixia army, so the knights on horseback not only had to pay attention to the Qi army in front, but also needed to be careful of the iron cans that kept flying into the formation.

Towards the end of the war, the Xixia cavalry army on the right showed signs of failure.

Ren Dejing, who was watching the battle from a distance, saw that the casualties of his country's knights were increasing, and he felt heartbroken beyond words, but he also knew that there was no reason to retreat at this point in the battle.

"Commander Wanyan, please send Tie Futu and Tie Yaozi up quickly!" Ren Dejing said in an almost pleading tone.

"I haven't seen the false flag of King Chu yet, please wait!"

Wanyan Mouyan stared at the battlefield and said firmly.

He didn't believe that in such a battle, the King of Chu would not be present, but now he has never seen the King of Chu's flag. Since the confrontation at Daling River, Wanyan Mouyan has fought with the Huaibei Army more than ten times, and he has reluctantly admitted that the Huaibei Army will not lose. Golden Warriors.

But the more this happens, the more he wants to use good steel on the blade. The five thousand heavy cavalry is the last trump card. As long as he determines the location of the King of Chu and kills him in one battle, he can completely destroy him when the lone army goes deep. Qi’s will to resist!

"Commander, if we don't rush to help, the admiring troops attacking the right wing of the Qi army will not be able to hold on!" Ren Dejing begged again.

Wanyan Mouyan noticed that the Reward Burial Division was indeed on the verge of collapse, so he finally let most of the 8,000 Jin Guaizima under Dongwei Post go to the right wing of the Qi army.

The Guaizi Horse is a light cavalry from the Jin Kingdom. Wanyan Mouyan originally planned to use it as a surprise force, but seeing that the Xixia Army's attack was at a disadvantage, he had to play this card first.

At the moment of Shenshi, five thousand gold Guaizi horses came from the northwest toward the right wing of Qi State.

The main force of Liu Shuping's troops, who had been on guard outside, did not participate in the fight with the Xixia Qingqi, so the complete organization of 14,000 people was still retained.

Seeing the enemy army coming from the north, Liu Shuping sent his general Du Zhong to lead an army of 5,000 horses to intercept them.

Unexpectedly, just a quarter of an hour after engaging the enemy, Eucommia ulmoides was beheaded by a golden general.

The general died, and the remaining troops panicked and fled back to their own formation. At this time, Liu Shuping still had more than 10,000 soldiers.

Chen Chu noticed a small setback on his right wing and couldn't help but get up and look over with a telescope.

But he never expected that when Liu Shuping still had the strength to fight again, he suddenly fled southeast with his soldiers. (End of chapter)