Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1059 Battle of the Skull
At this time, it was windy at noon, and the weather was clear and the visibility was very good. Standing on the head of Shazhou City, the Xizhou Uighurs could see the head clearly from a distance of [-] paces.This head is none other than Dula'alang who died at the hands of the Volunteer Army during the battle at Black Sun Peak years ago.

On top of the city of Shazhou, Dulamati's face flushed instantly, his eyes were bloodshot, and his face was ferocious. He was holding on to the city wall with both hands, and looked at the Xiangfu Kingdom barracks outside the city, full of hatred and murderous intent.

Although I already knew that my favorite son died in battle a few years ago, it has been several months since now, but seeing his son's head hanging here and his body in a different place, the anger and pain in my heart are still uncontrollable.

But it only lasted more than ten breaths. Dulamati took a deep breath and slowly closed his eyes. When he opened them again, the tears in his eyes had disappeared, and his expression returned to calm. He said, "Ah Lang It is my pride, and the pride of all of us Uighurs in Xizhou, to die on the battlefield and swear not to surrender. I am his father, and I will not let him die in vain. I will let these Xiangfu people be buried with him."

Speaking of this, he suddenly shouted: "Come here, let Harrick lead my soldiers to snatch my son's head back."

Not long after, the suspension bridge at the west gate of Shazhou City fell slowly, and a group of 500 Xizhou Uighur cavalry galloped out of the city with a bang. Some cavalry came out of the camp. Obviously, Huang Dongqiu had been prepared to hang up the head of Dula'alang in order to stimulate Dulamati to send troops out of the city to fight in the field, so as to consume the opponent's strength and damage the morale of the opponent.

The distance between the two sides is about the same as the head of Dula Alang. The [-] cavalry sent by Dulamati are the elite among the elite of the Xizhou Uyghur Kingdom, and their riding skills are extremely good. The skill is not much weaker than the opponent.

This is because Huang Dongqiu is bound to win the first battle in Shazhou City, which is about the morale of both sides. He has planned for a long time, but the 500 people sent were all Huang Dongqiu's personal guards.You must know that his personal guard battalion was selected from the entire army, and he was the best in each brigade in terms of combat power, riding skills, archery, etc., and he could only be selected if he had accumulated more than ten beheads in battle.It can be said to be the most elite battalion in the Volunteer Army.It is led by Zhu Zhenxi, commander of the personal guard battalion, and Xi Zonglin, deputy battalion commander.

Zhu Zhenxi was originally a lone gangster. During the battle with Khitan and Yinzhou the year before last, the court of Xiangfu Kingdom issued a nationwide civil reward order. Zhu Zhenxi killed more than 200 Khitan soldiers with his own power, and entered the list of good people. Thirty, and later participated in the first batch of training at Xiangfu Military Academy with Shi Lang, Zhong Sanxing, and Chang Podao, graduated with excellent grades, and was assigned to the Volunteer Army to become a captain and deputy company commander.Last year, he first participated in the Western Expedition to the Hexi Corridor, and then followed the Stone Wolf to fight horse thieves. Later, he participated in two battles with the Xizhou Uyghur and made great achievements. He was promoted from deputy company commander to company commander and deputy battalion Commander and Battalion Commander are promoted to three ranks within a year. Although they are not comparable to Tang Xingwu, Shi Lang, Zhong Sanhe, and Chang Podao, the four upstarts of the Xiangfu Kingdom, they are also a future star of the Volunteer Army. Famous warrior.

Like Stone Wolf, Zhu Zhenxi yearns for military merit, promotion, and titles.Last year at the Zhengdan Grand Court Meeting, Zhu Zhenxi was a little short of being a baron. It was a pity that it was a pity for several months.Now the first battle belongs to him, and it is the first time he has been elected as the commander of the regiment and personal guard battalion. How can he not make him excited and excited.

The overtones blown by the new copper horn newly developed and distributed by the Equipment Department resounded outside the city of Shazhou. Zhu Zhenxi led his battalion, with 500 people and 50 people in each row. .

The personal guard battalion of each army commander is composed of five companies, one more company than the ordinary battalion. In combat, the cavalry company is also used as a combat unit. Each cavalry company is divided into three rows. The first two rows wear thick plate armor and use one foot four. The third row uses thickened and widened one-handed waist knives. Everyone wears medium-defense, light-weight steel plate armor. The distance between cavalry in the same row is only three feet, and the distance between companies is two steps. Seven steps away.

The standard-bearer held the battalion flag and followed battalion commander Zhu Zhenxi all the time. Amid the five short notes followed by one long sound of the charge horn, [-] cavalrymen started to accelerate their horses at the same time. Engage the enemy at top speed.At present, the distance between them and the enemy is about [-] steps. They have to keep walking slowly to about [-] steps. The charge at a distance of [-] steps is their most proficient subject. The difficulty lies in how to maintain a dense formation when the speed is gradually increasing.Under the usual strict training and rich combat experience, these [-] cavalry were able to approach and charge at a distance of up to [-] steps.

The gentle speed brought up the chaotic sound of horseshoes, and the two sides approached [-] steps. Zhu Zhenxi's military flag leaned forward again, and the trumpeter blew the second marching horn.The command of cavalry is different from that of cavalry, which can stand in the rear and command, but cavalry has to charge forward, and it has to lead while charging and command at the same time.

In the first battle, the two cavalry were the elite of both sides. Even in the whole world, they were the elite except for a few troops such as the Xiangfu State Special Brigade, the Tianwei Army, and the Liao Palace Guard Army. After a hundred steps, the bow and arrow were opened and the crossbow was fired, and the buzzing sound of piercing through the air continued, causing the sky above the high altitude of both sides to darken instantly.

Archery is inherently difficult while a war horse is fully charged, and it is a combat skill that non-elite cavalry cannot master if it is accurate. Even the personal battalion led by Zhu Zhenxi can't compare with the current opponents, but they hold four consecutive fast crossbows in their hands, and they are the latest improved continuous fire crossbows issued by Xiangfu Kingdom. It has improved a lot. In comparison, the Xizhou Uighurs only shot two rounds within a hundred steps, and each person shot two arrows, but the 500 people led by Zhu Zhenxi shot two rounds and eight arrows. Accuracy is inherently better than bows.In addition, the armor on Xiangfu Kingdom's side is all steel armor, and the helmets are all low-brow face-protecting helmets, and their defense capabilities far exceed the opponent's.Therefore, in the confrontation before the charge, more than 100 Uighurs in Xizhou died, while only a dozen people from Xiangfu Kingdom died.

On the top of the city, Dulamati watched the most valiant warrior under his command turn over and fall off the horse, the muscles on his face trembled involuntarily, and he gritted his teeth. Startled, I couldn't help but feel a chill in my heart.Originally, he only thought that Xiangfu Kingdom was more powerful with the legendary gunpowder weapons. Now it seems that he was completely wrong. The opponent's bows, crossbows, helmets, and armors were all much better than his own.He couldn't help but start to waver in his confidence in being able to defend Shazhou City. Who knows if the other party has terrifying weapons and equipment that he has never seen before.He even began to regret that he shouldn't have been impulsive just now, and sent people out of the city to fight in the field to snatch his son's head.But having said that, in the situation just now, although it was a momentary impulse to order to go out of the city to grab his son's head, it was not just a matter of his son's head.You must know that his son has always been the number one warrior in his army. If the head of Dura'a wolf is allowed to hang outside the city like this, it will be a great blow to the morale of the ten thousand soldiers under his command.Dulamati is a veteran on the battlefield. Although he has not read the military books of the Han people, he also knows that if the army has no morale or low morale, [-]% of its strength may not be [-]%.

In fact, because of his self-confidence in the defense of his armor, Zhu Zhenxi ignored the light arrows flying from afar. He in the front row effectively controlled the team, the array was not disturbed by the harassment of these arrows, and the array was still stable.As soon as he gave an order, suddenly 500 soldiers were divided into two groups, and another 750 people led by the deputy battalion commander of the Personal Guard Battalion detoured to the side and rear of the Uighur cavalry in Xizhou. It was obvious that Zhu Zhenxi planned to wipe out the enemy.

The horseshoes on the gentle slope were no longer a chaotic sound, but the dense hoofbeats gradually merged into a rumbling sound, which was like fairy music to Zhu Zhenxi's ears.

The distance between the two sides was only a hundred steps, because Zhu Zhenxi thought it was only about fifty steps due to the fact that they were facing each other, and the flat array was like a moving wall of horses.

The cavalry general Halic of the Xizhou Uighurs out of the city saw that he had lost more than 100 people before he met his soldiers. His eyes were red, and he judged in an instant that the armor of the opponent was far superior to their ordinary armor.You have to know whether all of their 500 people have iron armor or because they are the Dulamati pro-military team. Most of the ordinary Xizhou Uighur cavalry are in leather armor, and only one-third of them can have iron armor.This gap alone has directly and greatly affected the comparison of the combat power of the two sides.

Right now, the two sides dispatched about the same number of cavalry, about [-] cavalry, but thinking that it would be a bloody and bitter battle later, Harrick was also a decisive person. The horses also divided into two waves, each facing the cavalry of the Volunteer Regiment charging towards them.And he himself led fifty or so soldiers straight to the long wooden stick hanging the head of their major general in the middle of the battlefield.

He has followed Dulamati for many years, and he knows what he is thinking at this time. He knows that even if all the [-] elite cavalry he brought out are killed here, he must take the head of the major general back, otherwise The person died, but the head was not brought back. It was a devastating blow to the morale of the soldiers who watched this scene at the top of the city.

(End of this chapter)