Chapter 1,237 Night Attack

Late at night, the Xia Army camp is five miles north of Huanzhou City.

Camp tents, lights, everything is as usual.

However, the banging sound was a bit messy. It was because Mengmeng mistakenly released a few sheep and tied the fodder with ropes in the sheepfold, hanging it at a height that the sheep could reach with their own efforts.

When the sheep jump up and eat grass, they drag the rope, and the rope drives the hammer to knock the bang.

Mengmengyu was a general above the standard and knew that he could not get any good results in Huanzhou. However, this time he obtained the Thunderbolt, explosives, and crane-shank crossbows from the Song army, and tested the feasibility of attacking the city with three guns and crossbows.

Huanzhou City was destroyed for a time, but the army suffered no major losses, so it can be regarded as a balance between merit and demerit.

After the scandal was publicized, he had already had the idea of ​​withdrawing from the army, but there were rules for withdrawing.

He also knew that there was a Song general hiding in his rear, so he decided to retreat quietly in the middle of the night. He first opened up the distance between the two Song armies. When the sun rises tomorrow, the army will be thirty miles away from Huanzhou.

You can retreat calmly.

The withdrawal operation was very successful. The army left the tent camp outside Huanzhou City and now quietly arrived on the road five miles away from the camp.

Mengmengyu looked back at Huanzhou City with a sneer on his face. He had almost completely grasped the weaknesses of the Song people, and the sharpness of their firearms was not enough. Just like what Emperor Jingzong did back then, as long as he found an opportunity to rob

With the craftsmen of the Song people, Daxia will soon have the same armaments as the Song people.

However, at this moment, "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" suddenly sounded from the high ground on both sides of the road. Several soft sounds were heard, and then several sparks shot up into the high sky and exploded into several flowers at high altitude.

Beautiful fireworks.

In the distance, at the head of Huanzhou City, drums suddenly burst into bursts, and several identical fireworks burst out over the city head in response.

Immediately afterwards, shouts, gongs and drums sounded wildly, and a rain of arrows flew from both sides towards the Xia army in the middle of the road.

In the distance of Huanzhou City, a fire dragon surged out from behind the city, then bypassed the city wall and quickly chased after Mengmeng and the others!

"I've fallen into the trap!" Gong Mengxi couldn't help but turned pale with fright. He clamped his horse's belly and said to the commander of the Chinese army: "You stay here, I want to take the Song Dynasty firearms to the Baotai Army Division, so I can only follow the front army.

Withdraw first!"

The commander of the Chinese army knew that he was probably going to be unlucky tonight: "The heirs of the tribe will be entrusted to the care of the capital!"

After saying that, he pulled out his long sword and said: "Stop the drums and form a formation! Form a formation!"

But marching in the dark, with the Song army harassing them all around, it was not easy to form a formation. Countless Xia people ran around in panic, scattering in all directions in the dark.

The Xia people automatically divided into two teams. One team was composed of 5,000 people. As Mengmenghe quickly fled the battlefield, the other team was composed of more than 10,000 people and gathered blindly towards the sound of the Chinese army's drums.

They didn't have time to react, and soon the first batch of light cavalry from the Song Army arrived.

This group of riders are all Tibetan people who have great control over their horses. When encountering the Xia people, they would not engage the enemy. Instead, they nimbly galloped past the edge of the Xia people's formation, standing on the saddle pedals with their legs and shouting loudly.

, swung something like a meteor hammer over his head a few times, and then threw it into the Xia people's formation.

When the thing fell into the Xia army's camp and shattered to the ground, it would ignite a fire. With the target in mind, the archers in the darkness immediately shot their arrows at the figures illuminated by the fire.

When the fire dragon in the distance saw the fire coming here, it immediately made a small adjustment and rushed towards the Xia people!

"Steady! Steady! Sword and shield men come forward!" The commander of the Chinese army waved his long sword and shouted crazily. The military law team around him mercilessly chopped the long sword on his own people like headless flies.

Finally, they managed to maintain their formation in the darkness.

The Xia people's counterattack began, and their blindly shooting arrows occasionally harvested one or two unlucky victims of the Fan people's Qingqi. The Fan people who fell to the ground were often still carrying heavy fire oil cans and had no time to get rid of them, and were immediately burned to death by their own weapons.

A torch.

But such achievements must be in the minority. Soon, the outer edges of the Xia people's formation were filled with burning spots.

Di Yong dispatched almost all the Fan cavalry and issued bows and arrows to them. The Huanzhou Fans already hated this Xia army. They formed small teams and roared from a distance of thirty steps outside the fire ring.

Then he passed by, shooting wildly at the Xia people in the circle while running.

The military quality of the Xia people was fully demonstrated at this moment. Although they were suffering from crazy attacks from all directions, their military formation was already moving stubbornly and firmly towards the north.

Night battles had almost never happened in the history of the Xia people. Their highly flexible cavalry would always leave the battlefield quickly at dusk and wait until dawn to come back again.

However, the Song Army has a tradition of night fighting, especially Su Lie, who was born in the Second Forest in the Southwest. He loves night fighting even more. The Dun'an Army in his hand is the only one licensed by Zhao Xu, who can use the blue of the Southwest Yi.

Colored fabric as military uniform colors for the army.

The blue-clad Ye Mei has already gained a great reputation on the border of the Song Dynasty in the past twenty years. Many Tibetan tribes often surrendered without fighting when they saw the Dun'an troops wearing blue clothes and iron masks.

courage.

This trend gradually spread to the entire Western Army when Su You was governing Weizhou.

The harassment of the light cavalry made the Xia people even slower. The Chinese army led by Di Yong and Wu Cunzhi finally arrived at the darkest moment before dawn!

Three hundred "heavy riders", wearing commoners inside and Xia people's heavy-step plate armor on the outside. The horses have leather "faces" and "chicken necks" on their heads and necks, and half a piece of cowhide and "armor" modified from Xia people's chain armor hang below the neck.

"Body", holding a heavy cavalry lance modified with a triangular thorn, in the shape of a sharp arrow, it collided with the Xia people's flag-bearing army!

Inside the front arrow, there were thousands of Song Army light cavalry wielding cavalry swords.

Moments like this have happened many times in history, but this time, the roles were reversed.

One hundred steps! The Xia people's formation began to riot. They couldn't figure out how the Song people's weakest Huanzhou Army had the famous Iron Kites of Great Xia!

At seventy steps, the Xia people's archers started shooting wildly, but facing the entire front that was well protected by the cavalry, it was almost useless.

If the Xia people had adopted the projectile method, the Song Army's light cavalry inside the Fengyao Formation would definitely suffer a big loss. However, the huge terror of the Iron Kites in front of the battle made them forget this and just shoot wildly at the Iron Kites in vain.

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Fifty steps! Ru Lin's lance fell down like a reed that had been pinched by a sickle, and the jujube pole fell on the hook specially added by Shi Yong beside the horse's shoulder, facing the enemy's formation.

Thirty steps! The shield bearers in the Xia camp have begun to scream and howl nervously. The cavalry of the Chinese army suddenly began to surge towards the rear under the constant projection of the Fan's light cavalry and the huge pressure of the heavy cavalry in front.

Go, knock the law enforcement team infantry to the ground, and then flee.

And the pace of Di Yong's horse has accelerated to the extreme, and thirty steps is no more than a blink of an eye.

Immediately afterwards, the jujube wood triangular spear, which was nearly three meters long, flashed into the Xia army's shield formation without any hindrance, like a soaring snake riding the wind.

"Bang!" The spear shattered the shield and pierced it. The shield-bearer behind him was penetrated by the spear like butter. The huge kinetic energy pushed him into his comrade behind him, and the stabbing spear was behind him again, stabbing him.

Entering the body of another Xia Jun, a terrifying chisel-shaped spear tip emerged from the back of the second Xia Jun!

The tough jujube wood gun shaft could not withstand such huge kinetic energy. After arching a huge bend, it snapped with a snap.

However, this is only the first handle, followed closely by the second handle, the third handle...

The Xia army's seemingly complete and effective formation was helpless against the impact of the heavy cavalry, and a huge gap was torn open in the blink of an eye.

Di Yong had already dropped his lance, raised his hand, and the leaf hammer connected to his wrist with a belt loop swung into his hand, and hit the Xia people around him hard.

With a four-foot-long steel pipe and a four-blade hammer head, this weapon that Shi Yong improvised for the Three Hundred Cavalry suddenly felt light in Di Yong's hands.

He doesn't need to consider other parts at all, he just greets his opponent by his head. Regardless of whether he is wearing a helmet or not, he will knock him down with one blow.

When a tiger joins a flock of sheep, there is no general at hand!

The Xia people's swords had little lethality against the heavy cavalry wearing plate armor, and behind each of the Song army's heavy cavalry, there was a group of light cavalry holding swords to cover them.

Knocked down or knocked aside, his life was cut off by a sword.

At this point in the battle, the Chinese army's command was powerless. After the defense line was breached, the Xia army faced a massacre by the opponent's cavalry.

Therefore, the commander became timid and was bundled up with his own cavalry, and fled towards the north.

The first ray of sunlight just emerged from the horizon, witnessing the moment when the Xia army's flag fell.

The Xia people also saw such a scene in the morning sun, and the army suddenly turned from a riot into a rout.
Chapter completed!