Yi Song

Chapter 236 Battle of Yanzhou
On the tenth day of the second lunar month in the first year of Xuanhe, in the east of Yanzhou City.

Before morning arrives, the thin spring mist has dissipated and turned into dewdrops on the tips of grass blades and stones, shining in the morning sun.

A few voles came out of the hole and looked around for a while to find a suitable place. Sometimes he lowers his head to lick the dewdrops, sometimes he raises his head warily.

Suddenly, they panicked, ran as fast as they could, swooped back into the burrow, and disappeared.

After a while, the gravel on the ground, together with the surrounding fine sand, began to shake inexplicably, like rippling water waves.

Soon, dull footsteps came along the ground, accompanied by loud singing in the air.

"The royal wind of the four seas, the virtues and the clear water for thousands of years; I don't even have to wear my military uniform, I have accomplished today. Looking back at Qin's fortress as low as a horse, I gradually see the Yellow River flowing straight north. The power of heaven rolls over the Yellow River, and the barbarians from thousands of miles away sing the songs of Han Dynasty ."

The song swept along the yellow earth, desolate and distant, like the wind on the Yellow River mountain plains, which has been blowing from the Tang Dynasty to the present.

Countless flags fluttered in the wind, and countless figures swayed between the sky and the earth.

The rising sun leaps out from the east, painting the flag with a golden edge and covering the figure with golden armor.

Of course they dare.

Brother Richard's eyelids were twitching, and his teeth were clenching. "Song Manzi, a straight-blooded bastard, they actually dared to set their main attack direction in the north, and they actually dared to use infantry to fight our cavalry! What a deception!"

Two quarters of an hour later, as the Song army approached less than ten miles east of the city, their formation was clearly visible.

Brother Richard waved his hands and said nonchalantly: "What you said makes sense. Don't worry about such a trivial matter. Come with me to see the Song Army's formation. This battle is of great importance and involves the fate of our country. You were right at the beginning. , if Liu Erlang launches a war in the east, he will fight a national war to destroy our country."

He remained motionless, like a stone sculpture, asking Liang Baichuan, the staff member next to him.

"Your Majesty, if you say you can win, we can win."

Liang Baichuan nodded, "I think it will take more than eight thousand miles to go from Weizhou to Hedong and then out of the clouds."

"Eight thousand miles away, how dare he think so?"

"Heaven does not come true!" Brother Richard sighed, took out a thin booklet from his arms, and slapped the rough-edged cover with his right hand.

Liang Baichuan lowered his head and leaned on his back, not daring to say anything more, and continued to look forward together.

After ten years of hard work, this book came back, "Tactics Essentials", which Liu Erlang used exclusively for the Kongtong Mountain officer training class. It is said that he wrote it himself. I read it back and forth no less than ten times.

Brother Richard suddenly turned his head and stared at Liang Baichuan, making him feel scared.

"Our spy, the deepest and most important spy buried in the Song Dynasty, sent back this pamphlet, and then there was no news. In all likelihood, he was picked up by the Bureau of Investigation and Security.

"Baichuan, the Song army is dispatched. This time, the war is on our land in Daxia. Do you think we can win?"

Brother Richard stood on the east gate tower of Yanzhou City, squinting his eyes and looking at all this. Under the city, 100,000 Xia troops were mobilized urgently, arrayed in separate stations, and began to fight.

"Baichuan, if you stay by my side, you are showing off your talent. You should go to Liu Erlang's side as an aide."

A big detour and a big outflank. I used to think it was nothing more than outflanking from Qinfeng Road to Fuyan Road. It was already overwhelming. We never expected that Liu Erlang would turn to Izumo on the east side of Hedong, then cross the river southward, cross Henan, go south along the east bank of the Yellow River, and sneak up under our noses.

"Your Majesty, perhaps what we see is only a corner of the northwest, but what Liu Erlang sees is the entire world."

Liang Baichuan secretly glanced at Brother Richard, who was turning pale with anger.

Baichuan, do you think this is five or six thousand miles? "

Liang Baichuan's back was covered with cold sweat, and he quickly raised his hands and said: "Your Majesty, my subordinate made a mistake, please forgive me, please forgive me."

They are clearly bullying us.

They have 50,000 to 60,000 cavalry, and the main force is the elite string controllers from Monan and Mobei. In the past, the most elite Henan Tibetan cavalry in Daxia Kingdom could only serve as a foil in other people's cavalry teams.

It happened that most of the most elite Henan and Tibetan cavalry in the Great Xia Kingdom ran away to others. My 40,000 cavalrymen were pieced together and plundered from various places.

Some even just infantry who could ride horses were forcibly converted into cavalry and crammed in to make up the numbers.

With such fighting power, people are not afraid of you at all. Now they have arranged their infantry in formation, with the main direction of attack to the north, facing their own cavalry, and are waiting for us to attack. If our cavalry dares to dispatch, the Song army can use their infantry to trap them - they have gained experience in fighting cavalry with infantry for many years.

Then their hidden cavalry swept in from the flanks, swung their swords horizontally, and maimed their own cavalry.

If all 40,000 cavalrymen are lost, the situation of the battle will be reversed. The Xia army will become the Song army before, surrounded by cavalry and chasing you until you are exhausted and finally collapse.

Brother Richard was furious, but he knew the priorities and did not give the order to attack after the Song army's infantry formations stopped four miles apart.

The two armies were in strict formation, facing each other four or five miles apart. There was silence on the battle line that was more than 20 miles long.

On the ground, rats, insects, foxes and rabbits were all hiding in their nests, holding their breath and not daring to make a sound. The birds in the sky are also hiding in their nests, except for a few bold falcons, flying high in the sky.

The whole world no longer has the vitality of spring, and is completely as chill as a severe winter.

Half an hour later, hundreds of cavalrymen emerged from nowhere. They carried black flags, spread out in twos and threes, and passed by the southern flank of the Xia army.

He stretched his bow and nocked an arrow, and fired several rounds at the dense Xia army's infantry formation.

It is not very harmful and extremely insulting.

All Xia army units obeyed Brother Richard's strict orders and did not move without permission.

After the hundreds of provocative cavalry dispersed, thousands more cavalry emerged, carrying red flags, and rushed towards the northern flank of the Xia army. Less than a hundred or two hundred paces away, they turned around and were parallel.

He stretched his bow and nocked an arrow, and shot provocatively.

A Xia Army cavalry force, about two thousand of them, rushed out of the formation, bit the tail of the Red Banner cavalry, and shot down several of them with a hail of arrows.

The Red Banner cavalry screamed wildly and were very panicked. The originally scattered formation became even more scattered. The Xia army cavalry were overjoyed and their morale was high. They bit their tails and pursued them more vigorously.

"Whose troops are these?" Brother Richard turned blue with anger.

"Your Majesty, these are the troops of the Hue Defense Envoy, Polo Zernu."

Buluo Zhenu is the chief of the Buluo tribe in Dangxiang. His territory is in the southern area of ​​Hebei (Houthetao) and belongs to the Weifu Military Division of Heishan. A few days ago, the Red Tiger Cavalry of the Song Army crossed the border from the east of Weicheng in the province, frightening the dignitaries of Xingqing Mansion and sending troops everywhere.

The Bu Luo Zhe Nu Department was closest to the Xingqing Mansion in the Heishan Weifu Military Division and was transferred over urgently. Following him all the way to Yanzhou, Brother Richard took over unceremoniously on the pretext that the war was tight.

Bu Luo Zhenu was full of resentment and obeyed Brother Richard's military orders.

Brother Richard, who was on the east gate tower, watched helplessly as Buluo Zhenu and two thousand cavalrymen happily chased the panicked Red Tiger Cavalry, farther and farther away.

More than three thousand cavalry chased each other, and finally disappeared into the wilderness in the south.

Silence returned to the battlefield, with only hundreds of flags flapping in the wind.

Brother Richard turned into a stone statue again, looking at the Song Army in the distance, trying to find some flaw in the middle.

There are two thousand Buluo cavalry in Hebei and Daxia's elite cavalry. Don't lose too much.

Liang Baichuan was worried about gains and losses.

After half an hour, a group of cavalry came out from the south, about a thousand cavalry.

When they ran up to them, Brother Richard and Liang Baichuan saw clearly that they were the Red Tiger Cavalry under the apricot flag. There was a corpse lying behind the saddle of each horse, but there was no head.

Running to the Xia Army formation on the north wing, the Red Tiger Cavalry threw the corpse to the ground.

"More than a thousand of Luo's cavalry were beheaded, and the rest were all captured. The heads of those who beheaded will be taken for credit, and the bodies will be returned to you."

A cavalry officer shouted, pointing to the headless bodies lying on the ground. He shouted three times, whistled, led his men north, and quickly disappeared on the battlefield.

On the battlefield that had returned to silence, there were more than a thousand headless corpses scattered everywhere. The bright sun shone on them, making people feel chilly.

(End of this chapter)