Yi Song

Chapter 242 A fatal blow

The sound of horns and loud shouts attracted more than 200,000 soldiers of both armies on the battlefield.

Song Jun, who was close, could see at a glance the two big flags at the front of the team, a red tiger flag and a big flag with Liu characters on a white background and gold border.

Seeing this big flag, the Song troops were all excited.

This is Liu Jieshuai’s handsome flag!

This flag is at the front, which means that the coach Liu Erlang is wearing heavy armor, taking the lead, and leading armored cavalry to prepare to attack the enemy.

How many years have passed, has the Song army ever had a commander personally die and charge directly into the enemy's position?

It happened with Emperor Taizong of the former Tang Dynasty, it happened with the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, it happened with this dynasty when it unified the world, it happened with Di Qing, but then it was never heard of again.

There is a difference between a general and a commander, between the leader of an army and the leader of an entire army, not to mention the even greater difference in this kind of national war.

Liu Jieshuai now does not avoid the attack and is rushing to the front. How can he keep the Song army soldiers from being excited?
When the news spread, hundreds of thousands of Song troops were like ripples caused by boulders, rapidly surging in circles.

"The vast sea, kiss my house. The rolling dust, my family! The universe is bright, the man's blood is bright. The vast sky, bless me with true strength!"

"Xingqing Mansion, I can't go back."

Dozens of military formations marched forward one by one to the beat of war drums.

The military commander held an order flag, and five hundred war drums distributed in five places were beaten at the same time.

In less than a quarter of an hour, hundreds of thousands of Song troops on the entire battlefield shouted in unison: "Kill the enemy!"

Brother Richard looked sharply at the battlefield in the distance. That's where the Iron Kites attacked the Song Army's formation and were about to succeed, but were burned to the ground.

After a while, tens of thousands of Red Tiger Cavalry troops sang together.

"First take the twelve prefectures in Hexi, and then attack Helan Dang Xiangtou. Looking back at the fortress of Qin, it is as low as a horse, and gradually we can see that the Yellow River flows straight north. The power of God rolls over the Yellow River, and the Qiang people from thousands of miles away sing the song of Han Dynasty."

The song floated to the Red Tiger Cavalry, commanding 10,000 fine cavalry. Liu Zhuxie, who was closely behind the 3,000 heavily armored Red Cavalry, raised his voice and sang loudly. Thousands of Zhenwu troops behind him were excited and cheering.

The Song troops in one military formation after another held their weapons high and shouted loudly.

At this time, they felt that they were all comrades, that they were a drop in the huge waves that shook the world, a flower in the fire that burned the world. They could block the Yellow River, level the Helan Mountain, and destroy the entire Hexi, the entire The whole world was burned to the ground in one fell swoop.

The soldiers sang it several times, until their whole bodies were on fire.

Liu Guozhang's raised iron spear swung twice in the air.

"Your Majesty is wise. The city of Xingqing Mansion cannot withstand repeated fires from the Song army's artillery bombs."

Liang Baichuan's face turned pale, he came closer to Brother Richard and said softly: "Liu Erlang knows sorcery. He bewitched hundreds of thousands of Song troops, almost crazy. With such military spirit and morale, the Song troops will definitely fight to the death with our troops." . Your Majesty, if you don’t stand behind a dangerous wall, you should make plans early.”

The huge sound made everyone's blood boil. They felt like there was a fire in their chests, and the next moment they would burn all over their bodies, and then burn away any obstacles that dared to stand in front of them.

The fire there has become much smaller, and there are only small fires scattered here and there, and the black smoke is like wild grass growing wildly on the wilderness in spring.

"Is that west or north?"

Tens of thousands of Song soldiers sang in unison. Accompanied by the sound of drums and footsteps, their impassioned singing reached through the sun and the moon.

The sound was like a huge wave, overwhelmingly sweeping towards the Xia Army. Many Xia Army soldiers were so frightened by this unprecedented momentum that their faces turned pale.

"Kill the enemy!"

"Your Majesty has already made up his mind, why bother asking his subordinates." Liang Baichuan replied with his head lowered.

Brother Richard turned his head and stared at Liang Baichuan, "The hozens dispersed after the tree fell. Your Liang family has a blood feud with our Weiming clan, and you will definitely not be buried alive. You can go and give advice to me all these years in vain. A lot of hard work.”

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Brother Richard didn't look back. He stepped on the wall with both hands and looked at the changing battlefield outside the city with sadness. Liu Guozhang led the cavalry and began to slowly start.

Three thousand heavily armored red knights were at the front, shaped like a triangle. Ten thousand fine cavalry followed closely behind, like a huge moon sword.

Five miles and four miles away, the Red Tiger Cavalry Army was getting closer and closer to the Xia Army's cavalry formation.

Liu Zhuxie raised his right hand high and swung it forward several times. The military commander behind him held up a brass trumpet and started blowing.

The five thousand elite cavalry on the left wing accelerated rapidly upon hearing the sound. They were light and fast, and soon they passed the three thousand heavily armored red cavalry from the side and ran far ahead.

The five thousand fine cavalry on the right wing also accelerated, running parallel to the three thousand heavily armored red cavalry on the right wing.

The five thousand elite cavalry on the left wing quickly rushed to a place less than two or three hundred steps away from the Xia Army's cavalry formation. Suddenly the whole team turned around from a direct charge to a crosscut, drawing an arc and passing by the Xia Army's formation.

Five thousand fine cavalry rushed to the side and fired wave after wave of arrows at the Xia army, which was less than 300 steps wide.

The five thousand fine cavalry on the left wing formed a large arc, passing by the five thousand fine cavalry on the right wing, and returned behind the three thousand heavily armored red cavalry, only changing from the left wing to the right wing.

The fine cavalry on the right wing then accelerated and rushed to the front, less than two or three hundred paces away from the Xia army's cavalry formation. They also rushed forward, turned around and cut across, firing sideways, still aiming at the three hundred paces wide place. Shoot hard.

By the time they drew a huge arc and returned behind the heavily armored Red Cavalry, changing from the right wing to the left wing, and the whole team continued to advance, the heavily armored Red Cavalry had already accelerated and launched the final blow.

Brother Richard and other generals of the Xia army were stunned.

It's also a heavy armored cavalry assault, but you guys are playing more recklessly. He actually let the following cavalry behind him shoot from the left and right, shoot sideways, and use dense arrow rain to clear the way for the heavy armored cavalry.

After two rounds of violent arrows, the cavalry in that area lost 30 to 40% of their lives, and they had no morale or morale to resist.

Brother Richard and everyone looked at each other. He originally thought that with the number of cavalry, he would overwhelm the three thousand heavily armored red cavalry, and then disperse and fight to the death with the red tiger cavalry, looking for a chance of victory.

That little flame of victory was completely extinguished by the ten thousand fine knights firing their bows from left to right to clear the way, and there was no thought of it at all.

It’s not just how lethal the bows fired from the left or right are, but everyone knows that such cross-shooting shows that the Red Tiger Cavalry is elite and good at fighting, as well as the general’s commanding ability, far exceeding their previous expectations.

Tens of thousands of these elite cavalry, when faced with one's own cavalry, even if the numbers are equal, they will be the ones to chase one's side into the fight in the end.

Wolves and sheep are not the same thing.

Liu Guozhang took the lead, followed by Zhang Meng, Yue Fei and others. Three thousand heavily armored red cavalry rushed into the Xia army's formation unstoppably, like a tiger rushing into a herd of sheep.

The silver dragon iron spear in Liu Guozhang's hand turned into a long iron rod, sweeping left and right, sweeping the Xia army cavalry in front to the ground like leaves. An armored black horse charged forward unreasonably, pushing the horses that had lost their masters to both sides.

The long-handled sword in Zhang Meng's hand danced like a windmill as he rushed forward, blood mixed with minced meat flying like rain and snow.

The spear in Yue Fei's hand changed his previous routine and imitated Liu Guozhang's moves of opening and closing. It's just that his spear is not heavy, more like a long whip, whipping left and right, knocking the Xia army cavalry to the ground.

Once the cavalry landed, thousands of troops would trample over them, leaving them lifeless.

Three thousand heavily armored red cavalry were like red-hot knives thrust into lard. There was almost no resistance. In less than two-quarters of an hour, they actually penetrated the Xia army's formation.

The ten thousand elite cavalry who followed closely cut the entire Xia army's northern wing formation in half.

Tens of thousands of Song army infantry rushed forward menacingly.

The Xia army's cavalry were in a panic, like headless flies. In front of the hordes of infantry, they lost their mobility and impact, and they were just like an ordinary dish.

On the southern flank, tens of thousands of Song troops launched a ferocious attack on the Xia army's infantry. Before the battle, thirty counterweighted stone cannons from the Shenji Stone Cannon Battalion frantically threw three rounds of explosive bombs at the Xia Army's infantry formation.

The exploding round bomb weighs two to three hundred kilograms. When it explodes, the triangular iron cone flies around, and no one is standing within a radius of two to three feet.

It’s so heartbreaking! But it further damaged Xia Jun's morale.

In less than an hour, I don’t know where it started, or maybe it happened in several places at the same time, the entire 130,000 Xia army collapsed.

(End of this chapter)