Wu, in the afternoon of June 30 in the second year of Jingping, Northwest Gyeongju, Dong Zhiyuan.
The sky is high and cloudy.
The 100,000-strong army of Xixia's main force is extending from the edge of Dongzhiyuan to the northeast.
The mighty 100,000 people stretched forward and backward for more than ten miles on the terrain at the junction of the plain and the mountain. The range of the army's radiation is oval. Due to the different types of arms and advancement, the entire battlefield is divided into several layers by each army formation group.
Extending in front of the army are the scattered scouts, 10,000 paces are divided into two groups, followed by the capture army, banglinglang, strong crossbow army and the remaining paces are divided into front and back. Five groups, the guards marched forward in the middle, and the four thousand light cavalry strayed between the middle and the front. At this time, they had landed at the end of the army, preventing surprise attacks from the plains behind. Around the King Li Ganshun Banner, the most elite Xixia Proton Army and the Garrison Army as the main force, together with the strong crossbow, Po Xi and the remaining 500 Iron Harriers, a total of more than 25,000 people, slowly advanced.
In the Xixia military system, soldiers have always been divided into masters and assistants. Usually, it is one to one. In the elite arms such as the Iron Harrier, it is sometimes expanded to one to three. Generally speaking, the main soldiers are good at fighting, and the deputy soldiers are much worse, but this time, going south and occupying many places is a kind of filter in itself. Deputy soldiers who are not good at fighting are assigned to places, responsible for harvesting, and food storage, and the real elites are used for forward advancement. This time when Li Ganshun's army came under pressure, the ratio of the main and auxiliary soldiers was about one to one. While the army was advancing, the rest of the Xixia army quickly finished the grain harvest in the land around Qingzhou. , and waiting for the end of the war.
The army advanced, raised up and down, and when the tens of thousands of troops marched slowly, the flags and flags stretched into pieces, this is the middle formation. The king flag of Xixia is advancing on this field, and scouts come from time to time. Before, after, and around the report. Li Ganshun, dressed in military uniform, stood on the war horse, and the general Asha dared not pay attention to the information that came.
Tentative friction and fights have already appeared since yesterday.
At the edge of Dong Zhiyuan, when the army of Xixia advanced. The black flag enemy they were facing was pulled from camp. Suddenly heard it yesterday afternoon. This seems to be a good thing, but deep malice is brewing in the intelligence that followed.
However, the team of seven or eight thousand people, facing the rushing Xixia army of 100,000 people, split into two routes and left the camp. One army went north, and the other army and most of the horses went south to outflank. Returning to Dong Zhiyuan, if the entire army evacuated, it might be an escape. Dividing into two paths is to make it clear that the Xixia army will choose whether their purpose is to harass or fight, and what they show is deep malice.
Moreover, in the comparison between 100,000 and 7,000, the side of 7,000 people chose to divide their troops. This move is arrogant or ignorant, Li Ganshun and others felt it. It's all deep contempt.
But the Xixia people did not divide their troops. The center line was still advancing slowly, but the front line had already begun to dash toward the northeast infantry. With scouts and tens of thousands of paces, they rushed towards the team of more than 3,000 people. They used light cavalry to keep an eye on the back road. The scouts followed the cavalry in the south. The two troops couldn't look at each other.
Now every Xixia troop distributed on this battlefield can overwhelm the opponent in terms of numbers. Once they face the enemy, everyone can fight generously. One troop fights, and the other immediately responds. This is not a step-by-step guard, and even if the opponent is really an invincible army like a Jurchen, before the opponent rushes to the center, the Xixia people can use the fueling tactics to consume the enemy!
Living in the army, Li Ganshun had already suppressed the anger in his heart. For this sudden black flag army, his only thought now was to defeat them, wipe them out, and burn them to ashes. As the absolute victor and conqueror of most of the southern expedition, in the past few days, he felt more insults and contempt than the previous year combined. If it weren't for the demise of the Iron Harrier too fast, he would never have faced such an embarrassing situation in front of him, so timidly dealing with a 7,000-strong army with a 100,000-strong army.
At three quarters of the ugly time, that is, at 2:30 in the afternoon of the later generations, according to the news from the front, the Black Flag Army was still walking north along the edge of Dongzhiyuan, and there was no major movement...
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More than ten miles away, on the edge of the battle, the valleys and mountains connected to the wilderness not far away. As part of the high loess slope, the trees and vegetation here are not dense, and a stream descends from the hillside and flows into the valley.
Shortly after noon, the sun was warm and hung in the sky, and the surroundings seemed quiet. There was a thin sheep grazing on the hillside, a barren vegetable field not far away, a small rough-built house, and a man dressed in tattered cloth. A man is fetching water from the creek.
The mountains are barren, and there is only one family nearby. If you want to find a name, this place is called Huangshigou in some people, which is not well known. In fact, the entire northwest, the place called Huangshigou, may be better. This afternoon, there was a sudden sound.
The man who drew the water glanced north. The voice was coming from there, but he couldn't see anything. Then, the sound of horse hooves sounded vaguely from the south.
The man stood there carrying his broken barrel, watching not far away, two knights came running diagonally from below on horseback. They were wearing rough military uniforms with downy hair. The man was stunned for a moment, and the two alien knights also narrowed their eyes slightly to look at him, and then one pointed to the thin sheep on the mountain, and the two speeded up Going forward, someone bent a bow and shot an arrow.
The man reacted, put down the wooden barrel and started running abruptly, but the direction he chose was not the sheep, but at the door of the house not far away, an ugly little girl with a dirty body was babbling away come out.
The two knights ran faster and faster, and the man ran faster and faster, but one of them ran to the room, and the other was inserted from below, and the distance was getting closer and closer.
The knight with the bow let out an arrow, which swishly hit the sheep's buttocks. The sheep fell to the ground with a bang, then got up and ran. The two alien knights said something. One of them laughed. The knight who had drawn his bow earlier charged at the sheep, while the other watched the man run quickly from the front, turning a little, and drawing the knife was a slash.
Sensing that the horse was galloping towards the entrance. The man screamed and jumped vigorously, his body rolled on the stone several times, screaming that his back had been slashed, but the wound was not deep, and his life was not injured. The little girl across the room tried to run over. the other side. The rushing knight had already slashed the sheep under the knife, and got off the horse to harvest the spoils. The knight wielding the knife on this side rushed out for a while, turned his horse's head and ran back with a smile.
The man who was beheaded in the back rolled a few times, got up from the ground crying, and ran to his daughter again. In the rear, the alien cavalry ran closer and closer, when they reached the back. The man gritted his teeth again. He screamed and flew out, this time, his body slammed into the ground, and his head hummed. I don't know what was going on around him, a rumbling was coming, a figure flew past him, and the alien language was shouting in his ears.
He misses his daughter. Try to keep your eyes open, focus on one side of your vision. The warhorse rolled down from the broken stone, and the knight who had been charging towards him rolled a few times, but he was already dead, and an arrow was inserted in his chest.
On the other side of the shaky field of vision, the figure of a war horse rushed down at high speed and passed the knight who killed the sheep. When struggling to get up, he saw that the two Han knights were killed.
A countryman, he was used to living alone and didn't know how to speak. He resisted the pain and walked over, hugging his babbling daughter. Two Chinese knights glanced at him, one of them looked into the distance with a strange cylinder, the other came over and searched the body of the dead knight, then frowned again, took out a packet of wound medicine and a bandage, and gestured behind him. The knife wound: "wash it, wrap it up."
There was another bang in the sky to the north, what seemed to be a set of firecrackers, and then another bang. The knight who gave the wound medicine said to the man, "Go, go as fast as you can, it's not peaceful here."
The other person vaguely seemed to say: "Where can he go, he seeks more happiness..." Then both of them mounted their horses and went in one direction. They also had their tasks and couldn't stay for a civilian in the mountains.
The man had pain in his back, tried to put some medicine on himself, and tried to tie up his backpack. Then, on the side of his field of vision, a black flag suddenly appeared in the mountains. First one or two soldiers, then groups of soldiers, crossed the mountain and continuously turned towards the northwest. The man stared blankly at the team passing through the mountains. Not far away, the explosions of firecrackers became louder and denser, as if they were constantly warning and reporting something. Not long after, the torrent of the army passed through. Mountains!
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The fireworks and arrows warned by the Western Xia scouts kept ringing in the air. The dense sound accompanied the advance of the Black Flag Army, almost forming a clear line. They did not care about being discovered by the Black Flag Army, nor did they care about the small-scale pursuit and escape around them. And fighting, this is their task originally: keep an eye on the Black Flag Army and put pressure on them. But in the previous time, the scout's warnings had not become so frequent, and it suddenly became dense at this moment, which only represented one thing.
The Black Flag Army has moved!
In the relatively gentle slopes two miles away, Bu Ba's figure roared like a tide, rushing towards the northwest. The total number of this Bubu was more than 5,000, and they were led by a young general from the Dangxiang clan, who was highly appreciated by Li Ganshun. Block the way of the Black Flag Army.
At a distance of more than five miles from here, another 5,000-step troop led by the general Du Luowei and the troop of Wei Mingshu moved forward in an angled posture, with the purpose of grabbing the black flag army here.
Buba runs fast in the mountains, and the single-player combat power is extremely strong. There may be some shortcomings in the frontal battlefield, but as long as this black flag army can be left behind for a moment, the next situation will be 10,000 people besieging and killing three. More than a thousand black flag troops.
Moreover, Wei Mingshu did not think that the 5,000 people under his command would not be able to kill this arrogant team of more than 3,000 people. This time, the 100,000-strong army is advancing steadily and cautiously, but although the upper ranks have their own considerations, as a general, they will not look down on themselves because of the fall of Iron Harrier, and he still has a spirit.
Taking a step back, under the premise of advancing an army of 100,000 people, if 5,000 people dare not fight against 3,000 people, then no one will know how to fight in the future. Be vigilant, treat with regular tactics, and do not underestimate the enemy. This is what a general can do and should do.
Wei Mingshu did not underestimate the enemy.
Two miles to the northeast, the Black Flag Army had already appeared in the field of vision, extending westward.
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The warning fireworks of the Xixia scouts sounded in the air. between the mountains. The running light cavalry used bows and arrows to expel the surrounding Xixia scouts. On the way to the north, there were not many cavalrymen, and the battle was not long, and the bows and arrows were ruthless. Both sides suffered casualties.
"It's annoying!"
In the trotted infantry formation. When someone complained, Mao Yishan frowned when he heard the sound of firecrackers, and shouted. Then someone called: "Look over there!"
"Xixia Bubu!"
This voice came, and on Mao Yishan's side, it was Hou Wu who turned his head and said, "Xixia Buba, pay attention..."
"It's the one that has been following us..."
"Mummy. I can finally breathe out!"
There are more orders coming. Mao Yishan drew his sword. Many people around also suddenly drew their knives, and quickly wrapped and tightened the red scarf on the handle of the knife. Unconsciously, the team has begun to speed up, and the Buba brigade over there is also speeding up. More than 5,000 people, the same everywhere.
The warning fireworks no longer sounded. In the distance, there were scouts watching from the mountains. The running speed of both sides is not slow, and they are approaching the land of a stone. Buba slowed down a little while shouting in the mountains and plains, and drew his bow and arrow. opposite. Someone shouted: "Lei" This is the military order after the bow and arrow formation.
The sword and shield players in the front row raised their shields while running, and the speed under their feet suddenly reached the limit. One person shouted, and thousands of people shouted: "Follow me... rush"
Arrows in front fly into the sky! The sword and shield move like thunder!
"what"
Mao Yishan raised his shield, bent over, shouted and ran forward at high speed, and then he heard a crackling sound, an arrow stuck on the ground and flew. He keeps running! The arrow did not let him fall, and the dense footsteps around him almost made a rumbling sound and began to move closer.
The formation of more than 3,000 people was divided into two groups, and on this slope that was not very steep, they rushed towards the 5,000-step trek at high speed.
In the field of vision, the figure and appearance of the Xixia people were quickly drawn closer in the huge shaking. At the moment of contact, Mao Yishan let out a sigh of relief, and then, above the front line, shouted like thunder. The light of the sword sounded: "...kill!!!" The shield slammed into the crowd, and the long sword in his hand seemed to be using all his strength, and chopped off the head of the person in front!
Blood waves surged out on the front line!
"Kill" Wei Mingshu also shouted, and then said, "Block them for me"
"Kill!" Mao Yishan slashed down, feeling that he should have slashed the skull, and then slashed the flesh with the second slash. There were fanatical shouts in his ears, on his side, and on the other side. Pushing forward, in a position that previously felt like a fighting front line, he shouted frantically and pushed two steps inward, like a surging blood pool hell...
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"...From what it looks like now, the entire front has been stretched for nearly 15 miles. This army only has more than 3,000 people. How to fight?"
"...According to the previous experience of the Iron Harrier, the opponent's firearms are powerful and must be guarded. But after all, manpower is sometimes poor, and it is unlikely that thousands of people will come over. I think the highlight is probably the nearly 2,000 cavalry in the rear. On, they defeated the Iron Harrier and gained a lot."
"... The consideration of the general's side is still reasonable, and the more than 3,000 people were trapped by the footsteps and more than ten miles of front, so that the seven thousand troops could not respond. But I think it's too cautious, it is The Jurchen who boasts that he is invincible in the world may not dare to come in such a battle, and even if he wins this battle, he will be a little embarrassed."
On the field, this is a 12,000-strong Western Xia Army. Generals Ye Lifeng and Ye Weima rode forward while discussing the battle situation in a low voice. The extension of the 100,000-strong army, the vast wilderness, and the two small teams of more than 3,000 in the front and the rear, always give people a feeling of splashing and fighting mosquitoes. Although the bizarre demise of the Iron Harrier was shocking for a while, when he really arrived at the scene, after thinking about it carefully, it made people wonder if it was really a big deal.
"Jurchen, it sounds great. In fact, there is a reason for guarding the steps in Dagang. The reason is that the Liao people have always won more with less, and the problems are mostly on the side of the loser." , understand very deeply.
"Then what do you think will happen this time?"
"Dividing the troops into two paths, I'm lucky. If I were the enemy general, I saw that I didn't underestimate the enemy here, I'm afraid I would have to withdraw my troops and escape, and then look for opportunities..."
Having said that, there is a sudden movement in front of you. From a distance, there are scouts and cavalry running towards this side, and the speed of the running is wrong! One of them came over here and passed the message.
Fight ahead!
At three quarters of the ugly time, the more than 3,000 black flag troops in front suddenly began to turn westward. Around Yin Shi, they fought with the Weiming Shu army. The tail of Duluo was chasing westward, trying to encircle the enemy army!
According to the plan, at this time, the army led by Ye Lifeng and Ye Weima was going to pounce on the north to ensure safety. The two also planned this way, but it was a bit unexpected.
The other party actually started fighting
what are you thinking...
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Huangshipo west of the mountains, shouting and boiling. After the army contacts, they collide, fight, and disperse...
Even though Wei Mingshu shouted the whole team with all his strength, the 5,000-foot-trailer still rushed away like the sea water smashed by a boulder. Hit the boulder, he and a team of cronies were rushed to pieces. He was stabbed in the face, half of his ears were missing, and he was dragged out bloody by his cronies.
Buba is the elite of the Xixia army, but he is good at mountain battles and not good at battles. This is the evaluation of many people, but this is only an analysis of its strengths and weaknesses. Two ordinary armies are still fine. But this team that crushed over was too strong.
They may subconsciously separate during the run, but at the moment of the battle, the array of people is densely packed, with almost no gaps, and the collision and killing are resolute, which is terrifying. Accustomed to agile footsteps, it is also extremely fierce, but when encountering such a collision, the front line collapses once, and the back is easy to push like an avalanche.
Soon after, Du Luowei led Bubu towards the west at high speed. When approaching Huangshipo, he encountered a wandering Bubu team. When he set foot on this mountain, he saw the scene of the battlefield: people were killed in the mountains and plains. Walking on the walk, the flesh and blood corpses on the hillside stretched out into the distance, pulling out a long trace.
After the opponent defeated the sparsely named troops, it only took a very short time to treat the wounded, and then moved to the west. In fact, there were not many wounded, and half of the wounded were hit by arrows at the moment of charging. After fighting for a while, the entire Buba team was stunned by the fierce and fierce fighting of the other side.
Du Luowei stood on the hillside watching all this, and the five thousand subordinates around were also watching it all. Some people were puzzled and mocked, and Du Luowei swallowed: "Come on!"
He knew in his heart that things were in trouble.
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June 30, the afternoon of Yin Shi, Gyeongju. The first battle between the Black Flag Army and the Xixia army of 100,000 people suddenly broke out after nearly a day of fighting.
Near Huangshipo, the main force of the second and third regiments of the Black Banner Army led by Pang Luan and Li Yi, a total of 3,600 people, fought with the 5,000-step postscript of the Xixia Weiming Shubu. The face once again set foot on the Dong Zhiyuan wilderness.
At the same time, on the field to the southwest, Lin Jingwei and a group of people followed the horse team, looking at the sky.
He frowned: "Time is running out, this wind is not easy to handle..."
Not far away, the horse team is moving forward and wants to part ways with this side. Qin Shaoqian came over, asked a few questions, and frowned slightly.
"It's a good thing to use these things, but if you can't use them, you shouldn't expect too much. Mr. Lin is in charge of this side, and it's just a matter of course, I'll go first."
Lin Jing nodded slightly. The horse team beside him was carrying boxes one by one.
The sun was shining and the sky was not very windy. At this time, the news of the front battle had already come from the north and passed into the main force of the Western Xia central formation.
The news of the five-thousand-paced battle and the five-thousand-paced defeat in the blink of an eye was one after another, spreading across the entire army in a blink of an eye.
Everyone who received the news suddenly felt numb in their scalps.
Killed ( .)