The struggle of the reborn prince

Xiao Hanli found out the reality of the Song army, but he did not attack rashly, but waited for the order from the country.He understood that Dashi Linya claimed to inherit the mantle of the Liao Kingdom and continue the national line of the Daliao Kingdom, but everyone knew that their regime could not convince all the Khitan people, because although Yelu Dashi was considered to be a royal family, it was already a branch of the Liao Dynasty, and it had not yet been established. recognized by the clan.

Princess Yu Liyan of the Kingdom of Shu is the biological daughter of the last emperor Yelu Yanxi. She is directly related to the royal family.In the battle with the Jurchens, he won many battles and defended the last piece of land in the Liao Kingdom, but Yelu Dashi was still in exile in Mobei at that time.Afterwards, with the collapse of the Nanjing regime and the capture of the emperor, Xijing became the only remaining regime in the Liao Kingdom at that time, and was also regarded as orthodox by the Khitan people.

Afterwards, the princess of the Kingdom of Shu recruited King Yan of the Song Dynasty as her son-in-law in order to fight against the Jin Dynasty in the Song Dynasty. With her help, she regained the entire Xijing area.What is embarrassing is that the prince of the Song Dynasty did not forget his homeland. He sent troops to aid the Song Dynasty and defeated the Jin army who went south. He became the emperor of the Song Dynasty. Therefore, the princess of Shu still enjoys high prestige among the Khitan people.

Now that the Song army had handed over the letter from the princess of Shu, although Xiao Hanli did not know the specific content, he could guess that it must be to persuade the emperor to stop the war and unite the Song Dynasty against Jin, and not to wade into the muddy waters of Gaochang.Thinking about the status and prestige of the Princess of Shu, the emperor will not ignore her opinion, so maybe this conflict can be avoided.And from the bottom of his heart, Xiao Hanli did not want to have a bad relationship with Song either.Therefore, he did not rush to mobilize troops, but he did not relax his preparations either.

Wishes are beautiful.The results were disappointing.A few days later, domestic news came back that the emperor rejected the proposal of the princess of Shu.But he said that as long as the Song army gave up the crusade against Gaochang.He can send the Song army out of the country, persuade Gaochang to reopen the trade route, and set up a special market in Xiliao, allowing Song Dynasty merchants to operate in it, otherwise they will have to fight each other.

Xiao Hanli sighed after seeing it. The Song army spent huge sums of money mobilizing an army of [-] to come from thousands of miles away. How could they give up the conquest of Gaochang with a promise, and the two armies would inevitably fight.So he sent an envoy to inform the Song Army and at the same time issued a mobilization order, after the Song Army rejected the emperor's suggestion.Immediately play...

The Xiliao army came rolling in with unstoppable momentum. When they were still [-] miles away from the Song army camp, a cavalry army suddenly rushed out. They roared and stirred up smoke and dust all over the sky. Hastily ordered the army to stop advancing and line up to meet the enemy.But the comer didn't stop, but rushed up at an accelerated speed. He hurriedly ordered the vanguard to stop and prevent the enemy from charging.

The two armies approached quickly, and Xiao Hanli saw the opponent's banner clearly. It was the Mongolian tribe who went out with the Song army. The number was about 5000. The formation that could be seen was that the front was slightly backward than the two wings.Just when the forward of the West Liao Army was about to contact the enemy.The two wings of the Mughals had rushed within a hundred paces of them and started to release arrows. Since the number of people on the two wings was much smaller than that of the forward, the gap between the queues was relatively large to avoid accidental injury, and they could continue to shoot arrows.

The Western Liao Army will not wait to be beaten.They also shot back with arrows, but the riding bows they equipped had a short range, and they couldn't shoot in front of the enemy's horses at all.But the people on his side fell under the dense arrow rain.But the Mughal army was still firing arrows, and immediately retreated to the back row after the previous row was finished.Three rounds were fired in a short period of time, and the Xiliao Army suffered heavy casualties.

Just when the Xiliao army was shot by the two-winged cavalry, it was in a hurry.When mobilizing troops to fill up, the frontal assault of the Mughal troops had already begun. They also started with bow and arrow attacks. Due to the frontal impact and the speed of the horses sprinting forward, the range and lethality were deeper.The Western Liao army was suddenly and violently attacked by arrow rain. The soldiers in the front row were shot one after another, and the forward formation was in chaos. Just as they hurriedly rearranged their formation and supplemented the soldiers lost in the front row with backup soldiers, the Mongolian cavalry He has already shot three rounds of arrows, and he drew his bow and drew his sword to kill them in front of them.

At this moment, the forwards of the Western Liao army suffered heavy losses under the rain of arrows from the Mongolian army, and their formation was in chaos.However, the Mongolian army refused to give up, adjusted their formation slightly while running, and rushed to the Liao army's formation.They repeated the old trick, still using the two-winged cavalry to attack long-rangely with bows and arrows, and then rely on frontal impact to break the formation.

Under another round of attack from the Mughal Army, the front of the formation was shaken, and Xiao Hanli hurriedly sent troops forward to fill the gap, only then did he block the enemy's impact and stabilize the formation.He was so mad that the enemy army was only [-], which was far less than his own strength, and the short horses they rode were no match for the tall Turkic horses in his own army. He was not the opponent of the Tuque soldiers in his own army, but he was beaten so helplessly by them.

The Mongolian cavalry who failed to charge the formation saw that there was nothing they could do and did not get entangled. They turned their horses and retreated to form a new formation.How could Xiao Hanli, as a veteran on the battlefield, give the enemy a chance to fight again, ordering the former army to pursue and not give them a chance to turn back.Seeing that they were numerous and powerful, the Mughals backed away wisely, but once the Liao army approached them, they used their bows and arrows to attack them from a long distance to prevent them from approaching.If the front army was in confusion and slowed down, the Mughal army immediately turned around and charged, still using long-range strikes to kill the Liao army, and launched a frontal attack when they had to stop to organize their formation.

After coming down several times, the Liao army not only failed to catch up with the Mongolian army, but was bitten twice by them, which damaged many soldiers.Xiao Han was furious and ordered the front army to disperse and take advantage of the fast speed of their horses and the soldiers who are good at hand-to-hand combat to let go of their speed and chase after them. Give them a chance to turn around and fight again.His tactics were very effective. The Mughals were chased like hell, and they could only barely avoid being caught up by changing horses frequently to maintain their speed.

The two armies started chasing each other on the grassland. Unfortunately, the Mughals were seldom flexible, gathering and dispersing from time to time, erratic.However, the Xiliao army was marching in large groups at the same time, and it was difficult to maintain speed. The front army was afraid of being plotted by the Mughals again and did not dare to leave the group too far, so the two armies gradually opened up the distance.Xiao Han was also worried that he would be exhausted by the Mughals if he went on like this, so he ordered to give up the pursuit and form a formation again. However, he also learned his lesson and asked the scouts to expand their search range so as not to be attacked again.

Sure enough, as Xiao Hanli had expected, the Mughals kept appearing and cruising around the marching brigade, constantly looking for opportunities to harass them, but they failed to succeed under the strict defense of the Western Liao Army.However, he was very depressed along the way. The bows in the hands of the Mughals were obviously made by craftsmen from the Central Plains, and they had a much longer shooting range than his own generally equipped riding bows. They were only out of the range of the bows and arrows of the Liao army. Activities, and relying on the good bow in his hand to snipe, chase, and drive away the cavalry of the Liao Army, and never refused to fight them hand-to-hand when the number was at a disadvantage.

The changes in the fighting methods of the Mughals made the Xiliao army very uncomfortable. Most of their soldiers came from the Tuque people living in Central Asia.After the initial expansion of the Arab Empire, the Arabian scimitar and its usage were spread to Central Asia through wars and trade routes. Therefore, at this time, the prairie cavalry mostly used the scimitar to charge and kill. They used the impact of horses, coupled with The mechanical principle of the scimitar can easily cut off the enemy's body, even armor and weapons, and the Turks have used the combination of the mechanical principle of the scimitar and the impact force of the horse to the extreme, but at this time the enemy's tactics It seems that it was specially formulated to restrain the Xiliao army, making it impossible to take advantage of the sharpness of horses and swords at all!

Regarding the changes of the Mughals, Xiao Hanli felt a crisis. He understood that the emergence of a new tactic would often change the outcome of the battle.Perhaps today's battle was just an impromptu work by the Mughals after they obtained the Great Song Liangbow. There were still omissions in coordination, especially in the process of being chased.But its effects are obvious to all. Once the tactics mature, the advantages possessed by the Xiliao Army will be greatly suppressed. Fortunately, they are still in the initial stage of exploration, and they can still defeat them by virtue of their strength... …

The Western Liao army marched bravely under the harassment of the Song army, and the closer to the Song army's camp, the more frequent the harassment. Among them were not only the Mughals, but also the Wanggus and other cavalry.However, Xiao Hanli discovered that most of them attacked with their own troops, and there was little cooperation between them, and their harassment did not adopt the tactics of the Mughals. Obviously, the various tribes that accompanied the Song army lacked unity. command, and there are contradictions and no communication between them, otherwise the coordinated actions of their various ministries will inevitably cause a lot of trouble for themselves.

When there were still ten miles away from the Song Army's camp, Xiao Hanli ordered the two wings to spread north and south, and he wanted to encircle the Song Army and wipe them out in one fell swoop.The tribal troops of the Song Army who performed the harassment mission found that the Liao army had spread its wings, and immediately realized that they were in danger of being wrapped in, and they did not dare to step forward and retreat quickly.The Liao army, which lost its hindrance, accelerated its march and went straight to the Song army's camp. Unfortunately, they were still late, and the Song army had already retreated first, leaving them no chance for a continuous battle.

Seeing the lingering flames and the messy Song Army camp, Xiao Han smiled wryly and shook his head, the old problems of the Song Army hadn't changed yet!Before the battle, they came aggressively, but they often put their hopes on the negotiation, hoping to avoid the battle. Once the strategy is lost, they will run away immediately, and they will not fight to the end at all, just like what they saw today... (unfinished to be continued..)