Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1023 A Great Victory
However, Du La Tiexiong shook his head immediately. Han Chinese cavalry are not good at fighting, and the distance between the two sides is only five miles. The stone wolf and Long Dingwu probably want to save horsepower and let their side get closer. Launching a charge is a good idea, but Stone Wolf and Long Dingwu obviously forgot that it is almost winter at this time, and the weather in the Western Regions at this time is almost comparable to that of Kaifeng when the winter is the coldest, and the horses also need to warm up. , the opponent is waiting for work at leisure, but I have [-] cavalrymen with one man and two horses. I ran for tens of miles easily with one horse empty, and I have stretched my muscles and bones.

When the distance was three miles, Du La Tiexiong shouted: "Change horses!"

In fact, there was basically no need for Dula Tiexiong's order. The Uyghur cavalry of Wanxi Province, who grew up eating on horseback, were already familiar with this combat mode as if they were commonplace. On top of the galloping horse, I transferred to another horse that just warmed up.

"Pierce through them!" Dura Tiexiong raised the spear high in his hand and pointed it forward.The [-] Xizhou Uyghur cavalry who had come running in disorder quickly began to rectify the formation while marching at high speed, forming a huge triangular cone with the pro-army of Dura Iron Bear as the arrow.

Stone wolf and Long Dingwu narrowed their eyes and pupils, seeing that the other party was so superb in riding skills, they could easily complete the action of changing horses on such a fast horse, and the change of formation was also completed during the sprint. Five thousand cavalry can also do this, but Stone Wolf knows that no more than half of the entire Volunteer Legion, and even the entire Xiangda Kingdom's more than 20 cavalry can reach this level.But after witnessing the scene just now, it is very likely that the [-] Uighur cavalry in Xizhou have reached this level.

Seeing that the opponent's cavalry remained motionless, Du La Tiexiong was ecstatic in his heart, and at the same time he cursed the stone wolf for being an idiot, then raised his eyes and glanced at the banner that was blown by the wind, even God was on his side. The wind just blows to the opposite side. When there is wind on the Gobi in the Western Regions, there will be sand and dust. When the wind blows, the sand and dust hit the face, which is also painful. If it hits the eyes, hehe, it will be fun.

"With the destruction of the [-] Xizhou Uyghur cavalry, plus the previous contributions, at the Zhengdan Grand Court Meeting at the end of the year, it should be enough for His Majesty to bestow me with a viscount!" Stone Wolf looked at the Xizhou Uyghur cavalry rushing towards them with a serious look on his face. It is full of excitement when seeing the prey is about to step on the trap.

On the other side, Long Dingwu's expression was also full of anticipation and excitement. Judging the distance, he suddenly shouted: "Explosion!"

Accompanied by Long Dingwu's roar, there was a sudden change. When the Xizhou Uyghur cavalry was still two miles away from them, a series of explosions suddenly sounded from the feet of the Xizhou Uyghur cavalry horses.

Du La Tiexiong didn't know that Stone Wolf and Long Dingwu didn't charge at the first time, not because they were inexperienced, but because they had already arranged for people to bury hundreds of horses on the ground where the Xizhou Uighur cavalry passed. mines.

Compared with the Liao army and the Song army, although the Xizhou Uighur army has heard about the powerful gunpowder weapons of the Xiangfu Kingdom from the inquired information, they have never personally experienced the so-called "hearing is believing, seeing is believing", and they will never Can't or don't know how to deal with this situation.

There was a loud bang, and flames rose from the battlefield.The explosion directly caused nearly a thousand casualties of the Xizhou Uyghur cavalry who had just charged in a dense formation. The most important thing was that the sound was too loud. The soldiers on the horse were all buzzing in their ears, swaying here and there, with terrified faces, and they were stunned at this moment.

The [-] cavalrymen of the Volunteer Army on the opposite side had their horses stuffed in their ears, and they had already adapted to this kind of explosion to a certain extent, and had little impact on them. After picking up things, following the order of Stone Wolf and Long Dingwu, they charged at the Xizhou Uighur cavalry who had already lost their formation.

This battle lasted only half a stick of incense, and the [-] elite Xizhou Uighur cavalry were defeated, and it was a muddleheaded defeat.The [-] cavalry of Xiangfu Kingdom chased them all the way to the foot of Shazhou City, and then led the troops back to the west of Heiyang Peak before the reinforcements in Shazhou City left the city, still cutting off the retreat of Dula Alang on Heiyang Peak.

In this battle, the Xizhou Uyghur cavalry killed more than 600 people and injured more than 500.Du La Tiexiong was seriously injured because he rushed to the front, and was rescued by his own soldiers desperately.However, only 440 of the 100 cavalrymen of the Volunteer Army were killed and more than [-] were injured.This is a serious victory.

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Heiyang Peak and Huoyang Pass persisted for half a day. At noon, the Huoyang Pass was broken. Dula Alang did not wait for the expected reinforcements, and led more than 3000 remnants to escape from the mountain road leading to the back mountain that had been scouted in advance. On the flat Gobi leading to Shazhou, there are even 3000 war horses that Dula Alang sent someone to hide in advance.Their more than [-] soldiers are excellent cavalry as long as they are on horses.

All he wanted was to become a marquis as soon as possible, and to become a general as soon as possible. After beating the disabled and repelling the reinforcements of Dura'alang, the stone wolf returned to the vicinity of the back mountain of Heiyang Peak as soon as possible, thinking of making some more military exploits.Therefore, when Dura'a Lang led more than 3000 remnants of the army just riding on the horses that had been hidden in advance, and heaved a long sigh of relief, the cavalry led by Stone Wolf and Long Dingwu had already appeared in their field of vision.

Seeing the cavalry of the Volunteer Legion rushing up silently, Dura Alang knew that he was doomed.Behind them there were nearly ten thousand infantrymen of the Volunteer Army chasing up along the mountain road, and there were cavalrymen blocking the way in front of them, and rushed towards them excitedly.

Dura Alang discovered in despair that there were at least 2 cavalrymen of the Volunteer Legion rushing from the front, and the vanguard troops had already rushed into his formation, while the opponents were still pouring in endlessly at the end of his field of vision.How could this be?According to the plan, the father of Shazhou City will send at least 1 cavalry reinforcements. According to the military information they have inquired before, the Volunteer Army can only mobilize 1 people, including only [-] cavalry. And they can also guess that the [-] people will definitely go around the back mountain to intercept the reinforcements from Shazhou City, but judging by the number of cavalry blocking their back, did father not send reinforcements to respond at all?

Dura'a Lang had a lot of thoughts in an instant, but the current situation did not allow him to think about this issue. He knew that it was too late to escape at this time, so he led more than 3000 remnants to recoil in the first time.

As soon as the two sides fought each other, all the luck left in Dura'a wolf's heart disappeared. Whether it was impact, riding, archery, or tactical cooperation, the performance of the ten thousand cavalry was perfect, and the stone wolf did not spend much effort , Like a red-hot big knife cutting through tofu, it easily pierced through three thousand of their cavalry.And the two pterosaurs Dingwu led people to vigorously 'peel apples'.

The reason why the more than 3000 people of Dura Alang are so weak is that they fought hard with the infantry of the Volunteer Legion for a long time, and then ran along the mountain road all the way. To say it was exhausting would not be an exaggeration.They can't even display half of their strength, not to mention that the gap in numbers between the two sides has widened at this time, nearly ten thousand volunteer cavalry are three times as many as theirs.

The lack of discipline of the nomadic cavalry, and the shortcomings of not being good at fighting against the wind were immediately magnified infinitely, and they resisted the first round of the volunteer cavalry's charge in vain. When they were pierced through the formation, Dura Alang The 3000 people finally collapsed, and the thousands and centurions also panicked.

The general could no longer effectively control his soldiers, and the three thousand cavalry broke into the natural enemy like a rat's nest, and began to scatter in all directions, each riding their horses towards a place where there were few people, hoping to get a way to escape. aisle.

It's a pity that what they encountered was the stone wolf who was the best at fighting this kind of battle. For this kind of enemy fleeing in all directions, the stone wolf had accumulated a wealth of experience in killing the horse thieves in the Hexi Corridor in the previous two months.What's more, they are superior in number, and he has already made complete arrangements.Those seemingly sparsely populated places turned out to be terrifying places. A group of Xizhou Uyghur cavalry managed to escape from the chaos. The cavalrymen of the Volunteer Legion were charging towards them obliquely, and with a letter from left and right, they were immediately circled again. With just one sprint, all the Xizhou Uighur cavalry fell off their horses.

Team after team of Xizhou Uighur cavalry used their superb riding skills to muster up their last physical strength and rushed out of the encirclement overjoyed. Team after team was circled in despair and then easily killed.

If the formation of the three thousand Xizhou Uighur cavalry can remain tight, they can resist for a long time, and they will also cause great damage to the Xiangfu cavalry, but unfortunately, they have already lost their formation. Losing the courage to fight to the death, the chaotic and scattered Xizhou Uighur cavalry, relying on personal bravery alone, is no match for the Xiangfu cavalry who pays attention to team combat, allowing the Xiangfu cavalry to easily kill batches.

When it was getting dark, the battlefield began to slowly fall silent. Most of the Xizhou Uyghur cavalry had been basically wiped out, and only a few lucky ones escaped. On the battlefield tens of miles away, there were everywhere The corpses of centaurs and countless warhorses who lost their masters either stand blankly or beside the corpses of their masters, nagging at their masters' clothes in vain, trying to pull the masters up, or like a frightened bird, when they see someone approaching, they immediately leap away.

(End of this chapter)