Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1064 is finally here
With the existence of the engineer battalion, coupled with the recruitment of Shazhou elites, the speed of building various fortifications is much faster than that of ordinary troops.Of course, Huang Dongqiu will never forget to fortify the wall and clear the fields near Shazhou City, so that Baturmu, who came from afar, can't find any food, grass, dry firewood, etc. to feed his stomach and keep out the cold within three hundred miles nearby.

After the Volunteer Corps finished all the preparations in the plan and had a full rest for two and a half days, Baturmu finally arrived with 200 wolf guards and more than [-] remnants.

This kind of combat power is not weak, but opponents with poor strategy and tactics, Huang Dongqiu actually likes them very much.Prepared a strategic plan for a big winter. After the first game to win Shazhou and wipe out Dulamati's troops, the second game finally started.

The next day, in the morning.

The reconnaissance cavalry squads dispatched from the outermost perimeter of the reconnaissance battalion finally encountered the enemy's scout squads, and began to fight fiercely with each other.The returning scouts began to bring back the heads of enemy scouts representing military achievements, but some scouts turned into corpses and were brought back by their comrades, or even failed to bring back the corpses.

After Huang Dongqiu learned about the heads brought back and the lost scouts, he found that the casualties of both sides were similar.You must know that every cavalry scout in the reconnaissance battalion is the most powerful veteran selected from the entire army. Since the western expedition to the Hexi Corridor, no matter this kind of scout encounter with any enemy, they have always had the absolute upper hand. Kill all scouts.

Therefore, this is the first time that such an evenly matched situation has appeared. From this, it can also be seen that the Wolf Guards led by Baturmu are indeed the most elite army of the Xizhou Uighur Kingdom. With steel-string bows, rapid-fire crossbows, steel plate armor and other high-quality luxury equipment, fighting them is just a breeze. It is conceivable that the real individual strength of the Wolf Guards may be even higher than that of the Volunteer Army.However, individual combat power is naturally an important factor in the victory of a war. In addition, the use of army group battle formations and the layout of tactics and strategies are also very important.

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In Tianding three years, on March [-]th, in the morning light, a black torrent appeared on the unmelted snowfield to the west of Shazhou City, rushing towards Shazhou City like a flood.

The whole earth seemed to be trembling. At this moment, even the sound of the almost never-ending cold wind howling in the Western Regions was covered by the sound of war horses trampling on the ground.

On the five-foot-tall podium, Huang Dongqiu's eyes were as bright as stars, and he gave a loud order: "Open the camp and attack!"

Following his order, while the drums and horns of the messengers sounded, the command flags also began to wave, and the brigades and battalions received orders one after another, and moved quickly according to the procedures of the previous drills for many days.

Qu Ningrui, a low-level staff officer who made second-class merit for discovering carbonite a few years ago, stood on the watchtower on the right side of the Chinese army in the west of Shazhou City.

Like a torrent, like a dark cloud, it covered the entire snowfield that he could see in his field of vision.

Although it was not the first time to go to the battlefield, Qu Ningrui, who was famous for his bravery among the students of Xiangfu Academy, couldn't help but feel his legs were a little weak, his face was slightly pale, and his breathing became short of breath.

The attack on Shazhou City a few days ago was his first time on the battlefield, but in fact he just acted as a spectator, and he had never fought in any battle.

After capturing Shazhou City a few days ago, Huang Dongqiu specifically asked him to carry the corpse.At that time, he was mainly in the city. When he arrived at the battlefield, the clothes on the corpses of those Xizhou Uighur soldiers were stripped off by the people of Shazhou City, and they were thrown around in a mess. The blood stained a large area of ​​the ground. At that time Qu Ningrui looked astonished.

At that time, Qu Ningrui held back his fear and led a group of soldiers to lift all the corpses onto a rack truck and transport them to a large pit outside the city. This process lasted for a whole day, from the initial fear, nausea, and vomiting , to the final numbness, when he led the soldiers to bury all the corpses into the big pit with shovels, his fear of the battlefield and the battlefield seemed to be buried underground.

That's the way it is with corpses, and it's the same way with killing.That's all he thought about the war at the time.

But at this time, when he saw the tens of thousands of cavalry on the opposite side appearing in front of him like wild beasts, he still couldn't help feeling nervous and frightened.He remembered that a senior staff officer who was a scholar told him a few days ago: "If you don't go through two big wars, and you won two big wars, it will be difficult to completely eliminate the timidity in your heart." At that time, Qu Ningrui He didn't say anything, but he still didn't think so in his heart, thinking that with his bravery, he would no longer be afraid as long as he experienced it once.However, this is not the case.

At this moment, horns and drums sounded suddenly. Qu Ningrui exhaled deeply, his nervous mood suddenly calmed down.He is a combat staff officer. Today he has to judge the overall situation on the battlefield at any time, and then report any abnormal situation directly to the chief of staff or even the army commander.Thinking of his responsibilities, Qu Ningrui picked up the binoculars and began to observe carefully while thinking about what he had learned in the Xiangfu Military Academy for more than three months.

When the horns and drums sounded, the next moment from the city of Shazhou to the brigades and camps in all directions, it was like a pot of water changing from calm to boiling.

Some soldiers who were resting in the tents rushed out of the tents as fast as possible, assembled quickly under the yelling of their respective battalion, company commanders or squad platoon leaders, and then took their own weapons and rushed out of the tents as fast as possible. Arrived at the position where he should appear.

The gate of the camp of the Chinese Army on the west side of Shazhou City was open, facing the ferocious enemy from afar like this, all the faces of the Volunteer Army were full of confidence that they would win.

The second cavalry brigade and the third brigade of 1 cavalry rushed out of the camp first, spread out to the left and right, and formed a charge formation on the two wings of the Chinese army.Then a total of 2 people from the first and second infantry brigades jogged out of the camp, and set up infantry phalanxes in the middle.Between the battalion-based infantry phalanxes are giant crossbows and guns.These 1 people are directly facing Baturmu in the west, and another [-] people are located on the south and north sides of Shazhou City.

During this process, there were no human voices, not even the command commands of the officers. There were only the sounds of people and horses running, and the light sound of the armor on the soldiers as they ran, which was consistent with the sound on the command platform. Accompanied by the sound of the drums, there is a strange rhythm, which makes the soldiers of the Volunteer Army more confident in winning after hearing it, because these sounds represent comrades who will never abandon their companions.

On the side of the Volunteer Legion, whether they were cavalry or infantry, they were all in armor, shining in the sun. Everyone who looked at them could only see their eyes full of fighting intent and killing intent. Even their Both hands holding weapons and equipment are gloved.

Behind the infantry phalanx is a full hundred giant catapults, besides the gunpowder packs, there are also pieces of stubborn stones that have been hoarded these days.

From the sound of the horn to the time when everyone came out of the camp and prepared for battle, the whole process took only a short time.

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The first ray of morning light suddenly appeared in the east, and the white snow on the ground reflected the sunlight, and the whole world suddenly became brighter.

Huang Dongqiu stood on the high command platform, holding a binoculars in his hand, carefully observing these menacing enemies.

Compared with Huang Dongqiu commanding the high platform and binoculars, Baturmu on the opposite side was only riding on a tall horse. For the time being, he was only judging the situation of the Volunteer Corps based on a pair of naked eyes and some information obtained by scouting the horse.However, as the combat form of the Volunteer Legion was set up, especially so quickly and rigorously, Baturmu's expression became more and more dignified. After military orders were passed down, his cavalry charge formation also underwent certain changes. The cavalry of the team lined up horizontally, only about one-third of them had armor on their bodies, and there were all kinds of them, and the other two-thirds were wearing leather armor, and everyone immediately carried bows and arrows.

The two wars, plus the information obtained by the spies of the Ministry of Security, Baturmu's wolf guards are very good at riding and shooting. In each battle, they harass the enemy with riding and shooting. Launch a charge and crush your opponents.

In response to this style of play, the Volunteer Legion has already planned various restraint plans. If Batumu has no other extraordinary means, the outcome of today's battle may be doomed.

However, the development of the matter was not as simple as Huang Dongqiu and others had expected.

First of all, Huang Dongqiu found that someone on the opposite side was also observing this side with a single-lens telescope.Since the advent of glass, the cost of binoculars has dropped a hundredfold. Now officers above company commander and scouting squad leader in Xiangfu Kingdom, and spies from the Ministry of Security are all issued a binoculars. It is not uncommon for a few to leak out. It happened occasionally that some nobles and generals of the Song Dynasty bought some telescopes through some channels at high prices.One or two binoculars in the Uyghur Kingdom of Xizhou is nothing. It may have been sold by a businessman all the way from Xiangfu Kingdom, or it may have been seized by the other side from the Scouts of the Volunteer Legion during the scout fight between the two sides in the past few days.

However, up to now, Huang Dongqiu was not afraid of what the other party could see. He had already prepared what should be prepared, and he had hidden what should not be seen by the Xizhou Uighurs.

The Xizhou Uighurs also mobilized their troops with the sound of trumpets, and the cavalry of the Wolf Guards moved into action amidst the sound of the horns, which was obviously different from that of the Xiangfu Kingdom.

However, instead of attacking straight ahead, they separated from the left and right, facing the 2 soldiers of the Volunteer Army in the west in an outflanking manner, and at the same time reserved troops to guard against the troops of the Volunteer Army in the north and south of Shazhou City.

(End of this chapter)