Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 937

Li Shouyuan was so supernaturally powerful that he almost frightened Zhe Yuxuan to the point of death. Fortunately, a few soldiers nearby rescued Zhe Yuxuan in the blink of an eye, and he narrowly escaped death.But under Li Shouyuan's rage, this move was old and his strength was exhausted, but he had no time to turn around to resist the attack of the two cavalrymen of the White Wolf Legion behind him. He only felt a sharp pain in his right calf, and he had already been shot.Before he could turn around, there was a sound of wind behind his head, and a huge ax slashed at the back of his head again.

At this time, Zhe Yuxuan had already changed to a war horse and rode on it, and his shock was slightly calmed. While watching Tuoba Gelu's personal soldiers besieging Xiao Li Shouyuan, he couldn't help looking around.The Song Army has been completely divided into small groups and besieged by the superior White Wolf Army. Although they are still fighting stubbornly, they will be destroyed sooner or later.

In the current situation, as long as Li Shouyuan's head is cut off and his general flag is cut off, the fighting spirit of the Song army will collapse, and the complete annihilation of the Song army will become a matter of turning around.

However, under this situation, after the initial panic, the Song army was able to resist for so long. It can be seen that Li Shouyuan is indeed a Humen general in terms of training and commanding troops, and his reputation is well-deserved.If the Song army was like this, they would not be so easily defeated by Xiang Fuguo.Of course, that's all. At this time, the Song army was on the verge of collapse. Tuoba Gelu knew that as long as Li Shouyuan was killed, the Song army would immediately surrender.

Tuoba Gelu and Zhe Yuxuan didn't know that there was a specific reason why Li Shouyuan's army could have such cohesion.

First of all, Li Shouyuan asked the middle and lower-level generals to be very familiar with their subordinates. For example, they must be able to point out the names and hometowns of all [-] soldiers with their heads closed, and the battalion commander must be able to tell the names of the personnel above the squad leader. Name and place of origin.Secondly, Li Shouyuan deliberately made the soldiers of the same battalion come from the local area, and even have blood relations. When fighting, they not only cooperate with each other tacitly, but also watch and help each other, and cooperate with each other.During the battle, even if the command of the general is lost for a while, as long as each command is not completely dispersed, the Song army will not be easily defeated.

Of course, this kind of practice is easy to form a situation of self-respect, so whether it is in Song Dynasty or in other countries, it is absolutely impossible to promote it on a large scale. Compared with Xiangfu Kingdom, through training and guidance, every army and every soldier They all cultivate a good sense of discipline and obedience. Li Shouyuan's approach is obviously much inferior.However, even if Ye Chen applies the methods of training and training professional troops of later generations to the army of the Xiangfu Kingdom, it cannot guarantee that every soldier, or in other words, all the troops will be able to survive under any circumstances or Always be able to stick to your discipline and sense of obedience when the opportunity arises.Because of this, even in later generations, no country's army can do it.

At this time, when Tuoba Gelu and Zhe Yuxuan thought that they could wipe out the Song army in at most half a stick of incense time.Suddenly, in the eastern sky, a burst of fireworks and arrows shot up into the sky, and there were nine arrows in a row, each faster than the last.

Seeing this, senior officers such as Tuoba Gelu and Zhe Yuxuan couldn't help but change their expressions. It was the nine life-and-death alarms that the spies of the nearby security department fired in an extremely urgent situation. The enemy troops threatening the White Wolf Army's life and death are coming in a hurry.

Sure enough, after the nine life and death alarms sounded, the eastern sky was full of dust.

The flying dust covered the sky and the sun, and the ground was accompanied by the vibration of a large group of cavalry trampling the ground as they galloped. Suddenly, in trouble, the Song army, which was already at the end of the captives, burst into bursts of cheers.

And the sound of the drums and horns of the White Wolf Legion became even more urgent.

"The head of the Tuoba army has an order: all the armies will attack with all their strength, and we must first destroy the thief in front of us!"

"The head of the Tuoba army has an order: a large army has ambushed in the east, first destroy the bandits in front, and then attack the bandits in the east!"

A group of soldiers riding on horseback urged their horses to gallop through the disorderly army, shouting loudly and constantly, and wherever they went, the White Wolf Army's attack became more ferocious.Although I don't know why the Song Army's reinforcements came so quickly, and it seems that there are only tens of thousands of people, everyone knows that this is a race against time. The enemy, the initiative is in the hands of the White Wolf Army.

Otherwise, if the mouthful of meat cannot be swallowed, it will choke the White Wolf Army to death instead.

"Fortunately, the head of the legion arranged for Feiyu Sun to stop the reinforcements of the enemy that may appear, as long as Feiyu buys a moment." When he saw the dust in the east for the first time, Zhe Yuxuan almost forgot that Tuoba Gelu had been there before. Bu's chess move, when he heard the call of the messenger, he suddenly came to his senses, calmed down a bit, and comforted himself in his heart, while watching the battle in front of him.

At this time, Li Shouyuan had no more than three hundred cavalrymen around him, and most of them were painted. However, although the White Wolf Army tried their best to attack, it would be impossible to wipe out such a well-equipped and experienced cavalry. It is not something that can be done in a few breaths.Especially when Song Jun saw that reinforcements were approaching, his morale, which had already fallen to the bottom due to despair, was boosted again. It would take more time to deal with it.

I hope Sun Feiyu can delay for a moment longer!Zhe Yuxuan knew that the key to his life was to kill Song Jun in front of him as soon as possible. He didn't think about it anymore, his big bow was lost. The men and horses rushed towards a Song army that was still stubbornly resisting.

Time flies, and the surrounded Song army kept dying, and they were still desperately clenching their teeth, but Tuoba Gelu, Zhe Yuxuan, Wang Jing and others judged from the distance of the Song army that as long as Sun Feiyu slightly blocked the incoming reinforcements After a short period of time, even tens of breaths, Li Shouyuan's Song army's demise is still difficult to change.And the White Wolf Legion still has time to retreat.

However, just when Zhe Yuxuan breathed a sigh of relief, he heard another exclamation from someone beside him. He turned his head and saw a marching staff officer looking at the east with a pale face. Looking at it, his chest seemed to be hit by a heavy hammer, and for a while, his mind was in chaos.

In this short period of time, the smoke and dust in the east are getting closer and closer, and the vanguard of the Song Army can already be seen faintly!
"Where's Sun Feiyu? Where's Sun Feiyu?!" Zhe Yuxuan's square inch was in chaos, and this question just popped up in his mind repeatedly.

In the confusion, he subconsciously went to look for Tuoba Gelu, but at some point, Tuoba Gelu ordered the trebuchet company to prepare to bombard the Song army with all the gunpowder packs, and started Ordered the infantry to maintain a good formation and began to retreat in an orderly manner.

Beside Tuoba Gelu, several flags held high the five-color order flags, waved them quickly, and the sound of drums and horns also changed rapidly, quickly passing his orders to the entire White Wolf Army.

The trend of victory and defeat reversed again.

Tuoba Gelu had already accepted this reality, and began to decisively order his troops to retreat.

However, it is not easy to retreat calmly at this time.The White Wolf Army and Li Shouyuan's Song Army were already fighting together. Seeing the sound of the White Wolf Army starting to withdraw and retreat, the morale of the Song Army with only a thousand people left was even higher. The most important thing was Li Shouyuan who was trapped Already taking the opportunity to break out of the encirclement, they shouted loudly while gathering the stragglers who were fighting on their own, while giving orders loudly, and took the lead to counterattack the White Wolf Army like a mad dog.His purpose is very clear, that is, he wants to fight with the White Wolf Army, so that the White Wolf Army can't get away easily.

Therefore, the final result was that nearly [-] cavalrymen of the White Wolf Legion had no choice but to cover the retreat of the infantry, and were entangled, making it difficult to withdraw for a while.

"Zhang Shouyi, Wang Jing, the two of you lead the cavalry under your command to break up the rear and entangle these Song troops. You must let most of the other cavalry withdraw." Tuoba Gelu shouted at Zhang Shouyi with a cold expression.

Zhang Shouyi and Wang Jing looked ashamed, but they didn't dare to disobey the order. They yelled "No", and then led the seven hundred cavalrymen under their command to charge desperately at Li Shouyuan's thousand people from the side. The more than 1000 cavalrymen of the White Wolf Legion who were entangled took the opportunity to retreat quickly.

The Song army's reinforcements were about [-] paces away. At close range, there were at least [-] troops, and all of them were cavalry.According to Zhe Yuxuan's previous inquiries about the composition of the Northwest Frontier Army of the Song Army from the Ministry of Security, the [-] cavalry are already all the cavalry of the Northwest Frontier Army.

At this time, the reinforcements of the Song army finally reached the effective range of the trebuchets. The twenty trebuchets that had been prepared for a long time fired the twenty largest gunpowder packs with the order of the company commander.There were 200 explosions in the densely packed 200 Song cavalry, and more than [-] Song soldiers were directly killed or injured by the blast.The huge explosion had little effect on the Song army's war horses except for more than [-] horses within the explosion range.Obviously, the Song army came prepared, not only intentionally widening the distance between the cavalry to limit the damage of the gunpowder packs, but also the ears of the horses were obviously stuffed.Even the Song Army may have conducted similar training for these war horses.

At a distance of [-] steps, the trebuchet company only had time to launch two rounds, and the forward of the Song army had already rushed to the battlefield.At this time, of course, the trebuchet can continue to fire at the army behind the Song army, but because the Song army has too many horses, it doesn't make much sense.And if you don't leave, all the operators of the trebuchet company will not be able to escape.

In fact, it is too late to take away these trebuchets and the remaining powder packs.When Tuoba Gelu, who had led the main force to flee more than 500 steps to the west of the battlefield, issued an order for the catapult company to retreat, the company commander of the catapult company immediately withdrew the personnel in strict accordance with the requirements of the relevant combat regulations, and responded to the catapult company. The machine and the remaining gunpowder packs were prepared to self-destruct, and a landmine was planted next to each trebuchet and next to the gunpowder packs that could not be taken away.

(End of this chapter)