Chapter 326 Western Xia (End)
"Is this the Iron Harrier of the Xia thief? It's quite a bit of momentum." Dingzhou, a city located on the bank of the Yellow River less than a hundred miles north of Xingqing Prefecture. When Yue Fei led a large army to trek across the Mu Usu Desert and appeared in the heart of Xixia, Xixia, who was struck by lightning, hurriedly gathered its troops to the north to try to destroy the army that fell from the sky. At this time, Han Shizhong stood on the wall of Dingzhou City, looking at the huge army coming like dark clouds outside, his main attention was focused on the Iron Harrier of the Western Xia.
Iron Harrier is a heavy cavalry and the most elite unit in the Western Xia Kingdom. Although there are only thousands of people and horses, they can be well equipped, ride on good horses, and wear heavy armor. Heavy armored cavalry that cannot be cut into swords and guns are extremely powerful in combat. Usually, several horses are tied together with hooks and ropes to form an iron fortress, even if the cavalry dies in battle, they will be on the horse's back without falling.
Since the emergence of this cavalry built by Xixia with the power of the country, the Song army has suffered a lot. At this time, the Xixia people were panicked and sent out this most elite force without hesitation in order to eliminate the threat of hitting them.
"Good come." Yue Fei, who was standing beside him, looked at the Xixia army outside the city with lightning eyes. "The reason why he repaired here is to annihilate the main force of the Xia thieves in the field. He saved the trouble when he was siege in Xingqing Prefecture."
Whether in ancient times or modern times, the most troublesome thing in wars is the siege war. Because siege war means cruel consumption.
In order to avoid encountering too many defenders when attacking Xingqing Prefecture, Yue Fei stopped moving forward and repaired after capturing Dingzhou, waiting for the arrival of the Xixia people.
The Xixia people must have returned because Yue Fei's raid hit them seven inches. For the Xixia people, the Han army that fell from the sky must be wiped out no matter what.
"Get out of the city and fight!" Seeing that the Xixia army had arrived, Yue Fei, who had been waiting for a long time, turned around and walked down the city tower. He wanted to lead his army out of the city to fight the Xixia people. After experiencing the two battles outside the Bianliang City and Hubudagang, the army's confidence in field battles had reached a point of bursting. They firmly believed that they could defeat any opponent.
"Masterman." Yang Zaixing, covered in clothes, rode his horse to Yue Fei and shouted, "I'm willing to go and kill that iron kite!"
Yue Fei was not afraid of the Iron Harrier, which was only 3,000 people, because he had tens of thousands of iron armored cavalry equipped with more powerful iron cavalry than Iron Harrier. However, he did not mean to use heavy cavalry to deal with heavy cavalry. Because even if he wiped out all the Iron Harrier, Yang Zaixing's heavy cavalry would suffer significant losses.
Yue Fei's arrangement was to charge with more than 90 heavy trucks that could still be driven.
These remaining heavy trucks have been renovated, with thickened steel plates and a giant tree that is seven or eight meters long is tied to the front of the car, and a rope dragging a larger giant tree at the rear of the car.
When the two sides arranged their formations and began to fight, the iron kites listed the fish scale formation and rushed forward to bite the Han army. Amid the roaring roar, a large group of monsters emitting a terrifying metallic luster rushed over in the sun.
The hundreds of trucks that followed Yue Fei into the desert finally drove out less than 100. Most of them were damaged and abandoned because of failures such as wind and sand pouring into the engine.
When these trucks were thrown away, they were unacceptable to all soldiers. In their opinion, such trucks that could transport people and hold tremendous supplies were completely objects from heaven and were unprecedented artifacts. Such a good thing was buried by wind and sand in the desert, which was completely unacceptable to the Chinese soldiers who advocated frugality because of their poverty.
Many soldiers spontaneously pulled the malfunctioning cars with ropes and hand-pushed them to try to push the faulty cars out of the desert. In the end, Yue Fei came forward to stop this futile approach. Yue Fei told everyone that he did this in accordance with the orders of the national teacher. The national teacher said that there were many of these things, and as long as the amount of losses was lost before the war was over, all of them were doubled.
If in this army, the careless Han Shizhong made the soldiers feel friendly, the brave Yang Zaixing made the soldiers feel respected, and Yue Fei, who loved soldiers as much as his son, made the soldiers feel admired. In their eyes, Yan Fei was an omnipotent and invincible existence.
When Yan Fei was there, they had endless canned food and biscuits, countless clothes and various supplies. Almost everyone had trucks to make carriage supplies. During the battle, there were also flying beasts and iron armored beasts to help fight.
All the soldiers admire Yan Fei very much, and they believed in any decision Yan Fei made. Because Yan Fei would bring them victory, piles of spoils, and women and maids who were big in front and big in the back.
The reason why Yue Fei hit the iron kites on trucks that were regarded as rare by the soldiers was unwilling to let Yang Zaixing's heavy armored cavalry fight head-on. It was entirely because Yan Fei tried his best to protect his own people and kill the enemy as much as possible.
The result of the battle was not unexpected. The Xixia people who had never seen such a giant as a truck were all shocked, and the war horses under their crotch were suppressed by the trucks rumbling over from vision to hearing.
After most of the war horses were covered with blindfolds, they rushed towards the steel giant beasts like Don Gilleshode under the urging of the brave Dangxiang cavalry. As for the result, no matter how heavy the heavy cavalry he was, he was not as heavy as this modified truck.
The most powerful army in Xixia collapsed in front of the army that was urgently drawn by more than 100,000 people. They were knocked away with their men and horses, and they were crushed into the soil by thick rubber tires. They were destroyed under unprecedented impact.
When Yang Zaixing led tens of thousands of cavalry to come, more than 100,000 Xixia second-line troops, which were urgently mobilized, quickly collapsed.
The elite main forces of the Xixia people were confronting the Western Army on the front line of northern Shaanxi. The only elite troops in the stable rear were Iron Harrier. The others were all garrisons from all over the country, and even the guards of the Xixia Emperor were pulled over.
But such an army was wiped out by the absolute core of Iron Harrier, and Yang Zaixing's armored cavalry collapsed when they roared. They were unable to resist the charge of tens of thousands of heavily armored cavalry in the plains on the riverside. A large number of Xixia soldiers were cut to death by knives, stabbed to death by guns, hit by horses, trampled to death by their own people, etc.
This battle outside Dingzhou City shocked all the Xixia people because they found that the opponents they faced were completely different from those they had faced in the past hundred years. They easily defeated more than 100,000 Xixia troops in these unprecedented powerful armies. This was unimaginable in the previous wars.
When the news of the defeat reached Xingqing Prefecture, Li Ganshun, the Xixia emperor who had been fighting against the Han people all his life, fell into panic.
"What should I do now?" Li Ganshun sat on the dragon throne and anxiously asked his ministers.
"Mobilize the army to kill them all!"
"Where to transfer the army?"
"Transfer all the troops in the south, Baotai Army, Jingsai Army, Jianing Army, and Xiangyou Army. Redirect all the troops in the south!"
"What should we do if the Western Army heads north?"
"The Han army is almost at Xingqing Prefecture City, can we still care about the Western Army at this time?"
The military departments mentioned above are actually similar to military regions, and are all front lines confronting the Western Army in the south. More than half of the military power of the Western Xia and almost all of the elite troops are deployed in this area.
When the capital was facing threats, the only choice for the Xixia people was to mobilize the main forces in the south to come back for rescue. As for whether the Western Army in the south would take the opportunity to go north, this was no longer a matter of care.
As for escaping, where are so many people in the city going? The Han army is from north to south, and the desert is from east to west. Where can they run? If they don’t want to surrender, their only choice is to mobilize reinforcements to save the capital.
The order to dispatch troops was issued, but what made the Xixia people frightened was the speed of the Han army's movement. Before the reinforcements came back, the Han army's cavalry had already appeared outside Xingqing Prefecture. Later, the capital of the Xixia people was surrounded by a large number of Han armies.
Yue Fei did not choose to attack the city immediately, but surrounded the entire Xingqing Prefecture under the trembling gaze of the people of Xixia. After that, he personally brought tens of thousands of iron-armored cavalry to ambush in the distance. Whenever a reinforcement that returned from the south appeared, Yue Fei would suddenly attack with his powerful cavalry, fighting the Xixia army exhausted from the road.
This tactic is often used by China in the modern world, surrounding the points and attacking aid. In fact, this is also the instructions sent by Yan Fei to Yue Wumu through a telegram. The simple capture of Xingqing Prefecture has a meaning, but the results are not as great as imagined. Only by destroying the main force of the Xixia people’s army is the real victory.
After one reinforcements after another were killed by the Han cavalry, the Xixia monarchs and ministers trapped in Xingqing Prefecture gradually came to their senses. The court of any country could not be all idiots, because in that case, the country would have perished long ago. Some smart people saw that the Han army's intention was to kill all the Xixia army, but they were powerless. Because the entire Xingqing Prefecture was surrounded by Han Shizhong, like Tietong. Even the tunnel could not escape the Han army's search, no one could pass the message.
As reinforcements were destroyed one after another, the Xixia people in Xingqing Prefecture gradually fell into despair. After several people received the news and formed a large army of troops but were defeated by a battle, the Xixia people completely lost their fighting spirit.
After being besieged for more than a month, the Western Xia Emperor Li Ganshun led all civil and military officials out of the city to surrender to the Han army.
It would be impossible not to surrender. Most of the defenders in the city had been wiped out in the previous battle of Dingzhou. Now the defenders are all forced civilians. And the reinforcements outside came to destroy the other one. How many men could have been killed by Xixia for them to continue like this?
Under internal and external troubles, especially when the Han army used explosives to blast a whole section of the city wall, exposing the entire Xingqing Prefecture directly under the Han army's military peak. Faced with the threat of Han Shizhong's death to enter the city without surrendering for three days, Li Ganshun and the others had no choice.
Chapter completed!