Chapter 593 Anti-China Encirclement
‘It’s over…’
When he saw the Chinese cavalry cannons joining the bombardment of Iron Harrier, Yu Zanghuama thought pale:
‘It’s over…, it’s all over…’
He invested two thousand iron kites, but Bu Bazi couldn't save them. Seeing this, all the iron kites themselves would have to pay for them.
The facts were indeed as he thought, and the chaos of Iron Harrier continued.
The sound of guns and cannons in the Chinese army kept firing, as if they could reach the end of the world. The iron kites fell from the horse's back, and the corpses of the humans became stumbling blocks for their companions. Some cavalry hung upside down on stirrups and were dragged around by their mounts trapped in madness.
These unlucky guys were quickly dragged to death, and the frightened horses ran around, causing the iron kite's formation to become even more scattered.
In fact, even if the formation was not disintegrated, the Iron Harriers were no longer able to continue to attack. Their casualties were too great. For the feudal army, this actually meant that they had lost their combat effectiveness.
The two wings of Chinese troops began to disband the square formation. They seemed to be attracted by the gorgeous armor of Iron Harrier, gave up and continued to pursue the escaped enemy, and touched them from behind Iron Harrier.
The Chinese army's midfielder also stopped shooting and launched a counterattack against the remaining iron kites under the encouragement of the charge.
The cold bayonet reflected the remaining iron kite's face, which was extremely frightened by the cut off the retreat path...
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Yu Zanghuama made a quick decision and led the last guards to turn around and evacuate the battlefield. Since Iron Harrier can't save him, don't save him.
Zuo Helin immediately launched a cavalry charge and finally reaped the Xia army.
On June 20, 1792, Zuo Helin defeated the main force of Yu Zanghuama's army. The Xia army was killed (including those killed by the Chinese army after being injured) and more than 11,000 were captured. Yu Zanghuama himself took only one thousand personal guards, and the rest were dispersed.
The Chinese army himself was killed 75 people and injured 58 people. Due to the existence of sulfonamide, there were more casualties than wounded on the battlefield for the first time.
On June 22, the Chinese army, which had a slight loss, began to move northward. On June 23, it defeated the blockade of Yuzang's army again, and advanced to the city of Lanzhou on the 25th.
On the 26th, the Chinese army launched a reactionary general attack. Under the cover of field artillery, the Chinese army carried out a blast at the south gate of Lanzhou, and opened a huge gap of six meters wide on the city wall.
However, when Zuo Helin was about to send a commando into the city, Yu Zanghuama raised a white flag at the top of Lanzhou city.
On the other hand, Zuo Helin divided up an army of about a thousand people, led Tubo Zanpu Mengzheng, and set out from Xizhou to attack westward.
On the first day of July, Hezhou opened the city without blood, and all the Tubo troops left in Hezhou surrendered.
The commander of the battle group, Xu Shizhen, was supplemented by 5,000 Tubo tribe soldiers, and Zuo Helin gave him two thousand new reinforcements, which expanded the strength of the Xu Shizhen's battle group to eight thousand.
He followed this mixed Han and Fan army to attack westward, and all Tubo tribes along the way were not cooperative before, and surrendered to the Chinese army.
On July 15th, Xu Shizhen crossed the Yellow River to occupy Guzhou, on July 20th, went north to occupy Huangzhou, and on July 22nd, he occupied Xiningzhou. Then he followed the Huang River to the side of Qinghai Lake.
Hehuang and Tubo came to surrender one after another, and at this time Xu Shizhen had already had an army of 20,000!
By the end of July, the Chinese army had completed the division of the pseudo-Xia and Hengshan Tubo, and the Xia army could not actually expect to receive support from the Tubo people.
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At the foot of Helan Mountain, the climate in Xingqingfu in August is still hot.
However, the hearts of the king and noble people of Dabai Gaoguo (Dangxiang Xiaguo's self-proclaimed) were cold.
The Chinese army gathered more and more troops on the border. There were vague intelligence from Mongolian merchants showing that the Chinese army had nearly 200,000 troops on the border of Dabai Gaoguo, and the red-clothed field troops were close to 50,000 or 60,000.
What's even more terrible is that the joint counterattack of Xizhou by Yu Zang Huama of Lanzhou and Meng Zheng of Hezhou failed completely. 27,000 people were defeated by the 7,000 Chinese army but failed to cause too many casualties to the Chinese army.
This battle proves that the combat effectiveness of the Xia army is far inferior to that of the Chinese army. Without absolute military strength, the Xia army cannot withstand the attack of the Chinese army. It is difficult to have absolute military strength advantages, but it is absolutely impossible to have absolute military strength advantages.
However, the Chinese army had already taken advantage of the victory of the Xizhou Battle and stripped away Hengshanfan, a traditional ally of the Dabai Gao Kingdom. Hengshanfan, now with a population of 300,000, has turned to China.
In this case, the Xia Kingdom lost tens of thousands of new forces, while the other side had tens of thousands of more soldiers.
The current situation is that the forces gathered by the Chinese army are equivalent to the total force that the Xia Kingdom can gather, and its combat effectiveness is proven to be far greater than that of the Xia army, and their local area still has a large number of new forces that have not been used...
In this way, Dabai Gaoguo seems to have no reason to survive.
However, the Emperor of Xia still felt that he had a chance.
Li Qianshun, the Emperor of the Great Deeds of Xia Kingdom, is 53 years old this year. When he was 16 years old, he destroyed the Liang clan of the Houdang family and took power. Then he first joined forces with the Khitan to attack the Great Zhou. After achieving certain victories, he refused to lend a helping hand when the Khitan was attacked by the Jurchens and sat down to see the demise of the Great Liao.
After the demise of the Great Liao Dynasty, he joined forces with the Jin Kingdom to attack Zhou, and used the power of the Jin Kingdom to annihilate the strongest Western army of the Great Zhou.
The victory was very brilliant. The Xia Kingdom seized 30,000 sets of armor, countless soldiers, and captured tens of thousands of prisoners, and seized thousands of miles of land from the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Later, the Jin Dynasty invaded Jiangnan without success and changed direction and attacked Xia State. As a result, the Xia army won the final victory in the defensive battle and removed the Jin army's invasion.
Then, the Great Emperor changed his belligerent policies, acted as a mediator between the Jin and Zhou dynasties, and made a lot of wealth through the debate with both sides (actually four sides, including the Mengwu and the Western Regions).
Even Li Qianshun attracted small Buddhist countries in the Western Regions to fight against the more Western Zoroastrian country Pars, thus building a small tribute system!
Although a series of complex operations have experienced many dangerous moments, Li Qianshun finally managed to cope with them and achieved many results.
He believed that although this invasion of the Chinese army was dangerous, it was not the most dangerous time. He believed that he still had a chance to fight to the end and win!
"Send someone to contact Dazhou and tell the Longdao official that his lips and teeth are cold. If we die, they will definitely be the next target of the Chinese army."
Li Qianshun said to Dangxiang and other tribe patriarchs (usually these people also represent the most powerful ministers):
"Go to contact Jamuha again. He was suppressed by the Chinese army a few years ago. Now Gu gives him a chance to avenge him and help him!"
A few years ago, at the last moment of the Jin Dynasty, a Jurchen envoy came to contact him to set up an anti-China encirclement, but because of the sudden demise of the Jin Dynasty, the encirclement could not be built at that time.
Chapter completed!