I will never be Renzong

Chapter 217 The Great War
Qingtang is close to Daban Mountain in the north, Laji Mountain in the south, and Riyue Mountain in the west. , Knowing the strength of the Song Army's heavy armored cavalry, they did not launch an attack hastily, but set up camp on the southwest side of Qinghai Lake.

The Tubo people are not stupid. They know that the Song army is good at defending the city, and it is Qingtang City with tall walls. For this matter, after a group of Zanpu deliberated, they dispatched 15 cavalry to attack Xiliang Mansion, while the remaining 5 cavalry were reinforcements who stayed by Qinghai Lake to intercept Qingtang City.

The garrison of Xiliang Prefecture had less than 5000 troops. Although there were a few artillery pieces, the Tibetan army was ten times larger than the garrison. Therefore, the commander-in-chief Cao Yu (Cao Wei's third son) not only sent a request for help to Wang Deyong in Guazhou, Moreover, Chaoqing Tangcheng also sent a letter asking for help.

After Di Qing received the news, he held an emergency military meeting. Xiliang Mansion was the food supply place of the Song Dynasty. If there was any loss, the tens of thousands of Song troops in Guazhou, Shazhou and other places would be cut off from retreat.

Therefore, all the military generals suggested sending troops to rescue Xiliang Mansion immediately, but Di Qing insisted that the Tibetan coalition's goal was Qingtang and other places, and the purpose of attacking Guazhou was to attract the Song army to rescue them, and then take the opportunity to intercept and kill them on the way.

But regardless of whether Tubo really attacked Xiliang Mansion, they must send troops to rescue Xiliang Mansion, so Di Qing issued a very bold order, ordering Yang Wenguang to lead [-] cavalry to rescue Xiliang Mansion, and Zhong Shiheng to lead an army of [-] He directly attacked Luoxie City, and he led an army of [-] to Qingtang Lake to compete with the main force of Tubo.

"Drive, drive!"

On the endless Loess Plateau, Yang Wenguang led [-] cavalry to help Xiliang Mansion, but he didn't want to see a large number of Tubo cavalry suddenly appearing in the front, back, left, and right.

"Report!"

"Reporting to the deputy commander, there are a large number of Tubo cavalry around our army, and the estimated number can reach 10!"

A scout rushed to Yang Wenguang's front to report.

Yang Wenguang was not in a hurry, instead he said to himself: "Unexpectedly, everything is within Hanchen's expectation!"

"Order! The Vanguard Battalion is attacking from the front!"

After receiving the order, the three thousand cavalrymen of the vanguard battalion immediately attacked the tens of thousands of Tibetan cavalry on the opposite side.

On the hillside not far away, Wen Pucci said to the Zanpu crowd: "Someone said that the Song Army will never retreat, they will definitely attack!"

Three thousand cavalry rushed towards the tens of thousands of Tubo cavalry in front of them, but they did not expect that the Tubo cavalry had dug a trap in advance, so the vanguard battalion fell into the trap immediately, but fortunately all the cavalry were good players, so one of them was on the spot. Rolling around, there was no damage, but the war horse was deeply trapped.

The Pioneer Battalion was caught in a trap, so Yang Wenguang judged that Tubo had also set up a large number of traps on the two wings, but there were no traps on the way when he came, so he immediately ordered: "The whole army obeys the order, turn around immediately, and prepare to charge!"

At present, more than [-] cavalry immediately transferred their horses, and then charged towards the enemy in the east under Yang Wenguang's order.

"Not good! Song Jun wants to break through!"

All Zanpu saw through Yang Wenguang's actions, so they hurriedly ordered the front army, left army, and right army to attack.The crowd of Zanpu listened to Wen Puqi's words and believed that the Song army would not retreat, so the number of cavalry responsible for cutting off the Song army's retreat was less than [-].

Yang Wenguang took the lead, raised his saber to harvest the heads of the Tubo cavalry, and defeated more than [-] Tubo cavalry in front of him in one fell swoop. Seeing that Yang Wenguang was about to flee, all the Zanpu were very angry, and immediately ordered nearly [-] Tubo cavalry to pursue Yang Wenguang's troops.

So there was such a scene on the Loess Plateau, more than 1000 Song Dynasty cavalry were desperately fleeing, and nearly [-] Tubo cavalry followed closely behind [-] meters.

Even the cavalry equipment of the Song army is better than that of the Tubo cavalry, but at the same time the burden is heavy, so compared with the simple Tubo cavalry, the speed is slower than the opponent's, so within four or five miles, the Tubo army is less than 500 miles away from Yang Wenguang's army. rice.

But at this moment, Yang Wenguang's troops suddenly split into two groups, retreating towards the southeast and northeast respectively.Seeing this, Zanpu in Tubo couldn't understand why the two fleeing Song armies suddenly split into two. When they were about to split up and pursue, they suddenly saw a large group of cavalry in front of them, and couldn't help but rein in their horses.

In front of them were the [-] heavy armored cavalry of the Song Dynasty.

"Fix the elements!"

"Calibrate the position!"

"fire!"

In front of the heavy armored cavalry stood more than [-] Qinglong cannons and more than [-] Tiger cannons.

With an order, dozens of shells with tongues of fire struck at the Tubo cavalry phalanx, and then exploded violently. Immediately, the cavalry around the shells were blown to pieces, and the horses were frightened, so they naturally ran away. Suddenly, the Tubo Cavalry Corps was in chaos.

"Fire arrows!"

Then the bow and crossbow battalion fired thousands of arrows, and thousands of bows and arrows attacked the Tubo cavalry army. Seeing this, Zanpu immediately ordered the Tubo cavalry to attack the Song army. The effect is really limited.

"woooo~"

Just when the Tubo cavalry launched an attack, the iron cavalry of the Song Dynasty suddenly sounded a loud horn, and then [-] iron cavalry held sky-high spears and launched an indomitable charge towards the Tubo cavalry.

The two armies were in contact, one inch longer and one inch shorter. Before the Tubo cavalry's scimitars could fall on the iron cavalry, they were already pierced through the chest by the sky-high sword.

But even so, the Tubo cavalry still charged forward indomitably. After a round of charge, Tubo had already paid the price of thousands of cavalry.

I thought that I could pass through this heavy cavalry and fight out from the front, but unexpectedly, there were tens of thousands of heavy armored infantry waiting in front of them, so the Tubo cavalry turned their backs.

The Tubo cavalry couldn't break through the infantry shield formation of the Song army, and then they were stabbed to death with spears by the spearmen hiding behind the huge shield, so the price was extremely heavy.

When Zanpu reacted and was about to lead the army to retreat, the heavy armored cavalry of the Song Dynasty had already adjusted their formation, and then launched a second round of charges towards them.

If you want to break out, you can only retreat from the rear, because the areas connected by both wings of Ruochao are steep mountains. Therefore, the Tibetan cavalry rushed towards the oncoming heavy armored cavalry.

After the Tubo cavalry went through two rounds of attacks by cannons, arrow rain, and heavy armored infantry, more than [-] of the [-] cavalry had been killed. Just as they were about to retreat, they suddenly discovered that Yang Wenguang had led more than [-] cavalry to block the On the way of Tubo's retreat.Behind them are iron cavalry, heavy armored riflemen and so on.

If you can't get out of the siege, you can't get out, and there are dead ends on both sides, so you have to attack Yang Wenguang's more than [-] cavalry.

In an instant, the entire battlefield was full of shouts of killing, short soldiers fighting, fighting with personal bravery, either you were beheaded by everyone, or someone else beheaded you by the horse.

The battle lasted from noon until sunset, and finally Tubo Zanpu finally broke out, but there were less than 4 cavalry left, and the Song Army suffered heavy losses. The 3000 cavalry led by Yang Wenguang only Fewer than [-] remained.

(End of this chapter)