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The dense sound of iron hoofs hit the ground like countless steel rainstorms, shaking the ground in a radius of more than ten miles.

After entering within 200 meters, the charging speed suddenly increased.

In an instant, a thunderbolt burst out, as if it had the power to split mountains and seas!

As soon as the terrifying torrent of steel went up, it crushed the scattered Xixia infantry and pushed forward.

The Xixia soldiers who had fallen under the iron hooves were quickly trampled into a pulp by the iron cavalry rushing up from behind.

Those who hadn't had time to escape showed panic on their faces, and some people tried their best to get into the crowd.

But now it's too late to drill anywhere.

The raging waves of the steel-like sea slapped over, quickly tearing the unsuspecting flanks into countless cracks.

The Jingsai cavalry rushed into these cracks, and pushed them in like sweeping holes.

The snow was shaken and rolled in the air, like a fog, and the Xixia soldiers inside howled and screamed.

No matter how hard they struggled, they were harvested and fell to the ground like rows of wheat.

The major defeat of Xixia's main force has begun.

Chapter 1071 Li Qianshun's dead end (first update)

"Report! Your Majesty, the main force of our army has been defeated by the Song army!"

The scouts sent this desperate news to Li Qianshun.

Li Qianshun looked moved, and exclaimed: "Where is the main force of our army's cavalry?"

Wei Ming Anhui said loudly: "Your Majesty, quickly withdraw, there is still time to withdraw!"

"Where are my main cavalry!" Li Qianshun shouted hoarsely.

Another scout rushed over: "Your Majesty, the right-wing cavalry of our army broke through the Song army's left-wing defense line, but the right-wing cavalry was defeated by the Song army!"

"The right wing was actually defeated?" Li Qianshun was startled, and after realizing it, he said quickly, "Order the reserve team to attack the Song army from the front immediately! Hurry up!"

Wei Ming Anhui shouted: "Your Majesty, it's too late, our army has been defeated..."

"Shut up!" Li Qianshun said angrily.

Turning around, he said to Ren Dejing: "Send my order immediately! Quick!"

Ren Dejing was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses and immediately executed it.

When many people see historical events, they tend to make a mistake, which is to use a determined result to deduce the process, and then find the reason in the process.

For example, if the result of Li Qianshun's failure is pushed to the process, he will only unconsciously look for possible mistakes, even if they may not be mistakes, they will be considered mistakes.

This makes it easy to overlook that any event has its accidental side, as well as its deeper cause side.

This kind of simple induction, if placed in this battle of Yuzhou, is nothing more than: Song Jun has new weapons, Li Qianshun made a mistake at the most critical moment, he should not be blindly arrogant, Xixia has made money these years After the expansion of the army, Li Qianshun swelled up. He had many opportunities, no matter how insignificant he developed, he would not escape.

These statements are not wrong, but they are too simple.

These are just rudimentary perceptions.

It is true that the Song army has new weapons. This is the decisive role in the Battle of Youzhou. It is not artillery and explosives, but the army that will resolutely rescue the injured comrades after a short pause!

Why are you determined to save your comrades?

Why couldn't the former Song Jun do it?

The secondary reason is that the military system is mandatory, and the main reason is that the military supplies and salaries are sufficient.

Just like if your boss gives you 3000 yuan a month and asks you to worry about an annual salary of 300 million yuan, you won't do it.

But if you are given 300 million yuan and asked to do a job worth 100 million yuan, even if the boss puts forward very strict requirements, you will implement them.

Therefore, a strong army is the key.

And to have a powerful army, you must ensure sufficient money and supplies.

To ensure sufficient money and supplies, a well-functioning logistical and financial system must be in place.

And if you want the money received by the soldiers not to depreciate, you have to enrich the supplies to hedge against inflation.

what are these?

These are the manifestations of a country's comprehensive national strength.

After all, armies and weapons are effects, not causes.

Because of the strong comprehensive national strength, the army can be reorganized and show strong results.

Even if there is no artillery, the Song army and the Xixia people will lose both in Youzhou. Can Li Qianshun win?

On the contrary, Li Qianshun's decision at this time has a little chance of turning around.

why?

According to what Wei Ming An Hui said, withdraw.

The Hengshan defense line has been lost, and Zhang Jun's [-] troops have crossed the vast sea and are about to arrive in Lingzhou.

Where is he going?

He only had this chance, which was to use the prepared 2000 iron kites to attack the main force of the Song army head-on, and quickly disperse the main force of the Song army after the battle was completely over.

If the main forces on both sides are broken, the battlefield in the middle will fall into unprecedented chaos.

Don't forget, Li Qianshun also has a group of medium-sized cavalry who retreated halfway.

His ultimate goal is to take advantage of the chaos to go to Zhao Guan's camp and capture Zhao Guan's family.

As long as this goal is achieved, let alone the Battle of Youzhou, even if Zhang Jun reaches Xingqing Mansion, he will obediently withdraw his troops.

This is the fundamental reason why Li Qianshun made such an irrational decision at this time.

As Zhao Ning said later: Those who ridiculed Li Ganshun were stupid because they had not yet reached the level of information and cognition, thinking that the world was running according to a very superficial trajectory.

Just like they laughed at Yuan Benchu's ambition and lack of talent.

Of course, macroscopic history is composed of countless small events. Over a long period of time, contradictions are torn apart from each other, and then evolve towards an inevitable trend.

And in a few months, or a few days, or a certain moment in the microcosm, they meet unexpectedly by chance.

Li Qianshun's last desperate gamble may not be able to turn the tables, but unfortunately it happened by chance.

Ren Dejing took the soldier talisman and flew to the iron kite army that hadn't attacked yet. He said: "Your Majesty has already retreated, ordered me to follow this road immediately, and make sure to stop the rear!"

Seeing that he was holding a soldier talisman, everyone followed him without hesitation.

Ren Dejing is a traitor of the Song Dynasty, and he is the least likely to surrender to the Song Dynasty again.

Liu Yuhe can learn from the past.

So Li Qianshun was very relieved of him, even more relieved than Weiming Anhui, but he did not expect Ren Dejing to make such a move at the critical moment.

Of course, Ren Dejing didn't intend to surrender. He took the iron kite and ran all the way to the west.

As for what he was going to do now, he didn't have much in mind, but he believed that Li Qianshun's defeat was a foregone conclusion, and the next struggle was useless, and he didn't want to be caught by the Song army.

By this time, the main Xixia infantry had all collapsed, and countless Xixia heavy infantry had thrown away their helmets and armor, and fled in a hurry.

Seeing such a defeat, the medium-sized cavalry who had been dormant nearby were no longer interested in fighting and retreated one after another.

"Your Majesty! Our army has been defeated! Your Majesty, retreat quickly!"

The scout sent the latest information.

"What about Ren Dejing?"

"Ren Dejing is missing!"

"Then where is my prepared iron kite?"

At this time, another scout rushed over: "Your Majesty, the Iron Kite Army is preparing to retreat westward!"

"What!" Li Qianshun's whole body was shaken. Hearing this news, his last hope was shattered.

Li Qianshun, who was already extremely weak, spat out a mouthful of blood and fell to the ground.

The surrounding palace guards immediately helped Li Qianshun up.

"Escort Your Majesty away!"

At this time, the iron kite that was not bombarded by artillery on the right side tore the left wing of the main force of the Song army to pieces.

However, the iron kite battle along this road was also very tragic. The cavalry was damaged one by one, and in the end they failed to completely break up the Song army's formation. After losing the space to attack, they were forced to dismount and fight fiercely.

This means that the right-wing iron kite's attack on the Song army also failed.

If Ren Dejing delivered Li Qianshun's order accurately, would the main force of the Song army be able to hold on?

In the distance is the ancient Great Wall that has been eroded and mottled by the years. The thin and vicissitudes of the outline are like a lonely and strong backbone.

Chapter 1072 The Xixia people's tricks are not working (second update)

"Your Highness! The big thing is not good, my main force has been defeated!"

"Where's Your Majesty?" Brother Li Cha asked hurriedly with a moved expression.

"There is chaos, and His Majesty is missing."

Brother Li Cha wanted to bring his personal guards to the middle road to find Li Qianshun, but was stopped by Zhang Chunming.

"Your Highness, absolutely not. At this time, our army has been defeated and our vitality has been hurt. If you make any mistakes, Great Xia will be in danger!"

Brother Li Cha stared blankly at the direction of the battlefield in the middle, with unwillingness in his eyes, he asked angrily: "Brother commanded tens of thousands of iron cavalry, eight thousand iron kites, strong troops and strong horses, why is there such a defeat!"

"Your Highness, we have to withdraw our troops now. Once the main force of the Song Army's middle road draws out its troops and cuts off our retreat, it will be a big disaster!" Zhang Chunming reminded.

Brother Li Cha's emotions were obviously a little out of control. He raised his head, looked at the sky, and cried out sadly: "The sky wants to kill me!"

"Your Highness! Let's go!"

At this moment, probably no one could understand the pain in Brother Li Cha's heart.

He fell into deep self-blame.

If he could be given another chance, he would definitely not cooperate with Zhao Guanjia.

It was precisely because of the beginning of the Song-Xia Alliance in the second year of Jingkang that the Great Song Dynasty not only eliminated the threat from the Northwest, but also gained a lot of benefits from the Song-Xia trade.

Brother Li Cha collected his mood, and the last reason told him that he had to leave immediately.

It was already evening when one success report after another reached Zhao Ning.

The main force of Xixia was defeated, the Xixia iron kite collapsed, and the cavalry fled without a trace.

Soon, Liu Kai's battle report also came.

Liu Kai and Brother Li Cha confronted each other for a day, and the scale of the fight was not very large, but the cavalry of both sides stared at the main force of the infantry of the other side.

Until Brother Li Cha retreated.

This day is the sixth day of October in the 11th year of Jingkang.

The Battle of Youzhou ended with the total collapse of Xixia's 12 troops.

Zhao Ning breathed a sigh of relief.

Almost all of the Hengshan defense line was taken back.

Not only that, after this battle, Xixia's national power has basically been abolished by more than half.

There is definitely no way to count casualties today.

"Your Majesty, Li Ganshun was not found." Fan Zhixu hurried in.

"He may have escaped." Zhao Ning didn't feel sorry.

He did not decapitate Xixia, but destroyed him.

It means that it doesn't matter if you catch Li Qianshun or not, just beat Xixia to death, even if Li Qianshun is still alive, what can you do?

"Have Brother Li Cha found it?"

"I heard from the scout that he fled westward."

"According to the time calculation, Zhang Jun should have crossed the vast sea and arrived in Lingzhou, but I don't know where Li Yanxian and Zhe Yanzhi are at this time?" Zhao Ning said, "Let's not mention these things in advance, so as to comfort the wounded, the remnants of the Xixia people The forces still need some time to deal with."

At this time, Yang Yizhong came in, he saluted and said, "Your Majesty!"

"how?"