Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

However, the Uighurs reorganized the troops in Suzhou and Guazhou, concentrated their forces and arrived in Zhangye, and the whole battle situation changed dramatically after the Uighurs arrived in Zhangye.

Fortunately, when Fei Tinghu surrendered, there were [-] Xixia cavalry, and when he captured Zhangye, he also captured [-] Xixia cavalry.

The total number of cavalry in Orihiko's hands now is eight thousand.

The Uighur cavalry was getting closer and closer, and the Song Army cavalry split into two groups and began to intercept.

The two sides fought together.

Due to the number of troops, the Song army soon fell into a disadvantage.

"Fei Tinghu!"

"The end is here!"

"You immediately lead two thousand cavalry to support the left wing!"

"Order!"

After Fei Tinghu received the military order, he immediately went to dispatch troops.

"General, at this critical moment, let a party member who has just surrendered to lead the army, I'm afraid..." Wang Zhi, the deputy enlisted in the army, said.

"Can you temporarily find me a qualified general who can command two thousand cavalry?"

The royal system was at a loss for words for a while.

It's not like a random person can ride a horse and fight with two legs, let alone lead two thousand cavalry to fight.

"Woo Bo!"

"The subordinate is here!"

"You immediately command two thousand cavalry to reinforce the right wing!"

"Order!"

The cavalry reinforcements of the Song Army quickly arrived on the battlefield.

"Report!" The Uyghur scouts submitted the information to the Uyghur commander Zayer who was marching eastward this time. "The Song army has reinforced! The left and right wings have each reinforced nearly [-] cavalry!"

"Song Army has so many cavalry?" Zaiker asked in surprise.

Then he turned around and looked at Li Ji, the former Suzhou guard, and asked, "Didn't you say that the Song people lacked horses?"

"It must be that the soldiers and horses of Liangzhou and Xuanhua surrendered, so that the Song army had enough cavalry."

"Then what should we do now?" Kyle asked with a gloomy expression.

His original plan was not to fight the Song army head-on on a large scale immediately, but to continue to use cavalry on a small scale to test it out. After all, he was too unfamiliar with the Song army.

But Li Ji has been encouraging him, always emphasizing the lack of horses in the Song army.

It's all right now, the cavalry of the Song Army came out one after another.

"Our army has enough cavalry, why should the general be timid!" Li Ji couldn't help but sneered.

Then Kyle immediately said angrily: "You are just a defeated general of the subjugated country, and you dare to point and point at me here!"

Li Ji said: "General, if we push all our cavalry up now, the Song army will be defeated!"

"What if you can't win?"

"If you can't win, the general is willing to use his head as a guarantee!"

As soon as Li Ji finished speaking, the Uyghur scouts rushed over and shouted loudly: "General, the Song army's left wing cavalry is defeated!"

Then Kyle and Li Ji were slightly taken aback.

This happiness came too suddenly.

At this time, Fei Tinghu's left wing reinforcements were indeed defeated, and the formation of the cavalry completely collapsed.

The Uighur cavalry rushed towards the left wing of the Song army like a torrent.

The tactics of the Uighurs were also cavalry and archery, which combined the cavalry and archery of the Dangxiang cavalry. When approaching the left wing of the Song army, the dense rain of arrows pressed towards the left wing of the Song army.

Orihikozhi had already received the news of Fei Tinghu's defeat.

He said with a calm expression: "I was careless. Our army's cavalry is mainly charged, and the party's cavalry is mainly mounted and shot. The two are quickly mixed. Not only cannot strengthen the combat power, but they cannot cooperate with each other, resulting in a decline in combat power! "

Wang Zhi said: "General, the main infantry formation of our army is well defended, and the cavalry on the right is still on the battlefield. The outcome is yet to be decided!"

Orihiko's heart has sunk to the bottom.

Among the infantry of the Song Army, there were also many Fan soldiers.

He was afraid that these foreign soldiers would be panicked and defeated temporarily.

The military report came soon.

Chapter 1151 Competing for Hexi (Second Change)

Facts once again prove that when people are unlucky, drinking cold water will get stuck between their teeth.

The left wing of the infantry also collapsed.

Orihiko also guessed the reason for the collapse.

There are language differences and psychological barriers in the mixed team of Fan people and Han people.

In fact, in the northwest of the Great Song Dynasty in the past, there were Fan people who were incorporated into the army, but they were not the main force.

One-third of Zhe Yanzhi's soldiers and horses are Fanren.

They are from Tubo, Northwest Qiang, and Dangxiang Qiang.

After all, Zhe Yanzhi was in the Longyou Duhu Mansion, where the people from Huangzhou and Xining Prefecture were mixed, and it was a thousand kilometers away from Jingzhao Mansion, separated by mountains and rivers.

It will take time to relocate the legions formed by the Han people to Longyou on a large scale.

This defeat exposed a fundamental problem: there were many problems in the cooperation between the Han people and the Fan people in the Song Dynasty.

It will not be exposed when sieging cities and pulling out strongholds. Once a war of positional warfare requires higher density coordination, it is easy to collapse.

"Quickly send the order to Wu Bo, and the rest will retreat immediately!"

"Yes!"

In the 12th year of Jingkang, the first large-scale frontal battle between the Song Dynasty and the Uighurs ended in failure.

Orihiko's tens of thousands of soldiers and horses collapsed, and then retreated to Liangzhou.

Zhangye, which had just been included in the Song Dynasty, fell into the hands of the Uighurs.

The matter of expanding the border in the northwest is a secret, at least for now, it will not be publicized.

After all, peace is the main theme.

But war is always inevitable.

All military-related news from Tokyo to the Northwest is kept secret.

The Great Song Dynasty originally had a very strict secrecy system. In this way, neither the people nor the court actually knew that the war in the northwest was about to ignite for the time being.

As for the appointment of the head of the Hebei General System, Zhao Ning also has a candidate: Li Gang!

Li Gang had already held this position before, and later Zongwang attacked Cangzhou, and Li Gang was injured in the battle of Cangzhou, so he resigned to cultivate.

Li Gang's military talent is defense, and this period is most suitable for him to go to Hebei.

On May 24th, Li Liangfu, who had enjoyed a luxurious life in Bianjing for several months, arrived in Chang'an City again and met Hu Quan.

Li Liangfu looked at Hu Quan obsequiously. He found out from various sources that this Hu Quan was the Emperor's confidant and an important minister in the Northwest.

Li Liangfu felt that he had to curry favor with such a person.

"Hu Buzheng, I asked someone to find a BMW from Liangzhou. I heard that Hu Buzheng likes a good horse, so I made a special trip to send it here."

"I'm afraid I can't accept such an expensive gift," Hu Quan said.

"A BMW deserves a hero. Hu Buzheng is an important minister of His Majesty. He has made great achievements through the ages. Many people are praising Hu Buzheng as the number one minister of the Song Dynasty."

Hu Quan smiled and said, "Marquis Dingbian, let's get down to business as soon as possible. The court now wants [-] war horses. How can we get them quickly?"

"It's not difficult. First, there were a lot of smuggled war horses among the Xixia people in the past. Hu Buzheng can get a batch along this route."

"I'm already doing what you said, but raising [-] horses in a short period of time is hard to achieve just by relying on this."

Hu Quan was quite polite to Li Liangfu. Although he looked down on these fanatics in his heart, after all, he was on a mission now, and Li Liangfu was the only one who could assist him in completing this mission.

Li Liangfu said: "In the past, the horse farms in Xixia were concentrated in Xuanhua Mansion and Xiliang Mansion. Xuanhua Mansion was at war. If they were transferred from Xiliang Mansion, they would be satisfied."

The Xuanhua Mansion mentioned by Li Liangfu is not Xuanhua, which was established in the Zhangjiakou area in the later Ming Dynasty, but one of the administrative districts of Xixia in the past.

The government of Xuanhuafu is located in Ganzhou, which is called Xuanhuafu by Xixia people.

Song people called it Zhangye or Ganzhou.

As for Xiliang Mansion, it is also the administrative region of Xixia, and its government is located in Liangzhou.

Song people called it Wuwei or Liangzhou.

The largest horse farms in Xixia are in Zhangye and Liangzhou.

Liangzhou horses are also known as good horses in this era.

Hu Quan asked: "I heard that most of the Xixia people raised horses in the private sector, so it may take a lot of time to quickly collect war horses in Liangzhou."

"Bozheng Hu is overwhelmed, and I can settle this matter. I know the distribution of horse breeding in Liangzhou well. As long as Bozheng Hu prepares enough money, or tea, war horses are not a problem."

"really?"

"I, Li Liangfu, can guarantee with the head of the item!" Li Liangfu patted his chest, "As long as Liangzhou is in the hands of my Song Dynasty, there will definitely be no shortage of war horses!"

"It's simple. According to the information sent by Orihiko, he has already captured Zhangye, let alone Liangzhou." Hu Quan laughed, "If so, let's act as soon as possible."

After all, Yue Fei was waiting for a large-scale battle horse in the Anbei Protectorate at this time.

With [-] war horses and three horses per person, an elite cavalry regiment of [-] can be formed.

Three horses, this configuration can complete long-distance raids.

On the first day of June, the hot sun in Liangzhou in midsummer, the majestic and majestic Qilian Mountains lay horizontally under the blue sky, and the boundless grass rolled in the distant summer wind, like blue waves.

Unlike Tokyo's scorching heat, Hexi is much cooler.

It was the first time for Liu Rui to see such a beautiful scenery, and he couldn't help feeling relaxed and happy.

After he ate the last bite of cake, he said to the generals: "My sons and daughters, Liangzhou is ahead."

The commander came over, with a smile on his face that men could understand, and he said, "Director Liu, I heard that orchids from the Western Regions look very charming, is it true?"

"How did I know, there hasn't been an orchid in Guanzhong for many years."

Wang Jiong immediately became excited, and he shouted at the people around him: "You say, if this takes Hexi back and beats it to the Western Regions, the orchids in the Western Regions, will we be one by one, okay?"

Everyone immediately laughed and said, "Okay! When the time comes, Commander Wang will share two!"

"No! Three points for Commander Wang!"

The crowd burst into laughter.

At this moment, a scout came back from ahead.

"Report! Manager Liu, we found a large number of soldiers and horses of unknown origin ahead. Judging from their attire, they may be Uighurs!"

Liu Rui was startled, and the people around were also surprised immediately.

"Didn't it mean that our army has already reached Zhangye? How come there are Uighurs in Liangzhou?" Wang Jiong questioned.

"How many people are here?" Liu Rui asked quickly.

"It is temporarily impossible to find out the specific strength of the troops, at least tens of thousands."

"So many!" Liu Rui was taken aback.

Wang Jiong shouted from the side: "It's just in time! Before we go looking for them!"

"Don't underestimate the enemy." Liu Rui pondered.

In fact, everyone has no idea, because the understanding of the Uyghurs is basically blank.

There is a saying in the art of war, if you know yourself and the enemy, you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles.

Now that you find the enemy and go up rashly, this is a taboo for military strategists!

Chapter 1152 The real elite is here (third update)