It was not easy to find the Mongol army, how could they run away so easily? Moreover, he is also an all-cavalry army, and he is not afraid of not being able to catch up with the enemy. Bayi Chinese[[?. ）８)１]Ｚ>?． COM Therefore, Gao Yi immediately ordered the whole army to pursue. At the same time, he ordered someone to send a message to the rear army immediately, so that they could get ready.

In the past ten days, the soldiers of the Western Xia army hated the atrocities of the Mongolian army even more, and they hated to kill a few Mongolian soldiers to relieve their hatred. However, Gao Yi was serious in the end, and he did not forget to keep the Western Xia army in good formation during the pursuit.

As soon as the two sides chased and fled, they ran out of the road for three or four miles in a blink of an eye. In the process of chasing each other, both sides also used bows and arrows to shoot at each other, each with some damage. Although the losses of the Western Xia army were greater, there were only a few dozen people on their own, and they had nothing to do with the overall situation.

Just as the distance between the two sides was gradually narrowing, on the right side of the Western Xia army, there was another sound of horses' hooves rising and falling rapidly, and a group of Mongol troops was also killed, and the number was also about 3,000.

Is it difficult for the Mongol army to use the tactics of left and right packs? While thinking about it, Gao Yi immediately ordered the men and horses to stop the pursuit, quickly line up, and prepare to meet the Mongol army.

But when this Mongol army was more than 100 steps away from the Western Xia army, it did not advance and stopped.

After the two sides held each other for a while, Gao Yi saw that the Mongol army on the left was gradually running away, so he ordered to attack the Mongol army on the right.

But as soon as the Western Xia army attacked, the Mongol army on the right did not engage in the battle, and also pulled out their horses and ran back. After the Western Xia army chased for a while, the Mongolian army on the left side came out again and moved on the left side of the Western Xia army.

Gao Yi once again ordered the Western Xia army to stop and wait. But in his heart, he was thinking quickly, what is the Mongolian army trying to do? Do you want to contain yourself? So how do you deal with it? Divide your forces to pursue? It will only disperse its own forces, which is obviously not possible, maybe the Mongol army is waiting for itself to do this, and it will be broken one by one. So ignore one of them and go after the other? Did the Raiders simply ignore both, or did they directly attack the Mongol army's camp?

Just when Gao Yi was uncertain, he suddenly galloped from behind the formation and rode on, and the knight on the horse said loudly: "General Gao, the rear team of people and horses has been attacked by Tartars, please hurry back to the army to rescue." ”

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After Gao Yi led the army, Xibi Hewei led 30,000 infantry troops as promised, from the city of Keyimun, and advanced in the direction of Dengkou, where the Mongolian army was stationed. Along the way, he was also cautious, while maintaining contact with the front team, and on the other hand, he also probed left and right to prevent the Mongol army from attacking him.

By noon, the rear of the Western Xia army had raised dust and smoke covering the sky and the sun in front of the left and right, and then there was a dense sound of horses' hooves rising and falling like raindrops. It was apparently the Mongol army that surrounded the rear of the Western Xia army from three directions.

Xibihe hurriedly ordered, and the whole army and horses immediately stopped advancing, and then formed a circle formation and defended on the spot. At the same time, he sent someone to deliver a letter to the former army and waited for Gao Yi's support.

The five Mongol generals who came to attack the rear of the Western Xia army were Zhi Zhan, Kublai Lai, Butai, Zhe Bei, and Zhu'er, each leading 3,000 Mongolian cavalry. The degree was unusually fast, and before the Western Xia army could completely line up the formation, the sound of arrows breaking through the wind kept coming from the left and right fronts, and the Western Xia army, which was caught off guard, was shot down a large number of them at once. And it immediately caused a big mess.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Mongolian cavalry immediately roared from all directions, and did not take the initiative to approach the formation of the Western Xia army, but continued to gallop back and forth in the distance, guerrilla cavalry shooting. Not only did they continue to release arrows, but sharper javelins also continued to be projected, beating the already panicked Western Xia army into a daze, and they were unable to fight back at all.

Seeing this scene, Xibihe also knew that it was not good, and hurriedly led his own soldiers around him to rush up to suppress the situation, and successively killed several soldiers who were panicked because of the attack, and finally stabilized the position of the whole army, and then ordered the shield hand to come to the front of the array to block the rain of arrows, and ordered the archers of the Western Xia army to shoot arrows to fight back. After some rectification, the Western Xia army was also able to stabilize the position and deal with the Mongol army.

However, because the Mongol army was in motion, the Western Xia army was stationary, and the two sides fired at each other, so naturally the Mongol army had a big advantage. Moreover, there were only a few thousand archers in the Western Xia army, but the Mongol army was full of archers, and the gap between the two sides in terms of numbers was not small. At the same time, the Mongol army also switched to the method of throwing and shooting, crossing the shield wall of the Western Xia army, and constantly invading the formation of the Western Xia army with a relentless rain of arrows, shooting their lives. As soon as the Western Xia army wanted to counterattack, the Mongol army immediately rode away, and the Mongol army on the other side attacked again.

Although before leaving, all the soldiers of the Western Xia had saved up enough energy, wanting to defeat the Mongol army and avenge the villagers. However, at this time, it was useless to rely on a mere wave of righteous indignation, and everyone in the Western Xia military had a feeling of discouragement that could not be forced. In the face of the rain of arrows like flying locusts of the Mongol army, and in the wilderness where there was nowhere to hide, people around them kept falling from arrows, and the living could only hope that the arrows falling from the sky would not fall on their heads.

In the face of the Mongolian army's tactics that are contrary to the orthodox way of combat, the main general Xibihe, who has never seen any big scenes, has nothing to do. Watching one soldier after another fall wailing after being hit by an arrow, the number of people continued to decrease, and the whole army almost became a mess. All Xibihe could do was to try his best to keep the Western Xia army under the blow of the Mongol army, so as not to maintain a defensive formation and not collapse, and at the same time hoped that Gao Yi's front team would come back soon to rescue him.

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After Gao Yi learned that the Mongol army had attacked his rear team, he concluded that the Mongol army was the rear army that mainly attacked the Western Xia army, and the two Mongol armies he faced were just holding back his own men. Therefore, he did not dare to slack off, and ordered the whole army to stop pursuing the Mongol army, and immediately changed the rear team to the front team and went to rescue the rear team.

But at the same time as the Western Xia army mutinied, the Mongols, who had been around the Western Xia army, suddenly attacked the Western Xia army.

After the spies reported to Temujin about the distribution of the front and rear units of the Western Xia army, Tie Zhenzhen immediately roughly judged this tactical intention of the Western Xia army. Targeted arrangements were also made. Since the Western Xia army was divided into front and rear armies and supported each other, then Temujin decided to attack the front and rear armies at the same time, and it was difficult to fight the Western Xia army.

Therefore, Temujin first ordered Borhu and Chilaowen to lead 3,000 men and horses each, and used guerrilla tactics to contain the advance army of the Western Xia army. Then he ordered the five people to lead 15,000 cavalry to attack the rear of the Western Xia army, and the rear team of the Western Xia army was all foot troops, and the Mongolian army did not fight with the Western Xia army, but used bows and arrows as a long-range attack. After the rear of the Western Xia army was attacked by the Mongol army, the front army would inevitably go back to help, so when the front team of the Western Xia army changed its formation and there was chaos, the Mongolian army attacked the front team of the Western Xia army.

Temujin and Borshu personally led 15,000 men and horses, as well as the Zhaba'er Fireman, Yelu Ahai, Yelu Bald, Hesar, Belgutai, Hechiwen, Jochi, Chagatai, and Ogedei.

Therefore, when the Western Xia army first changed formation, it was the signal for the Mongol army to attack. Chi Lao Wen and Bolhu immediately led their troops to attack from both sides of the Western Xia army. The centaurs had not yet been killed, but the first row of bows and arrows shot at the Western Xia army first.

The arrow brought out a rapid and sharp whistling sound, and fell into the formation of the Western Xia army, and the soldiers who were hit by the arrow screamed and fell off their horses, and the horses with the arrows also screamed and fell to the ground. The chaotic situation of the Western Xia army was like a ripple after a stone fell into the water, and it expanded.

Gao Yi also hesitated a little, whether he should immediately return to the army to rescue the rear team, or should he fight off the enemy in front of him first. Or leave a general and lead a few men and horses to resist the Mongol army here first, and lead the army to rescue the rear team. In an instant, several ways to deal with it flashed through Gao Yi's mind, each of which seemed to be feasible, but all of them were lacking. I don't know how to choose, and Gao Yi can't come up with a countermeasure for a while.

At this time, Gao Yi's weakness of lack of experience in big wars was suddenly exposed, because time does not allow careful thinking, as the chief general of an army, he must now make a decision and order the precession as soon as possible, even if it is not the best choice, or even a wrong choice, but it is much better than choosing nothing.

Just when Gao Yi hesitated, the Mongol army launched a full-scale attack with the Western Xia army, and the arrows were like a torrential rain, and they shot at the Western Xia army round after round. At the same time, Temujin also led the Mongol army and killed from behind the Western Xia army.

And Gao Yi did not give an order, it did not mean that the soldiers of Western Xia would stay still and wait for the arrows, but immediately urged the horses to run, at first there were still more than a dozen people, but then more and more, and when Gao Yi felt that it was wrong, nearly 10,000 Western Xia troops escaped, and they couldn't stop it. Gao Yi was helpless. Fortunately, at this time, the Western Xia army turned its head with the warp, so it ran in the direction of the rear team.

Gao Yi thought: That's fine. First go and join the rear army, and then find a way to fend off the Mongol army.

But at this time, the Mongols bit the Western Xia army, and the three thousand cavalry led by Chi Lao Wen and Borhu followed closely on the left and right sides of the Western Xia army, and they did not directly attack the Western Xia army, but divided into small groups of troops to approach the flank of the Western Xia army wave after wave, and after reaching a certain distance, they did not rely on Long, but rode horses and drove side by side with the Western Xia army, and then continuously shot arrows into the Western Xia army, whether they were shot or not, but they never came into contact with the Western Xia, and once the Western Xia army had the intention of attacking, they immediately ran away.

Therefore, the Western Xia army was as if it was constantly being hit by hammers and chisels, and people kept falling from their horses with arrows, and then they were quickly swallowed up by the torrent of cavalry that caught up behind. Although there were archers in the Tangut army who fought back, the Mongol soldiers were good at riding and shooting, so the resistance of the Tangut army was insignificant.

The problem that made Xibihe feel a headache was also Gao Yi's turn to encounter this time, and in the face of such tactics of the Mongolian army, Gao Yi also felt that there was nothing to be done. I had to urge the army to run faster, so that it could quickly join the rear team. As for what to do after joining up with the back team, Gao Yi didn't think about it very carefully.

Fortunately, the front and rear teams of the Western Xia Army were only a dozen miles apart, and they would soon be able to arrive. As soon as the Mongol army besieging the rear of the Western Xia army saw that the front team had rushed back, they immediately divided to the left and right and released a passage for the Western Xia army to converge.

At this time, the rear team of the Western Xia army was being beaten by the Mongol army, and when they saw the front army rushing back, they were all overjoyed, and they didn't have time to take a closer look, so they immediately stopped blocking and greeted the men and horses of the front team.

Originally, after the two armies met, the front army should have stopped, joined the rear army, and then formed together to meet the Mongol army. At this time, the front army was being chased by the Mongol army, and it couldn't stop at all, and when he saw that the rear team was blocking his way, he was desperate to rush into the ranks. Because they were facing the Zisi people, the rear team of the Western Xia army could not use swords, guns, bows and arrows to block, so they had to get out of the way and dodge, even under the strong blows of the Mongol army, the position that could still be basically maintained was immediately chaotic.

Gao Yi and Xibihe neither expected such a situation, and they couldn't help but complain. But at this time, the chaos was complete, and no matter how good the famous generals were, they couldn't be uncontrollab. And then this pre-negotiated battle plan, which seemed to be foolproof, turned out to be full of loopholes?

In fact, the battle plan formulated by Gao Yi and Xibihe before the war was not wrong in itself, and theoretically speaking, it was indeed foolproof. But both of them have forgotten the truth that even the perfect plan needs to be carried out. Once the ability of the people to implement it is insufficient, or the strength of the enemy is too far away, then what plan is on paper. Both of them lacked experience in major battles before this, and they had never fought against the Mongol army, so their estimation of their own and Mongol army's combat effectiveness was seriously skewed. This is the root cause of the current situation.

And it was only at this time that the Mongol army really launched a hand-to-hand attack. The army was scattered into several troops, turning into sharp swords, ruthlessly cutting the Western Xia army, and constantly devouring the lives of the Western Xia soldiers; The Mongol army's movements were extremely swift and powerful, and the formation of the Western Xia army was shattered and bruised. Layer after layer of Western Xia soldiers turned into blood and mud under the iron hooves of the Mongolian army under the Mongol army's quick knife-like offensive.

Gao Yi and Xibihe saw that the situation was not good, and immediately led their troops to flee. After the main general fled, the last resistance of the Western Xia army was completely disintegrated, and soldiers continued to abandon their weapons and surrender, and tens of thousands of troops were declared defeated in just one day.