Chapter 685: The Battle of Shilong Pass

"The ...... of the dog 1st Gao Fangping has gone completely crazy, even if he is well equipped and always recuperates, but he is trying to fight a decisive battle with more than 20,000 recruits, Yu Wenling's generation and the Western Xia cavalry cluster? The seed master muttered in the tent: "If the old man is not mistaken, Wenling Gorge is the best position for the cavalry to fight a decisive battle, right?" Didn't he think he was dying fast enough? ”

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Liu Yanqing heard that Gao Fangping was making a mistake, and it seemed that he was loyal and brave to almost fall to the ground during the decisive battle of Wenling.

"He's really crazy, damn it, he has more than 20,000 recruits, who dare to sharpen the edge of the Xixia Iron Cavalry, and the newborn calf." Liu Yanqing said: "Maybe he has something unique in terms of battle formations and equipment, or maybe he is lucky, he will only encounter a vanguard army of less than 10,000." But it's really too risky, and it's true that they say that he has a hole in his brain. How did the Western Xia Iron Rider play home? Under normal circumstances, it would take at least five times as many elite infantry to carry it. He Gao Fangping is betting on the fortune of the country, even if he wins by luck, it is a tragic victory. If he is defeated, he will be completely annihilated as a marshal with the sword of the Son of Heaven and the northern military system. Under such a morale blow, my Great Song is in danger! ”

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In the current situation, even if everyone has long been dissatisfied with Gao Fangping's shrinking turtle tactics, no one wants him to fight Shilong Pass like this. That's just sending food to death.

Such awesome rumors, of course Brother Cha also heard about them. Wenling Pass cannot be ambushed, and there will be no major conspiracy. It is the main battlefield of the Western Xia Iron Cavalry, and Brother Cha knows this. Therefore, even if Brother Cha vaguely felt that it was inappropriate, he did not order General Xi Shining to return in the end.

Because I really can't find a reason to be afraid. Forcibly ordering Xi Shining to withdraw his troops would affect the morale of Western Xia and encounter more dissatisfaction from his generals.

Brother Cha really didn't know what medicine was sold in Gao Fangping's gourd, so he could only send a letter to General Xi Shining, who had already entered the army: Be careful, although Gao Fangping had no extra troops, only a cowardly infantry army of more than 20,000 people. But you must not be arrogant, and be careful of his next move. Success is no accident, and there must be a reason why Gao Fangping can get to this point.

General Xi Shining replied: "The marshal thinks too much! We haven't been able to be a fighter for too long, and we desperately need a big victory. The mixed infantry army of Gao Fangping, which had not been in battle for a long time, tried in vain to resist and our 20,000 elite cavalry at Shilong Pass, which was conducive to cavalry combat, and this was all afraid, so he could only stop fighting. Because I can't fight, I haven't heard of 20,000 iron horsemen who are afraid of 20,000 horseless recruits. ”

There was nothing wrong with such a reply, so the Chago Department could only speed up the integration of the army, hoping to go on the road as soon as possible to support the Xishining Division......

If the division is changed to fight, the correct way to open the battle of Shilongguan is to mobilize a large number of people from Hezhongfu to participate in the construction of the offensive, seize time as soon as possible, dig a deep ditch on the road in front of the horse and Pingchuan, and assist in rejecting the horse formation with endless timber, so as to slow down the surprise attack of the Western Xia cavalry at that time.

In order for the Song army's archery troops to cover the enemy army that was slowing down, and then fight and cherish, use bow and arrow tactics, rely on the horse rejection position, consume the sharp spirit of the Western Xia cavalry, and retreat to Hezhong Mansion while fighting.

However, these proposals were all vetoed by Gao Fangping, on the grounds that time was too tight, so that our troops would become tired soldiers on the contrary, and the assembled auxiliaries would also face the danger of the war zone, and they would have little defense and mobility capabilities......

On the morning of the third day, after making the final mobilization and various arrangements, everyone in the high square flat where they were recuperating felt a slight vibration on the ground of the valley, which was like a thunder sound like a talisman, which was the momentum brought by the cavalry group marching in the distance.

"Report-" A spy came to report: "The Western Xia general Xi Shining led a large group of cavalry and stopped eight miles away. ”

Waving his hand to send away the spies, Gao Fangping got up lazily: "Put on your armor, immediately enter the defensive battle formation, and prepare to meet the enemy!" ”

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"Report to the ......" The Western Xia spies ran to the front of Xi Shining's formation and said: "General Bao, I didn't find anything wrong, the Song army didn't seem to have enough time, and even the most common ditches to resist horses and block cavalry were not dug?" ”

General Xi Shining couldn't help but be furious when he heard this! I don't know if he, Gao Fangping, is he really not afraid of death or what? Don't even do these temporary things? Thanks to Lao Tzu coming along the road, he spent the energy of the soldiers to prepare a large amount of planks and timber, as well as the tools to clear the horse rejection array, in order to withstand the rain of arrows, pave the road, and make final preparations for the cavalry assault.

However, in this way, the energy along the way was wasted, and a lot of useless things were prepared.

"General, Gao Fangping's child is so fearless, will there be fraud? The marshal asks us to be careful. A lieutenant general said.

As a result, he was whipped, and Xi Shining shouted: "If there is fraud, you have to rush." This is why he is suspicious, just like Zhuge Liang's empty city plan in their Han family script, in fact, he is weaker than anyone else now, don't fall for his tricks. Herald: Prepare for an assault! ”

So the Western Xia cavalry began to advance slowly, although this is the best cavalry assault distance, but the march along the way, it is already considered to be too warm-up, and it is still a little tired, so it is necessary to gently shorten the assault distance......

Boom, boom, the earthquake is getting closer.

Gao Fangping shrank behind him very obscenely and raised the Son of Heaven Sword and said, "Heavy Infantry Armor step forward!" No matter what you are facing, you must not retreat, you must withstand the onslaught of the enemy as much as possible, and win the maximum time for my bow and arrow cluster! ”

"Move forward!"

The fifteen-hundred-hundred-armed army array led by Ruda began to spread into rows and strode forward.

They don't have the traditional horse-repellent lance. Because Gao Fangping thinks that the tactic is not very efficient, on the contrary, it is easy to destroy the balance of the infantry armor and weaken the defensive attributes of the infantry armor. So not only do they have step armor, but these guys also hold heavy shields in both hands to further strengthen their defensive attributes. Then rely on the weight and defense of the heavy shield to strengthen their balance again. At the same time, relying on the structural support force after the contraction of the step person, the strong support will not be easily overthrown.

Luda led the heavy defensive formation to move forward sharply, completely breaking away from the main army formation in the rear. This was to prevent the first wave of armor-piercing cones from Western Xia from harming the rear army formation.

After the heavy team landed in place, they saw dust in front of them, like a flood after breaking the embankment, and the Western Xia cavalry was getting closer and closer!

Under the leadership of Xi Shining, the cavalrymen who had basically entered the maximum speed shouted: "Kill all the Song troops and capture Gao Fangping's children alive."

"Let them kill!"

Gao Fangping waved his hand as he spoke, and a neat divine arm crossbow army array appeared.

It was a really scary feeling. It was really incredible that a cluster of 20,000 god arm crossbows appeared in this era.

It is very important to resist the rain of arrows before the cavalry raid. But Hanwa suffers from the fact that she is not good at archery, and mature archers are more difficult to train, so it is difficult to form the most effective parabolic coverage in a unified manner. Even if an army did, the range of the foot archers was relatively limited. That's the shortcoming.

Now it's different, the range of the god arm crossbow basically reaches a terrifying four hundred steps and the lethality, if you use parabolic shooting, you can easily break through a thousand steps, and it doesn't cost much of the physical strength of many soldiers, and then the power of each bow is roughly the same, so it is easier to form a neat arrow rain cover than a lunge group.

The cavalry of the West Shining Division had not yet approached the hoplite line, but they were already exposed to the parabolic range of the Divine Arm Crossbow.

The tiger head baby, who was also on the battle array, shouted excitedly: "Come, shoot, shoot quickly, kill these barbarians!" ”

Gao Fangping raised his hand and said, "Keep waiting, the time is still not ripe." Shooting now can only stop the head of their sharp knife formation, and the killing area is not enough. What I need is to wait for the first batch of cavalry to start attacking Luda's heavily armored defense, and then shoot twice to 'cut off' the continuous formation of the Western Xia cavalry. In order to give me the opportunity to reload my defensive line to 'digest the first cavalry'. ”

So they all stood by and held their breath.

The enemy was getting faster and closer, and just as the first cavalry began to attack the heavily armored defense line with armor-piercing cones, the time was ripe, and Gao Fangping shouted: "Volley!" ”

This time it's not a whoosh, it's more obscene than that

All the people according to the predetermined angle, with a bang, the black pressure of 20,000 divine arm bows began to shoot!

When landing after the parabolic process, it was not called a rain of arrows, but a black "heavenly knife", which covered it like a landslide and cracked the ground, cutting off the formation of the Xixia cavalry raid, and more than a thousand Xixia soldiers and war horses died directly in this wave, and at the same time, their corpses formed a trench like a tripwire, overturning countless subsequent cavalry.

At this point, two-thirds of the Western Xia cavalry troops and horses in the rear were temporarily stopped. Lost momentum.

And the cavalry in front, after the armor-piercing cone attack had little effect, officially began to storm the reloading line.

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It was ferocious, they slammed into the heavy shields, and although they were able to knock the first row of heavy loads back, it came at the cost of their horses' brains flying everywhere and the soldiers being thrown away.

Gao Fangping raised the Son of Heaven sword expressionlessly and said, "Get on the arrow." The Demolition Team begins to attack indiscriminately! ”

So most of the infantry began to shoot arrows, and the 1,000 "small artillery" troops, after advancing slightly forward, the little trebuchets that threw empty bombers began to operate, and threw out the iron mounds that had ignited the fuses.

This thing is not a divine arm crossbow, the range is limited, so everything is calculated, the place where the small artillery attack, is the sky above the hoplites, which is the front line of the first phase of the Western Xia cavalry cheats attack.

Boom Boom Boom

With the cooperation of 1,000 people, nearly 300 small trebuchets threw out the empty explosion mound.

The first phase of the Western Xia army was blocked in front of the melee. After the Tituo Tuo exploded, all kinds of iron nails swept through. The power of the scattered bullets was not great, and they could not hurt the hoplites on their side, but those Western Xia cavalry who were killed cried and cried, and they were chaotic in an instant.

At the same time, Gao Fangping's second salvo came, and the black arrow rain smashed down like a heavenly knife, once again cutting the cavalry line of Western Xia into three sections, and more than a thousand cavalry were directly killed by the "heavenly knife" formed by the arrow rain.