After listening to Han Shizhong's explanation, these recruits from all over the empire were immediately stunned, they never expected to be able to play like this.

The battle in the distance continued, and the slave army of Western Xia was poorly trained and much worse equipped than the Qingtang people, so although they were outnumbered by the other side, in the end they showed defeat first.

At this moment, after the entire formation of the Tangut people moved forward, a black cloud suddenly rose, and this killing cloud composed of arrows and stones covered the Qingtang people.

The Qingtang people, who often fought with the Tangut people, seemed to have been prepared, and when they saw the rain of arrows falling, they hurriedly raised their leather shields to block the arrows.

It's a pity that the Qingtang people can defend against arrows, but they can't prevent those fist-sized stone bullets, this thing is hugely powerful, comparable to bullets, whether it is the leather shield in front of the Qingtang people or the leather armor on the body, they can't resist the attack of this thing.

It stands to reason that the two armies were entangled in the middle of the battlefield, and after launching such a long-range attack, they were suddenly turned on their backs and made a mess, and both groups of people suffered heavy casualties, which could be regarded as wounding 1,000 enemies and 800 self-inflicted losses.

However, don't forget that the Tanguts sent a slave army for consumption, so after this wave of attacks, the Tanguts took advantage.

When the long-range attack of the Tanguts was covered, the slave army that was fighting with the Qingtang people desperately retreated to their own position, and the arrows and stone projectiles that flew from them killed the pursuing Qingtang people and continued to spread forward.

Looking at the hundreds of camels with trebuchets installed on the humps in the camp of the Western Xia Army, there were soldiers controlling the strange types of troops that shot stone bullets, and asked fiercely and curiously: "Marshal, what kind of troops is this?" ”

When he was fighting with the Tangut people in the past, Han Shizhong and his comrades were attacked by this long-range force, and thinking of those old people who died tragically under the stone bullets, he said hatefully: "This is the Poxi army of the Tangut people!" ”

The "Pop Xi Army" is also an artillery unit with extremely high mobility in the Western Xia Army, but because it is not easy to manufacture and train, the number of this special unit is not large, and there are only a few hundred people in the entire Western Xia Army.

"Standing a whirlwind cannon in the saddle of a camel, a stone like a fist", this unique artillery unit, whether it was against or in the battle of the city, provided strong fire support to the Western Xia army.

So far, the Tangut people have dispatched the slave army in the captive army, the Pop Xi army and the strong crossbow army in the long-range troops, which has made the Qingtang people who are good at close combat suffer a big loss, and as the Qingtang cavalry in the battlefield is getting fewer and fewer, it seems that the Qingtang people are going to lose this battle.

The Qingtang people, who had lost their two wings of cavalry, really began to slowly retreat, apparently planning to leave the battlefield, but no one would miss the opportunity to pursue after the commander of the Western Xia Army, Li Chage, gave the order, and the whole army began to pursue forward.

Brother Li Cha is the son of Li Bingchang of the Western Xia clan, the son of Li Bingchang of the Western Xia Huizong, and the younger brother of Li Qianshun, the current lord of the Western Xia Dynasty.

Although it seemed that the Qingtang people had been defeated, Brother Richard was still very cautious to let the soldiers and horses form a formation and slowly pursue, and wait until the Qingtang people's battle formation broke up before they chased wildly.

Richard's caution was not wrong, because when the distance between the two sides became closer and closer, the cavalry brigade of the Qingtang people suddenly split into three, and went around to the left and right, revealing the Qingtang soldiers hiding in the trenches behind.

In order to contain the increasingly powerful Western Xia, and also to obtain high-quality war horses from Qingtang, the empire once supported the Qingtang people to replace a large number of old-fashioned muskets, and the Qingtang soldiers hiding in the trenches at this time were all trained musketeers.

The Qingtang people, who have never had a long-range class, used this move really beyond the expectations of the Tangut people, and with the old muskets with an extremely slow rate of fire, the Qingtang people immediately began to shoot in turns.

Even if they couldn't hear the sound because of the distance, the Imperial recruits who were standing on the dirt slope watching the battle could make up the sound of thumping shooting on the spot.

In the Western Xia army, except for the most elite Iron Harrier heavy cavalry, the other troops did not have iron armor to protect them, so the Qingtang musketeers who were ambushed in the trenches immediately killed countless people.

The strong crossbow army of Western Xia is not good at stubble, and they have also obtained muskets from the Empire, and immediately all the ranged troops hurriedly fought back, but the trench is the best means to block the long-range attack, as long as the skin shield is covered above the head, they are not afraid of the opponent's counterattack.

In a short period of time, the Western Xia army, which had the upper hand, suffered heavy casualties, and seeing that the muskets of the Qingtang people seemed to never stop, Richard could only order the army to retreat backwards and leave the other party's firing distance.

At this time, the two wings of cavalry separated by Qingtang circled around the Western Xia army like vultures, and it is conceivable that as long as the other party showed any flaws, these cavalry would rush in and tear the prey apart.

Richard, who had been in battle for a long time, naturally would not make such a low-level mistake, and under the protection of the cavalry, relying on the attack of the central long-range troops, the entire legion steadily retreated.

Under the threat of the Western Xia long-range army, Qingtang's cavalry did not dare to charge in the end, and both sides seemed to recognize their current occupation, and each cautiously and slowly retreated......

When the armies of the two sides had opened up enough distance, they each sent a group of soldiers to collect the dead horses, armor and weapons on the battlefield, but did not look at the corpses of those who died in battle.

After watching this earth-shattering battle, Han Shizhong pointed to the battlefield where 20,000 or 30,000 people had fallen, and asked the soldiers under his command: "How is it, what do you think?" Do you still think that aliens are stupid? ”

These young soldiers all shook their heads in shame, and after a while, they said fiercely: "Great commander, there is something unknown in the end. ”

Han Shizhong said, "Say it." ”

"In the eyes of the last general, the strength of the Qingtang people and the Tangut people is far superior to that of the Tubo, why don't they attack Tibet instead of desperately attacking each other?"

"Hehehe, that's a good question."

Han Shizhong looked at Li Meng and the other generals, and patiently explained: "Actually, it's very simple, although the Qingtang people are also Tibetans, they, like the Western Xia people, have never stopped conquering Tibet. However, Tibet is vast, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and the Tubo tribes near Qingtang and the surrounding areas of Western Xia have long been far away from the hinterland, so that the harvest of these two parties is limited, and these two forces currently have a very big problem, that is, lack of food!

You have been training hard in the army during this time, and you may not have noticed that the drought in the northwest has lasted for a long time, and both the Qingtang people and the Xixia people have no harvest in the territory, and it is said that some people in the country have begun to starve to death.

Everyone comes from all over the empire, and they should all know that before the establishment of the empire, whether it was the Liao State in the north, the Jiaozhi State in the south, or the Qingtang and Western Xia in the west, when they encountered natural disasters and man-made disasters, they would come to the Song Kingdom to plunder, which was called the Grass Valley.

These aliens were accustomed to robbing the belongings of the people on the Chinese frontier to maintain their own supplies, but now they are different.

Now that our Chinese Empire is strong and strong, it is their luck not to attack Western Xia and Qingtang, so they dare not come to the empire to fight the grass valley again, and the two groups of people who have nowhere to grab can only attack each other. ”