Chapter 540: Spring Thunder
At this time, the battlefield looked chaotic, and indeed it was chaotic, but there was order in the chaos.
That's the battle flag.
In a super battle like this, it is very important to identify friend and foe, and some people say that if you wear a towel or screen it from armor, it will work in small and medium-sized battles, but it will not be very useful in such a large battlefield.
Don't talk about the Western Xia, even the armor of the Song Dynasty is also very messy, iron armor, leather armor, paper armor, cloth armor, everyone has it, and even some people wear captured enemy armor. Moreover, the sources of the two armies were also very confusing, and the armies of the Western Xia came from the various tribes of the Fan and Han throughout the Western Xia. The army of the Song Dynasty was the same, with the Fan soldiers, the Fan militia, the Han border archers, the Baojie army, and the horse infantry forbidden army from all over the country, so it was not very easy to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy in terms of accent, appearance, armor, and even weapons.
At this time, the formation and battle flags are particularly important, so in ancient battlefields, there are various flags, but in fact, there are not all kinds of flags, but each army has its own battle flag, and even in order to distinguish it, the surname of the main general is also standard.
It is for this situation that the subordinates of the respective armies always rely on each other to disturb each other and then attack the enemy.
Therefore, once the formation is disrupted, no matter how much advantage the forces have, the three armies will be quickly defeated.
Maybe Liang Yi can't see it, but Wang Ju can see it, and Wang Ju also sees a lot of problems, such as most of the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty have no actual combat experience, so they are very clumsy on the battlefield, and there are many crossbowmen, but now it is not the two armies shooting at each other, but a direct melee of various weapons, although Wang Ju prepared a large number of knives in advance, because many crossbowmen had not practiced using knives before. The knife was in their hands. It felt awkward. This also somewhat negates the positive effect of morale. Therefore, when the Song army in Dashun City did not rush over, the Xixia people gradually became orderly from flies that were spinning around, and moved closer to their respective battle flags, so at that moment, Wang Ju was very worried.
However, as the Song army of Dashun City rushed over, the battlefield reversed again.
In front is the main army of Liang Yiburi, that is, the Xia army who stayed under the Rouyuan Walled City and had not yet had time to retreat. They were at the front, and the fiercest battle was this part of the Xia army.
Behind is the Xia army that originally withdrew from Rouyuan Village, but let Liang Yi bury and transfer back. And at the beginning of the battle, there were many Xia troops in the rear who continued to pour in from the rear, and the arrival of these Xia troops once played a role in stabilizing the morale of the army.
However, as the war continued, the Xia troops coming from behind gradually decreased, and there should be many Xia troops rushing back in the rear, but they were far away, and the order was delayed. This results in a time error that comes and goes. Therefore, the number of Xia troops coming in gradually decreased.
In fact, Wang Ju did not know, at first Liang Yi thought that the Song army only had 20,000 soldiers and horses to attack Liang Yongneng's department. So the order was given to withdraw the troops ten miles ahead. Until Liang Yongneng escaped back. The report was more than 30,000 or 40,000 Song troops, plus the Song army in Dashun City was also killed, so Liang Yizhu ordered the three armies in front to withdraw together, and even let part of the Xia army in Anjiang Fort also withdraw to support. However, this creates a larger time error.
There were many Xia troops behind, but they were all halfway. Although it is not so far apart, it is just separated by countless mountains, and Wang Ju can't see it.
Now this Xia army has also fallen into a melee, and Yao Xiong and his subordinates have rushed here. Because of the road, the officers and soldiers of Dashun City directly rushed into this Xia army. In this way, Liang Yi became a bloody battlefield after he was buried.
And what was terrible was that Yao Xiong saw Wang Juqi, so he took several battalions of cavalry under his command and rushed to the rear of the Xia army.
After the Xia army, it was convenient to be a deserter of Liang Yongneng.
His men were completely scattered, not to mention the flag, and even the horn was lost.
At first, they fled to the rear from the three passages that Liang Yi had curied, and then the Song army came to kill, and the passages were gone. Therefore, Liang Yibu kept drinking orders, so that these defeated soldiers could find a way to escape to the rear and assemble and reorganize.
If it weren't for the Song army in Dashun City, maybe Liang Yong would have succeeded in assembling it. At that time, there was a 60% chance that Western Xia might turn defeat into victory.
Liang Yongneng is assembling and reorganizing his subordinates.
Then I saw Yao Xiong rushing towards the rear army with his men, and then Liu Shaoneng and Lin Guangyi also received Wang Ju's order to kill the rear.
The rear, which was assembling for a moment, panicked, and then a deadly killing came.
That is, Li Sangou's army was dispatched, and after so many days of tragic battles, how many compatriots died at the hands of the Western Xia people. As for how many Tangut people were killed by them, it didn't matter, so they were all indignant, clamoring, and rushed over.
Although the terrible Song army does not have many troops, most of them are fierce people, and after so many days of bloody battles, all of them have rich experience in actual combat, and no one will be afraid to fight.
Yao Liu Lin's three Song armies were like three sharp knives, tearing open three openings alive and rushing towards these assembled Xia troops, and Li Sangou's Song army directly killed them in the rear, and this blow became a fatal blow.
Originally, these Xia soldiers were killed in horror, and they saw four sharp knives from all directions, even torn from behind, under the strangulation of these four huge sharp knives, one after another comrades fell in a pool of blood, all of them were frightened. What's even worse is that there is a large open area behind, and behind this open area is Anjiang Fort, which was reoccupied by Western Xia.
Therefore, these Xia soldiers spontaneously made a choice and fled to Anjiang Fort one by one.
"The enemy was defeated, and the enemy fled." Yao Xiong immediately shouted.
At this point, Yao Xiong has already shown the demeanor of a famous general, and at this time, a roar can be said to be worth 20,000 male soldiers.
And Yao Xiong did not wait for Wang Juqi's order, so he took his men to turn the horse's head and kill again. Lin Guang, Liu Shaoneng and Li Sangou were not bad, they immediately understood, rushed to the Western Xia Central Army from the left and right, and gave up the middle ground. Escape, let you escape.
At this time, the enemy's Chinese army was gradually weakened under the impact of the Song army in Dashun City, and some Xia soldiers saw the large-scale escape from the rear, and then heard the shouts of the Song army, so let's flee.
Liang Yishu also saw this very bad momentum, and he immediately ordered: "Order the three armies in the rear, and that army will flee." and behead the general. ”
The order quickly passed to the back.
But it didn't work. Liang Yongneng's subordinates in the rear saw that the Chinese army was also fleeing. Escaping faster, Li Sangou, Yao Xiong, Lin Guang and Liu Shaoneng deliberately killed both sides again, leaving a big gap in the middle, and after several cooperations, Dou Shunqing and Gao Yongneng spontaneously brought their respective soldiers to both sides, and then squeezed them to the middle.
Under the incessant strangulation of the Song army, more and more Western Xia Chinese troops also began to flee on a large scale.
Wang Ju watched from the hillside until this time. His hanging heart was all settled.
The Tanguts have been defeated!
So he stroked his chest and immediately gave an order, allowing Lin Guang, Yao Xiong, and Li Sangou to each lead his subordinates to continue to kill the front army of Western Xia, and then join Liu Changzuo's army.
When the enemy was completely defeated, Liu Changzuo, Lin Guang, Yao Xiong, Qu Zhen, Yao Ji, Li Sangou, Gu Yongping, and Yang Pei all stayed behind to rest, and by the way, they cooperated with the officers and soldiers of the seventh battalion in the rear to capture prisoners of war, and all prisoners of war and horses were sent to Rouyuan Village and Liyuan Fort to be imprisoned. Then the pot was boiled and cooked, and after eating, Liu Changzuo was the main general, leading the three armies to prepare to set off to Xiguqi, but these armies must rush to Xiguqi tonight.
The rest of the soldiers and horses. Including Wang Junwan, Yang Wenguang, Dou Shunqing, Gao Yongneng, Gui Mei Langburi, Liu Shaoneng, and Zhao Yuqing continued to pursue.
This is Wang Ju's intention to train Liu Changzuo.
In fact, in this conference battle, the famous generals are like clouds. But in Wang Ju's heart, Liu Changzuo is the one he wants to train the most, followed by Miao Zhu, because these two people are not only famous generals, but they actually have a handsome demeanor.
However, because of Yao Ji's kindness, a series of changes occurred halfway, and Wang Ju had to transfer Liu Changzuo to Fengchuan first. Then the plan changed again and again, and finally Wang Ju successfully met Wang Junwan and Liu Changzuo. However, despite this, because of the last transfer, Wang Junwan was in the limelight, and Liu Changzuo almost disappeared. Including the first battle just now, because of the location of the various armies, Liu Changzuo had to be the queen.
Liu Changzuo himself has no complaints, his character is too good, so he was cheated by Gao Zunyu in history. In other words, Wang Junwan, he could listen to Gao Zunyu's mobilization, and instead of immediately attacking Lingzhou City, he led the three armies to watch Lingzhou's defense increase, but his three armies waited for Gao Zunyu to come outside Lingzhou City?
So this time, Wang Ju deliberately gave Liu Changzuo a chance to get out of his pocket.
He also deliberately transferred Yang Wenguang's subordinates to the pursuit army, and the reason was simple, among these generals, Dou Shunqing had the highest position, followed by Yang Wenguang, he was the governor of Dunzhou! The second is Zhou Yongqing and Chonggu in the west, as well as Gao Yongneng who came to support from Yanzhou, and Yanda who is lurking on the way.
The others are about the same, or Yao Ji is more famous than Liu Changzuo, but who made Yao Ji make a mistake this time.
The order was passed to the generals under the banner, but the battle continued.
After receiving the military order, Lin Guang, Li Sangou and Yao Xiong led the three armies to kill back, but because Dou Gao and the others led the army to squeeze on both sides, they had to lead their subordinates to forcibly kill from the middle to open a bloody road.
Unexpectedly, this forced return to kill became a mistake, the morale of the Chinese army was weakened, and the three Song armies unreasonably entered the middle lane, which immediately made the Xia army in the middle lose all sense of security.
In just a moment's effort, the entire middle Xia army bombed the camp, especially those cavalry, one by one took the lead in fleeing westward, and the rest of the foot soldiers also rushed westward without their lives.
Defeated!
Fiasco!
Liang Yibury was so painful that he almost wanted to kill himself with his sword.
It was useless, doomed to a crushing defeat, he could only give the order, and the three armies retreated.
Organizing a retreat from at least now is a little more effective than the entire three armies being routed and fleeing.
His idea was not wrong, but now there are so many wolf-like Song troops on the battlefield, including many brave generals, where can he easily succeed. Wang Junwan and Liu Changzuo will continue to lead their subordinates to strangle and divide the Xia army without stopping.
Seeing that the Chinese army was almost empty, and finally the Western Xia front army, which had the largest number of troops, also lost the last courage, although Liang Yibury ordered to retreat, but it actually evolved into a collapse and escape.
Wang Ju immediately ordered the pursuit, and at the same time asked the three armies to surrender without killing.
That's when it's time to force down.
Liang Yongneng may be a little lucky this time, he escaped to the front. The Chinese may have been lucky, and they escaped relatively quickly. But the former army has now become the rear army, and they are nominally on the run, but in fact they have been fighting with the Song army.
Countless Xia soldiers saw that they were left behind, and their companions were constantly killed by the Song army, so they had to raise their hands and hold their heads in surrender, and even many cavalry had to dismount and surrender because they could not escape from the crowded crowd. Especially the iron harriers, who were heavily loaded, played a great role in the beginning. But because it was at the front, and now it was the rear, the horses were heavily equipped and could not escape, so they had to dismount and surrender, or they were killed. Just in front of Rouyuan Village, the iron harrier brought by Liang Yi was broken by seventy!
The village of Rouyuan Village became the biggest highlight of the Battle of Gyeongju.
In this battle, the two sides invested an astonishing number of troops, Liang Yiburi almost invested more than 120,000 troops, and Wang Ju invested nearly 80,000 troops. If the Xia army of White Leopard City and the Song army of Yao Lin Yanda are not counted, the troops invested by both sides also exceed 170,000.
Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, in foreign wars, although the number of troops is less than the sum of the total strength of the two battles of Gaoliang River and Qigou Pass, the strength of the entire campaign can be almost equal, and it is completely reversed. But now the Song Dynasty has a lot fewer troops, and the Western Xia forces occupy an absolute advantage. The result was also reversed, it was a crushing defeat for the Song army, and now it has become a crushing defeat for the enemy.
Moreover, no matter what kind of conspiracy and conspiracy this battle is, it is a large-scale battle in the field with a bright and bright future, no night attack, no forts, and it is completely a frontal field collision between the two armies.
This battle also rewrote the history of the Song army's foreign warfare, since the defeat of the Battle of Qigou Pass, the Song army rarely invested a large army on a single frontal battlefield, and the troops invested by Dingchuan Yan were already at the peak, but the more troops invested that time, the more heavy the defeat.
Strictly speaking, this time the number of troops invested was more than that of Dingchuan, and it was on a real single battlefield.
This is not like the Western Xia, Li Yuanhao led more than 100,000 troops to fight many times, and put these 100,000 troops on a separate battlefield to kill the Song army and the Liao State.
Therefore, the battle of Rouyuanzhai broke the records of foreign wars since the founding of the Song Dynasty. Moreover, it also allowed a large number of Song Dynasty soldiers to be tempered in actual combat, and also enhanced their morale and confidence. At the same time, a large number of generals have also been tempered in command, coordination, imagination, and cooperation. At the same time, it also changed the contempt of the people of the Song Dynasty for the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty.
It can even be said that as long as the commanders do not mess around like Gao Zunyu and Ge Huaimin in the future, and mobilize these original soldiers, they will be able to launch a decent battle, and the probability of victory will still reach more than seventy percent.
Moreover, the victory is so glorious, this is undoubtedly like a spring thunder, exploding in the sky above the Song Dynasty, bringing the breath of spring...... (To be continued......)