After Chen Qian led his troops to attack north, Su Haisheng reorganized the infantry in the rear.
He formed an infantry formation, and the remaining two thousand cavalry moved on the wings of the infantry formation. He also released the enemy cavalry and advanced cautiously, not daring to make any mistakes.
Facts have proved that Chen Qian is not a tragic figure who sets flags casually. He wins the battle.
Most of the day later, in the early morning of the next day, Chen Qian's troops came to report the news.
Not only did he defeat Tie Yaozi, he also defeated the remaining 10,000 Xixia troops who followed Tie Yaozi, captured more than 10,000 people, and seized a large amount of military supplies. He even took all of Tie Yaozi's equipment. Seized.
Xixia gathered the strength of the whole country and used cold forging technology to forge three thousand pairs of human armor and horse armor, which were captured by him, becoming the most precious seizure in this battle.
Su Haisheng was overjoyed when he heard the news and immediately led a small number of cavalry to the battlefield to find Chen Qian.
When he arrived at the battlefield, Chen Qian was directing the troops to clean the battlefield and take care of the prisoners. When he saw Su Haisheng coming, he took off his helmet and greeted him with a smile.
"Commander-in-Chief, you will finally live up to your mission!"
"Good boy, great job! Take me to see those armors."
Su Haisheng didn't have time to see the iron armor passed down from generation to generation by the Iron Kites soldier family.
Chen Qian took him to see the captured armors. After seeing the armors, Su Haisheng knelt down and kept touching them, marveling at them.
"Good boy, tell me carefully, how did you fight this battle?"
"Haha, it's actually not that difficult. It's just a matter of taking the initiative to attack before the other party launches an attack. Anyway, we have iron horseshoes and can run fast. I won't wait for him to attack me, so I'll attack him first."
Chen Qian did not hide his secrets and told Su Haisheng how he dealt with the Xixia army.
After he led his troops northward, he ran at high speed, took the lead in charging, and separated the Xixia infantry and cavalry.
The Xixia infantry was successfully divided by the Ming army's cavalry and was forced to form a defensive formation.
The Qingqi followed the Ming cavalry in circles, fighting with bows and crossbows.
The iron kites hurriedly put on their armor and mounted their horses with the help of their entourage, and attached chains to prepare for battle.
When Tie Yaozi was ready to launch a sprint, the Ming army moved their horses and did not confront them head-on. The Ming army's cavalry moved quickly and Tie Yaozi could not catch up. There was no way but Xixia Qingqi to advance again.
As soon as the Xixia Qingqi came up, the Ming army immediately launched an attack, waving their steel knives and came over to kill them. They fought in a group with the Xixia Qingqi, making Tie Yaozi stare blankly.
When fighting, the Iron Kites are divided into ten teams, with each team having 300 people. They are arranged in certain positions and interconnected with iron chains. When charging, they are always at the same distance.
In this way, the points form a surface and become fish scale formations with a huge strike coverage, which is a great threat to the infantry.
But for the flexible Ming cavalry, this method did not work.
The Ming army cavalry only fought with the Xixia light cavalry and had the upper hand, but the iron kites could not kill their own people together and could not charge forward, so they had no choice.
Later in the battle, the Xixia infantry was delayed by the Ming cavalry, and the light cavalry was about to be killed by the Ming cavalry. The Xixia general Li Zhiquan became so angry that he forced Tie Yaozi to attack.
Tie Yaozi had no choice but to bite the bullet and launch a group charge, trying to capture the Ming army cavalry, surround them and annihilate them.
But Chen Qian was not a fool. He had also participated in that bloody battle, and had witnessed with his own eyes how many casualties the Shengjie army had suffered in order to stop the heavy cavalry charge.
Facing the charge of heavy cavalry, especially this kind of iron monster covered in iron, just one word is, run.
The Ming army kept circling the battlefield, trying to widen the distance, leaving the iron kite's sprints one after another without a chance, exhausting the physical strength of the men and horses.
In the end, Tie Yaozi became obviously weak. Chen Qian seized this opportunity and led the Ming cavalry to charge.
They gave up hand crossbows, took out standard hand axes from their weapon bags, and began to throw and hit the heavy armor on the iron kite with the hand ax, focusing on the head.
Good guy, there was a clanging sound on the battlefield. Many iron kite heavy armored cavalry were seriously injured because they were hit in the head by hand axes, and many died on the spot.
This is how Iron Harrier met their end.
The Ming army suffered little losses in this battle. More than 500 people were killed and more than 800 people were slightly or seriously injured.
The Xixia army of 20,000 people was completely wiped out. About 2,000 people were killed by the Ming army, and about 15,000 people were captured. The number of people who escaped was limited, not many.
However, compared to the more than 2,000 people who escaped, the annihilation of Tie Yaozi was the greatest achievement of the Ming army.
Not only was the entire set of equipment captured by the Ming army, but many Xixia heavy cavalry who were captured because their horses were exhausted and unable to move also became a very important victory for the Ming army.
Su Haisheng also didn't expect that Chen Qian was so capable that he could annihilate the Xixia army in one battle, and also wiped out the ace heavy cavalry Iron Harrier. He originally thought that a draw would be enough, so he would use the infantry formation to attack .
Obviously when they first promoted him, he was just a young boy. He was born in a Shandong farm family. Apart from always giggling, there was nothing special about him.
He has grown up!
Su Haisheng watched with pleasure as these young officers from poor backgrounds grew up one after another in the flames of war.
At noon on the eleventh day of the first month of the third year of Hongwu, the Ming army arrived at the capital of the Xixia Kingdom.
The Ming army conducted a military sweep outside the city for an afternoon, taking out all the temporary military facilities and traps set up outside the city, and then set up launchers for thunder cannons and boulders.
Preparations were made to attack Xingqing Mansion. The reason why no attack was launched was because Su Haisheng tried to persuade Ren Dejing to surrender and surrender Xingqing Mansion, which might also avoid military disaster.
At this moment, Ren Dejing's mind went blank when he learned that Tie Yaozi's entire army had been wiped out. He was slumped in his seat and could not even stand up.
At the moment, the entire capital was in chaos. The Ming army was attacking too fast. The news of the annihilation of the Tie Yaozi army and the news of the Ming army's arrival at the city were sent to them so quickly that many people who wanted to escape did not run away. It was besieged on all sides by the Ming army.
Therefore, in the entire capital, no one from Ren Dejing's party or those who were not from Ren Dejing's party ran away. After the capital was surrounded by the Ming army, a desolate feeling of doom swept the entire capital.
Many people came to see Ren Dejing, hoping to get instructions from him and ask him what to do, whether to persist in fighting and wait for reinforcements, or to surrender.
Ren Dejing didn't say anything, but beat Ren Chunxiao violently and killed him.
Then he sent people to find Xue Zhengshao, preparing to ask him for strategies, but he was not found. He seemed to have evaporated and disappeared into the imperial city.
Ren Dejing realized something, smiled bitterly, and lay on the table with his head in his hands, nothing but a bitter smile.
Smiling bitterly for himself and for the whole of Xixia.
Not to mention his own fate, this time, he was also bound to Xixia's fate.
He thought that Ming Guo would at least throw a weapon against rats, but he didn't expect that Ming Guo didn't care at all. He had no respect for martial ethics and would fight whenever he asked. He was not prepared at all.
Of course, the hasty preparations could not change anything, so he was completely defeated. He resisted for less than twenty days, and the war was almost over.
After this battle, can Xia Kingdom still exist?
Will Su Yonglin allow the young emperor of Xia to continue to be emperor and lead Xixia?
How would he arrange for the Xixia Kingdom to be completely temperless after being beaten by him?
Or will he directly take back this land that the Han regime has lost for hundreds of years?
Ren Dejing knew nothing and could not guarantee anything, but at this point, Ren Dejing still did not intend to surrender.
He is a cold-blooded political creature. As a cold-blooded political creature, the last thing he can do is sacrifice.
There is no word "sacrifice" in his dictionary. He will not sacrifice, and it is absolutely impossible to sacrifice. Only others sacrifice for him, and he does not sacrifice for others.
It is pure wishful thinking to expect him to surrender for the sake of the integrity of the entire imperial city and for the sake of saving lives.
If he is not in charge of Xixia, what is the need for its existence?
No matter how strong, harmonious, and peaceful Xixia is, if he is not in power, if he is not the ruler, what is the point?
If the Ming Dynasty wants me to die, then let everyone in the entire imperial city die with me.
