Ye Tianlong smiled at the request of these two guys. These two were restless rebel leaders. How could he agree to let them continue to be military and political envoys in the future?
You must know that these two people are completely different from Song Jiang. Song Jiang is an official fan. Even though he knows that he will encounter a lot of difficulties after recruiting him, in the original plot, he still eagerly thinks of ways to recruit him.
But Wang Qing and Tian Hu are different. They are both truly reckless people, and it is difficult for the court law to control them.
After thinking for a while, Ye Tianlong decided to save those two people. However, after rescuing them, he arranged them to a casual position where they could not get involved in the military power, so as not to give them to him again later. Making trouble secretly.
The reason why Ye Tianlong decided to save these two people in the end was not because he really felt sorry for their lives, but because he did not want the people under their rule to be massacred by the Xixia people like them.
After spending about three days gathering 300,000 regular soldiers and 500,000 militiamen, Ye Tianlong led an army of 800,000 and set off again.
This time, Song Jiang also requested to be the vanguard of the army. This was mainly because Ye Tianlong saw that he was quite diligent in the last expedition to Fangla, so after returning to Tokyo City, he promoted his title to a count, and his military rank was reversed. The major general remained the same, but his official position was promoted from the previous magistrate of Shandong to the minister of the Ministry of Rites, and the position of commander of the Shandong troops and horses was still reserved for him. After all, with this position, Song Jiang could lead troops. If this position was removed rashly, Song Jiang might even suspect that Ye Tianlong wanted to relieve him of his military power and kill him!
When Ye Tianlong assembled an army and prepared to rush to rescue Wang Qing and Tian Hu, these two faced the Xixia army and had an increasingly difficult time resisting it. After all, these two people had started the uprising several years earlier in history. As a result, the preparations were hasty, and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers under his command was as low as that of Fang La's army. Most of them were militiamen without even a decent armor. It was okay to deal with the Xiang army of the Song Dynasty, but after changing the opponent directly to the regular army of the Xixia Kingdom , then he is no match at all.
Among them, especially the five thousand elite iron kite heavy cavalry of Xixia Kingdom, caused Wang Qing and Tian Hu to suffer a lot.
If they hadn't been beaten to the point of being helpless by the Xixia people, these two unruly guys would not have put down their dignity and asked Ye Tianlong for help.
The combined strength of the two men before was over a million, but after repeated attacks by the Xixia people, there are now only more than 300,000 soldiers left, and only two or three cities are left, the largest of which is Yan'an. In Yan'an Mansion, Wang Qing and Tian Hu led their most elite troops of hundreds of thousands, and struggled to resist the attack of the Xixia army in Yan'an Mansion.
The Xixia army that attacked them actually numbered only about 100,000. Even if you include the civilians, it only numbered more than 200,000. However, the regular army is more powerful than the militia, so even if it is 200,000 against one million, it is still Easily crushed results.
Fortunately, Ye Tianlong's reinforcements moved quickly, and it only took about five days to reach the city of Yan'an Prefecture. By the way, Song Jiang, who was the vanguard, also led an army of 50,000 to relieve several other besieged cities in advance and defeated several Xixia troops.
At this time, there were less than 50,000 defenders in Yan'an City, and even the city wall was captured by the Xixia people several times. It was only thanks to Wang Qing and Tian Hu who led their generals to personally attack that they drove away the Xixia people. Go down.
However, Wang Qing and Tian Hu are both human beings, and they can get hurt and get tired. If Ye Tianlong's reinforcements arrive a few days later, they may not be able to survive.
At this time, Wang Qing and Tian Hu couldn't help but shed tears of excitement when they saw the mighty Qinglong Empire army approaching outside the city.
At the same time, the Xixia people also discovered the arrival of the enemy army, and immediately sent a large number of cavalry troops to block the enemy army, giving other soldiers time to form their formations.
The cavalry sent by the Xixia people included 5,000 iron kite heavy cavalry, 10,000 light cavalry and 10,000 horse archers, which was quite a number.
However, Ye Tianlong also had a lot more cavalry under his command at this time. After all, he used the entire Kugit Khanate and a small half of the Kingdom of Swadia as pasture for grazing horses. Therefore, the number of heavy cavalry under his command has increased to 30,000, and the number of light cavalry is about 50,000. Those light cavalry are just war horses without iron armor, but only some light leather and cloth armor. The knights on the war horses are actually equipped with armor such as Mingguang Armor, and are also equipped with riding bows, which can carry out long-range attacks. If this were placed in other countries, it could be regarded as a heavily armored horse archer.
With a wave of Ye Tianlong's hand, the 30,000 heavy cavalry from the Qinglong Empire immediately attacked, followed by 50,000 light cavalry.
Since the horses of the light cavalry were not armored, they were faster than the heavy cavalry. Therefore, as they advanced, the light cavalry quickly overtook the heavy cavalry. Then, after estimating that the enemy cavalry was within range, they all charged towards the enemy. The army fired arrows.
After quickly firing three rounds of arrows, the light cavalry of the Qinglong Empire quickly divided into two teams, bypassing the left and right sides of the heavy cavalry, and quickly retreated, leaving the battlefield intact. Leave it to the heavy cavalry.
As soon as the heavy cavalry from the Qinglong Empire stepped forward, the Xixia horse archers from the opposite side also fired a hail of arrows.
Since the Xixia people's horse archers do not have the luxury of equipped with iron armor, their defense is very low. Just now, the Qinglong Empire's horse archers shot down more than 2,000 of them with three rounds of rapid fire. At this time, there were only more than 7,000 horse archers firing. Arrow.
And the arrows they desperately shot were unable to cause any effective damage to the heavily armored cavalry of the Qinglong Empire. The 30,000 heavy cavalry faced the rain of arrows. Instead of slowing down, they were slowly accelerating. .
Seeing this scene, the Xixia horse archers were so frightened that they hurriedly gave up the frontal battlefield and let their own iron kite heavy cavalry and the 10,000 light cavalry equipped with spears and light lances attack.
Because they had fought consecutive battles against the Song Army, Wang Qing, Tian Hu and others, the morale of the Xixia soldiers was still very high, so even if they saw that the number of enemy troops far exceeded their own, the Xixia people's five thousand iron kites The heavy cavalry and 10,000 light cavalry still mustered up the courage to rush forward.
As the distance between the cavalry on both sides quickly narrowed, the soldiers also leveled their lances, spears, spears and other weapons in front of them, preparing to launch a lance charge.
"Kill!"
Lin Chong, Lu Junyi, Guan Sheng and other generals took the lead and rushed to the front. They shouted loudly and each waved their weapons to activate a stream of spear and sword gleams, attacking the hundreds of iron kites on the Xixia side who were rushing to the front. The cavalry was smashed to pieces in an instant, including men and horses.
The vigor of the Xixia army was greatly frustrated by this, and the speed of the charge was unknowingly slowed down.
However, no matter how slow it was, the cavalry's collision speed was still very fast. In less than three seconds, the heavy cavalry at the front of both sides collided fiercely. Due to the number of heavy cavalry on the Qinglong Empire's side, There were more and the quality was higher, so they overwhelmed the Xixia people's iron kite cavalry in one fell swoop, while the Qinglong Empire's heavy cavalry only suffered more than a hundred casualties.
After the Iron Kites cavalry were overwhelmed, the remaining 10,000 light cavalry of the Xixia people were unable to make any splash. They were quickly overtaken by those from the Qinglong Empire equipped with heavy knight plate armor, holding up heavy heavy cavalry more than three meters long. The heavy cavalrymen who were attacked by the cavalry were instantly submerged and could not even lift up a single wave.
On the city wall not far away, Wang Qing and Tian Hu saw that the heavy cavalry of the Qinglong Empire was so powerful. In just one confrontation, they defeated the Xixia Iron Harrier heavy cavalry that had caused them enough suffering before. They couldn't help but be overjoyed, thinking that this time they He was really saved!
But then the two of them worried whether the request they made before was too high. After all, they now only have less than 50,000 troops in their hands, and the Qinglong Empire's soldiers are so powerful. They asked the Qinglong Empire The emperor appointed the two of them as military envoys. Isn't this a bit greedy?
Just when Wang Qing and Tian Hu were worried about their future, the light cavalry of the Qinglong Empire saw that the heavy cavalry had overwhelmed the enemy cavalry, so they quickly rushed forward and began to harvest quickly with their riding bows and sabers. The Xixia cavalry had been routed and completely lost their formation.
In the end, most of the 10,000 horse archers who were able to successfully escape back to the Xixia army's main formation were those who did not actually engage in battle with the enemy and most of them successfully withdrew. The heavy cavalry and light cavalry suffered extremely heavy losses. Among them, the Iron Kites cavalry withdrew less than 200 riders, and the light cavalry withdrew less than 1,000 riders.
In the main formation of the Xixia army, Emperor Li Qianshun of Xixia was so heartbroken that he almost vomited blood when he saw the heavy losses of his attacking cavalry. Those light cavalry are okay, and those iron kite heavy cavalry are fine, but Xixia people have managed to save them through frugality over the years! As a result, such a powerful 5,000 heavy cavalry unit was completely destroyed in front of his eyes in an instant, which was as terrifying as a nightmare for Li Qianshun.
But soon, Li Ganshun could no longer care about his heartache, because the enemy cavalry was still rapidly approaching his own formation, and seemed to want to rush his infantry formation in one fell swoop.
So in order to stabilize the morale of the army, Li Qianshun immediately sent his 2,000 heavy-armored infantry to the front line to set up gun formations. In addition, more than 10,000 medium-armored infantry were also sent to assist and defend. The two wings of the heavy infantry.
When the cavalry from the Qinglong Empire saw the enemy's layer upon layer of strict spear formations, they did not launch an attack rashly. Instead, they quickly withdrew their formation after circling the Xixia army.
At this time, the infantry and crossbowmen of the Qinglong Empire quickly formed a square formation under the command of Ye Tianlong, with the heavy infantry in the front, the crossbowmen in the middle, and the ordinary infantry on the wings and rear responsible for protecting the bows in the middle. Crossbowmen. Then this large square formation began to slowly approach the enemy's formation under Ye Tianlong's order.
As the armies of both sides continued to approach, the soldiers on the Xixia side were very nervous. After all, the five thousand Iron Kites heavy cavalry, the most elite in the army, were easily defeated by the enemy. They really had no confidence to withstand the enemy's attack. !
If it weren't for the fact that Xixia Emperor Li Qianshun put his most elite two thousand heavy-armed infantry at the front, these Xixia soldiers might have simply escaped as the enemy formation approached.
"Fire the arrow!"
Following Ye Tianlong's order, the elite archers from the Qinglong Empire began to fire arrows at the Xixia army on the opposite side.
You must know that the archers of the Qinglong Empire have always been very demanding, and their strong bow skills must be upgraded to level seven or above. And these elite archers are very powerful. With the powerful walking bows in their hands, in the case of projection, The range can generally exceed three hundred meters.
Also because the requirements to become an archer are too high, so far, Ye Tianlong only has more than 6,000 archers under his command.
At this time, after the more than 6,000 elite archers entered within 300 meters, they began to throw arrows under Ye Tianlong's order. After these arrows drew an arc in the air, they were like dense raindrops. It fell towards the Xixia army.
When the Xixia soldiers saw this, those with shields hurriedly raised their shields to defend themselves. Those without shields could only quickly run behind the surrounding teammates with shields to avoid the arrows.
Unfortunately, the Xixia soldiers did not expect that the enemy would fire arrows from such a long distance, so many soldiers did not have time to react. After a round of arrows, they were killed and more than a thousand people were injured.
"Damn it! Why do the archers on the opposite side have such a long range!"
After Li Qianshun pulled out an arrow stuck in the gap of his shoulder armor, he cursed angrily to vent his fear.
Yes, although he is the Emperor of Xixia, he is still essentially a person! Facing this enemy's attack, which is far superior to our own in both quantity and quality, the tension and fear in our hearts are naturally inevitable.
At this time, the second round of arrows also began to fall. Seeing this, the soldiers beside Li Qianshun hurriedly held up several shields forcibly borrowed from other soldiers to block his Majesty the Emperor.
After a burst of intensive arrow strikes, the shields were suddenly filled with arrows. Some of the arrows even penetrated the shields. The arrows emerged from the back of the shields and injured the palms of several soldiers.
"Your Majesty! The enemy force is strong, why don't we retreat first?"
"Yes! Your Majesty, the Han people have a good saying, if you keep the green hills, you won't have to worry about running out of firewood! We will protect you and retreat first, and let the other soldiers stay to resist the enemy!"
The soldiers were also fully aware of the strength of the enemy army at this time, so they all spoke to Li Qianshun one after another, hoping to let him sneak away before the armies of both sides formally engaged in battle.
Facing the repeated persuasion of his personal guards, Li Qianshun was also engaged in a fierce ideological struggle in his mind, but in the end, his greed for life gained the upper hand.
So after taking a deep breath, Li Qianshun ordered: "Okay! You guys will protect me and retreat! You, put on my golden armor for me, and stay here to replace me in the central army!"
The face of the soldier who was ordered to stay by Li Qianshun suddenly fell. This soldier was the one who had previously said that he would protect Li Qianshun and withdraw first, leaving other soldiers to stay as a shield.
Obviously, Li Qianshun didn't like this guy, so he asked him to stay and put on his golden armor as the emperor's substitute to stay here to stabilize the morale of the army and prevent the army from being directly attacked by the enemy before he could run far away. Defeated.
Although the soldier who was pointed out by Li Qianshun was very reluctant to become the scapegoat of his emperor, under the unkind eyes of his companions and the emperor around him, he could only put on the emperor's brush with a grimace. With a layer of gold paint, it looks like a mighty golden light armor.
