After returning his gold lacquer Mingguang armor to the soldier, Li Qianshun put on a leather armor worn by ordinary soldiers, and then quietly escaped under the protection of several personal guards.
The reason why he didn't escape with more people was because he was afraid that too many people would attract the attention of other soldiers. If other soldiers recognized his identity during the escape, it would be all over.
Just when Li Qianshun slipped out of his own formation, the cavalry troops of the Qinglong Empire launched another attack. This time, whether it was light cavalry or heavy cavalry, they used bows and arrows for long-range attacks. Because their purpose this time is actually to cover their own infantry attack.
As the distance got closer, the ordinary archers equipped with bows and crossbowmen equipped with winch heavy crossbows from the Qinglong Empire also started shooting.
Speaking of which, the Qinglong Empire's long-range weapon equipment rate is really high, reaching more than 80%. After all, even ordinary infantry who have not practiced bows and arrows can get good results after being equipped with a winch heavy crossbow. It has long-range attack capabilities, so many soldiers will equip themselves with such a heavy crossbow.
The crossbowmen in the Xixia army on the opposite side also began to fight back. As the rain of arrows fell, there were also some minor casualties on the side of the Qinglong Empire.
However, in comparison, the Xixia army suffered greater casualties. After all, most of the Xixia soldiers were only equipped with leather armor. Although the leather armor was quite thick, there was no problem in resisting ordinary arrows, but facing the Qinglong Empire The leather armors were not enough for the crossbow bolts fired by the elite archers and winch heavy crossbows on one side. A large number of Xixia crossbowmen fell in the shooting, and the casualties on both sides reached an astonishing one thousand. Comparatively, the Qinglong Empire only suffered a few dozen casualties, while the Xixia soldiers already suffered 20,000 to 30,000 casualties.
Taking advantage of the fact that their own cavalry and crossbowmen were providing cover with full firepower, the 50,000 elite infantrymen of the Qinglong Empire, led by infantry combat masters such as Wu Song and Lu Zhishen, quickly rushed to the front of the enemy's formation.
The Xixia elite heavy infantry who were guarding the front of the formation saw the enemy infantry rushing towards them, and each of them quickly raised their spears and prepared for battle.
As a result, the next second, they were hit by a large wave of javelins and throwing axes. At such a close distance, the lethality of javelins and throwing axes was much more powerful than arrows. It was just a wave of blows. As a result, nearly half of the more than 2,000 Xixia elite heavy infantry suffered casualties, and the originally strict gun formation became scattered, with gaps almost everywhere.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Qinglong Empire infantry armed with battle axes, two-handed swords, maces and other weapons violently collided with the stunned Xixia soldiers.
Almost in one encounter, the remaining more than a thousand Xixia heavy infantry were completely defeated. The more than 10,000 Xixia heavy infantry who were originally on the two wings had to rush forward when they saw this, in order to avoid the enemy. The infantry rushed to the front of their own crossbowmen.
These Xixia infantrymen were equipped with iron armor, but these iron armors looked very old, and most of them could only protect the vital parts of the chest and abdomen. After all, Xixia is still a small country, and it is simply unable to equip its soldiers with as many armors as the wealthy Song State. For example, the armors worn by these infantrymen were slowly saved over generations. They are considered one of the largest armies of Xixia. The elite troops in the army.
At this time, these infantrymen also showed their strong fighting qualities. Although their strength and equipment were far inferior to the enemy's, these infantrymen still fought desperately one by one, temporarily blocking the forward momentum of the infantry of the Qinglong Empire. .
In the rear, Li Jia, who was the stand-in for the Xixia Emperor Li Qianshun, saw this and quickly sent another 20,000 light infantry to support his own infantry.
However, just after the 20,000 infantrymen were transferred to the front line for support, the 30,000 heavy cavalry on the side of the Qinglong Empire saw the opportunity and decisively charged towards the two wings of the Xixia army under Ye Tianlong's order.
At this time, as the more than 10,000 infantrymen and 20,000 light infantry were deployed one after another, the strength of the Xixia army on both wings became extremely weak, with only seven or eight thousand light infantry left.
Although these seven or eight thousand light infantrymen also set up gun arrays with long spears, their defensive power was definitely not as strong as the elite infantrymen of Bubazi.
Sure enough, as the 30,000 heavy cavalry of the Qinglong Empire rushed up like a strong wind, the seven or eight thousand Xixia light infantry were defeated almost instantly. The 30,000 heavy cavalry of the Qinglong Empire crushed those light infantry. After intercepting them, they quickly attacked the Xixia crossbowmen.
When Li Jia saw this scene, he immediately wanted to run away, because he was not far from the crossbowmen, and the golden lacquered light armor he wore made him stand out like a firefly among the army. Once the cavalry defeated the crossbowmen, the next step was probably to kill him.
So for the sake of his own life, Li Jia immediately wanted to escape to the rear of the formation, but as soon as he turned around, he was blocked by several close followers left by Li Qianshun.
After all, once the 'Emperor' escapes, the morale of the army will immediately collapse. They will not allow this to happen. After all, it is only such a short time, and His Majesty probably has not escaped yet!
After Li Jia was stopped, he also knew that he could not escape for the time being, so he could only continue to use his current status as 'Emperor' to come down, and mobilized the last 20,000 light infantry from the rear to attack. As for the remaining The more than 20,000 soldiers, all of whom are crossbowmen, are still being ravaged by the enemy's heavy cavalry and must be withdrawn as soon as possible.
It’s a pity that those with two legs can outrun those with four legs! Although the Xixia crossbowmen received the order to retreat, they were overtaken by the enemy cavalry not long after they escaped, and many of these cavalry were light cavalry from the Qinglong Empire who followed up to kill them. , these light cavalry may not be as strong as heavy cavalry in charging into battle, but in terms of speed and ability to chase down defeated troops, they are much better than heavy cavalry.
As the sabers in the hands of these light cavalry continued to swing and chop, each Xixia crossbowman screamed in despair and fell under their blades. Some of the worse ones were knocked down by the cavalry's horses. Trampled to death.
And the more than 20,000 infantrymen who came up for reinforcements were also thrown into chaos by the broken soldiers with crossbowmen. Many soldiers were even dragged back by the broken soldiers, making it impossible to set up gun formations in time to stop the enemy. cavalry.
At this time, the heavy cavalry also completely handed over the task of chasing down the enemy's crossbowmen to the light cavalry. Under Ye Tianlong's order, they turned around and killed the Xixia infantry who were still struggling to resist the attack of their own infantry on the front line. go.
The light infantry had suffered heavy losses in the previous battle with the infantry of the Qinglong Empire. At this time, they were charged by the enemy's heavy cavalry and were completely defeated. On the contrary, the Bubazi infantry, which had only more than 5,000 people left and suffered heavy losses, actually resisted tenaciously for more than five minutes before being completely annihilated under the front and rear attacks of enemy infantry and heavy cavalry.
"Alas! Our army is gone! I think we should withdraw as soon as possible!" Li Jia saw that his most elite infantrymen were also surrounded by enemy troops and completely annihilated. He couldn't help but sigh and said to several of the emperor's cronies beside him. said.
The few confidants left by Li Qianshun saw the enemy's light cavalry driving their defeated troops almost to the imperial chariot, and they also understood that Li Jia was right. The situation of our army was really over and we had to withdraw!
As a result, dozens of the emperor's personal guards soon began to guard the fake Xixia Emperor and retreat towards the rear. The royal flag that had been standing on the ground was knocked down due to the panicked escape of these personal guards.
With the fall of the royal flag and the escape of the 'Emperor', the morale of the Xixia soldiers also completely collapsed. No soldier thought about resisting the enemy's attack anymore, and they all began to flee in panic.
Upon seeing this, Ye Tianlong decisively ordered the entire army to start chasing the Xixia defeated troops, hoping to kill as many enemies as possible, so that those Xixia talents would be hurt, and they should not start the war again for a while.
While the Qinglong Empire's army was chasing the defeated Xixia army, Li Jia, wearing a set of glittering Mingguang armor, was like a human-shaped light bulb, attracting the pursuit of a large number of Qinglong Empire soldiers.
Among them, Li Kui was also in the ranks of chasing the "Emperor of Xixia". Because he was not good at riding, he rode on the body of Dai Zong, the magical Taibao.
I saw that after Dai Zong performed the divine walking method, his legs seemed to be equipped with an engine with endless power, making Dai Zong's legs run as fast as the wind. Most of the cavalry were not as fast as him.
It was precisely because of Dai Zong's super high running speed that Li Kui was finally able to overtake the cavalry and began to gradually approach the Xixia emperor.
"Li Qianshun, don't run away, stop for me! Let grandpa chop off your dog's head with an ax and go back to collect the reward!" Li Kui saw the Xixia emperor getting closer and closer to him, and couldn't help shouting excitedly.
When Li Jia heard the roar coming from behind him, he turned around and saw a big black man like Li Kui chasing him with a murderous look on his face. He was so frightened that his face turned pale.
Then he quickly realized that the golden armor he was wearing was a bait to attract the enemy's pursuers. After all, those Han people probably didn't know what their emperor looked like. When they saw him wearing this golden armor, they He thought that his Xixia Emperor Li Qianshun was dead.
So then Li Jia began to quickly take off the armor parts and throw them away. He really vividly demonstrated in front of Li Kui what it means to discard armor and armor.
As the golden armor was taken off, Li Jia's escape speed accelerated a lot. After all, the horse he was riding now originally belonged to Emperor Li Qianshun. It was a BMW and its speed was much faster than ordinary war horses.
At this time, as the white-haired BMW ran at full speed, even Dai Zong gradually began to be unable to catch up, and the distance between the two sides began to gradually widen.
When Li Kui saw this scene, he immediately became anxious. He slapped Dai Zong under him with the ax in his hand, and urged with dissatisfaction: "Hurry! Hurry up! Aren't you a divine guardian? Why don't you even have a horse? I can run faster than you!"
"It's already the fastest! You black guy is so heavy, it's no wonder you can run fast if I carry you on my back!" Faced with Li Kui's urging, Dai Zong replied with a dark face.
When Li Kui heard this, he realized that he was actually wearing a set of heavy steel plate armor now! So can this not sink?
In fact, when Li Kui followed Song Jiang as a bandit on Liangshan Mountain, he didn't like wearing armor. He felt that wearing bulky armor would hinder him from killing people, so he would often attack the enemy naked and carrying only two axes. military.
He went into battle lightly and was naturally very fast, so he was nicknamed the Black Whirlwind.
At this time, after Li Kui realized that the heavy steel plate armor on his body was affecting Dai Zong's pursuit speed, the guy immediately raised his big hand, and with that terrible brute force, he actually tore off the steel plate armor on his body piece by piece. down.
And as Li Kui tore off the steel plate armor on his body, Dai Zong's pursuit speed became much faster, and he began to gradually close the distance with the Xixia emperor again.
Li Jia turned around and saw this scene, but he couldn't help but feel happy. He immediately ordered the few soldiers who were still following him to shoot arrows at the big black man. Even he himself raised his bow and rode on the horse. Turn around and shoot an arrow behind you.
Without the protection of his armor, Li Kui saw several arrows suddenly shot towards him, and he hurriedly waved his axe, trying to knock all the arrows away.
If it were another general from Liangshan, it would be easy to block the seven or eight arrows. However, among the many leaders in Liangshan, Li Kui was considered to be weak in martial arts. He danced wildly with two axes. After that, an arrow failed to stop him and hit his left shoulder.
Fortunately, Li Kui was very skilled in iron bones. His skin was as tough as cowhide, and the muscles underneath were as hard as stone. The arrow only pierced less than one centimeter of the outer skin.
However, the stinging pain on his left shoulder was like giving Li Kui, the killer, a shot of violent potion. His eyes suddenly turned red, and then he roared, and his muscles tightened. The arrow was actually He was instantly thrown away.
Then Li Kui put his hands on Dai Zong's shoulders, and the whole person flew out from Dai Zong's back. Then his legs jumped vigorously on the ground, like a chimpanzee, jumping quickly towards Li Jia and the others.
Two of Li Qianshun's soldiers who were running farther back were first caught up by Li Kui, and then he saw Li Kui's two axes forcefully point to both sides, cutting the two soldiers and their horses into two pieces with one move.
When the other soldiers and Li Jia saw this, they were so frightened that they waved their whips and hit the horses, squeezing the horses' physical strength and speeding up the horses again.
Seeing that this credit was about to slip away from him, Li Kui was so anxious that he quickly chased after him, but he found that his running speed could not match those war horses.
So while running, Li Kui suddenly raised the ax on his right hand, and with the speed boost of his fast running and sprinting, he threw the huge ax with great force with a roar.
With the help of Li Kui's terrifying brute force, this huge ax whirled and quickly flew behind Li Jia. Li Jia turned his head and saw this scene, but he had no choice but to look at it. He rotated the ax and cut off all four hooves of his war horse, and then he fell to the ground in a mess along with the BMW, making him dizzy.
Without waiting for him to get up from the ground, along with several huge and heavy footsteps, a huge black shadow fell in front of him with a bang, and a huge ax also slashed hard towards his neck. down.
