The collision of the heavy cavalry is just the beginning, and soon the whole battlefield has entered the white-hot stage, the number of combatants invested by the two sides exceeds one million, and the battlefield of the engagement is too large, so it is not conducive to unified command at all, from the perspective of a bystander, the entire battlefield can be divided into two battlefields, divided into the main battlefield and the peripheral battlefield, the main battlefield is the place where the main forces of the Serbian army and the Xia army are fighting, and the peripheral battlefield is mainly the battle between the left and right armies of the Xia army and the left and right armies of the Serbian army.
The left and right armies are very important troops, and the security of the two wings of the main army is all counting on the two armies on the left and right On the main battlefield, Li Liangzuo led 70,000 iron cavalry and Li Yanzong led the main force of the 200,000 Xia army, and the main force of the 400,000 Serbian army led by Ma Liksha, although Ma Liksha has an advantage in terms of strength, but the Xia army has a strategic advantage, and the two sides are inseparable.
Li Liangzuo led the 70,000 Xia army to break through the two defense lines of the rear army of the Serbian army in a row, but the third line of defense is not so easy to break through, the third line of defense of the Serbian army is the elite force of the Seljuk Empire led by Maliksha himself, the Oghuz cavalry, which is the most elite army of the Seljuk Empire, also known as the Oghuz Legion, which is a mixed corps of light cavalry and heavy cavalry, and the reason why the Seljuk Empire was able to sweep through Central Asia and West Asia is because of this Oghuz cavalry, The number of the legion was not very large, only more than fifty thousand.
As soon as the two armies met with Li Liangzuo, they realized that the big thing was not good, and the enemy opposite him should be difficult to deal with, Li Liangzuo ordered Xiao Zhuozi: "The opposite side should be the most elite army of the Seljuk Empire, it seems that Maliksha is preparing for a decisive battle with me."
"Your Majesty, even if it is a decisive battle, our Great Xia Iron Cavalry is not afraid of him."
Xiao Zhuozi said to Li Liangzuo.
Li Liangzuo shook his head and said: "It's not a matter of being afraid or not, send an order to the whole army, after the two armies start the battle for a while, you and I will each lead one to bypass the enemy's heavy defense line and attack the enemy from the flank, and the two armies will be interspersed with each other, penetrating the enemy's formation, dividing and encircling it." ” "Yes, the Admiral understands."
Xiao Zhuozi took the military order.
On the opposite side, Maliksha was also observing the Xia army that had just stopped attacking, although the number of the Xia army was larger than that of the Serbian army, but Maliksha did not take Li Liangzuo in his eyes at all, Maliksha issued a military order to the generals around him: "The order is to attack the enemy army with the heavy armored cavalry as the head, and dare to evacuate without my order, die." ” "Yes, follow Your Majesty's orders" The Serbian army gave priority to the attack, but Maliksha suddenly found that his heavy fist seemed to hit the cotton, and the Xia army did not fight hard with the Serbian army at all, but directly avoided the heavy troops of the Serbian army, and kept consuming the Serbian army from both wings with bows and arrows, but the Serbian army's formation changed quickly, and the Serbian army that changed the formation suddenly separated from the middle, and the front army that originally charged suddenly made a ninety-degree turn in an attempt to overtake the rear army of the Xia army, and surrounded the Xia army on both sides.
Just when Li Liangzuo's side was inseparable, Li Yi's side had a major turning point, Li Yi led an army of 50,000 to launch a fierce attack on the Serbian army in front of him, after the Xia army left the camp, Li Yi ordered his camp to be burned, Li Yi was also led by heavy cavalry, and the 100,000 Serbian army responsible for besieging Li Yi could not resist the attack of the Xia army's heavy cavalry, and after more than an hour of confrontation, the Xia army broke through the defense line of the Serbian army.
After Li Yi led the breakthrough of the Serbian army's defense line, he immediately attacked the defense line of the main force of the Serbian army from the flank, the situation can be said to be increasingly unfavorable to the Serbian army, although the Serbian army occupies a numerical advantage, but the Xia army is strategically superior, this battle can be said to be fought from the early morning of the first day to the noon of the next day, and in the end the armies of both sides are exhausted, in the final battlefield situation, Maliksha knows that his situation is not good, but he is still not convinced.
In order to keep the victory, Maliksha ordered to leave a small number of troops to resist the frontal attack of the Xia army, and most of the Cypriot army turned around and besieged the army led by Li Liangzuo.
After jumping out of the encirclement of the Serbian army and successfully joining the army, Li Yi suggested to Li Liangzuo: "Please give your Majesty an order to let the last general lead the army to pursue them." ” Li Liangzuo shook his head and said: "No need, the brothers have been fighting for a day and a night, and they have no strength to fight anymore, so they ordered the army to return to the camp to repair overnight and clean up the battlefield tomorrow." ” "Yes, the last general commands" In this battle, both the Xia army and the Serbian army were exhausted, the Xia army was better, at least their own camp was still there, but the Serbian army was miserable, the bridgehead and the trough ship were burned by Li Liangzuo, and the Serbian soldiers who returned to the bank of the Hong River could only rest back to back with hunger, and now the only thing that Maliksha could count on was that before sunset, the follow-up troops could deliver the military rations.
The soldiers of the Xia army are not much better, the soldiers who have just returned to the camp and have not climbed into bed are basically sleeping on the ground when they get to the tent, and some fall asleep while eating, despite this, Li Liangzuo did not dare to slack off, Li Liangzuo led his own personal guard battalion to personally guard the camp, and the entire Xia army camp was still in full array, Li Liangzuo knew that the more times like this, the more he could not be lazy, and he might lose all the dishes if he was not careful.
The next day, in the camp of the summer army, in Li Liangzuo's Chinese army tent, Li Liangzuo asked Xiao Zhuozi: "How about the battle losses for this period of time?"
Xiao Zhuozi glanced at Li Liangzuo and said: "Your Majesty has come out, since the westward expedition of the army, my 600,000 army has lost nearly 200,000 soldiers and horses, most of which are losses caused by the 400,000 main army, and now the main army has less than 220,000 soldiers and horses. ” Li Liangzuo almost didn't get angry when he heard this, and Li Liangzuo said to Xiao Zhuozi with a sad face: "Tell me, how many of these 200,000 troops died in battle, and how many were seriously injured and lightly injured."
"Your Majesty, of them 80,000 were killed in battle, 70,000 were seriously wounded, and 60,000 were lightly wounded; Most of the seriously wounded soldiers are estimated to never be able to go to war again."
"As long as the soldiers must be saved at all costs, the brothers who died in battle will be found and cremated and all transported back, and I said that I would take them home before the expedition."
"Yes, the minion understands."
The Xia army suffered heavy losses, and the Serbian army was not having a good time, the 600,000 troops who crossed the river in Mariksha had lost half of it in half a month, because the Serbian army did not have such perfect medical conditions as the Xia army, basically as long as it was seriously injured, it was a death, and if the lightly injured were lucky, they might survive, and this battle was a result of both defeats for both the Xia army and the Serbian army.
The Xia army did not drive the Cypriot army back to the other side of the Hong River, and the Cypriot army was not able to eat the main force of the Xia army, and in the following period, the armies on both sides were very restrained, they were accumulating strength for the next move, and as time progressed, the first reinforcements of the Xia army were about to arrive.
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