Zhangqiu City, in the camp of the Xia Army. \ A flying horse came to Zhao Ge's side and said, "General Yu, Yan Shuai has sent a military order, ordering the general to abandon Zhangqiu and evacuate to Qizhou. ” Zhao Ge frowned and said, "Isn't it a bit too fake to evacuate without fighting this battle." ” "What does the general mean," General Xia asked Zhao Ge.
"Let's fight a battle first, and test the combat strength of the Jiaodong Army" Zhao Ge said to General Xia: "By the way, the people and baggage in the city have been transported away?"
"General rest assured, everything is ready, and the entire Zhangqiu City is already an empty city."
General Xia reported to Zhao Ge.
"Command the army to assemble at the east gate, ready to attack out of the city, ready to attack."
Zhao Ge issued a military order.
"The general means that we have to take the initiative to attack."
Xia Jiang asked with some surprise.
"What, is there any problem?"
Zhao Ge asked General Xia.
"General, we only have 5,000 iron cavalry, but the Jiaodong Army has 200,000 troops, and the disparity in military strength is too great, and our army still takes the initiative to attack."
Before Xia Jiang's words were finished, he was interrupted by Zhao Ge: "What's the matter, I'm afraid, don't take it with Xia Jun, go home and pick up the child." ” General Xia immediately knelt on one knee and said, "The last general is willing to follow the general to the death." ” "Then go and give the order," Zhao Ge said very resolutely.
"Yes, the last general commands" Outside the east gate of Zhangqiu City, the Jiaodong army has been assembled, although the Jiaodong army has 200,000 people, but it is a mixed cavalry, of which the cavalry is only more than 60,000 people, after all, it costs a lot to raise a cavalry army, and the land in Jiaodong is barren, and there is no such big finance to support a huge cavalry team.
"Your Majesty, the Xia army has closed the city gates; Our army has traveled a long way, and the division has been far away; The last general advised the army to rest for the night and then attack the city again tomorrow.
A general suggested to Xiao Feng.
Xiao Feng immediately objected: "No, the herald army is ordered to attack the city immediately, there are not many Xia troops in Zhangqiu City at all, we have to take it down before sunset." ” "King, this" At this moment, the city gate of Zhangqiu slowly opened, and a group of Xia army cavalry rushed out of the city under the leadership of Zhao Ge, Xiao Feng saw the Xia army rushing out of the city and laughed: "Ha, ha, ha, ha, even their little strength dares to be able in front of this king, and the generals will obey the orders of the army to press the border and strangle the Xia army." ” "Yes, obey the King's orders" Zhao Ge led the cavalry out of the city, directly towards the front of the Jiaodong Army, the two armies had a fierce collision in the east of Zhangqiu City, the Xia Army 5,000 cavalry and 60,000 Jiaodong cavalry engaged in the battle, the Xia Army gave full play to its advantages, still fighting non-contact combat, under the leadership of Zhao Ge, the Xia Army cavalry used bows and crossbows to continuously consume the cavalry of the Jiaodong Army.
There is still a big gap between the cavalry of the two sides, the Xia army is a large section higher than the Jiaodong cavalry whether it is a war horse or a bow and crossbow, these two are the key to determining the combat effectiveness of the cavalry, the speed of the war horse used by the cavalry of the Xia army is faster than the Jiaodong war horse, the cavalry of the Xia army is farther than the Liao army, although the quality of the knights on both sides is about the same, but the first two things are just a high quality is also nonsense.
Under the command of Zhao Ge, the cavalry of the Xia army attracted the Jiaodong cavalry to the north of Zhangqiu City, away from the main foot soldiers of the Jiaodong army, so that it could make the support of its foot soldiers, and the two sides fought for more than an hour, and the cavalry of the Jiaodong army was shot over by the Xia army More than 10,000 people, while the Xia army cavalry suffered little loss.
"General, our army's war horses are already a little weak, and if we continue to fight, I'm afraid the losses will increase, so let's take it when we see it," General Xia suggested to Zhao Ge.
"Order the army, break away from contact with the Jiaodong Army, and withdraw to the west."
Zhao Ge decisively issued a military order.
After Zhao Ge's military order was issued, the Xia army immediately withdrew westward; And Xiao Feng led more than 100,000 foot soldiers to occupy Zhangqiu City without much effort, but at this time Zhangqiu has become an empty city, the Xia army evacuated from Zhangqiu all the way west to Longshan Town, Longshan Town is a small city west of Qizhou, and it is also the predetermined battlefield chosen by the Xia army, and the 100,000 Jizhou army led by Yan Shu has been set up outside Longshan Town to wait for the arrival of the Jiaodong Army.
Inside the summer army camp in Longshan Town.
It was already late at night when Zhao Ge led the cavalry back to the camp, and at this time, the lights were still on in Yan Shu's Chinese army tent, and Zhao Ge hurriedly ran in; After seeing Zhao Ge come in, Yan Shu asked Zhao Ge, "Why did you only come back now?"
” "I led 5,000 iron cavalry to fight a big battle with Xiao Feng's Jiaodong army, the combat power of the Jiaodong army not only did not rise, but fell a lot, and 60,000 cavalry were beaten by my 5,000 iron cavalry, losing more than 10,000 people."
Zhao Ge said to Yan Shu.
"Don't be careless, how can you say that the Jiaodong Army also has 200,000 horses, and according to their speed, they will be able to reach Longshan Town in two days, so they must seize the time to rest."
Yan Shu said to Zhao Ge.
Zhao Ge immediately replied: "Yes, the last general understands" Two days passed quickly, and two days later, the Jiaodong army arrived as scheduled, but the Xia army did not immediately launch an attack on the Jiaodong army, and the Xia army was only deployed outside Longshan Town; Militarily speaking, Xiao Feng is far worse than Xiao Yuanshan, Xiao Feng's self-owned military strength is more than twice that of the Xia army, and he does not take the Xia army in his eyes at all; In Xiao Feng's opinion, although Xia Jun said that he had an army of 100,000, it would be good to have an army of 40,000 or 50,000.
The reason why Xiao Feng has such an idea has a lot to do with the entire strategic situation that Xiao Feng has mastered, Xiao Feng's Jiaodong Kingdom is joined forces with the Great Song Dynasty, in Xiao Feng's opinion, now that the Song Army's Northern Expedition has been successful, the main army of the Xia Army should go south to resist the Song Army, leaving only some old, weak, sick and disabled, which is not worth mentioning at all.
In the early morning of the next day, the war drums of rumble, rumble, and rumble sounded in the camp of the Jiaodong Army, and the Jiaodong Army began to assemble; At the same time, under the command of Yan Shu, the 100,000 Jizhou army also began to assemble outside the camp, and the two armies faced each other in the area east of Longshan Town, and the Xia army assembled much faster than the Jiaodong army.
When the Jiaodong Army has not yet assembled, the Xia Army launched an attack on the Jiaodong Army, the Xia Army 30 artillery pieces and 50 return artillery guns covered the Jiaodong Army with firepower, in the explosion of "boom, boom, boom", the Jiaodong Army suffered huge losses, although Xiao Feng had heard of the Xia Army's firearms, but he did not expect the Xia Army's firearms to be so sharp.
Xiao Feng, who couldn't sit still, pulled out his saber and pointed at the artillery and return artillery of the Xia army, and ordered: "Order the iron cavalry to charge and attack" After Xiao Feng's military order was issued, 50,000 Jiaodong cavalry rushed towards the Xia army's large array, Yan Shu looked at the Jiaodong cavalry rushing towards him and decisively ordered: "The firecrackers are in formation." ” 10,000 musketeers lined up in three rows, after the cavalry of the Jiaodong Army entered the firing range of the musketeers, the musketeers began to shoot in three sections, the dense rain of bullets made the cavalry of the Jiaodong Army continue to fall, and the more the firepower of the Xia army intensified, the bed crossbows, crossbowmen and crossbowmen joined the attack on the Jiaodong cavalry.
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