MTL - Poor Family-v2 Chapter 960 The War of Extermination (14)
Chapter 960 The Battle to Destroy the Nation (14)
"Young Chief, General Tuobawen is dead!" Someone shouted loudly.
"What?"
Tuobawei suddenly turned his head and looked at Tuobawen's army. The 2,000 troops had disappeared, and a Song army raised a head high. It was Tuobawen's face.
Tuoba Wei was filled with grief and indignation, and shouted: "Fight with Song Jun!"
The army of the Tuoba tribe was actually surrounded by 90,000 Song troops.
Cao Meng led 20,000 cavalry from the flanks into the 10,000 rear army phalanx of the Tuoba tribe. This is the weakest army of the Tuoba tribe. Almost all of them are recruits, with poor equipment and low morale.
So the Tuoba army put them last, but unexpectedly they encountered the most powerful 20,000 cavalry of the Song army.
They were already the weak underbelly of the Tuoba army. Under the panic of the soldiers, they turned into groups of sheep waiting to be slaughtered. Under the fierce killing of the Song army, batches of them died tragically.
Cao Meng's violent power erupted. He brandished a sledgehammer and charged through the cavalry formation.
The 20,000 Song cavalry behind him, in a team of 500, criss-crossed, pierced their chests with swords and arrows, they divided the enemy's formation, and ruthlessly slaughtered the chaotic enemies. Stained with blood, under the powerful impact of the Song Army cavalry, the phalanx of ten thousand recruits completely collapsed, and they fled in all directions, losing their morale.
Tuoba Wei closed his eyes in pain, he finally had the intention to retreat, but it was a bit late at this time, his retreat was cut off, and the 5,000 cavalry he led were facing the heavy armored infantry head-on.
The drum beat slowly and powerfully, "Boom! Boom!" Accompanied by the heavy drum, the heavy armored infantry was approaching the Tuoba army dozens of steps away step by step. Every step is so imposing.
At this time, Tuoba Wei saw that the situation was not good, and shouted, "Rush out!"
Tuobawei began to look for a retreat, but his soldiers knew very well that only by rushing out could they survive. The instinct of escape made them desperate. They held up their long knives, waved their spears, and frantically charged at the heavy armored infantry of the Song army. It rushed away like a storm, but the heavy armored infantry remained motionless like a mountain.
Tuoba Ading, the general of the Tuoba tribe, took the lead. He waved his spear, roared, and stabbed at the leader of the Song army distractedly. The leader of the heavy armored infantry was general Guan Sheng. When he struck down, the sword was fierce, and immediately split Tuoba Ading, who was rushing in front of him, with his horse and men, into two halves, blood spattering, and internal organs flowing horizontally.
The heavy armored infantry swung their long knives and advanced step by step. The light and blood of the swords, slashing or stabbing, were invincible. Shooting arrows like flying locusts caused them heavy casualties.
The wounded Tuoba cavalry knelt on the ground and begged bitterly, but they were still unable to escape death. They were chopped into pieces by the heavy armored infantry that lined up, blood flowed into rivers, and corpses were piled up. The wilderness gradually turned into a one-sided human slaughter field.
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When Li Zhizong saw that Tuobawei didn't listen to his command at all, he was filled with hatred and anger, but he had no choice but to save Tuoba's army. Li Zhizong hurriedly said to Xifeng: "General Xifeng, the situation is urgent. For the sake of the imperial court, troops are sent to rescue Tuoba tribe, if Tuoba tribe is wiped out, it will be very disadvantageous for us to follow up the battle."
Xifeng Bieye said coldly: "I don't know if I saved Tuoba's tribe. Do you want to behead Tuobawei as a public display?"
Xi Feng Bie was also unequivocal, and set the condition for sending troops to rescue Tuoba's tribe, killing Tuoba Wei.
Li Zhizong was a little embarrassed at once. Tuoba Wei is the young chief of the Tuoba tribe, and he is about to inherit the position of the great chief of Tuoba. If he is killed, it will be a trivial matter for the Tuoba tribe to withdraw troops. Ba Wanli explained.
But if Tuobawei is not killed, the morale of the army will be ruined. Tuobawei changes the battle plan without authorization and does not obey the commander's order.
Li Zhizong said in a short voice: "Tuoba Wei is still young after all, and acted recklessly. I promise to make his father apologize to General Xifeng. I also hope that General Xifeng will take care of the overall situation and send troops to rescue Tuoba's tribe."
"It's so serious. First, Tuoba Wanli will never let the Ministry of Seals apologize. If he apologizes, he will never be the chief. He will apologize to you at most. Second, the state owns the state law, and the military owns it. Military regulations, such as Tuobawei's serious violation of military discipline, if not severely punished, the morale of the army will be completely disintegrated. Third, our army is not prepared at all, while the Song army is fully prepared. I can send troops taking into account the overall situation, but if the Song army Take advantage of the situation and completely defeat it, what it means to Xixia, please think carefully about it."
Li Zhizong's forehead was sweating, and every word of Bieye's words was carefully sealed, what should he do? Seeing that the Tuoba tribe could no longer resist, but was surrounded by the Song army and could not escape, he immediately gritted his teeth and said, "Even if I don't kill him, I will definitely punish Tuobawei severely and beat him with three hundred sticks, please." General Xifeng, send troops!"
Beat three hundred army sticks, if you don’t die, you will lose half your life. Xi Fengbie immediately agreed, he discussed with other tribal generals, and he immediately ordered: "Order the whole army to attack!"
"Woo—"
The horns sounded continuously, and the armies of the various tribes had already assembled. In the sound of the horns, a hundred thousand troops came from a distance to the battlefield.
Li Yanqing could see clearly, he sneered, and ordered: "Send the army to assemble!"
"Woo—" The horn of assembly sounded, and the Song army began to withdraw from the battlefield in an orderly manner, and began a new assembly.
The Tuoba army, which had suffered heavy losses, finally got a glimmer of life. Tuobawei led the army out of the encirclement, and ran to the northeast.
In this battle, the Tuoba tribe suffered heavy losses, with more than half of the casualties, more than 20,000 dead and nearly 10,000 wounded. Lieutenant General Tuoba Wen also died in the rebellion.
Seeing that the Song army had begun to gather and retreat, Li Zhizong immediately said goodbye to Xifeng: "Don't fight any more, return to the army immediately."
Xi Fengbie also didn't want to fight the Song army at this time, he immediately ordered to withdraw the army, and the 100,000 troops stopped when they were two miles away from the battlefield, and began to quickly retreat towards the barracks.
The Song army cleaned up the battlefield, burned and buried the corpses, packed up the soldiers and horses, and began to retreat to Lingzhou City.
The news came quickly that Tuobawei didn't even return to the camp, but directly returned to the Tuoba tribe with the rest of the army. Li Zhizong was almost mad. Items on the table 'crash! ’ Sweeping landed on the ground, pointing at several soldiers and yelling, "Get out! Get out!"
Several guards were so frightened that they rolled and fled, only to hear Dou Shuai yelling in the big tent, everyone was frightened and fell silent, no one dared to enter the tent to persuade him.
In the Xifeng army camp, Xifengbie also took a sip of kumiss, wiped off the milk stains on his lips, and said to several tribal leaders: "Li Zhizong is not brave enough, and his military power is not enough. He can't hold down the army at all. If Li Zhizong Brother Cha, I will never use the word 'please!' when I ask you to come over for a discussion. If you don't come twice, just push it out and you will be killed. No matter what young chief you are, I will make everyone obedient. Who would dare to disobey the order? This kind of thing will never happen today, because Tuoba Wei died a long time ago."
"The general is right. If Brother Li Cha, whoever is asked to fight, he will fight. There is absolutely no room for negotiation. If he refuses to obey, he will be killed. Like Li Zhizong's challenge letter last night, whoever volunteers to fight will easily make Tuoba Wei He felt that Li Zhizong was begging him to fight, so he was proud of being favored, so if he failed, he dared to lead his army back to the tribe and ignored Li Zhizong at all."
Another chief said worriedly: "Looking at the Song Army today, Li Yanqing's orders stopped. The withdrawal and assembly were very fast, and the Song Army's combat effectiveness was extremely strong, and there were sorcerers. It feels like we have no chance in this battle."
When the witchcraft was mentioned, everyone was silent. Everyone witnessed the white smoke coming out of the sticks, and the cavalry fell one after another. This was terrible and frightening.
There are some things that people don’t want to talk about in depth. The big tent is very silent, and everyone is just drinking bowls of milk wine. Everyone’s heart is heavy, and they gradually lose confidence in Xixia’s future.
The purpose of Li Yanqing's appointment today is to deal a heavy blow to the Xixia armies. He has used all the essence of the Song army, such as the god-armed crossbow, heavy armored infantry, and firecrackers. He originally planned to use Zhentian Ray, but it still didn't work out in the end.
However, Li Yanqing's goal today has basically been achieved. It has dealt a heavy blow to the confidence of the various tribal armies of the party and made them lose confidence in the future of Xixia. In this way, when the interests of the Xixia court and the tribe conflict, they must first consider themselves. tribal interests.
In the big tent, Li Yanqing is gathering all the generals to hold a celebration banquet. Alcohol is not allowed to be drunk, and tea can only be used instead of wine, but there are large pieces of barbecue. , All soldiers can eat barbecue. Today, 20,000 sheep were killed to reward the army, which made Jing Zhaojun laugh and laugh.
Wang Gui gnawed at the meat, and said vaguely in his mouth: "Dutong, I heard that the Tuoba tribe withdrew their troops and returned to their own tribe. This is very interesting. They can do whatever they want in the army!"
Everyone spoke one after another, thinking that the Xixia Army's military discipline is too poor, and this kind of army will suffer a lot when fighting.
Li Yanqing smiled slightly and said: "There are two reasons for this. One is that their integration time is too short and they dispatched troops in a hurry. Generally, after this kind of tribal army is assembled, it must first conduct a certain degree of training and integration to ensure the smooth military order. The assembly of Song armies from all walks of life must also be integrated, not to mention the tribal armies that are in their own formation? Their generals have done very poorly in this regard, perhaps because of lack of ability!
The second is the internal conflicts in Xixia. In the past, when Xixia and Song army fought, they were basically armies of various tribes. Why didn’t this problem arise before? Have you ever thought about it? "
(end of this chapter)
