blenderwars Chapter 152 Qin Tu's Prestige in the Western Regions! (Chapter 4)
Chapter 152 Qin Tu's Prestige in the Western Regions! (Chapter 4)
Chapter 152 Qin Tu's Prestige in the Western Regions! (fourth more)
Qin Tu is the leading general of the cavalry army that Xiao Qi values most and vigorously cultivates.
His predictions and decisions were very precise, and after they gathered the nearly ten thousand horses that had been scattered around, they hurriedly cleaned the battlefield.
Later, the Xixia coach arrived with 1 infantry troops and more than [-] cavalry troops who had just fled back.
Qin Tu immediately ordered a retreat. Now after two battles, everyone's horses have reached their limit, and the remaining horsepower can no longer support another battle.
Although many people have transferred to the captured [-] war horses, they are not familiar with war horses. If they insist on fighting, they will undoubtedly die with the enemy.
Qin Tu let the lightly injured thousands of riders take care of the seriously injured more than 1000 people, pulled the extra horses, and retreated first, carrying the dead bodies of more than 3000 brave soldiers who died in battle.
He led the other [-] brave troops to retreat behind the pursuers, and soon they withdrew behind the [-] infantry who had already lined up for battle.
When he arrived here, Qin Tu immediately ordered the slightly injured soldiers to help the seriously injured soldiers off their horses to take care of them, while he himself took the [-] brave soldiers who could still fight and chose to transfer to those who still had the strength to fight again. war horse.
Then lead the replaced horse to a place far away from the infantry battle formation and tie it up. They know that the roar of the artillery and the bombs thrown by the trebuchet are very loud.
If you get too close, you will definitely startle the war horse.
The commander of the Xixia army on the opposite side initially discovered that there were [-] Song troops in front who had already formed a battle formation.
Fearing that there was an ambush, they sent scouts to check around and found that there were only [-] Song infantry troops in formation, and the Song cavalry army with less than half of the [-] casualties.
The coach of the Xixia Army felt that the 7 or 1 people on his side were terrified by the [-] people in the Song Dynasty. He became angry and ordered an all-out attack on the Song Army, which was bound to defeat the Song Army in one fell swoop!
But when their more than 6 and nearly [-] Xixia troops began to charge, and the Song Army's stone throwing machine and artillery on the opposite side fired, the Xixia coach knew that the [-] troops he led this time were completely finished.
Not to mention that the Song people still have tens of thousands of cavalry troops, just the [-] Song people's infantry troops, plus these sharp weapons that they have never seen before, they may not be able to kill them.
Because the things thrown by the trebuchet fell like hail and exploded in his Xixia charging army. Every time it exploded, a large number of Xixia troops on his side fell down, like harvesting wheat.
Every volley of the other hundred artillery pieces will plow out human-shaped ravines in the formation of the Xixia charge, and for a while, blood will splatter and broken limbs will fly in the formation of the Xixia army!
What is even more frightening is that the horses of the more than 1 cavalry in the Xixia Army, after being frightened by the huge explosion, immediately jumped up and down, knocked off the cavalry on their horses, and then ran around like headless chickens.
However, the Song people's catapults did not throw one or two bombs. The sound of a hundred catapults, together with a hundred cannons, was like continuous thunder.
Those frightened war horses rushed around and trampled on the Xixia infantry, and every time the bombs thrown by the trebuchet exploded, the war horses would change direction and scurry around again.
Except for those who were unlucky, the horses who ran to the bomb site by themselves were blown over and killed.
The soldiers of the Xixia infantry were killed by those frightened horses and trampled to death, more than those killed by the artillery bombs of the Song people!
The head coach of the Xixia Army hurriedly ordered to retreat, took his own soldiers and the Xixia Army around him, and fled towards the rear.
Seeing that the time had come, Qin Tu immediately ordered the "Vulcan Army" to stop attacking, and the other [-] infantry stayed to clean up the battlefield.
He rushed over with the [-] brave troops, and chased and killed the fleeing Xixia army for more than [-] li.
This battle directly killed most of the nearly [-] Xixia army, and only less than [-] Xixia army escaped.
The fleeing infantry saw that the cavalry of the Song army was chasing straight towards the fleeing Xixia army commander, and the clever infantry all changed directions and ran away from their commander.
Those Xixia infantry who were chasing after their commanders for their lives did not have such a good life. They were overtaken and chopped down by the Song Army cavalry who were chasing after them, or they were killed or trampled into meat by many horses.
These Xixia troops only had one battle, and only fought three times with the Changsheng Battalion of the Song Dynasty, and they were killed by the Changsheng Battalion to death.
Even if they stayed in the fortified city later, as soon as they heard that the Song army was coming soon, they immediately abandoned the city and fled, never having the courage to fight the Song army again.
In this battle, Qin Tu captured a large number of war horses and food and supplies, so he didn't have to worry about his own food and grass at all.
And after so many years, the infantry of the Changsheng Battalion have more or less learned to ride horses, which saves a lot of carts.
Qin Tu ordered the thousands of lightly injured cavalry to leave a thousand wounded without any serious injuries.
The remaining more than 2000 wounded soldiers are escorting nearly a thousand vacant carts, carrying the corpses of thousands of soldiers who were seriously injured or killed in battle, and a large number of wounded horses that need to be recuperated back to the Song Dynasty. Please add gunpowder and projectiles to the rear Bomb up.
Then he led the [-] cavalry army capable of fighting, and the [-] infantry who switched to horses, pulled the trebuchet artillery and the captured luggage, and went all the way north to directly kill the capital of Xixia.
Qin Tu's journey can be said to have swept across the land, and those Xixia troops were frightened by the Song army's annihilation of the [-] Xixia army in just three battles.
No Xixia army dared to challenge the Song army at all, which made Qin Tu hardly suffer any losses, and attacked all the way to Xingzhou, the capital of Xixia.
Because the emperor of Xixia had already got the news and fled thousands of miles away, Qin Tu did not go after the emperor Renzong of Xixia.
The order he got was to open up the westbound commercial road under the pretext of retaliation for Xixia's invasion of the Song Dynasty. He only needed to subdue Xixia and let them all give up a long and narrow westbound passage.
It doesn't take much effort to destroy the Xixia Kingdom, Xiao Qi knows very well that Xixia will be wiped out first by the Mongols in a short time.
My main energy now is to focus on sailing and trial production of sharper firearms, and I don't plan to be disturbed by the upcoming battle to interfere with the plans I have made.
As for Mongolia's confrontation with the Song Dynasty one day in the future, Xiao Qi said that he was not worried at all. At that time, his firearms had been developed better and sharper, and he had already equipped his Changsheng Battalion in large quantities.
Dealing with the Mongolian cavalry was not a problem at all. He hoped that Mongolia would take down large tracts of land in the north first. At that time, he only needed to lead the army to defeat Mongolia and take over all those lands.
After Qin Tu entered the capital of Xixia, he followed Xiao Qi's order and did not harass the people. Instead, he went around to spread the word that Xixia was using troops unreasonably against the Song Dynasty, and now the Song Dynasty came to collect debts.
The people saw that the Song army did not bully them. On the contrary, they treated the people much better than the Xixia army in many cases.
However, Qin Tu was not so polite to those dignitaries of Xixia, not only ransacked the palace of Xixia, but also arrested many ministers and dignitaries of Xixia.
The excuse is of course to find the mastermind and party members who sent troops to invade Song Dynasty.
Of course, after those powerful family members offered a large amount of money to redeem them, Qin Tu followed suit and let them go.
These are also the bad ideas given by Xiao Qi when these are coming, Xiao Qi also understands that he does not intend to occupy Xixia, those Xixia's wealth will be snatched by the Mongols sooner or later, so it is better to snatch it into his own hands first.
Qin Tu plundered Xixia extensively, and sent a large number of people to transport those goods back to Song Dynasty.
Lin Zhengma Shoucheng and others have already received the corpses of those wounded soldiers who died in battle with the Song army.
According to Qin Tu's request, people were sent to deliver a large amount of explosives and cast-iron bombs, and they began to follow the old tradition of Changsheng Camp to build coffins for the soldiers who died in battle and then send them back to their hometowns.
After Qin Tu received the newly added explosives and bullets, as well as iron bombs, and the [-] infantry troops brought in by Lin Zheng and others, he began to send troops to other nearby states and counties.
Those Xixia officials also found that the army of the Song Dynasty, except for killing people on the battlefield without blinking an eye, the rest of the time it was just love for money.
They all began to send people to contact Qin Tu quietly, hoping to exchange money for Qin Tu not to attack their territory.
Of course Qin Tu was happy, and he was going to attack those places in order to search for wealth.
After some haggling, the prices of various prefectures and counties were quickly agreed upon.
In the following days, Qin Tu sent a large number of goods back to Da Song in a long string of carts.
(End of this chapter)