Chapter 777 Cangshan is like the sea, the setting sun is like blood, a generation of heroes, capture
At the front end of the battlefield, there were the vanguard led by Dou Jiande's adopted sons. The Thirteenth Taishangs led the vanguard cavalry to attack, but the fierce saturated cover attack in front of them seemed to never stop. They seemed to have fallen into a trap, dried up blood, shouted all their breath, and tried their best, but finally seemed to be trapped in a mud pond!
Cavalry fell one by one, and the number of people in the queue became increasingly sparse. Although the leading officer still shouted hard, the spear in his hand swept across with all his might, spraying blood out...
More and more Xia troops fell on the way to charge, and their bodies even blocked the road ahead. The Hebei army seemed to plan to annihilate the Xia army with long-range firepower. The huge stone iron crossbow that fell like a torrential rain formed an insurmountable gap. Even if the cavalry were bleeding from their heads, they could not break even a gap.
When the attack that lasted for more than half an hour stopped, the Xia army's 20,000 cavalry had basically lost thousands of cavalry. If the infantry behind had not arrived in time and had set up a huge shield wall in front with shields, the loss would have been greater.
Faced with such a situation, Dou Jiande had to order the cavalry to stop continuing to attack, and instead mobilize the infantry to advance in a formation. He attempted to use the shield formation to send the infantry phalanx to the Hebei Army to destroy the countless crossbow beds, catapults and other long-range weapons of the Hebei Army.
The battalions lined up neatly, with iron crossbows, stone bullets and various firearms, holding shields and gritting their teeth and heading on them.
In the Hebei Army's formation, Li Benlei held a thousand-mile mirror in his hand and watched the Xia army change the formation. He was not moved at all. "At this point, Dou Jiande can still have so many soldiers and horses that support him, and this man is indeed a hero. Unfortunately, he is too worried. When he arrives, he can only suffer a defeat and death. He passes the command of the general to shoot the Liu Bowman Camp and the Armored Crossbowman Camp to prepare for one hundred steps. As long as the Xia army does not surrender, don't stop."
The crossbowman camp was in front and the bowman camp was behind, and as many as 20,000 crossbowmans lined up into ten neat square formations. Hearing the order, he quickly tapped the bow and pointed the arrow in front.
The smoke of gunpowder had not yet dissipated. In the smoke of the night, Cao Bao, Cao Zhan, Fan Yuan, and Liu Bin also got off the horse, holding a shield in one hand and a knife in the other hand, and the neat footsteps kept approaching, and 50,000 Xia army infantry lined up into a huge wedge-shaped formation and leaned forward.
"Stay the position!" Cao Bao shouted loudly. The infantry were wearing armor and holding blades, and their endurance was limited. He had to let these infantry lean up step by step under pressure. When the formation was closest to the enemy array, he would then charge, so that the soldiers would have enough explosive power and physical strength.
In front of the Hebei Army's front line of the Bow and Crossbow Camp, General Chen Qing looked at the Xia army in the dark night with a silhouette. He couldn't help but shout loudly. "Board and crossbow camp prepare, shoot freely in one hundred steps!"
"call out!"
With a command, arrows were like rain. Ten thousand longbows and ten thousand powerful crossbows were fired at the same time. Countless long arrows shot upwards into the dark starry sky, and then headed towards the countless Xia troops in the Xia army's infantry formation with a loud whistling sound. The dense arrows were like a huge dark cloud, covering the already bleak starlight without any bleakness. Like countless raindrops, arrows were densely placed. The Xia army desperately raised the shield in their hands to cover themselves and their comrades around them. However, with such a dense rain of arrows, the Xia army infantry lacking shields were all shot into arrows one after another. Some soldiers were even inserted dozens of arrows in an instant, and they were shot into a hedgehog.
Faced with such a situation, Dou Jiande was bleeding with pain, but he could only grit his teeth and continue to wave his sword to mobilize his brothers from one battalion after another to rush forward. After paying a huge price, stepping on the bodies of countless brothers, the Xia army infantry finally rushed to the front of the Hebei army formation.
But before the Xia soldiers could breathe a sigh of relief, there were loud shouts of killing, and the five thousand Mo Dao soldiers who had been waiting in front of the formation for a long time had already been moved. These heavy infantry soldiers, covered in thick armor, held the huge Mo Dao in their hands, shouted and took a step forward, and waved the knife. In the shaking firelight, countless white blades were put together to form a dazzling sword wall.
Mo Dao Bing, swinging his sword forward like a wall. The Xia army infantry who had gone through a lot of hardships before rushing to the front of the formation had long lost their complete formation. Facing the powerful sword wall that was pounced on such a fierce sword wall, one after another, the Xia army was chopped in half and died tragically under the sword.
Dou Jiande and others led the cavalry to attack from both wings, trying to cover the infantry from the flanks to break through the Hebei Army's array. However, in front of the huge 8-foot-long Modao and the rows of shackles like iron towers, they could only hit the reefs like waves, ruthlessly shattered, and then scattered under the reefs.
After a subordinate fell off his horse, he was instantly chopped into meat paste by countless mobs handed over to the surroundings! Dou Jiande had already dismounted, and his war horse fell down in a hug. One of his legs was pierced by a spear from somewhere, dragging a broken leg. The Hebei hero still had a cold face!
He stood there holding a long spear in one hand and a horizontal knife in the other. More than ten cracks were left on his armor, and his body was covered in blood and his original color could no longer be seen! But he still did not fall down!
The long spear swung out again, and even the Mo Daobing, who was heavily armored, was swept backwards, but the long spear could no longer bear the power and exploded and shattered! The horizontal sword in his hand had already rolled the blade, and the blade was covered with tiny gaps!
Dou Jiande's whole body gathered together. After a dazzling sword light, it turned into a lightning bolt, cutting a deep dent on the breastplate of Mo Daobing in front of him, directly shaking the Mo Daobing to death! But then, a Mo Daobing next to him slashed his sword and removed one of Dou Jiande's legs. Dou Jiande let out a muffled groan, and he couldn't stand steadily and fell to the ground.
Another strange sword was swung by Dou Jiande, and he could not avoid it. At this time, two bloody Xia soldiers flashed from the left and right, and used their flesh and blood to meet the sword light.
"Your Majesty, go quickly!" The Xia army officer had only had time to say this, and the next moment he was chopped into two pieces along his shoulder, and blood spurted Dou Jiande's face. Several Hebei soldiers arrived in time, and together they set up Dou Jiande and retreated.
A severe pain came from the broken leg, and Dou Jiande's face was mixed with sweat and blood. He tried his best to shout, "Roar, rush forward..."
Countless broken corpses fell to the ground, and a mountain of corpses was piled up. Dou Jiande looked around in a blink of an eye, but saw tens of thousands of brothers who were still violently rushing to the Hebei Army array. At this time, the momentum was much smaller, and there were corpses everywhere. The footsteps of soldiers and horses were faintly heard in all directions around the night. Several other troops from the Hebei Army were raided. They were countless casualties, but they still had not even rushed over the first line of defense of the Hebei Army Beidaying.
At this moment, there were loud roars coming from the side, and a group of cavalry equipped in Hebei Army wearing black cloak armor suddenly came from the west. Although the hundreds of cavalry were wearing Hebei Army uniforms, each of them had a piece of white cloth tied on their arms. They rushed left and right on the battlefield, specifically passing through the gaps. Soon they rushed to Dou Jiande, and dozens of Xia soldiers rushed forward to fight, but suddenly heard a familiar female voice: "It's me. I'm the Red Line, where is my father?"
Xia Jun looked carefully and found that the leader of the Hebei army he was killed was Dou Hongxian. At this time, she was completely dressed as a Hebei lieutenant. If she hadn't spoken out, the brothers would not have discovered her identity at all.
Dou Jiande shouted and waved to his daughter. Dou Hong ran forward, jumped off the war horse, and rushed to Dou Jiande a few steps. Just as he was about to come forward to hug his father, he saw that his father was posed by two soldiers. One leg was not one, and his left leg was broken with the same leg. At this time, he was tied tightly by a cloth belt.
"Dad, what's wrong with you?"
Dou Jiande looked pale and gritted his teeth and said with a forced smile: "Why are you here in Hongzhi? Aren't you in Henan?"
"My daughter is incompetent and cannot invite reinforcements." Dou Hongxian looked at her father's broken leg and felt heartbroken. "Wang Xuanying and Li Mi have been defeated, and they are both captured by Chen Kefu."
"Then why did you run back? In this case, you should go to Jiangnan or in the pass, you can go anywhere, but you should not go back to Hebei. Dad is almost out. Brothers can't rush out today. Mother, please leave quickly. I have sent your six-year-old brother to the Turkic grassland. At the foot of the mountain north of Yinshan, there is the small town of Jikou on the desert outside Dingxiang County. There are hundreds of old brothers I arranged before, and they will take your brother and the families of your other uncles there. Go there, find them, and take them on behalf of your father and your other uncles to take care of them. After you arrive there, don't stay there anymore, and immediately take them west along Yinshan and cross the Jinshan Mountains. If you have the chance, go west and go west to the Western Regions. Only by going to the Western Regions can you avoid Chen Kefu's pursuit. Go quickly!"
Dou Hongxian only realized at this time that his father and uncles had already made second-hand preparations. They rebelled in troubled times, and the success and defeat of the king, and the defeat of the enemy could also protect the family. Although he was happy that there was still a group of troops outside the border in advance, how could Dou Hongxian leave like this at this time?
"Dad, I won't leave, we'll go together. Dad, Hongxin will take you together. Let's go together to the West and the Western Regions, but there is a place where I don't have any contact with the Central Plains." Dou Hongxin hugged his father and cried bitterly.
Dou Jiande shook his head and looked at the fire dragons coming from far away from all directions, as well as the Beidaying that was always dark. Previously, the Hebei Army dispatched long-range equipment and firearms, and then archers and crossbows. Now, the terrifying heavy-armored Mo Dao Army was dispatched. But Dou Jiande understood that the strongest Hebei Army was still the cavalry. The cavalry of the Hebei Army had not been dispatched, but the 70,000 of them were in chaos.
Looking at the messy and stray Xia army, Dou Jiande knew in his heart that the cavalry of the Hebei Army was about to be dispatched. As soon as the Hebei cavalry came out, the battle of Tongshan would end and his Xia Kingdom would completely disappear. If he wanted to escape, the only last opportunity was now.
"Xian Niang, listen to me, my father broke one leg and couldn't ride a horse, how can he break through. And even if my father could leave, my brothers had fallen here, how can I escape alone? A man, what are you afraid of life and death? Xian Niang Niang, I am the one who has been with these brothers to this point. Now they are all leaving me one by one, and I have to follow them underground before becoming brothers. Xian Niang, you don't need to say much, take advantage of the opportunity now, leave quickly. It's my father begging you, although my father has lost in this life, it's a grand event, and there's no regret. The only thing I can't let go is you, brother and brother. You promise me that you must break out and take care of me for me, and leave quickly!"
Dou Hongxin's tears kept dripping, but he was still reluctant to leave.
"Go away quickly, let's go!" Dou Jiande yelled with his neck.
Dou Hongxian turned over the horse and looked back at Dou Jiande reluctantly. He remembered the task assigned to her by his father. He gritted his teeth and said, "Dad, take care!" He kicked the horse's belly with his legs, and disappeared into the darkness with hundreds of subordinates wearing Hebei Army armor.
Hundreds of cavalry barely penetrated the Hebei army encirclement in the night. The four marshals of Yu Qinming, Luo Zhong, Luo Yi and Xue Ding had led all the troops to surround the Xia army from all sides. It was not until this time that Li Benlei ordered the Pojun Camp who had been waiting to be armed with the Tianlang Camp, and the entire army attacked.
Tens of thousands of remaining soldiers were surrounded on all sides, and ten thousand cavalry entered the battlefield, rushing all the way, completely taking away the last chance of gathering and resisting the Xia army. After several charges, the Xia army completely collapsed, and then the Hebei army surrounded them on all sides, constantly splitting and encircling them.
Dou Jiande and others also fully demonstrated the ruthlessness of the Hebei people and would rather die than surrender. Although the Hebei army continued to surrender to Dou Jiande, Dou Jiande completely refused without even thinking about it. And the other soldiers of the Xia army were worthy of their title as the most elite old battalion of the Xia army at this time, and they completely shared their life and death with Dou Jiande, fought to the end, and refused to retreat.
When the fish belly finally appeared in the east, good news came from Luo Yi. In addition to the more than 5,000 Xia troops surrounded by him, more than 70,000 of them had abandoned their weapons and surrendered. Although the only three thousand cavalry who refused to surrender broke through the Nanda Camp, they were finally blocked by a Modao Army and a light cavalry ambushed in the south. None of the three thousand cavalry surrendered and all fought bloody battles to the end. In the end, less than 300 prisoners were captured, and they were all seriously injured. Gao Yaxian, Dong Kangmai, Wang Wan, and Kong Shaode, four generals of Hejian, fought until the last moment, and were seriously injured.
The sun is at the middle of the sky, and the battle is until noon.
Li Benlei sent an envoy again to convey the request of the Hebei army to Dou Jiande, and all the Xia army abandoned their weapons and surrendered on the spot. After noon, they either surrendered or killed. Facing the letter sent by the envoy, Dou Jiande lay half on the body of a war horse, and laughed and tore the letter apart. "If you want my life, come up and get it yourself. I have already killed enough money, and now every extra one is profitable."
The messenger brought Dou Jiande's reply back. Li Benlei looked at the Xia army trapped in the siege at this time and issued an order to encircle without hesitation. Countless Hebei infantry held shields and slowly advanced forward with neat steps. The horizontal swords were shining and the spears were sharp. All the Xia army who stood in front of him and refused to surrender were killed or captured mercilessly.
Before dusk and sunset, the Hebei army finally attacked the last small slope where the Xia army resisted. Dou Jiande sat on the ground and raised his sword to kill three Hebei soldiers. At the last moment, he wanted to raise his sword to commit suicide, but the Hebei soldiers shot down his horizontal sword and captured him alive.
The setting sun was as bloody as the Tongshan Battle finally ended. Hebei hero Dou Jiande was captured, and the last anti-army in Hebei changed from Da Yan to Da Wei and finally to Da Xia. But at this time, the kingdom established by the family and civil rebel army was finally completely wiped out.
Under dusk, the mountains are like the sea and the setting sun is like blood. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation.)
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