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Chapter 307 The Battle of Dagon (Part 1)

As a geographical noun, Hobudaoka is not famous, and can even be said to be unknown. However, this word has an extremely important position in military history, because it is one of the very few battles in the history of thousands of years of war.

Twelve years ago, the newly released Jin people broke out in a fierce fierce battle with the Liao people here. In the end, the Jin soldiers won a complete victory. The victory of this battle directly shook the foundation of the Liao Kingdom and allowed it to truly embark on the road to destruction.

Back then, Wanyan Aguda led 20,000 troops to fight here, which was known as the main force of the Liao army of 700,000. In the history of war in China, they liked to exaggerate their strength, which was a standard psychological warfare. Although the number of soldiers and horses in the Liao Kingdom was exaggerated, the actual number was at least about 200,000.

During this war, the Jurchens, who were dozens of miles behind the scenes of Huining Mansion, broke out completely under the crisis of destruction of the country, and defeated the main force of the Liao Kingdom with 20,000 people. The most elite among the Liao army, the Pishi Army wearing bear, tiger, skin, leopard skin hat, were killed in this battle, and the blood flowed into a river and almost wiped out the entire army. From then on, the main combat forces of the entire Liao Kingdom were unable to recover.

The victory of that year saved the Jurchens' crisis and led them to glory. Therefore, when the Song army in the south came thousands of miles and the Jurchens were facing the crisis of national destruction again, Wanyan Xie also chose the battlefield here, hoping to rely on the glory of that year to save the situation.

"The Southern barbarians traveled thousands of miles to come here. They were determined to destroy our incense." The central Jin soldiers, Wanyan, with a ugly face, also stared at the dazzling silver-white at the end of the opposite plain, slowly surging towards him like an endless tide.

"Master, we are fighting with them!" Wanyan Yinshuke waved the battle axe in his hand and roared angrily, "We Jurchen Warriors will fight to the end!"

"Yes! Fight to the end!" The Jurchen nobles around him shouted loudly. These semi-nomadic peoples who came out of the white mountains and black waters were indeed very powerful in terms of courage because of their harsh living environment. Even if everyone knew that the army opposite was extremely terrifying at this time, they still had high fighting spirits.

"We destroyed hundreds of thousands of troops of Liao Kingdom here more than ten years ago." Wanyan Xie also began to incite the nobles around him before the war. "The Liao people were so powerful back then that they almost destroyed us. But after that, it was not good that they were killed by our Jurchen heroes!"

"Yes, kill me!"

Seeing the Jurchen nobles around him gradually increasing morale, Wanyan Xie nodded slightly, "There are people coming to the south today. This time, they are even more brutal and bloodthirsty Han people! Behind is Huining Mansion, and our family members are all behind. If we lose today, we will have nothing. We must win! Kill all the Han people!"

"Kill all the Han people!!"

A group of Jurchen nobles were mobilized to fight. Their wealth and family were concentrated in Huining Mansion. Once they were defeated this time, they would not only die, everything would be done. The nobles who understood the situation at this moment were truly entering a state of desperate struggle.

Wanyan Xie nodded with satisfaction, and then began to send troops to slowly press forward towards the Song army opposite. In his opinion, this battle was not without a chance. The Song army was said to have come from the distant city of Bianliang. Thousands of miles along the way must have been at the end of their strength. You should know that General Zhe Shang's words were not casual. The Song army went north for more than 3,000 miles. They did not have no hope of winning.

For this battle that concerns the fate of the whole clan, Wanyan Xie also gathered all the male men from thirteen to fifty years old who could be collected. Due to medical, nutrition and hygiene and other aspects, the average life expectancy in this era is far less than that of later generations, especially for the nomadic peoples with low cultural levels. At the age of fifty, he is an absolute old man.

If this battle is really defeated, the Jurchen male will basically die.

Listening to the sound of roaring like wild beasts coming from the distance, Yan Fei, who was still checking the tank, leaned out of the turret and shook his hand hard, "The morale is quite high. It's better if you don't escape too quickly, you can kill more."

After falling from a helicopter, the t72 that Yan Fei was driving was also constantly malfunctioning. When he left Yanjing Mansion, he forced a trailer to consign the t72 all the way north. However, he could no longer drive the trailer without driving more than a hundred miles away.

In desperation, Yan Fei could only drive the tank directly to motorcycle the engine to conduct off-road marches. This tank itself has been used for many years, and it is really a journey of thousands of kilometers to go down. Moreover, there is no air conditioner on the car, which really ruined Yan Fei.

Yan Fei has decided to throw the tank away after the battle and replace it with the air conditioner!

Yan Fei, who lit a cigarette, stood on the fort, picked up his telescope and looked at the Jin soldiers' queues that were gradually approaching from afar.

Most of the Jurchens held spears, bones and battle axes, and were walking soldiers carrying bows and arrows. They gathered around their own Meng'an and Mouke, as well as officers such as Soldiers and Chief Shi, and arranged into simple military formations.

Because of the loss of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, the Jurchens lost their main source of metal products. Ordinary Jurchen soldiers wore leather armor sewn with animal skins. Only those nobles and military generals could wear armor made of metal seized from the Liao Kingdom before.

A large number of Jurchens rushed over with heavy steps like mudslides as the rumbling drums and the flags rushing in the wind. It was absolutely amazing from the point of view of momentum. If it were the imperial guards of the Song Dynasty before Yan Fei came, they would definitely collapse and scatter when they saw this scene.

But this time it was different. With the sound of drums, teams of Song soldiers began to wear armor and pick up weapons and shields, and formed teams according to their respective organization. They gathered from small square arrays into large square arrays.

Located in the middle of the array are iron armored soldiers, and the powerful cavalry are wandering on both sides of the array. Yan Fei is a tank with an engine constantly smoking at the front of the array.

There are a large number of Jurchens, and it is estimated that they are at least 100,000. They have collected all the active adult males and put them into the battlefield. From the battlefield, they look dense and boundless.

Yan Fei also had a large number of soldiers and horses. After absorbing more than 100,000 Han people from the northern region, the number of cavalry under Yan Fei's command has expanded to nearly 30,000. Because a large number of fully covered plate armors cannot be transported in Bianliang City in a short time, most of the newly added cavalry are light cavalry.

In addition, Yan Fei also had 30,000 heavily armored infantry commanded by Han Shizhong, as well as a logistics auxiliary force of about 40,000 people composed of imperial guards and ever-winning troops.

In terms of quantity alone, the gap between the two sides is actually not big. But if we talk about quality, Yan Fei has an absolute advantage. This is true in terms of personnel quality, weapons and equipment, logistics supply, and even off-site support.

The soldiers on Yan Fei's side were carefully selected young and strong, and they had received military training. Many of them were veterans who had been on the battlefield. A large part of the Jurchens were children and old men. These people may have commendable courage, but their physical fitness and combat experience were not worth mentioning. Because most of their young and strong men died outside the city of Bianliang.

Most of the weapons and equipment he brought from the modern world, especially those exquisite iron armor and explosion-proof shields were enough to make the enemies in the cold weapon era desperate. The Jurchens could not even have a weapon, and many people were even using hunting tools. As for armor, the number of iron armor was rare, and most people still used leather armor. There were even many people who did not even have armor and were wearing cloth clothes.

In terms of logistics supply, although Yan Fei's army came here for thousands of miles, especially on the long road after heading north to leave Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, they encountered the most harshest clearing of the walls and harsh environments. However, Yan Fei, who had been prepared for this, brought a large number of military tents, military sleeping bags, military rations, compressed biscuits, canned meat and fruits, dehydrated vegetables, and a large number of various medicines, etc., fully ensuring the logistics supply.

And every night when camping, Yan Fei would occasionally use the white cloth in the old cinema to play welfare movies to the soldiers, and at the same time tell all the soldiers that the wealth and women of Huining Mansion will be their prizes after winning. The morale of the soldiers who were red eyes and smoked and watched welfare movies was simply overwhelming.

As for the logistics of the Jurchens, they simply did not have logistics. They rely entirely on the reserves in Huining Mansion to support the military's consumption. If they did not fight, the Jurchens would eat all the food they could eat and fall into collapse after that.

Speaking of off-field support, Yan Fei brought tanks from the modern world. His natural power was enough to sweep the world with alloy steel sticks similar to golden cudgels.

The Jurchens' off-field support was not a single hair except for those shamans who jumped the gods.

No matter what aspect, Yan Fei has an absolute advantage. He has sufficient confidence to be sure that he will win.

Just after noon, the high clouds in the sky slowly floated under the warm wind, and some unknown insects jumped around the plants. The ancient black soil was lush and full of vitality. However, all of this was torn apart by the fierce fighting.

Although it was Wanyan Xie's first battle with Yan Fei's army, he also learned about the relevant information of the army in front of him from all aspects. The cavalrymen on both wings whose men and horses were covered with iron armor were definitely not easy to mess with. If they place the main attack direction on those cavalry, they will definitely be bleeding from the head.

If you can't fight the cavalry, you can only hit the central army in the middle. But looking at the dense iron-armored soldiers in front of you, Wanyan Xi also felt very scratching his head.
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