Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 636
Not long after the Xixia army crossed the river, a fleet appeared at the place where the Xixia army crossed the river and blocked the river.

The Xixia army marched quickly, and a day later, the army arrived at the foot of Wuyuan City.

A huge city suddenly appeared on the vast plain, which really startled Cui Shancheng. It could be seen that the city was newly built. The walls were as high as three feet and three feet, and they were all made of large blue stones, which were extremely strong.

But soon, Cui Shancheng discovered some clues. There were not many soldiers on the city, and the city was too large to disperse the defenders. Cui Shancheng quickly guessed that this was a craftsman who repaired the city, and was temporarily pulled by the Song army to participate in the defense of the city.

He boldly judged that there would not be more than 3000 soldiers of the Song army in the city. He believed that as long as the army was overwhelming and the city was attacked with an absolute superiority, the newly built city could be captured in one morning.

This was actually Cui Shancheng's helpless move. The order he received was to go northward with light clothes and quickly expel the Song army and herdsmen, so he didn't even bring a large tent with him, and led the army all the way northward.

But he never imagined that the Song army had already built the city, which was completely different from the grassland battle he had envisioned.

The Xixia Army didn't bring much dry food, so he could only stay in the Hetao area for five days at most, and then he had to return to Xingqing Mansion. Cui Shancheng was not mentally prepared for a long-term war at all.

He then ordered his soldiers to cut down trees in the nearby woods and made hundreds of crude siege weapons overnight.

In the early morning of the next day, the sound of rumbling war drums resounded across the grassland. Fifteen thousand Xixia troops attacked Wuyuan City from four directions at the same time. With [-] troops on the front line, he demanded that the city be captured within one morning.

Black soldiers rushed towards the city from four directions, shouting while running, carrying simple siege ladders and leather rafts.

But Cui Shancheng never dreamed that there would be [-] soldiers waiting for them in the city, and another [-] cavalry hiding in the woods several miles away, waiting for the order to attack.

The ten-foot-wide moat could not stop the Xixia soldiers. They quickly reached the pontoon bridge with rafts and planks and rushed across the moat. Only sparse arrows shot down from the top of the city, which was no threat to the overwhelming Xixia soldiers.

A set of siege ladders was put up on the top of the city, and the Xixia soldiers rushed to the top of the city frantically. The soldiers of the Song Army on the top of the city resisted desperately.

'When! When!when! 'The bell for the withdrawal of troops came from the inner city, and three thousand soldiers quickly retreated to the inner city.

Fourteen thousand Xixia troops flooded into the outer city like a tide, took out the siege ladder, and continued to attack the inner city.

Cui Shancheng also climbed to the top of the southern city, and only then did he see clearly the original appearance of this big city. There used to be an inner city and an outer city. The inner city was the former Tiande City, and the outer city was all open land, and there were patches of vegetables growing there.

Cui Shancheng frowned slightly, he always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell.

The [-] Xixia troops all entered the outer city. The siege ladders were erected on the city wall and continued to attack the inner city.

Arrows rained down from the top of the city, and the arrows were much denser than before.

"No! Why did the Song army suddenly have more defenders?"

He found that there were at least [-] Song soldiers on the inner city, far more than the thousands of people just now. With [-] defenders, they can completely defend the outer city. Why did they abandon the outer city?

'Lure the enemy to go deep! '

This word suddenly popped up in Cui Shancheng's mind, and he broke out in a cold sweat, and ordered urgently: "Retreat!"

As soon as the words fell, there was a sudden sound of war drums in the inner city, "Boom-boom-boom! ' The voice was low, like a signal for action.

Immediately afterwards, the overwhelming rockets in the inner city soared into the sky and shot out of the city. A fire unexpectedly ignited outside the city. The kerosene buried in the soil was ignited, and the fire spread rapidly in the outer city. The soldiers in the city continued to dump kerosene, and the siege ladders were ignited.

The Xixia soldiers were in a panic, turned around and fled towards the outer city wall. The fire was too strong. Many soldiers ran and fell into the flames. They were burned and screamed. The Xixia soldiers pushed and trampled each other. , Soldier arrows shot out like raindrops, and one by one Xixia soldiers fell down from the arrows, causing extremely heavy casualties.

At this time, Cui Shancheng turned his head abruptly, and he heard the sound of a horn outside the city, "Woo—" The sound of the horn was low.

I saw two groups of cavalry, each with thousands of people, attacking the soldiers left outside the city, one left and one right. The army snatched it away.

Only then did Cui Shancheng realize that he had been fooled, and he paid a heavy price for underestimating the enemy. Filled with remorse, he knelt on the top of the wall and beat the ground.

Some soldiers advised him, "General, retreat quickly! You can count as much as you can withdraw!"

Cui Shancheng also knew that it would be too late if he didn't leave, he nodded and said: "Order the whole army to retreat!"

Thousands of people have fled back to the outer city walls, but they are faced with a more serious reality, how will they get down the city?

The siege ladders were all burned down by the inner city wall, so they had to go down the city again and rushed out from the city gate. Many soldiers were so anxious that they jumped directly into the moat outside the city. They jumped a little farther and barely fell into the water. If your legs are not strong enough, you can only fall to your death on the spot.

However, the place where the fire burned most violently was near the outer city gate. The kerosene tank thrown by Song Jun fell to the ground and shattered, and a large amount of black kerosene flowed along the ditch to the outer city gate.

When Cui Shancheng saw that the soldiers outside the city had been killed to pieces and were about to be wiped out, he became anxious and ordered, "Take off your armor and jump into the river!"

This is a good way. Anyway, when you go out from the city gate and swim across the moat, you have to take off your armor. It's better to take off your armor now and jump directly into the river.

Thousands of soldiers took off their armor one after another and jumped into the moat. The soldiers who could swim directly swam to the opposite bank, while the soldiers who could not swim struggled to grab the rafts, climbed onto the pontoon bridge, stumbled and ran to the opposite bank.

But when they ran ashore, it was the beginning of another hell. The seven thousand Song Army cavalry had defeated the one thousand Xixia soldiers who stayed behind, and they all rode their horses to kill the Xixia soldiers who rushed across the moat.

This was almost a one-sided massacre. Cui Shancheng finally escaped from the city gate and rushed over the pontoon bridge with a dozen of his own soldiers, but died under the random arrows of the Song cavalry.

In this battle, the Song army took advantage of the Xixia army's misjudgment and Cui Shancheng's underestimation of the enemy, and wiped out 200 Xixia troops under the Wuyuan City. Swim across the Yellow River and flee to the military city of Hue hundreds of miles away.

The news first spread to Bianliang, Tokyo, and the city was full of celebrations. All major newspapers published headlines on the front pages, "Xiao Fan Xianggong swept Hetao, bravely wiped out tens of thousands of Xixia enemies, and the hometown of Han and Tang Dynasties returned to Song Dynasty." '

Encouraged by the imperial court, the Empress Dowager Cao decreed that Fan Ning was conferred the title of King of Wu Jun and Grand Master.

Historically, although there were many kings with different surnames in the Great Song Dynasty, almost all of them were gifted after death. There were very few kings with different surnames during their lifetime, and they were mainly concentrated in the Southern Song Dynasty. Fan Ning is No. 1 among those with different surnames Wang.

This is not just a reward for the victory of Hetao, but also a great victory in Hebei. The two major contributions are superimposed, and the merits cannot be commended unless they are crowned king. Empress Dowager Cao complied with the situation and finally gave the king to Fan Ning. Fanning is 31 years old.

The emperor Zhao Xu firmly believed in the feasibility of attacking Xixia from the north. He ordered to send 20 troops and [-] horses. Under the command of Di Qing, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, they marched to Hetao in a mighty manner. Go to Yulin by water.

The news also spread to Xingqing Mansion, but it shocked the entire Xixia nation. The Empress Dowager Liang finally realized the seriousness of the problem. The Song army's capture of Hetao was not only for the purpose of raising horses, but most likely to attack Xixia from the north.

However, there is no defensive city in the north of Xingqing Mansion. Once the Song army goes south, it will directly approach the city of Xingqing Mansion.

Empress Dowager Liang was terrified, and immediately ordered to cancel the plan to attack Qingzhou in the Song Dynasty. The 30 troops were transferred back to Xingqing Mansion, and then the general Wang Mengye was ordered to lead an army of [-] in the northern expedition to Hetao, including [-] soldiers. Harrier heavy cavalry.

At the same time, Empress Dowager Liang sent people to the capital of the Liao Kingdom to persuade the Liao Kingdom to attack Yulin from the east and cut off the supplies of the Hetao Song Army.

(End of this chapter)