Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 645 The Huaizhou Trap

Huaizhou is located about [-] miles southeast of Xingqing Prefecture, surrounded by endless wheat fields, and close to the Yellow River to the east. The city of Huaizhou is not high, and even a little low. It was not designed for defense, but for agriculture. The center needs a city like this.

Huaizhou is located in the center of grain production, and the grain depot in the city is huge. It is the second largest grain depot in Xixia after the wharf grain depot in Xingqing Prefecture. It has 40 shi of grain and 20 dan of fodder, which is larger than the royal grain depot in Xingqing Prefecture. The library is also twice as large.

There were originally [-] troops stationed in Huaizhou. After King Qin rushed to Xingqing Mansion in a hurry, Huaizhou fell into the hands of the Song Army, and the grain depot naturally became the Song Army's possession.

What Zhang Fu said was right. Xingqing Mansion had a large population and a serious shortage of food. After driving out the Han people, they still couldn't solve the serious food shortage problem. They turned their attention to the outside world. The government does have food, but it is too far away, and on the east bank of the Yellow River, there is not much food in Dingzhou, Jingzhou, and Shunzhou. Only 40 shi of food in Huaizhou is enough to solve their immediate crisis.

Du Rome immediately sent spies to investigate the surroundings and the situation in Huaizhou. Except for the inside and outside of the Yellow River, within a radius of ten miles, it was not found that the Song Army had about two to three thousand garrisons in Huaizhou, and there were thousands of garrisons in Jingzhou and Shunzhou.

Although there were not many troops stationed in several cities, Du Luowei did not intend to take back all the surrounding cities. He knew very well that the Song army wanted him to divide his troops so that they could defeat them one by one. Seizing food was their top priority.

After observing for several days in a row, there was no sign of food being transferred. The spies found that at night, the Song Army's defense was extremely lax, and there were very few defenders on the top of the city. Du Luowei suspected that this was a trick of the Song Army to lure troops, but What if it is true?After all, the other cities are the same, and Huaizhou is not special.

After two days of hesitation, Du Luowei, who was tortured by the lack of food, finally made up his mind.

At two o'clock, a grain grabbing army of 3 people arrived in Huaizhou. They drove thousands of carts and waited a mile outside the city. General Li Qing broke out in a cold sweat. At this moment, a soldier rushed over and reported in a hurry: "The defenders in the city have been alarmed, but we have captured the city gate. Please enter the city immediately, general."

Li Qing was overjoyed and ordered: "Go to the city!"

With a roar, [-] soldiers rushed towards the city, and entered the city in a short while. The [-] Song soldiers in the city saw the enemy's full-scale attack, and retreated from the east gate one after another.

The Xixia army re-occupied Huaizhou, and 20 Xixia drove carts outside the city to the city gate. The grain depot had been opened, and there were piles of about [-] shi inside, half of which was transported away by the Song army, but Li Qing Satisfied already, he immediately ordered all the soldiers to move the food together.

At this time, the Song Army outside the city had already surrounded Huaizhou City, tens of thousands of bows and crossbows were aimed at the west gate of Huaizhou, and [-] cavalry were lying in ambush on the only way to Huaizhou from Xingqing Mansion.

An abnormality occurred in the grain depot at this time. After Xixia soldiers moved the two thousand shi of grain on the surface layer, they suddenly found that the grain underneath had become heavier. But sand.

Li Qing was also stunned, and ordered further investigation, and soon a soldier reported that except for the first batch of [-] bags of grain, the bottom was full of sandbags, and the bottom was not even sandbags, but soil was directly piled up.

"be cheated!"

Li Qing turned around abruptly, and shouted sharply: "This is a trap, the whole army retreats immediately!"

But it was too late, the city suddenly burst into flames, and the houses in the city were full of fire starters such as sulfur, dry wood, and wheat straw, and the fire spread rapidly throughout the city.

The [-] Xixia troops were terrified and fled out of the city. The Xixia soldiers ran out of the city, but the Song army shot them mercilessly. Countless soldiers screamed and fell down. In just a moment, the corpses outside the city had piled up rapidly.

The same is true outside the East City. The Xixia soldiers who tried to escape from the East City were also attacked by the Song Army's brutal arrow rain. Twenty thousand Song Army archers blocked the east and west gates. Before reaching the city gate, they were engulfed by ruthless fire.

There are still many soldiers rushing to the top of the city, but there is no fire on the top of the city.They could escape temporarily, but even so, they would not be able to escape the suppression of the Song army after dawn.

The whole city of Huaizhou was in flames, which could be clearly seen tens of miles away. Romawei stood at the head of the city, looking at the raging fire and billowing smoke in the distance. What he was most worried about happened. The [-] troops were caught. At this moment, his heart seemed to fall into the abyss, which made him very anxious, and he immediately ordered the general Cui Yinliu to lead [-] troops to rush to meet him, and he counted as much as he saved.

The gate of the city opened, and [-] infantry rushed out of the city and rushed towards the southeast. In the night, nothing could be seen clearly, and there were forests all around. Many generals wanted to remind the capital to be careful not to set up an ambush by the Song army on the way. But in the end no one said anything.

Du Luowei is the backbone of Queen Mother Liang's mother party. Liang Yibu's promoted confidant has deep seniority in the army, but this person has no real skills, but he brags that he is a first-class flatterer. In order to please Queen Mother Liang, he even publicly declared his loyalty to the Liang family , Flattering the superiors, being harsh to the subordinates, and beating, scolding and scolding subordinates is commonplace.

Moreover, Du Luowei is ruthless and extremely greedy. This time he took away all the property of 10 wealthy Han families. It is said that the gold alone amounted to as much as [-] taels, but he didn't even distribute a penny to his subordinates. Greed, the property of other ordinary Han people is said to be distributed to soldiers, but five or six days have passed, and there has been no movement at all. Many people speculate that this wealth may have been corrupted by his family.

It is precisely because of Du Luowei's obsequiousness, cruelty and greed that he is hated by the generals of the Xixia Army, making him a loner. No one reminds him to pay attention to the risk of ambush, and even many generals secretly hope that he will be in his arms tonight. There was a big fight in the grain grab in the state.

It is about twenty miles from Xingqing Mansion to Huaizhou, surrounded by vast plains, densely covered with rivers and canals, the largest of which is called Haowang Canal, located eight miles east of Xingqing Mansion, it was dredged and built by Li Yuanhao during his reign. The canal is 24 feet wide and [-] miles long, and three wooden bridges have been built on it.

The [-] troops crossed the wooden bridge and continued to run in the direction of Huaizhou, but just after running for less than three miles, there were continuous earth-shattering explosions behind them. The soldiers stopped and looked back in amazement. Not far away, three strands of thick smoke rose into the sky. Judging from the distance of the smoke, many people guessed that it was the three wooden bridges on Haowang Canal that exploded.

At this moment, there was a sound of clappers suddenly coming from the north of the official road, followed by thousands of arrows, and the dense arrows attacked the soldiers of the Xixia army on the official road like a storm. , The soldiers were terrified, turned around and ran southward.

'Woo——' the low horn sounded.

The overwhelming Song Army cavalry came, and [-] cavalry rushed directly into the Xixia soldiers, split and smashed their ranks, and the impact was scattered. The Xixia soldiers could not resist, and they were defeated. Running wildly in the boundless wheat fields, followed by the cavalry chasing them, mercilessly cutting off their necks and piercing their backs.

This was a heart-wrenching night for the Xixia people. A total of [-] troops grabbing food and [-] supporting soldiers died in the fire and under the hooves of the horses.

It was getting brighter, and the nearly 7000-mile-long wheat field was trampled to pieces, and the corpses of Xixia soldiers who had been killed could be seen everywhere. Teams of Song Army soldiers cleaned up the corpses in the wilderness, and more than [-] people were killed. The cavalry of the Song Army killed them, but still more than [-] people swam through Haowang Canal and fled back to Xingqing Mansion.

In this brutal war of annihilating the country, the Song army did not accept prisoners of war, and all Xixia soldiers were physically wiped out, including the [-] Xixia soldiers who fell into the trap last night while grabbing food. The fire in the city has gradually extinguished, and the two cities The corpses of the door were piled up like a mountain. Thousands of Xixia soldiers who escaped the fire on the top of the city did not escape the Song Army's suppression in the end, and all died under the Song Army's arrows and swords at dawn.

Wars have always been cruel, the strong are swordsmen, the weak are fish and meat. In the past 30 to 10 years, the soldiers of the Song Army were brutally slaughtered by the Xixia Army, and no less than [-] people were brutally massacred, but today it is the turn of the Xixia soldiers.

Du Luowei listened to the report in a daze. The [-] troops he sent were killed overnight, and only [-] people fled back. , fell to the ground on his back.

(End of this chapter)