Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 649
The battle of Xixia was in full swing. After the Song army wiped out the 36 Xixia army in Huaizhou, it completely gained a foothold in the hinterland of Xixia. Di Qing immediately sent troops to attack the south and beat the Xixia frontier army by surprise. Junzhai opened up the road for Song Jun to go north on Shaanxi Road.

Under the leadership of coach Han Jiang and deputy commander Zhong Er, the 30 army marched into Xixia in two ways, and surrounded the [-] Xixia remnant army in Yanzhou City.

At the same time, the Tubo leader, who discovered the opportunity to fight, suspended his journey to the Song Dynasty, and led 12 Tubo to attack the [-] Xixia army stationed in Hexi. The army attacked the Xixia garrison.

There is no Song army outside the city of Xingqing Prefecture, but the city gates are still closed. The Huaizhou trap has left an extremely painful lesson for Duomao. Take a risk.

Although the Song Army cannot be seen outside the city of Xingqing Mansion, it does not mean that the Song Army will go far away. On the contrary, all Xixia soldiers know that the Song Army is like a tiger, watching Xingqing Mansion. As long as the army leaves the city, it will be swallowed by the tiger. .

The reason why the Empress Dowager Liang did not dismiss her from Rome was because she had no one available. Her brother Liang Yi went to the Song Dynasty to negotiate, but there was no news. The Liao Kingdom showed no sign of preparing to attack the Song army. Her royal family has always been eyeing her. The royal family supports the regent system, not the empress dowager.

Empress Dowager Liang was plagued by internal and external troubles, and there might be ways to relieve the foreign troubles, but the royal family in the city would probably show their ferocious faces to her without hesitation once they got the chance.

It was also for this reason that even though the Empress Dowager Liang deeply hated Du Rome's failure to live up to expectations, she withstood the pressure of countless people and refused to dismiss him.

In the palace, Empress Dowager Liang is discussing the issue of the army of Yanzhou with Du Luowei. Sixty thousand soldiers are trapped in Yanzhou.

Although Du Luowei is greedy and selfish, he is a veteran general after all, and he knows more about military affairs than the Queen Mother Liang. He was silent for a moment and said, "Yanzhou also has to pass through the Gobi for three hundred miles first, how can they escape?" The pursuit of the 30 Song army, followed by crossing the Yellow River, crossing the Yellow River is a dead end, it is better to stick to Yanzhou, the city wall of Yanzhou is tall and strong, if there is enough food, it will not be a problem to stick to it for a year.”

"It seems that their food can only last for three months." Empress Dowager Liang said.

"It's much better for three months. If you stick to it, there will always be hope."

Empress Dowager Liang walked a few steps with her hands behind her back and asked, "How is the recruiting situation in the city?"

"Reporting to the Empress Dowager, there are a lot of troops. At least 3 troops can be recruited, but there are not enough soldiers in the city. At most 7 people can be armed, and the remaining [-] people can only be used for combat preparations."

The Empress Dowager Liang frowned, "Why is there a lack of armor? Isn't every household equipped with weapons? There are none in the official warehouse. Can't you go to the people to collect them? There are more than 100 million people in the city. I don't believe you can't make up a few knives." ?”

"Humble job understands, humble job goes to civilians to collect weapons as much as possible."

"Also, how long can our food last?"

"If we stick to the strict rationing system, we can last for about two months, but if it's too bad, we can still slaughter livestock, so we can last for a while."

"I see, you go back first!"

Empress Dowager Liang was upset when she thought that the royal family opposed the rationing system she had implemented.

Yanzhou is located in the middle of the southern Xixia defense line. It is the outermost city. It is backed by Liubo Ridge and behind is a vast mountain. However, two water gates in the north and south were formed.

There are more than 1 people in Yanzhou City, basically all of them are party members. Originally, there were only [-] defenders, but now [-] troops have been squeezed into the city, making the city a bit chaotic.

The general of the commanding army was named Li Chaolun, who was also from the royal family. He did not plan to defend Yanzhou City, but planned to retreat to Xiping Mansion first, and then cross the Yellow River from Xiping Mansion to Xingqing Mansion.

However, the army was blocked by the Song army when they crossed the iron gate, and thousands of people were injured or injured. They could not attack the iron gate, so they had to withdraw again, and the 30 troops had chased them, so they had to retreat to Yanzhou City.

Outside the city of Yanzhou, the Song army built a board-wall camp. The three camps were distributed in the southeast and west directions, while Liubo Ridge was to the north, and the Song army was stationed on the ridge, which almost surrounded Yanzhou.

Li Chaolun stood at the top of the city, looking at the direction of the capital in the distance. He only heard that the Song army had controlled the Yellow River, but he didn't know to what extent. He only hoped to receive the Queen Mother's order to let him return to the north. , he led his army to break through, he would rather die on the battlefield than be trapped to death in the city.

At this time, he suddenly saw a few eagles flying from the north, and at first sight they were trained eagles. When the news from the north came, he was overjoyed and hurried to the Eagle Tower.

A few eagles landed on the Eagle Tower, and the Eagle Slave had already taken off the letter from his lap and handed it to the soldiers. As soon as the soldier ran down the Eagle Tower, he met Li Chaolun and quickly saluted, "General, it's a letter from Xingqing Mansion."

"I know, give me the letter!"

Li Chaolun took the letter box, and pulled out a scroll, which was handwritten by the Empress Dowager Liang and written in Chinese. After reading the letter, Li Chaolun's face suddenly became ugly. He was actually asked to stick to Yanzhou City. With a sound, he turned around and went down the city with great dissatisfaction.

At the same moment when Li Chaolun received the letter from Xingqing Mansion, Han Jiang, Di Qing, and Chong Er were discussing the final strategy to break the city in the Chinese military tent in the West Camp outside the city.

Fan Ning hoped that the army of the South Road could solve the defense of Yanzhou City within a month, and then the two families would join forces to encircle Xingqing Mansion.

It has been almost ten days since they surrounded Yanzhou City, but the Xixia Army has never broken out of the city, and it is inevitable to attack the city.

According to the intelligence of the scouts, they have sorted out various data of Yanzhou City. Zhong Er introduced to everyone: "The city wall is two feet five feet high and thirty miles in circumference. Like other city walls in Xixia, it is made of mud. Last year Renovated, there are two city gates, the west city and the east city, without moats, and all Xixia cities have no moats. We can use heavy battering rams to break open the city gates, or use trebuchets to smash down the city walls. As for using siege ladders To be honest, I am not in favor of a full-scale siege, as the casualties would be too great."

"How is the street fighting strength of the Xixia Army?" Han Jiang asked.

"The [-] army is a mountain army. They are good at fighting in the mountains. They should be relatively strong in street fighting in the city, but we choose to fight at night."

"The Xixia army is not good at night battles?" Han Jiang was a little puzzled.

Zhong Er smiled slightly: "It's not whether they are good at it, but I have specially trained [-] troops for night battles for a whole year, so we will definitely have an advantage in night battles."

Han Jiang sighed slightly, "Once a brutal street fighting breaks out, the people in the city will be implicated."

"Master, there is no way. War is like this. It is very difficult for the people involved in the war to survive. If we take pity on the people, we will have to pay heavy casualties."

"I know, it's just emotion."

Han Jiang saw that Di Qing had been in deep thought and remained silent, so she asked with a smile, "What is the opinion of Privy Councilor Di?"

Di Qing pointed to the Kushui River on the map: "Since this river passes through the city, isn't there a water gate?"

Zhong Er said: "They didn't build a water gate, but opened a gap about Zhang Xu wide under the north and south walls. The shape is like a crescent moon buckling on the ground, and the river flows in and out through these two gaps."

Di Qing's eyes lit up, "Is it possible to sneak into the city from the bottom of the water?"

"impossible!"

Zhong Er shook his head and said: "The Xixia army installed a barbed wire net in the gap, all iron bars thick as a thumb, inserted all the way to the bottom. If the scouts went to explore, people would definitely not be able to sneak in."

Di Qing nodded, "Leave the siege to me, and General Zhong will prepare for the night battle!"

(End of this chapter)