Traveling through Tianlong: Starting from the Zhenlong chess game

Chapter 507 The morale of the Xixia Army collapsed
This one-sided battle of annihilation lasted all night. It was not until dawn the next day that the Xixia army was really outmatched, and then they retreated to their respective cities.

After the victory, the Song army did not pursue it. Instead, he began to tally his results and count casualties.

After a whole day of statistics, casualty reports from each battalion were reported.

Among them, the infantry suffered more than 8,000 casualties, but most of them suffered varying degrees of injuries, and less than 2,000 were actually killed.

The cavalry suffered 3,000 casualties, most of which were killed by the enemy after their horses were injured and fell off.

Zhao Mu's trump card, Tiefu Tu, suffered more than 80 casualties. More than twenty people died. These people all died from the weakness of their horses. They either fell down or were trampled to death. Only seven or eight people were actually killed by the enemy.

The defenders of Yingchou Gorge suffered the greatest casualties, with more than 1,000 people killed and 4,000 injured.

Although the Song army suffered heavy casualties in this battle, the results were also good.

They completely wiped out 30,000 Liao reinforcements led by Xiao Ye, captured 10,000 horses, and countless armor, weapons and other supplies. However, less than half of the more than 200,000 troops of Xixia were directly beheaded by the Song army.

Now there are less than 80,000 people who have fled back to Xiazhou City. The rest of the people were scattered to other cities, or simply became deserters.

At this time, the Song army was taking the captured heads under Xiazhou City to build a temple in Beijing, and by the way, they were counting the military achievements of each department.

Looking at the jingguan piled up like a hill, Li Qinglu suddenly felt her eyes darken and fainted. It wasn't until Xiaolei pinched her and gave her several breaths that she finally came to her senses.

Now Li Qinglu doesn't know whether what she did is right or not. As the princess of Xixia Kingdom, she should protect her people. Now their heads lay there like a tower, and she could do nothing.

When she thought about each of these heads, there was a family, women who had lost their husbands, children who had lost their fathers, and parents who had lost their sons. Li Qinglu couldn't help but feel dizzy when she thought of their faces full of tears.

After Li Qinglu woke up, she walked directly to Zhao Mu's camp. At this time, Zhao Mu was writing a letter to Yelu Yanxiu.

Although Li Qinglu was wearing a veil, her face turned from rosy to pale, which made Zhao Mu a little worried. He asked, "What's wrong?"

Li Qinglu said: "Husband, I." But Li Qinglu couldn't say it.

Xiaolei said at this time: "Your Majesty, His Highness fainted when he saw Jingguan."

Zhao Mu said with concern: "Oh? Is there such a thing?"

Li Qinglu sighed and said: "Yes. Those people are my people in Daxia after all. I"

Zhao Mu knew that Li Qinglu felt a little guilty now. Zhao Mu reassured him: "We are doing this just so that we can fight without bloodshed later. We are doing this so that more people can live. Besides, this is nothing."

Li Qinglu frowned and asked: "Isn't this nothing? Yes! After all, it's not your people who died in the Song Dynasty, so of course you won't be heartbroken."

When Zhao Mu faced Li Qinglu's question, he replied: "I only killed soldiers. And if I don't fight this battle, after your Xixia army breaks the city, the materials used to build the capital will not only be soldiers. Moreover, The Xixia Army’s base is much higher than mine.”

When Li Qinglu heard Zhao Mu's words, she was immediately speechless. Because Zhao Mu was right, the Xixia army would massacre the city after breaking it, and the only people who could survive in the city were the women and little girls who were treated as trophies. Zhao Mu looked at his lover's softened attitude, and then comforted him: "Okay, don't think too much, this is the nature of war. Now that the war has started, we have to compare who has the bottom line. And I am a person with a bottom line. At least that's the case for you Xixia people. And I included Xixia for the sake of future generations. If Qinglu doesn't want to see bloodshed anymore, I'll leave the rest to you."

Li Qinglu nodded after hearing this. She said: "Well! Leave it to me. Now we have all the deterrents we should have. I can also persuade General Helian to surrender. But I still have some feelings in my heart."

Zhao Mu said: "Let's do this. After we take Lingzhou City and take over Xixia, I will exempt the families of these fallen soldiers from taxes for three years. That's all right."

Li Qinglu stepped forward and kissed Zhao Mu on the face through her veil.

Li Qinglu said: "Then I will thank my husband on behalf of the people of Daxia."

Zhao Mu said nothing, just smiled slightly. After all, he was just doing a favor.

This is because he had discussed it with Zhe Zong before. After occupying Xixia, in order to win over the people, they exempted and exempted taxes for three years. And Zhao Mu is now using this matter to deal with Li Qinglu, just writing a check that has been cashed.

Li Qinglu asked at this time: "By the way, husband, when will I go into the city to persuade General Helian to surrender?"

Zhao Mu replied: "It's not yet time, we have to drive them completely into despair. The current Jingguan is just to scare them. It's not too late to go there in two days."

Li Qinglu nodded, and then left with Xiaolei.

Zhao Mu returned to Shuai's case and continued to write his letter. In his letters, he severely ridiculed the incompetence of the Liao army. He told Yelu Yanxiu not to make any more unnecessary resistance. The only way for the Liao State to go now was to completely surrender to the Song Dynasty. If they still persist in their obsession, then these 30,000 reinforcements will be their fate in the future.

After Zhao Mu finished writing the letter, he asked Ju Jian to bring the messenger over. Zhao Mu handed the letter to him, then asked someone to bring him a fast horse, gave him a package of gold, and sent him away. He went back to Liao Kingdom.

After two days of psychological offensive, the defenders in Xiazhou City were frightened when they looked at the Jingguan, which was almost as high as the city wall. Some of the soldiers lamented God's blessing and managed to escape. Not being one of them.

Because of fear, the defenders in the city have wavered, and many troops have even deserted.

Although deserters appeared in the team, Helian Tieshu did not stop them. Because he no longer wanted to fight this war.

The reason is very simple, that is, there is no possibility of winning at all. Even if there is a glimmer of hope of victory, he will hold on to the city until the last moment.

That night a few days ago was something he never wanted to recall in his life. Now he understood somewhat what Xiao Ye said before. If possible, never become King Qi's opponent in your life.

After returning to the city that day, Helian Tieshu checked the casualties of his troops. He lost nearly half of his troops at once, and his morale was also extremely low.

The iron pagoda sent by Zhao Mu is simply a walking monster. The momentum of the attack can even be described as overwhelming, which is completely beyond the ability of the Xixia army to resist.

Nowadays, the Xixia Army is no longer the opponent of the Song Army in the field battles that they are most proud of. Helian Tieshu really couldn't think of how else to fight against the Song army.

As for the current brothers who wanted to escape for their lives, he would not stop them.

(End of this chapter)