Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1106 Xiangfu Country Sends Troops

Liu Xingwang's complexion changed slightly, and he said in a low voice, "Master, speak carefully."

Zhao Zan said: "Speak carefully...you think we still have the day to see His Majesty, and you think the imperial court still has a large army capable of supporting us."

Liu Xingwang smiled wryly, and said with a look of despair: "Yes! Our food is already insufficient, and it will be exhausted in a month at most. Even if we hold it for a month, the army in the city will have no food to eat, how can we hold it?" Live in the city."

"But I would rather die than surrender to the Liao people." Zhao Zan said with a determined face.

Liu Xingwang said: "On the day the city is broken, please kill me personally."

The wind is whimpering, the huge city under the night sky, Zhending Mansion is the main garrison of the northern camp, the city is towering and strong, like a giant female lying on the ground, the army brought back by Zhao Zan still has nearly 6 people, as long as there is enough food and weapons, With the Liao army's siege methods, it is not surprising that the Zhending Mansion could not be captured for a year.However, the biggest problem in the Song Dynasty today is the lack of food, or the lack of food in the north of the Yellow River, and the lack of food in Zhending Prefecture.

To the north of the city, the Liao army began to set up camp. Tomorrow, they will start making siege equipment and make psychological preparations for a long-term attack.

The heart of a famous general and an excellent commander who was loyal to the Song Dynasty was broken on this day, and it will be irreparable forever.

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With the addition of the Volunteer Legion, the other eight major legions are preparing for battle these days, all the officials in the court of Xiangfu Kingdom, inside and outside the army, and civil and military officials are all excited.

Xiangfu Kingdom is already very big, Hengshan Grassland, Hetao Plain, Hexi Corridor, River Locust Area, plus Lanzhou, Taozhou, Minzhou, Xizhou, to be honest, the land is not smaller than Song Dynasty, but Xiangfu Fu Guojun and ministers still feel that it is not enough.There is no other reason, just because they are surrounded by the more affluent Song, Wu, and Wuyue countries, as well as the northern big country of Liao.

As long as one is an official, there is no one who does not want to make contributions, and this is especially true in all Xiangfu countries where credit is used. Enough credit represents a noble title, which means conferring a wife and son, prosperity and wealth.But now among the civil and military officials of the Xiangfu Kingdom, there are like a cloud of fierce generals, and among the virtuous ministers, there are also capable people, and ambitious people can be found everywhere.So many people, if they don't fight the world, where will they get credit.Therefore, everyone was waiting for this day to happen, waiting for Ye Chen to issue the final order to send troops.

But in fact, only a small number of people knew that the strategic deployment of sending troops had already been completed, and the two commanders Huang Dongqiu and Yang Jiye, as well as a small number of important officials such as Han Xizai, Ma Wentao, and Shangguan Bingyun, had already known when to send troops.

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In Tianding three years, on October [-]th, under the anticipation of civil and military officials in the country and many people in the Song Dynasty, Xiangfu Kingdom divided the north and south armies and sent troops to the Song Dynasty.

Yang Jiye on the North Road commanded the four armies of Black Wolf, White Wolf, Zhelan, and Xuanwu, with a total of 16 people.Starting from their respective bases, relying on all kinds of sharp siege weapons, they smashed through eleven military fortresses and seven military forts built by the Song State in the past two or three years at the Yongxing Military Road from north to south within seven days. counties, four of which opened their doors and surrendered directly after the soldiers approached the city.

Taking advantage of the fact that the four major armies had not joined forces, Dang Jin led an army of [-] at Masanguan to block the Xuanwu Army led by Zhan Xiongwu, who was advancing the fastest.[-] vs. [-] field battles. When the fierce battle started, Dang Jin, who was expected to win, was taken aback and felt cold in his heart.

More than a year ago, the last field battle between the Song army and the Xiangfu army, if you don't mention the sharpness of Xiangfu's various powerful long-range attack weapons, mainly gunpowder bags, the combat power of the Xiangfu army is not far behind the Song army. very big.But now it is a big difference.The difference here is not that the Song Army's individual combat power and battle formation are much worse than Xiangfu, but because Xiangfu Kingdom's iron armor has become steel plate armor, and the iron weapons in his hands have also become steel knives and guns. The defense value of the weapon and the sharpness value of the weapon have been greatly improved, which directly greatly improves the combat power of every soldier in Xiangfu Kingdom.Compared with the past, the armor and weapons of the Song Kingdom are still the same, although compared with other countries except Xiangfu Kingdom, they are considered to be well-equipped, and everyone has iron armor.But compared with Xiangfu Guoyi, the gap widened.

However, the Song army relied on 3000 more troops, and the two sides fought peacefully at the beginning. In addition, after suddenly launching [-] vehicle-mounted Baifa crossbows and throwing hundreds of grenades, the Song army fell down in an instant, not to mention more than [-] people, and then there was a rout.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the Song army to be defeated. Dangjin was shocked, left more than 7000 corpses, and returned to Gyeongju to shrink his troops.

The Northwest Frontier Army is a true veteran of all battles. With more battles and fewer, and Dang Jin personally led the troops, they were so easily defeated by a legion of Xiangfu Kingdom. Of course, Xiangfu Kingdom has excellent equipment and sharp weapons. But another reason is that the morale of the Northwest Frontier Army is unstable, and its morale is less than half that of its heyday.The reason is still the same reason that the family members, relatives, and friends of the officers and soldiers, the people they want to protect, were not rescued by the imperial court and the government when they were hit by disasters.Although the party advanced immediately, it ordered the prefectures and counties along the Yongxing Army Road that all family members of the Northwest Frontier Army would be released into the city and provided with certain assistance.But don't forget that in addition to family members, a person also has relatives and friends, as well as neighbors and playmates from the same village.

The [-] soldiers with unstable morale directly caused the [-] elite Song Northern Camp led by Zhao Zan to be defeated by the same number of Liao troops.Now the morale of almost every soldier in the [-] Northwest Frontier Army has been affected. How can morale not be affected, and how can combat power remain at its peak.

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On November 12, Xiangfuguo North Road Army, according to the original battle plan, the three armies of Black Wolf, White Wolf, and Zhelan, a total of [-] people, joined forces at the foot of Qingzhou City. Under the leadership of Huang Dongqiu, they began to attack the Northwest The base camp of the frontier army, Qingzhou, an important town on Yongxing Army Road.Under the leadership of Zhan Xiongwu, the Xuanwu Army attacked Yan'an Mansion, the throat of Yongxing Army Road leading to Hedong Road.

Roughly at the same time, Yang Jiye led the army on the South Road, including the White Tiger, Qinglong, and Zhuque armies with a total of 12 people. They sent troops from Xizhou, Minzhou, and Taozhou at the same time in three routes. Starting off, the White Tiger Legion is heading straight for the famous Longguan.

It took half a month, and the three legions broke through nine large and small military strongholds, four important passes, and five county towns.Nearly half of them fled directly on the lookout, and the common people lined up to welcome them.At this moment, people finally realized one of the great benefits of Ye Chen spending so much food to help the people of the Song Dynasty. Not only the people are in the Xiangfu Kingdom, but even the officials and guards are also very disappointed with the Song Dynasty court and the emperor.In addition, if faced with the attack of Liao, Tubo and other foreign troops known for their cruelty, even though the Chinese and military officials in the city are extremely dissatisfied with the emperor, they will never surrender. But there is not much psychological burden.

On October 8th, the two armies of Qinglong and Suzaku, with a total of 500 people, and two battalions of the special brigade, with [-] people, came to Qinzhou under the leadership of Yang Jiye.And Han Hu led the White Tiger Army to take Longshan directly.

Longshan Mountain is extremely dangerous. According to this, if you go east, you can control the pass, and if you look south, you can seize Hanzhong and Bashu.Mount Long is the remaining vein of Liupan Mountain, stretching for hundreds of miles. There is Longguan, which controls the main road from Guanzhong to Longyou.

According to the strategic plan, Yang Jiye captured Qinzhou, took Chencang Road, and approached Jingzhao Mansion.And Han Tao broke through the Xiongguan Longguan built by Song State in Longshan Mountain as quickly as possible, and then rushed to Jingzhao Mansion to join forces with Yang Jiye.

During the entire combat process, Ye Chen's combat requirements were to reduce losses as much as possible, use more wisdom and less force, and never resort to force if peaceful means can be used to obtain it The Ministry of Security secretly contacted the civil and military officials guarding the city to carry out countermeasures and alienate them.In this way, it is doomed that the war against the Song Dynasty will be both fighting and pulling. This is not an absolute conquest. Excessive killing and poking will instead arouse the hatred of the Song army, which is not conducive to the implementation of the grand plan.

Of course, Ye Chen would definitely not be like some emperors in history, who liked to point fingers and do everything by himself. He wished he could directly command the specific actions of each team and interfere with the frontline battle, resulting in defeat.Therefore, he has no specific measures for the two armies of the north and the south, and for each legion. The fighters are changing rapidly, and it is not within the grasp of Ye Chen who is thousands of miles away. Therefore, he has given full authority to the two former enemies to command and give the frontline commanders full autonomy. right.

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Liangping County is a large county before Longguan, and the guard is Wei Ziyong.

This person is a native of the country, leading five thousand Song troops to be responsible for stationing in Liangping County.

"General, it's time to patrol the city!" In the middle of the night, Wei Ziyong's personal soldiers said softly outside the door.

Wei Ziqi pushed aside the fifteen or sixteen-year-old maid who was crawling on him like an octopus, got up reluctantly, went to the outside room, washed up briefly, ate breakfast, and his personal soldiers brought Wei Ziyong armor and served him. After Wei Ziyong put it on, he walked out of the mansion.

After leaving the mansion, Wei Ziyong raised his head and looked in the direction of Xiangfu Kingdom, sighed, reached out to approach the waist knife handed over by the soldiers, got on the horse, and said, "Let's go! Go patrol the city!"

At the beginning of November in the lunar calendar, it was already cold winter and it was late at night. The job of standing guard in the city was naturally the job of the city guards. Naturally, the two commanding 1000 men belonging to the Northwest Frontier Army in the city would not come to do it.Compared with the Northwest Frontier Army, the city guard army had a huge difference in terms of combat power, equipment, and military pay, so military discipline was notoriously poor.

(End of this chapter)