Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 534 Xiazhou City of Death

There was a thunderous sound of piercing through the air, and a steel arrow passed through Li Guangyan's chest as if teleporting, shooting through eight people in one breath before stopping.Then the upper body of these eight people exploded.

Ye Chen knew that they were only 200 in number. In the past two days, they had lost nearly 1000 people. This time, they were facing Xiazhou elite cavalry head-on. If you are the vanguard, there is no suspense about the outcome of the battle, but if you want to wipe out all 300 people on the other side, you will definitely die 300 people on your own side.However, Ye Chen didn't want to lose these two [-] people, so he shot this shocking arrow at the expense of his own internal energy.

Li Guangyan, the leader of the thousand Xiazhou iron cavalry, was shot and killed on the spot. Before the two sides met, eight human bombs directly killed more than 100 people. The injured and frightened horses collided with more than 200 cavalrymen, and fell on the spot. More than 200 people were smashed to death, and the most important thing was that the charge lineup was completely disrupted. A thousand Xiazhou cavalry had panicked and had little fighting spirit left.Therefore, the whole process of the subsequent battle lasted for more than ten breaths and ended. None of the thousand Xiazhou cavalry escaped, and five people died on Ye Chen's side.

The [-] Xiazhou cavalrymen who 'buried landmines' on the ground thought about it, mounted their horses to fight or fled, but some of them hadn't finished pulling, and even if they had finished pulling, their bodies were weak. All of them were extremely sad, angry, and desperate.

"Injustice! We are wronged to die like this! We will die with regret!"

Watching the [-] enemy troops rushing towards them, Xiazhou's most elite [-] cavalry are usually so brave and good at fighting, but now they have no power to resist, squatting on the ground full of grief and anger, but the grief and anger did not last long. The grief and indignation in my stomach quickly turned into thin dung, and I vomited all over the floor.

However, these five thousand soldiers did not die, to be precise, not all of them died.

Except for the [-] black knights and Lian Jicheng who stayed behind, everyone else followed Ye Chen's order and avoided the place far away.

He selected [-] soldiers with the worst system and beheaded them without mercy, and then Ye Chen completely opened the black gourd around his waist.

After half a stick of incense, Ye Chen took [-] Song cavalry and [-] original Xiazhou cavalry, a total of [-] cavalry headed towards the southeast of Xiazhou, and handed over the other [-] Xiazhou cavalry to the commander [-] Black Moon of the Black Riders.

Ye Chen knew that after this incident of poisoning, it was almost impossible to deal with Li Guangrui of Xiazhou later, and with Li Guangrui's ability, even if he couldn't guess that it was the trouble of Song Guohuaxia Weifu, he still knew that someone was doing something in the dark. Now that Li Guangyan's [-] cavalry have all been beheaded, Li Guangrui can definitely imagine that the Northwest Frontier Army of the Song Dynasty must have entered Hengshan, and he can also imagine that his army's whereabouts are under the surveillance of the other party. If Chen wanted to use the same method to intimidate the other party, it would not only be impossible, but it would also be more difficult to continue to use the Song army to clear the walls and clear the field.

What's more, the Seventh Department of the Dangxiang already knew that Ye Chen had brought people to chase him. If he continued to stay in the Hengshan Dangxiang lair, it might be possible for Li Guangrui and the Seventh Department of the Dangxiang to join forces to deal with Song Jun. After all, Ye Chen's identity, Ye Chen The value of this life is too high and too tempting, which is enough to make the Seventh Department of the Party and Li Guangrui of Xiazhou make any decision, even to join forces.

So, in the end, Ye Chen left Hengshan with 100 Song cavalry, [-] Xiazhou cavalry, and [-] captives who came from Xiazhou to report to Li Guangrui but were captured by Hei Yue. go.As for Hengshan's operation, he handed it over to Hei Yue, who would lead four hundred black cavalry and two thousand Xiazhou iron cavalry. With the cooperation of Hu Sanguang and more than [-] elite spies from the Huaxia Weifu, he waited for the opportunity to act. Naturally, the goal remains the same, which is to increase the losses of Li Guangrui and the Seventh Department of the Party as much as possible, and delay Li Guangrui's time in Hengshan.

Under the city of Xiazhou, sharp arrowheads pierced the bones, the sound of killing soared to the sky, and corpses littered the field
The wide and wet moat was filled with corpses, neither rich nor cheap. They were all dead bones and the cold wind rushed towards their faces. There was still a bloody smell, which showed the tragic fighting between the two armies during the day.

The three commanders of the Northwest Frontier Army who led the attack on the city, Zhe Yuxun of Fuzhou and Yang Chongxun of Linzhou never imagined that the defense of Xiazhou city would be so strong and unshakable. The Northwest Frontier Army is responsible for two sides, and the Zhe family of Fuzhou and the Yang family of Linzhou are responsible for one side. The generals commanding the three parties, no matter what shady thoughts they have in their hearts, they have done their best to attack Xiazhou, and they will do their best. They didn't retain their strength, but the siege side's losses were naturally much greater than those of the defenders. After the five-day war, the Northwest Frontier Army, Fuzhou Zhejia and Linzhou Yangjia all lost [-]% of their horses, and the morale of the army was also affected. A certain hit.The loss of the [-] defenders of Xiazhou in the city is naturally much less than theirs.

Whether it is the commanders of the three Xiangdu of the Northwest Frontier Army, or Zhe Yuxun of Fuzhou and Yang Chongxun of Linzhou, they have fought on the battlefield for many years and have extremely rich experience in siege.After five days, they realized that Xiazhou had turned the city into a hell of death.In comparison, the Northwest Frontier Army and the Fuzhou and Linzhou armies have sufficient weapons and siege equipment, especially the Northwest Frontier Army's siege equipment is relatively sharp and well-prepared.But they always have a feeling that they can't make full use of their strengths. Every time, when they want to adopt a certain siege tactic, the city always seems to be able to prepare a corresponding countermeasure one step in advance, making it impossible for them to use it.

They are the attacking side, but every time they make a move, the opponent always seems to be able to find his weakness first and counter it first. This huge war machine is driven in front of a clever opponent, which makes him unable to do what he wants. It weighs a hundred catties His sledgehammer is undoubtedly capable of crushing the boulder in front of him. Even if it cannot be crushed at once, it can be chopped into pieces piece by piece. It would be nice to smash it without hurting your own feet.

Obviously Xiazhou was defending and they were attacking, but they felt like they were being attacked from all sides.If they win this battle, all the losses can be compensated tenfold or a hundredfold, but when they suffer heavy losses, if they still can't capture Xiazhou City, what will they do then?
For the three commanders of the Northwest Frontier Army, how to explain to the imperial envoy, how to explain to the court and His Majesty the Emperor.

As for Zhe Yuxun of Fuzhou and Yang Chongxun of Linzhou, the capital of their foothold in the Northwest and the capital that can be treated preferentially in the Song Dynasty is the 5000 soldiers in their hands. This time they each dispatched [-] troops. Big, naturally it will seriously affect their influence in the Northwest.

The two even began to wonder if the young and powerful Xiangfu County King who hadn't met had plans to kill three birds with one stone, and originally used this opportunity to consume the strength of their two families.After having this thought, Zhe Yuxun and Yang Chongxun felt terribly cold. They knew that the siege was no longer something they could leave if they wanted to, and they could retreat if they wanted to.It’s just that the Song court has a deep foundation and can afford it. Even if all the [-] northwest frontier troops are spent here, they can replenish the Xiang army to the frontier army within ten days afterwards. After training and several battlefield baptisms, Combat strength can naturally recover.But they can't afford to consume a land that only owns a state and a few cities. That is to say, even if Xiazhou is captured in the end, they will consume a lot, which is already the biggest failure of the two of them.Therefore, they plan to gradually become conservative in the subsequent siege.But they didn't expect that the development of the subsequent battle situation was far beyond their imagination.

That night, Ye Chen brought nearly a hundred subordinates of the Huaxia Weifu to the Song army camp, but Huang Louping did not follow.

In the camp of the Chinese Army, Ye Chen and the commanders of the three Northwest Frontiers met with Zhe Yuxun and Yang Chongxun. During the process, Ye Chen's natural affability and unpretentiousness made Zhe Yuxun He and Yang Chongxun breathed a sigh of relief in secret, because Shilibao was besieged a few days ago, and the three commanders of the Northwest Frontier who arrived late for rescue were originally worried, worried that Ye Chen would blame him, but when they took the initiative to kneel down on one knee After pleading guilty, Ye Chen not only did not blame them at all, but also exposed the matter with a few understatement.

After listening to the five people's brief description of the current siege of Xiazhou City, Ye Chen was not too worried, but frowned slightly, and said, "How could Xiazhou City have such a strong defense? It's not theirs." The strength of the army is superior, and the advantage of self-defense in the city may not be able to restrain our large number of siege equipment. According to what you just said, the Northwest Front Army has taken out all the siege equipment in the warehouse. General Yang and General Zhe I have made full preparations before coming here, but when we are about to fight, our side always loses the opportunity. There must be a master defender in the city, but according to the information I have inquired from the Huaxia Weifu, Li Guangrui's son Li Jiyun is not good at it. The method of defending the city. There seems to be no such person among Li Guangrui's subordinates."

When they heard this, they couldn't help but suddenly nodded their heads in agreement.

Ye Chen glanced at the crowd, smiled slightly, and said, "However, you don't have to worry, I've already figured out how to break the city, and I can break the city in three days at the latest."

Everyone was refreshed when they heard the words. They were all veterans with rich experience in battle and who led great battles. After five or six days, they suffered heavy losses. With tens of thousands and sufficient time, they still have the confidence to break through Xiazhou City after one or two months, but now they want to break through the city with less than twice the strength of the defenders in just half a month, but they have no choice. Already had the consciousness of failure.

(End of this chapter)