Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 727

"Commander! Capture one of the opponent's lurking posts, and learned from his mouth that using dogs to guard the trenches is the method personally ordered by Emperor Ye Chen of the Xiangfu Kingdom." The commander said.

Hearing Ye Chen's name, there was a dead silence in the tent. Giving them this name put too much pressure on the entire Song Dynasty court and officials.Because the owner of this name has created too many miracles, such as using dogs to guard the trenches, it is just a matter of words for him.For example, the powerful weapons that Xiangfu Kingdom possesses today, everyone knows that without Ye Chen, these weapons would never appear.

Including Dang Jin, everyone recalled the process of Ye Chen betraying the Song Dynasty more than half a year ago, and they couldn't help feeling a little dissatisfied with their own emperor, His Majesty.If he hadn't forced Ye Chen back, how could Da Song be where he is today, let alone being defeated by Ye Chen several times.If Ye Chen is still the Xiangfu King of their Great Song Dynasty, the current Xiangfu Kingdom is naturally only a part of the Great Song Dynasty, including Xiang Bashi, the most troubled party in the northwest of the Great Song Dynasty.

Of course, they dare not express their dissatisfaction and ideas.

Deng Xiaotian, the eunuch and supervising army in the tent, faintly sensed the thoughts in the minds of these generals, and couldn't help but change his face, and said angrily: "I, Zheng Dou Tianxing, the superintendent of Qintian in the Song Dynasty, already made an attributive sentence at the New Year's Day meeting at the beginning of the year, and Ye Chen is a disaster for the country and the people. When a demon star reincarnates, he will have some sorcery, and it’s okay to know that he has more than others. But since ancient times, the evil has not suppressed the righteous, and Ye Chen’s evildoer will eventually be destroyed by my Song Dynasty.”

Everyone looked strangely, complicatedly, or sarcastically at Deng Xiaotian, the supervisor, but remained silent and no one answered.

After half a sound, Dangjin coughed and said: "Now Linzhou and Fuzhou have been defeated, and the people of Liao Kingdom have not seen the troops sent to Xiangfu Kingdom for a long time, and their minds are hard to decide. Ye Chen came here again, and the commander faintly felt that Ye Chen has some conspiracy, so this commander already intends to retreat."

Deng Xiaotian stood up suddenly, and said in disbelief: "Retreat? Ye Chen is in the opposite army camp, and now we haven't even captured a single army camp. We will take the initiative to retreat as soon as Ye Chen comes?"

Dang Jin's cheeks twitched, he suppressed the anger in his heart, and said lightly: "Master Supervisor, hasn't you noticed yet? Ye Chen came here on purpose, and in the evening, he deliberately raised his dragon flag high. He intentionally let us know that he is coming. The purpose is to use himself as a bait to attract us to attack the four military strongholds. Although I don’t know what Ye Chen will do in the future. But I think we can still preserve our strength by retreating now. , waiting for a comeback. If we wait until that tempting bait pokes out of its sharp hook, we... these 3 people may become meat on his chopping board and be slaughtered!"

Deng Xiaotian took a deep breath, stared at Dang Jin for a long time, and then asked darkly: "If I wait until I retreat without an edict, your majesty will blame me, who will bear it?"

Dang Jin sighed, and said: "Then, according to Lord Supervisor, how should we make a decision now?"

Then Deng Xiaotian hesitated. After all, he is just a confidant eunuch beside Zhao Dezhao. How can he know how to lead troops to fight? Although Dang Jin is not as good as Pan Mei and Gao Huaide, he is also a famous general of Song Dynasty. He said that it is time to retreat, which should be reasonable of.But he remembered what His Majesty had said to him in the Northwest, and he had stopped the retreat on impulse just now, and if he was asked to go back on what he said just now, the inconsistency would definitely be ridiculed by Li Zhongzheng and these red men.

Thinking this way, Deng Xiaotian thought of a compromise and said: "Tomorrow, we will attack again across the board. If we can't capture the army stronghold again, our supervising army will agree to retreat."

Dang Jin thought for a while, then turned to Li Zhongzheng, another supervisor, and said, "What do you think, Mr. Li?"

Li Zhongzheng sneered in his heart. After fighting for so many days, he didn't capture a single army stronghold. Now that Ye Chen is here, he can still capture the opponent's army stronghold. The death of the eunuch is simply wishful thinking.But in any case, this battle is doomed, and someone will have to bear this responsibility when I return to the capital in the future. I can't say a word more, so as not to get burned.

Thoughts flashed in Li Zhongzheng's mind, and he opened his mouth and said, "I obey the command of the commander in chief."

Dang Jin originally wanted to use Li Zhongzheng's power to reject Deng Xiaotian's intention, but he didn't expect the latter to be so tactful, so he cursed inwardly and said, "If that's the case, then according to Deng Jianjun's intention, tomorrow we will attack with all our strength for the last time. , if you still can't break through the enemy's stronghold, then retreat."

Everyone promised with a bang, Dangjin's expression was already calm, and he continued in a calm tone: "What do you think we should fight tomorrow?"

Gao Huaide of the Northwest Frontier Army had three Xiangdu commanders under his command. Huang Dongqiu surrendered to Ye Chen after being captured in the battle last winter, and is now the deputy head of the Xuanwu Army.Lu Long died in Linzhou two days ago.There is also Tang Peng, who led [-] infantrymen of the Northwest Frontier Army and followed the party to attack the four military camps.

At this time, after Dang Jin finished speaking, no one spoke for a long time. Tang Peng thought for a while and said: "Marshal, we can't fight one place every day like this. The general will take a closer look. Between Nanshan and Beishan, Yang Jiye is clearly direct. Dig out a channel to connect all the lines of defense between the two mountains. We are slow to deploy troops, but they are quick to deploy troops through this channel. In a short time, they will call in manpower from other places and concentrate their forces to attack us. The general thinks that our army We should spread our stance and fight across the board, so that we can mobilize all the manpower we can, and attack together from all fronts, don't be afraid of death or injury, and make sure they don't have time to spare. After all, our manpower is three to four times theirs. "

The crowd hesitated after hearing this. They all knew that the four army strongholds were not easy to fight. Now the scale attack of one-third or half of the troops is within the controllable range, and the casualties will not be too large. Once the whole line is attacked, it may cause serious damage. casualties.

Dang Jin waved his hand and interrupted several generals who were about to speak up to refute Tang Peng, and said in a deep voice: "What General Tang said is very true. This commander is too worried about heavy casualties these days. He has never dared to attack across the board. Our advantage in numbers has been brought into play. Well... we will attack across the board tomorrow."

"Also, the earth wall of the enemy's fourth line of defense is only a little over a foot high, and the trench is only a little over a foot wide. Naturally, the attack method is different from the siege, and we don't know what is buried at the bottom of the ditch. So we You can't attack the city from the bottom of the ditch, you can just use wooden boards to cross the ditch, and then build short city ladders, which are very convenient to carry. Whether it is a giant crossbow, gunpowder packs, or troops, it is naturally not enough."

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March 22, early morning.

Early in the morning, spies reported that the Song army had made a large-scale deployment of troops. After observing through a telescope, Yang Jiye easily judged that the party was going to attack across the board. .Make sure that each line of defense is guarded, there are certain giant crossbows, trebuchets, gunpowder packs, engineers from the engineer battalion, etc.At the same time, he forced out two thousand reserves, ready to support and make up for losses at any time.At the same time, let the engineering battalion seize the last time to lay traps and stone mines.

Ye Chen knew that he was no match for Yang Jiye in deploying troops on specific battlefields, so he did not participate in any of them.

When the sky and the earth were still dark, the Song army started to cook, and it didn't take long for the Song army's offensive to begin.Song Jun's offensive preparations couldn't be fooled by the opponent. The spies who had been monitoring the opponent immediately notified the troops. The four army camps' defense lines sounded horns, and the soldiers of the Black Wolf Army who had just had breakfast rushed to their respective posts.

Everyone on the defense line was busy. Batches of gunpowder packages were transported from the rear, distributed to the engineer battalion, and brought to various sections of the earth wall. There were also people debugging trebuchets and giant crossbows. There was a tense atmosphere everywhere.

When Ye Chen came to the top of the South Mountain, it was still dark, and the Song Army camp on the east side of the four army villages was full of lights, extending far away, like stars in the sky. The army is already being assembled.

Ye Chen quietly looked at the sea of ​​lights in front of him, puffs of cooking smoke rose and drifted into the air, casting a hazy veil on the enemy camp.If he had no other choice, he would never want to go to war with the Song army now, but as long as the Song army attacked him, he would try his best to defeat and hurt the Song country at once, so that Zhao Dezhao and Zhao Pu would not dare to fight Xiang Xiang easily. Fu Kingdom started the war.

Ye Chen looked up at Yubai in the sky, the morning sun was about to rise, and the first beam of morning light was about to shine on the earth.

In the thin morning light, Song troops in the distance came out of the camp one after another, and streams of people merged into the sea of ​​people outside the camp. Countless shield vehicles were driven by the soldiers to the front line. Looking down from the top of the mountain , like countless moving toys.

Under the command of officers at all levels, the Song army spread out along the defense lines of the four military villages, starting from Beishan in the north and reaching Nanshan in the south, forming a long formation. The dense shield vehicles were like a moving wooden wall, and each department also discharged After leaving the subsequent echelon, it can be seen very clearly from Nanshan, which shows that they will launch a continuous attack.

"Your Majesty, the Song army is indeed going to attack across the board." Hu Sanguang said quietly after watching through the binoculars.

Ye Chen smiled slightly and said, "It's exactly what I want."

Not far from them, the trebuchet had already started working. Facing the targets below, the trebuchet had already calculated the distance and azimuth with good accuracy, and it could always hit a few people each time.At this time, stones were fired. Although the gunpowder pack was useful, it was not cheap after all, not to mention that the gunpowder pack exploded in mid-air before the fuse was burned out at this distance.

The banner of Dangjin appeared on the observation podium at No. [-] Army Village, which was facing the three-foot-high observation platform in front of the Song Army camp. The various Song Army units attacked with catapults on the hills on both sides, and entered their respective attack areas. The army broke out like a tsunami.

(End of this chapter)