To the south of Liangzhou City, at the foot of Zangnan Mountain, is the former enemy headquarters of the Dingxi Army.
Liu Fa, deputy commander of the Dingxi Army and former enemy commander, looked through the military information reported by the Dingbian Army Headquarters.
"Brother Richard is a man. He holds the largest mobile force in Xia Kingdom. He is unwilling to step aside to reinforce Liangzhou. The leader of Xixia Kingdom dispatched reinforcements from other places, but it is also a mess. In this way, Xixia gave up reinforcements to Liangzhou.
city."
The generals of the Dingxi Army who were at the head of the army remained silent.
"The monarchs and ministers of the Xia Kingdom are betting that even if our army gathers 200,000 troops, we will not be able to defeat the city of Liangzhou with high walls and strong walls in half a year. Not in half a year, but in two months, the Xia army, which has successfully completed the autumn harvest, will be able to come out and reinforce Liangzhou.
Zhoucheng, fight to the death with our exhausted army. What a plan!"
Liu Fa's voice was solemn and cold.
"Then let's try the new weapons. The officials are right. Times have changed, and so have the means of attacking the city. Let Liangzhou City try the power of our army's new weapons."
"Yang Weizhong! Wei Baoqing!" Liu Fa began to call the names.
"My subordinates are here!" they both responded in unison.
"Your Liangzhou Division and Qilian Mountain Division are responsible for guarding the formations in the south and west of the city!"
"Follow the order!"
"Bai Chonghu, Gao Yongnian!"
"My subordinate is here!"
"You two lead the Suzaku Flag Jingsu First Division and Jingsu Second Division to cover the flanks."
"Follow the order!"
Liu Fa's military orders were issued one by one, and the generals received the orders one by one.
"Everyone knows who the protagonist of the battlefield is this time, so be prepared! The whole army will have a meal at three o'clock tomorrow morning, check the equipment at three thirty, break camp at four o'clock, and enter the designated position before five o'clock."
"Obey the order!" all the generals responded in unison.
It was another ordinary morning. Li Yanqing got up at midnight and started to patrol everywhere. There was always a kind of throbbing in his heart. The uneasy mood was like a poisonous snake hiding in the dark. But he didn't know about this poisonous snake.
Where is it hidden?
"Boom-boom-boom-boom-boom!" The watchman rang the clapper five times, and the sound floated faintly over the silent Liangzhou City.
It's five o'clock. According to Song Jun's twenty-four new time clock, what time is it? Oh, it's four o'clock.
Li Yanqing raised his head and looked at the sky. The sky was thick and black, as if someone had brushed it twice with a brush dipped in water, and it became a little lighter. A faint bright color could be seen.
He stood on the south gate tower and looked far outside the city. But he couldn't see anything clearly.
The vast land of Longyou and the Zangnan Mountains are carefully hidden in the darkness.
Li Yanqing felt even more uneasy. There was no telling how many murderous intentions and dangers were hidden in this darkness.
As a retainer of Xiliang Prefecture in Xixia, Li Yanqing was the commander-in-chief of Liangzhou City.
Since the defeat of the Xia army last year, Li Yanqing has been silently making preparations to defend the city. He gathered troops and horses, rectified ordnance, reinforced the city walls, and set up sentry towers. He desperately wrote letters to Xingqing Mansion and mobilized food from other places.
I have done everything I have to do, just for today.
Li Yanqing knew that Xingqing Mansion would not give up Liangzhou City, an important town connecting the east and west, and reinforcements would definitely arrive. However, he must be prepared that reinforcements would not arrive for a long time.
The preparations were very complete, but once the war started, Li Yanqing still felt something unusual.
The infantry of the Song Army came slowly from the southeast. However, the cavalry came like a fire early, and without everyone expecting it, they came with a roar.
They first sent a cavalry group to burn down the sentry tower and attack and kill the retreating Xia army, just like the Xia army cavalry had done against the Song army before.
Li Yanqing also ordered the garrison troops everywhere to immediately withdraw to Liangzhou City.
Everything was going well until Li Yanqing received bad news.
More than 10,000 Xiutu Army cavalrymen from Xiutuze and Baitinghai along the Macheng River to support Liangzhou City were ambushed by the main cavalry of the Suzaku Banner forty miles north of the ancient city of Xiutu.
The army was destroyed.
Then the Suzaku Banner Cavalry went north along the Macheng River, swept through Xiutuze and Baitinghai, and ate up this large pasture with lush water and grass, fat sheep and strong horses, as well as more than 20,000 soldiers and civilians on it.
Already.
Li Yanqing finally realized how overwhelmed Wei Ming Burunu, Brother Li Cha and other Xia army generals felt last year.
Completely different thinking on fighting. The experience accumulated in fighting the Song army in the past is completely useless now.
At this time, Li Yanqing suddenly realized that he and Liangzhou City had lost the most reliable and powerful mobile force at present. If this army was deployed to the west of Liangzhou early, with Ganzhou as its back, it would threaten the Song army.
With his flanks, he would be 70% more sure of guarding Liangzhou City.
But everything happened, and it was too late to regret.
Li Yanqing realized that the group of Song troops he faced would be a completely different group of Song troops.
The unfavorable first battle cast a shadow over Li Yanqing's heart.
As time goes by, the black color of the sky is thinned layer by layer. The wind does not seem to be so cold.
Intuition told Li Yanqing that something must have happened outside the city. He opened his eyes wide, leaned on the wall, and tried his best to look out. But the black color continued to hide everything.
Some strange sounds drifted in from outside the city. Li Yanqing turned his ears to try to hear what they were. But the sound of the wind was like a big invisible hand, smearing randomly on the sand, covering up all traces.
In the whistling wind.
After a moment of silence, Li Yanqing turned to the deputy general beside him and said: "Blow the drum, the whole army is on alert."
The lieutenant turned sideways and yawned quietly.
After hearing Li Yanqing's order, he opened his mouth for a few breaths before closing it.
"After staying, everything is safe and sound. There is no Song army attacking the city." The deputy general couldn't help but muttered as he called the messenger to deliver the order.
"It will be too late by the time the Song army is killed right before our eyes." Li Yanqing said coldly.
The drums on the South Gate Tower were beaten, and the drums shook the air, the night, and the entire Liangzhou City.
War drums were also beaten from the towers of other gates.
The sound of panicked footsteps resounded in the city. Countless soldiers were like ants shaken out of their caves by the sound of drums, rushing towards their respective posts in a busy and orderly manner.
With the sound of armor leaves shaking and the sound of footsteps, groups of soldiers holding swords and guns ran up the city wall and lined up along the stomping wall.
There were also civilians who carried or carried baskets of swords and arrows up the city wall and scattered them everywhere.
Simple shields made of wooden boards were also moved out and piled into piles.
The wooden and rolling stones were hoisted up along the city wall from the inside of the city with ropes amidst the sound of chants, and they were stacked neatly.
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Pots of oil, or buckets of water, were poured into the cauldron on the city wall. At the same time, someone stuffed firewood under the cauldron. The fire was lit, burning, and began to heat the water in the cauldron.
and oil.
A crunching sound that made people's teeth hurt came from a distance. It was the soldiers winding the crossbows. These weapons made by the Song people and captured by the Xia army were weapons for defending the city.
Li Yanqing occasionally looked back and glanced over the soldiers who were busy preparing.
The defenders were all well-trained. They had done these processes and actions countless times, but Li Yanqing didn't worry about it. He focused more on the outside of the city.
"After staying, everything is ready." the deputy general reported.
"Um."
"After staying, will the Song army be bluffing again? They surrounded our Liangzhou City for a month. In addition to digging a deep trench and building two fences, they only made tentative attacks five or six times. Will they attack again this time?
Fake us?"
"No, the Song army has been besieging the city for more than a month, and our reinforcements are about to arrive. But there is not a single person or a horse in sight. The Song army may not want to wait..."
Before Li Yanqing finished speaking, a faint singing voice came from outside the city, "Qinghai is covered with long clouds and dark snow-capped mountains, and the lonely city looks at Yumen Pass in the distance. The yellow sand wears golden armor in a hundred battles, and Loulan will not be returned until it is broken!"
On the city wall, including Li Yanqing and others, the faces of Xia officers and soldiers suddenly changed.
