Seeing the Xixia soldiers and horses under the city receding like a tide, Han Shizhong leaned against the city wall a little tired. If it had been a few days ago, he would have sent them off again with a strong bow.
After more than ten days of defensive defense, the soldiers who defended the city exhausted their physical strength. Once the enemy retreated, they took the time to recharge their batteries and prepare for the next battle.
After the Xixia soldiers and horses besieged the city, they only conducted tentative attacks in the first few days, and then attacked from all sides. More than half of the Xixia people suffered casualties, and less than 10,000 of the 30,000 Western troops in the city were left. Nine of the sons of General Liu Zhongwu were killed.
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Han Shizhong is already thirty-three this year. He joined the army at the age of seventeen and has been in the army for sixteen years now, but he is still an inferior general.
When he first joined the army, he killed generals and captured passes, but his merit book was compromised, and his future achievements were always inconsistent. A few days ago, he captured Fang La alive, and was taken away by Xin Xingzong, and he was almost punished by military regulations.
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When Han Shizhong heard that Liangshan soldiers and horses raided Tokyo and destroyed the Song Dynasty, Han Shizhong's first thought was that he was happy, not that the Song Dynasty was destroyed, but that the credit Xin Xingzong had taken was useless.
The army rushed back day and night. Han Shizhong heard that Mr. Zhong, the manager, had surrendered to Daliang, and called on all the generals of the Western Army to surrender to Daliang to fight against the Xixia Dynasty.
Han Shizhong then came up with the idea of joining Lao Zhongjinglue.
Liu Yanqing did not dare to stand up for the merits of his subordinates, and he was both a leader and a rat. He was promoted under the old manager Xianggong, but the Xianggong was dismissed. He exercised the rights of the Xianggong as the general manager of Yanyan Road, but he and the eunuch Tong
Walk very close.
He fought under such a person and worked hard to achieve meritorious service, but in the end he didn't know who was getting the advantage. So when Han Shizhong was about to run away and join Lao Zhong, the manager, the Song Dynasty had already perished, and even if he really ran away, it would not be considered a deserter.
Just as he was about to run away with a few of his confidants, he heard Liu Yanqing agreeing to surrender to Daliang. This was the call of his soldiers.
One is because Xianggong Lao Zhongjinglue has a very high prestige on Yanyan Road. Both of them have all their family members in the northwest. Now the only one who can support the Western Army is Daliang. This is the best choice now. Since Xianggong Laozhongjinglue said
If they can defeat Xixia, then they will not consider surrendering to Xixia.
Han Shizhong did not run away, and asked Liu Yanqing to lead troops to reinforce Mr. Laozhong.
Liu Yanqing also knew that troubled times were coming. He believed that he did not have the ability to compete in the world. He just wanted to choose a person who was most likely to dominate the world. The most powerful people in the world were Chao Gai, Wang Qing, Tian Hu, Tong Guan, Wang Qing and Tian Hu.
Although the momentum is not small, in the eyes of the Western Army, the two of them are just grass bandits. Without more, the 20,000 Western Army can wipe them out. On the way back, they received a letter from Tong Guan, Jiangnan established a Southern Song Dynasty
Liu Yanqing was not optimistic about Tong Guan either. Without the support of the Western Army, he would not be able to make any trouble, not to mention the remaining forces of Fang La that were constraining him.
Only Chao Gai seems to have the most aura of being the master of the world. In the past two years, he has won many hearts for Tian Xingdao and defeated the 200,000 Song Dynasty army. He should also have an elite army under his command. After capturing Tokyo, he got
The wealth of Tokyo, and most importantly, the support of Mr. Xianggong, an old business manager.
In Liu Yanqing's view, whoever gets the support of the Western Army has the best chance of unifying the world. The Hebei frontier army and the Jiangnan army have long been decayed and have lost their combat effectiveness. Even if they are defeated by Xixia, the remnants of the Western army will inevitably withdraw to the Central Plains. Everyone
It is impossible to fight to the death.
At that time, it is probably the Western Army that will decide the ownership of the world, and the most influential person among the Western Army is Lao Zhongjinglue Xianggong.
He was also worried that his close relationship with Tong Guan in the past two years would make Mr. Lao Zhongjingluo dissatisfied, and he wanted to make up for it. However, Mr. Lao Zhongjinglue asked him to return to Fangyan Road, and he did not dare to delay the military affairs.
Seeing that Han Shizhong volunteered to go to the front line, he immediately gave Han Shizhong a thousand troops and asked him to listen to the orders of Mr. Lao Zhongjinglue.
So Han Shizhong was sent by Mr. Lao Zhong to suppress the Rong army.
Seeing the Xixia people coming to pick up the corpse below, Han Shizhong also picked up a corpse and threw it down.
The other soldiers also threw the corpses on top of the city and let the Xixia people pick them up.
Even the soldiers whose brothers died at the hands of the Xixia people did not release an arrow. This is the tradition of the northwest battlefield. Unless they were defeated and had no time to pick up the bodies of their comrades, they would definitely pick up the bodies and bury them. This is for their comrades.
The comfort is also the comfort given to oneself. You may not be the one who dies tomorrow. No one wants to be thrown under the city after death and allowed to be bitten by wild dogs.
The city defenders will also cooperate, because corpses will stink when they rot. If they are not buried, the entire city will stink in a few days, and the corpses will bring plague.
Both the Western Army and the Xixia people knew that the plague was a demon, and no one dared to release them.
No matter how fierce the fighting between the two sides is, they are unwilling to use corpses as weapons. Because they are all civilized peoples, and they are fighting for the land where they can reproduce, not ghosts. Moreover, the battlefield is not far from the homes of both sides, and no one wants to
Dare to release the devil.
After disposing of the corpses at the top of the city, Han Shizhong walked down to the city.
When he first arrived, he did not have the qualifications to be able to stand alone, but after killing countless Persians and killing more than half of the generals in the city, he became the general who stood alone, and it was the north where the Xixia people focused their attack.
In order to take advantage of their military strength and consume the city's defenders, the Xixia people attacked the four city walls at the same time every day. However, they only built a mountain of earth on the north side. Although the archers on it suffered heavy casualties, they also attracted the Western troops at the top of the city.
A lot of attention. Therefore, the Xixia people placed their main attack direction in the north.
It's not that we don't want to build a mountain of earth on the other three sides, but it's a lot of work to pile up the earth mountain. This mountain of earth, which is higher than the top of the city, took more than ten days.
If we want to build four mountains of earth, the Xixia soldiers and horses don't need to attack the city, they can just dig the earth.
Liu Qi and Liu Xi, sons of Liu Zhongwu, were in charge of the east and west walls, and General Yang Keshi was in charge of the south wall.
Yang Keshi is a descendant of the Yang family general, but the Yang family general has declined. Yang Keshi rose from the rank of soldier like him, but Yang Keshi's luck is better than him. He has been under the command of Mr. Lao Zhongjinglue.
No one could deny his military exploits, and he was brave and good at fighting, so he served as the Huazhou Observer during the Song Dynasty.
Like Han Shizhong, Yang Keshi had just returned from the south of the Yangtze River. He learned that Xixia soldiers and horses were going to Hulu River, so he brought soldiers and horses to reinforce Mr. Laozhong. However, Huazhou was not on the front line, and he did not need to garrison Huazhou.
After repelling Xixia, the Western Army will also have to undergo reorganization in Daliang. The military system in Daliang is simple and does not have the fifty-two ranks of the Song Dynasty. With the merits of suppressing the Rong army, he should be able to become a commander of thousands, but he may not be able to be a commander of ten thousand.
There are too many captains of thousands, so he wants to make more contributions and become the captain of ten thousand.