Chapter 39: The Destiny of Heaven
The siege of Pingxia City has reached the twelfth day. The Xia army paid a heavy price and failed to defeat Pingxia City. The calmness behind the trabeculars no longer exists, and in its place, there is a worried face.
Everyone in the world knows that her Liang family is the biggest war maniac in the world, but how many people know that all this is the command of the Liao State?
The attitude of the new emperor of the Song State was too tough, so tough that the Liao State could not sit idly by. The two families have been at peace for a hundred years, and although the Liao people did not think that the Song people would tear up the Yuanyuan Covenant, they decided to teach the Song emperor who had just gained power a lesson in order to prevent trouble.
In order to take sole power, Empress Xiaoliang turned to the support of the Liao State. made Liao become the suzerainty of Western Xia, so that her family had a big thing to do.
And because of this, Western Xia also became the stick that the Liao people taught Zhao Xu a lesson. But who would have thought that Zhao Xu's body was so hard, and he was about to break it when he saw this stick hit him......
Thinking of this, Xiao Liang couldn't help but feel sad. My biggest dream is to become like my aunt. She did the first half step of sole power, but in the second half of the step of governance, she was far inferior to her aunt.
The outbreak of the Battle of Pingxia City this time was not her intention. However, the defeat of Tiandu Mountain and the defeat of Tiandu Mountain by the Song people, and the unanimous condemnation of the ministers of the court.
They must send troops, recapture Tiandu Mountain, and occupy the territory of the Song State.
At the same time, the Liao State put pressure on her to send troops against the Song State. Ministers and outsiders oppressed her together, and as a last resort, she could only choose to send troops to the Song Dynasty.
Before leaving, she and her subordinates mapped the location of Pingxia City together, believing that Pingxia City was the largest and most strategically threatening on Jingyuan Road, and the guard general Guo Cheng was the most proficient in big tents.
If the Western Xia captured Pingxia City, the resistance of the remaining fortresses would collapse one after another.
That's why there was this battle of Pingxia City.
Empress Dowager Liang personally commanded the campaign with the little emperor Li Qianshun and dispatched an army of 300,000. Even with such a large military force, she was careful to conceal the objectives of the battle until the last moment.
When the battle started, the Western Xia army that suddenly rushed to Pingxia City did surprise Guo Cheng and Zhi Keshi.
Twelve days and nights of unremitting onslaught left everyone haggard. The food and grass of the Western Xia army is also about to be exhausted, and tomorrow will be the last day, otherwise the whole army will fall into starvation.
Pingxia City, dressed in a layer of blood, still stands majestically, and the Empress Dowager Liang looks at it from afar, and her heart is full of infinite sadness. There is still no sign of the city being breached, and all kinds of tactics such as buildings and tunnels have been used.
The trebuchet smashed for four days, and the stone bullets were all consumed, but they were used as stones by the Song people, and the Empress Dowager Liang almost didn't spurt out a mouthful of old blood.
Hopefully, though
There are still some, as long as the building car is still there, there is still hope of capturing Pingxia City. The Song army killed more than 500 people who went out of the city to destroy the building car in order to destroy it, so it seems that the Song people are still very afraid of the building car.
Empress Dowager Liang was thinking in her heart, and a gust of wind whistled by.
The tent was blown up, and Li Qianshun silently walked to Liang's side and sat down, grabbing Liang's clothes. Looking at Li Qianshun, Liang smiled, and then held his son's hand tightly in his own......
On the thirteenth day, the battle in Pingxia City continued. Today, the attack of the Xia army was extremely fierce, and the Song people even suspected that if the Xia army had gunpowder in their hands, they would tie up the gunpowder bag and die with the city gate.
The state of the Song army in Pingxia City was actually not very good, although the supplies were sufficient, but thirteen days and nights of non-stop combat still made their bodies a little unbearable.
During the day they had to defend against enemy attacks, and at night they had to stand on the castle tower and kill and wound the enemy with strong crossbows, and the high-intensity battle lasted for thirteen days and nights, and even the iron men could not bear it.
The military rations of the Western Xia people were exhausted, and the physical strength of the Song army was not much better, and on average, each person could only rest for two hours a day for the thirteen days. In any case, for the Song army and the Xia army, this is the final decisive battle.
In recent days, the weather has been very poor. The wind was blowing non-stop, and the Xia army's tents were blown away by the wind. Today's wind direction is coming in the direction of Xia Jun again, and the building car makes a creaking sound, but the Xixia people do not intend to stop.
Arrows with a tailwind can be fired horizontally, and the projectile may be blown to an unknown place. The broken flag of the Song Army was hunted by the wind, and Guo Cheng's ears hurt.
A guard next to him stood and dozed off, Guo Cheng saw it, but he didn't reprimand. The guard hadn't closed his eyes for five days, so let's wake him up when the thieves attack.
On the thirteenth day and night, Wei Ming's mood was very complicated. From the very beginning, the Liang clan entrusted him, the general of the defeated army, with the difficult task of capturing Pingxia City. And tonight, when he was preparing to send troops to attack at night, Liang found himself again, grabbed his arm, and said three times in a row, he must win.
The earnest meaning in the words is self-evident. But will it really be as easy to win as Liang said? If so, who wants to put it off until now?
Wei Ming Ah Bury smiled bitterly, Guo Cheng, Guo Cheng, sure enough, you bastard is the one who is the best at fighting in the entire Jingyuan Road......
"Kill! Kill! ”
"Shoot me! Use up all the arrows in your hand! ”
The roars of the soldiers on both sides became unrecognizable under the agitation of the wind, and Wei Ming's eyes were full of anticipation as he looked up at the five cars walking side by side.
Under such a strong wind, the flames will be blown to extinguish, and they are also fighting under the dark night, and the night vision ability of the Xia army is a king buried in the name of Wei
Brand.
With the addition of the building car, this is the last hope for the capture of Pingxia City.
The wind stopped, and the soldiers pushing the cart forward were overjoyed, saying that God was helping them, so their morale was greatly boosted.
However, in the next second, the wind rose again. This time, the direction was not blown from Pingxia City to the outside, but from the side.
This time the wind was more violent and exaggerated than the previous one, and the outermost building car was instantly tilted by this fierce strong wind.
Wei Ming's eyes widened, Guo grew his mouth wide, Liang's eyes widened, and Zhi Keshi grew his mouth......
The battlefield seemed to become silent for a moment, and both the Song army and the Xia army looked at the tilted building car in amazement.
In addition to the sound of the wind howling, there seemed to be only a tooth-aching creaking sound left before heaven and earth.
The tilting building car crushed the other one as it fell. The timber on the other building car was also blown to the other building car by the wind, causing the third building car to tilt.
A gust of wind passed, and the five building cars crashed to the ground.
The fierce winds are still raging on this land, but the Xixia people who lost their buildings and cars have also lost their qualifications to wreak havoc on this land.
"Oh my God...... Helping the Song people......" the Western Xia soldier thought in his heart.
"Even God is not on our side, what are we fighting for? Run! It's us who don't run to death! ”
It is not a secret that the rations in the army are running out. This also caused the dissatisfaction of many soldiers, one of them, seeing that the building car collapsed, and the last hope was lost, so he screamed, turned around and ran.
The rest of the Western Xia soldiers were also in a panic - after all, the destruction of this building car was too outrageous......
So the Xia army began to scatter and flee, and the entire battlefield was filled with the sound of Western Xia people crying for their fathers and mothers.
The Song army was at a loss by this incident, and before they could even do anything, the Xia army was defeated. Guo Cheng felt that the party members were indeed very unlucky, but he was extremely cautious, he was afraid that this was a self-directed and self-acting ploy by the Xixia people, so as to lure the defenders out of Pingxia City, and finally caught him off guard.
So Guo Cheng decided to wait and see what happened.
"No !!" A terrible cry came from the camp of the Western Xia Central Army, and the Empress Dowager Liang, who saw the army in a state of panic and disorder, was full of heart and gall, and wept bitterly.
Until the time of the child, the Xia army began to retreat, and the morale of the Western Xia army at this time had fallen to the bottom.
And under the order of Chong Pu, Yao Xiong and Yao Gu had already led their troops to ambush on the road of the retreat of the Xia army, and when the Xia army retreated, it inflicted another heavy blow on it.
And the direction in which Xia Jun escaped was Tiandu Mountain......
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