Chapter 59 only hurts after comparison

The armies of the Tanguts have always maintained a minimalist style. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The so-called simplicity is to minimize the logistics personnel, without the logistics personnel, the army's marching speed will be accelerated, and the pace of combat will also be accelerated, but it is necessary to give full play to this fast word, including defeating the enemy with the fastest speed.

If the war enters a stalemate phase, the army that lacks logistical supplies will soon show its decline.

The Great Song people were different, a forbidden army of 80,000 people would definitely be followed by no less than 30,000 people, or van troops.

The forbidden army was responsible for the battle, and the soldiers and civilians were responsible for the transportation of grain and grass, the treatment of the wounded, the cleaning of the battlefield, the preparation of meals, and the repair of bridges and roads.

When encountering such a Great Song army, it has always been the Tangut people who take advantage.

This time, when they came to the Hami country, which was richer than the border village of the Great Song Dynasty, the Tangut people prepared even less food and materials.

Dashicheng was breached, and the prefect Fei Tong gritted his teeth and burned all the grain and supplies stored in the official treasury, and ordered the people to do the same, and all losses would be compensated after reaching Hami City.

Therefore, the Tangut people who got the Great Rock City still eat dry food brought by themselves, some dried meat, and a small bag of fried barley.

The bald Ah Gu was extremely dissatisfied with his current situation, and begged Yu Bobo to rely on himself as the commander, not only leaving the most likely opportunity to win the battle merit to himself, but also taking away the most powerful cavalry in the army, leaving only 5,000 cavalry and more than 40,000 foot soldiers to deal with the reinforcements from Qingtang City.

All heavy weapons such as the Eight Ox Crossbow, the Divine Arm Crossbow, and the Catapult were all taken away by the Beggars, and the only honorable guards in his army were long knives, spears, and bows and arrows.

From the very beginning, the war entered a phase of stalemate, leaving the bald man helpless.

Qingtang Li Qiao came from a high place, and deliberately occupied the only high ground in this land, if he wanted to attack Li Qiao's army, he had to attack from the back.

The back attack is just a way of attacking, if it is performed on the battlefield, the condescending person will take a great advantage, especially in the protracted war, the back attack will be more disadvantaged, the high place to the low place to throw the feather arrow, it will fly farther, the low place to the high place, the effect will be reduced.

What's more, there has never been a shortage of ballistae, eight-bull crossbows and divine arm crossbows in the Hami army, and there is no shortage of gunpowder shells.

Li Qiao had a confrontation with the bald Ah Gu on the first day he arrived at the battlefield, and this battle was also the only time that the bald Ah Gu could raid Li Qiao.

The army was ambushed on the wasteland below the mountain, and the 10,000 soldiers were obviously perfectly hidden, but they were discovered by Li Qiao, and the fire oil bomb ignited the dry grass, and the bald Ah Gu had to evacuate those subordinates who were ambushed in the wild grass, and then were chased ten miles away by the mountain fire.

It's hard to have more options for fighting in the wasteland, and in the wasteland of Nuoda, there are roads everywhere, and with the help of scouts, it's not easy for two armies to meet together, and there are still overused intrigues there.

In this land, the battle between cavalry is the real royal road, strong horses, fierce warriors, sharp swords, accurate archery, and abundant food are the key to victory.

In the wilderness, strength is the decisive factor.

With 50,000 horses, the bald Ah Gu has only 5,000 cavalry, although there are many infantry, in the wasteland of Nuoda, if you want to use the legs of the infantry to pursue the cavalry, this is not a battle, but a death.

More than 40,000 infantry were facing the Hami army, which was almost entirely cavalry, and unless Li Qiao took the initiative to attack the camp of the Western Xia army, the infantry would play a very small role.

Even if Western Xia owned the Qilian Mountain pasture, it was impossible for him to equip his millions of troops with enough war horses.

With the national strength of Western Xia, it could not support the chewing of two or three million war horses, and among the millions of troops, two hundred and seventy or eighty thousand cavalry were their real combat strength.

Li Qiao prepared to launch an attack on the Tanguts after dawn, he hoped that through this battle, the cavalry of the Tanguts could be wiped out, and once the goal was achieved, he could ignore the remaining infantry and go straight to Dashicheng to support Tiexinyuan.

By the time the Tangut cavalry arrived at Dashicheng, the fighting there should be over anyway.

Tie Xinyuan is not ready to enter Big Rock City, in fact, this city is still not able to enter, the battle has been going on for three days, and the flames in Big Stone City have not been extinguished.

In the past three days, after Tie Xinyuan gave Zhang Zhi the order to pursue, the only thing he did was to transfer the Chinese military account.

Staying in the downwind position is a torment for everyone, even if you cover your mouth and nose with a wet towel, the smoke and the strong smell of burnt still penetrate your skin and into your brain.

When the fire began to melt the city, part of the Tangut people were swallowed up by the fire, some fled, the other part jumped over the wall, and the rest were almost torn apart by the artillery left behind at the city gate.

The late autumn in the Western Regions was comparable to the harsh winter in Guanzhong, and when Tie Xinyuan got up, he saw that the leftover tea he hadn't drunk last night had frozen.

Wei Chiwen heard that there was movement in Tiexinyuan's tent, so he quickly opened the curtain and walked in, preparing the hot washing water, it was a very comfortable thing to be able to wash his face with hot water on such a cold morning.

Of course, if you want to be a little more comfortable, then have a hot breakfast.

Tie Xinyuan's breakfast is millet porridge, and the rotten millet and soup can no longer be separated, and if it is cooled, it will become porridge jelly.

He had a good appetite, and he drank three bowls of millet porridge in a row, ate a piece of bread, two eggs, and rarely touched the pickles in the army, which would hurt his appetite.

"Have you found the body of the beggar Bo Bo?" Tie Xinyuan put down his job and asked Wei Chiwen.

"I found it, but I became almost unrecognizable, my body shrunk into a ball, tightly bound in the armor, my neck was gone, and my limbs were shortened a lot like a big ball of meat, and the guards relied on the armor on his body to find him.

The guy named Tashi was poisoned very violently. ”

Tie Xinyuan nodded and said: "Since I found it, I will send someone to give it to Zema, with the corpse of Beggar, Zema's body can recover faster." ”

"Tie Wuye came here in the morning to ask the king if he could go into the city today to clean up the city, and said that if the king wants to pile up the Jingguan, he must do it as soon as possible, and it will be difficult to start when the corpse and the ground freeze together."

Tie Xinyuan sighed and said: "Since he wants to clean up the rest of the Xixia people faster, then go, clean up this place, and the Prime Minister will send someone to demolish the big stone city, and use the stones here to rebuild a big stone city ten miles away, there are too many dead people here, and it is not suitable for people to live." ”

After Wei Chiwen cleaned up the table, he quickly glanced outside the tent, and then whispered to Tie Xinyuan: "Wang Jiefu entered the city early in the morning. ”

"Oh? What's the point of the dead? ”

"Listening to Mr. Liu Qi, Wang Jiefu wants to evaluate the results of the battle and the lethality of the artillery, and then give a lecture to the Song Emperor and tell the whole story here.

Xu Dongsheng thinks this matter is inappropriate. ”

Tie Xinyuan said with a smile: "There is nothing inappropriate, only let those who sit in the well and watch the sky see the strength of the Hami Kingdom, they will take seriously the Queen Mother and Queen Mother who stay in Tokyo, count the days, and there will be twenty days to be the day when the Queen gives birth, I hope that the news of this victory can make her feel at ease to give birth."

After the beginning of spring, you will go to Tokyo City to pick up the queen mother and the queen and the princes back, if at that time, the Great Song Dynasty has not made a decision, the matter of the prince becoming the crown prince of the Great Song Dynasty will be stopped. ”

Yu Chiwen said with a smile: "We still lack the prince, what to do over there, there is a king to open up territory for the prince, and the prince can ascend the throne as the emperor when he goes there." ”

Tie Xinyuan laughed and said, "Just a battle has made you swell to this point?" ”

"Mr. Liu Chu said that artillery is the god of war, and the enemy at the muzzle of the gun will become powder under the muzzle.

My lord, can you inform Mr. Liu of the news that he went to Tokyo to pick up the Queen Mother and her return? ”

Tie Xinyuan left his seat, stretched his arms and said, "It's okay, let them help those people make up their minds early." ”

Tie Xinyuan, who came back from a walk, began to deal with state affairs in the tent that had been re-warmed, and before he knew it, he was already on the rise.

It wasn't until a strong smell of burnt smell came into his nostrils that he raised his head, looked at Wang Anshi, who was extremely ugly, and smiled: "Mr. is back?" ”

"The ground in Dashi City was covered with human oil baked by the fire, and An Shi was also a person with some courage, but he trembled when he entered the city, and he didn't dare to open his eyes to look around, lest he see more human tragedies."

Tie Xinyuan frowned and said: "So I won't go into the city to see it, and I won't see the tragic things in the world you said, and I can continue to maintain my current state of mind, so that I can continue to do the same next time." ”

Wang Anshi wanted to speak and stopped, and finally sighed and said: "What the king said is extremely correct, the dead enemy is the best enemy, the old man is a little out of shape, the king should not go to his heart." ”

Tie Xinyuan got up and poured Wang Anshi a cup of hot tea and said, "I heard that you talked about the way of immortality with Master Compal in the Great Lei Yin Temple, and you have a lot of experience?" ”

Wang Anshi took a sip of the hot car to stabilize his chaotic mind and said: "The red face and white bones are all vain, Master Renbao proclaimed the Buddha's name, but his chest was full of anger for some reason, even if he did all the good deeds, I am afraid that he would not have a chance with the West Heaven Treasure Realm." ”

"That's because you haven't seen his dead brother Sakya Living Buddha, and if you have seen Sakya, you will feel that Master Rinpoh is indeed a generation of eminent monks, benevolent like a real Buddha.

In this world, good people and good people are relative, and without contrast, there is no good or evil. “

Wang Anshi turned his head to look at the endless wasteland outside the tent and muttered to himself, "How much damage has this vast land endured to give birth to a group of people like you......