358 Attack it and save it!
"Hey, what's the matter? My adults have said it, and they will answer it closely! Immediately, a new sergeant stood up and shouted out of the city.
"I am the envoy of General Renduo Baozhong, the commander of the Shun Army of the Right Wing of the Xia Kingdom, and my family has a bodhisattva heart and does not want to see it...... Yes...... Whoosh ...... Ahhhh......h
His voice is much louder than that of a soldier in the New Army, and his Chinese dialect is also good, and he can hear every word clearly. But Hong Tao didn't plan to let him finish speaking, this is not an axe from the class, making up nonsense in front of himself as a nonsense basket, it is too insulting to his IQ. Come on, I'll make it up!
Five people, five horses, not a single one can stand up. With Hong Tao's arrow, it shot the most accurately, pierced through the envoy's lower abdomen and through the back waist, and then pierced into the horse's buttocks, and a huge crossbow connected the man and the horse together. In fact, he aimed at the head, but that didn't stop the soldiers from cheering for their boss.
With this precedent, the Xia people no longer sent envoys, and launched two symbolic offences in the afternoon, and they died down before it was dark, and they were tired even if they thought about it.
Since he arrived in Liangzhou, he has not rested, he is cutting trees and working as a carpenter, and then he changed his career to be a construction worker, and he works hard all day long, and he has to beat drums and gongs at night, and he can't bear any physique.
You have to endure physical fatigue alone, and mentally become even more depressed. After three days of onslaught, all kinds of tricks that could be used were used up, and the weapons in his hands were never useful. Because they can't see the enemy at all, but a large number of their own people are dead.
How can this kind of battle be fought? Now the Western Xia military camp is full of gunpowder, and none of the leaders of the various clans are willing to attack the city anymore, and even Renduo Baozhong, who is very prestigious in the Western Xia army, is a little unable to suppress it. If you force them to die in vain, it is estimated that their own people will fight first.
"Baoyi, if you can't take back Liangzhou City, I'm afraid that the glory of half of your brother and my brother will be ruined. If we continue to attack the city, our people will die without a place to bury. This is a punishment from God, so that I and others have met such a vicious person, and their lives are also counted. ”
At dusk, Rinda Baoyi came to his brother's camp from the north of the city, not to reminisce about the past, but to ask for advice. Nearly 30% of the 20,000 elite soldiers in Baimaqiang Town were killed or wounded, and more than 10,000 soldiers were killed.
Since he had traveled lightly across the desert in the middle of the day, he was not carrying enough supplies, and if he couldn't make a quick decision, he would have to consider withdrawing some of his army back for supplies, or borrowing some from his brother first.
Renduo Baozhong didn't say to borrow or say not to borrow, looking at the city that never sleeps in the dark, his tone was full of despair.
"It's not that our brothers didn't do their best, who thinks that they can take down Liangzhou City, who can come and try, I am willing to be punished when the time comes!" Renduo Baoyi's personality is hotter than Renduo Baozhong, and the anger that has been held back for several days has nowhere to vent, and he immediately became anxious when he heard his brother's words.
"The imperial court has no soldiers available, the Song people's five-way army attacked together, the border pass battle is as tight as a day, and the troops guarding Gyeonggi have been exhausted. If it weren't for the fact that most of the soldiers and horses in Liangzhou went to Renduoquan City to intercept Dong Yu, they would not have ended up like this. We fell for the tricks of the Song people, and thought that Liangzhou would be safe and sound if there was a Wusheling Pass guarding the pass, but who would have thought that such a Song army would suddenly emerge and conquer Liangzhou silently. Before his brother came, he still blamed Liang Yi for making a mistake, and it was not a pity to die. Only now do I understand that he died unjustly, and such a domineering bow and crossbow will not be cheapened even if you and my brother meet. ”
As a military general who commands half of the country in the right wing, Renda Baozhong knows more about the overall battle situation than his younger brother. At this time, the Western Xia court was in big trouble, and it would be difficult to save the war unless it gave up the entire western territory and reduced its forces.
But this is easier said than done, because the Tangut was a state composed of many ethnic groups of parties, Uighurs, Tibetans, and Han Chinese, with a complex internal structure that was maintained by militarized management.
On weekdays, when you are on par with your opponent, you can still share the same hatred and hatred, and once you enter adversity, it is easy to disagree. For example, the abandonment of a large area of land in the west will make the ethnic groups in the west despair.
Without grassland, even if this battle is won, their tribe will become rootless duckweed, how will they live in the future? Moreover, at this time, the struggle for power between the imperial party and the latter party became very unstable, and no one could figure out the outcome of such a big change.
In fact, even if the western tribes agreed to move east, it would be too late. As long as Liangzhou City and Wusheling cannot be captured, the ethnic groups in the west will not be able to effectively reinforce the east.
Who dares to drag their family through Liangzhou? Even if the defenders of Liangzhou don't come out to intercept and kill, there are still tens of thousands of Qingtang cavalry in the south. After losing the stronghold of Liangzhou City, the eastern section of the Hexi Corridor became a colander, and whoever wanted to come to loot could come, and they couldn't stop it.
Besides, the Song army is not a fool, knowing that Liangzhou City is in hand, he still does not send troops to reinforce it. The field Western Xia army was not afraid of the Song army, but with the support of the city, the Song army, which was obviously superior in numbers and equipment, was not easy to deal with.
Once the Song army occupies a firm foothold, the walled forts on this line will be like mushrooms after the rain on the grassland, and a large area will emerge in a blink of an eye. At that time, not to mention that the western territory can no longer be taken back, it is a big question whether Xingqing Mansion can be defended.
There is no danger to defend from Liangzhou to the east, and there are many cities, and the siege of the city is a skilled worker for the Song army, but the defense of the city is not very good for the Western Xia army. Just like this, if the battle for one city after another continues, it won't take a few years for Xingqing Mansion to change hands.
"Did the eldest brother send the partial cavalry to Wusheling Ridge capture?" When it comes to the battle situation in Liangzhou, Renduo Baoyi is also helpless, but he can't ignore it. The only hope is to take Wusheling Ridge, so that the Song army in Liangzhou City will be considered dead.
“…… The terrain there is even more difficult to attack, and the Bailang tribe has returned yesterday, and there are only 1,000 of the 3,000 men and horses left, and the mountain road leading to the pass has been blocked by the corpse of our own son. The guards there are the Great Song Tianwu Infantry Army, the personal guards of the Song Emperor, it seems that this time the Song people are going to fight with our dynasty. "It's better not to mention Wusheling, but mentioning it has provoked Renduo Baozhong's sighs.
Song people are benevolent, as long as they don't squeeze hard, and then say a few soft words on the table if they have something to do, they can generally get along well. This is also the consistent policy pursued by the first emperor, pro-Song and anti-Liao.
However, since the Empress Dowager Liang took power, the attitude of the Western Xia court has taken a 180-degree turn, and it has changed to oppose the Great Song Dynasty everywhere.
This really made Da Song anxious, and with all his strength, he immediately saw the gap between the two countries. Before the cost, the Song army did not send all the elites to fight against the Western Xia, at least not the army with rockets.
Although the Song army in Liangzhou City did not have any banners, it was estimated that the Tianwu infantry army in Wusheling Ridge must be more elite, otherwise how could it be possible to let Tianziwei lead as an auxiliary.
As for what kind of army it was, Renduo Baozhong couldn't guess, he felt that it was probably secretly transferred back from the battlefield of Liao. When I think of this, my heart is even colder, I can't figure out if there is something about Liao this time.
The Song people withdrew their elite troops from the border of Liao, and it was impossible for the Liao people not to know anything about it, but they did not take the opportunity to invade south, and second, they did not disclose the news to muddy the waters. What does this mean? It shows that the Liao State and the Great Song Dynasty secretly colluded to destroy the Western Xia. If these two behemoths were in cahoots, Western Xia would really be unable to escape their doom.
"Brother, don't be too annoyed, brother thinks that Liangzhou is not advisable, it is better to go south to Wusheling Ridge. Although the pass there is steep, the number of defenders on the ridge is limited, and as long as they are not afraid of life and death, it is possible to seize it. It is difficult to achieve the frontal assault, and you can still climb up from behind the ridge, why not exchange ten people for one defender? Our brothers still have more than 40,000 soldiers and horses in their hands, as long as we recapture Wusheling and cut off the passage of reinforcements from Liangzhou City, this city will still be taken sooner or later, I don't believe that the Song army can not eat! ”
Rindo Baoyi has no talent for politics, but he is still very good as a general who leads the troops to fight, he is not dead-eyed, and he is also good at finding the enemy's weaknesses.
“…… If the defenders of Liangzhou go out of the city to rescue, we will intercept and kill them halfway! Wonderful, attack it unprepared, attack it will be saved, and my brother's art of war has been refined. So very good, come here, call all the tribes to take charge of the army! ”
The method that Rindo Baoyi said made Rindo Baozhong overjoyed, this is the combat style of the Western Xia army, it is so easy to use, and the feasibility is very high.