Chapter 64: Wang Anshi's Poetry

The fierceness of the war is not destined to last long, and the passion and ferocity of man need abundant physical strength to sustain it. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

When the sun rose overhead, the hustle and bustle of the battlefield finally calmed down.

The two armies left a lot of corpses in that vast canyon, and both Li Qiao and the bald Ah Gu restrained their armies and slowly retreated back to the mountain bag under their control.

The victory was not divided, and the two armies sent a gathering team at the same time to collect their wounded soldiers on the battlefield.

Even if they passed by on the battlefield, no conflict broke out, but they kept rummaging over the corpses.

Every time they find someone who is lucky enough to survive, they burst into cheers and proclaim it as a victory.

Liang Yao is the biggest reward in the Hami Army in this corpse collection competition.

As a commander, when the right collarbone was broken with a chain hammer and the left leg was also crushed by the war horse, he could still scold, which surprised the Hami soldiers very much.

Carefully removed him from the small pit filled with dead bodies, and when the cold wind blew him, he even missed the warm pit a little.

It takes at least an hour for the dead to become completely cold, not to mention that many of them died later, including two wounded soldiers of Western Xia who could have survived, who were strangled to death by Liang Yao with his intact left hand.

After the wounded soldiers were collected, the Hami began to gather their brothers who had died in battle, while the Tanguts began to build a walled city on the mountain on the left.

Finding that the Tanguts were trying to rely on the mountain bag to protect themselves, Li Qiao pushed the remaining ballistas to the nearest place he could reach, and continued to use the ballistas to fire gunpowder shells to destroy the walled cities that the Tanguts were building.

Guarded by cavalry and crossbows, the Tanguts attacked the ballista positions twice without any effect, and the bald Ah Gu gave up his plan to build a walled city in front of him.

It's too hard to find endlessly what to build a walled city on this barren plain, where nothing but a large expanse of white grass is left with a little low bush.

There is water in Dead Sheep Beach.

That is, because of the water, the Western Xia people would choose to snipe Hami reinforcements at Dead Sheep Beach, but the water was in the low-lying part of Dead Sheep Beach, moved away from the plain, and there was no water on the mountain pack.

The cold snap that had arrived three days earlier was so powerful that it froze the waterhole, which created conditions for the Tangut people to carry large quantities of water.

As soon as the army gained a foothold in the mountain pack on the left, the bald Ah Gu sent people to collect a large amount of ice, as long as it was supported for the past few days, with his experience, heavy snow would soon fall here.

In the Western Regions, the first snow after the beginning of winter is generally very heavy, and whether or not it can support this snow is the biggest prerequisite for whether these Western Xia people can return.

Only heavy snow can negate part of the cavalry's advantage in rapid mobility.

By this time, the bald Ah Gu no longer thought about victory, and he really wanted to return to Western Xia safely with more warriors.

If 10,000 people can return to Western Xia alive, it will be his greatest victory, and he will have a reason to go back with his head held high, and there will be no defeat and depression.

If it weren't for his greed for merit, he would divide a well-equipped army into two, so that the strong would be strong and the weak would be weaker, where would there be the current predicament of the bald Ah Gu, as long as there were 10,000 cavalry and 2,000 crossbowmen on hand, even if he was in trouble, the bald Ah Gu could rely on the cover of the cavalry and crossbowmen, and the whole army would retreat to the sandbar.

If it weren't for the fact that he heard that King Hami personally led his troops to Dashicheng, he wanted to capture Tie Xinyuan, the king of Hami, alive in Dashicheng and get the greatest military exploits, this army should have left Dashicheng as soon as possible and entered Huyang City in the east.

There was nothing wrong with the timing and combat strategy chosen by the prime minister, it was the fool who ruined the great victory that the Western Xia Kingdom should have.

When the sky was about to darken, the bald Ah Gu painfully made the decision to collect the corpses of the Western Xia soldiers killed in battle and use the corpses to build a walled city.

The scouts sent out earlier brought the worst news, a Hami army appeared due east, the ranks were huge, more than fifteen thousand, and the number of cavalry exceeded ten thousand.

The news of the defeat of the beggar could no longer be hidden......

Li Qiao couldn't wait at the foot of the mountain for the iron five to come.

He didn't have any interest in Tie Wu's stuffy gourd, he just wanted to know what those cannons proposed by Tie Xinyuan and planned by himself would look like after they were formed, Brother Yuan said that this thing would be the god who dominated the battlefield, and he wanted to know if this thing could be worthy of the title of god of the battlefield.

There is a good inspection ground right in front of you.

Fortunately, it was winter, and the soil on the Gobi in the Western Regions was frozen hard by a cold snap, otherwise, it would be difficult for this wet land soaked by the Poplar River to carry the huge weight of artillery.

Patting the cold barrel, Li Qiao was in a very good mood, in this morning's battle, more than 3,400 Hami soldiers fell on the battlefield.

Although with the advantage of cavalry, the number of Western Xia people killed in battle was three times that, Li Qiao still couldn't accept it.

"Shoot me and see."

Li Qiao looked at Tie Wudao hopefully.

Tie Wu shrugged his shoulders noncommittally, and then plunged into the warm tent, he felt that Li Qiao had no brains at this time.

The army had trekked more than 300 miles through the wasteland in the cold wind, and it was more necessary to rest than to show off the power of artillery for no reason.

Although Li Qiao was one of the three great generals of the Hami Kingdom, he did not have any authority to command the Hami Guards.

The distribution of powers and responsibilities in Hami is very clear, and there is absolutely no ambiguity, even when Tie Xinyuan encounters problems related to Xiangguofu, he does not have the power to command Xiangguofu indiscriminately, he can only negotiate with Xiangguo, and then act.

Li Qiao, who was rejected, was naturally only depressed, but not angry.

"Tell me how the artillery crushed Big Rock to powder?"

It was inconvenient for Tie Wu to speak, Tie Xinyuan could only grab Tie Wu's lieutenant general and ask him clearly, this question was not clear, it was like a hundred cats scratching their hearts.

"The power of the artillery is so great that one cannon will erode a hundred feet in the past, and six cannons will block the gates of Dashi City.

No matter how many Tangut people tried to run out of the city to fight us, they were easily torn apart by artillery at the city gates.

So much so that the Xixia people would rather jump out of the city than escape from the city gate, and then the fire oil bomb and gunpowder bomb began to exert power, you know, after our new fire oil bomb added some things, as long as it began to burn, there was no way to extinguish it, and in the end, Dashi City naturally became a furnace. ”

The deputy general's description was prosaic, which made Li Qiao very dissatisfied, and he couldn't get Tie Wu to demonstrate the power of the artillery to him now, so he had to linger beside the artillery and was reluctant to leave.

"General, don't be impatient, you just saw the military village of the Tangut people, such a simple military village can't withstand the ravages of artillery, it is estimated that as long as a few shells, the souls of these Tangut people can be scattered."

Li Qiao shook his head and said: "The bald Ah Gu already regards himself as a dead man, and his subordinates are the same, the reason for being a dead man is to survive, and if he can't survive, he will fight to the death, and it is difficult to shake the army's heart like iron."

At the fourth watch last night, the bald Ah Gu sent the most important person in the army away, according to the confession of the Western Xia captured by the scouts, the father and son were in the army, the son left, and the brother who was in the army left, and the son of the bald Ah Gu left under the protection of this military order.

I was going to send people to pursue me at dawn, but the bald Ah Gu, an old thief, actually attacked with his whole army and dragged me firmly here, and I could only watch three or four thousand Xixia people flee. ”

Tie Wu shook his head and gestured with his hand, "Someone is chasing down." ”

"Who?"

"Zhang Zhi."

Since Brother Yuan already had a plan, Li Qiao didn't talk much, the materials they brought were very rich, especially in terms of food, which was extremely rich, he opened his belly and ate a sauerkraut stew, and went back to his camp.

The reason why Tie Wu came to Dead Sheep Beach and the reason why Zhang Zhi blocked the border between Hami and Western Xia in advance shows that Brother Yuan did not plan to let go of an invading Western Xia person.

Wang Anshi was also in the Iron Fifth Army, and he didn't like to see Li Qiao, a person who married the emperor's concubine, and he didn't know how to face it.

Just like in Qingxiang City, it is a reason that he has never dealt with Meng Yuanzhi, lest he lose the distinction between monarchs and ministers.

The Battle of Dashicheng was nothing more than a battle like Mount Tai's crushing eggs, which could only prove that the firearms of the Hami Kingdom were extremely powerful and unparalleled in the world, and it could not prove that the combat power of the soldiers of the Hami Kingdom surpassed that of the Western Xia people.

Wang Anshi did not see the battle on Dead Sheep Beach with his own eyes, but he could see a clue from the number of casualties on both sides.

There is no way to fake this thing, the corpses of the Hami soldiers who died in the battle are still covered with white cloths, and they are placed in rows in the baggage camp, and the corpses of the soldiers killed in the Western Xia have now become a high wall......

After witnessing all this, Wang Anshi returned to his tent, rubbed his frozen hands, added a little warm water to the inkstone, and slowly studied the ink while thinking about the wording.

The vast wasteland, the battle flags rolled in the cold wind, the fire in the barracks, the white grass broken by the north wind, the walls that accumulated with corpses, made him poetic......

vented the emotions in his chest, and there was a crisp sound of bangs on the time signal in the barracks, and the brilliance of the bright moon was scattered all over the ground, and even the north wind stopped howling.

Wang Anshi stretched his waist, got into the sleeping bag that the old servant had warmed with the soup woman, carefully put on his hood, and prepared to sleep beautifully, so that he could continue to watch the tyrannical performance of the Hami Army tomorrow.

In the middle of the night, Wang Anshi, who was sleeping soundly, was woken up by the old servant, and the noise outside the tent was terrible, and the two armies were actually fighting.

"The camp has been attacked!"

Wang Anshi was startled, hurriedly put on his clothes, and before he had time to put on his robe, he opened the tent......