The consumption of less than 200 shells and more than 30,000 rounds of ammunition was exchanged for a crushing battle with one enemy and ten, which made the original little anxiety of the whole army disappear, and even Wang Da, who had always been steady, was a little arrogant.

She also didn't bother with the rout on the battlefield, and immediately ordered the whole army to cross the river, without stopping for a moment, preparing to attack Xincheng overnight!

This order was set right by Hong Tao, and Wang Da was called to a place where no one was there and reprimanded. Don't float, this black light is blinding, artillery and muskets can't play 100% power, once you are ambushed, it will be a bitter battle.

Winning should be fine, but the amount of ammo that can be consumed in a scuffle will be doubled. At present, the new army has such a lot of belongings, and it will have to meet Miao Kui in Liangzhou at the earliest to get supplies. Now there are enemy troops in front and ghosts in the back, and they have to live a careful life, and they can save as much as they can.

As for the siege of Lanzhou, it hasn't been captured yet. If the Tangut people really retreated, the king of Qi in the city would not be in danger. If the Tangut people want to play any tricks, it doesn't matter, wait until dawn to continue to do it with open swords and guns, and see if it is a powerful scheme or a powerful bullet.

"The child is worried about the eldest mother, and if she rescued Zhao Maid a day earlier, her father will have something to rely on, and the second sister and tenth sister will have the confidence to open their eyes for their father. If it is delayed for too long, I am afraid that the third sister will not be able to withstand the forbidden army of the imperial court. ”

Wang Da has a good habit, she is obedient, she has been obedient since she was a child, and she has not changed it when she grows up. Regardless of whether he wants to do it or not, as long as his adoptive father says it, he will obey the order and listen to the command immediately, and he will not discount it, which is much more intimate than Wang Er, who is yin and yang, and Wang Shi, who is reckless.

"Good boy...... Don't be afraid, as soon as the Tangut people defeat the court, they will have no confidence and turn their faces for their father. You still don't understand, those people in the court are masters of seeing the wind and using their strength, but few dare to face it head-on. Teach you a word, refined egoist. On the surface, they pretend to worry more about the country and the people than anyone else, but in fact, they only calculate a little bit of small profits in front of them. This kind of person is a coward, and he is most afraid of being unreasonable like his father, and he will never see each other shirtless without full certainty. ”

But at the same time of being honest and caring, Wang Da was a little dead-eyed, and he recognized one thing and didn't want to understand it and never looked back. If the lord of the army is anxious, this army will have to follow suit, and Hong Tao has to find a way to make her feel at ease first.

There is really no need to worry about Yangzi Town, it will not take three or four days for a few armed cargo ships to return from Jiangling, as long as they go to the Yangtze River, plus the new army left behind led by Wang San, I dare not say that they can completely protect the Liangwang Mansion, but the Yangtze River Academy will definitely be fine, and the eldest princess will be fine.

Wang San is not as obedient as Lian'er and them, and he really dares to carry the eldest princess and leave when he is in a hurry. The order she gave her was also to keep the people and the academy, and a broken courtyard was gone.

Wang Da understood, and his heart was also stable, and he went to arrange the camp in a down-to-earth manner, but he did not forget that this was a battlefield, and three or four hundred people were scattered out to ambush in all directions.

It turned out that something really happened, and in the middle of the night, gunshots suddenly rang out in the west, and the secret sentry must have discovered a large number of enemies before shooting and calling the police, but it was not quite right to listen to it for a while.

It is said that the dark whistle can't hide after the shot, and it should be ridden back on horseback, there are three layers of dark whistles along the way, and the gunfire will get closer and denser. In fact, the gunfire rang out dozens of times and then stopped, could it be said that the dark posts were touched by the enemy?

"Impossible, I can touch one or two impossibly, it is possible that the Xixia people are all heavenly soldiers and generals!" Jiang Erlang was the first to be unhappy with this speculation, the sentries were all his subordinates, this was not a slap in the face.

Jiang Erlang's self-confidence is not for nothing, he does have a set of stealing chickens and dogs, many secret whistles are hidden in the soil with people and horses, and they are still in the field of vision with each other, theoretically speaking, humans are not capable of touching them together.

So what the hell is going on, it didn't take long for the answer to be revealed, it wasn't the enemy's sneak attack at night, it was the breakout forbidden army of Lanzhou City that the secret post encountered. The leader of the team was none other than the Qi King Zhao maid that Hong Tao wanted to save.

He had noticed that something was wrong since the morning, although the Western Xia army besieging the city was in camp, the intensity of the attack was obviously weak. At noon, there were bursts of thunder in the southeast, how could there be thunder on such a sunny day?

Just as he was wondering, he saw a jaw-dropping sight in the telescope. Groups of Western Xia cavalry rushed north along the post road in the east of the city, and they didn't bring their heads back.

Soon, the Western Xia army besieging the city also seemed to have received an order, turned around and ran into the camp, mounted their horses, did not want cattle and sheep, and did not care about their baggage, and followed those cavalry to the north.

Reinforcements came, and the Western Xia army was defeated, so this situation would occur. There is another possibility, that is, the Western Xia army is acting, deceiving, and planning to lure the Lanzhou defenders out of the city.

King Qi chose the latter, Lanzhou City is very strong, the food in the city is enough to eat for a long time, there is no shortage of ordnance or anything, he will not go out of the city without full certainty, no matter how much the Xixia people act.

But in the evening, a new drama was staged again. This time, the people who ran back became the Western Xia infantry, the number was tens of thousands, and it was a miserable run, not to mention the armor, some even lost their shoes, and they didn't have weapons, how do you look like a rout.

These routs rushed into the camp of the Tanguts, if nothing else, to find horses. But a large number of horses have been carried away by the rout in front, and there is not enough left for these people.

What happened next made King Qi can't help but be a little suspicious of his previous speculation, the Western Xia army broke out and killed each other, and the fight was fierce, what was caught and copied, it was really a fight to the death.

King Qi watched for more than an hour, until it was completely dark, and there were still shouts and screams in the Xixia camp. The rout did not come back together, and there were old people who ran back from the southeast, and the one in front had already grabbed the horse and ran, and the back did not run to the camp.

Or acting? King Qi felt that he couldn't convince himself, those bloody scenes of fighting for his life were seen with his own eyes, and there were tens of thousands of people watching. Even if the Tangut people cheat, there is no need to be so ruthless to their own people.

Is that really coming for reinforcements? I don't dare to guarantee that who in the imperial court has such a great ability to defeat more than 100,000 Western Xia main forces in one fell swoop? Even if King Liang goes out of the mountain, it is unlikely, because the forbidden army is not a new army, and its combat effectiveness is far behind.

Through this expedition, Zhao Maid can be regarded as having an understanding of the current military strength of the Great Song Dynasty, which is completely different from the numbers seen in the court.

The weapons and equipment are much stronger than the previous forbidden army, at least half of the border troops have been replaced with steel crossbows, but the training intensity and the quality of the soldiers are not as good as the forbidden army of the Daimyo Mansion back then.

The phenomenon of eating empty salaries and greedy for military armaments abounds, some forbidden armies have crossbows but not enough crossbow arrows, some forbidden armies have no shortage of crossbows and arrows but insufficient bows and crossbows, and many pack horses are stunned to pretend to be war horses, and their combat effectiveness is not as good as before.

If the border army is like this, how good can the forbidden army in the interior be? Zhao Maid really doesn't count on it. But this obvious opportunity was not willing to be missed, and after some discussion, Zhao decided to personally lead the team to break through.

If it succeeds, it can give more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians in Lanzhou a chance to live; Failed, the horse leather shroud is not an insult to the ancestors.

When I was in Zhuo Luo City, if it wasn't for my subordinates who desperately defended me, I would have died a long time ago, and I couldn't always let my subordinates go out to fight, even if I died on the battlefield, I had to prove that I was not a waste prince!

"Your Highness is very irresponsible and irresponsible to others. Now that the Hornets have been sent out to ask for help, it is time to stay where you are and wait. If you run away and die, and others rush to the rescue, it's just a matter of throwing yourself into the air, and if you are in danger, wouldn't it be a harmful move! ”

Hong Tao heard that Zhao Maid already had the intention of fighting for his life. As a pampered prince, he has been with him for a few years, and he can understand more about the people, know that the hardships of life are already very good, and it must be a great advantage to be able to risk his life. But praising people is not their forte, and it is smoother to find faults with thorns.

"Uncle taught me ...... But, but the little nephew has a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not? "Seeing my uncle, Zhao felt that everything was very good, and it was nothing to criticize two sentences, and my uncle who did not criticize people promised that it was fake.

However, this black cauldron can't be carried by himself, and the reason why he has the idea of suicide is not that he is not responsible for the military and people of Lanzhou, but that there is another hidden reason. This matter is like a fish in the throat every day, and I can't tell anyone about it, and no one believes it when I do, except for my uncle.

"It's about Yao Gu's reinforcements who don't save them when they see death, right? If it is a matter, don't mention it, this king knows it all. As for the details, it doesn't make much sense to know at this point. Your Highness, do you know that this king is bringing private soldiers this time, and no matter how many great military exploits he makes, it is like a rebellion? "Hong Tao probably knows what Zhao Maid is going to say, and his defeat in Zhuo Luo City is definitely not for no reason.

The students he taught knew by himself that with the current combat effectiveness of the Western Xia army, the seventy or eighty thousand forbidden army led by Zhao Yu really couldn't be defeated, but it would not be directly defeated.

Although Zhuo Luo City is much smaller than Lanzhou City, it is also a new city built of cement and stones, and it is not a problem to send 10,000 people to guard it for a month. With this city in front, the rest of the troops can retreat to the front line of Lanzhou in an orderly manner and then organize defenses and wait for reinforcements. If these 70,000 or 80,000 main forbidden troops were not defeated, the Western Xia people would not be able to continue southward.

But it's too late to say this now, even if Zhao Maid tells himself that there are court generals who will not save him when he sees death, and comes up with real evidence, can he still take the evidence to the court to help him fight a lawsuit and discuss the law?

Now that the person has been rescued, it is time to get to the point. In the end, this matter has to listen to Zhao Maid's opinion, don't make it like you are forcing your nephew to seize power.

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