Chapter 23: The Iron Rider and the Golden Drum (5)
[Stay up late to code words, the second update a little late, ask for red tickets, collect. ] 】
Wang Sunsin sat on the head of the city, pursed his lips and looked at the fire outside the city.
A soldier was helping him to wrap an arrow wound on his thigh. Although the position of the arrow was not there, but through the two layers of heavy silk in the outer robe, the arrow he was hit was only an inch into the flesh. And there is a heavy silk separation, and the rust stains on the arrows are not much on the wound.
The arrowhead was removed, washed with salt water, and the wound medicine was applied to stop bleeding, and the wound was bandaged without even stitching up. Wang Sunsin's personal soldiers were all trained in the sanatorium, and even one of them was directly transferred from a nurse, and all of them had a certain level of first-aid skills, and they were completely comfortable in dealing with arrow sores on Wang Sunsin's legs. And now they are under Wang Sunsin's orders, and most of them are helping to deal with the wounded and sick in the field hospital, and win the favor of the soldiers for Wang Sunsin.
Not only Wang Sunchen's personal soldiers, but also Han Gang's, Wang Shao's, Gao Zunyu's, Zhao Long, Wang Hou's personal soldiers, each of whom had learned battlefield first aid in a sanatorium. Wang Sunchen on the Qinzhou side didn't know, at least in Guwei, it became a trend for the pro-soldiers to learn some medical skills. often goes to the battlefield, and there are a few cronies around who know a little about medical skills, so you can feel at ease when you go into battle. Moreover, there is the same idea as Wang Sunsin, in the army, doctors are always the most respected, and it is also a good thing for generals to form a good relationship among the soldiers.
Just like the current Wang Sunsin, although he failed in the night attack and was hit by an arrow himself, the soldiers still maintained their respect for him. On the one hand, he Wang Shunchen has the archery skills that Qin Feng Lu can teach with the arrow god Liu Changzuo, and on the other hand, it is the popularity that his personal soldiers have established for him.
But in the end, it still suffered! Wang Sunchen pounded the city wall angrily.
When he went out of the city to rob the camp, Wang Sunchen did not expect that with the minds of the Tubo people, he would be able to guess in advance and set up an ambush, so that he had to retreat to the city in embarrassment. However, he managed to bring back most of the soldiers who had followed him out of the city to fight.
On the last section of the road, Wang Sunchen showed his martial courage like a ghost, leading more than 40 strong archers to block the road, and with the faint starlight, he shot head-on at the Tubo people who were chasing after him. In the night, he was still as accurate as a god, and exchanged the arrows for a scream, which frightened the pursuers and allowed Wang Sunchen to return to the city.
The forty strong bows led by Wang Sunchen were carefully selected from the thousands of soldiers under him, and their archery skills were all first-class. Relying on their wonderful performance in the last moments, as well as his own soldiers who guarded the wounded, the morale of the city was still alive. In addition, before the night attack, he also deceived a batch of arrows from the party members, so that he had more capital to keep it.
Wang Sunchen was very grateful to Han Gang and Wang Hou, who had talked about the well-known battle examples of the past dynasties in front of him, and tonight's plan was to imitate the battle examples of Zhang Xun guarding Suiyang. Taking advantage of the darkness of the moon, he hung a bunch of straw men down the city wall and deceived a batch of arrows, until the last one was too greedy and did not recover them in time, so that the enemy found the flaw, and temporarily built a batch of rockets and burned more than a dozen bunches of straw men.
Despite the losses, there were nearly 10,000 arrows in the last hand, which is equivalent to ten arrows for each soldier. Thinking of this, Wang Sunchen was relieved, tonight was not in vain, and tomorrow he could use these arrows to give color to the western thieves outside the city.
Wang Sunsin snorted heavily at the enemy camp outside the city, wanting to break through his city, but also looked at the longbow in his hand and said yes.
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In the night, Han Gang and Zhiyuan each sat on a small pony, and the fire in front of them dispelled the solemn chill in the September Mountain. They, along with Blind Medicine and his thousand soldiers, had now just gone sixty miles west. This distance, if it was an official road at the beginning, it should have appeared under Weiyuan Fort by now.
However, neither Blind Medicine nor Han Gang had the intention of directly rescuing Weiyuan Fort. Han Gang had heard from Wang Weixin that Wang Sunchen was trapped in Xingluo Jiecheng. If you can help Wang Sunchen relieve the siege, and then block the retreat of the thief army in Dalai Valley, and close the door to fight the dogs, there will be no suspense in this battle.
There are many mountain roads in the upper reaches of Weishui, and even if you don't take the official road, there are still other roads that can lead to Xingluo Yucheng. Rescuing Wang Sunchen in Xingluo Jiecheng, and then blocking the Dalai Valley, is the wishful thinking of Han Gang and the blind medicine.
Blind Medicine and Han Gang are both cautious people, and they have already sent capable men to investigate the road before they set off, and now some continue to test forward, and some are coming back to report the news, at least in the places they have already explored, there is no need to worry about the ambush of the party people.
Now Han Gang is pursuing more military exploits, which can allow him to become an official as soon as possible. If he relied on Wang Shao's snort to become an official, then his best and safest choice was to go to Weiyuan Fort. But Han Gang thought that he and Wang Shao were closer to like-minded allies, so he didn't care about these little things.
"I don't know why I want to give the credit to the blind medicine this time." Zhiyuan picked up the fire with a thick branch and turned the fire a little stronger. There was a little more respect in his voice, Han Gang's methods of dealing with Ye Lizheng today made him breathtaking, but he still didn't understand Han Gang's intentions, "The opportunity is just a knife, not to let the old class be far away, if this merit is reported, the Son of Heaven and Wang Xianggong will definitely like it." ”
"Everything is based on stability, and giving credit to him is to let him continue to submit to the court, and it is easier to transfer troops...... Otherwise, how can Wang Sunchen and Wang be appeased? ”
This credit Han Gang does not want it, if it is in the Tibetan Ministry that has not yet decided to belong, when he meets the Western Xia envoy, Han Gang will definitely cut it directly, and he will be happy to accept the credit that follows.
But since the Battle of Guwei, Wang Shao and Gao Zunyu's Yu Longke blind medicine brothers have been regarded as courtiers of the Great Song Dynasty. As a Song Chen, his vacillating attitude will definitely affect Wang Shao and others who recommended him. Once the news of Han Gang's killing of the Western Xia envoy in the Blind Medicine City spreads, he and Wang Shao will not be praised, but will be held accountable for their previous crimes of bullying the king.
"So this credit can only be given to the blind medicine." Han Gang also followed Zhiyuan to set the fire and keep it on the current fire. Then he said to Zhiyuan, "Rest early, you have to get up early tomorrow." ”
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About 4,000 or so soldiers of the Yu Zang family are besieging the camp where the army is stationed. And three miles away in Weiyuan Fort, there are also nearly 2,000 people besieging it. However, their troops were not enough at all, and the Tibetans were not good at attacking the city, so a team of cavalry rushed up, shot a few arrows, and then retreated, which was considered to have completed an attack. Without enough numbers, this is the only kind of attack that can be done at the moment.
Seeing the ugliness of the soldiers under his tent, Yu Zang Huama gave up the illusion of breaking the city. began to think about how to successfully withdraw from the army.
The basic condition of a famous general is to know how to advance and retreat. When to advance and when to retreat, the timing of advance and retreat can be clear in the chest, and not confused by the immediate benefits. If you do this, you can go for the title of celebrity.
Yu Zang Huama thinks that he is not a famous general, but he still has a good grasp of the timing of advance and retreat on the battlefield. After a tentative day of attacking, he would not fantasize about such beautiful things as breaking through the camp and castle in one fell swoop, but he didn't even find a flaw in the city defense—to be more precise, the flaw on it was not something that his thousands of soldiers could take advantage of—which made Yu Zang Huama completely give up the idea of biting a piece of fat on Weiyuan Fort.
Although it is not very clear how many troops there are in the camp and Weiyuan Fort, it may be a lot or very little, but Yu Zang Huama has no intention of gambling with his life. Liang Yi buried him to send troops to Hehuang, he had already done it, and he didn't have to continue to work hard for Liang Yi.
Yu Zang Huama will not throw the capital that he has gained a foothold in the country under the Weiyuan Fort, which is meaningless to him. If he loses the tens of thousands of elite soldiers who bow down to his orders, the Yu Zang family will suddenly go from the top five wealthy families in the country to the miscellaneous that everyone is bullied by. Moreover, the resentment between the Yu Zang family and Dong Yu is very deep, if you hear the news that they are going out, you will not take the opportunity to attack it again, unless Dong Yu suddenly becomes a thief who eats fasting and recites Buddha.
And there may also be variables in the blind medicine, Yu Zang Huama will not pin all his hopes on a lobbyist, more precisely, he doesn't believe that Yeli Zheng can succeed, he just sets up idle people.
What he hoped for most was to receive good news from Xingluo Yucheng, but so far, it has only been transmitted back that everything is going well. Yu Zang Huama knew that something was wrong, and even if she had the idea of retreating.
"It's time to retreat." found the general who led the army, and Yu Zang Huama said his order.
He has great authority among his subordinates, and Yu Zang Huama easily drives them to serve him. With an outside helper, everything is handled in an orderly manner, and there is no trace of panic.
A war has raged, but for both sides, their original goals have been achieved. Wang Shao wanted the head of Beiqiang Xingluojie, while Yu Zang Huama wanted to deal with the court. As for the losses, if we only count the two sides in front of us, the siege and the defenders have lost nearly three hundred. As for Wang Sunchen in Xingluo Jiecheng, as long as the city is not broken, the number of casualties will only double at most.
didn't suffer a big loss, he could already reward the gods and worship the Buddha, but Wang Shao was still not happy, because from Yu Zang Hua Ma can appear in the Wusheng Army, one thing can already be determined - that is, Mu Zheng fell to Xixia, otherwise Yu Zang Hua Ma would never come and go so easily.
This was Wang Shao's first contact with the Tangut people in Hehuang, and it can be predicted that this was by no means the last time. In the process of attacking Mu Zheng in the future and subduing Dong Yu, one eye must be left to stare at Lanzhou, which is facing the north.
Sooner or later, a winner will have to be decided.
Whether it is Wang Shao or Yu Zang Huama, they all have enlightenment at this moment.