359 Ancient Tank (Silver 33)
Compared with Liangzhou City, the Wusheling Pass is much more dangerous and seems to be more difficult to capture. In fact, it is not the case, instead of being tortured by a piece of rockets under the city of Liangzhou, it is really better to go to Wusheling to fight hard.
The former is unable to touch the enemy at all and has nowhere to hide, while the latter has a great hope of entering the white-knuckle battle, although it also needs to pay a great price, but as long as there is a return, it will not lose.
This also has the advantage of being that it is likely to force the defenders of Liangzhou out of the city. Presumably, the generals of the Song army will also understand the importance of Wusheling Ridge, and even if they are unhappy, they will have to save them.
Once the defenders of Liangzhou are out of the city, Renduo Baozhong is willing to kneel and kowtow to the gods and Buddhas immediately. In the siege battle, the Western Xia cavalry could not take advantage of the slightest advantage, and no matter how elite the Song army was, it was not enough to be afraid of the field battle.
At least it's much more comfortable than stupidly going to the city wall to be a target and being shot to play, maybe you will take all the battles between Liangzhou City and Wusheling Mountain. This is the Renduo family's efforts to turn the tide, directly reverse the disadvantage of the war, and turn defeat into victory!
Then, the Renduo clan will become the heroes of Western Xia, even if the Liang family is powerful, they have to give up a little. As long as you seize the military power, you dare not say that you are on an equal footing with the Liang family, and the descendants of Meng Yin are inevitable.
Once a person has hope and sees the light, no matter how hard and tired he is, he will completely ignore it, which may be the power of the spirit. In the Xixia camp, it was difficult to sleep all night, and the figures were shaking.
Before Fo Xiao, in order to prevent being discovered by the defenders of Liangzhou, no one got on the horse, let alone took care of the heavy camp, threw away all unnecessary things, and turned a semicircle from the south, and stepped on the post road to Wusheling in the dark.
The White Horse Army Division in the north of the city did not move, and also ordered some more firewood in the camp, intending to confuse the defenders in Liangzhou City, and the longer it dragged on, the more beneficial it would be for Renduo to protect his loyalty to the attack on Wusheling.
After the beacon fire of Wusheling was ignited, as long as the defenders of Liangzhou dared to go out of the city to rescue, he and his brother would attack back and forth, destroy the hated and feared Song army in one fell swoop in the field battle, and go back to clean up Liangzhou City.
Of course, Hong Tao would not know the movements of the Renduo brothers, and the telescope was not easy to use with the naked eye at night, so it was dark and could not see clearly.
"What? There is beacon smoke in the south! "I just picked up breakfast and didn't eat two bites, and bad news came from Nancheng.
"It seems that the enemy is playing an empty city trick with us!" The beacon smoke can only mean one thing: Wusheling has been attacked by a large number of enemies. If Miao Kui hadn't felt that it was very dangerous, he would definitely not have lit a beacon fire to call for help, and the army attacking Wusheling was likely to come from the north.
This judgment was quickly confirmed by the telescope, the camp of the Western Xia army in the distance was too quiet, even if there was some cooking smoke or something, and there were horses and personnel moving around, but it could hide it from the naked eye but not from the telescope, there was fraud!
"The official gave me 1,000 soldiers and horses and 30 box cars, and the general will go to save Wusheling in the end!" Wang Da also knew the importance of Wusheling to Liangzhou City, and put forward her plan to divide the troops.
"Don't fall into the enemy's trap, the Xia people are good at field warfare, attacking Wusheling is fake, luring our army out of the city is real. Once they get out of the city, they can wait for work, and not only will Liangzhou City not be able to defend it, but the whole army will also be able to escape! It's better to stick to it and wait for help, and the court will not sit idly by. Wasp thought differently, fearing that this was a deliberate and suspicious ploy by the Western Xia army.
“…… Order the whole army to prepare for the departure and set off in three quarters of an hour! What the two of them said made sense, but Hong Tao didn't adopt it in the end.
Wang Da's suggestion was too dangerous, with a thousand people in the field to shake tens of thousands of people, there are machine guns is almost the same. Wasp's idea is too conservative, and if Wusheling really loses Liangzhou, it won't be able to hold it.
Expect the Song army to take down Wusheling Ridge? It's not impossible, but it's not very likely. Hong Tao has never liked to pin his fate on others, but if he can control it himself, he has to try.
If you don't fight this time, you have to fight, he wants the whole army to withdraw to Wusheling to keep the way back first, and then go to think about the matter of Liangzhou City. There is also his reason for doing this, the siege of the city is really not a problem for the new army, I dare not say that it is a minute, as long as the supplies are sufficient, it is 100% fine to break the city in the morning.
And the city of Liangzhou is about to be demolished, put the trebuchet a little, what is the enemy going to defend? No matter how many people there are, they can't hold up more rockets. Relatively speaking, forcing the enemy to abandon the field battle and stick to a dead city is the advantage of the new army, and it does not suffer at all.
In addition to its fierce offensive and defensive strength, the new army is also characterized by its agility, even faster than that of nomadic tribes. Not that the march is fast, but that the preparation period is short.
From the moment the order was given, the soldiers partly continued to eat, partly began to carry ammunition in their carts, and after a quarter of an hour they rotated. Breakfast was not delayed, and in less than three quarters of an hour, the forward convoy led by Wang Da had already left the city.
What to do with the Western Xia army north of the city? That's right, this is an obvious thing, the enemy just wants to leave a part to contain himself, if you are afraid of the enemy on your back, then simply don't go out of the city.
But it's not that there is no way at all, Hong Tao himself took two battalions of new troops to play the role of the broken queen. He took what is called yin damage to the extreme, and threw thistles on the ground as he marched.
As for what to do when you come back, what to do if you love, I can't think that far. Now how can you make the enemy uncomfortable, how can you come, if you dare to chase me, you will dare to stab you! When you all lie down, it's too late to come back and dip it with felt meter by meter.
"I said, how can they suddenly appear in the north of the city, they are all camel soldiers, but it's a pity for these good beasts. Blow the trumpet, battle formation! ”
There is a question that Hong Tao still hasn't figured out, how the Western Xia army in the north of the city came across the desert. The answer was soon revealed, when two cavalry teams appeared from the east and west sides of Liangzhou City, the water seen in the telescope was full of running camels, the Bactrian camel of the desert ship!
Boxcars can not only be fixed as a car array, but also can be lined up during the process. A group of five cars, four horizontal and vertical groups is a hollow rectangle. In a wide place, several more rectangles can be lined up to cover each other, and in a narrow place, a few fewer rows.
The soldiers use the box board as the wall, and what they should fire or what they should fire, except that they cannot use the siege crossbow, there is no essential difference between fighting on the head of the city.
No matter how the enemy's cavalry pursued, the boxcar formation would advance at a constant and constant speed, and any target that came into range would be fired at by the steel crossbow. There are no dead angles at 360 degrees from front to back, left and right, just like a big hedgehog.
The camel was not slow to run, and soon the cart behind it began to shoot, and from time to time a few round thunderbolts would be dropped.
It's not easy to blow up a large area of a camel soldier, but its explosion is worse than a crossbow bolt, causing untrained camels to panic and flee, throwing their riders like gourds. Some simply lay on their stomachs, and no matter how the rider scolded and begged, they just couldn't get up.
But Rindo Baoyi really can't care about the loss, if he can't win this battle, he and his brother and even the whole clan will become sinners. When the soldiers are gone, they can be recruited again, and if the power is lost, a small life will be lost.
Therefore, he also took hundreds of guards to personally press the formation, forcing his subordinates to risk flying locusts and being trampled to death by his own people, and closely chased the group of nasty guys in front.
The post road leading from Liangzhou to Wusheling is narrower and narrower the further south, and there can be three rectangular car formations side by side at the beginning, and it becomes two when you walk, and when the Gulang River on the left appears, a car formation is a little crowded.
At this time, Renduo Baoyi finally understood why this Song army dared to go out of the city, they were not trying to break through at all, but they were planning to do it. In this kind of terrain, where there are mountains on one side and rivers on the other, cavalry does not seem to be as effective as before.
It is obviously impossible to outflank left and right, follow the ass and chase it, every step is paved with human life. Those crossbow arrows were so ruthless that both people and camels were basically killed as long as they were shot, and if they were not shot directly, they would have to be trampled to death by the hooves of the camels of their companions behind.
And the kind of thing that can make a loud noise like thunder is really showing its fangs at this time, it is not only loud, it is more vicious than a crossbow arrow, and it is a piece when it explodes.
Now I can't dodge if I want to, and I know that another one is thrown down in front of me, so I have to bite the bullet. I can only ask the gods and Buddhas to bless me and let it not explode near me.