Chapter 43: The Long Wind Surrounds the City (Part II)
"How long can the Song people hold out?"
Nito seemed to be talking to himself. He is the general who was ordered to lead the army to attack Lintao Fort this time, and he is also the nephew of the current patriarch of the Renjia family, Renduo Lingding, and is regarded as one of the most popular candidates in the family to lead the Renjia family after Renduo Lingding.
Yu Zang Wen glanced at the second generation of the Ren family, this question was simply ironic.
The two stopped side by side on a hill on the side of the official road, and in an open field at the foot of the mountain, thousands of warriors from the Song and Xia countries were shouting and fighting, and the blood stained the earth-yellow surface.
A fierce general of the Song army who was rampant in front of the battle was shooting a Western Xia warrior off his horse with a sharp arrow at this time. The rain of arrows shot in an instant exceeded that of a ten-man team, and the damage caused by the perfect precision of archery was comparable to that of a team of a hundred archers.
The Western Xia army is currently attacking the Song army's array, but because of the presence of this fierce general, it still cannot pose the slightest threat to the Song army's camp with twice the strength of the enemy army.
In such a situation, Renduo's words of loyalty can be said to be hope or curse, and there is no trace of reality anyway.
Disdainful, Yu Zang Wen asked: "Look at archery, it should be Wang Sunchen, who has become famous in Xihe Road in recent years." I have suffered at his hands for the past few days. With him in battle today, do you want to attack again? ”
"What do you say?" Hearing the meaning of Yu Zang's words, Renduo Baozhong asked rhetorically.
"I think it's better to forget it today, there is still a blind medicine hidden in the Qingtang Department in the opposite mountain. Oh, by the way, he has now become a Tubo dog raised by the Song people, and his name should be Bao Yue...... The package was inspected. ”
Rindo Baozhong pursed his lips, the second half of the words only make sense to say in person, Bao Yue still doesn't know where to hide his fangs, these words are like the barking of a defeated dog.
The leader of the Lanzhou army is Yu Zang Wen Xuan, Yu Zang Huama's personal general, and his status in Yu Zang's family is not low. But that's all, compared to Hua Ma, who is cunning and good at judging the situation, Yu Zang Wenxuan, who is actually not bad, seems much more stupid, and it is easy to deal with. So when Yu Zang Huama left a few days ago, Renduo Baozhong secretly rejoiced for a while.
But now, Nito Baozhong doesn't think so.
"It would be nice if Yu Zang was there. ’
At least the vision of the current patriarch of the Yu Zang family is much stronger than the one next to him.
But Yu Zang Huama himself is not under Lintao Fort now, and after solving Jing Sili, he immediately led the army back. The center of Lanzhou City is a little chaotic these days, and Yu Zang Huama has to go back to sit in the clan, and before he knows it, he was driven down from the throne of the patriarch.
In the past two years, the Yu collector has sent troops many times to return in vain. After a few times, the savings of many years are about to be exhausted. Although in the past six months, Yu Zang Huama has recovered a lot from the tribes that originally belonged to Mu Zheng and Blind Wu Qi, but it is a drop in the bucket, and the income is still not as much as it is used.
As the head of a clan, he can't bring gold and silver wealth to his clansmen, and he can't bring a stable life, so it is natural and natural for him to step down. It is not surprising that Yu Zanghuama's rule over Lanzhou is now in crisis.
Whether it is Renduo Baozhong or Yu Zang Wenxuan, they all look at each other unpleasantly, but the cooperation will continue. They all want to capture Lintao Fort, and only by opening the city can they get due rewards for their previous efforts.
"It's not going to be successful, it's better to send someone to block the road, and we'll turn around and take Lintao Fort as quickly as possible." Yu Zang Wen Xuan proposed again.
"How much? The two sides of us combined are 10,000, and now the casualties are almost 1,000. ”
It is necessary to deal with the alliance of the Song army and the Qingtang army. There are few people in the pie, and they will definitely be eaten by them unceremoniously. If you send more troops, you will weaken the strength of the attack on Lintao Fort.
This is actually a dilemma under the shortage of troops.
"So what do you say you should do?"
Yu Zang Wen Xuan and Ren Duo Baozhong stared wide-eyed, but neither of them could solve the problem.
I don't know how many times the same conversation has been repeated in their mouths in the past few days, but there is still no result from the discussion. was stuck in the throat by the Song army next to the walled road, even if the city was attacked, both of them felt that the cold hair on the back of their necks was standing up.
The two of them didn't think about simply putting Lintao Fort aside and eliminating the Song reinforcements first. But not only the castle is difficult to attack, but even the small camp is also difficult to attack.
The guards in the battalion were extremely cunning, and the tactics of night raids and harassment never stopped. In a head-to-head confrontation, the strength displayed by a mere 2,000 troops was much stronger than the 2,000 soldiers around Jing Sili that day.
Moreover, there is also the package of the Qingtang Department beating a side drum in the mountains, choosing people to devour like a poisonous snake. In addition, the defenders in the Lintao Fort dared to attack, and yesterday they even caused Renduo to rush back to fight the fire.
And today's battle is a continuation of yesterday's battle, and now it seems that there should be no chance.
"We're running out of food." Yu Zang Wenxuan suddenly sighed again, "Wu Shengjun...... The Song people have now changed their name to Xizhou, and the Fan tribes here are poorer than the other. It had been two or three days since there were no new supplies coming into the camp. ”
It's not your patriarch's work! 'Rindo kept his belly scolded. Originally, when the Western Xia army went to the Song Kingdom, its source of grain was either to break through the Song army's walled forts and supply them with the grain stored inside. Either rely on the support of the local tribes, but then repay it with the spoils of war.
But now, Lintao Fort can't be defeated, and the surrounding Fan Department has already been robbed of white land by Yu Zang's family and the Qingtang Department. The current situation that the army is about to go hungry is fundamentally the result of the Yu Zang family.
But for the sake of unity, Rinda knew that there were some things that he really couldn't say.
Renduo needs a victory, and with this need, he can't offend Yu Zang Wen around him too much.
His uncle has always been fair, and there is no favoritism between Rinda Baozhong and his own son Rindo Chuqing. Now the inheritance of the position of the patriarch is even higher than that of Rinduo Baozhong. But if he can't bring the victory back, his current approval rating, of course, is not guaranteed to be in his current position.
The Renjia family is the most noble, powerful and powerful tribe in the Western Xia Kingdom, and the position of the patriarch of the Renjia family is not only the tribe representing the seventy or eighty thousand Dingkou, but also representing the status of the Xingqing Mansion, second only to a few people.
Nido would never want to give up this position.
On the other hand, Yu Zang Wenxuan didn't want to say anything more.
Don't look at the fact that they are fighting fiercely under the city of Lintao Fort now, but in fact, they are just a partial division. The main force in the country, as far as Yu Zang Wen Xuan knows, is currently gathering in the area of the Xishou Baotai Military Division.
Although Wen Xuan didn't know whether their goal was to cross Rouwolf Mountain to Qinfeng Road, or to cross Douling to Jingyuan Road. But a year after the heavy losses suffered by Luo Wucheng, the country finally mobilized troops and horses in a big way, which was actually a signal to the people. The middle school has regained its spirits, and it is going to the Song people to grab money, food, and women.
The Western Xia army has revived, but Yu Zang Wenxuan is now thinking about whether to accept it when he sees it.
The attack on Lintao Fort was a strategy set by Yuzang Huama, but it was not immutable. If it weren't for the fact that there were many injuries on the walls of Lintao Fort, and the easy defeat of Jing Sili, the main general of the fort, Wen Xuan didn't want to, a few days ago, he followed Yu Zang Huama to attack Lintao Fort, and he didn't suffer Yao Lin's loss. The only gain from the repeated sieges was to further confirm the strength of the Song army in the offensive and defensive battles of the city, far surpassing the barbarians of the Quartet.
In the past two years, the war between the Yu Zang family and the outside world has never stopped, and the whole clan feels that it is about to be exhausted. The tone that Yu Zang Wenqi heard from his patriarch during this time also didn't want to fight with the Song people anymore. It's not that Yu Zang Huama doesn't hate the Song people, but he really can't fight with them and can't consume them.
'It's good to have a lot of money. ’
Yu Zang Wenxuan thought so. In terms of population, the population of Dabai Gaoguo is less than a quarter of Shaanxi. And just one Lanzhou, not to mention compared with the Western Xia country, even Mu Zheng's strength is not comparable. Mu Zheng did not consume the Song people, and it is said that he has been driven to the opposite side of the Exposed Mountain. Now Lanzhou wants to consume with the Song people, no matter who comes up with this idea, Yu Zang Wenxuan will wake them up with a slap.
The war drums of the Song army on the battlefield suddenly changed tone, and the Song army, which had originally formed a formation to block the enemy with a rain of arrows, dispersed with the sound of drums, and in an instant, it turned from a defensive position to an offensive. The sudden counterattack caught the iron harriers and foot soldiers who were struggling to advance on the battlefield off guard. After only a short period of resistance, the whole army was broken and fled back.
"Not good!" Yu Zang Wen exclaimed.
"Don't worry." Renduo Baozhong immediately reassured, "The Song people will not pursue, they are going to retreat back to the camp." ”
As Rindo Baozhong said, the Song army did begin to retreat as a whole after dispersing the Western Xia army.
The scattered Ma infantry stopped, but it was impossible for them to reorganize themselves in a short time. The two iron harriers composed of three or five hundred people, which were originally placed on the side of the battlefield by Yu Zang Wenqi and Renduo Baozhong, were held back by the two teams of cavalry of the Song army and the Qingtang army at any time, and it was difficult to enter the battlefield for a while.
I could only watch as the Song army retreated to the camp, and then there was smoke rising in the camp of the Song people.
"If you go on like this, there will never be a game." Yu Zang Wenqi was annoyed and angry because of his gaffe in front of Renduo Baozhong, and at the same time lost the confidence to continue, "It's better to withdraw from the army!" ”
He wasn't asking for Rinda's advice, he was informing his plans in advance.
"Let's wait a few more days." Nido immediately stopped it.
"Will there be reinforcements coming?!" Yu Zang Wen asked with a sneer.
"Uncle Jia said, Mu Zheng himself is still there, and he still has the ability to turn the tables. Moreover, the most powerful reinforcements are in the city of Tokyo. ”