Chapter 475: Drum Beat (Medium)
"First of all, there is too much contrast. β¦ β¦Top Novel, www."
That's a reason, but it's reluctant. Therefore, Song Ji said the second reason: "The battle of Dashun City, the means are strange, and our army has suffered a big loss." β
Several of the generals felt toothaches.
In this battle, there were more than 6,000 people, so many people lost inexplicably, and the other side's casualties, including wounded, I am afraid that there were less than 200 people.
If the fight continues like this, not to mention nearly 300,000 soldiers and horses, even 600,000 soldiers and horses are not enough to toss.
Song Ji continued: "But general, you still see one, although Dashun City's style of play is very weird, but we can't attack it, can they attack it?" β
If the Song army is attacked, it will also slide and become a live target for the Xia army.
"So what? They have few troops, as long as they hold Dashun City. β
"On the surface, this seems to be the case, but they are guarding Dashun City, can't we kill it? Besides, before the general came to Dashun City, he was a little sure that he would take Dashun City immediately. At most, we can trouble a little more, and we can go around the trail to the back of Dashun City. But they can't take it, and we don't even need a large number of soldiers to besiege it on both sides. In that case, will there be any impact on the overall Gyeongju strategy? β
"And what do you mean ......?"
"This is the personal action of that Dou Shunqing in Dashun City, and it has nothing to do with Li Fugui."
"Dou Shunqing is the deputy chief of soldiers and horses on Huanqing Road."
"Dou Shunqing is the head of Huanqing Road, and I have heard that he served as the governor of Qinzhou for several months. This person is a veteran who can fight well, but general, you don't forget jΓ¬. Li Fugui is a literati. Can he afford to be a general? Now Li Fugui has sent Dou Shunqing to Dashun City. So why does Dou Shunqing still care about life and death in the rear? β
"So he made a tortoise shell?"
"Turtle shell. General, your analogy is wonderful. β
"Then I'm relieved." Liang Yi let out a sigh of relief, if every fort was fought so weirdly in the future, there would be no way to fight it.
"But tomorrow we will attack the water village of Dashun City."
"Water Village? Are you sure! β
Dashun City is called a city, not a fortress and a fortress, because of its large area. The whole Dashun city is divided into two cities in the north and south, and the north city is built against the west mountain, which is irregular. This is the city that Fan Zhongyan built at the beginning. The circumference is more than seven miles long, and the area is more than 300 acres. That's all, it's not huge. Later, after successive expansions, the south city was built against a small river ditch in the south. In this way, no matter how many soldiers and civilians there were in the city, there would be no lack of water due to the siege of the enemy. In the Zhiping period, the southern city was expanded into a city of 200 acres.
Cai Ting then built a water village to raise the water level. In history, the Jin people integrated the water village with the southern city, making the southern city area reach 500 acres. Two cities in one. The area is almost 900 acres. In the Song Dynasty, this area was already larger than the area of Sancheng County.
The current southern city is still not as big as the northern city.
The water village is just south of the southern city.
But when it was built. Cai Ting leaned on this narrow Pingchuan terrain and reached the Tushan Mountain in the south. Introduce the moat river to the edge of the earthen mountain, and then enter the city, and place a steep gate in the middle of the city.
Theoretically, when the entire river is now frozen, and even the Song army throws out that fierce fire oil at any time, the gap between the moat river and the earth mountain is the only place to attack Dashun City.
But that's just a theory.
Because its width is too small, and the proximity to the dirt hill to the south also forms a small slope. Then as long as the Song army sends a few troops, this air barrier will become a meat grinder.
There is another way, that is, to take advantage of the large number of people, forcibly fill the gap between the earth mountain and the city wall, and then use the advantage of the earth mountain, condescendingly, and enter Dashun City at once.
But is it possible?
Not to mention how big the project is, let's just say that this season, the soil is also frozen hard, how many days do you have to spend such a difficult spade to dig one spade at a time, how many days do you have to dig to fill in the gap?
"With a stone cannon."
"With a stone cannon?"
Later generations' understanding of Western Xia weapons may be the Xia State Sword, Whirlwind Cannon, Hun Tuo, Western Xia Crossbow, and finally Cold Forging Armor.
But this perception is very wrong.
The first is muddy, it is to slaughter cattle and sheep and other livestock, take their whole skin, after some special treatment, and then dry in the shade for a few days, the hair will automatically fall off, and then leave a good whole skin, and then seal it. When it is time to cross the water, blow air on the mouth, and then the person carries it across the river. In fact, it plays the role of a primitive lifebuoy. As for small livestock, it is used to make water bladders. If you are carrying a load of goods, you take dozens of wooden sticks and nail them, and put dozens of them under the wooden sticks, and a simple boat will be formed.
If you know its nature, you will know what it is.
Water bladders, lifebuoys and sheepskin rafts!
In fact, not only Western Xia, but also in Tibet, and it was retained in later generations.
The Song Dynasty also had the same situation, in some special circumstances, to cross the river with Hun tuo. I also use this method to make water bladders, or use this method to take skins and make "football" and leather products. However, to make leather products, there are more complex processing procedures.
But why is this term so famous in Western Xia?
Poor!
Poor, I had to use simple methods to cross the river and march to fight.
The second is the most unfamous cold-forged armor, which is actually also available in Tibet. Since the Qing calendar, the Song Dynasty also attached importance to cold-forged armor. However, the cost of creating armor in this method is too high, and for various reasons, including the greed of officials, among the Three Kingdoms, the quality of cold-forged armor before the Song Dynasty was the worst.
The same is true for Xia Guojian, and the Song Dynasty also has a hundred steel-refining weapons. Of course, it is not as good as Xia Guojian.
The Xixia crossbow technology is very good, if there is no Xixia crossbow technology brought by Li Ding, it can be said that there will be no divine arm bow. However, there is another reason why Xia Guo's crossbow is excellent, that is, Ganzhou yak horn, just this material, the Song Dynasty can only sigh. However, with the Divine Arm Bow, the Western Xia Crossbow is no longer so important.
Finally, there's this cyclone cannon, which is actually a small trebuchet. Launched on the back of a camel. On such a small trebuchet. The technology of Western Xia was slightly more advanced. However, large trebuchets were still inferior to those of the Song Dynasty.
Especially now, Western Xia has the Xia State Sword, but the Taoxi Sword is not much worse than the Xia State Sword.
As for trebuchets, they are even less than tiger guns. It's better to be a lifebuoy. This was not difficult in the Song Dynasty. Cold-forged armor, and now the armor produced by the Ordnance Prison, are all real cold-forged armor, and they are armor forged with a simple hydraulic stamping machine. Its quality has surpassed that of the Western Xia cold-forged armor.
So Liang Yibu also brought a large trebuchet this time.
However, the slope of the dirt hill in Nanshan is not large, which is conducive to people to climb up, but the problem is that because this slope is not large, the distance between the top of the slope and the Dashun city wall increases.
"General, do you want to wait for the army behind?"
Liang Yi smiled bitterly, he had hit this one, and he still wanted to steal the opportunity? Then we had to wait for the army behind to arrive.
"If you have to wait, why not attack. Morale. β
Liang Yi woke up and attacked. Although it can't capture Dashun City, it will slightly improve morale, look, this is the real Song army, although it was lucky to make a big profit, but one by one it was like a turtle, shrinking in the city and not daring to come out. Morale can be boosted. Otherwise, if this continues, it will have a heavy impact on morale.
Du Duo Layan stood on the side and listened, thinking in his heart, he finally saw the true face of this Han strategist, and said that he would send troops immediately, and now he had to wait.
Anyway, it's okay to say that, and it's okay to say that.
Sooner or later, Western Xia will be killed at the hands of this traitorous conspirator!
But what can he say? Now that the Liang family is in power, what do you dare to say!
The group had no choice but to discuss the plan of tomorrow's attack, and then rested. Just when Liang Yi was sleeping soundly, the drums outside shook the sky.
"What happened?" Liang Yibury hurriedly put on his clothes and climbed up.
Not only him, but almost all the soldiers got up from their tents and looked east.
The drums came from the hateful walls of ice, but it was pitch black.
And after a while, the drums fell silent.
I understand, dare to love Song people to play themselves as monkeys.
Liang Yi said angrily: "Rest, rest, go back and rest together." β
Do you need to get up together, if the Song army is coming, can't the patrolling soldiers see it? Moreover, the water in the creek spread up and began to freeze. Xia Jun is not used to walking on it, but Song Jun can get used to it?
Du Duo Layan sighed: "This is to weaken the morale of our army." β
But he didn't think much about it, because the number of Western Xia troops this time was too large, huge enough to crush the entire Huanqing Road. It can even be said that the mobilization of troops on the entire Huanqing Road, Yanyan Road and Jingyuan Road is not as large as the number of Western Xia troops. Unless Qin Fenglu is added, will Qin Fenglu's army be able to rush to Gyeongju in time?
Let's go back and rest together.
Who knew that as soon as I fell asleep, there was a earth-shattering drum sound outside.
Liang Yi was so angry that he scolded his mother on the grass bunk.
But the soldiers outside came in and reported: "General, something is wrong. β
Liang Yibury had to get up again.
When he came outside, something was wrong, the ice wall was pitch black just now, but now the torches were bright. Could it be that the Song army really wanted to come to a night attack.
This is really not easy to say, just like during the day, the Song army attacked the advancing army. If the Song army had been stimulated by the battle in the evening, perhaps they would have been emboldened to attack at night.
"General, what should I do?" One of the generals asked.
It's really hard to say, if the three armies are on alert immediately, and the Song army doesn't come, wouldn't it be a joke. If you don't be vigilant, if the Song army comes, everyone will sleep separately, which is also a big joke.
Liang Yi's face was gloomy.
In this commotion, the three armies climbed up and down again, but the torches on the ice wall suddenly went out, and they were silent again.
"Hateful, hateful!"
Liang Yi jumped like thunder in anger, and said: "Rest, rest, can't you hear my orders?" β
Then take a break.
But after most of the hour, the drums came again.
This time, Liang Yibury didn't want to get up. But the soldier came in again and said, "General, it is not good, it seems to be true." β
"Are the Song people so stupid?" However, Liang Yi had to get up, it was the fourth watch, the coldest time of the day, Liang Yi buried his neck and looked at the other side.
It does seem to be real.
A group of Song soldiers with torches rushed out of the ice wall and walked with difficulty to the ice of Haogou, as if they were about to rush over.
"You dare to come, come on, prepare to fight back." Liang Yi shouted.
In Dashun City, it was a turtle shell, and out of this turtle shell, the Song army had to find death.
The three armed forces began to be on alert. At this time, many members of the Song army crossed the ditch and stood on the west side of the ditch. The Tanguts also lined up with three armies, ready to meet the battle.
Suddenly, the group of Song soldiers shouted loudly: "Liang Yiburi, you are a defeated subordinate, go home and eat your sister's milk." β
After shouting, one by one they dropped the extinguished torches and went back. (To be continued......) R527