478th Drum Beat (continued)
It was only dark, and it was impossible for the Song army to send an army to attack the camp.
But the Song army did this, which made all the Western Xia soldiers disgusted.
"Damn it!"
"General, the Song army is just bluffing." Song Ji comforted.
Du Dolapa said: "But the general should also be careful, the people of the Song Dynasty have that kind of shoes, and it seems that this Dou Shunqing must not be underestimated, if we have a lax heart, just like in the evening, we may suffer another loss." If you suffer repeated losses, your morale will gradually decline. ”
The war has just begun.
If morale is lost, the consequences are unimaginable.
But another general stammered and said: "Not necessarily, I can see very clearly today that the thousands of Song troops during the day are the best equipped, and they should be said to be the strongest army in Dashun City." ”
Everyone agrees on this one.
Whether it was the strongest army is unknown, but it is certainly the best equipped army, whether it is armor or bows and crossbows, and carrying knives.
"They want to take a detour to the back of Dashun City and then enter the city, they have to walk close to ten miles, the sky is dark again, the mountain road is full of ice and snow, it is this nearly ten miles of road, they have to walk for several hours, and when they enter the city, one by one exhausted. Having lost this strongest army, our army has some losses, but tens of thousands of reinforcements have arrived, what did they use to attack the camp? If this continues, there is no need to fight, and the soldiers will lose their fighting spirit because they can't sleep well. ”
Again, this seems to be a statement.
Liang Yi thought for a while and said, "That's it, give orders, strengthen vigilance, and the rest of the soldiers." If there is no order from me. No matter how the Song people tossed. You are not allowed to get out of bed. ”
Sure enough, Song Jun knocked for a while, and when he saw that the Xia army's camp was not moving, he stopped.
Liang Yi buried his teeth and gritted his teeth, and he was angry, and finally held back his anger and said: "In addition, send out scouts, and follow the direction where the thousands of Song troops are going tomorrow morning." See where they go. ”
Although what Song Ji said was reasonable, Liang Yibury suffered several losses in a row, and he had to be cautious.
The other side......
Gao Min had already gone far with the officers and soldiers of the seventh battalion. He stood on top of a mountain and looked around with a telescope.
The mountains are covered with snow, and the leaves of the trees have lost their leaves, and it is a bleak scene. And the sky was overcast, and there was a whining north wind. Gao Min couldn't help but shudder.
But it didn't matter, he continued to look around with his binoculars, and suddenly a surprise appeared on his face.
No one saw it, but small snowflakes drifted in the sky. Snow falls in the first month of Gyeongju. It's not unusual, but this snow fell at the right time.
He walked down. said: "Commander Yuan, you take your subordinates, eat some hardship, and return to Dashun City." ”
Yuan instructed Gao Min to fight along the way, which was also inexplicable, but he instructed him to go to that valley and knew that Wang Ju was coming, and the dream-like battles in the past two days were mostly related to Wang Ju's schemes, just to keep it secret, he couldn't tell his subordinates.
This time he went out of the city to fight, Dou Shunqing repeatedly instructed him to obey Gao Min's command. Gao Min asked him to lead his men back, so let's go back.
"Be careful along the way, rather slow than let the soldiers have an accident." Gao Min admonished again.
"Well, Gao Dujian, where are you going......" Yuan Commander suddenly closed his mouth, is this what he can ask?
However, this road does have to endure a bit of hardship, there is a rugged path in the south of Dashun City, that is, the path where Li Liangzuo fled for his life, and that road is not far away. However, it was close to the battlefield, and Gao Min couldn't kill it, so he killed it in the southwest direction.
But from here to the rear of Dashun City, as the Western Xia general said, you have to walk ten miles.
In fact, both sides are relatively clear about those things at the border. Therefore, Fan Zhongyan sent Zhao Ming to seize Houqiao Village and build Dashun City to be "sneaky". Of course, Zhao Ming is also very competitive. However, the imperial court is not weak to Zhao Ming, Zhao Ming died, and the imperial court continued to reuse Zhao Ming's second son, Zhao Yuqing needless to say, the 16th Brigade Brigade General was originally the deputy envoy of the Xijing Zuozangku as the official of the Rouyuan Zhai Patrol Officer. But now that Wang Ju has been transferred to Pingrong Town, it is not that he will not be reused, but that there will be important arrangements. In short, most of the appointments and leaders of the generals this time have special significance, such as Yao Lin in Anjiang Fort.
If it weren't for Yao Lin, but Yanda, could Anjiang Fort be "lost". Another example is Lin Guang in Dashun City, Lin Guang "made a fortune" in Dashun City, and there are few generals who are familiar with Dashun City.
Zhao Ming also has a son, Zhao Yude, who turned out to be the capital of Dashun City and the Ministry of Inspection, but let Wang Ju be transferred to Gyeongju City. He also has his role, and Guo Qing, the ruler of Huanqing Road, is not that Wang Ju is not reused, Guo Qing also has Guo Qing's use.
But before the truth is revealed, some cannot be revealed, some have not received accurate information, and Wang Ju is inconvenient to say.
But in the end, one mystery after another will be revealed......
Gao Min didn't care, everyone had curiosity. He added: "In addition, there is a bit of hard work on the road, and every step you take, let your subordinates step on a few more feet." ”
"This is ......" Yuan Commander suddenly woke up and closed his mouth again. I understand, this must be very hard, and when I return to Dashun City, I don't know how long it will take. But in this way, tomorrow the Western Xia scouts will come over, and they will definitely think that the officers and soldiers of the seven battalions will return to Dashun City together. But he was even more curious in his heart, so where did Gao Min lead his subordinates from the sixth battalion?
Gao Min watched the officers and soldiers of this battalion go away, and gave another order: "Folded Artemisia." ”
This is a wild mountain, and there are many wild artemisia seeds, and now they are all withered. The soldiers broke them one by one, and then obeyed Gao Min's command and put them into a bundle. It's just that these soldiers are also puzzled and puzzled.
"Everyone, follow our family, but the soldiers behind swept away the footprints with artemisia."
This time, I finally understood that this was to cover the footprints I left on the snow. But where they are going, one by one is not clear.
After walking for a while, the road became more and more remote, and climbed a more steep mountain to a small valley that was relatively deserted.
"Stop." Gao Mindao.
The three armies stopped, but Gao Min himself walked to a corner in front of him, and then looked for something on the ground.
He searched for a while. Began to dig through the snow. This worried many of the soldiers in the back. At this time, more than nine out of ten people. It's all superstitious. They went out of the city inexplicably, inexplicably came to this place where birds don't, coupled with Gao Min's inexplicable actions, and this dark night with light snow, and the night wind was like a ghost crying wolf, some people actually felt a little creepy.
But they don't have to worry about it for long.
After a while, Gao Min pulled out a black hole.
He made a gesture and asked everyone to come over. Continue to let the people behind clean up the footprints, and say, "Let me go down." ”
As he spoke, he lit a small withered pine branch with a tongue of fire, and did not dare to use a torch, a faint light, so he went in.
Everyone had no choice but to follow him into it.
Then they were surprised to find that it was actually a tunnel that had been dug a long time ago, a little deep, but the area was not very large, after all, the time was too tight, and they were afraid of being inadvertently bumped into by the Western Xia scouts. But it can barely let the officers and soldiers of the sixth battalion squeeze in.
And this tunnel is also prepared with fresh water and dry food. Charcoal, as well as some high-grade wine, gauze and medicinal herbs for disinfection, and some warm bedding.
"Huh." One by one, it was amazing.
"The wounded person immediately bandaged his wounds." Gao Min said.
In the battle just now, not only some people were killed, but many people were also injured. If it weren't for the new type of good armor, the casualty rate would have been even higher.
This is the right thing, everyone silently cleaned the wound, applied ointment, and then bandaged it with gauze. More than a dozen soldiers were seriously injured, Gao Min said: "There are seventeen or eighteen miles away from Rouyuan Village here, you will leave here before dawn tomorrow, and go to Rouyuan Village immediately, those two soldiers were also injured in the legs, immediately I will let people make a simple stretcher, you help each other and carry them back." When he arrived at Rouyuan Village, he immediately returned to Gyeongju City and reported the situation to Zhang Tong. Can you do it? ”
"Yes," a dozen people replied.
"Also, a qiē here must not be leaked to anyone except Zhang Tongju."
"Whoa."
"Everyone, now I will reveal the truth to you, but you must not divulge it."
"Whoa."
"You light the charcoal first and warm it up."
Dozens of soldiers went to light the charcoal, and Gao Min asked people to re-plug the opening, but in order to ventilate, there was also a vent on the other side, which was more hidden. As for the tunnels, they were still covered with planks, and the planks were covered with thatch, which was covered with mud, dead leaves, and snow. There is no need for this Gao Min to explain.
Gao Min continued: "First of all, I will reveal a piece of news, many of you came from Zheng Baiqu's side, and they were also led by Prince An Minggong. ”
"yes, yes."
"But whether Wang Minggong will come to Gyeongju or not, or what official position he will hold when he comes to Gyeongju, you are all speculating these days."
"yes, yes," a few bold soldiers grinned.
"Now we are suing you that Ming Gong is the governor of Qingzhou, and he is also the pacification envoy of Shaanxi by Huanqing Road."
"Ahh Many people were pleasantly surprised, but some people asked strangely: "Then why did Ming Gong return to Ningzhou?" ”
"Xikou is afraid of Ming Gong, if he knows that Ming Gong is coming to Gyeongju, he must be strictly guarded, then it is not conducive to fighting. Therefore, Ming Gong deliberately kept it secret, and in fact, he completed the handover with Li Gong a few days ago. Although the Ming Gongren are not in Gyeongju for the time being, they have all confessed. Including these two days of fighting, it was all Ming Gong's idea. ”
"No wonder so, no wonder it's so ......" Many soldiers opened their mouths wide, the battle in the past two days was too magical, it turned out to be Wang Ju's strategy.
Gao Min didn't know whether to cry or be happy in his heart, these people admired Wang Jutai to the point of superstition. It is precisely because of this that he revealed the truth in advance, otherwise he would be trapped in this tunnel, and I don't know how long he would have to wait, and the soldiers would be very nervous.
"Actually, our family led you to Dashun City, not to participate in the battle of Dashun City, you also know in the past two days, except for the battle this evening, the rest of the battles, Dou Gong is letting you rest. The real task is below. ”
"This was also arranged by Ming Gong?" A soldier asked.
"Well, it is his arrangement, we will have two missions below, and in order to complete this mission, we must temporarily become a disappearing army."
"The Vanishing Army?"
"It's just that the Tangut people can't think of having our army at all. Therefore, we went to Dashun City first, and Ming Gong calculated, under his plan, the enemy in order to drum up morale, will attack the water village, as long as they attack the water village, we use the drum many times to confuse, and then take advantage of their unpreparedness, we can break through from the city of Dashun. Then let Yuan Command and return to Dashun City with the officers and soldiers of that battalion, which created a false impression and made the enemy think that we had also returned to Dashun City. Do you get the idea? ”
Why do you want to go out of the city, not only do you want to continue to consume the morale of the Xia people, it is very secondary, the main thing is to "disappear"!
"What do we do next?"
"What to do next, we will inform you when the time comes."
Everyone understood this, and everyone began to arrange the bedding and rest.
But the people on the other side didn't sleep well.
It was night, but every half an hour, the Song army hated it, they beat the drum, and several times thousands of soldiers and horses crossed the water and continued to attack.
At the beginning, Liang Yibury couldn't help but come out to take a look, and when he saw the end, the more he looked at it, the more angry he became, and he didn't sleep well for two days and two nights, so he gave a few orders, and fell asleep in a daze, regardless of the drums outside it.
Unconsciously, it was the fourth watch.
The Song army beat the drum again, and thousands of soldiers and horses clumsily crossed the water. This time, even the summer soldiers who patrolled and guarded didn't care too much. At most, there were bad-tempered sentinels who scolded a few words of mother.
But they were a little far away because of the "ice field", and they did not notice that the soldiers were holding two long wooden sticks in their hands, and there were ropes on the handles of the sticks, which were tied under the armor. At this time, thousands of Song soldiers put wooden sticks on the ice with both hands, and also bowed their waists.
As the drum sounded changed, the Tangut people didn't pay attention to it, but with the change of the drum, thousands of people kicked hard with their poles, stepped on simple skis, and pounced on the Xia army camp like arrows.
By the time the sentinels reacted, they had already slipped to the front of the summer army camp. Even some Xia Bing thought that his eyes were dazzling, how could he be so fast? It's not human speed, it's a god, it's a ghost, it's a monster!
However, some sentries reacted and shouted: "Enemy attack, enemy attack." While running to inform Liang Yi to bury.
However, at this time, almost everyone was sleeping soundly, and the whole camp was snoring like thunder, where could they wake up, that is, they woke up, and after the toss of last night, they thought that the sentry was making a fuss, and did not want to get up, and continued to lie on the bed in a daze.
Thousands of Song soldiers stopped, there was no divine arm bow, and what was required at this time was speed.
So it's all black lacquered bows.
Take a bow and shoot an arrow, and the arrows are all rockets.
Rockets were fired into tents. Shooting while moving. The tents were flammable, and when the weather was cold, there were many straw bunks in the tents, and the soldiers wore animal skins and felt blankets. Well, it's all the things which are easy to burn. What's even more deadly is that because the Western Xia had too many troops, one tent after another...... (To be continued......) R1292