Chapter 252: The Three Watches of Hell (Part II)
The tragic battle in the direction of Rouyuan Village, Ye Weima didn't know. * And he also underestimated Zhang Yu, who was the first general in the later Hebei Thirty-Seven Generals (generals in the Art of War), this person should not be underestimated, although not as good as the future Liu Changzuo and other generals, but at least he was also a brave general at the level of Yao.
Several Western Xia generals were furious.
This is **naked intimidation, which was often done in the Western Xia before, but now that it is the turn of the Song people to play, they can't accept it.
However, Song Ji listened to Lin Tao's voice outside, and his heart became more and more uneasy.
He didn't say it very well, so let's shout all the soldiers together, and get through the three watches.
How to speak, tomorrow I have to rush to attack the city, the Song people dispatched a cavalry, indicating that Huachi County still has troops, that is to say, there will be a hard battle tomorrow, and I didn't sleep well today, this is a small matter, what if it affects morale?
The third watch is getting closer, a round of thin eyebrows and the moon is gradually rising, and the faint moonlight is sprinkled on the thousands of mountains and ravines, and there is another miserable taste in the haze.
The scouts who had scattered to inquire had returned to report that they were normal, at least a few miles around, and there was not a single enemy.
Ye Weima patted Song Ji on the shoulder and said, "Song Miao, I'll just say, this is that kid's trickery." ”
This is almost the third watch, or it has been the third watch, can the Song people fly down from the world.
Not to mention, Wang Ju can really let people fly down from the world, but the cost is too high, and there are not many people who can fly down, so it doesn't work.
Therefore, Wang Ju is still a classical strategy.
As soon as Ye Weima's words fell, he suddenly heard a violent noise.
"Where's the sound?"
"Kocheongyegawa." Song Ji Dao.
However, Xiaoqingchuan is still some way away from here, and there are some dangerous mountains and cliffs in between. It was there that the Song people laid down 100,000 male soldiers. It doesn't affect them either.
But the sound didn't stop. After the storm, a strange sound continued, like a storm crashing on the shore, like a thousand horses galloping, like a landslide and the earth cracking, like the earth roaring, like the sea in a tsunami......
They all woke up a lot of soldiers, but they were all at a loss.
"What is it?" Ye Weima asked strangely. Thus the sound approached in the enclave.
Song Ji couldn't guess either, but just as he was thinking, the sound arrived, and countless mountain-like waves rolled in from upstream.
"Get up," Ye Qima shouted with tears in his eyes, and only after he had finished calling did he come to his senses, snatching a horn from his guard and blowing it violently.
The waves that were more than one person high swept over.
…………
This is Wang Ju's talisman.
He had long been thinking about how to defeat this possible enemy. You can't think from your own point of view, you have to think from the other person's point of view.
The other party may be Ye Fuma, why. He is the young chief of Ye Weima, and he is very respected by Li Liangzuo. is eager for revenge, and will definitely take the initiative to ask for war when the time comes, and Li Liangzuo will inevitably give him a chance.
Therefore, the opponent is undoubtedly this Ye Weima, plus a two-hundred-five strategist Song Ji.
You can't underestimate Ye Fuma, this lord is ruthless in Yongle City, but you can't look down on him, even if Ye Fuma at the peak is just a kind of Yao Yao-level general, and he hasn't grown up yet.
If you add the gold finger yourself, the level of the two phases is about the same. But I still have Zhang Qi and Cai Ting to help, and I was thinking about strategy for a few months in advance, this is the advantage, the two armies are facing each other, so if the enemy gives you a few months to slowly think about the strategy and think of a way to deal with it?
Therefore, they occupy the absolute initiative.
This is will.
There are also soldiers, and it depends on who leads the soldiers.
In the Qingli War, Li Yuanhao won and lost, and the pinnacle was the Battle of Hequ, which beat the most powerful country in the world, the emperor and the 100,000 army, but Li Yuanhao was also beaten very badly by the horns, and his miserable Cheng was no less than that of Liao Xingzong.
But we should take into account the economy, land area, and population of Western Xia, don't think that the area of Western Xia is large, and the actual population of Hehuang Tubo is not less than that of Western Xia, but even if Tubo west of Chiling is counted, it will not increase the population of Tubo.
Moreover, the ethnic characteristics of the Western Xia are quite similar to the sticks in the east, holding grudges, being ruthless, and Yelang is arrogant, but they are not afraid of death like the Tubo people, and even the degree of fear of death is not as good as that of the Song soldiers. Don't look at the Song soldiers, sometimes they are fought, and they are also very tragic, similar to the tragic battles of Haoshuichuan and Chenjiagu that fought to the last soldier.
In addition, the semi-centralized system and semi-tribal alliance system of Western Xia also limited part of the combat effectiveness.
It is not easy for Li Yuanhao to take this group of soldiers to fight to that point, it should be said that at that time, Li Yuanhao, Jiao Guluo, Zhang Kang and Di Qing were the four most capable generals of that era, and they were tactically each other, but strategically Li Yuanhao defeated the remaining three.
Therefore, the Western Xia soldiers led by Li Yuanhao and the Western Xia soldiers led by Li Liangzuo will be two kinds of soldiers.
This is the general and soldier that Wang Ju may face.
Besides, it is supply, when Li Liangzuo's army arrives, it will inevitably attack Dashun City, but Dashun City is garrisoned with 10,000 male soldiers, unless there is a big accident, it is not easy to capture it, unless Li Liangzuo can be willing to use the lives of 45,000 soldiers to pile up, even if that Xiaoliang is more than 20 years later, he will not do that.
So once there is a stalemate, they will definitely divide their troops to the rear, but Dashun City is stuck, and the supply and transportation will become difficult, Wang Ju did not expect that Zhao Sishun would betray, but the Xixia people can still have a way to bring out the supply, that is, hard back and hard carrying, no matter which method, this supply will not last too long.
Unless they learn from the Xixia people in Rouyuan Village and forcibly attack the village, the Xixia people did this in order to force Zhang Yu out of the city to fight, in fact, there were three villages, two or three thousand people, in order to fight down, they cost hundreds of soldiers' lives, even if they got a little supply, but purely for the sake of supply, is it worth it?
Therefore, the time given to them will not be too long, and besides, for the sake of the army behind, they will not dare to delay time.
Then the problem is simple, the first stop is Liyuan Fort, but it is unlikely that you can take Liyuan Fort in just a few days.
So what will be done?
Next is the town of Huachi that I am most worried about!
And they will send heavy troops to Huachi Town. Take the town of Huachi. The morale of the Liyuan Fort generals was low. If you don't want to fight again, Liyuan Fort will be lost.
But there are so many troops in his hands, and if Liyuan Fort is divided, how many troops can Huachi Town have? In fact, Huachi Town can still be defended, but when it comes to Huachi Town, there are many Han villages, and their combat effectiveness is not strong, as long as the Western Xia divides the troops and loots. A catastrophe has struck. In the end, he repelled the Tanguts, and some people in the court would also put a high hat on themselves.
Of course, Wang Ju also expected that Jintang City might also send troops, but that part of the troops was relatively small, and Pingrong Town was full of Tibetan villages, with strong combat effectiveness, so he could not ask for the time being.
Reasoning to this point, there are only two ways to respond, Huachi defends and concentrates his forces to eat the remaining two. But this common sense tactic was not suitable for the future battle, because there were still many Western Xia troops in the rear.
So there is only the second way to fight. Eat the strongest Western Xia army, that is, pounce on the heavy army of Huachi Town.
It's going to be hard.
Hard war is impossible, so Wang Ju walked back and forth several times along the road between Liyuan Fort and Huachi Town, water battles, fire battles, poison gas battles, ambush battles, attack battles, he thought about it, and even thought about building another city wall in Huachi Town, dividing it into two cities, inside and outside, putting the enemy into the outer city, and then burying gunpowder in the ground to have a huge mine war.
However, in the end, the tactics of the moment were chosen.
But at that time it was very difficult, there were many small streams and small rivers on both sides of the Huachi River, but there were too few tributaries that could be used, Qingxi River was suitable, the water flow was too small, and the water flow of Daliuchuan was suitable, but it was not suitable for the mountain and forest roads.
Therefore, Wang Ju looked up along the two small rivers.
In this era, it was not easy to measure the height of the two rivers.
In the end, he chose a location two miles upstream of Xiaoqingxi River, and then persuaded the people to leave their homes, and even took the initiative to move the small villages of three or four Han people nearby to Huachi City.
Then send troops to blockade, and then build a tall embankment at the mouth of Xiaoqingxichuan, and then along a ravine, dig a diversion canal that is more than two miles long, and the water of Daliuchuan to Xiaoqingxichuan, this diversion has raised the water level of Xiaoqingxichuan by ** meters, including nearly 2,000 acres of Xiaoqingxichuan and many places upstream are submerged. But in order not to suspect the enemy, the water level was so high that part of the river continued to overflow from the embankment to the two small rivers.
After doing this, Wang Ju had another problem, that is, time.
If the enemy wants to start, he will definitely start his camp in the morning, and it will only be noon by this time.
As for whether the enemy will send the first step, Wang Ju has also thought about it, the Xixia people have suffered a few losses in their own hands, even if Ye Weima does not dare to be cautious about himself, he will send the first step, but he will not be too far away. So don't be afraid to go first, but this time is a problem.
Hence the various arrangements in the forest. First of all, nine corpses greeted the guests, and then there were thistles, sprinkled some sulfur, forcing the enemy to be suspicious, withdraw from the mountains and forests, and re-camp in the low-lying and flat Daqingxi River, and even use cavalry to beat the Western Xia infantry who were clearing the barricades, which was also just in case, to prevent the roadblocks from being cleaned when night came.
Why do you want to go to night, to three watches?
Ah, water.
Although nearly 10 million cubic meters of river water has been hoarded, it is not much, Guan Yu flooded Cao Jun, that is Xiangshui, the water flow may reach tens of thousands of cubic meters per second, and the seven-level canal of the Song Army flooded in Western Xia, it was early winter, but behind the seven-level canal is the Yellow River, what winter, how much water will the Yellow River have?
That is, after a wave of floods, the water behind is gone!
Therefore, Wang Ju chose to be in the third watch, why, there is no water, but there is still a very low temperature, even if the Xixia people are not afraid of the cold, but the whole body is soaked, in this night that is almost close to zero, how much combat power can be left? Therefore, Wang Ju said to Huang Gonggong that the time and place are favorable, and he can be an army of 50,000 people, even if there is no terrain, Wang Ju can go through a bloody battle, pay some sacrifices, lure the enemy to the outer city, and then bury hundreds of thousands of catties of gunpowder in the ground at any cost, and the 15,000 people of Western Xia are still doomed. However, this is in its own territory, and if it reaches the enemy's territory, it will have to fight hard.
So Wang Ju asked Zhang Yu to wait for two days, maybe one day, maybe two days, waiting for Ye Yama to lead the army here, and in order to keep it secret, Wang Ju only told Cai Ting, including Zhang Yu didn't know.
At the same time, this is also a demonstration, if the Song army arrives at the city of Lingzhou in the future, and the Xixia people dig a seven-level canal, what should they do? Think about the Battle of Cheonggyecheon.
The flood came to the sky, and in order to be fast, Wang Ju even put gunpowder under the dam in advance and bombarded the embankment, causing a big gap in the embankment to appear all of a sudden.
It happened that there were some hills in front of the Daqing River, and the flood rushed to the hills, forming a large whirlwind of water, which once again pulled the Tanguts into the roaring torrent. (To be continued!)
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