Chapter 1388: Attacking the Dingyan Mansion
Seeing Ah Shushu's expression, Brother Richard couldn't cry or laugh: "To put it mildly, for the outcome of this battle, as long as it wins, as for how to win, the king doesn't care at all, because the combined army of Qu Duan, Liu Ziyu, and Li Yanxian has 50,000 people, and the cavalry is as many as 15,000 people.
Ladies and gentlemen, what we should consider is that the war potential of the Dingbei Army is still very strong, even if the Jin Wushu may kill the opponent on their backs, once the Dingbei Army is mobilized, Yang Zhi or Yue Fei will probably pull the war into a stalemate stage, thus forming a protracted war, which is not what we and the Jin people are willing to see. The problem is that the Jin and Song people can come back if they lose, and we can't afford to play. โ
Over the years, the aggressiveness of the Jin people has become more and more obvious, and there is a sense of superiority over the Western Xia that they will come and go as soon as they are recruited; even if he has reached a tacit understanding with the Golden Vultures, the integrity of the Golden Vulture is not as good as Yang Zhi, not to mention that the Golden Vulture may not be able to settle Jinting's opinion. Western Xia has been defeated now, hundreds of thousands of Western Xia troops are gone, even if the Great Song Dynasty is defeated this time, Western Xia wants to rebuild a strong army, but it is not an overnight thing, if the Jin State does not want Western Xia to have a large army, then the first thing Jin Wushu has to deal with is probably himself.
What Brother Richard had to do was to make the ministers of Western Xia frightened, and everything in the future would be according to his own will, so it would be much more convenient to bargain with Jin Wushu. Sure enough, as soon as Brother Richard finished speaking, there was a buzzing discussion around the hall, but no one came forward to discuss, and even Wang Yan and Ah Shu fell into deep thought.
Li Renxiao picked up the teacup and gently blew the foam on the tea, no wonder Hot Gongji said before going to Taiyuan that fortresses are always breached from the inside, and when domestic contradictions are on the verge of breaking out, most people are not thinking about how to save the situation, but about how to protect themselves. Yes, Hot Gongji is right, Daxia is not lost in the hands of the Song people, but in the hands of their own people.
Great Xia slowly grew from a weak country to compete with Song Liao, but now, looking at the fact that the country is about to be destroyed, Li Renxiao shook his head and sighed, tilted his neck, and swallowed a small cup of tea into his stomach. Empress Dowager Ren looked at the pair of uncles and nephews with interest, a faint smile appeared on her face, she thought that the two would have a big fight, but she didn't expect that there was no movement, and it would be a demon if something went wrong.
Thinking about it, they have all reached this point, no matter how confused Brother Richard and Li Renxiao are, they should also know that they must work together to defeat the Great Song Dynasty, otherwise whoever wins will be a dowry for others. Empress Dowager Ren's smile was a little enchanting, but also a little weird, which made Brother Richard's heart blocked, and the past was unbearable; Ren had to present the surrender of Xi'an, and when the Empress Dowager Ren arrived in Xingzhou, everyone thought that Daxia had encountered a once-in-a-century opportunity, and who would have thought that in less than five years, it would fall into such a field.
Cao Zimu did not wait for news from Xingzhou, so he directly arranged for the Dingyan army to set off at night in batches, and made a detour to Shazhou, and on the sixth day, he arranged for more than 20,000 people to go west; Yue Fei received the news of the scouts, and was stunned, and a large number of people went west, obviously Cao Zimu had already made preparations to give up the Dingyan Mansion, and on the road to Ganzhou and Xingzhou, there was no trace of the Dingyan army, Yue Fei knew that he still missed something, and after looking at the map for a while, Yue Fei concluded that Cao Zimu's main force should have gone west.
Yue Fei immediately ordered the whole army to rush to Dingyan Mansion, in the face of the five walled cities that were connected together, Yue Fei was still confident, even if all the Dingyan army was dispatched, he would not care, at most he would lose both; if that was the case, it would also achieve the significance of consuming the main force of Western Xia, and the Dingyan Army was the last mobile cavalry of Western Xia, if it lost its combat effectiveness, it meant that Liu Qi and Yang Yizhong could rest assured and boldly kill Dunhuang, Shazhou and other places.
Niu Gao led 6,000 cavalry as the vanguard, and soon encountered a small force of the Dingyan army, as soon as the two sides fought, Niu Gao found an abnormality, the other party did not want to fight to the death with him, just sniped and retreated, but every soldier who could not escape died or committed suicide;
Two hours later, there were no Western Xia scouts on the periphery of Dingnan Mansion, and the Dingyan army made a posture of defending Xingzhou with all its might; after Yue Fei's army arrived, they quickly divided into two teams according to the direction of the wind and raised hot air balloons in the sky; the officers who observed the enemy situation on the hot air balloon could clearly see the garrison of Dingnan Mansion with binoculars, and found that the soldiers and civilians of the five walled cities together were only more than 10,000 people. The scouts who were scattered out cooperated with the search, and there were no enemy troops for hundreds of miles around Dingnan Mansion, and on the road to the west, there were traces of tens of thousands of people moving.
Getting the building situation of Dingyan Mansion depicted by the hot air balloon, Yue Fei ordered to attack Beisui Prefecture on the spot, Dingyan Mansion imitated the Great Song Dynasty Prefecture with a fortress to build a city, occupying a large amount of territory between the plains and valleys, but for Yue Fei, this is the easiest city to capture, if it is a high wall like Xingzhou, even if the city wall is blown up, it may not be able to kill into the city, but in Dingyan Mansion, without this difficulty, the limited gunpowder can be used to the maximum.
As a wall was blown up, the Great Song cavalry quickly filled the trench with sandbags, Niu Gao led the cavalry directly into North Suizhou, after an hour of fierce fighting between the two sides, the eight hundred cavalry and more than 1,000 people in North Suizhou were almost all killed, and Niu Gao's losses were as many as 1,000 people. Chong Yan opened his mouth wide in surprise: "The loss is so big, those people of Western Xia are crazy?"
"This is the war of annihilation. Yue Fei's eyes were deep: "The Dingyan Army is the capital of the Western Xia family, even if the families of those Dingyan Army are also military families, now when the country is ruined, their sense of honor is naturally different from the ordinary Xixia people." Rest for the night, tomorrow in Beijingzhou, North Yanzhou. โ
The next day, Yue Fei personally went into battle, let Niu Gao be responsible for plundering the formation, he and Chong Yan each attacked a city, the soldiers fought bloodily, Yue Fei personally killed the first line of the Dingyan army commander Gao Jian, the morale of the Xixia army was frustrated, and Bei Jingzhou was captured in less than half a day; at dusk in the afternoon, Chong Yan also captured Beiyan Prefecture, only more than 100 cavalry broke through, and were chased and killed by Chong Yan's subordinates in front of the Beiyinzhou village, Beiyinzhou did not open the gate to greet it, more than 100 Xixia cavalry had to return to fight to the death, most of them died under the arrows of the Song army, and only less than 30 people died in front of the battleใ