Chapter 1115: The Siege of the City
The war drums outside the city were hurried, and the shouts of the Dingbei army shook the sky, which was clearly the clarion call for launching a general attack, and Wei Mingdianyou and others couldn't help but lose their color, in this case, the fighting spirit of the Western Xia army must have been completely lost; Wei Mingdianyou staggered and jumped up, rushed down the city wall along the horse road, and wanted to hold Weizhou at this moment, only street fighting remained, that is, the 2,000 cavalry who had not yet climbed the city tower. Wei Mingdianyou's heart was extremely sad, Wu'er Siqi proposed to water and fortify the city, but he and Ren Dejing thought that it was impossible for the Dingbei Army to fight here, so they didn't make such preparations at all, and missed a few hours in vain.
The Western Xia army was brave and good at fighting, even if Wei Mingdianyou did not issue instructions in time, most of the battles still took the initiative to plug those gaps, but what made Wei Mingdianyou stunned was that the two gaps were not blocked; under the crazy rush of the Dingbei Army's infantry army, the Western Xia cavalry could not give full play to the advantage of the assault in the street battle, and was consumed by the other party little by little, and had retreated to the alley. It's over, Wei Mingdianyou knows very well that it won't be long before the cavalry will almost disappear, and he will no longer be able to organize an effective counterattack.
After all the six city walls were blown up, Chong Bin entered Weizhou City through the gap controlled by the Dingbei Army, and looked coldly at the battle in front of him, and he didn't even change his expression; he had absolute confidence in Xu Wen and Yang Zhongwu, and the heavily armored infantry army commanded by the two could not even win the Tiefutu of the Jin Kingdom, not to mention these second-rate Western Xia troops in Weizhou City. Now that the passage is open, the next thing is a street battle with hand-to-hand combat, looking at Xu Wen's tall figure rushing in front of him, Chong Bin laughed, the battle is almost over.
The two sides fought fiercely for an hour, and as the Dingbei army continued to enter the city, most of the Western Xia army and people laid down their weapons and surrendered; There were more than 3,000 horsemen on the Chong Yan side, and more than 700 people around Wei Mingdianyou were fighting, but it was just a tie, which made Chong Bin a little helpless, so he could only send someone to order Chong Yan to adopt the tactics of encirclement and killing.
Fortunately, most of the soldiers in Qin Fenglu knew how to ride, and the three thousand cavalry were just because there were not enough horses, and many people were familiar with the Western Xia war horses, and rode the newly captured war horses into the fight, and after more than half an hour, they finally tore through the formation of the Western Xia army and began the mode of encirclement and annihilation.
When the sun rose, Weizhou had already floated the banner of the Great Song Dynasty, and more than 3,000 Xixia troops such as Wei Mingdianyou were killed in battle, and 7,000 Xixia soldiers and civilians were captured; Weizhou was where the military department was located, and there were countless grain and other materials in the warehouse, and Chongbin arranged for people to maintain the warehouse, repair the city, and count the grain and population.
Regardless of fatigue, the cavalry such as Chong Yan and Wang Xuan disguised themselves as the Western Xia army and quickly slaughtered the various tribes scattered around, while Xu Wen and Yang Zhongwu, under the leadership of the local people, moved forward along the post road of the Western Xia and destroyed the two post houses in Weizhou and Jingsai. After a day and a night, the four of them withdrew to Weizhou with more than 2,000 captives and more than 15,000 livestock, so that Chongbin was overjoyed, and first transferred some of the captives and livestock back to Pingxia City.
The news that Weizhou was captured by the Great Song Dynasty spread like the wind to the Song and Xia countries, Ren Dejing knew that he was forced into a dead end by Yang Zhi, and at this time to help Weizhou, Yang Zhi would approach Wuyuan County from the other direction; Ren Dejing could not take this risk, and ordered the troops of all military states under his jurisdiction to go to Weizhou to concentrate, and Ren Decong commanded a counterattack on Weizhou, and he led 30,000 cavalry from Wuyuan County to find a decisive battle for the Dingbei Army.
"We must contain the Tanguts. Wu Jue, who is most familiar with Western Xia, understands that his opportunity has come, and since Yang Zhi has gone to the front line in person, he naturally does not want to miss this low-hanging fruit opportunity in front of him: "Yang Shuai, the most likely thing for the Western Xia people is that the soldiers are divided into two ways, and it seems that Ren Dejing is extremely angry, but the tens of thousands of Western Xia Qiang troops in Hengshan may raid us at any time, which will have unexpected changes for us, so the last general thinks that the soldiers are fast, and we must fight a decisive battle with Ren Dejing immediately." ”
"What if the Hengshan Qiang army suddenly appears?" Although Sang Zhong was tempted by the results of the battle and hoped to continue to attack the Tanguts, he refused to take the risk: "It is foreseeable that Ren Dejing will not completely expose his hole cards, and now he is concentrating all his forces to fight, just to relieve pressure on the Weizhou side, there is mobility, Hengshan Qiang is not there, he will retract and not fight with us, so the consequences will be very, contrary to our original intention." ”
Li Yanxian couldn't get used to Sang Zhong's worries: "Yang Shuai, one blow, then decline, three and exhaustion, between us and Western Xia, we can only use our fists to determine life and death, whoever has a hard fist will be the winner." Since we have launched an attack, we can't give up halfway, even if the two Western Xia armies arrive, we can resist it. ”
"A gentleman cannot fight a battle on both sides if he does not stand under a dangerous wall. Yang Zhi was resolute: "Hengshan is our bottom line, but also the bottom line of the Xixia people, let Zhang Zongge and Li Zhen's 20,000 people put on a posture of attacking Hengshan, Hengshan Qiang army in the face of unpredictable dangers, will not dare to send troops with all its strength, Li Yanxian, you lead a thousand cavalry to Li Zhen's military camp, take my order, preside over the army to confuse the enemy, remember, false and real." If our army is victorious, we will rendezvous with the Dingbian army; if we fail on the side of the Dingbian army, you will retreat directly to Qingyang Mansion, and do not come to the rescue of the Dingbian army or Huanzhou. ”
Li Yanxian agreed, and took the order to go; Yang Zhi's eyes showed a cold light, and he turned back to the generals and said: "The fighter plane is fleeting, I am ready to transfer the Mubo Department to reinforce, and I must also consider the possibility that Li Yanxian's 20,000 people cannot stop the Hengshan Qiang army, Yang Yizhong, you have to fight and go, try to attract Ren Dejing to the west, don't think about killing happily, I want to leave these 30,000 horsemen and the Hengshan Qiang army that left the mountains in this area of the plain." ”
Yang Yizhong and Zhao Yishu exchanged glances, each other was helpless, and they had to agree, Yang Zhi said in an unquestionable tone: "I will give you four days at most, no matter what, the decisive battle in Huanzhou." ”
Ren Dejing was surprised to learn that the 20,000 Song army was approaching Hengshan, and he probably knew the situation on Yang Zhi's side, Yang Zhi was doing this to make a posture of all-out attack, once the Song army attacked Hengshan, it would be another bad influence of Weizhou. Ren Dejing could only change the order, and let the commander on the side of Hengshan, Niuwo Wenzhong, decide for himself how many people he could mobilize, and go to Dingbian Town to block the possible attack of the Dingbei Army.
Ren Dejing met the small Dingbei army, and when he learned that Yang Yi had retreated from the west, he knew that the Dingbei army planned to reinforce Weizhou, and Ren Dejing ordered the whole army to kill Huanzhou; the two sides chased each other in the east of Huanzhou for three days, and finally they couldn't hold it back, and set up a battlefield in the southeast of Horseshoe Mountain.