Chapter 411: The Ruins, the Most Stubborn Resistance
After hearing the news that Yinzhou in Xixia was punished by thunder, the planter was overjoyed, "If you do too much injustice, you will kill yourself! People are doing it, the sky is watching, and the ancients are honest and do not deceive me!"
All the generals swept away the sleepiness of the whole night, and each of them celebrated with their foreheads, and congratulated the planter one after another.
Seed Master Dao's face suddenly changed, and he asked, "Where is Di Lie's 20,000 army?"
The messenger of Mizhi Village was suddenly stunned and said in confusion: "I didn't see it." ”
The seed master Dao was suddenly furious, 20,000 people are in Hengshan Wuding Hedong, you actually said that you didn't see it, could it be that these people have escaped?
"Why don't you hurry up and explore?" This sentence ordered not the messenger of Mizhi Village, but the generals under him.
As the scouts returned, the Breeder Dao felt more and more strange about the situation.
Since yesterday morning, the troops outside the city have been marching in the direction of Hengshan, and in the afternoon they have entered the mountainous area, even if it was as dark as ink last night, and the various military villages could not see their whereabouts, but they should always be able to see after dawn, right?
However, the return of these scouts is the same - all the areas east of the Wuding River have been searched, and no one has been found!
Many of them have experience in tracking and looking for rutted horse manure, but they found that these rutted horse tracks disappeared near Mizhi Village, and all seemed to be hidden.
After listening to these reports, the cultivator was depressed, not to mention 20,000 soldiers, even 20,000 rats would not be so cleverly hidden, could there not be a single one?
Unless they crossed the Wuding River and reached the border to the west of the river, but no one saw the army cross the river.
So he ordered: "Go, go to the west of the Wuding River to investigate!"
All the sentinels were frightened, if they did not bring some goods and pretend to be a merchant traveler, what was the difference between crossing the river to explore and sending them to death? But how strict the orders of the Xianggong were, they could only obey them.
Seed Master Dao was surprised because he couldn't find anyone, but he didn't know that Zhao Kai, who was in Bai Sheng's army, was ten thousand times more surprised than him.
He felt that all the military books and tactics he had read in the past had been in vain, and he could not have dreamed of Bai Sheng's fighting style.
In the early morning, the dark clouds dispersed, and the sun covered the ravines and woodlands of Hengshan, and the three thousand elites marching in the mountains were covered with branches or dead grass that gave birth to new green, and the scenery on the high slopes of the loess was integrated with each other.
Even if you look at them closely, as long as the soldiers are still and still, it is difficult to extract them from the green and yellow natural scenery.
Bai Sheng's army was still advancing, he didn't plan to go out day and night, there were no less than nine hundred camps and castles to overcome, if he only fought at night, wouldn't it take seven or eight days?
The artillery team could no longer keep up with the speed of his advance, and the artillery team had just crossed the river before dawn, and it still needed to be maintained and maintained, and it was impossible to follow his sharp knife troops to the front.
Now he relied on the spells of Fan Rui and Ma Ling, Xiang Chong, Li Yanqiongying, plus his long-range precision strikes, and the covering killing of a thousand archers, a thousand javelinmen and a thousand throwing knifemen.
His tactic is not to provide the enemy with a range of 200 paces, which means that when his troops are exposed to the view of the besieged fortress, they should be at most 100 paces away from each other.
At this distance, the Tangut people's ultra-long-range Divine Arm Bow could not exert any advantage, and was even destroyed by their own side with precise strikes before they discovered the enemy's attack.
There was no artillery, and Ma Ling's steamer could be set on fire, and Bai Sheng also invented a brilliant way to play, that is, to make explosive packs.
Send a death squad to deliver explosives to the enemy's fort points, then evacuate, and then let Ma Ling sacrifice a firewheel to fire the cannon!
Of course, the power of this explosive bag is not as powerful as that of the later generations during World War II, to put it bluntly, it can basically only play the role of arson, but this way of lighting the cannon is beyond the reach of the later army, and it can still blow up the Tangut people to the point of dizziness.
There is no Iron Harrier in the Xixia camp in Hengshan, the Divine Arm Bow is contained, and the Bubazi is also blocked by long-range weapons and cannot get out, and it is a death to come out, no matter what kind of fortress is facing the same fate, that is, either surrender or be killed.
If the fight continues like this, won't the destruction of the Western Xia be just around the corner? Three thousand soldiers and horses will destroy the Western Xia? Zhao Kai felt that he was like a dream, and he could not accept the fact that this illusion was the same.
This Bai Sheng is too strong, with his style of play, let alone the Western Xia Kingdom, what Fang La, Tian Hu and Wang Qing, what Liao Kingdom and the Great Song Dynasty, he doesn't want to destroy whoever he wants?
However, just when he had a admiration for Bai Sheng, Bai Sheng's soldiers encountered the most stubborn resistance in this battle.
Resistance appeared in Tongwan City.
Strictly speaking, Tongwan City is actually a ruin, a ruin in the desert.
This is the Xiongnu Shan Yu Helian Bobo led 100,000 people to build the city during the Wuhu Chaos period, Helian Bobo personally named it "Tongwan", in order to show his ambition to "unify the world and rule all nations" based on the city.
The layout of Tongwan City is divided into the east city, the west city and the outer outline city, the population in the city reaches more than 40,000 people, the construction projects in the city are huge and magnificent, and the city wall building is white and firm.
After that, the Xiongnu were defeated, and the city changed hands several times.
Until the fifth year of Chunhua in the Great Song Dynasty, when Li Yuanhao's great-grandfather Li Guangyan occupied this place, Zhao Kuangyin, the Taizu of the Song Dynasty, for political and military purposes, ordered the destruction of the city and immigrants under the pretext that he was deep in the desert, and burned Tongwancheng into ruins with a fire, and gradually disappeared in the sea of sand.
It was precisely because of Zhao Kuangyin's forced demolition that Li Guangyan's son, Li Yuanhao's grandfather, Li Jiqian, rebelled against the Song Dynasty, because the party members found through this forced demolition that just surrendering to a strong country could not be exchanged for a happy life.
Today, there are only complete city walls left in Tongwan City, and there are no houses and facilities in the city that can support human survival, but thousands of Western Xia soldiers and civilians who escaped from the surrounding military villages have gathered.
The soldiers and civilians in these military villages chose to flee at the first time when Bai Sheng's army launched an attack, and they fled in the same direction as Bai Sheng's attack, Bai Sheng attacked from the south, they fled from the north, and Bai Sheng attacked from the east, and they fled from the west.
In short, Ma Ling, who was on the periphery of the attack target, didn't have time to kill these people one by one, and was fled by these people into this ruined Tongwan City.
Today's Tongwan City has only one characteristic, that is, it is strong, sturdy and not afraid of fire.
The city wall that Zhao Kuangyin assigned Yang Ye to set off with a fire that failed to burn it down, and Bai Sheng can't burn it down today.
As early as when the capital was discussing the plan, Di Lie once told Bai Sheng about this Tongwan City, saying that the ramming technology of this Tongwan City is an ancient and modern existence, and the Tongwan City Wall is extremely strong.
Di Lie said that his grandfather Di Qing once threw a sharp steel spear at close range, and the steel spear was only two inches into the city wall, and then it fell, and it could not be inserted at all!
For this reason, Bai Sheng also verified it, and shot an arrow to the city wall with the dragon bow and the Ugin arrow, but although the Ugin arrow was inserted in the wall and did not fall, it was visually that the Ugin arrow was only inserted two inches.
You don't have to think about it to know that even if Ling Zhen's artillery is transported over to bombard, it will be difficult to help this rammed earth city wall.
The reason why Bai Sheng encountered the most stubborn resistance since the beginning of the war is because in this battle, if you want to break through the Tongwan City, you can only attack in the vacancy of the original city gate.
The enemy has no bow, no iron harrier, no footman, but he can hold the vacancy of the wall, and whoever comes close to the past will be knocked away by the enemy in the city.
Yes, it is to shoot away, not to mention life or death, whoever goes up will be sent flying, regardless of the generals, and among these generals who are sent flying, at least including the two fierce generals under Qiong Ying.
Bai Sheng immediately stopped the attack, because he saw that the enemy's strength was too strong, and judging from the height and distance of the flying person, it confirmed that there was at least one peerless master in the city!
And it is a peerless master who surpasses Li Biyun!
The answer is yes, first of all, the city wall is not afraid of burning, secondly, there are no flammable materials in the city, and this third is what worries Bai Sheng the most, that is, Fan Rui and Ma Ling's spells have failed.