Chapter 494 The Battle Begins (Part 1)
The three armies were about to launch an attack. Liang Yimeng waved his hand and asked everyone to stop. Then he came to Rouyuan Village and shouted loudly: "Listen to the people in the city. You are all Dangxiang people, why do you betray the Daxia Kingdom?"
Li Sangou was so happy that he shouted loudly on the top of the city: "Can your Liang family represent Xixia?"
"Our Liang family is also from Xixia.£∝"
"Are your Liang family really from Xixia? It's just that your Liang family is from Xixia, and you are also fucked by Chinese people. Why do you betray China?"
How to say it is actually, right? Now that the Liang family is in power, but the husband is dead and the son is young. If he doesn't, can his son still be the emperor in the future? At least before Li Bingchang was placed under house arrest by Liang, the Liang family still had a certain orthodox power.
Is it easy to talk about the Liang family? The Liang family is just a rich Han family in Xixia. To put it bluntly, they are second-class citizens. Just like the foreign barbarians of the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty was weak and used money to buy peace, but in fact they were second-class citizens, even they rejected them if they wanted to associate with the Han people. The difference is that one was more direct and the other was more feminine.
However, Liang was so young that he married Wukang and Wukang, and then he decisively seized the opportunity to catch Li Liangzuo, and helped Li Liangzuo successfully eliminate Wukang Epang. Later, Li Liangzuo died and seized the power of Xixia, allowing her to do whatever she wanted. This also requires a certain skill and wisdom.
But if we talk about it, are they considered Xixia people in Rouyuanzhai? Half of them have been living on this land and have always been Song people, so how can they be betrayed? Even if the Xixia people who were defected to the Yeli tribe, they were suppressed by Xixia and could not live anymore, so they escaped to the Song Dynasty. If they were betrayed, then wouldn’t Li Sangou say that it was unreasonable? Is the Liang family’s grandparents not from Yanzhou people in the Song Dynasty? Didn’t the Liang family’s father fuck him?
Everyone has reason, but no one has reason.
I can only say that it is better than some later Cancans. They forget their ancestors and treason, and they are unfaithful and unfilial. However, they would rather be dogs. They are loyal and filial to the cows.
In fact, it was useless to say something or not. With the cooperation of Li Sangou, the foreign households in the Rouyuanzhai area were evacuated the cleanest. Except for the foreign households in the Xiantian area, there were no remaining foreign households that really belonged to the Song territory, and only these foreign soldiers were left.
All their families retreated to the rear. Can the morale of the army be shaken by just a persuasion by Liang Yi?
So when Li Sangou said this, there was a burst of laughter on the top of the city wall.
You are a Han man, but it means that Xixia is asking why the foreigners betrayed Xixia. Isn’t it strange?
Liang Yimeng's face turned red with pain, and he shouted: "Attack."
Let's start fighting, why bother with these little thoughts?
One siege ladder to the city top and the ice wall. It seems to be an opportunity now. After all, there are not many troops in the city of Rouyuanzhai. Two battalions were divided into two battalions. Although Xixia was not good at siegeing the city, the Song Dynasty had few troops and its defense line was so long, why not attack immediately?
However, it was not what Liang Yimeng imagined, and the siege ladder was built, and the ice wall was also very long. However, this ice wall was not the maze in front of Dashun City. Because Rouyuan Village is at the back, the preparation time is more sufficient, so there is more water than mud, which means that the ice wall is very slippery. And a whole wooden fence is built inside, which means that the ice wall is very solid.
The weather was cold. Relatively speaking, the Xixia people who were not afraid of the cold took advantage of it. However, the Song army stood on the top of the city or on the wall. Not only did the rolling stones fall down together, but some people finally climbed up the wall quickly. As a result, two or three Song soldiers pushed hard. Because the ice wall slipped, the siege ladder immediately slid to the ground. Several Xia soldiers on the ladder fell and rolled over. Then the rain of arrows fell and were mostly shot to death immediately.
After attacking for a long time, the Song army had few troops and some casualties occurred. However, the defense line of Rouyuanzhai was as stable as Mount Tai. On the contrary, the Xixia people immediately suffered a large number of casualties.
There was no way to fight, Song Ji said on the side: "General, this kind of attack cannot be done. You have to prepare a lot of hay and dead trees."
"But I can't wait there."
"It may be something happened there, but this wall cannot be broken, and I can't save it even if I want to. General, please think twice."
Liang Yimeng had no choice but to order the withdrawal of troops back.
Ru Ding continued to be stunned on the other side. Yao Lin rushed over from behind and shouted from afar: "It was Yao Lin, the 9th Brigade of the 9th Brigade of the Zuozangku who was the commander of the Qingzhou Fortress of the Zuozangku, quickly dismounted and surrendered, and Rao Er was unable to die."
The official positions of the Song Dynasty may have a headache for later generations, especially some official positions, which have both positions. For example, the Zuozangku envoy is actually a commissioner, but it can also be used as a real official, and the Imperial City Envoy is also a commissioner, but it can also be used as a real official. For example, Guo Qing's imperial city envoy is not a real imperial city envoy, so what about the capital. This imperial city envoy is a real official, just like the Zuozangku envoy, who is a seventh-rank military officer who receives salary according to this actual official.
There are also rank officials, which are honorary positions. At the same time, some official positions are a combination of official positions and empty officials, such as the Jiedushi, Chengxuan, Observation, Defense, League Training, and Governor.
If it is a real Song official, it is a official, especially a governor, whose salary is higher than that of the prime minister. If it is a foreigner, it is a false official and has nothing. It is just a good example, such as the governor of Li Sangou.
But if Brother Ding is a general of Xixia, he understands a little bit, and this should be considered an official position that can speak well.
He was still hesitating.
Yao Lin said again: "Well, General Xia, listen. As long as you surrender and cooperate with our army, a promise after the war will make you return to Xixia."
This is very vague. What is cooperation? What if it cannot be done?
But just this sentence, Ru Ding Ge sighed, put down his weapon, dismounted and surrendered. He was stuck in this small hill and had no way to escape. The Song people proposed preferential conditions, so how could they not surrender?
Yao Lin rode over and ordered the Xia Bing's clothes to be cut with a knife, used them as ropes, and tied up the remaining Xia Bing together. Then he asked: "What are you calling Ruding?"
"Ru Ding Ge." Ru Ding Ge replied, Yao Lin could not speak Dangxiang language, but if Ding Ge knew Chinese, this was the influence of advanced civilization. In the Liao Kingdom, there were very few Song people who could speak Khitan language and write Khitan characters, but there were many Khitan people who could write Chinese characters and Chinese. Chinese characters had even been the mainstream characters of Liao and Xixia. Or, as now, a little tea was passed to the West and immediately became a luxury. After drinking, even the tea was eaten. Is this tea that had been brewed with juice delicious?
There are also the culture of later generations. In terms of elegance, there are several musical instruments that can match the guqin and guzheng. Western paintings can directly achieve the artistic conception of Chinese painting. Even flower arrangements are the most beautiful, but they are developed. Therefore, foreign paintings and musical instruments have become mainstream, while Chinese have become second-class disabled.
Yao Lin must not know, he didn't even think about it. Isn't this normal?
"If General Ding Ge, then immediately cooperate with something and persuade your subordinates to surrender." Yao Lin said.
Ru Ding Ge showed a dilemma.
"Do you want your subordinates to die? Get on the horse."
This is not the case, but what else can Ru Ding say at this time? Yao Lin said again: "Ye Li instructed him and immediately sent more than a dozen people to take these people back to Rouyuan Village, and the rest followed me to 'persuading' the Xia people."
"Here."
This was also helpless. At this time, the battle at Anjiang Fort was probably over. The arrests began, but the deserters all over the mountains and fields were all infantry. It was probably too late, so Yao Lin used the cavalry in his hands to expand the results of the battle.
The group turned around and returned to Anjiang Fort, and captured them all the way. At first, they were divided into troops and bribed them, which led to the division of troops. But soon, they met with the infantry. So Yao Lin led the infantry to arrest them and let the infantry guards and bribed them. He continued to run in front of Anjiang Fort. Under Ru Ding Ge's "persuasion", the arrest was relatively smooth. It didn't matter. It was mainly so fast. Time was life at this time! When he arrived at Anjiang Fort, Yao Lin's party alone captured more than a thousand enemy soldiers.
Also, Gao Min also captured a lot of people, and nearly two thousand surrendered soldiers were lying under Anjiang Fort.
In this battle alone, more than 4,100 prisoners of war were captured alive and more than 5,600 enemy soldiers were killed.
"Wow." An instructor screamed loudly as he listened to the record.
With this result, it can be recorded in the history of foreign wars in the Song Dynasty.
Also, I don’t know how many enemies were burned in the fort. The two explosions just now, the entire mountain peak was densely filled with enemy soldiers from the top to the bottom of the mountain, and I don’t know how many enemies were killed.
There were quite a few. The enemy soldiers burned to death in Anjiang Fort alone reached more than 1,600, and nearly 1,000 Xia soldiers were injured and killed under the two peaks. Some of them lost their direction, but not many of them escaped, and some were found by Liang Yongneng, who later sent a cavalry and took them back, but two or three hundred people were frozen to death and starved to death.
Although Yao Lin did not know the specific numbers, he knew that as long as most of the escaped Xia soldiers were not arrested, they would probably meet with the Western Xia army alive. However, Yao Lin saw that the fire in Anjiang Fort was gradually weakening and could not delay any more. So he ordered that the soldiers of his fifth battalion be allowed to take prisoners of war to Rouyuan Village first, where a fierce battle was about to come. The officers and soldiers of the fifth battalion not only defected, but also increased the strength of Anjiang Fort. Yao Lin and his subordinates cleaned the battlefield and counted out the weapons. The remaining food, grass, tents and other supplies were piled up together and burned all the fire. Then he rushed to the East Valley Fort.
As the day gradually became noon, Liang Yiban saw a team of Xixia prisoners of war being taken over. He almost went crazy and immediately ordered a strong attack again.
Teams of Xia soldiers immediately carried the collected dead grass and branches under the ice wall.
However, the village had already been prepared. Seeing that they were carrying these flammable materials, buckets of boiling snow water immediately poured down from the top of the city.
As a result, it did not burn, but instead caused many soldiers to scream.
More than an hour passed, and all the prisoners of war were taken to the city together.
It would be useless to attack again. Liang Yimeng ordered the withdrawal of troops again, and then asked blankly: "What happened behind?"
At this moment, his subordinates came over to report: "General, look."
Liang Yimeng climbed the tower again, and he saw the Song army in Rouyuan Village retreating from behind the ice wall one after another and all retreated back to the village.
What is this doing?
Li Sangou mobilized in the village: "The real war is coming, are you all ready?"
"Be ready, General Zhao." The generals replied in unison. Although the battle was very dangerous, it only took a few days to defend, and the fifth battalion of reinforcements were added to the village, and those prisoners of war were good cards, so they all had the confidence to win.
The village was mobilizing, but Liang Yongneng was in a daze halfway.
Anjiang Fort was finally obtained. Although it became a remnant fort, the White Leopard City Road was finally completely opened. However, is it worth it to pay such a huge loss?
He led the three armies and slowly arrived behind Rouyuan Village.
Liang Yi buried this time and understood why the Song army withdrew from the village.
Instead of ordering an advance, Liang Yongneng asked his subordinates to destroy the two ice walls from east to west and connect the army.
"Yongneng, what happened?"
Liang Yongneng told the story again.
"So that Song army..." Liang Yi was regretful. Why didn't he listen to the words of Dora at the beginning?
Song Ji said anxiously from the side: "General, if you lose this battle, there will be someone who will be very happy."
"who?"
"Dola"
"Don't falsely accus the loyal generals of the country."
"I just want to say one thing. From beginning to end, Du Lae is a little war-weary. Let's see if Du Lae has launched a decent attack after arriving at Liyuan Castle?" (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
Chapter completed!