Chapter 501 Good card
As soon as the killing weapon was released, Liang Yi was stunned. Song Ji, who had all had bad ideas, was also stunned.
This is not a small number of people, there are thousands of people, and of course they ejaculate quickly. After a few three consecutive shots, the Great Wall of Human Feed fell down. But what consequences will be caused? Liang Yi buried it even though he couldn't figure it out.
There is another way to force the city to attack like yesterday.
But it's really hard to attack.
Compared with the officers and soldiers under other brigade generals, Li Sangou had the least number of officers and soldiers, only the third battalion of foreign cavalry. Because of Li Fugui's random troubles, the three battalion of foreign cavalry was not fully organized, and the third battalion of foreign cavalry was less than 1,000. Therefore, Li Sangou simply formed two battalions, that is, the two battalions of cavalry brought out from Yeligujie.
However, this does not mean that Li Sangou has few troops. From Anjiang Fort to Rouyuan Village, all the strong men and horses in Meili Fort, even a few strong men from Dashun City and Liyuan Fort, Donggu Village, as well as most of the strong men from Huai'an Town, Yele Town, Wujiao Town and other rear gathered at Rouyuan Village. After the night attack, Yao Lin's officers and soldiers of the fifth battalion were even more powerful.
Of course, there is another reason for this division of troops. Fort Meili is too small and cannot accommodate too many officers and soldiers. Even if it retreats to Donggu Village in the future, Xigu Village is not big. Besides, Qin Bo's troops are also in trouble. Considering this factor, it is necessary to divide troops into Rouyuan Village.
From the perspective of defending the city, this army is quite powerful.
There are also weapons. The amount of fierce turbulent oil in Rouyuan Village is even smaller, so it can only be said that the shock is far more important than the killing significance. However, there are a large number of divine arm bows, tiger squatting cannons, and thunderbolt bullets in Rouyuan Village. The remaining archers are replaced with qualified composite bows, and there are also many primitive rolling stone woods.
So it is very difficult to get rid of.
For a moment, looking at these two rows of strange human-feeding Great Walls, more than 100,000 Xiamen were silent. It seemed that they could hear the chirping of birds on the mountains on both sides of more than a thousand meters away.
This will definitely not work. Not only can we find a solution, but it will also seriously damage morale.
Liang Yimang had to temporarily stop the attack and summoned the generals to discuss.
After a while, he asked the messenger to send a message to the soldiers: "These people are all soldiers from our Daxia. Now they have fallen into the enemy and become hostages to the enemy. I don't want to hurt him, but I want to rescue them and let them return with their military achievements and the spoils and wealth they obtained from Gyeongju, but it is obviously impossible."
The commander sent down word by word, and Liang Yi buried the statement that everyone agreed with it. Even the attack on this village was so difficult. Where can I save people?
Just as they recognized it, the messenger continued to convey what Liang Yima said: "But Rouyuan Village blocked our way forward, Dashun City became stronger, so we could not transport food and grass to the three armies in time. In this way, if time is delayed, our army will be in danger."
In fact, when the ice wall of Rouyuanzhai was demolished, it was impossible to stop the food transported from Anjiang Fort.
Unless it is like Dashun City, a huge 800-acre village will be built. Of course, the bigger the fortress, the stronger the power. It is like a snow mud castle. If it is a little bigger and can hoard two or three thousand soldiers, then will it be so dangerous and difficult to hold on for only two days?
However, the larger the fortress, the more troops the guards will have. Just like Dashun City, there must be at least 5,000 soldiers to guard all the city walls. If hundreds of thousands of troops come to Xixia this time, the requirements for military strength must be at least 10,000.
If Rouyuan Village, Xigu Village and other forts were played together like Dashun City, how many troops would the Song Dynasty have to send to guard these forts.
It can only be said that the existence of Rouyuan Village made the Xixia army dare not invade Qingzhou unscrupulously from this road. However, for the invasion of hundreds of thousands of enemies this time, Rouyuan Village is not very effective. There is such a large gap between the two sides. As long as some troops are sent to station, Xixia food can be transported continuously.
But what should Liang Yimeng do not say that? The messenger continued to pass the message: "The most urgent task is to capture Rouyuan Village. As for these soldiers, we will repay them with the blood of the Song people!"
These words seemed to make sense, but everyone was silent after listening to them.
But it is better to say it than not.
The messenger passed on the words of Liang Yimeng, and Liang Yimeng began to order the Xia soldiers in Tushan to shoot arrows.
"Oh my dear, how are you really ejaculated?" Li Sangou said in surprise with wide eyes.
Then he ordered helplessly to ask the Song army behind him to extend a shield to protect him. But these prisoners of war were also stupid. Sorrow and confusion flashed in their eyes. We are our own people, so we really have to take this evil move.
That's not. In just one moment, more than 300 people fell down, and more than 100 people were injured by arrows, so Li Sangou ordered to carry them down for treatment. However, the remaining prisoners of war still stood in front of them to make shields, but there were real shields in front of them to protect them. Then the Song army stood behind them and shot arrows to fight back.
Seeing that the archers on the Tushan Mountain attracted the firepower of the Song army, Liang Yibi immediately ordered the siege.
However, the result disappointed him very much. Rouyuan Village is not as big as Dashun City, but it becomes more powerful when it is small. The village has enough troops, but the length of the city wall is limited, which also means that Li Sangou can allocate thicker troops to defend the city.
As a result, the Xia army in front just arrived under the city wall, and countless rolling stones and woods were smashed down behind them, especially those big stones. There were mountains around Rouyuan Village. Although many were loess moors, there were also many stone mountains. If you blasted them with black gunpowder hundreds of times, you could get countless rolling stones in the village.
This thing is the cheapest in Rouyuanzhai, and they all carry big stones and smash them down with their lives.
There will always be a day to smash it, but there are not ten or eight days, so it is impossible to imagine that the Song army will smash it. The question is whether Liang Yimeng can attack for ten or eight days, and how many soldiers' blood will be used to exchange for Rouyuan Village?
Some Song soldiers smashed them with stones, some Song soldiers who were holding swords to chop up the Xia soldiers who climbed the city, some Song soldiers poured boiling oil, or ignited the modified thunderbolt bullets and smashed them down as grenades, and some Song soldiers used shields to protect the Great Wall of Human Flesh, and the other was the bows and archers, all of them were divine arm bows.
Although there are not as many archers as Xia army, the lethality of the Divine Arm Bow is far more powerful than that of the Xixia archer. Moreover, they are hiding behind Xia soldiers, and the human flesh Great Wall is the Great Wall. What archers are most afraid of is that they cannot calm down. Once they calm down, they will shoot arrows like they usually do, and many archers have the same accurate heads as they do.
So this wave of attack lost nearly a thousand people. Liang Yimang saw that it was dusk and had to order it to withdraw.
Li Sangou assembled all prisoners of war.
These prisoners of war are now in a state of distraction, indignation, and worried and afraid.
But can they blame the Song Dynasty for being cruel to prisoners of war?
no!
Generally speaking, Xia and Liao seldom killed prisoners. Of course, sometimes when they were angry, it was normal to kill prisoners. However, in most cases, prisoners of war were transferred to the rear to serve as slaves, that is, slaves. Just like after the alliance between the Song and Liao dynasties, they interacted with each other's previous prisoners of war, but because many prisoners of war in the Song Dynasty were given to the various tribes of the grassland by the Liao Kingdom. Later, they could not find them, and the Song Dynasty also ignored them for peace.
Why is this? Because of the constant war, a large number of deaths of Ding Zhuang, these prisoners of war became the best and cheapest labor. But in general, the Song Dynasty did better than the Liao Kingdom and was softer. The Liao Kingdom was not too bad. Many learned or capable soldiers were treated equally by the Liao Kingdom. They were also allowed to serve as officials of the Liao Kingdom. The Xixia Kingdom was bad.
Moreover, the Western Xia and Song and Liao countries were different. Although the area was not small, they were mostly deserts and Gobi. If they had not obtained the Hexi Corridor, they would have even been automatically disintegrated from the inside because of constant wars.
Therefore, sometimes Xixia would take the initiative to release prisoners of war when there was insufficient food or labor, but then it would have to pay the price to pick your nose and cut your ears. Think about it, cut off your nose and then cut off your two ears. Is that still a human?
Therefore, it was not an exaggeration to do this in the Song Dynasty.
However, if this continues, they will die sooner or later, and they will die very cowardly.
At this time, Li Sangou spoke: "Everyone. If your Li Yuanhao were here, would he be beaten like this?"
Everyone shook their heads.
Li Yuanhao has suffered many major defeats with him, but he will not fight like this one.
"If you Li Yuanhao were here, would you mobilize 300,000 troops?"
Everyone shook their heads again.
"Why? Actually, the reason is very simple. Your Xixia land is small, with poor production, poor people, and poor economic foundation. How much money will it cost to use 300,000 troops? If you can take Huanzhou and become a robber, you can make up for this loss. But now do you think you can still win Huanqing?"
Everyone was sad together.
"I can't win Huanqing. If you go back to this battle, what will happen to your Xixia finance department? What pressure will it bring to the people of Xia?"
Everyone was sad again.
"Actually, I can tell you here that not only will you not be able to win Huanqing this time, but on the contrary, you will lose a lot this time. Dashun City and Anjiangbao City are just an appetizing pickle dish."
"ah?"
"Don't doubt it, you'll know the result in less than seven days."
Of course, the more specific plan, including Li Sangou, may not be very clear. Even if it is clear, it will not tell these people. Otherwise, if you stand on the top of the city and shout, the big thing will be gone.
"So I'll tell you something now, in the future, we will surely attack Yanzhou."
Most of the prisoners of war did not believe it this time.
"Listen to me, if your 300,000 Xixia army is defeated this time, how many troops can the country be drawn? We are just capturing Yanzhou, not trying to defend Yanzhou. Can't we do it?"
There is a difference. Just like Zhao Kuangyi's northern expedition, he also captured Zhuozhou. After the defeat, the Song army withdrew from Youzhou, and another Song army in Zhuozhou was desperately defending the city. The Liao Kingdom was also interesting and followed them to defend. However, the entire Zhuozhou had lost contact with the Song Dynasty, and it was not until the second year that the Liao Kingdom attacked Zhuozhou. The Song army fought very tenaciously in that battle. The Song Dynasty only knew this one. Who was the main general, and how many Song troops were resisting, it was unclear.
Therefore, what Li Sangou said is not impossible.
In fact, the Song army may not be so smooth in this battle. For example, the incident caused by Yao Yi's sudden kindness, and the sacrifice of the chief general Wei Qingzong...
But it is normal. If Zhang Shi, who grew up, will also have bumps and bumps.
After all, when you think about the snake swallowing elephant, the second is that the war zone is too large, and the third is that there are too many troops, so all may develop according to the expected ones.
However, these prisoners of war didn't know that they only saw Dashun City being beaten by the Song army in a elusive way, and when they arrived at Anjiang Fort, they became prisoners of war. This also made them unable to see the future of the Xixia army this time.
If you cannot win, you will lose! Then the situation Li Sangou may have happened.
"So, I will make a decision for you. If you are in the Hengshan area and Yanzhou area around the Qingyuan, please stand by."
With a rush, more than a thousand people walked out.
The rest of the family is far away from Song Realm or Huanqing Road.
Li Sangou looked at more than a thousand people and said, "When you come back to the city, I will ask my subordinates to send you bows and arrows. In order to prevent Xixia from revenging your family, after the war, our army arrived in Yanzhou and brought all your family to the Song Dynasty to settle down. When the Song Dynasty arrived, your happy time came. In addition, in addition to military service, you did not have to bear any taxes. In addition, after the war, I would also distribute silk and tea worth 100% of the people, using this as your reward and improving your family's life."
This proposal still made many prisoners of war excited, but someone plucked up the courage to ask: "What if your Song army can't attack Yanzhou?"
"I can't fight Yanzhou. After the war, I will ask you to go back and each person will give you another five hundred taels of silver."
In that case, it is impossible to bring silk and copper coins, but there is no problem with bringing silver. Five hundred taels of silver weighs only about thirty pounds, and one labor force is enough to take it home.
But no one believes it. Five hundred taels of silver, the current price of silver is very high. If it is exchanged for money, it is one thousand coins, which is equivalent to one thousand three hundred coins. How is this possible?
"If you don't believe it, we can write a contract. At least I don't need to deceive you. I will send someone to put a knife on your neck. Do you dare not shoot arrows?"
"Domedy!" a foreign soldier cheered behind him.
The prisoners of war were speechless together, and another prisoner of war boldly asked: "Then why should we treat us preferentially?"
"China is a civilized country, mainly benevolent. Besides, you will also be a Song people in the future, and you cannot treat you as enemies or prisoners of war. Do you understand?"
Do you understand? I really don’t understand.
Li Sangou ignored them and walked to the remaining prisoners of war and said, "As for you, our Song Dynasty has no way to take your family, so we will not let you fight back with bows and arrows, but I have another suggestion, that is, you will carry shields to protect your former comrades. After the war, I will also release you home and each person will give you fifty taels of silver as travel expenses."
Fifty taels of silver are more than one hundred stakes of money. For the suffering Xixia people, it is a considerable wealth. Moreover, this requirement is not too much, and we don’t want to do it right, but General Liang, if you order archery at us, we can’t wait to die.
But almost all prisoners of war were puzzled together, why did Li Sangou do this?
Why? In fact, the reason is very simple. The "reward" given by Li Sangou is indeed very generous, but how many prisoners of war can be left after so many days of tragic battles? In the end, there will not be many Xia soldiers who can actually get the money.
Let’s look at the officers and soldiers. It costs dozens of stagnant coins a year to raise an officer and soldier. If they were sacrificed, the court would still need to pay a lot of pensions. But did these prisoners of war pay any compensation in the Song Dynasty before? If they died in battle, would the Song Dynasty pay a pension?
Yes, if they ordered them to do this, they had to do it. But with the stimulus of money, once they were invested, it was different from forced ordering.
After Li Sangou finished speaking, he actually signed a contract with these prisoners of war.
Then he came to the top of the city, and the night fell, but the battlefield was very calm. A foreign general said, "General Zhao, I'm afraid the Xixia people have a headache now, so they did not attack the city tonight."
Li Sangou laughed and said, "Their head hurts even more tomorrow."
These thousands of prisoners of war are simply good cards sent by God! (To be continued)
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Chapter completed!