Chapter 519 Death Movement (8)
Zhou Yongqing and his men were climbing the mountain slowly, Gao Min was so anxious that he wanted to jump into his feet and curse. Seeing that the fourth update was about to pass, he dragged it again and it was dawn. He said worriedly: "Is there something wrong behind him?"
"It's impossible." Yao Xiong said uncertainly.
The enemy had a large number of troops, and he calculated ten thousand people at a time. Even Wang Ju was deeply moved. Even if he had a thousand soldiers and horses, he was calculating, but he mobilized them in units of ten thousand soldiers and horses.
But the enemy cannot divide the troops without restrictions. Besides, if they really divide the troops to Papaya Fort, won’t they send someone to notify them?
That's not the case. Why haven't reinforcements arrived yet?
Just as they were worried, Qi Zhong said, "Here you come."
Gao Min immediately took the telescope and looked at Wangsongling. It was a bit far away. Although it had not snowed tonight, the weather was not good, so it was not clear. However, the big flag could still be seen. As the mountain wind blows, it was like a white fairy dancing in the night sky.
"Damn, we're finally here." Gao Min said excitedly. After saying that, he looked at the enemy camp again, and his expression became even happier.
Like Song Ji, Wang Zangbu has not built a complete wall.
But the two are different in nature. Song Ji was purely careless, and Wang Zangbu had no time here.
When he came, he immediately launched a siege, but he just wanted to build a tent. He didn't have tents, tools and other supplies in his hand. How to build it?
Then at dusk, the army sent by Mei Qingmeluo arrived, and they hurried to Mengmen Sancha, so there was no other supplies.
It was not until the arrival of 5,000 soldiers in Huai'an Town that relevant tools were brought.
However, the tools were brought, and these trees had to be slowly cut down with an axe saw. Then they were carried back to the camp with a bar rope and then tamped under the ground with hammers. However, they came from Huai'an Town, which was equivalent to walking through the entire Tongsai River.
This Tongsai River includes some later Yuancheng River and the entire Qiaochuan. Strictly speaking, Huai'an Town is the end point, and Mengmen Sancha is the starting point. There is also a small path, which is the Zoumacheng Road. It is said that Li Jing defeated Tubo and entered the court, so he named Zoumacheng. Don't take this seriously. The Tubo power spread to Dajishi Mountain during the Li Jing period, and it has not yet affected Qinghai. How can you fight fiercely with the Tang Dynasty here?
However, there is indeed a disabled ancient castle here, only seven or eight miles away from the ancient Qin Great Wall. It is said that this road is the fork of the Daqin straight road leading to Yanzhou. It is hard to tell whether it is true or false, but this road is also mostly abandoned.
Therefore, Tongzhaichuan Salt Road is Qiaochuan Road, and the Xixia army also came from Qiaochuan Road. After passing Mengmen Sancha, this slightly wide river Avenue began to shrink, becoming smaller and smaller, and finally became a real mountain narrow road. Xixia set up Jingbian Village at the narrow road entrance.
So the army came relatively late, and then replaced two more units and entered the battle. Although they brought the tools, there was no time to log and build camps. Besides, it was dark and it was inconvenient to move.
Another reason is that the same idea as Song Ji was that Wang Zangbu despised the Song Dynasty's troops. Don't use Wang Zangbu to send scouts. In fact, the Western Xia scouts had already found out about the surrounding information. Including Zhao Pu's five thousand troops stationed in Papaya Fort and Whidinburgh, and rotated the troops of the ancients.
The Song army in Whidinburgh did not dare to draw, it was too far away and was very close to the Xigu Fort. Once the Mengmen Sancha was drawn, the Xia army could draw a force from the Xigu Fort at any time to capture Whidinburgh and break through the chain defense line of Huanzhou.
The only ones who can draw are the two or three thousand Song soldiers of Papaya Fort, but Papaya Fort also has to send troops to stay, so you can only draw some of them. It is very close to Papaya Fort to Mengmen Sancha, only twenty-five miles away. But this is the real mountain road! Besides, there is a small village in Xixia in the middle. After a little blocking, the Song army was blocked.
Besides, if the Song Dynasty really had this idea, then it would draw its troops last night. First, the speed of building forts was accelerated, and second, it strengthened the defense force here. Instead of thinking that more than 10,000 soldiers were jealous tonight?
In short, the Song Dynasty still had fewer troops, so it was difficult to build a city everywhere. It was nothing more than trying to force the people of Xixia to retreat, and there was a food route. So why didn't you just retreat from Anjiang Fort obediently.
This idea came up, and he made the same mistake as Song Ji.
However, unlike Song Ji, despite the force of attack for so long, Wang Zangbu still sent many people to patrol and guard.
However, no matter what, this is a great opportunity.
Gao Min said to Yao Xiong: "Go and wake everyone up."
"Here," Yao Xiong got off the city wall. This was also agreed long ago. Maybe there were still many Song soldiers who were not asleep and were waiting for this moment.
At this time, the battle at the city of Qingzhou was basically over. Wang Ju led more than 10,000 Song troops to pounce on Yele Town. Yang Pei and more than 3,000 officers and soldiers were cleaning the battlefield and arresting prisoners of war. He was preparing to release the people and cooperated with the Song army to capture the remaining Western Xia deserters who were running around in the field.
Zhang Yu was thinking on the city wall...
Zhou Yongqing had just led his men to walk this extremely difficult mountain road.
This also shows the importance of the terrain. Although it is located on the border, Wang Ju and Zhang Yu are not very familiar with each other, so the strategy formulated is relatively vague. It only allows several strong men who are familiar with local roads to enter the army to serve as guides, and Zhou Yongqing will let the rest be played.
Zhou Yongqing said, "Everyone has a short rest and drink some wine."
He is not afraid of sharpening his knife skills when chopping wood. In order to climb this mountain road, everyone's physical strength was seriously consumed. Therefore, Zhou Yongqing asked everyone to rest for a while and drink some soju prepared by Papaya Castle to warm up his body.
Thousands of soldiers sat in the snow and ice together, panting, and drinking a few sips of wine.
Zhou Yongqing asked the scout to go to the front to inquire again. The place was not far from the front line. The scout would return to report the information later.
"Good news, go." Zhou Yongqing said.
The three armies rushed towards Mengmen Sancha again.
In the battle just now, more than 800 people were killed in Gao Min's subordinates, more than 300 were seriously injured, and they withdrew from the battle. However, two or three thousand people were also injured in Xixia.
Comparison of troops, there were more than 9,000 Song troops, and only 12,000 people could fight in Xixia, eight to ten.
Physical energy consumption. All the soldiers under Gao Min can still fight have almost exhausted their physical strength. However, the eight thousand soldiers brought by Zhou Yongqing are all new forces. Although some of the strength has been consumed along the way, there is no big problem. Almost all the soldiers in Xixia participated in the siege battle, which is also seriously consumed.
Compared with awakeness, although Wang Zangbu sent a large number of soldiers to patrol, the remaining Xia army fell asleep. Some of Gao Min's subordinates on the Song army were very sleepy and could not get a good rest for dozens of hours. However, the eight thousand soldiers under Zhou Yongqing's subordinates all slept all day.
Precaution comparison. One was determined, and even made psychological preparations for this battle a few days ago, while the other was unintentional.
Only a few miles away, Zhou Yongqing led the army to pounce on him in the blink of an eye.
The patrolling Xia army immediately sounded the horn.
Wang Zangbu was immediately awakened, and he expressed his confusion. The Song army came. Not only did he not understand, but all the three armies felt puzzled. They guessed that most of the Song army rushed over from Papaya Fort, but the troops were not right. So many troops came from Papaya Fort?
However, just when Zhou Yongqing arrived at their military camp, Wang Zangbu had already woken up. He quickly put on his clothes, walked out of the camp and began to command.
"Open the city gate." Gao Min said.
Wang Ju also prepared two doors in advance, and they were iron doors that could be installed in combination. Although they were not big, they could be considered as doors. However, in order to prevent the enemy from knocking down, mud bags were blocked after the daytime, but just now Gao Min secretly asked the soldiers to move the mud bags away.
Although the door is small, it can at least allow the Song army to fight out.
Because Xia Bing, who was patrolling in advance, almost all the three armies of the Western Xia Dynasty rose up.
But it's not enough to get up, so you have to form a formation.
Wang Zangbu made a hurried order while puzzled.
However, Zhou Yongqing had led the three armies into their camp. If the camp gate was fully constructed, Zhou Yongqing would still encounter great difficulties in this battle. However, this sad wall...
Therefore, although Wang Zangbu sent many soldiers to patrol and called the police in advance, the buffer time given to them was still very short.
There is another disadvantage. If you don’t have enough sleep and after intense exercise, everyone will feel weak in all limbs after getting up. This is also why Wang Zangbu finally ordered the three armies to rest and plan to attack tomorrow morning. If Zhou Yongqing’s army did not arrive, the Song army would be very dangerous at that time. Not only would the ice fort be lost, but the three armies would even be wiped out.
However, Wang Zangbu never dreamed that what he said would fall on his army.
Now 90% of the soldiers in the Xia army are weak and not organized properly. At the beginning, everyone was still trying to gather under the leadership of the generals. However, as the Song army rushed in, they soon fell into fighting each other.
The attack of Gao Min's subordinates may be a joke, but in this case it is not a joke.
Although the overdraft of the more than 1,000 Song troops was more severely overdrafted, their morale was still strong, and they were saved and made great contributions. Their attacks were equivalent to further shaking the morale of the Xia army invisibly.
The battle lasted for a while, and as countless soldiers fell down or screamed in pain, the old problems of the Xixia people broke out again, that is, although they were hard, they were not strong enough, and not long enough, many soldiers saw that the situation was not good, so they fled back. A few miles away, a battle broke out. Hearing the horns here, the Song army of the battalion climbed over the wall of the village and rushed towards the Xia army who was sleeping. The Xia army guarding the village immediately blew the horns and called the police, but Wang Zangbu now has the intention to care about their lives and death?
"If you are defeated, General Wang, please retreat quickly." Wang Zangbu's personal guard persuaded him.
"Can't withdraw."
"Everyone is running away and can't fight anymore. Moreover, the people of the Song Dynasty use weapons to be elusive. Every time, they seem to be a divine weapon descending from the sky. There is no way to fight anymore. It is not a crime of war." The guard said anxiously again.
Because the Song army was about to enter the central camp, only a few dozen steps away from them.
"What is the crime of not fighting?" Wang Zangbu murmured. He could also be considered a brave general. Otherwise, Renduoling would not have let him come and take back the cute sect, but what should I do if I don't escape now? He watched his subordinates fall in a pool of blood, his eyes seemed to be about to spit fire, but in the end he had no choice but to get on the war horse and flee towards Qiao Chuan.
As soon as he fled, the remaining Xia army had no morale to resist and retreated to the east. What was so bad was that their ranks brought many war horses, and most of them were killed or fled by the Song army before they could get on the war horses. At this time, at least three thousand war horses were left in the army.
What's even more terrible is that Zhou Yongqing brought most of the border archers, many of them were foreigners. Although they were not cavalrymen, many of them could ride horses.
It is enough to know how to ride a horse. Why do you have to ask for high riding skills in this case? You can even fight on the horse?
Zhou Yongqing immediately ordered the soldiers who rode on horseback and led them to pursue them. The remaining soldiers were handed over to Gao Min, who continued to capture or kill a very small number of Xia troops who were fighting stubbornly, and to clean up the battlefield.
He chased and almost chased to Xigu Village. Zhou Yongqing had no blind impulse. Unlike Wang Ju, he was chasing too few troops. Moreover, Huai'an Town stocked up heavy troops, which was far closer to Xigu Village than Huai'an Town and Yele Town. It seemed that the enemy on Xigu Village was also alarmed, and the torches were lit. With the help of the morning breeze, he heard people shouting and horses coming from there. It was impossible to attack. Besides, the skylight began to light up.
Zhou Yongqing then ordered the quest to stop the pursuit and led the three armies to escort the prisoners captured halfway back. In the Battle of Mengmen Sancha, the Song Dynasty invested 12,800 troops. The Xixia invested more than 15,500 troops. The two thousand troops added by the Song Dynasty were Zhao Pu's sniper troops, which also needs to be calculated. The more than 500 troops added by the Xixia were the troops of the small village.
The Song army suffered nearly 3,000 casualties, but the number of casualties in Xixia reached more than 11,000 prisoners of war, and almost all the three armies were wiped out.
But on this night of death, the movement of death has not ended. Zhou Yongqing ordered the cavalry soldiers to go up and chase, and the battle in Yele Town also began. (To be continued, please search Piaotianwen, the novel is better and faster!
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