Chapter 830 Reversal(2/2)
The strategic goal that Wang Ju mentioned in the capital has been implemented halfway, and it cannot be reversed. Moreover, Pingxi Fort is becoming more and more dangerous now. But no matter what, it has achieved another goal that Wang Ju mentioned. That is, the Xixia people took the initiative first.
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Wang Guangyu led the three armies to the Gu Longbone City.
Although it is located in the Qibian Mountains, it is located below the Qingshui River (Haoqiu River, which is the upper reaches of the Datong River). Therefore, "water rinses the cold and knocks on jade, and the mountain is green and blue. Although it is located in the north, it seems to reach the south of the Yangtze River." There is also a small oasis here, and the terrain is very dangerous. It controls the six ridges and looks down at the Qingshui River. It controls the Wuerjian Ferry in the east (an extremely important ferry on the Karo River).
Therefore, in history, Tong Guan ordered Liu Fa to fight for here and set up Zhenwu Army here. Xixia was forced to build Tong'an City on the Karo River below. However, this Tong'an City became Liu Fa's burial place. Liu Fa was successively in Gu Longgu, and Renduoquan won a great victory, which shocked Guanxi. At that time, famous generals were headed by Fa, which became a nightmare for the people of Xixia. This led to Tong Guan's blind arrogance and made Liu Fa shock the Wu Army to send troops to Lingxing (maybe the historical book is wrong, so he sent troops from Gu Longgu to Lingzhou Xingzhou?). Liu Fa disagreed. Tong Guan forced him to say, "When you were in the capital, you personally received the order from the king's place, and you said that you would succeed. Now it is difficult. Why?"
Liu Fa had to lead an army of 20,000 to lead Ancheng, but he met Cha Ge.
At that time, Liu Fa was already the old Liu Fa, but Cha Ge was at a time when he was in a prestigious manner. In fact, when Liu Fa was at its peak, he was not as good as Cha Ge, in Wang Ju's heart. This person was a super famous general who was comparable to Han Shizhong of the Two Wushu. Even Liu Changzuo and Miao Su may not be as good as that of him. Or Wang Shao was alive, he could almost compare with him. As for Wang Ju himself and Zhang Feng, it was hard to say, they were planning, not killing the enemy himself.
So Liu Fa was defeated. Not only was the entire army of 20,000 troops and horses wiped out in this battle, but also the 80,000 soldiers and civilians who followed the army in the rear were also wiped out.
This number may be wrong. Generally, the ratio of the military and civil servants to the military servants is between one to one to one to zero, and no more than one to two at most. See the number of civil servants in the Song army in the two battles between Gaoliang Heqigou Pass, or Xue Rengui's expedition to Qinghai, only 50,000 military soldiers and 50,000 military soldiers. 20,000 military soldiers, so many military servants who need so many military servants to Xingzhou? This may be the historical records that are wrong. It should be that they join forces with Liu Zhongwu to capture Karochuan. The 20,000 military troops were marching forward, and the central army and the rear army were among the 80,000 military soldiers and horses behind.
Anyway, Liu Fayi and Ersan asked Brother Cha to kill him.
But now there are no generals who are not Xixia. However, under the Liang family's power, they are nepotism and these generals have no chance to stand out. Therefore, Wang Ju deliberately let Liang Yi go. If history repeats itself, it doesn't matter whether he let go or not, but as long as history can be changed, the meaning of letting Liang Yi go is far greater than the meaning of capturing him.
As long as the Liang family is in Xixia, they can only lead Xixia to a decay!
But now that Brother Cha has grown up, he is most likely helpless in the face of such a dross situation in Xixia.
But Xixia built a fort in the ancient dragon bone city. Some people called the ancient dragon bone city, and some people directly called the ancient dragon bone, because the fort is too small. It is also the boundary line between Xixia and Tubo, but the terrain is extremely dangerous.
Tens of thousands of Song troops came in a mighty manner, but the marching speed slowed down.
Moreover, in order to save the people's strength in the rear, the Song army did not mobilize any civil servants who escorted food and grass. The original task of escorting food was handed over to the strong men and strong horses of each battalion. They were civil servants when they marched and soldiers when they fought. Of course, because this army had generous rewards and the harvest in Liangzhou had been allocated, a group of soldiers and horses sent to Lanzhou to send the cattle and sheep they had captured, so these strong men and strong horses would not complain.
The more we went south, the harder the road, and we went to Zongge City, the rank of this group brought a lot of food and grass, and seized a lot of food and grass from Liangzhou. Fortunately, a large number of livestock and prisoners of war were seized at the same time, so the three armies slowly came to the foot of Gulonggu City.
This gave Xixia the opportunity to assemble the army. Some of the remaining soldiers of Xixia in Karochuan entered the ancient dragon bone city and received an order from Liang Yibi to defend the city no matter what.
Wang Wenyu had no choice but to order the capture of Gu Longbone City forcibly because time could not be delayed.
But this small city was too difficult to attack. General Wang Wenyu moved out all 100 small cannons, but they did not work. Then he forced the order to let the prisoners of war in the army be cannon fodder and charge in front, but it still didn't work.
It took three days of attack and sacrificed nearly two thousand soldiers before it was taken down.
Wang Wenyu was so angry that he attacked Huizhou from Gaizhu City (the location of Zhuola Army Division), with only more than 1,000 casualties, but under this small city, two thousand casualties were killed and killed. In a rage, he ordered all prisoners of war to be hanged together and hung on the trunk of the tree outside the ancient dragon bone city.
Before the Song Dynasty, there was a strange atmosphere, and he always talked about benevolence. Do people in Xixia talked about benevolence to you? Don’t talk about Xixia, or this is the era of cold weapons. Just talk about the American imperialists. How many people died because of the invasion of the American imperialists. That’s it. People also talk about “benevolence” and the spirit of “human rights” every day…
It was not until Wang Ju ordered Liu Changzuo to excavate more than 100,000 corpses together and display them all the way to the capital that the violent aura of the three armies awakened.
This move will scare the prisoners along with them.
Wang Wenyu did not care about them, but called the two generals Yao Xiong and Miao Lu, saying, "You immediately lead 15,000 cavalrymen, bring only five days of dry food, set off lightly, and quickly attack Maoniucheng."
No longer swallowing slowly.
But what I want is this effect. It turns out to be as warm as water, so suddenly sending forward troops to send troops as quickly as possible, which will cause the Tubo people to be negligent.
Moreover, this marching is the key to the key. From here to Qingtang City or Zongge City, there are many canyons, from Huangzhou to Zongge City, Qingtang City, there are also many canyons, so it is known as the Three Gorges of Huangchuan. It can be compared with the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, which shows that the terrain is harsh.
Once the Tubo army was allowed to block Maoniucheng in time, and then slowly divide the troops to help. With the dangerous terrain in this area, tens of thousands of Song troops were trapped here. Of course, it is impossible to attack inside and outside as Liang Yip imagined. God knows when the reinforcements from Guazhou will arrive, and how much combat effectiveness can the Uighur people gathered at the temporary point exert? If they don’t come, they will probably be delivering vegetables.
But the problem is that this line is useless.
Even if Aligu retreated from Pingxi Fort, the Song army had to attack one after another. In that case, with the terrain of this area, the Song army still had no idea how many casualties were.
Only by taking down Cat Niucheng in advance can the real turning point of this series of battles be.
However, it is very difficult to take down Maoniucheng. It is less than 200 miles from here to Maoniucheng, but there are many roads that are rugged and unimaginable. Even nearly half the road, people must dismount and lead the horses along the cliff road. This is the road that may take two days to reach. This refers to the Yao Miao Light Cavalry Army. If it were replaced by a large army, it would probably take six or seven days to arrive!
He also thought of the role of a surprise weapon, so Wang Wenyu only asked them to bring dry food for five days. As for the siege equipment, there were some in the army, but it was impossible for them to carry it. So he had to bring some grappling hooks and forcibly attack Maoniucheng, which gave Li Yuanhao a headache for 100,000 soldiers back then!
However, the two of them did not hesitate and said, "Here."
As he dismounted his horse and gathered his troops and left the Gu Longbone City, Wang Wenyu stood on the top of the city and looked around, and circled around a big circle. It was actually for Yao Miao's journey! I don't know if it could succeed.
Chapter completed!