Chapter 369 Emperor Xia was blown to pieces and Emperor Song got another powerful attack
Outside the east city of Xingqing Prefecture, Zhong Shidao ordered the artillery of the headquarters: Prepare to fire at Xia Emperor Li Qianshun on the enemy city...
At the same time, Li Qianshun was summoning deserter representatives from Li Liangfu's troops who had returned from defeat on the city tower.
"Don't panic, I will forgive your sin of defeat and running away, and you will be safe."
"Thank you Lord for your kindness, long live my emperor..."
After listening to Emperor Xia's words, the hundreds of deserters and defeated generals from Li Liangfu's tribe who boarded the city felt a little relieved, and realized that Emperor Xia did not want to kill them on the city top to punish them for deserting.
In their hearts, they stood up one after another in accordance with Emperor Xia's will, as if they had been pardoned, and were extremely grateful.
Li Qianshun got straight to the point and asked eagerly: "I called you and others to the city because I wanted to ask you on the defense line along the Yellow River whether you had seen those thick furnace tubes made of steel that the Song troops brought along with them when they landed?"
"Follow me to the city battlements and look towards the enemy camp of Song Dynasty with me."
Li Qianshun walked to the crenellations of the city wall, pointed to the artillery team of the Song Army's Taoist Department more than two miles away, and asked curiously:
"What were those thick stove tubes made of steel in the Song Army used for? Are they the chimneys of the mobile stoves used by the Song Army to bury pots and make meals after they marched and set up camp?"
Those representatives of the deserters from the defeated army obeyed the order and dared to follow the guards around Emperor Xia. They all took the initiative to keep a few steps away from Emperor Xia, walked to the crenellations of the city wall next to them, stood on tiptoes, and walked more than two miles ahead. The second batch of Song troops arriving from a distance looked around...
They were horrified to see many Song soldiers pushing down a strange large object with a thick steel 'stove barrel' from the iron plate set up behind ten livestock carts.
At this time, ten artillery pieces were already positioned in front of the Song army's camp, which was more than two miles away.
It didn't matter if they didn't look at it. They were shocked when they saw it, and they immediately started crying and yelling:
"Ah, it's not good!"
"Ah, the Song Army actually moved the mysterious magic weapon that can attract thunder outside the east city of Xingqing Mansion in our capital?!"
"Your Majesty, run quickly!"
"Your Majesty, run! Our army was well-organized along the Yellow River. It was the Song Army's mysterious magical weapon that caused the thunder that caused us to be defeated and fled!"
"Your Majesty, that magic weapon is facing us. If we don't run, we will die without a burial place! Your Majesty, run quickly. If you don't run, it will be too late!"
"..."
These deserted and defeated generals from Li Liangfu's army who had seen the power of the Song Army's artillery along the Yellow River and were frightened out of fear, once again saw the mysterious weapon that caused serious trauma to their souls - the artillery. Trembling like a frightened bird, his legs trembled and he involuntarily stepped back, not caring that the Emperor of Great Xia was on top of the city tower, and not caring about the strict military laws of the Great Xia Kingdom.
"Run, run fast, if you run too slowly, you will be blown up by thunder!"
"Yes! It is said that people who are blasted by thunder will immediately lose their souls and cannot enter the six paths of reincarnation after death!"
The hundred remaining defeated generals representatives of Li Liangfu's troops who were summoned to the city retreated one after another, scrambled for the corridor stairs that rushed to the city, and ran down to the city...
Xia Emperor Li Qianshun was confused by the sudden situation, and he stood there blankly.
Li Renli, the king of Shu who was standing half a body behind Li Qianshun, was furious when he saw this. He hated the deserters who sent troops when he was defending the city. He thought of his brother Li Renzhong, the king of Pu. If deserters appeared when he was defending the city of Xijing, maybe he would His elder brother Li Renzhong would not have committed suicide on the top of the city after the Song army quickly invaded Xijing City.
Li Renli shouted angrily: "The enemy is currently facing us. Anyone who abandons the city and runs away without His Majesty's will will be shot without mercy!"
"鏳鏳婷..."
The Xia army guards guarding the entrance to the lower city drew out their sabers and hacked away at Li Liangfu's hundreds of generals who had confiscated their weapons before ascending the city to face the saints and became defenseless...
"Ahhhh..."
On the east city of Xingqing Mansion, before the battle, swords flashed, blood splattered, each other killed each other, and screamed again and again...
Xia Emperor Li Qianshun, who originally retreated to the east city of Xingqing Prefecture, quietly underwent a huge psychological change, and became somewhat contemptuous of the Song army for committing a military taboo of "attacking the city below". Of course, in order to boost the morale of his soldiers, he also Pretend to be confident that Daxia will win the battle to defend the capital.
Just before the representatives of Li Liangfu's deserted and defeated generals arrived at the city, Li Qianshun still spoke loudly to the soldiers and guards surrounding the city:
'The Dog Emperor of the Song Dynasty, who personally marched in the northwest, commanded tens of thousands of Song troops. The lone army went deep into the territory of our country and committed a military taboo. It will inevitably cause difficulties in supplying food and grass. What's more, the Song army did not 'encircle it ten times. 'But they insist on attacking Xingqing Fucheng, the capital city of Xingqing, which has been in operation for a hundred years and has high walls and deep ditches, making it easy to defend and difficult to attack. Isn't this just trying to attack a stone with an egg?'
'Hahaha...it's just a man trying to shake a big tree, he doesn't know what he can do!'
At that time, as Emperor Xia laughed confidently, the Xia army soldiers guarding the city echoed Emperor Xia and laughed loudly together, laughing at how the Song army was overestimating its capabilities to attack the impregnable Xingqing Mansion of Daxia with such a small number of troops!
However, when Li Qianshun learned from the deserters from Li Liangfu's army who had been defeated by the Song army, he mistakenly thought that the mobile stoves used by the Song army to bury pots for cooking and those thick steel stove barrels turned out to be recent Song troops. The mysterious magical weapon that can attract thunder from the sky, which caused heavy damage to the Xixia army!
Suddenly, Li Qianshun was so frightened that he was trembling and confused.
When Li Qianshun saw Li Liang's auxiliary soldiers who had been summoned to the city flee, and then were killed by the defenders, his heart was bleeding...
King Shu Li Renli, who was protecting Emperor Xia, was very shocked and frightened in his heart, but his duty and mission did not allow him to consider his personal safety. To protect His Majesty, he was the newly promoted Commander of the Sixth Imperial Guard Squadron. primary responsibility.
He shouted: "Come here, come forward quickly, raise your shield, form a defensive formation, protect your majesty, get down to the city quickly, and escort him back to the palace!"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Dozens of shield bearers stepped forward and protected Li Qianshun with shields.
In the inherent impression of these guards, the defensive power of using dozens of shields to defend a large formation is already very strong and should be foolproof.
However, at this moment, the Song army outside Dongcheng opened fire.
"boom!"
Shield handspring up, using the shield to protect Li Qianshun.
In his inherent impression of this class, their defense with dozens of shields was already very strong.
However, at this moment, the Song army outside Dongcheng opened fire.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The Song Army fired several artillery shells and landed on the east city. One of the artillery shells landed in the shield array protecting Li Qianshun and exploded.
"Boom!"
The powerful impact knocked the shield away, fragments flew everywhere, and wails could be heard one after another.
"Ahhhhhh..."
The explosion was deafening, flames shot into the sky, smoke filled the air, and the shock wave was huge. The masonry, broken shields, dead bodies, and stumps on the city were blown away. The east city of Xingqing Mansion instantly fell into chaos, shocking and screaming.
"Ah?! Your Majesty..."
"His Majesty……"
"Protect! Protect!" The guards and defenders in the distance on the city shouted, rushing towards the shield formation shrouded in gunpowder smoke to protect Emperor Xia.
Now, there is no shield formation anywhere, there are only piles of mutilated flesh and blood corpses scattered everywhere...
Under such fierce artillery fire from the Song army, the shield array held up by the efforts of the Xia army guards seemed small and weak.
The soldiers and generals who came to rescue the city from afar, who had not been bombarded for the time being, rummaged through the mountains of corpses and sea of blood to find Xia Emperor Li Qianshun...
They opened up the broken shields, uncovered the mutilated corpses of the guards, and pulled away the dying Shu Wang Li Renli who was lying on the Xia Emperor. Finally, they saw the Xia Emperor Li Qianshun, whose face had become as pale as paper due to excessive blood loss. .
At this time, everyone saw that Emperor Xia was seriously injured even though he was protected by multiple layers of human shields.
Li Qianshun's right foot was blown off by the shell, and his right knee was a bloody mess!
"Your Majesty!! I am waiting for help to come too late, and I shall be punished by death..."
"The military medical officer will come quickly to treat His Majesty..."
"Come here, please carry your majesty down to the city quickly to prevent Song's enemies from using evil methods to induce a second wave of thunder to harm your majesty..."
"Your Majesty, wake up!!!"
"Woooooooo..."
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At the same time, the other city guards and generals in Xingqing Mansion, the capital of Xixia, and even the civil servants and generals, traders and soldiers, and civilians in the capital all heard the heart-stopping series of thunderous noises coming from the direction of the east city. The sound made them tremble with fear, but due to the time difference and their own vision problems, they did not know what happened.
Far away at the Yellow River ferry on the outskirts of the east city of Xingqing Prefecture, Emperor Zhao Ji of the Song Dynasty and his entourage, who had just disembarked from the boat and landed, also heard the rumble of cannons several miles away.
With a confident smile on his face, Zhao Ji asserted:
"I heard that the sound of this artillery fire should come from the direction of the east city of Xingqing Prefecture. If we follow the battle plan I formulated in Lingzhou to attack Xingqing Prefecture, the one who fires the first shot against the enemy Xia Jingcheng should be my old blood.
The officers and soldiers of the Grand Master’s Dao Division!”
"Father, the Holy Ming..."
"My son, I admire you very much..."
"The officials are wise and powerful, and the ministers respect them extremely!"
"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"
When Zhao Guan's family was surrounded by Zhao Kai, King of Yun, Zhao Gou, King of Kang, and many other officials from the imperial city, they were filled with admiration and admiration when they heard that Zhao Guan's family had the ability to identify positions by listening to sounds.
Zhao Ji smiled slightly, as if everything was under control, and he said leisurely:
"I know from reading history: More than a hundred years ago, Li Jiqian, the founder of Xixia, seized Lingzhou in the Song Dynasty and changed Lingzhou to Xiping Prefecture as the center of his rule. After his son Li Deming succeeded to the throne, he believed that Xiping Prefecture was located in the area of Sisse.
, is not conducive to defense, and is not as favorable as Huaiyuan."
"Li Deming sent minister He Chengzhen to lead his servants to cross the Yellow River north to build a city. At Huaiyuan, they built a city palace and clan fields, imitating Kaifeng, the capital of the Song Dynasty, and established the capital here, named Xingzhou."
"After Li Deming's son Li Yuanhao succeeded to the throne, he built palaces and palaces in his capital of Xingzhou, and promoted Xingzhou to Xingqing Mansion. From then on, all the lords of the Western Xia Dynasty used it as their capital."
"However, Xixia's national power is limited. They built Xingqing Prefecture, the capital of our Song Dynasty, but it is much smaller than Kaifeng Prefecture, the capital of our Song Dynasty."
"As far as I know: Xingqingfu, the capital of the Xia Kingdom, is only 18 miles in circumference, and the east-west is twice as long as the north-south. The city wall is three feet and five feet high and about eight feet thick. Horses can race on the city; its city is made of bricks
The stone was cut off on all sides, so the Xixia soldiers and civilians mistakenly believed that their capital city would be easy to defend and difficult to attack!"
"If an official has learned a lot and remembers it well, if he knows himself and his enemy, he will be able to fight a hundred battles without danger!"
"..." The ministers and generals around Zhao Ji praised him one after another.
"Hahaha..." Zhao Ji laughed heartily. He knew clearly that his subordinates were flattering him, the ninth-five-year-old man, but at this time, the war was about to begin and he was about to give his subordinates confidence.
Vocal:
"The Emperor of Xia and all his civil and military officials believe that Xingqing Mansion, the capital of Xia, is an excellent defensive place. It has the stronghold of Helan Mountain in the west, the natural dangers of the Yellow River in the east, the desert in the north, and Xiaoguan in the south. However, in my case,
It seems that they are all shortsighted!"
"The artillery I developed is exactly the biggest nemesis of Xingqing Mansion, the capital of Xixia, which claims to have excellent defense!!"
"Father, the Holy Ming..."
"The official sage..."
Zhao Ji, under the tight protection of the Imperial City's ministers, had quietly arrived at the garrison of Xia General Li Liangfu, which Zhang Jun and Yang Xinzhong had captured not long ago, to conduct an on-the-spot inspection.
The setting sun shone slantingly on the yellow-sand battlefield. Under the golden afterglow of the setting sun, Zhao Ji, who was wearing a helmet and armor, had golden light shining all over his body, looking particularly majestic, like a god descending to earth.
Zhao Ji walked to Li Liangfu's former defense line. At his feet was the battlefield not long ago. The ground was covered with the fresh blood of Xia Army generals. Not far away, the bodies of Xia Army generals were piled up into hills one after another.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content that follows! Not long ago, the position guarded by Li Liangfu's troops, which was filled with artillery fire and gunfire, was completely silent, but there was still a pungent smell of gunpowder smoke in the air.
"Based on the marching speed of our troops in the Great Song Dynasty's expedition against Xia, I have calculated that within a quarter of an hour, the sound of our army's siege artillery will be heard in the southern city of Xingqing Mansion, the enemy's capital!"
Everyone around Zhao Guan's family was doubtful.
What Zhao Jineng said was not a random guess, but he had already known the specific time when the middle part of Xiaozhong's military division landed from the Yellow River, and he could guess where his troops should be marching now and how long the remaining distance was.
, and finally he divided the remaining distance by the marching speed of his troops, thereby mentally calculating the approximate time it would take for the middle part of the division to arrive at the southern gate of Xia Jing.
Next, Zhao Ji predicted the approximate time when Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and other troops would attack the Xia and Song armies and arrive outside the other gates of Xingqing Mansion in Xia Jing.
All the soldiers and generals present praised Zhao Guan's family for their ability to predict matters.
However, Zhao Ji could tell from the looks in a few people's eyes that they didn't quite believe his prediction.
Zhao Ji didn't know better, because here, in terms of mathematical calculation ability, he can crush everyone present.
Zhao Ji led the crowd and walked a few steps forward when he met a burly captain who was left to clean up the battlefield.
"Wang De, the last general, comes to greet Zhao Guan's family!" Wang De, who was dressed in armor, bowed to Zhao Guan's family with clasped fists and one knee as a military salute.
When Zhao Ji heard his self-reported name "Wang De", he felt it was very familiar and said:
"Thank you for your hard work, Lieutenant Wang. Please stand up quickly. Whose subordinate are you?"
Wang De stood up in obedience to the order and replied with some restraint: "I will report to the official family. The last general will be Zhang Junbu's primary school."
Zhao Ji combined Wang De's answer and suddenly remembered that Zhang Jun, one of the four generals of the Zhongxing Dynasty in the Southern Song Dynasty, knew that in addition to Yang Xinzhong (later renamed Yang Cunzhong), there was another general named Wang
A fierce general of virtue!
Zhao Ji knew from reading history before traveling through time that Wang De was extremely courageous, brave and good at fighting. He joined the army under Zhang Jun in the late Northern Song Dynasty. In the first year of Jingkang, when the Jin army attacked the Central Plains, Wang De was awarded the title of Military Academy Lieutenant for his merits in reconnaissance of Longde Mansion.
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Afterwards, Wang De led sixteen cavalry into Longde Mansion, captured the enemy eunuch, and killed nearly a hundred Jin soldiers before returning.
In the second year of Jianyan (1128), Wang De sent Liu Guangshi, the envoy from Jianghuai, to fight against the rebel general Li Cheng. He won repeated battles in Shangcai, Xinxi and other places...
In the fourth year of Shaoxing (AD 1134), Wang De crossed the Yangtze River to the north to attack the Jin army, and captured ten thousand Jin generals in Sangen Mountain, with more than ten people from each thousand households. In the fifth year of Shaoxing, Wang De was promoted to deputy general manager of Huanqing Road.
In the sixth year of Shaoxing, Wang De and Li Qiong led the army to repel the puppet Qi invading Huaixi Middle Route Army.
In the seventh year of Shaoxing, Wang Desheng took control of the camp and the Zuohu Army Capital. Later, he was ordered to lead his troops to Jiankang Prefecture, and was transferred to Huainan West Road Xuanfu envoy Zhang Jun. He was then subordinate to Zhang Jun, his old boss when he was in the army.
In the 10th year of Shaoxing, Wang De led his army to counterattack the Jin army, took advantage of the opportunity to attack Suzhou and Bozhou, and was promoted to the commander of the four compartments of the Dragon Guard with his merits. Later, he moved to Yuhou, the capital of the bodyguard's horse infantry army.
In the eleventh year of Shaoxing, the Jin army crossed the Huainan and marched, and their cavalry approached the Yangtze River. Zhang Jun wanted to divide his troops to defend the south bank, but Wang Deli made the two Huaihe rivers a barrier to the Yangtze River and could not abandon the defense. He also asked himself to lead his army to quarry stones to cross the river and regain the peace.
Prefecture, Hanshan and other places. Afterwards, Wang De participated in the Battle of Zhegao and took the lead in rushing into the Jin right-wing strong formation, shot and killed the Jin generals, and defeated the Jin army. He joined the Qingyuan Army Jiedushi and stationed all the troops in Jiankang Prefecture to control them.
In the fifteenth year of Shaoxing (AD 1145), Wang De was disliked by the powerful Prime Minister Qin Hui and was demoted to the deputy general manager of the horse infantry army on the East Road of Tiancai and Zhejiang Provinces, and later changed to the deputy general manager of the horse infantry army on the North Road of Jinghu. In the twenty-fourth year of Shaoxing, Wang De
passed away.
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In order to verify whether the Wang De in front of him was the famous general Wang De in history, Zhao Ji asked Wang De's place of origin...
"Reporting to the official family, Wang De, the last general, is from Shuyang Village of Tongyuan Army of the Song Dynasty."
Zhao Ji knew that Wang De's hometown was the modern northwest of Longxi, Gansu Province. At the same time, he verified that the sturdy man in front of him was the fierce general Wang De in history.
Zhao Ji patted Wang De on the shoulder and asked, "Why are you left here by Zhang Jun?"
Wang De was flattered and said:
"Last General Wang De, under the orders of Pioneer Officer Zhang Boying and Deputy Pioneer Officer Yang Zhengfu, led his soldiers to clean the battlefield here, and asked us to take care of the body of Xixia General Li Liangfu so that we can report it to the officials..."
Zhao Ji and the soldiers around him will be overjoyed.
"I really did not misjudge. Zhang Jun and Yang Xinzhong are indeed two brave generals! In the first battle after landing from the Yellow River, they killed the famous Xixia general Li Liangfu!"
"Wang De leads the way, I want to see with my own eyes the death of Xixia's famous general Li Liangfu!"
"The general will obey the order!"
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