Wang Anshi walked into Yunzheng's tent, looked at the expressionless Yunzheng, and said: "All the armors in the iron chain were obtained by the Liao people."
Yun Zheng nodded.
Seeing that Yun Zheng was in a bad mood, Wang Anshi was about to leave the tent. He walked to the door and sighed: "Since the marshal has been operating in Xijing City for so many years, we can't take him down without any blood like in the western Yunnan grassland. We must
Are you going to use human life to fill it?”
Yun Zheng took his eyes back from the map, glanced at Wang Anshi and said, "Do you have anything else to do?"
Wang Anshi sighed and rolled up his sleeves and left the tent. He is now just a logistics officer in name and has no right to make irresponsible remarks on Yun Zheng's command. However, these words can only be said by him. If Chen Lin is allowed to say it, the military
The two top commanders might have a dispute, which would be very detrimental to the army that is currently fighting.
Wang Anshi had just left when Su Xun opened the door and walked in and said to Yun Zheng: "I just counted the battle losses. From last night to the end of the war just now, 4,683 people were killed and 1,400 were seriously injured.
Thirty-one people, slightly injured, I have no statistics.”
"Why are there so few serious injuries?"
"Most of the seriously injured soldiers did not survive. However, the casualties of the Liao people..."
"The casualties of the Liao people are of little significance to me. It is meaningless to exchange the lives of my own men for the lives of the enemy.
The ultimate goal of war is to kill less of our own people and more of the enemy. If we can't even achieve this goal, why should we march north?"
Su Xun asked carefully: "I wonder if the commander has any good ideas to solve this dilemma?"
Yun Zheng chuckled and said: "Your requirements are too high. Perhaps my years of military and dangerous adventures have made you think that as long as you go to war, you will definitely be able to kill a few of your own people and win a great victory.
This is a bad habit. Yun Zheng is not a god. If you want to win, you can only move forward step by step. Xiao Dahu is not an incompetent person. You should be happy that we can achieve the current situation instead of asking me to come out again.
What a good idea.
There is a saying in Sun Tzu's Art of War - If you are good at attacking, the enemy will not know where you are defending. If you are good at defending, the enemy will not know where you are attacking. Our ancestors have almost exhausted their strategies. I know those famous battles, and Xiao Dahu also knows about them.
, they are all students taught by the same teacher, how different can they be?"
Su Xun said: "I naturally know that now our army has taken advantage of the right time and place, but the Liao army has fallen into a dilemma and is ready to fight. Under the fierce tiger Feng He, even if our army completely annihilates Xiao Dahu, I am afraid
We are unable to march north."
Yun Zheng spread his hands and smiled and said: "There is no way, our total military strength is less than 200,000, how can we eat someone else's army of more than 300,000 without paying the price?
I originally planned to eat part of Xiao Dahu's army in Xijing City, but I never thought of leaving all Xiao Dahu's army here. The current situation is like putting too much filling in buns, no matter how good our appetite is.
, I can only swallow it in one bite."
Su Xun nodded melancholy and said, "That's all we have to do now."
Yun Zheng said to Su Xun: "Give the whole army an order to build the fortifications in the shortest possible time. If you want your subordinates to die less, then use more of your energy on the fortifications."
"Where has Cui Da gone?"
"He went to do what he had to do, Lao Su, stay away from Cui Da in the future!"
Su Xun's heart trembled. Yun Zheng had never said such words to him before. The warning in these words was very strong. He didn't know how to answer Yun Zheng for a moment. He just looked at Yun Zheng's meaningful eyes and left.
Handsome tent.
Groups of uniformed soldiers guarded the original site of the first ice wall. Sometimes they sat on the ground holding their spears, sometimes they stood up and walked quickly along the antlers. This way they could save physical strength, and secondly, they stood up and walked quickly along the antlers.
You can also move your body to avoid freezing.
Sun Jie was sweating profusely at this time. He had just led people to place the artillery on a high point, which almost drained his last bit of strength. He did not have a chance until the artillery was safely placed in the dug pit.
Wipe the sweat from your forehead.
Looking around, we can see that the artillery positions on the small earth buns on the left and right have been built, and the dark muzzles are pointed directly in the direction of the Liao army.
The last time a three-gun salvo failed to kill Xiao Dahu, this gave the Liao army some room to resist. Now, outside the commander's tent is filled with comrades who are about to be buried. The commander must be under great pressure.
So, seeing those comrades covered in white cloth, Sun Jie felt surprisingly stressed.
The winter sun is pale and small. On such cold days, its existence is almost invisible. Now, it is about to set.
Sun Jie carefully cleaned the cannon bore, and together with his assistant, stuffed the gunpowder bag into the cannon bore and pounded it tightly. He carefully selected a relatively beautiful cannonball and stuffed it into the cannon bore. The torch was beside it. All he had to do was light the powder rope.
The cannonball will fly out of the barrel.
The torch was burning blazingly, and was blown by the north wind. A low sound of the horn came over, which seemed to contain infinite sorrow. Two were long and one was short. This was the return call and the signal for the burial of the comrades who died in the battle.
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Before the horn sound stopped, Sun Jie lit the medicine rope, which burned and entered the blast hole. Sun Jie covered his ears and shouted loudly: "Three consecutive rounds, volley!"
"Boom boom boom"
After three loud noises, three black projectiles appeared in the air. This time, their targets were the Liao army's trebuchets.
Black gunpowder smoke mixed with dark red firelight rose from the Liao trebuchet position. All the Song troops cheered in unison, and their voices lingered over Xijing City for a long time. The frightened Liao army immediately wanted to
The heavy trebuchet shifted backwards.
Unfortunately, the artillery has a very long range, and it is enough to attack the city wall of Xijing behind the second ice wall. Therefore, no matter how the Liao army moves the trebuchets, they are still under the threat of artillery.
Seeing the Liao people's trebuchets turned into pieces of wood with the Liao people's bodies flying in the air, the Song army's cheers became louder. They were extremely resentful of the Liao people's trebuchets. It was these trebuchets that made them
One party suffered heavy damage last night and during the day.
The artillery kept roaring, and Yun Zheng was eating quietly. Wang Anshi and Chen Lin would shake unconsciously as soon as the cannon went off. The same was true for Su Xun. Only Yun Zheng put a mouthful of snow-white rice into his mouth.
Li Hou smiled and said: "It's time for Xiao Dahu to attack again."
Wang Anshi and Chen Lin threw the unfinished rice on the table and prepared to go out to take a look. They didn't want to miss any scene of this battle.
"We still have time to eat. It takes at least half an hour from organizing the army to dispatching troops, which is enough for us to eat."
Wang Anshi said worriedly: "I am worried that something will go wrong in other directions."
Yun Zheng smiled and said: "If Xiao Dahu is willing to break out from the west, if Jiang Zhe and the others can't withstand it, just let them go. There are hills in the north and south, which are not suitable for war horses to run wild. If we go to the west, Jiang Zhe and the others will pave the way."
The triangular thorns will keep all the Liao people's horses.
In the vast wilderness, without food and horses, they can't go far."
Chen Lin looked at Yun Zheng and said, "If the commander-in-chief is Xiao Dahu, from which direction are you going to break out?"
Yun Zheng replied seriously: "If I were Xiao Dahu, I would only break out from the east. I would not dare to leave my men and flee alone. Only by breaking through the defense line in the east can I compete with the Liao army in Tiancheng and Qing counties."
Let's get together and see if we can escape back to Zhongjing by relying on the few military supplies in those two cities."
"What if Xiao Dahu really breaks out from the west?"
After Chen Lin asked this question, she felt a little regretful. The Song Dynasty cared about the more than 300,000 troops under his command, not Xiao Dahu. If Xiao Dahu was willing to escape alone, Yun Zheng might send him away with courtesy.
Gifts of food and war horses may all be appropriate.
Yun Zheng finished his meal, put his rice bowl on the table, put on his gloves, took his helmet and sword from the shelf, smiled at Chen Lin and Wang Anshi, and left the handsome tent.
It had darkened, the sky was a strange dark blue, and the moon was already hanging in the sky almost as soon as the sun went down.
In previous years, this time was a good time for Yun Zheng and his family to sit in the greenhouse, drink wine and admire the moon, but today, Yun Zheng had to get on the streetcar and continue to watch the battle that he didn't want to watch.
This time the Liao people rushed forward with a more tragic meaning. Countless Liao troops, without the cover of huge shields, held up spears, long knives, flails, and maces and started to attack under the cover of their own archers.
Attack the fortifications held by the Song army.
In order to prevent their own people from being shot to death by the Song army's crossbows, the Liao archers almost charged forward with the infantry, but they needed to shoot arrows as they walked.
The flying long arrows started shooting like waves from outside the place where the Song army shot. The long arrows fell outside the fortifications, like crops growing all over the field in an instant.
The Eight Oxen Crossbows and Ballistas of the Song Army have not stopped firing since the Liao people entered the range. The thick crossbows took away many Liao people, and new Liao people were immediately added. Some Liao people with feathers on their heads
People keep beating the long drum on their waists, and they don't forget to beat the drum as they move forward.
The song of the Liao people came from the opposite side. Before the crossbow camp showed its power, they started running. The one who rushed to the front was a big man who was missing an arm.
"I am a cowherd,
Born between heaven and earth
Catching tigers and leopards in the daytime,
Catching white wolves at night.
Fight the bear with both arms,
The legs chase the horse.
A bow can shoot an eagle,
Chasing the Han thieves with a long sword...
I am a cowherd..."
Wang Anshi had a photographic memory, and the Khitan dialect did not hinder him at all. He could even translate the rough Khitan dialect with a hint of Chinese rhyme.
This is the bragging of warriors, and it is also the encouragement of Liao people for themselves. At this time, these Liao people, who are empty in their bellies, still have such courage. Even Yun Zheng somewhat admires Xiao Dahu's ability to control his subordinates.
Today, Chen Lin opened the stomachs of some dead Liao people and found no real food in their stomachs. This confirmed that the Liao people's food had indeed been stolen by Cui Da.
However, he was impressed. When the Liao brigade passed the range-finding arrows, Yun Zheng still ordered the Nu Gong Battalion to start covering the shooting. (To be continued)