Chapter 842 Soldiers approaching the city, hard bones
During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the city of Yinzhou was first built. This place was famous for its excellent horses, and horses were also called begging for silver in the Xianbei language. Yinzhou got its name from this. This ancient city was located in the northernmost part of what would become Shaanxi Province.
Hengshan County, Yulin City, is also located at the junction of the five provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Mongolia and Shanxi. It can also be said to be a battleground for military strategists since ancient times. In ancient times, Yinzhou City was surrounded by mountains and rivers, and it was also based on the terrain.
It is built along a river and a ditch, and the terrain is very steep.
The Xia State must pass through this place to attack the Song Dynasty from the east. When the Song Dynasty sent troops to attack, the Xia State also used this city as a barrier to resist the Song army to ensure that the hinterland was not lost. Therefore, the peaks around Yinzhou and outside the valley entrance are now
Sentries were set up in a radius of more than ten miles, and the military towns, counties and villages around the castle were also guarded by troops.
Originally, the fortress on the east side of Yinzhou, although Junyi often had large and small frictions with the Song army, is now at war, but now Xia Kingdom is in the strategic defense stage, and the military commanders of Xiazhou and Yinzhou have also explored the east side.
The Song army on the front line was not as numerous as the troops and horses led by Tong Guan, Er Zhong, Liu Fa and other enemy generals who had long been famous among the Xia army. The focus of the Song army's attack was also on the pass barrier on the west side of Hengshan.
, so although the security under Yinzhou is now tight, they are not always wary of the Song army coming to attack. They will even take the initiative to send troops to harass the Song border military strongholds and conduct tentative attacks as they did not long ago.
But now, located thirty miles southeast of Yinzhou, in a military stronghold mainly used to monitor the movements of the Song army, there was a Xia army general lying paralyzed on the city wall. He looked like a bird that had just been cut open.
His body twitched from time to time like a chicken with a broken throat, and a large amount of blood still spurted out from his throat. General Xia Jun slowly raised his head when he was dying, and looked at the face in front of him with extremely malicious eyes.
The Song Army general smiled and was slowly wiping the blood on the steel blade.
Wu Jie looked under the city wall again and saw his own soldiers and horses running rampant in the stockade, arrows shooting everywhere. However, the defenders in the military stockade had no generals to command them, and they had already been scurrying around the city like headless mustard flies.
, they could only be gradually cannibalized and annihilated by the Song army who entered the stronghold at an unknown time.
"Kill them all, and don't let anyone escape alive to inform other military villages under Yinzhou."
After Wu Jie gave instructions to a Dutou official next to him, he nodded to Hua Rong at the bottom of the city. Just now, it was Hua Rong and his Jun Jian who were good at shooting at a hundred steps and shot the guards in the corner of the military stronghold here one by one.
Wu Jie then led his soldiers to quickly approach, and then climbed over the village wall to launch a surprise attack on the Xia army in the village.
Due to the continuous stretch of the Song-Xia war front, there were many camps and fortresses of varying sizes both in Yinzhou of the Xia State and Suidezhou of the Song State. They were used to defend against heavy enemy troops, while some were only used as sentinels.
Detective warned that the Song army on the eastern front suddenly turned from defense to offense, and it was naturally not difficult for good generals such as Wu Jie and Hua Rong to attack this military stronghold.
However, Xiao Tang led his troops to launch an offensive against Yinzhou, which had just begun.
At the same time, on the south bank of the Wuding River, on a mud road surrounded by thousands of ravines and guarded by hills, there was a Xia army who was riding in a panic on a war horse that had no time to saddle, and carrying more than 300 incomplete armors.
Fleeing, the general turned around to say hello from time to time and shouted: "Quickly retreat! Hurry back to Yinzhou to report the news. Song Gou sent out a large number of troops this time. It seems that this time he is really going to...
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Before the general finished speaking, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest. When he raised his head in shock, he saw a Song Army general standing up slowly behind the slope in front of him. The Song General looked at
He was only seventeen or eighteen years old. Just as the Xia Army general fell from his horse and fell to the ground, many archers slowly stood up behind the Song Army general.
A flurry of feather arrows came, and many Xia soldiers lost their lives in the rain of arrows. The rest of the Xia army, who had no choice but to fight, had to fight with trapped animals. They howled wildly and whipped their horses' buttocks desperately.
The Song army's ambush troops rushed away.
"First, use lightning speed to clear out the enemy troops in various military villages outside Yinzhou City, to prevent the Xia army from disturbing our rear formation. However, after the Xia army discovers that our troops are approaching the city, Yinzhou will be easy to defend and difficult to attack, so what?
Can it be broken easily? It depends on whether the strategy proposed by Xiao Jieshuai's counselor can really work."
After Liu Qi thought for a long time, he immediately picked up the spear in his hand and killed the remnant soldiers of the Xia Kingdom who were rushing towards him...
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The Xia army soldiers guarding the city wall on the east side of Yinchuan, which stretched for more than a hundred feet and was about two feet high, suddenly made a loud noise. At this time, they could see billowing smoke gradually rising on the eastern horizon. After a while, there was
A group of black spots like a colony of ants slowly moved forward from the smoke and dust, heading towards Yinzhou City.
Among the crowded soldiers and horses, there were several large flags fluttering in the strong wind, with "Song", "Xiao Tang, the military governor of Xin'an Army", "Liu Zhongwu, the military governor of Luchuan Army" embroidered on them. Suddenly,
The loud trumpet sound suddenly sounded again, overwhelmingly drifting toward the defenders in Yinzhou City.
Seeing a large army of the Song Dynasty approaching the city, shouts and orders could be heard from the city towers. Then Xiao Tang rode his horse out of the military formation. He calmly looked at the very precipitous city in front of him, seemingly in no rush to order his subordinates to immediately
Carry out an onslaught.
The art of war states that in a city siege, the commander of the attacking side must take into account the enemy's city defense system and surrounding terrain, the material reserves in the city, the weapons and tools for siege, the number of soldiers on both sides of the attack and defense, and the population and population of the enemy's city.
, the general's strategy, the morale of both sides, and other factors, in many cases the attacking party still has to pay a heavy price to conquer the enemy's city, so even the military sage Sun Wu believed that attacking the enemy's city is the best option when the two armies attack.
This was the last move. Although Xiao Tang sent out several strange troops to sweep away the various military strongholds under Yinzhou's rule, he would not rashly choose to teach his men to go there before the opportunity arose to reduce the cost of casualties to a large extent and successfully conquer Yinzhou.
Use your life to capture this city.
What's more, Yinzhou changed hands several times during the successive battles between the Song and Xia countries. The generals of the two armies had already accumulated countless tactical experience in attacking and defending the city. During the Yuanfeng period, although Song minister Xu Xi was in a
The intersection of Mingtangchuan River and Wuding River is not as dangerous as Mahuyu, another place at the junction of the Eastern Line between Song and Xia Dynasties. Therefore, Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty advised him to simply abandon the expansion of Yinzhou and build Yongle City (however, at that time, the old and small
Zhong Jinglue's clan uncle, Zhong E, strongly opposed it and advocated the continued deployment of fortifications in Yinzhou City. However, he was defeated and died. After that, the Xia Army garrison who reoccupied Yinzhou must have been able to pass the countless previous
This second battle example will give you an insight into all the siege tactics that the Song army could adopt when attacking here.
Xiao Tang looked at the rivers and ditches surrounding Yinzhou City, which had been renovated by the Xia army, and the mountains. He was very impressed by the Zhong Family Army of the previous generation, who was also the leader of the Western Army.
It was easy to attack, but this place should have been regarded as necessary by Tong Guan, Zhong Shidao and other commanders as a bridgehead for the Song army to invade the Xia Kingdom's territory eastward. There was no need to wait until Xiao Tang sent his army eastward.
I was told by Master Zhong that if you can take it here, don't go it alone if you don't have a good plan to break the city.
It seems that at the beginning of the initiative to march towards Xia Kingdom, they have already encountered a hard nut to crack... Xiao Tang thought to himself, but a smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he thought: But even if we don't break it for the time being,
This Yinzhou City may not be able to defeat the Xia army.