Chapter 918 A fierce battle that no one can afford to lose
Following Cha Ge's order, all the infantrymen in the Xia army's front line also shouted and ran towards the city fortress. Immediately, there was a crisp sound of crossbows being cocked on the city wall, and the archers were already picking up their bows.
Xian aimed towards the outside of the city. The Song general who commanded the crossbowmen hid behind the crenellations of the city wall. He only waited for an order from Xiao Tang and was ready to order his men to fire thousands of arrows to block the enemy who came to attack the city.
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Seeing that the enemy army had rushed into the range of the powerful bows and crossbows, Wang Jin beside Xiao Tang shouted loudly. Thousands of Song army archers suddenly pulled the strings of the long bows to full length, and the sharp wolf-toothed arrows were exhausted.
They were all stretched out on the strings, and the harsh roar of the wind could be heard immediately. The dense arrows immediately poured out from the city wall and fell hard into the formation of the Xia army attacking the city!
The muffled sound of arrows piercing flesh was mixed with the screams and howls of soldiers, which echoed through the sky in an instant. Although the infantry of the Xia army fell down, more soldiers behind them rushed toward the city fort without fear of death.
, the momentum was even greater than the previous Xia army's attacks on the city!
Not far from Chage, nearly three hundred headless corpses fell in a pool of blood. The miserable howls of the captured Song people behind them became even louder. Although Han Tao, Hao Siwen and others were still standing there.
He screamed and cursed, but Brother Cha didn't care. He still stared quietly at the tragic battle situation in front of him as his troops attacked the city.
At this moment, Nendo Yili also rode a horse to the side of Brother Cha. He bowed and saluted, and congratulated Brother Cha: "Our army's troops are coming from all over the world. Now, whether it is Liu Fa or
Xiao Tang, it is impossible to escape now, and I would like to congratulate Ning Ling for finally getting rid of Xia Jun’s henchman!"
Brother Cha smiled slightly, with a hint of weariness on his face, but he did not speak.
Renduoyili immediately said excitedly: "Now our army only needs to kill this group of Song troops here, and then take advantage of the situation to go south. It is invincible. When it enters Xihe Road, Jingyuan Road and even Yanyan Road in the Song Dynasty, it will disrupt the Song Dynasty.
When the people are deployed, let alone Liu Fa and Xiaotang, Tong Guan, Lao Zhong and other commanders in the Song army will also teach those guys that there is no way out and no retreat..."
"No, I'm afraid that after this battle, the war between our army and the Song Dynasty will soon end..."
Before Renduo Yili could finish speaking, Brother Cha sighed leisurely. He also ignored the stunned subordinates beside him and thought in his mind: Now the divisions of the east and west armies are divided into divisions.
It is probably a foregone conclusion that the medium-sized army will seize the Hengshan barrier of the Xia Kingdom. After the Battle of Pingxia City, the Song army successively invaded Hongzhou, Yanzhou, Youzhou, Huizhou, Qingtang and other places. Now it has controlled Hengshan.
In most areas, the loss of the Hengshan natural barrier will only make our country's situation increasingly difficult. I am afraid that before long, our country will have no choice but to surrender to the Song Dynasty again...
Brother Cha, who was very good at judging the situation, also knew very well that the main purpose of the Song Dynasty in launching this war was to capture the dangerous Hengshan Mountains. However, even if the Song army began to gain an advantage in the general war situation, it would undoubtedly be impossible to destroy the Xia Kingdom in one go.
Imaginary talk. After all, war wastes people and money, and even if the Xia Kingdom loses the Hengshan barrier, even the capital Xingqing Mansion is captured by the Song army. The south and west of the country are the Tubo tribes, and the Yellow-headed Uighurs and Xizhou Uighurs are adjacent, leading to the vast
In the Western Region, the Xia people were better at bows, horses, riding and shooting. All they had to do was move the whole country westward and look for opportunities to recapture Shuofang. The Junzhou on the border of Yongliang, the Song army, no matter how large its troops were, would be enough to defeat it.
But if this is really the case, then the Xia State will probably degenerate from the state into a nomadic tribal alliance that is just chasing water and grass. Although it can still pose a threat to the Song State, both the Xia State's national strength and the party tribes will not be able to do so.
Your vitality will be severely damaged.
In fact, the Song Dynasty only needs to occupy the dangerous land of Hengshan and then encroach on the Xia Kingdom. It is slow to do so, and the Xia Kingdom, which has lost its strategy, can only surrender to it. In more than ten years, the Xia Kingdom will eventually face the danger of subjugation. This must be
It was also the Song people's plan to seize the western frontier territory...
Cha Ge is now leading an army to the west of the Xia Kingdom to annihilate the effective strength of the Song Army as much as possible, and is trying to take advantage of the situation to lead his army to attack the rear of the Song Kingdom. In the final analysis, it is to gain more negotiating weight with the Song court in the future.
If we can seize the opportunity in this war, we can seize several strategic key points in the Guanzhong area of the Song Dynasty... The Qinling Mountains, which are more than 800 miles long, serve as a barrier and even control the situation.
Staying at Hangu, Wuguan, Sanguan, Xiaoguan and other important passes in the pass leading to the hinterland of the Central Plains can help the Xia Kingdom gather dangerous gateways that are easy to defend and difficult to attack. Based on this, the army can march south to invade the Bashu territory of the Song Kingdom.
It can even pose a threat to important state capitals such as Jingzhao Prefecture of the Song State from the chokepoint. So even if the Song Army can capture the dangerous Hengshan area, the Xia State will not be completely passive in the negotiations when it seeks peace and surrender in the future.
Thinking of this, Brother Cha couldn't help but let out a long sigh. He also knew very well that after the previous wars between Song and Xia, the Song State, which was far more powerful than itself, had gradually begun to suppress the Xia State.
In the successive wars, he has been trying to gain more advantages for his country in the war. He also knows very well that as long as the Xia State can withstand the Song State's encroachment, the enemy's court will be corrupted and large-scale wars will break out in various places.
The uprising, as well as the attitude of the Liao Kingdom to the east... these factors are also very likely to become a turning point for the Xia Kingdom to regain the upper hand.
Cha Ge immediately looked towards the other side of the city fortress, and saw that countless ladders had been hooked up on the battlements of the city wall, and his brave infantry had begun to climb towards the top of the city despite the rain of crossbows and arrows.
Going up, a large number of powerful crossbowmen also emerged from the Xia army formation, and they picked up the first-grade bows in their hands. Rows of crossbow arrows creaked and made a heart-stopping sound.
Like locusts, they fired from the top of the city towards the Song army on the wall above. The stone bullets thrown by the Poxi Army's cyclone cannon hit the top of the wall, making a loud noise of "Boom, Boom, Boom!!!!" and splashing rubble.
Dust, and some stone bullets even hit the Song army soldiers who could not avoid the city head directly, and they were a bloody mess again...
After sighing, Brother Cha thought again: Xiao Tang, Liu Fa, if you cannot defend this city, all the soldiers and civilians of the Song Dynasty inside will be slaughtered by our army. You cannot lose this battle.
Little did he know that this king is also like this. This war must not fail...
At this time, on the top of the city wall, the sound of the collision of gold and iron, the muffled sound of sharp blades cutting into flesh, and the miserable screams of soldiers from both Song and Xia being chopped into pieces by sharp blades were intertwined together. As the war intensified,
It was fierce, and the warriors from both sides collided fiercely, with bright red blood splattering everywhere. Hundreds of corpses fell straight down from the wall, but there were thousands of people climbing up from behind with sharp blades in their hands and feet.
Crawling, in the rain of blood, Xiao Tang drew out the two swords from his waist and went straight to meet a Xia army warrior who had just climbed to the top of the city. When the warrior saw that he was the commander of the Song army, he immediately roared and stepped forward quickly, and then waved.
The knife struck straight at Xiao Tang!
Two dazzling sword lights flashed out, and the wrist of Chuodao, the Xia army warrior who was competing for the top spot, was cut off, and a fountain of blood immediately spurted out from his throat! Xiao Tang flew up with a kick and knocked him out again.
The top of the city wall was kicked down, and he immediately stared angrily at the enemy infantry coming from all directions. Now other generals led their troops to rush forward to resist the Xia army's offensive. In such an urgent situation, Xiao Tang
This military commander could no longer control the central army. Instead of advancing, he retreated and rushed straight towards the Xia troops who had just climbed up the wall!
