In the past few days, the sound of artillery fire has not stopped in the Xixia Imperial City. The entire city outside the Xixia Imperial City has been turned into ruins under the bombardment of artillery. There are broken walls and no buildings everywhere.
Tunnel warfare tactics cannot be continued at all.
With the help of artillery, the northwest army fought steadily and kept advancing. It took a few days to occupy all the peripheral cities in Xixia.
After a few days, the artillery attacks gradually stopped. On the one hand, after such a long period of high-intensity attacks, the artillery had begun to malfunction to varying degrees, and it was necessary to stop and practice. The artillery shells and gunpowder had also been almost consumed.
It can no longer support such a high-intensity attack.
Another aspect is the issue of range. After all, the range of artillery is limited. It is difficult for artillery to reach the city wall, Xixia Royal City, Fangshi and Imperial City in the central area.
After the artillery stopped, the Xixia army took action again, but now their area of activity has been compressed, and there is not much space left. Facing the northwest army with superior troops and superior equipment, it is already very difficult to launch tunnel warfare and guerrilla warfare.
Everyone knows that the final decisive battle is coming soon, and the Xixia people know very well that at this time, Xixia basically has no chance of winning. In fact, from the beginning, after the northwest army entered Xixia and surrounded the Xixia royal city, the Xixia people had no chance of winning.
The reason why the Xixia people are so desperate is that they hope to hold back the northwest army and buy some time. If the Persian Empire and the grasslands can achieve a certain victory during this period, maybe Xixia still has a glimmer of hope.
After the northwest army invaded Xixia, Xixia's letter for help was sent to the Persian Empire and the grassland tribes. The two countries did make efforts to reverse the situation. But the advantage was no longer on the side of the four-nation coalition. The two countries tried their best to
Still no progress can be made.
After acquiring artillery, the Northern Army was already on par with the Prairie Army. However, the Prairie Army was mostly cavalry. Because of the big talk in the field, the Northern Army did not have an advantage, so it never switched from defense to offense. However, the Prairie Army wanted to
It is basically impossible to break through the Northern Army's defense line.
On the other side, the Persian Empire, the strongest of the four-nation coalition, is also in constant trouble. On the one hand, after such a long period of fierce fighting, the player's strength has been improved to a certain extent, and as the player's participation in the war becomes longer and longer, the army that was originally at a disadvantage
Command, after major guilds hire retired soldiers with high salaries and establish players' own staff teams, is no longer weaker than the NPC army.
Just like Fengxiang City, Zeng Yi received a letter from Hua Qian Yuexia and Jing Feng, telling him that the two guilds had cooperated to establish a huge staff department. The two guilds used various relationships to not only find
Retired soldiers and university professors who studied the history of ancient wars came, and they even invited a retired general to sit in the staff department without knowing what means to use.
The staff composed of these masters, citing classics and information clues, formulated many strategies and tactics for Fengxiang City to deal with the Western Region army. If it were not for the discipline of the players, the ability to execute tactics and tactics would not meet the requirements of the army.
The player has now formed an advantageous situation.
On the other hand, the Persian army also had to guard against the southwestern army stationed in Tubo. No matter how strong the Persian empire was, it was still stretched thin at this time and had no time to take care of Xixia.
Xixia fought hard and delayed for such a long time, but the situation has not changed at all. Now, despair has spread throughout the Xixia army. In the past few days, some Xixia nobles have even begun to contact the northern army secretly, trying to
To surrender.
It was also because of the surrender of these people that many of the Xixia people's tactical arrangements were easily known by the Northwest Army, which made the Xixia people's situation even more difficult. Even after an official of the Xixia War Department surrendered, in order to make meritorious service, he handed over the tunnel distribution map of the Xixia Royal City to the Xixia people.
Based on this picture, the Northwest Army intercepted and killed tens of thousands of Xixia soldiers who were lurking in various places waiting for opportunities to launch an attack.
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Zeng Yi and others all gathered in a building occupied by the Northwest Army, "General, I don't know what happened to come to us?"
"My lords, I have just received a piece of information from the surrendered Xixia nobles. The Xixia Emperor knows that he is unable to save himself and is secretly preparing an evacuation plan!"
"Evacuate? Now that the Xixia Royal City is besieged, how are they going to evacuate?" At this point, Zeng Yi and others are about to win, and no one wants to see the Xixia Emperor escape. Everyone is very clear about the influence of the king of a country on a country.
, even if the Xixia monarch is just a bare commander, as long as he is still there, there is still hope for many Xixia people.
Everyone can think that if the Emperor of Xixia really escapes, he will probably completely occupy Xixia. There will be no peace for a long time in the future. Resistance forces will definitely rise one after another. No one will believe that such a big country has no ambition.
A scholar?
The commander of the Northwest Army was silent for a moment and then said: "Their plan is to command the remaining hundreds of thousands of troops to break out of the encirclement, and then let Xu Zhu and the remaining top-notch masters lead the people of Yipintang to protect the members of the Xixia royal family and evacuate.
Leave the Xixia Royal City!"
"Using an army of hundreds of thousands as bait to attract our attention, making an attack in the east and attacking in the west, and then running away. If we had not known this in advance, it would have been possible for the Emperor of Xixia to escape!"
"We can't let them escape. Once the Emperor of Xixia escapes to the grasslands or Persia, it will have a great impact on the future empire's rule of Xixia!"
The first choice of the Northwest Army is of course to capture the Xixia Emperor alive. As long as he is captured, there are many ways to make him surrender to the Central Plains. If not, the Northwest Army will also get the body of the Xixia Emperor. No matter what they do, they cannot let him run away.
Zeng Yi frowned: "When are they going to take action?"
"It should be in the next few days. We have already approached the Xixia Palace. If they don't take action, they will have no chance! I invite you all to come. I just want you to take action and stop the Xixia Emperor."
Zeng Yi and others knew very well that if they didn't take action, it would be difficult for the northwest army to stop them. Several top-notch masters protected the Xixia Emperor!
"Don't worry, General, this is our responsibility!"
Qinglong looked at Zeng Yi and sighed, "Hey, Xu Zhu got involved after all!"
Zeng Yidao behaved quite normally, "If Xu Zhu is asked to take the initiative and attack us, Xu Zhu will definitely hesitate, but if it is just to protect the Emperor of Xixia, Xu Zhu cannot refuse."