Chapter 966: The Soldier Who Is Subdued Without Fighting
Dading Prefecture is the seat of the Zhongjing Taoist Government in the Northern Liao Dynasty. It is the same as Nanjing Xijin Prefecture, and is even half a step higher... After all, this is the seat of a prefecture dominated by Khitan people.
Therefore, although the city wall of Dading Mansion is also made of Sanhe soil and rammed earth, the outer periphery of the city wall is covered with bricks and stones. This is why Zhao Xigan dared to let the army bombard it with artillery.
Not counting the intensive artillery fire, it wouldn't be enough to directly blow down the city wall... In order to intimidate, there must be an appearance of intimidation.
The Song army carried out such tactics in a cycle of eating, shouting, and bombarding. From time to time, cavalry would wander towards the city wall, playing harps and showing off their power... This was not the tactics of the cabinet, but purely the intention of the captain below.
For many years, the cavalry of the Northern Liao Dynasty have been showing off their power to the city of the Song Dynasty outside the city of the Song Dynasty. Unexpectedly, the cavalry of the Northern Liao Dynasty would still have the opportunity to do this outside the city of the Northern Liao Dynasty.
How can you give up on your face?
As for saying this is a problem with the Fanqi... the Fanqi were also the cavalry of the Song Dynasty.
Wang Shunchen was not a cavalryman, and Wang Shunchen had seen this kind of showing off the most. At that time, he was still a soldier of the Western Army. This was how the Xixia cavalry laughed at the Western Army.
Therefore, at this time, Wang Shunchen didn't care that he was already the commander-in-chief. He found a uniform of a cavalry and followed the cavalry to show off their power under the city.
While running fast, he also uttered obscene curses...
"Rumble..."
This... After all, it was just a layer of brick skin, not a real all-masonry city wall. After two days of shelling, Dading's city wall was finally broken.
The entire city wall had been riddled with holes by scattered artillery pieces... Therefore, Dading's city wall collapsed.
"Officials, the front line of Dading is reporting that the wall beside the west gate of Dading has been blown down by artillery. The generals are reporting to attack the city..."
"Guan family, since the city wall has collapsed, we can send out soldiers and enter Dading directly..."
"Officials, with the appearance of fighter planes, there may be no need to continue to implement the original strategy. Dading can be captured in one fell swoop..."
It was not originally planned like this, and no one expected that the official tactics would achieve such results.
Originally, they were just planning to use a food offensive to lure them, a loudspeaker offensive to demoralize the army, and then an artillery offensive to intimidate. Now that the city wall has collapsed, there is no need to worry about whether the city gates are blocked from inside the city. Every place where the city wall collapsed
, are all places where large armies enter the city.
"The city wall collapsed, how many people fell?"
However, Zhao Xi did not follow the thoughts of the ministers and discuss whether to attack the city, but asked the number of people who fell...
"Back at the official house, according to the report, only two places have collapsed so far, and nearly 5,000 people have fallen."
Five thousand? Two city walls collapsed, and five thousand people could be thrown down. Even if Zhao Xi had not been to the battlefield in person, he could still imagine the density of the human shields on the Dading city wall in Beiliao.
Yelu Hongji really doesn’t regard the people as human beings!
"Command the front line and use loudspeakers to inform Dading City that the two sides have ceased fighting. Send engineers and medical troops close to the city wall and begin to rescue the Khitan people who fell."
"Official family······"
All the ministers were really confused by Zhao Xi's idea.
If they escaped from Dading City, the Song Dynasty could accept them. After all, they had rebelled against the Northern Liao Dynasty. However, those who fell down due to the collapse of the city wall were all those who had been resisting.
"To regain lost ground, we must first regain people's hearts. Execute it, and in the end they will all be my people!"
Zhao Xi was confident that no matter how excited the soldiers on the front line were, as long as his orders came, they would be carried out to the letter.
As for the ministers and workers, they have no courage to dissent over the years.
Not only the ministers of the Song Dynasty did not understand, but also the people guarding the city in the Northern Liao Dynasty, including the soldiers supervising the war, could not understand the Song Dynasty's approach.
The problem is, the loudspeaker really shouted like this...
"Both sides ceased fighting and rescued the wounded! God has a good nature, and I, the officials of the Song Dynasty, strictly ordered that no matter whether it is a battlefield or not, it cannot be at the expense of the lives of the people."
"Although you, the king of Liao, do not cherish your own people, we, the officials of the Song Dynasty, do. We don't need to do anything to you. We just need not to attack when we are rescuing those who are buried..."
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At first I thought it was just a shouting, but after the shouting ended, Song State really sent chariots to approach the city...
Zhao Xi is not so pedantic that he really wants to follow the way of the Holy King, nor is he so foolish as to let his soldiers die in vain for rescue.
Therefore, it is the chariot that moves forward...
"Fire arrows..."
When the Song Dynasty's chariot entered the shooting range of the Northern Liao city defenders, there were still people on the city top shouting for shooting.
"They're saving people!"
"Who are you saving? They have already fallen to death. The Song people are cunning. They are going to attack the city. Shoot arrows for me..."
"They're saving people!"
"Pfft... Whoever doesn't let go of arrows, this is what will happen!"
After killing people, the soldiers supervising the battle started killing people again.
"You can't shoot the arrow. I saw my third master. He has been rescued... You can't shoot the arrow!"
"court death······"
The whole city was in chaos. The war supervising soldiers who were about to kill people stopped the people who were doing the killings. The whole city was in chaos for a while. Many people who were pushing and shoving were squeezed out again.
City head······
Those who fell down, there are always some close people at the top of the city. The people who supervise the battle and kill the chickens to scare the monkeys did not really scare these civilians...
Except for the engineering soldiers and medical soldiers who were busy digging and rescuing people, all the soldiers of the Song Dynasty were a little confused when they saw the chaos on the top of Dading City... How could it be like this?
"Report... The riot at the top of the city of Dading started from where the city wall collapsed and spread to the entire city. The people on the top of the city of Dading started fighting with the war supervisors..."
This...all the ministers and workers who did not understand the official's decision were stunned.
"Don't be surprised. The food offensive is a temptation for those cannon fodder people. It gradually decreased from the first day to the third day. It's not that the Khitan people were not tempted, but that they were implicated and intimidated."
"And Big Horn's offensive is to tell the cannon fodder people, including the Northern Liao soldiers guarding the city, what kind of king their king is."
"As for the artillery attack, it was not to create an opportunity to attack the city. It was just for this moment... When our medical soldiers treat a person related to the city, it will inevitably lead to this person being close to him.
Stop the whole shooting thing."
"As long as one person does this, it will be a fuse, directly igniting the anger that has been accumulated among the people defending the city these days, and it will naturally lead to chaos."
"This chaos will not be limited to the city head, but may spread to the entire Dading city. Send an order, let the front line enter the city, remember, it is to enter the city, not to attack the city!"
The so-called subduing the enemy without fighting, the official tactics, is probably the best explanation.
When the military order was issued, the entire Song Dynasty headquarters also began to march towards the front line.