Chapter 53 Huili Defense Battle (4) The Song Army will plan and calculate
Qiu Hu ran along the tunnel at this moment to the well designated for poisoning, and returned after explaining again. He was only responsible for poisoning, but other assassinations and opening the gates of the city were under the responsibility of others, and he had no control over them. He felt that he should warn the generals of the Song army, because his house was close to the main general's mansion, everything in his house was well concealed, and no flaws were exposed, which was a typical "dark under the lamp". Qiu Hu was wearing night clothes at this time, and wrote down part of the plan for chaos in the Western Xia City, which was to take advantage of the chaos to open the city gate and lead the Western Xia army into the city. At this time, it was late at night, Yang Wenguang had not slept yet, and the lights in his house were still bright at this time, Qiu Hu saw the opportunity to shoot the letter to a pillar on the porch, and then withdrew. At this time, the main general's house was full of alarm, and the guards were like facing a great enemy, preparing to form a formation to defend against the enemy, and a guard saw the letter inserted on the pillar, so he hurriedly handed the letter to Yang Wenguang. Yang Wenguang took the letter and read it, the more he looked at it, the more shocked he became, and after reading it, he hurriedly sent someone to call Li Zhaoliang and Guo Zun. The two of them read the letter, in which Guo Zun said: "Yang Jieshuai, the content of this letter should be credible, we might as well plan the plan, and catch turtles in the urn of the Xixia soldiers who entered the city, I see that on the west, east, and south sides of the north gate, we built fortifications overnight, that is, to build sandbags into a defensive wall, one zhang high, two zhang wide, to be carried out secretly, not to startle snakes." Once completed, let the musket battalion and archers fend off the enemy. In the end, Guo Zun's strategy was adopted, and then he sent people to the north gate to arrange. The Song army's 3,000 men and horses were secretly assembled, and they all wrapped thick linen cloth under their feet to ensure that they did not make a sound when they walked, and finally built the fortifications before dawn, in fact, they built an urn city at the north gate.
Early the next morning, the Western Xia army really came to challenge, led 10,000 soldiers by Yeli beggar to come, sent a vanguard officer to call the battle, Di Qing met and led a battalion of Song soldiers to fight, and finally defeated the Western Xia vanguard army, and finally Li Zhaoliang sent 20,000 elite soldiers to fight, Li Yuanhao saw that the main force of the Song army was exhausted, and he was overjoyed for a while, and he was busy sending people to call Yeli Qiyu to act according to the predetermined plan of the call, Yeli Qiyu pretended to be invincible, and repeatedly retreated, luring the Song army out of the city for nearly ten miles, Li Zhaoliang already knew his strategy, and took the opportunity to kill nearly 2,000 Xixia soldiers, This made Yeli beggar angry, and he couldn't help it, and also made the generals below not know the truth, so he was very dissatisfied with Yeli begging's military order, which was not that the Song army had quickly defeated his right wing troops.
This is Yang Wenguang's report, the well next to the Song army camp in the city has poisoned people, nearly 1,000 soldiers and civilians have been poisoned, showing abdominal pain, vomiting and other symptoms. When Yang Wenguang heard this, he hurriedly rode his horse and galloped towards the place where the incident occurred, and was about to pass through a narrow alley, when suddenly dozens of assassins appeared on the roof, pulling out arrows and shooting at Yang Wenguang, the guards hurriedly went to protect, and for a while blood splashed and screamed, and the guards landed one after another, and Yang Wenguang was also shot with an arrow in the back, but he still broke out of the encirclement. Seeing this, the surrounding soldiers surrounded them, and when the Assassins saw that the situation was unfavorable, they evacuated one after another, and the soldiers hurried over to help the wounded. In fact, most of these guards were not fatally wounded, probably the assassin thought it was a poisoned arrow, and as long as it hit, it would die, so he didn't care that an arrow was fatal, only a shot could be missed.
Yang Wenguang had an arrow stuck in his back, but he didn't feel the pain, but felt a tingling feeling, half of his body was a little numb, and his right arm was a little disobedient. Yang Wenguang secretly said that it was not good, he felt that he was poisoned, and finally forced it to the starting place, his body was soft and fell off the horse, everyone was shocked, an old soldier Langzhong, came to check it out, and finally pulled out the arrow, only to see the arrow flashing blue light, Lang Zhong secretly said that it was not good, and let the soldier lie on Yang Wenguang's wound to take drugs, everyone was busy, and finally Lao Langzhong observed the wound again, and the bright red blood had flowed out, the wound did not appear purple and black, not quite like poisoning, and I was not sure, so I had to observe and observe again. At this time, Yang Wen's brain was still awake, and he was still arranging the treatment of the poisoned people at the scene, and the scene was full of foul smell, and most of the poisoned people were poured with feces, so they vomited and vomited, and the scene was a mess. At this time, Qiu Hu came alone, confessed to Yang Wenguang, and explained his identity and intention, Yang Wenguang knew that he was the one who did the archery and reported the news, even if he knew his enemy identity, he did not punish him, after all, he made a great achievement, without his early warning, the possibility that Huili City could not be defended, even if it could be held, it would suffer heavy losses, I don't know if I can withstand the repeated attacks of Western Xia before the court sends troops to support. Qiu Hu told Yang Wenguang that he had replaced the poison thrown into the well with a weak laxative, but it still made people diarrhea and vomit; He also replaced the poison that the assassins had prepared for the arrows with anesthetic, so he told everyone not to worry, and finally everyone was relieved and relieved.
At this time, the area around the north gate suddenly caught fire, and the smoke was full of smoke and flames. Yang Wenguang knew that it was Xixia's fine work that set the fire, so he was not in a hurry. He knew that Guo Zun was guarding the town, but he still had to go to command. At this time, the north gate shouted to kill the sky, a group of about 300 black-clothed masked warriors desperately slashed to the Song army guarding the city gate, the Song soldiers were defeated and retreated, and finally this group of people controlled the city gate, and then opened the city gate, ignition released the signal, Yeli Wangrong saw the opening of the north city gate of Huili, so he raised his arms and shouted: "Erlang, the opportunity for meritorious service has arrived, give me a rush", and then waved his division and rushed towards the north gate of Huili, about eight thousand Xixia troops rushed into the city, only to see that at this time the Song army was full of gunfire, There were constantly Western Xia soldiers falling, trampled into meat in the chaos of the army, and then the musket battalion threw grenades, lightning and thunder, the Western Xia army was blown up to the flesh and blood, most of the Western Xia soldiers had not seen the power of firearms, most of them thought that Lei Gong had appeared. So 8,000 Xixia army lost their fighting spirit, no longer have the heart to engage in battle, have fled, at this time Yeli Wangrong is also in the city to supervise the battle, he killed more than a dozen retreating deserters, can not stop the rout of the Xixia army, the guards can only protect him, not trampled by the deserters, accidentally injured, the soldiers of Yang Wenguang and Wulamuwei in the city poured out, the Xixia army took advantage of the victory to pursue, these dismounted Xixia cavalry became the Song army's lamb to be slaughtered. 20,000 Western Xia soldiers were defeated for thousands of miles, and the Song army pursued directly to the camp of the Western Xia army.
Li Zhaoliang also fought fiercely with Yeli beggar at this time, Li Zhaoliang's army had 20,000 people, Yeli beggar was only 10,000, the Song army had the advantage, plus the sharp weapons of the musket battalion, especially the grenade, which also made the Western Xia army defeated and fled, Yeli beggar retreated to the camp under the desperate protection of the guards, and at this time the inventory of the troops, only 4,000 people remained.
At this time, the Western Xia camp was already panicked, the 50,000 Western Xia army lost more than 20,000, only less than 30,000 remained, the strength of the Song army and the Western Xia army was equal, but the morale of the Song army and the desire to fight were getting higher and higher, and the morale of the Western Xia had plummeted, and it was difficult to resist the attack of the Song army. At this time, in Li Yuanhao's big tent, Li Yuanhao's face was solemn, and Zhang Yuan's face was unnatural, not to mention that the generals below were depressed. Yeli Qiyu and Yeli Wangrong's father and son were naked, kneeling in front of Li Yuanhao's account, waiting for the fate. Li Yuanhao lowered his head and looked at the Yeli father and son who were kneeling under the account, he couldn't think of a perfect counteroffensive plan now, something went wrong there, the 30,000 Western Xia army was defeated in less than half an hour, and the Song army didn't kill the pig so quickly. He had the intention to reprimand the two, but the matter had come to this point, and there was no reprimand, and he had to understand the reason for the failure. He asked the father and son in detail about the course of the war, especially what Yeli Wangrong saw and heard after entering the city, when he talked about the fortifications built by the Song army overnight, Li Yuanhao pondered, and at this time Zhang Yuan said: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, I think this defeat must be that our counteroffensive plan has been leaked, so that the Song army has been prepared, and will plan to lead our army into the city, come to an urn to catch turtles, let our army collapse for thousands of miles." If it is not the crime of the two Yeli generals leading the war, please ask the prince to investigate. After Li Yuanhao heard this, he said to Yeli father and son: "The fault of this defeat is not the fault of the two of you, so I will spare you two for the time being, I hope you will reflect deeply, and you can't make mistakes again and again, otherwise the new and old accounts will be counted together, you get up and wait" They thanked and retreated to the side. They needed to investigate what went wrong in the Xixia Sect in Huili City, so they sent someone to summon Ye Li Zhenxian back for questioning. The top priority now is to prevent the Song army from attacking the camp.
Li Yuanhao saw that the matter of Huili was no longer possible, and he was ready to withdraw his troops, and at night the camp of the Western Xia army was brightly lit, which was to prevent the Song army from sneaking attack, at this time Yang Wenguang had already led the army out of the city, and he had already poured out, gathering 28,000 troops and 15,000 cavalry, he asked Di Qing to lead two battalions of musket battalions as the vanguard officer, and brought the remaining 200 grenades to attack the Western Xia camp directly. The general offensive began, Di Qing took the lead, wanted to throw grenades, blow up the door of the Xia army's camp, and threw fifty grenades at a time, which blew up the people and horses. At this time, the Xixia camp was also completely chaotic, and the Xixia soldiers were scurrying like headless flies. The effect of the grenade is more shocking than in the daytime, and the effect of lightning and thunder is more intimidating in the night. In this era of belief in ghosts and gods, people attribute most of the things that they have never seen and cannot be explained to the power of ghosts and gods. Therefore, the Western Xia soldiers thought that the thunder god was angry and sent down thunder to punish them, so there was a situation of the howling camp. Li Yuanhao saw that the situation was out of control, so he and the generals fled the barracks and retreated to Xingqing Mansion. The Song army easily broke through the camp of the Western Xia army, most of the 50,000 Western Xia troops were annihilated, and nearly 10,000 prisoners were captured, and 20,000 war horses and a large amount of grain and grass were obtained.
In short, the Song army won a complete victory.
Then Yang Wenguang began to purge the city of Xixia fine work, under the guidance of Qiu Hu, no one escaped the net, and the hidden Yeli Zhenxian was arrested when he was arrested, arrested and committed suicide by taking poison. The remnants of the Western Xia's forces in Huili were swept away, and it also produced a huge deterrent to the more than 10,000 party members in the city, so that they did not dare to rebel.
So far, nearly a month of Huili defense battle has ended, the Song army won a complete victory, the Western Xia was defeated, Yang Wenguang and Li Zhaoliang and Guo Zun jointly played the good news, Cao Wei and Zhi Weizhong were overjoyed after receiving the good news, and then quickly whipped the horse to report to the court.