Chapter 132: Ice and Fire

Yuan Hao is certainly not a fool, and he doesn't have so many steps to send in.

Besides, Zhang Yuan, who was reborn in the ovary and reincarnated by Kong Ming, didn't think that a mere Jinming village needed too many ambushes.

After feinting to attack the security army and Chengping Village, Yuan Hao personally led a large army to attack Jinming.

Zhang Yuan was also rare and brave, and questioned Yuan Hao's insistence on capturing Yanzhou.

In this regard, Yuan Hao's explanation is: "Huanqing will be guarded by a general and cannot be taken without permission; Jingyuan Jiaqi is strong and not easy to attack. Only Yanzhou is far away, and there are many ways to enter. The fence is also estranged, the soldiers are at least, and they are familiar with the situation of the mountains and rivers. And Fan Yong, the governor of Yanzhou, was cowardly and unscrupulous, and he inspected Li Shibin for being corrupt and stupid, and his subordinates complained.

This place is good, people are all in me, if you don't attack at this time, what should you do? ”

Zhang Yuan really wanted to say: There is no news of the sergeant who surrendered by fraud, and the general of Jin Mingzhai who returned to Shun has no news at all, and the people are not necessarily on our side!

But looking at the state of Yuan Hao's grandson's possession, Zhang Yuan was very wise to coax. He also knew that it was all an excuse. Even if the time, place and people are in Zhao Song, even if they don't have any conditions, Yuan Hao will definitely attack Yanzhou.

Without him, Fang Zhongyong is in his ears!

Can you bear the price of being compared to a stupid donkey by others?

Maybe Zhang Yuan can bear it, but Yuan Hao can't bear it! Being able to make many arrangements with patience is already regarded as Emperor Yuan Hao's wisdom and resourcefulness.

The moon is dark and the wind is high at night, when people are killed and set on fire.

The situation that often appears in martial arts novels does not usually appear in regular large-scale battles.

Because meat was not easy to obtain in ancient times, the vast majority of people would have varying degrees of night blindness. In addition, communication is inconvenient, and accidents may occur during the day due to poor transmission of military orders. At night, when the lights are dark, who can you see, and how can you command the battle?

Of course, there is a more important reason that Yuan Hao personally led an army of 100,000 to attack Jinmingzhai, which was garrisoned by less than 10,000 people, and naturally wanted to use a dignified and upright army and a mighty army to break it with one drum.

and then with the power of a great victory, he took Yanzhou and Yanzhou directly, beat Fang Zhongyong to kneel down and sing about conquest, and then took Yongxing Military Road and Qinfeng Road. If you can conquer Jingzhao Mansion again, according to the former capital of the Tang Dynasty, it is not a dream to play the old Tang banner, and the world will be divided into three parts! The Central Plains is just around the corner!

The ideal is plump, and the reality is skinny.

Jin Mingzhai, which was under siege, did not panic as Yuan Hao expected, but shrank up like a hedgehog. No matter how you shout and scold, you won't see anyone show up and talk.

Tentatively attacked, hoping to cause unrest in the city, those soldiers who surrendered could take advantage of the chaos to open the city gates, and the Jin Ming generals who returned to Shun could also welcome Wang Shi with pot pulp.

As a result, nothing happened.

What's going on? Has my plan been discovered? Zhang Yuan secretly wondered.

The attack paused, and there was finally movement on the upper floor of Jin Mingcheng.

There was a guy who was sneakily hiding behind the bunker and shouted: "My family's handsome, I would like to tell Mr. Zhang Yuan and thank Mr. Zhang for sending a lot of labor to the Great Song Dynasty." It's just that Mr. Zhang was too sloppy and sent in a lot of unruly steps. It is hereby returned today! ”

With that, Gollum threw down a hundred and ten human heads from the city.

When I picked it up, I saw that many of them were acquaintances, and they were all elites in the footsteps. There are also people who don't know, and it looks like they are probably the generals of the Song Army who intend to surrender.

Yuan Hao's heart ached, these are all elite people in a hundred battles! Just because of Zhang Yuan's bullshit idea, he gave his life in vain! You wait for me, and when Jin Mingzhai is laid, I will use your head to pay tribute to those innocent soldiers who died in vain!

Glaring at Zhang Yuan fiercely, Yuan Hao gritted his teeth and said, "Ant attached!" ”

The Xia people were not good at building cities, and they were not good at attacking them—it seems that this is a common problem of all nomadic peoples.

Agrarian peoples often had to work hard to build fortified cities in order to compete in the wars against the nomads who came and went.

It seems that one is active offense and the other is passive defense. In the later generations when "the best defense is offense", it must be sprayed into a sieve.

But if you ask Yuan Hao, whether he likes to guard the city and watch the enemy die, or whether he likes to fill it with human lives outside the city, he will definitely spit fragrant in his mouth and slash your face with a single sword.

Sun Tzu once said that attacking the heart is the top, and attacking the city is the bottom.

Sun Tzu once said that ten will surround it, five will attack it, and if it is doubled, it will be fought.

Without several times the enemy's strength, do you want to conquer the fortified city? Fill it with human lives!

When to use several times the enemy's casualties, exhaust the enemy's strength to defend the city, and then send warriors to fight first, break through the city wall, and then open the city gate, when will the task of siege combat be completed.

Without the cover of long-range heavy firepower, every city is a meat grinder. When the flesh and blood of both sides are wrung dry and squeezed out, the battle will be over.

What annoyed Yuan Hao the most was that although it was almost the middle of winter, the moat outside Jinming Village had frozen solid, and there was no need for auxiliary soldiers to fill the ravines with soil. But the cunning Song people poured cold water on the city wall, and it was like an ice city. In the sunlight, it shines with a dazzling light.

It doesn't matter if it's dazzling, how can the brave Great Xia warriors be afraid of the reflection of the mere ones? I can't stand it slippery!

One grabbed and one slipped, not even a gripper, how to climb up, how to slide down.

Thanks to the dog-headed military advisor Zhang Yuan, who took precautions and anticipated the enemy, he made some ladders, siege gas and other equipment in advance, so as to avoid the embarrassment of bare hand rock climbing.

However, there were fewer ladders, which were not enough, and were overturned by the Song soldiers who had been prepared for a long time or with wooden forks, or were smashed by stones and rolling logs that fell from the sky, and suddenly broke their tendons and fractures, and suffered heavy casualties.

At this time, we can see the heritage of Western Xia.

At that time, there was an artifact in Western Xia, called the Divine Arm Bow. Although it is called a bow, it is actually a crossbow. Although the power is not as good as the eight-bull crossbow and bed crossbow commonly assembled by the Song army, it is easy to carry, two people can quickly assemble it, and one person can use it in extreme cases.

More importantly, unlike the Song Dynasty, which regarded the bed crossbow as a strategic deterrent weapon, the regular army of Western Xia Fan was basically equipped with a divine arm bow.

With a bang, a rain of arrows came straight to the city, which was really "black clouds crushing the city and wanting to destroy it". Some of the more timid ones lay directly on the ground, hoping that they could escape.

Li Shibin was dumbfounded: "Shield!" ”

Those who are quick with their hands and feet have already ducked behind the giant shield before they are instructed, so as not to be poisoned. If you are slower with your hands and feet, if you are lucky, you will get a few arrows, and if you are unlucky, you will become a hedgehog.

After three waves of arrows, the city became a forest of thorns.

Li Shibin pushed away the giant shield and shouted again: "The enemy is coming, prepare the fire oil!" ”

Sure enough, Yuan Haojian temporarily suppressed the Song army and ordered the Western Xia army to press it on a large scale. From the sky, it looks like a team of marching ants, constantly tumbling, accumulating, and then climbing up the erected ladder of clouds.

It's just that these Western Xia troops are more unlucky than those who were in charge of the tentative attack just now. They were greeted not only by the usual rocky rolling wood, but also by large clumps of lime and boiling gold juice (dung).

The kind and wealthy Song soldiers took pity on the bitter cold of Western Xia, and the people did not have much oil and water, so they sprayed a lot of fire oil with water dragon carts. It seemed that the weather was cold again, and he shot rockets everywhere at about the same time, igniting those hot oils to help the Western Xia army keep out the cold.

There was a loud bang, and the oil burst into flames.

Li Shibin was taken aback, didn't the usual oil move so much?

Looking back at the calm Sima Qingyun, he said angrily: "You did it on purpose? ”

"I'm sorry! I forgot to remind Li Dujian. ”

"You just did it on purpose!"

Li Shibin came back to his senses and looked at the city again, which had become purgatory. It is a blessing to be killed directly, and even worse are those who are stained with fire oil.

The oil was bubbling with small blue flames, and it didn't seem to burn violently. Slap it with your hand, and your hand burns. Lying on the ground, it seems that even the sand is about to burn. No matter how you roll and fight, the fire will not be extinguished, and it seems that you will not stop until the last drop of oil and water on your body is boiled.

After all, Sima Qingyun is young, where has he ever seen such a tragic situation, when he smells the smell of barbecue in the air, he can't help it anymore, and he spit it out in one bite.

Ma Liu, the heartless guy, is still broadcasting the live broadcast: "Wow, look, there's a guy who cut off his arm." Tsk, what a man.

Wow, the other guy has his hair burning, it's like a torch. Phew, it's useless, it's dead! ”

Li Shibin also added oil and vinegar: "Ma Liu, you don't know the point." See, yes, it's the guy with a bulging belly. The official made a bet with you, and if you don't count five, your stomach will definitely burst. When the time comes......"

Before the words fell, there was a bang, as if Keju had been kicked out, and the belly of the dead corpse exploded. Sima Qingyun looked out in disbelief, and quickly turned around and continued to vomit.

Li Shibin seemed to have won a big battle, got up and smiled: "Just you little doll, what world have you seen?" Ben will be ...... that year"

An iron arrow swept past his face, Li Shibin covered his face, hurriedly squatted down, and scolded repeatedly: "What a fucking bad luck, I forgot the condor shooter in Western Xia!" ”

Looking at a circle of gloating eyes, Li Shibin glared: "What are you laughing at?" I'm here to show you that you can't get carried away at any time. Otherwise, I don't know how to die? ”

Sima Qingyun, who had relieved himself, said: "Li Dujian, it is getting late, and both the enemy and us are unable to fight again. Let's see how the casualties are, shall we? ”

The soldiers on duty were left at the head of the city, and Li Shibin also changed his attitude of beating and scolding the soldiers at every turn in the past, and comforted the wounded soldiers all over the city.

Walking down in a circle, Li Shibin, who originally felt that he had won a big battle, no longer had a trace of a smile. A rough count shows that there were seven or eight hundred dead, more than 1,000 seriously wounded, and countless lightly wounded, most of whom were new soldiers.

In the end, Li Shibin scolded: "I told you a long time ago that the Western Xia bow and crossbow are powerful, why don't you know how to hide?" You rookie eggs! ”

There are also those who dare to talk back: "The Tangut people died more, what are we afraid of?" ”

How can you not be afraid?

Although the casualties of the Western Xia army were at least twice as high, there were 100,000 people? In this way, it is still a loss!