Chapter 918: A Vicious Battle That No One Can Afford to Lose
With Brother Cha's order, the infantry in the front of the Xia army also shouted and ran wildly, running in the direction of the city fortress, and the city wall immediately sounded a crisp sound of crossbow machine winding, and the archers had already pulled the bow and string to aim outside the city, and the Song army generals who commanded the crossbowmen lay behind the battlements of the city wall, just waiting for Xiao Tang's side to give an order, and they were also ready to drink the order of the sons and daughters under their command to fire thousands of arrows to block the enemy troops who came to attack the city!
Seeing that the enemy army had rushed into the range of the strong bow and crossbow, Wang Jin beside Xiao Tang shouted violently, and thousands of Song army archers suddenly pulled the longbow bowstrings full, and the sharp wolf teeth and arrows were all on the strings, and the piercing wind breaking sharp whistle was endless, and the dense arrows immediately poured out from the city wall, and fiercely fell into the formation of the attacking city Xia army!
The muffled sound of arrows entering the flesh and the sound of the soldiers screaming and howling were mixed together, and the sound resounded in the sky in an instant, although the Xia army's foot soldiers fell down, but more soldiers behind them rushed towards the direction of the fortress without fear of death, and the momentum was even greater than the previous Xia army sieges!
Not far from Chage, nearly 300 headless corpses fell in a pool of blood, and the miserable howls of the captured Song people behind them became louder. Although Han Tao, Hao Siwen and the others hissed and scolded themselves, Brother Cha didn't care, he still quietly stared at the tragic battle situation when his soldiers and horses attacked the city.
At this moment, Ren Duo Yili also rode his horse to Brother Cha's side, he bowed and gave a salute, and congratulated Brother Cha again: "Our army has sent a large number of men and horses all over the world, and now whether it is Liu Fa or Xiao Tang, it is impossible to escape at this time, and congratulations to Ning Ling for finally being able to get rid of the trouble of my Xia army's henchmen!" ”
Brother Cha smiled slightly, he smiled with a hint of fatigue on his face, but he didn't speak.
Ren Duo Yili 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 is already invincible, and when it enters the Xihe Road, Jingyuan Road and even Yanyan Road in the Song Realm, it will disrupt the deployment of the Song people, and then Hugh will say that it is Liu Faxiao Tang, that is, Tong Guan, Lao Chong and other commanders in the Song army, and we must also teach those guys that there is no way out and no retreat......
"No, I'm just afraid that after this battle, the war between our army and the Song State will soon end......"
Before Ren Duo Yili finished speaking, Brother Cha sighed leisurely, and he didn't pay attention to the group of subordinates beside him who showed stunned expressions, and thought in his heart: Now the eastern and western military divisions and divisions have taken the Hengshan barrier of our Xia country, but I am afraid that it is a foregone conclusion, after the battle of Pingxia City, the Song army has successively entered Hongzhou, Yanzhou, Youzhou, Huizhou, Qingtang and other places, and now has controlled most of Hengshan, the loss of the Hengshan natural barrier will only make our country in an increasingly difficult situation, I am afraid it will not be long, Our dynasty has no choice but to surrender to the Song court again......
Cha Ge, who is very good at judging the situation and sizing up the situation, also knows very well that the main purpose of the Song State in launching this war is to capture the dangerous land of Hengshan. However, even if the Song army started to have an advantage in the general environment, it would undoubtedly be a fool's dream to destroy the Xia Kingdom in one go. After all, the war cost the people and money, and even if the Xia State lost the Hengshan barrier, and even the national capital Xingqing Mansion was broken by the Song army, the south and west of the country were the Tubo tribes, and the Huangtou Uighurs and the Xizhou Uighurs were adjacent to each other, leading to the vast and vast Western Regions.
But if this is the case, at that time, the Xia State is afraid that it will also degenerate from the form of the state to the situation of living on water and grass like the nomadic tribal alliance, although it can still pose a threat to the Song State, whether it is the national strength of the Xia State or the party departments, it will also be greatly damaged.
In fact, the Song State only needs to occupy the dangerous land of Hengshan and then encroach on the Xia realm, and slowly try to do it, and the Xia State that has lost its strategy can only submit to it, and in another ten years, the Xia State will eventually face the danger of extinction, which must be the plan of the Song people to seek the territory of the western region......
Brother Cha is now leading the army to the west of the Xia State to annihilate the living forces of the Song army as much as possible, and trying to take advantage of the situation to lead the army to attack the rear of the Song State, in the final analysis, in order to gain more bargaining weight when negotiating with the Song court in the future.
If you can take the lead in this war, you will be able to seize several key points in the Guanzhong region of the Song Kingdom...... The Qinling Mountains, which connect more than 800 miles of wind, are used as a barrier, and even control and choke the important passes leading to the hinterland of the Central Plains in the passes, such as Hangu, Wuguan, Sanguan, and Xiaoguan, which can win the gateway to the Xia State that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Thinking of this, Brother Cha couldn't help but let out a long sigh again, he also knew very well that after the previous Song-Xia wars, the Song State, whose national strength was far superior to his own, had begun to gradually suppress the Xia State. He also knew very well that as long as the Xia State could withstand the encroachment of the Song State, the enemy state would be corrupted, and large-scale uprisings would break out in various places, as well as the attitude of the Liao State in the east...... These factors are also very likely to be a turning point for Xia to regain the upper hand.
Brother Cha immediately looked over to the side of the city fortress, and saw that countless cloud ladders had hooked up on the battlements of the city wall, and his brave foot soldiers had begun to brave the rain of crossbow arrows and arrows that came from the fire and climbed up to the head of the city, and a large number of strong crossbowmen also poured out in the Xia army array, and after the rows of crossbow arrows squeaked and made a burst of heart-palpitating machine buttoning sounds, they spun like locusts from the city head to the Song army between the battlements above, and the stone projectiles thrown by the whirlwind cannon of the Poxi army smashed on the wall to send out a "boom, boom, boom!! The loud noise splashed gravel dust, and some stone bullets even directly smashed on the Song soldiers who had not been able to dodge in the city, and it was a blur of flesh and blood......
After sighing, Brother Cha thought in his heart: Xiao Tang and Liu Fa, if you can't hold this city, together with all the Song soldiers and civilians in it, you can only be slaughtered by our army, you can't lose this battle, but you don't know that this king is also like this, this war must not be defeated......
And at this time, on the head of the rampart wall, the sound of gold and iron intersecting, the muffled sound of sharp blades cutting into flesh and blood, and the miserable howl of the soldiers on both sides of the Song and Xia sides being chopped by sharp blades are intertwined again, as the battle becomes more and more intense, the soldiers on both sides hit one place viciously, and a bright red blood flower is splashed everywhere, hundreds of corpses fall straight down the wall, but from the rear there are thousands of people with sharp blades and feet climbing upwards hand and foot, in the blood rain, Xiao Tang pulled out the double knives on his waist, and went straight to meet a warrior of the Xia army who had just climbed to the head of the city, Seeing that it was the commander of the Song Army, the fierce general immediately roared and stepped forward, and then swung his knife and slashed straight at Xiao Tang!
Two dazzling swords flashed out, and the wrist of the Xia Army's fierce general, who was originally going to fight for the first feat, was cut off, and his throat immediately spurted out a fountain of blood! Xiao Tang flew up and kicked him down from the city wall, and then he glared angrily at the enemy foot soldiers who were surging from all directions, and now the generals of the other departments also led their subordinates to pounce on it to resist the offensive of the Xia army, such an urgent situation, Xiao Tang, the commander of the army, can no longer sit in the middle army, he does not advance but retreats, and rushes straight towards the Xia army who have just climbed the wall!