Chapter 251: Take the initiative to retreat

A small Miaojiazhuang actually caused such a big loss to the elite troops, and the Yunyi Army also fell, this is just a second-rate forbidden army, these families are gathered from dozens of families, basically generals, or wealthy families.

It is already an open secret that the Northern Song Dynasty generals kept soldiers in captivity, as long as they do not hoard armaments wantonly, for example, strong bows and crossbows, long-range killing weapons, or heavy infantry weapons such as infantry armor, in fact, there are more family members, nothing.

There are thousands of people in the big family, not to mention the family, there are thousands of people in each branch, and the tradition of the gate is mainly cultivated, and those who can come out are all strong.

With such a force of 6,000 people, plus the 8,000 forbidden army equipment he transferred over, it can be said that in the entire Northern Song Dynasty, no force could defeat them at all under the premise of the same number, or a little more, and even to a certain extent, a part of the forbidden army or box army could be rapidly expanded.

This one, in order to increase Wei Gui's power, in order to prevent Sun Ji from escaping with Zhao Xin's strength, folded Changsha in front of Miaojiazhuang, and lost a total of 6,000 people, which is unacceptable, and even the elite family team also lost almost 3,000.

This is equivalent to half, for Wang Deyong, he is also a little difficult to explain, these are elite, and the loss of one-tenth of it is already a broken muscle, let alone half.

Why is this so, the fortress that has been added out of thin air, how can there be such a strong defense, and those special archers, where did they come from, these are all questions.

But at this moment, he has no other way to think of, since even Wang Xiansong took the initiative to ask, he doesn't know the speed of the soldiers, Wang Xiansong is also among the personnel sent to Baozhou by the Wang family, the only one who knows the purpose of this battle, his purpose is a child less than 4 years old.

Everything else can be discarded, but this is the only one that must be won.

Wang Deyong had clearly instructed Wang Xiansong that they only had one month at most, and now they would rather delay their time to seek guidance, which implies that they could no longer win with their own abilities.

The siege of 13,000 people suffered heavy losses, and on the premise of not knowing the terrible things about this fortress, how could the remaining seven or eight thousand people fight, especially the main force of the siege, a large number of losses, basically no longer have the ability to storm strongly.

Wang Deyong understands all this, at this time, he has handed over the right to choose, to be honest, he has been in a high position for many years, he knows very well that at this moment, retiring from the army is the only choice, and even a large number of family members must leave, and clean up the traces, these will take time.

Han Qi's movements were a little faster than he expected, maybe within a week, he could reach Baozhou, and the surrounding troops were also deployed in place, even if he forcibly ordered an attack, it would only take less than three or four days to capture such an unimaginable fortress in three or four days, which was impossible.

This is not the first time Wang Deyong has made the decision to give up, but it makes him extremely uncomfortable, a small three-year-old child, and a royal device that is not in his eyes.

Sun Ji's identity is relatively high among ordinary soldiers, and even among the low-level officers of the Great Song Dynasty, but the big-headed soldier is the big-headed soldier, and his identity is far inferior to the level of the general, and the current level has also risen to the top, unless he is willing to decentralize, re-lead the troops from the grassroots level, and then rise up through military merits.

As a big man who has reached the top in the Northern Song Dynasty army and is almost in the top few in the military, he doesn't take Sun Ji very seriously.

But it was this little big-headed soldier who actually made him suffer such a big loss, and the rebellion needed to pay a price, and the thousands of families lost were the same, and there were even some butts to wipe.

Deciding Wang Deyong made a quick decision and ordered all the Wang family system, as well as those that were not in the Yunyi Army system, to withdraw immediately, and Wei Gui needed to continue to burn the flames of war, since Miaojiazhuang couldn't fight it, then he wouldn't fight, but around, he must let him beat his prestige.

Han Qi's counterinsurgency army is still on land, and Wang Deyong's order is still on the way, relatively speaking, Wang Deyong's speed is much faster, because it is a flying pigeon to pass the book.

In the fortress, it was much calmer, and the rebels below no longer attacked, which was expected by Zhao Xin and Sun Ji, and Sun Ji had no way to attack in the face of such a situation, and the main force lost nearly half of it all of a sudden, and he had not yet found out the bottom here, how to fight.

With a deeper understanding of the horror of the fortress, if the fortress is reduced to a quarter to a fifth of its current size, and 3,500 soldiers are stationed, even if tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands, how can it capture this fortress.

Even if you take the outer city wall and the fortress, it is very difficult, not to mention the inside, in this battle, the internal knowledge is shallow, but the unique arrangement, traps, and flexible transfer methods, as long as the soldiers come in, divided into different rooms, they can use many methods, annihilation, 500 people can be used as 5000 people, such a city defense, is not at all able to capture in a short time, under the premise of cutting off the backup, the soldiers who are isolated in the fortress, It becomes a source of water, a tree without roots, and a weapon of mass destruction like a tree cannon, which is a nightmare. ,

To tell the truth, if someone had told him before that with the help of a city, a thousand people could withstand the attack of tens of thousands of people, he would definitely think it was a fantasy, or simply a peasant army, with no tactics or siege equipment.

But Miaojiazhuang did it, he had tried his best to overestimate the defensive strength of the fortress, but in fact, in the face of the strength of the fortress, he still underestimated that this fortress would not only not be a small point similar to the stockade, but would become the strongest defense focus in the region, even if there were only three or five hundred people, even if it was besieged by the enemy's army, it would become the strongest fulcrum of regional defense.

To put it mildly, the fortress may be captured, but the price of capturing him is probably 10 times, or even 20 times the casualties, such casualties, not to mention a small Western Xia, even if it is the Liao State, it can't bear it.

In fact, Sun Ji still underestimated the fortress, which in Europe, in hundreds of years, was captured by the opportunity, few defenses, but also after Zhao Xin's transformation, some street battles and tunnel warfare theories, applied to the fortress.

The defenders can adapt to the situation, change some internal passages, divide and block the enemy, which can enrich the defense line, and even some unique arrangements, which can kill and injure the enemy on a large scale, facing a strong, pervasive defense line, the army of this era has no ability to resist at all, let alone capture.

The fortress also began to rise from this battle, with real, bloody examples, proved his terrible, and after argumentation and research, it also became the most powerful defensive weapon in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Before, the defense of the Northern Song Dynasty was strong, but it was not desperate, but after having a fortress, it was really desperate, a fortress with enough grain and grass logistics materials, even if there were only 800 people, but it resisted the attack of 200,000 troops, and finally, a year later, the 200,000 army lost 40,000, and the fortress was not damaged at all, and it was still in the hands of the Northern Song Dynasty, which bought enough time for the army of the Northern Song Dynasty.

The flying pigeon passed the book, compared to the march, it was still much faster, when Han Qi led the army, just out of the Daimyo Mansion one day, the letter was transmitted to Wang Xiansong's hands, even if he had been prepared, but he really saw that it was a special secret seal, which belonged to Wang Deyong's command letter, he still sighed.

It ended, and it took several months of effort, a lot of materials, manpower and material resources, and even suffered huge losses in this battle, which ended in failure.

Like the previous person in charge, Wang Xiansong's next fate is over, such a big responsibility, someone must bear it, and Wang Xiansong is one of them.

However, Wang Xiansong still has the last shift, Wang Deyong said very clearly, Han Qi has already led the army to set off, even if Wei Guiding is in front, they must cut off all the clues of the Wang family's involvement.

It's not difficult, this is a rebellion, deal with some people, and then after a certain amount of confusion, such as the method of catching strong men, although the family members are outstanding, they are quite low-key, except for some people who must be contacted, others don't notice them at all.

The only thing that must be considered is those who may be captured by Miaojiazhuang, but under the premise of no evidence, it is impossible to count on this Wang family who threatens it, and when choosing, they are either loyal or have no clues, even if they themselves can't say clearly.

Wang Xiansong told their requirements, and Wei Gui also understood that the worst ending that he had been waiting for had finally arrived, and the other party was obviously dissociating from the relationship, and he would bear the final consequences, although it was said before, but he was more or less unwilling.

Over the next few days, the barracks began to shrink, and some of the captured young men were ordered to put on their armor and become part of the rebels.

Seeing that Miaojiazhuang, which was lively in itself, had become an empty city, Sun Ji even went to check it, but there was no trace, and it was obvious that the other party had given up.

Miaojiazhuang was kept like this, but the Baozhou Mutiny was not completely over, whether it was Sun Ji or Zhao Xin, they all judged that the Baozhou Mutiny would rise by one level in the future, it was originally only near Baozhou City and Miaojiazhuang, and now it will expand outward, Wei Gui will show the craziest side, and at the same time cover up the clues of the Wang family's involvement.

So a big and small problem was put in front of them, that is, what to do with these captives, I have to say, these captives will be a means to attack the Wang family, but Wang Deyong is so easy to deal with, they will not think of a way, and to figure out what they can interrogate from their mouths, it will be difficult, since it can't be solved, then don't solve it, Zhao Xin simply gave up and waited for the entry of the counterinsurgency army.