Chapter 788: It's hard to ride a tiger
Outside the city of Suide, a large battalion stands on the field, the east of the battalion, the flag is waving, the swords and guns are standing in a forest, countless armies are attacking the battalion, there are countless rockets in the air breaking through the air, bursts of explosions are launched in the battalion, and the screams are spread far and wide.
The camp had long been in tatters, but the soldiers of Western Xia still held on to the front to stop the attack of Li Jing's army, even in the face of a killing. The shield on the fence covered all the gaps, and only between the shields were spears to resist the attack of Li Jing's army. Sometimes, some rockets would hit the hole, making a burst of explosions that killed the Tangut soldiers around the hole, but most of them were injured by gunpowder.
Those who are attentive will notice that there is still a distance of dozens of paces between the fence and the tent, and there are faint traces of burns on the ground. This was burned by the Li Tang rocket.
A moment later, the sound of gold sounded in the distance, and the infantry and cavalry of Li Tang's army, which was attacking in the distance, covered each other and slowly withdrew from the battlefield. The soldiers in the Xixia camp all collapsed to the ground, and their faces could not hide their tiredness. Days of incessant attacks left the Western Xia army physically and mentally exhausted. More importantly, the offensive methods of Li Tang's army were endless, and the use of various gunpowder had reached the peak state of this era.
"Your Majesty, this Renduo Baozhong is really a fierce general, and we attacked like this, but we didn't take his camp." Luan Tingyu looked at the big camp in the distance with some impatience, the tattered camp was like a rock in the sea, no matter how Li Tang attacked, he couldn't help the other party.
In fact, as long as he attacked slightly, Renduo Baozhong could not resist it, but every time at the end, Li Jing would order the withdrawal of the army, making the army's attack fall short.
"If you don't give the other party some hope, how can you drag the other party back?" Li Jing shook his head and said, "Although our weapons are advanced. However, the cooperation of the army is still weaker, and the soldiers still have some doubts about our firearms, otherwise we would have been able to capture his camp in the first attack. ”
"Isn't the king going to cut off Brother Mingcha's back road?" Hua Rong couldn't help but say.
"At this time, if the way back is cut off, he will definitely withdraw from other directions, once he knows that we can't defeat Rinda Baozhong, he will hold on to luck, they will join Rinda Baozhong, when Wei Mingchage retreats, it is when we attack." Li Jing said: "After Boyan in the north captures Heishui City, he will attack from the back road of Renduo Baozhong, and Li Qiao's tens of thousands of soldiers and horses will follow closely behind Brother Wei Mingcha, and after they converge, they will attack from three sides, and destroy the most elite soldiers and horses of Western Xia in one fell swoop." ”
"The king is wise." Zhu Wu touched his beard and said: "Brother Wei Mingcha knows that this is a trap, but in order to save Renduo's loyal soldiers and horses, he can only come, otherwise, General Boyan's cavalry will directly enter the hinterland of Western Xia." ”
"Your Majesty, the Taiyuan Harrier Eagle has sent a message." In the distance, a Pegasus of Jerod came and shouted loudly.
"Let's go, let's see what's going on in Taiyuan." Li Jing frowned, and led the generals to fly away.
In the distance, at the gate, Renduo Baozhong's face was tired, his gray beard moved with the wind, he looked at the army opposite with a solemn face, although the army was slowly retreating, but the evil air above the army shrouded the sky, Renduo Baozhong couldn't help but sigh.
"Father." His son, Rindo Jinghai, came over and said, "More than 3,000 soldiers were killed and wounded in this battle, and about 5,000 were wounded. The morale of the army has been dealt a serious blow. ”
"Li Jing is insidious and ruthless, he can obviously break through our camp, but he hasn't done it yet, do you know what's going on?" Renduo Baozhong said in a low voice: "He wants to lure the King of Jin to come to our rescue, and then wipe out our Great Xia soldiers and horses." ”
"Father, I heard that Blackwater City has been lost." Renduo Jinghai glanced around and said, "It was Li Jing's subordinate Boyan who led 100,000 iron cavalry to cross the Heishui and capture Heishui City, and the gate of Xingqing Mansion has been opened. You said, will Boyan's army attack Xingqing Mansion? ”
"No, they're just coming back to wipe out our army." Renduo Baozhong shook his head and said, "If we are not destroyed, Li Jing will not easily attack Western Xia." He would definitely be waiting for the arrival of Brother Mingcha. He wanted to settle the matter with a war, and he didn't want to waste a lot of time on us. ”
"King Jin can completely withdraw from other places?" Renduo Jinghai thought for a while and said.
"If he withdraws, our tens of thousands of troops will be surrounded and annihilated by Li Jing, not to mention, our surname is Renduo, and the Renduo family should not all die here, otherwise, he will face the revenge of our Renduo family, so he has to come; Not to mention, he just wants to break through from other directions, and he also needs Li Jing's consent. Nito shook his head.
The Renduo family is a big family in the Western Xia Kingdom, after getting rid of the Li family and the Liang family, it is the Renduo family, if Brother Wei Mingcha is loyal to Renduo and does not save him, it will definitely cause the hostility of the Renduo family, in the case of Li Jing's army pressing the border, the Xixia Kingdom must be united, how can such a thing happen. Therefore, Renduo Baozhong thought that Brother Wei Mingcha would definitely come to save him.
"What about the father?" Renduo Jinghai's face suddenly showed joy, if Brother Wei came to the rescue, he couldn't make sure that he could still have a glimmer of life, you must know that behind his back, the soldiers had already been killed, and it was difficult for tens of thousands of troops to withdraw, so they could only wait for death here.
"It's a pity that our family is in Xingqing Mansion!" Renduo Baozhong couldn't help but sigh and said: "The emperor is young, the Uighurs rebelled, the king of Jin has not eliminated the Uighurs in the northwest, has not killed Xiao Heda, and the northwest border is also unstable. And those firearms, how can they resist. ”
Renduo Baozhong thought of the rockets shot from the sky, and suddenly shuddered, when he fought with the Zhao Song army in the past, there would also be rockets, but Zhao Song's rockets were only used to deter the enemy, and the role of cheering was relatively large, and for the Western Xia army, it was also longer than the ordinary bow and arrow range.
However, Li Jing's rocket not only shoots a long distance, but more importantly, it can also explode, even a shield can't resist the opponent's rocket, the explosion of the rocket is enough to kill the enemy, and the fire generated by the rocket is enough to burn the flammable materials in a radius of several feet. The first time Renduo Baozhong encountered such a rocket, he suffered a big loss, if it wasn't for his soldiers fighting bravely to kill the enemy, I am afraid that Li Jing would have attacked the camp in the first battle.
To be honest, Renda is a little scared now.