Chapter Thirty-Four: The Western Army, Where Time Waits for No Person
Lin Chong was slightly stunned, and quickly reacted, the destruction of the Western Xia and the defeat of the Western Army of Xingqing Mansion were indeed indispensable, and the Liangshan Army really couldn't take advantage of all the benefits.
Although at the beginning, Lin Chong did not think about monopolizing the benefits, but after seizing the treasury and palace of Western Xia, he took all the benefits in his hands, and then slowly discussed the distribution with the Western Army.
Now that we've said that, we might as well make it clear in advance.
"What Xuan Shuai said is right, but Lin Chong is quick to speak, and I ask all the ministers of the Western Army to forgive me."
Lin Chong changed his words and returned to the topic: "But since Xuan Shuai agreed to do everything possible to eliminate evil in Western Xia and take the initiative to help the Liangshan army attack the city, then we might as well assign the siege task." ”
Tong Guanjian said that he was naturally interested, and it happened that all the ministers of the Western Army were also there, and everyone quickly discussed.
It was also simple to assign the task of attacking, and soon the two sides reached an agreement, the Liangshan army attacked the Xicheng district of the outer city of Xingqing Prefecture, and the western army attacked the Dongcheng district of the outer city, and all the captures were their own.
The inner city of Xingqing Mansion and the imperial city were attacked by the combined forces of both sides, and all the seizures, including the treasury of Xingqing Mansion and the inner treasury of the Imperial Palace, were not allowed to be privately swallowed, and they must be concentrated together and then distributed.
It's just that the two sides have disagreed on the distribution ratio.
Tong Guan means that according to the head, as long as all the soldiers who participated in this battle to destroy the Western Xia, even if all the people who have been killed or injured in the battle, they will be counted as one, how many people are in total, and then divide the capture into how many parts, one for each person, it is absolutely fair.
Lin Chong resolutely objected, according to the number of people, the Liangshan army could only count 30,000 people at most, while the western army said 178,000 or even 200,000 people.
There is no way to count the heads, you can only count the numbers in the military register, there are too many cats in it, and each minister of the Western Army will naturally try his best to fight for the interests of his own command.
Lin Chong's proposal was that all the seizures of the inner city and the imperial palace should be directly divided into half of the Liangshan Army and the Western Army, which was simple and convenient.
Tong Guan naturally disagreed, his face turned red on the spot, if he wasn't afraid of Liang Shanjun's gunpowder bullets and continuous firing divine arm bow, Tong Guan would even turn his face and curse.
The results of decades of bloody battles of the Western Army, this time the Western Army and the imperial court also contributed the most, paid a huge price, and even emptied the treasury.
Although he was far away in Kansai, Tong Guan was still very concerned about what happened in Bianjing, not to mention that in order to support the battle to destroy the summer, the imperial court had twice overissued tens of millions of banknotes, which made prices soar and the people of the world complained.
Now the official family and the imperial court are waiting for the war dividends to destroy the Western Xia to make up for the previous deficit.
The result is good, hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Western Army have worked hard for more than two years in a row, and it has been a year and a half since the conquest of Hengshan, and the imperial court has exhausted most of its national strength.
Now that the Liangshan army has 30,000 cavalry, it will be less than a month after arriving in Kansai, and it will be shared equally with the Western army and the imperial court, is there anything more shameless in the world?
Lin Chong refused to back down at all, and he didn't feel embarrassed at all.
Because only he knows that in the original historical time and space, the battle of Song and Xia was also a good situation at the beginning, but under the rash advance of Tong Guan's light enemy, Liu Fa led 20,000 soldiers and horses as the vanguard in Tong'an City was ambushed by Richard Brother and was almost wiped out, and the Song army suffered nearly 100,000 casualties (after Richard Ge's victory, the follow-up troops of the Song army were completely unprepared to be killed by surprise), and even Liu Fa was cut off by a small soldier.
As a result, the morale of the Western Xia rose instantly, while the Western Army was "afraid of the generals", the morale was depressed, and the good situation was reversed, and the Song Dynasty had to make peace with the Western Xia again.
Later, Tong Guan listened to Zhao Liangsi's words and thought that the Liao State was weak and could be bullied, so he encouraged Zhao Ji to fight the Liao State, but as soon as the soldiers and horses were assembled, Fang La rebelled, and Tong Guan had to take the Western Army south to Jiangnan to quell the rebellion.
After quelling the Fangla Rebellion, the Western Army was already very tired, and was dragged to the north to invade the Liao State, but once again because of the light enemy, they were defeated by Yelu Dashi and Xiao Huili Bao with fewer victories and more defeats.
Then the Jin soldiers went south, the shame of Jingkang, the elite of the Western Army first rescued Taiyuan and was surrounded by the Jurchens to send reinforcements in vain, and then the battle of Fuping was lost.
However, the Western Xia, who was almost wiped out, took advantage of this opportunity not only to capture most of the Kansai, but also to slaughter and loot the city along the way, and even dug up the ancestral graves of the family and the broken family.
Speaking of which, these are all because of themselves that changed the trajectory of history, and this is why today's Western Xia, a country of robbers, has fallen.
And on the matter, if it weren't for the Liangshan army coming to help, just relying on the Western Army and the Western thieves to fight each other, I don't know who wins and who loses?
"I can't say that, it's not Lin Chong's boasting, even if there is no Western Army to defeat Western Xia, it is enough to have 30,000 cavalry of my Liangshan Army; Without the Liangshan Army, it is unknown whether the Western Army can conquer Xingqing Mansion.
Xuan Shuai attacked the city day and night, and he couldn't attack the city for several days, as evidenced by the fact that Liang Shanjun carried Brother Richard's head to Xingqing Mansion and was immediately captured!
And even if Xingqing Mansion is broken, the main force of the Western Thieves is still there, and the Western Army wants to completely pacify the Western Xia, and I don't know what year and month it will be! ”
Tong Guan couldn't help but be angry when he saw Lin Chong despise the Western Army so much, but it was inconvenient to attack, so Liu Yanqing immediately argued loudly: "Lin Jiedu despises my Western Army soldiers too much!" We can't capture Xingqing Mansion, we really don't want to have too many casualties, and when the food in Xingqing Mansion is exhausted, it will naturally be easy to break the city! ”
Lin Chong did not mean to despise the Western Army, but Liu Xianggong himself said that the Western Army did not have the gunpowder weapon of the Liangshan Army, and the strong attack on the fortified city of Xingqing Mansion was bound to suffer heavy casualties. So you want to wait until the city runs out of food, but you just ......"
Lin Chong paused, saw that the light catapults were already in place, and roared with Wu Song: "Ignition...... Launch! ”
Countless small clay pots weighing five or six catties immediately flew into the sky and landed above the inner city wall, exploding with a bang.
"Boom Boom Boom Boom ......"
After the loud noise, there was no one on the city wall who could stand, and Wu Song immediately ordered people to start stuffing gunpowder into the city gate hole.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lin Chong glanced at the generals of the Western Army, and finally his eyes fell on Tong Guan, and said lightly: "It's just that you don't have much time!" On the side of the court...... You may not know it yet, but I think Tong Xuanshuai, Tong Shu's Counsellor should be clear in his heart. ”
Everyone was a little puzzled, I have to say that in the past two years, especially since the capture of Shuofang in the early autumn of last year, they have almost devoted all their energy to the battle to destroy Xia, and the court really doesn't know much about it.
So Liu Fa asked with a puzzled face: "Xuan Shuai, what is the urgent matter on the side of the imperial court?" ”