Chapter 44: Two armies with very different circumstances
"Proposed an order, ordered Daofu (Tong Guanzi Daofu) to immediately seize the Xingqing Mansion, as well as the head of Li Qianshun, the pseudo-prince Li Renai, the jade seal of Western Xia, the jade book, and the golden book to Bianjing as soon as possible. Then he ordered Daofu to end the war in Western Xia as soon as possible and recruit the remnants of the Western Thief soldiers......"
Gen Yue, Shangqing Baoqi Palace, Emperor Daojun was a little excited and eager to order, he really needed Tong Guan's money in hand now to save the emergency, and at the same time, he needed the great victory of destroying the Western Xia to boost morale and rebuild the prestige of the imperial court.
It's just that while he was happy, Zhao Ji couldn't help but sigh in his heart, but it was a pity that Liang Shanjun snatched 40 million yuan in vain!
Tong Guan is really useless, the 200,000 Western Army has no way to take Lin Chong's house, not only failed to use the hands of the Western Thieves to severely damage the strength of the Liangshan Army, but let the Liangshan Army divide half of the capture, and also occupy the Hetao Grassland, the best place to raise horses!
How unreasonable!
I knew that Lin Chong would become a big disaster today, and I should have killed that anti-bone boy directly!
Thinking about it with hatred like this, but in fact, Zhao Ji also knew in his heart that who called the Dumen Forbidden Army was completely unbearable, and Liangshanbo was too close to Bianjing, and now the entire center of the imperial court was a hostage of the Liangshan Army.
Besides, Liang Shanjun still has two big killing weapons in his hands, what can Tong Guan do with Lin Chong?
It's just this kind of feeling of being threatened and not being able to sleep day and night, but Zhao Ji doesn't want to spend a day anymore.
"I ordered the Taoist to enter Beijing as soon as possible to offer victory, and I will personally review the meritorious soldiers at the Xuande Gate, and then pay tribute to the Taimiao ......"
Liang Shicheng, the eunuch on the side, nodded again and again, as Zhao Ji's most favored eunuch and an inseparable figure, Liang Shicheng naturally understood the thoughts of this official.
The so-called asking Tong Guan to quickly lead the army into Beijing to offer victory and review meritorious soldiers or something, but I just want Tong Guan to quickly lead troops to escort King Qin.
The Liangshan army is so close, if there is no fighting army in Bianjing City, let alone an official family, even if you can't sleep!
"Damn!"
Just when Zhao Ji was looking forward to Tong Guan day and night that he could lead the troops into the customs to protect the Beijing Division as soon as possible, Tong Guan scolded him in the county seat of Xixia.
"These Western thieves and robbers, the Western Xia has destroyed the country, Li Qianshun is dead, but these guys still have to resist stubbornly and resist the heavenly soldiers, is it really unreasonable, is it not good to bully our Western soldiers?"
Originally, Tong Guan thought that Brother Richard's 200,000 main forces were annihilated, and Xingqing Mansion was breached, and the remaining thieves should be terrified.
After all, since the Battle of Pingxia City, the Western Army has been pressing the Western Thieves to fight, and now the Western Thieves' national capital has been broken, and the main force is lost, what strength can the remaining Western Thieves continue to compete with the Western Army?
With this in mind, not long after the Liangshan army left Xingqing Mansion, Tong Guan immediately sent troops south, and then surrendered all the way along the Hexi Corridor.
Tong Guan opened all the conditions, as long as the Western Thieves were willing to surrender, not only did they not have to die, but they could also join the Song Army, the elite of the Western Thieves would be incorporated into the Western Army, and the local army of the Western Thieves would be incorporated into the Xiang Army.
Tong Guan even promised to protect their private property, and after the surrender of the city, only the treasury property of the state capitals and counties was confiscated.
Of course, this is only a superficial promise, once the whole territory of Western Xia is settled and the army of the Western Thieves is completely controlled, Tong Guan and the generals of the Western Army will still find a way to blackmail and force those Western Thief nobles and wealthy businessmen to pay protection money, and spit out at least half of their family property.
Under such favorable conditions, if the party members are still stubborn and resist the heavenly soldiers, once the city is broken, the chickens and dogs will not be left.
Although many soldiers of the Western Army are addicted to robbing Xingqing Mansion, they feel that it is troublesome and huge losses to surrender, so it is better to simply fight all the way over and grab it.
But Tong Guan chose to surrender to the top and attack the city to the bottom.
For no other reason, Tong Guan really doesn't have time to spend here.
As soon as he came to the court, there were already fires everywhere, and the officials must be waiting for him to bring his troops back to fight the fires; Second, the remnants of the Western Thieves are not so easy to defeat.
You must know that the terrain in this area is easy to defend and difficult to attack, when the Western Xia was not yet established, the party repeatedly fought with the yellow-headed Uighurs who occupied this place for the Hexi Corridor, and was defeated by the yellow-headed Uighurs several times.
Later, the Liao State also took a fancy to this strategic place, and sent 100,000 troops to besiege Ganzhou (Xuanhua Mansion in Western Xia, now Zhangye) for four months, but the result was not defeated, so it had to withdraw from the siege.
In the end, it was Li Yuanhao who took advantage of the withdrawal of the Liao troops, and the yellow-headed Uighurs relaxed their vigilance, and the surprise army suddenly attacked to break it in one fell swoop.
Therefore, if the party members are forced to defend the fortified city all the way, the western army will gnaw down one city after another, and it may not be able to defeat it for a year.
It is better to promise to ensure the personal safety and property safety of the thieves in exchange for their immediate surrender.
Unexpectedly, he had opened the conditions so well, and threatened to slaughter the city, and the thieves in Xiliang Mansion had to resist to the end.
not only refused to surrender, but instead killed Liu Yanqing's Yan Yan army, who ran to persuade him to surrender, and he would fight if he didn't fight.
"The order was ordered, ordering Liu Fa to lead the Xihe army as the vanguard of the army, opening the road in the mountains and building a bridge to Xiliangfu in the water, and then ordering the Huanqing army and Qin Fengjun to rush to Yingli City to meet a certain ...... Ben Shuai is going to wash Xiliang Mansion in blood! ”
Although he didn't want to fight, Tong Guan, who had commanded the army for many years, also knew that if he was beaten and didn't dare to fight back, then the morale of the army would not be wanted.
Not to mention that the whole army was the main battle from the beginning - the imperial court is in danger, what is the matter with our western army, now of course it is important to rob money and take revenge, if you still insist on surrendering, I am afraid that a mutiny is just around the corner!
And Tong Guan also thought about it, they also captured more than 10,000 excellent war horses and thousands of catapults in Xingqing Mansion, when the Liangshan Army did not arrive, they also almost attacked the head of Xingqing Mansion, and now the morale of the whole army is booming, and it should not be difficult to capture Xiliang Mansion.
When the time comes, killing all the defenders of Xiliangfu will surely be able to deter other Western thieves, and it should be much easier to surrender again, right?
It's just that what he didn't know was that at this time, the idea of the defenders of Xiliang Mansion was - the Liangshan army that completely annihilated the 200,000 main forces of His Royal Highness the King of Jin, and it was also the Liangshan army that broke through Xingqing Mansion, and now the Liangshan army has left;
And the Western Army is our century-old blood feud, Your Majesty was also killed by them, and after the city was broken, they burned and looted in Xingqing Mansion, and it was impossible for us to surrender to them!
At this time, Lin Chong also led his troops to the Wuthorn Sea City in the Hetao Grassland, which had been captured by Huyanzhuo, Huarong, Xinmu Duoji, and Aiye Behongshun more than ten days ago.
Completely contrary to the situation of the western army, the defenders here fled in despair, and Hu Yanzhuo and others captured the entire Hetao grassland without much fighting.
This is the temperament of the grassland people, fearing power but not virtue, fearing the strong, surrendering to the strong, and at the same time wantonly bullying the weak, the weak eat the strong.
The 20,000 Liangshan army beat and even finally annihilated Richard's 200,000 Western Xia army, whether it was a cavalry battle, a foot battle, or a night battle, the party army was not an opponent.
In the battle of Provincial Weicheng, the Liangshan Army was even more of a divine soldier, and it only used more than 1,000 soldiers and horses to annihilate the elite of the 8,000 captured army of His Royal Highness King Liang.
At the same time, the Liangshan army was extremely ferocious, and after the battle of Lou Bobei, the Liangshan army cut off the heads of more than 50,000 party "prisoners of war"!
Since you can't beat it, you can't hold it, and the Liangshan army is so cruel, if you don't run, are you still staying here and waiting for death?