Chapter 554: The battle under the city of Chengdu begins
Outside the city of Chengdu, the Western Xia army was stationed ten miles away, and the city of Chengdu was stained with blood, and the broken military flags were hunting in the strong wind.
The Song army, which had just experienced the siege of the Western Xia army, although exhausted, stood solemnly on the city tower and waited for it, not daring to slack off in the slightest.
Although the night was quiet, the breath of war in the air was breathless.
At this time, Wu Ting, who was the pacification envoy of the West Road, climbed the city tower accompanied by his brother Wu Shan. Wu Ting looked at the boundless Xixia camp in the distance, but his face was extremely solemn.
"Big brother, the Western Xia army is now here, presumably they have to wait for the Khitan Liao soldiers to join them, which is really bad for us......"
The analysis of his brother Wu Shan made Wu Ting sigh helplessly: "Yes, the soldiers and horses of the party have already connected several states, and the 200,000 troops are now in the city, which has made me helpless, if the Liao soldiers converge with it again, the fall of Chengdu City will also be overnight!" ”
"Alas, if it weren't for the fortifications of the Yangtze River that occupied the main strength of my Sichuan and Shu army, our Sichuan and Shu men would also have the background to compete with it. Now there are only 60,000 soldiers and horses defending the city, how can they resist the 200,000 tiger and wolf army outside the city......"
Wu Ting held the hilt of the sword in his hand, looked up at the night sky and said to himself: "I hope that God will have mercy on my Great Song and bless my Great Song to escape this catastrophe!" ”
"Big brother, why don't you send those 30,000 elites from Qianzhou?"
"You mean them?"
Wu Shan nodded and said solemnly: "Exactly, those 30,000 elite foolish brothers have seen it, and it is definitely ......."
"Okay, don't talk about it, that army has no right to be mobilized for my brother, let me ask you, is there any news about him in the capital?" Wu Ting frowned slightly, revealing a trace of impatience.
"Recently, I got the news that Ye Yu has been crowned King Zhong, this kid is really lucky, I didn't expect it to be a wild dragon species......"
When Wu Ting heard the news, he immediately frowned slightly, and nodded: "My Wu family is finally not on the wrong side, this person will become a great weapon in the future!" ”
What the elder brother said was extremely true, but the court gave him all the hopes, and the foolish brother felt that it seemed to be a little hasty. Imagine a young boy who has not dried up, how can I wait for the border generals to deal with themselves? ”
"Hehe, if you really come into contact with him, you will feel that this person is extraordinary, and you will pin all your hopes on him, although it is a little too dependent and sloppy, but it is also well deserved!"
After Wu Ting laughed, he said coldly: "In the future, it would be better to say less about such rebellious words, now he is a loyal king, and he may be the Son of Heaven in the future, since my Wu family has chosen, I must do my duty as a courtier!" ”
"Yes, my brother taught me a lesson!"
Just as the two were talking, a family general hurriedly climbed the tower.
"Wu Shuai, there is a secret letter!"
"Oh? Submit it quickly! ”
Wu Ting took the secret letter, and read the contents of the secret letter by the flickering fire on the city tower, and then shook his head and was silent.
Wu Shan, who was beside him, was puzzled when he saw this, so he asked: "Brother, did the imperial court send troops to reinforce my West Road fortress?" ”
"Reinforcements? Now that Jiankang and other places are already in jeopardy, and the imperial court is already without soldiers to send, what reinforcements are there there!? Wu Ting said, and put the secret letter on the torch and burned it.
"That ......"
"Don't ask more, the order goes down to all the soldiers to wait for the day, there will be a bloody battle tomorrow!"
"Yes!"
At dawn the next day, Wu Ting led an army of 30,000 to open a formation outside the city, and took the initiative to fight to the death with the main force of Western Xia outside the city.
In the tent of the three armies of the Western Xia, the emperor of the Western Xia, Li Renyou, sat in the tent of the Chinese army, and there were two people standing on one side, Luo Wanming, the prime minister of the Western Xia, dressed as a scribe, and the other was the real commander of the three armies.
"Emperor Qiqi, now the Song army guarding Chengdu has gone out of the city to meet the battle, and the last general is not willing to lead the troops to conquer Chengdu today, approaching the hinterland of the south of the Yangtze River!"
Li Renyou did not give an expression, but cast an inquiring glance at Luo Wanming.
Luo Wanming immediately understood, so he pondered: "Your Majesty, with the current situation of our army, it is expected that the Song army will also be difficult to contend with, but Weichen feels that today's situation is a little weird!" ”
"Yes, I also think this matter is too strange, this general who guards Chengdu is Wu Ting, although the three generations of the Wu family are not like amazing and brilliant generals, but the name of good guard has been passed down for a long time. It is precisely because of this that I am not in a hurry to conquer Chengdu City, and now this Wu Ting has taken the initiative to go out of the city to meet the enemy, which is obviously an extremely unwise choice! ”
"In the emperor's opinion, this ......"
Li Renyou hesitated for a moment, and then his face sank: "Since the Song army took the initiative to fight, how can my Great Xia Xiong soldiers stagnate, and I order you to take Chengdu City today to strengthen the prestige of our army!" ”
"The last general commands!"
"Weichen thinks it's still ......"
Luo Wanming was about to persuade a few words, but was stopped by Li Renyou's sleeves: "The Song army is weak and vulnerable, my Great Xia generals are thousands, and the warriors are like forests, no matter what conspiracy the Song army has, it will eventually be crushed by my Great Xia iron hooves!" ”
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In order to crush the 30,000 Song troops outside Chengdu with lightning speed, Ji Siyi directly dispatched the most elite Iron Harrier in Western Xia this time.
The Iron Harrier is a heavy cavalry unit founded by Li Yuanhao of Jingzong of Western Xia.
This cavalry was well-armed, and could not penetrate on good horses, heavy armor, and stabs, and was twisted with hooks and cables, although it did not fall on a dead horse. In case of battle, the iron cavalry will break through the formation first, and the chaos will impact it; The infantry marched on horseback.
This cavalry was the fiercest cavalry in the world before the appearance of the Mongol iron cavalry that dominated the world.
This elite army, in the two battles of Lingzhou and Yongle City that year, caused the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty to be slaughtered by the Western Xia for more than 600,000!
The well-trained Iron Harrier, who was not alarmed in case of trouble, gave an order, and quickly set out to come up towards the Song army.
The rumbling sound was endless, and the iron harrier was dispatched, and the momentum was shocking, and an earth-shattering sound broke out, shaking the ground to tremble.
Wu Ting looked at the heavy army of Western Xia rushing from afar, and his face showed a solemn expression, because in the face of this kind of heavy vanguard like a crusher, facing the enemy head-on was simply hitting a stone with an egg.
But now he had no choice, so he ordered the three armies to prepare to meet the enemy head-on.
"Are your knives sharpened quickly?"
"It's fast enough to cut off the heads of a hundred party dogs!"
"Are your spears sharp enough?"
"You can poke the assholes of a hundred Tibetan people!"
"Are your bows and arrows calibrated?"
"It's accurate, you can shoot a party dog in the eye a hundred steps away!"
"Dashuai, we're all ready! Kill the dogs! Kill the dogs! ”
"Kill the dog! Kill the dogs! ”
Wu Ting raised his hand to stop the crowd's excited shouts for war: "As a soldier, we should not be afraid of life and death, let us fight to defend the Great Song Dynasty today, even if we are broken, we must try to protect our homeland from destruction!" ”
"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”
In the wind, the sound of the hooves of the Western Xia cavalry was faintly heard......
Wu Ting took the big knife handed by the deputy general, raised the war knife and shouted: "Sons, prepare to fight!" ”
The Song army's fighting spirit also resonated with the Western Xia soldiers who came from afar, this is the boiling blood ignited on the battlefield, and it is the kind of longing for a showdown.
At this moment, the blood of the battle is boiling rapidly, killing more than 10,000 enemies is not worth exciting for him, and being able to fight against a famous general of the same level is something worth looking forward to as a famous general in Western Xia.
The three generations of the Wu family, although their military exploits are not as outstanding as Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and others, but their ability to defend the frontier is incomparable to Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and others.
This is also the reason why for many years, Sichuan and Shu have been close to the Western Xia, the Tibetan tribes, and the Dali tripartite forces, but they have been able to live in peace.
"Warriors, wash your swords with the blood of Song Niang!"
With a bloody shout, he responded to the wild shouts of tens of thousands of troops behind him!
It's close! It's close!
On the battlefield, there are no rounds of duel between the generals in the novel Romance, nor the chattering and insulting of the two armies in front of each other, some are just fleeting excellent fighters.
Therefore, when the army approached the Song army array, Yu Siyi drew his sword from the exquisite scabbard, pointed in the direction of the Song army formation, and shouted: "Blow the trumpet!" ”
Then, the dull trombone in the Western Xia army broke the silence of the early morning, and under the faint cold dew, the hordes of cavalry rushed towards the Song camp.
In the face of the Western Xia iron cavalry rushing, the Song army's nerves were tense and solemn, and they formed multiple teams of arrow formations in a hurry, and the long-haired shields were lined up in front of the team to form a barrier fortification.
After the Western Xia cavalry entered the firing range, Wu Ting gave an order to release arrows in an instant, and several Western Xia riders who rushed in front of him with long hair in high suddenly rolled off their horses.
The Xixia people were suddenly furious, and they all returned the color, and the long hair thrown in their hands was like a rain of arrows, and was thrown into the military formation of the Song army, and suddenly the Song army was killed and wounded, and even the shield barrier arranged in front of it was also pierced by sharp long hair.
"Catch up! Slaughter them! ”
"Kill them all!"
As the Western Xia iron cavalry quickly approached, Wu Ting raised his arms, the crossbowmen retreated to the rear, and the 10,000 ironclad troops of the Wu clan in Sichuan and Shu rushed to the front.
Wu Ting dragged the long knife and pointed ahead and shouted: "Rush!" ”
Suddenly, the dust and smoke were everywhere, and the flames of war were filled, and the sound of Jin Ge Iron Horse killing shook the sky in an instant.
Hand-to-hand combat, almost hand-to-hand, blood stained the yellow earth under his feet. The neighing of the horses trampled the corpses beneath their feet, blood soaking through the dirt and moistening the parched grass.
The Western Xia Iron Harrier is indeed a human flesh crusher, no less than the Iron Floating Slaughter of the Jin Kingdom. Just a charge, it had already driven the Song army through an irreparable hole.
The fierce fighting between the two armies had already caused heavy losses to the Song army in just one hour.
"Withdraw!" Looking at the iron harrier who was about to come up from the black press, Wu Ting decisively ordered a retreat.
Because Wu Ting knew very well what his mission was, and if the Iron Harriers of the Western Xia Army formed an encirclement, even if he wanted to evacuate at that time, he would probably suffer heavy casualties.
With a sharp whistle, the Song army, which was slashing and killing, suddenly turned their horses' heads together and began to retreat!
The Song army moved quickly, and withdrew as soon as it said it would withdraw, never dragging mud and water, and soon disappeared......