Seeing the tide of the Western Xia soldiers and horses under the city reced, Han Shizhong was also a little tired and leaned on the city wall. If it had been a few days ago, he would have given them another ride with a strong bow.

After more than a dozen days of stubborn defense, the soldiers defending the city exhausted their physical strength. As soon as the enemy retreats, seize the time to recharge and prepare for the next battle.

After the siege of the Western Xia soldiers and horses, the first few days were just to test the attack of the surname, and then they attacked from all sides. More than half of the Western Xia suffered casualties, and less than 10,000 of the 30,000 Western troops in the city remained. The nine sons of Liu Zhongwu, the commander of the army, folded five.

Han Shizhong is thirty-three years old this year, joined the army at the age of seventeen, and has been sixteen years so far, but he is still a military general who does not enter the stream.

When he first joined the army, he was a general, but his merit book was discounted, and his future merits always came and went. A few days ago, he captured Fang La, and was taken away by Xin Xingzong, and was almost disposed of by military regulations.

When Han Shizhong heard that Liangshan soldiers and horses raided Tokyo and destroyed the Song Dynasty, Han Shizhong's first thought was to be happy, not happy that the Song Dynasty was destroyed, but that the credit that Xin Xingzong had grabbed was useless.

The army rushed back night and night, and Han Shizhong heard that the old man had already returned to Daliang, and called on all the generals of the Western Army to return to Daliang and resist the Western Xia together.

Han Shizhong had an idea to go under the command of the old man.

Liu Yanqing didn't dare to stand up for the exploits of his subordinates, and he was the head of the people. He was promoted under the command of the old breed and the minister, and the minister was dismissed, and he exercised the rights of the minister as the head of the Yan Road, but he was close to the eunuch Tong Guan.

Fighting under the command of such a person, he worked hard to make meritorious contributions, but in the end he didn't know who was cheaper. So when Han Shizhong was about to run away to join the old man, the Song Dynasty had already fallen, and he was not considered a deserter even if he really ran away.

When he was about to run away with a few henchmen, he heard Liu Yanqing agree to return to the Liang, which was the voice of the soldiers under his command.

One is because the old breed has a very high prestige in Yanyan Road, and the families of the two are in the northwest, and now only Daliang can support the Western Army, which is the best choice now. Since the old people said that they could defeat the Western Xia, then they would not consider surrendering to the Western Xia.

Han Shizhong did not run away, and proposed to Liu Yanqing to bring troops to reinforce the old breed and the old man.

Liu Yanqing also knew that the troubled times were coming, and he thought that he had no ability to compete in the world, and he just wanted to choose a person who was most likely to dominate the world. The most powerful in the world are Chao Gai, Wang Qing, Tian Hu, Tong Guan, although Wang Qing and Tian Hu are not small, but in the eyes of the Western Army, the two are just one side of the grass, and they don't need more, 20,000 Western troops can exterminate them. On their way back, they received a letter from Tong Guan that Jiangnan had built a Southern Song Dynasty. Liu Yanqing is also not optimistic about Tong Guan, without the support of the Western Army, he can't afford to make any waves, not to mention the remnants of Fang La.

Only Chao Gai seems to have the most atmosphere of the lord of the world, and in the past two years, he has gathered a lot of people's hearts for Tianxingdao, and defeated the conscription of 200,000 Song Dynasty troops, and there should be an elite army under his command. After conquering Tokyo, he gained the wealth of Tokyo, and most importantly, he gained the support of the old breed and the old man.

In Liu Yanqing's view, whoever has the support of the Western Army has the best hope of dominating the world, and the Hebei Border Army and the Jiangnan Army have long been decayed and have no combat effectiveness. Even if it was defeated by the Western Xia, the remnants of the Western Army would inevitably withdraw to the Central Plains, and it would be impossible for everyone to fight to the death.

At that time, it is probably the Western Army that will decide the ownership of the world, and the most influential in the Western Army is the old race and the old one.

He was also worried that getting close to Tong Guan in the past two years would make the old man dissatisfied, and wanted to make up for it, but the old man asked him to go back to defend the Yan Road, and he didn't dare to delay the military affairs.

Seeing that Han Shizhong volunteered to go to the front line, he immediately gave Han Shizhong a thousand men and asked him to listen to the order of the old breed and the minister.

So Han Shizhong was sent by the old minister to suppress the army.

Seeing that the Xixia people below came to pick up the corpse, Han Shizhong also picked up a corpse and threw it down.

The rest of the soldiers also threw down the corpses on the city and let the Tanguts pick them up.

Even if there were brothers who died at the hands of the Tanguts, the soldiers did not put a single arrow, which was a tradition in the Northwest Battlefield. Unless they are defeated and have no time to pick up the bodies of their comrades, they will definitely pick up the bodies and bury them. This is a consolation to my comrades, and it is also a consolation to myself, maybe tomorrow I will die by myself, and no one wants to be thrown under the city after death, to be bitten by wild dogs.

The defenders of the city will also cooperate, because the corpses will stink when they rot, and if they are not buried, it will not take a few days for the whole city to stink, and the corpses will bring plague.

This is known to the Western Army and the Western Xia people, the plague is a demon, and no one dares to release them.

No matter how fierce the fighting between the two sides was, they were reluctant to use corpses as weapons. Because they are all civilized peoples, they are fighting for the land where they can reproduce, not ghosts. Moreover, the battlefield is not far from the homes of both sides, and no one dares to let the demons out.

After disposing of the corpse at the head of the city, Han Shizhong walked down the city.

When he first came, his qualifications could not be in charge alone, but after killing countless Bosilixia people and more than half of the generals in the city died, he was a general who stood alone, and he was the north of the Xixia people's key attack.

In order to give full play to the superiority of troops, the Tangut people also consumed the defenders in the city, and attacked the four city walls at the same time. However, only one dirt hill was piled up on the north side, and although the archers on it also suffered heavy casualties, it also attracted a lot of attention from the western army at the head of the city. Therefore, the Tanguts placed their main attack in the north.

It's not that I don't want to make a dirt mountain on the other three sides, but the accumulation of the earth mountain is a lot of work, and this dirt mountain that is higher than the head of the city is more than ten years of effort.

If you want to build four dirt mountains, the Western Xia soldiers and horses don't need to attack the city, they all go to dig the soil.

The east and west city walls were in charge of Liu Zhongwu's sons Liu Qi and Liu Xi, and the south was the general Yang Keshi.

Yang Keshi is the descendant of the Yang family general, but the Yang family general has declined, and Yang Keshi has risen from the rank of soldier like him, but Yang Keshi's luck is better than him. He has been under the command of the old breed and the prime minister, no one has swallowed his military exploits, and he is brave and good at fighting, so he did Huazhou observation in the Song Dynasty.

Like Han Shizhong, Yang Keshi had just returned from Jiangnan and learned that the soldiers and horses of Western Xia were going to go through the Hulu River, so he brought soldiers and horses to reinforce the old breed, but Huazhou was not on the front line, and he did not need to garrison Huazhou.

After repelling the Western Xia, the Western Army also had to accept the reorganization of the Great Liang, which had a simple military system and did not have the fifty-two orders of the Song Dynasty. With the merits of the Zhenrong army, he should be enough to be a thousand commanders, but I'm afraid ten thousand commanders can't. There are too many commanders, and he wants to make more contributions to be the commander of thousands of soldiers.

(To be continued)