Chapter 108: The First Battle of Big River Fort

"Point soldiers, point soldiers..."The camp on the opposite side of Xixia turned the sky, the son of the supervising army division was killed, all the guards were killed, without exception, their heads were cut off, lying all over the grass in front of the camp, the Xia army in charge of the defense of Jialuchuan was finally Yeli Doha from the many corpses by virtue of his clothes, looking at how the little prince who had no head looked at how it was not pleasing to the eye, he knelt on the ground and pointed to the sky, howling with grief and indignation.

The generals of the Western Xia Prison Military Division are all local chieftains, which can be described as a family of 'soldiers and bandits', who are soldiers on horseback, follow the leader to go on the expedition, dismount are good people, follow the patriarch to farm and herd horses, Yeli and the little prince are still a little bit of kinship that can't be beaten! The little prince came here from Yulin with guards the day before yesterday, saying that he wanted to scatter his heart and hunt, but he didn't go out for a day, and he was found by the soldiers on patrol early this morning, these people were lying neatly on the dividing line between the two countries.

"Whoever offends my Great Song will die!" Yeli's temper is enough, looking at the 'big flag' left by the Song people thrown on the table, he is so angry, he has this violent temper, this dividing line is like his own thatched house, he can go if he wants, and I haven't seen any Song people dare to kill themselves, did they take some fierce medicine yesterday, and actually dared to challenge their authority.

"Report to the general, the matter has been clarified, yesterday the little prince was hunting, and he strayed into the Song realm and encountered the Dahebao patrol, and there was a conflict between the two sides, so that he was killed!" At this time, a Yu Hou handed over a letter and said.

"What is this?" Yeli is purely illiterate, and he gave Na Yuhou a whip and said.

"The Great Song sent a letter of protest, saying that I... Saying that my Xia country broke the oath, the soldiers repeatedly crossed the border, killed 'my' border people, and destroyed 'my' fertile land, this murder was helpless, but it is also a warning to us, and then there are unauthorized border crossings, take this as an example..."

"Fart, fart, what about the Song soldier who sent the letter, cut his nose and ears for me!" Wild roared and tore the letter to shreds.

"General, the messenger didn't come, they caught the scout who went to check the situation, cut his nose and ears and let Huilai go, and they also brought Huilai to the letter!" That Yuhou said with a wry smile, in the past, you caught the Song people and cut off your nose and ears at every turn, everyone has learned, and now you are treating others in the way of others!

"Send troops, give me three thousand soldiers and horses, I want to wash Dahe Fort in blood, let them know the power of a certain family!" Yeli has not been confused, knowing that if he does not send troops, first, he will not be able to explain to King Yun, and the clansmen will be humiliated, and if there is revenge, he will be the patriarch of the end, Yeli can't figure it out, the Song army like sheep in the past, seeing that he led troops to plunder and trample on crops, he will only shrink into the village to peek, what is going on now...

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On the sixth day of the second month of the eighth year of Zhenghe, 3,000 summer thieves entered Kou Dahe Fort. Before Zhao Ta opened his eyes in the morning, he was awakened by the sound of the alarm bell, "Second Master get up quickly, Xia Guo has sent troops to retaliate!" Zhao Xin pushed the door in with the candlestick, and shook the prince.

"Oh, Zhilu said, they're finally here!" Zhao Ta yawned, stretched his waist and said, yesterday he received the news that Yeli was going to send troops, and he was not surprised by this, but had a sense of ease, killing thieves is always happier than preventing thieves every day.

"Second master, since you know the way, why don't you send troops to reinforce Lu, there are only more than 700 soldiers in the fort, plus we have less than 1,000 people, this fortress is so small, can it stop the thieves?" Zhao Xin angrily lifted the prince's quilt and threw the clothes to him, but he saw the prince's ** body spitting and turning his face.

"Why can't you stop it, we have not only built a city, but also you and other brave warriors, and we are afraid of his three thousand thieves, and besides, they dare to come if I transfer troops!" Zhao Ta snorted coldly and said dissatisfiedly. …,

"Second master, I have never seen a boss like you, his soldiers are like clouds, and there are 100,000 soldiers, but he doesn't know how to strategize, but he is in danger!" Zhao Xin unceremoniously counted the prince.

"Mount Tai collapsed in front of him and his face did not change, I am the style of a general!" Zhao Ta shamelessly defended, picked up Zhao Xin's clothes and shook them, "This is too conspicuous, find me a clothes similar to yours, I don't want their archers to be shot to death!" ”

"Oh, after a long time, the prince is also afraid of death, I still treat you as if you were home!" Zhao Tan teased.

"Cut, what am I going to die for, it's not too late for me to marry his ten or eight flower-like daughters-in-law!" Zhao Ta said and dressed on the kang.

"Second master, you... Hello, no skin, no face! Zhao Xin was so angry that he stomped his foot out of the river and stopped paying attention to him.

Zhao Ta finished freshening up, ate something, and led a group of guards out to patrol the city, which is located on the border, and people seem to be accustomed to this kind of thing, and everything has a plan. At this time, all the places in the city were already brightly lit, and all the people outside the city entered the city, and the streets on both sides of the city were piled with reeds, thatch, lime, sand, charcoal, pine birch, artemisia, anointing oil, hemp felt, thorns, grates, kettles, pots, urns, poppies, wood, stone, bricks, bamboo, etc., and were ready to repair the city and extinguish the fire.

The people of the city were also organized, and the strong men were organized into an army to defend themselves; The strong woman is an army, and she is subordinate to miscellaneous service; The old and weak were an army for drinking, grazing, and harvesting, and under the leadership of the officials in the fort, they were prepared to prepare for the situation, and in order to prevent the enemy from attacking, all flammable materials were covered with mud-coated felt. And there are soldiers patrolling back and forth in the city to prevent spies from doing internal responses.

Waiting for Zhao Ta to climb the city wall, the military general of the whole fort Yijing went to the city to prepare for the war, the shed building, the female wall with grate fences, bamboo fences, and the high ground in the city erected a watchtower. An arsenal is set up every fifty paces, and in addition to weapons such as bows and arrows, rolling logs, and thunderstones, there are also shovels, shovels, axes, cones, chisels, ladders, ropes and other protective equipment. The suspension bridge outside the city yijing pulled up, the corner of the fort was erected outside the fort gate, the horse blocking pile was erected, the beacon fire has also been lit on the beacon fire to warn, there is a sergeant on the city wall every other step, and five more people are added in ten steps, in case of emergency reinforcements or casualties are easy to replenish, and there are also feudal soldiers and forbidden armies under the city, waiting to be replaced!

As soon as the prince went to the city, he was discovered by the lord of Liu Fort, and hurriedly invited him into the city tower, "Prince, the city is dangerous, please go down to the city to rest, the lower official has sent people to Yincheng and the nearby fortresses to ask for help, as soon as the reinforcements arrive, the siege is solved, although the prince is relieved!" "Lord Liu Bao thought that although the prince annihilated the Western Xia cavalry that day, Danshi was young and probably hadn't experienced any major battles, and if he panicked later, maybe he would cause some trouble, so it was better to let him go to the city to rest in peace.

"At the moment of the great enemy, how can I retreat from the battle, this king wants to advance and retreat with all the soldiers!" Zhao Ta is so old, he has not seen the ancient offensive and defensive battles, and he is trying to open his eyes, how can he be willing to go on, so he immediately declined the kindness of the castle lord and insisted on staying here.

"Then please stay in the city tower, it's safe here, the war is together, please don't move around, the sword and gun have no eyes, and if you hurt the prince, you will die without redemption!" Lord Liu Bao is bitter in his heart, he is a Shangguan, and he doesn't know how many levels higher than himself, but he is also a big tree, and when he comes, he killed the little prince and made a name, can the Xixia people let go of this opportunity, but now that the Xia people are here, it is even more dangerous to go out of the city, and it can only be like this now.

Zhao Ta didn't care what the castle lord thought, anyway, he didn't dare to do anything to himself if he was given a guts, walked to the arrow window, stretched out his hand, Zhao Xin handed over the binoculars, he longed to watch, at this time the sky was bright, the mouth of the river was covered with a layer of mist, and on the loess plateau of Pingchuan, there were Xixia detectives from time to time, obviously also reconnoitring the situation here. He turned his gaze to the outside of the city, the castle was built on the bank of the river, cutting off the main road, and on one side of the mountain, the cliff more than ten zhang high formed a natural danger; On one side of the river is the Jialu River, now it is the freezing period, the river is frozen, although it can pass people and horses, the bank of the Danshi River has been washed by the river for thousands of years to form a steep slope several zhang high, and people may not be able to go up if they go down. Therefore, although it is a lonely city, but only one side is affected by the enemy, the defensive posture is still favorable to them, if the soldiers are well-trained, the generals are well dispatched, and the supplies are sufficient, it is still possible to resist the attack of 3,000 enemy soldiers for a few days! …,

There is no red tape in the commentary, such as scolding, surrendering, fighting generals, and even common names, the Xia army is lined up three hundred paces away, which is the limit of the range of the bow and crossbow, the front row is the rattan player and the foot soldier holding a long weapon, and behind him is the crossbowman, the two wings of the rangers gallop back and forth, and after a short stay, I saw that the flag was waved a few times, and a group of cavalry rushed out, about three hundred people, they were holding a long bow, with a long knife behind their backs, and a small round shield tied to their left arm. The enemy cavalry was very fast, and soon rushed to the outside of the moat, but the horse did not stop, after releasing arrows to the city, he returned again in a circle, shooting a ** arrow rain, the horse's hooves flew over the loess, trampled the frozen soil, and the dust and smoke that stirred up covered the sky and the sun, and the city was not to be outdone, and the archers also fired arrows back.

"Lord Wang, this is the army of Yeli Abao, the military envoy of the Western Xia Jialuchuan Supervision Army, he is the great clan of the Western Domain of Xiazhou, with more than 20 small tribes, more than 10,000 subordinate accounts, and 5,000 soldiers, he is cruel by nature, he is mean, he occupies more than 30 miles of my border land, and plunders thousands of border people, he is the great enemy of our dynasty!" Bao Ji looked at Xia Jun's banner and said to Zhao Ta.

"Well, then I'll take his sacrificial knife!" Zhao Ta said with a smile.

"The prince is mighty, it's easy to destroy him!" Bao Ji bowed and said, "The war outside is urgent, I'll take my sons and daughters into battle!" ”

"Be careful, you put on this armor, it won't be of any use to me!" Zhao Ta stretched out his hand and took off the iron armor on his body and said, the feudal soldiers are all paying for the field, and now they have lost their fields, and the life is tight, and the armor leaves on Baoji's body are all mutilated, but there is no money to replace them.

"Lord Wang, how can this work?" Hoyoshi refused.

"Ha Luha, if it's my turn to fight, what is the point of this battle, I'm afraid that it won't be a piece of armor that can solve the problem!" Zhao Ta took off his armor with the help of Zhao Xin and said with a smile.

At this time, the battle situation outside has changed again, the two teams of cavalry of the Xia army continue to gallop back and forth and release arrows, the Song army on the head of the city gradually can not withstand it, and there is inevitably a gap, several teams of Xia army foot soldiers rushed out of the formation, and a team of twenty people pushed five 'trench bridges' straight to the moat. This trench bridge is more than two zhang long, there are two small wheels at the head of the bridge, and there are two huge wheels under the bridge, which are quickly pushed into the trench, and the wheels fall into the trench, and it immediately becomes a crossing bridge.

When the people of the city found out about their attempt, they immediately concentrated their archers and shot at them, these foot soldiers braved the rain of arrows and struggled to move forward, and some of them fell under the arrow, and immediately someone stepped forward to take the place, and there was a loud explosion of the tent, and a huge spear-like arrow shot out, hitting a moat, and after the powerful force of the execution shot through a summer soldier, it broke a wheel through the body, and the moat overturned to the ground. The Danshi Divine Arm Bow is powerful, but it takes too much time to wind.

Under the cover of the cavalry, there were still three trench bridges successfully erected, and the cavalry immediately jumped across the bridge, rushed to the city, put a bow on their backs, drew their knives and bit them in their mouths, ran out of the hook to the city, and then jumped up and stood on horseback and pulled the hook to climb the city. At this time, another group of infantry archers rushed to the side of the moat and fired rockets at the city, setting fire to the tents set up at the head of the city, covering the cavalry to climb the city, and the other soldiers took back the wounded, and the dead horses were thrown into the moat, and the shields were erected to protect the archers.

Zhao Ta's eyes did not leave the battlefield, his eyes were full of smoke and blood, and his ears were the hoarse shouts of the soldiers on both sides, the 'bang' sound of the bowstring when shooting, the 'crackling' sound of the flames burning, and the miserable cries of the arrow soldiers in the neighing of horses... The scene of this fight made people's blood boil, and the guards standing beside him were all clenching their teeth and clenching the hilt of their knives, wanting to rush up and fight!

In the face of the Xia army that climbed the city, the Song army also quickly changed its tactics, the archers left the arrow tower and concentrated on the 'horse face' of the city wall (the horse face is an appendage of the city wall, its role is to strengthen the defense, so that the besiegers are hit on three sides, and it is conducive to strengthening the wall) to shoot at the Xia soldiers who climbed the city, the war drums sounded in the city tower, and the soldiers on standby quickly climbed the city from the horse road, wielding knives and axes to cut the hook and rope, and the Western Xia soldiers who climbed up were split head-on, while the strong men were pouring sand and water to put out the fire, and the wounded and dead were transported away...

When the two sides of this offensive and defensive battle were exhausted, the trumpets sounded in the camp of the Xia army on the opposite side, and the Xia soldiers who were climbing the city immediately jumped down, and quickly retreated on horseback, while the archers on the edge of the trench also shot the last round of arrows and retreated to their own formation.

The first round of battle is over, both sides are licking their wounds like wild wolves to prepare for the next round of battle, Zhao Ta breathed a sigh of relief, out of the city tower, the soldiers on the city wall are leaning against the wall in groups of three, five, one and three, the fierce battle is not only physically exertional, but also mentally always tense, once the battle stops, the whole person is paralyzed.

"Lord Wang, let's go up in the next round, they have suffered a lot of casualties and need to rest, otherwise they won't be able to hold out on to the arrival of reinforcements!" Just now it was only an hour of battle, and the defending Song army suffered more than 200 casualties, accounting for one-third of the troops, especially the archers who were killed and wounded more in the shooting, and archery is also a manual work, and each person can shoot seven or eight arrows in a row It is quite good, they urgently need to rest, seeing this situation Zhao Xin asked Zhandao.

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