Chapter 253
Xiang Xun, who was ordered by Chai Rong to cover Zhao Kuangyin's retreat from Weizhou to Ningzhou, was miserable.
His army was only 10,000.
When I rushed to the periphery of Weizhou City, I found that Weizhou City had been tightly surrounded by 100,000 Liao troops.
In desperation, Xiang Xun could only quietly station on the periphery, looking for an opportunity.
Unexpectedly, the next day, the 80,000 troops also came to Weizhou City.
In this way, even if Xiang Xun God of War is reincarnated, he will not be able to save Zhao Kuangyin.
And Zhao Kuangyin in the city was already desperate, 35,000 defenders, after several days of fierce fighting, only fifty percent remained.
Although the food can still make do with the top half a month, the arrows are about to bottom out.
The main thing is that the morale of the soldiers plummeted.
This kind of bitter despair with no hope of survival spreads in the city of Weizhou.
When the obstruction army arrived, Zhao Kuangyin had only one way to surrender in his heart except to die in battle.
Zhao Kuangyin didn't want to die, but he never wanted to surrender.
Zhao Kuangyin knew that maybe the next attack, the defenders of Weizhou City would collapse, and the fall of Weizhou City was imminent.
After consulting with the Obstruction Army, it was decided that the Liao Army would give way to the West Gate, and the Obstruction Army would be responsible for the attack, while the Liao Army would be responsible for attacking the North Gate.
For several days, the Liao army's losses were greater than those of the defenders of Weizhou, almost twice as large as the defenders.
In fact, it is normal, before the city is broken, the loss of attacking is naturally greater than that of defending the city.
The Liao army ceded the West Gate to the Obstruction Army, although it was to reduce damage, but the most important thing was for the cooperation of the coalition forces, after all, this war was led by the Liao State.
Otherwise, the Liao army, which suffered casualties of nearly 30,000 troops. How could it be possible to give up half of the peaches and let the Bu army get involved.
Whether it was the Liao army or the obstruction army, they all knew that the fall of Weizhou City would only be a matter of one or two days. Rush into the city and loot it, it's all money and military exploits.
When Zhao Kuangyin was secretly sad, the Liao army and the Obstruction Army discussed the distribution plan of the results, and began to deploy troops to prepare for the attack.
In the afternoon, the Obstruction Army took the lead in launching an attack at the west gate of Weizhou. In order to be the first to enter the city, the Obstruction Army invested 30,000 troops at the beginning and responded with 10,000 rangers.
The defenders of Weizhou fought hard.
But soon. The Liao army launched an attack at the north gate, dozens of sieges, and even climbed the city wall several times in the past two days, so that the Liao army was familiar with the Weizhou city wall.
This time, there was a blocking army on the side to grab the merit. There is a contrast. The soldiers of the Liao army fought bravely to be the first.
Seeing that the two armies were attacking Weizhou City, Xiang Xun was really unthinkable, but Chai Rong's order had to be obeyed, and in desperation, Xiang Xun could only attack in the direction of the south gate of Weizhou in order to respond to the defenders in the city.
This is really a move to find death, in fact, Xiang Xun understands it very well, but he can only do this. If no arrow is fired, run back and report to Chai Rongyu. The enemy was outstanding, so I came back.
Just imagine, what kind of expression Chai Rong will have.
Xiang Xun can only do this step.
Seeing the arrival of reinforcements from afar, it lifted the spirits of the defenders, and the Liao army was stationed outside the north gate, and the blocking army was at the west gate, and the Liao army besieging the south gate was only 20,000 people.
Hurriedly sent people to the north to ask for help, but after a while, they found that the attacking Zhou army was no more than 10,000 people, so the Liao army in the south settled down and began to counterattack.
As soon as the two armies engaged at the south gate, they entered hand-to-hand combat and were stuck with each other.
Half an hour later, the defenders of Weizhou City found that the number of reinforcements was too small to rescue Weizhou, and the morale that had just been mustered began to decline, making the defenders close to collapse.
And the Xiang Training Department was even more encircled because of the 10,000 cavalry from the north of the Liao army.
Xiang Xun sighed bitterly, this is really a ...... death.
Maybe Xiang Xun and Zhao Kuangyin's lives should not be extinguished.
Although Zhao Kuangyin broke his promise and refused to rescue Baili Wuji, it was the Ming army who saved his life after all.
Yun Yang and the three of them joined forces, crossed the Taoshui, and moved closer to Weizhou.
Before noon, the Ming army was far away from scouts to explore Liao and block the army to besiege Weizhou City, which was in danger.
Yun Yang and the three of them combined, if Weizhou City fell, then the only salient connecting the Central Plains and the Western Regions would disappear, so that if Baili Wuji returned to the Ming State from the Zhou State to the west, there would be no way.
In view of this, Yun Yang and the three decided to reinforce Weizhou City.
The army led by the three men had reached 80,000 men, but there was a lack of cavalry.
It is very likely that if you rush over like this, you will be attacked by the Liao and Obstruction cavalry.
So the three of them gathered a large army and went south along the Taoshui, made a circle, and went around to the south of Weizhou City, preparing to attack the Liao army outside the south gate.
Yun Yang and the others' considerations were correct, and attacking from the south gate also avoided the main force of the Liao army in the north and the blocking army in the west.
Even if reinforcements fail, a quick defeat of the Liao army outside the south gate can make the defenders in the city retreat.
But this withdrawal obviously cannot be all retreated, and all of them may not be able to retreat in the end.
Naturally, Yun Yang and the others were not worried that the defenders didn't even understand this.
But later, the scouts found out that the 80,000 cavalry had also participated in the siege, and Yun Yang and the others could only temporarily change the purpose of the operation, changing the reinforcement to rescue, with 80,000 against 180,000 cavalry, no one would do this kind of thing.
It is precisely because of this that the Ming army is one step late.
After going around to the south, the scouts found the 10,000 Zhou troops in ambush to Xiang Xun, and after reporting to Yun Yang, Yun Yang was waiting to send someone to contact Xiang Xun, not wanting Xiang Xun to hit the stone with an egg stupidly.
Yun Yang and the others had no choice but to speed up their pace and advance in the direction of the south gate.
The Ming army except for the special operations army has 5,000 cavalry, 13,000 musketeers, the rest are infantry, Ma Jiyun is equipped with crossbow soldiers, Baili Wuji in order to establish a new army, did not arm the Black Flag Army in time.
This also caused the crossbow soldiers who could only rely on the special operations army and Ma Jiyun today.
Although the Ming army lacked cavalry, all three units were equipped with grenades.
In the end, it was decided that the 5,000 cavalry of the Special Warfare Army would quickly intersperse and join the Zhou Army's Xiang Training Department, so as to stabilize Xiang Xun's 10,000 army.
Then the infantry assaulted, entered through the passage opened by the cavalry, and divided the 20,000 Liao troops from the middle.
In the rear, musketeers and crossbowmen built fortifications, laid out mines and thistles, and there was no time to build fences, so they had to sharpen the wood, bury them in the ground, and expose them to nothing.
The core of such a combat plan is that it is fast.
It was necessary to evacuate the city of Weizhou to the south of the fortifications before the reinforcements of the Liao army from the north.
The situation was urgent, tens of thousands of soldiers here began to build fortifications, 5,000 cavalry on that side were the vanguard, and the infantry of the Yunyang Division of the First Army launched a surprise attack for the Liao army outside the south gate for the follow-up.
The soldiers of the Liao army were glad that the Zhou army only had 10,000 reinforcements, which just added to their military exploits, but they didn't expect that there was a Ming army behind them.
Caught off guard, the 5,000 cavalry of the special warfare army opened the way with grenades, quickly cutting through the camp of the Liao army, revealing the surrounded Xiang Xun Department, and Xiang Xun was ready to die for the country. (To be continued......)