Chapter 55: The Trouble Brought by the Western Army

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Only a few battlements fell from the blackened walls bombarded by artillery, and the walls shook only a few times, and then they stood still. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

However, the counterattack on the head of the city also seemed to stop, Lang Tan lifted the shield, and when he looked back at the city wall, he realized that what he had blown up was only a stone wall on the outside, and there was still hard rammed earth inside the stone wall, although the rammed earth had cracked, but it had not collapsed.

Tongtouguan was originally just a rammed earth city wall, and the stone wall outside should have been added after Yelu Yixin arrived, and he still had less gunpowder.

However, if the gunpowder was put enough just now, once the rammed earth wall collapsed, he would definitely be buried alive by those flying enemy buildings and battlements.

The ground behind him was covered with large and small stones, and some of the places where the soldiers had not had time to protect were blurred by the rocks, and they lay there helplessly howling.

Some of the hapless soldiers were hit by a man-high boulder, and even the shield and himself were reduced to a puddle of debris.

Hai Dongqing, who was originally exploring at high altitude, had already flown into the clouds because of the violent explosion, and he didn't plan to come down for a while.

"Come again!" Lang Tan waved his hand behind him, and the enemy at the head of the city had already been stunned, and the explosion had to be rearranged.

Song Jun, who followed behind, came to the city again with a gunpowder bag, quickly piled up the gunpowder bag, lit the fuse and ran backwards, this time he had to run far enough.

Lang Tan, who retreated to the tidal flats, stared intently at the gunpowder pile, seeing that the fuse burned out and a flash of light lit up, Lang Tan habitually buckled the shield on his body and turned his back to the copperhead city.

The shield on his back seemed to have been pushed hard, and Lang Tan stumbled before he stood firm, after the explosion of gunpowder. When the dizzy Lang Tan looked back again, the current city wall had finally disappeared......

However, less than fifty zhang behind the wall, there was an urn city standing there, and the anger in his chest was rising, and the dog's Yelu Yixin actually put the urn city that should have been placed outside into the city.

But this kind of now also makes him feel cold. If it weren't for his own tyrannical gunpowder to blow up the city wall, if he just blew up the city gate, once his subordinates entered the urn city, they would be easily killed by the Liao people.

At this time, there were countless Liao people lying on the ground of the urn city, some of the Liao people had been condensed into a ball by the phosphorus fire, and the sour smell of the phosphorus fire was sent by the wind along with the exploding city wall, which made people feel disgusting, and saw the dense Liao people on the urn city, Lang Tan gave up the will to take the lead in attacking the city. Orders began to be given to the arrangement of forward positions along the first wall of Tongtou Pass.

He firmly believed that as long as the artillery was transported, there was no city in the world that could not be opened, and there was no need to fill it with the lives of his own soldiers under the condition of victory.

Before the artillery could be transported, the war came to a halt again, because they were afraid of the phosphorus shells in the hands of the Song army, and the Liao people did not take advantage of the Song army's defensive line to kill them.

Yun Zheng estimated that the Liao people were after facing this horrific killing at noon today. It will take a process to calm the hearts of the army, most likely tonight. They would launch a large-scale attack, so he replaced the tired and battered Lang Tan and replaced Wu Jie to hold the forward position.

If the artillery wants to cross the river, it is not supported by the simple pontoon bridge in front of them, and a strong bridge is needed to allow the artillery weighing 2,600 pounds to cross the Yanghe River safely.

Once the cannon falls into the river or silt. If you want to fish it out under the existing conditions, you need to make a systematic plan, and Yun Zheng doesn't want his winning baby to be in any danger.

There were no more new artillery pieces from the imperial court, not because they were not given, but because the distance was too long. If you want to transport such a heavy artillery, it takes time and a lot of manpower and material resources, and time and manpower and material resources are exactly what the Great Song Dynasty lacks the most in front of them.

After arranging all the offensive, defensive, and support matters, Yun Zheng returned to the Chinese army's big tent, and saw Chen Lin hurrying over, his face seemed to be very ugly.

After receiving a military report from Chen Lin's hand, Yun Zheng's face also changed, and the military newspaper said that the support of the Northern Expedition led by Chong Yu had deviated from the direction and was moving towards Fengzhou.

Yun Zheng got up and came to the front of the sand table, and after taking two glances, he planted the black flag belonging to the seed on the Yuyang Ridge in Fengzhou, and couldn't help sighing.

The border army of the Great Song Dynasty has always been arrogant, and the Western Army has always had the habit of asserting itself, they rely on themselves to be the most powerful military group in the Great Song Dynasty, and they always obey the military orders of those bigwigs in the court, especially when Di Qing, a good old man, left the Western Army, they became more and more arrogant because of their efforts to defend the border.

They are full of sympathy for the arrogance of the Western Army, and if they can't even touch the word arrogance, they will automatically give up the right to speak on the politics of the Great Song Dynasty.

The Western Army does not just belong to Di Qing or Chong, it has guarded the border for the Great Song Dynasty for many years, fought with the Western Xia people, fought with the Liao people, and even returned to the army to participate in the domestic rebellion, the influence of the Western Army is not only limited to the northwest, since participating in the pacification of the Nong Zhigao Rebellion, Lingnan, Dali also has the shadow of the Western Army.

If the influence of this military group has penetrated into all the areas under the jurisdiction of the Western Army, and is infiltrating the court, Yun Zheng is not surprised.

In this battle distribution, the Western Army was very dissatisfied with their auxiliary position, and they were dissatisfied that they had restrained the main force of the Liao people after paying a huge price, but let Yun Zheng easily pick the huge peach of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures.

But Yun Zheng's might was not something they could bear, so under the double suppression of Yun Zheng and Di Qing, the Western Army could only swallow this bitter fruit.

Now the situation in the north is extremely clear, Yun Zheng is advancing all the way, facing the Liao army can be called like a bamboo, he killed Xiao Dahu in Yunnei Prefecture, and now he has broken Yelu Yixin's Eight Gate Golden Lock Array in Fengsheng Prefecture, as long as he breaks through Tongtou Pass, Nanjing Road of Liao State is under his feet, Liao Emperor Yelu Hongji is impossible to be the opponent of Yun Zheng and Di Qing even if he leads a million Liao troops, under the attack on both sides, as long as the Liao Emperor still has a little bit of sanity, he will choose to retreat, and carry the people of Nanjing Road to Zhongjing Road, Shangjing Road, Or the Tokyo Road retreat.

At this time, the most brilliant military exploits undoubtedly belonged to Yun Zheng, and the king of the northern land was already at his fingertips, and the western army was afraid that he would not get anything except some painless rewards.

So they hit the idea of their old enemy Wuzang Pang, who was in the hinterland of the Liao State and the Liao army, bent on coercing a large number of Liao people to go to the west to open up a new territory for themselves and participate in the battle for the Green Mountains.

And the follow-up army of Chong Yu, instead of hiding behind to help Yun Zheng and Wang Anshi quell the local rebellion, it is better to take the initiative to participate in the battle to weaken the unconcealed Pang.

Although he was the commander of the second reinforcement army, he had to leave behind Yun Zheng at the request of all the generals of the Western Army and seek the most beneficial direction for himself.

Yun Zheng said lightly to Chen Lin after planting the flag: "The purpose of planting a lie is in the body of the person who has not hidden the false face, and this matter is not good or bad."

If the strength of Wuzang Pang can be greatly weakened in Fengzhou, the foundation of Wuzang Pang in the Western Xia Kingdom will be shaken, and there may be extremely serious internal strife.

In this way, the Western Army will be able to put the strategy of destroying the Western Xia Kingdom on the agenda, and if our Western Army wins the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, their Western Army must obtain the military merit of destroying the Western Xia Kingdom. ”

Wen Yanbo, who hurried back, said angrily: "What are you doing here? Our Da Song is now just able to stand firm, and it is possible to walk a few steps, and use it as the power to run?

The whole country is tightening their belts to support the Northern Expedition, and seeing that we are about to win, why do they have to make trouble at this time?

If they really want to get the merit of overthrowing the country, they can wait until the end of the Northern Expedition and five to ten years after the Great Song Dynasty has recuperated, even if they don't want to fight against the Western Xia Kingdom, the old man and the others will force them to go, what a hurry at this time! ”

Chen Lin said with a gloomy face: "At this time, everything is going well in the army, Yunhou naturally can't leave the army, why don't you let the old man go to the western army and ask why he came?" ”

Yun Zheng measured the distance on the sand table with his hand and shook his head and said: "It's useless, the signing of this military newspaper was eight days ago, it stands to reason that the distance between our two armies is within five days' journey, and the reason why this military newspaper will go for eight days shows that the army has left the garrison for four days, and Chen Gong is afraid that he will not be able to catch up." ”

Chen Lin stomped his feet hatefully and shouted: "Then send Hai Dongqing to go, and ask Yunhou to immediately issue the most severe military order, the old man is attached, and he dares to blatantly disobey the military order." ”

Wen Yanbo said with an embarrassed face: "Chen Gong doesn't know, the kind of is just controlled by Yunhou, but he has a certain amount of autonomy, when His Majesty worshiped the general, but he worshiped the four main generals, Yunhou, Di Shuai, Chong Xu, Fu Bi, a total of four road army.

If you put aside the word moderation, Chong Yu and Yun Hou are actually equal in power, so Yun Hou does not have the power to give orders to Chong Yan. ”

Chen Lin looked at Yun Zheng in astonishment.

Yun Zheng shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands and said: "This is true, the authority of my Great Song Dynasty officials has always been stacked like a bed frame house, which will indeed effectively supervise the power and reduce the possibility of mutiny, but it will also lack a certain degree of flexibility."

However, even I welcome such a power structure, after all, power cannot be unrestrained, and power without restraint will soon become a flood beast.

Gong Wen, you must remember that you must not only apply this model to Yun Zheng's body, this set is feasible in the face of all military generals in the future. ”

Wen Yanbo gritted his teeth and said: "This is nature!" ”

Chen Lin grabbed Yun Zheng's sleeve and asked repeatedly, "How should I deal with this matter?" ”

Yun Zheng burst out laughing and said: "It's going to rain, my mother wants to get married, so I can only let him go......" (To be continued......)