Chapter 14: The Campaign

In the 128th year of the Great Xia calendar, Xia Yuxuan, the emperor of the Great Xia Kingdom, named the second prince Xia Qingmang as the prince of Jinglu and the general of Pingnan, led the Xuanjia army of 200,000, and went to southern Xinjiang with the 400,000 Zhiwei army led by Liu Yuanshan, the general of Dangkou. With 600,000 Zhennan troops and more than one million troops, they attacked the countries of southern Xinjiang.

Bactria is located in the northeast of the continent, bordering the Tocharian kingdom to the west and the Yanling kingdom across the mountains to the south. Between Great Xia and the Kingdom of Yanling, there is a vast mountainous area known as the Five Million Great Mountain. The soil here is barren and the terrain is rugged, which is not suitable for garrisoning troops in Tuntian, and has become a natural barrier between Great Xia and Yanling Kingdom.

However, the refugees of the past dynasties and the remnants of the previous dynasties, desperate, went to these 500,000 mountains to take refuge, and gradually formed a kingdom alliance, with a total of sixteen small kingdoms, most of which were built by the descendants of the dynasties before the Great Xia and the Yanling Kingdom, as well as the rebel generals of the criminal ministers. These small kingdoms are located in barren land, and their annual harvest is barely enough to feed them. The Great Xia Kingdom was also extremely wealthy. Therefore, he always took advantage of the unpreparedness of the Great Xia Kingdom to plunder some grain and livestock.

Great Xia has long been unbearable, but the terrain of the 500,000 mountains is dangerous, especially adjacent to Great Xia, there is a high and steep Luoyan Mountain Range, with a drop of hundreds of zhang, almost impossible to climb. The states of Wu and Zhao, which were adjacent to Great Xia, built two cities in the recess of the mountain, which were easy to defend and difficult to attack. If you send troops to attack, the gains outweigh the losses. The emperors of the Great Zhou and Great Xia Kingdoms in the past dynasties could only turn a blind eye and try their best to intercept these thieves, unable to completely eradicate this scourge.

But today's Emperor Xia Yuxuan, Wen Taowu, is extremely ambitious, and even sent a million troops to attack in order to achieve a good time.

Mu Yi and Yue Ting didn't live long in the camp, so they went out with the army and went to Jintang City on the border of Wu State.

This Wu and Zhao Erguo, seeing that the million-strong army of Great Xia was pressing the border, was not very flustered, and the Great Zhou and Great Xia had attacked the border pass countless times before, but they all returned in vain.

At the border between the 500,000 Great Mountains and the Great Xia Kingdom, there are all cliffs hundreds of zhang high, and there is nowhere to climb at all, only the notch slope where the Jintang City of the Wu Kingdom and the Yushan City of the Zhao Kingdom are located is relatively gentle. The two countries set up a city here, and it can really be said that one husband is a man who cannot be opened.

The two armies confronted each other in front of the city, and the order of the Great Xia Army sounded, and more than 20 huge instruments with a height of nearly five zhang and a length of more than ten zhang were launched from behind, which looked extremely bluffing, but they didn't know what to do.

The soldiers of the Wu army in the Jintang City were looking at it at a loss, and suddenly heard a deafening explosion, and saw a huge stone pellet the size of three zhang, smashed into the head of the Wu army's city, and suddenly the city wall was shattered, the stone pellet exploded, and the soldiers were killed and injured countless times.

Subsequently, more than 20 stone pills flew towards Jintang City, and in the blink of an eye, Jintang City collapsed, killing and wounding countless soldiers in the city.

The second prince laughed: "Our army has this flint car, why worry about the thieves and thieves, the three armies obey the order and seize this Jintang City!"

At the sound of the order, the army marched into the ruined Jintang City, and the soldiers of the Wu army in the city were either killed or wounded, and they were powerless to resist.

Yue Ting's mouth was as big as an egg, and he couldn't close it for a long time: "What is this ball, it will become a meatloaf when it hits people." ”

Mu Yi looked at the familiar equipment, and suddenly remembered: "This is almost exactly the same as the gunpowder catapult made when Ru Yi was the champion, I didn't expect it to be so big and so powerful." ”

Yue Ting looked at Mu Yi in surprise: "This little girl is too violent, I think you should not think about her, even if you are really together, if you quarrel, you will become a meat pie." ”

Mu Yi knew that he was talking nonsense, and he didn't care. Thinking of Yiren in my heart, I couldn't help but be a little happy, it seems that this kind of device invented by Ruyi has made a great contribution.

On the other side, the Yushan City of Zhao State also suffered the same thing, the flint car was powerful, the Yushan City was destroyed in an instant, and the Great Xia Army quickly eliminated the Zhao State.

After the death of Wu and Zhao, the army of Xia divided into three routes and attacked the neighboring Song, Chu, and Yue kingdoms respectively. The second prince attacked the Song state from the middle road, and the two generals Liu and Li attacked the Chu and Yue kingdoms on the left and right roads.

This Zhennan general Li Baili has experienced a hundred battles, and although Liu Yuanshan, the general of the Dangkou, is not from the army, he has been sweeping the thieves for more than 20 years, and he still understands the basic marching and fighting. It didn't take long for the two of them to destroy the two kingdoms of Chu and Yue. It is waiting to advance and attack other small countries.

But these two princes have no experience, the 500,000 mountains are rugged, and the "flint carts" are too large to be transported in. The two generals Liu and Li both raided with lightning and destroyed the national capital without waiting for the two countries to be prepared.

However, the second prince said that he would be benevolent and benevolent, and he took it slowly along the way, and also used the sound drum to inform the people of the Song State that Daxia did not have the intention of slaughtering the city, and after the occupation, he would open a warehouse and release grain, and wanted the Song State to surrender.

But this time, the Song State was fully prepared, and immediately asked for help from the countries in the rear, and dug a wide ravine next to the national capital, and the city wall was raised by three feet. When the Xuanjia army of the second prince drove to the outside of the new Song City, the capital of the Song Kingdom, the new Song City was already impregnable.

Seeing that the persuasion to surrender was fruitless, the second prince was furious in his heart and hurriedly sent the Xuanjia army to attack the city. But Rao is this Xuanjia army is the forbidden army of Great Xia, the most elite. After three days, tens of thousands of dead and wounded were killed, and the city could not be broken.

According to the plan, after the three armies attacked the Song, Chu, and Yue provinces, they would attack the three kingdoms of Lu, Zhang, and Fujian. Then support the puppet regime in these eight countries and fight against the remaining eight countries. This is also due to the fact that there is a deep stream between the three countries of Shandong, Zhang, Fujian and the eight southern countries, and the terrain is just right to contend with each other. Otherwise, Song, Chu, Yue and other countries would not have a natural moat, and even if they supported the regime, it would be difficult to last long.

However, the second prince failed to attack the Song Kingdom. There were reinforcements from other countries in the city of the New Song Dynasty, and the number of troops was not less than 200,000. The besieging army must be five times the number of the defending army to win. This time, the two generals Liu and Li did not dare to continue the blitzkrieg and attack the three kingdoms below. In the event that these two princes are defeated, the remaining two armies will be attacked on their backs, and there is a danger that the whole army will be annihilated.

As a last resort, the left and right armies could only merge with the Chinese army of the second prince and make plans again.

The second prince was ordered to go on the expedition this time, just to make military merits, and to compete with the eldest prince for the position of prince in the future. I didn't think about it, but I delayed the fighter, and I was extremely angry when I saw that the original plan was impossible to complete.

That night, the second prince summoned all the generals in the army to discuss countermeasures in the commander's tent.

General Li Baili has experienced a hundred battles, and he knows that he has lost his fighter plane, and it is no longer advisable to attack again, and said: "Your Highness, our army has lost the first opportunity, and there is no need to fight again. At this point, the only way to do this is to withdraw the troops and return. Building a city in the territory of Wu and Zhao can be regarded as a remedy. ”

Although Liu Yuanshan is a general, he does not have the confidence to attack the city, for fear of defeat. Hearing this, he also hurriedly echoed: "What General Li said is extremely true, we should pull out the village overnight, go back to the land of Wu and Zhao and then manage it carefully, it is the best policy." ”

The second prince saw that the two generals were about to retire, and he was angry in his heart. He knew that this disadvantage was all his fault, and he was the only one to blame after returning to the dynasty, and the second general would definitely take the opportunity to clean it up.

But after all, the two generals are the pillars of the country, and he has long had the heart to win over, and he didn't dare to show dissatisfaction at the moment, but said: "What the two generals said is extremely true, but if you don't break through this new Song Dynasty city, Xiao Wang will really be able to swallow this bad breath in his heart. Only by breaking this new Song Dynasty city can it be regarded as making up for it. I hope that the two generals will be fulfilled. ”

General Li Baili pondered: "If Your Highness wants to break the city, it must be within three days, according to the scouts, then the reinforcements from the eight southern countries will arrive in the New Song Dynasty in five days, and then our army will be attacked from inside and outside, and I am afraid that it will suffer heavy losses." ”

When Xia Qingmang heard this, he hurriedly said yes, and immediately asked if the generals had a way to break the city, but saw that the generals were silent. It turned out that they were afraid that if they couldn't break the city, they would be arrested by the second prince as a scapegoat. Naturally, they don't want to provoke such unmeritorious things.

The second prince knew what was going on in the generals' minds, and there was nothing he could do about the anger in his heart. He announced that all the generals and strategists in the camp went to the commander's tent to offer advice. If there is a clever plan to break the city, the official will be promoted to the fifth level immediately.

Thinking about the number of generals and strategists in the three armies, they were all overjoyed when they heard this, and they came to the front of the account to show off.

Mu Yi was also summoned, but after thinking about it carefully, he found that there was no plan to speak of. The new Song City is impregnable, and the reinforcements will arrive soon, and they will definitely defend the city. He kept silent.

Sure enough, these generals and strategists came up with some plans to encircle Wei and save Zhao and attack the west, all of which were all on paper and had no achievements.

The second prince was extremely hot, and he also pulled down a few strategists who were too stupid to beat each with twenty military sticks, and the rest of the strategists were even more silent.

Xia Qingmang saw that no one was offering advice anymore, his heart was anxious, he glanced at it casually, and noticed that Mu Yi in the corner had never stepped forward to offer a plan, and said angrily: "That kid is a strategist, but he can't offer a word to the lord, what's the use of leaving you, it's better to drag it out and cut it." ”

Mu Yi suddenly felt that the fire at the city gate affected the pond fish, and he was going to be beheaded if he didn't speak, so he was really wronged, so he hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Your Highness is angry, the last general is not without a plan, but he feels that what he says will not be adopted, so he is silent." ”

Xia Qingmang suddenly came to his senses: "Then you can talk about it." If it's really a clever plan, I'll add you to the rank of knight, and if it's a lie, I won't forgive you. ”

Mu Yi hurriedly racked his brains, but apart from some bad words about encircling Wei and saving Zhao, there was really nothing to say. I had to tell the truth: "I think that the new Song City is impregnable, there are enough soldiers in the city, and I know that the reinforcements will arrive in five days, so any strategy is useless." Even if you pretend to be that reinforcement, if you come to help in less than five days, you will definitely be recognized. Now the plan is to send the dead to attack the city day and night, and there is still some hope of breaking the city. ”

When the second prince saw what Mu Yi said, although it was not a clever plan, it was also the truth. There was nothing to be done at the moment, so he said: "Okay, I will send you to lead the dead to attack the city, and if you can't break the city in three days, I will cut off your head." Leave your great head with me first. ”

When Mu Yi heard this, his heart was bitter, could it be that this little life was about to be buried under this new Song City?

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