"Lord Ren, they have all withdrawn and are on their way back. ”

Ren Baqian heard the sound coming from the walkie-talkie, and first looked at the two large battalions, but there was no Great Xia Army chasing them out. After all, in such a dark night, the personal strength of the ancient clan can be brought into greater play.

Moreover, the two battalions are barely calming down now, and it is estimated that treating the wounded, extinguishing the fire, and collecting the chaotic army will be enough for them to work for a while.

"It's done, withdraw. Ren 8,000 people carried mortars, machine guns, and ammunition boxes, and everyone retreated unhurriedly, and when they arrived at the city, they saw the city gate wide open, and the mermaids entered the city.

Not long after everyone returned to the Chengling Mansion, the battle damage was also delivered.

The damage was not large, but only a few hundred people, of which the damage to the flying cavalry was minimal, but the central capital protector army lost three or four hundred people, but half of them came back with serious injuries, and only about two hundred were killed.

The losses of the ancient clan were very small compared to Great Xia.

The losses of the Great Xia army were at least twenty or thirty thousand, and a large amount of grain and grass was burned.

However, Ren Baqian was attracted by something described by the returning flying horseman.

At the end of the night attack, because there were Gu soldiers slashing in the battalion, a group of troops who barely gathered together would encounter a batch of bombs, and they could not fight back, so the eastern battalion launched a few artillery pieces.

This thing flying rider didn't take it seriously, but after the other party ignited it, countless iron nails erupted from it, and several flying riders were beaten up and killed on the spot.

The number of injured flying horsemen was even higher, at least two dozen or sozen.

Ren Baqian took it in his hand and looked at the iron nail they had sent, half a foot long, the thickness of the little finger, made of pig iron throughout, and the bottom was a hexagonal shape slightly larger than the diameter.

"What is the range of this thing?" asked Ren Baqian.

"About two hundred steps. It can kill people at 100 paces. A flying lieutenant said.

"In other words, the few people who were killed by this thing were all others who used this thing to face him within a hundred steps, and they didn't know how to hide stupid people, right?" Ren Baqian didn't have a good breath.

"The main thing is that I didn't expect that although this thing can't hit far, when it's close, it's a dozen pieces, and the strength is not small. The flying horse scratched his head and said, he also felt that the death of those subordinates was too unjust.

"There are so many things I can't think of, I'm using this thing to target you, can you hide?" Ren Baqian took out a pistol directly from his waist and pointed it at the head of the flying horseman.

"Of course you have to hide!" said the lieutenant hurriedly. This governor poisoned tens of thousands of people before, and today he took out a weapon that can hit the Great Xia Army from a few miles away, although the specifics are not clear, but as soon as it explodes, a bunch of steel balls will be swept out to beat people like a sieve, and they still know it, and many flying horsemen have seen this scene from a distance.

Now Ren Baqian is also a registered number in the hearts of the flying riders, although this person looks thin and weak, but the things in his hands are all life-threatening.

Now as long as it is something he has taken out, everyone does not dare to underestimate it.

"In any case, today's night attack is a complete victory, and Lord Ren has to take the first credit. Li Qianqiu said with a smile.

Although the loss of three or four hundred people was enough compared to the loss of Great Xia, it was enough to be satisfied.

Ren Baqian waved his hand, with an expression of fame and fortune like a floating cloud for me.

"Although I don't know how much the other side has lost rations, but it must have lost some, and the flying cavalry and the central army also saw that the place where they stored grain and grass was on fire during the night attack. ”

This is what Ren Baqian deliberately made people pay attention to.

"If the other side loses a huge amount of grain and grass, the other party will definitely expedite the grain from the rear. After a while, some walkie-talkies, a repeater, and a radio station were sent away, and the minister suggested sending some flying horses to go out with walkie-talkies, a repeater, and a radio station to investigate and disperse the search. If you encounter the fast horses of the Xia army, they will be intercepted and killed immediately, and if they encounter the grain team, they will eat them together if they can eat them.

If they can't eat, they contact the city through the radio and send people to help. ”

The empress and Li Qianqiu both nodded slightly, it was necessary to intercept and kill the other party's grain channel, and there was nothing wrong with Ren Baqian's suggestion.

"And the Great Xia Army here, there may be two choices next.

The first is to shrink the forces to defend and focus on siege, after all, this night attack should also hurt them.

But I think it's also very likely that the dog jumps off the wall.

If the loss of grain and grass is too great, it will take a long time for the grain transport team to arrive, and the other side may attack on a large scale and consume its own troops to exchange with us. ”

"What is Duzi?" Li Qianqiu immediately asked.

"If the other side is seriously short of food, for example, there are only 100,000 people left with two days' rations, but the food team will arrive in seven days, what should we do?

In this case, it is better to consume most of it, if we can break through the city, it is the best, and if we can't break it, we can also consume our troops, and we can die well. And their remaining army, even if there is not enough food and grass, is enough to support the arrival of the grain team. ”

"If the other side loses too much food and grass, it is likely to do so. ”

"To exchange their lives for our lives is to redeem the sons. Ren Baqian finally concluded.

Li Qianqiu frowned and thought for a long time, and nodded slowly: "It's not that this is possible." ”

If you put yourself in the position of the other party's general, I am afraid that you will choose this way when there is no way.

And they took some time of their counseling, and when they saw that it was getting late, they all went back to rest.

Generally, there are spies on both sides of the war, and a lot of useful information can be obtained. But in the war between Dayao and Great Xia, there were almost no spies on both sides in the other army, so all information could only rely on speculation.

......

Dayao and the others went back to rest, but the military camp in Daxia was brightly lit.

Treat the wounded, put out fires, count corpses, count losses, and count losses until dawn.

Wu Shenghou sat in the big tent with an iron face, motionless like a stone statue.

The sound of hurried footsteps made him raise his eyelids, looked at the scribe who hurriedly walked in, and asked in a deep voice, "How?"

"The large battalion lost 11,000 casualties, the eastern battalion lost more than 23,000 people, and the military battalion lost 876 people and 392 remained.

Grain and grass, there were only 60,000 troops in the eastern camp for two days' grain and grass, and seventy and a half were lost. The big camp had 170,000 troops for ten days of grain and grass, and sixty percent of them were lost, but the west camp did not lose. ”

"How long will the rest of the grain and grass last?" asked Wu Shenghou.

"There are still 60,000 troops in the west camp with two days' worth of grain and grass, plus the remnants of the east camp, which is enough for 140,000 troops for one day. The rest of the grain and grass in the camp was enough for the army to last more than four days. In other words, it is enough to use for five days, and if the daily supply of grain is halved, it can last ten days. But in this way, the soldiers were unable to attack. ”

"How long will it take for the grain and grass to arrive?" asked Wu Shenghou.

"Ten days to go. The scribe whispered. "However, General Wen Yuan and General Zhao Sheng should be able to mobilize some, and they are more convenient for supplies at the border. ”

"Inform them!" Wu Shenghou said in a deep voice.

"Tell the soldiers to feast, and attack the city in two hours!"

"My lord?" the scribe was shocked, the soldiers had hardly rested all night, and they were in such a hurry to attack the city today?

"It can't be delayed!" Wu Shenghou said with an ugly face. "The kind of attack that the martial camp encountered yesterday, you know, right?"

The scribe nodded.

"Coupled with the thing that attacked the grain and grass last night, and the thing that will explode when they throw it into the pile, I don't know if the other party has any means that they haven't used. can't continue to drag on, in one go, no matter how big the damage is, they must take Liao Cheng down, or force out all the hole cards in their hands. ”

Wu Shenghou cut the railway, for the generals, as long as the hole cards are exposed, they can always find a way to deal with it, only the unknown is the most terrible. Because it's likely to give you a head-on blow when you think you're about to win, and you'll lose the whole set.

"I really didn't expect those barbarians to have such a thing in their hands. The scribe smiled wryly.

Ben Hou didn't expect it. Wu Shenghou sighed lightly, he now felt that he was a barbarian.

"These things can't be Dayao's, someone gave them to them. Catch that person, or kill them. ”

"Does the general know who?" asked the scribe, who had actually a slight guess in his mind.

"It should be that poisoner, yesterday Chen Shi went out with the martial arts, and saw a person controlling a weapon from a distance, and he is currently in Liao City. What's more, it is better to kill the wrong than to let it go. Wu Shenghou said.

Ren Baqian is all speculating about the situation of the Great Xia Army, and naturally there are many discrepancies.

However, although the reasons were different, Wu Shenghou's decision was similar to what Ren Baqian had guessed.

......

Ren Baqian sat in the hall in the morning to have breakfast with the empress, burritos, noodle soup, and a large pot of meat the size of a laundry basin.

He watched as the pot of meat disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Has Your Majesty eaten enough?" When the basin was finished, Ren Baqian asked softly.

The empress tilted her head, thought for a moment and replied, "Half full, but I must take the lead in reducing the amount of food, so that the grain and grass in the city can last a few more days." ”

Ren 8000: ......

The two didn't talk for a few words, and someone outside came to report that Great Xia was attacking the city.

The two glanced at each other, and Ren Baqian pointed at himself: "A wise man must have a thousand thoughts!"

The empress looked up and thought about it, there seemed to be nothing wrong, but she always felt that something was wrong.

In the afternoon, Ren Baqian confirmed his previous thoughts.

The intensity of the opponent's attack is indeed much greater than before, and there are soldiers of the Great Xia Army climbing up on the city wall almost all the time, and soldiers falling from the city wall with a miserable howl every moment.

Another day passed, and the intensity of Great Xia's attack continued unabated, with hundreds of thousands of troops attacking almost in turn, and the walls of the three directions were fighting from morning to night.

Ren Baqian walked to the small hall of the City Command Mansion and saw Li Qianqiu who was issuing orders inside, and when he finished talking to people, he stepped forward and asked. "Can it still be sustained?"

"It's about the same for another 100,000 people. Li Qianqiu didn't care.

Ren Baqian nodded, "If the pressure is too much, use the remaining explosives." ”

"Didn't you use it all the night before yesterday?" Li Qianqiu wondered.

"I still have a box!" Ren Baqian said. The three hundred tubes of explosives contained two boxes, half of which he had taken out when he blew up the trebuchet that day, and had used them all during the night raid, and now there was only one box left.

"Come on, follow me to raid the house!" Li Qianqiu got up from behind the case and strode out, shouting as he went.

Who knows who uses this thing, anyway, in Li Qianqiu's eyes, this is a treasure, whether it can be used or not, get it first.