Chapter 648 The city has been appeased, and the siege has not ended
Ambushing and killing the 20,000 Tangut people in the city, and gathering and annihilating the 170,000 Tangut soldiers and horses outside the city, were originally two steps in Bai Sheng's plan, and now Bai Sheng temporarily let go of Li Ruolan and Lingxing, which is not contrary to the overall situation.
Of course, even if he didn't take the overall situation into account for the implementation of the plan, he couldn't exchange Hu Sanniang's life for Li Ruolan's life, so no matter what aspect he considered, he could only let Li Ruolan go, the difference was just whether he immediately launched a pursuit.
He didn't chase Li Ruolan immediately, Li Ruolan knew him too well, he didn't think that he could rescue Hu Sanniang by following Li Ruolan's steps, rather than this, it was better to complete the first step of the plan first.
What needs to be done urgently now is to take advantage of the fact that Songba is dead, while Lingxing is seriously injured and unable to break the law, and while Li Ruolan does not dare to continue to stay in the city, first firmly control Yanzhou City in his hands.
He also ignored the seed master Dao who was rescued by a group of soldiers and soldiers, and directly ordered Qiao Daoqing to do it.
Qiao Daoqing intended to show his skills in front of Bai Sheng, and the second time he did it was much more mysterious, the sun and moon in the city were dark, the flying sand and stones fell second, and there were many golden armor gods and generals in the middle of the Wumengmeng, each with a towering figure, standing up to the sky and the earth, and the whip and hammer in his hand like a mountain and a mountain were grabbed and hit down on the ground, only to frighten the soldiers in the city to roll all the farts and urine, crying dad and calling mother.
Not to mention the soldiers from all sides in the city, even Bai Sheng's subordinates who were standing next to Qiao Daoqing were frightened by these heavenly soldiers and gods, and Bai Sheng himself was also taken aback, is it really the same as in the original Water Margin?
According to the description of the original book, Qiao Daoqing's magic is an illusion, and the golden armor gods are of course illusory images, and the weapons in the hands of these gods are also bluffs that cannot beat the dead, but this scene is too realistic and terrifying.
If he didn't know that Qiao Daoqing was on his side, and he knew the details of this illusion, he was afraid that Bai Sheng would have to dig a hole in the ground like Li Ruolan did, Rao was like this, Liang Hongyu, Pan Jinlian and Yan Poxi and other five women were already so frightened that they stuck to Bai Sheng's body, and the man's two arms were not enough for them to grasp.
Qiao Daoqing's spell shrouded the whole city, and the 20,000 Xixia soldiers in the streets and alleys trampled on each other before anyone came to kill, and more than half of the dead and wounded, and the soldiers and civilians on the Great Song side occupied the location of the house wall, and most of them retracted into the house when they saw this scene, so they were spared.
Just like the battle that took place in Jiankang City last year, the 3,000 special forces led by Fan Rui brought the Ming Mu Fu in advance and cut down all the Western Xia "blind men" who had escaped the trampling of each other, and in less than half an hour, all the hostile elements in the city had been eliminated.
This result is as Bai Sheng expected, as long as he takes down the Songba master and apprentice who are good at breaking the law, no matter how many Western Xia soldiers are just crops waiting to be harvested.
The inside of the city has been appeased, but the outside of the city and the head of the city are still in the midst of fierce battles, and in this inevitable siege battle, the most fierce battle is the west city wall. The main force of the Western Xia army was all stationed in the west of the city, and the main attack point of the siege would of course be selected in the west city.
At the same time as the battle in the city subsided, Li Liangfu, the generalissimo of the Western Xia soldiers and horses who supervised the battle outside the western city wall, was wondering, what was said in the plan to be a combination of the inside and the outside? Why has there been no sign until now?
The battle has been fought for two hours, and nearly 10,000 warriors have died in the siege, but Mo said that the west city gate was not opened from the inside as expected, the moat suspension bridge was not lowered by the head of the city, and even the head of the city did not have any riots, the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty were still united as one, desperately defending, and every inch of the wall bricks on the west city wall had been stained red with blood.
Before leaving, Her Royal Highness the Princess was full of confidence and decided to launch a general attack at midnight last night, saying that it would only take an hour at most to take Yanzhou City.
What was the reason why the princess's plan had not been realized so far? Li Liangfu couldn't think of it, so he could only order the three armies to continue to attack the city.
Regardless of whether Li Ruolan is on a business trip or not, this city must be captured, and the capture of Yanzhou is the established goal of this decisive battle, and if Li Ruolan and the national teacher encounter an accident, they must also break through the city gate to rescue, otherwise the officers and soldiers outside the city will commit a mortal crime.
So he is now very entangled, entangled in whether to change his plan and divide his troops to attack the south and north of the city.
However, attacking the west city gate alone is a step in the plan, and it is very taboo to change the plan without communicating with Li Ruolan, once you do that, you will break through Yanzhou and slaughter the soldiers and civilians of the Great Song Dynasty, on the contrary, if you do not break through the city and lose your troops, you will not be able to deal with Li Ruolan in the future.
The defense of the West City Gate was too strong, stronger than any defense in the past few months, and he wondered if all the Western troops in Yanzhou City had concentrated in the West City, otherwise why was it so impregnable?
Li Liangfu's guess was not wrong, the west of the city was indeed concentrated in the three strong forces of the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty, at this moment Yang Keshi, Shangguan Jiannan and Han Shizhong were all at the head of the western city wall, but the three of them were more worried than Li Liangfu.
In the fierce defensive battle, Yang Han and Shangguan had no time to take care of the battle situation in the city, and they did not notice any changes in the celestial phenomena in the city when they were always facing the outside of the city, so they could only hope that they could only hope that they could wipe out the enemies who were deliberately placed in Yanzhou City, and then replenish the defensive force at the head of the city.
The enemy's attack is really crazy, it is simply piling up human lives on the city, at this moment the city is already full of corpses of Xixia Bubazi, and the surface of the moat is also full of countless dead bodies, which really responds to the idiom - corpse mountain and sea of blood!
And the most troublesome thing is that the enemy has three condor archers, although these three condor archers can't shoot thousands of arrows, but each of their arrows can be done without fail, and they specialize in shooting the most fierce and heroic Western army soldiers and divine arm archers in the city, so that the Great Song side does not dare to resist the enemy outside the female wall.
After tasting the hardships and killing more than 200 divine arm archers and elite soldiers, the Great Song side could only put the enemy on the front of the city to fight on the opposite side, completely losing the advantage of defending the high walls.
The most troublesome reason is that these three condor archers have an extremely long shooting range, and they are hiding in the depths of the enemy formation on the west bank of the moat, which is the existence that no soldier of the Great Song Dynasty can use any method to carry out a counterattack. How can it not be despair that they can shoot at the top of the city, but the people at the top of the city can't shoot at them?
Therefore, Yang Keshi, Shangguan Jiannan, and Han Shizhong could only personally guard behind the arrow battlements of the female wall, and take the lead in killing the enemy soldiers who climbed to the top of the city, because only the three of them could dodge or dial the cold arrows sent by the condor shooter while killing the enemy.
At this time, their bodies were already soaked in the blood of the enemy, but their hearts were already extremely anxious, and if they continued to fight in this situation, the loss of the west of the city was already a foregone conclusion. Therefore, they were even more looking forward to the fact that Seed Master Dao and Wang Jin would be able to end the battle in the city earlier.
Although they also knew that even if the master Dao and Wang Jin pacified the city, they would not come up with a way to fight against the three condor archers of Western Xia, but this would at least increase the strength of the city defense, and even if the final city was unavoidable, it could also delay the time for the enemy to enter the city, so that they could arrange some aftermath in advance and cover tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians to abandon the city and flee.
Just when the three of them were anxiously fighting endlessly, they suddenly heard someone behind them shouting in surprise: "General Yang, General Shangguan, General Han, the old minister is here!"
Seed Master Dao climbed to the top of the city surrounded by hundreds of soldiers, but there was no longer the golden knife he was proud of in his hand, when he was teaching the military field, although he realized that Bai Sheng was about to control the current situation of the whole city, but it was his duty to defend Yanzhou City after all, so he came to Xicheng as soon as the battle was over.