Chapter 76: Father's Affair of the Great Song
Unconsciously, half a month has passed since the confrontation between the two armies of Song and Xia.
Li Qiushui and others have been keeping an eye on the movements of the Song army during this period, but these days have passed, and there is no sign of low morale in the Song military camp.
And hundreds of thousands of troops on his side gathered, although the grain and grass can barely be supported, but if the confrontation continues like this, it is a little unsustainable, and there is still no news from the soldiers and horses in Xizhou and the direction of Weizhou.
In the end, Li Qiushui, under the urging of the Western Xia generals, couldn't bear it anymore and decided to take the initiative to attack the Song army.
Immediately, the Western Xia soldiers divided into three routes and outflanked the Song army camp: the vanguard Usuyesh bypassed the Song camp to attack the east, the capital army attacked the south with a red name, and the general Wei Ming A buried to attack the north, leaving the west to Li Qiushui's army.
There were many cavalry among the three people, and they thought that they could easily break into the camp, but when they thought of attacking the camp, they were blocked by many rejecting horses, and those rejecting horses were not ordinary, and each of them was extremely tall.
When they finally crossed the barricade, they were shot by a strong bow and crossbow from the Song camp, and I don't know how many people and horses were lost.
At this time, Helian Tieshu, who was supervising the battle in the rear, saw that he could not overcome the attack for a while, and the soldiers were damaged in vain, so he thought about the strategy in the safe place of the rear: the materials used in the Song barracks were mostly wooden, and it was the new autumn weather in mid-July, which was suitable for fire attack. So he rode away quickly and offered advice to Li Qiushui.
After hearing this, Li Qiushui felt that this plan was very clever, and immediately ordered people to select 5,000 light and fast sergeants, and each prepared rockets and torches. Then many vehicles loaded with reeds and dry firewood, as well as sulfur and other fire-starting materials were transferred from Xiping City.
After everything was ready, the sergeant ordered the sergeant to launch the rocket and torch towards the west of the Song camp. At the same time, he urged the cart sergeant to light the train and push it towards the rejection horses on all sides of the Song camp.
After the arrangements were made, a general order was issued, ordering the army to rush forward after the fire was fired.
In the Song military camp, everyone was still a little nervous at the beginning, after all, the enemy was outnumbered. It can be seen that the generalissimo's non-stop arrangement of the horses in the past few days has easily blocked the Xia army, and they can't help but feel a little relieved. At this time, they only need to draw their bows and arrows in the camp.
Just when they were about to laugh at the uselessness of these so-called elites, they saw that Xia Jun had quickly changed their strategy, and they all secretly complained.
Helian Tieshu was right, the Song army camp was built in a hurry, and most of them were civil structures, which were burned in case of fire.
It is strange to say that the west wind was tightening here, but the kung fu of shooting rockets in the Western Xia shooters suddenly became the east wind. Those rockets and torches flew along the wind to the Western Xia army array, like thousands of golden snakes and fire dragons, burning so that the Western Xia soldiers could not dodge and were anxious.
It's not just the wind here, but the trains that are burning in all directions. But they were blown away by the wind that was in the opposite direction of their travel. The train was already flammable, and the soldiers who followed the train were instantly charred.
In the Song camp, all the generals witnessed the whole process, and they all secretly applauded, and said to Gongsun Sheng with admiration: "Mr. Gongsun's magic is really invincible! Why don't you come a few more times and burn these soldiers to the end, and we can return to the court as soon as possible!"
Gongsun Sheng said with a wry smile when he heard this: "This time, it is because the enemy will take the lead in the fire attack that I dare to use this wind and fire return technique." If you use spells to kill and injure people for no reason, there is a dry heaven and harmony. If I use a spell directly against the army, the heavens will already rain thunder and slash me. ”
Seeing them say this, Sun Xu said sternly with a calm face: "It's better to recuperate, and when the time comes, it's good to go out of the camp and kill the enemy!"
The generals saw that his face was not right, and hurriedly received the order.
On the Western Xia side, the generals saw that the rockets, torches, and trains were all returning the same way, and they injured their own people, and the Song army was blessed by the gods. Morale plummeted in an instant, and many people were even ready to retreat.
Seeing that his morale was declining, Li Qiushui was a little anxious and angry, "banged" and sat down, stood up suddenly, and shouted loudly: "Those who retreat without permission will be killed!"
Hearing this, many war supervisors stood up in the Xia army, holding ghost-headed broadswords, staring at those Xia soldiers who tried to retreat.
In a short time, several soldiers who tried to sneak back were killed on the spot. When the sergeants saw this, they felt a chill in their hearts, thinking that this retreat must be a death, but if they entered the Song camp, there might still be a glimmer of life. I had to grit my teeth and rush forward.
At this moment, I heard a fighting sound behind me.
Li Qiushui secretly said that it was not good, so he hurriedly ordered the herald to go and investigate.
After a while, the herald hurriedly reported that Qiao Feng fought 50,000 Xia troops with 6,000 troops, killed dozens of generals of the Xia army in a row, and broke all roads in Weizhou and Xizhou. It was the fierce general Le Du, who had been beaten to death by Qiao Feng. The shouting and killing sound in the rear was Qiao Feng leading the army to kill.
Li Qiushui immediately panicked after hearing this, and hurriedly ordered the army to assemble and prepare to fight against Qiao Feng's army.
However, at this time, there was a sudden loud noise in the camp of the Song army, and a strong wind blew, and the horses that the Western Xia people had worked very hard to clean up were blown to pieces like tissue paper in the wind.
The moment the wind passed, an unobstructed road appeared in front of the gate of Song Ying. Then, a detachment of Song soldiers and horses in the battalion came out from this side.
Seeing this, Helian Tieshu, who was guarding the Chinese army, hurriedly ordered the Xia army, which was besieging on three sides, to come back to help. But he didn't know that the three-sided Xia army had already been entangled by the Song soldiers.
Although the strength of the Song army was not as good as that of the Xia soldiers, all of them were regarded as ten. The Xia soldiers were just burned by the fire, and in the past few days, due to the lack of military food, all of them have not eaten enough, so it is naturally not good for the Song army.
And Qiao Feng was brave, and led his corporal back and forth several times to penetrate the Western Xia military formation, and even Li Qiushui's handsome banner was also defeated. As soon as the Western Xia army saw that the commander's banner had fallen, it was even more war-willing, and the general had no will to fight, and he couldn't even control the war officer.
Seeing that the battle situation was unfavorable, Li Qiushui's personal guards hurriedly escorted her and abandoned Feng Yuan, turned over and retreated to the edge of Xiping Mansion.
Finally rushed to the edge of the city, and the guards shouted at the top of their voices: "Open the city gate quickly! The concubine is here!"
The city responded with a flurry of arrows, and in an instant, the guard who called the door was shot dead on the spot.
Li Qiushui was shocked, jumped left and right to dodge the arrows, looked up at the city tower, and saw that it was Brother Richard standing on the city.
Brother Richard looked at her and drank: "When the concubine is not in good faith, she will be defeated! Xiao Wang and the people will surrender to Song Yi!" After finishing speaking, he ordered his soldiers to shoot Li Qiushui with arrows.
For a long time, Brother Li Cha was jealous of Li Qianshun, the lord of the Western Xia Kingdom, and Li Qiushui, the actual ruler of the Western Xia Kingdom, favored Li Qianshun. Although he is a prince, he has to be watched by them every day, and he has long held a grudge. Over the years, he felt that he would one day be killed by these two people. Coupled with the death of the Wind Rider a few days ago, it strengthened his idea, so he decided to fight against the water today.
In normal times, Li Qiushui could still perform light skills and go to the city to kill Brother Richard. But at this time, the defeat was like a mountain, and she didn't dare to waste more time here, but just glared at Brother Richard and said angrily: "You dog! Xixia is your mother's clan, how dare you rebel against it?"
However, she replied with another flurry of arrows. Li Qiushui had no choice but to run away first.
When the Song army defeated the Western Xia army in one fell swoop, and the troops were ready to take advantage of the situation to attack the city, they saw a white flag suddenly erected at the head of the city. Then, the city gate was opened, Brother Richard hung his head, tied his hands behind his back, came out alone, walked to Sun Xuma step by step and knelt down: "Xiao Wang is foolish, he doesn't measure himself, against the heavenly soldiers, capital crime!"
Sun Xu was slightly stunned, got off the horse and helped him up, and said solemnly: "The King of Jin knows the righteousness, and today he will return to the kingdom, I should play the Son of Heaven and take the King of Jin as the lord of Western Xia." ”
Brother Richard didn't expect Sun Xu to say this, he raised his head suddenly, his eyes were red with excitement, and he said in his heart: "If my Brother Richard can be the lord of the country, it will be a hundred times better than this broken prince!"