Chapter 292 Westward Expedition
Nai Wangjing guarded more than 2,000 troops, while the military strength of Guwuyan City was more than 10,000. Wuxin calculated it. According to the information he provided at Guanliang, Wuning Fort, Li Qing's total strength was between 140,000 and 160,000. Once a war broke out, a large number of troops could be recruited in various nomadic tribes, and it would be a problem to concentrate 200,000 in a short period of time.
Although King Nai is a material transfer station, the main materials are still stored near the Jianing Military Office. The 10,000 defenders in Guwuyan City, fifty miles away, are almost all cavalrymen. Once they get the news, they will arrive instantly. Therefore, it is too difficult for Wuxin to destroy the Newang Well. Few people will be dragged down by reinforcements from Guwuyan City, and they will only face them with hard battles.
The special forces wrapped the horse's hooves with cloth, and slowly sneaked towards Naiwangjing twenty miles away under the night. The vanguard along the way silently swept away many wandering whistles. It can be seen that the regular Poxijun was very well trained. Wherever you could see the lights of Naiwangjing, everyone connected the big knife in their hands to the handle of the knife, applied poison to the blade, and loaded hand-held incendiwangjing at the place where they were ready. After the preparation, with a whistle, two thousand cavalrymen rushed towards Naiwangjing.
Naiwangjing is usually just a town. In the past two days after being requisitioned as a logistics base, although the Poxi Army knew that almost no enemy troops could come here, it still surrounded the outer edge of Naiwangjing and built two arrow towers. The reason why Wuxin tried to attack Naiwangjing was, on the one hand, because Naiwangjing's defense measures were useless in his eyes. In addition, he also understood that Li Qing personally led a 120,000 army to attack Wuning Fort, which was extremely abnormal. Wuning Fort is now in a critical moment, and only Li Qing realized that there was a large Song armed force behind him, so that he could disperse his troops to resolve the difficulties of Wuning Fort.
Wuxin knew the consequences of such a swaying attack, but it could affect Li Qingdi's deployment. He would rather do this for the safety of Wuning Fort. Besides, what could make his special forces have three horses. If he followed his butt and his tail half would not be able to catch up with them. Moreover, they all hid food on the way to the sun. If he could not defeat, he would go into the grasslands in Yanzhou and return to the Song Dynasty. Although the results of this would definitely not be very good, it would be better than that of Wuning Fort and the special forces were completely wiped out.
Two thousand cavalrymen were carrying long swords on their backs and bows and crossbows on their hands. The two-mile road was just a flash, and the Paixijun on the arrow tower naturally discovered the team, but before they could make a sound to ask, they were all shot into hedgehogs by the first round of arrow rain. When Zhu's special forces rushed to the gate, he had already sent three rounds of arrow rain, basically all the defenders around the gate were solved. He pushed open the gate, and the horses behind him did not stop and directly replaced the bow and arrow on his back with a long knife and killed him. Along the way, he threw the incendiary bomb in his hand onto the house in the mountains. This thing was powerful. During the experiment, Shen Kuo and Su Song were blown to pieces. Even the emperor was shocked by the boat. The most terrifying thing was that this thing was filled with gasoline and had a super burning ability. Although it became a handheld after modification, it was easy for a burning bomb to burn a thatched hut.
As the special forces launched an attack and paid the bill to be close to midnight, it was when people fell asleep, and the defenders ran out of the house in disarray. As a result, if they didn't know what happened, they were killed by a group of ferocious demons rushing up to death with long swords. However, Wang Jing was not big, and the horse team quickly rushed to the north end of Yuzhen - this was the place where supplies were hoarded, most of which were grain and horse materials. The special forces were very neatly throwing incendiary bombs and torches onto the grain piles, and the large grain piles were quickly ignited.
The special forces did not stop and flee in panic, but turned around the group of attacks and ran back in the direction of the first arrival, rushing all the way to come to put out the fire. When Wuxin and others rushed out of King Nai, the fire in the group of grain was already burning in a mess. The flames soared into the sky, and Wuxin soared into the sky. The ancient Wuyan City defenders dozens of miles away did not need the Naiwangjing defenders to report the news, and they knew that their granary had been attacked.
After the special forces burned the granary, they didn't even think about the number of people gathering. They rode their horses back to the dark grassland and began their escape journey without looking back. One hour later, when the reinforcements from Guwuyan City arrived, King Nai completely turned into a sea of fire, and Wuxin and the others had no idea where to go.
"Master, the grain in Wangjing's garrison was burned!" A general hurried into Li Qing's tent, while Li Qingzheng stood in front of the map and thought.
After hearing the news of King Nai being attacked, Li Qing frowned slightly and said without saying: "Let the Jianing Military Office prepare another batch of grain and put it in Guwu City to take care of it. If there is any mistake, it will be killed!"
After hearing this, the general lowered his head and said, "Do you just let the sneak attackers escape?"
Li Qing waved his hand and said, "Let them go! They have become frightened birds. They dare to move in my hinterland. The people of Song are getting more and more courageous! Don't worry about them. I guess these people are not many, so I will only do some sneak attacks. Guwuyan City only needs to send 3,000 people to chase and drive their mother. You have to control the route and not be allowed to fight. Just drive them to the Song Dynasty!"
"How did the Grand Marshal know that these people are from Song Dynasty? Could it be that they are from Yanzhou? The county magistrate of Yanzhou is a confidant of the Empress Dowager!"
"Hmph! Don't you know how many people around the Empress Dowager are?! Just a bunch of wine bags! It's certain that the person who attacked must have burned the Song army in Hongzhou Village! Major matters are important, and the rest can be put aside. If the Song army is freed, the general will definitely not be able to come or return!" Li Qing said coldly. After hearing this, the general bowed out to convey the order, while Li Qing walked out of the tent and looked out to the northwest - climbing a mountain in the northwest is the Iron Gate Pass!
Li Qing withdrew his gaze and shouted to the soldiers beside him: "The whole army sets out the camp and march!"
In an instant, the sound of war drums spread across the military camp for two or three miles. For a moment, the Paoxi soldiers in the military camp packed their luggage in an orderly manner and started marching. Now the sun is setting in the west and it takes less than an hour to set. According to the Paoxi army's marching speed, one hour after dark, they can reach Tiemen Pass at the far mountain. I am afraid that everyone did not expect that Li Qing did not lead his army to attack Wuning Fort in the Song Dynasty in the south, but instead rushed straight to Tiemen Pass 600 miles northwest from the Jianing Army Division. Tiemen Pass and turned three hundred miles away.
Yanzhou just formed a north-south defense line. From this, to the west, the power territory was the power territory, and Li Qing was now fighting the Queen Mother Liang in the west! As for the 120,000-120,000-120,000-120,000-120,000-120,000-120,000 yuan in the Wuning Fort Gate. The rest were used for defense in important areas such as the Jianing Military Office and Guwuyan City.
The cavalry of the Poxi Army rushed to outside Tiemen Pass like a torrent under the moonlight. Although Tiemen Pass has the word "guan", it is actually different from the "guan" in the Song Dynasty. It is just a slightly larger town, but there is a circle of three high ground walls on the periphery. It is very simple for Li Qing to deal with such a town, and there is no arrangement of troops at all. After arriving at the location, he surrounded Tiemen Pass. Suddenly, with a wave of his hand, he attacked the city at the same time.
Before the defenders of Tiemen Pass could react, the Poxi Army had already boarded the city sand and fought with the defenders. In Li Qing's eyes, this battle was no different from what he imagined - he won the battle with great success. In less than half an hour, he occupied the city wall and opened the east and west gates. The city walls of Xixia are probably like this, either north and south, east and west, and the two city gates. Only Xingqing Prefecture, Xiping Prefecture, Jingzhou and other big cities would have four gate designs like Song Dynasty cities. However, these
The cities were all in the Mingsha River Basin in the center of Mu's rule. Although Li Qing quickly marched to attack Tiemen Pass this time and did not pick up any siege weapons in the army, there were also no such weapons in the Xixia army that threatened huge city defenses like the Song Dynasty's Divine Arm Crossbow. There were two points to deal with such cities - one was that there were more soldiers, and the other was that they could just bring a long ladder. The Dangxiang people never paid attention to defending the city in wars, and they valued more that they were fighting in field cavalry, but Li Qing did not use the opponent this time.
The guard guarding the Iron Gate Pass was Yelida, the leader of the leader, the Imperial Queen Liang. The number of defenders was also large, about 20,000. Usually, even when facing the Poxi Army, he had the ability to fight. However, Li Qing launched the raid this time without giving his opponent any chance to slow down. After the city gate was opened, Li Qing brought his personal guard into the city. At this moment, there were fires everywhere in the city, and the sound of soldiers fighting between the two sides, but none of this matter. In such a small town offensive and defensive battle, the Poxi Army was definitely the strongest in Xixia. After the small stone machine was put into the battlefield, Yelida, covered in blood, came to Li Qing in front of him. Li Qing rode on the shiny tall horse, and said anything, he used gestures to let his personal guard chop off Yelida's head.
"Li Sheng, take your people to guard the city wall. No one is allowed to go out. Those who violate the order will be killed! All the fires in the rest of the city will be put out, and then camp and rest!" After saying that, Li Qing rode out of the city under the escort of his personal guards and went out to the big tent to rest.
The next day, Li Qing left the necessary defenders to guard the Tiemen Pass, and the entire army rushed to Baichi City 150 miles away. This was his focus. Baichi City was a real pass in Li Qing's eyes. If you get Baichi City, you can easily deal with the military pressure of Queen Mother Liang in the west. More importantly, Baichi City salt mine. The salt in the eastern part of the Western Xia was basically supplied by Baichi City. For this reason, Li Qing had to spend a high price to buy salt transported from the Song Dynasty and the eastern tribes. After getting Baichi City, he was not worried about the supply of salt.
When Li Qing and Empress Dowager Liang had a feud, there were 40,000 defenders stationed in Baicheng, but the military system of Xixia was essentially different in the Song Dynasty. Dangxiang soldiers were soldiers and herdsmen. The conventional army was the most elite troops, but the number was very small. Liang Zuo, Liang Gewei suffered a crushing defeat against Song twice, which resulted in only 10,000 regular troops. The other 30,000 were collected from the surrounding area. Li Qing clamped his tail in the past two years and made the defenders here look like a disastrous, and the herdsmen also needed to rest and recuperate. Li Qing had no intention of rebelling for a long time, which made the defenders cut again and again, and this place was only 15,000. It was less than the number of people guarded by Yelidajin. In the face of Baichicheng, Li Qing finally used his treasure - a firearm made by Xixia. The attack was also carried out at night. Li Qing,
He was determined to win the firearms and did not care about the loss of firearms. He threw them all over the city and beat the defenders for a while. After the reaction, the Poxi army had already attacked the city. Li Qing was very determined and he also bluntly told his subordinates before the war. There was no room for a return between him and Queen Mother Liang. As long as Baichi City was taken down, Queen Mother Liang would no longer oppress him. This made the entire Poxi army fight for his own way of life. Although the losses were relatively large, the Poxi army rushed to the city like a tide. Soon it occupied the east wall of Baichi City, and led the cowardly Li Qing's Poxi army to take the lead in the West Gate to escape. The morale of the army was very chaotic and quickly defeated. Baichi City did not suffer too much damage like Tiemen Pass, so that Li Qing could not have been in the hands of Li Qing.
Within two days, Li Qing conquered Tiemen Pass and Baichi City, killed more than 10,000 enemies and captured nearly 20,000 prisoners. Whether the Song army or the Queen Mother Liang did not know that the situation in the northwest had such a big change. Of course, although Wang Jinghui had a strong intelligence network, he was also restricted by communication conditions. He did not know.
Li Qing also took advantage of the convenience of poor communication. After occupying Baichi City, he left 20,000 defenders and marched south. Five days later, he opened the Yanzhou gate with unintentional methods and occupied Yanzhou with slight losses. He made all his plans to fight westward. In the past, the defense line established by Empress Dowager Liang was tolerated by Li Qing for two years, and in a short while he started the attack, he became more and more likely to be in a position.
When Li Qing fought in Yancheng, Li Qing's eldest son Li Quan led the Song army to attack the Three Forts of Wuning forts for 40,000. On the first day, the catapult car was damaged by the incendiary bombs fired by the crossbows, and he was reluctant to use the rest. Although the two-day war was fierce, this was only compared to Li Quan, the loss to the defenders of the Three Forts of Wuning forts was very small.
Before the war, Li Qing arranged for Li Quan to attack, causing the Song Dynasty to have all the landlords to take down Wuning Fort in Wuning, which is certainly a great victory, but it doesn’t matter if it has to be. The important thing is that the Song army must never be allowed to rush out of Wuning Fort, and the Song army must be firmly sealed in the fort!
During the two-day strong attack, Li Quan fully appreciated the Song army's technology of defending the city. Various bombs, crossbows fired flying stones and incendiary bombs. The more terrifying were poisonous arrows, which made Li Quan's army sad and quickly reached the psychological bottom line of 10,000. On the third day, he sent 20,000 cavalry outside Wuning Fort to set up a formation to monitor the situation. The remaining 10,000 people went to cut down surrounding trees, which gave the Song army the illusion that he wanted to produce siege weapons on a large scale, leaving only an empty camp to sing a one-man show.
It is impossible not to say that Li Qing's education of his son is very high, which is also due to Li Qing's cautious personality. He knew very well how difficult it was to gain a foothold in the country established by the Dangxiang people. Even if he was in the position of Empress Dowager Liang, he would not hesitate to do what Empress Dowager Liang is doing now. Li Quan was not a arrogant son like those tribes inherited. After many years of following Li Qing to fight in all directions, he had long become a qualified general. The reason why he was able to make such an empty city plan was to kill the Song army. Anyone who was dragged down the Song army for two days would be able to stay one by one. The Song army knew Li Qing's family background, but Li Qing was not a good person. He knew very well how many troops there were in the Three Forts of Wuning. Even if the Song army was dispatched in full swing, it would be absolutely fine if Li Quan's 40,000 troops were dealt with carefully. If he could get the Wuning Fort, he would make a profit.
When Yang Chongyue and others saw logging on the top of the city, they were not sure. In order to prevent their opponents from attacking more fiercely, they also tried their best to hoard combat supplies. They almost demolished all the stone houses in the Sanbao of Wuning, carefully maintained all the components of the crossbows, and also made several emergency crossbows, preparing to pull them up at critical moments.
Chapter completed!