Chapter 573 The stalemate of the battle
Before we knew it, a month passed, and the long Xia Song defense line was stained with blood. Within this month, the Xia army paid a heavy price to break through the Song army's defense line. The Song army also tried hard to fill people in to defend the defense line. This line of defense was like a blood mill, and the meat grinder kept swallowing the soldiers of the Xia and Song armies. Both sides were patient in the consumption until the deadlock was completely broken.
In Wuguan, Qin King Li Wu led a 100,000 army to be stationed in Wuguan. Fifty miles outside Wuguan City is the Song army's defense line. In the past month, Li Wu personally led his army to carry out more than ten large-scale group attacks on the Song army's Wuguan defense line. After losing tens of thousands of troops, the Song army's defense line was still as strong as before, and Li Wu gave up the attack. Such combat had no effect. Li Wu did not want to waste his troops in vain.
"Prince, the army has been prepared for war. When will it launch an attack on the Song army's defense line?" Qin Hu came to the city gate tower and asked Li Wu.
"It's a big deal to attack." Li Wu said angrily; "The Song army's defense line is like a solid wall. Even if we fill all our brothers in, we may not be able to break through the defense line!"
"Then it's not a solution for us to do this!" Qin Hu said.
"These four general managers have a bad life. I only have two roads when I come out of the pass, one is Hangu Pass and the other is Wu Pass. They are all blocked by Zhong Shidao. Don't let me catch this old boy. I have to peel off his skin when I catch him." Li Wu said angrily. "You are really saying that my father is really there. I know that there is a tough battle here and I will draw troops from me. Who do I ask me to ask you to tell me to go!"
It turned out that in order to strengthen the troops in various places, Li Liangzuo ordered the transfer of troops from the Yongzhou General District to supplement the troops into Bingzhou and Yizhou. He successively transferred 200,000 troops from the subordinates of Qin King Li Wu, and also transferred Xili Qian's troops and Liang Gewei, which greatly weakened the combat power under Li Wu.
After adjustment, the general managers of the four prefectures were as follows: Li Qing, the general manager of the Jizhou, had a 500,000 army, under his command, Li Ke, the king of Changshan, Zhu Xu, the general of Pingbei, Feng Fu, the general of Pingxi, Feng Fu, the general of vanguard, and Zhao Ge, and others; Li Bingzhou, the general of Jin, Li Bingchang, had a 200,000 army, under his command, Li Hao, the king of Hengshan, An Qinggui, the general of Pingdong, and Liang Yongneng, and others; Li Wu, the general of Yongzhou, had a 300,000 army, under his command, Li Yue, the Marquis of Anguo, Qin Hu, and the General of Pingnan, Li Yanze, and others; Li De, the General of Yizhou, had a 100,000 army, and under his command, Xili Qian, the General of the Conquest, and Wu Jie, the General of the Conquest.
In other words, in order to capture the Song Dynasty, Li Liangzuo arranged one million and one million troops on the defense line of Xia and Song Dynasty. Most of this army was a mansion soldier. The real regular army was only 300,000 Imperial Army, 100,000 Dragon Foot Army, 30,000 Flying Tiger Army, and 30,000 Flying Bear Army. As for the 50,000 Qinglong Navy, they were still floating on the sea! These regular troops were also the backbone of the Xia army's attack on the Song Dynasty.
"How is the situation in the other three states?" Li Wu asked Qin Hu.
Qin Hu said: "According to the intelligence situation, the Jizhou Legion was blocked outside the Great Wall; His Highness King Jin led the Bingzhou Legion to launch attacks on the Song army on Zhongtiao Mountain and the south bank of the Yellow River many times, but they were blocked by the Song army. His Highness King Yong led the Yizhou Legion to attack Jiange without any result; The Song army established a solid defense line from east to west, from north to south, basically blocking our attack route. Moreover, the total strength of the Song army is more than three times that of our army, and they are all shrunk and unable to stand out. There are sufficient food and military equipment in the city. Even if they can go around, they may be cut off the food route. It is really difficult!"
Qin Hu was actually not wrong at all. Moreover, this time the Song army arranged not only a line of defense, but the arrangement of the hierarchical arrangement was not conducive to the interweaving operation of the Xia cavalry. This is also an important reason for the success of the Song army's defense tactics and the failure of the Xia army's offensive tactics. In this regard, the general managers in various places actually knew that the courts of the Daxia Empire were also very clear, but even so, there was no way out.
"How is the matter with the thunder?" Li Wu continued to ask.
"Twenty thousand thunderstorms can be transported in three days." Qin Hu said.
"Why only 20,000?"
"Your Majesty, if you have 20,000, you're content! Now all the major legions are staring at this thing! Everything that has something to do with gunpowder is in short supply."
Just as the two were discussing military information on the city tower, a flying cavalry hurriedly came to pass an order: "Your Majesty has an order to order His Highness the King of Qin to return to the capital to discuss matters quickly. This order is urgent and those who violate the order will be punished strictly without lending."
Li Wu immediately knelt down and answered the order, "My son will accept the order, long live my emperor, long live, long live."
All the princes received a copy of the same military order. After receiving Li Liangzuo's military order, the princes of the Daxia Empire stationed in various places began to rush to the imperial capital with rushing horses. No one dared to be negligent. Everyone knew that the front-line war was not good, and Li Liangzuo, as the emperor, was about to get angry, but there was nothing we could do about it. In this month, the four armies spent a lot of military expenses, but there was no result in the battle. Anyone would be furious.
The Xia army suffered heavy losses, and the Song army was not easy to live. In just one month, the number of people killed by the Song army was almost equal to that of the Xia army. At the same time, the Song army's material consumption was even greater than that of the Xia army. At this time, Zhao King Zhao was at a loss. Nearly one-quarter of the materials that the Song army had hoarded in the north for many years had been consumed. In other words, if such a battle was fought for another three months, the tens of millions of materials and supplies that the Song army had placed in the north would be exhausted, and five months later the Song army would be defeated due to lack of supplies.
It was very difficult for Zhao Wei to escape from Lutai Mountain. When Zhao Wei escaped from Lutai Mountain and came to the Weisheng Army, there were only more than 3,000 people under his command, and these 3,000 people were worn in tatters. It was already a miracle that they could walk out from the depths of the mountains. After Zhao Wei returned, he immediately set off to Daming Prefecture to command the Song army to fight the Jizhou Army's Jizhou Army. On such a long line of defense, the most threat to the Song Empire was the Jizhou Army led by King Li Qing of Yan.
First of all, there were many soldiers and horses in the Jizhou Legion, and there were 500,000 infantry and cavalry, and there were subsequent troops. In addition, the Song army, which faced the Jizhou Legion, did not have natural dangers and could only rely on the Great Wall to defend. To put it bluntly, it was just a city wall, but this city wall was taller than an ordinary city wall, and if the command was not properly done, it would easily cause the Xia army to break through from a little bit, and then the entire Song army's Great Wall defense line to completely collapse.
Of course, the Song army did not just defend. Under Zhang Miao's leadership, the Song army launched an attack on the Xia army, and the location was pacified. Moreover, Zhang Miao also took advantage of the empty plan of Zhending Prefecture and mobilized the army to regain Jingxing Pass after paying a heavy price, which threatened the Xia army's rule over Zhending Prefecture. After the Song army seized Jingxing Pass, Zhao Wei sent a large number of elite troops to pacify the front line as soon as possible, and at the same time handed over the military power of Zhaozhou, Liaozhou, Xingzhou and other places to Zhang Miao, which was very stance that he would not give up until Zhending Prefecture was recovered.
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