Chapter 489
"Li Dutou, you are ready to take your men right away."
"General Wei, let your brothers take a breath." Li Ping said.
"Look at the top of the city, how to breathe, hold on for another day and a half."
As soon as Qin Bo finished speaking, a rock bounce flew in and landed on the thatched hut next to him, smashing a hole in the roof and then falling down again, and the sound of the rafters breaking were heard.
"Grandma, how can you hold on for these two days?" Qin Bo thought in his mind.
"Or General Qin, give me the ten soldiers you detained."
"What do you want those ten people?"
"Look, I have more than sixty-one men left."
"Those ten people are cowardly and will be executed according to military law."
"However, why didn't General Qin kill?"
"I'm fighting, afraid of ruining morale."
"Military law is military law, and it must be handled as appropriate. It is normal for these new recruits to have not been on the battlefield, so it is normal for them to be a little scared. Just let them see some blood."
"This is the military order of the Ming Gong."
"Ming Gong is not a person who admits death. Besides, if Ming Gong is in Qingzhou, can he issue this ridiculous order?"
It is what you think is the order given by Mr. Hao Ming! Wei Qingzong said in his heart that Zhang Yu's order is equivalent to Wang Ju's order.
"Okay, if you want it, I'll hand them over to you."
After a while, ten new recruits who were "fearing death" were brought over.
Li Ping pointed to a very young soldier and asked, "What's your name?"
"Song Xiaoliu."
"Where's the person?"
"Luoyang people."
"There are all the forbidden soldiers in Luoyang."
A veteran next to him rolled his eyes. Li Ping said nonsense. At this time, the officers and soldiers of the two battalions of Xueni Fort. One battalion was from Pojie from Zheng Baiqu. That is, the battalion where Li Ping was located. The other was the forbidden soldiers. However, there were not only the capital city, but also some forbidden soldiers, including Luoyang, Yingtian Prefecture and Daming Prefecture. The other battalion was the forbidden soldiers from Luoyang. So weren't they all the children of Luoyang?
"Why are you afraid of death?"
"I, I..."
"I have relatives at home and don't want to die, right? But the more I am afraid of death, the faster I die. Originally, General Wei planned to execute you according to military law, so I pleaded with General Wei and included you under my tent. You are not dead, which means you have died once. Is it still afraid of death this time?"
"Don't be afraid anymore." The young soldier lowered his head and whispered.
"Then prepare immediately, we are going to take over soon." Li Ping said.
As soon as he finished speaking, Wei Qingzong shouted to him: "The left city wall is dangerous, Li Ping, immediately lead someone to support him."
"Go." Li Ping yelled.
Sixty-five people rushed to the city wall, and six others were seriously injured and there was no way to fight.
The arrow rain in the sky was like a swarm of locusts during a locust plague, falling densely. Sixty-five people rushed to the city wall with the arrow rain. The shields in their hands kept making noises of arrows colliding. Two more soldiers screamed and rolled down in the arrows. I don’t know whether it was death or life.
However, Li Ping had no intention of turning his head and looking at it. It was the time of danger on the top of the city, and Xia people kept climbing up to the top of the city.
In fact, if it is a normal fortress, even if there are only one thousand people, the enemy's troops will be more powerful, and everyone will be sure to defend it for several days. However, the Snow Mud Fortress is not a normal fortress, and it is not as large as some real post shops in Hebei.
In addition, after the Song and Xia negotiated peace, the border was peaceful for a long time. Even though Xixia came to plunder and fought tragically in Dashun City, it was from the line of Anjiang Fort and Dashun City, so almost no one went to repair the Snow Mud Fort.
The fort wall was not high, and the years of disrepair, so the fort walls in many places collapsed again. This time, when we came to the emergency, everyone was forced to find a fence and block the gap. However, the area was too small, and it was even not as large as the gardens of some wealthy families in Chang'an. Nearly a thousand people were crowded. But because the area was very small, shoddy stone trenchers like Xixia could throw stone bullets into the city.
Yesterday, the enemy came to the city to camp and did not attack, but instead made siege equipment, including siege ladders and trenchers. They launched a fierce attack early this morning.
After three fierce attacks, 39 people under Li Ping died in 100 people, and six others were seriously injured. They were placed in a relatively sturdy house for treatment, but God can only know whether he can survive in the end.
The first batch of Song troops who were upheld were suffering heavy casualties, and Wei Qingzong had to replace them with the second batch, but it was just afternoon and he couldn't stand it anymore.
In fact, Wei Qingzong misunderstood that this order was not given by Wang Ju, but by Zhang Ju. Last night, Wang Ju questioned that it took two days too long.
This is still a dialectical argument with the eight, or a dialectical diagnosis of the fact that the charity does not control the army.
It’s not that Zhang Feng is cruel, but that he cannot show off his kindness too much. Look at how much trouble Yao Yi’s actions have brought. For the final victory, the officers and soldiers of the two battalions had to work hard.
"Everyone is here," Wei Qingzong shouted loudly, then rushed to the east. There were ten tiger-climbing cannons, which brought heavy casualties to the Xixia people. Therefore, the Xixia people attacked the city, and these ten tiger-climbing cannons became the primary target of the Xixia people.
The Xia soldiers rushed to wherever they were fiercely, and the Song army had to face the battle. Seeing that the Song soldiers were getting fewer and fewer, even the soldiers who fired the tiger cannon stopped firing and pulled out their swords to fight. But what was even more critical was that one siege ladder after another was set up below, because the city wall was almost out of control, and one Xixia soldiers after another kept climbing up.
"Brothers, team one to five are smashed with rolling stones! Team six to ten are following me to kill the enemy!" Li Ping shouted again. After drinking in front, he held a vine shield in one hand, blocking the arrows shot from below, and rushing towards the city where the tragic battle was carried.
"Be careful." Just as he killed the fourth enemy soldier, a shout came from behind.
I don’t know who called it, nor do I know who was reminding who was careful, Li Ping continued to raise his sword and killed the fifth enemy.
At this moment, he heard some cracking sound from the armor behind him, and felt a pain on his back.
He turned his head and saw that Song Xiaoliu, who was talking to him just now, was fighting with another subordinate with a person like a Xixia general. The Xia general had a Xia Kingdom sword in his hand. The Xia Kingdom sword actually combined the Tang Dynasty's horizontal sword and the Tubo straight sword, and it was also the most common weapon in the Xixia army.
However, the Xia Kingdom sword referred to by the Song Dynasty is not the common Xia Kingdom sword. It is the Xia Kingdom sword that is truly exquisitely smelted. The Xia Kingdom sword that usually fights on the battlefield may not be a good sword. But this Xia General seems to be the real Xia Kingdom sword in his hand.
Therefore, the armor on Li Ping was all made by Wang Ju in the Military Arts Supervision later. When he felt pain and turned his head, General Xia had already fought with his two subordinates, which showed that the Xia Guojian in his hand almost ignored his armor, quickly slashed and quickly pulled it out.
But the Xia general was very brave. With just one sword to meet him, he lifted the sword in Song Xiaoliu's hand and shook it away. However, Li Ping saw a Xia soldier beside him while he was stunned and stabbed him with a sword.
Li Ping couldn't turn around. So he took a step forward, knocking the sword against each other, shaking the sword in Xia Bing's hand. His lifting sword was wiping down the sword. The Xia Bing screamed in pain. As for where the Xia Bing was touching, Li Ping ignored it. He used the momentum of forward straddle to turn his body around again.
Song Xiaoliu said happily: "Tao Li Du, you are fine."
At this time, how could he be distracted? After Song Xiaoliu finished calling, the Xia General's sword fell down. He stabbed the armor from his abdomen. The Xia General even stirred the sword twice before he could pull it out.
The red, black and yellow blinked, and they all emerged from Song Xiaoliu's armor.
"It hurts...Empress," Song Xiaoliu covered his stomach and shouted, then leaned softly against the wall and collapsed.
"Damn it, damn it!" Li Ping shouted twice in his heart, then used both hands to exchange shields, protected the right side of his body with a vine shield, and rushed towards the Xia General. The two began to fight.
The sword knocked in the air for more than a dozen times, and it was indeed a good sword. The knife in Li Ping's hand was knocked out with several gaps.
After bumping again, Li Ping took the opportunity to rush over, and the vine shield in his right hand also released, hugging the man, and the two rolled to the ground at the same time. Seeing that the two commanders were in danger, taxis from both sides rushed to rescue him. So this narrow city immediately became extremely bloody.
The two of them rolled over and happened to Li Ping to the top. In desperation, they let go of the knife and strangled the Xia general's neck with both hands.
The Xia general was also fierce and kept chopping Li Ping's thighs with his sword. Li Ping just refused to let go. After a while, the Xia general stopped struggling.
Li Ping let go of his hand, snatched the Xia Guojian in his hand, stood up to endure the pain in his legs, and looked at Song Xiaoliuzi again. Song Xiaoliuzi was motionless, but his eyes were wide open unwillingly.
"Kill." Li Ping dragged his injured leg and limped towards the enemy again.
The Xia general seemed to have a good status. Seeing that he was dead, the Xia soldiers on the top of the city were a little stunned. In addition, Li Ping's fierceness inspired the morale, and the situation on the top of the city finally stabilized. One big stone after another fell, and someone braved the rain of arrows to lift the siege down. So fewer and fewer Xia soldiers on the top of the city were killed. Seeing that this wave of attack seemed to be fruitless, the horn of retreat sounded the rear of Xixia.
"Xiao He, see how many brothers are left."
"Nineteen more people died." said the ward He Jin, and said again: "Tao Li Du, do you want to go down and bandage the wound?"
Li Ping was seriously injured, and a large bloody mouth was drawn from his back, and the flesh was rolled out. The Xia general was stabbed several times on his legs. Although Li Ping leaned on him, the blood kept flowing down.
"I can't retreat, let the people below take some gauze on it." Li Ping said gasping.
The Snow Mud Castle was extremely fierce today, but the remaining places were very quiet.
Dashun City made the people of Xixia coward and went around to the rear. The north city was the west mountain and there was no way to climb up. The south city could attack, but also erected an ice wall. However, Liang Yi buried it for the time being and gave up on Dashun City and sent troops to trap them.
Anjiang Fort was also in a tragic battle, but it was not as fierce as the Snow Mud Fort. After all, Anjiang Fortress was tall and strong, with more troops in the city, including the officers and soldiers of the eight battalions, plus nearly a thousand strong men and horses. Therefore, after several attacks launched by Liang Yongneng failed, he stopped automatically.
But the Anjiang Fort crisis has also arrived. Ru Ding brought his army to the back of Anjiang Fort. There was no danger all the way, and he did not expect there would be danger. Either Anjiang Fort would send an ambush, but under Liang Yongneng's attack, would Anjiang Fort dare to divide that little force? Or Rouyuan Village could also divide its troops, but facing the main army buried by Liang Yi, Rouyuan Village was more difficult. Do they dare to divide their troops? There is also the more pitiful troops in Xigu Village, which is almost unnecessary to consider. The troops are too few, the road is more rugged and farther, and it is impossible to divide the troops to come to Anjiang Fort to venture behind Anjiang Fort to set up an ambush. Moreover, he also sent a large number of scouts to inquire. He did not want to make the mistake of Ye Bhuma in Huachi County again.
However, today they cannot attack immediately. They must set up camps and manufacture siege equipment. Anyway, Dashun City isolates the road from Anjiang Fort, which makes Xixia's march very difficult this time.
Several outposts were also set up to monitor the roads in the direction of Rouyuan Village, and even two outposts were set up to the east to prevent the Song army in Donggu Village from "stricken" and taking risks.
This also proves his cautious approach to military use.
The more cautious he is, the more dangerous Anjiang Fortress will be. Tomorrow, the situation in Anjiang Fortress will be even more dangerous than that of Snow Mud Fortress.
But for the time being, Anjiang Fortress was quiet, Yao Lin stood at the top of the city and said, "I understand. Liang Yongneng launched a fierce attack since yesterday. It turned out that he wanted to restrain my troops so that this Xia army could arrive safely behind me."
Water is invisible, and soldiers are invisible. Everyone will plot against what grandson says, just depends on who can laugh to the end.
It was also very quiet in front of Rouyuan Village. Liang Yi buried in front of Rouyuan Village and laughed and laughed.
Li Sangou also used the method of the Song army in front of Dashun City to build a long ice wall to connect the earthen plateau where Rouyuan Village is located, which is connected with the mountains on both sides.
Including the two ravines on the side, two small ice walls were built. If you want to attack, come from the front, but it is impossible to turn off the mountain, because there are outposts on the left and right peaks, and you will send someone to climb the mountain. They can reach the top of the mountain faster, and then face down and calmly respond.
"I had a good idea." Liang Yi buried him.
Therefore, the reason for having this relaxed mentality is very simple, that is, there is no ice wall behind Rouyuan Village. Why are Liang Yi buried in the burial? When Anjiang Fort is broken, Liang Yongneng and Ru Ding Ge's troops are combined into one. Attack on both sides, Rouyuan Village will be broken.
Therefore, he ordered his men to set up camp and prepare siege equipment.
The Liyuan Castle is calmer.
Chapter completed!