Chapter 366 The gentleman, the son of the king (3)(2/2)
Moreover, the terrain of these three castles is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Otherwise, Zhang Kang would not have set up three forts here. Wouldn't it be very simple to use water? There is a moat in front of the city gate, so where can I build a fort to defend? I can only build a fort with the help of terrain in the sand pit in the north of the city. The enemy cannot attack unless the fort is broken.
Moreover, Yuanhao's troops ate a lot of meat and fish, so the vegetables in the vegetable garden in the Xiacheng City were not ruined. No one managed them for several months, but some vegetables could be barely eaten.
Yuan Hao saw that the prefecture did not surround the prefectures and the resources outside the city were constantly transported into the city, and was furious and sent the governor of Rongzhou Yebu to move the guard to lead his troops to attack and transfer these three forts.
It seems easy, called Sanbao. What kind of fort can be built in just a few days?
In fact, it was like cutting down a pile of trees from the mountain and making wooden fences, with limited defense capabilities.
Not only these three forts, but the two forts built by Yuan Hao were also very crude due to time constraints. The Liuli Fort was built on a slightly large scale because it stored the materials captured by Yuan Hao, which were also supported by the Xixia army to fight a protracted war. As for the Jianning Village, it was built with soil to build a low wall of half a man high. The defense was very poor.
However, Yuan Hao did not expect that the Song army could defeat his army in the wild, and win once and once. After several times, they all won with less.
Especially the battle between Tumao Chuan made him feel a little panicked.
In the battle of Sansongling, it can be said that the Song army used the mountains to play their strengths, avoid their weaknesses, and won by chance.
But Rabbit Maochuan is a real plain!
Yeb moved the Shougui and led his army to the three forts, allowing the soldiers to dismount and attack.
There was a rain of arrows coming towards us. Finally, we came to the fort fence, and many spears stretched out from the gaps in the fence, and stabbed some soldiers down.
After a moment of fierce battle, morale weakened. Suddenly, a horn sound came from the fort. The Song army actually took the initiative to fight out from the inside of the fort gate.
Unlike before, the Song army won a lot of victories at this time, and Zhang Kang's arrival boosted morale again. He could win it immediately, and the people of Xixia took off their war horses.
In just a moment, he retreated.
Yebu moved the guardgui to helplessly and set up a camp to seek long-term achievements.
Zhang Kang was also paying attention to the battle situation in the city.
He should be much more at this time than in history.
In history, Zhang Kang was truly helpless, and was commanding the battle with the courage in his heart.
But if you want to drag the Xixia army down for a month and a half, you must make good use of every bit of strength in your hands.
Until now, the Zhe family army has suffered heavy losses, and the only one that has not been damaged is the banished soldiers under Kant Yu.
So I thought of a way to form a wing soldiers in the city and said to them, "You go out of the city, you are all familiar with the land within a radius of a hundred miles outside the city. No matter what method you use, dig traps, put a condom, smash black bricks, and fire cold arrows, all I want is the head of the Xixia people.
As a result, the private paths outside the city, grass, forests, and plain river valleys became the cemetery of Yebu's subordinates. They could not leave the military camp. As long as they left the military camp, even if they were to remove one hand, they might turn black and return to their hometown and lose their heads. Then their heads were carried by the border people and went to Zhang Kang where to receive the merits and rewards.
Zhang Kang did what he said, not only gave money, but also gave the only brocade robe on his body to one of the most powerful warriors. He also indulged the border people to drink and gambling with the money.
The injunction was jealous. These rewards should have been awarded to them in the past. Now, seeing that they were taken away by a group of local buns and enjoying themselves, they were still showing off their power in front of them, which was even more uncomfortable than killing them.
Looking for Zhang Kang, Zhang Kang said, "After now, many people have made great achievements. Where are your military achievements?"
"Kang Junma will not let us go to war."
"Hmph," Zhang Kang sneered.
Not yet, I haven't said it.
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It has already put Yuan Hao in a dilemma.
It’s not right to leave, it’s not right not to leave.
At this moment, a rebel soldier fled from Linzhou City and reported a news that Linzhou City was seriously short of water and that as long as it was severely trapped for three days, there would be no water in the city to eat.
Yuan Hao was also sleepy before, but he didn't expect the weather this year.
In normal years, a light rain will fall, but in fact, a few autumn rains continued to fall some time ago.
However, after October, there is no rain or snow.
From a meteorological perspective, there are two reasons for not falling snow. The first is warm winter. Without the influence of strong cold air, the warm winter will not be snowed or less snow. The second is affected by the powerful and stable cold air in the north. The warm air in the south cannot go north, so the weather is dry and cold, with snow or less snow.
Both are deadly weather, which can easily lead to drought and locust plagues in the coming year. The latter will also cause severe winter crop yield reductions.
Therefore, when it does not rain in winter, the emperor will take his ministers to sacrifice to the sky and pray for snow.
Yuan Hao is not a time traveler, nor is he a god-level commander, so he neglected that the weather in the north this year is abnormal.
Although he was trapped in the Erzhou City, he was mainly prepared to deal with food, so that the people in the city starved to death or were dizzy and starved. That was the time for him to really attack the city.
Otherwise, the siege will suffer too much loss.
We must also prevent the arrival of reinforcements in the Song Dynasty, and surrounding the points and attacking the reinforcements was his favorite.
But since Gao Jixuan brought thousands of infantry over, no reinforcements from the Song Dynasty arrived at Fulin Road.
This abnormal situation made Yuan Hao unable to understand.
So this siege was evacuated at first.
It was not until the rebel warned that Yuan Hao officially surrounded Linzhou City.
In the past, I could secretly bring some water into the city, or two autumn rains fell in the world. After being surrounded this time, Linzhou City could no longer get one or two water. Later, it became a liang of gold and a cup of water.
After surrounding Linzhou City, Yuan Hao looked at the south.
Three days is impossible. This circumference takes at least half a month or one month to see the effect.
If you take down Linzhou City, the Yellow River to the east of Fuzhou, Linzhou to the south, and Khitan to the north, it is equivalent to directly cutting off all retreat routes of Fuzhou and becoming an isolated city in Hexi, which will not last long. Then the entire Fulin Road may be captured by the end of the year.
Once the Fulin Road was seized, with the slowness of the Song Dynasty's army, even if the Khitan did not respond, he could drag the Song army to death by himself.
Then he looked at the south.
Shaanxi Third Road has been very calm.
The little prime minister in the south was building a city for farming, Fan Zhongyan was also building a city for farming, Pang Ji was also recruiting people, farming on the spot, supplying military rations, and using the village as a base, he moved the fort step by step.
Li Yuanhao was not afraid and wanted to use the method of moving the fortress to force himself. How many troops and finances did the Song Dynasty need?
It's indeed a group of civil servants!
But for some reason, he always felt a little uneasy.
Shaking his head, he gave another order to Yebushi Shougui, "You set up three camps outside Liuli Fortress and divide your troops to guard the city. If you can conquer the Fuzhou City, don't worry about it, and give me the Liuli Fortress first.
He brought the main army to the city of Linzhou. Liuli Fortress had empty troops, but if he wanted to fight a protracted battle, the materials captured by Liuli Fortress were particularly important.
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Scout report.
Zhang Kang knew that the time had finally come.
If you want to get rid of the threat from Fulin Road, you must get rid of Liuli Fort.
Just then the imperial guards came over to make trouble again, and Zhang Kang said, "Do you want to fight? Do you want to be happy? Okay, just get rid of Liuli Fort with me."
The injunction said no.
It seems to be another myth.
Liuli Fortress almost all the supplies of Yuanhao. Although it is not as strong as the Fuzhou City, it has built a city wall of more than one person and heavy troops are stationed inside. With the current military force of the Fuzhou City, Liuli Fortress was forcibly transferred to Liuli Fortress?
Zhang Kang seemed to have not considered it, so he sent a scout to sneak to Liuli Fort to inspect.
The scout was also brave. He climbed through the grass quietly and lurked under the city wall. Through the gaps in some fences, he could not only see the situation inside, but also hear the enemy's conversation.
A large number of Western Xia soldiers were burning the fire around a bonfire. A veteran threw a piece of sheep's thigh bone into the fire, allowing the flame to crack naturally, and then observed the direction and color of the cracks, which was similar to the divination form of tortoise shells in ancient China.
It is not easy to say whether it is accurate, but that night it was really amazing. The veteran looked carefully and said, "No, the Han people will come to Liuli Fort tomorrow morning to attack suddenly, so we have to avoid it."
A soldier laughed and said, "The Han people dare not show their heads, and they even attacked them suddenly, making a joke."
The scout immediately went back to report.
Zhang Kang was not only listening, but also thinking. After thinking about it, the scout lurked to their noses and heard their conversation, but no one noticed it. It was obvious that the defense of Liuli Fort was relaxed.
So what are you waiting for? This veteran of Xixia said that the attack will be launched tomorrow morning, and I will launch an attack tomorrow dawn.
After looking at the sky, the third day of the year was not here, he summoned the army and walked quickly.
After running dozens of miles, the huge figure of Liuli Fort appeared in front of him.
It was dawn, and it was also the darkest time of the day. The north wind blew, and the sound of the wind was like a wolf howling.
The moon is dark and the wind is high, and it is time to kill people.
Zhang Kang waved his hand and Song Jun stopped. Zhang Kang looked up at Liuli Fortress. With the sound of the wind, he could faintly hear the sound of snoring from the wind. The cold wind was like a knife, and several enemy soldiers guarding each other surrounded the campfire, hugging each other to keep warm. His heads drooped, probably falling asleep. Zhang Kang shouted in a low voice: "Kill."
The Song army rushed towards Liuli Fort quickly.
The new legend once again kicked off in a gorgeous way.
~.< Shuhai Pavilion >-~
Chapter completed!