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- The horn sounded, and the sound of killing shook the sky. ¡·
After Wanyan Zongwang destroyed the opponent's strategy of strengthening the Qing Dynasty, he launched a fierce attack on Shazhou City.
Xixia's original combat strategy was to use the desert terrain to advance if it was advantageous and to retreat if it was unfavorable. However, the sandbank was the end of the Hexi Corridor and was a very important stronghold that could not be easily captured by the Jin army. This is why Li Yuanhao originally sent The Pingxi Military Division is located in Sha and Gua Prefectures.
If you want to capture the sandbar, you must first occupy the outer earth walls, earthen forts and cross the trenches.
Xixia is not as good as the Song Dynasty, especially in the Hexi Corridor. They do not have a solid city wall here, and low earth walls and earthen forts are the defensive features of the sandbank.
Because the Xixia Army had not had a direct battle with the Jin Army before, especially the Xixia Army here, but because the Jin Army was too strong, they did not dare to go out of the city to meet the enemy when facing the Jin Army's attack. Most of them hid in the soil. Defense behind fort and low wall.
The war horses neighed.
This siege force composed of surrender troops, Uighurs and a small number of Jurchens began to launch a fierce attack around these earthen walls and earthen forts.
Whoosh whoosh!
The bows and arrows met in the air, causing bursts of sound that broke through the air.
Boom boom boom!
Huge boulders fell from the sky one after another, knocking the Jin army upside down.
This is Xixia's special weapon, called the cyclone cannon. It is actually a centrifugal trebuchet. It uses centrifugal force to throw stones. When mounted on a high earthen fortress, it looks very intimidating.
But the Jin army was not weak either. They relied on skillful shooting of the enemy, but saw Xixia soldiers falling from the earthen wall one by one.
Within a moment, the Jin army in the northwest had rushed into the enemy camp, but this was only the beginning.
These walls and castles are not in a straight line, but are scattered in twos and threes, making them look like a maze. Once the cavalry rushed in, the horses immediately became a burden, because the earth walls, one to the east and one to the west, prevented them from using their speed.
"kill¡ª¡ª!"
As soon as the Jin Army broke into the earth wall defense line, many enemy troops suddenly appeared from all around. They held broadswords in their hands and swarmed up, surrounding a column of the Jin Army. The two sides started a fierce hand-to-hand battle again. Once the cavalry lost its speed, it would be a meal in the hands of the infantry.
Because the earthen wall is not neatly lined up, the bows and arrows are not very dense, and it is not difficult to rush in. Because of this, the earthen wall formation has also become a nightmare for the cavalry.
Several attacks by the Jin army were all resolved in the earth wall formation.
Fortunately, this is just a trial battle. The loss is not very big.
On a sand dune to the west of the sandbank, Wanyan Zongwang, Liu Yanzong and other generals stood on it to watch the battle. Although it was not their elite who attacked the city today, they were also Turks. The fighting power is not weak, but seeing his side trapped within the earth walls, Wanyan Zongwang couldn't help but frown. These earth walls were not high. It's not long, but it's messy and disorderly, somewhat similar to the Han people's formation. It's easy to get in, but hard to get out.
After watching for a long time, Wanyan Zongwang sighed and said, "It will be difficult to capture the sandbank without breaking through this wall!"
Liu Yanzong nodded and said: "And the party members seem to be much stronger than we expected."
A counselor named Dong Wen beside him suddenly said: "Both of you are in command, but in fact these are not party members."
Dong Wen is also a Han. He returned to Wanyan Zongwang with Liu Yanzong. Wanyan Zongwang said "Oh" and said, "Who are these?"
Dong Wendao: "This is Xixia's captured army. It is actually an army composed of slaves. It is composed of Han people and some surrounding tribes."
"Han Chinese?"
Wanyan Zongwang secretly sneered. These Han people are really ridiculous. When their own country is attacked, they all rush to flee, but when they become slaves in other countries, they become so violent. He did not say this because he had to worry about the feelings of Liu Yanzong and Dong Wen. After all, they were also Han Chinese.
There are many Han people, and these ethnic minorities use enslaved Han people to expand their country's manpower. When Li Yuanhao was in high spirits, he captured more than 100,000 Han people from the Song Dynasty and sent them to Xixia as slaves. In order to consolidate his power, he organized these slaves into a group. The army, called the Capture Army, was specially charged into battle for his party members.
How could these ethnic minorities withstand such casualties?
After watching for a while, Wanyan Zongwang saw that there was no hope of clearing these earthen walls, and said: "Ming Jin withdraws the troops, there is no point in continuing to fight."
Dong Wen suddenly said: "Du Tong, I have a plan to break this earth wall formation."
Wanyan Zongwang was overjoyed and said, "Speak quickly."
Dong Wendao said: "This earth wall formation is obviously used to deal with our cavalry. It is easy to enter and difficult to get out. However, this earth wall formation also has inevitable disadvantages, that is, this earth wall is not stronger than the city walls in the Central Plains. It is fragile and will be destroyed if hit. If it breaks, we can use it to crash into its earthen wall formation."
Wanyan Zongwang listened thoughtfully.
Liu Yanzong was overjoyed and said: "Du Tong, this plan is terrible. This earth wall cannot withstand the impact of a car crash. Once the earth wall collapses, the opponent's infantry will be vulnerable. We can let the Uighur infantry lead the charge pushing the car. Once the wall is broken, the cavalry will cover up and annihilate the enemy.¡±
Wanyan Zongwang nodded and said: "Yes, the disadvantage of the earth wall is that it is fragile. Immediately order to build a crash chariot, but chariots are rare and cannot attack from three sides at the same time. Let's concentrate our forces to attack from the south first, break a gap, and cover You go around the sandbar.¡±
"yes."
This battle ended with the defeat of the Jin army.
The party members did not pursue them because they could not catch up, but they sent the Jin army away with their cheers.
The previous fear of the Jin Army disappeared without a trace at this moment. Is the Jin Army nothing more than this? For a time, the morale was greatly boosted.
However, the Jin army's retreat was only for the next wave of more violent offensive.
In order to break through these earth walls and earth forts, Wanyan Zongwang immediately ordered to build a siege vehicle. In fact, he had borrowed a lot of siege equipment from the Gaochang Uyghurs, but the equipment was too bulky. Facing these earth walls, it was overkill. , Wanyan Zongwang hopes to build some small crash cars, specially used to break the earth wall formation of the sandbank.
Three days later, with the help of Gaochang Uighur, fifty crash cars were completed.
To the south of the sandbar car, the horn sounded again.
Shu Liesu personally led 20,000 coalition troops to launch a fierce attack on the position south of the sandbank. Compared with the last time, this time it was mostly composed of infantry. The shield soldiers were in front to cover the chariot soldiers behind. The archers hid behind the shield soldiers. A small number of cavalry covered the two wings to prevent the enemy troops from rushing out. Wanyan Zongwang again The strong man who had just been enslaved pushed the chariot forward.
Whoosh whoosh!
When the Jin army entered the shooting range, arrows rained down, but they were all blocked by the shield soldiers. The archers hiding among the shield soldiers also fired back with their bows and arrows. Cover your own army's advance.
Although the Jin army's attack lost its former agility, it was using heavy swords without sharp edges. It slowly and gradually advanced towards the enemy's position step by step.
The guard guarding the south was called Mother of Defense. Standing at a high place, he had already seen the frightening crashes in the Jin army's formation, and he also understood the Jin army's intentions. Although the bows and arrows were strong, they could not hurt the crashes. . Once the car crashed close to the earth wall, the consequences would be unimaginable. He rushed to the front line and roared loudly. The soldiers were ordered to use cyclone cannons to concentrate fire on the Jin Army's tanks.
The boulders fell one after another. These boulders caused a very fatal blow to the Jin Army's car crash. If they were concentrated, they would all be damaged. But it is a pity that due to the arrangement of earthen castles and earthen walls, and the limited number of cyclone cannons. The firepower could not be concentrated and the sight was not enough to completely destroy the opponent's tank.
After several rounds of stone rain, more than ten ram cars were destroyed. Shu Lie quickly noticed and ordered the soldiers to lift the ram logs on the ram cars and move forward. Their attack this time was not mainly to destroy the opponent's army, but to destroy these vehicles. The earthen walls were used to create a path for their cavalry, so these bumping timbers were very important.
After an hour of fierce fighting, the Jin army finally broke into the enemy's camp. The infantrymen climbed up the earth wall one by one, jumped off the earth wall brandishing their swords, and started a new round of hand-to-hand combat with the Xixia soldiers behind the wall.
boom!
boom!
With the cover of the infantry, the enemy was no longer able to stop the collision. The big men pushed the collision and violently hit the earth wall, once, twice
Before even two impacts, cracks appeared on the earthen wall.
In this area, earth is much cheaper than stone, and most residents live in earth houses. It is precisely because earth walls are easy to build that the party members were able to build such a large-scale earth wall array in such a short period of time. .
Youdao means slow work and meticulous work. This is the so-called shoddy project in later generations. Although it has a good effect against cavalry, it is really vulnerable to a car crash.
There was a loud "crash" and an earth wall collapsed. Many Xixia soldiers had no time to escape and were buried alive here.
In the blink of an eye, more than ten earthen walls collapsed.
Seeing all this, Mother Wei thought to herself that it would not be possible to continue like this, so she decisively ordered the soldiers to take the initiative to attack and block it with their flesh and blood.?The crash car moves forward, but the crash car cannot be allowed to get closer to the earth wall.
You can¡¯t stick to the rules on this battlefield. Originally, the earth wall was used to protect your soldiers, but now the situation has changed, and it has become the soldiers to step forward to protect the earth wall.
kill¡ª¡ª!
The Xixia soldiers who were originally hiding behind the earth wall rushed out. Because the Jin army did not join the cavalry and the infantry fought the infantry, the Xixia people still had the advantage. After an hour of fighting, they finally stopped the Jin army's offensive and protected the soil behind them. Walls and earthen forts.
Since the enemy had changed, Shu Liesu would naturally not stand firm to the end, so he immediately ordered two thousand cavalry to outflank his infantry to attack the wall.
Since the Xixia soldiers had already come out of the earthen wall and there was no earthen wall to protect them, the cavalry rushed up and became unstoppable. They rushed from both sides and the formation of the Xixia soldiers was in chaos.
When Mother Wei saw her, her eyes were full of despair, but at this moment, there were sudden footsteps behind her.
I saw an army moving towards this side quickly.
It is Xixia¡¯s reinforcements.
It turned out that Shazhou was sending all the main force of the Jin army to the south when Brother Li Fei saw it. He was afraid that Mother Wei could not hold on, so he quickly mobilized reinforcements.
When Mother Wei saw that it was her reinforcements, she couldn't help but be overjoyed and shouted loudly: "Brothers, our reinforcements have arrived, rush for me!"
Once the reinforcements arrived, the morale of the Xixia soldiers was greatly boosted, and they withstood the most ferocious attack of the Jin army.
¡°Damn, it¡¯s just a little bit close.¡±
Shu Lie quickly saw the opponent's reinforcements arriving and couldn't help but cursed. Suddenly he heard the sound of horse hoofbeats from behind again.
"The technique is fierce and fast."
It was General Balu who came over with five thousand light horses and said: "Shu Liesu, I have been ordered by the capital to come to help. No matter what, we must destroy the earthen wall outside today. Otherwise it will be difficult to cover the advance of the deputy capital commander."
Shu Lieshu heard this and nodded: "Now that the enemy has come out of the earthen wall to fight our army, our cavalry no longer needs to be afraid."
The two joined forces and launched the most violent attack on the enemy's position.
Seeing the fierceness of the Jin Army's cavalry, the Mother Guards did not dare to fight with them, so she quickly ordered the soldiers to retreat. After hiding behind the earthen wall, the Jin Army saw this and quickly ordered the cavalry to stop attacking, and ordered the infantry to quickly push and crash, destroying the car crazily. There was an earthen wall, but when the cavalry stopped, the mother-in-law ordered the soldiers to go out to fight.
Shu Liesu could only mobilize his cavalry and charge horizontally, forcing the Xixia soldiers back again.
Fighting and retreating, retreating and fighting again, caused the Jin soldiers to suffer heavy losses. The battle did not end until the evening. No matter what, the Jin army still destroyed most of the outer earth walls.
After a day's rest, the Jin army began to make a comeback. After another day of bloody fighting, they once again advanced their position three miles, destroyed the earthen wall outside the sandbank, and forced the Xixia soldiers back behind a trench. This trench was naturally formed. However, due to the arrival of the Jin Army, it was deepened and widened a lot. When the Xixia soldiers retreated here, they could no longer retreat. If they retreated further, they would be the city wall. Mother Wei reorganized her troops and mobilized troops from the city. They sent out their elite troops and fought with the Jin army for a day on the trench. Both sides suffered heavy losses. However, the Xixia soldiers also successfully stopped the Jin army's offensive. However, the Jin army also achieved its strategic goal and finally opened a gap in the south. Cover the road to Guazhou.
Wanyan Zongwang still launched several more symbolic attacks, creating an atmosphere of being unable to conquer for a long time. Liu Yanzong also led the army at this time.
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