Chapter 1433 The difference between bait and victim
The battle of Baozhuang City has entered a stalemate. The Liao people and the Western Regions coalition did not intend to give up. Even after the Western Regions paid a heavy price, their soldiers suffered heavy casualties and did not intend to stop siege Baozhuang City.
The people of the Western Regions were not clear, but the people of the Liao Dynasty should know how perverted the logistics support of the Song Dynasty was. Since Zhao Zhen promoted military rations in the name of Cai Ji, Cai Boqi promoted the compressed military rations to the army.
Although this thing is as hard as a stone, it is not.
The army has its own rules. No one can eat these things that taste good but require a lot of saliva, especially when there is insufficient water source. The army of the Song Dynasty used logistics to protect food and purchased it from the local area.
Although the walls of Baozhuang City are no longer there, they are still a city, and the army can still replenish food from the city, especially when Chizhenuzhu did not burn the food and grass.
The food and grass in the city were consumed very quickly, and the food and grass of the Shenwei Army were the same, but they had the last thing to compress military rations. These military rations were not only provided to the soldiers of the Song Dynasty, but also to the three thousand prisoners surrendered in the Western Regions.
As for the people in the city, I'm sorry, the Song army has no obligation to care about their lives and death. The city gate is open when there is no battle, so you can leave at this time, provided that you cannot take away any food, and a grain of food is not enough.
Li Jiu and Zhao Yun in the Divine Guard Army were optimistic about the matter of being trapped in Baozhuang City. They were not worried. At least the fighting spirit of the soldiers in the city had not been eliminated, and at least the reinforcements were already on the way. This was quite certain.
Li Jiu knew Zhao Zhen’s entire plan and understood the strategic deployment, so he did not immediately send someone to escort him from the battlefield after discovering Zhao Yun. The reason is very simple. The purpose of the official is to let the Divine Guards serve as bait, rather than let them become victims.
There is a fundamental difference between this. Li Jiu knew, and Zhao Zhen himself knew it. As for Zhao Yun... In Li Jiu's opinion, he pretended to be confused because he understood it.
As Li Jiu, who has followed Zhao Zhen for many years, he felt that the reason why the official family appeared on the battlefield with three children was only one purpose, and it was to test them...
But soon his thoughts were interrupted. This time the direction of the sound of horse hooves did not come from the bases of the Liao people and the Western Regions, but from the northwest where the army should not appear, that is, the direction of the six cities.
Reinforcements have arrived, and it is time to close the net... and the fish in the net are not Gaochang City, but the current Western Regions Alliance and the Liao people!
This net was weaving for a long time. The Song Dynasty made a lot of work and took too much time and thought. Li Jiu was amazed by such a sophisticated and complex net.
Who would have thought that everything was the government's plan to lure the enemy? Even if I thought about it, I would not have guessed that this was a plan to lure the enemy against the Western Regions and the Liao Dynasty's combat power!
When Li Jiu saw the rumbling sound of horse hooves and the rolling smoke and dust, he turned around and roared at the city: "Beat the drum to reorganize the army, and the Divine Guards prepare for war! Those who violate the military law immediately kill them!"
After a little silence, the soldiers under the city began to act in an orderly manner like the commanded worker bees. This was the fifth day they held in Baozhuang City, and the fifth day they kept resisting the harassment of the Western Regions and the Liao people. The anger accumulated in these five days was amazing.
As the most elite place in the Song Dynasty, can the Divine Guard Army bear such a great humiliation?
The Divine Guard should be a weapon in the army at any time and become the thunder in the hands of the officials. Now the officials lead the army to help, and it is time to show their strength!
The army has tacit cooperation. In this era of underdeveloped communication, the cooperation between the two armies sometimes depends on the rules set early between the two sides, and sometimes it depends on tacit cooperation on the battlefield.
It just so happened that the Shenwei Army and the Japanese Army competed all year round and had a tacit understanding. Both sides knew where the fit was, and without thinking, Li Jiu led his army to pounce on Xiao Manhui's place.
The direction of the Japanese army who rushed to support was the back of the Liao army. Cao Kang knew where he should go without commanding at this time. It was not that he looked down on him, but that his border troops were stationed in the Western Regions all year round and knew a lot about the troops in the Western Regions. His 60,000 border troops happened to be the nemesis of the Western Regions.
Li Jiu was closest to the Liao army. The Divine Guard Army led by him rushed towards Xiao Manhui's garrison at the first time. Before it even entered the range of the musket, Li Jiu ordered the shooting to attract the Liao army's idea.
Of course, the Liao people were neither blind nor stupid. The Divine Guards who had been trapped in the city suddenly launched an attack on them. No one knew that there was a fraud. While Xiao Manhui was still thinking, he heard the rumbling sound of horse hooves. This sound that seemed like a muffled thunder was very familiar with...
His pupils suddenly shrank. This was the sound of heavy cavalry in the Song Dynasty. Only the Song Dynasty had such a central cavalry. The terrifying plate armor and the amazing cavalry were the nightmare of all cavalry.
"Get on the horse to meet the enemy!" Xiao Manhui's voice made a slight fork sound because she tried too hard, just like a good woman who saw the flower-picking thief, but no one laughed at him at this time. All the Liao army knew the horror of the armored cavalry of the Song Dynasty.
He turned over and rode on the horse. Xiao Manhui cursed and commanded the army to break through the west. That's right, it was a breakthrough. He knew that the battle had been lost, so it would be better to withdraw than to fight the Song people to the death.
As for those Western Regions? Who cares about his life or death!
Compared with the soldiers of the Great Liao Dynasty, they were even worse than the iron on the horses on their feet! If they hadn't escaped at the beginning, would there be such a situation now?
Xiao Manhui pushed all the responsibility to the people of the Western Regions. At this moment, he also gave up the coalition forces in the Western Regions, an existence that once served as cannon fodder for the Liao army.
Xiao Manhui cursed the people of the Western Regions and also cursed the Divine Guards. This 50,000 army consumed nearly half of the 60,000 troops in the Western Regions, and the Liao army also lost nearly 8,000 people but did not rush into Baozhuang City!
If these cowards hiding behind the armored firearms... if they were... on the plain, they had already been torn to pieces by the cavalry of the Liao Dynasty!
But he forgot that when the Divine Guards were outside Baozhuang City, they did not take advantage of it, nor did they defeat the Song army. Instead, they were seized by the Song army. Sometimes people would lose their rational shirk responsibility, especially when facing failure.
Of course, at this time, Xiao Manhui would not forget to curse the emperor of the Song Dynasty and curse Zhao Zhen to go crazy. Since he could come from the north with reinforcements, he had obviously taken down six types of cities. Gaochang City, the capital of Gaochang State, is close at hand. With the strength of the Song army, is not enough to capture it?
Why did you let Gaochang City not attack, but just kill a retaliation to attack yourself?! Is it because you touched your child? Thinking of this, Xiao Manhui became more and more angry. The King of Wei of the Song Dynasty has not even seen him now!
Chapter completed!