Chapter 689: Spread my will, and the whole country rejoices
Zhao Ji already knew what Liang Shicheng was going to say, but Zhao Ji liked this situation and liked to say the news of joy as if it was from different people's mouths, which made the Song Dynasty majestic and the government wise.
So Zhao Ji asked deliberately, "Shi Cheng Liang, you have no rules, why are you laughing so much?"
All the prime ministers rolled their eyes at the ceiling.
Liang Shicheng smiled obediently and said, "Your Majesty is atonement. The old servant is not intentionally violating the rules, but he really can't help but be happy and inspiring. Such an incredible victory will also occur in the Song Dynasty. There are commanding ministers in the Song Dynasty. The officials are keen on their abilities. It is difficult for our dynasty to not prosper. In this way, this must be the watershed of the battle between Song and Xia, and the initiative in the war has changed hands. His Majesty the Great Emperor is mighty!"
Everyone got goose bumps when they heard it, but Zhao Ji liked this.
Zhao Ji smiled with a short beard and said, "Well, it's hard to be unhappy with such news. You are an instructor and have never seen any big world. I don't want to punish you for not having any rules for this."
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Lao Liang bowed obediently.
This is indeed the best news recently. I don’t care about how to fight Zhao Ji in the future. More than 300,000 main forces in the Western Xia are still entrenched in the Song Dynasty, and Zhao Ji doesn’t understand it even more. Anyway, he was just happy. After hearing this news, he almost realized that the big reversal of the Northwest War and the great victory will definitely bring a war dividend.
"Transfer my order and the whole country will be happy!" Zhao Ji became more and more happy, and said with no shortage of money: "In addition, we use our royal family's own inner treasury to distribute 20 cents of summer high temperature subsidies to the people of Bianjing, so that everyone can truly feel my care and let them be happy for the victory of the Song Dynasty."
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The husbands looked at each other, but it was not convenient to talk about him. Zhao Ji was generally virtuous. Anyway, giving money to the people is not a bad thing, and it can increase the prestige of the court and the royal family.
Zhang Shuye was a little tempted to suggest giving the money to the Ministry of Revenue, but after looking at the situation, he was afraid that he would be scolded for it. Anyway, there was not much, so he only had more than 20,000 yuan in money. Fan couldn't help but get hatred, so he held back.
At this point, the prime ministers had a tacit understanding and did not want to destroy the emperor's good mood. So they would not talk about the siege faced by Hezhong Prefecture, because it was useless to say it. They could only wait for Xiao Gao to have a miracle again, and the others could only stare at him...
At the end of August, some of Zhong Shidao's heavy troops were on the front line of Qingzhou, Weizhou, which was obviously a pocket-collection strategy.
Liu Yanqing's troops concentrated the Yongxing Army Group after rest and recuperation. In addition to liberating the surrounding areas of Yan'an Prefecture, they brought nearly 70,000 superior troops to seize the moment of great morale victory and launched the Battle of Jinzhou in a vigorous manner.
Liu Yanqing didn't know if Gao Fangping was crazy. At this time, everyone thought that the main force of Zhong Shidao should enter Yan'an Prefecture, and Liu Yanqing's army should recover Jinzhou as soon as possible, shrink the encirclement and siege the main force of Chage's army in the Hezhong Prefecture War Zone.
However, Liu Yanqing received an order that if the Jinzhou battle was a great victory, he would lead his army north to regain the areas west of the Yellow River Basin such as Fenzhou and Yinzhou as soon as possible. Zong Shidao's ministry relied on Qingzhou to regain the areas north of Yan'an Prefecture and west of Fenzhou, and then launched the Battle of Jiezhou as soon as possible.
So Zhong Shidao and Liu Yanqing both came to the conclusion: Gao Fangping was crazy, he was really looking for death, and he would definitely die.
Although the boy brought out the fantastic victory in Shilong Pass, he was besieged by nearly 300,000 main forces of Chage's troops, facing a desperate battle, and Hezhong Mansion was in danger. He was so brave that he still had no orders to concentrate the entire army to launch the Hezhong Mansion Battle? I don't know what the hell is.
From Gao Fangping's perspective, there was no big problem with the direction of the battle. At this time, the main force of Chage's army was attracted by various situations and anger and attracted hatred in Hezhong Prefecture. The blockbuster occupied areas were already weak, and the defensive forces of Xixia were no longer large and very scattered.
If you miss this strategic counterattack opportunity to increase morale by defeating this great victory in Jiashilong Pass and then the autumn harvest season is approaching, and a large area of grain in the occupied areas falls into the hands of the Xixia people, and they are concentrated again. Whether they are taken north to break through or south to participate in the war, they are the biggest strategic mistakes of the Song Dynasty. This is Gao Fangping's original intention.
Liu Yanqing was generally a little embarrassed that Xiao Gao would attract nearly 300,000 main forces. However, Zhong Shidao was cruel enough, so he liked this. It was his idea to sacrifice the Hedong Army. So the old man wrote a letter to persuade Liu Yanqing, but on the other hand, he had no time to wait and began to deploy heavy troops in Qingzhou and launched a vigorous counterattack.
The main force of Chage's army went deep into the country, Shilong Pass was defeated, and strategic sovereignty changed hands, and the momentum of the people of Xixia has been lost. Perhaps the two black army departments can still fight, but the Zhuo Luo Army Department, who is fighting with the Zhongshidao headquarters north of the Great Wall, dare not move. Unless the main force of Chage's army takes over Hezhong Prefecture and reverses the strategy again, the Zhuo Luo Army Department can only start to protect itself without orders.
Why is there no general order? Because it has been basically cut off. Since Liu Yanqing besieged Jinzhou with superior forces and Zhong Shidao’s Ministry cleared the Yan'an Prefecture area, Lanzhou, Weizhou, Qingzhou, Yan'an Prefecture and Jinzhou, like a big dragon on a chessboard, the two major armies that the Song Dynasty could fight had been strategically coherent and formed a joint anti-defense line. The formal strategic counterattack has begun...
The heavy rain began again, and the vigorous offensive and defensive battle in Hezhongfu has been underway for seven days.
From an attempted offensive warm-up to yesterday's call of the Fenghuo Camp, Gao Fangping's troops borrowed strong turbulence and explosives to defend it relatively easily.
But today's heavy rain is not conducive to firearms' combat.
So I had to fight hard, and whatever things that could be used to defend the city were transported by the auxiliary soldiers to the top of the city.
The arrows of the Divine Arm Crossbow are only limited, and the supplies and productivity in the Hezhong Mansion are also limited. Other things are fine, but they cannot supply a steady stream of arrows. Therefore, Gao Fangping has issued a hard battle order to save arrows, especially to save explosives and irrigation oil.
Because the offensive and defensive battle in Hezhong Prefecture seems to be fierce, it is actually just the beginning. Now the only ones participating in the siege are the cannon fodder of the Western Xia army, that is, the "temporary workers" and the auxiliary soldiers in the Western Xia army.
These people looked fierce one after another, but it was not difficult to fight. If the city guard equipment was wasted on these people, it would be a tactical mistake.
There was a fierce counterattack yesterday. Gao Fangping saw that it was a tentative attack by the real elite Xixia, so he used a large area of firearms and divine arm crossbows. As a result, the elite Xixia was suffering heavy casualties, but Gao Fangping's troops consumed a lot of combat readiness materials.
Today, Cha Ge changed cannon fodder and started siege.
The fatal thing is that it can evacuate the main materials and personnel of the seven surrounding counties. Gao Fangping has tried his best. The speed of Chage's troops' advance exceeded Gao Fangping's estimate, so there is no time to clear the walls and clear the fields.
Therefore, the woods around Hezhong Mansion became the materials for them to build modified siege vehicles.
There is no way to do this. The border towns further north are all long-term battle areas, and they are all bare. Although Hezhong Prefecture belongs to Yongxing Army Road, it is not considered a war zone, so there is no solid wall and clearing the fields.
Starting this morning, cannon fodder soldiers have been on the rise one after another.
It continues until dusk and still has no tendency to decline.
One temporary modified siege vehicles began to advance. While striking the city gate, they were like high platforms. The cannon fodder soldiers carried inferior shields and squatted on the platform. After the cloud car approached the city, they tried to jump up to the city and fight.
Gao Fangping, who had always observed the situation of the battle, shook his head at this time and said, "You can't waste stones and wood, especially bows and arrows cannot be put away."
Liu Fa clasped his fists and said viciously: "Prince, what is the plan?"
Seeing another wave of clouds approaching from all directions, Gao Fangping raised his hand and said, "Stop the rock-falling attack, the cavalry team is equipped, and after the orders of this mansion are issued, the cavalry reserve team will go up to the city to strangle the battle."
Liu Fa's expression changed slightly. Gao Fangping meant that he deliberately put these people up to the city. Is there such a tactic?
However, there are.
Gao Fangping had already seen that these were auxiliary soldiers and had little combat power. He let the city go and strangled them. His own side would not suffer too much casualties.
The problem with Cha Ge is that he is still conservative, too cautious, and his offense is not radical and coherent. Therefore, his elite troops in the main battle are always far away, staying outside the range of the divine arm crossbow to wait for an opportunity to move. So this is the opportunity to massacre auxiliary soldiers.
Brother Cha could not have expected that Gao Fangping could have such a brainstorm and take the initiative to release people to the city?
Immediately afterwards, more than 800 people from more than twenty cloud cars attacked. What's even more strange is that before the siege cars at the city gate below began to attack the city gate, the city gate suddenly opened and a group of hooligans rushed out, just like robbery. Not only did they drag the cannon fodder soldiers from the city gate attack department in, but they even dragged the siege cars in quickly. Soon, they closed the door again.
Then there was nothing.
Facing the elite Song army who could fight against Xishining's troops in a field, what could those thousands of cannon fodders who could not fight into the city? They could only turn into corpses.
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The generals of Chage's troops who were waiting in the distance had no time to react, so these things happened. They were afraid of Gao Fangping's divine arm crossbow cluster and did not dare to make arbitrary move.
Not only that, Gao Fangping's troops were even more arrogant and sent people to jump onto the cloud car that was already leaning against the city, and began to dismantle the wood like a locust. After it was dismantled, they dragged it into the city as a material reserve.
"Is it unbearable? The general immediately ordered that the last generals would go up and take his boy's head?" The two generals of Xixia left the line and asked for battle.
"Forget it, I'll be here today. Didn't you notice it? He deliberately waited for our main battle elites to continue to fight. This was exactly the same as our strategy in the Western Great Wall at that time." Cha Ge sighed.
"Even so, the last generals still ask for battle." Several generals continued.
Cha Ge shook his head and said, "Don't make fearless sacrifices. There must be a reason Gao Fangping's elite can wipe out the Xishining troops at Shilong Pass. He clearly let us raid the upper city, but now there are only twenty cloud cars, and the 'flow speed' they can provide is too limited, and it is not enough for Gao Fangping to kill. It still has to wait, it takes time to consume their morale and supplies, and then, we need to build more cloud cars to break the city. Now it's just the early stage, don't be anxious, the decisive battle is still early. Gao Fangping is testing us, and we also need to test the peak defense of Hezhong Prefecture."
The truth about Brother Cha is the boy. However, he is not in a hurry to be deceived, and Gao Fangping has no choice but to take 20,000 people out of the city to fight his nearly 300,000 main force.
As time goes by, his engineering equipment will be released more and more, and the frequency of attacks will be greater. That is the challenge.
The only one who could slow them down their engineering equipment was not Gao Fangping, but the mobile cavalry in the satellite fortress Shiwengong's unit.
Hezhong Prefecture has been surrounded to death, so now Gao Fangping cannot give Shi Wengong command, and Cha Ge cannot evacuate too many main forces to pay attention to the "Xixia War Preparation Logistics Workshop". Therefore, this is a three-party interactive game.
Chapter completed!