Chapter 74 Soldiers approaching the city
As soon as they entered the ancient bone dragon city, everyone smelled a pungent smell of burnt corpse. Everyone held their noses and looked into the city. Within three seconds, some soldiers bent down and vomited wildly. Liu Fa suppressed the smell of corpse and directed the soldiers to search for the alive foreign soldiers.
A soldier who was rolling on the ground with fire on his body and shouted wildly: "Kill me, kill me..." A soldier behind Liu Fa couldn't stand it and stepped forward and stabbed the soldier. After the soldier finished chopping, he actually saw gratitude in the eyes of the soldier. The soldier trembled all over and fell to the ground with a "bang". The soldier looked up involuntarily and found that the soldier was rolling on the ground with a fire on his body. Some of the soldiers were motionless, their bodies were intact, and only their heads were burning. Some had a deep hole in their chest, and light yellow flames appeared from time to time. Some were intact, and their bodies had turned into mummies.
"What kind of weapon is this? It's too cruel." The soldier said in fear. Liu Fa glared at the soldier fiercely and shouted: "What are you saying? Your compatriots are not cruel if they are killed by foreign soldiers, right?" The soldier who came to his senses smiled and said: "What sir is the lesson."
The soldiers looked at the tragic situation in the city and thought to themselves: "You should commit suicide, and don't fight with the national army. This is not a war at all, it is a massacre, a naked massacre." At the same time, they are also grateful that they are the Song army.
After some inventory, the shelling caused more than 8,000 deaths and injuries to foreign soldiers. In addition, the soldiers entering the city captured more than 3,000 scary Tubo people without any effort, including their leader, the short and strong man.
Liu Faxing rushed to Wen Shen's tent outside the city, clasped his fists and said, "This time, it was a great victory. The remnants of the Tsongkha Kingdom can be said to have been wiped out. However, the scene in the city is a bit terrible." Wen Shen held his hands behind his back, stared at the map, and smiled, "It's better than our soldiers' death in battle." Liu Fa laughed, "The national master said very much. I wonder, where is our next target?"
Wenshen pointed to a location on the map and said, "Renduoquan City, I heard that there are abundant water and grass here, and cattle and sheep everywhere is a good place." Liu Fa looked at the location pointed by Wenshen and smiled and said, "I also think so. By the way, in the city, we captured Prince Xi Sherosa of the Tsongkha Kingdom. The national teacher will see what to do."
Wen Shen smiled and said, "This is easy to deal with. I will send someone to send a telegram to the capital and inform the officials of the good news. Send someone to escort this prince to the capital."
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In Yanfu Palace, the eunuch Liang Shicheng hurriedly came to Song Huizong who was painting mountain birds and said hurriedly: "Your Majesty, there is a call from the northwest." Song Huizong lifted his pen a little, turned around and asked, "What do you mean by the northwest?"
"The national master called and said that the national master and Liu Fa led more than 20,000 people to defeat the remnants of Tsongkha in the ancient bone dragon city, destroyed more than 10,000 enemies and captured Tsongkha Prince Xi Sheluosa, and took it to the capital today." Liang Shicheng replied.
"Okay, by the way, how about the casualties in the army?" Song Huizong asked with joy. Liang Shicheng looked at the telegram and said with uncertainty: "The telegram said that no casualties were killed or killed."
"Pa" the brush slid out of Song Huizong's hand and fell on the table. His face turned cold and he asked, "Did you think there is any false reports?" Liang Shicheng lowered his head and replied, "I think it should be true."
"Why do you say that?"
"If this is fake, then the level of fraud is too low, and no one with a little brain will report it. This means that the telegram is true."
Song Huizong stroked his beard and smiled and said, "It's reasonable! Generate power to the northwest, and ask the national teacher to send power to me every day to report the situation and location. By the way, Tong Aiqing. Well, that ancient bone dragon city was changed to Zhenwu City."
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The next day, the sun was shining, and the ancient bone dragon city had been cleaned up. All the dead bodies were thrown into the Datong River, and the captured foreign soldiers were taken into custody in the horse circle. At the same time, Wenshen was very happy to seize more than 3,000 horses intact, thinking that the speed of marching with these horses would increase greatly.
"You are Prince Tsongkha Xishalusa?" Wenshen stared at the short and strong man with a gray face and eyes blankly, and asked in a steady tone. The short and strong man gently turned his eyes and focused on Wenshen's face, silly and speechless.
With a "bang", Liu Fa kicked the short and strong man in the thigh, stared at the man with his eyes and shouted: "Are you deaf? Why don't you answer when the national master asked you?" The man staggered, stabilized his body, and turned around and smiled at Liu Fa.
Seeing this, Liu Fa frowned and said to Wenshen: "National Master, I think he might be scared silly." Wenshen looked at the man with contempt, thinking that he wanted to rebel just like this, just looking for death. So Wenshen waved his hand and said, "Take it down."
After the soldiers on both sides took the man down, Wenshen said to Liu Fa: "You have arranged some soldiers to station in this city, and the others will continue to move westward."
"Report! Call from Beijing." The guard ran to Wenshen and shouted.
"read!"
"The emperor's orders to send a daily telegram to report the march. In addition, the ancient bone dragon city was renamed Zhenwu." After reading it, the guard closed the folder with a bang and stood attentively. "Go down." Wen Shen waved his hand.
"National Master, what should we do with these prisoners?" Liu Fa pointed to the foreign soldiers in the horse circle and said. Wen Shen said: "Let them build the city here, and take some when they set off later to be the translator."
The troops slowly advanced upstream along the mountain road beside the Datong River. After two days of hard marching, they arrived near Renduoquan City. Renduoquan City is approximately near the modern Menyuan County and is on the eastern edge of the Menyuan Basin.
Wen Shen held the telescope and looked at the endless grassland behind Renduoquan City and herds of cattle and horses on the grassland, and smiled and said, "It's a good place." Liu Fa looked at Xia Bing who was actively preparing for war on the wall of Renduoquan City, and replied, "If you want to enter the grassland behind, you must first pull out the Renduoquan City."
Wen Shen put down his telescope and smiled at Liu Fa, "Is this a problem?" Liu Fa and Wen Shen looked at each other, smiled, and said, "It's great to fight with the national master." Wen Shen said in his heart, "Nonsense, you can achieve success without having to die, how can you not be happy."
Renduoquan City is 50 meters west of Datong River, and is surrounded by mountains on the east side. The city is high in the east and low in the west, and is a slope-shaped one. It is 70 meters from east to west and 45 meters from north to south. The city wall is 7 meters high, 10 meters wide at the bottom and 1 meter wide at the top. It only has one south gate and 6 meters wide.
"This city doesn't look big! Liu Jingluo, how many Xia troops do you think are there?" Wen Shen asked Liu Fa while looking at the soldiers on the city wall and said, "There should be more than 10,000 Xia troops." Wen Shen laughed and said, "Isn't it uncomfortable for so many of you and the others to squeeze into such a small city?" Liu Fa remembered the scene of shelling the ancient bone dragon city and laughed, "This is not suitable for our shelling."
At this time, the Xixia garrison in Renduoquan City said to a foreign soldier: "The Song army in strange clothes in front of the city is the one that you attacked you a few days ago?" The foreign soldier replied hurriedly: "It's that one. Now it seems that the prince is in danger." After saying that, he couldn't help but burst into tears.
The Xixia guard general said impatiently: "You have more than 10,000 people, and you still have to defend the city. Now they have come to us in less than three days. Wouldn't that be? You haven't even been able to hold on for a day?" The foreign soldiers said with tears in their eyes: "You don't know how powerful the sudden fire of the Song army is. More than 2,000 people will disappear in less than a quarter of an hour."
The Xixia general said viciously: "I want to see how powerful this sudden fire is. If you are okay, don't cry. Our King of Jin, Brother Cha, has led a hundred thousand troops to support. And I see that the Song army in front of the city is only 20,000 to 30,000. As long as we hold on in the past few days, we will definitely defeat the Song army."
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According to the previous deployment, six cannons lined up two miles away from Renduoquan City. The Song army, who was defending next to him, was extremely excited to see the cannons, and they all wanted to go forward and touch them to see how this thing killed nearly 10,000 people. But without Shangguan's order, everyone could only watch and dared not take a step forward.
"National Master, should you go and surrender before the battle starts?" Liu Fa asked. Wenshen thought that there were not many shells, and based on the principle of saving as much as possible, he replied: "Yes, yes, you can, send someone to try it."
Liu Fa turned around and said a few words to a general. The general led a few foreign soldiers to the city, and asked the foreign soldiers to shout and ask the people in the city to surrender. Unexpectedly, after less than three words, a swordfish shot the foreign soldiers into a hornet's nest. The general rode a horse and fled back in a panic. Seeing this, Liu Fa glared at his eyes, showed a fierce look, and said angrily: "You are the one who is ignorant of his life and death."
"Four guns fill high-explosive bombs, two guns fill white phosphorus bombs."
"put!"
Chapter completed!