Chapter 251: Worries after victory

The Yanzhou City Guard stared at the staff member who had an idea for a while and asked, "The Song army was in full swing, why did it suddenly retreat?"

Yanzhou City Shou asked this question without a surprise.

In ancient times, Chinese-style siege warfare emphasized "surrounding three without one", that is, surround three sides, leaving one side to let the enemy have vitality to escape, let the enemy understand their situation, and become desperate about resistance, thereby weakening the enemy's awareness of resistance and making the enemy just want to escape... However, Zhao Xing believed that this kind of military strategy was born under the Bronze Age and the ox chariot tactics. At that time, people walked at the same speed, and whoever walked first would run farther away first. At the same time, even if there was a city gate left, limited to movement speed, the enemy could not get a lot of supplies when the defenders found money.

In the cavalry era, this approach was stupid. Leaving a gap can facilitate the enemy to communicate with the outside world and obtain supplies. For example, when Mongolia attacked Xiangyang City, there was still a gap left on the waterway, so it was siege for several years. However, after the gap closed, Xiangyang City fell.

Zhao Xing is a pragmatic person, and Shuai Fan has forgotten this habit at all, so Huanqing soldiers surrounded him from all directions as soon as they came up. Zhao Xing was afraid that the surround was not strict, so he sent several teams of Rangers to patrol the city to prevent the defenders from communicating with the outside world. Under such circumstances, the Yanzhou defenders did not know the new changes in the battle situation at all. Now, when Zhao Xing was about to withdraw, the officers and soldiers in Yancheng looked at the outside world, so they hesitated.

No one can answer the words of Yancheng City.

"Why did Zhao Gou retreat?" Yanzhou City guarded the city wall and turned around, asking himself frequently, and also asked Yanzhou officers: "Zhao Gouguan broke 10,000 yuan, defeated the main force of our Jianing Army in Wuyanxia, ​​and took advantage of the victory to kill the city of Yanzhou. Two days ago, the old man Zhang Qing also came to join us with his army. Now that the city has been besieged for only two days, Zhao Gouguan has no major siege, but just strictly blocked our Yanzhou. Two days ago, I guess Zhao Gouguan had already made the siege equipment. Why did he suddenly retreat at this moment?

In the past few days, Zhao Gouguan has been increasing his troops. Every day, we can see a large group of people leading cattle and sheep from the end of the grassland, walking into his camp in an endless stream. Seeing that his supplies were gradually sufficient and the siege equipment was coming, why did he suddenly retreat?

Now, the Jianing Military Office has let him crippled, and the elite soldiers of our Xia Kingdom are all in the hands of the Empress Dowager and are blocked on the Fuyan Road. Zhao Gouguan seized our Yanzhou City, and the Empress Dowager's retreat was cut off. Will Zhang and Zhao Gouguan not understand this truth?

I don't believe it! Old man Zhang is full of bad intentions, and Zhao Gouguan's belly is full of vicious tricks. Listen to how vicious this name is, how can they not know the importance of Yanzhou?

Why should I fight back in Yanzhou City? The Empress Dowager took away the elite soldiers in the city. Although Zhang Jiansi (Zhang Nuoping) left some soldiers when he retreated, they were all cowards who were terrified. They shivered as soon as they sang in the military camp outside the city. Can I expect these people to go out of the city to fight?"

An aide pointed at the outside of the city and asked angrily: "Sir, open your eyes and see, this sea of ​​lanterns is afraid that there will be no 100,000 people. Will Zhao Gou use 100,000 people to set up a poison plan to lure us out of the city and ambush us by the way? Sir, look at that, look at this sea of ​​lanterns."

Yanzhou City Shou snorted contemptuously: "You are not Zhao Gouguan, how could you know that he couldn't think of such a vicious plan? One hundred thousand people, I don't think so, six or seven torches were inserted into a carriage, and three or five thousand people were performed in this sea of ​​lanterns."

Another aide asked again: "Sir, the people in the Song army camp shouted the horses neighing. Listen again. Even if there are only three thousand people outside the camp pretending to be this sea of ​​lanterns, will the soldiers in the camp not rest? Even if they are prepared and have been exhausted all night, we might as well launch an assault in the early morning, and perhaps we can get unexpected results."

Yanzhou City Shou shook his head slowly and said, "You still didn't answer me: Why did the Zhao Gouguan and Zhang Lao Man retreat? He heard from the retreating people of the Jianing Military Office that Zhao Gouguan had a new weapon, "Thunderbolt". With a loud sound, the sound shook for more than ten miles. Even the powerful shield formation formed by the Suwei Army could not be used as such "Thunderbolt". I have been worried that he would throw "Thunderbolt" at our city walls these days, but he never used it.

I will not refuse to leave the city at night. You don’t need to persuade me, because the grassland is endless and I can’t make an ambush at all. If we want to ambush, we can only be at night. Zhao Gouguan is full of vicious plans, and Zhang is full of bad intentions. No matter what you say, even if Song Jun is performing a big show outside the city, I will not allow you to leave the city at night.

It is a good idea to leave the city at dawn - but I want to know, if you were attacked by Zhao Gouguan when you left the city, even if you could withstand it, would the war horses resist it? I am still wondering why he should retreat. Our troops from all walks of life are already entangled with the Song army, and the Jianing Army Division was defeated again, and we were isolated and helpless. Why should they retreat? Didn’t they want to lure us out of the city?"

Yanzhou City Shou’s words left everyone with nothing to say, after all, the amount of information determines judgment. The group of officials in Yanzhou are trapped in an isolated city, and the situation outside is dark, which makes them judge how to make a judgment.

At dawn, the Song army camp was silent and the Yanzhou garrison was so strange that it was not until noon that an official mustered up the courage to send people into the Song army camp. Only then did he realize that the Song army had left clean overnight. The camp was covered with garbage thrown by the Song army when they left... and thousands of notices were all called on the slaves to get up and go to Huanqing.

The defenders of Yanzhou City dare not chase them. The first thing they had to do was to send reconnaissance cavalry in four directions and collect as much information as possible to make a correct judgment...

Three days later, the first thing they received was the news from Queen Mother Liang. Queen Mother Liang had led the army to retreat from Fuyan Road and was rushing towards Yanzhou City.

But Yanzhou City still dared not chase after it. At this time, there were many slave rebellions in Yanzhou City. The slaves felt that the Song army had not gone far away. They stole some property from the master's house. Some even stole the head of the master, and rode a few horses all the way to chase the Song army, which caused Yanzhou City to be frightened overnight. The defenders were exhausted from running around to deal with emergencies. So a few days later, when the Yanzhou Prefect was crying, he cried in tears: "Although Zhao Gouguan did not attack the city, the damage caused to my Yanzhou was even worse than siege. The four towns of Yanzhou City had been destroyed by him, and all 50,000 people were abducted by him... In the city, this paper "Tian Sheng Order" was like countless thunder. In a few days, more than two thousand soldiers were stolen and cut off their heads, and even my beloved son was not spared. Queen Mother, if your army arrives, you must not let the Zhao Gouguan go."

Empress Dowager Liang was exhausted. After thinking for a moment, she decided to adopt the same strategy as Zhao Xing - to protect the existing fruits of victory. She led the army deep into the Fuyan Road, broke through two villages in a row, and plundered them back. Fuyan Road did not dare to fight, and this glory was better than Liang Yip. As everyone knows, the people of Xixia have never taken advantage of him. Instead of pursuing Zhao Xing, facing an unpredictable fate, it is better to beat the victory drum to return to the court: Victory is hers, failure is someone else's, which is enough for her.

Queen Mother Liang said slowly: "This time, the Ai family went deep into the Fuyan Road. I heard from the captive Fuyan people that Zhao Gouguan was nicknamed "I can't provoke". Everyone in the city of Bianliang in Tokyo knew that this person bit a bite and was three points deep into the bones. Since he was in charge of a hundred thousand troops and suddenly retreated, I was worried that he was worried that he could not provide supplies, so he returned to the army to shorten the supply route. If we rushed over rashly, we would still be careful of his ambush.

Ambush - By the way, this guy is a ruthless man who is 'vested and plants'. He came to the Jianing Military Office for a trip. This year, the grass grown on the ground of the Jianing Military Office must be careful. Even if the grass is exactly the same as in previous years, you must be careful to use it to prevent any sequelae... Let's wait a little longer, and wait until the troops gather and make a decision."

The so-called conspiracy of Empress Dowager Liang Yifu was to kill Liang Yifu. After the Western Xia implemented the process of Confucianism, she also inherited the tradition of Confucianism being good at strife. When Western Xia encountered major setbacks and the country was in danger, Empress Dowager Liang's first thought was that the military power he had already won could not be lost. For this reason, her enemy was first her own compatriot, Liang Yifu, the prime minister of the Western Xia Kingdom.

On the fifth day of the fourth month, generals of the Xia Kingdom, Wei Ming Awu, Renduo Baozhong and others led their troops to kill Liang Yipin and his entire family.

After Empress Dowager Liang completely seized military power, he offered prisoners of the Song Dynasty captured by Fuyan Road to Liao Kingdom. On this day, Zhao Xing, who received the supplies halfway, did not retreat back to Huanqing. He rushed for more than 200 miles and raided the Jingsai Army Office in Weizhou at dawn. He did not expect that the Jingsai Army Office, who appeared in Zhao Xing, was stunned by the attack of grenades and fire bombs, and the entire army collapsed. Xishou Baotai Army Office, who was rushing to reinforce the Jingsai Army Office, received the news halfway and stopped, causing Zhao Xing to plunder the four boundaries of Xixia and slowly retreated from Guidechuan to Huanqing.

In May, the news of the great victory of the Song army reached the court. The court first collectively aphasia, and then repeatedly verified in shock. Soon, news came from other groups to confirm that they confirmed that Zhao Xing did win a great victory in the field of Wuyanxia, ​​eliminated the main force of the Jianing Army, pursued along the way, surrounded Yanzhou City, and almost captured the Western Xia treasury. Then, when retreating, he severely damaged the Jingsai Army, plundered the four realms, rescued 120,000 captured Song people, and returned with a full load.

It is said that no less than 100,000 cattle, sheep and horses were seized in this battle, but Zhao Xing's military newspaper still maintained his usual style: only talking about the occupied land, not the spoils.

When it comes to the land he occupied, it is not good, because all the fruits of victory were poured out. After Zhao Xing's hard battle in Wuyan Gorge, more than half of the soldiers suffered casualties. Now, Huanqing cannot gather 5,000 troops. Facing the advance of the Western Xia army, Zhao Xing had to retreat to the reward and move the mouth, desperately strengthening the city to cope with the possible revenge of Xixia.

"Great merit", the little emperor Zhao Xu was so excited that he couldn't speak. At this time, Empress Dowager Gao was gradually ignoring the ministers. The little emperor could also speak in the government affairs. His face was flushed with excitement: "Although Zhao Anfu did not seize any inch of land this time, he beheaded more than 30,000 yuan. This is a great merit. Rescuing more than 120,000 people in the Song Dynasty is equivalent to revenge for the past years. This time, Empress Dowager Liang personally fought and captured our two villages, but only kidnapped 20,000 people. We have already taken 100,000 yuan, and we are not losing!"

Su Song raised a finger and said, "A year, Zhao Liren only took one year to cooperate with Zhang Zhifu to turn defense into offense. In another two years, they will definitely be able to subdue Xixia. This person is worthy of being a capable minister. He should be rewarded with great rewards!"

The Privy Councilor Wang Yansou also echoed: "Even if he attacked Xixia, he did not occupy any inch of land, but forced Empress Dowager Liang to retreat and defeated the Jianing Army and Jingsai Army, causing these two major military departments to lose their vitality and would not be a problem for three to five years - this is a great achievement. I thought about transferring him to Hedong Road after his term was over. There was the next attack route for the Xixia people. The Liao people were also ready to move on the border, so that Zhao Li people would go there to take charge. I have no worries on the north road of the Song Dynasty!"

The court officials only calculated the people of Xixia and did not count themselves. Huanqing's victory has used up all his savings over the years: more than half of the young and strong generations of young people have suffered casualties, and if they want to restore their combat effectiveness, they have to wait for the next group of children to grow up. Therefore, although the Xixia side was destroyed by two military departments, Huanqing Road was also half-destroyed...

The court ministers discussed here that Zhao Xing had entered Huanqing Road at this time. Along the way, half were happy mountains and half were sad seas.

When Zhao Xing attacked, he attacked from Guidechuan, and all the men were taken away from nearby strong men. When he came back, almost every family wore mourning clothes on this road. Although countless wounded veterans were still sitting on stretchers at the doorstep, saluting Zhao Xing with crutches, he was not happy.

"We had a chance to turn the situation around in one fell swoop - we could have cut Xixia's throat, but unfortunately we lost it. This loss will be powerless for at least three years, and we can only hide on Huanqing Road and lick the wounds..." Zhao Xing sighed sadly.

Shuai Fan persuaded: "Sir, you forgot that we have rescued 120,000 people. Although more than 70% of them are women and children, in just two or three years, we will be stronger than before - we won! The Jianing Military Office has been hollowed out by us, and behind us there are thousands of slaves who are seeking us. They have the heads of Xixia people on their waists. Everyone's arrival means the death of a Xixia soldier.

We won! We will become stronger day by day, but the Xixia people are declining day by day. We can afford to spend time, but the Xixia people cannot afford to spend it."

Ma Cong, who came to welcome Huanqing Road, also agreed loudly: "Yes, sir, we won! I will only fight harder and stronger in Huanqing Road, but the Xia people will fight weaker and weaker. In another three years, I will conquer Xingqing Mansion for you."

Zhao Xing smiled faintly: "War is not a matter of one county or one county. It should be a national act. It is impossible to defeat Xixia by relying solely on one corner of Huanqing Road. We still need more awakened people, but I am worried about 'one year of emperor and one year of minister'. I have prepared for Huanqing Road for three years. After I leave, can Huanqing Road still be like this? So, what you said just now is not right. I may have time in the Song Dynasty, but I don't have time, and I don't have time than the people of Xixia."

Zhao Xing's words caused a silence.

A typical feature of a slave society is that rules vary from person to person, and people often lose politics. This is what the saying goes, "people leave and tea are cold", "one day the emperor and another day the minister"...

Huanqing Road has recovered during this period because Zhao Xing was in power. When Zhao Xing's term of office came, he would change to a local official - that is, a serf supervisor. He would implement his own policies. If his ex has made great achievements, in order to show that he is better than his ex, he would work hard to modify his ex's policy, called "innovation". When he knew that his innovation was getting worse and worse, his term of office also came and he could leave. So, he left behind the suffering local people who were tortured by his experiments...

This is a helpless thing. Everyone here understands, and no one can change this situation. At this moment, they only hope that Zhao Xing can complete this term of office... However, what made everyone uneasy was that when Zhao Xing, known as aspiring person, first asked for the full term when he arrived in Huanqing, he seemed to have expected that he would not stay in Huanqing for a long time. Thinking of this, the officials of Huanqing became more and more heavy.

But they won after all, and it was a big victory. After a series of intense operations by the government, everyone obtained a new household registration and was assigned to the new wasteland, and then devoted themselves to the reconstruction of their homes. Their arrival enriched Huanqing's war potential. Behind them, there were a constant stream of Xixia slaves carrying their master's property and heads, crossing mountains and ridges, hiding out during the day and running towards Huanqing at night.
Chapter completed!