Fenghou

Chapter 203 Trial Attack
The [-] Xixia army carried more than [-] siege ladders and attacked the east city like a tide. The [-] Song army all went into battle, [-] people defended on the top of the city, and [-] people fired bows and arrows in the city.

All the houses in the city were civilian houses, more than a thousand people had been evacuated, and the soldiers were using the cover of the houses to prepare to shoot arrows.

Neither side has heavy assault weapons and can only rely on strong bows and crossbows.

The Xixia army advanced within a hundred steps, and two thousand crossbowmen shot arrows at the top of the city. The arrows were like rain, and the Song army on the top of the city was firmly suppressed.

At this time, Chen Qing gave an order, and the soldiers in the city began to shoot, and the arrows flew over the city like clouds of clouds, and quickly drifted out of the city.

The black arrows fell instantly, and the soldiers of the Xixia army who were running fell down one after another. Their shields were not big, and they had to be at a certain angle to completely block the arrows. If they were a little distracted, the arrows would take advantage of them.

Murongtao's [-] troops are all the Xixia Qinsheng Army, that is, Xixia's frontier army. When there is no war in Song Xia, their mission is to go deep into the Song Dynasty to capture Han slaves. The Xixia Qinsheng Army has [-] people. They are mainly Dangxiang people and Qiang people on the border. They are cruel in character, flexible in body, and good at climbing mountains and ridges.

Although under the rounds of arrows shot by the Song army, they kept falling down, but they still rushed forward to attack the castle. There is a circle of moats outside the castle, which are dry ditches, and there are sharp hidden weapons such as sharp piles buried inside. Once you fall into the ditch, you will undoubtedly die.

The Xixia army had built more than a dozen wooden bridges on the dry ditch with wide planks, and the Xixia soldiers rushed forward carrying the siege ladders like a gust of wind, reached the top of the city with the ladders, and swarmed up.

Chen Qing had experienced hundreds of battles in defending the city. The [-] soldiers were divided into [-] groups, and [-] of them dealt with one siege ladder. The extra soldiers were used as emergency support, led by Yang Zaixing.

In addition, [-] soldiers with the highest archery skills were selected from the God Arm Crossbow Army and assigned to three horse-faced walls, and they shot coldly from the side, specifically shooting at the enemy generals and strong soldiers. Invaluable experience, very effective.

The Song army demolished hundreds of abandoned houses, obtained boulders and logs to make rolling logs, and threw them at the soldiers on the siege ladder.

Groups of soldiers were hit by rocks and fell to the city screaming. Many fell into the dry ditch and were directly pierced by sharp wooden stakes.

"dash forward!"

A centurion stood on the edge of the siege ladder, shouting, brandishing a spear.

At this moment, three powerful crossbow arrows shot at the centurion at the same time. The arrows were as fast as lightning, and the centurion couldn't dodge. He was hit by three arrows at the same time. fell down.

But the horse-faced wall ambush is not the most powerful tactic of the Song Army, the most powerful tactic is the Song Army's ladder-breaking axe.

Dozens of tall and powerful soldiers wielded long-handled sharp axes and severely chopped off the two rungs at the top of the siege ladder. The attacking Xixia soldiers lacked the last step, just like cavalry without stirrups and nowhere to go. Trapped on the top, unable to go up or down, in the end, he could only be assassinated by the chaos spear in despair.

However, soldiers who knew about it were often assassinated, while the soldiers below held their shields and couldn't see what was happening above. Therefore, soldiers continued to be assassinated and went down the city, and soldiers continued to rush up.

After attacking for half an hour, Murong Tao, who was watching the battle from a distance, finally realized that not a single soldier rushed to the top of the wall.

Murong Tao immediately ordered the soldiers to check the situation, and after a while, the soldiers came back on horseback and said, "General Qi, the top rung of the siege ladder has been cut off, and it is difficult for brothers to climb to the top of the city."

Murong Tao was taken aback, this was the first time he had heard of such a thing, he immediately ordered: "Send the troops to withdraw!"

'when!when!when!when! '

The bell for the withdrawal of the troops rang, and the [-] troops left more than a thousand corpses and retreated in panic.

General Cao Li immediately stepped forward and clasped his fists, saying: "The humble official wants to attack again, please approve it!"

Murong Tao shook his head, "Oasis Fort with [-] troops, we can't take it!"

He took one last look at the majestic castle and sighed, "Send the order to withdraw the troops back to Deshun Prefecture!"

At noon, the Xixia Army finally gave up Ganquan Fort and retreated.

In the wilderness south of Mei County, Fengxiang Prefecture, two armies were fighting fiercely together, the drums were rumbling, the shouts of killing were loud, the sky was full of dust, and the whole sky was filled with a layer of choking red dust.

Controlling Jiao Wentong led [-] troops to resist the thousands of vanguard troops led by Puppet General Zhang Zhongxiong.

Jiao Wentong originally decided to defend Mei County, but in the morning he received an order from the governor Fu Xuan to go out of the city to block the five thousand puppet Qi vanguards from advancing westward, so as to buy time for the main force to deploy.

But after Jiao Wentong fought with the enemy army, he discovered that the opponent had not only [-] troops, but [-] troops, and there were thousands of cavalry among them. The Song army was not the opponent of the puppet Qi army at all. .

"General, if we don't break through, our entire army will be wiped out!" A general rushed forward and shouted.

Jiao Wentong hesitated, Fu Xuan asked him to resist for three hours, and now it is less than two hours, but he also knows in his heart that now is the last chance, if he doesn't break through, he will really be wiped out.

"Breakthrough!"

Jiao Wentong finally issued an order to break out of the encirclement. He turned his horse's head and led the army to kill to the south. More than a thousand Song soldiers desperately broke through, and finally opened a bloody road and fled to the south.

Zhang Zhongxiong looked at the Song army fleeing far away, and instead of chasing him, he shouted loudly: "Keep going west!"

Zhang Zhongxiong didn't have time to clean up the battlefield, and led more than [-] troops to continue westward.
At this time, where is Fu Xuan deploying defenses? He is retreating and fleeing, but because there are too many money and materials, he needs to transport them across the river from the north bank of the Weihe River, which took a lot of time. An army, [-] people from Longzhou have withdrawn to Dasan Pass, and now it's their turn. "

Fu Xuan never thought about defending Fengxiang to the death. The first thing he did when guarding Fengxiang Mansion was to catch traitors. He ransacked dozens of mansions of rich and powerful families, killed the masters for treason, and confiscated their property. Fu Xuan's personal pocket.

Fu Xuan was staring at the big ship that was getting closer and closer, at this moment, a piercing horn sounded from the east, "Woo——"

The vanguard of the puppet Qi army came, and Fu Xuan cursed angrily: "I asked him to resist for three hours, why did he come so soon!"

Hatred turned to hate, but he knew in his heart that once he was entangled by the enemy and their main force came, it would be impossible for him to retreat south.

Fu Xuan looked at the big boat that was still on the river, and at the enemy vanguard that was getting closer and closer. No matter how unwilling and helpless he felt, the most important thing was to save his life.

Fu Xuan immediately ordered: "The army retreats south!"

Five thousand troops followed Fu Xuan and turned around and ran towards the direction of Monk Yuan.
On the afternoon of the day when Fu Xuan gave up Fengxiang Mansion and retreated to the south, Marshal Li Cheng of the puppet Qi Zuo led an army of [-] troops to Fengxiang County. Fu Xuan's wealth was seized, tens of thousands of coins and hundreds of thousands of pieces of cloth.

Li Cheng ordered all the copper coins and cloth to be rewarded to the soldiers. Immediately, the army was invigorated and their morale was high.

Zhang Zhongxiong clasped his fists and said, "I heard that Chen Qing was named the envoy of Qinzhou. He only has a few thousand troops. Qinzhou is very close to Fengxiang Mansion. Why don't the governors take this opportunity to sweep Xihe Road?"

Li Cheng pondered for a while and said: "Marshal Du of the Supervising Army means that after we capture Fengxiang and Longzhou, we will march north, cut off Guan Shigu's retreat, and join forces with Guo Dutong to attack Pingliang Mansion, and then go south after taking Pingliang Mansion. Attack Beixianrenguan, as long as Beixianrenguan is captured, Chen Qing and Lintao military commander Wu Lin will be turtles in the urn, and they will not be able to escape even with their wings."

"Having said that, I'm afraid that Chen Qing won't fight to the death and retreat south when the situation is not good. It's better to lead [-] troops to Xianrenguan. On the one hand, they will monitor Chen Qing, and on the other hand, they will cut off the Song army's retreat."

Li Cheng made sense when he thought about it. He immediately gave Zhang Zhongxiong [-] troops, including his own [-] troops, and led [-] troops to Qinzhou. The Xie Congjun rushed to Fengxiang, and the Xie Congjun took over Fengxiang Mansion.

Li Cheng personally led an army of [-] troops from Longzhou to the north, joined forces with Guo Zhen's army to encircle Pingliang County, Guan Shigu, the commander of Pingyuan soldiers and horses, led [-] troops to break through and failed, and was surrounded by groups in Pingliang County. At this time, the Song army's food was about to run out , the fierce general Dai Cheng led [-] cavalry to break through the encirclement successfully, and rushed to Dashan Pass for help.

(End of this chapter)