Fu Song

Chapter 360 Who's Fighter
Throughout July, on the Shaanxi Road filled with gunpowder, the Western Army retreated steadily.Everything seems to confirm the judgment of the Bianliang court and the front line of Shaanxi. The Western Army is doing its best to resist the attack from Yeluxi, the governor of Shangjing Road in the Liao Kingdom. The attack on the Song Dynasty can only rely on natural dangers. It's too late.

Yeluxi's attack must have spared no effort, Song Guo has no doubts about this.

Because this attack on Xiao Ding, the Western Army, will be his last chance to fight for the emperor of Liao Kingdom.If he failed, then Yeluxi would not be able to compare with Yelujun at all.

Nobody follows a loser.

So this time Yeluxi put all his wealth on a big gamble.

If he wins, he will have the opportunity to compete with Yelujun for the throne of Daliao Emperor, and Yeluxi, who is supported by many people in the North Court, will even have a certain advantage. After all, in Daliao, the status of the North Court is far higher than that of the South Court.The orthodox Liao people don't like Yelujun, the prince who has been deeply Sinicized.

But if you lose, you lose everything.Once Yelujun comes to power, I'm afraid he will have to liquidate the things that Yeluxi did quietly in the past.At that point, I'm afraid it's hard to live.

So Yeluxi definitely won't have any reservations.

On the basis of this inference, it was only natural for Xiao Ding's elite to go out to respond to Fu Yeluxi's attack.

The main force went to the north, and the troops that could compete with the Song people in the south were naturally those second-rate and third-rate troops.

They are not able to deal with the elite of the Western Army, but everyone is very confident in dealing with the remaining shrimp soldiers and crab generals.

Even those army generals from the south are full of confidence and are ready to make a lot of military exploits to make their resumes more glorious.

After all, once defeated Xiao Ding's army, that is not a credit that can be obtained casually.

One by one, the military strongholds occupied by the Western Army were recaptured by the Song Army, and the information dug up from the captured prisoners also confirmed the previous judgment one by one.

So far, the Song Army has not even encountered an elite unit of the Western Army. The guards of these military villages are almost all young and strong from the Xiang Army or tribes.

These people have no desire to fight, and after a little contact, they will flee with a slight casualty.

This situation is especially obvious on the right side of Zheng Xiong's main attack.

On the contrary, Wang Jun's main attack was on the left side, and he encountered a more tenacious attack all the way in Suide, and the troops who attacked them were not the original descendants of the Western Army, but Li Du's son-in-law, who is now stationed in Siwu Village. The old department of the Dingnan Army led by Zhang Yunsheng.

The Dingnan army and the Song army have been fighting against each other for nearly twenty years. It is natural to hate each other. Naturally, the attack on the Song army must be resisted to the end. There is nothing to say about this.It is also understandable that Xiao Ding did not take Zhang Yunsheng to fight the Liao people.

Because Zhang Yunsheng is unlikely to surrender to the Song Dynasty again, but if he surrenders to the Liao people, I am afraid that there will be no psychological pressure.So it's better to put it in a place like Siwuzhai to resist the Song army.

Guan Jian is this person and a very powerful general. Facing this guy, Wang Jun dare not be careless in the slightest.

At the end of July, Zheng Xiong finally captured Dingbian City, and then the army used Dingbian City as its base to march towards Shentangbao.Dingbian City is just an appetizer, and Shentang Fort is the focus of the Western Army.No matter how stretched Xiao Ding's troops are, he will definitely station heavy troops in Shentangbao.

If the Song Army were to take away the Shentang Fort, it would be equivalent to locking a gate for the Western Army to leave Hengshan. Everyone would feel bad about being guarded at the gate.

After more than ten days, Wang Jun finally attacked Funing City all the way, and the next step was naturally to attack Siwu Village.

Whether it is Shentangbao or Siwuzhai, it is impossible for the Western Army to watch them lose it.

Without these two places, Xiao Ding's Western Army would really be wiped out.

One left and one right, two battles are imminent.

Li Yi stood on the city wall of Shentangbao, looking at several sentries of the Song army flashing in the distance.

These scouts were quite bold, not only swaggeringly appeared within the line of sight of Shentangbao, they even made some provocative actions that were extremely ignored, which made the bloody soldiers on the city extremely angry At that moment, someone asked to go to war and kill these sentries on the spot.

But to Li Yi, such a trick is simply not worth mentioning.

At the age of fourteen or fifteen, he followed the general manager and fought the Liao people on the battlefield. He didn't know how many times he had done this kind of trapping and killing.If what he expected was right, there were at least dozens of enemy cavalry hidden on the city wall where they could not be seen. They probably touched them last night, and now they are waiting for the people in the city to go out and deal with these arrogant scouts!

Once you go out, you can't come back.

If a large-scale attack is really going to happen, people can see clearly and run away immediately. The soldiers in the city can't chase them far, so they can only watch them escape.

Repeating this routine a few times is enough to frustrate the soldiers in the city. It has to be said that the opponent is really scheming.

Li Yi suddenly laughed.

You son of a bitch, who can fight a war with the manager, you are still young!For more than a month, you have been arrogant enough. I have endured it for a month, and I don’t care about this trembling. Let you be happy for a few more days. When the time comes, I will take back your capital with interest.

"Don't pay attention to them! If someone really dares to go forward, there will be a bed crossbow to greet him! Anyone who can shoot a scout with a bed crossbow, I will reward you with a hundred bucks!" Li Yi slapped the wall with a knife, Smile and look around.

The bed crossbow is extremely powerful, but if you want to use it to hit a single target, it is purely a matter of luck, and the probability is not much different from the probability of a pie in the sky.If someone really had such great luck, Li Yi would not be stingy with rewarding him, after all, it was a matter of boosting morale.

After these years of construction, Shentangbao is no longer the small military fort that it was back then. It is a military city that can accommodate [-] people, and it can cause headaches for any army general who wants to attack the city.A purely military fortress is much more difficult to attack than a big city.

For this battle, Shentangbao has stored a large amount of bow and crossbow stones.

The god arm bow, which was regarded as a magic weapon by the Song Dynasty and would never be passed on to the outside world, can now be made by the Western Army itself.The emperor of the Song Dynasty hid the craftsman camp in the imperial city, thinking that this would keep the secret forever, but he did not know that two years ago, the Western Army began to imitate it on a large scale.

Now in the Hengshan Mountain behind Shentangbao, there are several iron mines, smelters, and arsenal workshops, where bows and arrows, armor, knives and guns are continuously produced.

The chess pieces laid out by Xiao Erlang back then have begun to shine.

There was a bang, and then the sighs of the soldiers on the city came. Li Yi, who was about to go down the city, turned his head, and there really was a corporal who just smashed down the mechanism of a bed crossbow with a hammer. The bed crossbow flew over hundreds of steps, and it was being inserted into the ground at this moment, half of it got into the ground, and further away, a few scouts quickly fled away.

Of course it missed the shot by a little bit, but it must have scared the opponent enough.

Erlang, who is under his command, is not bad at skills!
In Shentang Castle, Li Yi waited quietly for Zheng Xiong's troops to attack, while in Siwu Village, Zhang Yunsheng was also waiting for Wang Jun's attack.

The Siwu Village in the past has now been renamed Luowu City by Xiao Ding.

Standing at the head of the city, he stretched out his hand to take from a soldier a divine arm bow that had just been issued by the Xingqing Mansion. Zhang Yunsheng unexpectedly pulled the bowstring easily with the strength of his two arms, and then slowly loosened it again. go back.

It is a good thing, no worse than that produced by the craftsmen of the Song Dynasty.

Zhang Yunsheng was filled with emotion.

Back then, when their Dingnan army showed signs of wanting to be self-reliant, the imperial court immediately cut off the supply of weapons and armor, and those god-arm bows that had been secretly stored earlier were also used for one less.This kind of sharp weapon is powerful, but the wear and tear is also great, but the Dingnan Army will not make it.

But now, Xiao Ding's Western Army not only created this magical weapon that the Song Dynasty was proud of, but they also had other powerful weapons that the Song Dynasty did not possess.

Zhang Yunsheng witnessed with his own eyes how the iron-covered city gate, which was several feet thick, was shattered into pieces with a thunderbolt.

Xiao Ding walked the same path as Li Xu, but his steps were much more solid than Li Xu's.

Whether it's the army or the people's livelihood, the current Xiao Ding is much stronger than the original Li Xu.

Of course, the enemies he faces now are much more powerful.

Song people kept sending envoys to recruit and surrender.

Even if he kills one after another, he can't stop the Song people from continuing to dispatch.

It's a very clumsy estrangement plan, but I have to say that this kind of anti-estimation plan that takes people's lives to fill in may really be useful.

After all, he is a remnant of the Dingnan army, and he is Li Du's son-in-law, so he has a deep hatred with Xiao Ding.

Zhang Yunsheng grinned.

When he surrendered to the Song Dynasty with his father-in-law, although the days were not long, the initial feeling of being angry with civil officials returned, which made him quite unhappy.Even the old father-in-law himself only got mixed up with a fourth-rank dujian, so of course he was even more unbearable, and a sixth-rank dujian sent him away.

It's really boring.

Later, the old man fought against Xiao Ding and lost completely. He had no choice but to surrender.But now he is living a more nourishing life than before, so Xiao Ding is indeed someone who is in control.

Atmospheric, bold, people have to be convinced.

It is impossible for Zhang Yunsheng to surrender to the Song Dynasty again, because if he really surrenders again, a duplicitous person like himself will definitely not end well.Even if you really face a desperate situation at that time, then run to Liao Kingdom!

But for now, let's fight the battle first.

Wang Jun is not easy to deal with, but the troops who came with him are much easier. Standing on the city wall and watching these few days, the process of setting up a camp alone is enough for Zhang Yunsheng to divide the opponent's army into one Three six nine and so on.

Good is really good, bad is really bad.

Zhang Yunsheng was very happy to meet such an army.

This is much easier to fight than a bunch of mediocre troops.

"General, the Song people have sent another envoy!" Under the city, an officer shouted helplessly.

"Hang them at the top of the city!" Zhang Yunsheng decided to execute these envoys in a different way.

The Song army attacked in three ways, one attacking Shentangbao, one attacking Luowu City, and another attacking Weizhou from Qinfeng Road. Commander-in-Chief Taiwei Zhang Chao.

But at this moment, in Baigan Mountain, a large army is hiding in it.

Five thousand iron kites and [-] footsteps were led by Xiao Ding, the general manager of the Western Army.

Twenty-five thousand people quietly hid in the mountains, drinking mountain springs when they were thirsty, and eating dry biscuits when they were hungry.

They are waiting for the right time.

If you don't move, you will be deadly.

In fact, Zhang Chao's judgment was generally good. Fighting on both sides was indeed a great crisis for Xiao Ding. Xiao Ding had to end one war in a very short period of time before dealing with the other.

It's just that Zhang Chao miscalculated a bit, it wasn't Yeluxi that Xiao Ding hit first, but Zhang Chao.

Risks naturally exist, because at this moment, the Liao Army is rushing on the territory of the Western Army. If he is held back by Zhang Chao, it is very likely that Yeluxi will succeed in the first battle. Qing Mansion, the Western Army is really about to be defeated.

But for Xiao Ding now, there are not many choices.If you really want to fight head-to-head with Yeluxi first and then fight Song Jun, you will definitely lose.

After defeating the Song army, go back and spend it with Yeluxi, the Liao army who came from afar can't afford it.

In Baigan Mountain, there is no trace of fireworks.

On the other side of the mountain, there is a dilapidated section of the old Great Wall, as well as military villages built by the Song people.

Xiao Ding was waiting for the start of the battle at Shentangbao, Luowu City, and after the battle between these two places entered the anxious stage, it was time for him to strike directly at the vital points.

Gently stroking the black scabbard in his hand, Xiao Ding's eyes turned to the north, where, are you okay?

The turtledove jumped up a sand dune, and within sight, a long team of mules and horses was moving forward in a long line. He grinned grinningly, held the two machetes stuck behind his back with both hands, and choked. He pulled it out with a bang, and held the knife in his backhand, with the back of the knife clinging to his forearm.

"Brothers, there's work to be done!" he yelled.

Accompanied by his roar, a cavalry emerged from behind the sand dunes, and a large flag was also raised high.

There are not many people, there are three hundred riders in total.

But they are all elite scouts.

Accompanied by him was a burly wild boar, also holding two scimitars in his hands.

The enemies in the distance also spotted this cavalry at almost the same time. With the banners unfurling, a team was separated from it and rushed towards them.

This is a Liao people's grain transportation team.

The daily consumption of an army of more than [-] people is not a small amount. There is nothing for the Liao people to grab. If they want to continue fighting, they must have enough food and grass. There are more than a dozen cavalry squads wandering in the desert right now.

Their combat mission is very simple, to harass the enemy and destroy the food road.

Of course, whoever is lucky enough to successfully take Yeluxi's head in one fell swoop will be able to reach the sky in one step.

"Attack!" Accompanied by the fierce roar of the turtledove, the three hundred rangers charged forward.

(End of this chapter)