"Follow them all, search carefully, not a single village can be spared," a Xixia general shouted loudly.
"Yes" What Xixia soldiers like to do most is plunder, especially plundering in the Song Dynasty.
When they heard the general's words, their eyes lit up with excitement, as if hungry wolves had seen their prey.
The group of soldiers was marching forward, and suddenly the appearance of a village in a forest came into their sight.
"Look, sir!"
a soldier shouted hurriedly pointing to the village.
The Xixia general also saw the village and immediately said, "Go at full speed and surround the entire village.
No one can be spared."
"Ouch" the soldiers all shouted excitedly and ran towards the village.
The village was not big, with about thirty or fifty households.
Two hundred Xixia soldiers quickly surrounded the entire village.
"Search, kill everyone except the woman, search every corner carefully and don't miss anything," the Xixia general gave the order.
The soldiers walked into the village from different directions with weapons in their hands and greedy eyes, and searched each house.
The small village was quickly searched.
Unfortunately, except for the houses, there was nothing in the whole village.
"Bah, what a bad luck."
After listening to his subordinate's report, the general spat dissatisfiedly.
"Whoosh!"
A sharp arrow hit the Xixia general's neck without warning.
The general fell off his horse and died without even uttering a cry.
"Kill" Just when the Xixia soldiers didn't know what happened, a loud shout came from the surrounding woods.
"Whoosh whoosh!"
Countless Liangshan archers shot the arrows in their hands at the Xixia soldiers, and they suddenly screamed and wailed.
The Xixia soldiers who were lucky enough not to be shot quickly retreated to the village to take shelter.
After two rounds of arrow rain, the Liangshan soldiers put away their bows and arrows, then picked up their spears and quickly charged towards the village.
This was an unequal fight.
At the beginning, the general of the Xixia soldiers was shot dead, leaving the two hundred Xixia soldiers leaderless.
Then dozens more were shot to death by a hail of arrows, and many others were not killed but were shot.
The arrow was injured, and the number of people was already small, so it became even more pitiful.
The Liangshan soldiers rushed in and the battle ended within a quarter of an hour.
Counting the general, a total of 201 people were not spared, and they were all killed by the Liangshan soldiers.
"Gather the weapons and burn the corpses to avoid causing a plague."
Ever since Lin Chong came to Liangshan, he would ask for the corpses to be burned and then buried when cleaning the battlefield.
Even though so many years have passed, this habit has remained.
What happened in this village was just a microcosm of the entire surrounding area of Fenzhou City.
There were five Xixia squads that were ambushed on this day alone, and all five Xixia soldiers were annihilated without exception.
Weiming Ali sat in the tent and clenched his fists tightly after listening to his subordinates' report.
The other generals below also did not speak.
A total of eight teams were sent to grab grain, but not even a grain of food was grabbed, and five of them were lost.
Although the number of people is only one thousand, which is insignificant compared to an army of hundreds of thousands, the impact cannot be measured by numbers.
What's even more serious is that there is no food in the military camp.
Today, Weiming Ali did not order the siege.
He just hoped to save some effort and wait for the food to be eaten by the soldiers before attacking the city.
However,
Even if the soldiers are hungry and they attack the city forcefully, they will get twice the result with half the effort, but food "We will then send people to the domestic and Western armies to collect food supplies.
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In addition, we will kill some of the war horses to satisfy the hunger of the soldiers and attack the city early tomorrow morning.
Tell all the soldiers that there are countless grains in Fenzhou City, and there are also many Song women.
As long as they attack the city, I will allow them to rob them for three days."
Weiming Ali was courageous enough.
He killed horses to satisfy his hunger.
It can be regarded as the last resort.
No one among the generals in the tent stopped them.
Everyone knew that there was no other way.
If the soldiers were kept hungry, the hundreds of thousands of Xixia soldiers might mutiny before Liangshan came to attack them.
Guan Sheng and others in Fenzhou City all smiled when they listened to the spies' report.
Guan Sheng waved his hand to let the spies go down to rest, and then said to Sun An and others, "I estimate that the Xixia soldiers outside the city will soon run out of food.
In this case, they have only two options.
One is to attack Fen by burning cauldrons and sinking boats."
Prefecture, in order to capture Fenzhou in one battle.
The second is to withdraw overnight, return to Xixia territory before the army mutinies, and then regroup and return to continue the attack.
However, both paths have advantages and disadvantages, it depends on the Xixia coach’s choice.”
After Guan Sheng finished speaking, another soldier came in from outside, clasped his fists and said, "Reporting to the leader of Guan, there are sounds of war horses neighing and smoke rising from the Xixia camp outside the city."
"Oh, the horses are neighing and the smoke is rising.
It seems that the Xixia coach is killing horses to satisfy his hunger and is ready to fight us to the death," Guan Sheng said with a smile on his face.
"Hahaha, I didn't expect this Xixia barbarian to have some courage.
Well, seeing as how courageous he is, if I encounter him on the battlefield in the future, I will leave his body intact," Sun An said proudly.
Guan Sheng nodded and said, "I predict that the Xixia army will attack the city tomorrow morning.
The defense may be relaxed tonight.
How about we go to rob the camp at night?"
"Okay, I also have this intention," Sun An said excitedly.
"Brother, my little brother is willing to go" "My younger brother is also willing to go" Wu Neng and others also stood up.
"Hahaha, I think it would be better if two brothers, Sun An and Huaiying, lead five thousand soldiers to rob the camp," Guan Sheng said with a smile.
"Brother, take your orders," Sun An and Huaiying stood up and replied happily.
At nearly the fourth watch, Sun An and Huaiying led five thousand soldiers, quietly descended from the city wall using ropes, and then quickly headed towards the Xixia camp.
The fourth watch is from 1 to 3 in the morning, also known as the ugly time.
This time can be said to be the sleepiest time for people, and it is also the time to sleep soundly.
Sun An and his two men led the soldiers to lie down not far from the camp and carefully observed the movements in the camp.
Several soldiers at the gate of the camp were dozing off, leaning on their spears.
The people upstairs had long since disappeared.
I don't know if they had sneaked down or were lying on top and fell asleep.
The camp was quiet, with occasional snoring and grinding of teeth heard.
The fire in the brazier was almost extinguished, leaving only a weak flame burning tenaciously.
"Brother Sun, is it almost time?"
Huaiying looked at the sky and asked.
"Well, it's almost time, let's do it."
After saying this, Sun An hunched over and ran towards the camp.
"Follow me," Huaiying shouted in a low voice and followed Sun An's example
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