Nadelman leaned over and whispered to Shi Zhong, "What did the general say?"
”Shi Zhong reluctantly squeezed out a smile and said, "As expected, Nadelman, you are in charge of staying in the camp, all the brothers are under your command, and I have other tasks." ”"The general gave the order?"
Shi Zhong shook his head and said, "No, but the main general is gone, so it is naturally commanded by the deputy general." ”Shi Zhong put on his armor and weapons again, and left with his own soldiers.Tie Xi sat on the chair and watched Wei Chiwen constantly flip through one battle report after another, and finally became really impatient, so he opened his mouth and said: "Haven't you read these things every time you send them, don't you get tired of reading them over and over again." ”Wei Chiwen stopped what he was doing, turned his head and glanced at Tie Xi: "There is no trivial matter in the army?"
Don't say watch it once, even if you watch it ten times, it won't be annoying.Not to mention that the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun are about whether you can inherit the throne, after this big victory, your reputation will definitely reach its peak, if you don't take advantage of the current capital, if your imperial grandfather lives for another two years, when the limelight passes, it will not be so easy to make a name for you. ”Tie Xi frowned and said: "Then we have to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun first, now you and I can't intervene, what do you think are the use of those things?"
”Wei Chiwen snorted at Tie Xi a few times: "What's the matter, you're in a bad mood?"
”Tie Xi said with a straight face: "Not good!
”Wei Chiwen couldn't help laughing and said: "Because Zhao Shu is locked up again, who asked you to follow me every day, when the prince of the court doesn't do practical things, and is a stalker all day long, can the official family not get angry?"
”Tie Xi looked at Yu Chiwen, sighed and said: "Yelu Hongji would rather lose the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun than put the main army on the side of Hami, do you think this old guy is crazy?"
”Wei Chiwen frowned and said: "It's normal, if you can get Hami, then the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun will be lost, it doesn't matter." ”Tie Xi patted Wei Chi Wen's small hand and said: "Yang Huaiyu has taken Yingzhou, and the Liao State has lost nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses in this battle, so it can be said that the current situation on the side of the Great Song Dynasty is gratifying."
The question is, does the Great Song want to support Hami?
”"Isn't this nonsense, of course support.""
But with the support of Hami, the strength here is not enough, the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun are not dough, you can take it if you want."
Wei Chiwen smiled again: "Naturally, there will be many people weighing the pros and cons. ”Tie Xi sighed again and said: "Speaking from the heart, when I learned that the main army of the Liao State was pressing towards Hami, I couldn't wait to fly back to see my father and my mother with wings, but I also knew that the Great Song Dynasty was ...... here" "When you finish fighting, you can go back whenever you want!"
”"Why are you so relaxed?"
Wei Chiwen tilted his head and looked at Tie Ga who was looking at him together and said, "Because it's useless for us to worry about it here, and I don't think that the army of the Liao State can defeat Hami." ”Tie Xi shook his head and said, "I know, but I'm still worried."
My imperial grandfather was furious yesterday and said that he would cut off Shi Zhong's head because he was slaughtering the city in Yingzhou. ”Wei Chiwen frowned and said, "Reason?
”Tie Xi shook his head and said: "It's the emperor's grandfather's fault, he thought that the sixteen states of Youyun were all Han people, but in fact, after so many years, they have long regarded themselves as Liao, which is something that cannot be helped."
Although Yang Huaiyu explained this incident in the battle report, the emperor's grandfather is a person who wants to save face, isn't this matter a slap in the face.Wei Chiwen nodded: "I heard that Shi Zhong has been sent back to Tokyo, he is also an old qualification in the army, and he has many friends, there should be people who come to you to intercede, right?"
”Tie Xi shook his head and said, "The emperor's destiny is like the sky, what's the use of pleading?"
Although Shi Zhong had a reason for this incident, the imperial order was the imperial order, and no one was allowed to violate it.What's more, after this massacre, the resistance of other states will definitely become more stubborn, which is the result of his temporary intolerance."
What, are you going to cut him?"
Wei Chiwen asked."
He has merit, he can't cut off his head, but don't think about returning to the army in this life, it is estimated that he will be given an idle job, let him take it honestly.""
That's fine."
Wei Chiwen nodded.When Zhang Qizhi, Wang Yi, and Luo Shenyuan came to the Prince's Mansion, Tie Xi was squatting on the ground of the study, looking at Youzhou City composed of stones in a daze.Zhang Qizhi and Wang Yi are both extremely intelligent, just by taking a look at what Tie Xi was doing, and then thinking of the question that Zhao Zhen asked Tie Xi in the middle of the court this morning, he knew what he had summoned them to do today.Zhang Qizhi immediately frowned and said: "The Liao State has been running Youzhou for decades, and there is enough grain and grass, if you can't stick to it, there is really no good way." ”Tie Xi looked at Youzhou City in front of him and shook his head: "Not only that, but they also built an auxiliary city outside Youzhou City, using each other as horns, and violently attacked Yang Huaiyu's army with trebuchets.According to this morning's report, Yang Huaiyu personally led the army to attack the city several times, but the effect was not good.The trebuchets of the two cities were so short apart that they complemented each other, and not only that, but they also poured water on the walls and thickened them, so that neither of our artillery could do anything. ”Wang Yi couldn't help but ask, "How does General Yang deal with it?"
”Tie Xi said: "Yang Huaiyu is very clever and builds a city on the spot, on the one hand, it is used to avoid the attack of trebuchets, and on the other hand, it can divide the army and attack other places. ”Zhang Qizhi said: "The Liao State has long allowed the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun to trade with the Great Song Dynasty, we know very little about the situation in Youzhou City, and if we knew this situation, we should have brought more artillery over."
But now it's too late to make it and send it over, and a bloody battle is inevitable. ”Tie Xi nodded and said: "Yes, we are the attacking side, we can only see the moves, today the imperial grandfather asked me how to break the enemy."
I don't have a clue for the time being, I don't know if you have any good plans to break the enemy?
”Wang Yi hugged the tea bowl and warmed his hands and smiled: "I don't think there is any need to worry, as long as General Yang can maintain the current situation, at most one month, the food in Youzhou City will be exhausted, and it will naturally be self-defeating at that time." ”Zhang Qizhi shook his head and said, "It's been too long." ”Wei Chiwen shook his head and said: "The quality of the Liao army, you don't need to say it, you also know it, and the defenders of Youzhou City are not incompetent.It is not easy to maintain the status quo, and our food and grass are not enough, so we originally thought of the strategy of feeding the war with war, but now we are stopped outside Youzhou City. ”Wang Yi frowned and said: "I always feel that the Liao State is forcing the entire army of the Great Song Dynasty to press up, and does not give us the opportunity to reinforce Hami." ”Tie Xi nodded and said, "That's right, after all, their main army is on the Hami side, and the pressure over there is much greater than ours."
Moreover, most of the Liao army are cavalry, and we are mostly foot soldiers, and it is inconvenient to fight with them in the field, so it is our advantage to fight steadily and steadily. ”Wei Chiwen spoke again: "General Yang has made a decision to besiege Youzhou City without attacking it, and the army will be divided into three routes to recover other places.So just talking about Youzhou City, we are at a disadvantage.General Yang's actions can't be concealed for too long, and it is estimated that the defenders of Youzhou City will soon be able to see that the main force of our Great Song Dynasty has left, and when the time comes, they will launch an offensive against us. ”Zhang Qizhi said: "In this way, General Yang is very dangerous?
”Wei Chiwen nodded.Zhang Qizhi continued: "General Yang uses himself as a bait, and if the defenders of Youzhou City want to support other places at that time, they must destroy him first, so that the strength of the Liao State in the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun will be contained a lot, and the approach is right, but I am afraid that he will not last long."
Once the Lord will be killed, the army will be in chaos. ”Wang Yi said with a smile: "Since General Yang dares to do this, he naturally has the confidence to do so. ”Zhang Qizhi glanced at Wang Yi and said: "Since the official family has handed over the army to Yang Huaiyu, they should have enough trust in him, we don't know about Tokyo City, we don't know, we don't know, we don't know the actual situation there, it is not right to infer the command of the front army to fight just by a few words, the Great Song Dynasty has suffered a lot in the past."
In terms of the use of soldiers, none of us are as good as General Yang, he is in Xincheng, he knows everything there, knows whether he is doing the right thing, and knows what the price he will pay if he fails.I think that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should repay His Majesty in this way, we just need to give General Yang enough supplies, enough soldiers, and enough weapons, which is what we should do, and teach General Yang the rest.If he returns victorious, we congratulate him, and if he fails, we will punish him as he punishes.It is not right to stand here and make decisions for the main generals of the front line, there are too many examples of counterproductive orders to go down. ”Tie Xi was a little embarrassed, in fact, he thought so too, but if he really told Zhao Zhen these words, even if it was him, I am afraid that he would be scolded.In the end, a group of people didn't discuss anything.Tie Xi decided to go back and tell Zhao Zhen that he had no choice, and that he was just taught a lesson, which was better than pointing fingers and causing problems when the time came.Yang Huaiyu's actions were not concealed for even a week, and after Xiao Honglu learned that he was just a lone army in front of him, he made a decision as soon as possible to eliminate them all.Yang Huaiyu's purpose is here, even if you have the advantage in numbers?
Do you know what if the main force of the army is not here?
Daliao is mostly cavalry, especially in Youzhou City, although there are many foot soldiers, but the real combat effectiveness is all cavalry, and there is a limit to attacking the city with cavalry, and there must be a limit to joking.Strategically despise the opponent, tactically attach importance to the opponent, although the new city under his feet has just been built, but the materials are real, the stone chips hit his armor and clanged, dense stones flew out from the Youzhou City not far away, each piece was heavily bombarded on the city wall, and the entire city wall has been bombarded by these huge stones.However, how many of these giant stones could the Liao army use?
If the new city seems to be a crumbling cradle, then the opposite side of Youzhou City is a city of flames.Orange-red flames spread to every corner of the city walls, and from time to time people covered in flames fell from the walls and then disappeared."
General, all the wounded are civilians in the city, and there are not many real soldiers of the Liao people."
Wang Xiao came to report with a depressed face, and under the consumption of high walls and human lives, the killing effect of the cannonballs was not good."
Did Xiao Honglu arrest all the civilians in the city as cannon fodder, and let them die in this kind of blatant manner, so there was no mutiny?"
Yang Huaiyu hated these people who didn't even want their lives to help Xiao Honglu and consume the ammunition of the Song army.Wang Xiao pointed to the people who kept walking up the city wall: "You see, these people who are sent to death are Han people, and judging from their faces, it is estimated that they have not eaten for a long time, I guess Xiao Honglu has gathered all the grain and grass in the city, so that they have no strength to resist."
Let the civilians come to die, and after this battle, I am afraid that there will be no living people in this city. ”Yang Huaiyu patted the stone at the head of the city and said: "Do you see it, he is using human life to build the wall, and then put up a trebuchet, and when the wall is higher than our city wall, they can attack us wantonly." ”No sooner had one of the men removed the stone from his back than a gunpowder bullet pierced his skull.The body fell crookedly, dragged by the stone and fell down the high wall, and fell to the ground like a broken sack with a loud muffled sound, and he did not make a sound until he died.Such a scene is very ordinary, and there are such scenes all the time on the Youzhou city wall opposite the main gate of the new city.The two cities were no more than a few hundred paces apart, and the clearing was littered with corpses.Whether they were charred or killed by muskets, everyone's expressions were numb, and there was even a kind of relief, as if they were born to die.Every once in a candle of incense, when the people added drafts to the walls of Youzhou City, countless artillery shells flew out of the new city, and these shells fell on them, and then exploded, blowing up the stone bricks that had not yet been solidified.What made Yang Huaiyu feel the threat the most was not Youzhou City in front of him, but the auxiliary city next to Youzhou City.The task of Youzhou City is to consume the ammunition of the Song army, and the auxiliary city is constantly increasing, which will destroy the killing weapons of the Song army, but because of the distance, the artillery can't hit there.