In the middle of October of the eighth year of the assimilation of Western Xia, the weather has begun to gradually cool, but the heat of the Liao civil war has not cooled down at all, but is still heating up, and the 200,000 troops of the Great Song Dynasty have been on the border of the Liao and Song Dynasty in early October; 200,000 Song troops stationed in Xiongzhou, and there was a possibility of crossing the border to attack Nanjing Road in Liao at any time; On the other side, the Xia army and the Eastern Liao army have exchanged fire at Shimen Pass, of course, it is the Xia army that attacks, and the Eastern Liao army under the command of Yelu Nelugu is guarding the pass.
Shimen Pass is located in the northwest of Juyong Pass, is a barrier of Juyong Pass in the northwest, if the Xia army wants to enter Nanjing Road from the north, it must cross two important passes, the first is Shimen Pass, in one is Juyong Pass; In a long time ago, these two passes were an important barrier for the Central Plains Dynasty to defend the northern nomads from going south, after the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun fell into the hands of the Liao State, Shimen Pass and Juyong Pass became the internal passes of the Liao State, and its status was greatly reduced, compared to the solid city pass in the hands of the Central Plains Dynasty, the current city pass has been very dilapidated.
But although these two passes are very dilapidated, but they are also rare male passes in the world, the Xia army stormed Shimen Pass for three days, and was stunned that this pass was not taken down; It can be seen that although the Xia army has a strong field ability, but the siege ability is not very good, at the beginning of Li Liangzuo's reorganization of the Xia army, the Xia army was set as a standard field army dominated by cavalry, but now these cavalry to attack the city, this is not a big joke In ancient times, siege warfare was often the most tragic battle, and if you want to take a city, you must first have qualified siege soldiers; Many people may ignore the ancient siege soldiers, in fact, it is not easy to train a qualified siege soldier, and the casualty rate of the siege soldiers is much more than that of other arms, often the elite siege soldiers are veterans who have survived the previous siege battles, and these veterans are very experienced in siege warfare; And how many field battles or siege battles did the Xia army fight before, only in the original Battle of Hehuang there was a siege battle, but it was only a night sneak attack, and it was not a real siege battle at all.
The siege war is a shortcoming of the Xia army, and it is also a major mistake of Li Liangzuo, the reason is that Li Liangzuo has never paid attention to the siege of the siege, and the reason is very simple, Li Liangzuo never thought that he would encounter a tough attack so early; Due to the lack of adequate preparations, the Xia army not only struggled but also suffered heavy losses in the battle of attacking Shimen Pass, and in just three days, the Hetao army had lost 5,000 soldiers and horses, which was the heaviest loss of the Hetao army since its formation.
In the Hetao army camp outside Shimen Pass, Ji La Siyi was anxious like an ant on a hot pot, unable to complete the task of Li Liangzuo, how not to make him anxious, Ji La Siyi stared at the sand table of Shimen Pass and its surrounding terrain with dead eyes, and wanted to find out the flaws in the defense of the Liao army, after looking at it for a long time, Ji La Siyi shouted to the guards outside: "Order, drum and gather generals." ” "Knock, knock, knock" accompanied by the sound of war drums, generals at all levels came to the Chinese army tent at the fastest speed, and Ji La Siyi sat on the handsome chair and looked at the generals below and said: "Let's talk about it, what to do about this in front of you" Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Ji Lai Siyi reprimanded the generals: "One by one, they are all dumb, don't they usually have a lot of ghost ideas, why don't they have a single fart now, all for General Ben, if you can't think of it, don't eat, when you want to come out, when to eat" After reprimanding everyone, Ji La Siyi looked at Yan Shu who was sitting on the side without saying a word, although Ji La Siyi is the commander of the Hetao Army, but he is also the supreme commander of the Xia Yan Alliance, and Yan Shu was nominated as the deputy commander, of course, the Yan Army is basically here to play soy sauce, but this time Ji La Siyi aimed his eyes at Yan Shu.
Ji La Siyi said to Yan Shu: "General Yan, no matter how you say that my Xia army went out this time, it was also at your invitation, you can't eat and drink in vain, don't work hard, how to say it, this is also your own business, if you don't even care, then the general can't help." ” Yan Shu said with a smile: "General, you should know that the Yan army can't be compared with the Xia army at all, even your Xia army can't take Shimen Pass, and the Yan army under the command of the last general is even more impossible.
The Xia army is the king of the Celestial Empire, who can stop the pace of the Xia army's advance. ” After the two of them pulled the skin, Ji Spicy Siyi also had no moves, anyway, Yan Shu is a dead pig, not afraid of boiling water, Yan Jun is already like this, no matter how bad it is, it can still be bad, anyway, Ji Spicy Siyi, no matter what you say, Yan Shu is dead and unwilling to send troops, anyway, Yan Shu is not in a hurry, Yan Shu is not in a hurry, but Ji Spicy Siyi is in a hurry After everyone left, Ji La Siyi said to the deputy general beside him: "Order, from now on, the supply of grain and grass for the Yan army will be cut off, I want to see if he Yan Shu can be so tough without food." ” "Yes, General, the last general will go and make arrangements."
The adjutant general took over the military order.
Just after the adjutant general left, a herald hurriedly ran in and reported to Ji La Siyi: "Report, report, report to the general, the front-line army reports, the Song army has launched a large-scale attack on the Eastern Liao army, the Eastern Liao army has been defeated one after another due to unfavorable defense, and the Song army has successively conquered Bazhou, Rongcheng and Xincheng, and the Song army is pointing directly at Zhuozhou. ” Ji La Siyi was shocked after hearing this, he didn't expect the Song army's actions to be so fast, in just a few days, three Liao army cities had been conquered, and it was about to hit Zhuozhou, an important town in the south of the Liao State, at this time Zhuozhou was extremely important to Liao, Xia, and Song; For the Liao State, Zhuozhou was an important barrier to defend the Song army from going north, for the Great Song Dynasty, Zhuozhou was the only way to attack Xijin Mansion in the north, and for the Xia army, Zhuozhou was also an important nursery rhyme.
Because at this time, there is a Xia army is quietly carrying out a roundabout operation, which is a combat strategy jointly formulated by Ji La Siyi and Gao Wei before the expedition, the Xia army is actually divided into two roads, the north road is the main army led by Ji La Siyi, and the south road is the strange army led by Gao Wei; Gao Wei and Ji La Siyi divided their troops in Shunsheng, and the main army was led by Ji La Siyi to continue eastward, while the other way was led by Gao Wei and the most elite army of 15,000 in the Hetao army secretly south, all the way through Ding'an, Ulzhou, Feihu Pass, through the Bauhinia Ridge Pass, Qifeng, Baima Mountain and other places directly into Zhuozhou.
Everywhere the Xia army passed, it was basically a sparsely populated and rugged place, so although the march was not particularly fast and not easy to find, the goal of the Xia army's strange soldiers was the same as Zhuozhou, and the Xia army occupied Zhuozhou for two purposes, the first was to block the Song army's road to the north, and the second was to attack the Eastern Liao army from behind, in order to achieve the expected strategic purpose.
The current Zhuozhou can be said to be out of the eye of the storm of the tripartite forces, and the tripartite forces are bound to win Zhuozhou, a tripartite battle is about to be staged, there is no doubt that the victorious side will get the control of Nanjing Road, but as far as the current situation is concerned, the Xia army actually does not have an advantage in terms of troops, personnel, or logistics supply, and the only advantage is that no one knows the existence of the Xia army.
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