During the Northern Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty was one of the richest countries in the world at that time, and the wealth of the Song Dynasty at that time far exceeded the sum of the two countries of Liaoxia, especially after the civil strife in Liao, the agricultural economy and nomadic economy of the Liao State were greatly damaged, a large number of herdsmen and farmers were conscripted into the army, and the fields in the entire Liao State were barren and bare for thousands of miles, and many places have become no man's land.
The situation in Nanjing Road is slightly better, but now the battlefield has spread here, and the originally calm Nanjing Road has begun to rise again, no matter when the biggest victims of the war are always the people, although the Song army is known as the army of the Celestial Empire, but there is nothing good in the territory of Liao, the place where the Song army passed is basically like being gnawed by locusts, not that the Song army snatched many things from the people, but where the Song army passed, the people basically fled far away, I was afraid that the war would spread to my own home.
On the south gate tower of Gu'an City, Yelu Nerugu stood on the city pass and looked at the grass boats of the Song army coming and going from north to south on the Baihe ditch not far away, and now the most important thing for Yelu Nerugu is grain and grass, because all the strong people in Nanjing Road have been forcibly conscripted into the army by Yelu Nerugu, which has caused a large reduction in the number of strong people in agricultural production, which in turn affects the production of grain; Food is the most fundamental thing of an army, and without food, the army can basically be declared extinct.
Now the food of the Eastern Liao army is very tight, and the war will consume a lot of grain and grass materials, and now Yelu Nerugu is in need of a large amount of grain and grass materials, Deputy General Wang said to Yelu Nerugu: "Your Majesty, you see, the grain ships of the Song army are all docked on the east bank of Baihegou, and it seems that Wang Anshi has been prepared for us." ” "Whether he is prepared or not, we are bound to get this grain and grass, and now our army's grain and grass are basically running out, and if we don't find a way to get it, I am afraid that the brothers will starve to death here."
Jerunerugu said.
"Your Majesty means to take down the grain and grass camp of the Song army," said Adjutant Wang to Yelu Nerugu.
"Judging from the results of the monitoring in the past few days, the Song army has stored at least five or six hundred thousand stones of grain and grass in the grain and grass camp, and if we can take this grain and grass base, then our army's grain and grass in the next three or four months can be solved."
Jerunerugu said greedily.
"But Your Majesty, now our army is outnumbered, but the Song army is strong, once the two armies start a war, our army will immediately fall into a disadvantageous situation, not to mention that our army takes the initiative to attack, which is equivalent to each of our soldiers to face the enemy's ten sharp blades."
Adjutant Wang said to Jerunerugu.
After thinking for a long time, Jerunerugu said, "It seems that we can only borrow troops. ” "Borrowed soldiers," Vice Admiral Wang said in shock; Then he thought: "Your Majesty's brain is burning, who are you borrowing troops from at this time?"
Just when Yelu Nerugu coveted the grain and grass camp of the Song army, Wang Anshi and Xu Xi were inspecting the entire grain and grass camp under the protection of the guards.
"My lord, so far, the imperial court has transported 500,000 stone of grain and grass, which is enough for the army to eat for more than a month."
Xu Xi reported to Wang Anshi.
Wang Anshi said: "It's not enough, at least three months of grain and grass are needed, under normal circumstances, these grains and grass are enough for a month, but during the war, it is not necessarily, in addition to the grain and grass, but also to add accidental consumption, so the loss is large." ” "But my lord, now this grain and grass camp is basically close to saturation."
Xu Xi said to Wang Anshi.
Wang Anshi smiled and said indifferently: "Then we are building a grain and grass camp, as long as we have enough grain and grass, even if we drag it, we can drag the Eastern Liao army to death." ” After all, the 300,000 army did not come to Liao to travel, so after the grain and grass arrived one after another, Wang Anshi ordered the Song army to start an attack on Gu'an, early morning Wang Anshi and Xu Xi led 300,000 Song troops to pour out, looking at the black pressure of the Song army, the Eastern Liao army These recruits are a little trembling, the Song army is a typical infantry army, the Song army has always been a defense-oriented army in this era, especially to deal with the cavalry in the north, so the Song army vigorously developed the bow and crossbow troops, So the Song army's bow and crossbow troops were one of the most powerful of all the Song army's armies.
In today's Gu'an Song army's bow and crossbow troops began to roar, Wang Anshi mobilized 50,000 bow and crossbow troops to carry out long-range attacks on Gu'an, ordinary bows and arrows, crossbow arrows are everything, large bed crossbows, catapults together there are hundreds, in the Song army's dense arrow rain firepower covered, the Eastern Liao army was pressed to raise its head, in order to reduce the army's casualties, Yelu Nerugu ordered in addition to a small number of lookouts to observe the movement of the Song army, most of the rest of the soldiers and horses all came down from the city wall to avoid the rain of arrows, Even so, the Eastern Liao army still paid a lot of casualties.
Although the Song army is sharp in the rain of arrows, but the siege battle is really not good, under the stubborn counterattack of the Eastern Liao army, the Song army besieging the city did not climb the city wall, the corpses of the Song army soldiers were piled up under the city wall, the battle lasted all day, when night fell after the Song army soldiers returned to their camp with their tired bodies.
In Gu'an City, in Yelu Nerugu's temporary line, a military meeting was being held, Yelu Nerugu looked at the generals below with a dark face and said: "The generals have also seen today, the combat effectiveness of the Song army is very strong, if you just defend it like this, it will be a matter of time before the city is broken, but even if the city is broken, you must resist desperately, buy time for my next move, no matter how fierce the Song army's attack is, you must defend me for more than three days." ” The generals couldn't help frowning when they heard that they were defending for three days, this is also no way, the total strength of the Song army is ten times that of the Eastern Liao army, although the Eastern Liao army relies on the city wall defense to occupy a favorable position, but the number of the Song army is too much, if the Song army launches a full-scale attack desperately, with the current combat effectiveness and number of the Eastern Liao army, it is a matter of an instant to lose Gu'an, in such a situation, Yelu Nerugu let the Eastern Liao army defend the city for three days is indeed a bit difficult.
Time passed quickly, two days passed in a blink of an eye, during these two days, the Song army launched several attacks, in order to prevent the city from breaking Yelu Nerugu personally went to the city to supervise the battle, watching the Song army attack like a tide, Yelu Nerugu couldn't help frowning; Vice General Wang walked up to Yelu Nerugu and said, "Your Majesty, the Song army has retreated, you better go back and rest for a while."
"I'm not here, and I'm not at ease when I look at it."
Jerunerugu sat down on the steps and said; "Today is the last day, no matter what, you have to hold on, whether my Da Liao can turn defeat into victory depends on today, how well I have done the things I have explained to you" "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, everything is ready, just waiting for your order."
Adjutant Wang said to Jerunerugu
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