Just after Li Bingchang led the army to make way for the Song army to retreat, Zhao Yan led the Song army to retreat to Pingyao very calmly; At the same time, Li Hao, the king of Hengshan, led 3,000 palace guards and 7,000 palace soldiers to Sanjiaokou, which is only a few dozen miles away from Taiyuan.
"Newspaper, newspaper, newspaper" A scout hurriedly ran to Li Hao to report: "Lord Wang, the Song army has captured Taiyuan, and the tower of Taiyuan Mansion has been planted with the banner of the Song army. ” "Damn."
Li Hao said very angrily; Then he asked the adjutant general; "How many people are there in our rear army" "There are still 20,000 soldiers in Datong, Shuozhou, and Yanmen combined."
The adjutant general reported to Li Haoyu; "Now the armies of all walks of life are gathering in Taiyuan."
"The king will order that grain and grass will be transferred from Xinzhou and Xianzhou to supply the follow-up army."
Li Hao ordered.
"Yes, I'll do it."
Said the adjutant general.
"Report, report, report to the prince, there is a person outside the camp who claims to be the defender in Taiyuan City, saying that he has something important to report to the prince."
A garrison officer came in to report.
"Quick, let him in."
Li Hao said.
It didn't take long to see an officer in torn armor walk in, salute Li Hao, and said, "The lowly Taiyuan Mansion Corps is visiting the prince. ” "Get up and speak."
Li Hao asked; "Tell me how this king Taiyuan was lost and where the princess of Jin is now" "Lord Wang, the princess is still in the city."
The team is counting.
"What's going on in the city, why didn't you escort the princess out and let her fall into the hands of the Song army."
Li Hao grabbed the collar of the team leader very angrily and asked; The reason why Li Hao is so angry is actually completely for the face of the Great Xia Empire He Xia Jun's face, a princess was captured by the enemy, and the army has not even been able to protect the royal family, let alone protect the people, if the Jin princess really fell into the hands of the Song army, it would be a national shame for the Great Xia Empire.
"Lord Wang, the princess did not fall into the hands of the Song army."
The team was horrified; "Now the princess Niangniang and Lord Liang Yibury are still trapped in the inner city, they are still relying on the inner city for defense, and before retreating into the inner city, Lord Liang has ordered all the grain, grass, weapons and other things that exist in the outer city to be burned."
"Okay, the Song army came from afar, and it must not be able to carry much grain and grass."
Li Hao said with a sneer; "Without food and grass, I'll see what they can do to attack."
"Lord Wang, although our army burned down the granary, there are still many rich families and grain merchants in Taiyuan."
"The king knows."
Li Hao was instantly splashed with a basin of cold water; "You go down and rest first."
After learning that the inner city of Taiyuan was in the hands of the Xia army, Li Hao immediately took more than 100 guards to a small hillside not far from Taiyuan City, standing on this hillside is not enough to see the inside of Taiyuan City, otherwise this place would have been guarded by the Song army, Li Hao said to the deputy general: "Shoot three red signal flares to see if there is any reaction in the city." ” Although Li Hao believed what the team was saying, the Taiyuan defenders were still holding on to the inner city, but after such a long time, now the situation in Taiyuan City was not known at all, if the inner city was still holding on, there would also be a response when he saw this signal, this red signal flare was the characteristics of the Xia army, and the Song army could not imitate it at all.
The three signal flares of "chirp, chirp, chirp" flew into the sky.
The officers of the Xia Army, who were standing at the head of the city, immediately cheered and jumped up when they saw this scene, and Liang Yongneng hurriedly climbed to the city gate tower and reported to Liang Yi: "Brother, our reinforcements have arrived, our reinforcements have arrived."
"What you said is true, the prince's reinforcements are really coming," Liang Yibu asked eagerly.
"It's true, three red flares, raised in the northeast direction."
Liang Yongneng said.
"Northeast, that's not right," Liang Yi said with a frown; "The prince's reinforcements should come from the south, how can they go to the northeast, will this be the trick of the Song army."
"I don't see it."
Liang Yongneng said; "It may be that reinforcements from our north arrived first."
"I hope so," Liang said; "It stands to reason that the prince should have already received my letter for help at this time, but why is the reinforcements delayed, has the prince really given up on Taiyuan?"
"Brother, Taiyuan is the prince's lair, and the prince will not give up."
Liang Yongneng said; "Maybe the prince was dragged by the Song army, brother, now that the reinforcements have arrived, should we join forces with the Song army inside and outside."
"No."
Liang Yibury immediately said; "Now the situation is unclear, our army can't rush to attack, so you go to respond to the three red signal flares, if it is our people, after seeing the signal flares, they will know that we are still holding on, and they will definitely attack the Song army from the periphery, and when they attack the city, we will not be too late to cooperate inside and outside."
"Yes, I'll do it."
Liang Yongneng said.
The three red signal flares of "chirp, chirp, chirp" took off again.
Li Hao has understood that there are still defenders in the city who continue to hold on, it is enough for Li Hao to know this, now Li Hao has not the ability to attack Taiyuan City, the Song army can calmly deal with the Xia army outside the city by relying on the defense of the city wall, Li Hao still needs to wait for the opportunity, waiting for the arrival of the follow-up soldiers and horses.
In the outer city of Taiyuan Mansion, in the camp of the Song army, the people in the outer city of Taiyuan Mansion have basically fled, and as the team is saying, although the granaries in the outer city have been burned, the Song army still has a lot of grain from the rich households and grain shops, and these grains and grass are enough for the Song army to last for more than 20 days.
But now Zhang Miao is a little panicked, because the reinforcements of the Xia army have arrived.
"General, according to the Malay report, the reinforcements of the Xia army have arrived at Sanjiaokou, with about 10,000 troops, wearing the Li character handsome flag, and there is a golden dragon border."
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The adjutant general said to Zhang Miao.
"The Li Ziqi bordered by the golden dragon seems to be the arrival of another prince of the Xia Kingdom."
Zhang Miao said very easily; "The closest prince of Xia Guo who is too far away is Li Hao, the king of Hengshan, and he doesn't have many soldiers and horses under his command, so don't worry."
Although Zhang Miao said this, he didn't think so in his heart, the purpose of saying this was to stabilize the military spirit of the Song army; Zhang Miao then said: "The herald ordered the whole army to assemble this general to give a lecture. ” "Yes, the last general will go."
The lieutenant general commanded.
Now Zhang Miao still has 8,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, the reason why there are so many soldiers and horses, in fact, is not that Zhang Miao lost less, but that some of the troops are newly recruited, although Taiyuan has fallen into the hands of the Great Xia Empire for several years, but there are still many people Although they pay taxes to the Great Xia Empire, they still think that they are Song people in their bones, so when the Song army recovered Taiyuan, many young people around Taiyuan have joined the Song army, and most of them have received the training of the Xia army.
Zhang Miao stood on the school platform and everyone said: "Brothers, I don't need to say that you also know that the reinforcements of the Xia army have arrived, just in Sanjiaokou, not far to the north, the Xia army has 10,000 people, brothers, don't panic because of the Xia army's many soldiers, this general has received the military order from the prince, the prince has defeated the 80,000 Xia army in the south, and is currently cleaning up the remnants, and will soon lead the troops north to reinforce us, we must take the inner city of Taiyuan before the prince's army arrives" The second update is coming, and please vote for it: