Although Li De had already approached Xiangyang City, he did not immediately launch an attack on Xiangyang City, but was waiting for the opportunity, and the Xia army led by Li De set up camp outside Xiangyang City that day, and at the same time Li De ordered to collect a lot of gunpowder captured by the Song army, which will be the key to Li De's capture of Xiangyang City.
In the big tent of the Xia Army, Li De is observing the sand table of Xiangyang City, this sand table is made according to the description of the spies lurking in Xiangyang City in Yipintang, and the defense situation of the entire Xiangyang City is basically clear, and behind Li De is standing Wu Jie, Li De completely took Wu Jie with him in this battle, not because Li De was suspicious of Wu Jie, but because Li De trusted Wu Jie.
Due to the smooth implementation of the Eastern Crusade plan, Wu Jie's status in Li De's heart has been raised to an unprecedented height, Wu Jie is no longer an ordinary forward general at this time, but has become a military advisor to Li De, Wu Jie does not know whether to feel fortunate or sad.
"General Wu, do you think that this king is the best to attack Xiangyang City on that side, and the losses can be minimized" Li De asked Wu Jie.
Wu Jie could only stubbornly say: "Lord Wang, the south gate is relatively easy to attack compared to the other three gates, and the south gate is open to the outside world, so you can deploy a large army very calmly." ” "Okay, we'll attack from the south gate tomorrow."
Li De finally made a decision.
The imperial capital of Great Xia, in the Ziwei Palace.
Xiaofuzi hurriedly took a report to the imperial garden, at this time Li Liangzuo was playing with a group of concubines in the imperial garden, since the south to the imperial capital, Li Liangzuo's life began to become gradually extravagant, after all, Li Liangzuo is not a small country now, Li Liangzuo is now living a very easy day, although Song Xia has started a war, but most of the affairs have been handed over to the cabinet headed by Li Xiaoren, the king of Chu, Li Liangzuo is leisurely.
"Your Majesty, Yipintang Xiangyang Branch Helm Urgent Report" Xiao Fuzi came to Li Liangzuo's side and knelt on the ground and said.
Li Liangzuo said with some disappointment: "What is the system of being so flustered." ” After Li Liangzuo reprimanded Xiaofuzi, after reading the report, he frowned and said: "This third man let the donkey kick his brain, didn't he say how to run to Xiangyang to fight Sichuan and Shu?"
"This minion doesn't know either."
Xiaofuzi said.
Li Liangzuo said sternly to Xiao Fuzi, "Go, transfer the garrison of Xiangyang City to me, and invite the king of Chu into the palace." ” "The minions obey."
Xiao Fuzi said immediately.
Soon Li Xiaoren arrived, and at the same time, a map had been hung in the pavilion of the imperial garden, Li Xiaoren came to Li Liangzuo's side and bowed and said: "Wechen to see Your Majesty, I don't know what Your Majesty summoned Wechen to say" "I just received a report that after getting the supplies, De'er did not go south to attack Sichuan and Shu, but went east to Xiangyang."
Li Liangzuo said; "Did you say this kid had water in his brain?"
"Your Majesty, in the long run, the capture of Xiangyang is of great strategic significance, Xiangyang is an important channel to communicate the Western Song Army and Jingzhou, occupying Xiangyang is equivalent to cutting off this supply line to the west of the Song Army, and taking Xiangyang Our army can also threaten the rear of the Song Army," Li Xiaoren said to Li Liangzuo.
"Of course I know this, but Xiangyang is also the land of the four wars."
Li Liangzuo said; "You said that when the seed master Dao learned about Xiangyang, could he be willing, he would definitely send a large army to fight for it, and the tens of thousands of troops under De'er would not be able to hold it at all."
"Your Majesty means that you want to send troops to reinforce King Yong," Li Xiaoren said.
Li Liangzuo said helplessly: "I want to increase his troops, you see how many troops I still have in my hands, I am now more than capable of recruiting troops from the capital of Anbei, but when this batch of soldiers and horses arrives, I am afraid that the cucumbers and vegetables will be cold, and now I can only hope that this kid can not be stupid, and if he can't do it, he will withdraw; Brother Huang, you try your best to send a batch of materials to Hanzhong, and get some more war horses, all of which will be sent to Li De's hands, if this kid really wants to enter the hinterland of the Great Song Dynasty, with this batch of war horses, he will be able to save his life."
"Yes, Wechen takes the order" Li Liangzuo knew that now Li De was out of his control, even if Li Liangzuo ordered Li De to withdraw now, it was probably too late, Li Liangzuo judged that the Song army was very likely to have begun to act, as for the batch of war horses sent Li Liangzuo did not dare to guarantee that it could really be delivered to Li De's hands, he could only say that he did his best; Li Liangzuo didn't say too much reprimanding for Li De's unauthorized actions, even if he scolded Li De for a bloody sprinkler now, it would be useless, now that the matter has happened, all Li Liangzuo needs to do is to think of a solution.
The next day, outside the south gate of Xiangyang City, Li De concentrated all the soldiers and horses under his command 30,000 iron cavalry, and it was a bit absurd to use cavalry to attack the city, but Li De really did it, compared to the other three city gates, the south gate of Xiangyang City was the lowest, and it was the weak point of the entire Xiangyang City, and although there was a moat outside the south gate, there was no suspension bridge, and the only bridge was built on the moat, the reason was because the moat was too far away from Xiangyang City, because this moat was natural, and he was Han Shui.
Li Dece took the lead and stood outside the south gate of Xiangyang City, at this time the Song soldiers hiding in the city were trembling, they had never fought, they were completely a group of recruits; Facing the wolf-like Xia army outside the city, even the Song generals defending the city didn't know how to deal with it.
Li De waved his hand, dozens of Xia army dead cavalry rushed to the south gate of Xiangyang City, the soldiers defending the city could only immediately release arrows to resist with arrow rain, although the Xia army dead soldiers were damaged, but the loss was not big, after rushing to the city gate, these Xia soldiers took out explosives bags from the body of the war horses, their task is to use these explosives bags to blow up the south gate of Xiangyang City, this tactic is tantamount to a pioneering feat for the army of this era.
It didn't take long to hear only a "boom", the Xia army died and blew open the gate of Xiangyang City, and the gates of Xiangyang City were opened, which meant that Xiangyang City was about to be lost, after the gate of Xiangyang City was blown open, Li De personally led 30,000 Xia cavalry into the city, and the entire Song army resisted for less than half an hour and surrendered, and the entire Xiangyang City completely fell into the hands of Li De.
After taking Xiangyang, Li De did not stop his actions, but continued to expand around, successively taking Nanzhang, Zhonglu, Yicheng and other places in the south, and at the same time, the follow-up reinforcements of the Xia army were rushing to Xiangyang.
The news of the loss of Xiangyang spread to Luoyang, the base camp of the Western Army of the Song Army two days later, after hearing the news, the master Dao in the marshal's mansion did it on the chair, the master Dao was very aware of the importance of Xiangyang, and the master immediately ordered Wang Kai's driver to recover Xiangyang, and to try to eliminate Li De's Xia army, but this task was very difficult for Wang Kai to complete.
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