Xianping, the Xia army took this city The Xia army basically effortlessly, when the Xia army cavalry arrived, the Song army guarding the city gate turned around and ran away, even Li De muttered in his heart that he was afraid that it was the trap of the Song army, so he sent someone to enter the city first, and found that there was nothing to dare to let the army enter the city, because the Xianping defenders did not resist, so the Xia army did not slaughter the city as before, but took over all the yamen treasury in the city, and the whole process was very smooth without any casualties.
Xianping Yamen, here has become the line of Li De, the king of Liang.
"Lord Wang, now we have two choices, the first is to go east to cut off the Grand Canal of the Song army, and the second is to go north to attack Bianliang," the deputy general said to Li De.
"Then you think we should choose which path" "Of course, it is to go east and cut off the Grand Canal, which is very advantageous for our army."
Li De said with a smile: "What's the use of cutting off the Grand Canal, according to the situation we have, the Song army has hoarded at least tens of millions of stones, grains and grass in Bianliang, as well as millions of sets of armor, as well as countless bows, arrows, knives, spears and other weapons, even if we can cut off the Song army's canal grain route, the Song army can at least last more than half a year by relying on the baggage stored in Bianliang, do you think we can cut off the canal for half a year for a long time?"
"The prince means to attack Bianliang," the deputy general said in surprise.
This is really crazy, although Zhang Dunli has transferred a large number of Bianliang defenders away, and lost all in the battle of Changge, Bianliang at this time is indeed very empty, but the city of Bianliang is too big, even if Li De's 50,000 troops are all sprinkled into it, they may not even be able to turn up a wave, Tokyo Bianliang is actually a slightly super-large-scale city at this time, and has a complete city defense system.
As the former capital of the Great Song Dynasty, Bianliang is the most prosperous and largest city in the Central Plains, Bianliang City is a not very regular square city, divided into the outer city, the inner city, the imperial city and the palace city, is a large city within a radius of 100 miles, after the Great Song Dynasty moved the capital, as the core of the Central Plains, Zhao Yu once carried out a series of reinforcements on the city defense of Bianliang City, and built an acropolis in each direction outside Bianliang City, with the Acropolis as the center and built a large number of fortresses and beacon towers at the same time, but did not set traps, horses, After all, Bianliang is still an important transportation center, and the rest of the fortifications can be built after the war has spread to Bianliang to prevent traffic from being affected.
Before the Xia and Song Dynasty wars, the population of Bianliang City reached nearly 1.5 million, but with the reopening of the Xia and Song wars, some of the people of Bianliang City went south, but now the people of Bianliang City still have millions of people, and at this time Li De only has 50,000 elite iron horses, if the people of Bianliang really resist, with these 50,000 Li De will not be able to take Bianliang at all, even if the people of Bianliang are a group of rabble, one person can drown the Xia army with a mouthful of foam.
"This king has made up his mind, you don't need to persuade him anymore."
Li De said to the adjutant general.
"But the prince, although Bianliang City is empty, there are many people, please think twice."
The adjutant general still wanted Li De to persuade him.
Li De smiled and said: "It's just a group of rabble, this king doesn't believe that they dare to compete with my Xia army."
Li De said very confidently; Command the army, tomorrow the school field will be assembled, and the king has something to say to his brothers. ” "Yes, lord."
The lieutenant general commanded.
In fact, there are a lot of gambling ingredients for attacking Bianliang Li De, when the Xia army once entered Bianliang, Xia Emperor Li Liangzuo was very yearning for the prosperity of Bianliang, but that time was different from this time, that time Song and Xia were allies, and the Xia army entered Bianliang to save the people of the Great Song Dynasty, but this time for the people of Bianliang, the Xia army was the enemy, and it was not so simple to enter Bianliang; Moreover, compared to a few years ago, the defense of Bianliang City has greatly increased.
In the early morning of the next day, the 50,000 Xia troops outside Xianping City gathered together, and Li De, the king of Liang, stood on the city gate tower and overlooked his own 50,000 army, which was the foundation for Li De to survive in the Central Plains; Li De stood on the city gate tower and shouted to 50,000 soldiers: "Brothers, today this king is going to take you to do a big thing that shocks the world, this king wants to take you to take Bianliang, this battle is unpredictable, this king does not want to force anyone, is willing to follow this king into Bianliang after noon with this king, you can leave the Xia army if you don't want to go." 50,000 soldiers shouted in unison: "Swear to follow the king, swear to follow the king" Li De said that free choice is just a kind word, if someone really withdraws, I am afraid he will not live tomorrow's sun; Once they leave the collective of Xia Jun, they will become alone, they are not familiar with life in this foreign land, and they will die soon if they have no companions, and their parents, wives and children are all in the territory of the Great Xia Empire, if they choose to quit at this time, their parents, wives and children may not have a good time in this life; And in their opinion, Li De, as a prince, is a nobleman, and he is not even afraid of death, and they, who are soldiers, cannot be afraid of death.
After noon, Li De led an army of 50,000 to the north and went straight to Bianliang, at this time Bianliang's city defense can not be regarded as empty, but basically no soldiers to guard, the entire 100-mile city defenders are only more than 10,000 people and thousands of servants, and these Song troops are not elite, at this time the highest governor of Bianliang is Kaifeng Mansion Yin Bao Yi; Bao Zheng is the son of Bao Zheng, and being able to serve as the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion can be regarded as the stepfather of the son, Bao Zheng is as upright as his father, and Bao Zheng has taken everything as an example, but Bao Zheng is just a civilian official who doesn't know how to lead troops to fight at all.
The Xia army went all the way north and arrived at Chicang Town at ten o'clock in the evening, Li De led the army to arrive after the Song people in the town were frightened and retreated into their homes, the Xia army did not enter the city but was stationed outside the city, after observing for a long time, it was found that the Xia army did not attack, and the people in the town were relieved and gradually resumed their lives.
Chicang Town is already very close to Bianliang, only more than 30 miles, the cavalry gallops fast horses and can be under Bianliang City without an hour, the reason why Li De chose to stay in Chicang Town is to let the people of Bianliang City know in advance, so that the people in Bianliang City have a sense of fear.
The news of the Xia army's arrival in the city soon spread to Bianliang City, the people in the whole city were panicked, some ruffians and hooligans began to take advantage of the chaos to fish, the Xia army had not yet attacked Bianliang City, and the Bao Xiang who was the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion asked for help from Zhao Wang Zhao and Zhang Dunli, who stayed in Tokyo, on the one hand, asked the defenders in the city to strictly defend and mobilize the people to defend the city together, but the effect was very small, and now the people living in Bianliang are mainly divided into two kinds of people, one is the family of soldiers, and the other is a businessman; As for the dignitaries, they have already gone south to Jiangning.
It is simply impossible for the families of soldiers to go to the battlefield to fight for the elderly, weak women and children, and businessmen are very shrewd and have thousands of dollars to let them go to the battlefield to fight hard, which is more difficult than heaven.
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