"Lord Wang, the Song army's offensive is too fierce, we can't afford to fight like this, and the Song army has a large number of firearms, which has caused great casualties to our army.
Li Qing frowned and said, "The Song army's offensive can't be so strong every time, it seems that we have to find a way to make some trouble for the Song army." ” "Lord Wang, our army is mainly cavalry, so sticking to it is not conducive to giving full play to the advantages of cavalry, but attacking the strength of the other with its own shortcomings, it is better to give up Wuxi City for mobile combat."
"The rivers in the Jiangnan region are vertical and horizontal, which is not conducive to exerting the power of cavalry at all, you let this king think about it, you go down first" Li Qing refused to give up Wuxi City is also a reason, once the Song army gave up Wuxi City can drive straight along the canal, if the Song army does not take into account the harassment of the Xia cavalry along the way and go straight to Hangzhou, then Li Qing's southward looting results will be greatly discounted, now all the grain and grass have been transported half, but the rest still needs at least a month to carry the time, if Wuxi City is abandoned so soon, the Xia army is likely to hold on to less than a month.
In the early morning of the next day, the Song army launched an attack again, this time the Song army did not launch such a fierce attack as yesterday, the Song army launched an attack on Wuxi City in turn with an echelon of 100,000 people, but this move of the Song army made Li Qing more worried, and Li Qing found that the warriors under his command became the whetstone of the Song army, taking advantage of the opportunity to attack Wuxi City, the Song army trained on a large scale, and the Xia army and the Japanese soldiers became the free sparring partners of the Song army.
This made Li Qing very annoyed, but Li Qing was helpless to take the Song army, in the next seven days, the Song army attacked every day, in order to deal with the Song army's wheel tactics, Li Qing also divided his army into three groups to take turns, but the long-term high-intensity battle, soon exhausted the Xia army, after the Japanese soldiers were basically lost, the losses of the Xia army began to increase, at this time the two sides have been fighting for seven days.
In these seven days, the Song army gained a lot, and the new recruits of the Song army rolled out of blood and fire again and again became veterans, and the various departments of the Song army could already carry out coordinated operations.
Although it has only been a few days, Song Jun's mental outlook has changed greatly, and he has obviously had some elite appearance.
"Your Majesty, since the implementation of our plan, the combat effectiveness of our army has grown rapidly, and the last general thinks that the best time has come; We attacked the Xia army continuously for twelve hours a day, and the Xia army at this time was already at the end of the crossbow, and the last general asked for the final general attack on the Xia army tomorrow.
Chen Lin asked Emperor Zhao Xu of the Song Dynasty for his life.
"Okay, I'm ready," Zhao Xu said happily.
The next morning outside the north gate of Wuxi City, Li Qing, the king of Yan, personally sat in town, this time the Song army gathered all the troops outside the city, when Li Qing saw the main army of the Song army that could not be seen at a glance, he immediately realized that the situation was not good, Li Qing immediately issued a military order: "Call Zhou Hai to this king." ” After Zhou Hai came to Li Qing's side, Li Qing said to Zhou Hai: "Send someone to Huishan to inform Zhou Yang to prepare to evacuate." ” "Yes, the last general will do it here."
Zhou Hai said.
After Zhou Hai left, he sent someone to inform Zhou Yang and prepared for the evacuation of Wuxi City; Just when everything was about to be prepared, Li Qing sent a herald to give an order to Zhou Hai: "The prince's military order, take all the strong men to the city wall." ” Although Zhou Hai was a little strange, he still took the military order, and thousands of strong people and women were escorted to the city together, at this time the Song army was preparing for the next wave of attacks, Chen Lin saw the scene at the head of the city; Immediately reported to Emperor Zhao Xuyu of the Song Dynasty: "Your Majesty, a group of people wearing people's clothes suddenly appeared at the head of the city, and it seems that they are strong men and women who have been captured by the Xia army. ” "The herald ordered the army to suspend the attack, I want to talk to Li Qing, and you send someone to spread the word."
Zhao Xu said after a little thought.
The herald of the Xia army came to the city and shouted: "His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty wants to talk to His Royal Highness the King of Yan, please go out of the city for a while." ” Zhou Hai reminded Li Qing: "Don't go, this may be a trap for the Song army." ” Li Qing didn't return to Zhou Hai's words, but just said to Zhou Hai: "You take people to evacuate from the south gate immediately, and this king will meet him; After leaving the city, he immediately set fire to Wuxi City, and rest assured that this king will catch up with you when the time comes. ” "Lord Wang, how many people are you going to take with you?"
"Fifty elite riders are enough, hurry up and do it, it's too late."
"Yes, the last general will send someone to do it."
After Zhou Hai left, Li Qing led 50 elite cavalry from the West Gate to leave the North Gate battlefield, Li Qing led 50 elite cavalry to line up against the city, facing an army of nearly 500,000, none of the Xia soldiers were timid; After seeing Li Qing go out of the city to meet him, Emperor Zhao Xu of the Song Dynasty also rode to Li Qinggen, and both of them were far away from their own army, only a stone's throw away.
Emperor Zhao Xu of the Song Dynasty shouted to Li Qing: "His Royal Highness King Yan, now that the battlefield situation is clear, don't be fearless to resist, as long as you are willing to surrender to me, I guarantee that you will still enjoy the treatment of the prince, and I can also canonize you as the king of Xia, all under me alone." ” Li Qing pretended to be overjoyed when he heard this: "If my Emperor Song really thinks so, this king can also consider it, I don't know if there are conditions for this king to be this Xia king."
"I just need you to surrender, and I don't need any conditions."
"Since Emperor Xia has no conditions, there is a condition here for this king, please listen to Emperor Xia."
"If you have any conditions, you can agree to them as long as they are not too much."
Zhao Xu very much hoped that Li Qing could surrender to himself, so that he could not only increase his merits, but also greatly reduce the prestige of the Great Xia Kingdom, of course, Zhao Xu did this to delay time, and the two troops of the Song army had already outflanked Wuxi City.
"The king's condition is very simple, that is, Emperor Song wants to cede Jiangning Mansion to this king, and let Jiangning Mansion be the capital of this king, which is not too much."
"I'm afraid it won't work, but it's up to you whether it will fall or not today."
Just when Zhao Xu was talking, Li Qing suddenly took a bow and shot an arrow, and a wolf tooth poison arrow shot at Zhao Xu, the Song Emperor, Zhao Xu's skills were quite vigorous, when the wolf tooth arrow flew over, Zhao Xu just strangled his war horse, let the war horse jump on the spot, the wolf tooth arrow directly hit the horse's neck, if it was a little later, it was Zhao Xu who was hit.
A blow missed, Li Qing immediately turned the horse's head and ran, at the same time the Song army's several crossbows suddenly forced, several crossbow arrows flew towards Li Qing, but all missed, only two unlucky Xia army guards were directly ordered to the city wall, Li Qing led dozens of cavalry Xia cavalry to run, Zhao Xu sent people to pursue Li Qing, while ordering an attack on Wuxi City, at this time there was no Xia army in Wuxi City, in the Xia army evacuation plan put a fire to burn Wuxi City to the ground.
In this battle, the Song and Xia armies suffered heavy casualties, the Song army suffered more than 100,000 casualties, and the Xia army lost all the Japanese soldiers, and only more than 1,000 people escaped in the end, and the elite of the Xia army also lost tens of thousands of people.
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