Although Li Qing took the initiative to give up Wuxi City, he also burned Wuxi City to ashes, in fact, Emperor Zhao Xu of the Song Dynasty got nothing but a piece of scorched earth; But this battle was of great significance to the Song army, because the Xia army was not invincible, and in the process of fighting with the Xia army, the Song army was also growing rapidly.
After Li Qing led the Xia army to evacuate from Wuxi City, he met with Zhou Hai and Zhou Yang in Wangting Town, and after the two armies met, Li Qing ordered to count the troops, and Li Qing only left less than 30,000 elite cavalry and more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers.
"Lord Wang, what should we do next" Zhou Yang asked Li Qing.
"Let's retreat to Suzhou for two days and then talk about it."
"Yes, then we will go down and arrange for tomorrow's withdrawal."
Li Qing nodded and did not speak, at this time, the retreat to Suzhou was about ten days earlier than Li Qing's plan, that is to say, Li Qing's original battle plan had failed, and he had to find another way to save the unfavorable battle situation, and Li Qing felt a lot in this battle with the Song army, and the Song army had gradually grown up in the battle, and the more difficult this battle became.
Zhao Xu, the Song Emperor who took Wuxi City, was naturally happy, but he was not too excited, Zhao Xu knew that this was just the beginning, the big battle was still to come, and Zhao Xu also learned that the Xia army had not suffered much damage, and the Xia army had lost just some servant troops.
"Chen Aiqing, according to your opinion, what should we do next?"
"Your Majesty, although Wuxi City has been broken by our army, the main force of the Xia army has not been injured, and now it is difficult to escape to Suzhou.
In Weichen's opinion, our army only needs to leave 150,000 troops in Suzhou to surround Suzhou, and then send the main army south to Hangzhou, after recovering all the lost territory, after turning back to attack Suzhou, this move will definitely be able to annihilate the main force of the Xia army in one fell swoop. ” "Then what if the Xia army doesn't defend Suzhou?"
"Then our army will continue to move south along the canal, gradually compressing the strategic space of the Xia army, and finally driving the Xia army into the sea, or annihilating it all."
Emperor Zhao Xu nodded and said, "How long will it take to regain Hangzhou and other places with such an army?"
” "It will take more than half a month at the earliest."
"It's been too long, can't we split up and attack?"
"Your Majesty, our army's combat strength is not as good as that of the Xia army's cavalry, and it is very likely that the Xia army will be broken by the Xia army as before, and it is safer for Weichen to concentrate his forces."
"Then let's do it safely."
After a day's rest, the 450,000 Song army began to continue to move south along the canal, and at the same time, the Song army's follow-up 200,000 reinforcements also set off from Changzhou to reinforce.
Besides, Li Qing immediately convened the generals to discuss countermeasures after retreating to Suzhou, but for the current crisis faced by the Xia army, none of the generals under Li Qing came up with a way, if the city was defended like Wuxi, Suzhou would sooner or later become the second Wuxi, and such guards would get nothing but waste troops in vain.
Li Qing sat on the handsome chair and said: "The main reason why we are facing the current predicament is because we want to drag down the pace of the Song army to the south, in this case, it is better for us to change our thinking, since the main force of the Song army is so strong, then why do we have to fight with him."
"What the prince means is to avoid the real and attack the false."
Zhou Hai said; "Drag down the Song army by attacking and harassing him."
"I'm afraid that the light attack will not be able to hold back the Song army, so it is better for us to play a big game."
Li Qing smiled weirdly.
Later, after Li Qing made some arrangements for Zhou Hai, he left Zhou Hai with 10,000 elite cavalry and more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers, and led nearly 20,000 elite cavalry and Zhou Yang to leave Suzhou City; Although Li Qing left, Li Qing's Daxu still remained in Suzhou City, that is, Li Qing left secretly, and after paying huge casualties, Li Qing decided not to fight with the Song army anymore; At noon on the fourth day after Li Qing led his army away, Emperor Zhao Xu of the Song Dynasty led the 45th army to the outside of Suzhou.
"Report, report, report Your Majesty, there is no one in the city gate of Suzhou."
A spy Pegasus came to Emperor Song to report.
"Your Majesty, this is likely to be a trap for the Xia army, and the Xia army wants to repeat the old trick, introduce our army into the city and set it on fire," Chen Lin said.
"What do you mean?"
"Weichen thinks that he should set up a big camp outside the city and not enter the city for the time being."
"That's too simple, the herald army is divided into two parts, the main army enters the city, and a part of the soldiers and horses are stationed outside the city to prevent the Xia army from sneaking up."
"Yes, Commandment" On the other side, Zhou Hai has already received the news; The adjutant general beside Zhou Hai said: "General, the Song army is guarded like an iron barrel on the periphery of Suzhou City, and our army can't get close to release rockets."
Zhou Hai smiled weirdly: "Who told you that you must release the rocket." ” "Then why are we spending so much trouble arranging in the city, isn't it in vain?"
"Who told you that you are busy in vain, and the good show is still to come, tell the brothers to hurry up and rest, and this general is going to give Emperor Song a big surprise tonight."
For a whole afternoon, Xia Jun did not make the slightest movement, and they all slept soundly, but in the middle of the night, Zhou Hai took Xia Jun and began to move; Under the leadership of Zhou Hai, the cavalry of the Xia army came to the Song army's camp outside Suzhou, not far away, where dozens of war drums were set up and then desperately knocked "dong, dong, dong" Song Jun's nerves were already very tight, and as soon as he heard the sound of war drums, he immediately gathered and assembled; Chen Lin came to Zhao Xu's residence and said, "Your Majesty, there is an enemy attack. ” "Order the whole army to be on alert, and not to go into battle lightly."
"Yes, the last general commands" The drums of war sounded all night, and the Song army was on high alert all night, but nothing happened; By the time it was almost dawn, the drums of war had disappeared, but the cavalry of the Xia army appeared in a group of less than 100 people to attack the Song army or the patrol detachment of the Song army; In this way, a day passed, and at the party, Xia Jun sent more than 100 people to beat the war drums, and most of them rested; The sound of the war drums of "knock, knock, knock" was so noisy that the Song army couldn't rest.
For five days in a row, the Xia army was so light that thunder and no rain made the Song army mentally exhausted, and their eyelids fought in broad daylight; On the night of the sixth day, the sound of war drums sounded again, but this time the 10,000 Xia army iron cavalry had already assembled in the dark night, and the Song army was already very familiar with the sound of war drums, and their vigilance was naturally relaxed a lot.
A Xia army pretending to be a night patrol of the Song army came to the Song army camp outside the city, and unknowingly killed the soldiers at the gate of the Song army camp, and then sent a signal to Zhou Hai behind; After seeing the signal, Zhou Hai knew that his treacherous plan had succeeded, and immediately led 10,000 iron cavalry into the camp of the Song army, and the unprepared Song army was taken by surprise, and the entire camp of the Song army was in chaos.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty's big thing is not good, the cavalry of the Xia Army attacked our big camp outside the city."
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