Zhang Miao led an army of 300,000 to surround the 100,000 Jizhou army led by Zhu Xu in the camp, but for the camp of the Xia army Zhang Miao only besieged but not attacked, Zhang Miao has a deep understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Xia army's iron cavalry, Zhang Miao is most worried now that the Xia army rushed out of his own camp, so he will send 300,000 troops to besiege the Xia army, and made sufficient preparations, after the Xia army was completely surrounded, Zhang Miao was not at ease, and launched an army of 100,000 to dig a very wide trench around the camp of the Xia army, This is winter, the soil is frozen and hard as stone, and it is very difficult to dig such a trench two zhang wide and one zhang deep.
"General, why are we digging a trench here?"
asked a Song general, puzzled.
"There are at least 100,000 iron cavalry in the Xia army in the city, although we have 300,000 soldiers, but we may not be able to defeat the 100,000 elite cavalry of the Xia army, digging deep trenches is to prevent the Xia army in the camp iron cavalry from rushing out, as far as the general knows, the Xia army has not much food and grass, only we can trap them for ten days and eight days, and the Xia army will starve to death."
"The general is wise, and the last general admires" "Another point, we are besieging the Xia army here, and the Xia army outside will definitely come to the rescue, and when the time comes, we will just give them a siege point to send reinforcements, and strive to annihilate the main force of the Xia army north of the Yellow River in one fell swoop."
Through Zhang Miao's words, it can be seen how big Zhang Miao's ambitions are, the Xia army has 700,000 troops in Hebei, and it is not easy to annihilate them in one fell swoop In the summer army camp in Majiazhuang Town.
Suddenly, two flying horses rushed to the place and shouted, "Report, report, report" Li Ke, the king of Changshan, who was in charge, frowned and said, "The sky is falling, what are you in a hurry, say it one by one." ” "Lord Wang, the Song army suddenly launched an attack on our Qingshui City, and now Qingshui City has been surrounded by 300,000 Song legions, please send troops to rescue as soon as possible."
"Zhao Yan is so bold that he dares to take the initiative," Li Ke said viciously.
"Lord Yu, the 400,000 Song troops who were originally besieged by our army in Julu City suddenly rushed out, and 300,000 of them surrounded our camp; Another 100,000 troops marched south to attack all over the country."
A series of actions of the Song army completely disrupted the plan of the Xia army, and the two most important strategic points were surrounded, which is not a joke, once the two places are lost, the Xia army will retreat, this retreat can mean a change in the war, and the Xia army, which originally had the advantage, is likely to be at a disadvantage.
After a little thought, Li Ke said: "Although our two front-line camps are surrounded, it doesn't matter, as long as these two places are still in our hands, the war is within our control; Now we still have 400,000 troops outside, including the 100,000 Bingzhou army of the old five and our 300,000 Jizhou army, of which 150,000 troops are responsible for garrisoning the ice road, and the other 150,000 troops are all here.
In this place, 50,000 troops are still left to garrison and carry grain and grass, and another 350,000 troops, led by General Zhao Ge, 100,000 troops and 100,000 state troops of Lao Wu marched west to relieve the siege of Julu, and the prince led 150,000 troops south to relieve the siege of Qingshui; There must be no mistake in the departure of the army; As for the grain and grass, the baggage will stay here for the time being, and it will be carried after the siege is lifted. ” "Yes, follow the orders of the prince" The speed of action of the Xia army is very fast, in just after the promulgation of the military order an hour after the Xia army sent troops, hundreds of thousands of Xia army iron cavalry divided into two torrents and went straight to the front line of the siege, not to mention that the Xia army stationed in the rest of the place was besieged by the Song army, immediately abandoned the city and left, although the city was lost, but the Xia army did not suffer too much loss, the 100,000 and state troops stationed in the four states of Xing, Xu, Ci and Xiang were led by An Qinggui and Liang Yongneng to fight in a roundabout way to the east.
In Julu City, the seed master Dao has already joined Zhang Miao, at this time the combined strength of the two armies has 600,000 troops, Zhang Miao, who has strong troops, decided to launch an attack on the Xia army surrounded outside the city, but at this time Zhao Yan's envoy arrived.
"The two generals, the prince's military order, ordered the two generals to abandon the grain and grass armaments carried by Julu and go south to Handan to redeploy the defense."
The envoy said to the two.
"Go south to Handan" Zhang Miao said puzzledly: "Now that I have 600,000 troops, why do I want to retreat, our army is in full swing and it is the best time to fight a decisive battle with the Xia army, and there will be no chance to miss this opportunity." ” The seed master said to Zhang Miao: "Virtuous nephew, Handan is closer to the Daimyo, so that our army can rebuild the northern defense line with its back to the Yellow River, and it is not too late to carry out the northern expedition after opening the grain route with the rear." ” Zhang Miao thought for a while and said: "In this way, you will lead a hundred thousand troops to escort the grain and grass armaments in the city to the south, and this general will personally lead the five hundred thousand troops to the palace, and strive to eat the 100,000 Xia troops outside the city before the Xia army reinforcements arrive." ” "Okay, then arrange it like this, nephew, when you evacuate, you must be careful of being chased and killed by the Xia army's iron cavalry."
Seed Master Dao told Zhang Miao to say.
"Rest assured" In the afternoon of the same day, Zhang Miao led an army of 500,000 out of the city, Zhu Xu still insisted on the camp and did not come out, but Zhu Xu prepared a big gift for the Song army, and all the equipment in the camp to prepare for the siege was used, mainly a large number of bed crossbows, catapults, earth-shaking thunder and fierce fire oil, which were originally used to prepare for the attack on Julu City, so you have a lot of reserves in the camp, and it has not come in handy, which is also the reason why Zhu Xu is reluctant to evacuate, once these things are evacuated, these things will be burned, which is a huge loss for the Xia army.
"Report, report, report to the general, the Song army has come to attack the camp."
A general came in to report.
Zhu Xu immediately left the big tent of the Chinese army and came to the camp gate, and when he looked at the Song army that could not be seen at a glance, Zhu Xu ordered: "Order all departments, this battle is mainly a long-range attack, as long as we can hold out for two days, our reinforcements will arrive." ” "Yes, General" On the other side, Zhang Miao ordered: "Order, the army will besiege from all sides, regardless of priority, whoever first enters the camp of the Xia army will be promoted to the third level and rewarded with a thousand taels of gold." ” The first attack Zhang Miao invested 200,000 troops, there were 50,000 troops on each side of the Xia army camp, and the 50,000 army launched the most fierce attack on the Xia army camp at the same time, such a way of playing Zhu Xu has never seen it, the reason why Zhang Miao dared to fight like this is because he occupies an absolute advantage in strength, and the two armies have a life-and-death struggle at the beginning, whether it is the Xia army or the Song army, they have tried their best.
In the face of the Xia army's dense arrow rain and fierce fire oil, earth-shattering thunder, the Song army's casualties rose rapidly, but Zhang Miao didn't care about these and still launched a fierce attack on the Xia army's camp, the Song army used wheel tactics to tire the Xia army defending the camp half to death, just half a day's effort, the Song army's high-intensity attack never stopped, the Song army paid huge casualties and also brought great casualties to the Xia army.
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