Just when the Xia army entered the counteroffensive in the Western Regions, the Song army in the Central Plains launched an active attack on the Xia army again, and the main direction of its attack was the Xia army's Jiangbei camp outside Chuzhou, when the Song army attacked, Yan Wang Li Qing and others had not returned to the front line, although the front line was commanded by Yan Shu, but Yan Shu was a person after all, and it was very difficult to deal with the Song army's attack on all fronts, and bad news came one after another.
"Report, report, report Yan Shuai, the Song army has broken through from the left flank, and the defense line of our army's left flank has been completely destroyed by the Song army."
A general came in and reported to Yan Shuyu.
Yan Shu immediately gave a decisive order: "Pass the order, withdraw all the troops on the left flank to the main camp." ” "Yes, the last general commands" As soon as Yan Shu gave the military order, another general came in and reported: "Yan Shu, the right flank defense line has been defeated by the Song army, and it is currently retreating in the direction of the big camp. ” Yan Shu looked at the map and said: "Damn, the planter said that this is going to give Lao Tzu a left and right attack, who are the leading generals of the Song army?"
"Yu Yanshu, this time it is the seed master Dao Ye Zhang Miao who is in charge, and the forwards are Yue Fei and Han Shizhong."
Facing the attack of the two famous generals of the Great Song Dynasty, Yan Shu was still a little nervous, although the master Dao and Zhang Miao suffered many losses in the hands of the Xia army, but this does not mean that the two are straw bales, on the contrary, both of them are rare generals in the Great Song Dynasty who can take charge of themselves; It's just that the generals of the Xia army are too strong, so they seem to be relatively weak; If Yan Shu plays against one of them, Yan Shu can still do it, but facing two people at the same time, Yan Shu is a little numb.
However, at this time, Yan Shu had to make an absolute decision as soon as possible, because the longer he hesitated, the more unfavorable the situation would be for the Xia army, Yan Shu said to the general: "Immediately send an order to withdraw all the troops in the battalion to the battalion." ” "Yes, the last general ordered" General Xia took the military order and said: "Yan Shuai, you mean that we are going to retreat in the camp. ” "It's not about cowering in the camp, but waiting for the follow-up army to arrive, and it's a decisive battle with the Song army; When you go back, you must appease the soldiers.
Yan Shu was the Xia general and admonished.
"Yes, the last will obey" The Song army's left and right armies attacked very smoothly, the reason for the Xia army's mistake was mainly because the speed of the government order was too slow, resulting in a delay in the fighter, and when Yan Shu's military order arrived, the Song army was no longer in the original position, after all, it was impossible for the Song army to wait for the Xia army to attack.
In just one day, the Xia army, which was originally still an offensive posture, turned into a comprehensive defense, and the Xia army relied on the Jiangbei camp to establish a complete defense system, in order to prevent the artillery bombardment of the Song army, the Xia army dug a lot of anti-artillery holes in the camp, and at the same time transferred some materials to the ground, or strictly protected them.
In the city of Chuzhou, in the line of the Seed Master Road, all the senior generals of the Song army are here; The master said to everyone: "Generals, I think you all know that the Xia army has been surrounded by our army in the camp outside the city, but the overall situation is still not very optimistic for our army, this time our army was able to win mainly because of the internal strife in the Great Xia court, and several commanders of the Xia army have returned to Guanzhong; Today, Ben Shuai got the news that now the situation in the Great Xia court has stabilized, and Li Qing and others are on their way back to the front line, this time they also brought two or three hundred thousand troops, once their reinforcements arrive, the situation will be even more unfavorable to us, so we must wipe out all the Xia troops outside the city before the Xia reinforcements arrive. ” Zhang Miao frowned after hearing this and said: "Kind of marshal, the main force of the Xia army outside the city must have 200,000 troops, but they are all elite troops, and the Xia army's camp has a complete defense system, we may not be so easy to eat them in one go, unless" "Unless firearms are used extensively."
The seed master answered; "Zhang Shuai, don't worry, we have put hundreds of thousands of catties of gunpowder in Chuzhou City, these are all to be called to the head of the Xia army, the herald department will attack with heavy catapults tomorrow, this time we will also let the Xia army taste the taste of being bombed."
As far as the occupation of Huainan is concerned, the Song army has occupied the initiative on the battlefield, this attack is definitely a rare opportunity for the Song army, once missed it is a disaster for the entire Great Song Dynasty, so the entire Great Song Dynasty court gave great hope and support to this counteroffensive, although the Song Emperor Zhao Mao did not come to the front line in person, but the two places are only separated by a river, and Zhao Mao handed over all the elites of the Great Song Dynasty to the hands of the master and Zhang Miao, and the gunpowder is an unlimited supply.
At this time, the Song army gathered a million troops in Huainan with Chuzhou as the center, of which 800,000 troops surrounded the Jiangbei camp of the Xia army, and the remaining 200,000 troops were divided into east and west roads to guard the possible reinforcements of the Xia army, to say that the nearest reinforcements of the Xia army actually have one, that is, the Yuzhou army on the western front, the 100,000 army is currently stationed near Luzhou, and it will take a certain amount of time to reach the outside of Chuzhou, but this is already the nearest reinforcement of the Xia army, only more than 200 miles away.
Early in the morning, the heavy catapults of the Song army were in place one by one, and after seeing the catapults of the Song army, Yan Shu immediately realized that the situation was not good, so Yan Shu decisively ordered: "Order the firearms battalion, immediately counterattack and knock out all the catapults of the Song army, don't we have missiles to smash as many as we can, take advantage of the fact that the Song army does not realize it, otherwise it will be too late." ” "Yes, the last general commands" Just when the Song army was debugging, the Xia army, which had already marked the shooting of Zhuyuan, took the initiative to attack first, and tens of thousands of missiles flew in the direction of the Song army's main attack, these missiles were made by the Xia army in imitation of the Song army's missiles, although the power was not as good as the iron sheet, but the victory was in quantity, in the shortest possible time, three waves of missiles had already flown to the position of the Song army, and the counterattack that broke into the Song army caught the Song army by surprise.
"Report, report, report" A herald ran to the tower of the city gate and reported to the planter: "Marshal, our army was counterattacked by the Song army, and the heavy catapults lost seventy percent, and the forward army lost more than 30,000 people. ” "What, how is this possible, isn't the Xia army surrounded by us, how can there be such a large number of casualties," said the seed master with some horror.
"Marshal, our army was attacked by the Xia army's missiles, and tens of thousands of missiles were directly hit, so it caused such a large number of casualties."
The herald reported to the planter.
Seed Master Dao suddenly realized: "I see, but Xia Jun's counterattack like this can also organize this time, and order the front army to continue the attack, isn't it just a missile, we also have it?"
Under the command of the teacher, the Song army immediately attacked the Xia army with a retaliatory attack, the Song army's firepower density was much higher than that of the Xia army, and more than half of the entire Xia army's Jiangbei battalion was within the strike range of the Song army's missiles, but although the Song army's missiles blew up the Xia army's camp, they did not cause much damage to the Xia army, because the Song army had already hidden in the pre-dug anti-artillery hole; However, the loss of baggage is still very heavy.
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