I will never be Renzong

Chapter 156
"Come on~"

"Kill it~"

Weizhou City was undergoing a brutal siege battle at the time.

Groups of Qiang soldiers braved the rain of arrows and climbed up ladders toward the city wall, which was more than ten meters high. However, when they were about to climb the city wall, they were killed by the Song army guarding the city wall with a knife.

Others were hit by a rolling log as soon as they climbed halfway up, and fell staggeringly. The lucky ones might just break an arm or thigh, and the unlucky ones died on the spot.

An extremely simple catapult has already been set up tens of meters away. Four or five Qiang men brought huge boulders one by one and loaded them into the catapult. Falling from the sky, some fell on the city wall, smashing a big hole in the city wall, and some fell on the top of the city. The Song army guarding the city was caught off guard by a huge boulder.

The defenders on the top of the city fell into panic for a while, while the Qiang soldiers who climbed the ladder took the opportunity to board the top of the city. Seeing that more and more Qiang soldiers were on the top of the city.

Zhang Kang personally led hundreds of soldiers to the top of the city, and started hand-to-hand combat with the Qiang people. With a shining steel knife in his hand, he chopped down a Qiang soldier and shouted: "All the soldiers follow me to kill!" !"

"Come on~"

Dozens of Qiang soldiers outside the city carried a huge round wooden stick, and then slammed into the city gate. Inside the city gate, there were also dozens of Song soldiers blocking the enemy again with their flesh and blood. Another attack.

After a fierce fight, Zhang Kang finally repelled the enemy army at the head of the city, and then a group of Song soldiers in the city carried a hot oil pan and poured it on the attacking Qiang people.

"Ahhh~"

Immediately, there was a sound of slaughtering pigs, and the wailing sounds of the Qiang soldiers being burned were everywhere, lying on the ground and rolling a few times, and then there was no movement.

This offensive and defensive battle has been going on for almost a month, and more than half of the more than [-] soldiers stationed by the Song Army have been killed or injured.

Previously, Li Deming only led [-] troops, including [-] cavalry and [-] infantry. In order to take Weizhou City, Li Deming recruited tens of thousands of Qiang people from Yaode City and Bole City to serve as cannon fodder.

"The catapult is ready!"

"put!"

Another round of boulders fell from the sky.

The fierce siege battle is still going on, just like a tug-of-war match with equal strength, whoever can persist until the end will win the final victory.

But the situation was extremely unfavorable for the Song army. During the month-long battle to defend the city, the arrows carried by the Song army had long been used up, and the rolling logs and stones were almost exhausted. What was even worse was that the army rations were no longer enough for three days. .

After the Song army repelled the Qiang army's attack again, Cao Wei climbed to the top of the city and looked at the crumbling city wall, and then took another look.

"General Li! Order Liu Qianhu of Suzaku Camp to prepare trebuchets!"

Cao Wei said to lieutenant Li Shibin.

"promise!"

Li Shibin hastily clasped his fists and left.

Outside the city gate, Li Deming planned to launch the last attack. If Weizhou could not be captured this time, he could only lead his army to retreat, so this time he took half of the [-] cavalry that had not been used to serve as infantry. Siege.

And hundreds of trebuchets in the city had already been prepared. Just when the Qiang people were about to launch an attack, fiery red iron balls suddenly appeared from the sky, and then smashed to the ground like huge boulders, and then "bang" one after another. When the explosion exploded, more than a dozen Qiang soldiers were blown to pieces, leaving only stumps and broken arms after the gunpowder smoke passed!
"What is this?"

"My God! This is the devil!"

The artillery shells came one after another, and the Qiang barracks had already exploded. Since the arrows of the Song army defending the city had been exhausted, the Qiang camp was less than 300 meters away from Weizhou, which happened to be in the trebuchet. within the shooting range.

"Good good!"

On the top of the city, watching the Qiang soldiers fleeing in embarrassment, Cao Wei danced happily.

Zhang Kang brought a thousand soldiers of the Suzaku Legion from Beijing. Apart from the common siege weapons, they carried enhanced gunpowder. Earlier, Zhao Zhen spent a lot of money to let Zeng Gongliang and others develop artillery, which finally took a year and a half. , The artillery was built, but it exploded without any accident.

Neither Zhao Zhen nor Shen Moran were engineering students, so they couldn't solve the problem of artillery manufacturing. Zeng Gongliang and others had to figure it out on their own. But unexpectedly, Zeng Gongliang invented a more powerful artillery shell, and then improved it. The thunderbolt gun originally owned by the Song Dynasty made it simpler and lighter, and it was equipped with wheels for easy transportation.

Zeng Gongliang did not use the Thunderbolt Cannon to attack Weizhou before, because the Thunderbolt Cannon was too lethal. Although Weizhou could be easily taken down, time did not allow him to repair Weizhou, so he has kept it until now, and intends to save it until the end , to give the enemy a fatal blow.

Hundreds of shells went down, and the Qiang people were so frightened that their butts drenched, and they ran around like frightened birds.

While Li Deming ordered the army to retreat, he ordered people to stop the fleeing Qiang soldiers, but at this moment, there was a deafening sound of horseshoes from behind, and even the ground began to shake.

Zhong Shiheng and Wang Kai finally arrived with [-] light cavalry.

Seeing the appearance of the Song Dynasty cavalry, Li Deming knew that Yuzhou and Xiazhou had probably fallen, so he immediately led the unused [-] elite Qiang cavalry to attack the Song Dynasty cavalry, intending to tear a hole and break out.

Zhong Shiheng immediately ordered [-] cavalry in the middle to launch an attack, and then [-] cavalry on the left and right sides to outflank.

The two cavalry collided violently, and then brandished the weapons in their hands to fight each other to the death. On the battlefield, you die or I die. No one will take it lightly. Whether it is Qiang cavalry or Song cavalry, there is only one target. It is to crush the enemy in front of you.

Cao Wei saw that the reinforcements had arrived, so he immediately ordered the city gates to be opened, and then all the defenders were sent out. The same kind of Shiheng was supposed to go out and surrounded and suppressed Li Deming.

Seeing this, many Qiang soldiers who were frightened by the thunderbolt cannon put down their weapons and surrendered to the Song army. On the other hand, Li Deming relied on the bravery of the Qiang cavalry and finally defeated the cavalry of the Song Dynasty in front of him. It's not the exit, but the [-] Song Dynasty cavalry who are eyeing it.

"Attack!"

Wang Kai gave an order to lead 3000 cavalry to attack Li Deming, but Li Deming had less than [-] cavalry at this time.

Wang Kai took the lead with a saber in his hand, killing all directions, and Li Deming was also a fierce man. After knocking down a cavalryman with a mace, he rushed straight towards Wang Kai.

It has to be said that the wire brought by the mace is big enough, if it is an ordinary weapon, it would have been broken long ago, but the knife in Wang Kai's hand is a fine steel knife made of thousands of years of tempering. It's not cutting iron like mud, but chopping off the enemy's head is also swift and ruthless.

Li Deming used all his strength to hit Wang Kai's head with a mace. Wang Kai leaned back and raised his saber to block Li Deming's fatal blow.

After that, the two fought for dozens of rounds, evenly matched, evenly matched.

But Li Deming was old after all, and the mace he used was too heavy, and he gradually became tired of coping with it. Wang Kai was only [-] years old, which was the age when Kong Wu was powerful and strong without desire. The knife is light and light, even if it lasts another [-] rounds of fighting, it will still be able to handle it with ease.

Li Deming knew that he couldn't drag it any longer, so he waved his mace with all his strength and greeted Wang Kai straight on the head of the horse that Wang Kai was sitting on.

Just as the war horse fell to the ground in response, Wang Kai kicked the horse's back suddenly, then jumped up high, raised his long knife and swung at Li Deming's neck fiercely.

When it fell to the ground, Li Deming's body was already in a different place.

Wang Kai picked up Li Deming's head, turned over and rode on Li Deming's horse, waved his head with one hand, and shouted loudly: "The traitor Li Deming has given his head."

Seeing this, many Qiang soldiers threw down their weapons and surrendered to the Song army, but some would rather die than surrender, and drew out their sabers and killed themselves.

On August 3, the fourth year of Tiansheng, the main force of the Qiang army was annihilated, and Li Deming was awarded the title.According to post-war statistics, in the battle around Weizhou, the Song army suffered a total of more than [-] casualties, annihilated more than [-] Qiang troops, and captured more than [-] people.

At the same time as the Weizhou War ended, the [-] heavy cavalry led by Di Qing faced the [-] cavalry led by Ye Liwangrong on the Sanchakou Plain, the main traffic road between Xiazhou and Youzhou.

Yeli Wangrong learned that the Song army was marching towards Lingzhou, so he led [-] cavalry to help Lingzhou, but he didn't want to meet this cavalry that shocked him halfway.

It was the first time for Yeli Wangrong to see this cavalryman, and he was very surprised, because this cavalry-packed warhorse was actually fully armed. You must know that even the iron kite formed by Li Yuanhao himself could not do this. Moreover, there are currently less than 3000 iron kites.

But the heavily armored cavalry of the Song Dynasty in front of them had tens of thousands of soldiers, and the weapons they held were different from the iron kites.

Seeing this, Yeli Wangrong immediately ordered 3000 forwards to launch a tentative attack on the Song Dynasty's heavy armored cavalry.

Seeing this, Di Qing hurriedly shouted: "The first battalion is ready!" "Charge!"

Three thousand heavy armored cavalry held their lances tightly, and then rushed towards the Qiang cavalry.

The ground kept shaking. The Qiang cavalry shouted and waved their weapons to attack the Song army. Unexpectedly, before the weapons in their hands fell on the Song army, their bodies were pierced by lances. Then it fell to the ground with inertia.

The heavy armored cavalry needs a huge impact. After a round of charge, the Qilin army lost only a few dozen people, while the Qiang people had already suffered thousands of casualties.

Yeli Wangrong knew that he could not win this battle. The Qiang cavalry, who were always good at fighting in the field, encountered an invincible enemy.

Seeing this, Nori Wangrong ordered the whole army to attack.

And Di Qing also ordered the entire Qilin army to attack.

After a round of charging, when Di Qing turned around, he found that Yeli Wangrong had already led the remaining cavalry to retreat.

Di Qing didn't order to pursue again, because it was impossible for the heavily armored cavalry to catch up with the fleeing Qiang cavalry due to the heavy load. After all, Di Qing was still too young.

But this battle also wiped out more than [-] Qiang cavalry, while the Qilin Army lost only a few hundred people.

On August 25th of the fourth year of Tiansheng, Yeli Wangrong led Wanqi back to Lingzhou. At that time, people in the city were panicked.

When Li Yuanhao was away, Li Deming's second son, Li Chengyu, was born to Ba Mi's family, and his third son, Li Chengwei, was born to Qu Huai's family, and began to fight for the throne. Li Yuanhao's biological mother, Wei Mu, insisted on waiting for Li Yuanhao to come back, because both Li Chengyu and Li Chengwei is a child.

Baa Mi and Ye Zang Qu Huai naturally disagreed, and they began to form cliques to attack each other. In the end, Ye Zang Qu Huai succeeded in winning over the general Ye Li Wang Rong with his wisdom and beauty, so Ye Li Wang With Rong's help, Qu Huai's family imprisoned Wei Mu's family and killed Ba Mi's family and Li Chengyu.

His son Li Chengwei succeeded King Xia, Yeli Wangrong served as Duke Protector, and Qu Huai's family was falsely named Queen Dowager.

After the Quhuai family in the wrong place took power, they sent people to Zhao Zhen to plead guilty, and on the other hand, they sent people to the Liao Kingdom to ask Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu to send troops to help Xia, or to negotiate peace.

The Song Dynasty dispatched a large army to attack Xia, and the Liao Kingdom had already received the news. But at that time, the Liao Kingdom was conquering the Ganzhou Uyghurs and going to Mongolia to implement the policy of reducing Ding. The trade treaty was strengthened, and potatoes from the Song Dynasty were also obtained, so that not many Khitan people in Liao Kingdom starved to death this year. If they help Xia Kingdom at this time, it will make people laugh.

So after discussion, it was decided not to send troops to rescue Xixia, but still sent envoys to persuade them to make peace. As for whether to listen or not, that is the Song Dynasty's own business.

On September 25th of the fourth year of Tiansheng, Wang Deyong and Ren Fu led [-] Song troops to surround Lingzhou City. Then Zhao Zhen, Di Qing, Wang Deyong and other troops came. In less than a month, Yinzhou, Dingzhou, etc. have been conquered one after another. Except Ganzhou and Suzhou are still in Li Yuanhao's hands, only Lingzhou City is left.

It is worth mentioning that Li Yuanhao had attacked Liangzhou at night before, and Zong Siluo was almost defeated. Fortunately, Zhong Shiheng's troops came and finally defeated Li Yuanhao and defended Liangzhou City.

There are 3 defenders in Lingzhou. If the people in the city are included, the number can reach more than [-]. Moreover, the walls of Lingzhou are tall and thick. If they attack by force, the Song army will pay a heavy price.

The more than 20 troops of the Song Dynasty have killed nearly 8 people since the beginning of the summer battle. Zhao Zhen didn't want to fight anymore, so he just besieged and didn't attack, but the delay was too long, and logistical supplies were always a big problem. problem, and this battle made Zhao Zhen realize that the time for the Song Dynasty to conquer the world has not yet come.

So in the end, Zhao Zhen accepted Xia's peace negotiation. Zhao Zhen canonized Li Chengwei as the king of Xia, and concealed Qu Huaishi as the queen regent. With Lingbo Mountain as the boundary, the west was returned to the fiefdom of Xia King Li Chengwei, mainly Liangzhou, Tablela Prefecture, Ganzhou, Suzhou.

But Ganzhou and Suzhou are in the hands of Li Yuanhao, so Li Chengwei's fiefdom is only two states.

The final result was that Xia Wang Li Chengwei paid 5 taels of silver to the Song Dynasty every year, and gave up Lingzhou. Only one third of the money in Lingzhou could be taken away. Originally, Zhao Zhen planned to keep all of it, but Zhao Zhen was afraid Li Chengwei couldn't stop Li Yuanhao's attack, so he left him some money.

So far, the Song Xia War is over.

Author: I don’t like war stories that are too watery. After all, this book is, to put it bluntly, centered on the emperor Zhao Zhen, so I hope you can forgive me.

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