This Northern Song Dynasty is a bit weird

Chapter 135 For
Although the Song Army did not attack the Xingqing Mansion, the reversal of offense and defense this time completely shattered the previous military intentions of the Xixia Army.

Go south before winter and hit the vicinity of Bianjing City. By then, the Yellow River will almost freeze, and the Xixia Army can threaten the capital of the Song Dynasty.

If there is a chance, Zhao Song will be destroyed.

But even if it can't be destroyed, it can be besieged and talk about 'business' with Zhao Song.

It is not normal for Zhao Song to spend some money to buy their stones, horns and turf back, mutual benefit.

Such a thing has not been done before.

It is a bit difficult for Xixia to eat Zhao Song completely, but it does not prevent them from thinking about digging a piece of fat from Zhao Song.

However... such a plan is now impossible.

The Song army was converging outside the pass, and Di Qing took the initiative to draw a small part of his troops, climbed over the hills from a low place in the northwest direction, and was planning to outflank after making a detour.

This move was carried out openly and aboveboard, without even hiding the truth from the Xixia army.

But the Xixia Army had no other choice.

The hilly terrain is relatively rough, and the cavalry can't use it. Sending infantry over... can't win at all.

It can be described like this, if we talk about the combat effectiveness of the cavalry, Xixia and Liao are Zhang Fei vs. Li Kui, and the Song army is Li Gui!

But when it comes to infantry combat effectiveness, Song Jun can shout: Who else!
This is also something that can't be helped. In most cases, the Song army was able to fight against Xixia and Liao cavalry with infantry, which was forced out.

When the cavalry could not participate in the battle, the Northern Song Dynasty actually had an overwhelming advantage over the Xixia infantry.

Just like now, the Xixia people clearly knew that the Song army was planning to jump over the hills, but they had no choice but to send a team of cavalry to defend on the other side of the hills, preventing the Song army from coming down at will and double-teaming their rear.

In the marshal's big tent, Wuzang Su'er's expression was extremely gloomy.

"Now, what solutions do you have to solve the problem in front of you?" Meizang Su'er glanced at all the generals in the tent, including those Song people's staff: "According to the secret report from the spies we placed in the Song camp, the supervising army this time It's Master Lu, who not only delegated power to Marshal Song Jun, but was even willing to put the responsibility on himself, which is quite like the heroic demeanor of Gao Guo, who I know. It's really rare for such a person to be among the people of Song Dynasty."

No one speaks.

Anyone who speaks at this time is offending the marshal.

After waiting for a while, seeing that no one was willing to speak out, Wuzang Su'er continued: "It can be seen now that it is very mana-consuming for Master Lu to activate those dozens of instruments of the Great Sun Immortal Technique at the same time, and the duration is not long. Long. But it only needs to be activated once, and the morale of our army will be greatly reduced. Everyone, you have a good idea."

"We can move according to the city wall. As long as we stick to the pass and don't let Master Lu's immortal method shine, we will be fine." Finally, a Song aide stood up and said with his head bowed: "If you want to come to Master Lu's immortal method, Although it can ignite the human body, there is still no way to crack the masonry.”

The pass where they are now has a thick wall, and the gate is also made of giant bluestone.

What's more, the height of the city wall is much higher than those dozens of well fences.

Under normal circumstances, as long as you stand behind the city wall, you are not afraid of being hit by that beam of light.

The premise is that Lu Sen will not increase the height of the curb.

At this time, Mu Guiying also asked the same question: "Lu Jianjun, you can raise those fourteen fairy objects a few feet higher, so that they can shine behind the Xixia city wall."

Lu Sen shook his head: "It can no longer be dialed higher."

No matter how high it is, it will be top-heavy, easy to collapse, and the weight will increase, and the chassis will easily become unstable.

Some friends will say, wouldn’t it be enough to increase the chassis and put a few more wheels?
But take into account that this is the Gobi Desert, not some smooth asphalt avenue.

The current well curb is already very heavy, increasing the height and enlarging the chassis...not to mention the problem of excessive pressure caused by the weight and the sinking of the well curb, this can indeed be solved by building more wheels.

However, the coefficient of friction when the curb moves has to be considered. The larger the chassis, the more wheels, the greater the friction, and the greater the 'pushing force' required.

The current well curb is already heavy enough, far slower than the marching speed of ordinary infantry, if it is heavier... it is almost impossible to move.

"That's a pity." Mu Guiying sighed.

Now she felt that with Lu Sen as his son-in-law, it was really fun to fight.

Don't grab credit, don't seize power, and help you take all the responsibilities away, you just need to rest assured to do things.

But Lu Sen said suddenly: "I can make some trebuchets."

"Oh?" Mu Guiying was overjoyed: "Such a siege weapon, isn't it a magic weapon of the Mohists? Lu Jianjun also understands?"

"I understand a little bit." Lu Sen chuckled and said, "But Marshal Mu has to find a way to cover it up for me. It will take two or three days."

Mu Guiying nodded vigorously: "No problem."

In the next three days, the Song army was not in a hurry to attack the city, so they practiced in the big camp, running and deforming formations and so on.

This is the Gobi Desert, which was originally a dry place. A large number of people and horses ran here, and immediately raised a large amount of yellow dust, wrapping the entire military camp in it.

People in the distance, even standing on a high place, could not see any movement in the Song Army camp.

At this time, Wuzang Su'er was standing on the top of the city wall, looking at the scene of flying sand and rocks in the Song Army's camp, she kept her eyebrows closed for a long time, and after a long time, there was a clear line between her eyebrows on the left and right. of tight knife wrinkles.

"What kind of mystery is the Song people pretending to be?"

Although he was followed by a large group of people, including the brave and the wise, none of them could answer his doubts now.

"I guess it must be caused by Master Lu's fairy art again?"

Wuzang Su'er felt more and more hopeless, he was really not afraid of ordinary people, whether it was Di Qing, Mu Guiying, or Zhejia generals.

Even if these people are stronger than themselves, there is something to follow.

But Lu Sen is different, this land god always uses some weird tricks, which have never appeared before, and have never been recorded in military books, making the battles weird and unpredictable, making it hard to guard against.

When he was thinking about this, the yellow dust in the Song Army seemed to have faded a lot. He frowned and looked at it for a while, and found that in the Song Army camp, there was a team coming out, walking slowly, escorting some strange equipment, and looking at him. Come here.

Those utensils were not as high as the well curb behind them, but they seemed to have a certain length. Counting them down, we found that there were seven of them, and at least 5 people surrounded them to protect them.

The uneasy feeling in my heart came again, and this time it was quite strong.

Wuzang Su'er already wanted to issue an order to withdraw troops, but thinking of the order from the Prime Minister, she could only hold back her uneasy thoughts.

It's just this hesitation, the Song army's moving formation stopped, and the opponent stationed on the spot about a mile or so away from the city wall, and set up refusal horses.

This is already the habit of the Song army. As soon as the march stops, they immediately set up a refusal horse to avoid being raided by Xixia rangers.

And when Song Jun stopped, the six utensils seemed to unfold in the distance, and then seemed to jump at the same time in the distance... Because it was a bit far away, it was hard to see what those utensils looked like.

And just when they were wondering, a black dot floated on each of the utensils, and after a few seconds, they heard the sound of a huge stone breaking through the air.

There was a whirring sound, a bit like the sound of clothes being swayed quickly.

But much bigger.

Wuzang Su'er and everyone in Xixia were attracted by the sound. They watched six black dots flying over quickly, and then quickly grew in size. Three of them passed over their own and landed on the camp behind the city wall.

Square boulders?
When they were so confused, they heard six loud bangs in a row.

The thick ground of the city wall was trembling, and it seemed that the contact point between the soles of the feet and the ground was also aching because of the trembling.

what happened?

Wuzang Su'er subconsciously looked back to the big camp behind the city wall, and saw three huge square boulders rolling for more than ten meters after falling to the ground. Wherever they passed, blood spattered and sprayed out, bringing out a bright red ribbon '.

Is this... a catapult?

Mu Zang Su'er looked back, and then saw a huge square body on the top of the city wall more than 20 meters away, 'embedded' into the top stack of the city wall, and formed several lines on the wall. crack.

He held the arrow stack and looked down again, and found that there were already two huge square stones embedded in the front of the city wall, one on the left and right sides of the gate.

Sure enough, it was a catapult, and it seemed to be the handwriting of Lu Zhenren again.

Wuzang Su'er slammed his hand heavily, he knew very well that this time the pass was about to fail again.

"Where did these rocks come from?" He just didn't understand where Lu Sen's square stones were made. It is impossible for the Gobi Desert to produce huge, hard rocks.

The temperature difference between day and night in the Gobi Desert is large, dry, and the air flows quickly. This means that everything on the Gobi Desert is rapidly weathered all the time.

Even hard things will become brittle and brittle after being exposed to the air for a period of time on the Gobi Desert.

Therefore, hard stones cannot be found on the Gobi Desert.

The rock mass here can only be regarded as relatively hard at best.

The bricks and stones used to build the city walls are all forged with fire and are highly resistant to weathering. Therefore, under normal circumstances, the city walls on the Gobi Sand Sea cannot be breached head-on.

But what did Wuzang Suer see now?
Huge, square rock masses were thrown from a distance.

Each square rock mass can easily smash a large piece of the city wall, or be firmly embedded in the city wall, tearing a network of cracks visible to the naked eye on the city wall arbitrarily.

"Damn it, it's definitely Lu Zhenren's method again." Wuzang Su'er shouted: "Send the order, continue to retreat, retreat to Hengduan Mountain, fifty miles away, and continue to station."

After speaking, Wuzang Su'er immediately got off the city wall, rode her horse, and quickly left the pass.

And during this process, from time to time, huge boulders would cut the ground from the air and land in front of him or behind him, smashing out clusters of blood.

At this time, the morale of the Xixia army dropped again, and anyone who was attacked in this way, but had no means of retaliation, would do so.

During the retreat of the army, everyone was terrified, because the terrain of the pass was a long and thin passage, so even if Wuzang Suer quickly gave the retreat order, the army could not withdraw in a short time.

And in the process, huge boulders roared and fell from the air from time to time.

When it fell, there was a beep, and a dozen or twenty people turned into meat, and after rolling for a few meters, another two or thirty people died.

Fortunately, the boulders that fell were all square boulders, and the rolling distance was not too far. If the boulders were round, the kind that could roll tens of meters on the ground would be a real disaster.

Fortunately, the Song army only had six trebuchets, and most of the stones were used to smash the city walls. Only occasionally one fell under the city wall due to a wrong ballistic calculation, killing a large number of Xixia soldiers.

But even so, the boulders that fell from time to time still became the nightmare of the Xixia army.

Everyone prayed that the boulder would not fall on their heads, including Wuzang Suer.

For the first time, he felt that his life was so fragile.

As long as there is a boulder without eyes, I will end up in the same end as those lowly soldiers, dead without a whole body.

But fortunately... Wuzang Su'er was lucky, he quickly got out of the giant's throwing range, and rushed towards Xingqing Mansion.

Thanks to his decisiveness, he escaped unharmed.

When Di Qing saw those parabolic boulders, he ordered to attack at all costs, endured a certain amount of battle damage, repelled the harassment of the previous cavalry, and rushed to the must-exit intersection of the pass.

No Zang Su'er ran fast. Not long after he escaped from the narrow passage, Di Qing rushed over with his elite infantry regiment and blocked the exit.

Still the same sentence, as long as no one commands blindly, the Song army is almost invincible in positional warfare, let alone the soldiers led by Di Qing.

At least 12 soldiers were blocked in the passage of the pass, unable to rush out, and the catapult in the rear quickly collapsed the city wall. Mu Guiying rushed up with the army, flanked Di Qing back and forth, and killed [-] enemies , Captured about [-] enemies.

If it is said that Lu Sen's Wanlun chariot with 20 soldiers had seriously injured the Xixia Kingdom.

Then this big victory directly stabbed Xixia again, directly stabbing the opponent into shock!
There are nearly [-] captives, not [-] pigs, and guarding them requires a lot of energy, so it is impossible for Mu Guiying and others to chase after the victory.

Soon, word of the big win spread.

Xi Xia naturally knew about this.

After the Liao Kingdom knew about it, they quickly hoarded 30 troops on the southern border to prevent the Zhong family from suddenly going crazy.

And the capital soon received the news of the big victory.

Zhao Zhen was as happy as a child in the court hall.

The previous enemy was about to move south, and the city of Bianjing felt that it was in jeopardy, but I didn't expect that now not only the enemy army was repelled, but also the vitality of the enemy army was almost wiped out.

"Your family should already know the specific situation. Now Marshal Mu is sending [-] captives to the capital. Which one of you wants to take some barbarian slaves to work, you have to inquire about the news." Zhao Zhen smiled. Very happy: "Last night, Marshal Mu's booklet was also handed over. In the booklet, she asked the family members of Zhongshu sect, should she continue to fight now, or should the class teacher retreat?"

At this time, a middle-aged official stood up and said: "Chen Qizuo, as the supervising army, Lu Zhenren, disregarding the orders issued by Zhongshu's sect, took the initiative to command Di Qing and others to launch an attack. It is suspected of disobeying the imperial court. Please send him Quickly recall him, and at the same time strip him of his Tianzhangge direct bachelor's degree, I dare to ask the officials to consider the above proposal."

(End of this chapter)