Chapter 257 Xiazhu Surrender
If you hear the drum on the battlefield, you will retreat if you hear gold.
Under normal circumstances, the drums with the rain suddenly stopped at this moment, but it heralded the beginning of the cruelest hand-to-hand combat.
Li Kui spread his feet and rushed to the front. After running a few steps, he suddenly threw away the shield in his hand, roared, waved the axe and rushed to the Xixia army first, followed by Liang Shan's foot soldiers behind him.
Xixia's pawn was not willing to show weakness. At the same time, he threw away the shield in his hand and raised his blade to meet the Liangshan soldiers.
The most tragic hand-to-hand battle finally began.
As soon as they came into contact, the gap between soldiers immediately appeared. Xixia soldiers are fierce and brave enough, but they don't know the importance of coordinated combat. On the other hand, although the bravery of Xixia soldiers is slightly insufficient, they have strong adaptability and coordination ability.
Often two or three people form a small formation together, which can make up for the physical shortcomings, and at the same time protect each other and kill the enemy unexpectedly.
And the most brave one is Li Kui, a pair of axes flying up and down, really next to death and death. Under his leadership, Liang Shan quickly broke through the first line of defense in Xixia and entered the Xixia array.
Yue Fei led a large army to stand in the rear to suppress Li Kui, and was also observing the combat effectiveness of Xixia soldiers. So far, the combat ability of Xixia soldiers is still in his expectation.
However, Li Kui's bravery is still a little beyond his expectation. After all, the two have not been in contact for a long time. In the past, they only heard how the black whirlwind was like. Today, at first sight, it really lives up to its reputation.
On the wall of Xingqing Mansion on the other side, Li Ren'ai is also watching the battle. The elite of Liang Shan's step by step was even more frightened him. It turned out that he had always thought Liang Shan's firearms were powerful, but he didn't expect the soldiers to be so brave.
If you see the 5,000-step soldiers sent to fight in the city, it is likely that all of them will be explained here. Their own people and horses can't stand the consumption now.
Li Renai immediately ordered the cavalry to attack and cover the infantry to retreat.
Yan Qing had been closely watching the movement of the Xixia army in the back. When the Xixia cavalry had just launched, he also led Liangshan iron cavalry to meet them.
A big melee killed corpses and blood flowed into a river. Finally, it ended with the golden sound of the commanders of both sides. The soldiers of the two sides were on guard against each other and slowly withdrew from the battle.
Neither side has invested too much troops in this war, and they are obviously preserving their strength for the subsequent war.
After Li Kui and others returned to the camp, Yue Fei praised him and wrote a tribute to him. Later, he asked Song Qing to reward him again.
After testing like this several times, Yue Fei changed his original idea and wanted to end the battle as soon as possible. After all, this is still someone else's territory. The longer it takes, the more unfavorable it is for him. At the same time, Huarong's people have also arrived.
Now that nearly 300,000 troops in Liangshan have besieged Xingqing Mansion. On Li Ren'ai's side, due to Li Qianjing's previous rebellion, it has consumed too much strength. The leaders of various tribes saw that he was at the end of the road and began to watch. So far, he has not looked forward to reinforcements.
Yue Fei personally led 300,000 troops to surround the city defended by 150,000 people. If he can't take it down, he will go home to grow vegetables without others.
On a dark and windy night, more than 100 artillery guns distributed around Xingqing Mansion quietly raised their heads. After signaling in the direction of the Chinese army battalion, fire was fired at the same time. Suddenly, the cannons sounded and shocked the world. The shells slid through the gorgeous arcs in the night sky, and then fell on the wall and exploded and bloomed in the barracks. It's a bit like fireworks during the Spring Festival, but this fireworks are life-threatening.
Yue Fei's previous play made Li Ren'ai almost forget that there were artillery in Liang Shan's army, and he didn't expect Yue Fei to choose to raid at night.
The main reason why Yue Fei chose to attack at night is that he did not want the soldiers to cause too much damage. Xixia's central bodyguards have never been dispatched, and the heavy armored cavalry did not appear.
Although Yue Fei was not afraid of the central guard army in Xixia on the front battlefield, the soldiers would inevitably be damaged after the war. Compared with the lives of Liangshan soldiers, the wall of Xingqing Prefecture is nothing.
The artillery lasted for more than an hour. Looking at the Xixia barracks, they have turned into a sea of fire, and the walls around the gate behind have also collapsed.
It is said that the power of gunpowder in the past was not so powerful at the beginning, and it is impossible to have such an effect if it is simply used with iron ball-like shells.
How to say that the wisdom of the ancients is infinite, Song Qing just gave Cheng Laosi a start, and there was almost no need for Song Qing to worry about the subsequent development.
Firearms such as artillery and mines are constantly updated, which is why such a result has been achieved.
After the war stopped, the long-standing Liangshan people and horses rushed from all directions like a tide to Xingqing City, which had been striped.
At this time, the remaining Xixia soldiers who had woken up also began to fight back bravely, and the most difficult street battle began.
Yue Fei had always wanted to destroy as many living forces as possible outside the city, in order to launch a street battle with different Xixia. But Li Ren'ai seems to have seen through Yue Fei's scheme, so she has never sent out the real main force.
Li Renai's idea is also very simple, that is, to drag the war into the severe winter. In this case, Yue Fei also had to start a full-scale attack.
Liangshan people and horses are twice as many as Xixia people and horses, but Xixia Sheng is familiar with the terrain and is a local battle. So from the beginning, the war was very tragic.
Liangshan soldiers will pay a heavy price for every time they occupy a street, but in general, the balance of victory is still biased towards Liangshan.
Yue Fei's Chinese army did not enter the city and continuously reported the war situation in the city.
War is cruel. At this time, there is no benevolence, so although the casualties in the city are rising, Yue Fei did not frown.
The tenacity of the Xixia garrison caused a lot of casualties to Liangshan soldiers, but because Liangshan soldiers have invaded the city, neither the central guard of Xixia nor the iron armored cavalry of Xixia can exert their power at all.
As the sky gradually brightened, the advantage of the Xixia defenders relying on the familiar lanes to stubbornly resist Liangshan people and horses gradually disappeared. Under the continuous reinforcements of Liangshan troops outside the city, the outer city was finally completely occupied by Liangshan people and horses.
Li Ren'ai led the remaining central bodyguards to defend the inner city and still resisted tenaciously.
In this fierce offensive battle, Yue Fei did not fully put his troops into it, and there were still tens of thousands of horses outside the city collecting the leaking fish.
I heard that Li Ren'ai was still relying on the palace to resist. Yue Fei, who was full of casualties, immediately mobilized artillery and limited Li Ren'ai's surrender, otherwise the jade would be burned.
Li Ren'ai was really afraid this time, but he did not immediately put down his weapon, but sent someone to negotiate with Yue Fei. He was willing to surrender and accept all conditions, but asked Yue Fei to withdraw first.
Li Ren'ai didn't want to escape, but he never thought that the city with more than 100,000 troops would be broken in such a period of time, so even if he wanted to run, it would be too late. What he wants to do now is to procrastinate as much as possible, and if possible, he also wants to discuss the conditions with Liang Shan.
The battle has come to this point. If you want to delay time by such a childish means, Yue Fei is really a fool.
Yue Fei has only one reply, that is, put down his weapon and surrender unconditionally, otherwise everything will be avoided.
At present, there is still sporadic resistance in the city, but it has nothing to do with the overall situation. While waiting for Li Ren'ai's news, Yue Fei ordered the soldiers not to disturb the people and not to slaughter the soldiers who laid down their weapons.
Then seal the treasury, press the prisoners out of the city, and scatter them. However, the mansions of officials have not been raided. After all, this place still needs to be governed by local officials in the future, so many of these officials still need to be retained after selection.
After all, people are still afraid of death. Li Renai can kill his father without hesitation, but he cherishes his body very much. After thinking about it, he still ordered people to raise a white flag and announce their surrender.
He knew that although his sister hated him to the bone, Song Qing would not kill him. After all, he was also the head of a country.
The surrender of Li Ren'ai marks the return of this separatist forces that have been in northwest China for more than 100 years.
From the battle of Hengshan to Li Ren'ai's declaration of surrender, nearly 50,000 Liangshan warriors buried their bones on this land. Among them, more than 30,000 Liangshan soldiers died in a street battle in Xingpingfu, which shows the tragedy of the war at that time.
Although Yue Fei's heart was very heavy, he did not make it difficult for Li Renai. He ordered him to clean up the soft packaging car, and then sent Yan Qing and Li Kui back to Luoyang. Along with him were Tuoli and his 5,000 cavalry, and Yue Fei himself continued to stay here to remove the remnants of Xixia.
Liangshan's information network was undoubtedly the most developed at that time. When Yanqing was still on the road, Luoyang had received the news that Xixia had been broken.
The good news came, and the whole city celebrated. Although Liang Shan's army was invincible under the leadership of the King of Liang, it obviously could not be compared with the destruction of a country. This is the achievement of territorial expansion!
Song Qing ordered people to pass on the whole news to the world, because this is no longer a blessing for him alone.
Some scholars knew that as early as the Han and Tang Dynasties, Xixia was an inseparable part of Middle-earth. Later, although it was forcibly cut off due to the weak national strength, it was still a part of Middle-earth in their hearts.
So when Song Qing began to write a crimon to fight against Xixia, he was unanimously supported by Jiangnan and Jiangbei Shilin.
In fact, in the hearts of many people, Song Qing is already the uncrowned emperor.
Because of the last battle to break through the capital, Song Qing did not reward Lin Chong and Han Shizhong, so this time he issued an order to reward them. Jin made Lin Chong the Duke of England, and Han Shizhong and Yue Fei were both cavalry generals. Of course, these are all false titles, belonging to the category of titles. When the war is over, or Song Qing goes further, they will continue to be rewarded.
In history, Yue Fei and Han Shizhong were very skilled, but at that time they had to suffer too many constraints, and their weapons were not as good as they are now, so now the victory is a matter of course.
In order to create a momentum for the Chinese people, Song Qing decided to hold a grand surrender ceremony in Luoyang to accept the surrender of Xia Zhu Li Ren'ai.
However, before Li Ren'ai arrived, Yanqing's wife, Li Xueer, came up first.