MTL - Poor Family-v2 Chapter 956 The War of Destroying the Nation (10)

  Chapter 956 The Battle to Destroy the Nation (10)

  The news of the fall of Lingzhou and the disastrous defeat of the 40,000 defenders reached the Xingqing Mansion. Li Ganshun, the son of Xixia, passed out immediately.

Minister of the Ministry of War Yinggui persuaded: "Your Majesty, we still have a chance now. We still have hundreds of thousands of troops, all of whom are cavalry with strong combat effectiveness. We can still defeat the Song army. At this time, we must calm down and cheer up. , Your Majesty must not fall down."

Jiao Yanjian also said: "Shangshu Ying is right. We are far from reaching the end of the mountain. The failure of the regular army is only a part. Our real strength lies in the allied forces of various tribes. Back then we had 500,000 troops. Even if we only have 100,000 troops now Tens of thousands, but they are also the elites of the various tribes. When Xixia lives and dies, I believe everyone will abandon the previous suspicions and share the same hatred."

  Under everyone's persuasion, Li Qianshun's despair finally calmed down a little, and he asked again: "Is there any news from Jin Guo?"

  Everyone shook their heads, King Pu Li Renzong bowed and said: "I believe that the Kingdom of Jin is eager to conquer Mobei and has no time to take care of us. This is also the main reason why the Song army chose this time to attack Xixia."

   "I'm afraid Jin Guo was worried about helping us, so he gave Song Jun an excuse to tear up the agreement. Your Majesty, we can't count on Jin Bing. We can only rely on ourselves."

  Li Qianshun nodded and asked: "Ministers, who is more appropriate to lead the coalition forces?"

Everyone was silent, and then Jiao Yanjian came out and said: "Your Majesty, I still recommend King Jin. There are many internal conflicts in the coalition forces, such as the Tuoba Department and the Fine Seal Department, which have been opposed for hundreds of years. Non-tough generals cannot lead them. Only the authority of King Jin can restrain the tribal armies."

Li Qianshun remained silent. Brother Li Cha had already lost two battles in a row, Xiazhou had suffered a disastrous defeat, Lingzhou had suffered a disastrous defeat, Xixia had already lost 70,000 people, it was impossible for him to tolerate Brother Li Cha again and again, otherwise he would Unable to explain to the courtiers.

  Li Qianshun shook his head, "Although King Jin has experience, but his condition is not good recently, let's give the opportunity to others!"

Yinggui and Brother Li Cha have always been at odds because of their struggle for military power, and he also expressed his position: "Your Majesty is right, we won the battle of Datong Mansion first and then lost, and the battle between Xiazhou and Lingzhou is even more important." The loss is inexplicable, and I also think that King Jin is not suitable for commanding major battles, I am not saying that he is inexperienced, maybe it is just that he has had bad luck in the past few years!"

   "Who does Fang Shangshu think is more suitable?"

  Yinggui smiled slightly and said: "Jiao Shangshu also said just now that these hundreds of thousands of people are coalition forces, and they need a person recognized by all tribes. I think Wei Wang is a good candidate."

  Jiao Yanjian shook his head and said: "King Wei can't, he is not Li Yanqing's opponent!"

   "Hmph! Then King Jin is Li Yanqing's opponent? At least King Wei has never been defeated. How many times has King Jin been defeated by Li Yanqing?"

"The failure of King Jin is understandable. The first time was that he had too few troops. It was not surprising that he failed with 30,000 troops against 100,000 Song troops. The second time was to defend the city. It is said that the Song army used the powerful Zhentian Lei, in this situation, no matter who it is, it will be difficult for anyone to defend Lingzhou."

   "Jiao Shangshu's words are different!"

Yinggui retorted: "If you can't defend Lingzhou, it has nothing to do with Zhentianlei. The soldiers of the Song army don't have three heads and six arms, and they didn't use Zhentianlei to kill Xixia soldiers. Both sides are swords against swords, spears against spears. The result is that the Song army occupied Lingzhou, rather than the Xixia army driving the Song army out of Lingzhou? Is it because the Xixia army has insufficient troops?"

Yinggui's questioning was very sharp. The defeat of Lingzhou was not because the thunder blasted the city gate, but because the army of Lingzhou city was not prepared at night, and they rushed to fight after the Song army entered the city, and they were not good at night battles. In the end, there was an overall disastrous defeat, and only less than 2,000 of the tens of thousands of troops escaped back. Brother Li Cha did indeed bear an inescapable responsibility for the fall of Lingzhou.

Yinggui finally said decisively: "Jin Wang guarding Lingzhou is like sleepwalking. He didn't get out of the nightmare of Xiazhou's failure at all. He should take responsibility for this instead of handing over hundreds of thousands of people to him."

Yinggui's objection was unanimously supported by everyone, not because of one or two failures to deny Brother Li Cha, but because he was too out of shape, if a hundred thousand troops were handed over to him, they would still be as sleepwalking as if they were all lost. At that time, Xixia was about to destroy the country.

  Li Qianshun finally made up his mind. Since the armies of the various tribes were assembled by King Wei, King Wei should naturally be the commander.

He also knew that King Wei was a little weaker in leading troops, and he had no experience in combat. These two things are actually taboos for military strategists, but the only person who can currently integrate hundreds of thousands of troops, besides Brother Li Cha, is King Wei Li Zhizong Yes, as for making up for the lack of experience, the only way is to let some experienced generals follow him.

   It was a matter of the life and death of Xixia. Li Qianshun personally sacrificed the flag for this army, and awarded the tiger amulet to Wei Wang Li Zhizong in front of hundreds of thousands of troops.

  Li Zhizong immediately led an army of 150,000 to Jingzhou.

  The distance between Lingzhou and Jingzhou is about a hundred miles. After Li Yanqing captured Lingzhou, he didn't go north immediately. He knew that the opponent's army of 150,000 had already assembled, and he went up at this time, just in time to fight them head-on.

  Although many generals headed by Wang Gui thought that the Song army should take the initiative to attack the enemy army just before the 150,000 army had assembled and had not completed the coordination and unification.

However, Li Yanqing believes that the Xixia army has always been in a state of loose alliance, and this state will not change with the passage of time. Unless the party members directly annex other tribes, it is impossible for each tribe to maintain independence. will change.

  Similarly, the combat effectiveness of the Xixia army will not become weaker just because it has just assembled. They will still attack more. This is a tactic that the Song army has experienced for a hundred years.

  The Song army occupied Lingzhou, but the camp was still stationed in the south of Lingzhou.

This morning, Li Yanqing led a hundred soldiers to inspect the restoration of Lingzhou City. The Song army destroyed the south gate of Lingzhou City, and simply demolished all the north gates, and rebuilt them at the same time. Few, almost all of them were captured by the Song army in the last war and sent to the south. Later, after the party members were exchanged by Xixia for Song slaves, they were all arranged to enter Xingqing Mansion, making Lingzhou City almost a military city.

  Now that this big city has been occupied, the Song army must make full use of it, and Liu Tie will lead 30,000 troops to station in it, which will be able to restrain the party and coalition forces to a certain extent.

  Hundreds of craftsmen at the city gate are intensively repairing the city wall. They moved very quickly, and completed 70% of the project in just two days.

   "How long will it take to repair the city wall?" Li Yanqing asked a master craftsman.

   "Report to Master Economic Strategy Envoy, it can be repaired tonight, and everything will be finished before dawn."

  Li Yanqing nodded, "Thank you everyone!"

   "This is our job, and the strategy will make the adults praise you."

At this time, there was a rush of horseshoes from behind, and Li Yanqing turned around, only to see Wang Gui riding a horse with excitement on his face, Li Yanqing couldn't help laughing, he knew why Wang Gui came, but he couldn't think of the answer so quickly, right? !

  Last night, the generals were discussing military affairs. When talking about combat strategies, everyone quarreled. Li Yanqing asked everyone a question, how to use the opponent's weakness to defeat the enemy?

  Looking at this, Wang Gui has already found the answer.

   After a while, Wang Gui stepped forward with a face full of excitement, saluted and said, "I have thought of the answer!"

   "Tell me, what's the answer?"

  Wang Gui looked to both sides vigilantly, as if the wall had ears, Li Yanqing was amused by him, so he slapped him on the head and said with a smile: "Who will listen to your secrets, tell me!"

Wang Gui scratched his head and said with a smile: "The biggest weakness of the 150,000 cavalry is the supply of military rations. They can't eat dry food every day! They will definitely build a huge logistics supply line. I guess it will be the logistics supply center in Jingzhou. We can send The battlefield is a little farther away, and the opportunity is left to the Lingzhou defenders. As long as Jingzhou is captured, the enemy's logistics supplies will be cut off, and it is time for us to attack hard."

  Li Yanqing said with a smile: "If Jingzhou is really captured and the logistics supplies are lost, will the 150,000 troops return to Xingqing Mansion? Or starve to death on the spot?"

  Wang Gui was stunned for a moment, his face gradually faded with excitement, he thought that the plan that was foolproof was broken by the same sentence, which made Wang Gui really frustrated.

   "Isn't the weakness of the enemy army mentioned by the generals a problem of rations?"

  Li Yanqing said indifferently: "The ration problem is indeed the weakness of the Xixia army, but it is not the biggest weakness. We need to hit the vital point and seize their biggest weakness to make a fuss."

  Seeing that Wang Gui still looked blank, Li Yanqing smiled and said, "Let me remind you! The biggest weakness of this Xixia army is their composition."

  Wang Gui pondered for a moment and said, "Du Tong means that they are actually eight armies?"

  Li Yanqing nodded, "Exactly!"

   "But the Xixia Army has always been like this! It hasn't changed for more than a hundred years. They are all eight armies, and the Song Army has never discovered their weaknesses."

   "That's because the Song army over the years has never penetrated into the hinterland of Xixia like us."

  Wang Gui fell into deep thought again, Li Yanqing said: "Go back to the barracks! It's time to reveal the answer."

  (end of this chapter)