MTL - Poor Family-v2 Chapter 947 The War of Extermination (1)
Chapter 947 The Battle to Destroy the Nation (1)
The situation in the city of Xingqing Mansion suddenly became tense. Groups of soldiers were running on the street. Wei Ying opened the door and looked out for a moment, his face gradually became serious. Feel a little bad.
Running back quickly, he said to the old servant and a few guys: "You go, maybe the army is coming to seal up our shop."
Everyone panicked, "Then what about the shopkeeper?"
"I want to go too!"
Wei Ying ran back to the room to get a few envelopes of silver, and stuffed each of them, "Leave through the back door!"
The clerk and the old servant are all Han Chinese in Xingqing Mansion. It is not a big problem if they have a family here. They packed their things and left in a hurry through the back door.
Wei Ying burned a few letters in the room, put more than a hundred taels of silver in the cabinet into his arms, took a knife and left through the back door, but he did not go far, but sat Drinking in a restaurant diagonally opposite, watching the movement of Qi's firm from a distance.
There are only some samples in Qi's firm, and the delivery of money and goods is in other places. Wei Ying is mainly responsible for negotiating business and receiving orders in the firm. The reason why he is worried is because the firm has been raided several times. Now, King Liang has three members in the firm, and has deep interests with Da Song through Qi's firm, so of course he doesn't want anything to happen to the firm.
But on the other hand, if something happens to King Liang, the Qi Family Firm will definitely not be able to escape.
Just as Wei Ying was thinking, he saw a large group of soldiers rushing towards Qi's Commercial Firm in the distance. He was startled, and quickly lowered his head, covering his face with a large bowl filled with gunpowder, but staring at the group of soldiers.
Seeing the soldiers break open the gate of Qi's Commercial Firm and rush in, Wei Ying sighed in a low voice. Something must have happened to King Liang. He put a handful of money on the table, turned around and left quickly.
In fact, Wei Ying was a little worried. Brother Li Cha didn't have any evidence that King Liang was a spy of the Song Army. He just started thinking about big families because Xixia's financial constraints and military expenses were difficult. Liang Wang was the fattest son of Xixia A rich man and an outdated relative, at this time, don’t kill him or anyone. Qi’s firm was investigated only because King Liang had invested in it, and it was not only the Qi’s firm that was affected, but all shops and firms related to King Liang. All will be censored.
While Xingqing Mansion was in chaos, Brother Li Cha led an army of 40,000 troops to the south to support Weizhou and Xiazhou.
The army currently guarding Weizhou and Xiazhou is the slave soldiers of Xixia. The so-called slave soldiers, as the name suggests, are an army composed of slaves. Xixia has a large number of slave households, including salt slaves, mine slaves and lowly slaves. Most of them are Han Chinese. , there are also Qiang people and other ethnic minorities.
For the first time, these Han people were captured by their fathers and grandparents to Xixia and became slaves. The children of slaves are also slaves, but they were born in Xixia and grew up in Xixia. Their household registration is classified as slave households, and they are mainly engaged in dirty hard labor. Although they will not be killed at will, their social status is extremely low. They are only allowed to wear black clothes, are not allowed to be officials, are not allowed to do business, and are not allowed to marry other civilians. There are no social rights of any kind.
However, these slave households also have the opportunity to turn into normal civilian households, that is, to join the army. As long as they can make military achievements or sacrifice their lives for the country, their family members can become Xixia civilians.
Therefore, there is such an invisible slave army in the Xixia Army, the number of which is about 12,000. It is said that they are invisible because they are not in the establishment of the Xixia Army, they have no name, and each person has only a military number. The worst equipment, the worst rations, and the most difficult places to guard.
Although their status is humble, this army is very loyal to Xixia, and they are eager to make meritorious service, even eager to sacrifice their lives for the country. Their morale is high, so Brother Li Cha deployed them in the mountains on the border between Song and Xia.
At present, the 12,000 people are mainly distributed on the front line of Weizhou and Xiazhou. Weizhou is the western passage of Hengshan, on the front line of Shangyikou and Taguaizhai, and 6,000 troops have been deployed, and the other is deployed on the front line of Xiazhou. Including Xiazhou City and Bole City, two important military strongholds.
Originally there was another Yinzhou City in the northernmost part of Huxiao Gorge, but this city was destroyed in the war and was abandoned. The Xixia Army reinforced and expanded Bole City, making Bole City the first strong city in the east of Hengshan Mountain to the Xixia Army.
At this time, the Xixia Army is launching an attack on the Qinggangxia Army Village. This is the Xixia Army's emergency response. Seizing Qinggangxia can prevent the Song Army from going north to a certain extent and buy time for the deployment of Xixia troops.
Qinggang Gorge is a part of the Hengshan Grand Canyon and the northernmost section. It is about ten miles long. Half of the valley is filled with river water. The river bank is relatively narrow, but the terrain is very flat, which is conducive to the rapid passage of cavalry. When Xixia cut off the river, Qinggang Gorge Submerged by the river, the Song army came out from another Huxiao Gorge, but Huxiao Gorge was blocked by rocks in an earthquake three years ago and could no longer pass through. Now there is only one channel, Qinggang Gorge.
Qinggangxia Military Village is an important stronghold for guarding Qinggang Gorge. It was originally a platform on the mountainside, covering an area of tens of acres, and was rebuilt into a military village. The passage of the Gang Gorge poses a great threat, both in the north and the south.
In the morning, behind the Qinggangxia Military Village, the sound of shouting and killing was loud. A Xixia army of about 5,000 people was attacking Qinggang Village. The Song army built many fortifications on the mountain road, but they still couldn't stop the Xixia army's crazy attack.
Hundreds of Xixia soldiers held their shields high and crawled along the mountain road. A few dozen steps above them, the Song army built a defensive wall with sandbags, but the mountain road was narrow and could not accommodate too many people. Only thirty or so Song soldiers were defending Raise the crossbow behind the wall and shoot. This is the last defensive wall. If you take it down, the entrance to the military village will be right in front of you.
The soldiers of the Song army raised their crossbows and shot at the Xixia soldiers on the hillside. The arrows were so powerful that each arrow pierced the shield. The soldiers behind the shield screamed and were shot to death immediately.
But there were too many Xixia soldiers, and they were too many to kill. Soon they were less than 30 steps away from the defensive wall. Sa Jin, the governor of Xiazhou who was supervising the battle, shouted: "Kill me!"
'Woo—' The charge horn sounded.
Hundreds of soldiers climbed up, shouting and rushed towards the sandbag wall.
At this time, Wu Lin shouted: "Withdraw all!"
The bell rang, the soldiers of the Song army retreated one after another, the soldiers of Xixia rushed into the sandbag wall, and the last defense was broken by the soldiers of Xixia.
Wu Lin brought 3,000 reinforcements, and with the addition of the original 1,000 people, there would be 4,000 soldiers in the army village. He was not afraid of 5,000 Xixia soldiers with backward equipment.
It’s just that he wanted to use Zhentian Lei, but the Xixia soldiers were spread out and the lethality was not strong, so Wu Lin lured the Xixia soldiers up the mountain step by step.
Sa Jin, the governor of the Xixia Army, saw that he had captured the last line of defense. He was overjoyed and shouted sharply: "Go up the mountain and fight to the death with the Song army!"
Thousands of Xixia soldiers at the foot of the mountain immediately lined up and rushed up the mountain.
From the back mountain to the front mountain where the army stronghold is located, a passage must be dug out of a rock on the side. The passage is only six feet wide and about ten feet long. Dozens of Song soldiers are blocked at the other end, constantly shooting arrows towards the passage. .
Thousands of Xixia soldiers have gathered on the side of the passage near the back mountain. They are huddled together, waiting for the final impact. On the cliff passage, dozens of Xixia soldiers are holding large shields and advancing step by step.
At this moment, seven or eight giant thunderbolts used to explode the city suddenly rolled down from the heads of Xixia soldiers, and with white smoke, they rushed directly into the crowd at the back mountain. The soldiers reacted, and the Zhentianlei exploded violently in the crowd.
The mountain swayed, gravel flew, flesh and blood splattered, black smoke covered the sky, and the Song army who had been prepared for a long time lay on the ground with their ears covered.
After a long time, the gunpowder smoke gradually dissipated. Thirty or so Xixia soldiers on the corridor had disappeared. It is estimated that they fell down the cliff. Thousands of soldiers were blown to a **** mess, with stumps everywhere, and blood plasma dyed the entire mountain red. Now, many wounded and surviving soldiers were moaning in pain, the scene was extremely tragic.
Only the thousands of soldiers in the periphery were not affected by the thunder explosion. They had already been frightened out of their wits.
The governor Sa Jin, who had not yet gone up the mountain, was terrified. He also got on his horse and fled towards Bole City with his soldiers.
A big explosion killed more than 2,000 Xixia soldiers, and the morale of the Xixia army collapsed. That night, Wu Lin led 3,000 troops to attack Bole City at night, and he captured this fortified castle without any effort.
(end of this chapter)
