Chapter 62 The third quarter breaks Song Wulu

The two armies are at war, and the situation is changing rapidly.Because Gao Zunyu was busy dealing with Liu Changzuo, he missed the best opportunity to attack Lingzhou.If you want to attack Lingzhou City again, it will not be so easy... First of all, Xia Jun has already begun to return to defense. There are not only monks and veterans in the city, but also soldiers.Secondly, the Song army rushed forward on Qingqi, and did not bring enough food and grass, let alone siege equipment.The Song Army originally thought that as soon as our army entered the Xia territory, the main force of the Xia army would attack, and after the main force of the Xia army was wiped out in the field battle, they would go to attack the city and seize the territory.Unexpectedly, the main force of the Xia army could not be found, and all the gates of the city were wide open, and the welcome was warmly welcomed, all so that our army never attacked the city, and took over the territory without bloodshed.It was only when I got here that I realized that the city was about to be attacked, and there were no ladders.

How to attack?Uncle Gao Guo ordered to cut down the trees around Lingzhou and make them into ladders to attack the city.The soldiers scouted around and told Uncle Guo that the surrounding trees might not be as thick as our arms. You should go and have a look. This place is close to the desert, and the water source is scarce, and the trees will not grow tall, and it is useless to cut them down.These trees are not to mention soldiers climbing up, and five-year-old children will break when they step on them. What do you think?Uncle Gao Guo was also helpless.Since there is no siege equipment, let's persuade you to surrender.There were not many people in the city, and maybe they surrendered after shouting a few times.So Uncle Gao Guo sent people to the bottom of the city to shout, "Where the king's teacher is coming, how dare you resist and surrender?"Look at our hundreds of thousands of troops, there are only so few people in your city, do you still want to resist?The people in the city are interesting. An old monk came up with a kind face and kind eyes, with a fairy demeanor.The monk first shouted Amitabha, and then said that I am from the Xia Kingdom, I did not betray the Song Dynasty, and I did not fight with you, you came to beat me, old monk, I did not attack you, did I?I didn't rebel, and I didn't fight you, why should I surrender?Amitabha.After Song Jun heard it, he couldn't laugh or cry.

Liu Changzuo and Gao Zunyu were helpless.Uncle Gao Guo saw that since felling the trees would not work, let the soldiers go out and carry the soil. There are more than 100,000 troops, no matter they used to be infantry or cavalry, but now they are all working as engineers, carrying soil and building walls. When one side of the state wall is high, we can launch an attack.So the soldiers of the Song Army dismounted one after another, put down all their swords, guns and armor, and went to build walls with earth on their backs.The problem is that there are no tools to build a wall. The soil must be compacted to build a wall. How can you tamp the soil without piles?After eighteen days of tossing like this, the army was trapped under the city of Lingzhou.When the Empress Dowager Liang asked for advice at the imperial military meeting, the veteran suggested hoarding soldiers in Lingzhou and Xiazhou to prepare for a counterattack. The Empress Dowager Liang dispatched troops according to this plan.Seeing the Song army building the wall, Empress Dowager Liang ordered the excavation of the Qixing Canal of the Yellow River to replace soldiers with water.The flood roared and rushed towards Song Jun. Song Jun was not mentally prepared, and the earth wall collapsed immediately when the river rushed over it.There were more than 100,000 troops in the two armies, and in the end there were only more than 13,000 people left.Some soldiers of the Song Army fled to Lingzhou City in order to hide from the water.Please open the gates of the city, I want to surrender, I am the one who advised you to surrender just now, and now I have surrendered, I will prove my mistake with practical actions.

Gao Zunyu hit the horse and ran away, I am the emperor's uncle, I can't die!He told Liu Changzuo, you have been dismissed from office, and you have made meritorious service, so you should be the queen.Liu Changzuo retreated while fighting, with heavy casualties. He retreated to Weizhou, Shaanxi, before he gained a firm foothold. The two armies were considered a complete failure.Li Xian's road has already been defeated.The kind of army marched to Xiazhou, and the army food supply was not enough, and the three armies had no food, so they couldn't cry.The soldiers were so hungry that they lay on the ground and cried, and raised the recruiting flag, so that there would be people to eat.You raise the flag, I eat food, it’s a matter of course, if you don’t give me food now, why should I play my life for you?Coupled with the blizzard, there were more than 90,000 people with 30,000 left, and they were unable to fight any more, so they had to retreat in embarrassment.When Wang Zhongzheng and Grandpa Wang saw it, all four roads had collapsed, and I was the only one left?Well, let's not say anything else, let's withdraw our troops, and we will withdraw.