Chapter 354: Disrupting the Supply Road

The 70,000-strong Song army, plus the 70,000-strong Xixia Li Yuanhao's 70,000-strong party, advanced like a hot knife through butter, and attacked the Liao Kingdom's Shangjing City with an invincible force.

This was due to the Song army's strong combat capability, and also because the Liao Kingdom had already shrunk its defenses and mobilized troops from all over the country to Shangjing City, preparing to concentrate its forces to fight a decisive battle with the Song army.

When the army arrived at the city of Shangjing, the Regent Zhao Defang gave the order confidently: "Yang Yanzhao surround the east gate, Cao Wei surround the west gate, Gao Yingxiong and Li Yuanhao, you two follow me to attack the south gate."

Li Yuanhao asked in confusion: "My lord, why don't we surround the north gate?"

The Regent Zhao Defang smiled faintly and said: "This is called the tactic of besieging three sides and attacking one. If we surround the enemy on all four sides, the hundreds of thousands of enemy troops in the city will not be able to escape. If there is a way to survive, they will fight desperately. But if we leave this way for them, the enemy will think about this way while fighting, and their will to fight to the death will not be so strong.

Our army's fierce attack will severely damage the enemy, and the enemy's internal morale will be weakened, and some people will think about escaping as soon as possible. When the enemy escapes from the way to survive that the king has left for them, it will be much easier to chase and kill the fleeing enemy than to attack the stubborn enemy defending the city. "

"Your Majesty is wise! You are extremely wise and worthy of being a generation of war god!" Li Yuanhao complimented with full conviction.

Riding on his precious horse covered with dark clouds and snow, the Regent Prince Zhao Defang could not help but curl up a smug smile at the corner of his lips. [The wonderful tactics and battle examples taught by the princess, I am a good student who studies them with my heart and brain, and applies them flexibly.]

Yelu Xiezhen led an army of 160,000 and vowed to defend the city to the death and keep the Song army out of the city. The city had sufficient troops and the warehouses were full of supplies and food. His goal was to fight the city defense for three months and drag down the logistics support line of the Song army deep in the hinterland. When the Song army had no choice but to withdraw, he could take the opportunity to counterattack and chase the enemy, and win a tragic victory from defeat.

When the Song army formed a siege formation, Marshal Yelu Xiezhen angrily cursed, "The cunning Regent Zhao Defang actually left a gap in the north gate. He is so insidious and cunning!" Empress Dowager Xiao

, who was dressed in military uniform and went up to the city to watch the enemy, sighed silently, "Song's Regent Zhao Defang is a military genius that is rare in a thousand years. His reputation as a god of war is not false."

At this moment, Marshal Yelu Xiezhen's confidence that he could defend the city to the death for three months and defeat the enemy and win the battle had disappeared in an instant.

Regent Zhao Defang left a way out, and the hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the city lost their faith in fighting the enemy to the death. How could he, the great marshal, hold on to the city even if he wanted to? ...

A black figure quietly appeared beside Yelu Xiezhen, and a cold voice sounded like it came back from hell: "Queen Mother, Marshal, Cheng is willing to lead a group of elite light-armored cavalry to harass and cut off the supply route of the Song army."

Yelu Xiezhen looked back at the black-clothed man who asked for the order, and saw that his gloomy eyes were staring at the marshal's flag in the distance under the city, emitting a cold and vicious light of revenge.

Yelu Xiezhen was moved and smiled, "Mr. Cheng is loyal, I will give you 10,000 elite light cavalry and send you to the rear of the Song army to disrupt the enemy's supply routes for military supplies." Cheng Wuya

bowed and saluted, "I will not let you down, Marshal!"

Yelu Xiezhen and Empress Dowager Xiao looked at each other and smiled knowingly. There are heroes among the Han people who are willing to sacrifice their lives to save the country for the rise and fall of the nation, and there are also many traitors who sell out the country for their own selfish interests. In the past few years, Cheng

Wuya has been hiding here and there with a dozen of his men like a dozen mice. After fleeing to Liao, he finally found his senior brother Han Bei who was hiding in the mountains, but he persuaded him not to come out of the mountains to assassinate Regent Zhao Defang and avenge his master.

Cheng Wuya wandered around Liao helplessly for a while and found Han Bei's cousin Han Derang who was a senior official in the Liao court. With Han Derang's recommendation, Empress Dowager Xiao gave him a third-rank vacant position, which was considered a firm foothold in Liao.

Cheng Wuya's jealousy and hatred for Regent Zhao Defang never disappeared, and killing Zhao Defang became his obsession. Even if he couldn't kill him, he would fight against Zhao Defang in this life!

The Song army did not launch a siege when they first arrived at the city. In the middle of the night, Cheng Wuya and a dozen of his trusted subordinates led 10,000 elite Liao light-armored cavalry and quietly left the north gate.

Yun Yi and six shadow guards were lying on a hilltop, watching the shadowy shadows pouring out of the city gate under the faint moonlight, counting the numbers in his heart.

Yun Yi smiled. The prince had no plans and specially sent our shadow guards, a high-level scout team, to monitor the movements of the Liao army at the remaining north gate. Sure enough, there was a fish to be caught. He looked at his brothers, "About 10,000 people, all of them are elite light-armored cavalrymen. Mo Zhen and Mo Shan, you two go and report to the prince."

Mo Zhen and Mo Shan obeyed the order, stood up and flew away with their Qinggong skills.

The next day, the Regent King Zhao Defang ordered Li Yuanhao to lead 30,000 Dangxiang soldiers to take the lead in the attack, and the Song army pressed forward.

Li Yuanhao had no complaints about this. The surrendered army didn't need you to fight hard in the front and feed you for nothing? Since ancient times, this has been the fate of the surrendered army. However, it is still a blessing to surrender to His Royal Highness the Regent King of Song. With the magical and powerful weapons of the Song army as the vanguard, these warriors in charge of the siege were like picking up leaks to pick up military merits, which was really what they wanted.

Li Yuanhao confidently led 30,000 infantrymen to form a siege formation under the city wall. When he saw the 40 cannons covered with red cloth and hundreds of catapults pushed out by the Song army, his lips curled up and he was eager to fight.

When the shells of the 40 cannons and the thunder bombs fired by hundreds of catapults of the Song army rumbled on the city wall, in the smoke, the belief of Marshal Yelu Xiezhen who had defended Shangjing City for three months collapsed in an instant!

Seeing the blood and flesh flying everywhere amid the rumbling thunder and the smoke, Yelu Xiezhen felt as if being rubbed by a big hand, but he could only hold on to the determination to fight to the death and calmly issue military orders. The

steel knives in the hands of the supervisory team were slashed with blood, and finally they held the position. Teams of reserve troops were called up from under the city wall, and bloody bodies were thrown down the city wall. Marshal Yelu Xiezhen could only use human lives to fill the city defense.

Li Yuanhao commanded his soldiers to charge with siege ladders three times, but they were all resisted by the defenders on the city wall. After the siege troops suffered three to four thousand casualties, the regent Zhao Defang ordered the Mingjin army to withdraw, and the first day of the siege ended.

Marshal Yelu Xiezhen stood on the wall where blood flowed like a river, corpses and rubble were scattered all over the ground, and the smell of smoke and blood filled the air, and he shuddered in his heart!

The siege should have been a great advantage in terms of casualties, especially in Shangjing City, which had high walls and abundant troops. The Song army should have paid five or ten times the price.

However, this should have happened, but because of the magical weapons in the hands of Zhao Defang, the regent of the Song Dynasty, the operation trajectory of the law of war was changed.

The Song army's siege troops only suffered 3,000 to 4,000 casualties, and the wounded soldiers were rescued by the Song army at all costs. The wounded soldiers with a very high mortality rate were also treated as treasures.

However, the Liao army defending the city suffered more than 13,000 casualties. I wonder how many of the wounded soldiers can survive?

This kind of battle cannot be fought even if a great immortal comes to command!

Cheng Wuya, I hope you can make a contribution by attacking and cutting off the Song army's food supply. I will lead the soldiers to fight to the death for a few days, and wait for the Song army to retreat after the food supply is cut off!

Cheng Wuya led a 10,000-man lightly armored cavalry and went around to the rear of the Song army to attack and cut off the food supply. At dusk, the army hid in a valley to rest.

"Sir, a Song army team transporting food and supplies appeared on the official road thirty miles away. There are more than 600 carriages full of supplies, and 3,000 Song soldiers escorting the supplies." The

scout captain jumped off his horse and knelt on one knee, reporting the military situation to the commander Cheng Wuya with excitement.

"Great! Zhao Defang, a wise man will make mistakes. Even if you are as cunning as a fox, there will be a time when Cheng will catch you.

Send out troops! Kill this Song army and burn their food and supplies!"