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Chapter 45 New Weapons

Unlike the Song army who retreated to the camp with a dejected head, the Iron Harrier Army withdrew from the battlefield in a celebratory atmosphere and returned to the Xixia army camp twenty miles north. After receiving the news of the Iron Harrier Army's triumphant success, Wei Mingchage, the commander of the Xixia army, also quickly dispatched an ordinary cavalry to come to the camp near the camp of Wang Dehou, the Song army's troops, to respond and cover the Iron Harrier Army whose physical strength was declining.

The facts proved that Wei Mingcha Ge's arrangement was completely unnecessary. Seeing the Tieyao Scouts returning and passing by his camp, the troops of Wang Dehou of the Song army not only dispatched troops and soldiers to intercept and harass him, but also immediately increased the camp's vigilance. He watched the Tieyao Scouts head north from their camp and proudly met with the Xixia cavalry who were coming to pick him up.

Then, after successfully returning to the camp, Wei Ming Dingdong, the current chief general of the Tiejiao Army and the clan of the Western Xia Dynasty, of course, came to Wei Ming Cha Ge to respond at the first time, and reported with great pride: "Report to the King of Jin, the last general was ordered to go south to rescue Zangdihe City, successfully defeated three and a half phalanxes of the Song people's light infantry formation, and broke down two positions of the Song people's crossbow team, assisted our Zangdihe City defenders to burn all the Song people's siege equipment and beheaded countless people. They lost only twenty-nine people and twenty-two war horses, but they brought all the people and horse armor back, and they were all lost!"

"General Wei Ming asked him up quickly, you did a pretty job!" Wei Ming Cha Ge praised him vigorously, and quickly ordered: "Hurry, immediately replenish General Wei Ming's lost troops and war horses. You must choose the most elite cavalry, the best war horses, and the best weapons and equipment."

The deputy next to him agreed and immediately ran down and arranged for the Tieyao Scouts to replenish the troops and war horses. Wei Ming Dingdong also stood up and stood up. Then Wei Mingcha Ge first asked someone to arrange a seat for his cousin, and then asked: "How powerful are the Song people?"

"As the same waste as before, the cavalry dare not rush, the infantry dare not move, and they will always form formations to defend the dead." Wei Ming Dingdong said proudly: "But it is still useless. We are still rushing one by one, and no square formation can stop us for a moment."

"It's still as underestimating the enemy as before." Wei Mingcha Ge smiled and complained, and said with a smile: "But I still have some progress. I heard that you are rushing south this time, and you no longer rush to the front as you did before. You also specifically rush to the heavy infantry of the Song people. You chose to rush from the northeast to the southwest, and then from the northwest to the southeast, and specifically rush to the weak positions of the Song people. You did a beautiful job, avoiding strong attacks and taking advantage of the situation. This is the right way for military strategists."

"The main reason is that there are no infantry and light infantry to keep up." Wei Ming Dingdong, who received the praise, was even more proud and said: "If our infantry and light cavalry can help today, the last general will definitely choose to rush to the front, directly defeat the heavy infantry of the Song people in the front, and then directly attack the Song people's flag formation, cut off the head of Liu Zhongwu and offer it to King Jin to make a chamber pot."

Brother Wei Mingcha laughed and said, "I have a good idea. I believe you can do it. Unfortunately, the opportunity is not yet mature. If you want to cut off Liu Zhongwu's head and make a chamber pot for me, you must first pull out Wang Dehou's nail and open up our way to advance."

"So you have to remember." Wei Mingcha Ge added: "If you perform such a task next time, you must choose the charge route as carefully as today. You must avoid the enemy's attack on the weak position of the Song people, and attack the weak position of the Song people. If you disrupt the Song people's battle formation, you will leave. Only in this way can you delay the progress of the Song people's siege and help us pull out Wang Dehou's nail to gain time."

Wei Ming Dingdong quickly agreed, patted his chest and promised to remember Wei Ming Cha's advice. Then he asked curiously: "King of Jin, do you think that the Song Manzi Liu Zhongwu will attack Zangdihe City desperately?"

"I don't know, but it doesn't matter. No matter how he chooses, I have a way to deal with him."

Wei Mingcha Ge smiled confidently and said proudly: "The tactical choice of the Song people was originally very correct. Let Wang Dehou set up a camp in charge and block our main brigade from going south to rescue Zangdihe City. Liu Zhongwu was responsible for Zangdihe City, taking down the city to eliminate hidden dangers, and then heading north to join forces with Wang Dehou to deal with us. But Liu Zhongwu must have never dreamed that we had this trick. Our main force took action to cover Iron Harrier, and Iron Harrier was responsible for rescue Zangdihe City, disrupting their siege plan, and forcing him into a passive dilemma."

Wei Ming Dingdong nodded vigorously and said, "King Jin Miao Ce, if you don't pull out the nail in Zangdihe City, the barbarian Liu Zhongwu is really in a dilemma, like a thorn in his throat. But King Jin, what should we do next?"

"While making every effort to build attack weapons, prepare to attack Wang Dehou's camp, and act according to the opportunity and take action later." Wei Mingcha Ge sneered: "The Song people have only three choices next. The first is to let Wang Dehou retreat south to meet Liu Zhongwu. If they do this, we will take advantage of the opportunity of the Song people giving up the strong camp to pursue them with all their might, kill Wang Dehou on the south road, and then calmly deal with Liu Zhongwu."

"The second choice of the Song people is to let Liu Zhongwu venture north and join forces with Wang Dehou to fight us with us." Wei Mingcha Ge said again: "If the Song people do this, I will choose to avoid the enemy's edge and stick to the camp to avoid the decisive battle. While confronting the Song people, the defenders of Zangdihe City made a fuss behind the Song people. When the time is right, the morale and fighting spirit of the Song people are exhausted. If we send troops to fight again, we will surely win a great victory!"

"King of Jin, what is the third choice of the Song people?" Wei Ming Dingdong asked curiously.

"Continue to attack Zangdihe City with all its strength, resolutely pull out this nail, and then advance to fight us." Wei Mingcha Ge said: "If the Song people really do this, then you will be under great pressure. Our scouts sent us a report. The Song people used a strange siege weapon in this siege, which poses a great threat to the walls of our Zangdihe City. Therefore, every time the Song people launched a large-scale siege, you must lead the Iron Harrier to attack south to help our defenders destroy the siege weapons of the Song people and buy time for our main force to attack and capture Wang Dehou's camp."

"The Song people would better choose to continue to attack Zangdihe City!" Wei Ming Dingdong said proudly: "This time I was entangled by the heavy infantry of the Song people for a while, but I didn't make me feel satisfied. Next time I will definitely kill the light infantry crossbowman of the Song people so much that the corpse is piled up like a mountain and blood flows into a river!"

"From my perspective, I hope the Song people will make the first choice and make Wang Dehou give up the camp and go south." Wei Mingcha Ge smiled and said, "But it doesn't matter. The Song people's tactical intentions have been completely seen through. No matter what choice they make, victory must belong to our Daxia army!"

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The military genius Wei Mingcha Ge did expect to have all the choices of the Song army. On the night after the failure of the siege, Liu Zhongwu racked his brains in his tent based on the actual situation and calculated that there were only three tactical choices. One was to let Wang Dehou abandon the camp and go south, the other was to risk himself to go north to fight the main force of Xixia, and the third was to continue to attack Zangdihe City at all costs and pull out the nail nailed to his throat. However, no matter which choice was made, there were hidden dangers. So until the dawn was dawn, Liu Zhongwu did not make up his mind to make that choice.

Forced by helplessness, after breakfast, Liu Zhongwu could only summon the generals in the central army's tent to discuss, wanting to see if the generals of the Song army had any ideas and help him get rid of the current passive dilemma. However, what surprised Liu Zhongwu was that when the generals arrived according to the order, they sent messages to the personal soldiers of his fourth son Liu Qi who were sent to the camp, saying that Liu Qi had breakfast and left the camp, and they didn't know where they went. Liu Zhongwu didn't care much about it. After the Song army generals except Liu Qi arrived, they directly announced the beginning of the meeting and asked the Song army generals to speak freely and express their tactical opinions.

Unfortunately, the results of the discussion continued to disappoint Liu Zhongwu. The results of the Song army generals were mainly divided into two parts. One was to ask Wang Dehou to withdraw his troops and concentrate his troops to fight the Western Xia army. The other was to take a direct risk to go north to seek a decisive battle with the Western Xia army. Even if the other side could not convince the other party to adopt their suggestions, they pointed out the dangers of the other party's tactical choices, and they were quarreling.

Only Liu Yanqing, the general manager of Fuyan Road, firmly advocated continuing to attack Zangdihe City, give priority to pulling out this dangerous nail and then fighting calmly. He also proposed to let Wang Dehou's troops dig a deep trench on the narrow road between the two mountains to block the enemy's southward journey, and try to use wild fortifications to block the Iron Harrier Army, and buy time for Liu Zhongwu's troops to capture Zangdihe City.

After studying the map sand table for a long time, Liu Zhongwu found that the suggestions put forward by Liu Yanqing may be feasible, but the confidence in success is still not great. So he shook his head and said, "It is difficult to succeed. Not to mention that the pseudo-Xia thief army will definitely stop Wang Dehou from digging trenches, and will take this opportunity to force Wang Dehou to go out to fight. Even if the trenches are dug by chance, the pseudo-Xia thief army can easily fill a section of the trenches and open up their way to advance."

Liu Yanqing lowered his head in disappointment and said regretfully: "If General Wang had prepared more and digging the trench in advance and setting up a blockade against the red deer antlers, why would we be so passive?"

"We can't blame him all." Liu Zhongwu said something for Wang Dehou, and sighed: "Who could have thought that Brother Wei Mingcha would bring Iron Harrier? Who could have thought that Brother Wei Mingcha would come up with such a strange trick and send Iron Harrier to make trouble when we attack the city?"

When Liu Yanqing was completely speechless, Liu Zhongwu suddenly remembered something and hurriedly looked at Gao Qiu, the military supervisor who had been silent. Seeing that there was no one behind him, he couldn't help asking: "Deputy Master, why didn't your agency Zhao Rong attend the meeting with you?"

"I originally wanted to bring him, but for some reason, he disappeared after breakfast and said he had gone out of the camp." Gao Qiu answered truthfully and asked curiously: "Mr. Liu, what's the matter with General Zhao?"

"It's nothing, I just want to ask him what his opinion." Liu Zhongwu replied in a verbal manner: "Although this kid is young, his knowledge is quite good. I want to see what tricks he has."

"Will I send someone to find him back?" Gao Qiu asked hurriedly.

"No need." Liu Zhongwu shook his head and said, "In this situation, he probably has no tricks, so he should continue to discuss the serious matters."

After saying that, Liu Zhongwu asked the generals again: "Everyone, if I decide to take the risk of going north and join forces with Wang Dehou to seek a decisive battle with the pseudo-Xia thief army, how likely do you think we have to win?"

"Master, the chance of victory is very small!" Liu Yanqing rushed to say, "White Mingcha is extremely treacherous. Seeing our army risking to the north, and seeing Zangdihe City is still in his hands, he will definitely choose to avoid fighting, make trouble on our food roads, and force our army into a desperate situation!"

Liu Zhongwu looked gloomy and said without saying a word, "Do you really want Wang Dehou to withdraw himself? But on the way to retreat..."

"Report to the Grand Commander." The words of the personal soldiers in front of the tent interrupted Liu Zhongwu's plan and replied: "Liu Qi, the host of the Hemen, was acting in the act of Zhao Rong, asking for a meeting."

"Why are you here at the same time?" Liu Zhongwu was slightly stunned and then casually ordered: "Call them in."

Before he finished speaking, Liu Qi and Zhao Rong, who had already been guarding the tent, had already entered the tent and bowed to Liu Zhongwu together. Liu Zhongwu nodded casually and said, "Get up, I heard that you all left the camp just now, where have you gone?"

"Report to the father and coach..."

"Report to the Grand Commander!" Zhao Rong quickly interrupted Liu Qi's words and rushed to say: "The last general is in accordance with the order of the high military supervisor to go out to test the new weapons to restrain the pseudo-Xia bandit army Iron Harrier Soldiers. In order to ensure success, four generals who are skilled in riding and familiar with the Iron Harrier Soldiers went together!"

"A new weapon to restrain the Iron Harrier Soldiers of the Pseudo-Xia thief army?"

Liu Zhongwu and the generals of the Song army were both shocked, and Gao Qiu was slightly stunned. However, after seeing Zhao Rong winking at him like he was wiping his neck, Gao Qiu immediately understood that this knowledgeable subordinate had another contribution to him, so he lied to Zhao Rongyuan: "Marrior Liu, this is indeed true. General Zhao, has the new weapon been successful?"

"Report to the deputy commander, it's a great success!" Zhao Rong answered a little excitedly.

"What new weapon? How to restrain the iron kite of the pseudo-Xia thief army?" Liu Zhongwu asked quickly.

"Father, the boy dares to ask first." Liu Qi kept his cover and asked, "Dare you dare to ask the father, have you decided to continue to attack Zangdihe City?"

"Not yet." Liu Zhongwu replied.

"Master Father, don't hesitate!" Liu Qi quickly said loudly: "Please order immediately to let our soldiers immediately re-engage the siege weapons, especially those pointed wooden donkeys. You must make as much as you can, and then immediately launch a strong attack on Zangdihe City and pull out the nail that is nailed to our throat!"

"What if the pseudo-Xia thief army sends Iron Harrier south to attack? You can deal with it?" Liu Zhongwu asked angrily.

"The last one will go to deal with it!" Liu Qi and Zhao Rong answered in unison, and said more neatly: "What I am afraid of is that the iron kite will not come! If the pseudo-Xia thief army sends the iron kite to attack south, the fourth one will keep them safe and kill them without leaving any armor!"

Kill the Iron Harrier soldiers to pieces without leaving any armor? Even Liu Zhongwu, Liu Yanqing and others have experienced many battles, but this is the first time that Liu Zhongwu, Liu Yanqing and others have heard such crazy words. So in surprise, Liu Zhongwu had to ask again: "How do you deal with them? How many troops do you need?"

"Give us a thousand light cavalry is enough!"

Liu Qi and Zhao Rong answered in unison again, and then Zhao Rong quickly added: "By the way, we have to give us a batch of military supplies, so that we can be sure to get rid of the Iron Harrier Soldiers."

"As long as you can pick up the Iron Harrier soldiers, of course, you will give whatever military supplies you want, and as much as you want." Liu Zhongwu snorted and asked again: "What military supplies do you want?"

"Five thousand wine bottles that can hold a pound of wine!" Zhao Rong and Liu Qi said in unison for the third time: "Four thousand pounds of hot tincture oil, and another 1,500 pounds of candy, some linen and some wax are enough! With these things, even if the pseudo-Xia thief army goes all over the nest, the last generals will keep them to pieces of armor and keep them alive!"
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