Chapter 54: The first battle to determine the Northland
Outside Luoyang City
Shu Chi looked at the Daxia national flag on the city wall and couldn't help but feel angry.
Shu Chi, whose full name is Borjijin Shu Chi, was born in Mobei. He is the eldest son of Borjijin Temujin. As the eldest son of Genghis Khan, Shu Chi has never suffered such a big loss.
"Send the whole army to capture the city and slaughter the city!"
Wow!!!
As the horn sounded, the Mongolian army rushed to Luoyang City like a tide
Li Ming waved his hand as if he was like a tide. The gunners on the city wall ignited the lead line, and the flames rushed out with the gun mouth, like a bolt from the blue. With a loud bang, the shells fell and exploded a deep pit on the ground, and the surrounding soil flew.
More than a dozen artillery fired volleys, and wherever the shells fell, people were all over the horse, and black smoke lit up on the battlefield
Seeing this, Shu Chi began to command the Mongolian army to disperse. As the army was no longer dense, the shells fell no longer suffered heavy losses.
The Daxia side could only select the Mongolian army's siege vehicles and catapults and other siege equipment bombing. For a time, the Mongolian army's siege equipment suffered heavy losses, and the infantry's attack successfully advanced to the city.
"Shooting the Arrow"
With a command, the dense arrows on the city wall fell into the Mongolian camp like rain. For a moment, the city was wailing everywhere. Although the Mongolian army also fought back, the bow and arrow shot to the city wall had less force when it shot on the city wall. It was easily blocked by the shield soldiers on the city wall, but it suffered little losses.
As time goes by, a small group of Mongolian troops began to drive ladders under the city, and began to climb up along the city wall. But a bucket of gold juice fell down.
Smelling the smell of the pickled objects, the hot juice covered the whole body. With a scream, I couldn't help but let go of my hands holding the ladder and fell down the ladder.
Li Ming suffocated the air and seemed to want to dispel the rich stench around him. He is truly a biological and chemical weapon in ancient times. Even if he is disgusted, he can even disgust his enemies.
Rolling stones, pounding wood, and gold juice, which can be called biological and chemical weapons, caused the Mongolian army's siege torture for a while. Shu Chi couldn't help but feel annoyed. As the horn sounded rapidly, the Mongolian army siege the city increased its strength again.
For a moment, Luoyang City began to stagnate. From time to time, the Mongolian army had already said that the ladder had climbed the city wall. Although it was killed later, the defense on the city wall had obvious flaws. Li Ming saw that it had almost been consumed, and the material for defending the city on the city wall was obviously insufficient, and the gun barrels were even red in succession.
"Follow me to go out of the city to kill the enemy!"
The city gates in Luoyang were wide open. As teams of cavalry left the city, Zhu Chi from the rear of the Mongolian army, the Mongolian iron cavalry that had been ready to go came out with a wave of their hands.
Li Ming was in charge of the central army and commanded the army leaving the city, detoured, moved the enemy, deployed formations, intercepted, attacked long-range arrows, surrounded the two wings, lured the enemy into depth, and blossomed in the center. Capturing the thief first, captured the king's entire army with ease. As more and more soldiers poured out from the city, the Mongolian army gradually became dissatisfied.
Seeing this, Shu Chi waved to his personal soldiers
"Let the re-rider come on the field"
With the order, ten thousand cavalrymen who had been ready to go rushed into the battlefield, and wherever they passed, they caused considerable damage to the Xia army for a while.
Li Ming recruited his own soldiers
"Let the Daxia Dragon Cavalry annihilate them"
With a rapid drumbeat, the three thousand dragons went out to sea like dragons, crisscrossing the battlefield, and their people and horses were broken. After several years of development, the Daxia dragons have developed into five thousand horses.
This time, Li Ming brought only three thousand, and the remaining two thousand needed to guard the palace. They all had a thousand kilograms of powerful force and long endurance.
With the entry of the three thousand dragon cavalry, the Mongolian army, which was already at a disadvantage, gradually began to show signs of collapse.
The Mongolian army had already lost 30,000 troops in the previous siege battle, and the subsequent hand-to-hand combat caused heavy losses to the Mongolian army. The Xia army's equipment and weapons were all made of improved steel, which was more than the toughness and sharpness of the Mongolian army's weapons.
For a moment, the entire battlefield was filled with killing sounds, and corpses were buried everywhere, and the bright red blood stained the earth. It should be said that the Mongolian army was indeed elite. This battle started to be defeated from noon until sunset.
Li Ming looked at the battlefield with corpses covered with the earth and couldn't help but sigh that the war was really life-threatening. With the report of the statistics personnel, a total of 120,000 enemies were killed and 50,000 prisoners were wiped out in this battle, and 30,000 casualties were already accumulated. It was a great victory. Li Ming glanced at the direction of Shu Chi's escape, thought for a while, and then continued to send people to chase the Mongolian army towards the Song Dynasty.
After this battle, the operation is no longer a problem.
On the side of the Huai River, Shu Chi looked at the remaining troops behind him, looking decadent, but she did not regret her previous decision. If she didn't take a try, the Mongolian army was trapped in the Central Plains and was slowly eroded. It can only be said that the enemy was too strong.
"well"
A sigh of relief
With the battle of Luoyang, the entire northern part was shrouded in the army of Daxia. Chang'an, Fengxiang Prefecture, Kaifeng Prefecture, Dengzhou and other places were all included. Other places only need to be guided slowly.
Li Ming stationed 100,000 Qinglong and 100,000 white tigers in the 16 prefectures of Yanyun, a total of 200,000 soldiers and horses, guarding against Mongolia on the grassland, and other soldiers slowly eroded the remaining territory of the Jin Kingdom.
However, in two months, the entire northern region had been included in the territory of Daxia, and he even chased Shu Chi to the territory north of the Yangtze River in the Southern Song Dynasty.
For a moment, the Southern Song Dynasty was overwhelmed and could only send troops to intercept Shu Chi. However, although Shu Chi was chased away by Li Ming, it was not something that the Southern Song Dynasty could deal with. They were defeated one after another. Finally, at the suggestion of Prime Minister Jia Sidao, someone was sent to negotiate with Li Ming.
Xiangyang City
Shu Chi came to Xiangyang City again with only 10,000 troops left. It was different from the previous high spirits. Now he has come here again for more than two months.
Shu Chi has been pursued by Li Ming for the past two months, so naturally he knew that Li Ming was just using their Mongolian army to enter the Song realm to rob, but Shu Chi had no other way. After all, if he had not robbed, the Mongolian army would have starved to death.
In Xiangyang City, Guo Jing and others looked at the Mongolian army like a stray dog, and then thought about Lu Wende's words just now, but couldn't help but sigh.
Li Ming looked at Xiangyang City in front of him, and his lips curled, and the value of Shu Chi was no longer available.
"Send the entire army to eliminate the Mongolian bandits"
With the sound of a horn sounded at the command, the already exhausted Mongolian army quickly eliminated the vast torrent of the Xia army, and the occasionally splashed small wave was also eliminated faster.
Li Ming looked at the people on the city tower
"Sir Lü, open the city gate"
Lu Wende hurriedly asked someone to go down and opened the city gate, and even arranged a banquet to entertain Li Ming in a flattering manner. In this way, Xiangyang City was easily taken into account by Li Ming. Although Guo Jing and others still had some resistance, the Southern Song Dynasty had signed a contract for the rule of the river with Daxia, but there was nothing he could do.
Chapter completed!