Chapter 848

"I didn't expect that I, who have always written poetry and books, would have a day to come to the battle." Su Dongpo stroked his long beard, and he felt a little sad. He blamed him for hearing that the imperial guards who came from the capital had arrived that day and also brought the emperor's will.

Grand Secretary Su, who was a little fluttered by the hype words in the young emperor's letter, immediately felt hot and decided to come over to command the battle himself.

Okay, now I finally have this opportunity. The problem is that I am really a civil servant. I have never commanded a war. What should I do now?

After thinking about it for a long time outside Yinzhou City, Grand Secretary Su decided to hand over the command power to experienced veteran drivers.

"My generals, I will ask you all for this battle. Now Yinzhou is empty, which is a good opportunity for my Song Dynasty to regain the old land. Even if I can't take it, the Liaoxia coalition forces who are attacking Youzhou can feel the pressure. Only in this way can Lord Xiao Wang get more breathing opportunities..."

"Don't worry, sir, we will definitely fight with all our might." Whether it is the imperial guard general who came from the capital or the generals of the Western Army, when facing Su Dongpo, they are not only respectful.

Even though Mr. Su is not very familiar with military affairs, this famous Mr. Su has many advantages.

That is, never do things beyond your ability. You will ask relevant professionals for everything. They just make a decision and then leave the professional issues to the professionals to complete.

What's more, with this old driver in charge, even the military commanders assigned to him had no room for tricks.

After all, the prestige of Su University, which is both civil and military, is almost unrivaled in the Song Dynasty. Can you, a small military commander, be even more awesome than Master Su?

Therefore, when Su Su leads the army, those military generals of the Song Dynasty do not feel as if they are being led by laymen, but instead feel that they can show their strengths even more under Su Su.

This time, the imperial guards and the border troops of the Song Dynasty gathered here, and they also prepared a lot of siege weapons. The city defense of Yinzhou City is at most similar to the past Youzhou City, and it is not even as good as the old Yanzhou before.

Even before, the people of Xixia were determined to jointly attack the three prefectures with the Liao Kingdom, and for this reason they once again strengthened the cities of the states near the Song Dynasty.

However, although the city was reinforced, the troops were drawn to join forces with the Liao army, which made the troops in the border towns and prefectures appear increasingly thin.

In order for the Liao and Xia coalition to regain the three states with a destructive force, Xixia specially drew 50,000 troops from the eastern region, which made the Xixia prefectures, which had suffered heavy losses, appear to be inadequate in military strength.

However, in the previous prediction, it should be to strive to seize the land of Youzhou within ten days, and the Liaoxia army continued to move southward to Hongzhou. In this way, if the Song army did not want to lose all its territory, it would inevitably gather a main army to fight with the Liaoxia coalition in the Hongzhou area.

In this way, the Song army would not have any spare energy to attack the states of Xia Kingdom.

But so long has passed. Yuzhou is like a lighthouse that seems to be shaking in a super typhoon, but still stands tall.

It was this lighthouse that greatly delayed the offensive of the Liao and Xia coalition forces, making it difficult to achieve the previous strategy. As a result, the State of Song was able to calmly dispatch troops and generals. Then, instead of going to reinforce Youzhou, he flew to Yinzhou.

It was as if he wanted to hit the snake and attack the middle section. If it were usual, more than 12,000 soldiers guarding the city of the city would be enough, but the problem is now in wartime. Now that 100,000 Song troops are siegeing the city, Xifeng Zhenlie is really unsure.

Xifeng Zhenlie's worries soon became a reality. After the Song army's 100,000 troops arrived in Yinzhou, they attacked fiercely like life. All kinds of siege weapons were like they didn't have money, and they could get there.

The Yinzhou City, which was compacted by soil, was disrepaired, and the lack of defenders in the city, and the temporary recruitment of the Dangxiang youth and strong men were quite brave, but they lacked armor and sharp blades.

Five days later, just five days later, more than half of the soldiers in the city were injured and killed. The Song army attacked the city several times. Although they were repelled by the defenders, they also paid a heavy price.

Five days passed, but Xifeng Zhenlie couldn't wait for half of the reinforcements. What he was waiting for was the messenger who he sent to Shizhou for help. He was in a mess. The messenger in the clothes and blood-stained armor only brought back a sentence from the commander of Shizhou, and Shizhou had no extra troops to rescue him.

You can only stand firm and wait for assistance, but don't worry, this commander has sent a messenger to the Liaoxia Alliance Office for assistance, and I believe that it will not take long before reinforcements will be sent.

"There will definitely be reinforcements sent, it won't take long? How long can I last?" My right hand was penetrated by the strong crossbow of the Song army, and he could only use his left hand to shake the letter from the commander of Shizhou in the room and growl angrily.

"General, what should we do now?" The general next to him was stunned. Looking at the robes around him, he couldn't help but feel a little confused. "We can't hold on for this situation now."

"If you can't hold on, you have to hold on. If you don't want to save yourself, I, Xifeng Zhenlie, will definitely not spare you if I can survive this disaster." Xifeng Zhenlie angrily slapped the letter in his hand on the table.

"General, now our soldiers are nearly half of their casualties. Should we draw some young and strong people from the city to help defend the city?"

"No, those young and strong people can play a great role. Without armor, they are completely killing people in front of the powerful crossbows of the Song army."

Xifeng Zhenlie thought about it and nodded slowly. "Leave the armor of the fallen soldiers to the young and strong, let them hold on. If they can hold on for one more day, count for one day, count for the messenger sent by me, should have arrived at the city of Youzhou. As long as you can send a reinforcement, my Yinzhou will be guaranteed."

Seeing that Xifeng Zhenlie was so stubborn, the generals knew that there was no other good way. Even if the Song army now set up a formation of three or one, leaving the north gate to prevent attack, but who would dare to predict whether there would be a Song army ambush here?

Compared with the bleak clouds in Yinzhou City, the Song army camp outside the city seemed to be hot and noisy. Although the soldiers were also suffering a lot of casualties, as the enemy troops on Yinzhou City became weaker day by day, victory was already in sight, so they were naturally excited.
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