Chapter 382

Harvest

Before using gunpowder to mine, the Song Dynasty imported 500,000 jin of sulfur from Liuqiu at most a year, and it also produced locally in the Song Dynasty. Although most of it is used to make firecrackers, many of them are also used in gunpowder.

But how many gunpowder weapons are made and how many are used on the battlefield, the water is very deep. The real function was that they were forced to use them in the later Battle of Tokyo, and they actually had some effects. The Southern Song Dynasty gradually paid attention to it.

But what about the entire Northern Song Dynasty?

Today, gunpowder has shined with dazzling brilliance.

Twelve huge gunpowder bags, each of which uses stone as a unit, which is seven or eight thousand kilograms, plus various iron caltrops, iron nails, weighing nearly ten thousand kilograms. It is the most standard gunpowder formula. In order to prevent accidents, all kinds of iron concealers are placed outside the gunpowder oil paper. The sealing is extremely good. What effect will the explosion have?

With each loud bang, hundreds of soldiers were thrown up, and the highest one was thrown up to the sky, and the highest one was thrown out more than 20 meters high. Then the airflow brought by the strong air pressure produced a small hurricane. The nearby Xixia soldiers were thrown up again by the airflow, and the soldiers in the distance were blown to the east and west. All the tents and fences were like goose feathers, and were pushed up along with the airflow.

Then the sand and gravel on the ground and various iron concealers were shot on the Xixia soldiers like bullets.

Although the ground was frozen, dust rose up, but with the fire, you could see that after each explosion sounded, a huge mud pit appeared on the ground. The war horses and supplies were behind. There was no need to think about it. Behind it was a mountain, the newly built Shimenxia Village in Xixia. The Song Dynasty was an infantryman and had to be placed behind. However, after the explosions, some war horses actually broke free from the reins and ran without thinking.

Some horses stepped directly into the military camp, trampled on the shaking soldiers, and even lost their wisdom, and stepped into the deep pit that occurred after the explosion.

Many soldiers survived by chance, but they were all stunned.

Not only was the Xixia military camp like hell, a piece of Shimen Chuanzhai Wall, which was originally unstable after being attacked by Xixia many times, shook it a few times under the airflow, and fell down suddenly.

Zheng Lang and Han Qi were almost blown down by the airflow from the city wall.

Yeli Yuqi was blown down by the airflow, and he stood up again with the rope. Seeing the situation, he was also stunned.

Zhang Yuan shouted: "King Yeli, withdraw quickly."

Let's escape, there are many soldiers alive, but they can't fight again, and they will soon be defeated.

Zheng Lang breathed a sigh of relief, what he wanted was this effect. Although he put too much gunpowder, it was impossible to kill all enemies. This was black gunpowder, not yellow gunpowder, nor atomic bombs, but it was enough.

All the enemy's anger was urged to collapse.

At present, we must attack immediately to defeat the enemy before we can achieve a great victory. Otherwise, after a while, when they recover and resist the attack of their own troops, not only will this part not be able to solve it, but it will also affect the Battle of Sanying Mountain.

As soon as the village gate opened, Ye Lihui beg stood here, would he catch him?

Just leave.

Yeli got on a horse and ran back, turning his head and cursing, "Zheng Lang, you devil."

There is no way to go to the top of the city, otherwise he could bite Zheng Lang's neck and drink Zheng Lang's blood dry.

Zheng Lang smiled bitterly and made a gesture. The gate of the village opened and all the Song troops came out of the village.

The people of Xixia have never recovered. Although some people survived, their ears were almost deaf, and some were seriously injured and groaned and howled in pain on the ground. Don’t say that forty thousand people, seventy thousand or eighty thousand people are here, the same result is the same.

The Song army was not very comfortable in the village. Although they used cloth balls to plug their ears, their ears were still buzzing, and a burst of disgust surged in their hearts. Through the gaps in the fence, looking at the enemy's miserable appearance, at that moment, almost all the Song soldiers seemed to feel that the end of the world was coming.

But I quickly woke up and rushed towards the gate of the village.

Zheng Lang came to Jingyuan Road to do a lot of things, mainly training the army.

Training in the army not only improves the combat capabilities of soldiers, but also allows them to see some good generals through constant training. The court dispatched a large number of generals to Jingyuan Road, but there were many mediocre talents in it who could not transfer them all, and they could use training to expose them. Last battle, he gave some capable soldiers a legitimate reason to go to power. After training together for a long time, more or less changed the situation of the Song Dynasty soldiers not knowing their generals and generals not knowing their soldiers.

The Song army was more disciplined than before. They seemed to be in a rush to attack, but they were very orderly.

The decisive battle begins. Please remember

A battle is a long process from the beginning to the end. For example, planning, preparing, marching arrangement, movement, and the final decisive battle takes several months, but the real decisive battle is faster than one day, and slow only a few days. This battle has been planned for a long time, but the essence is today.

When Yeli Yuqi saw the Song army coming out, he knew that his subordinates could not fight again, so he waved his flag to command the entire army to retreat.

I can only command with the banner, and probably few people have good ears, including himself.

The last time the tragic scene of Shimenchuan appeared again.

In fact, there are still many people living, but Shimenxia is too narrow and they are rushing in again. Unlike last time, almost half of the people ran inside without even caring about riding horses. The space occupied was smaller, but it was still crowded.

Some people even made Mu stunned. Song Jun rushed to the front of him and stood there blankly. Many people raised their hands and lay on the ground to express surrender. Some people saw that they could not squeeze in, either ran up the mountain or into the river, and fled to the opposite side by the river ice.

The defeat began and squeezed into Shimenxia. Because there was a post, there were no ambushers on the mountains on both sides, but behind him was a Song army pursuing him desperately. Yeli escaped desperately again when he was fleeing.

The wind and cranes were storming, and the plants and trees were alarmed.

There were not many Song troops chasing, only 3,000, but Ye Li didn't know that more than 10,000 Song troops were chasing him, and with the current situation of his subordinates, he could no longer have the courage to turn back and fight again. So he led his subordinates to escape desperately and escaped from Shimenxia. Most of the Song troops were infantry this time, and they were gradually lost.

He grabbed the horse and was about to look back at the situation of his army. Suddenly, a young man led three or four thousand Song troops again and rode out quickly. Although the number was not large, they all bravely took the lead. After fighting, they heard the chasing sound of the Song troops behind him, and Ye Li fled again.

The Song army escaped from Wuyanxia and was still chasing. It was not until Tiandu Mountain that it threw the Song army away. But when he turned his head and looked, Ye Li was so anxious that he was crying.

In this battle, Shimenchuanqian brought 40,000 troops, but only more than 5,000 people escaped with him. There were still soldiers who fled back. Some of them were panicked and fled into the mountains and forests. They would come back to the team in a day or two, but they were definitely worse than last time.

Time is also different. The last time was the end of October. Although it was cold outside at night, people could tolerate it. Now it is mid-November. There is not enough warm clothes in the wild and can freeze to death. Once the fire is made to warm, as long as the Song Dynasty army sends people to patrol, they will inevitably be captured.

How many more people can come back?

Why is there no movement in Cheng Keshang?

...

Cheng Keshang was also defeated.

The Song army was at night, and it was expected that he would win the rewards and that he would meet beggars in the wild.

In the past, the Song army was very afraid of the cold, so most people in the Xixia launched an attack in winter or February of the first lunar month. But there is one thing that can resist the cold, cotton!

Zheng Lang often issued physical objects when he was practicing military training, among which silk and cotton cloth were the most, one was reward and the other was military achievements, including some cotton jackets and cotton pants. The total cotton output is still very small now, and there is very little cotton for cotton whether it is cotton jackets or cotton pants. However, it is stronger than none, and people's cold resistance is also improved compared to later generations.

The court also sent a cotton coat and a fur coat to keep the soldiers warm. Some soldiers had nothing, but they had salaries, and other soldiers had winter clothes, so they had to buy each other with salaries. There was no need to be surprised, there were people who did business among the soldiers.

Otherwise, Zheng Lang would not be able to eat Yang Jiujin’s father’s meat buns in the exam room.

Basically, it was still very cold. The temperature at night may be minus five degrees, and at the lowest point it could be close to minus ten degrees. However, with these cold clothes, soldiers could survive it. But this coldness played a fatal negligence. Whether Cheng Kesheng or Yelihuiqi, they did not expect that the Song army would come down and march on such a cold night.

Yesterday, the Song army forced a forcing forward in two groups. One was placed on the table, led by Zhao Xun and Jingtai and other generals. At the second update, they rushed from Gaopingzhai to Sanyingchuan.

Along the way, the main force of the Song army was buried deep.

Most of the people were placed in Tiansheng Village to prevent the enemy from seeing that they were wearing the clothes of the people. In order to confuse the enemy's scouts, some people moved in there and gave some women money and property, so that they could walk outside the room without any trouble, pretending to be the female relatives of these "people". The other one was a little far away, all of which were cavalry. In a sense, it belonged to the second line of defense. Therefore, it distributed scouts so that the Xixia scouts were not allowed to enter. The fact is that they were far away and the defense was well-mannered, and there were no Xixia scouts to come to see them.

The two Xixia troops were moving in Shimenchuan and the south. Zheng Lang placed the main army on the periphery of the battlefield. Tiansheng Qianxing Village was wandering outside the battlefield, and even Zhang Yuan did not expect it.

Yesterday, the Eastern Passers-by also rushed to the battlefield and started to drive twice. The Song army in Qianxing Village began to mobilize in the evening, and the soldiers of Tiansheng Village were mobilized at dusk. The two armies joined in one front and one round, and at nearly four o'clock, they met in the Wuyanqian Gorge, and three thousand soldiers were divided from Wuyanqian Gorge to Wuyanxia, ​​and the rest continued to rush towards the Sanyingchuan. Of course, the troops were also hard to drive because of the long distance.

At dawn, twelve loud explosions were heard in Shimenchuan. Cheng Keshang was also awakened and hurriedly sent a scout to Shimenchuan to check the truth. As soon as the scout left, the two troops of Jingtai came over. At this time, the two soldiers were similar. Relatively speaking, Xixia was both cavalry and had an advantage. The fierce battle began. After a while, Di Qing led the cavalry to come, and gradually became a draw. Then most of the infantry arrived, and Cheng Keshang's army gradually fell into a disadvantage.

The scout also came back and reported what he saw.

He didn't dare to approach. When he arrived at the southwestern river of Shimen, Yeli Yuqi's army was defeated. There were people who fleeing Xixia people and the captured Song army. He grabbed a deserter on the outside and asked, then ran away and fled back.

Therefore, it is difficult to explain clearly, and Cheng Kesheng does not believe it.

But in just a moment, most of the Song army was sent to the Shimen Village to cover up and kill. Not only did this Song army come, but some escaped Xixia soldiers also rolled over. When they heard that Shimenchuan Nori's troops were defeated, they saw the Shimenchuan Song army rushed over fiercely. Cheng Keshang's subordinates were disheartened. Seeing that something was wrong, he also ordered to retreat.

Retreat is a nice saying, meaning to escape quickly.

He did not dare to walk from Shimen Gorge, and it was impossible to get through. The Song army stood in front and rushed to the northwest. He fled from the Wuyan Qiang to the Wuyan Gorge. Di Qing led the cavalry to continue pursuing and fled to the Wuyan Gorge. Lao Zong and Yang Wenguang turned around and killed each other. After two or three hours of blocking and killing, most of the infantry in the Song Dynasty caught up again. Cheng Keshang had to forcibly break out of the siege and flee to Tiandu Mountain.

The two armies met, and there was no gunpowder under Cheng Keshang camp, but it was not much better than Yeli Yuqi, so he only brought back more than 6,000 people. God knows where they were at this time?

The two of them sat like fools in Tiandu Mountain.

More than 70,000 troops and horses, not only more than 70,000 people, for this battle, Xixia almost drained the last potential, and then prepared a large amount of food and grass. This result was achieved. It is conceivable what the expression would be if His Majesty occupied Fulin Road and led his army back.

Still dreaming, occupying Fulin Road. Yuanhao is not much better!

The nightmare was not over yet, and a large number of Song troops came over, sweeping the people again, and moving them to the Song territory.

This is Zheng Lang’s ethnic policy.

In the past, when the Song Dynasty killed prisoners, Li Yuanhao used Han people as cowards, and this policy was wrong.

The people of Xixia are hateful, but the people are just the people. If the ethnic policies are appropriate, they can also be loyal to the Song Dynasty. As long as Li Yuanhao can afford a lot of money, the people of the Central Plains still have some residues like Zhang Yuan. This policy must be appropriate and powerful. They cannot be ruthless when they should be killed, and they must be kind when they should be careless.

Including the prisoners of war captured in the previous battle, they would not be released back, and they would be placed in the rear, dispersed one after another, turned into war for the people, and even gave them some farm tools, some cattle and sheep, clothes and quilts for winter, so that they could plant and raise herds in the next year.

They were asked to select some representatives, sneak back to the territory of Xixia, and bring messages to their families, so that their families or relatives could be transferred. At least in the Song Dynasty, life would not be as painful as in Xixia.

Therefore, some tribes not only do not reject them, but instead actively cooperate.

The effect will be magnified in the future, even no less than a great victory.

Anyway, a lot of military farms will come out immediately, which will require the people to cultivate. If you are alone in Jingyuan Road, there will be four or five thousand hectares of farmland. Once the Sanbai Canal is constructed, more than 30,000 hectares of farmland will be added. It will be enough to settle 50,000 households! No matter what means Zheng Lang uses, he will not be able to capture 50,000 households.

Seeing that Tiandu Mountain is about to become a no-man's land, Yeli can't sit still when encountering begs and dispatching troops to challenge them, but only a few battles are unfavorable.

But the nightmare is far from over.

...

Ishikawa Village left one or two thousand Song troops, cleaned the battlefield, captured prisoners of war, and horses.

This is the biggest gain of this battle.

The next day, Zheng Lang came to Sanyingchuan with his prisoners of war. In the evening, the war was not over, but the main battles were all over.

Next is the moment of a full-scale counterattack.

Zheng Lang first wrote a memorial to the court to report on the battle.
To be continued...