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Chapter 247 - Salt Prefecture

The Song Army arrived at the Yanzhou City on the afternoon of the tenth day of the second month. They did not attack immediately, but first transported all the siege weapons to the various city gates! A hundred thousand Shanbei Forbidden Army s and fifty thousand Tsinghua Army s surrounded the area from all directions! The ten thousand soldiers of the Managed were stationed in the distance! Zhao Chen stood on top of a small mountain, watching the scene of the Yanzhou City!

At this moment, on the southern wall of Yanzhou City, the Yanzhou City general, Ren Duo and Wu, were also frowning as they watched the scene below! He was the direct descendent of the famous general Ren Duo Ding of the Western Xia, who had been taught by his grandfather. At that time, he had also followed his own father, Ren Duozhong, to invade the Guan Shan, and fight against the Western Army! He had an abnormal understanding of the Western Army, but in his eyes, the Song Army below him was very different from the Western Army back then!

The war had not yet begun, and he could not hear any noise! The troops below were like machines, not making a sound at all! He could only occasionally hear the command of the general and the sound of a messenger. The army formation below was unusually neat and orderly, it was the first time he saw such a neat formation of troops! They surrounded the Yanzhou City from all directions, without even a gap in between!

"I heard that back then, the Crown Prince of the Song Dynasty was present in the Middle Han Area. He led the Middle Han Area, the Chuan Shu and many other places in the Guan Shan, and his territory and population were all only half of the Song Dynasty's. But, how can the army below us surpass the Song Dynasty from before? " Ren Duo Wu said in disbelief.

"General, the Chinese have always been cowardly and incompetent! I think that they are just empty talk, not even worth mentioning! " The deputy general on the side said in disdain.

"You can't have such thoughts! If that's the case, then it's impossible for them to break into the Hongzhou and all over the continent! " Rendoo and Wu said.

"The only reason they were able to attack the entire Hongzhou and the other regions of the Forbidden Province was because they took action unexpectedly! If it was a formal battle, they definitely wouldn't be able to break into the Hongzhou or the Ling Province! Today, my Yanzhou City has forty thousand elite soldiers stationed there. With General Ren Duo personally watching over us, they definitely won't be able to attack and break through our Yanzhou City! Waiting for the army in the middle of the court to come, they will only have death waiting for them! " The deputy general said.

"We still have to be careful!" Rendoo and Wu said.

"General, it's impossible for them to attack today!" The deputy general said.

Rendezvous nodded his head!

He had fought against the Western Army before, so he had a deep understanding of the Song people! The soldiers of the Song Dynasty were unusually lazy. They usually fought during the day, but during the night, the soldiers would have to rest, so they didn't fight during the night! Of course, after more than a hundred years had passed, the difference between the Western Xia Army and Song Army was not too far off! Right now, the soldiers of the Western Xia Army were extremely lazy. Usually, when fighting for four to six hours, the soldiers would have to rest! In the past, on the battlefield between the Northern Song and the Western Xia, the two armies often had a 'tacit agreement' to withdraw their troops at the same time and let their soldiers rest. In the eyes of the, it should be the same as this! After running for a long time, they had finally arrived at Yanzhou. Now, they had to rest below!

Ren Duo A'wu was even considering sending people to steal camp, but after some careful consideration, he felt that since Song Army had just arrived today, he had to be careful and cautious. There was no point in sneaking camp today! Waiting until ten days later, he would send more people to secretly camp. Naturally, he would be able to eliminate Song Army in one go!

"My grandfather and father are famous generals of this generation, and I, Ren Duo and Wu should also become famous generals of this generation! This time, let's use the blood of the Chinese to build up my achievements! " Rendoo and Wu thought to themselves.

The sky gradually darkened, and the Western Xia soldiers on the city wall also gradually became tired. Many of the Western Xia soldiers were already yawning! Some of the Western Xia soldiers had already fallen asleep while leaning against the wall!

However, at this moment, an intense battle drum sound rang from below!

As the war drums sounded, one hundred and fifty thousand soldiers began their assault on Yanzhou City!

This time, they were going to forcefully attack the city without any tricks or tricks! No matter if it was Li Xianzhong or Liu Qi, both of them were famous generals in history. The two of them knew that the news of the invasion of the Hongzhou and the other prefectures must have already spread to the Yan Province, so they could only force their way through the city!

The Western Xia soldiers on the city wall found it hard to believe. It was already dark, and the Song Army was not resting at this time as they attacked!

When military strategy was used, it meant that when attacking a city, the invading army had to be at least ten times stronger than the defending army. Only then could victory be guaranteed! Although Shanbei Forbidden Army and Tsinghua Army had a lot of manpower, but it was only four times the strength of the enemy! However, the actual combat strength of Shanbei Forbidden Army and Tsinghua Army far surpassed the same level of Western Army and Western Xia Army!

Less than a quarter of an hour after the battle began, Rendoo and Wu realized that something was wrong! They were both from the Song Army s, but the fighting strength of this next batch was ten times more than the previous batch of Song Army s! He could not believe it! In just a few years of time, why did Song Army, who should have become even weaker, suddenly become so strong?

From dark on the tenth day of the second month until dawn on the eleventh day of the second month, the flames of war never went out!

All the Western Xia soldiers had been sent to the city walls, but even so, they had barely managed to block the attack of the army below!

"General, it has been a night and the soldiers are almost unable to bear it!" The deputy general came to the side of Rendoo Wu and said.

"Don't worry, Song Army will definitely be exhausted as well! It's time for them to retreat! " Rendoo and Wu said.

After a night of intense fighting, any army would be exhausted to the extreme! In his heart, there was only one army that could continue to fight in one night. That was the true female army! The fighting will of the Nvzhen far exceeded that of the Western Xia and the Han Chinese! But the ones below were Chinese, not Nvzhen! Even if their combat prowess had increased, their will to fight couldn't possibly increase in such a short period of time!

The sky was getting brighter, and the Song Army below did not show any signs of stopping! Ren Duo Wu frowned slightly!

Two hours had already passed since the dawn, and the Song Army below still had not shown any signs of stopping! At this moment, Rendoo and Wu realized that something was wrong!

It was already noon, and the Western Xia warriors were all listless. The Song Army below continued to advance forward, as if they didn't know what fatigue was! At that moment, Rendoo and Wu were already trembling!

From last night to now, Zhao Chen had been standing there on that distant hill!

"Your Majesty, we are going to win!" Curved End came behind Zhao Chen and said.

Zhao Chen nodded!

"Ten-odd years ago, when the female really rose up, the The Daolord Emperor wanted to join forces to fight the Liao Li! On that day, the The Daolord Emperor sent Ma Zhi to the north to meet the Jinguo Emperor, Wan Yanaguda! When Ma Zhi saw Wan Yanaguda, he wanted to present the national letter. Wan Yanaguda told Ma Zhi that he was very busy right now. On that day, under the watch of Ma Zhi, the army of one hundred thousand had defeated the Shang Jing in one day! After he came back, Ma Zhi was shocked. He told this matter to The Daolord Emperor, but The Daolord Emperor did not agree with it! Today, my Shanbei Forbidden Army and my Tsinghua Army will use one night to break through your Yanzhou City! This battle was an all-out assault. There was no strategy or strategy involved at all! The strength of our army is no longer inferior to the Jin Army that Wan Yanaguda commanded back then! " Yu Yunwen laughed.

"This Yanzhou City is completely incomparable to Liao Country's Shang Jing City! The Shang Jing City was the capital of the Liao Country. Its defensive capabilities and military might far surpassed the Yanzhou City City in front of them! Wan Yanaguda is an exceptional genius, there is no one in Song Army who can compare to him! " Zhao Chen laughed, and shook his head.

Wan Yanaguda, Cheng Jisihan, they are the two most powerful minority in the history of China! Because Wan Yanaguda passed away early, she did not have the time to lead the troops to the south! If Wan Yanaguda had lived for another ten years, perhaps the Song Dynasty would have been annihilated! After Wan Yanaguda died, the Jinguo slowly fell. Furthermore, the using abilities of Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Zongwang, Wan Yanwushu and the others could not be compared on the same level as Wan Yanaguda! In Zhao Chen's opinion, even if it was Yue Fei, it was still very difficult for him to compare to Wan Yanaguda! Wan Yanaguda started the army with only two thousand people, but it was possible for them to beat each other many times. At the very beginning, they had to defeat enemies who were nearly ten times stronger every time! He was the one who created the myth that 'a woman truly cannot be defeated'. It was only after his death that this myth was broken.

But now, although Zhao Chen was extremely impressed with Wan Yanaguda, he did not think that the Song Army was not a match for him! Since the establishment of the staff officer's headquarters, the military's commanding system had undergone a drastic change. This was an advanced commanding system that was a thousand years ahead of this era! Although Wan Yanaguda was a genius and had created the military systems of centurion, Chieftain and centurion, even though his military command was simple and direct, it couldn't compare to the advanced military command systems that would be verified by the various armies and two world wars in a thousand years.

BOOM!

Just at this time, a piece of the Yanzhou City's wall began to collapse! The Song Army below let out an earth-shattering cheer!

They were even more determined to charge forward!

On the other hand, the Western Xia soldiers' faces changed drastically. Including Ren Duo and Ah Wu, they knew that the Yanzhou City could no longer protect them!

"One night! In just a single night, the Yanzhou City was already breached? Is Yanzhou City, who has 40,000 troops, so weak? " Rendoo and Wu were in disbelief!

BOOM!

Another loud explosion was heard. From the east, dozens of throwing machines were attacking the city wall. Yet another wall had collapsed!

On the northern city wall, there were already more than three thousand Song Army s rushing over! The three thousand plus Song Army s fought their way forward! After another fifteen minutes, the number of Song Army on the northern wall had actually reached ten thousand!

On the northern walls, the Western Xia soldiers fell to their knees, begging for surrender!

The north gate was open!

At this moment, the Western Xia soldiers on the eastern city wall also began to kneel down and surrender! They did not have the courage to fight to the end! Actually, in this era, if history did not change, no one, other than the Nvzhen, would fight until their deaths! Of course, now that history had changed, Zhao Chen's army would definitely have the determination to fight to the very last man!

The already overcast and overcast weather had turned sunny and clear at this moment!

The noon sun shined down onto the land, and the battle slowly came to a halt!

At this moment, Rendoo Wu was also kneeling on the ground. He had already surrendered!

The four city gates opened, and Zhao Chen entered Yanzhou City surrounded by countless soldiers!

"By now, the news should have already reached Xingqing Mansion, right?" Zhao Chen said as he stood on the Yanzhou City wall and looked to the west.

"It's already been almost a month, the battle has definitely already spread to the Xingqing Mansion!" Curved End nodded and said.

"Pass down the order, let the army rest in Yanzhou City for a few days! Repair the walls of the Yanzhou City! We are waiting for the main force of Western Xia to arrive! " Zhao Chen said.

This was the decision that the staff officer had made from the beginning. After taking down the Yanzhou City, they would not continue to join the army, but would wait here for the main force of Western Xia! According to the plan of the staff officer, after the battle, it would be a war of annihilation against hundreds of thousands of Western Xia's main forces!