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Unless they retreated and couldn't even retrieve the bodies of their own comrades,
Otherwise, they would definitely have taken the body back and buried it.
This is to comfort our comrades.
It's also a way of comforting myself.
Who knows, I might be the one who dies tomorrow.
Nobody wants to be left outside the city walls after they die.
They let the wild dogs tear them apart.
The defenders will also cooperate.
Because a decomposing corpse will smell bad.
If it is not buried,
In a few days,
The entire city would stink.
Moreover, corpses can bring plague.
Both the Western Army and the Western Xia people knew this.
Plague is a demon.
No one dared to release them.
No matter how fierce the battle between the two sides was,
They were all unwilling to use corpses as weapons.
Because they are all civilized peoples.
They were fighting for land where they could reproduce.
Not the realm of ghosts.
Moreover, the battlefield was not far from either side's homeland.
No one dared to unleash the demon.
The corpses on the city wall were disposed of.
Han Shizhong then walked down from the city wall.
When he first arrived, his qualifications were insufficient to handle things independently.
However, they drove back countless Persians.
After more than half of the officers in the city had died,
He was a general who could command independently.
Moreover, it was the northern side that the Western Xia people focused their attacks on.
In order to leverage their numerical superiority, the Western Xia people
It also depletes the city's garrison.
Every day, they attacked all four city walls simultaneously.
However, they only built a mound of earth on the north side.
Although the archers above also suffered heavy casualties.
However, it also attracted considerable attention from the Western Army on the city walls.
Therefore, the Western Xia people focused their main attack on the north.
It's not that we don't want to build a hill on the other three sides as well.
Rather, the work of building up the earthen mound is very extensive.
This earthen hill, which is slightly higher than the city wall, took more than ten days to build.
If we were to create four earthen mounds,
The Western Xia army no longer needed to besiege the city.
Everyone should go dig in the dirt.
The east and west city walls were overseen by Liu Zhongwu's sons, Liu Qi and Liu Xi.
To the south was General Yang Keshi.
Yang Keshi was a descendant of the Yang family generals.
However, the Yang family generals had already declined.
Yang Keshi, like him, rose through the ranks from the ranks of a soldier.
However, Yang Keshi was luckier than him.
He had always served under General Zhong.
No one would deny his military achievements.
He was also brave and skilled in battle.
Therefore, he became the Prefect of Huazhou during the Song Dynasty.
Like Han Shizhong,
Yang Keshi has just returned from Jiangnan.
Upon learning that the Western Xia army was about to cross the Hulu River,
He then brought troops to reinforce General Zhong.
Washington State, however, is not on the front lines.
He also does not need to be stationed in Washington state.
After defeating the Western Xia,
The Western Army will also have to accept the reorganization of the Great Liang.
The military system of the Great Liang Dynasty was simple.
There are no fifty-two steps like in the Song Dynasty.
Based on the merits of the Zhenrong Army,
He should be qualified as a centurion.
But a commander of ten thousand might not be enough.
There are too many centurions.
He wants to achieve even greater merit and become a commander of ten thousand men.
.....
Early the next morning
Han Shizhong then climbed onto the city wall.
Encourage the soldiers,
Prepare for another day of war.
But after waiting for half a day
However, no Western Xia troops came to attack the city.
There was no movement from other directions either.
A soldier suddenly shouted,
"General, there is smoke from the southeast."
Han Shizhong turned his head and looked over.
Sure enough, several plumes of smoke appeared on the horizon.
The numbers are changing.
One dish every now and then.
Three dishes in a short while
It keeps changing.
"The reinforcements from Weizhou should be arriving soon."
"Otherwise, the Western Xia people would have attacked the city."
The beacon fire was agreed upon by Zhong Shidao and Liu Zhongwu.
It was impossible for the Western Xia to lure their army out of the city by lighting beacon fires.
Because only Zhong Shidao and Liu Zhongwu knew about the changes in the number of beacon fires.
This method is very simple.
But it's also very practical.
Zhong Shidao did not need to send anyone to break through the Western Xia's encirclement to deliver the message.
The Western Xia people could not possibly decipher the changes in the beacon fires.
This tricked the garrison into leaving the city.
To break this method
They could only keep changing the way they set off signal fires every day.
The goal is to make it difficult for the defending troops to distinguish between the real and the fake.
But no one knows if the other party has made an agreement.
After no one sends troops,
They will keep sending out smoke signals to harass the enemy.
Sure enough, a cavalryman soon came running from the city and shouted from below the city walls.
"The Commander-in-Chief requests General Han to discuss matters."
Han Shizhong instructed his deputy to patrol carefully.
Having just descended from the city wall,
He rode his horse to the government office.
Arrived at the government office,
Then Liu Qi, Liu Xi, and Yang Keshi arrived.
Liu Zhongwu's two remaining sons also stood behind him.
Liu Qi and Liu Xi were the two most outstanding among Liu Zhongwu's nine sons.
Therefore, they can stand on their own.
Don't worry about being accused of nepotism.
This has always been the case among the generals of the Western Army.
They wouldn't put their mediocre son in a high position either.
Because that would not only kill his soldiers, but also...
It could also kill my son.
Chapter 1842 The Battlefield is Fair
The battlefield is fair to everyone.
She won't become gentle just because you come from a military family.
There may be instances of favoritism and corruption at the rear.