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The Western Xia army suffered 80,000 casualties.
Chapter 1838 Firearms Deployed
In the middle of this, Chage sent someone to persuade Liu Zhongwu to surrender.
The promised official position was raised further.
However, Liu Zhongwu remained unmoved.
He also shot and killed Chage's envoy with an arrow.
It wasn't that Brother Cha didn't want to personally persuade Liu Zhongwu to surrender.
Rather, it was Liu Zhongwu's superior archery skills.
He also had a son, Liu Qi, whose archery skills were even more superb.
Liu Qi's archery skills were widely rumored in Western Xia.
In recent days, Liu Qi has killed several hundred Western Xia soldiers.
Brother Cha didn't want him to become one of them.
A banquet,
Everyone wanted to see Liu Qi's archery skills.
Liu Qi then had a kettle hung up.
First, shoot an arrow, and after pulling it out, water will continuously flow out of the arrow hole.
Liu Qi fired another arrow.
They immediately plugged the hole left by the previous arrow.
The water stopped flowing out.
Actually, Brother Cha also knew that the fight would end halfway through.
Neither the Western Army nor the Western Xia troops dared to surrender.
A few years ago, Liu Fa attacked Xia Renduo in Quancheng.
After fighting for more than ten days,
The Western Xia garrison could not wait for reinforcements.
They then opened the city gates and surrendered.
As a result, Liu Fa ordered the massacre of the surrendered garrison soldiers in the city.
Then, after the Western Xia captured Jingxia City...
They also massacred all the garrison troops in the city.
After these two battles,
No one dared to surrender anymore.
Surrender failed.
Chage could only continue besieging the Zhenrong Army.
The Zhenrong Army can bypass them.
However, the Zhenrong Army contained over ten thousand elite Western Army soldiers.
Chage dared not leave them behind to attack Weizhou.
Moreover, the other route also failed to defeat De Shun's army.
After discussing it with Li Qianshun,
They decided to launch a two-pronged attack on the city, regardless of the cost.
Half of the troops in the Deshun Army and Zhenrong Army were from the Zhong family army.
The rest were Western Army troops that had retreated from Jiangnan.
They originally intended to take advantage of the fact that most of the Western Army was in Jiangnan.
They preemptively wiped out the Zhong family army.
Unexpectedly, the Western Army soldiers rushed back desperately.
They actually managed to return before they besieged the city.
After the Western Xia confirmed the great chaos in the Central Plains,
They quickly assembled their troops.
They assembled their troops very quickly.
A single sentence: "Dynastic change in the Central Plains"
All the men from each tribe will soon be gathered together.
The 400,000-strong army consisted of only three military commands: Jingse, Xishoubaotai, Zhuozhuan, and Nan.
Including the troops from Xingqing Prefecture and Lingzhou,
The total is no more than 250,000.
The remaining 150,000 troops were soldiers spontaneously organized by nearby tribes.
As the population of Western Xia gradually increased...
It's no longer the era of universal conscription at the founding of the nation.
Each tribe has a large number of empty men.
Li Qianshun only promised a large reward.
This led everyone to take up arms.
Even if all 400,000 people are scorched...
The Western Xia could also organize an army of 400,000.
However, the Zhenrong Army and the Deshun Army represented all of Lao Zhong's resources.
As long as the Zhong family army is wiped out.
Once only one old seed remains, it's no longer useful.
Old Zhong was a skilled strategist.
But if one person goes into battle...
A few Western Xia warriors could have cut off his head.
The Western Xia also had another force of 200,000 troops assembled in Hongzhou.
Led by Renzhong, the Prince of Pu of Western Xia,
However, since Hengshan was captured by the Northern Song Dynasty,
The terrain became even more treacherous.
Therefore, Renzhong had been trying to bribe the officers of Huanqing Road and Fuyan Road.
In order to find a breakthrough and enter Shaanxi.
A few days ago, Renzhong sent news...
Xue Sichang, the military commissioner of Huanqing Road, has agreed to surrender to Western Xia.
Renzhong originally intended to immediately lead his troops into Shaanxi.
The three roads surround Jingyuan Road.
However, Chage remembered that the King of Liang of Daliang was going to bring troops to reinforce the Western Army.
So let Renzhong take a break.
When the King of Liang of Daliang arrived in Weizhou,
Then they marched out along Huanqing Road.
The three armies joined forces to encircle Jingyuan Road.
At that time, we will not only need to capture the old fox,
We also need to capture the King of Liang.
He hadn't considered that he wouldn't be able to handle the Liang army.
The Western Xia spies have already gathered the information.
The Great Liang refers to a group of bandits from Liangshan, a place in eastern Beijing, who captured Emperor Huizong (Zhao Ji) and his court officials.
Then they tricked Tokyo and destroyed the Song Dynasty.
The mighty Western Xia army could not possibly be defeated by a band of bandits.
They still used an army of 600,000 to surround 100,000 bandits.
In truth, Emperor Huizong (Zhao Ji) deserved it.
He actually dug a tunnel to secretly meet a courtesan.
That's not a tunnel.
Those were graves dug for the Song Dynasty.
A few days ago, news also came from Yelü Dashi of the Liao Kingdom.
The Liao emperor personally led the expedition.
As a result, they were defeated by the firearms of the Great Liang, suffering thousands of casualties.
Then the emperor withdrew his troops.
Yelü Dashi also warned them to be careful of the firearms of Daliang.
Chage had long known that the Liao Dynasty was declining.
The rebellion of Bubu in previous years,
It took eight years for the Liao Dynasty to quell the rebellion.
The Western Xia also sent troops to provide assistance.
In recent years, the rebellions of the Jurchen and Bohai people have kept the Liao Dynasty busy.
After hearing that the Liao emperor had also personally led the campaign, Chage...
They had given up all hope for the Liao Dynasty.
The Battle of Hubudagang
An army of 700,000 was defeated by 20,000 Jurchens.
With such an emperor hindering them,
No matter how capable Yelü Dashi and his men were...
I'm afraid they won't be able to fully utilize their abilities.
The firearms of the Song Dynasty, such as the cha-ge, are not unfamiliar.
It has some power.
However, it was not enough to affect the course of the battle.
The bandits of Daliang certainly couldn't manufacture firearms.
They simply looted some firearms from the Song Dynasty.
Chapter 1839 Let's go!
The Liao and Song dynasties had not fought a war for a century.
None of the soldiers had ever seen Song Dynasty firearms.