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Eight hundred and ninety-seven chapters battle (nine)

Zhao Huaiyi didn't say anything further.

Perhaps as the future king of Hezhou, he became an ordinary minister of the Song Dynasty, and his heart was lost. But what could he say? There were many Tubo people on the other side of the river. Their families were in Kangu, Agan City, and Mazhi Mountain. Why did he make them surrender?

It's enough.

Many Tubo people were even more shaken, and Hebin shouted: "Go ashore."

The Song army suppressed the Xixia people with more powerful bows and arrows on the boat, then climbed ashore and launched a charge towards the Xixia army. This battle is very similar to the battle of Miaochuan, and it is still a battle of attacking the heart. Maybe it is not out of power, but it is the favorite of Zhang Yue and Zheng Lang.

Liang Yongneng could not see the change in morale and continued to force his subordinates to counterattack the Song army. After all, his troops still had an absolute advantage at this time.

The facts disappointed him very much. The two armies began to confront each other because many Tubo people from Kangu in the army were unsteady, which instead affected the performance of the combat effectiveness of the Xixia people. Seeing soldiers falling down, some of the Tubo people began to flee.

Indeed, there was no need for them to work hard for the Xixia people.

On the contrary, some people fell down, but others were still brave enough to move forward. As most of the Song army climbed the river bank, it was like a sharp knife stabbed into the chest of the Western Xia army.

Liang Gewei's subordinates began to be defeated.

Unfortunately, He Bin had very few troops, so he still asked Liang Gewei to bring back more than 6,000 people. This was a helpless thing. But after this battle, Liang Yongneng no longer dared to attack Hezhou. The battle in Daxia River was only a small wave. Thousands of casualties reached a huge melee of thousands of miles in a radius of thousands of miles.

The distant Yanzhou finally sent troops, and at Zheng Lang's request, Zhong Yan returned to Yanzhou and sent troops to Jintang City.

This is also Zheng Lang’s concern.

It is not because of concern for Zhong Yan. Zhong Yan will not have any unconfused intentions towards Zheng Lang, but because of Guo Kui. If Guo Kui turns against Han Qi, he may not send troops. Or he will give Zhong Yan very little troops, regardless of which situation, it will be very unfavorable to the future battle situation.

The result was not very satisfied, nor too disappointed.

Guo Kui gave Zhong Yan 10,000 elite troops and attacked Jintang City. At this time, Jintang City was also stationed with a large number of Western Xia troops to restrain the Song army on Fuyan Road. Zheng Lang did not want to fight really. If it really started, the scale of the war would expand. With this year's situation, it would not be very beneficial to the Song Dynasty. However, the Xixia side may not want to develop into such a result. If the war started several times, there might be great victory, and they might all be defeated. It is good to destroy the Song Dynasty. But if it is a complete defeat, then all the foundations of the Liang family will be transformed into one. It is better to focus on the two points of Xizhou ancient Weicheng. Moreover, Zhong Yan's reputation is very fierce. It should not be underestimated.

In short, the two armies will have accidents inside and outside Jintang City, but the two sides may not hope to fight sincerely.

As for the other routes, Zheng Lang would not be too worried. He had a good relationship with the Zhe family army. Zhe Kexing obediently obeyed Zheng Lang's orders to go out of the deserted village and aimed at Yinzhou. Like Zhong Yan, it was the same, but it could be true or false. If the Xixia division of troops southward and the strength was weak, Zhe Kexing would not mind attacking Yinzhou. The occupation would not be able to occupy it, but he could plunder Yinzhou and withdraw troops calmly. As for Jintang City, it was even worse. If the troops in the city were weak, Zhong Yan would never mind taking the opportunity to take down Jintang City. This city is very close to the Security Army, and it could be defended if it could be taken down. It was always like a sharp knife, inserted between the Security Army and Qingzhou, which made the Song Dynasty very uncomfortable.

Wang Wenyu, the governor of Qingzhou, moved his troops towards Dashun City, pointing to Jintang City above and Baibao City west. This man was not dazzling in the battle of Jingyuan Road, so he made his fortune in Luowu City from Linfu Road. He was the direct descendant of Han Qi and recommended it to Han Qi. However, he was a little humble from his background and did not dare to participate in the fight between the two bigwigs casually. Although Zheng Lang was in ancient Weicheng, he had the right to take charge of the military, political and financial power of the entire northwest Shaanxi. Zheng Lang ordered him not to disobey.

Moreover, although his military talent is not as good as Zhe Kexing and Zhong Yan, he is also of Hebin, and is very weak, which is enough to calmly deal with this stalemate.

The long border between the Song Dynasty and Xixia gave the Song Dynasty a headache, but it also caused the Western Xia to be extremely troubled. No one knows who was restraining whom the two countries were deploying troops on the border.

Mainly on Jingyuan Road. As long as the Xixia suppresses the Song army on Jingyuan Road, it seems to have at least a seven-point chance of victory. If it cannot be restrained, 50% of them may be a loss.

Two guests came to Weizhou. The first guest was Zhang Shi. He also brought an imperial edict to replace Li Suzhi, the governor of Weizhou, as the new Jingyuan Road Pacification and Strategic Envoy, Weizhou. It was not that Li Suzhi was not competent. He came to Weizhou for more than a year, had good governance and was very stable in the territory. Even in terms of local governance, Li Suzhi was better than Zhang Shi. However, Li Suzhi was weak in military affairs. Zheng Lang was afraid of Li Su's mistakes, so he suggested that Zhao Xu directly let Zhang Shi replace him.

This is a very secretive mission and it was not made public until then.

In fact, even if it is made public, the people of Xixia may not care much. In the battle of Jingyuan Road, Zhang Yu was only the No. 3 person, and no one paid attention to his role.

There is another person who is even more mysterious.

The front was urgent and the handover was soon, and Zhang Qing began to preside over the overall military and political situation of Jingyuan Road. In addition to Zhang Qing's arrival in Weizhou, there were many other arrangements. Of course, Li Suzhi was a minister of the Zheng Lang faction, so he would not mislead Zheng Lang's affairs or deliberately leaked the secrets.

Following Zhang Yu, he came to Deshun Military City.

Here he met another group of mysterious guests, more than twenty old men. Then he pushed out another guest. When the old men saw this person, they all fell down and cried: "Prince Gaiwa..."

This guest is Mu Zheng's son Gai Wa, but his current name is Zhao Bingyi.

The news of Zhang Feng’s arrival in Weizhou is very confidential, and Zhao Bingyi’s arrival in Weizhou is even more confidential.

Next, it will be easy.

In order to rescue the ancient Weicheng, the Song Dynasty suddenly dispatched a 50,000 army from the Deshun army and rushed straight to Huining Pass from Luanggang City and Jingbian Village.

The leading generals were Zhou Yongqing and Zong Yi, and the deputy generals were Yao Yi and Yan Da.

People in Xixia know the power of Yan Da, Zhang Yu and Zhou Yongqing. Many people in the Xixia family may not care about Zhong Yi, but most people think that he relies on Zheng Lang to take office. In fact, on the contrary, the most famous of the eight horses of the Zhong family is Zhong Yan, but Zhong Yan has many flaws, such as being too cruel. The biggest flaw is selfishness. Among the generals of the Zhong family, Zheng Lang values ​​it most not Zhong Yan. It has nothing to do with his son-in-law.

This Song army emerged suddenly.

However, the people of Xixia continued to neglect. Jingyuan Road was originally a heavy army area of ​​the Song Dynasty. If it was secretly done from other areas, 50,000 troops could be drawn out. There was also the danger of Huining Pass. Kangu was lost, and the Song Dynasty had only time to build Ganquan Fort and Tong'an Village on the front line of the Deshun Army, because Huining Pass was too far away from Langgan City. It was discarded. When Zheng Lang was operating the northwest, Huining Pass was renovated and revitalized the ancient style of the heroic pass.

Originally, Huining Pass had more than 10,000 Xixia soldiers stationed in Huining Pass to restrain the Song army from Jingyuan Road. When he heard the Song army attack, he drew 5,000 troops from the rear, making the troops of this pass reach nearly 20,000, and then he stopped paying attention.

It is enough to guard Huining Pass for 20,000 people.

Moreover, under the attack of the Western Xia army, many walls of the ancient Weicheng were damaged. If Zheng Lang was not in charge in the city and boosting morale, the ancient Weicheng would have been taken down long ago. It seems that the ancient Weicheng has not been able to hold on for many days.

But it was not over. Later, Zhang Feng took action again and led Xiang Bao, Liu Zhongwu and other generals, as well as 20,000 Song troops, and 20,000 civilians who were escorting weapons and supplies to the city.

When the people of Xixia realized something was wrong, Zhong Yi and Yanda's armies were united and had already arrived at Huining Pass.

The Huining Passage Guardian Le Baoxi has not received any news that Zhang Shi personally sent troops.

He only saw that the Song army immediately came to Huining Pass with various siege equipment shortly after he settled the camp.

Mei Lebao was content with sensation. He was in danger of the pass and was not afraid of the attack of the Song army. Moreover, this pass was built by soldiers sent by Zheng Lang, which was undoubtedly a great irony for the Song people.

The flip starts from here.

In terms of qualifications, it is undoubtedly the least friendship, but his identity is very special. Yan Da stood in front of the army and said, "I don't know if Guanzhong is ready?"

Zhong Yi said: "Attack first and then talk about it."

"good."

The two armies took out various artillery and crossbows together and aimed at the top of the city. The bombing caused certain casualties to the soldiers of Huiningguan, but it was not fatal. The walls of Huiningguan were tall and strong, with casualties, not large.

Under the cover of the bombardment and shield soldiers from the rear, the Song army slowly came to the Huguan River to lay a floating bridge.

The most important thing in Huining Pass in the Tang Dynasty was that it was one of the eight central passes. It also had an extremely dazzling history. It was the largest ferry in the country of the Tang Dynasty for a period of time. It was either in the south of the Yangtze River or in Guanzhong, or in Huining Pass. Originally known as Wulanjin, it was also called Wulanjin. During the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Ulanjin County and Wulanguan were established by the Yellow River. Ulanguan managed the Ulanjin ferry. Due to its geographical location, Huining Pass was built on the south bank of the Yellow River. Most of the goods that traveled between the Tang Dynasty and the Western Regions had to pass here, and half of the commodities and military supplies to Qinghai had to pass through Ulanjin. Therefore, Huining Pass became an important transportation hub for the Tang Dynasty and a place of four. However, after the late Tang Dynasty, the glorious page of Huining Pass became a permanent history. By the Song Dynasty, the Yellow River directly turned northwest along the Ruzha Valley, leaving only a small river here. Without a big river, Huining Pass lost its value and significance.

However, in order to operate Lanzhou in the Song Dynasty, Huiningguan was still very important. This area is almost entirely hilly and mountainous, and sparsely populated. The existence of Huiningguan can be an important transit station on the nearest Wulan Road from Weizhou to Lanzhou. However, it has little significance for Xixia or Tubo.

If it weren't for Zheng Lang, this level wouldn't have been reproduced.

At sunset, it was during dinner that the Song army successfully built more than a dozen simple floating bridges. The main reason was that the people of Xixia were unprepared. There was an old Yellow River on the west side of Huining Pass. Although it was left into a small river, it would be very difficult to build a floating bridge on it. The Huguan River on the east side was led from this small river, but the construction of Huining Pass was to guard against the people of the northern Xixia, not to guard against themselves. Therefore, the Huguan River was not large when Zheng Lang built it. After the Xixia people arrived at Huining Pass, they did not build it.

Now it has alleviated the difficulty of the Song army building floating bridges. Some narrow areas can even be passed by trench bridges. However, in order to seize speed, the two men of Yan did not prepare trench bridges. But they were prepared to make another thing on the spot, stacked bridges. This was invented by the Jin people in history. They used wood to tie a simple wooden raft to float on the water surface, covered with a layer of dry firewood and a layer of reed mats, and finally paved with soil. This method of stacking bridges to get the way is not only cheap, easy to build, has very strong anti-strike ability, and cannot enter the arrow and stone cannons. Zheng Lang brought this technology to the northwest, and Wang Shao occasionally used it when he attacked Huangzhou.

However, when Zhong Yi saw that the Xixia people on the top of the city were not moving, he was too lazy to create such a stacked bridge.

The floating bridge was paved, and the Song army began to attack Huiningguan despite the fatigue of coming from a distance.

When Mei Le Baoxi saw it, she felt very happy. If the Song army had used artillery to shoot through the moat, Mei Le Baoxi would have been useless. But when he arrived at the city, Huining Pass had already prepared countless weapons, giving the Song people a huge surprise.

He didn't know the cost of artillery, and the artillery could not be knocked down by Huiningguan, so he would have to rely on force to attack in the end.

The Song army arrived in Huining Pass.

Mei Le Baoxi ordered his men to fight back, and countless wooden rocks and arrows fell together.

This time, the Song army finally suffered casualties.

But unlike the ancient Weicheng, there are many Song soldiers here. Not only are there 50,000 troops here, but there are also military soldiers coming out of the Changgan City behind them, so the Song army is very confident.

Gradually, various siege ladders were placed on the top of the city.

As the sky gradually faded, the two armies were fighting tragically at the top and bottom of the gates.

At this moment, a few people in the Xixia army crowded together intentionally or unintentionally, winked each other, and suddenly pulled up weapons and killed their comrades.

This incident made Mei Le Baoxi stunned. Why did her family kill her?
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