In the direction of Yaode City, Qu Duan finally completed a qiē preparation, and he personally took charge of Mengjing City and issued an offensive order against Xiping Mansion.

Wu Jue led the seventh battalion Shengjie and Guangrui to attack, and the first batch of forbidden troops to the north had more than 35,000 people and 25,000 township troops.

The 52nd Brigade Town was assigned to Wu Jue, as the forward force, with two forbidden armies and the township army horse barracks, 4,000 archers of the Huanqing Township Army, and tens of thousands of troops under the command of Li Shifu, and the Xiangqing Army was killed to Xiping Mansion.

In this era, you can control 100,000 troops to fight, and you are already a top general, not that the Son of Heaven does not give you so many soldiers, but you really can't control it.

The 100,000-strong army is overwhelming, and the march and battle require dozens of miles of company battalions, and the mere transfer of communications will make people worry to death, not to mention the battlefield with ever-changing information? can command 20,000 or 30,000 people to fight, that is a rare famous general.

Wang Xiu established the framework of the camp in order to coordinate the operation, the largest camp under the jurisdiction of the three armies is the limit, the reason why Xie Qian can manipulate more than 100,000 troops to fight, is because it is divided into three independent camps, he is only for strategic guidance.

Each camp has its own strategic direction, and the three of them are under control and divided by more than 100,000 people, which is relatively much easier. In addition, the establishment of the military system also strengthens the control of the generals, and even in this case, it is difficult to achieve perfection.

Li Shifu is certainly a famous general, but he commands troops with extremely high technical content, and the coordination of the arms is very complicated, more than ten times that of the infantry army, and it is not so good to say that he commands 10,000 people, but in fact, what he really controls is the 52nd Brigade Town and the two horse battalions attached to it, and the 4,000 archers are all follow-up troops, responsible for covering the rear of the car brigade, with almost no combat missions, and there is also greater autonomy in action.

Wu Jue controlled the main force, Shengjie and Guangrui were on the left and right flanks, and the township army was in the middle. The Yunyi Army, which originally belonged to the Eighth Row Battalion, also followed behind the Seventh Row Battalion as a reserve for the entire army.

For no reason, he is still biased towards Wu Jue, although his arrangement of troops has the advantage of concentrating troops, but Liu Yanqing will be the rear guard, but Wu Jie has become a general at the front.

Of course, Liu Yanqing's responsibilities are also very important, he needs to lead his troops to sit in Yaode City and protect the safety of the entire baggage transfer channel.

On the fifth day of the opening of the army in front, Quduan issued an order again, concealed the assembly of 50,000 township troops on standby, began to carry a large number of equipment and materials, and went north in batches, along the Lingzhou River, and continued to set up Dazhai and establish field fortifications.

Just when the Song army launched an offensive, the 52nd Brigade Town advanced rapidly, and the Xia army guarded the camp along the way, with almost no strength to resist, and every qiē was trampled by the iron hooves of the Song army's war horses, and the small force of the Xia army wanted to attack the rear of the Song army, but encountered the archers of the township army and could not attack the rear of the car brigade.

The archers of the township army are not archers, the archers are local security officers, but the archers are organized township regiments, and their combat effectiveness is not weak, not to mention the Huanqing archers, how can those stragglers be opponents.

It only took four days to advance to the territory of Xiping Mansion, less than seventy miles away from the capital of Xiping Mansion, but Li Liangfu and Gu Lihei were greatly surprised.

Since the Song army is moving north quickly, it will be easy to do, it is time to attack their baggage transfer channel, Gulihei has already concentrated tens of thousands of horse troops, ready to wait for the main force of the Song army to arrive in Xiping Mansion, and begin to attack between Yaode City and Pule City.

It must be said that their plan is perfect, tens of thousands of Song troops go north, they need to carry a large number of siege equipment, and the 20,000 township troops are protected by two armies, because they want to carry equipment, there are more than 1,000 carts alone, and there are not many resources in the territory of Xiping Mansion, so they can only prepare with the army themselves.

More than 70,000 people plus the consumption of war horses is definitely a sky-high supply, once it is cut off, the consequences can be imagined.

However, they were happy too early, Kan Xian led a thousand horsemen to spy deep into the south of Pule City, but was surprised to find that the Song army marched north in a huge queue, with tens of thousands of troops, which made him startled, could it be the Song army in the second echelon? If yes, that's the real big deal.

What I didn't expect was that the other party actually took down Dazhai dozens of miles, followed by a continuous transfer team. Kan Xian suddenly understood that the Song army was establishing a stable transshipment channel, indicating that they were really supporting the north, and it was no longer a matter of largesse but a joint venture, and Xiping Mansion was really dangerous.

Think about the main force of the Xia army in the east, and there are only more than 30,000 soldiers and horses stationed inside and outside Xiping Mansion, once the Song army takes Xiping Mansion, Xingqing Mansion will be completely exposed.

He immediately led his army to join Gulihei, and Gulihei was also surprised, but he still decided to fight, taking advantage of the fact that the Song army was heading north, he concentrated eight thousand cavalry to attack, almost all the elite horse troops near Xiping Mansion, and it was also the last army that Gulihei pulled out from Weizhou and Yaodecheng with all his might.

That battle was a battle under the personal command of Qu Duan, completely by the main force of the township army, the Xia army of 8,000 cavalry is not much, but they are all elite horse army, the advantages of small but fine troops, have been vividly and vividly played.

The tens of thousands of Song troops were all township troops without battlefields, and the vast majority of them were infantry troops, even if they were horse troops, they were all mules and horses, unable to carry out complex roundabout maneuvers, and it was very difficult to command.

It was also a very coincidental fact that Qu Duan did not stay in Mengjing City, but went north to inspect the camp on the spot, urging the township army troops to advance quickly, but he didn't expect the Xia army to suddenly attack.

The battle was very hot from the beginning, the Xia army more than 1,000 cavalry covered the flank, and the Huanqing Township army formed a formation to resist, desperately buying time for the friendly army to form a formation.

The Xia army repeatedly rushed and killed several times, and every time the 4,000 Huanqing Township army was scattered, they all stubbornly gathered and used their heads to resist the charge of the Ma army. It is impossible not to be commendable, the endurance of the border township army is admirable, they can continue to gather strength under difficult conditions, and if they are replaced by the township army in the west of Beijing and Beijing, and even the township army in eastern Shaanxi, I am afraid that they will collapse in one round.

With the continuous investment of troops in Gulihei, the frontal strength of the Xia army reached 3,000, and more than 1,000 people were also invested in the two wings, and the pressure on the Song army was very great.

Qu Duan was both excited and worried in the face of heavy pressure, they were setting up camp, and it was also the most vulnerable time, Xia Jun had a good grasp of the time, and he had to rush to the battle. The advantage is that it is a good time to kill and injure the Xia army and horse army, as long as it can severely damage the Xia army and horse army, it can not only relieve the pressure of the transfer channel, but also reduce the pressure of eastward expansion, even if it is worth fighting tens of thousands of township army soldiers.

There were more than 20,000 Song troops on the battlefield, and soldiers and horses were arriving one after another, but the shape was not optimistic.