The Tangut people had nothing left to prepare, the army of the Great Song Dynasty had already surrounded the entire Xingqing Mansion, and the Beiwei army and the Tabai army appeared almost suddenly at the end of the horizon, in the warm daylight.

The black iron stream obscured the daylight, and the afterglow peeked out from behind them to give people a god-like shock, and at the same time, there were soldiers like a tide, and the neat phalanx continued to advance towards Xingqing Mansion.

It can be said that the surprise attack of the Great Song Dynasty was unexpected, and when Ouyang Xiu had just left Xingqing Mansion for half a day, the army of the Great Song Dynasty suddenly encircled and suppressed Xingqing Mansion.

Under the influence of Zhao Zhen for many years, the strategic thinking of the Great Song Dynasty has changed greatly, and the speed of the soldiers has become the primary law.

Everything in the world is in motion. Zhao Zhen is well aware of the reason, in the past, the formation diagram that bound the generals was abandoned, and the generals arranged the troops, and the formations used were all in his mind.

In terms of operations, generals, generals, commanders, have greater flexibility.

In Zhao Zhen's view, the art of war of the ancients is obviously the crystallization of wisdom, and his training of the army is nothing more than the four characters of wind, forest and volcano.

Since Sun Tzu's Art of War has been passed down for thousands of years, it must have its uniqueness, and the four characters of this wind forest and volcano contain its essence.

The Great Song army did exactly this, and its movements were as fast as a galloping wind; Slow marching, its ranks are as orderly as the forest of trees; Invasion and plunder, like the fierceness of fire, cannot be stopped; If the garrison is stubborn, it is like the solidity of the mountains, which cannot be shaken.

Don't look at these simple four words, simple four sentences, but it is difficult to make hundreds of thousands of troops do it accurately.

The South Road, the West Road, and the East Road Army of the Great Song Dynasty are all in one place, which is all the elite forces in Zhao Zhen's hands.

Xingqing Mansion is the capital of the Western Xia, which brings together all the key points of the Western Xia, the royal family of the Dangxiang people, the nobles of the Dangxiang people, the ministers, the relatives, the politics, the culture and the economy, all of which are included in this small Xingqing Mansion.

The 300,000 troops of the Great Song Dynasty, Chen soldiers pressed the border, this is forcing the party to make the final decisive battle, in this era, the capital of a country is the foundation of a country, once the capital of the country falls, the country is basically finished.

Of course, it may be okay for the Great Song Dynasty, which is vast and can move its capital to the south of the Yellow River, where the Great Song Dynasty can still continue and prosper, but the control of the north is completely lost, but for the nomadic people like Dangxiang, it is a catastrophe.

Since crossing the Ulan Mulun River, the main task of the enemy army is to find and annihilate the main force of Western Xia, this 500,000 army is not only a thorn in Zhao Sheng's heart, but also a big trouble in Di Qing's heart.

This was the last strength of Western Xia and his trump card. Once this 500,000 army is wiped out, it will definitely make Western Xia have no power to resist, from Li Yuanhao to Wu Zang, the only thing they have in common is to protect the elite from competing with the Great Song Dynasty.

In doing so, although a large amount of land will be lost, but it retains the strength of the whole line, the immediate threat is not terrible, what is terrible is the sharp blade that is ready to shoot at any time in the dark, if the party counterattack is successful, the Great Song Dynasty will face a failure.

This is also the reason why Zhao Zheng wanted to mobilize retired veterans from the country to garrison the cities that had been captured, and this point, the Western Xia people obviously did not expect.

The Tangut people didn't understand why the army of the Great Song Dynasty suddenly assembled and appeared outside Xingqing Mansion? He frowned, he still had an army of 300,000 in his hands, how could the Song people dare to launch an attack on Xingqing Mansion.

There is no 500,000 army in the hands of the unconcealed Pang, this is all the strength of Western Xia, and the soldiers stationed in the various military divisions are also counted among the 500,000 people, although there is not much head-to-head confrontation with the Great Song Dynasty, but even so the loss of soldiers is enough to tens of thousands of people, there are 100,000 defenders in Xingqing Mansion, and the rest of the army is wandering around Xingqing Mansion and waiting to move.

They were a sharp weapon to restrain the Great Song Dynasty, and once exposed, it would be the destruction of Western Xia, which is why he hid this army.

In the opinion of the Song people, the attack on Xingqing Mansion was obviously irrational, so didn't they worry about being caught between Xingqing Mansion and the party army that was wandering outside?

Among the Great Song army on the other side, Xia Zhu, as a supervising army, was rarely strong and persistent, stepping on a war horse and looking fully armed and ready to fight with the army.

This made Di Qing, as the commander, frightened, in case this old man died on the battlefield, how should he explain to the officials? Yang Huaiyu, who was on the side, was not a big deal when he saw the excitement, and handed the horizontal knife he was wearing to Xia Zhu with a smile and said, "Xia Jianjun, let's use my horizontal knife!" Your ritual knife is not suitable for combat. ”

The long horizontal road, weighing ten catties, could not be wielded by a literati like Xia Zhu at will, Xia Zhu almost fell off the horse after taking the horizontal knife.

"You don't play with the old man's heavy horizontal knife, how can the old man make it."

Yang Huaiyu explained in his heart: "There is a fixed number of horizontal knives in the army, if it is too light, it cannot kill the enemy, if it is too heavy, it cannot be wielded, and in the same way, there are also requirements for the arm strength of the soldiers......

Xia Zhu glanced at Di Qing helplessly, and then at Yang Huaiyu, he knew what this meant, but he still said stubbornly: "Ahem...... This is a war to destroy the country, how can the old man have a reason not to fight? ”

Yes, the destruction of the Western Xia has always been the top priority of the Great Song Dynasty, Xia Zhu is the supervisor of the army, this is a great opportunity for him to make war exploits, even if he is a literati who cannot fight in the Great Song Dynasty, as long as he goes to the battlefield, he can be regarded as having military merits, and after returning to the dynasty, the scenery is infinite, not to mention that this kind of war of destroying the country is an immortal achievement!

No one understands the significance of this war to him better than Xia Zhu, Pang Ji is getting older, it is the same, his age is not small, if he can't seize this opportunity, after returning to the dynasty, he will always be able to stay in the position of deputy prime minister.

Xia Zhu is confident, no one in the court can match his qualifications and prestige, this is his best chance, but also his last chance, if even such an official family does not give him Xuanma to worship the prime minister, then his career will come to an end, Xia Zhu's mentality has changed, he was not originally obsessed with Xuanma worship as he grows older, but his desire for the phase is getting bigger and bigger, in fact, what he covets is not the right, but the glory and status, so as to leave a strong mark in the history books.

Di Qing and Yang Huaiyu glanced at each other, they both understood the current mood of the old man, on the battlefield of the Western Expedition to Western Xia, in addition to the soldiers who used their lives on the battlefield, it was he Xia Zhu who was the most concerned, he solved countless troubles for the army, so that the army had no worries.

The two shook their heads almost at the same time, Yang Huaiyu sent his own personal soldiers to Xia Zhu, this is the elite veteran soldiers of the Yang family, even Di Qing's personal soldiers are not comparable, but Di Qing pretended not to see it, and began to give orders to the army to attack the city.