The speed of the Southern Route Army all the way to the siege is staggering, the siege is different from other wars, it will consume a lot of time, as well as manpower and material resources in it, this is not a simple fight, but the soldiers will block the water to the Tutun mode of operation.

But in front of the artillery of the Great Song Dynasty, the Xixia people who originally occupied the land became a live target, and the commander of the Southern Route Army was a kind of Shiheng who was quite familiar with this place, but the deputy marshal was a family member who was not expected by anyone, and he was only loyal.

This person is the last person of the older generation of the Zhi family, the other brothers died cleanly, and the descendants of the Zhi family have not yet risen, but this time they are all in the army.

Obviously, the Zhejia family hopes to pave the way for their descendants to be among the generals of the Great Song Dynasty through this western expedition, at least to turn the grace on their heads into a real job, even if it is in the imperial front class and standing in the middle of the class, it is better than doing nothing at home with the grace of the father's shadow!

Jiangmen is like this, pinning all his hopes on the juniors, preferring them to die on the battlefield rather than having fun at home, bringing the whole family to destruction, and under the influence of Zhao Zhen on the clan, the children of Jiangmen have long ceased to be the same as they used to be. This is a good sign and a good start.

The most in the Southern Route Army are the sons and nephews in the Jiangmen, and it can even be said that they are related to each other, such as the Zhe family and the Yang family, and the Zhuang family and the Yang family, all of which are more or less related by marriage.

In order to give the younger generations of the clan the opportunity to train, and also to enable them to strive for more military merits, these three families can be said to be a group in the true sense, and the trust and care between each other have also reached an unprecedented height.

But none of them know, in fact, this is Zhao Zhen deliberately, if you want to let Jiangmen unite to participate in the war, the interests are still indispensable, the Southern Route Army seems to be a foot soldier, and the action and combat power are not as fast as the east and west, but they are the main force attacking Western Xia.

The most difficult thing for a country to destroy is these cities, these cities will become the "hard bones" of the Great Song Dynasty's attack, and the Southern Route Army of the Great Song Dynasty is to gnaw the sharp blades of these hard bones.

What the Southern Route Army did was to attack according to Di Qing's plan, and as long as they took a city, there would be a border army of the Great Song Dynasty to garrison, and a large number of laborers came to repair the city wall.

It seems a bit ironic that the Great Song Dynasty continued to destroy the walls of Western Xia with artillery, and then used soldiers to fight and capture the city, and after the capture, it was to transfer troops to garrison and repair the defenses, which seemed to be doing repetitive things......

But in the eyes of these generals such as Shiheng, all this is a great time-saving, the city defense of the Western Xia people does not have to be bad in the Great Song Dynasty, the city is strong, the garrison is sufficient, if the Great Song army carries out conventional siege operations, it will lose a large number of soldiers, and there is more than one city in front of the Southern Route Army, and a large number of soldiers will be lost for each capture, which no one can afford.

Now with the help of artillery, the artillery that opens mountains and cracks rocks can completely destroy the city wall, so that the Great Song Dynasty can pay a very small price to reduce the cost of attacking, compared to using human lives to fill in, what is the money?

After completely taking the city, he ordered the troops that were originally stationed on the border of Song and Xia to come and station, and these troops would bring a large amount of labor to repair these destroyed cities.

The Southern Route Army, on the other hand, would continue to advance and form a continuous offensive, and this steady and steady strategy was most suitable for the foot soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty, because the presence of garrisons and cities in the rear would make their hearts extremely stable.

In a war, the lone army is the most terrible, there are cities and garrisons in the rear, which is to ensure the logistics and supply of the army, which can be easily transported without worrying about the future.

Cities were taken by the Great Song Dynasty, which means that the control of the Western Xia over their own land is constantly decreasing, in the era of cold weapons, all the land is concentrated around the city, of course, the current Western Xia does not have much good land, the most important thing in their hands is the grassland, because the grassland can raise horses, can be turned into farmland.

But obviously the Tangut people will not give up so much, even if the city is broken, it is still a bloody battle to the end, this is a war of attack for the Great Song Dynasty, but for the Tangut people it is a battle for survival, even if the court is corrupt, even if there is not enough to eat in the land of the Tangut, but compared to the country that the party members have built up with great difficulty, they will naturally do their best for her.

Because the existence of Western Xia is related to the life and death of every party member, the people of this era are simple, they do not believe in the halo of benevolence on Zhao Zhen's head, even if the Great Song army sent them the news of disarming and not killing, they still insisted on defending their homeland with their lives.

In the face of national disasters, people often abandon some precious things to save their homes, such as lives......

The elite troops of the Western Xia finally appeared, and when the Southern Route Army encountered the Western Xia Iron Harriers connected by iron chains, they finally discovered the horror of the party cavalry.

This is the elite of the party, and it is also the trump card in Li Yuanhao's hand, the iron harrier is wearing armor similar to the Great Song Dynasty, but the weight of these armors is much heavier than that of the Great Song Dynasty, which is an improvement made by the party members when they found that their plate armor was not as good as the Great Song Dynasty.

The heavily armed knights, coupled with a full set of horse armor, made the horses extremely tired, and the Tanguts could only keep the horses at a relatively low speed, and even so, the sound made when a large number of horses galloped was amazing, and of course the inertia was also extremely amazing.

These iron harriers are twisted with hooks and ropes, and they do not fall even if they die. In case of battle, the iron cavalry will break through the formation first, and the chaos will impact it; The infantry marched on horseback. Their impact on the Great Song Army Formation was almost devastating, and even with the protection of the Mo Sword Formation, they still had no spare strength in the face of heavy armor.

This iron harrier is the hole card in Li Yuan's hand, and it is used in the most critical place, the infantry against the cavalry is a loss, and the southern route army is mainly infantry, supplemented by a small number of cavalry, at this time these cavalry rushed to the iron harrier without hesitation, and the result was killed......

The hoplite cavalry is still the king of the battlefield in this era, and the Great Song army began to organize an effective resistance after losing some soldiers, because the Great Song Dynasty had infantry armor soldiers who did not belong to the hoplite cavalry at all!

The long Mo knife was inserted into the hard earth to form a steel jungle, which was the most effective tactic against cavalry charges, and although the Western Xia Iron Harrier had an amazing defense, it also exposed flaws and a lack of mobility.

This is a confrontation between infantry and cavalry, and there are many ways to do it in the Great Song Dynasty! After all, it has been fighting against cavalry for many years, how can there be no way to deal with it?