Being stationed outside in the freezing cold is difficult for any army.

Today's Great Song Dynasty, although it is considered advanced, is not wide enough for them to fight with bars and heating like the American army in later generations.

But this must be overcome. There is news that the main force of Manba has left Xining Prefecture and has taken the initiative to attack. Therefore, the Song army is suffering, and the Western Xia army is also suffering, which is a competition of will and hardship.

The heavy snow blockade is a vast white expanse, which is difficult for the Song and Xia sides to carry out effective reconnaissance, everything depends on guessing and trying.

In the early hours of December 27, the snow fell heavier. From the Xuanwei position in the north, there were constant military reports: Di Yong's department had been officially attacked.

The heavy snow and the night battle, according to the military report, the scale of the battle is not large, but now no one can judge: how many Western Xia troops are attacking the Xuanwei position?

Isn't it the main force of the manga?

Is the Fire Dragon Cluster ready for immediate deployment?

These are the questions that Mu Guiying is struggling with in the handsome tent.

As a last resort, he woke up the sleeping Great Demon King and told him about the current situation.

When Wang Yan heard this, he waved his hand and said: "Let him go, don't command, don't interfere, let the three of them fight by themselves." This time it's a false move, and a person who is so good at making great achievements will not have the intention of breaking through now. But to fight the Di Yong Corps in the north? So it's a bluff. Unless he really wanted to run, he needed to return to Western Xia from the shortest route before he needed to fight Di Yongbu. ”

After speaking, I planned to get a bowl of soup and medicine to drink Shuangshuang, but I found that the medicine I was carrying was gone, but the new supply had not yet been delivered. So I had to fall asleep again.

By late at night, the pressure on Di Yong's position was relieved, and the Western Xia offensive slowed down.

By the afternoon of the 27th, in the central Suiyuan area, Chen Ergou's corps also suffered a larger-scale impact from the Western Xia Army.

At this point, the people of the entire Shuai Tent Command Headquarters were shocked by the sleeping Great Demon King, and the true god man was also, he only saw through the baa in an instant, and now since Chen Ergou's position was attacked in such a short time, of course last night's battle was not the main attack, it was trial and error.

It's daytime now, and from Chen Ergou's military report, the Western Xia army is overwhelming, and whether it is the main attack or not needs to be judged by the Great Demon King.

So he woke up again.

The Great Demon King still said to leave him alone, there was no reason to dare to bet on a trial and error, he bleated Di Yong and Chen Ergou, nothing more than to threaten Chen Ergou's department with the "main force input form" to set up a suspicious formation, and then test the time difference and efficiency of the response and rescue of the Song Army's various units, as well as the hidden back moves.

Of course, it is necessary to collect data in order to provide technical support for the tactics of Manba when it comes to real betting.

"Regardless of him, let them fight by themselves in the first ten battles, don't wake me up, I'm a traitor, I don't want to die on the battlefield at this time!"

This is the answer of the Great Demon King in his illness......

It lasted until the late night of the 29th, and the Baa Department launched high-frequency attacks on the three positions of Xuanwei, Suibian, and Baosai, and engaged as many as 15 times in total.

It did cause a certain degree of battle damage to all units of the Song Army, and the morale of the volunteers declined to a certain extent.

So far, flintlock pistols have not been very effective in the bitter cold. The chance of not hitting is much higher than usual. Even if it starts, it is limited to the cold and rigid hands and feet of the soldiers, and the connection of the four-stage attack is very difficult.

Even if it is slowed down to a five-stage form, it is difficult to effectively connect it, and objectively speaking, the Great Demon King did not expect the need for a decisive battle in the cold in the early days, so the research and development and preparation of armaments were not sufficient.

In the three combat clusters, there are not many people who are really frostbitten so far, but when the Manba Legion is attacking, in order to maintain fire suppression and slow down the damage caused by the Xixia Divine Arm Bow to the Song army, some soldiers' hands can stick to the barrel when they touch the barrel during the loading process, causing heavy injuries to the hands.

This is the situation of severe cold, the shortage of combat armaments. And over time, losses like these will get worse and worse.

During this period, Wang Yan woke up again and demanded: engagement is secondary, and the work of the instructors of each department to maintain the mood of the army and care for the soldiers is the most important.

The Song army was difficult, and the Western Xia army would not be easy, and the Song army had the advantages of high nutrition and compressed military rations, as well as a small amount of coke supply. But even if the Tangut people were able to adapt to the cold, they were limited. At about the same time, the Tanguts will no longer be patient, and then the decisive battle will not be far away......

By the evening of the 31st, in the Majinsi defense area in the south, the Battle of Baosai began.

Unlike in the past, Ma Jinxi's military report was strange, and this attack seemed to be unimpressive. But he has been on the battlefield for a long time, and has fought with the Manba Army many times, Ma Jinxi also has a "sense of war", and the previous few battles with the Western Xia Army were loud, and all kinds of deterrent horns created a feeling of beacon fire company camp. But the battle was not urgent, and it gave people the impression that the Tangut people were not hard-hearted.

However, this time is different, the momentum is not much, because it is night, it is not easy to judge the scale for the time being, but I feel that tonight's Western Xia Army is more impactful, which has caused the battle losses of the Western Xia Army to be higher than the previous times, but it is still impacting.

After receiving the military report, the Great Demon King dragged his sick body to get up, and looked at the military area map in a trembling state.

It's a little bit of a feeling.

After many battles, Manba has some confidence in the state of the Song army, and in terms of time, it is true that Manba has entered a period that cannot be delayed.

Judging from the location, he didn't want to run, but wanted to establish hegemony for his monarch Li Liangzuo, so he didn't hit Di Yong's position in the north, nor did he fight Chen Ergou's position in the middle.

In the early days, Chen Ergou, who was in the middle of the fight, should have wanted to test the corresponding speed and distance of the support of the two Song army clusters in the north and south, and after knowing it in his heart, he would never hit the middle when he really fought.

Because the central location is determined: there will be two clusters in the north and south to support.

Now he chose to fight Ma Jinsi, who was close to Huangshui, and from a distance, it should be Manbaa more of the previous trial and error situation, and he was sure to resist Chen Ergou's support and eat Ma Jinsi in one fell swoop. As for Di Yong, because of the farther distance, it was impossible to quickly enter the battlefield in the state of infantry in the ice and snow.

That's why Manba chose to play "side".

Wang Yan stared at the map and thought: If Manba eats Ma Jinxi's department quickly, it is equivalent to leaving Chen Ergou and Di Yong's two clusters behind, and Manba can rely on the cavalry to drive straight in, the fastest speed, the shortest straight-line distance to the Zongcheng base, and eat the remnants of the strength of the man!

These are the model deductions in Wang Yan's braincase, and at this point, the time for a decisive battle under Wang Yan's cognition should be ripe.

It could have been a little longer, waiting for more signals from the Makin-sa position to be confirmed. In that case, although it will cause more battle losses to Ma Jinxi's troops, it will be more stable in terms of strategy for the overall battle situation.

But Wang Yan didn't have time, and the truth was that he was already very sick. It is already fortunate to be able to stand now, but Wang Yan is afraid that he will now fall into a coma, so that there will be a rupture at the command level, and there will be more serious command mistakes.

"I think the time is basically ripe for the decisive battle, and it's not the best yet, but it can be fought."

"Remember tonight...... From now on, it will be the New Year in more than two hours, and it will be the most critical battle since my Song army entered the Hehuang battlefield, and even the battle that will determine the fate of the Great Song Dynasty. ”

"I officially give the order to deploy for a decisive battle. Everything went according to the details I had laid out earlier. I may have made a mistake, but I will be responsible if I give the order. I hope that all the officers and men of the ministry will do their best to help me win this final battle. Although I am the one who is wrong and I am responsible, no one wants it to happen, you are a member of the Song army, and you have the responsibility to maintain ......"

Before he could finish speaking, the Great Demon King's head was crooked, and he fell asleep in Mu Guiying's arms. Fortunately, the order for the "decisive battle deployment" was issued in its entirety.

The military tent also fell into a "war shortage", but being a nanny let other soldiers worry about it.

Mu Guiying entered the state and ordered the Beacon Fire Class to release the signal for a decisive battle. Later, in the heavy snow at night, the eldest lady personally led the team to deploy more than 200 field guns to the established firing point.

From the moment the signal is released, Ma Jinxi's troops will know at most half an hour, and the fire dragon assist will begin. So he needs to stay within the established line of defense, unable to advance or retreat.

The fire dragon does not have long eyes, and the attack position angle setting and so on have a plan in advance, once Ma Jinxi advances, it will cause his own casualties. If it retreats and the main force of Manba advances, then the damage to the main force of Manba is limited.

In addition to Ma Jinxi, the signal was also aimed at Chen Ergou and Di Yongbu.

From the moment the beacon signal was released, they officially entered the prelude to the decisive battle, and their tactics were not to defend the position, but to march out the camp, break up into forty battalions, and shrink the encirclement west of the Makinsi position.

At the same time, ten battalions of fresh troops will be drawn from the artillery reserve to improve the encirclement against the Manba Division from the northeast.

Relying on the natural blocking of Huangshui, that is to say, assuming that the judgment of the Great Demon King is correct and the tactics are implemented correctly, then in the period of time after the fire dragon assists begins, there will be at least seventy main battle camps of the Song army invested, and gradually form a net against the Manba army......

In the cold, the mobility efficiency of the Western Xia cavalry was very low.

In the dark environment, they dismounted one after another, relying on the cover of horses to advance towards the position of the Song army. In the rear, there are a thousand divine arm bows from the elite of the Iron Harrier to make a transcendent projectile attack, which not only effectively suppresses the flintlock pistols of the Song army, but also causes very large battle damage to Ma Jinxi's position.

"The Song army will be defeated in this battle, and they want to encircle Lao Tzu beyond their means. Speed up and rush, after the complete annihilation of Ma Jinxi's troops, our army can directly take Zongcheng, win the Hehuang strategy in one fell swoop, and establish the prestige for His Majesty the Emperor, and we are all heroes! ”

At this point, the Western Xia army began a more aggressive advance.

The battle that started on the night of the 31st, and now on the first day of January, when a slight hint of fish belly white appeared in the sky, someone in the Western Xia army formation stupidly pointed to some fast fireballs flying in the sky and said: "What is that!" ”

Boom Boom –

There was no time for anyone to answer, as if it had encountered a catastrophe of the apocalypse, and the attack from the invisible position of the Song army, the fire dragon, officially began.

No one thought it would be like this, it was more damaging and more powerful than any catapult.

Being attacked endlessly like this, for a time it fell into a horse frightening chaos, the entire Western Xia army camp was wailing, the frightened war horses kept running around, and the sergeants trampled and collided with each other in crying......

It seems that it has really grasped the attack of Manba's main force, and is rapidly deploying around this tactic.

So from the beginning of the fire dragon assist, everyone knows that this battle has been won, but it is just a matter of how much to win.

Limited to distance, Di Yong will be the last army to be put into the battlefield, but Manba is far away in Baosai, Di Yong does not need to enter Baosai diagonally, just take a straight line to block the rapid march, it is possible to intercept the retreating Manba on the way back to Xining Prefecture.

After the fire dragon assists, it is difficult to say how many major losses the Western Xia army will cause, but it is certain: they will not have any more war horses, and they will be trapped in the wilderness of slow snow with the attitude of panicked infantry.

After the fire dragon assists the end, Chen Ergou's department, Ma Jinsi's department, and Mu Guiying's department will continue to push forward and shrink the encirclement, if everything goes well, they can rely on Huangshui and Beichuan River, plus Di Yong's department that went south from Xuanwei, and completely trap the remnants of Manba to death.

That should be the end of the Battle of Hehuang.

There is gossip that the Great Demon King is critically ill, but it is not fake. If this deployment does not end the war, it will be very detrimental to the situation in the future.

What the ultimate fate will be, no one knows......