When Wu Hao, escorted by dozens of iron harriers, fled back to Xingqing Mansion in embarrassment, he "truthfully" reported the battle situation.

According to Wu Hao, an observer on the battlefield, Na Sunuer was stubborn and self-serving, did not listen to the good words of Wu Hao, the supervising army, and blindly attacked the heavily guarded yak city, resulting in the defeat and death of the soldiers.

Li Yuanhao immediately ordered: "Sunuer lost his teacher and humiliated the country, and he deserved to die." The Feilong Courtyard confiscated his family property, and all the men in his family were beheaded, and the female dependents were sent to the military department of Baimaqiang Town as prostitutes. The Uighur tribe to which it belonged belonged belonged to the Tuoba clan. ”

The leader of the Flying Dragon Courtyard took the order and left, and Li Yuanhao said to Zhang Yuan, who was standing aside: "Thanks to Mr. Cunning's clever plan, I got rid of Su Nuer's big trouble, and by the way, I also found out the truth of the fight." ”

Zhang Yuan arched his hand and said: "They are all wise kings, and the ministers dare not take credit." ”

Li Yuanhao waved his hand and said, "Mr. is not too humble. It's ridiculous that Zhao Zhen is a child, who only knows how to use poetry to win scholars, but he missed the talent in vain. It's really Emperor Haotian who blesses me Daxia! ”

He said, "Sir, do you think you can attack?" ”

Zhang Yuan pondered for a while and said: "The king can drive the expedition in person and attack it with the momentum of thunder, and it will be powdered." However, it is necessary to think about the strategy. ”

Li Yuanhao laughed and said: "I look down on you Song people the most, and you always think about it." It's just a real thing, where there are so many strategies to speak of. ”

At the end of August, Li Yuanhao personally commanded 80,000 elite soldiers in the left wing of the Divine Brave Army, and six classes in the imperial garden, 5,000 iron harriers, known as 200,000, and went to the yak city like a cover of the sky. When the news came, Qingtang and Tubo were in an uproar, and people were panicked. Talking about peace, running away, cutting land, etc., is very loud, and some people can't make up their minds.

A Song man beside him, who was quite athletic but wore a Confucian shirt, persuaded: "Does Zampu know the old things that Zhou Yu said about Sun Ce back then? ”

He said: "I'm a rough person, I can't learn the twists and turns of your Song people." Ling Zu Cao Wumu is the big hero I admire the most, and I have a good personal relationship with your father, so don't beat around the bush. Cao Yi, if you have something to say, it is. ”

Cao Yi answered yes and explained: "During the Three Kingdoms, Cao Mengde led 400,000 troops to attack Eastern Wu. At that time, Soochow's troops were less than 200,000 when they were full, how could they resist? All of a sudden, many courtiers panicked. Among them, there were many people who persuaded Sun Quan to surrender and claim to be vassals. Sun Quan himself was a little undecided.

Zhou Yu, who was stationed outside, heard the news and returned to Jianye and told Sun Quan that everyone else could surrender, but the king couldn't. Sun Quan is very strange, why can't I surrender? Zhou Yu explained that the others wanted to surrender because they felt that even if they surrendered, Cao Mengde might not kill them, but just change their masters. But if you surrender, your king, you can only be a dead end. It is really not what a wise man should do to give up resistance in such a way and put his head in the mercy of the enemy! Later, Sun Quan slashed the table with a sword at the court meeting, vowing that those who dared to surrender again were like this case. Eastern Wu united as one, and finally broke Cao's army in Chibi. ”

He laughed: "You little guy, you look like a martial artist, and you still have the tongue of a literati!" However, this story is still good, but we have a rare table here, so don't draw your sword and cut it down! Okay, I know that you, the third-class envoy and the Dongtou worship officer, are just a cover, but don't expose your identity as the Imperial City Division. ”

Seeing that Cao Yi was embarrassed, she waved her hand and said, "It's okay, it's okay!" I, the general of Ning Yuan and the training envoy of the Aizhou regiment, are still the official family, in fact, we are also officials in the same dynasty. Then Li Yuanhao's wolf ambition is not as good as a beast, how can the old man descend him? It's just that Li Yuanhao is coming violently, how to resist it? ”

Cao Yi said with a smile: "Zampu has been on the battlefield for a long time, why do you need to rap under it." In the previous battle, although he did his best, it was actually just a chance for Zampu to show his boy, which is really not worth mentioning. In this battle, the stakes are very high, and the kid is the first to look forward to the horse, and he does not dare to say anything. ”

He smiled and said, "It's okay, the so-called strategy is just a helpless choice when the strength is not good." If you fight, you have to rely on real knives and guns. ”

When Li Yuanhao arrived at Yak City with the army, he was ready for battle.

After all, Li Yuanhao is the lord of a country, and he still pays attention to some routines. First, he found some soldiers with loud voices to call for battle under the city, and sent a messenger into the city in a decent manner to present a war letter.

Zhan Shuyun: You and I were originally a state of brothers, and the party and Tibet have been like brothers since ancient times. Zampu was six years older than me, and he was my eldest brother. Our party and family originated in Tibet, although blood relatives are no different. Now my brother folded the wings of the eagle and was willing to live in the cage fence, why is it? Brother came to ask.

He endured the heart of peace, and replied to the messenger categorically in front of Cao Yi: "If he wants to fight, I will fight." Needless to say! ”

He is not a militant in his bones, and if possible, he is still willing to defend his own territory with Li Yuanhao and not invade each other. But the coercion and temptation of the Song Dynasty and Li Yuanhao's aggressiveness have long made him understand a truth, and it is impossible to exchange peace for bitter begging. If Li Yuanhao surrenders, he will definitely cut off his head and make it into a wine vessel to circulate in all directions, and he will say to others with disdain, look, this is the braincase of that coward.

As for the Song people, they can't be counted on either. Waiting for the weak Song army to fight off the Tanguts for themselves? Or did you rely on the hundred and ten unidentified people brought by Cao Yi to say that Li Yuanhao was killed with their mouths? I have already seen through it, and it is better to ask for others than for myself. Pinning your hopes on Song Jun and begging Li Yuanhao not to kill people are as unreliable as hoping that the son born to a woman he hasn't been exposed to for two years is his own species. Let's fight! Only when the jackal is hurt and wounded, will the jackal not eat himself. As for the swan flying in the sky, it is enough to listen to its beautiful call and look at its beautiful figure.

To say that the combat power of the Qing and Tang Dynasty was by no means the worst among the Song and Xia dynasties, and even faintly had a tendency to surpass that of the Western Xia, especially in the territory of the war. First, the Tangut people were on an expedition of labor, even though the Tangut army maintained the war habits of the nomads, driving the cattle and sheep that accompanied the army as logistics. But the road from Xingqing Mansion to Hehuang is not close, and fatigue is almost inevitable. Second, Hehuang is located on today's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which is the roof of the world. That is, the Western Xia army on the same roof can come to attack, and if it is replaced by the Song soldiers in the plain area. There is no need to defend at all, and a single air plague (altitude sickness) can make the Song people lose their troops and generals.

Therefore, although he is reluctant to fight, he is not afraid of Li Yuanhao's so-called 200,000 army. Inside and outside, it's just a matter of injuring the enemy by 1,000 and losing 800 or injuring the enemy by 800 and injuring 1,000.

Sure enough, the war was at a stalemate from the start. The Tangut people had cavalry, and the cavalry of the Qingtang people was not weak. The Tanguts had divine arms and bows, and the Song army of the Qing Tang Dynasty provided eight-bull crossbows - although there were not many of them, the lethality was amazing. The Western Xia people had whirlwind cannons, and the Qingtang people had fairly strong fortifications built under the guidance of the Song people. As for the rudimentary siege techniques that the nomads learned in the course of the long-term war with the Central Plains, it really didn't play a role in front of Cao Yi, who had a family history. If it weren't for the fact that Qingtang didn't have an advantage in numbers, I am afraid that a full-scale counteroffensive would have been launched long ago.

That's it, under the flickering of Cao Yi's theory of "offense is defense", he sent small troops to attack and harass from time to time. The two sides are back and forth, each with its own damage.

If it is more than a month, the veterans of the division on both sides are tired and unable to fight anymore.

The first thing that couldn't resist was the Western Xia people, who were the majority of people. Seeing that the cattle and sheep he brought with him had almost eaten, and if he didn't go back to give autumn fat to the livestock in Western Xia, he would not be able to live the next year, Li Yuanhao couldn't help but worry. Withdraw from the army, lest it be laughed at; Attack, it's not working. Li Yuanhao couldn't help but think of the allusion of "chicken ribs", and said it unconsciously.

Zhang Yuan was not comparable to Yang Xiu's idiot, and said with a smile: "The king doesn't have to compare himself to Cao Mengde's predicament. In Weichen's view, the destruction of this yak city has only been in the past few days. ”

Li Yuanhao didn't say "Ji will come out" as Zhang Yuan expected, but just glanced at him coldly and said: "If you have something to say, say it quickly, and let it go if you have a fart!" If you learn from those who are so eloquent, it will kill you and boost your morale. ”

Zhang Yuan realized that Li Yuanhao is not a girl who has just fallen in love, he likes to be tactful, he is like an old prostitute who has been standing on the street for many years, and he belongs to the master who will go on if he has money and get out if he has no money. Zhang Yuan said curtly: "Yes, Weichen doesn't dare anymore." However, who does the king think is more powerful, Daxia or Qingtang? ”

"The Qing Tang people are only a million, and the land is less than a thousand miles. How can it be compared to my Daxia control string hundreds of thousands? ”

Zhang Yuan said again: "At this time, our army is already exhausted, what does the king think the Qingtang people should do?" ”

Without waiting for Li Yuanhao to answer, Zhang Yuan continued: "The minister heard that there was a report from the editor, saying that the grain, grass, and arrows in the yak city have been exhausted. That guy has just been in power, and the ministries to which he belongs have not really been. Fearing that the war would drag on and the backyard would catch fire, they had already had the intention of seeking peace. If the king sends someone to talk about peace and strike the army at this time, will the king agree because of the chat? ”

Li Yuanhao pulled out the treasure knife and squinted at Zhang Yuandao: "Gone?" ”

Zhang Yuan secretly regretted that he had inadvertently teased him habitually, and hurriedly told his plan so that his life would not be "gone".

The next day, Li Yuanhao sent the Iron Harrier Ninth Team to lead the 300 Iron Harriers of the Ninth Iron Harrier, who were covered with single clothes, heavy armor inside, and carried a sharp blade, holding a white flag to the Yak City. The civil official at the head is Zhang Yuan, who dug his own grave.

Zhang Yuan stood tremblingly outside the city gate and shouted: "My Great Xia Weiming Xiaoxiao, I feel that the war between the two countries is really a regret for the relatives and enemies, and the special letter ordered Zhang Yuan to meet His Excellency Zanpu, the supreme of Tibet, in order to ask the two countries to stop the army and reconcile. ”

He said in his heart: I finally scared you wolf cub, and the peace is coming. Let's settle the bill, we have to settle the accounts well, how much is the right amount of claims?

Cao Yi reminded: "The people outside the city are all bears, don't let them into the city easily!" ”

He said indifferently: "Just 300 people, how big a wave can it make?" If something is wrong, a burst of crossbow arrows will surely turn them into hedgehogs. And I'm a plateau man, the heaviest promise, Li Yuanhao won't have any tricks. Herald, open the gates! ”

As soon as the city gate opened, the fine mother shouted: "Occupy the city gate!" He tore off the obstructive single clothes on his body, held a mace, and rushed forward first. The rest of the iron harriers also fought bravely one by one, and only killed the green ** soldiers guarding the city gate like chopping melons and vegetables.

When he saw the fraud, he urgently ordered the city gate to be closed. The ground outside the city was suddenly lifted, and groups of Western Xia soldiers swarmed out. It turned out that the pit had already been dug last night, and the wooden planks were sprinkled with loess, and there was no flaw in the hurry.

The Iron Harrier is worthy of being the leader of the armies of all countries, and his combat power is unparalleled. With only three hundred people, they can withstand the thousands of troops and horses of the Qing Tang Dynasty to the death, and they will not retreat despite fighting to the death. Seeing that the yak city was like a walnut that had been smashed open, the Qingtang cavalry stationed outside the city had no time to rescue, so they had to order to evacuate.

In history, Yuan Hao led his army to attack Yak City, and he did not conquer it in January. Later, the defenders opened the city gate with fake and deception, entered without a fight, and the city was slaughtered.