The Han State was established, and the Song State was negotiated, and the Jin State was negotiated. At this time, Western Xia sent a messenger, not to congratulate, but to ask for help, because this guy Yelu Yilie finally sent troops, and he wanted to take Western Xia.

The praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch is behind, and the careerist Yelu Yilie is targeting Western Xia, and the Han army is already on the way to Yunzhou.

The 100,000-strong army set out to fight, not only to take Yunzhou, but also to destroy the Western Liao army and completely eliminate the harm in the northwest.

100,000 Han soldiers are divided into two routes, the first road directly kills Yunzhou, there are 30,000 dragon guards on the grassland plus 20,000 infantry, the second road is the first corps led by Zhe Keqiu 50,000 cavalry to fight, in fact, the Han Wang cavalry also participated in the battle this time, not only that, but also 30,000 infantry participated in the battle, in fact, the total strength is 140,000. Not only that, the Western Xia also had 50,000 troops participating in the war, and the total strength far exceeded the Western Liao army, this battle was not as simple as defeating the Western Liao army, the key was to annihilate them all, and completely cut off the dream of the Western Liao army to invade the Western Xia.

In Wujian Haicheng, 20,000 Western Xia troops were ready to go, and the 30,000 Western Xia troops of the Black Mountain Weifu Military Division twenty miles away were also ready for battle. This time, although the Tanguts did not know why the Western Liao invaded the Western Xia, their traditional tradition was to use the most powerful attack to fight back against the invaders.

The Han army did not enter the territory of Western Xia, and even the first army originally stationed in Western Xia withdrew and was stationed directly in Yinshan, according to the situation of the battle between the Western Xia army and the Western Liao army, to determine the timing of the attack.

The Western Liao is full of 70,000 troops, and 10,000 are left in Yunzhou, and the people responsible for defending the city are Xiao Lira and the princess of the Western Liao, Yelupu Suwan, who will encounter the most rapid attack of the 50,000 army. Although the city of Yunzhou is high and deep, it is not impossible for the Han army with large siege equipment to conquer.

The main task of the 10,000 Han kings in this battle is to deter the Western Liao army, and the main battle is the Western Xia cavalry.

The defender of the Vulture Sea City, Tuoba Qici, attached great importance to this battle, he knew that the Han army would participate in the battle to ensure that the Western Liao army would be wiped out in this battle, but this battle, first the Western Liao army attacked the city, and then the field battle,

Defending the city is indeed not the specialty of the Tangut people, especially this city with no moat and the city is not a very tall vulture sea city, and it is indeed difficult to defend the city. However, the only advantage is that there are no mountains, no trees, and no boulders, so the Western Liao army cannot use trebuchets to attack the city, so this battle is fair for both sides.

Defending the city is just about those things, you just need to deploy in advance. However, for the attacking side, the Western Liao army is different, because there are no boulders and giant trees around the Vulture Sea City, so they can only transport a certain number of siege equipment from Yunzhou, but there is no way to use the trebuchet, after all, there is no use for the trebuchet to send it over.

The 60,000 Western Liao army camped in front of the Wuthorn Sea City, but this expedition, Yelu Yilie regretted it a little, he didn't expect the Han State to react so strongly, and he actually dispatched more than 100,000 troops at once. However, there was no turning back from the bow, and this battle either occupied Western Xia or the entire army was annihilated.

At this time, although Yelu Yilie regretted it a little, he firmly believed that Yelu Nanxian, the empress dowager of Western Xia, still had feelings for his father. As long as his 60,000-strong army can break through the Vultures Sea City, and then go south along the river and approach Xingqing Mansion, the overall situation can be determined.

When he came to the city of Wuthorn Sea, Yelu Yilie suddenly realized a very serious problem, that is, since the Han army's hundreds of thousands of troops came to aid Western Xia, why did they not enter the territory of Western Xia, what was this for? But he couldn't care about it so much, because the 30,000 cavalry of the Black Mountain Weifu Military Division had already been killed, and at this time, if he delayed any longer, he could only find trouble by himself.

There is only one choice between blocking the 30,000 cavalry of the Black Mountain Weifu Military Division and attacking the Vultures Sea City, and once the choice is wrong, it is a delay in the fighter. According to common sense, it should be the 30,000 cavalry of the Black Mountain Weifu Military Division that should be annihilated first, but Yelu Yilie, who did not bring a lot of food, did not think so, and he insisted on choosing to attack the city first, and then destroy the Western Xia cavalry.

Yunzhou City is second only to Xingqing Mansion in the northwest region, the city is high and deep, and it is necessary to pay a great price to conquer Yunzhou City. Although it was an army of 50,000, it could not take advantage of the 10,000 Western Liao army defending the city.

Xiao Gan did not attack the city at all, but left 20,000 infantry behind, waiting for the 50,000 army to come to attack the city, the previous plan was to confuse the enemy, in fact, it was the 50,000 infantry and the 50,000 cavalry of the First Corps who really participated in the siege. And the 30,000 dragon guards led by Xiao Gan and the 10,000 Han kings led by Hua Rong.

The northwest region is vast, and the marching route is relatively free, and it is difficult for both sides to discover the other's marching route, so relying only on the intelligence reviewed by the scouts will often lead to fatal deviations.

The Han army's expedition this time was not to destroy the Western Liao army at all, it was just a pretense, in fact, it was to really control the Western Xia. For a long time, although the Han king had enough influence on the Western Xia, the unique tradition of the Western Xia, the party members have always been warlike, and the desire to conquer this country is by no means as simple as Yelu Yilie thought. A mere 60,000 army wants to destroy Western Xia, which is simply a fantasy.

The reason why the King of Han let Pan Feng go to the Jin Kingdom and Yuwen Xuzhong to the Song Kingdom, and he had to pay such a big price, was to occupy Western Xia. This time the so-called dispatch of troops to aid the Western Xia against the Western Liao, that is just an excuse to deal with the outside world, in fact, the Han army is to control the Western Xia, this time the Han army dispatched 300,000 troops, and the other 160,000 troops set off from Dingbian, and then went straight to Xingqing Mansion.

In this battle, the speed of the Han army's progress will not be very fast, how can it be that the opposition forces will be eliminated, and the speed of the advance of the war will be quite slow, that is, the opposition will be driven away little by little. In the end, there was only one voice in the entire Western Xia, and that was loyalty to the King of Han.

This military operation is supposed to be the result of years of preparation, since Liu Zhenglong, the king of Han, first served as the defense envoy of the Western Front, he began to plan how to occupy Western Xia. He didn't want a fire in the backyard when he fought with the Jin State in the future, and if he wanted to destroy the Jin State, he wanted to destroy the Western Xia, Tubo, Hui and Dali, turn the entire northwest and southwest into a large rear, and then gather the whole country's forces to defeat the Jin army in one fell swoop.

In the end, the war was fought first in the city of Wuthorn Haicheng, the army of 60,000 was divided into three levels to attack the city, in the face of the overwhelming attack of the Western Liao army, Tuoba Lutz still made the most stupid mistake, although he was well prepared, but he didn't know anything about the Western Liao army, not to mention the Western Liao army's combat style, siege routines.

When the Western Liao army attacked, it looked violent, and there was a momentum of black clouds crushing the city. The offensive was like a tide, and the cavalry rushed through with lightning speed, and when they were a hundred paces away from the city's head, they began to frantically suppress the receiving troops of the city with cavalry shooting.

I have to admit that the cavalry and archery level of the Western Liao army far exceeds that of the Western Xia army, and the Jin army is not inferior to the other party, this time the cavalry archery bow and arrow is unique to the Western Liao, you must know that a hundred steps away from the city to throw upwards, which is more than shooting out two hundred steps in the flat ground and consumes more power, the difficulty is very great, but the Western Liao army is handy, the dense arrows of the city head of the Western Xia army are out of breath, and there is no power to counterattack at all.

Seeing that the head of the city was overwhelmed, at this time, the big terrifying battering ram slowly pushed towards the battlefield, in Tuoba Butz's opinion, as long as the battering ram rushed to the bottom of the city, then the Vulture Sea City would be conquered, in this case, he did not hesitate to send a distress signal.

It had been agreed a long time ago that once the distress signal was launched, the 30,000 cavalry of the Black Mountain Weifu Military Division would come to the rescue, and the troops in the Vultures Sea City would also be killed. In this way, 50,000 against 60,000 will not suffer much loss, as long as it can resist the first round of the attack of the Western Liao army, then the whole army will withdraw to Chengnei, wait for the reinforcements of the Han army to come, and eat the Western Liao army in one fell swoop.

However, in the face of the heavy pressure of the Western Liao army, this guy Tuoba Qici only thought of asking for help, but he didn't think of killing the whole army, he felt that the Western Liao army was too strong, and once he left the city, he would not be able to defend the sea city. Judging from the combat effectiveness displayed by the Western Liao army now, once the Wuthorn Sea City is lost, then the 50,000 Western Xia army will be eaten by the 60,000 Western Liao army.

On the battlefield, what ultimately determines victory or defeat is often not the number of troops, but combat effectiveness and strategy. Otherwise, there would not have been so many battles in which fewer won more, 80,000 in the Eastern Jin Dynasty were able to defeat the 970,000 army of the former Qin, and Cao Cao 830,000 was defeated by tens of thousands of Sun and Liu's coalition forces in the actual battle of Chibi. In the decisive battle between the Liao State and the Jin State, the 700,000 troops of the Liao State were defeated by the Jin army.

Now the Western Liao army is not only 10,000 more than the Western Xia army, but also much stronger in combat effectiveness, which frightened Tuoba Qici, the future tribal leader of the Tuoba tribe typical of the characteristics of the Western Xia aristocracy, good at playing tailwind, and will be frightened under the headwind.

After seeing the signal, the 30,000 cavalry of the Black Mountain Weifu Military Division set out with the whole army, but as soon as they came out, they were surrounded by 55,000 Western Liao troops.

The Western Xia cavalry who were ambushed were not nervous at first, thinking that soon the reinforcements from the Vultures Sea City would be killed, but they found out that they had been fooled when they handed over, and there were no reinforcements at all.

The siege of three is missing one, and the Western Liao army did not think about how many Western Xia troops to annihilate in this battle, but only to take the city of the Wuthorn Sea, so it did not forcibly pursue the breakthrough of the Western Xia cavalry, and finally annihilated 10,000 Western Xia troops, and then began to besiege the city of the Wushu Sea.

Escaping, the cavalry of the unlucky Black Mountain Weifu Military Division was attacked by the powerful Han army on the way back, including the Han king's cavalry armed to the teeth, and it was another bloody battle.

The Han King cavalry was in the center, and the 30,000 Dragon Guards were outflanked from the flanks, and in less than an hour, the 20,000 Western Xia cavalry were all wiped out, and the casualties of the Dragon Guards in this battle were less than 1,000, and the Han King Cavalry had almost zero casualties. This is mainly related to the fact that the Western Xia cavalry fell into a bitter battle before and was frightened by the Western Liao army.

After the defeat and capture of the Western Xia God of War Jin King Li Chage, and the defeat and capture of the Western Xia Emperor Li Qianshun, the Western Xia was already seriously injured, and it was not as good as before, claiming that there were still 200,000 troops, but in fact, the strength of the decline in combat effectiveness was still restored. The most combative were the warriors of the Mili tribe, but unfortunately they chose to betray Western Xia and join the Han Kingdom.

After destroying the cavalry of the Black Mountain Weifu Military Division, Xiao Gan ordered to move closer to the next target, and the Western Liao army could not be destroyed until the Western Liao army approached Xingqing Mansion. Besides, after taking Yunzhou, the army will meet, otherwise it will be difficult to take Western Xia.

Western Xia is a transition of all the people, the people are fierce, in the face of the critical moment of survival, there will be a strong battle, want to destroy the country casualties will be huge, that is not in the interests of the Han State. This battle is not to occupy Western Xia, but to clean up the forces against the Empress Dowager Yelu Nanxian, and to let this woman completely control Western Xia. To be ironclad, as for when Western Xia will be incorporated into the territory of the Han Kingdom, it must be after the destruction of the Jin Kingdom, at least not now.

After the Vulture Sea City was surrounded, Tuoba Ratz knew that it was over, and the 30,000 cavalry of the Black Mountain Weifu Military Division was annihilated, at this time, if there were no reinforcements, the Vultures Sea City would be 100% unable to hold, but at this time, where would there be reinforcements?

Defending the city, once it is conquered, the tragic fate goes without saying.

After the group surrounded it, Yelu Yilie did not immediately order the siege of the city, but asked the soldiers to shout, telling the other party that once the city was broken, the city would be slaughtered, and no adults or children would be left. This is the magic weapon of Western Liao sweeping thousands of miles in the northwest, giving the enemy the greatest psychological deterrent, and then when attacking the city, it will follow the style of encircling three and missing one, forcing the frightened defenders to choose to flee instead of defending to the death.

Later generations of Mongolians also learned this trick, of course, in the face of stubborn resistance, once the city broke 100% slaughter, because there was no real deterrent power to slaughter the city, it was difficult to make the enemy frightened. The Mongols relied on powerful cavalry to slaughter cities in a frightening manner, and they swept thousands of miles to the banks of the Rhine River, almost destroying the whole of Europe.

Frightened, Tuoba Dec, the young master of the Tuoba clan in his early twenties, was really scared, he didn't want to die, and he didn't want to leave his dozen or so women in the hands of the Western Liao Army.

What to do, retreat.

You can't retreat, once you retreat, how can you explain when you go back? The unusual contradiction in Tuoba Lotz's heart.

Siege, this night the Western Liao army did not rest, began to assemble siege equipment, the next day after breakfast, the West Liao army began the most ferocious siege, the first siege was just a feint, it was thunder and rain, but this time it was a real siege, the first round of attack, the West Liao directly invested 30,000 troops, from the south, north, east at the same time to attack.

10,000 cavalry suppressed the defenders at the head of the city with powerful cavalry, and 20,000 infantry covered the siege equipment to launch an attack on the city of Vultures.