The Great Qi army was able to enter the pass from the direction of the pass, and it was a demon that Song Zheng did not expect in advance. The road leading to the Central Plains in the direction of Yaoguan is basically through the hinterland of the Qinling Mountains, the mountain road is difficult to travel, the pass is steep, and it is more solid than Tongguan. This is thanks to the fact that Wuguan has always been in the hands of Daqi, otherwise it would be more troublesome.

The reason why it is difficult to fight is that the mountain roads are cramped, and there is no strategic depth, and in addition to using some small means, the main means of attack is to attack. Moreover, Yaoguan is the back door of Chang'an, it is too close to Chang'an, can the Western Xia military send people to guard it strictly?

However, it just got in from here.

Although Song Zheng was closed in Chengdu, it was not a secret that Daqi surrounded Chang'an, and after his repeated inquiries, he still generally understood the entire process of the war.

First of all, the grain and grass of the Western Xia army under Lantian City was burned by Xin Yu under the protection of many large armies. Due to drought and civil strife in Western Xia, the grain and grass were already relatively difficult, and this burn immediately hurt the vitality, and the reserve grain and grass could not keep up, and the morale of the originally low level suddenly plummeted.

Despite this, the combat power of the Western Xia army is there, and it is still holding on to Xiongguan. There was not enough food, so they searched all over Lantian City. It is said that the Western Xia guard Lu made an order, as long as it was able to eat, everything would go to the military camp first. At this time, the people in Lantian City suffered. It doesn't matter if you are chickens, ducks, fish and geese, or pigs, dogs, and livestock, all of them will be collected for military use, and as for food, I'm sorry, the people can't keep a single grain, and all of them will be confiscated. As for whether the people live or die, Lu is determined to leave it alone and let them flee the famine.

Lu Ding was also a ruthless person, and he also played a trick: he slaughtered the two concubines in public, cooked them and distributed them to the Western Xia soldiers. In fact, although the Western Xia army had little food, it was far from the point where it needed to eat human flesh. But Lu Ding lost the grain and grass, afraid that Li Yuandan would want his head, so he deliberately made such a bitter plan. Besides, killing a concubine for lack of food is not an original creation. During the Anshi Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Xun, who was guarding Suiyang, slaughtered his concubine for the soldiers to eat because of the extreme lack of food and grass. Xu Yuan, who defended the city with Zhang Xun, killed the slave boy to feed the sergeant. (Lao Gu read "The Biography of Zhang Xun" and felt that this thing was quite fucked, but the literati of the past dynasties praised Zhang Xun, and until now there are statues of Zhang Xun and Zhang Xun's tomb.) Maybe Lao Gu has not experienced the cruelty of war. ）

In any case, the battle situation of the Western Xia sergeants was rising again. Originally, under the strong attack of Xin Qiji, the pass was almost undefensible, and after such a fuss in Luding, the Western Xia army mustered up the courage to defend the pass without retreating.

Li Yuandan was conquered by Lu Ding, not only continued to let Lu Ding serve as the general of Yaoguan, but also ordered the imperial city to prepare the treasury to get food to aid Yaoguan.

The turning point of the fighter plane was that a Qi army assault detachment forced out from behind the Jiangling Ridge and went around to the Weishui behind the pass, and was caught off guard and attacked and killed the grain and grass from the direction of the Baqiao aid pass. Immediately afterwards, this team of several hundred people raided Lantian City fearlessly.

The leader of this team (Hao Dajian) can also be regarded as strategic, and he did not directly take Baqiao Town. If these people are alone, going to Chang'an is equivalent to sending them to death. Hao Dajian was very smart, he collected the people who fled from Lantian City, most of these people were Han Chinese, and these people had long been full of complaints about the Western Xia army. Hao Dajian distributed the grain and grass he had snatched from the Wei River to the people, selected young and middle-aged men from them, gathered 1,500 people, and took advantage of the night to counterattack in the direction of Yaoguan.

The squad bluffed, and the Western Xia army could not distinguish how many people there were at night, which made the Western Xia army very confused, and they took it for granted that the Qi army adopted Liu Bang's tactics back then, "over the mountain". The armies of Daqi have all been fought, what's the point of guarding? Immediately, the Western Xia army scattered and fled, and the pass was defeated.

At this time, Xiao Dingguo, the soldier and horse envoy on the right side of Shandong Pass, and Guan Bi, the soldier and horse envoy on the left side of Tokyo Pass, arrived at Yaoguan, and saw that Yaoguan had been captured, and the two immediately passed through the pass with the army, and sent someone to inform Xiao Hui.

After the army occupied the pass, there was no time to rest and rectify, and the officers and men of the Qi army immediately arrived in Chang'an and occupied Baqiao, the grain and grass transfer base of the neighboring Western Xia army. After arriving at Baqiao, the Western Expeditionary Army of Tokyo Pass and Shandong Pass was divided into two, and the soldiers of Tokyo Pass resisted the Western Xia Army that counterattacked from the direction of Chang'an, while the soldiers of Shandong Pass marched east along the south bank of the Wei River, passing through Lintong, Weinan, and Huazhou.

Xin Qiji and Xiao Dingguo, the soldiers and horses on the right side of Shandong Road, are very good at using troops, and they know that the key to this battle is to welcome the Qi army outside Tongguan as soon as possible, otherwise, once the Western Xia army reacts, the Western Xia reinforcements from all roads will attack the Qi army coming in from Yaoguan, and I am afraid that they will be trapped in the pass. Due to the death attack on the Pass, the casualties of the Tokyo Pass and the Shandong Guanxi Expeditionary Army were very large, and the men and horses who could fight were less than 50,000. Once trapped, you may be made dumplings.

Fortunately, the response was timely, and Guan Bi's Tokyo Guan soldiers withstood the counterattack of the Xixia army in Chang'an. Xiao Dingguo and Xin Qiji led 17,000 Shandong Guan soldiers to Huayin, regardless of the lack of people and horses, and stormed the base camp of the Xia army in Tongguanxi ---- Guanxi Town.

After the news was obtained, the sailors also launched a fierce attack. The first to break through was the navy, Xin Qiji led all the men and horses, burned most of the Western Xia warships guarding the mouth of the Wei River, and broke the iron chain blocking the river, and the Great Qi navy was able to drive straight in. With the warships of the navy, the soldiers of Daqi were continuously transported to the back of Tongguan.

As a result, the Western Xia defenders of Tongguan were stuffed in the pot, except for a few who fled to the southern mountains, and the rest were completely annihilated. Stopped outside the pass by the Western Xia army for such a long time, the Great Qi killed and wounded more than 40,000 soldiers, and the Qi army was ruthless, driving the captured tens of thousands of Western Xia troops into the Wei River in one go, "Wei water does not flow". In comparison, it was the Western Xia army that was captured at Yaoguan who was lucky. Except for some generals who were killed, ordinary sergeants were all brought into Lantian City to take care of them.

As soon as the Qi army in the direction of Tongguan entered the pass, it would march westward with the soldiers of Shandong Pass. Huayin, Huazhou, and Weinan went down without attacking and arrived in Chang'an. Hearing that Tongguan was lost, the Western Xia army retreated back to Chang'an City. The Great Qi army sent people to bypass Chang'an, attacked Juxian and Zhongnan Town on the west side, and besieged Chang'an.

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Chang'an was besieged, and Chengdu was shaken.

Although Lang Zhengchun is obsessed with Taoism, he now has to convene civil and military affairs to discuss matters in the main hall, and there is only one topic, that is, whether to aid Western Xia. Of course, the object of assistance could not be Li Yuandan, who was besieged in Chang'an City, but Li Xi, who was guarding Dasanguan.

As for whether the Qi army will attack Dasanguan after capturing Chang'an, Shu is very consistent. Although Daqi sent an envoy Song Zheng to make peace with Shu, anyone with a little brain would think that Daqi would definitely occupy the "Sichuan-Shaanxi throat" of Dasanguan and march into Hanzhong in the next step.

Although Song Xiaolang is very popular in Chengdu and has a great reputation, everyone thinks that this is a smokescreen of Daqi, and the purpose is to paralyze Shu. When the envoy is in this position, Song Zheng is enough to fail. In fact, I don't blame Song Zheng, Qi Shu's estrangement is too deep. Since the founding of Qi and Shu, even a weighty envoy has not been sent, and there has been no such thing as a battle, but there have been several battles.

How the Shu Kingdom discussed, Song Zheng could only know a little bit about it in the Di newspaper, and he didn't know anything else. Song Zheng still overestimated his friendship with the royal family, and on the sixth day of October, Song Zheng received a notice from the Shu State Rite Room, which meant that the security in Chengdu was not good, so Song Zheng stayed in the Ziqi Garden honestly, and didn't go out to hang around.

Not only that, but the sergeants who were originally sent to Song Zheng besieged Ziqiyuan very loyally and "protected" Song Zheng in a veritable way, which made Song Xiaolang's classmates want to cry without tears. Nima, the Qi army hasn't captured Hanzhong, is there any need for such a rumor?

On the morning of the seventh day of October, Yuan Haowen came again. Fortunately, the sergeant who protected Ziqiyuan did not stop him and let Yuan Hao ask in.

It was Otunlu who came with Yuan Haowen, the two of them had heavy faces, and after signaling Zhang Chong to close the door, they sat on the chair, stared at Song Zheng with small eyes, and said nothing.

Song Zheng also ignored them, but concentrated on writing. After the tea, Song Zheng put down his pen and beckoned to Yuan Hao, "Brother Yuzhi, come and see, how is this handwriting?" ”

Yuan Hao asked Mu Mudi and walked to the table, and saw that what was written on the paper was a poem "Bodhisattva Barbarian Mu Hibiscus":

Bing Ming jade runs the natural color, and is desolate and hard to be a westerly guest. Unwilling to marry the east wind, diligent in the frost and dew. The green window is cleaned late, and the glass cup is laughing. Slanting sun on the dressing table, burgundy and sleepy.

This poem was originally written by Fan Cheng in history. Song Zheng inquired, Daqi did not have such a No. 1 talent as Fan Chengda, not only him, but also Yang Wanli, Lu You, You Yuan and other "four great poets of Zhongxing in the Southern Song Dynasty", who were called with him, did not have any of them, which made this guy unhappy. Without them, he had many more poems that he could steal.

Song Zheng was forced to write by the perverted Song Jue since he was a child, and after coming to this era, he added the calligraphy skills of his previous life, and the writing was excellent, which complemented this poem.

It's a pity that Yuan Hao's mind is not on this, "Good...... Xiaolang, aren't you worried? ”

Song Zheng pursed his lips, "I finally wrote such a poem, can't you praise a few more words?" Just a 'good' word? ”

"Very good. Two words, okay? Yuan Haowen glared at Song Zheng dissatisfied, and sat back in his chair, "I heard that you are trapped here, I kindly came over to see if I could help a little, you are good, like a person who has nothing to do, it is really the emperor who is not in a hurry, the eunuch is in a hurry." ”

Song Zheng smiled, "Brother Yuzhi, don't worry, Emperor Dawei said that no matter what happens to Shu and Qi, he will send someone to send me back to Daqi in the future." ”

"Red mouth and white teeth, upper lip touching lower lip, who wouldn't say? Did he give you a note? Are there any witnesses? Yuan Hao asked and snorted, "Now everyone knows that Daqi will seek to capture Hanzhong and threaten Shu in the next step, and your envoy is now a liar, and he will cut you down." It's a shame that you're still like no one else, chanting poetry here. ”

Song Zheng laughed and said, "Brother Yuzhi, don't say that Daqi has only hit Chang'an now, even if it occupies Hanzhong, Shu will not kill me." Not only that, the more fiercely the Great Qi attacks, the more Shu will ensure my safety. Of course, if it is really a big fight against Shu in the future, it is another matter. ”

"What's the reasoning?" Yuan Haowen's eyes widened, very puzzled.

"That's what I just figured out." Song Zheng picked up the wine jug from the table, took a sip at the spout, and touched his lips, looking very relieved.