As an important part of the 'vertical and horizontal strategy', the success or failure of the Western Front battlefield is crucial, for this reason Li Liangzuo not only prepared a large number of weapons and equipment for Li Wu, but also sent a steady stream of soldiers recruited from all over the country to the Zheshui front line and Luoyang City.

In the camp of the summer army on the Zhejiang water front.

Qin Hu walked in and reported to Li Wuyu: "Lord Wang, the 100,000 army sent by His Majesty has arrived, and now we have 300,000 troops on the front line of Zheshui. ”

"Where's Li Hu'er?" Li Wu asked.

"General Huben has led an army of 80,000 to the south from Luoyang, leaving 30,000 troops to guard in the Luoyang area."

"Well, then we don't have to worry about the Planter copying our back road." Li Wu said with a smile.

"The Dao of Planting is basically over, there are only 50,000 remnants left in Xingyang and Kaifeng, and most of them are new soldiers, and there is not enough food and grass for low-level weapons in battle, so there is no need to worry at all."

"Don't take it lightly, you must know that this western defense line was designed by the master Dao, if it weren't for the father and emperor sent cavalry to break through Hangu Pass, there would be no such situation now, just take the current battle situation as an example! It is not so simple for us to cross the Zhejiang River, and Wang Kai on the opposite side is also not a fuel-efficient lamp. "King Li Wu of Qin said;" Now the situation in the world, this king and the king of Jin are probably already a little behind, you look at the latecomers of King Liang and King Yan, especially King Yan, who dared to cross the sea to fight is really admired by this king! I heard that Qing'er has caught a lot of good things in Jiangnan this time......"

"Lord Wang, you don't have to envy His Royal Highness King Yan, as long as we can destroy Wang Kai, I'm afraid that the good thing of soldiers entering Jingxiang is no less than that of Jiangnan." Qin Hu said with a smile.

"That's right." Li Qing said with a smile; "Okay, let's not talk nonsense, now that we have these 300,000 troops, we have much more troops; Have you clarified the situation on the other side? ”

"Lord Wang, it's been investigated." Qin Hu walked to the map and said to Li Qing; "Wang Kai with Nanyang as the center in this area of no less than 500,000 troops, of which 300,000 are the elite of the Song Army's Western Army, and the rest of the 200,000 new troops have been trained almost, unlike the Song Army on other fronts, although Wang Kai's Nanyang garrison has lost the supply of the Eastern Front, but it can still rely on Hanshui to obtain a large number of baggage transported from Jingxiang, which is also the main reason why Wang Kai can expand the army, it is not easy to eat Wang Kai's corps in one bite."

"Where's Xiangyang?"

In order to prevent the loss of Xiangyang, Wang Kai stationed 100,000 troops in Xiangyang, including 50,000 elite and 50,000 new troops; This is the only life passage for Wang Kai's army, Wang Kai attaches great importance to this, and it may not be easy for us to attack Xiangyang; The last general thought that there was only one way to attack from the front. ”

"Not really." Li Wu stared at the battle map and said, "The loss of the strong attack is too great, we have to give Wang Kai some surprises." ”

"Surprise? What surprises? ”

"Tell the generals to go to the king's tent."

The next day, the Xia army, which was originally assembled on the west bank of Zhejiang, was suddenly divided into three parts, part of the Xia army under the banner of the main army was led by Qin Hu in the north, and part of the army disguised as a small army was led by Li Yanze to the south, while Li Wu, the king of Qin, personally led a large army to garrison the camp and put on a posture of attacking.

"Newspaper, newspaper, newspaper...... Deputy Marshal, Xia Jun moved. ”

"Express."

"Deputy Marshal, the Xia army is divided into three routes, all the way to the north, all the way to stay in place, and all the way to the south."

"Li Wu also concealed this little method, and even concealed it from Ben Shuai." Wang Kai said with disdain.

"What do you mean?"

"The real is the virtual, and the virtual is the real." Wang Kai said: "The herald ordered to gather 100,000 troops to go south with this commander to Xiangyang, which is the place where our army's grain road must pass, and it must not be lost. ”

"Yes, the last general has received the order......"

On the other side, Li Hu'er led an army of 80,000 under the banner of 200,000 troops and left Luoyang to the south, the marching speed of the Xia army was not very fast, and the journey of more than 300 miles took six days, Li Hu'er stationed his army in Ye County, Ye County to the south is Fangcheng Mountain, if you want to enter the Nanyang Basin, you must cross Fangcheng Mountain; Fangcheng Mountain is the remnant vein of Bear's Ears Mountain, and Fangcheng is the only passage that tightly guards this Fangcheng Mountain into the Nanyang Basin.

The summer army camp in the south of Yexian County.

"Newspaper, newspaper, newspaper...... The general reported that the Song army stationed 50,000 elite soldiers in Fangcheng, and renovated the city defense, and the entire Fangcheng Mountain was impregnable. ”

"Ben knows, you go down first!"

"Yes, retire from your duties."

After everyone left, Li Hu'er said to the map: "Fangcheng's terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and with Nanyang as a strategic support, it is not easy to take Fangcheng!" It seems that the old trick can only be repeated. ”

In the early morning of the next day, the Xia army marched to the north gate of Fangcheng; Li Hu'er rode a horse and looked at Fang Cheng in front of him, and thought in his heart: "It seems that the Song army has really made a lot of preparations to prevent me from attacking Fang Cheng!" ”

The whole Fangcheng is located on the pass of Fangcheng Mountain, the city wall is built according to the mountain, the entire north city wall has sealed the entire pass, and the Song army also built a camp on the mountains on both sides, so as to form a three-dimensional attack on the siege army, and the defense of Fangcheng is not only this city wall, there are three city walls behind Fangcheng, that is to say, the Xia army must attack three times in order to break through the defense line of Fangcheng.

"The general's siege weapons have been prepared." A general walked up to Li Hu'er and said.

"Summons catapults, bed crossbows to fire intensively......"

"Yes, the last general ...... order"

Under Li Hu'er's order, dozens of bed crossbows and catapults were pushed forward, but before they reached the attack position, the Song army's counterattack began, and the Xia army suffered heavy losses for a while, Li Hu'er frowned and said: "The herald Mingjin ...... to withdraw his troops."

After the Xia army retreated, the Song army raised his weapons and shouted: "Victory, victory, victory......"

Li Hu'er sneered: "It's too early to say that you have won!" ”

This attack of the Xia army is just to test the defensive firepower of the Song army, and the real war has not yet begun! Two days later, Li Hu'er led the army to attack the city again, this time the Xia army used hot air balloons, for the hot air balloon Song army had already been prepared, when the hot air balloon arrived over the Song army's defensive position and was about to drop bombs, the Song army suddenly set up several three-bow bed crossbows and aimed them at the hot air balloons.

The officer who led the attack in the hot air balloon saw that the situation was not good, so he immediately ordered: "Quickly throw all the heavy objects down, and be afraid of rising quickly." ”

But it was already late, Song Jun's bed crossbow "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh......" shot over, two hot air balloons were not hit and smashed directly to the ground, the Xia soldiers above needless to say fell to the ground and fell directly into the flesh, Song Jun was not happy, these two hot air balloons unfortunately fell into the city, and one of them happened to hit a brazier to detonate the dropped bomb, which is also an unexpected gain for Xia Jun! As soon as the rest of the hot air balloons saw that the Song army was ready, they immediately hurriedly dropped the bombs and ran away, and nine times out of ten they did not hit the target.

The second is more ......

(End of chapter)