Pingxia City may be the trigger for this war, but it will definitely not be the only one. The loss of Tiandu Mountain, as well as the subsequent defeat of Wei Ming A Bury and Mei Le Du in Tiandu Mountain, are also one of the fuses.

But what Tang Ning never expected was that the battle in Pingxia City was in full swing, and there was not even a figure on this side of Tiandu Mountain.

So, Tang Ning called his subordinates for a meeting. Mobilizing the masses to think together is certainly more important than thinking about it alone.

In the end, Zhang Jingming's answer was unanimously agreed by everyone.

Before the war, the notice issued by Zhang Qi declared that there were 1.5 million troops in Western Xia, but there was a high probability that there was moisture in it. Tang Ning thought that 500,000 of them were estimated to be water, and millions of people were very likely.

Zhang Jingming's speculation about the current situation is that the Tanguts did not have an army of one million at all, otherwise they could have sent 100,000 people to attack Tiandu Mountain and recapture their singing and merry.

The only reason why Tiandu Mountain didn't encounter enemies was that they couldn't spare the manpower to attack here again.

The more I think about this speculation, the more believable it becomes, so there is a matter of Shenqian and others 'forcing the palace'.

Instead of sticking to the sky and fighting against the air, it is better to take the initiative to attack, and maybe it can help Pingxia City relieve the pressure. Even if he can't help Pingxia City relieve the pressure, at least he has to dig out the ass of Mei Le Du, so that his attention should not be completely focused on the rest of the reinforcements.

Cheng Yang agreed, Shen Qian, Fang Yong, Qi Fu, Yang Yingzheng, Zhu Mian, and several other soy sauce officers all agreed, and even Pei Xiantong, who joined in the fun, raised his hand.

But Tang Ning thought about it for a long time and still rejected this proposal.

At the beginning, Lu Meng had a three-day farewell, and he was impressed. Tang Ning has experienced so many battles for such a long time, and he has learned a lot from famous generals such as Chongpu and Zhe Keshi.

Especially when Tang Ning learned that he was going to lead the army to defend Tiandu, he also studied Zhang Qi's performance all night.

Zhang Kai's saying that "the soldiers are outside, and the defenders dare to fortify the wall" is the flexible defensive strategy adopted by the Song army in the entire Shaanxi region.

"Therefore, the reason why the soldiers in Pingxia City were able to hold on was because they knew that reinforcements would come.

And our Zhenjiang army only has more than 10,000 people, and we went to fight against the hundreds of thousands of other people's troops, and if we won the war, it was only a small victory, and it did not play a key role.

The consequences of losing the battle will be even more serious, the thieves hung the heads of several of us on the flag to show the brothers in Pingxia City, so after they learned that the reinforcements were defeated, wouldn't they want the army to be disheartened?

Not to mention that the guards in the city are General Guo and General Zhe, with these two people here, what else is there to worry about in Pingxia City? ”

Tang Ning looked at the dissatisfied crowd and patiently explained.

When the words came out, the gods also felt that they were reasonable. But they were unwilling to confront the air, so Qi Fu acted as the vanguard, and opened his mouth and said, "Then we can't stay here, right?" ”

"That's right, the brothers are fighting, let's sit here and watch, isn't it a little too inauthentic?"

"That's right, although the old man agrees with you, but the old man also thinks that we can't watch the battle here, we have to do something."

When Tang Ning heard this, he furrowed his brows and looked at the map spread on a table.

Pei Xiantong stretched out his hand and poked Tang Ning and said, "Everyone is waiting, don't pretend not to hear!" ”

"Don't make a noise! Let me think about it......"

“…… What kind of murder is it......"

Tang Ning was thinking, and the rest of the group closed their mouths and watched Tang Ning's fingers swipe across the map.

"What about scouts? What about our Scout Captain? ”

"He's not here, he's out there watching the enemy's movements, but the scout's intelligence subordinates have it." Fang La stood up and said.

Tang Ning glanced at him and asked, "Where is the supply line of grain and grass for the thief soldiers?" ”

Fang La thought for a while, then stretched out his hand and crossed the map twice: "There is more than one grain and grass supply route for the thief soldiers, according to the scout's exploration, in the two places of Linqiang Village and Xiaoguan on the other side of our Tiandu Mountain, there have been large-scale convoys passing through in recent days. ”

"If that's the case......" Downing thought as he looked at the map.

On the east side of Tiandu Mountain, Linqiang Village is the closest. And to the north of this village, is Suirong Fort. To the northeast, is Xiaoguan. The locations of these three locations are not too close or far.

Linqiang village because the construction has not yet been completed received the news of the invasion of the Western Xia people, the defenders withdrew to the rear of the Pingxia City, this place is an empty village, the Xixia people entered the Jingyuan Road, soon occupied this place.

And they also happened to contain the Zhenjiang army in Tiandu Mountain.

If Tang Ning wants to destroy the logistics supply of the entire Jingyuan Luxi Xia army, he needs to be like Cao Cao in the Battle of Guandu, and go straight to Wuchao.

For the Xia army, their black nest is probably Mingsha County, Weizhou, more than 200 miles north of Xiaoguan.

Thinking of this, Tang Ning made up his mind. When even the order went down, summoned the scouts to come back, prepared to attack Linqiang Village at night a day later, and then attacked Xiaoguan, after that, went straight to Mingsha County.

Downing's order was quickly implemented, not because the rest of the generals agreed with his idea, but because everyone didn't want to just stare at him here.

However, Qi Fu still asked: "Then if we do this, what will Tiandu Qi do?" ”

"Tiandu does not leave a single soldier, and all the grain and grass that can be taken away are taken away, and those that cannot be taken away will be dragged out tonight to find a place to bury.

Don't ask me about such a trivial matter, can you use your brain to think about it? I still want you to be the commander of the battalion, and depending on your current ability, you will be the commander of the pro-army for the rest of your life. "Tang Ning is very unhappy that Qi Fu always throws out some inexplicable questions.

Qi Fu grinned and smirked: "I'm still willing to give my brother-in-law you a lifelong pro-army commander, battalion commander or something, I'm not uncommon."

It's more comfortable for you to be the commander of the pro-army, and there is a deputy commander under you, and I am only responsible for your safety. ”

Tang Ning sighed helplessly, and Lin Wei said the unspeakable words for Tang Ning: "Rotten wood can't be carved!" ”

The Song army in the capital was very busy all night, everyone didn't sleep all night, and the next morning the scouts returned, and the rest of the soldiers were also busy, so they seized the time to sleep.

slept until dusk the next day, when Tang Ning ordered the soldiers to be woken up. After a meal, the scouts were sent to the vicinity of Linqiang Village to inquire about the situation, and the infantry advanced slowly behind, demanding that they reach the grove sixteen miles away from Linqiang Village on the second watch.

It's not far away, and it's not easy to expose the target if you advance slowly - of course, the main reason is that there is a Tiandu Mountain to climb.

News of the scouts kept reaching Tang Ning's hands, and it seemed that new supplies had arrived in Linqiang Village. Judging from the current situation, on the second watch, new supplies will be sent to the hands of the Xia army outside Pingxia City.

However, this is exactly what Tang Ning wants, and to transport grain and grass supplies, it is necessary to send people. Taking advantage of the emptiness of the defense, he just took Linqiang Village in one go.

It was late at night, at the second watch, and the Zhenjiang army had been waiting in this grove for half an hour.

Under the cover of night, the Zhenjiang army began to advance towards Linqiang Village.

However, it was very unfortunate that the Western Xia soldiers patrolling the walled wall still found traces of the Zhenjiang army.

There was no way to do it, there was still a distance of six miles, so the soldiers could only jog forward with their shields in their hands.

But the Xia army in Linqiang Village does not seem to be very numerous, and there are not many rockets fired from the city wall. The ranged attacks encountered before were all volleys after rounds without stopping, and the shields were clanging every moment.

However, this time, there was a gap in the middle of each round, which was enough to illustrate the embarrassing problem of insufficient number of defenders in Linqiang Village.

At this point, the Zhenjiang army did not hesitate any longer, and launched a charge in Erlidi.

Linqiang Village was not built in the first place, and after the Xixia people occupied it, it was only regarded as a transit station and was not consolidated. Therefore, the walled wall will fall down at the touch, and there is no walled wall at all on the east side of Linqiang Village, only a row of wooden fences.

Effortlessly, he took Linqiang Village, captured more than 100 old, weak, sick and disabled as prisoners, seized more than 1,000 cattle and sheep, and some grain and grass.

Tang Ning didn't get any useful information after asking the captives, so he pressed them and headed in the direction of Xiao Guan......

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