During the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Yinzhou was built at the beginning, here is famous for the abundance of good horses, and the horse is called begging silver in the Xianbei language, it is named after Yinzhou, this ancient city is located in the territory of Hengshan County, Yulin City, the northernmost part of Shaanxi Province, and it is also in the border area of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ning, Mongolia and Jin provinces in the later generations, and it can also be said that it is a place where soldiers must fight since ancient times. The ancient Yinzhou city is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and it was also built along the river and ditch according to the topography, and the terrain is also steep.

The Xia State attacked the Song Border from the east side, and when the Great Song Dynasty sent troops to attack, the Xia State also used this city as a barrier to resist the Song army, so as to ensure that the hinterland was not lost. Therefore, now the peaks around Yinzhou and the valley mouth are set up in a radius of more than ten miles, and the military towns and counties around the castle are also guarded.

Originally, although the barriers and military posts on the east side of Yinzhou often had to have large and small frictions with the Song army, it was also a period of war, but now the Xia State was in the strategic defense stage, and the military divisions of the Xia and Yinzhou fronts had also found out that the Song army on the eastern front was inferior to the many soldiers and horses led by Tong Guan, Erzhong, Liu Fa and other enemy generals who had long been famous in the Xia army, and the focus of the Song army's attack was also on the pass barrier on the west side of Hengshan, so although Yinzhou was now heavily guarded, it was not to be wary of the Song army coming to attack all day long. Even as not long ago, they would take the initiative to send troops to harass the border military villages of the Song State and carry out tentative attacks.

But now located thirty miles away from the southeast side of Yinzhou, in a military village mainly used to monitor the movements of the Song army, there is a Xia army general who collapsed above the city wall, he is like a chicken that has just had its throat cut from time to time twitching, there are still large strands of blood spurting out of the throat, the Xia army general slowly raised his head when he was dying, and looked at the Song army general in front of him with extremely resentful eyes, who was smiling and slowly wiping the blood on the blade of the steel knife.

Wu Jue looked under the city wall again, and saw his own soldiers and horses rampaging in the stockade, arrows shooting everywhere, and the defenders in the army village had no generals to command, and they were already like headless mustard flies all over the city, and they could only be gradually eaten and annihilated by the Song army who did not know when to kill in the village.

"Kill them all, and you can't escape a live mouth to report to other military villages under the rule of Yinzhou."

Wu Jue gave an order to a capital official next to him, and he nodded to Hua Rong under the city, it was Hua Rong and his military Jian who was good at piercing Yang archery in a hundred steps to shoot the guards located in the corner of the military village here one by one, Wu Jue led the soldiers to approach quickly, and then climbed over the wall of the village to launch a surprise attack on the Xia army in the village.

Due to the continuous stretch of the Song-Xia front, whether it is in the Xia State Yinzhou or the Song State Suidezhou under the rule of there will be many camps of different sizes, which are used to resist the enemy's heavy troops, and some are only used for sentry warnings.

However, Xiao Tang led his troops to launch an offensive against Yinzhou, and this was only the beginning.

At the same time, on the south bank of the Wuding River, on a mud road guarded by hills, there was a man riding on a war horse that had no time to be saddled, with more than 300 ill-armored, embarrassed Xia soldiers fled in panic, and the general turned back from time to time to greet and shouted: "Withdraw quickly!" Hurry back to Yinzhou to report the news, Song Gou dispatched a lot of soldiers and horses this time, it seems that this time it is really going to ......"

Before the general finished speaking, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest, and when he raised his head in amazement, he saw a Song army general standing up slowly behind the dirt slope in front of him, the Song general seemed to be only seventeen or eighteen years old, just when the Xia army general fell to the ground, there were many archers behind the Song army general who slowly stood up.

A puff of feather arrows attacked, and many Xia soldiers died in the rain of arrows in an instant, and the rest of the desperate Xia soldiers wanted to fight the trapped beasts, they screamed wildly, desperately pumping the Song army not far from the horse and rushing to ambush the soldiers.

"First of all, we will clear the enemy troops in various military villages outside Yinzhou City with lightning speed, and beware of the Xia army disturbing our army's rear formation, but after the Xia army finds out that our army is approaching the city, Yinzhou is easy to defend and difficult to attack, how can it be easily broken? It also depends on whether the strategies offered by the strategists under Xiao Jieshuai can really work wonders. ”

Liu Qi thought about it for a long time, and then he also raised the spear in his hand, and killed the remnants of the Xia Kingdom who rushed towards him......

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Stretching for more than 100 zhang, the soldiers of the Xia army guarding the city wall on the east side of Yinchuan about two zhang high suddenly made a loud noise, and they had already seen the rolling smoke and dust gradually rising on the eastern horizon, and after a while, there were a swarm of black spots like ant colonies slowly moving from the smoke and dust, coming in the direction of Yinzhou City.

In the middle of the crowded soldiers and horses, there are several big flags fluttering against the strong wind, which are embroidered with big characters such as "Song", "Xin'an Army Festival Makes Xiao Tang", "Luchuan Army Festival Makes Liu Zhongwu" and so on.

Seeing that the Song State had a large army approaching the city, the shouts of orders on the city tower were endless. Then Xiao Tang rode his horse out of the military formation, he calmly looked at the very steep terrain in front of him, and did not seem to be in a hurry to order his subordinates to attack immediately.

In the battle of the city, even if the main general of the besieging side considers the enemy's city defense system and the surrounding terrain, the material reserves in the city, the ordnance tools of the siege, the number of soldiers on both sides of the attack and defense, the population of the enemy's soldiers in the city, the strategy of the generals, the morale of both sides, and all other factors, in many cases, it is still the besieging side to pay a heavy price to break the enemy's city, so even the soldier Sun Wu thinks that attacking the enemy's city is the best strategy when the two armies attack. Although Xiao Tang dispatched several strange troops to sweep the various military villages under the rule of Yinzhou, he would not rashly choose to teach his subordinates to fill in the capture of this city until the time appeared to greatly reduce the cost of his own casualties and successfully conquer Yinzhou.

What's more, Yinzhou changed hands several times in the successive campaigns of the Song and Xia countries, and the commanders of the two armies had already accumulated countless tactical experience that could be used to attack and defend this city. In the Yuanfeng period, although the Song minister Xu Xi was located at the confluence of the Mingtang River and the Wuding River, it was not as dangerous as Mahuyu, another place at the junction of the eastern line of the Song and Xia Dynasty, and he simply gave up the extension of Yinzhou and built Yongle City to the Song Shenzong at that time (however, at that time, the old and small clans were slightly related to each other, but they strongly opposed it, and advocated that they continue to arrange city defense fortifications in Yinzhou City) and then ended up in defeat and death, and then reoccupied Yinzhou The Xia army defenders must have been able to pass countless previous examples. to gain insight into all the siege tactics that the Song army could use when attacking this place.

Xiao Tang looked at the ditches around Yinzhou City, which had been rebuilt by the Xia army, and the mountains were guarded, and he was also very impressed by the previous generation of the seed army, and he was also the leader of the Western Army.

It seems that at the beginning of the active march to Xia Guo, he had already encountered a hard bone to gnaw...... Xiao Tang thought secretly in his heart, but the corners of his mouth suddenly showed a smile again, and he thought again: But even if you don't break this Yinzhou City for the time being, you may not be able to defeat the army of the Xia Kingdom.