There is no problem with a truce of one day, and there is no problem for the two sides to collect the bodies of their own fallen soldiers, the problem is that Yang Huairen always feels that Yeli Tuli has another plan. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

If the Tanguts were afraid because they won a battle to defend the city, or they did not dare to attack again because they had gained or lost, it would be a big mistake.

Yelituri needed a victory to defend his prestige in the Western Xia army, and he desperately wanted to capture Yang Huairen in exchange for what Liang had promised him.

He used the truce under the guise of collecting the remains of the fallen soldiers, perhaps it was just a delaying tactic, he must have been secretly brewing something, waiting to accumulate some kind of strength, so as to achieve the goal of killing with one blow.

Why didn't Yang Shihu think about this? His analysis is that when Yeli Tuli led the 20,000 Xia troops of the Jingsai Army to invade Huanzhou, due to the hurry of departure, he did not make sufficient pre-war preparations.

For example, he underestimated the tenacious combat ability of the Great Song Tongyuan Army, and came without building siege equipment in advance, and the Xia Army returned from a crushing defeat in the First World War yesterday, I believe he must also be aware of this problem.

The truce, perhaps more than one day, from Weizhou, where the Jingsai Military Division is located, to mobilize materials to build siege vehicles or catapults and other siege weapons, will not take more than a few days.

If this is the case, then there is no room for Qingping Pass to hold on.

Although the Song army won, it was also temporary, and the Tongyuan army was dressed in armor of 3,000, and it lost one-third in one day.

Although the Xia army suffered more heavy casualties, in terms of the overall number of the entire offensive and defensive sides, if the reinforcements from Gyeongju were delayed, the loss of Qingping Pass was inevitable.

The biggest hidden danger is that if the Tongyuan army is stubbornly defended, it will only cause greater casualties, and if the casualties of holding Qingping Pass are too large, then the Zhuguan Zhuzhai behind will be meaningless, because there is no combat force to defend.

The news from the rear disappointed everyone a little, and the Gyeongju side sent only a symbolic reinforcement of 1,000 troops on the grounds that the border prefectures and military divisions were also threatened by other troops from Western Xia, and that the Gyeongju garrison was limited in number.

At first glance, these 1,000 reinforcements were old, weak, sick and disabled, obviously beyond their expectation, and what was even more ridiculous was that after the battalion officer who led the team came to Qingpingguan to see the battlefield, he immediately asked Ying to garrison Guidebao in Dongchuan, where there was no Xia army.

Yang Shihu was helpless, after all, these people were not directly related to the Tongyuan Army, and he was not qualified to force others to go to the battlefield, since they were willing to defend Fort Guide, they could replace the five hundred Tongyuan Army to change the guard to Qingping Pass, which could be regarded as making some contributions.

Yang Huairen felt that he had to be blamed for this matter, the matter was caused by him, and the border army commander of Gyeongju did not know the imperial court's opinion on this matter, and if he was blamed at that time, he would be in trouble if he stood on the wrong side.

As for whether Huanzhou is lost or not, it is not his responsibility, sending thousands of people to mean it can be regarded as giving Tong Guan and Yang Shihu a lot of face.

This kind of atmosphere makes Yang Huairen very angry, but the reality is that not everyone puts the interests of the country and the nation first, and in their eyes, personal gains and losses and their official career may be more important.

The spies of the Song army in Qinggangxia could not get close to the Xia army camp, so they could only hide in the mountains and watch from afar.

There was no major movement in Yelitu, and the sporadic Xia army scouts with a few horsemen carrying the news went to the northwest, which was the most valuable news they had detected.

The Tongyuan Military Division raised the account to discuss if it was really as General Yang Shihu expected, the Xia Army was mobilizing materials to prepare to build siege equipment, how to defend Qingping Pass, or whether to hold it desperately.

Everyone understands in their hearts that if it is like yesterday, the Xia army continues to attack the city, and the Song army has to hold on, at least for three days.

But if the Xia army had equipment such as catapults, the defense capability of Qingping Pass would really be unable to resist, and I am afraid that it would fall in one day.

It's not that the city wall of Qingpingguan is not strong enough, but a boulder with a diameter of three or four feet is thrown over, and no one can resist it.

The solidity of Qingping Pass is also limited to resisting the ordinary cavalry or infantry of the Xia army, for catapults, the entire Qingping Pass is too small, there is no depth, and the small target means that the Song soldiers have nowhere to hide, except to abandon the pass.

If Qingping Pass is really abandoned, it means that all the passes and camps on the periphery of Tongyuan County will have to be abandoned, because there is not enough strength to disperse the guards, so they can only retreat to Tongyuan County, where the city wall is higher and stronger.

Although Yang Shihu knew that this was a practical problem that he had to face, he couldn't make up his mind, Tong Guan didn't dare to give such an order, and Yang Huairen was thinking about another thing.

It turns out that a war is really not about temporary victory or defeat, maybe you have won for a while, but it can't turn the situation around.

Against 20,000 with 3,000, despite the geographical advantage, the difference in numbers is still too large. The Song army had too few living forces to participate in the war, and it was an irreparable wound.

In the long run, history always records the results of wars, and future generations always judge heroes by success or failure when they see history.

Such a battle is quite big in Yang Huairen's opinion, but in the whole history, it may not be worth mentioning.

If you stick to the city pass for a while, it is likely that the whole army will be annihilated, and history will only see the victory ending in Yelituli, as for how many people their Western Xia army died, no one will settle it.

Although many people are extremely reluctant, they must also recognize the reality, if the Xia army continues not to fight tomorrow, then it can be concluded that the Xia army began to build siege equipment, and the Song army, in order to maintain a viable force, only the whole army retreated to Tongyuan County.

Sure enough, on the third day, the Xia army still did not move, and Yang Shihu ordered the organization of Minzhuang to evacuate the wounded border soldiers from Qingping Pass.

On the fourth day, the Xia army still did not have any intention of attacking, and all the soldiers of the border army seemed to realize what the Xia army was doing.

A military order was conveyed, retreat, and abandon the pass.

The soldiers inevitably felt sad in their hearts for the commander's decision, so many comrades-in-arms died here to defend Qingping Pass, but in less than three days, they had to give up the position they had once held with their lives, and they could not accept this reality.

However, the soldiers of the Song army understood that the general made such a decision, and if they died in battle, maybe they didn't care, but their parents, brothers, wives and children behind them had no one to protect them, and what was waiting for them was perhaps the brutal slaughter of Yelitu.

Yang Huairen looked at the gang soldiers silently cleaning up the cauldron of rebellion, and suddenly remembered one thing, retreating does not necessarily mean giving up, and the fist is retracted in order to fight out more powerfully!