Chapter 322: Han Qi's Hind Hand
Chongji stood in front of the formation, watching the handover process, in fact, his eyes did not leave the team of the Liao State, and when the team of the Liao State disappeared into the wilderness, he gave the order to continue to let the herd of cattle be chaotic.
When Han Qi left, he once said that if the Liao Kingdom was given one after another, it could be sent back one after another, and if it was given at one time, then there must be a problem, and one hundred thousand points of caution must be mentioned.
No, as soon as the city was broken, it was sent, and it was sent so much, even if it was a kind of record, it felt that there must be a ghost in it, but at his level, he still couldn't figure out what it was!
However, soon, Chongji already knew what the problem was, because of this, there was a slight time difference, and Zhou Wenxiu was able to take advantage of the stall to send the information to the Song army camp.
At this time, Han Qi had already left, and it was Chongji who was in charge of the camp, and he was qualified to know Zhou Wenxiu's identity.
Because this matter was too urgent, Zhou Wenxiu's adventurous secret sent the family to come, and for this reason, he made preparations to lose this family member, and this news was reported.
After hearing the news, Chong Ji was stunned, and he suddenly understood that what Han Qi said was that there are many problems between countries, even if it is an alliance, in the face of interests, it will change.
He didn't understand what it meant that there were so many problems, but now he understood it thoroughly.
The Liao State fell into a crisis, under the Xingqing Mansion, when it was in a dilemma, who came out of the horse, it was the Northern Song Dynasty that appeared, and it took less than 15 days to capture Xingqing Mansion.
After the capture, there was no other thing to ask for, the entire Xingqing Mansion was a huge amount of wealth, and the Northern Song Dynasty did not take it at all, and even these compensation was also compensation obtained through territorial disputes, and even for the Liao State, it was a very insignificant little bit.
However, no one thought that the Liao State would draw such a salary from the bottom of the kettle, and turn its face when it said that it would turn its face, and it also used the army of Western Xia, 30,000 iron cavalry, against their Song army, which was less than 20,000, even if there was such a big killing weapon as a longbow, they did not dare to guarantee that they would be able to resist.
You must know that it takes time to transport 450,000 animals back, and even simply driving these animals will take up a lot of personnel.
Taking advantage of the night, I reported to Han Qi urgently.
Xiping Mansion, back here again, Han Qi's mentality is different, a big stone that has been pressing on the body of the Northern Song Dynasty, has always been like a vampire, the Western Xia who has been pressing on the body of the Northern Song Dynasty finally moved away, they got Lingzhou, and even a large piece of land in Lingzhou in the past, which is equivalent to allowing the Northern Song Dynasty to have a bridgehead deep into the Western Regions, as long as this bridgehead is managed well, everything is not a problem.
However, the letter from the seed record broke Han Qi's good mood, and a sneer appeared on his face, he had long been guarding against Liaoguo's move, and he felt that he had thought too much about it before, but now it turned out that his consideration was not too much.
The long horn sounded in Xiping Mansion, and soon, the Song army was dispatched again.
The messenger sent back, after a simple exchange, the eyes of the seed mark continued to grow, he really didn't expect that there would be such an operation, this is too high! ,
On the third day, the Song army set off from the camp, looking at the 20,000 Song army, divided into different squads, driving a huge herd of livestock, all the way to the east, a Liao officer who had been monitoring the movement of the Northern Song army, stunned, he had received an order from the upper echelons before, and he was given to urge the Song army to leave as much as possible, and when necessary, force could be used.
But this period is three days, and he thought that when a large number of livestock were sent over, the Song army would choose various methods to shirk it, and even survive the three days, so that he had to find a way to use force, but now, only 2 days, the Song army set off, and everything was fine.
An order was given to his subordinates to continue to monitor and prevent the Song army from coming back, while another messenger frantically ran in the other direction to the east.
The destination of this messenger was another place in the east, and the Western Xia army, who had left Xingqing Mansion two days ago and was doing a temporary rest in a mountainous area in the east, was in the light of his eyes after receiving the news.
At the same time, not far away, another group of scouts who had been monitoring these Western Xia troops also passed on the news, and the carrier pigeons that flew high with this rare information flew all the way.
Han Qi has always been more careful, in fact, in this area of Lingzhou, there have been a lot of horses for a long time, and the activities of a large number of Western Xia troops have attracted their attention, but they are just monitoring and letting Han Qi know.
Now with Zhou Wenxiu's news and the situation in Xingqing Mansion, I still don't know that these are hostile to them, and they are monitored in almost 24-hour shifts.
The game between the two sides has already begun, Han Qi has already begun to prepare before receiving the news of the seed record, if it is said that the Liao State handed over the livestock to them in advance, it can be believed that it would be good to send the livestock back in batches, but if it is given like this, there must be a problem.
In fact, as early as when he left, he began to transfer troops in batches, and in the Song army camp, there were already 7 percent of the border people, who didn't even have combat experience, but in grazing, they were very good.
The elite soldiers, who have been replaced, are in the center of Xingqing Mansion and Lingzhou, and they are ready for battle.
The person who counts the person counts according to it, and it is only in case of emergency, who knows, it is really crooked.
Some things, no matter how secret they are, become easy to judge when they know the result, and send the Western Xia army to do it, which is equivalent to the Liao State having to show face, and not doing it under the Xingqing Mansion, otherwise, the Northern Song Dynasty may only be able to suffer a loss in front of the present, because the remaining Northern Song Dynasty army cannot resist the full force of the Liao State, I am afraid that under one face, 20,000 people will be lost.
The Liao State has countless iron horses, and also has strong combat power, which can do this.
But now, with Western Xia, there are still 30,000 cavalry, so there are so many areas that can be used, so it is much easier to judge from the middle.
After all, they need to do some planning to prevent large-scale losses.
Among several areas, Han Qi decided on one of the plains, which is close to a mountainous area, easy to hide, and after dispatching from the mountainous area, it can quickly urge the war horse to accelerate to a certain extent, which is suitable for cavalry combat and ambush.
Sure enough, the spies who have been monitoring the Western Xia army found that the Western Xia army moved and began to move towards their preset position, which further proves that they want to do it here, in fact, the 40,000 Song troops are also in this vicinity, less than 40 miles away from here.
Taking advantage of the night, lurk in this area, on the battlefield suitable for cavalry combat, ambush, and on the frontal battlefield, a series of traps have been set, and even some have been prepared for large troops.
Both sides were ambushing and preparing, Xixia thought it was a cat and mouse matter, but he never thought that Han Qi was superior and sent a dog behind his back, as long as they dared to do it, then the cat's paws would be chopped off.
Both sides were looking forward to it, as bait and target troops, slowly approached, in 2 days, walked almost 60 miles, after all, a large number of livestock, in the chaos, did not go fast, they barely arrived in the middle of Lingzhou and Xingqing Mansion.
This can be regarded as a good choice of Western Xia, if it is really too close to Xingqing Mansion, God knows that after the end of the war, Liao Xingzong, who is old and angry, will turn his face and expel the Liao army, this position, it will take half a day to quickly whip the horse, as long as Liao Xingzong hesitates slightly, or the time of receiving the information, if there is a little shop at night, he will not be able to catch up.
In the expectation of everyone, in the afternoon of the same day, the troops in charge of transporting the cattle arrived, and it stands to reason that they need to walk dozens of miles on this day, but at this point, they only walked 15 miles.
They did not take a step forward and set up camp near the preset battlefield of the other party, but were about 15 miles away from them, 15 miles, not too far, not too close, it seemed close at hand, but they couldn't catch it.
If the cavalry of Western Xia is dispatched in a big way, it will take at least a quarter of an hour, and in a quarter of an hour, it is enough for the other party to prepare, and even if they do not go out of the camp, what should they do.
In fact, these herdsmen have already begun to set up camp, with the help of the abundant logistics of the Northern Song Dynasty, plus for the preparation of this station, a much stronger camp than the original, appeared in the wilderness, easy to combine iron tools, plus some vehicles, wooden planks, not to mention 20,000 herdsmen, even 450,000 livestock, were escorted to it.
Perhaps these cattle are nothing to the former Western Xia and Liao, but for the Northern Song Dynasty, this is at least a wealth worth millions of guan, with these, as long as a little transaction is transported to the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty, the northwest can have the start-up capital for the development of Lingzhou.
This is also the fundamental reason why Han Qi has done so much, if it weren't for the complete and safe transportation of these animals back, he wouldn't have thought about it so much.
The combat effectiveness of the longbow team has been tested, and even the armor of the Iron Harrier of Western Xia has been specially tried, special, armor-piercing and armor-piercing arrows can penetrate the armor of the Iron Harrier of Western Xia, in this case, they are familiar with their position, and there is no problem with direct attacks, so why take them out as bait.
But in this way, the army and these cattle are separated, the early attack, the Liao State is easy to interfere, the attack is late, the Western Xia will attack, so this situation is formed, the returning troops as bait, waiting for the Western Xia to take the bait, now the Western Xia has taken the bait, and next, it depends on the outcome of the war.