Compared with the petty fights between Zhong Xiang and Wang Qing in Dongting Lake, and compared with the bloody battles around Jinling City on the battlefield in the south of the Yangtze River, the Liangshan Army's move is huge in scale.

First, Xu Ning, who was sitting in Nanyang, led troops to approach Wuguan, and then Lu Qian met the troops in Heluo with great fanfare, and Tang Bin, the chief of the soldiers and horses in Hedong, and the deputy chief Zhi Yanzhi led the troops to Puzhou. Hu Yanzhuo in northern Hebei was also gathering soldiers and horses to enter Hedong from Jingcheng.

Then Liu Fa stuck to the three places, and Lu Qian attacked in three directions. Isn't that a big momentum?

For a while, all the eyes of the world converged here.

At this time, Zhai Xing, the commander of the Central Plains Province, led his troops to raid Shaanzhou, and Sun Zhaoyuan, who was stationed here, was not a coward, so he sent his deputy general Yao Qing to fight with him head-on, and he led his troops and horses from the mountain road to the back of the Liangshan army to carry out an assault. was caught by the long-awaited two-headed snake Xie Zhen and the deputy unicorn dragon Zou Run.

After Zou Yuan's uncle and nephew joined the Liangshan Army, Wu Zi had several opportunities to show his face, but the Xie Zhen and Xie Bao brothers seemed to sink into the sea, and their reputation spread out at all.

However, in fact, they were in the Yimeng Mountains, recruiting mountain people, and training the whole army, which took more than two years, and Fang organized and trained this mountain special force directly under Lu Qian's dispatch.

Of course, when it comes to special forces, it is actually far from the special forces of later generations. But at least it can be compared to the Shu Han 'Wudang Flying Army' as stated in the history books. All of them are dressed in iron armor, can climb mountains and mountains, are good at using strong crossbows and hard bows, and are especially good at mountain interspersed and stealth combat.

That Xie Zhen Xie Bao was born in Orion, and it is most suitable to train this kind of army.

First of all, these two brothers are people who can endure hardships, and they share weal and sorrow with the officers and soldiers of their subordinates, and this first can win the hearts of the army. Secondly, the two are strict by nature. After all, if you are born as an Orion, you can't be a good hunter if you are not rigorous, and if you can't be a good hunter, the Xie brothers are afraid that they will suffer.

Yes, this Xie family brother is not really sinking into the sea, but has been given a heavy responsibility.

So much that Lu Qian valued, even Sun Li had to look at it. Not to mention Sun Li in the original book, how tasteless it is to mention what the magistrate did, whether the Xie family brothers and the Sun brothers are really close, just look at how well this group of people get along now. Guy is a character!

It is said that the Dengzhou department is without a mother and a big worm, and it is also a well-known mountain in the Liangshan army. There are many family members, and there are many relationships.

Sun Zhaoyuan is a character sharpened on the battlefield in the northwest, if it is a little decadent, it will be fine. But now it is obvious that he has been left in the net, and if he doesn't pull his legs early at this moment, he will not retreat, which will not only weaken himself, but will also cause more brothers to die. At that moment, he pointed to the soldiers and horses and stepped back. But he was commanded by Xie Zhen and Zou Run, and he was chased and killed. By the time they returned to Shaanzhou City after leaving the mountains, there were less than 1,000 soldiers in the attack.

It was also these Western army generals who were brave, and they were blocked by the mountain battalion generals several times by their feet around the front road, but they were all rushed away.

Zhai Xing defeated Yao Qing in Qianqiu Town, a hero who bullied more and few. The latter withdrew his troops to Kunshan, set up a camp, relied on the terrain, could not hold on, and blocked Zhai Xing again.

Don't think that it is dangerous to pass a Tongguan on the way into the customs, and the road is not easy to walk.

However, this vanguard battle was so big, and Lu Qian approached Heluo step by step, so the eyes of the whole world also converged on the Central Plains. No one knew that Hua Rong and Hao Siwen, the deputy head of the soldiers and horses of Hedong Province, had gathered tens of thousands of steps to ride in Linzhou.

The focus of Western Xia's troops was set on a triangle line centered on Xingqing Mansion, with 70,000 people guarding Xingqing, 50,000 guarding Xiping Mansion in the southeast, and 50,000 troops stationed in Helan Mountain in the northwest. Troops were also deployed on the left and right compartments and on the four lines of north and south of the river. Among them, 50,000 people on Youzhou Road in the left compartment and 50,000 people on Yanzhou Road in Henan Province were protected against the Song Dynasty, 70,000 people on Anbei Road in Hebei Province were protected against Liao, and 30,000 people on Ganzhou Road in the right carriage were protected against Tubo and Uighurs. Whenever there is a need to use troops to the west, they gather from the east point to the west, to the east from the west point to the east, and to gather in the middle of the road.

The Left-wing Divine Warrior Division, which is closest to Linzhou, is one of the twelve military divisions of Western Xia. It stands to reason that there were also thirty or forty thousand men, that is, thirty or forty thousand men in the land under their jurisdiction. The military system of the Western Xia was developed by absorbing the Song system on the basis of the tribal military system of the party. The army consisted of three parts: the Central Guard, the Capture Army, and the Local Army.

The former has more than 30,000 people, and it is the Praetorian Guard of the King of Western Xia, and the Capture Army is the people who capture the enemy army as slaves during the war. But really? Who doesn't know that the first-class elite of the Tangut people is Hengshan Qiang?

The remaining elite troops such as Iron Harrier, Bubazi and Poxi are indeed not weak in combat power, but they are all from the Central Guard.

The greater contribution of the captive army is to take the opportunity to plunder the people of the Han land, loot the goods and food, and as for the combat effectiveness, it is average. The role they played in the war was perhaps the Liao army's team fighting the grass valley, or the Cossacks of the Tsarist Russian army in later generations.

Finally, the vast number of local armies, that is, the 12th Army Division, a soldier of all the people, is enough to prove their combat effectiveness.

These people are not the Eight Banners soldiers of later generations, nor are they Mongolian soldiers in their heyday, the party people are going to sit for a hundred years, to say that the eight departments of the party at this time, there can still be eight soldiers at the time of the founding of the country who can fight and dare to kill, then there are ghosts.

And the combat power of the party members is average. The great prestige of the Khitan soldiers was obtained from the frontal battles again and again. But what about the party? The war with Zhao and Song and the war with Liao were all flexible tactics of cooperating with the desert terrain, advancing if it is advantageous and retreating if it is unfavorable, luring the enemy to set up an ambush, cutting off the enemy's food route, and then gathering superior forces to fight a decisive battle against the exhausted enemy.

It cannot be denied that Li Yuanhao is a great talent, who can always lead the enemy into the hub, and then gather absolutely superior forces to encircle and annihilate him.

Haoshuichuan: 100,000 Xia troops against 10,000 Song troops;

Sanchuankou: 100,000 Xia troops against more than 10,000 Song troops;

But this also proves from one side that the party members have the ability to fight a decisive battle head-on, and Lu Qian is not timid at all.

Don't look at the fact that he only gathered more than 10,000 foot cavalry in Linzhou, and the horse army inside was only five or six thousand, but he had no intention of calculating or not, so he relied on the five or six thousand horse army to sweep the left wing of the Divine Brave Army.

And it is also one of the iron-smelting places in Western Xia.

A passage in the "Recital of the Duke of Fan Wenzheng": "The western thief general Ganglang Ling soldiers and horses are the most powerful, and he lives in the East Mida Cave in Xiazhou, and there is an iron smelting business in the east seventy miles east, which is the place where the thieves produce iron weapons." This shows an important piece of information, that is, the Zuoxiang Military Division is in a place called Mida Cave in the east of Tongwan City, and there is a place for Western Xia iron smelting tools near it.

The Liangshan army launched in three ways, how huge the scale was, and how the Huarong and Hao Siwen departments in Linzhou would be silent.

It is really to cover up his whereabouts, and he must make the eyes of the party thieves look elsewhere.

Zheyan is not there, but Zhe Keda leads the Zhe family to do the younger generations, but he is in the army. Since he learned the news that the Liangshan army wanted to break through the Western Xia and break into the pass, this person was first shocked, and then took the initiative to ask for help.

The feud between the Zhe family and the party is as deep as the sea, and now seeing that the Liangshan army has not yet taken Guanzhong, he is going to slap Xingqing Mansion in the face, unscrupulous, and Zhe Keda is very happy. This shows that the Liangshan army is not a dick of Western Xia at all, and it is impossible for the two sides to coexist peacefully. The little mustard that was still in my heart is gone!

If so, he was very happy to come and be a guide with Hua Rongjun.

The Zhe family has lived in Fuzhou for generations, and has had a deep blood feud with the party members for a hundred years, but if you are familiar with the geography of the party items, I am afraid that among the characters of the Zhe Keda generation, if you pick one at random, it will not be weaker than the big and small species, and weaker than Liu Fa, the generals of the Western Army who fought with the Western Xia again and again.

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On a rainy day, a cavalry rushed out of Linzhou City and entered the Tumao River in the west of the city.

The latter's name is peaceful, but in fact it is drenched in blood. At that time, it was the beginning of the founding of the Western Xia Dynasty, and the two armies had fought bloody battles here many times.

In a certain month of the second year of Qingli (1042), Ling was in charge of the military and horse affairs of Goulin Mansion, Zhang Kang and Zhizhou Ji Min, and led 3,000 troops to Linzhou. Li Yuanhao, the lord of Western Xia, led tens of thousands of troops to attack, and the two sides encountered in Baizizhai. Zhang Kang and Zhi Ji Min's subordinates tied arrows to their bodies, and the arrows rushed out of the encirclement. To a steep place, hundreds of people were left lying on the side of the road. When the Xia army entered the ambush circle, the front team counter-engaged, and the ambush soldiers rose up to kill and beheaded more than 500 levels. The Western Xia army was in chaos, and countless people fell off the cliff and died, and the rest retreated. The Song army captured more than 500 horses and thousands of weapons.

In March of the same year, the Western Xia army attacked the Jianning Village under construction several times through the Tumaochuan. Zhang Kang mobilized nearly 20,000 troops, and ordered Xiao to lead thousands of elite soldiers to ambush the Tumao River with a strong crossbow; Led more than 10,000 recruits to lure the enemy. Because the Western Xia rate has always despised the Hedong Army, he played the banner of the Eastern Army to confuse the other party. The Western Xia army really went straight to the "Hedong Army", and the two sides fought fiercely. After a while, Zhang Yu led an ambush to kill, disrupting the position of the Western Xia army, and the Song army waved his army to cover up and kill, chasing and killing more than 2,000 levels.

But with the Hengshan battlefield, the troops and energy invested by the Song and Xia armies became more and more, and this Linzhou was idle. The Tumao River has not heard the sound of swords and soldiers for decades, although no party members dare to herd sheep and horses here, and no Han people dare to farm here.

This also makes it easier to cover up the movements of the Flower Invalids.

People are matched with two horses, 5,000 selected iron cavalry and more than 1,000 local cavalry in Hedong, bringing the largest amount of dry food and water, and rushed into the rabbit hair river without looking back. Out of here is a wasteland, and you need to run west for a hundred and ten miles, which is the Mingtang River.

The so-called Mingtang River is the Yuxi River in later generations, located in the border area between the Dijinze (Mu Us Desert) and the Loess Plateau. In later generations, it was famous in the south of the Yangtze River, the land of fish and rice.

Yes, then you will inevitably encounter the nomadic tribes of the party members.

And here is still hundreds of miles away from the Left Wing Divine Warrior Division.

Xu is a long period of stable life has long made the Zuoxiang Shenyong Army Division belong to the party herdsmen lose their vigilance, Hua Rong sent the rangers from the discovery of cattle and sheep dung, to the dung to find the party tribe, conducted a very thorough investigation, and then rushed back to the army to report. The whole process went unbelievably well. They were stunned that they hadn't bumped into a party police post yet.

The hard work of the past few days seems to have paid off with a good result. The whole army was indescribably fierce and passionate from top to bottom.

After all, this is fighting Western Xia. It feels different from fighting the Song Army. Just like when the Liao army was fighting, the Liangshan army was full of horses, and the army's heart was like fire.

Now, it's the same.

There is a saying in later generations: "A warrior who is brainwashed by glory is not afraid of all difficulties and dangers." ”

Isn't it the same now?

"Deputy Governor, there are still twenty miles." Zhe Ke said excitedly.

At this time, it is about the vicinity of the second watch, the waning moon has not risen, the sky is full of stars, the night is dark, and the sky is low in the wilderness.

Yue Fei and Luan Junshi led their two battalions to walk in the forefront, with their mouths tied to their mouths and their horses wrapped in hooves. Each of them carried a spear, their eyes shining brightly.

Now, all distractions receded from the minds of the two of them, and only two pairs of eagle-eyed eyes stared at the front, paying close attention to every movement in the darkness ahead.

Fifteen miles, no movement.

Ten miles, the party members still did not sound.

All the people are more careful, Wuli......

"Whoa—" A low horn suddenly sounded from the front.

Luan Junshi's brows furrowed, but then he opened up. There were only three or four miles left, and such a close distance had already exceeded his previous expectations.

And Yue Fei is even more simply. Turned over and yelled, "Kill—"

"Boom, boom—" The sound of thundering horses' hooves rang out at once.

Yue Fei was in control of a battalion alone, and it was like an arm's command. "Luan Dalang, you're still stunned, kill quickly-"

There is a sneak attack on the unintentional, it is a battle that is won.

"Kill, ......" two battalions of iron cavalry, 1,000 cavalry Liangshan army, divided into two roads and rushed straight to the party tribes that had been in chaos in front.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

The sound of high cries of killing resounded through the night.

And the party leaders here do not know where the enemy comes from and where they are sacred.

"What's going on?" Fei Tingrenrong, the head man who was sleeping peacefully, jumped up, didn't care about the beauty in his arms, stepped on the cashmere blanket with his bare feet, and rushed out. He heard the sound of fighting, and the sound of horses' hooves like thunder, who could this be? Is it Han Chinese?