Chapter 565: Choice!
As soon as the Mida Cave was broken, the surrounding Yinzhou was an undefended city, which was a small city. Before Mizhi Village was recovered by the Song army, it was the state of Yinzhou in Western Xia, and now it is rebuilt from the abandoned army city of the Song army. Naturally, it was a blow down. After that, Hua Rong left a large number of troops to garrison, and he led the main army to go straight down to the Suide army along the Mingtang River [Yuxi River].
The rice fat of later generations was only a rice fat village at this time, but the military village in the northwest is actually a small city. Hua Rong looked at the city here, and he still had two new ideas. But it is only 20 years since this rice fat village was recovered by the Song army, and it is said that the wall here is only in the early ten years of reconstruction.
During the reign of Shenzong Yuanfeng, the Song army recaptured Mizhi Village and was subordinate to Yanzhou. In the fourth year of Zhezong Yuanyou, the Song Dynasty negotiated peace with the Western Xia, and the ruling Sima Guang ceded Mizhi Village, Jialu Village and other places to the Western Xia. Until the first year of Zhezong Yuanfu, the ruling Zhang Dian sent troops to Western Xia and Tubo with Zhang Qi and Wang Shu to recover the lost territory, and the Song army began to recover Mizhi Village again, as well as Jialu Village, Nuanquan Village, Kerong Village, Kaiguang Fort, etc.
As an important frontier defense place, Mizhi Village is just a 'village' in its name, which is really like the Qingfeng Village where Hua Rong served at the beginning, but it is a city. There are not only garrisons in it, but also nearly 1,000 households.
The terrain is surrounded by mountains and waters, and the two mountains overlook it, which is very dangerous. There is no need to leave many soldiers and horses to garrison here, only a thousand brave soldiers are needed to make Hua Rong return in vain.
It's a pity that there aren't even a thousand people here.
During the day, the city gate was wide open, and there were only dozens of people under the city head, Hao Siwen personally led a battalion of cavalry, rode horses and galloped, and grabbed the city gate.
When the defenders under the city saw it, they didn't say that they closed the door and released arrows, and issued a warning, but they were all despondent and fled with their heads in their hands.
When the guard received the alarm, he first lost his eyes and big teeth, and finally calmed down, and did not ask someone to prepare a horse and carry a knife, but first called a document to sort out the case of the office, and then sent his own soldiers to recruit the escaped guerrillas in the village, and he was dressed in regular clothes and waited respectfully in front of the office.
Seeing Hua Rong's descendants, he had his own reason to say: "Liu Xianggong gathered troops in Guanzhong, and he had already transferred my elite soldiers who dared to fight, and now there are only some old and weak and newly recruited soldiers left in the village. How could it be the opponent of the Liangshan army? ”
Hua Rong didn't ask him anything after hearing this, so what else could he say? Ask him that as a military general, just because of this, he doesn't do his best to protect the country? Hehe, he himself is also a general of the imperial court.
opened the Mizhi Village, followed by Kaiguang Fort, which is also a small city, no different from the county seat in the interior of the Central Plains, but there are also few defenders in it.
The guards here have always had a deep friendship with the guards of Mizhi Village, and the latter petitioned and was willing to come forward to persuade. Hua Rong boldly let him go, and after a few words of dialogue under the city, he really asked the former to open the city and come down.
When such a large army arrived at the military city of the Suide army, the army of this place knew nothing about it. The guard general of Nami Zhi and the guard of Kaiguang Fort waited for a team of Liangshan elite soldiers to pretend to be with them, and went straight to the city gate under the banner of the two, and the latter was really unvigilant. The gates were easily taken down. Then the fireworks signal was released, and Hua Rong saw it and led the army to rush forward. When the army entered the city, it swept through everything.
Suide Zhijun is also an idiot, they are in such a situation, seeing the guards of Namizhi Village and Kaiguang Fort, Wuzi denounced the two of them as rat villains who are greedy for life and afraid of death. "This official has never despised you and others, and the court has even rewarded your husband with kindness, why is he so disloyal and shameless now? The land is greedy for life and afraid of death, and it is all gutless. ”
"This official Meng Great Song Emperor is gracious, Daguan three years for the two list of Jinshi, so far only ten years, has been in a place of the knowledge of the army, Hong En is vast, do not dare to carry also. You and other villains beg for a living, and they are lucky, but they don't know that there is justice in the world, and there is a clear lesson in history. This official is born as a Great Song Dynasty person, and died as a Great Song Dynasty ghost, a thousand do not fall, and ten thousand do not fall. ”
"Now that I have been tied, you will kill if you want to kill, I am loyal and courageous, and I do not want to stand with such thieves."
This Zhijun surnamed Zheng has quite a hard bone, and Hua Rong was very surprised.
He led the soldiers and horses into the country, first Mizhi Village, and later Kaiguang Fort, which has not yet defeated the Suide Army, and the guards of Qingbian Village, Nuanquan Village, and Yongle City who are not on the way have sent letters of surrender. To say that the moral conduct of these generals is really lacking!
Not to mention anything else, Yongle City is a well-known name in the military circles of the Great Song Dynasty. In the fifth year of Shenzong Yuanfeng, Li Bingchang, the lord of Western Xia, heard that the Song army wanted to build Yongle City at the junction of Xia, Yin, and Youzhou to defend it, and felt very threatened, so he sent 300,000 troops to attack.
Yes, that's right, that's an army of 300,000. The official documents of the two countries are clearly recorded, although there must be a lot of water, but there are no 300,000, what about 200,000? What about 100,000 people?
The Song garrison was less than 20,000.
The Xia army besieged Yongle City, cut off the water source flowing through the city, Yongle City lacked water, dug the well and could not dig the spring, and the soldiers were thirsty and died. The reinforcements were again blocked by the Western Xia army. And because of his resentment against the guard Xu Xi, the general of Yanyan Road, he failed to rescue him in time. Fighting there, Xu Xi, Li Shunju, Gao Yongneng, Li Ji and other generals personally hit the thieves with arrows and stones, and the sleepy soldiers pretended to sleep on their thighs, and the soldiers all helped the sores and endured thirst to refuse the party. The Western Xia army ants attached to the city, and the corpses were like mountains.
Then the rainstorm suddenly fell, Yongle City is newly built, it was soaked by rain for a long time, the soil was loose, it was defeated by the Xia army after soaking in water, the Song army was hungry and tired and could not refuse, the Xia army finally broke through Yongle City, Xu Xi, Li Shunju, Gao Yongneng, Li Ji and so on. More than 10,000 soldiers of the Song army were killed, and none of them were spared. Only Qu Zhen, Wang Zhan, Li Pu, and Lu Quan escaped naked.
It was able to garrison 10,000 or 20,000 Song troops, and was besieged for a long time by the overwhelmingly superior Western Xia army, and Wuzi was able to hold on. It's not a small city. The terrain is also dangerous, located in the northeast of Hengshan, near the Wuding River. During the time of Zhezong, the Song army recovered the place, although there was no major war, it was always a frontier defense point.
Hua Rong wants to capture the Suide army, how can he not know the geography of this place, and with the help of the people of the Zhijia family, that is not known.
Na Zhe Keda once proposed to send troops and horses to attack Yongle City at the same time when capturing Suide.
They killed all the way from the Mingtang River, the Xixia people will be furious after hearing about it, the left wing of the Shenyong Military Division to the west more than 100 miles there is a Xiangyou Military Division, not far away is Xiazhou, that is, Helian Bobo's Tongwan City is located, two places one in the Mingtang River Basin, one in the north region of Wuding River, it seems that the straight line distance is not far, but in fact the traffic is not convenient.
In the words of later generations, it is the junction of the Loess Plateau and the Inner Mongolia Plateau, with the highest terrain in the northeast and the lowest in the southeast, and Yulin in the southeast. The general trend is decreasing from the northwest to the southeast. It belongs to the first attached area of loess hilly and gully area, which is a typical beam-shaped loess hilly and gully area, which is mainly in the form of ridges. Due to the cutting and alluvial of the Yellow River and the Wuding River, the Wuding River and the valley area of the Yellow River were formed.
But no matter how inconvenient the traffic is, the news can always be delivered. The Tanguts would inevitably raise an army to attack. Otherwise, how could the lord of Western Xia serve the people? Where will the prestige of the Western Xia be?
Is this the same as the little devils and old Maozi of later generations who turned the sky upside down on the land of the Northeast, but my Qing Dynasty declared neutrality in a high-profile manner. No, that should be even more cowardly than my Qing Dynasty.
And Xixia is obviously not that nest. When the Western Xia army came along the Wuding River, then Yongle City would be of great use. This kind of fighting, offense and defense, can be more than one silver state can be carded.
Hua Rong agreed with this, but he also knew that the most important thing was Suide Military City. At the beginning, he had a lot of troops, but it was a little insufficient to divide his troops. He was afraid that he would lose the other, and even wanted to take both of them, but he didn't succeed in either.
In the end, it was decided to twist the soldiers and horses into one and take the Suide army directly.
Now the main generals of these military villages have come to him to ask for surrender, and the backbone and discipline still can't be raised. But Hua Rong didn't think much about it at first, all the pacification envoys along the way surrendered, and the remaining guards in Tokyo City also surrendered, why couldn't a young general?
But in the city of the Suide army, he just bumped into a stinky and hard-smelling intellectual. This comparison is really lofty.
I was also surprised when I heard about it in Yinzhou. "This prime minister is a notoriously amiable man. Today, but with such a strong point, isn't it all fake in the past? ”
However, in any case, this guy is stinky and hard, but the entire Suide army's strategy could not be more successful.
Directly south along the Suide army, between the heavy loess slopes and ravines, there is also a road leading directly to Yan'an Fucheng.
And Yan'an's status in Kansai is so important, in addition to a rare piece of flat land in it, more because of the "accessibility in all directions" here. To the west, to the east, to the north, to the south, it can be said to be the core transportation hub of [northern Shaanxi] in the area north of the Guanzhong Plain.
And now his task is to hold this place before the army converges on the Suide army.
"Today is the time of victory, how can this measure be a great defeat. Come, drag him down, and watch him. "Hua Rong won't kill this intellectual, but just unveiled this chapter. Turning around, he summoned the generals and said: "The army attacked Suide, and my generation has already achieved great success. However, the main force of our army is still in Heluo, and it is not possible to quickly dispatch troops and horses to help, and it will not be possible in a short time. Perhaps the Western Army heard the alarm and had already killed it; Perhaps the army of the party members has also been killed along the Wuding River. ”
"Gentlemen, let's discuss, what should our army do?"
Hua Rong's face was very serious when he spoke. No one is a fool, and if you want to do strategic deception, how easy is it? What's more, he is still a famous general like Liu Fa who has fought a hundred battles.
Therefore, Lu Qian could only really gather troops in Heluo, and then set off in Puzhou and Wuguan, so that the Song army could be convinced that the main force was really in Heluo. It also made the Western Xia people believe that the Liangshan army and the Song army were really about to fight.
In this way, both of them relaxed their vigilance, and Hua Rong was able to leave Linzhou. One hit and it happens!
Yue Fei's eyes narrowed, and his big and small eyes were generally big at first glance. After the general situation in the city was decided, he considered this problem. At present, Hua Rong has two choices: one is to defend, and the other is to attack.
To defend is to quickly pull the infantry of Linzhou over, and at the same time to set up their own fences, so scattered to various key places, rectify the stone bows and crossbows and other materials to defend the city, sit and wait for the enemy to fight, praying that the Liangshan army will arrive in front, and they will be safe and sound.
Attacking, that is, taking advantage of the weakness, continuing to fight southward, hitting the city of Yan'an, bluffing, waving flags and shouting, at least not so that the Song army can find out the number of their troops.
According to Yue Fei's character, he likes to attack!