In the sound of drums, the first to step into battle were the ironclad pikemen, dressed in silver plate armor, wearing iron helmets, holding four-meter spears, walking with neat steps and singing "Qin Song": "**Inside, the emperor's land." Wading quicksand in the west, and reaching the north in the south.

There is the East China Sea in the east, and Bactria in the north. Wherever people go, there are no subordinates......"

On the opposite side, in the face of the Song army standing according to the formation of the strong city, Zhang Nuoping had a headache, the Song army was famous for being good at defending, and in the face of the Song army's car formation, a forced attack would cause great losses, and the Jianing military division repeatedly discussed, and couldn't think of a way, when he was wondering, one after another heralds came in and reported: "My lord, the Song army has dug a deep trench behind the formation, and there are several barbed wire, and the crossbowmen are faintly visible behind the shield array." ”

"My lord, the left and right compartments of the Song army are hidden behind the car, and our army scouts approached several times, and found that there were many Song army crossbowmen behind the car, and the scouts who rushed in were all killed by the dense crossbow arrows, and none of them were spared."

"My lord, there are still a large number of flags hidden in the Song army's Sichuan, and the Sichuan Pass is closed by barbed wire, so our army scouts can't further sentry ......"

The last scout brought the news that Zhang Nuoping was satisfied: "My lord, the Song army has moved, the front array has opened, and the Song army has been dispatched." ==”

Zhang Nuoping slapped his thigh: "Great! I thought that there was only one bold man on Huanqing Road, but I didn't expect that Zhao Gouguan was also an arrogant person, ordering the front army to attack, testing what the Song army relied on, and daring to fight against me in the wild! ”

Left and right persuasion: "My lord, Zhao Gouguan is equipped with a lot of crossbows, the former army is just some hard labor, prisoners, they are poorly equipped, Zhao Gouguan is equipped with strong crossbows, it is better to transfer strong crossbow troops to shoot at them." It is better to transfer the guards to charge, and at worst, the captive army should be allowed to come forward to test the attack, how can the adults let the hard labor and prisoners come forward. ”

Shuai Fan said that there were "iron harriers" in the army opposite, in fact, he was wrong, the "iron harriers" covered in iron armor were the guards of the Western Xia emperor, and the Western Xia used the strength of the country to make up 3,000 pairs of iron armor equipment to form an army. == So it is impossible for the "Iron Harrier" to come here, the ironclad cavalry he saw was formed by the major military divisions of Western Xia, called the Su Guard, and these people wearing iron armor are simpler than the "Iron Harrier".

Zhang Nuoping shook his head and rejected his subordinates' suggestion: "That's not good." An arrow costs seven pennies to shoot at the Song army. Spend more money! Mobilize the Su Guards to charge the battle - do you think that the Su Guards are equipped for nothing? Or let the prisoners go, they don't spend money, a large number of them are caught in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and a wooden stick is issued to fight, and they don't even have to be buried after death. Save more money. Let them charge and see how many crossbows there are in Zhao Gouguan's place. ”

The Western Xia army rushed over all over the mountains, and Zhao Xing ordered: "Shoot, keep shooting." Shoot them at a distance - arrows are worthless, a branch can be made into an arrow shaft for a year, and hundreds of arrows can be made in an hour on a lathe. People are different, it will take me more than ten years to raise a person to be able to fight, and how much will it cost me to train them to learn to fight. ^^^^ shoot, drown them with a rain of arrows, this thing is cheap. ”

At this time. The front army of the Song army has already stood and lowered the spears, a group of archers and crossbowmen stood beside them, Shuai Fan beat the rhythm with the drums of the Chinese army, and the crossbowmen of the Song army kept rolling like the undulating sea, they straightened up and put the crossbow, and then bowed down to wind the crossbow, and the crossbowmen in the back row then stood up and shot crossbow arrows. Row after row. The waves were undulating, and the drums in the Chinese army were non-stop. The singing continued, and the drum band sang along with the drums: "Under the whole world, it is not the king's land." On the shore of the land, it is not the king's minister! ”

Song Jun listened to this song, blood boiling, the army singer sang a paragraph, they got up and shouted loudly, desperately shot the arrows in their hands, in front of the two armies, the arrows were like raindrops falling in the tropical rainy season, densely arrows collided in the air, and the whole sky seemed to be shrouded in a dark cloud. Zhang Nuoping, who was observing Zhao Xing's army on the other side, was shocked and asked urgently: "On Huanqing Road, there are so many households!" ”

The production of crossbows is a high-tech thing, and it is extremely expensive and difficult to make, and it is not always possible to buy land if you have money. ^^^^ the Song Dynasty court stipulated that the upper household was forced to buy a crossbow, Zhang Nuoping was from the Great Song Dynasty, so he naturally knew this regulation, he was surprised that there were so many wealthy households on Huanqing Road overnight, and Zhao Xing, a 10,000-strong army, had no less than 3,000 crossbows.

That's not all, there are still large bed crossbows in the Song army's array. Limited to the technological level of this era, it was impossible for the preparation of gunpowder arrows to meet the precise requirements, nor could it achieve miniaturization. At this moment, the state soldiers who controlled the bed crossbow arrived, and they fired thick arrow shafts with the order, such as huge long arrows the thickness of the barrel of a gun, and the tail flew into the air with thick white smoke, and some places couldn't wait for an explosion in the air, throwing metal fragments into a space within ten meters.

There are also some late-maturing arrows, which have not exploded when they land, and with a huge momentum they pass through several human bodies in a row, stabbing them into the ground, and then with a bang, turning the human body stuck to the shaft into a pile of minced meat. ==

Zhang Nuoping took a breath of cold air, and at this time, the center of the battlefield was shrouded in a thick white smoke, and the smoke cloud was rolling, but there was no living thing in it. Such a powerful explosion made the Tangut soldiers who had been standing with firearms several times lose their souls, and the surviving prisoners turned around and tried to return to the Tangut position, but were coldly shot by the Tanguts.

"Let the Su Guards attack", at this moment, Zhang Nuoping can no longer care about being a miser, after the Song Army shows this devilish weapon, and then let the prisoners with weak protection go to charge, that is, it is futile to send them to death: "Let the bearded leader lead the army, and attack first." ”

After a pause, Zhang Nuoping shouted frantically. "The action must be fast, the Song army's bed crossbow shooting is slow, as long as you survive the first few rounds of shooting and rush into the Song army's formation, I will immediately give way to the Bazi and capture the army to keep up."

The sound of horses' hooves was like countless iron balls rolling over the iron plate, making a deafening rumbling sound, and the Jianing Military Division Su Guard was dispatched, and the battle of Wuyan Gorge officially began......

At the same time, Fan Chun's impeachment seal also arrived at the imperial court, and at the moment of the invasion of the Western Xia people, the court officials recalled the front-line generals and ordered the front-line generals to explain the troubles of the Tanguts, which seemed extremely ridiculous. \\ In particular, Fan Chun sneered in his seal about the strange thing that the Tangut people saw on the Huanqing Road watering flowers with arson. Then he pretended to be crazy and stupid and asked the court officials: Do you need me to explain this kind of thing? Just for this kind of thing, do you want me to recall the generals on the front line, this is the dry land of the court officials, I Fan is purely from the family background, and I can't afford to lose that person!

In the end, Fan Chun asked rhetorically with confidence: The person who came up with this idea cares so much about the Tangut people, who is the local official who took it? There is no party element in his blood. He didn't, his family didn't, his servants didn't have the slightest element of the party. Fan Chun angrily asked: What do the people in the staff do to eat, and they don't know such a big thing. == The Tangut people have already mixed into our court, and they are not yet enlightened. It's really worrying......

In the face of Fan Chun's questioning, the court had nothing to say, and even felt ashamed to say it, and the ministers of the court who were looking for a fig leaf everywhere did not hesitate to adopt the statement pointed out in Fan Chun's seal: Jia Yi, as a member of the Luo Party, had lived in Shaanxi for many years, perhaps at that time he was bribed by the Tanguts, or got acquainted with Li Yuan and Zhang Hao, so that he could not hold it......

The imperial court immediately issued an order. He stripped Jia Yi of all official titles, and ordered Jia Yi to be placed under residential surveillance and degraded to the remote state of Yuezhou. But the imperial court did not dare to say the reason for his derogatory position, so it had to vaguely say that he "framed the front-line generals......

On the same day, Empress Dowager Liang made an unexpected advance in Shunning Village, but the Left Route Army made unexpected progress, they captured Jinming Village, and plundered near Jinming Village, and the advance was only five miles from Yanzhou City. The ministers of the court were in a mess.

Now. ^^^^ Empress Dowager Gao is no longer in charge of things, she lingers on the sickbed, sometimes awake and sometimes sleepy, corresponding to the panic of the ministers of the court, it is the little emperor Zhao Xu's unhurried, he calmly commented on the current situation: "500,000 people have gone deep into my realm, but it is only ten days." It's better than one or two, and you have to go. ”

After his death, the little emperor was nicknamed "Zhe". The word "Zhe" is used in the epithet, which means: I don't know what to say, I don't know how to evaluate it.

Just now. The words of the little emperor show that he is worthy of the nickname "I don't know what to say".

The emperor means that we should have the consciousness that the enemy advances and I retreat, and when the enemy comes, we can leave with a pat on the ass, leaving behind the people who usually pay taxes to us without protection, and let them call the Tangut people to be slaves, cattle and horses, anyway, the Tangut people just want to rob us of one or two stockades every time, and his 500,000 army is dispatched, and he only robbed two stockades and left, and he lost my money. As soon as he retreated, I could swagger back to the local area and collect taxes from those who were lucky enough not to be captured by the Tanguts......

In the present words, this is called: save people and get land, and people get both land; Saving land and losing people, people and land are lost. \ To have the consciousness of preserving (one's) strength, when the enemy attacks the place, slap his ass and leave, this is called luring the enemy deep, and when the enemy has grabbed and grabbed enough, he will naturally retreat. Then I can reinstate the notice in the local area, re-collect taxes, and by the way, ask the people to sing the praises of how great and holy I am......

Sure enough, as soon as the little emperor said this, the ministers of the ruling hall nodded frequently and praised the little emperor's wisdom in unison...... Historical records: "It has (the Xia army) retreated after the attack on Jinming (the village)."

Since the Xixia people only robbed one or two villages, hundreds of thousands of people, the tense atmosphere in the court suddenly relaxed, and the ministers asked all roads along the line to resist in a relaxed tone to protect the territory and the people - this is also a practice, when encountering a strong enemy invasion, the government of the previous dynasties is unwilling to appoint a person as the front-line coordinator, they are afraid that this person has defeated the enemy, the prestige is too strong, and the strength in the hands of the court can not be restrained, which will cause a change of dynasty. ^^^^Therefore, they preferred the stomach resistance of the magistrates, and drew the ground as a prison.

According to the rules, the magistrates could not defeat the enemy in this war against aggression, because everyone drew the ground as a prison, and the magistrates could only defend themselves against the enemy and one country in one place, and in terms of the balance of forces, they could not defeat the enemy, so most officials would only hope that the enemy would not come to attack them, and that the floods in their neighboring counties would be raging. As long as his city is not lost, the magistrate is not responsible for losing his land.

Forget it, now, history has stepped on their inertia channel again, and the ministers of the court continue to look for all excuses in order to compete for power and profit, including the enemy's invasion has also become an attack handle, their struggle has intensified, and the front-line generals have begun to fight alone......

The Tanguts began to charge, this time in full ironclad Su Guards.

The sound of heavy horses' hooves trampling on the wet earth of early spring seemed to be trampling on the chests of men, and a long array of thousands of people appeared in front of the two armies, and the dark armor was a beating glimmer, and they brandished their bright swords, and a strange cry rushed in......

The attack power of ancient bows and arrows is helpless, Zhao Xing remembered that he once saw a news that the New York police did not kill a suspect in 25 shots, and the attack power of the bullets is still so, and the attack power of the bow and arrow can be imagined.

In this era, the ironclad army is almost invincible, and when they start to move, the bows and arrows of the cold weapon era are helpless against them, unless they are tired and lie down on their own. The protection of the Su Guards was slightly inferior to that of the Iron Harriers, but they still moved like a steel fortress, and the iron arrows of the Song Army crackled on them, most of the arrows jumped away, and a few of the arrows did not hinder their charge even if they were stuck in them.

When the Su Guards first started to move, Shuai Fan had already begun to mobilize the side vans, and when the Su Guards were halfway through the impact, the layout of the side vans had not yet been completed.

Shuai Fan, who was facing such a battle for the first time, was a little in a hurry, and the Song army was also a little flustered, a little sign of collapse, Zhang Nuoping saw that the banner of the Song army was in chaos, and nodded with satisfaction: "That's right, we are indeed facing the Song army, and as soon as the ironclad army is impacted, they begin to collapse - collapse!" Hurry up, order the foot soldiers and the capturing army to hurry up. Speed up your attacks! ”

At the same time, the crumbling Song army began to squat down in the front row, the spear was erected, and his face was full of despair and determination. ”

The staff listened to the singing voice wafting in, and translated word by word: "Old Qin, go to the national mourning together, rather cut off the head than break the backbone."

The old Qin, who went to the national mourning together, did not return to the rivers and mountains, and did not return to his hometown.

The world is in turmoil, how can we get Corning; Qin has sharp soldiers, who compete with the heroes.

Blood for blood, eye for eye. Blood is not shed, and death is not a truce. ”

After a pause, the staff added: "Listening to this tune, it seems to be a Qin song." My lord, they're going to fight hard! ”