The third year of Jiayou has just started spring, and a big drama prepared by Li Buqi is about to start, but Bianliang suddenly came to the will and asked Zhao Sheng to return to Beijing to report on his work. Zhao Sheng asked Li Buqi aggrievedly: "Teacher, if I go back to report on my work, such a big battle will be wrong." Can you ask my father to take back his order and return to Beijing after the war? ”

Li Buqi smiled: "I guarantee that you will be the deputy envoy of the Shaanxi Fifth Road System, so you should naturally return to Beijing to report on your work, and then you can receive a new appointment." Besides, you're old enough, and someone is in a hurry to get you married. ”

Just now, more than a dozen students of the Armed Forces Academy graduated ahead of schedule and were assigned to the Shaanxi Army, which will inevitably bring news from Beijing. Li Buqi was sure that Zhao Sheng must have known the news that the fourth prince had finally impregnated a woman.

Sure enough, Zhao Sheng smiled bitterly, and asked with a lot of heart: "I don't know what kind of woman will I choose?" ”

Li Buqi said, "What? Don't you still have a girl you look at? Then you haven't been back to Yanzhou to sort out the troops these days, it's been more than a month, what are you always doing in Jingzhao Mansion after the meeting? It's like losing your soul all day? ”

Zhao Sheng hurriedly said: "It turns out that the teacher knows everything? ”

Li Buqi said: "I don't know. It's just that you're not normal. Tell me, which girl do you fall in love with? How did you meet? How many times have you seen it? ”

Zhao Sheng smiled and said honestly: "It was the little lady of the Yang family who joined the army of Gongcao of Jingzhao Mansion, and I saw it when I was watching the lanterns on the night of Shangyuan, and I happened to see it twice again after that. ”

You squat at the door of people's homes every day, what do you say "coincidence"?

It took Li Buqi for a long time to remember that Yang Xiang looked like a fairy, and his daughter should have been born well. Li Buqi said: "If you really like it, then I will mention it to Yang Xiang." But the official family still wants you to ask for it yourself. ”

Zhao Sheng asked humbly: "Can I go and ask for it?" ”

Yao Gang said: "So many people don't want you to get help because of your marriage, why don't you ask the official family to approve your marriage?" ”

Zhao Sheng patted his head: "It's too!" So I went and begged my father. ”

As soon as the spring breeze blew in early February, it seemed that all of a sudden Qinfeng and Huanqing Road in Shaanxi Province had stopped. In the eyes of the Tangut people, this is normal, the Song people are in the busy farming season at this time, and everything should be centered on agricultural production. However, the atmosphere on the border between the Liao State and the Western Xia State became tense, and the cavalry of the Liao tribe invaded the Xia border several times and cut off communications, which was a bit abnormal.

In view of the fact that Li Buqi spent money to hire the Liao tribe to help in the war last year, this incident immediately aroused the vigilance of Wu Zang Pang, not only him, but basically all the Western Xia generals could feel that something was going to happen in the east. Looking at the large-scale expansion of Huaining Village and Suiping Village adjacent to Suizhou by the Song army and the continuous testing of Suizhou's virtual reality, the Song army's intention is obvious.

The occupation of Suizhou by the Song army could open up the connection between Yanzhou and Fuzhou. In addition to the four prefectures of Xing, Ling, Liang and Su, the most developed areas of agriculture in Western Xia are Hengshan, Suizhou, Mizhi and Jialu. If the Song army occupies Suizhou, then rice fat and reed will also be dangerous, which is not allowed by the hidden pang. While ordering the Left Wing Divine Warrior Division to transfer troops to strengthen the border guards, he personally ordered the army to move eastward to prepare for the battle.

Zhao Sheng has been haunted by the fact that he did not catch up with the Suide War, which is known as the decisive battle of the Song-Xia War, and has devoted himself to collecting documents about this battle for many years. Years later, he wrote a book about the Song-Xia War, in which he analyzed the Suide War in detail.

The purpose of Li Buqi's battle was to consume as much of the living strength of the Tangut people as possible in a predetermined battlefield, so as to pave the way for the future advance of Hengshan. Therefore, he deliberately let the Tanguts see his intention to attack Suide and lure the main force of the Tangut army to come. He hoped to eliminate a part of the Song army and deter the Song army, and also wanted to take the opportunity to consume the domestic hostile forces that did not agree with him, so he happily went to Suide.

Later generations found a face-wrenching detail in Zhao Sheng's book, and the reason why this great battle of more than 100,000 people took place was largely due to the fact that the commanders of both sides - Li Buqi and Wu Zang Pang - wanted to experiment with their new toys.

At that time, after a year of hard work, Li Buqi had trained 18,000 militiamen, which not only became the most reliable combat strength in his hands, but also an experimental unit for him to build a pure firearms army. In the beginning, this unit was equipped with more than 1,000 handguns and three-eyed guns, and later arquebuses with rough handguards and trays replaced the handguns and three-eyed guns, and in the winter of the second year of Jiayou, the weapons that can be called authentic arquebuses were finally equipped with this unit. In the Great Song Dynasty, in addition to the Zhenwu Army and the Shenji Battalion guarding the capital, only the Shaanxi militia was equipped with 2,000 such muskets.

In terms of artillery, in addition to the Zhankou guns and Tiger Squat guns, this militia is also equipped with three bronze cannons of 18 times caliber 7.5 mm, 12 bronze cannons of 17 times caliber 5.5 mm, 12 bronze cannons of 24 times diameter 4 mm, and two experimental 11 mm mortars.

In addition to tubular firearms of various calibers, the militia has an engineer battalion, which is responsible for firing some strange weapons made by the ordnance superintendent, such as the Divine Fire Crow, the Fire Dragon Out of the Water, the Swarm of Bees and the Heaven-Shaking Thunder, so this battalion is also equipped with ballistas and trebuchets.

Li Buqi always said to Zhao Sheng that "the battlefield is the best testing ground for testing weapons", so he deliberately lured the Tangut people over, in fact, a great intention was to test the effectiveness of his gunpowder army.

It's the same with the side of the Hidden False. The Western Xia army was also given some firearms and torsion ballistae and trebuchets during the year's war, and imitated them. Before the Suide War, the direct troops and the most elite Iron Harriers had been equipped with more than 2,000 handguns, and even began to be equipped with large-caliber firearms, and the Western Xia Poxi Army was also equipped with ballistas and torsion trebuchets. Many Western Xia generals, including Wu Zang Pang, also wanted to see how powerful these new weapons really were in war.

Both commanders had the same mind, and the pattern of this campaign was destined to be different from the past.

According to the inside story revealed by Zhao Sheng, Li Buqi had prepared a stand-in that looked very similar to him long before he went to Shaanxi. Before launching the battle, he let the stand-in stay in Jingzhao Mansion instead of him, but he quietly infiltrated the Qingjian City army.

The Song army was stationed in Qingjian City to cover and build a walled fort, so they didn't plan to cover up too much, and the Western Xia side had already detected it. After arriving in Longzhou in mid-March, he took a short rest and immediately surrounded Pingqiang Village and Andingbao, in an attempt to induce the Song army in Qingjian City to come to the rescue along the Tuyanshui River or the defenders of Yan'an Mansion along the Qingshui River.

However, Li Buqi saw through the plan of not hiding the false Pang, and learned from Grandpa Mao's "You fight yours, I will fight mine", and immediately went to Suizhou after learning that the Western Xia army appeared, and put on a posture of attacking Suizhou.

Li Buqi dared to do this, but he also had a thorough understanding of the poor level of logistics organization of the Xixia people, it is spring, and the food of the army may still be able to support it for a while, but the grass has just grown and is not enough to graze horses on a large scale, you can't spread the cavalry a hundred miles to herd the horses, right? The Tangut people were mainly cavalry, but the cavalry consumption was too large, and it was difficult to stay in one place without sufficient preparation, and this time the Tangut people could only stay here for half a month at most, and they could only fight quickly, so it was impossible to have enough patience to wait for the Song army to throw themselves into the net. Sure enough, after learning that the main force of the Song army was heading straight to Yanzhou, he had to lead the army that was preparing to set up an ambush to make a long-distance attack, and caught up with the Song army led by Li Buqi by the Huaining River.

The Song army immediately retracted after discovering that the Western Xia army was rolling in, leaned towards Huaining Village and set up a village to defend itself. The Western Xia army arrived in a steady stream and surrounded the Song legions.

On March 22, before the arrival of 30,000 Western Xia cavalry and 26,000 infantry at Huaining Village, Wei Mingshan, the Left Wing Supervisor of the Suizhou Supervision Division, led the Suide Tribal Army and the Left Wing Shenyong Army Division 20,000 to fight against Li Buqi and led the army of 30,000, and the Huaining Zhai Yanlu Supervisor Zhi Jishi led the 10,000 foot cavalry stationed in Huaining Village, 5,000 Suiping Zhai, and 50,000 archers from the two villages, and a great battle began.

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