After resting at Xiaoguan for two days, Li Yanqing led an army of 24,000 to continue northward, and arrived at Ta Cut Village two days later.

What Li Yanqing didn't expect was that there was an unexpected harvest from seizing the reward and cutting the village, in addition to tens of thousands of stone of grain and grass, there were also 50,000 sets of Song army armor, which was the trophy left to the Western Xia army when Tong Guan's whole army was destroyed, and the new armor sent to the front line by the ordnance supervisor had not yet been unsealed.

"It's not easy to keep it in a dry cave for so many years!"

Li Yanqing gently stroked the head of the plain wood gun, there was a layer of oil stains on it, the head of the gun was long and prismatic, the edges and corners were sharp, the sharp spear tip flashed with cold light, it was worthy of being a fine product created by the Great Song Dynasty Weapons Supervisor, and the gun barrel behind it was also repeatedly soaked in oil and dried, very strong, without a trace of cracks.

The guns of the infantry of the Song army were mainly plain wood guns and crow-neck guns, and there was also a kind of throwing shuttle gun, which was a sharp weapon against the cavalry.

Zhang Shun introduced on the side: "Qi Yu is the capital, the shuttle gun is packed in a wooden box, and the lowly duty has been counted, a box of fifty guns, a total of three thousand boxes, a total of 150,000 pieces, and the box has the seal paint of the ordnance supervisor, which has never been opened." ”

Li Yanqing nodded, and came to another cave, where there were five thousand sets of armor, but unfortunately they were all ink and lacquer leather armor, there was no muddy copper armor and gold-coated iron armor, not to mention the mountain pattern armor and black hammer armor, that was the equipment of the Tianlong Forbidden Army, and in addition, only the generals and above could wear it.

"It's a pity that these leather armors are a little hardened!" Zhang Shun stroked the leather armor and said regretfully.

Li Yanqing twisted a handful of leather armor and said with a smile: "It's okay, if you tann it a little more, it will be as good as ever!" ”

"Dutong, do you have to transport all these armors back?"

"Of course, it has to be transported back, when the logistics baggage team comes to Xiaoguan for the second time, these armors can be transported back to Jingzhao by the way."

As he was speaking, Yan Qing rushed over, clasped his fists and saluted: "Qi Yu Dutong, the scout who probed for intelligence is back." ”

Li Yanqing nodded and said to Zhang Shun: "You register all the armor and make a book, and when the baggage team arrives, you will move your things to the car, this matter is very important, don't be careless." ”

Zhang Shun's face changed, does this mean that he can't go to Weizhou, he suddenly became anxious, "Dutong, let the lowly go to Weizhou!" ”

Yan Qing was proud in her heart, patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Xiao Shunzi, the military order is like a mountain, since the capital will not change it, you can admit it!" ”

Zhang Shun glared at him fiercely, and had to bow his head helplessly, hating in his heart! He actually became a logistics army.

Li Yanqing waved his hand, "It is very important to step on the village, Tong Guan just despised the village back then, which led to the annihilation of the 100,000 army, I don't want to repeat the mistakes of the past, you have to defend the village for me no matter what." ”

Zhang Shun woke up slightly, "All of them are saying that the Western Xia army will come to attack Ta Cut Village?" ”

Li Yanqing smiled slightly, "Weicheng is the battle line of the Western Xia, but it is our battle line to step on the village, I will pull the army up and leave the opportunity to the Xixia people, it depends on whether they come to bite this bait, you are the bait protector, don't let the Xixia people really bite the bait away." ”

Zhang Shun was overjoyed and bowed, "There is a humble position, and there will never be any mistakes in stepping on the village." ”

Li Yanqing turned around and left, but Zhang Shun smiled and patted Yan Qing's shoulder, "Xiao Yan'er, my brother took the head work, I'm sorry!" ”

Yan Qing's face was a little bad, and he snorted, "When I take Weizhou, I won't know whose head merit is." ”

"Huh! We'll see. ”

The two habitually exchanged a few words, and Yan Qing turned around and ran away with Li Yanqing.

.......

Weicheng is far from being a big city, can only be regarded as a very small military city, but it is an out-and-out strong city, if it is said that the reward and the village is the southern entrance of the capital Xingqing Mansion, then Weicheng is the throat of Xingqing Mansion, after Weicheng will enter the Heshuo Plain, which is very suitable for cavalry combat, Xixia is also well aware of the unfavorable terrain, so it exhausted the national strength to raise an iron harrier cavalry of 80,000 people.

Weicheng is located on the remaining veins of Liupan Mountain, built in the middle of the mountainside, backed by a majestic mountain range that stretches for hundreds of miles, the mountain behind it is like being split by a knife, there is a canyon that is more than ten miles long, Weicheng is located on the mouth of the canyon, directly choking the passage to the north.

This way of building the city fully reflects the style of the Tangut people and grasps the key points, so the defense methods of rewarding the moving mouth, stepping on the cutting village and Weicheng are the same.

The halfway up the mountain of Weicheng is not too high, and it is only a dozen zhang from the ground, but looking up from the bottom, the momentum of the city in the sky is overwhelming, and the soldiers on the head of the city are condescending, only to see the dense swords and halberds shining in the sun, and it is impossible to capture this city without paying a heavy price.

A few miles away, Li Yanqing rode a horse surrounded by dozens of generals and looked at this city from afar, with his rich experience in attacking and defending the city, he was sure to capture this city in one day, but it was not his goal to capture this city, war was just a means in Li Yanqing's eyes, a means to force the Western Xia to compromise politically, only if the Western Xia really hurt, it would retract its black claws.

"Has General Liu seen a little bit of fame?"

Li Yanqing asked Liu Ziyu next to him with a smile, Liu Ziyu is both civil and military, and Li Yanqing is a little similar, strong in martial arts, excellent in riding and shooting, but also powerful in literature, Yan'an Mansion issued the third place in the examination, but it is a pity that Jinshi did not succeed in the examination, otherwise Tokyo people would call him Li Yanqing Liu Ziyu second.

Liu Ziyu stared at the city, and said in a deep voice: "This city can only accommodate a maximum of five thousand people, if the Western Xia reinforcements arrive, where will they be stationed?" ”

"General Liu looked very carefully, what about General Liu's opinion?"

"Qiyu is the capital, and the danger of Weicheng actually doesn't need so many defenders, and Western Xia also sent reinforcements over, so it can only be said that they don't mean to be in Weicheng."

Li Yanqing got the news from the scouts that a 20,000-strong Western Xia reinforcement army had been killed from Xiazhou, and it was stationed in Luocheng, fifty miles to the east, just as Liu Ziyu's analysis, such a small city could not accommodate 20,000 people, so the purpose of this army was obvious, either it wanted to fight a decisive battle with itself directly, or it wanted to recapture the Ta Cut Village and cut off its own back road.

"Dutong, what should we do next?" Liu Qian asked in a low voice behind him.

Li Yanqing smiled slightly, "Set up a big camp opposite Weicheng first, and wait for the opportunity!" ”

The commander-in-chief's military order was issued, and the army of 30,000 began to quickly set up a large camp, and the 500 carts that came with the army carried 2,000 large tents, and the large tents were set up in an open field about five miles from Weicheng, and the three thousand cavalry and two thousand infantry rushed to a forest thirty miles to the west to cut down trees.

At dusk, the camp of the Song army has been built, 2,000 large tents are neatly arranged in the camp, hundreds of thousands of logs around it are woven into a camp fence, and eight watchtowers have been built around the camp, and hundreds of patrol scouts have been released.

The chief general of Weizhou is called Chaka, a middle-aged general with a dark and fat body, who is very insidious and cunning, and has also dealt with Li Yanqing in those years, he has been repeatedly promoted over the years, and has been promoted from a middle and low-level general to the commander of the Weizhou Military Supervision Department and the Jingsai Army, commanding the 8,000 troops of the Reward Transfer, Ta Cutting Village and Weicheng.

At this time, Chaka stood at the head of the city, squinting at the Song army camp several miles away, this time the Song army took the reward and the village in the way of a sneak attack, and hit Chaka by surprise, his own troops are not much, he did not dare to rush to the rescue of the village, only later the soldiers who fled from the village told that the Song army was less than 1,000 people in the sneak attack, Chaka was full of regret, but it was too late, the village had been captured by the Song army.

Chaka knew that he had made a big mistake and that his official position was not guaranteed, so he sent someone to find his backstage Pu Wang Li Renhe, and spent 20,000 taels of silver to calm down the thunderous anger of the Son of Heaven, and left him a word, Defend Weicheng, he has no merit, if he can't keep Weicheng, let him come to see him.

But at the end of the edict of the Son of Heaven, there was a promise that if he could recapture the Ta Cutting Village and the Reward Transfer, he would be promoted to another level.

This promise really made Chaka a little moved.

To tell the truth, Chaka is not worried about holding Weicheng, Weicheng is strong and dangerous, and it has only been lost once since the founding of the Western Xia, which was more than ten years ago when the Song general Liu Fa attacked successfully, if it is an upright siege, the Song army may not be able to capture Weicheng.

Now Chaka is not thinking about the problem of holding Weicheng, but how to recapture the Ta Cut Village and cut off the retreat of the Song army?

Chaka squinted at the Song army's camp for a long time, then turned around and ordered: "Send a letter to Gao Huiwen quickly, he can send troops!" ”