Zhang Shun hid in a half-man-high bush, his eyes sharply stared at the enemy camp dozens of steps away, followed by five hundred elite soldiers, and half a mile away, Yan Qing, who was the backup, also led five hundred soldiers to wait patiently for the signal.

The sentry post in front of him is no different from the empty post for Zhang Shun, but Zhang Shun needs to understand the layout of the enemy army in Dazhai.

There are slopes on both sides of the mountain road, only one way into the cottage is the mountain road, if the Western Xia army chokes the mountain road, it is really difficult to attack, but it is a pity that the Western Xia army is careless, so that the Song army has been killed in front of the eyes.

After observing for about a quarter of an hour, Zhang Shun waved lightly, he and the two soldiers bent down and rushed up, and from time to time they crouched on the ground, and when the two sentry turned around, they approached again, but when they were more than 20 steps away from the gate, there was a sudden roar of hunting dogs from inside the gate, and I saw a black dog chained desperately pounced on the gate, screaming non-stop.

Zhang Shun secretly screamed that it was not good, there were actually hunting dogs in the cottage, he did not hesitate, and shouted in a low voice, "Shoot!" ”

The two subordinates raised their crossbows and shot at the sentry, the sentry in the cottage had not yet reacted to what was going on, and thought that a night beast passed by in front of the gate, and the two staggered towards the gate of the village, and at this moment, two poisonous crossbow arrows 'whoosh!' The ground shot into the gate, hitting two sentinels in the throat, and the two sentries immediately fell to the ground.

These two arrows were the signal, and the five hundred elite soldiers behind them rushed towards the camp gate together, at this time, the barking of the black dog woke up the soldiers who were napping, and several soldiers found the corpses on the ground and the black shadows running outside, and shouted in fright.

Zhang Shun was the first to rush to the front of the walled gate, he jumped up the walled gate, climbed into the big village, two Western Xia soldiers drew their knives and slashed at him, Zhang Shun shouted, the horizontal knife was split, the cold light flashed, and the two heads fell to the ground.

Zhang Shun then kicked towards the door again, only to hear the iron chain' bang! There was a sound, and the gate was locked with thick iron chains.

He swept his eyes and saw a sharp axe in the corner, Zhang Shun picked up the sharp axe and slashed towards the gate, the wooden fence with a thick arm was broken, the gate was suddenly opened, and the five hundred elite soldiers outside rushed into the cottage, and at the same time, three gunpowder arrows shot down the mountain, and the gunpowder arrows burned in the air, emitting a bright light.

Yan Qing saw the signal and immediately shouted, "Kill!" ”

The 500 soldiers who had been lying in ambush at the corner of the zigzag came out and ran up the hill half a mile away......

At this time, the five hundred soldiers led by Zhang Shun have already entered the cottage, the cottage is limited by the terrain, it is distributed in a long strip, only about ten zhang wide, but two miles long, one hundred camp tents are divided into two rows, neatly arranged on the mountain road, and two thousand soldiers are stationed.

Most of the Western Xia soldiers were asleep, the Song army suddenly entered the camp tent, many soldiers were killed in their sleep before they woke up, there were screams in the big tent, and many soldiers had no iron in their hands, so frightened that they knelt down and surrendered, the Song army did not accept surrender, and they were all killed.

Zhang Shun according to the prior deployment, he did not participate in the battle, but led more than a hundred soldiers directly to the Houying Gate, the Houying Gate is the gate leading to the direction of Xixia, there is usually no sentry there, only when supplies are sent, the gate will be opened, most of the time it is locked with iron chains.

When Zhang Shun rushed to the Houzhai Gate two miles away, there was still silence here, and he was not alarmed by the shouting and killing sound in front, more than a dozen soldiers rushed to control the beacon next to the Houzhai Gate, just when Zhang Shun arrived at the Houzhai Gate, a leader in charge of a hundred people came out of the big tent not far away to urinate, he suddenly saw Zhang Shun and others, and immediately shouted and asked: "Who are you?" ”

"It's your grandfather!"

Zhang Shun picked up a spear and threw it fiercely, the spear pierced the body of the leader, and the leader screamed and was nailed to the ground.

Soon, the riots in the front camp gradually affected the back camp, the shouts of killing were getting closer and closer, and the soldiers in the big tent in the back camp were awakened one after another, and fled out of the big tent in panic, rushing towards the back gate, but they were greeted by cold crossbow arrows and sharp spear tips.

This sneak attack ended after only half an hour, and none of the 2,000 soldiers of the Xixia Army could escape, and the whole army was wiped out, leaving only a dozen or so alive to investigate the situation of the village.

At this time, it was just over two watches, the Song army did not stop to enjoy the results of the battle, Yan Qing left 200 soldiers to guard the village, and the remaining 800 soldiers changed into the armor of the Western Xia army, and rushed to the Ta Cutting Village 80 miles away.

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The village is built according to the mountain, the terrain is very dangerous, it holds the only way for the Song army to go north, the only way to walk the heavy road is to walk in front of the cottage, this road can be easily blocked from the cottage, once the Song army goes north, even if the army succeeds in crossing the mountains and mountains to the north, but there is no logistical support, the Song army can only be the fate of the whole army annihilated, when Tong Guan was in the middle of the village in the village, the Xixia soldiers hidden in the village re-took the village and cut off the back road, the army lost the logistics support, so that the whole army was destroyed.

Ta cut village is about 80 miles away from the reward of the port, there are three beacons along the way, this is the middle line of the beacon alarm system established in the Western Xia, the reward of the port, the village of the tread, Weizhou, Lingzhou, Jingzhou all the way to the capital Xingqing Mansion, the beacon line is 500 miles long, there are 26 beacons distributed.

Once the fire is raised, the beacon fire can be transmitted to the capital Xingqing Mansion within an hour, and according to the plan discussed by Yan Qing and Zhang Shun, the beacon fire must not be lit before they arrive at the Taqi Village.

The 800 scouts marched very fast, and the next morning they arrived and pulled out the first beacon, and in the afternoon they pulled down the second blockade, and at dusk the group of 800 men finally arrived at Ta Che Village.

The same as the reward of the village, there are also two thousand soldiers guarded, but the difference with the reward of the village is that the front of the village is a loess wasteland that stretches for more than ten miles, the only forest in the Song Dynasty after the death of Liu Fa was also cut down by the Western Xia soldiers, the bare wasteland is very broad, the village is condescending, you can clearly see the camel ridge more than ten miles away, if there is an active team, you can not escape the eyes of the monitoring sentry.

Camel Ridge is a hill more than 100 miles long, the shape is very much like a camel lying on the Loess Plateau, and hundreds of miles long Ta Che Ling side by side, in the middle is actually a valley more than ten miles wide. It's just that because the camel ridge is too gentle and the terrain is not dangerous enough, the Western Xia army did not camp here, but built a beacon on the mountain ridge.

When night fell, Yan Qing led twenty soldiers to touch the bottom of the beacon, the beacon is quite like the pillbox of later generations, it is cylindrical, about one zhang and five feet high, divided into three layers, the bottom layer is used to raise livestock, the middle layer is the barracks, the top is a firewood stack, usually covered by oilcloth to cover the rain, if you find that the southern beacon is lit, the soldiers will immediately pour fire oil, and light the firewood stack.

Therefore, there will always be a sentry standing guard on the top of the beacon.

Yan Qing flew out of the hook and hooked the edge of the stone wall on the top of the beacon, more than a dozen steps behind Yan Qing, three crossbowmen aimed at the top of the beacon with crossbow arrows, once the sentry above found the hook or heard the movement, came forward to check, they immediately shot the sentry with arrows.

Fortunately, the sentry on the top of the building did not find anything abnormal, Yan Qing jumped up, quickly climbed to the top of the beacon, passing by the small window on the second floor, Yan Qing carefully looked inside, and found that there were four soldiers gathering together to gamble, the lights were dim, the four of them were engrossed, and they didn't notice that anyone was peeping outside the window at all.

Yan Qing continued to climb to the top, he reached out and grabbed a big stone, slowly probed up, but did not see the sentry, in front of him was a pile of firewood covered with oilcloth, it was estimated that the sentry was on the other side of the firewood, so he did not find the hook claw.

Yan Qing jumped on the top of the beacon fire and landed silently, he hid behind the firewood stack and looked slowly to the other side, only to find that the sentry was sitting at the top of the stairs watching the gambling below, exposing a back to Yan Qing.

Yan Qing raised his hand and shot a short crossbow, hitting the opponent's back, the sentry screamed miserably, rolled down the stairs, Yan Qing immediately stepped forward to cover the top plate and lock it, as long as the top floor is not lost, it doesn't hurt to make trouble below.

In a moment, the four soldiers fled from the beacon in panic, but they were shot at the gate of the beacon by the Song army who were ambushed around.