After receiving a very powerful weapon from the Song cavalry, Wei Ming Mahu, who led the Qiang army to fight for this piece of land, hurriedly ordered the whole army to advance slowly, ready to meet the enemy at any time. However, the Song army did not take the initiative to attack again, and it seemed that the battle just now was just an accident.

When the 8,000 Qiang people approached the Quye River for five miles, there was finally no smoke and fire, because from here all the way to the river, all the wheat had been cut off. From the hillside mound, the Qiang people could see that by the river, the Song army had set up a large camp, and at this time the troops besieging the walled fort were being transferred to face them. Look at the walled fort behind the Song people, the walls collapsed, the houses collapsed, and black smoke was emitting, and it was ravaged at a glance. The two forts farther away were in ruins, so he had to think that without his rescue, the fort would soon fall.

Originally, there should have been 500 garrisons stationed in this walled fort, plus the people who farmed with the walled fort as the center, and the number of people in the walled fort was estimated to be at least eight or nine hundred at this time. It is said that this number is quite a lot, even in the face of the Song army of Linfu who is dispatched by the nest, it can be defended, because everyone knows that the troops that can pull out the entire Linfu to fight by the Quye River will never exceed 5,000 people, and this is still the case of using the volunteers of the feudal clan who are close to the Great Song Dynasty. However, this time it is obvious that the Song people did not mobilize the troops of the domain, otherwise he would not have known anything about the actions of the Song people, and now he sees that the Song army surrounding this walled fort is about four or five thousand people, and Wei Ming Mahu does not need to use his brain to know that the Song army in Linfu has been strengthened.

But how many Song troops were there in Linfu? Several Western Xia generals disagreed on this. Some people think that the Song army was able to capture the two walled forts cleanly, indicating that the army was very strong. Some people also believe that the Song army could not capture the last walled fort, but had the meaning of digging trenches to besiege it, indicating that the troops were insufficient.

He was also puzzled. According to his understanding of the Zhejia army, if the Song army was insufficient, it would definitely not continue to besiege the walled fort that they could not capture, and would have retreated to Fuzhou long ago. But if the Song army had prepared sufficient troops in order to uproot these three walled forts, then there would definitely not be only such a few people here, and the Song army of the brigade was not found from here to Fuzhou City?

In the end, after observing the position of the Song army for a long time and having to report to the scouts that the Song army's feudal warriors and archers were rushing from Linzhou to the battlefield, Wei Ming Mahu made a decision. "The Song army should only have these troops. The Song people camped in the wild, and they were the most strong, but you see, the trenches dug outside the camp where the Song people besieged the fortress were not connected, but were section by section, and they must have been short of manpower and had no time to dig them well. Now the Song people hurriedly summoned the righteous and brave to fight, which can only show that the Song people expected that the farming season was busy, and it was not easy to recruit a large army, and they wanted to block the news and attack the three villages, but in the end they failed to succeed. ”

This speculation was also recognized by most of the generals and chiefs, and Wei Ming Mahu made up his mind: "This opportunity is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and we should take advantage of the fact that the Song people are not ready, and attack with all our strength to defeat the Song people who have not had time to set up a strong village." An order was issued to send a thousand cavalry to the Quye River and Fuzhou to cut off the communication between the Song people. The others listened to me and prepared to attack. ”

However, the battle did not happen immediately, and the Western Xia army came from afar, and it was still necessary to organize the ranks, and only sent a small force of cavalry to harass the Song army. The Song army seemed to be very jealous of the Western Xia army, and all the turtles retreated back to the camp, busy continuing to dig trenches and arrange deer barricades, but at the same time the attack on the encircled walled fort did not stop.

In Wei Ming Mahu's opinion, it should be that the Song army was in a hurry to capture the walled fort, and then turned around to deal with his own attack with all his might, so he was also a little anxious, seeing that it was not early, he sent infantry to attack after sorting out some troops a little.

When Zhi Kerou saw the black-pressed Tangut infantry slowly pressing over, and the cavalry waiting for an opportunity in the rear, he knew that the Tangut people had taken the bait. He immediately ordered the two thousand infantry lurking in the camp to quietly line up and prepare to meet the enemy, and ordered the wolf smoke to be lit.

The 5,000 people on the Song army's side are basically veterans who have been in battle for a long time, and they are not panicked in the face of the Western Xia people, and they are ready according to the general's orders. It is 3,000 militiamen, don't look at the short time of the army, the age of the soldiers is only eighteen or nineteen years old, but because the source is basically the young people of Yan Yanlu who have been in the war all day, many of them have become archers and united soldiers since the age of fourteen or fifteen, and they are not all without combat experience. This is also the reason why Li Buqi dared to send the militia to the battlefield in only half a year after the formation of the militia on Dunyan Road.

When the Tangut infantry approached a hundred and fifty meters away from the camp fence, there was a clarion call, and some of the outermost militiamen jumped into the shallow trench, while some crouched down behind the shield bearers, and the crossbowmen raised their divine arms and began to fire crossbows. The crossbow arrows flew like raindrops to the Tanguts, and the Tanguts were constantly shot down, but the Tanguts, under the urging of the war drums, kept the original rhythm and moved slowly while using strong crossbows to return the color.

Suddenly, there were several thunderbolts, white gunpowder smoke rose from the array of the Song army, and six iron balls flew slowly and leisurely in the air with a trajectory visible to the naked eye, and two of them smashed to the ground and bounced up halfway before crashing into the middle of the Tangut people. Immediately, the iron ball made four bloody alleys in the crowd, and the broken weapons and armor and human limb and internal organs flew everywhere on the path of the iron ball.

Although the power of the lead-covered iron ball is amazing, and the 5.5 mm iron ball can knock down four or five people at once, most of the Western Xia people have been through the battle formation, and this miserable scene is no more terrifying than the javelin fired by the Song army's bed crossbow. The shelling did not slow down the Tanguts slightly, but as the drumbeat of the war drums became more and more rapid, the pace of the Tanguts became more and more accelerated.

The gunners of the shirtless Song army pushed wheels and carried skids to reset the artillery, some people used a brush dipped in water to reach into the barrel to extinguish the remaining sparks, another person used a snake-shaped hook to clean the barrel, and the last person brushed the chamber with a dry brush. The deputy gunner pierced the powder pouch from the fire door with an awl, and then sprinkled the explosive charge on the fire door, and the igniter immediately pressed the fire rope on the explosive charge.

The second round of shelling was a salvo, and the shells made a pit directly in the ranks of the Tanguts. The Tanguts were in a commotion, but continued to bypass the flesh-and-blood land and press the Song army.

It was clear that the firing of six guns did not achieve a shocking effect, and the Tanguts continued to approach at their pace. After entering the range of bows and arrows, the Tanguts began to throw arrows, and the dense rain of arrows hit the armor and shields of the Song officers and soldiers, but the Song army was also unwavering, just dragging the unlucky ones who were hit by the arrows down.

When the Tangut infantry approached to fifty meters, the six guns raised their firing angles and began to bombard the Tangut cavalry following the infantry. This made the Western Xia infantry breathe a sigh of relief, but the oncoming crossbows could already penetrate their shields, and more people fell on the way forward.

With experience, Wei Ming Mahu can see that the Song army does not have many divine arms and bows, which shows that the Song army did not increase its troops on a large scale. Now that he was completely relieved, he immediately gave the order to beat the drums and order the infantry to engage the enemy.

As the drums of the Tangut people became faster, the pace of the Tangut infantry increased again. Seeing that the Tanguts were only more than twenty steps away from the trench, Zhi Kerou ordered: "Shoot a salvo!" ”

The trumpeter who followed behind Zhao Sheng immediately blew a set of trumpet sounds, and an excited order sounded in the trench outside the camp fence, and then more than twenty guns rang out one after another, and the Song army's camp gate was almost obscured by the smoke of gunpowder.

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