That night, the seed master Dao ordered to reward the three armies, tens of thousands of Song troops thundered with joy, the bonfire was not extinguished that night, Roshan wine sea, the soldiers of the three armies drank wine, and celebrated the hard-won victory. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The army immediately rested for three days, but early the next morning, the seed master sent an eagle letter to Linzhou, ordering the main general of Linzhou to lead the army to Western Xia.

Opposite Linzhou is the northeast of the Western Xia Kingdom, after a hilly area about dozens of miles wide, it enters the Gobi Wilderness for hundreds of miles, and then there is an endless desert as far as the eye can see.

The strategic significance of the Gobi and the desert is not great, the key is that these hilly areas of dozens of miles have been extended hundreds of miles to the south, which can reach the southeast of the heavy defense of the Western Xia, and directly penetrate the backs of the three major military divisions of Shenyong, Xiangyou and Jianing in the left wing, and the position of the army of the Seed Master Dao to the north is located between the Shenyong Military Division and the Xiangyou Military Division in the left wing.

But Linzhou has never been the channel for the Song army to attack Western Xia, the real defense of Linzhou is the Liao State Xijing Mansion bordered to the north, for a hundred years, the enemies of Linzhou are the Liao army in the north, once the Song army is too threatening to Western Xia, Liao will send troops from Xijing, directly to Taiyuan Mansion, to support Western Xia in the way of encircling Wei to save Zhao, the first is Linzhou.

It is precisely for this reason that the Western Xia army does not attach importance to the defense of Linzhou, and at most there is only a garrison of more than 10,000 people, and they know that it is impossible for the Song army to make Linzhou empty and give Liao an opportunity.

But the three kingdoms of Song, Liaoxia and Xia could not think of the rise of the Jurchens, brought the disaster of annihilation to the Liao State, from the beginning of the previous year, the Jurchens divided their troops into two ways to attack Zhongjing and Shangjing, Shangjing has been captured by the Jin State, at present the Jurchen 80,000 troops are besieging Zhongjing, the situation in Zhongjing is precarious, Yelu Dashi, who guards Xijing, led an army of 50,000 to support Zhongjing, so that the Liao Xijing army is empty, and Linzhou has no pressure on the north and worries about future troubles.

In late August, the seed master who guarded Linzhou received an eagle letter from his elder brother Seed Master, who left 5,000 people to guard Linzhou and personally led an army of 20,000 troops along the Tumao River Valley into Western Xia.

Western Xia did not set up a separate military division in the northeast, only set up three military villages of Nuanquan Village, Turbidity Wheel Village and Dahengshui Village, each military village was built according to the rules of 10,000 people, and the three military villages were located in hilly areas, separated by 20 miles from each other, which just cut off the passage of the Song army in Linzhou to the south.

All the information obtained by the Song army shows that the Western Xia has been stationing 30,000 troops opposite Linzhou, but the latest top-secret information tells the Song army that there are no 30,000 people in the three military villages, only more than 2,000 people, and the garrison in each military village is less than 1,000 people.

20,000 Song troops under the leadership of the main general planter along a valley to the south all the way, the planter is the cousin of the commander of the Hedong Army, the brother of the commander of the Hedong Army, five years younger than the planter, but also a veteran of more than sixty years old, he is burly, thick eyebrows, tiger eyes and purple face, looks very much like the elder brother planter, but more powerful, so that a fifty pound gold-backed tiger tooth knife, there is the courage of ten thousand people.

The seed master is the door shade into the office, in the early years as a civil official, later to the military in the military, both civil and military, to respond to the Taoist army to undertake the civilian position of the envoy as the commander of the Hedong Army, but the division is a simple general, he followed his uncle to fight in the south and the north, and made great achievements, the official worship hall before the horse army are waiting, the guerrilla general, from the five high-ranking officials.

"General Qiyu, walk ten miles further, and in front of you is the turbidity wheel village of the Western Xia army!" A scout sprang back, shouting a shout to the planters.

Although his brother wrote to him that the garrison of the three Western Xia military villages was less than 3,000, which was three virtual villages, he was still very cautious in the planter, and he looked around at the terrain, the valley road where he was located was about two miles wide, and the two sides were low hills and dense forests, if the Western Xia army really had 10,000 people, it was possible to hide in the woods on both sides and attack them.

The seed master turned around and asked, "Where are General Ma and General Qu?" ”

The two generals stepped forward and saluted with fists, "Please command!" ”

"The two of you can each lead a thousand people, search along the woods on both sides, and then test the turbidity wheel village!"

"Obey!"

The two generals each led a thousand men to the left and right woods, and the planter immediately ordered the army to rest in place and wait for the search results.

An hour later, a group of cavalry came back to report, "Qi Qi Commander, there is no ambush on both sides, the army has entered the turbidity wheel village, there are no enemy soldiers in the village, it is an empty village." ”

The planter was overjoyed and immediately ordered the army to advance.

The turbidity wheel village is really an empty village, there is not even a grain of grain in the village, there are only hundreds of empty tents, the tent is overgrown with weeds, one person is taller, some of the meat left in the kitchen has long been rotten, the iron bolt of the gate is covered with rust, all kinds of signs that can not be disguised show that this big village has not been inhabited for at least three months, if there were 10,000 garrisons, just transporting grain is huge, and their spies cannot find it.

In the afternoon, the army sent to Nuanquan Village and Dahengshui Village also sent people to report, the two Dazhai are also empty villages, Dahengshui Village has not lived in it for several months, and Nuanquan Village has traces of residence, but no more than 2,000 people, has been hastily evacuated.

It seems that the elder brother's intelligence is not wrong, the Western Xia really did not garrison troops in the northeast, and there were no scruples in the division, so he immediately waved his army south, led 20,000 troops to attack the Xiangyou Military Division, and cooperated with the main force of the Song army in the south to attack Shizhou.

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After the Song army seized Yinchuan City, the army continued to go north, Yinchuan City was only the bridgehead of Western Xia, through Hengshan is a plain as long as 100 miles, and then entered the Pingxia defense area, here is the defense of Western Xia, belongs to the gentle hilly area, from east to west there are three major military divisions of Zuoxiang Shenyong, Xiangyou and Jianing, with a total strength of more than 100,000 people.

The main force of the Song army directly faced the Shizhou military city, if Yinchuan City is the entrance to the southeast of Western Xia, then Shizhou City is the throat, behind Shizhou is Xiazhou, but Xiazhou is a civilian city, inhabited by a large number of civilian population, there is no defense ability, so as long as Shizhou is captured, the eastern half of Western Xia can basically not be saved.

With the death of Li Liangfu and the destruction of 20,000 Yinchuan defenders, the deputy commander Chaka concentrated the 30,000 troops of the General Division in Shizhou City, preparing to resist the battle between Jiancheng and the Song army.

The Song army set up a large camp in a high place three miles away from Shizhou, and built a plate camp wall, Taiwei Tong Guan gave the military order to the cultivation of the master of the road is to capture Yinchuan City before the end of August, open the situation of the eastern line of Western Xia, the cultivation of the road finally completed the task, and then he has no time limit, he can play a positional battle at his own pace, step by step, and finally capture Shizhou City.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, the commander of the division was convening senior officials to discuss the military situation, and after Li Yanqing took Yinchuan City by surprise, his voice in the Hedong Army was significantly improved, and the division put him into the high-level decision-making circle.

Prior to this, Li Yanqing participated in the deliberations of the generals, that is, all the generals above the command participated in the deliberations of the Chinese army, and captured and defended the dam and captured Yinchuan City.

There are seven people sitting in the big tent, in addition to the commander Chong Shidao and the deputy general Yao Zhongping, there are also generals Yang Keshi and Qu Ke, in addition to the logistics army commander Zong Ze, the chief staff Cao Qing, and now the director of the intelligence department Li Yanqing.

In front of the map, the seed master pointed to the north of Shizhou and said: "I received a letter from my brother this morning, the Song army from Linzhou has entered Western Xia three days ago, and is now advancing in the direction of Shizhou, which is currently located in Dejing Town in our northeast, about two hundred and forty miles away from Xiazhou, and one hundred and eighty miles away from Shizhou, and now their biggest problem is that the supply is insufficient, and the dry food they carry can only support three days!" “

The seed master pointed to Dejing Town on the map again, "Dejing Town originally had a supply grain cellar for the Western Xia army, and the Linzhou army planned to seize this grain cellar and obtain food supplies, but they didn't expect that all the grain in this grain cellar had been transported to Yinchuan City, and all the people in the town had retreated to Xiazhou, and now the Song army in Linzhou was very passive, let's discuss it and see what assistance we can provide?" ”

Speaking of this, the seed master Dao glanced at Zong Ze, Zong Ze is the chief general of logistics, this matter is his scope of responsibility, Zong Ze groaned and said: "I have two plans, one plan is to use a cart to transport grain to the north, and the marshal will send cavalry to escort it, because it is not far, it is only three days away, if the Linzhou army continues to go south, it will be able to meet in two days at most; The second plan is that the cavalry directly carry grain to the north, and the 5,000 cavalry can each carry five buckets of grain, and it only takes one day to reach Dejing Town, and the Linzhou army will have ten days of food, which is enough to solve the urgent need. ”

At this time, Li Yanqing on the side said slowly: "Whether it is the first plan or the second plan, the Western Xia army will send troops to intercept it, but if we will calculate it and use food as bait to lure the enemy army out to intercept it, our army will take the opportunity to surround this enemy army, and the marshal thinks that the Western Xia army in Shizhou City will save it or not?" ”