Just when Li Chenghao led 10,000 iron harrier cavalry to encounter the ambush of the Song army, the 20,000 cavalry led by Li Renzong also arrived at the bottom of the Wanshi Ridge where Weicheng is located.

But what the Western Xia army did not expect was that the Song army built a military village when facing the north of the pass, and a big flag hunted and flew above the military village, and the big flag was embroidered with three big characters: 'Ten Thousand Lion Village'.

This is a new military village that appeared in the land of Western Xia, and it is a large village built and named by the Song army.

The military village is surrounded by a thick wooden fence, the shape of the whole wooden fence is trapezoidal, the circumference is only one mile, and a low wall of one person high is built with stones in the wooden fence, and the soldiers can prostrate on the low wall to shoot downward, and fifty small trebuchets are deployed behind the low wall, which can throw boulders, rolling logs, oil cans and earth-shaking thunderbolts outward.

Hundreds of big tents were stationed in the valley, and 2,000 soldiers were stationed in this temporary military village, even if the military village was lost, the Song army could still retreat to Weicheng to continue to confront the Western Xia army, which was originally used to defend the Song army's dangerous passes, but now it has become a bridgehead for the Song army to attack the Western Xia.

The military office of the Jingzhao army was temporarily located in Weicheng, there are several stone houses in Weicheng that have not been blown down, located under the north city wall, these stone houses should have been warehouses, built tall and strong, when the Song army captured Weicheng, a large amount of grain was found in the warehouse, and some of the grain in front had been roasted by fire, and there was also Chaka, the chief general of Weicheng, who was roasted together, and he hid in the warehouse as clever as himself, and finally did not escape the search of death.

At this time, Weicheng was cleaning with all his might, thousands of soldiers were very busy, cleaning out the stones and corpses, sprinkling lime for disinfection, and then temporarily setting up a big tent, and the few surviving warehouses had been cleaned up and put on tables and chairs, Li Yanqing stood in front of the big table with his hands and stared at the whole map of Western Xia on the table, and there were more than a dozen generals standing next to him, each of whom remained silent, lest his words interrupt the coach's thinking.

After a long time, Li Yanqing asked Liu Kuan: "Is there any news from Zhang Shun?" ”

"Back to the capital, there is no news for the time being."

Li Yanqing nodded, and smiled at everyone again: "Xiping Mansion was captured, and Western Xia did not mobilize the whole country, but sent 30,000 Iron Harrier troops south, what does this mean?" Let's talk about it. ”

Wang Gui pondered for a moment and said, "Does this mean that Western Xia has not yet realized the seriousness of the problem?" ”

Liu Jian shook his head, "Li Qianshun is very clear about our strategic purpose, which is to force the Western Xia army to retreat from Xihe Road, but they are unwilling and want to repel us at the lowest cost. ”

Li Yanqing smiled slightly: "The two generals are reasonable, but they are slightly insufficient, the reason why the Western Xia did not have a national mobilization is that their national strength cannot withstand large-scale recruitment, and it is necessary to extract strong men from various tribes to form an army, first of all, the Western Xia court should bear the armor and military rations, and secondly, the tribes should be exempted from taxes, as far as I know, the Western Xia used all the resources in the treasury in order to compete for the Datong Mansion in Xijing, the Western Xia Army, as a result, the Western Xia army was defeated by the Jin soldiers, and all the materials fell into the hands of the Jin State, and the Western Xia treasury was empty, Coupled with the cut off of trade between Song and Xia, they had so much silver and copper, but they could not trade with the Great Song Dynasty in exchange for materials, and then there was the Battle of Jinxia, the Western Xia army suffered heavy casualties, and the tribes had a lot of complaints about the national mobilization of the imperial court again. ”

As everyone was talking, a soldier reported at the door: "Qiyu Dutong, 20,000 Western Xia cavalry have arrived at the foot of the mountain." ”

Li Yanqing smiled, "The army has only arrived now, the news of Western Xia is too slow, let's go to Wanshi Village to have a look." ”

The generals followed Li Yanqing out of the stone house, turned over their horses one after another, and urged the horses to slowly move towards the Wanshi Village in the north of the mountain.

Ten thousand lion village by the commander of the general Zhang Wei is responsible for the town, at this time dozens of small trebuchets have been placed in place, each trebuchet by five people, four of them push the winch, one person to place the projectile, but also responsible for ignition, behind the trebuchet stacked a large number of boulders and rolling wood, as well as oil cans and earth-shaking thunder, these two items are placed in a large wooden box, when used to take out of the wooden box.

Two thousand soldiers were prostrate on the low wall with crossbows, staring intently at the cavalry hundreds of paces away from the mountain.

The Western Xia soldiers wore black patent leather armor, round helmets, shields on their backs, spears in their hands, bows and arrows and horse bags hanging from the saddle bridges, and looked very energetic and murderous in the sun.

At this time, a soldier shouted, "All here!" ”

The soldiers dodged one after another, Li Yanqing, surrounded by dozens of generals, walked over quickly, Zhang Wei hurriedly stepped forward and saluted, "See Dutong!" ”

"General Zhang has worked hard, I don't know what the Western Xia Army has done?"

Zhang Wei shook his head, "So far, they have not taken any action, neither camping nor attacking plans, according to humble observation, the Western Xia army did not carry baggage, I am afraid they could not camp at the foot of the mountain, they also did not carry siege weapons, except for the soldiers to charge forcibly, they have no other way to attack the military village." ”

"Then don't worry, these cavalry are the most precious elite of Western Xia, where are they willing to be used for siege consumption."

Li Yanqing's words caused everyone to laugh, and Wang Gui also hurriedly added: "The key is that they haven't brought grain and grass yet, and it is estimated that they will retreat soon." ”

"General Wang is right, if he doesn't carry a baggage, he has no sincerity."

At this time, a soldier stepped forward and handed a scroll of eagle letters to Zhang Wei, and Li Yanqing asked, "What is the news?" ”

"Qiyu Dutong is a quick letter sent by General Gongzuwen of Baimachuan."

"How's it going over there?" Li Yanqing was also very concerned about the retreat of the Song people in Baimachuan.

"General Gong said that there were 10,000 Western Xia cavalry south, and were ambushed by the Song army in Qinggang Gorge, the Western Xia cavalry suffered heavy casualties, the dead amounted to 4,000 people, and the rest of the remnants of the army had fled north, and the Song army captured more than 2,000 armored war horses, and the results were very brilliant."

"Good!" Li Yanqing praised: "Grandfather Gong General is not a sound, a Ming is really amazing, pass my order over, and give General Gong Zuwen a great credit." ”

There was envy in everyone's eyes, and Liu Jian said in a low voice: "The Iron Harrier cavalry doesn't seem to be as strong as the legend, and we also have eight thousand cavalry, do you want to fight with them?" ”

Liu Kuan's suggestion was very tempting, but Li Yanqing still shook his head and said lightly: "Victory cannot be based on speculation and luck, Gong Zuwen only achieved brilliant results by occupying the geographical advantage, if we take the initiative to attack, it will give the enemy a chance to play to its advantages." ”

"Ignorance, understood!"

"But then again, after the enemy retreats north, we can occupy Lingzhou City and force Western Xia to negotiate with us!"

.........

Just as the judgment of the Song army, Li Renzong chased to the bottom of the Ten Thousand Lion Ridge is already the end of the strong crossbow, although the 20,000 cavalry he led is imposing, but the attack on the Ten Thousand Lion Ridge is helpless, at a loss, with cavalry to attack the city and the mountain is like a bull's head not to the horse's mouth, but to the soldiers to get off the horse to attack the mountain, Li Renzong did not dare to give this order, once the soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and the army could not be attacked, he could not go back to explain to the Son of Heaven.

What's more important is that his army didn't carry heavy grain and grass, and they couldn't support it for too long with a little dry food and black beans, but they retreated like this, they got nothing, and Li Renzong didn't know how to deal with Li Qianshun.

Li Renzong was very embarrassed and a bit of a dilemma, at this time, a team of cavalry rushed to report to Li Renzong: "Your Highness Qiqi, news came from the East Road that General Li Chenghao was ambushed by the Song army and suffered heavy losses!" ”

Li Renzong was taken aback and hurriedly asked, "What's going on, how big is the loss?" ”

"Returning to His Royal Highness, the Song army controlled the Qinggangxia military village, General Li Chenghao made a mistake in judgment, entered the canyon and was cut off the back road, and when he broke through the canyon, he was fiercely attacked by the Song army's firearms, and the casualties were extremely heavy."

"How tragic is it?" Li Renzong roared uncontrollably.

The leading soldier lowered his head and whispered: "More than 4,300 people were killed, more than 3,500 were wounded, and only more than 2,000 people retreated. ”

"Why are there so many casualties?" Li Renzong grabbed the soldier's shirt and shouted.

"There are thistles on the ground, there is earth-shattering thunder overhead, and powerful crossbow arrows, the dead cavalry and war horses blocked the retreat, and the cavalry had no way to dodge, General Li Chenghao desperately rushed to escape only after a road, and the situation at that time was too ......."

"That's it!"

Li Renzong drank the soldier's description, he looked up at the military village on the top of the mountain, and said with a long sigh: "Pass my order, and the whole army will immediately retreat north and retreat to Shunzhou!" ”