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It took a day for the 100,000 army to coax through the village, and when night fell, the 100,000 army finally went away, and the village was quiet.

Ta cut village is a more peculiar cottage military camp, not only the south is easy to defend and difficult to attack, the north is also very dangerous, the attack is difficult, due to the hasty retreat of the Western Xia army, the cottage is a mess, the Song army defenders who have been busy for a day have long been exhausted, arrange the night patrol, five thousand soldiers will rest and sleep early.

In the middle of the back hill, there is an extremely dilapidated house, the door is full of firewood and grass, and the gate is also in tatters, and almost no one will pay attention to this dilapidated house.

At the first watch, this private house, which should not be inhabited by anyone at all, is 'creak! The door opened, and in the night, two people crept out of the room, they looked around for a moment, there was nothing unusual, they immediately turned around and waved, only to see countless Western Xia soldiers coming out of it in a steady stream.

It turned out that this dilapidated house hid a secret passage, and the Xixia army hid hundreds of people in the secret passage, and hundreds of murderous Xixia soldiers under the leadership of a fierce general swooped silently towards the gate of the north of the village.

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Tong Guan's goal is to take Weizhou, which is one hundred and twenty miles north of Ta Che Village, and if he takes Weizhou, he will take one step more than the army of the Eastern Planter, and he will take Yinchuan City in Hengshan, and he will take the reward in the Douling, and he will take Shizhou, he will take the Ta Cut Village, and the Seed Dao will not take Xiazhou, but he will capture Weizhou, and he will not have to take the battle report of the Seed Master Dao to Beijing to report the good news.

Tong Guan has been aggrieved for this day for a long time, and he must seize Weizhou at all costs.

Weizhou is the southern gate of Gyeonggi in Western Xia, and when Weizhou is captured, the south gate of Xingqing Mansion is opened, and the Song army can go straight to Xiping Mansion and Xingqing Mansion along the Lingzhou River.

The army of 90,000 ran all the way, and in the afternoon, the army was still thirty miles away from Weizhou, at this time, a group of Song cavalry rushed to meet them, and in a moment they ran to the front of the army, and a soldier led them to Tong Guan.

The leading sergeant said urgently: "Captain Qiyu, General Wang has entered Weizhou, but Weizhou is an empty city, and there is not a single soldier. ”

Tong Guan was stunned for a moment, there were no defenders in Weizhou, and he hurriedly asked, "Are there civilians?" ”

"There are no civilians either, and all the civilians in the city moved into Xiping Mansion two months ago."

After a pause, Tong Guan suddenly remembered something important, and asked, "Is there grain and grass in the city?" ”

The sergeant shook his head, "Only 20,000 loads of forage were found, not a single grain of grain. ”

At this time, Tong Guan faintly felt that something was wrong with the situation, he seemed to have fallen into a trap, Weizhou City had nothing, and he was still counting on getting supplies after capturing Weizhou City.

Tong Guan saw sweat on his forehead, and he hurriedly turned around and ordered the general Yang Jin: "You quickly take 10,000 troops back to Ta Che Village, and give me to defend Ta Che Village, and there can be no mistakes." ”

His logistical supplies have not yet come, and if something happens to the village, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Just when the general Yang Jin led the army to set off, a partial general in the distance came galloping with several cavalry, only to see that he was covered in blood and had many injuries on his body. ”

Tong Guan's eyes were dark, and he almost fainted, he grabbed the partial general and yelled: "Why is it lost? ”

"There are a lot of Xixia soldiers hidden in the village, they should join forces with the outside last night, capture the gate of Beizhai, tens of thousands of enemy troops into the village, the brothers can not resist, retreat from the south village, and the village is lost."

"And what about my logistical supplies? Where are they? Tong Guan asked with a roar.

"The logistics baggage is still halfway, and it has not yet arrived at the cutting village, so it should be safe!"

Tong Guan couldn't wait to draw his sword and stab this bastard to death, what does it mean to be safe and sound, without logistics and supplies, what should they do with their 100,000 army?

He knew that he had been tricked, and the Western Xia army took advantage of the danger of stepping on the village to cut off his logistical supplies, although they carried a small amount of supplies with the army, but this bit of grain and grass could only support ten days at most, and after ten days, the grain and grass would be cut off, what should he do?

Tong Guan gritted his teeth and shouted: "The whole army will turn around and recapture the Ta Cutting Village!" ”

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The earth was covered with dark clouds and stars, and the silhouette of the mountain loomed in the darkness in the distance, like a sleeping monster.

However, the city of Shizhou is brightly lit, and hundreds of torches are planted around the open space covering an area of thousands of acres in the north of the city.

But at this time is no longer an open space, everywhere is full of all kinds of wooden and pig iron parts, from the shape of the parts can be seen that they are cannons and trebuchets, at this time, the success of the Hedong Song military war for most of the year, before and after the production of 300 cannons and more than 200 heavy trebuchets, in addition to thousands of chain crossbows, the logistics army has all transported them to Shizhou City.

For several days, hundreds of craftsmen of the Song army were working day and night to assemble these large city guards, 'If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools!' 'The Seed Master Dao knows this very well, without a good weapon to defend the city, no matter how dangerous the city is, it may not be able to defend it.

"This is the latest artillery cannon, and the Ordnance Supervisor only sent it this spring!"

Seed Master Dao stroked a fire cannon that was being installed and smiled at Li Yanqing: "Its elastic power is extremely strong, enough to shoot the sky-shaking laser three hundred steps away, but it takes fifteen people to control it." ”

A craftsman next to him smiled and said, "Marshal, Li Senjun has been studying this cannon this afternoon!" ”

"Really?" The seed master turned his head and looked at Li Yanqing.

Li Yanqing nodded, he had been checking these trebuchets for the past two days, and he was already familiar with these giant city defense weapons.

"It seems that Dashuai never considered capturing Xia Zhou? Including before, the Shizhou defenders had not yet divided their troops to defend Xiazhou, and it was easy to capture Xiazhou at that time, but the marshal did not have this idea at all, and he had always been deeply puzzled. ”

This is where Li Yanqing has always been deeply puzzled, he has proposed more than once before to bypass Shizhou and seize Xiazhou, which is empty, but the master just smiled and did not answer, after he and Zong Ze ambushed the enemy, he proposed to expand the results of the battle to seize Xiazhou, but Zong Ze sternly refused, and he faintly felt that the marshal did not seem to want to attack Xiazhou at all.

The seed master smiled, pointed to the city and said, "Let's go to the city and have a look." ”

There were also a large number of craftsmen busy at the head of the city, and trebuchets and cannons needed to be fixed, so it was necessary to build one square pool after another of blue bricks, and the base could be fixed in them.

He looked preoccupied for a moment, and then involuntarily walked towards the city wall, holding on to the battlements and looking into the distance.

"Yanqing, do you think it's necessary to attack Western Xia this time?" Seed Master Dao asked with a deep sigh.

"Da Shuai is worried about the Jurchens!" Li Yanqing hit the nail on the head.

Seed Master Dao nodded, "The lips are dead and the teeth are cold, the Jurchens will definitely attack the Song Dynasty in a big way if they attack the Liao State, but we put a lot of resources on attacking the Western Xia, how unwise!" ”

"Why did the imperial court fight Western Xia?"

"This is because some people, to be precise, the vast majority of civil servants in the imperial court....."

"Civilian-official clique!" The word popped out of Li Yanqing's mouth.

The Seed Master Dao was slightly stunned, he pondered for a moment and continued: "Even if it's a civilian group!" But not only them, but also Tong Guan, Liang Shicheng and others, for a long time they have formed a fixed line of thought, the reason why the Song army could not destroy the Western Xia was because the Liao State supported the Western Xia behind the scenes, and now the Liao State was contained by the Jurchens, they thought that the Western Xia was difficult to support alone, and unanimously supported the attack on the Western Xia, their idea was not bad, but they didn't know that the current Song army was no longer the Song army of a hundred years ago, and now the Song army has no ability to destroy the Western Xia. ”

"It should be okay with national strength."

"What's the use of relying on national strength alone, how is it different from a fat sheep if it's big but not strong? Fighting depends on the army, you look at what the current million forbidden army looks like, all eat, drink, prostitute and gamble, the army is discouraged, and the soldiers will go bankrupt, it is simply a strange news in the world, there is no war for a hundred years, the former elite soldiers and strong generals have become rotten, and even the Liangshan bandits can not be defeated, and they have been defeated repeatedly, which is really deplorable. ”

Speaking of this, the head of the Daoist sighed, "Now the imperial court has a million troops, and the army with relatively strong combat effectiveness is only my 100,000 Hedong Army and Liu Fa's 50,000 Hexi Army, which is the so-called Northwest Army, attacking the reward and moving mouth, the Hexi Army suffered nearly 30,000 casualties, Liu Fa was unfortunately killed, and finally the remnants of the Hexi Army fell into the hands of Tong Guan, and the Northwest Army only had my 100,000 troops left, this is the reason why I don't want to attack Xiazhou, once I attack Xiazhou, Li Qianshun will pour troops to rescue, both sides will suffer heavy casualties, meaningless not to say, In the end, I also cheapened the Jurchens, and I didn't want to do such a stupid thing. ”

Li Yanqing also sighed lowly, "I'm afraid that the Jurchens will destroy the Liao State, and in the end, the Western Xia will turn to the Jurchens, which will become a big disaster in our northwest!" ”

The planter was surprised, "Will this be the case?" ”

Li Yanqing nodded, "Western Xia itself has been dependent on the Liao State for nearly a hundred years, and the attachment to the Jin State is also dependent, there is no difference to the Western Xia, I believe that the Western Xia people will accept this reality." ”

The gaze of the Seed Master Dao became grim, if this is the case, the northwest is in danger!

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