Such a generous treatment was unimaginable in the past, so this stimulated the enthusiasm of the people along the road to participate.

With the guidance and supervision of craftsmen specially sent by the Ministry of Industry, the progress of the road project is very fast, which is greatly beyond everyone's imagination, starting from the autumn of the first year of Shaosheng, the whole project lasts until the first snow of this winter, and the entire Great Song Dynasty army has been repaired to the Song-Xia border galloping road.

The basic completion of this road greatly enhanced Zhao Xu and Zhang Qi's determination and confidence in defeating the Western Xia on the one hand, and on the other hand, it also greatly enhanced the supply of materials for Huanqing Road in Bianliang City.

Nowadays, although the Yongxing Military Road alone can meet the food supply of the entire northwest border, some other materials still need to be provided by Bianliang City, such as weapons, armor, urban defense tools, and some special building materials for building a city and Panbao on the Song-Xia border.

More importantly, the forbidden army in Bianliang City can reinforce the northwest roads at a very fast speed at any time.

This time, the newly built road quickly came in handy, and the reinforced forbidden army troops soon arrived in Yan'an Mansion.

When the army of the Western Xia Kingdom had just entered the border of Yanyan Road, the forbidden army had already rested in the city of Yan'an for a day. After careful consideration, Cai Bian still decided that in the city of Yan'an, except for seventy percent of the archers, all the original Western Army was sent out of the city to help defend on the two wings of Yan'an City, and most of the forbidden troops who had just arrived stayed in the city, and only the cavalry units in the forbidden army and the cavalry troops of the Western Army were placed in the east of Yan'an City.

The Western Xia army crossed the Hengshan along the Wuyan Pass, and when the troops were divided, they were roughly divided into three routes.

The east road threatens Qingjian City, and the middle road surrounds the three border villages of Saimen Village, Long'an Village and Jinming Village.

The western route was the focus of the attack, and the other two roads only played a role in containing them at the beginning of the Battle of Yan'an.

The Western Route Army of the Western Xia army organized a swift and ferocious assault operation, taking advantage of its cavalry to advance deep into the Yanyan Road.

In just one day, this western route army marched from Shunning Village on the Song-Xia border all the way through Anyuan Village, all the way to a place less than fifty miles behind Yan'an Mansion.

Since the Song army learned the news in advance, Cai Bian immediately adopted the strategy of clearing the wilderness, and had already moved all the people on this route to the nearby Panbao. Therefore, although the Western Route Army of the Western Xia Kingdom advanced very quickly, it did not capture any Song people and materials along the way.

At this time, the troops of the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty who were sent out of the city are now hidden behind Yan'an City in advance, and the horses of the Western Route Army are blocked by the city, and they have not found the army that has gone out of the city, and the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang and the generals of the Western Route Army all thought that Cai Bian would be like the previous Song Dynasty guards, but they just guarded Yan'an City and did not dare to go out of the city to fight.

Therefore, Empress Dowager Xiaoliang immediately led the Western Route Army to Yan'an City.

Unexpectedly, by the time the Western Route Army actually arrived in Yan'an City, Cai Bian had already coordinated all the military horses, so that the Western Army out of the city slowly stretched out from behind to the two wings.

Empress Dowager Xiaoliang and the generals of the Western Route Army discovered that the Song army was already prepared, and actually had the courage to confront the Xia army head-on, although the soldiers of the Song army were under the city, but this was rare in the previous Song-Xia wars.

They also had to admire Cai Bian's courage.

After discussion, most of the generals of the Western Route Army of the Western Xia Kingdom believed that even if the Xia army now occupied the advantage of troops, since Yan'an City was prepared and backed by Jiancheng, there was no way for the Xia army to capture Yan'an Mansion in just a few days, or even a dozen days. Moreover, the Fuzhou Zhejia has been supplemented by a large number of horses, and this news has been discovered by the Western Xia Kingdom.

Therefore, considering that the Western Route Army is too deep into the enemy's territory, if it takes too much time to attack the city, it is possible that Cai Bian and Zhi Kexing will send people to cut off the return route of the Western Route Army with cavalry, and this potential risk will occur with a very high probability. Moreover, the Song army sent troops out of the city this time, and Yan'an City stood in front of it, and the Western Route Army could simply cross the city and the army, and then plunder the Song realm to the south.

Helpless, the Western Route Army could only choose to retreat. However, in order not to let this Eastern Expedition achieve nothing, Empress Dowager Xiao Liang decided to lead the Western Route Army and the Middle Route Army to converge, and strive to take the three border villages that had been besieged by the Middle Route Army.

And Jin Mingzhai was the first focus of the Western Xia Army to be attacked after the two divisions met.

In order to complete the tactical goal as soon as possible, the Xixia people attacked very frantically on the first day, and did not care about the casualties of their own soldiers, and did not stop attacking Jinmingzhai for a moment.

Fortunately, before that, Pan Xiong repaired Jinmingzhai properly, so that the defense of this village could be greatly improved, and the middle route army had suffered before, so before the two armies converged, the soldiers in Jinmingzhai were given a few days of rest.

After the discomfort of the first battle, the recruits brought by Pan Xiong had gradually become familiar with the offensive rhythm of the Xia army, so on the first day of the onslaught after the convergence of the two armies, Pan Xiong led his soldiers to defend with ease.

Moreover, today's Song army has an advantage that the Western Xia Army is completely incomparable, that is, the ambulance system set up by Cai Dao in the Southern Expeditionary Army has been well transplanted to the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty, especially in the Yan Road, where the ambulance soldiers have been filled with various bunkers.

And the most in Jinming Village.

After the lightly wounded soldiers were treated by the ambulance soldiers, although Pan Xiong had already let the wounded soldiers rest, many of them were once again engaged in fierce fighting.

As a result, the soldiers of the Western Xia Kingdom suddenly discovered something unimaginable to them, among the Song army on the opposite side, it was clear that many soldiers had just been injured by arrows, but it didn't take long for these people to be involved in the battle again. And the soldiers on their own side who were wounded and fell under the city had no one to pay attention to them at all, allowing their own soldiers to trample on them and let them continue to wail on the battlefield.

Under the advantages of the other, the momentum of the Song army naturally became more and more vigorous, while the morale of the soldiers of the Western Xia Army suffered a great blow.

The first day of fighting ended in such an atmosphere.

The next day, the fierce fighting continued, and today's battle was much more dangerous than yesterday's. After all, it is hundreds of thousands of soldiers facing a force of less than 5,000 people. The comparison of the forces of the two sides has long exceeded the iron law of ten encirclements.

Pulu Mao Duogulu, who had been hiding in the city, was the temporary commander of the Jurchen mercenaries, and when he saw that the situation was precarious, he asked Pan Xiong several times for his life, wanting to go to the city to help in the war.