The shape of the basin mentioned by Li Yanqing is like an octagonal saucer, surrounded by low hills, covered by dense woods, in the middle of the hills is a low-lying place, the area is about 30 hectares, between the hills and hills, there are more than a dozen valley roads, four of which are the trails leading to Maitreya Cave, Xiazhou, Yinzhou and Dejing Town. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Maitreya Cave is one of the twelve military divisions of the Western Xia Dynasty of the left chamber of the Shen Yong Division, the military division is equivalent to the military region of later generations, the left wing of the Shen Yong Army Division mainly governs the southeast corner, directly facing the Song Dynasty's Jinning Army and the Suide Army, the Yinzhou that strangles the Hengshan Grand Canyon also belongs to the Left Wing Shen Yong Army Division, so in the vicious battle of the Song army to conquer Yinchuan City, the worst casualties are also the left wing of the Shen Yong Army Division, although more than 3,000 people fled back, there are still nearly sixty percent of the army was wiped out by the Song army, and even the commander Li Liangfu also died in Yinzhou.

In the night, a Western Xia army of more than 10,000 people is marching westward, this Western Xia army is from the Maitreya Cave of the Left Wing Brave Army Division, the battle of Yinchuan City, the 30,000 garrison of the military division is only 13,000 people, plus the death of the main general Li Liangfu, the deputy general Tuoba Ning stationed in the Maitreya Cave can not escape the fate of the king's severe punishment no matter what, unless he can turn the tide and make great contributions.

Cunningly seeing through Tuoba Ning's predicament, Chaka invited him to join forces with the Song army's supply convoy and join forces to annihilate the Song army's army coming from the north.

Chaka's eagle letter directly pierced the fear that Tuoba Ning had concealed in his heart, and Tuoba Ning finally had to compromise and accept Chaka's plan, he left 3,000 troops to guard the Maitreya Cave, and he led 10,000 troops to rush towards the grain road.

The 10,000 troops led by Tuoba Ning are all mountain soldiers, although the number is the largest, but the equipment is the worst, mainly leather armor and copper spears, after all, the Western Xia does not have the national strength of the Song Dynasty, it is impossible for every soldier to wear iron armor, but most of the mountain army is mountain people, the people are fierce, the physical fitness is excellent, the speed of marching in the mountains is fast, and the combat effectiveness is also very strong, and it is precisely because of this that Tuoba Ning feels that he still has the capital to turn the situation around.

At the fifth watch, the Western Xia army was still twenty miles away from the basin, at this time, on the mountainside, several Song army scouts were hiding behind a big stone, watching the arrival of the Western Xia army, the three silently counted the number of people, observed the other party's equipment and morale, only a moment, the three nodded, turned around and ran quickly into the woods behind, and soon disappeared into the woods.

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The information brought by the scouts was really beyond Li Yanqing's expectations, it was not the army that came out of Shizhou, it was actually the Western Xia army from the Maitreya Cave, but there was no news in the direction of Shizhou.

"Old general, I'm afraid there won't be an army coming from Shizhou." After pondering for a long time, Li Yanqing calmly said to Zong Ze.

"Why?"

"It's very simple, we have 20,000 troops, plus 20,000 troops from Linzhou, a total of 40,000 troops, if you want to annihilate these 40,000 troops, it is not enough to have the same strength, if Shizhou pours troops here, then what should Shizhou do? If there are too few troops, instead of eating us, we will eat us. ”

"So you think the Shizhou army won't come."

"Exactly!"

Zong Ze took a few steps with his hands in his hands, and said for a while: "Your conclusion may be correct, but the reason may not be what you say." ”

"Can the old general elaborate?"

"I can't tell!"

Zong Ze smiled bitterly and said: "It's just an intuition, years of officialdom experience tell me that maybe there is some kind of secret fighting between Western Xia officialdom." ”

"The old general also thinks that the Shizhou Western Xia Army will not come out?"

Zong Ze nodded, Li Yanqing hurriedly rejoiced in his heart, and asked again, "What should we do next?" ”

Zong Ze looked at the sky with a trace of fish belly white, and said with a faint smile: "We can destroy 10,000 enemy troops, as for the Song army on the Linzhou side, you can let them change their route to attack Maitreya Cave, take advantage of the enemy's empty strength, occupy the Maitreya Cave camp in one fell swoop, and the situation in the entire southeast corner will be revitalized." ”

"And when are we going to send troops?"

"Send troops now!"

Li Yanqing understood what Zong Ze meant, the enemy would be exhausted after a night of marching, and they would rest for an hour or two before dawn, which happened to be a good opportunity for them to sneak attack the enemy army.

Zong Ze immediately made a decision, he and Li Yanqing each led 10,000 troops, and the pincers generally swooped towards the 10,000 Western Xia troops several miles away.

Zong Ze's judgment was not wrong, starting from yesterday evening, after nearly six hours of forced march, the 10,000 Western Xia soldiers from the Maitreya Cave were exhausted, and from the time calculation, the Song army grain convoy would not arrive in the basin at least from afternoon to evening, so Tuoba Ning was not in a hurry, and after entering the ambush woods, he ordered the soldiers to rest in place for three hours.

The soldiers fell asleep, hiding in a pine forest, the ground covered with thick pine needles, dry and comfortable, and in a short time most of the soldiers fell asleep.

Tuoba Ning was also tired, he leaned against a big tree and closed his eyes to rest, the pine forest was very quiet, he could hear the snoring of many soldiers from time to time, he had deployed hundreds of secret sentries outside, and if there was a situation, he could think of them to raise the alarm.

Just when Tuoba Ning was just falling asleep, he suddenly remembered the sharp sound of the chirping around him, and the sound of the chirping sound suddenly woke Tuoba Ning from his sleep, and this extremely short sleep woke him up with a splitting headache, but he still realized in his heart that something was wrong.

A soldier rushed into the woods and shouted: "Enemy situation has been discovered!" Found...... Yes! ”

Several arrows pierced his back, and the soldier screamed and fell to the ground, and the soldier's cry alarmed the soldiers in the woods, and they all woke up from their sleep, and Tuoba Ning jumped up in shock, shouting: "There is an enemy, get up quickly!" ”

As soon as the words fell, countless gunpowder arrows rained through the woods overhead, and the soldiers lay densely in hundreds of acres of woods to rest, with very little room to dodge, more and more soldiers were hit by arrows, and a terrible scream sounded in the woods.

"Raise your shield!" Tuoba Ning yelled in a hurry.

But the soldiers did not seem to hear the shouts of the commander, for something more serious than the arrow had occurred.

"Fire! It's on fire!" The soldiers began to shout in fear,

The soft, dry pine needles were ignited by the rockets, and the fire spread very quickly, and in a moment, the pine forest was full of fires, and the soldiers cried and pushed and fled out of the woods, their copper spears were too long to prevent them from escaping, and the soldiers abandoned their spears and ran for their lives, but just as the soldiers fled from the pine forest, they were faced with rows of cold crossbow arrows.

"Shoot!"

Thousands of crossbows fired in unison, and dense arrows were fired at the panicked Western Xia soldiers, and within seventy steps, the powerful crossbow arrows of the Song army could easily shoot through the broken armor of the Western Xia soldiers, and the Western Xia soldiers who had just rushed out of the pine forest fell down on the hillside one after another.

On the northern slope of the hill, too, Zong Ze led 10,000 soldiers to cut off the escape route of the Western Xia soldiers, their place was relatively narrow, and they could not be intercepted with bows and crossbows like the southern slopes, but they listed an iron wall of spear arrays, which stretched for nearly three miles, so that the Western Xia soldiers had no way to escape.

At this time, Tuoba Ning also rushed out of the woods, he was followed by more than a thousand soldiers, Tuoba Ning held a war knife in his hand, his face was blackened by smoke, his muscles were twisted, his eyes were red with anger, he roared angrily: "Draw your sword and rush forward!" ”

Although most of the Western Xia soldiers discarded their spears, their swords were still carried, and more than a thousand soldiers drew their swords one after another and rushed forward with the main general.

"Kill me! Not a single one is left. Seeing that the other party refused to surrender, Zong Ze was furious in his heart and gave the order to kill.

In front of the dense spear array, the swords of the Western Xia soldiers were so weak and powerless, they couldn't break through the spear formation composed of 10,000 soldiers, and they died under the spears one after another, and the main general Tuoba Ning was pierced through the body by three spears, he was lying on a row of spears, his eyes were bulging, and his eyes had lost their luster, at least at the last moment, he finally understood Chaka's poisonous intentions.

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At the head of Shizhou City, Chaka looked at the fire burning in the distance, and a sinister smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, Tuoba Ning, a fool, really led the army to battle, and he didn't even think that this was the Song army's plan to lure the enemy? Maybe he thought of it, thinking that Shizhou was also going to send troops before he happily went out!

Chaka snorted lightly, Tuoba Ning and the whole army are wiped out, that is the responsibility of the Left Wing Divine Brave Military Division, and it has nothing to do with his Xiangyou Military Division.

At this time, a partial general stepped forward quickly, bowed down and said, "General, the army has been lined up and can set off at any time!" ”

Tsaka nodded, "The army will go now!" ”

The north gate of Shizhou City was opened, and the 20,000 Western Xia army rushed out of the city gate and rushed towards Xiazhou City, which was fifty miles away.

Of course, Chaka wanted to take advantage of this rare opportunity, but he wanted to transfer part of his army to Xiazhou City, which was a civilian city with more than 100,000 inhabitants in the city.

Compared with the city, the Western Xia monarch Li Qianshun paid more attention to the population, under the watchful eye of the Song army, Chaka has not been able to find the opportunity to transfer the army, and now the Song army divided its troops to deal with Tuoba Ning, naturally it can no longer divide troops to pursue itself, Chaka seized this opportunity to start a large-scale mobilization of troops.

The Song army camp really did not pursue, and the cultivation master Dao watched the 20,000 Western Xia troops leave the city, but he was helpless, the enemy army did seize the weakness of his inability to divide his troops.