However, Pulu Mao Duogurudang's request was rejected by Pan Xiong.

The reason is very simple, none of the hole cards in Pan Xiong's hand have not been revealed, how can he put the trump card out at this time. Moreover, these Jurchens had to maintain their physical strength at all times.

Who knows when that crazy woman ran away all of a sudden.

Empress Dowager Xiaoliang has a 'criminal record'.

Finally at noon, there was a lot of wind blowing over Jin Mingzhai, although it was not facing the army of the Western Xia Kingdom, but Pan Xiong knew that this was the best time for him to show his first hole card.

Therefore, Pan Xiong immediately asked his reserve soldiers to cover their heads with silk scarves, and then asked them to immediately climb the downwind city wall with ash bottles, because after training, those soldiers on the city wall immediately let go of the city wall as soon as they saw that it was an ash bottle, and if this thing accidentally sucked into the mouth and nose, it would be much more powerful than the original ash bottles.

"Warriors of Pulu Maudoroguru, in order to prevent enemy warriors from taking advantage of this opportunity to storm the city, you take a few warriors to assist those soldiers." This is an opportunity, but there is also a risk, because the soldiers holding the ash bottles do not have extra protective equipment on their bodies because they want to get more ash bottles.

Therefore, Pan Xiong sent Pulu Mao Duoguru to the city with a few energetic Jurchens to protect the soldiers who threw ash bottles.

Standing on the city wall, for these warriors of the Jurchen tribe, it is not so much a battle as a roll call.

That's right, it's a roll call, and the dozen or so Jurchens who went up are all skilled in archery among these 500 people, and they simply mean where to hit, and the arrows are not missing, and every shot must be hit.

All of a sudden, the sharp and accurate bows and arrows, and the vicious and vicious ash bottles made the soldiers of the Western Xia Kingdom under this city wall miserable.

It's so spicy, it's hard for people who haven't experienced it personally, it's hard to imagine at all.

Fortunately, at this time, Cai Dao had not yet gotten chili peppers or devil peppers, otherwise, the army of the Western Xia Kingdom would have to collapse in Lima.

After that, the Gray Bottle soldiers wandered around the four city walls, and the dozen or so Jurchen warriors also played a good protective role, and all the Western Xia archers under the city who wanted to be unfavorable to the Gray Bottle soldiers were killed by them one by one.

So, at noon, the Western Xia army was repelled by this strange ash bottle.

On the third day, the wind finally stopped, but when the army of the Western Xia Kingdom looked up at Jinmingzhai, everyone was taken aback, but they didn't expect that just one night, the entire Jinmingzhai city wall was suddenly wrapped in a thick, shiny ice cover.

The wooden barrels used to carry water were used to water the walls.

Now it is winter, this is also an example of the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang will not use soldiers, since ancient times, how can the nomads raise troops in the winter to attack the dynasty of the Central Plains.

Empress Dowager Xiaoliang didn't believe in evil, so she transferred the remaining few catapults to try it, and the stone that smashed into the wall of the wall did smash a large piece of the ice cap, but Song Jun poured a bucket on the gap, so what kind of gap is there!

The wall is still shining, and there is no way to fight this battle.

As a result, the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang had no choice but to target the remaining two villages in the middle road - Saimen Village and Long'an Village.

However, there is not much time left for the army of the Western Xia Kingdom.

Cai Bian had already begun to lead the army to press in this direction, but the people sent to monitor the Fuzhou family had no news coming.

No news is the worst news. Although the winter made it impossible for the Fuzhou family to transport the soldiers by boat. However, the Yellow River was also frozen at this time, and the cavalry of Fuzhou could completely step on the ice to cross the Yellow River and attack the rear road of the Xia army.

But who knows, it was the soldiers in Jinming Village who launched the first counterattack.

Before dawn on the third day, Jinmingzhai suddenly opened the city gate, and five hundred wolf-like cavalry took the lead and launched an attack in the direction of Long'an Village. The Xia army who stayed in Jinmingzhai still wanted to resist, but at this time, it was the most sleepy time of the day, and the night watchman was derelict in his duties, so the Jurchen cavalry came to the front of their camp and issued a warning.

However, it was too late by this time.

Pan Xiong himself stayed in Jinmingzhai, but he handed over all the soldiers of the original Western Army to the adjutant general, and asked him to lead the army to follow behind the Jurchen Qi cavalry. In this way, the results can be maximized as much as possible.

The Jurchen cavalry, which is only five hundred people, is like the ultimate weapon of the Great Song Army at this moment, and it is more like the nightmare of the Western Xia Army.

In the end, when the Fuzhou cavalry led by Zhe Keshi arrived, it only caught up with the tail of the Western Xia army.

It's not that Pan Xiong's timing of the attack was chosen too early, but that the courage of the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang was too small at this moment, she took the method of cutting off her tail and personally led the army to escape, but left 30,000 soldiers behind.

As a result, the record of 500 to 100,000 was produced.

In the end, after counting, in the Battle of Yan'an, the Song army killed and wounded more than 20,000 Western Xia troops, which was on par with the second Battle of Hongdecheng. However, the Western Army of Jinmingzhai, which was behind those Jurchen cavalry, picked up a big bargain, and they captured more than 30,000 soldiers of the Western Xia Army.

After withstanding this attack, it was the turn of the Song army's strong counterattack.

And it was to take advantage of the opportunity when the Western Xia army suddenly fortified the city, returned from defeat, and the attack was weak, Zhang Ji built the famous Pingxia City in the Song-Xia War in advance in the north of Haoshui River.

It is very difficult to build a new city within enemy territory.

Not only must we prepare sufficient troops to deal with the possible attack of the cavalry of the Western Xia Kingdom, but we must also use a lot of people, and we will spend countless money, food and materials. Now, it's still winter, and the difficulty of building a new city has doubled.

However, it is precisely because of this time that Xia Jun is unable to fight back that it is the best moment.

Sure enough, Empress Dowager Xiaoliang could only watch Zhang Qi build this deadly fortified city under her nose.

She wanted to personally lead the army to obstruct the progress of the construction of Pingxia City. However, after one of the losses of Yan'an, the war horse was also dispatched in winter, and could not be nourished by fresh grass, and the war horse was already very thin.

Without the advantage of cavalry, the Western Xia army lost its only greatest advantage over the Song army.

Moreover, in front of Pingxia City was Hengshan, which further restricted the movement of the army of the Western Xia Kingdom.

Song and Xia went smoothly in these two directions, which made Zhao Xu in Bianliang City a little fluttery.

At this time, Zhang Dian introduced a criminal minister to Zhao Xu, he was Wang Gan, the son of Wang Junwan, the general of the Western Army, who was deprived of his eleventh official title because of other things.

After consulting Huo Sun Lu, Zhang Dian recommended Wang Zhen to Zhao Xu.

Sun Lu succeeded Cai Bian as the new secretary of the military department. He was the one who successfully persuaded Sima Guang at the beginning, and finally did not give up the Hehuang Prefectures.

Seeing that, Zhao Xu was about to adopt his opinion.

At this time, Zeng Zhao, the official who had never participated in the selection of generals, suddenly came out of the class and reported: "Your Majesty, the land of Hehuang, because of the blind conquest and the longshou struggle for the country, although it has been taken, it is difficult to defend it. In the past, Xizhou and Hezhou had Lanzhou City as a barrier. If you really want to open Hehuang at this moment, it is better to gather the army first and take Lanzhou City first, and after strengthening the city, it is not too late to take Hehuang.

Moreover, Wang Gan was guilty of several crimes, but he did not repent, and he was cunning and difficult to train, and his motives were not pure. The minister thought that Wang Shao's son, Wang Hou, could take on this important task. Moreover, Wang Hou was a person who followed his father through the river when he was a child, and knew about side affairs. Wang Gan's father, Wang Junwan, was once a general under Wang Shao, and he would definitely be able to tame this wild horse. ”

Zhao Xu thought about it for a while, and in terms of familiarity with officials, of course, Zeng Zhaoqiang was stronger. Moreover, the person he recommended this time is indeed an old Hehuang. Therefore, he nodded and agreed: "Just according to what Aiqing said." Ladies and gentlemen, who do you think can be the commander of the capture of Lanzhou! ”

Cai Bian and Zhang Qi are now busy with the affairs of their own jurisdictions, so they naturally can't take care of Lanzhou City.

Among today's ministers, there are really not many ministers who can really understand border affairs, even if they are idle at home.