Breaking the city in two days, I don't know if there was a degree before, but since Xu Wei rebuilt the Western Army, it is absolutely fast It is true that Yinzhou City is small, and the defenders are not many, but after the artillery attack, the Yan Yan army broke the city defense in one go, and after entering the city, there are nearly 3,000 defenders who surrendered, and this record is still handy

"Marshal, the Liao army in Shizhou is gathering, it is believed that it should be to attack our army, He Chong They have already set up defenses at the road pass, if it is fast, the enemy army can rush to our army this afternoon, is it immediately advancing to the west?"

In the Yinzhou market, more than a dozen civil and military generals surrounded Xu Hong, and the soldiers who came and went on the street avoided these guys, and almost none of them were empty-handed, with captured weapons

"It's natural," Xu Hong nodded, "but it's not to block any reinforcements."

"What does the marshal mean ......," the general asked puzzled, and without waiting for Xu Hong to answer, he said to himself: "Attack Shizhou?" ”

Xu Hong's expression was grim: "Yes, bring all the troops here, we will advance to Shizhou in the afternoon to defeat Shizhou, and then go to Xiazhou to fight, and go to Duan Xiao Heda's nest"

"However, the Liao army in Shizhou is gathering, even if our army wants to attack, will it have to wait until this reinforcement is defeated?"

Xu Hong shook his head: "What reinforcements want to say that reinforcements are also going to rescue Xiazhou, what does it have to do with me?" ”

A group of generals listened to the commander's words, pondered carefully, and came to the point that the Jingyuan Army had been in charge of the Western Army for many years, and the Jingyuan Army had been in charge of the Western Army, not that the combat power of the Jingyuan Shuai Division must be the strongest and the most brilliant, but one thing is certain, all along, the strength of the Jingyuan Army was the most powerful on the roads in Shaanxi, and the legend in the Western Army was that Jingyuan had 100,000 horses

Today's Jingyuan marshal Xu Cheng is the grandson of Xu Mao, the old handsome of Jingyuan, Xu Yuan's second son, and once experienced in the army of his cousin Xu Wei, and now he is correct, regardless of connections, ability, and prestige, it is not to be picked

Thinking about this, the generals were enlightened: "This territory was originally lent to Xiao Heda by Xu Xuanfu Xianggong, but now that we have torn our faces, then we have to get it back."

"That's not it," Xu Hongdao said, "You can also say that, but the main force of the Liao army, which is gathered on the southeast two fronts, we happen to be caught in it, and we must solve Xiao Heda as soon as possible, otherwise, once the Liao army returns to the two fronts, we will not be in a good situation."

"Aren't there still Jurchens? Only the young marshal clears the obstacles for the Jin army to cross the river, and the Jurchens can cross the river to help the battle, and when the time comes, no matter how many Liao troops there are, why be afraid? ”

"Jurchens? The last thing I believe in my life is the Jurchens," Xu Hong said this, strode forward, leaving a group of subordinates looking at each other, what's the matter? Listening to the scriptures, the meaning of this is that the Jurchens are unreliable? No? This is good because the two countries concluded an alliance, although Song and Jin also made an alliance back then, but after the Jurchens destroyed the Liao State, they turned their faces, but this time the alliance has not been fulfilled, and their faces can be turned over?

Most of the civil and military officers of Yan Yan don't believe it, although many of them have been fighting for life and death with the Jurchens for many years, and the hatred is as deep as the sea, but the enmity between the Khitans and the Jurchens has to be resolved by you to the death. But it's really a bit confusing to talk about this, fighting the Jurchens, fighting the party, and fighting the Khitan, are we crisscrossing the world? Why do you fight everyone?

However, now there is no time for them to figure it out, that afternoon, the Yan Yan army wrapped in thousands of troops overwhelmingly attacked Shizhou, which really made Xu Hong right, along the way, there was no resistance and volley, because it was only separated by dozens of miles, and the front head rushed to Shizhou in the evening, and at a glance, there was not a single defender in the empty city, leaving a city of terrified people and someone writing a sign in front of the door, "The world auxiliary officer is here, and the good people are not slaughtered"

The officers and soldiers of the Yan army entering the city asked, what do you mean? As a result, I learned that Li Xianzhong, the general of the Great Song Shenwu Left Army, was called Li Shifu back then, and these people who had served in Shizhou hoped to have this relationship, after the Song army entered the city, don't slaughter the city The officers and soldiers couldn't help laughing secretly, if you really want to slaughter the city, you can hang a sign to avoid it?

Xu Hong's main force did not enter Shizhou, so he camped outside the city to rest, and the next morning, the army went straight to Xiazhou, and if everything went well, it would be a miracle for the Western Army within ten days, and it may not even take ten days to sweep through Sanzhou, and strangle Xiao Heda's forces

But the facts are not optimistic, as soon as Xiao Heda received the news of the "attack" of the Western Army, he knew that something was wrong, this was Xu Xuanfu's army to retaliate, and he was cut first, so he didn't think about anything at all, and he knew that Yinzhou was too close to the border, and he couldn't keep it if he fought, so he didn't wait for the Yan Yan army to hit Shizhou, and first withdrew the 20,000 troops to the old nest in Xiazhou

At this time, he sent out to block Xu Cheng's troops, so that the Jingyuan army fought a falling flower and flowing water after this setback, Xiao Heda no longer wanted to gather jīng soldiers in the city, outside the city, set down two large villages, and urgently asked Xiao Duolu of Xingqing Mansion for help

Xiao Heda said such things to his generals, when I raised an army against Xia, I also thought that the soldiers did not take the Xia army in their eyes at all, but the attack was frustrated, and the Xia army's strong counterattack was such a sharp army, and it was also vulnerable in front of Xu Xuanfu's army

Let's not talk about Xia Jun, Jin Jun is strong enough? In the past twenty years, when have you heard the news of the Jin Army's defeat of the Western Army? Under the command of Xu Xuanfu, the Western Army is strong and strong, and the equipment is good, and we can't fight with us, so we just have to stick to the city and Dazhai, and wait for General Manager Xiao to send a sharp division to compete with the Western Army

After the Jingyuan army defeated Xiao Heda's department at the three forks, Xu Cheng was very anxious, why was he in a hurry to attack Xiazhou? First of all, Xiao Duolu was not on the southern front, that is, on the border of Shaanxi, and gathered heavy troops, mainly in Xiping Mansion, that is, Lingzhou of the original Great Song Dynasty

He attacked in a hurry because he hoped that Xiao Duolu would not rush to mobilize troops from these areas to come to the rescue, and when the time came, he and his fifth uncle Xu Hong would join forces, which was enough to fight with them

Therefore, the Jingyuan army marching god Xiao Heda from the three forks of the defeated army just rushed into Dazhai, Jingyuan army back foot to Xu Cheng saw Xiao Heda such a formation, he knew that he was determined to stick to Xiao Heda was originally a Liao general, known for good war, not to mention this city, the two Dazhai are quite orderly, there is traffic, mutual response, if one of them can be supported, if the division of troops to attack, it will be difficult to work

However, don't forget that Xu Cheng is Xu Wei's cousin and the third family of the Xu family, and the most important one by Xu Wei is that after he was promoted to the commander of Jingyuan, the Jingyuan army has been greatly supplemented, which mainly refers to the equipment of this northward battle, Xu Cheng's army carried enough firearms

He didn't bring dozens of mighty giant cannons like his cousin Xu Hong, he brought a large number of locust arrows, thunder arrows, earth-shaking thunder, and a thousand five-eyed guns equipped with fire riders, so he set his sights on Xiao Heda's two big villages

Xiazhou in the party people, probably can be regarded as "the land of Longxing" as early as the Tang Dynasty when the head of the party department Tuoba Sigong was named the Xiazhou Festival envoy by the imperial court, because of the Pinghuangchao uprising meritorious once recovered Chang'an, was given the surname Li, Feng Xia Guogong Since then, Li Sigong and his descendants surnamed Li have become the local feudal forces

In this dynasty, Emperor Taizong Zhao Guangyi cut the military power of the feudal town, and brought the Li family to Bianliang, Tokyo, preparing to eradicate this northwest separatist force, at that time, the party leader was called Li Jishou, he was insignificant, but he had a brother, called Li Jiqian, this person was very thoughtful, and his ambitions were extraordinary, and he knew that when he arrived in Tokyo, he would definitely not be able to come back, even if he was not killed, he would not have the scenery to rì, so he fled under the pretext of fleeing into the vast grassland

The Great Song Dynasty court did not care about this at the time, but Li Jiqian had some political acumen and many powerful people in the local area where he fled to contact and marry, and the power gradually became stronger, Li Jiqian booby-trapped Cao Guangshi, the guard general of Yinzhou in the Great Song Dynasty, and occupied Yinzhou, and broke with Huizhou, broke with the Great Song Dynasty and asked the Liao State to surrender at the same time, after the Khitans named him the king of Xia, Li Jiqian successively attacked the Great Song Dynasty, and intercepted 400,000 grain and grass from the Song army, and sent troops to surround Lingwu City

Emperor Taizong was furious and sent a five-way army to attack Xia, all of them were defeated, and of course, this was not very glorious in the history of the Western Army After the death of Taizong of the Song Dynasty, Zhenzong succeeded to the throne, in order to calm the people, cut the five states of Xia, Sui, Yin, You, and Jing to Li Jiqian, and in fact recognized the dúlì of Western Xia

Later, Li Jiqian successively captured Lingzhou in the Great Song Dynasty, renamed Xiping Mansion, and captured Liangzhou, renamed Xiliangfu, the Song army lacked horses, which is also an important reason for his son, named Li Deming, his grandson, called Li Yuanhao......

Therefore, it is not difficult to see that Xiazhou is the birthplace of the Western Xia regime, Xiao Heda dares to oppose Xia here, that is called fearless, Xiazhou is a large city, the city defense is strong, and he is confident that he can resist the attack of the Western army in order not to be completely passive, and in order to settle the excess troops defending the city, he set up two large villages outside the city

It was night, the moon was dark and the wind was rushing Xiazhou City against the backdrop of two large villages outside the city, like a giant beast squatting in the wilderness, the Shizhou garrison who was running for half a year with teeth and claws had already slept, and in the big village, except for a few fires sporadically, there were only occasional patrolling soldiers shuttling

Six miles away, it was Xiao Heda, the big camp of the Jingyuan Army, standing on the city, and the night wind blew his battle robe to hunt, but what caught his eye was the fire in the grand barracks of the Jingyuan Army, which almost reflected half of the sky and was red The Western Army was menacing, and he took himself as a target, and the intention of Jǐng to show Da Liao was very obvious

In fact, as early as last year, he suggested that Manager Xiao should not rub and provoke with Shaanxi, such as falling out with the Great Song Dynasty, for the great cause of the restoration of the Great Liao, there would be all kinds of harm and no benefit, but Manager Xiao couldn't listen to it, coupled with the persecution of the situation, he finally came to this point

It is true that Xu Xuanfu has his own interests to consider, but he did pull himself and was really unwilling to meet him on the battlefield, not only because of affection, but also because the Western Army is a terrible opponent This army has been attacking non-stop for 20 years, creating a large number of generals who can fight well and countless soldiers who are not afraid of death

Although he is no longer in office now, the Western Army will not become a bunch of pus just because he left, besides, who dares to guarantee that Xu Xuanfu will not return to power? This time the Western Army is coming, if our side is defeated, it may be good to say that the Western Army is victorious, out of the evil spirit, and if we win, the Great Song Dynasty will move Xu Xuanfu out, and at that time, the Purple Gold Tiger Thunder Fury, reviving the great cause of Daliao......

"Alas, it should be the Jurchens who are laughing at this time" At the head of the city, Xiao Heda let out a long sigh

He sighed here for a long time, but his current opponent Xu Cheng was not idle in the Jingyuan Army camp commander's tent, this "young marshal" who was two years older than Xu Wei had his eyes shining and waved his fists from time to time, and said loudly Below, there were two rows of heavily armed Jingyuan generals sitting neatly

"The wind is blowing tonight, it is God who helps me to succeed in the Jingyuan army, we have enough firearms, the problem is only one of the eight ox crossbows that are the farthest away from us, too heavy, useless, and the divine arm bow is not good, so we can only rely on the locust cart, the thunder arrows during the day, we have inspected the terrain and everything is ready"

"But our army is coming, Xiao Heda is also a veteran of the battlefield, he will inevitably prevent us from touching the camp, so, what you just said is right, I mean, feint to attack the west camp closest to us, I sent a sudden fire to ride this matter, just outside his camp galloped and opened fire In addition, the army carried more than ten flying artillery, all pulled out, according to his west camp bombardment, it doesn't matter if you can't hit, scare him and wait for enough trouble here, the troops who steal the camp will touch it, pay attention to the distance, whether it is a locust cart running thunder arrows, Arbitrarily send shè, this is called taking the lead, I will suppress his morale first, and when Yan Yan Xu Jing arrives, these two big villages can only be burned."

Xu Cheng spat and said, the generals nodded frequently and feinted to attack the nearest western camp, but instead went to attack the eastern camp a little farther away, this is just a sound to attack the west, or a surprise I don't care how much damage it can cause to Xiao Heda, it is true to scare him

As long as you wait for Yan Yan Xu Wujing to arrive, don't say that these two big villages, Xiazhou City, and don't have to hit this one, and I'm afraid that Xiao Duolu won't come to help?

"After a little justice, Xiao Heda is not worried, the men and horses under his command are just the remnants of Western Xia, and Xiao Duolu's Liao army is jīng Rui At the beginning, we fought side by side with the Liao army, and the brothers have seen the fierceness of the Khitans, if he comes to help, there will be a fierce battle"

"Yes, the lowly officials are impressed by the Khitan cavalry, and the Jurchen iron cavalry more than ten years ago also looks like this"

Xu Hong glanced at the two generals who were speaking, and sneered: "Jurchen Iron Cavalry? The gold thief's 'Iron Floating Massacre' made us unable to defeat the army, and also made the Western Army cut a few times, what kind of iron cavalry is it? The cavalry of the Liao army is indeed brave, but my cavalry is not to be seen by the time, whether the two armies are facing each other, or rushing and interspersed, he will definitely compete with him."

The generals were uplifted when they heard this, but a senator of Shuai Si said at this time: "After a little justice, this is Liu Xuanfu's order, why do we have to work so hard?" What good is it for us to beat the Khitans? He Liu Xuanfu sat in Xingyuan, far away from the front line, our Jingyuan army is on the border, and the future rìzi will be sad that one end is the Liao army, and the other is the Jin army......"

This statement was echoed by many generals, and it seems that Xu Cheng has thoroughly eaten the order of the ninth uncle, so none of the Jingwen military officials have illusions about the Jin army

When Xu Cheng heard this, he also sighed and sat down: "This is a helpless thing, the imperial court wants to do this, what can we do?" Not to mention us, Xu Xuanfu was forced to resign by the people in the imperial court Now, I heard that he is a fisherman in Sichuan, and the imperial court will not let him go, and send people to monitor this is to force his uncle to death."

When these words came out, the reaction of the Jingyuan generals was not as strong as that of the comrades of Yan Yan First of all, the Jingyuan Army, like the Xihe Army, was the most "private" army in the Western Army, the third generation of the Xu family, Xu Mao, Xu Yuan, and Xu Cheng all served as the commanders of Jingyuan and operated for a long time, and Xu Wei's influence on Jingyuan was smaller than that of other roads in comparison

"Alas, this is the Jiān minister in charge, and even Xu Xuanfu is not spared from the martyrdom of loyal ministers"

"I don't think so, who is Xu Xuanfu, the court is not clear? Is that something that can be easily moved? Besides, what is Xu Xuanfu's crime? What's at fault? Acting like this, you are not afraid of the chill of the Western Army? Do you want us to defend the border against the enemy? ”

Xu Cheng listened for a while, and then said: "Okay, I don't have to talk about the government in vain, it's still early to let it go, let the soldiers rest for a while, and raise enough jīng gods to do things, you can also go down, wait for my order, and set off immediately."

The generals arose and bowed down

After the subordinates left, Xu Cheng left a cronie Jing Yuan Jinglu to appease the military counsellor, Sun Bowang This person is in his fifties, he was originally a scholar in Huating County, Weizhou, who has been trying for a long time, and has been under Xu Yuan, and has been highly valued

That Sun Bowang held one hand behind his back, and the other hand held his long beard, his expression was calm, but his eyes were deep

"Young marshal, the Jurchens are absolutely not going to send troops, we have to retreat sooner or later, why should we be so serious?"

Xu Cheng shook his head: "Mr. doesn't know, this is because I don't want to tell the truth, when the time comes, Liu Guangshi ordered me to attack Xiazhou, and I will do my best, left and right Xiao Heda is not in my eyes, how do I not know that Jin Jun will definitely lose his trust?" Uncle Nine made it clear in the order that the situation of this battle will change sooner or later" (to be continued)

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