The battle is like a seesaw, where the momentum of one side falls, and the momentum of the other side rises accordingly. Wang Junwan was on the way back when the sound of drums and trumpets sounded from the Western Xia camp. Two iron harriers of about 1,000 people were separated from the Chinese army, one on the left and one on the right, outflanking the flank of the Song army.

Zhang Shouyue glared at the western thieves who were rushing to kill with a shout, and then looked at the cavalry who were no longer able to charge again in a short period of time, snorted coldly, and directly turned over and dismounted. Drop the helmet and let it hit the ground. Untie your cloak and let it go with the wind. The veteran of Gangu City took off his cloak, threw off his armor, and tied his robe around his waist, revealing the iron skin of his upper body with scars. Zhang Shouyue's sturdy body was half naked in the cold wind, but he didn't shrink at all. He stepped forward a few steps, lined up the drummers who were beating the war drums with one hand, held a pair of drumsticks, rounded his arms, and struck the big drum fiercely.

Knock knock! Knock knock!

The sound of drums shook the sky, and the war drums beaten by the commander himself shook the whole army, and the morale was suddenly greatly boosted. In the rhythm, the sword and shield man strikes the shield with his sword, and the spearman pounds the ground with the tail of his spear.

Wansheng!

Wansheng!

This is the unyielding chant of 2,000 soldiers! This is the desire of the Han family for victory!

Zhang Shouyue waved his arms, the rhythm of the drumsticks turned rapid, and the marching drums sounded. More than 1,500 infantry under his command responded to the beat of the drum and marched forward. Rows of knives and guns pointed straight ahead, resisting the impact of the iron harriers, and the crossbows in the rear rained down with the drumbeat in waves, making it difficult for the western thieves to enter.

Although the individual combat strength of the infantry of the Great Song Dynasty is far inferior to that of the Khitan and Dangxiang, these barbarians. But once the arrow array is placed, it will be easy for all troops, even if it is a Khitan iron cavalry, it will take a detour to dodge. Without attacking the dignified formation, even the party members knew this, and the cavalry of the two flanks stopped advancing, slowly retreated beyond the range of the Song army, and roamed back and forth, not daring to rush forward.

Arrows rained down and scattered in the formations of the two armies. The Western Xia army was unable to break through the defense line of the Song army, but the Song army was unable to break through the interception of the Western Xia army, and the battle was stalemate for a while.

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After leaving Fuqiang City, the baggage convoy traveled north along the official road. The mountains on both sides are gradually rising, in fact, they are already the remnants of Liupan Mountain.

The valley water upstream comes from hot springs. In this era, the hot springs were called Yuyama, and the mountains with hot springs were called Yuyama, so Gangu was also called Yuya. On both sides of the river, fertile fields are everywhere. Thousands of acres of fertile land in the Gangu Valley are moistened by this river. The 60-mile-long valley is rich in crops, and as far as the eye can see, it is full of deep black traces of straw burned after harvesting in a square field, which lives up to the name of Gangu.

It's just that Gangu water is, after all, a river on the Loess Plateau, and now the rain is scarce after winter, and the water flow is extremely clear. But during the summer rainy season, it is said that after a heavy rainstorm, a turbid flood can flood the entire valley, and when the water recedes, there are boulders more than half a man high, and even the valley floor can be cut off. The official road at the water's edge of Gangu is on the west bank of the river, and there are many sections of the road, and the gap between the embankment and the river surface is even as high as nearly ten zhang, which shows the power of flood washing.

Crossing a gentle slope, the official road was lowered, only more than two feet above the river level. Seeing the murmuring of the river, as shallow as a mountain stream, Han Gang's heart moved, called to stop the convoy, and went down from the official road to the river beach with Wang Sunchen. He crouched down and reached out to try. Immediately gasped,

"Good ice!"

In early winter, the river has not yet frozen, but the temperature is no different from ice. Reaching into the water, a cold cold penetrated through the fontanelle, and Han Gang suddenly felt that even half of his body was frozen. He washed his face in the cold water, but he didn't dare to drink it for fear of damaging his stomach.

Beside Han Gang, Wang Sunchen knelt on the ground nonchalantly, and drank a few big sips of river water with his hands, his unkempt beard dripping with water. Raised his sleeves and wiped his face indiscriminately, his movements were uninhibited. After drinking the water, he breathed a long sigh of relief, and suddenly looked up to the sky and scolded: "Damn it, the bird gas in my belly has only disappeared now." ”

Han Gang patted Wang Sunchen on the shoulder, he knew why Wang Sunchen was not happy, and if he could be angry with himself, there would be no problem with making this friend. "Why bother...... The matter of recommendation has to be done if you are willing to do it, since I am not in Wang Jiyi's vision, then it's okay. ”

Wang Sunchen smacked his mouth, his heart was still unhappy, in his opinion, the father and son of the Wang family were really a little unreliable: "Wang Yanei said it well, Wang Jiyi also arrived at the gate of the city." After two sentences, let the third brother go out of the city, and don't even say good things. Isn't this a trick? I've never seen anything like this! ”

"Wang Chudao is Wang Chudao, Wang Jiyi is Wang Jiyi, and it can't be mixed up. After drinking wine all night together, you should also have points, Brother Wang. He should have sincerely wanted to recommend me, but he didn't have Wang Jiyi's approval, otherwise why would Wang Jiyi have to send the road away first? ”

"Wang Jiyi is also out of sight...... Wang Sunchen looked stupid, and jumped onto the river bank with a few steps on the loose earth and rocks. These military men value the friendship between birth and death the most. If you have been in battle together, it is a fateful friendship. In Pei Valley, he joined forces with Han Gang to retreat from the enemy. Han Gang's personality, bearing, and means, he admires it. And there is also the relationship between the nineteenth brother and Jianzhong, Wang Sunchen is very looking forward to Han Gang being able to become an official, even if he does not promote himself in the future, it is a glorious thing to have a familiar official.

Han Gang followed behind, and with the help of Wang Sunchen's strength, he also went up to the embankment, "Whether Wang Jiyi has vision or not is his business, as long as he can help solve Chen Ju, I will be satisfied, otherwise why should I throw the captured heads and weapons to Wang Chudao?" He said very frankly, getting along with friends, focusing on putting his heart into his heart. Even if you can't put your heart into your heart, you have to make it look like you have nothing to talk about with your friends, "As long as there is no Chen Ju, I can study in Qinzhou in peace." With my Han Gang's talent, I don't need him to recommend him to win officials in the future. ”

"That's right! With your talent, third brother, you will be admitted to the Jinshi in the future, where do you rely on him to recommend......"

Wang Sunchen nodded and said, he had seen Han Gang's ability, which was much stronger than some civil officials he had seen in the past. But Han Gang suddenly looked back and forth for some reason at this time, and his expression became serious.

"Third Brother Han, what's wrong?"

"Don't you think something is wrong? …… It seems to be too quiet! ”

Han Gang's heart tightened a little, and he didn't feel it when he was walking on the road, but as soon as he stopped now, he found that in addition to the rumbling river, there was only a cold birdsong that didn't sound in his ears.

"Hmm." Wang Sunchen also saw that something was wrong in the valley, he had been mixed in the army since he was a child, and his intuition about danger was also unusual, "Why is the valley gone!" ”

Gangu was originally the territory of the Tibetan tribe, but because of the war, the people moved south more than ten years ago and moved to live in the Qinling Mountains. The valley that was left behind was occupied by the more powerful Xinbo tribes. The three clans of Xinbo are nominally three families, but in fact, they are a tribe gathered by marriage. They have always traveled between the Song and Xia countries, that is, when they were close to the Song army and fought with the western thieves, and when they followed the party members out of the valley to invade the south and get a share of the Han'er.

Although the three Xinbo clans have a lot of grievances in Kansai because of their repeated indefiniteness, once they are weak, they can also put down their bodies and pretend to be their grandsons, making it difficult for the Great Song Dynasty to make up their minds to kill. However, the life of the three clans of Xinbo came to an end after the completion of Gangu City last year. The passage connecting the Western Xia was blocked, and they could only be the obedient people of the Great Song Dynasty.

The Tibetan tribes of Qinzhou are no longer nomadic people who live in pursuit of water and grass, and although they rarely have the habit of building houses, they still cultivate fields for farming. The three tribes of Xinbo, who live in the Gangu Valley, are said to have 4,000 tents, and according to the calculation method of the Han family, there are 4,000 households, which are the largest clans among the hundreds of tribes in Qinzhou, and they can easily organize a large army.

A total of 4,000 people were surrounded by Gangu City and Fuqiang City in the north and south, and had to honestly cultivate in the valley. But Han Gang and the others walked all the way, but they couldn't see the tent of the Tubo people, where did they go? Han Gang and Wang Sunchen glanced at each other, it didn't matter where they went, there were more people in Fuqiang City who took refuge, the key was what they wanted to do next.

Looking to the north, on the top of the mountain, from far to near, a straight line of smoke dispersed into the sky, and the news of Gangu City's danger could not be concealed after all, and it came directly along the beacon fire channel in the Gangu Valley.

"If Gangu City is broken...... I wonder which side those bird thieves will choose? Wang Sunchen raised his eyes and stared at the wolf smoke scattered on the tops of the mountains on both sides. He didn't think that the three tribes of Xinbo would dare to besiege Gangu City, if these Tubo tribes had such courage, they would have been wiped out a long time ago. They only dared to take advantage of the attack of the Western thieves to fish in troubled waters and get some cheapness, and they had no courage to confront the Western Army head-on. Now it may be that he is hiding in the depths of the branch valleys on both sides of Gangu and waiting for the results to be separated from the Gangu side.

"Does that need to be said?" Han Gang sneered. Those who are not of my race will have different hearts. If these Tibetan Yi people could not educate them and turn them into Han, their rule over the northwest frontier of the Great Song Dynasty would be a cancerous tumor. Whenever the party invades, there are always many Tibetan tribes who follow it to help and abuse. If it is a tougher border general stationed, you can also take a few to cut down and make an example of chickens and monkeys. But if you encounter a weak civil official like Fan Laozi [Fan Yong], you will let the Fan people be arrogant in Guanxi.

Han Gang suddenly jumped on the mule cart beside him, stood high on the body, and shouted to the people under him: "It's the last journey, everyone work harder, if you rush to Anyuan Village at noon, you can lie on the bed in Gangu City before nightfall!" ”

More than thirty mouths agreed in unison, and the rhythm of the gurgling wheels resounded, much faster than before. After four days of hard work, there was a battle halfway through, and the people were looking forward to the end of the day.

Han Gang jumped out of the car again, walked back to Wang Sunchen's side, and said with a smile: "Anyway, now I can only watch Zhang Laodu's prison." ”

ps: The battle is raging in front, and there are many hidden worries in the rear, Gangu City has established a dangerous whirlpool, and Han Gang is leading the team towards the whirlpool. However, how can you succeed if you don't take some risks.

Today's first update, according to the rules to ask for red tickets, collection.