"The abdomen and intestine breaking surgery have been done, and the person has survived temporarily, as for whether he can finally recover, it will take some time!" The words of the seed master are the calm colors of the past.

Knowing that Lotte would not talk nonsense, Liu Zhongwu was also quite emotional in his heart: "If the soldiers under his command had suffered such serious injuries in the past, there would be no chance of survival, and if this abdominal and bowel breaking surgery is feasible, it is really a blessing for my Great Song!" ”

"The two marshals, I don't know what happened when the officials came to the marshal's mansion?" Lotte brings the topic to the point.

The seed master said: "According to the news reported by the scout, the lord of the Xia Kingdom has ordered the White Horse Qiangshun Military Division, the Right Wing Chaoshun Military Division, the Left Wing Shentong Military Division, the Jianing Military Division, and the Xiangyou Military Division stationed in the Xia Kingdom to quickly send troops to aid Xingqing Mansion!" ”

"The Jingsai Military Division has been conquered, the Xishou Baotai Military Division has been trapped with Zhuo Luo and the Southern Military Division, and the other military divisions are too far away from Xingqing Mansion, so they can only mobilize these five military divisions!" After the words of the seed master fell, Liu Zhongwu said, and then sighed: "It is not far from October now, and the Xia Kingdom is again in the ice and snow, how similar this scene is to the five-way war of this dynasty forty years ago!" ”

"The retreat of the Fifth Route Army Division has made Liu Yanqing and Yao Gu pick up a big bargain!" The planter said with a smile.

What Liu Zhongwu said made sense, the Xia army stationed in the east of the Jianing Military Division, the Right Wing Shenyong Military Division, and the Shenyou Military Division retreated, so that Liu Yanqing and Yao Gu's soldiers and horses could drive straight into the city of Xingqing Mansion.

Forcing the Shunzhou Xia army to surrender is definitely a thing that can be celebrated, but in the process of capturing Shunzhou and encircling the point to help, the consumption of gunpowder is also very large, almost consuming half of the gunpowder reserves in the army of the planter, and the enemy was injured 10,000 and lost 8,000.

The Badain Jaran Desert, the Tengger Desert and the Helan Mountains were the natural barriers to the west of the Western Xia, so the Western Xia never worried that there would be enemies invading from the west, and the Mongolia in the north of the Western Xia was a mass of scattered sand and tribes that did not form a climate to fight and attack each other, while in the northeast and southeast there were two large countries, Qiang Liao and the Great Song Dynasty, so that the Western Xia not only had to be vassals to the two countries, but also always guarded against each other.

To say that bullying the weak and afraid of hard, Xixia is definitely the kind of picking up soft persimmons and pinching, but although the Great Song Dynasty is weak, there is never a lack of martial arts and brave people, after the Great Song Dynasty experienced the Ren and Ying dynasties, the Great Song Dynasty that was provoked was completely hardened, and under the repeated attacks of the Great Song Dynasty, the Western Xia put the defensive focus on dealing with the attack of the Great Song Dynasty.

Lingzhou was besieged by floods, Shunzhou fell, Jing, Ning, and Huaizhou were the last line of defense to defend Xingqing Mansion, and Western Xia was already on the verge of destroying the country, so it was imperative to recruit these five military divisions.

"These five-way soldiers and horses are retreating, it seems that Li Qianshun is going to set up a decisive battle with my Great Song Dynasty in front of Xingqing Mansion!" Lotte looked at the map, and asked again after a moment: "Three old men, I wonder how many soldiers and horses of these five military divisions of the Xia Kingdom will be combined?" ”

Liu Zhongwu said: "The military division of the Xia people has always been a family of military, government, agriculture and animal husbandry, and when the country is in a state of war, it can urgently recruit sergeants from among the people, and young and middle-aged people over fifteen and below fifty can be used as soldiers, according to Liu, there are at least 150,000!" ”

For Liu Zhongwu's judgment, the seed master nodded, and then said: "The Xia people are good at riding and shooting, and now the Xingqing Mansion is in danger, these 150,000 people should be young and elite who can get on the horse, but they are also the last family of the Xia people!" ”

As mentioned in the previous document, since the Shenzong Dynasty went through the Zhezong Dynasty and then to the current Huizong Dynasty, the Great Song Dynasty and the Western Xia fought intermittently for more than 40 years, and the Great Song Dynasty was defeated repeatedly when the Renzong Dynasty, and the Great Song Dynasty has gone from the initial weak passive to the confrontation and then to the strong active attack, especially the Zhezong Dynasty so far, the Western Xia is almost pressed and beaten by the Great Song Dynasty, so that the national strength is greatly lost, only the soldiers who defend the city and there is no field army, and now these soldiers who defend the city plus the temporary recruitment of soldiers are the last bit of strength that the Western Xia can squeeze out.

The four prefectures of Jing, Yong, Huai, and Ding, plus Xingqing Prefecture, have at least more than 50,000 men and horses, plus the 150,000 people who have been reinforced, and there are no less than 200,000. The attrition of the previous battles plus the non-combat attrition, there are still more than 70,000 people under the command of Seed Master Dao and Liu Zhongwu at present, and 70,000 is in a great disadvantage against 200,000.

At present, Liu Fa led the Xihe army to confront Zhuo Luo and the Southern Military Division to confront Chage, and they couldn't catch up with Shunzhou for a while, and Yao Gu and Liu Yanqing saw the inexplicable retreat of the Xia army, and they would definitely be suspicious and dare not dare to march rashly, and the seed master Dao and Liu Zhongwu directly faced the 200,000 army of Western Xia, and the other three roads could not be armed, plus it was now close to early winter, and the Song army was deep in the distance, and there was a possibility of being broken by the enemy.

The remake of the failure of the Five Roads to Conquer Xia was staged again, and it was the thing that made the Seed Master Dao and Liu Zhongwu feel dangerous and headaches.

After the rebellion of the five dynasties, out of distrust of the warriors in charge of the army, the Song Dynasty was not only a civil and military system, but also strictly controlled the power of the generals.

It is precisely because of the Great Song Dynasty's fundamental fear of the military power of the warriors that this natural defect makes the Western Xia completely superior to the Great Song Dynasty in tactics. The tactic of concentrating superior forces to destroy the enemy individually was widely used in later generations.

Xingqing Mansion is sandwiched between the Tanglai Canal and the Hanyuan Canal, there is a natural barrier Helan Mountain and the Tanglai Canal in the west to resist the enemy, and there are Jing, Yong, and Huaizhou enemy troops in the east to look around, and the Song army advances along the ten-mile-wide strip between the Tanglai Canal and the Hanyuan Canal, which is self-defeating, so it is impossible for the Song army to march half a step without conquering the Jing, Yong, and Huai Prefectures.

"In order to deal with our army, all of the horses that rushed to Xingqing Mansion will be gathered south of Xingfu Mansion, or bypass Xingqing Mansion and move south along Helan Mountain from the west of Tanglai Canal to outflank our army, forming a front and rear flanking situation!" After looking at the map for a while, Lotte said, "As for the east of Lingzhou, it has become a floodplain now, and there is no need to consider the enemy of Lingzhou within a month." ”

For Lotte's analysis, the two brothers and Liu Zhongwu all nodded, but their brows were slightly wrinkled, if the Western Xia people used this method to deal with the Song army, the 70,000 troops led by themselves would be surrounded by the other party, and the occupied Shunzhou would become a lonely city, if the weather in Western Xia suddenly became cold and the ground froze, so that the Lingzhou defenders came out, Shunzhou was even more dangerous, and if the remaining three soldiers and horses could not rush to help, the 70,000 horses and horses could be wiped out.

The more I thought about it, the more I felt in my heart, and the brows of the three of them wrinkled even tighter.

After thinking for a moment, Seed Master Dao looked at Liu Zhongwu and said: "According to the current situation, Seed Mou thinks that he can only divide his troops into three ways to prevent the Xia people from encircling our army, what does Liu Shuai think?" ”

"Liu agrees with the proposal of the middle seed master!" Liu Zhongwu said, and then said: "The troops are divided into three routes, all the way west to the Tanglai Canal to Helan Mountain to form a defensive line, in case the Xia people may encircle our army, the middle road to deal with the enemy north of Xingqing, and the west road to deal with the enemy from Jingzhou, Yongzhou, and Huaizhou to the south to outflank our army. ”

The seed master was silent for a while, and sighed: "The soldiers are divided into three routes, and each road has to face three times the enemy, the situation is dangerous!" ”

The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and at this time, the Song army is deep in the hinterland of Western Xia, and it is impossible to transmit military information to Yao Gu and Liu Yanqing. Yao Gu and Liu Yanqing saw the sudden retreat of the Western Xia soldiers and horses, and they would inevitably be more cautious for fear of being ambushed by the Western Xia people, especially Liu Yanqing, who had always been timid and afraid of yes, would be even more unable to do it, and secondly, the Yao Gu family and the Seed Master Dao family are both Shaanxi giant families, and the two have always been incompatible.

Things are not without precedent, when the Great Song Dynasty Yongle City, the grandfather of the Great Song Dynasty, because of the gap between Xu Xi and the giving matter, regarded the Western Xia soldiers and horses besieging Yongle City and did not save it, which directly led to the defeat of Yongle City in the Great Song Dynasty.

The affairs of their own ancestors, the two of them are clear, so they are even more worried.

Looking at the huge map of Western Xia hanging on the wall, Lotte also fell into deep thought.

After a few moments, Lotte stepped forward and pointed at the Tanglai Canal west of Shunzhou City and the Yellow River east of Lingzhou.

"What do you mean?" Liu Zhongwu was puzzled, and the seed master also looked at Lotte in surprise.

"That's wonderful!" Tane Shi Dao looked at the place of Rakuten's finger and narrowed his eyes, and then a smile appeared in his eyebrows.

After a while, Liu Zhongwu and the breeder also realized the ingenuity of Lotte's fingers, both of them nodded, in addition to the smile in their eyebrows, they were full of Lotte's appreciation and appreciation, Liu Zhongwu said: "Yes, yes, since you can dig the embankment of the Yellow River and flood Lingzhou, what does it matter if you dig the embankment of Jing, Yong, and Huaizhou." ”

The seed master also said: "Yes, Lingzhou City has been soaked by floods for more than ten days, and the land east of Lingzhou has become Zeguo, and now the embankment from the west of the Yellow River is dug to flood the land south of Jingzhou, then the enemies of Jing, Yong, and Huaizhou are struggling, and our army can rely on the Hanyuan Canal embankment to keep the flood out of Shunzhou, and the Xia army's move to outflank our army in a roundabout way is a failure, and our army is less worried about dividing troops." ”

Lotte pointed to the Tanglai Canal and the Yellow River, which meant digging embankments and flooding.

At this time, the seed master said again: "But digging the land east of the Tanglai Canal and the Tanglai Canal, I'm afraid it will have little effect!" ”

"Why?" The planter is puzzled.

Seed Master Dao looked at the map and said slowly: "To the west of Tanglai Canal is the Helan Mountains, the terrain is high in the west and low in the east. ”

"It can only be blocked for a while, and it's a while!" Lotte sighed, and said: "Xiaguan's proposal today can only block the time of the Xia army from half a month to a month, if the weather is close to the cold, then this policy will be ineffective and useless!" ”

As a soldier who was the commander of the strategy, Liu Zhongwu had a unique vision, and said: "It is only an expedient measure to dig embankments to irrigate Jing, Yong, and Huaizhou, but it is only a plan to prevent the Xia army from potentially outflanking our army, but in fact it is to delay time and let the reinforcements arrive." ”

"Xihe Liu Shuai can be counted on, as for Yao Gu and Liu Yanqing, ......" The seed master said that he no longer spoke, but just shook his head.

"As long as there is an army of Xihe Liu Shuai, as for those two roads, there is obviously no hope!" When it came to Liu Fa, Liu Zhong was very confident, but shook his head again.

The seed master also shook his head and said: "Liu Shuai is brave but Tong'an is defeated, and the Xihe under Liu Shuai is at most 40,000 horses, but Liu Shuai must at least attack his brother Zhuo Luocheng before he can merge with my two soldiers and horses in one place, plus the battle damage is only more than 100,000 horses at most, how easy it is to talk about 200,000 Xia troops!" ”

In this regard, Le Yi smiled: "Liu Shuai does not have many soldiers and horses, but Liu Shuai has firearms in his hands!" ”

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