The Great Song Dynasty captured Mingsha City and Yingli City, and after the Western Xia government and opposition were shocked, they quickly became angry, and the army generals stationed in Ding, Huai, Yong, Jing, and Shun Prefectures went up one after another, asking for troops to drive the invading Song army back.

Driving the Song army back, this is what Li Qianshun wanted to do in his dreams, but after more than ten years of war with the Great Song Dynasty, the national strength of the Western Xia has declined significantly, huge casualties, and many people have been captured.

Moreover, the four cities of Huai, Yong, Jing and Shun are the barriers of Xingqing Mansion, and the Xingqing Mansion is firmly protected in the middle, and the Song army will be attacked by the soldiers and horses of the remaining three cities no matter which city it attacks. The strength of the four cities is damaged, which means that the capital is not guaranteed.

However, the lack of reinforcements did not mean that Li Qianshun had given up Lingzhou City, and after Li Qianshun consulted with a group of civil and military forces in the DPRK and China, he had already issued an order to order the troops and people stationed in Nanpingzhou, Dingbian Town, and Dongguan Town, which were stationed around Lingzhou City, to completely withdraw to Lingzhou City.

In this way, firstly, the garrisons in these small cities would not be eaten by the Song army one by one, and secondly, with the strength of Lingzhou City, these soldiers and horses were used to confront the Song army.

With the grain and grass stored in the city, it is not a problem for Lingzhou to keep it for a year. In fact, the Western Xia government and the opposition unanimously believed that it was already mid-to-late September, and as long as Lingzhou City was defended for two months, in the icy and snowy November, the Song army would retreat without a fight, just like the five-way expedition forty years ago.

Li Qianshun's reason for this assumption is also very sufficient, Lingzhou City originally had more than 20,000 defenders, plus the soldiers and horses withdrawn from the surrounding Nanpingzhou, Dingbian Town, and Dongguan Town, adding up to more than 30,000, and then temporarily recruiting some Ding Zhuang from the people to defend the city, the number of people can reach more than 40,000.

In fact, Li Qianshun's idea is indeed very reasonable, the people of Western Xia are fierce, advocating force, hearing the invasion of the Song army, many \ Dangxiang people, Tubo people in order to protect their homeland, but also in order to eat a ration in the city and support their families, have begun to ask to join the army.

For defending the city, Li Qianshun knows the precedent, a typical example of defending the city is the former Tang Dynasty Anshi Rebellion, Zhang Xun guarded Juyang's deeds, the Tang Dynasty's famous general Zhang Xun was good at defense, creating one miracle after another in military history, with 3,000 soldiers can defend Juyang, so that the rebel general Ling Fox Chao can not move forward.

There are more than 40,000 soldiers and horses in Lingzhou to defend the city, and no matter how good the Great Song soldiers are, it is just a repetition of the past. Even Li Qianshun believed that with the strength of Lingzhou City, it was even possible to do the same as Zhang Xun, attacking in defense and replacing defense with attack, so that the Song army could not go any further.

Fleeing to Lingzhou City, the second prince Li Renzhong also held a bad breath in his chest, and planned to be ashamed, and began to order people to collect gunpowder everywhere to make gunpowder bags, imitating the Song people to tie them to catapults and heavy crossbows to engage the Song army.

The scout came to report that the Song army rested in Mingsha City for two days, and began to open to Lingzhou City, the second prince Li Renzhong and the guard general Mo Hemo hurriedly gathered their subordinates to discuss how to deal with the Song army's siege of the city.

Some people say that the Song army on Jingyuan Road does not take Lingzhou to cross the Yellow River to the west and go straight to Xingqing Mansion, so it doesn't bypass Lingzhou, Shun, Jing, Yong, Huaizhou, just imagine that the west of Xingqing Mansion is Helan Mountain, and the west of Helan Mountain is the desert, but in this way, the Song army is completely at a disadvantage, and can be outflanked by the Western Xia army at any time, so this road is absolutely not taken.

At this moment, the Lingfu City has been arranged as airtight as an iron barrel, and the Western Xia army is just waiting for the arrival of the Song army.

It was decided that the Lingfu City closed the city gates, but only released some scouts to inquire about the news, and then learned that the Song army had set up camp in Lingzhou Chuan, seven or eight miles away, and the Lingzhou defenders were disdainful of this, and they all laughed at the Song army for not daring to cross the Lingzhou River to fight with the Xia army.

However, soon the Xia army became more and more strange, since the Song army was stationed in the southern cliff of Lingzhou Chuan, a few days after the Song army did not see the Song army crossing the river, but from time to time I saw the scouts sent by the Song army watching from a distance outside Lingzhou City, and when the city gate was opened and the troops were sent to chase after them, these Song army scouts had already fled, and then sent scouts to inquire about the Song army's intelligence, and did not see the return of the scouts sent out, which began to make the generals of the Lingzhou City defenders faintly have a bad feeling in their hearts.

On this day, Lingzhou City suddenly heard the direction of the Lingzhou River and the Yellow River in the south, and suddenly there was a violent roar like a thunderbolt on a sunny day.

A group of guards in Lingzhou City hurriedly climbed the city wall to look into the distance, only to see a white and a yellow torrent in the distance roaring towards Lingzhou City, but the scene of tea, the water came suddenly, first filled the moat dug outside Lingzhou City, and then began to spread to the city wall of Lingzhou City, and then began to pour into the city along the city gate.

"Damn, the Song people dug the Yellow River and the Lingzhou River!" Seeing such a scene in front of him, the second prince Li Renzhong reacted quickly and couldn't help scolding.

"Quick, order someone to block the city gate with sandbags!" Realizing that something was wrong, Mo Hemo, the defender of Lingzhou City, hurriedly ordered.

After the order was given, the city sergeant hurriedly filled his pockets with mud and sand and piled them up in the city gate, but there was still a stream of water seeping through the cracks of the bags full of mud and sand, but the situation was much better, so that Lingzhou City would not be soaked in water.

With the city wall as the embankment, Lingzhou City did not suffer from flooding, but at this moment, the water outside Lingzhou City was more than one person high, turning into a Ze country, the original roads, farmland, and ditches have long been unable to see the original appearance, only some trees can be seen, and those beasts that were washed out by the flood are struggling to survive on the water.

"Song Jun is hateful!" Mo Hemo, the defender of Lingzhou City, said hatefully: "The Song army flooded Lingzhou, which made my Lingzhou fall into a flood and could not be used to defend the capital, and it also made me panic up and down, making my Great Xia morale low!" ”

How important is the strategic location of Lingzhou City in Western Xia, how can the defenders of Lingzhou City be ordinary people, how can they not know the impact of Lingzhou's victory and defeat on the entire Western Xia, they originally thought that relying on Lingzhou's solidity could keep the Song soldiers out of Jingzhou, but they didn't expect that the Song army would use the flood strategy, and Lingzhou would be defeated so quickly.

"Report ......"

At this moment, a small school came in to report.

"Say!" Mo Hemo said angrily.

"General, Second Prince!" The little colonel gave a salute to Mo Momo, and then gave a salute to Li Renzhong before he said: "A resident of the city has come to report that the well at home is like a spring, and now the well water in Lingzhou City is gushing like a spring, and it has begun to spread all around at this moment......

Hearing the little school's report, Li Renzhong and Mo Hemo glanced at each other, and their faces began to turn pale, what does it mean that the well water backflow means, which means that the land inside and outside Lingzhou City has been soaked by floods, the groundwater level has risen, and it is still a trivial matter for the well water to gush, but it will not take long to do this, and the walls of Lingzhou City are afraid that they are in danger of collapsing.

"Report to the general, report to His Royal Highness the Second Prince!" At this time, another school came to report and said: "The water in the canals of the streets of the city has begun to gush like springs, and the stagnant water on the streets has reached no one's ......ankles."

Listening to the report from this little school, Li Renzhong and Mo Hemo's faces became more and more pale.

Now that it is late autumn, the weather has cooled down, and if the soles of people's feet are placed in the water, they will get sick in less than half a day, not to mention that it will be winter in a while, and it is very likely that people will freeze to death. In addition, the water in the ditches, the drowning and other things in the city are mixed with the water, and I am afraid that the plague will break out in the city in a few days, and then it will be another disaster.

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"Knowing about Lingzhou, Li Qianshun will definitely feel very aggrieved in his heart!" Standing on the north bank of the Lingzhou River and looking into the distance, the planter has a smile on his face.

is a few years older than Lotte, but Chongyan has to admire this younger brother who is younger than himself and was accepted by his grandfather as a righteous grandson, and said to Lotte very excitedly: "This record of righteous brother is better than my 100,000 army of the Great Song Dynasty!" ”

"Public is public, private is private, how can it be called a private relationship in official time!" The seed master looked at Chongyan very dissatisfied.

"Grandson is guilty!" Chongyan said.

Although the contact with Lotte has not been for a long time, the seed master is very appreciative of Lotte, and regards Lotte as his junior, and then said that Lotte is the Wenchen of the four products, although it is said that there is a relationship between the righteous brothers of Chongyan, but it is really inappropriate to call Lotte like this.

"Is this murder?" Lotte smiled bitterly, knowing that his plan would cause huge casualties to the Tangut people.

Chongyan changed his words and said: "What is this saying, Lord Zhongshu, if you attack Lingzhou, I don't know how many brothers I will lose, save people's lives, and there is a saying that I will win the creation of a seventh-level floating slaughter, this time Lord Zhongshu does not know how many seventh-level floating slaughters I have built!" ”

Save? Homicide? It's still hard to say. Lotte couldn't help but smile bitterly.

The Hetao Plain was washed and silted out by the Yellow River, and although the Yellow River was diverted under the excavation and bombing of Lotte, it will still be injected into the original river channel according to the trend of the Hetao Plain, but it is just a matter of which waterway to seize.

How Lingzhou City faced the flood was something that the Western Xia people had to face, and it was naturally not something that the Song army had to consider. At present, what the planter wants to consider is attacking Shunzhou.

According to the geographical location of Xingqing Mansion, after the Song army conquered Lingfu, it had to face Shunzhou, and behind Shunzhou was Jingzhou, these cities were interlocking, holding Xingqing Mansion in the middle like a fist.

With the strength in the hands of the seed master, it is really a little powerless to attack Shunzhou, not that Shunzhou cannot be defeated, in fact, relying on the firearms in his hand, it is more than enough for the seed master to lead the troops to capture Shunzhou, but at the same time as attacking Shunzhou, it is necessary for Fan Xixia to rush to the reinforcements from the direction of Jingzhou and Yongzhou.

Shunzhou is only less than fifty miles away from Jingzhou, and it is only more than sixty miles to Yongzhou, and the cavalry can arrive within three hours or even shorter, so they have to make the master very jealous, so they have to wait until Liu Zhongwu arrives on Huanqing Road, and the two soldiers can only launch an attack on Jingzhou.

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