"What your lord said is very true. % "Young Yang Zaixing admires Yue Fei quite a lot. Even in these days when information transmission is very difficult. Yue Fei, who once defeated Yan Zonghan in a night attack outside Yingzhou City, and as Gao Yang's right-hand man, went all the way to the Northern Expedition and destroyed the nightmare Jin Kingdom, Yue Fei is also famous!

No matter what the era, people will spontaneously worship the strong and heroes. Especially for young people who have dreams in their hearts.

"Your Excellency." Yang Zaixing, who was patrolling the camp behind Yue Fei, was silent for a moment, and then asked again, "What if those summer thieves don't come?" ”

"Not coming?" Yue Fei paused and glanced sideways at Yang Zaixing in some surprise. Stretching out his hand and brushing his beard, he smiled and said, "Why didn't they come?" ”

"Huh?" Yang Zaixing scratched his hair in confusion, how could he know!? And it looks like he's asking, right?

"Huh." Yue Fei patted him on the shoulder with a smile and said loudly, "The Xia thief will definitely come." Without waiting for Yang Zaixing to speak up, he continued to explain, "Yinzhou City is extremely important to the Xia thieves, and they can't give up easily. In this expedition, our winning army is only 200,000, and the summer thieves have nearly 500,000 available soldiers! With their usual arrogant character, they will not be shrunken turtles. ”

raised his head and looked at the starry dark night, reached out and took out the dispensed cigarette from his arms, handed one to Yang Zaixing, lit one himself, and smoked it. After exhaling the smoke ring, he continued, "The most important reason is that they have to fight." ”

"Huh?" Yang Zaixing looked at Yue Fei with a serious expression, waiting for his detailed explanation.

"Now the Liao State and the Jin State have perished. The summer thief no longer has a place to respect himself. And at this moment, our Great Song is in full swing. No one can compare with the strength of the country, how can it be a small country that can compete with it? If the summer thief wants to continue to survive, the only way is to win the battle, and he must win the battle as soon as possible! Only then is there a hint of the possibility of forcing us to make peace. A confident smile hung on the corner of Yue Fei's mouth, and then said, "Once we fall into the entanglement, then our Great Song Drag will also drag them to death." ”

"I see." Yang Zaixing nodded in response with a sudden realization.

Yue Fei threw away the cigarette butt. He said in a deep voice, "Prepare well, it won't be long before the summer thief comes!" ”

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The Tanguts are indeed coming. Li Qianshun was a wise and insightful emperor. Knowing that Western Xia was a small country with weak people, it was impossible for the Great Song Dynasty, who had just destroyed the powerful Jin State, to be the opponent of the Great Song Dynasty. His first choice, of course, was to make peace.

Remove the title, reduce it to a vassal state, call it a vassal forever, marry the daughter of the Great Song Dynasty royal family as the queen, pay tribute coins, etc. Li Qianshun even offered a peace condition for ceding some border cities! This is almost taking off his pants for Xixia, who is fighting for every inch of land.

However, Gao Yang very simply rejected all this! Goyang does not accept any demands other than unconditional surrender. Surrender or be defeated. There was no other way out for Western Xia.

Not to mention that Western Xia still has the strength to fight. Even if you don't have any strength, you won't be willing to stop there!

After the door to the peace talks was completely closed, Li Qianshun immediately began to assemble troops on a large scale and store supplies. Prepare to deal with the approaching Song army. He knew very well in his heart that if he wanted Western Xia to continue to survive under the strong suppression of the Great Song Dynasty, the only way was to severely damage the Song ** team and force the Song State to agree to peace!

Han Shizhong's surprise attack caught him off guard. And the terrifying marching speed of the victorious army was even more incomprehensible to him. After Li Qianshun received that the main force of the Changsheng army had entered the city of Yinzhou, Li Qianshun, who could no longer sit still, immediately set off with a large army, and received the collected troops and materials along the way to Xiazhou City.

After a short rest, the troops were reorganized. Li Qianshun personally led nearly 400,000 troops to Yinzhou City.

of 400,000 troops! Although the country of Western Xia is not large, it can still be done by mobilizing hundreds of thousands of troops. However, most of these armies are temporarily mobilized conscripts, and their combat effectiveness cannot be compared with standing military forces at all. To put it simply. It's a rabble of a large number of people.

These armies, which are completely numerically victorious, can still play a very good role in the face of an enemy of average quality. However, when they meet elite soldiers in the true sense of the word, it will definitely be the end of the cup.

A well-equipped, professional, regular army. A rabble with mobilized soldiers as the main force. When the two sides are at war, the results are also obvious. What's more, the commander of the Changsheng army has a calm personality. The famous general Yue Fei who will go down in history. And on the Western Xia side, it was Li Qianshun.

Li Qianshun may be able to be regarded as a good emperor. But he is definitely not a good military commander! If you think about it, you can know that you have grown up in the deep palace since you were a child, and you are either eunuchs or women around you. How is it possible to cultivate any military capabilities in such an environment of growth?

Same as Liao Song. The long-term peaceful environment also caused the Western Xia to lose its strong combat capability. With the long history of peace in China, it is natural that the armament will be relaxed. And this will not be reflected until the real confrontation with a strong enemy.

This kind of operation of hundreds of thousands of people cannot be carried out in a small area. The two sides respectively centered on Yinzhou City and Xiazhou City, and launched a series of desperate battles within a radius of hundreds of square kilometers.

After the tentative, scouting, adjusting the deployment, and so on. The fierce collision between these two behemoths is about to begin!

One day at the end of August, the blue sky was thin with clouds and a faint flow of color. A bright red morning sun leaps out of the clouds and shines on the whole land. It was just early in the morning, and the dazzling sunlight revealed a blinding scorching heat, indicating that today would inevitably be a scorching hot day.

After more than ten days of fierce fighting, both sides gradually made preparations before the decisive battle. The final decisive venue was chosen in a wide area between Yinzhou and Xiazhou, on the banks of the Wuding River, a tributary of the Yellow River.

Except for one legion stationed on the logistics line between Taiyuan City and Yinzhou City, Yue Fei brought the remaining seven fully formed legions with him.

On the other hand, the Western Xia Emperor Li Qianshun also brought more than 300,000 troops! The undulating camp is vast and dozens of miles away!

Yue Fei's tactics were very simple, using a legion on the left and right flanks to suppress the position. The terrifying strength of the five legions concentrated in the middle went straight to the Chinese army where the Western Xia Emperor was, and used the strength of the dignified strength to break through the most powerful place of the enemy army!

Tens of thousands of elite soldiers wearing heavy armor marched neatly, discharged a strict battle formation, and rushed straight to the main formation of the Western Xia army with endless might!

Yue Fei gathered all the light and heavy cavalry of the five legions and kept them by his side, using them as fist troops that delivered a fatal blow! This is also the trick he learned from Gao Yang, concentrate his most powerful strength, and deliver a fatal blow at the most critical moment!

"Go up and pester them!" Li Qianshun, who looked ugly, shouted that Li Liangfu, who had suffered a big loss at the hands of the Jurchens a few years ago and had lost nearly 30,000 people in the first battle, led people forward to block the victorious army that was approaching step by step.

The left and right flanks of the Western Xia army were several times larger than the victorious army, but they were never able to make a breakthrough under the fierce battles. Not to mention the entangled tens of thousands of troops, it also caused a big problem in the movement of the Western Xia army.

As a last resort, Li Qianshun, who was dressed in gold armor, had to give up the tactics of outflanking the two wings, and first find a way to resist the main formation of the Changsheng army that rushed straight from the middle!

What is most important when a large army fights? Offensive capabilities, defensive capabilities, mobility capabilities. And, of course, the morale of the army and the impact of terrain and weather.

Needless to say, the terrain and weather are not too much. This battlefield is a large open area, and this kind of battle of hundreds of thousands of people does not require ambush tactics or anything. The weather conditions are good, anyone can see whom, and there is no possibility of taking advantage of the weather to launch a surprise attack.

In terms of military morale, the Changsheng Army has not lost a battle since it started its army, and it has always been a hundred victories! Moreover, they are attacking the enemy country this time, and the morale of the army has long been at a high level. The sergeants dare to fight, and dare to fight to the death!

The Western Xia army was much worse. Although it was a war to defend the country, most of their sergeants were ordinary people who were temporarily conscripted. After entering a battlefield of this scale, there are not a few people who begin to have a dry mouth and weak legs.

Last but not least, attack, defense, and maneuverability. When the two armies were at war, the well-trained and well-equipped Changsheng army taught a vivid lesson to the mostly rabble Western Xia army.

A cloud-like rain of arrows shuttled back and forth in the sky, and the rain of arrows had different effects on both sides. Most of the Western Xia troops, who wore leather armor or simply had no armor to defend themselves, suffered heavy losses under the baptism of dense arrow rain. Many of the Western Xia soldiers had already been knocked to the ground by the rain of sharp arrows of the victorious army before they could engage in battle. At the same time, it also greatly disrupted their formation.

On the side of the Chang Sheng, it was the opposite. The people who can come to the front are all elite samurai. Heavily armoured and holding sturdy shields, they could almost ignore the floppy bows and arrows fired by the Tanguts. Most of the rain of arrows that fell in the ranks of the victorious army could only listen to the sound of 'ding ding dong dong'. Just a sound.

When the two sides engaged, this gap directly determined the survivability of the sergeants!

The gap in defense was evident on the spot. This also had a great impact on the morale of the sergeants. I had to fall to the ground when I was hit on this side, and there was no response after a long time of crackling. No one can stand this kind of thing.

Spears stabbed wildly, knives flew over. The blood is burning, and the heart is stirring. In the middle of the vast battlefield, there are either robes or enemy troops in all directions. Looking at the hideous and excited faces, the only thing you can do is to do your best to dance the weapons in your hands and fight to the death with your enemies! (To be continued.) )