I knew that before dawn the next day, I heard the horn outside Yongle City, the "moo" of the horn echoed around the city, and the cowhide war drum shook the ground.

Yu Xi was awakened from his sleep, and hurriedly led the generals to the city to take a look, and was immediately stunned, only to see the Western Xia army infantry in front of the horse army behind, and the crowd was overwhelming, rushing towards Yongle City.

Looking at the Western Xia soldiers and horses all over the mountains, Yu Xi panicked and stomped his feet: "How is this good?" ”

At this time, the general Gao Yong stepped forward and said: "Marshal, although the Western Xia army is outnumbered, but after all, it is an expedition of laborers, we can take advantage of the unstable foothold, open the city gate and rush out to kill them by surprise, so that we can hit the arrogance of Ye Weima and Liang Qitong, and second, we can boost our morale." ”

That knew that Yu Xi shook his head and played the high wind and bright festival played by Song Xianggong back then: "No, no, don't, I Yu Xi will never attack a team that is not lined up!" That's called victory without force. If you want to fight, you will wait for them to form a good position before fighting, so that the Tangut people will know that our Great Song Army is not incompetent, and the Tangut people will be convinced. ”

At noon the next day, all the 300,000 troops of Western Xia crossed the Wuding River and besieged Yongle City. Ye Weima and Liang Qitong led 80,000 elite troops to the main gate of Yongle City, and arranged 80,000 horses and horses into heaven, earth and people, in a triangular shape, and set up a "three-talent array". ”

Yu Xi hurriedly took out a military book on the tower of the city gate, looked at it, and said with a contemptuous smile: "What is the way of the three talent formations of heaven, earth and man." Watson obeys! ”

The forward general hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Watson is here!" ”

Yu Xi pointed to a flat area under the Wuding Cliff and said: "You can lead your subordinates with 70,000 horses, set up according to the mountain, and set up a five-tiger backing formation, and watch my command banner." ”

Watson said: "The young general obeys the order." ”

Ye Weima and Liang Qitong were watching the three arrows outside Yongle City, and they heard three cannons in the city, and then the city gate was opened. From the inside, a group of Great Song troops with bright armor and shining swords and guns ran out, only to see them come to the Wuding Cliff outside the city, and with the wave of the order flag on the city tower, a "Five Tigers Backing Mountain Formation" was placed in less than a moment.

The marshal of the Western Xia Army, Ye Weima, saw the formation of the Song army and said to Liang Qi in surprise: "Uncle Guo, it seems that the army of the Great Song Dynasty is still very combative!" ”

Liang Qitong shook his head and said, "Although their army has some combat effectiveness. But their commander is an incompetent man who rejoices in his achievements, and you remember the phrase marshal, that a thousand armies are exhausted by incompetence. ”

Ye Weima laughed and said, "Well said, well said!" What do we think we should do next? ”

Liang begged to say: "Marshal, look at the opponent's posture, they will rush over immediately after they line up in formation." ”

Ye Yuma said: "That's good, they rushed at us and gave him a needle point and didn't give an inch to Mai Mang." ”

Liang begged for passage: "Marshal, I don't think it's as good as this, they will defend us at us." When they rush closer, we will give full play to our strengths, first shoot them with strong crossbows and arrows, kill their spirits, and then wait for the opportunity to attack. ”

Ye Yuma nodded happily when he heard this: "Okay, good, Uncle Guo is worthy of fighting at the border for a long time, and he really knows everything about the mastery of the Great Song Army." ”

Under Yongle City, Watson had just lined up the formation. Hearing the sound of "knock knock", "knock knock" and "knock knock" from the city tower, Watson looked back. Yu Xi, who was standing on the tower of the city gate, waved a small yellow flag in his hand.

Watson ordered in a loud voice: "Sun Yong, the former commander of the army, led five thousand men and horses to crash into battle. ”

Sun Yong shouted: "Obey!" He led his 5,000 men and horses to shout in unison: "Kill! "Hit the horse and rush forward.

Ye Fuma, the marshal of the Western Xia Army, who was standing opposite, waved his hand and said, "Crossbowmen are ready." ”

The thousand archers who followed him pulled their bows and buckled their arrows, and all of them aimed at the Great Song Dynasty people and horses who rushed up.

Seeing that the Song army rushed to the distance of an arrow, Ye Weima "brushed" and pulled out his waist knife, and suddenly slashed downward, and ordered: "Release the arrow." Before the words fell, the arrows were like flying locusts, and they shot at the men and horses of the Great Song Army. Immediately, the Great Song army was shot on their backs, and the rest of the people turned their horses and ran back. Watson counted the number of people, and the first charge killed 500 horses and sacrificed the lives of more than 900 soldiers.

At this time, the war drums on the tower behind him "dong dong" sounded again. Yu Xi stood on the city tower and waved a small flag and shouted loudly: "Chong, Chong!" ”

Watson had no choice but to shout, "Charge again!" ”

Sun Yong, the former commander of the army, shouted: "The brothers who are not dead are rushing with me!" As he spoke, he stepped on his war horse and led his subordinates to rush forward again, only to be shot back by a rain of arrows from the Western Xia army.

As soon as Watson counted the number of people, this time it was even worse, with a total of 1,500 brothers sacrificed, and even Sun Yong was seriously injured.

Before everyone had caught their breath, the war drums on the city tower behind them sounded again, and they heard the drums and marched in, which was a drum horn that was urging life. Yu Xi stood on the city tower waving a small flag, stomped his feet and shouted: "Brothers, make persistent efforts, and the time has come to make meritorious contributions." Come on! Come on! ”

Watson glanced back at the castle tower, gritted his teeth, and stomped his feet. "Danglang" pulled out the sword at his waist, jumped on the war horse and said, "Brothers, rush with me." As he spoke, he led 10,000 horses and rushed towards the Western Xia army like a sea of mountains.

When the Western Xia army saw the surging Great Song army, they were frightened and panicked, some people threw down the bows and arrows in their hands and turned around and ran, Ye Weima waved the scimitar in his hand and killed three retreating soldiers in a row: "Who dares to escape and kill the whole family again." ”

It scared the archers so hard that they had to shoot their arrows desperately.

The result can be imagined, the Song army was defeated again. More than 1,000 people were killed or wounded in this charge.

The retreating Song army began to make noise and scold, and everyone was scolding Yu Xi for blindly commanding, taking the lives of the soldiers as a child's play, and asking to withdraw to Yongle City.

Watson beat his horse and ran to the city, and said to Yu Xi on the city tower: "Marshal! We can't fight like this anymore, and if we continue to fight like this, everyone outside the city will die. ”

Yu Xi stood on the city tower and said, "If you don't fight, what do you say?" ”

Watson said: "Marshal, the only way at present is to open the city gate and put the brothers in, preserve their strength, take a break for a while, and wait for the opportunity to fight again." ”

Yu Xi was furious and said: "Nonsense, as a general, how can you meet the enemy without fighting and retreat from the battle." The one who dares to retreat will not be spared. ”

Then he turned back and shouted, "The archers obey the order, and whoever dares to approach the city gate will shoot me." ”

Watson had no choice but to dig a ditch and build a fortress in front of the battle, preparing to meet the enemy.

However, just when the Song army dug a ditch and failed to build a fort, the marshal of the Western Xia army personally crossed his horse and waved his sword to lead the 80,000 wolf-like Western Xia army to pounce, and the Song army was caught off guard, unable to resist, and retreated to the city. Watson shouted, "Marshal, open the door quickly, or we will be annihilated." ”

Yu Xi said: "Fart, open the door at this time, what if the Western Xia army pursues and kills from behind you into the city, you go back to the division and kill the Western Xia army, and let you enter the city." ”

At this time, the Western Xia army had already chased and killed, and the soldiers who were stopped outside the city saw that there was no way back, and there were enemy soldiers in front of them, and many people simply threw down their weapons and ran towards the Western Xia team.

Watson just wanted to return to the division and fight again, and there was no available army, so he had to pack up the remnants of the defeated army of more than 10,000 people, detour to the cliff west of Yongle City, climb the cliff, and retreat into the city.

Ye Weima looked at Liang Qitong and laughed: "What Uncle Guo said is really right, it is really an incompetent army that exhausts thousands of troops. Ha ha! ”

Liang Qitong also laughed and said: "Marshal, what I said is right, the commander on the other side, Yu Xi, is a big straw bag. If he refuses to leave the city and concentrates on staying up for ten days and half a month, then it will really be difficult for us to do it. ”

Ye Weima said: "That's right, it's a pity that the Great Song Dog Emperor didn't use people properly." Then with a wave of his hand, he ordered his generals: "Surround Yongle City for me, and not a single person or horse can let them run." ”

The Western Xia army surrounded Yongle City from three sides, and on the third day, it broke through the water village built by Yu Xi and cut off the water source of the Song army.

In Yanzhou, which is relatively close, there are only more than 4,000 garrisons under the command of the general manager of Yanyan Road, and they cannot stay away.

Shen Chen Changxun of Mizhi Village got the news of the Western Xia's attack on Yongle City and hurriedly led 10,000 cavalry to reinforce him, but he knew that he was halfway there, but he was entangled by a force ambushed by Ye Weima in advance.

The Song army in Yongle City fell into isolation.

When Luda led his 3,000 elites to the Yinma River outside Yongle City, Yongle City had been besieged for three days.

The soldiers in the city were starving and had no ability to fight, and in the face of the scolding of the Tangut people, they could only hang their battle cards.

Luda, Xu Ning, Xiong Dacheng, and Xuanzan stood on the high post and watched the situation in Yongle City, and decided to enter Yongle City from the east gate, waiting for the opportunity to lead the defenders there to break out.

Xu Ning said: "The one who surrounded the east gate of Yongle City was the Black Eagle Army, an elite unit of Western Xia, and their combat effectiveness was strong, should we choose other directions to break into the city." ”

Luda said: "The reason why the Black Eagle Army is the elite army of Western Xia, we should break through the east gate, as the saying goes, the snake is hit on the seven inches, as long as we beat the Black Eagle Army, the rest of the Western Xia army will be terrified." ”

Xiong Dacheng and Xuanzan also agreed with Luda's opinion. (To be continued.) )

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