As the son of the patriarch of the Tuoba clan, Tuoba Yu can be said to have high hopes. Originally, the responsibility of the Tuoba tribe in Western Xia was more against the invasion of the Liao State Iron Cavalry. But he was worried that he would die on the battlefield, so he specially sent him to the Songxia border for training.

Compared with the iron cavalry of the Liao State, which has now become a tiger and wolf, the Western Xia cavalry is more afraid. Compared with the cavalry of the border army of the Song Dynasty, both in terms of number and technique and tactics, it is inferior to the cavalry of the Western Xia.

I feel that my son is still young, and if he first pours the cavalry of the border army of the Song Dynasty to practice his courage, the risk of accidents will be greatly reduced. Last year, when he went out with the army to harass the border of the Song Dynasty, the cavalry team led by Tuoba Yu made a lot of gains, making it the envy of the young people of the tribe.

Today, he was sent to the Song-Xia border again, and Tuoba Yu took the initiative to undertake the task of reconnaissance and cavalry sentry, leading several elite cavalry teams of the tribe as the first batch of Western Xia reconnaissance cavalry teams to enter the Song realm to carry out intelligence reconnaissance and collection.

But no one would have thought that he would now be unlucky enough to run into the cavalry troops led by Zhao Xiaoxi. As a result, he was unfortunate and became a prisoner of the Song army before the war.

This made the Tuoba patriarch very worried about his son's safety, so he took the initiative to take over the reinforcements and sent 5,000 elites to the rescue. If you can spend money to redeem it, that's a great thing.

For these tribal leaders, as long as there were soldiers in the tribe to fight, such things as gold were given to the Song people. In less than a year's work, he was able to snatch this money back from the Song Dynasty with interest.

It's just that now Tuoba Ye realized that when this nephew became an earless person, he understood that such an heir would damage the reputation of the Tuoba clan's dignified Western Xia clan. But after all, he is the most important son of the Tuoba patriarch!

'Lu Dazhong, are you Song people too much? Why did you cut off both of my nephew's ears? Are you trying to provoke a war between the two countries? Or is it really that tens of thousands of people of the Tuoba clan dare not wash your Lanzhou city in blood? ’

Hearing Tuobaya's roar of anger, Lu Dazhong laughed and said, "Tuobaya, are you embarrassed to talk to me?" all these years. My Lanzhou City was killed by your Western Xia cavalry, and there are still fewer soldiers and soldiers killed and taken captive?

Not to mention cutting off both of your nephew's ears, even if I cut him off now, what can you do? The eldest son of your Tuoba clan is a human being, so you can't let others hurt him in the slightest. Aren't I human beings to those dead soldiers and civilians? Amusing!

They took him down. Wait a few days to be deported to Beijing. If you Tuoba really have the ability, then you will go into the city to save you. Lao Tzu has no cavalry at hand, so he doesn't dare to fight with you. But in this siege battle, Lao Tzu is still afraid that you will not succeed, so you will come! ”

After refuting him with the same ruthless words, Tuoba Ye knew that he would spend money to ransom people, and he was afraid that he would have no chance. At present, he has 5,000 cavalry at hand, and he is afraid that he will not be able to capture this strong Lanzhou City.

The only way to do this is to ask for the help of Helian Tieshu's army. Compared to his cavalry. Helian Tieshu took more than 3,000 siege soldiers with siege equipment. The two armies joined forces, and maybe they could take Lanzhou City.

Thinking of this, Helian Tieshu ordered the army to retreat and set up camp a mile away. In addition to sending reconnaissance cavalry to contact Helian Tieshu, he immediately sent several cavalry teams to attack and harass along the Lanzhou City, and at the same time carried out archery reconnaissance before the battle.

Facing Tuobaya, he began to set up camp. Zhang Tingguang looked very satisfied, and ordered the army to get ready. Face the arrows that harass the cavalry. The defenders don't have to react too violently, and the magic archery on each wall is responsible for counterattacking and suppressing.

In order to deal with this siege battle, Zhang Tingguang and Lu Dazhong can be said to have been preparing for a long time, and the attack tactics of those Western Xia rangers. There is no need at all, it will cause the nervousness of the defenders, and it is enough to suppress it appropriately so that they are not too arrogant.

Watching the defenders of the city fight back in an orderly manner. The raiding cavalry, who was in charge of the rangers, lost a few men. Although Tuoba Ye knew that Lu Dazhong, as the commander of the Tongyuan Army, was also a well-known general on Qin Fenglu.

If you want to take Lanzhou City from him, I'm afraid it is not as easy as you imagined. But that's it. He could only choose to take one step at a time, waiting for Helian Tieshu's army to arrive. Let's discuss how to attack Lanzhou City!

At least Tuoba Ye knew that he was in a hurry to capture Lanzhou City and rescue his nephew Tuoba Yu who was imprisoned inside. This general of the expedition to the east, this expedition to Qinfeng Road, also came to take Lanzhou City, and the purpose of the two can be said to be the same.

Helian Tieshu, who lived in the rear of Tuobaya, saw Tuobaya's personal generals. Finally changed his arrogance when he was in the Yellow River camp, and began to politely call him the name of the general, and I also felt that I knew this earlier, so why bother in the first place?

After ordering the battalion to attack, the two armies finally joined forces under the city of Lanzhou at midnight. At this moment, the lights on Lanzhou City are bright, and in the Xixia camp under Lanzhou City, the same torches are hung high. I don't know when this battle will break out.

Looking at the unhurried arrangement of troops by the Xixia people outside the city, Zhang Tingguang also ordered the defenders in the city, who should defend the city tonight or who should defend the city. The officers and soldiers who did not defend the city still went back to the camp to rest. There is no need to stay up all night waiting for these Tanguts to attack the city.

With such a solid city defense, and such sufficient defensive preparations, the Tanguts even brought siege equipment. Wanting to break through Lanzhou City in one night is simply wishful thinking.

Even Zhang Tingguang handed over the matter of guarding the city at night to Lu Dazhong and returned to the camp to rest. If the Tanguts attack the city tonight, don't call him until it's critical. And tonight there will be no siege, tomorrow he will command the defense of the city.

Looking at this real city defender, so relieved and bold to rest, Lu Dazhong also knew it. Compared with Zhang Tingguang, who has seen big scenes, he, a border general, is still a little less stable in his mentality before the big war.

From time to time, Lu Dazhong, who took his own troops and began to check the situation of the city wall, finally stopped on the tower where he camped with the Xixia camp. At night, there was no moonlight, but there was starlight and bright lights.

In addition to not seeing too clearly from too far away, the situation in the city and the Western Xia army is still very clear. If the Western Xia camp made a move, they would soon be able to warn them, and it would not be so easy to attack the city at night.

Just when Lu Dazhong explained to those sentinels and carefully stared at the situation of the Xixia camp, several cavalry teams of about 100 people. It had already come straight to Lanzhou City from the open Xixia camp, and this movement naturally attracted the attention of the city defense army.

Thinking that these Western Xia people would not be arrogant and conceited, they wanted to attack Lanzhou City with just these cavalry. Looking at the cavalry who arrived, they began to draw out the kind of arrows, wrapped in a black whirring iron arrow.

Lu Dazhong immediately realized that this group of Western Xia cavalry had more elements to make trouble this time. This kind of rocket tactic, I think it's more to keep them busy for a while. Even if you can't shoot people, you have to make the city defense army tired and fight fires.

Tired tactics?

Lu Dazhong, who realized this, quickly asked people to prepare the buckets prepared in advance, as well as the fine sand. Once these arrows reach a place where they can easily ignite, extinguish the fire immediately.

At the same time, the archers on the city wall are told that if they have the opportunity to shoot arrows, they can attack on their own without asking for instructions. Anyway, when you are disturbed, you have to teach each other a lesson. These archers themselves were the main force used to suppress the archers of the Western Xia cavalry.

After seeing those Western Xia cavalry breaking with fire and igniting these rockets, they began to ride their horses closer to the city. Those who received the order immediately reached the mouth of the arrow battlement and aimed at the approaching Western Xia rangers.

Once they see the opponent in the shooting range, the arrows they have set up in their hands will be shot quickly. Even if they can't shoot the opponent, they will not be able to accurately shoot rockets into the city, mostly on top of wooden houses.

Looking at the rockets that were like sparks, piercing the night sky and throwing them towards the city wall of Lanzhou. The archery techniques on the city walls are also suppressed by archery, so that the archers of the opposing side do not dare to approach and throw rockets at will.

Despite this, there were quite a few rockets that were thrown in by the Rangers. As soon as the rockets hit the ground, the greased-soaked cotton wool quickly fell off and burned.

The fire brigade, which had already been prepared, ignored the rockets that did not hit the flammable materials, and only quickly pounced on the rockets that shot the flammable materials. Buckets and fine sand have also become weapons in the hands of firefighters tonight.

When Lu Dazhong organized his men to extinguish these rockets, Helian Tieshu, who was drinking in the camp tent, and Tuoba Ye listened to the noisy sounds of Lanzhou City. I think they will sleep well tonight and then attack the city after dawn tomorrow.

In order to exhaust the defenders of the city, these cavalry who were good at shooting took turns attacking at night. There is only one purpose, not to let the defenders in the city sleep peacefully and consume the physical strength and energy of the defenders.

When they thought that the plan of the tired soldiers was very clever, in the cavalry camp in the mountains outside Lanzhou City, Zhao Xiaoxi stood in the cavalry academy with a cold face, and called all the cavalry of the pro-guard team who had not been in battle to assemble.

Each person changed into a black cape, and a mask to cover their faces, and even the iron hooves of the riding horses were wrapped with a layer of cloth to reduce the noise made during riding.

In the envious eyes of the rest of the cavalry generals, he led this carefully selected personal guard team and began to quickly rush out of the cavalry camp. What they want to do tonight is also to make the Tangut people sleep without a good night's sleep!

During the day, the reconnaissance sentry sent by the Tuoba tribe is always under the monitoring of the cavalry reconnaissance post. Even in order to let the army's reconnaissance cavalry have the ability to meet the enemy first, Zhao Xiaoxi also gave the clairvoyant mirror to the military attache who led the team to carry.

As soon as it gets dark, immediately deal with these Western Xia scout posts. Because, at night, these Western Xia scout sentry posts do not need to report the surrounding situation every other hour.

In such a situation where there is no moonlight at night, it is unlikely that a large cavalry will attack. If you march with torches, you will be spotted by a scout from a distance.

It's just that these Western Xia scouts would never have imagined that when they dismounted and found a place to rest and patrol in turn. In the grass in front of their camp, a group of people were moving rapidly on the ground! (To be continued......)