The conservatism before the Song Dynasty, the long winter nights, and the cold at dawn made this operation possible.

But after the palace burned down, he couldn't hide it anymore.

At present, the palace in the western summer has not moved his sister because it has not appeared, and Yuan Hao has not built countless gorgeous palaces. But as the emperor's palace, this complex is still huge.

Smoke soon rose.

Ye Li Yuqi had just gotten up, and his subordinates hurriedly broke in to report that a large area of smoke had risen in the direction of the Xixia Palace, and it seemed to be burning.

"A fire in the palace?"

The subordinates did not dare to make a sound.

After a while, someone came in to report that the Song army had arrived at the palace, with a large number of people and complex terrain, and it was impossible to intercept and kill all of them like the mountain camp in front of the palace. Many Western Xia soldiers escaped one after another.

The deserter immediately reported the news to Yeli Yuqi.

Ye Li Yu almost fainted when he heard this, and shouted: "This is impossible. ”

The Xixia Palace was not a real city, and it was not as strong as the big cities of the Song Dynasty, but it had a wall, and he sent 2,000 people to guard it. Not only did the palace have 2,000 people, but if the Song army attacked the palace, they had to attack the front camp.

The front camp is also not very strong, but the Song Dynasty has never launched an attack on Tiandu Mountain, and the surname of the front camp will play a role of protection and delay.

Moreover, it is still a hundred miles away from the area controlled by the Song Dynasty.

This hundred miles of road is not a plain area, there are many mountain roads, even if the Song army attacked, they set up some outposts along the way, and there were many patrol teams. How could it be possible to kill the palace, could it be that it fell from the sky?

Faintly, he reacted quickly and guessed the truth.

The Song people have an army, one south and one north, and the two cavalry armies are blooming, and if they are intended to cooperate, they will meet on the west side of the Wuyan Gorge, so the lurking area will be shortened.

But still don't believe it.

If you want to sneak to the palace unnoticed, you have to wait for two watches at the earliest, there are no soldiers patrolling, and no people are haunted, so that you can not be detected by yourself. But in such a short period of time, how could he rush to the front of the palace and break the front camp and the palace in a row?

Suddenly shouted: "Mobilize troops." ”

O Prince.

At this moment, Yeli Yuqi really went crazy.

……

Zheng Lang and the old breed were also looking outside, and at the same time, a large number of scouts had been sent out.

Because of the prince, the tactical arrangements have all changed.

Originally, after capturing some people, Di Qing would change his speed according to the situation, slowly attract the enemy army, and then enter Shimen Gorge. From the moment they entered Shimenxia, their own Chinese army caught up with the rendezvous.

At the end of Shimen Gorge is a very small river, Shimen River, on both sides of Shimen River is a flat river, and on both sides, there are some small low mountains.

Take on the enemy right here.

Considering Yeli Yuqi's anger, he was afraid that the Western Xia army would become an angry army, and he also made many arrangements, the most important arrangement would be pushed out with the army's baggage cart and made into a car formation, no matter how fierce Yeli Yuqi was, the strength in his hands was always limited.

As long as his army was held back, and after a fierce battle, Yeli Yuqi had to retreat.

If you want to retreat, you can only continue to return from Shimenxia.

Another Song army would take advantage of this time to sneak down from the mountains on both sides of Shimen Gorge.

It was still an ambush, but not in advance, the army was in motion, even if the enemy attached importance to scouts and sent people to check, there was still not a single ambush on Shimen Gorge. But after the Western Xia army retreated, the ambush came out.

The ambush army smashed the stones from the rocks, or stood on the top of the hill and shot arrows, while their main army pursued behind.

The battle of Shimenxia will have a great victory.

Continue to send lure troops out of Tiandu Mountain, attract the main force of Yeli's army on the side of Tiandu Mountain, and take advantage of the weakness of Western Xia troops in other places to send troops to reward Qiankou, attack Weizhou, and Mingsha City.

Therefore, this timing is the most important.

Only in the battle of Shimenxia, after the enemy's main force is consumed, can the later plan be executed.

But with the appearance of the crown prince, everything is out of control.

It will even build a temporary simple military village in Shimen Mountain, making this village a huge meat grinder.

It is more in the direction of its own advantage, but no one can calculate the process. And the first premise is whether Di Qing can bring the prince back.

He was also anxiously waiting.

……

Di Qing began to withdraw his troops.

I don't know what the rear is doing, but I believe that Zheng Lang and Seed Master Heng will cooperate accordingly.

Some of them have not changed, such as throwing the stone thrower that was brought over into the fire and burning it. It is better to burn it than to let the stone thrower become a burden on the march.

There are some precious gold and silver utensils in the Xixia Palace, and some children who come to visit also bring some valuable jewelry, or bronze statues on the mountain. Ordered to carry easy to carry gold and silver utensils, which would not slow down the speed of the march, but what the bronze statue was, no matter what.

It's bulky and too late to peel off.

As for the wealth in the palace, it is mainly based on fate, even if it is found, forget it, and if you can't find it, the soldiers are not allowed to waste time looking for it.

Except for the Xixia sword, which was a refined weapon of the Tangut people, all the rest were burned in the fire and were not allowed to be carried.

The horses were left behind, and the rest of the livestock were left behind, which was a change from the original plan. The original plan was to bring all the livestock with them, not necessarily bring them back, and abandon them while running while the Western Xia enemy was chasing. After the war, if you can find it, you can find it, and if you can't find it, you can't pull it down.

Absolutely not to be greedy.

But with the crown prince, it is very dangerous to stay here, and you must go out of Tiandu Mountain, so the cattle and sheep are all left behind.

Many of the enemy were killed in this battle, and many more escaped. In addition to the soldiers, there were also nobles, their servants, maidservants, and monks.

The latter, Zheng Lang, deliberately said their important surnames.

Every time Yuan Hao sent troops to Tibet or sent troops to Shuichuan, he came to the temples of Tiandu Grottoes to pray.

In order to covet Yuan Hao's reward, the great monks took the initiative to put on a legal cloak for Yuan Hao's atrocities and publicize his victory and the legal surname of the war of aggression.

Yuan Hao was also happy, and used the state power to elevate the status of the temples in the Tiandu Grottoes, and finally made the Tiandu Mountain and the Tiandu Grottoes and monasteries the most important Buddhist places in Western Xia.

Now that these masters are arrested, they are ruthlessly stripped of their smooth divine clothes, and they are being destroyed from the divine power.

In the process of catching monks, by the way, these monasteries were also set on fire.

The order was given, and the fire was stirred up again.

The shouts and begs for mercy of various monks were constantly heard on the mountain.

Di Qing looked at the scene in front of him, and suddenly smiled, Xiao Xianggong was in Hangzhou to arrange the Buddha, came to the frontier to destroy the temples of Tiandu, and the war was selected in Shimenxia, and the Sumeru Mountain Grottoes on the edge of Shimenxia are larger in scale, and there are also some temples.

I don't know if the little ministers will come to Weizhou to teach the little ministers a lesson after they know the truth of the matter.

When the last temple was on fire, Di Qing looked at the sky and ordered the trumpet to be sounded for the withdrawal.

There are still some enemy deserters in the mountains and forests, as well as monks crying for their fathers and mothers, but they can't waste any more time, and they must return to the country.

The soldiers returned one after another, tied up the captives and put them on horseback, whether they would be turned upside down because of their uncomfortable posture, no one asked. Just had a better attitude towards Li Ningming, Di Qing personally helped him onto the horse and rode with him.

At a glance, hundreds of soldiers were also sacrificed in this battle. It's also impossible, it's impossible to think about not being killed or wounded, and said, "Evacuate." ”

Thousands of iron horsemen galloped south.

Seeing the front camp, Di Qing heard a shout of killing coming from the front camp.

Rushed in with a break-in.

Once this place is lost, the enemy takes advantage of the blockage of the camp to drag his own line down, and there is more luck than luck.

Breaking into the camp, Cao Ying was leading his men to fight the Tanguts.

Nearly half of the five hundred people left behind were sacrificed, and almost all the generals and sergeants breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Di Qing leading the army to arrive.

Di Qing ordered his men to take over the defense, ascended to a high place, and looked outside.

There were about 3,000 cavalry outside, many of them dressed in civilian clothes, and it seemed that they had been collected in a hurry.

Half of the people got off their horses and shot at the village with bows and arrows, and some people used ladders or people to climb the wall with their lives.

Di Qing lifted the shield, pushed Li Lingming out, and shouted: "You guys are optimistic, who is this?" ”

Outside, the enemy looked up.

Several enemy generals of the leader knelt down and wept silently: "His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

A prince, thousands of enemy troops all knelt.

Guo Kui frowned slightly: "General Di, it's a little difficult to do, these people are mourning soldiers." ”

The mourning soldiers will win, there are quite a few of them, nearly 3,000 Western Xia cavalry, anger will explode all their combat effectiveness, and they have to fight with the troops in their hands. Even if you win, it will be a crushing victory, and you don't know how long you will have to fight, and then more enemy troops will rush in.

Di Qing pondered deeply, called Cao Ying, and whispered a few words in his ear.

Cao Yinghu looked at the captives behind him suspiciously, and finally took the order.

After a while, the gate opened, and Cao Ying led a group of people to push the captives out and block them in front of him.

These captives included many monks, as well as several nobles, as well as a number of enemy generals.

Originally, the Tangut people were eager to attack and ready to attack, but they were all dumbfounded when they saw these captives.

The bow that was opened almost at the same time was loosened together.

Unless Yang Youji was alive, how could he shoot an arrow through this human shield and shoot it at Song Jun behind the shield? Or shoot arrows at these high monks, these noble generals? Give them ten dares, and they will not dare to shoot arrows.

One after another, the Song army pushed out more prisoners, and the enemy did not dare to release arrows, but the Song army dared. With the help of captives as cover, cold arrows are placed at the enemy in the rear.

The enemy could only retreat.

One advances and one retreats, gradually forming a fan.

Li Lingming said angrily: "You Song people are too shameless. ”

"No matter how shameless you are, do you want your father to be treacherous?" Di Qing sneered.

To be precise, this is not shameless, but obscene, but very effective, Di Qing turned his head and said to Guo Kui: "Water is impermanent, soldiers are impermanent, the enemy is bent on saving their prince, and when he comes, he is a mourning soldier, so don't die when attacking the village." However, the art of war also says that one drum is vigorous, the second drum is weakened, and the third drum is exhausted. I brought the prince up to the city and raised their grief to the peak, but they did not know how to rescue them. Even if I break through this village, as long as I wave the knife lightly, their prince will become a dead soul under the knife, and after mourning, he will begin to decline. Using the captives as shields, they dare not even shoot arrows, and then they take away their morale, and that is gradually exhausted. Scattered into a fan, the enemy camp is confused, the area is vast, and the camp becomes thin......"

"General Di, the last general knows what to do." Then Guo Kui looked at Di Qing with admiring eyes.

"General Guo, there is nothing remarkable, it will be beneficial to take a look at the Spring and Autumn Period and Sun Tzu's Art of War in your spare time." Di Qing smiled slightly.

Zheng Lang gave him four books, and Di Qing only liked to read Zuo's in the Spring and Autumn Three Legends, especially those records about battle scenes, which often fascinated him. Next up is the Art of War. As for the two Shangshu and Analects of Zheng Lang's handnotes, although I thanked Zheng Lang for his kindness, I was reluctant to read them, but I was not very interested in them, and I couldn't read them.

Cao Ying gradually dispersed the prisoners of war, and the enemy's formation became larger.

From time to time there are enemies shouting and holding on.

Coerce with captives, let you coerce, we just need to watch this path and not let you break through. As for what to do with these captives, it is better to wait for Yeli Yuqi to arrive and then deal with them.

Suddenly, Guo Kui led the cavalry and came out of the walled gate.

The enemy army was in chaos, and several generals hurriedly commanded.

However, this cavalry was almost composed of Jurchens, and its combat effectiveness was far above them, and its morale did not have time to start, and the formation became thinner, and it was soon rushed to pieces by Guo Kui.

Seeing that the enemy's formation was disrupted, Di Qing waved his hand again and ordered, and this time the main force of the Song army was almost all out.

Divided into four parts, like four sharp arrows, they passed through the enemy camp.

There was still a fierce fight, but some of them were running away.

Di Qing shouted: "Chase five miles." ”

Although most of the enemy is not defeated, it is showing signs of great defeat.

Don't dare to chase more, but chase after it, and further kill and injure the enemy's living forces.

Just a moment, as more people fled, the enemy rout finally began. Di Qing didn't look at the battlefield, this enemy army was solved, and turned his head to look at Li Lingming: "In this battle, I have killed some of my subordinates, and you Western Xia people have died even more." They have parents, wives and children, and relatives, and I used to be very kind to your family, but your father, in order to satisfy his own ambitions, did not hesitate to plot rebellion, and so many families were torn apart. Did he do it right? ”

Di Qing was just a question, but it happened to hit Li Lingming's heart.

Li Lingming gritted his teeth and remained silent.

The horn blows, and the chase begins.

Di Qing turned his head to look at the battlefield, and then looked into the distance. There is no enemy army in the distance for the time being, it is about an army transferred from the nearest Yeli Yuqi, but after thousands of mountains and rivers, there must be many Western Xia troops gathering.

It's safe for the time being.

Then staring at the group of Jurchens, it was not obvious when they were attacking the city, and when they were placed in the wild, they could immediately see their ferocity.

Seeing that this group of Jurchens was invincible, Di Qing couldn't help but glance at the north. I was thinking in my heart, this is an army of hundreds of people, if it is an army of tens of thousands, what will it become?

There were not many enemies really killed in this battle, including Cao Ying, who only killed **100 people, but the victory was fast.

Five miles, the speed was very fast, and after a while, the Song army returned one after another. Suddenly, a soldier said to Di Qing: "Di Zhijun, look. ”

Di Qing looked behind, some dust was raised in the distance behind him, the enemy was separated by the mountain, and he didn't see it, but he could guess that it was the enemy who drew troops from the rear and came to surround it.

Yeli was crazy and chaotic, and since he received the news of the attack on the palace in the morning, he has been constantly mobilizing his troops. The troops from afar didn't have time to rush over, so they mobilized all the nearby troops together, wanting to block Di Qing's Song army in Western Xia, and then besiege it with heavy troops.

Di Qing glanced at it and ordered, "Continue to evacuate." ”

This siege and killing along the way cannot be avoided.

Slowly retreating south, Di Qing was thinking back in his mind about the terrain of the various roads when he came over last night.

Immediately thinking of a way, the army marched thirty miles away, Di Qing said: "Just lie in ambush behind that slope." ”

The slope can also be said to be a hill, a small low mountain, the terrain is relatively flat, and a small road in the middle leads to Wuyan Gorge. Di Qing said again: "Horse chewing, there is no horse chewer for the captured war horses, so use the clothes of prisoners of war to block them first." ”

"Whoa." The generals replied loudly.

Turning over the low post, the soldiers began to cut the prisoner's clothes with a knife, stuffed them into the horse's mouth, and after stuffing the horse, Di Qing did not order, the soldiers automatically plugged the prisoner's mouth, including Li Lingming's mouth was also stuffed with a large sleeve of robe.

Di Qing personally stood on the high place of the low hill, and looked north under the cover of a towering old tree.

There were not many enemies coming, only seven or eight hundred, but they happened to meet some defeated comrades, and they gathered again, about two thousand people, and chased them all the way.

Di Qing's arrangement was not clever, and if he sent a scout to check on them, he could see them on the other side of the low mountain.

But at this time, the enemy was only concerned with chasing, and the army was hurrying from all over the place, where did he think so much?

A rush of brains rushed over.

Seeing the foot of the mountain, Di Qing looked again, not only was there not many people, but the formation was also very chaotic. Di Qing didn't put the Tangut people in his eyes, except for all the cavalry, shamelessly fighting one out of ten at a time, what else did this Tangut army have?

He waved his hand behind him and said, "Kill, ten miles." ”

Take the lead and pull the horse down and kill it.

At this time, the morale of the Song army was high, and he wanted to go back, after all, he was in the enemy territory, and he had no bottom in his heart, and he rushed down condescendingly.

This enemy force was again routed and scattered in all directions.

After chasing for ten miles and returning, it is still not safe.

Retreating south again, the sky gradually darkened.

In front is the Wuyan Gorge, compared to the open terrain of the Wuyan Gorge, the terrain on the west side of the Wuyan Gorge is treacherous, there are some small sand dunes on both sides, the wind is angry, the sand rolls, and there are no human figures on the opposite side.

But Di Qing was still a little hesitant in his heart.

Even if they withdrew to a safe area, the enemy's main forces did not arrive, and it seems that they did not achieve the goals they had arranged before the battle.

However, the prince of Western Xia was in his arms, everything went crazy, and Di Qing didn't know how to choose.

The sunset was dim, and when Di Qing was thinking, the scout in front came over to report: "General Di, there is another enemy army in front." ”

"How many?"

"I don't know how many people, but they made a fence out of wood and got stuck on the road."

"Kill it."

The three armies rushed over, and it was located on a pass in the middle of the two mountains, and the enemy built a simple fence stockade, which was not large, and the number was only about a few hundred. But this is very annoying, not like two attacks in the morning, it is to take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness, that is not constant.

In normal combat, although this stockade is not large, it can still be done if you want to hold back your army for a day or two. After a day or two, what will happen can be guessed with a finger.

Looking closely, I saw that the enemy camp was like a great enemy, and many Western Xia soldiers had bows and arrows in their hands.

He frowned slightly and said, "Rest on the spot." ”

From yesterday's second watch to the present, all the soldiers have hardly been well rested, and they are tired one by one.

"General Di, it's dangerous here," Wang Zhi said.

"Don't forget, we still have the army in the rear." Di Qing said lightly.

After hastily eating dry food and preparing to rest, a person suddenly came out of the grass on the side and said, "The little one is ordered by General Jing to ask to see General Di." ”

Brought it over, and the scout reported what had happened.

Jingtai with 4,000 men and horses was supposed to be in a hurry, and he could meet Di Qing in the afternoon. But when he arrived at Wuyan Gorge, he was ambushed by the local Qiang people, but fortunately, the scouts sent many people did not let the Qiang people succeed. In order to remove this obstacle, Jingtai had to lead his troops to exterminate these combined "militias", delaying time.

After interrogating the captives, it was learned that these tribes were more loyal to Western Xia. Some time ago, the Song Dynasty army was both soft and hard, they all hid in the mountains, and sent people to contact Yeli Yuqi. Ye Liyu hesitated and did not take it in. Until this morning, they received a warrant from Yeli Yuqi to snipe the reinforcements sent by the Song Dynasty, and no matter what the result was, they moved to the territory of Western Xia when it was dark.

After the interrogation, Jingtai did not show mercy to these tribesmen, but because of time constraints, some tribesmen were let go. Then when I came to the West Gorge, I saw this stockade, which was also blocked by this stockade.

Di Qing pondered after hearing this.

Ye Li Yu begged him and did not look down, this hand arrangement is very ingenious, once he breaks through the jurisdiction of Tiandu Mountain, there are only a few hundred people, and he can't stop himself. It's better to let them come as quickly as possible and build a small village to block themselves.

But when Yeli Yuqi learned the news of his capture of the Xixia Palace, it was not until the morning. Otherwise, it would not have been possible to send only two reinforcements. This army was about the army of the enemy camp in the west, and it was noon at the earliest. Therefore, Yeli Yu begged some rebels to block the reinforcements of the Song Dynasty, precisely to win time to repair the village.

The arrangement is very clever, but to be able to create this small village to this point, the enemy is also exhausted.

He said in a deep voice: "You immediately take a detour back from the side to inform General Jing, at the second watch, I will make a feint to attract the enemy's attention, and General Jing will attack from behind the wall." ”

"Whoa." The scout crawled back through the grass.

Di Qing thought about it again and said, "Divide into two parts, one to rest on the spot and one to be on duty." ”

The soldiers on duty could not sleep, and once they slept, they did not have a few hours to remember. Even if you wake up, your body is soft, and you can't lift your spirits, let alone fight.

Night has truly arrived.

Half of the soldiers were sleeping, listening to the sound of snoring like thunder, and the soldiers on duty were also sleepy.

But fortunately, I only insisted on the second watch.

Di Qing asked the soldiers on duty to start attacking, and there were some casualties on both sides, and the Song army was outside the village, and the casualties were even heavier. And the two waves of attacks did not enter the wall.

The battle scene was strange, half of the people were sleeping in the distance, half were fighting bloody.

The enemy looked at Song Jun and also felt strange and puzzled.

At this moment, there was a shout from behind the enemy.

Di Qing shouted: "Attack." ”

The two sides were flanked, Di Qing's army did not attack the village, and Jingtai had already led the army into the enemy's rear village.

Several hundred enemy troops were immediately routed.

But both sides were caught by the Song army, and almost none of the enemy soldiers escaped, and all of them were killed.

Di Qing woke up the Song soldiers who were sleeping behind him and poured into the village together. The village was small and could not accommodate so many people.

After a brief conversation with Jingtai, the Song army was divided into two, one part stayed in the village for defense, and the other part went out of the village, and rested again on the spot after the wall.

Only Li Lingming sent a team of men and horses to escort him back, and the other prisoners remained.

At this time, Di Qing breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Jingtai and asked, "What arrangements does Zheng Xianggong have?" ”

"I don't know yet, when I heard the news sent by General Di, Zheng Xianggong wrote a letter and sent it to the capital on a fast horse, and then asked me to lead four thousand horsemen to help General Di."

"Good time." Di Qing said.

However, the two of them were leaning on the edge of the fence and napping, and both armies were tired, and both of them were also tired.

When the sky blinked to dawn, the morning breeze blew, Jingtai woke up, woke up Di Qing, and said, "General Di, change the guard." ”

began to change the guard, a few hours later, the resting Song army was full of spirit again, and the Song soldiers who did not rest ran to the back of the village, fell down and fell asleep.

But the sky was not yet dawn, the morning wind was cold and urgent, the two of them stood in front of the rough fence, Di Qing said: "General Jing, you said that Yeli Yuqi saw that the fence here was used by me, what kind of expression would he have?" ”

Jingtai laughed.

As soon as the laughter ended, the scout rode into the report from the outside: "General Di, General Jing, the enemy has nearly 10,000 horsemen killed." ”

"Good!" Di Qing and Jing Tai were not worried but happy, and clapped each other's hands and said.

Countless black shadows gradually poured out of the night on the western side, getting bigger and bigger.