It can't be delayed any longer.

Zheng Lang's mind was spinning rapidly.

The enemy is only this army that wants to bargain, and this battle is won. The enemy still has 30,000 or 40,000 rear troops, and no matter how this battle is fought, it will be lost.

Di Qing and Yang Wenguang judged through intelligence and the other party's reaction, and the other party's lone army may have a great surname. Relying on historical knowledge, he judged that the other party's lone army might be big.

Thinking of this, Zheng Lang immediately ordered: "Order the infantry army separated from Saimen Village and Anyuan Village to enter the security army, and the cavalry gallop to Qiaozi Valley, remember, send scouts all the way, if you see most of the enemy, immediately retreat to the security army, if the enemy cuts off the way to retreat, retreat to Anyuan Village, and prepare to respond to the security army." ”

After thinking about it, he said: "The cavalry asked Shao Yuanjie to personally lead the team, and then ordered the security army to prepare for defense, open the warehouse, take out money and weapons, and give it to the people in the prime of life who took the initiative to participate in the defense, and the whole people were armed in case of accidents." ”

In fact, this order has been prepared to discard Anyuan and Saimen Erzhai at the worst time to defend the security army.

But the power is still not enough, so let the people participate.

Although the combat effectiveness is not good, but with the obstruction of the city wall, one more person is also safer.

If the security forces are not lost, there will be no crisis in Gyeongju Gancheon.

Helpless.

The most dangerous thing is not the infantry army, even if the enemy has a rear army, at most only thirty or forty thousand horses, with the current German surname of the Western Xia army, it does not dare to divide the troops into two places at all, so it is still in the middle line. So the most dangerous thing was the cavalry who went to Qiaozi Pass.

Zheng Lang called out Shao Yuanjie, who was the most capable of fighting on the Western Front, and deliberately instructed to send scouts to check it.

Don't count on the army in the direction of Huanzhou, Zheng Lang has no right to mobilize the army in Huanqing, yes, it's too late.

He also said: "Then order Yanzhou City and Yongping Village, the infantry army of Yongping Village will be led by Shi Ji to Yanzhou City, and if the army attacks, take over the command of the defense of the Yanzhou army." Unless I die on the battlefield, Fan Xianggong is not allowed to participate in any military operations and troop movements. Wang Xin, the deputy general of Liu Ping, was transferred from Yanzhou City, and led a part of the cavalry and the cavalry of Yongping Village to Qiaozi Pass. Then he ordered Juzhou to prepare for defense, and the two cities opened warehouses to put grain and weapons, and when the enemy arrived, they gave money and silk to help the people to participate in the preparation of the imperial city. ”

still defended Yanzhou, and even Ganquan City took the initiative to give up.

There were too few troops, and there were fewer cavalry, but because of their speed, they could not be screwed together, and their combat effectiveness was even lowered, so they had to defend several important cities.

The transfer of the two generals, it was also Zheng Lang who used the ability of the golden finger to fight, Wang Xin was actually better able to fight than Liu Ping, Shi Ji was good at defending and not good at attacking, so the two sides made a switch.

Zheng Lang paid more attention to the matter of the warrant, and before Liu Ping fought, he asked Yuan Hao to take away 2,500 soldiers for no reason, which not only reduced the number of his own soldiers, but also broke morale. Therefore, Zheng Lang not only ordered that the warrant must have his own military talisman and seal, as well as an order.

In the absence of a soldier in each city and village, he must refuse to carry it out.

Although he snatched Fan Yong's military power nakedly, Fan Yong would not be angry, what is the use of having such military power at this time? It's hotter than a freshly baked potato!

He also said: "Di Qing, you are also mentally prepared, in case most of the enemy is killed in the rear, lead the cavalry to kill this group of enemy invaders, cover the foot soldiers to cross the river, and then slowly retreat in the rear." ”

Thirty or forty thousand enemies are coming, and they can't move a rescue soldier if they want to, Zheng Lang won't be stupid to die here, Zheng Lang is not afraid of death, and there are thousands of soldiers' lives.

The last command was whispered.

The soldiers can't be let know, otherwise the soldiers won't have the courage to break the boat.

"Whoa." Di Qing replied loudly.

In a short period of time, Zheng Lang ordered several orders, there are masters and times, there are offenses and defenses, Di Qing admires it again, at least this lord is not like other ministers, he doesn't understand fart.

Di Qing turned around and quickly gave orders to several soldiers, each holding Zheng Lang's warrant to retreat from the rear, and give orders to go from the east and west.

Then Yang Wenguang ordered some of the soldiers to push the baggage cart to the front and connect it with ropes.

It's a little bit of a defense.

Zheng Lang suddenly thought of Liu Yu's moon array in the back.

With his erudition, he must make comparisons.

Suddenly I understood why the Moon Array had only been used once in history.

Liu Yu had a powerful scout in his hands, and he could know in advance the time when the Wei soldiers would arrive, and this time would allow him to be fully prepared. The Song soldiers are difficult to have, and even if there are scouts, they are not as smart and capable as the scouts under Liu Yu, unless the later Yuanmeng army.

Second, there is a river behind it, and there are boats on the river, and it is still under the full control of your own army, otherwise it will become very dangerous to attack by land and water.

The third is that it just came out, and the Wei soldiers didn't know how powerful it was, and they imagined attacking like before. After the defeat, it can no longer be used, seeing this array, I ignore you, are you here for ten days and ten nights?

After thinking about it for a while, seeing that the enemy still didn't move, Zheng Lang finally had a happy look on his face. This proves that the enemy has no rear army and lacks confidence, otherwise he would have rushed over with a few hundred steps in front of him.

Yeli Wangrong is also happy in his heart, the Song army is defending, and their confidence is also insufficient.

This time, however, his scouts returned late.

It was relatively easy to start captive the people and ask about them, but until now, many people have fled to the deep mountains and old forests again, and after looking for a long time, they brought back three local Qiang people.

Yeli Wangrong didn't know that this gave the Song army more time, but it couldn't be delayed any longer, so he asked, and it was still the same answer, so he launched an attack.

Instead of attacking from the front of the chariot formation, he led the army around to the western flank.

Thousands of troops pounced in a triangular spire.

Very Lao Zhu's arrangement, at this time, the Song army was surrounded by archers, and many soldiers would be killed by bows and arrows.

Yang Wenguang waved the command flag, and the foot soldiers started from the direction pointed by the Western Xia arrow, and retreated to both sides, forming a huge inverted V shape for a while.

It's not a township soldier, the township soldiers are strong in combat, but they can't be trained as much as the regular Song army, if the township soldiers are here, they can't do it.

The inverted V shape gradually took shape, the arrow pounced in, but it would not pierce into the blank space, the Western Xia soldiers were not so stupid, they rode their horses and rushed to the rear of the inverted V, shooting the enemy first and shooting the horse first, capturing the thief and capturing the king first, pointing at Zheng Lang.

Yang Wenguang shouted: "Release!" ”

Mass of arrows flew out, and dozens of Western Xia soldiers immediately fell from their horses.

But the Western Xia army also pounced in front of the archers, Yang Wenguang waved the command flag again, the archers retreated, and the pikemen stepped forward and stabbed the horse's belly with their guns.

The enemy did not pounce on the chariot formation, but the chariot formation played a part of the role, and because the front was blocked by the chariot formation, Yeri Wangei could only attack from the flank, and the flank was narrow, and he could not give full play to the advantages of the cavalry.

Zheng Lang didn't blink his eyes and looked at the battlefield.

The two armies fought together.

Seeing more Western Xia troops rushing into the army, Di Qing shouted, "Kill." ”

With more than 300 horsemen, bravely killed from behind, these more than 300 horsemen are not Yang Wenguang's subordinates, of which more than 200 horsemen are all carefully selected by Di Qing from the security army, and nearly 100 horsemen are selected from the desertion army and the capital army, and they are the strongest soldiers among the nearly 1,000 cavalry.

Di Qing took the lead and rushed into the enemy army like a wolf and a tiger, cutting off the Western Xia army at once. Di Qing was in front, and a spear continuously overturned several Western Xia soldiers. Zheng Lang heard the Xixia people shouting, he had not been in the northwest for a long time, and most of the party language could not be understood, but he understood one sentence, the devil general.

In the first battle of the security army, Di Qing had already become famous, and when he saw this bronze mask general killed, some Western Xia soldiers were already cold.

But what surprised Zheng Lang was that Yang Wenguang's wife, Mu Rongshi, was holding a nine-ring big knife in her hand, not a Mo knife from the Tang Dynasty, this thing craftsmanship had long been lost, and even if there were, most of them did not have a few Song military envoys. But the big knife was very large, like a big door.

It seemed that he deliberately turned his head and glanced at Zheng Lang, Zheng Lang didn't know what she thought, Mu Rongshi was saying in his heart, didn't he say manly, let you see how powerful my little lady is today.

With a knife, a Western Xia soldier was cut off from the neck, a human head flew far away, and the war horse rushed forward several steps before blood spurted out from the broken neck.

Zheng Lang almost threw up.

The body shook a few times, and forcibly held back.

Di Qing continued to kill, but he didn't know how to pick out a few enemies, and finally chiseled through the Western Xia army.

Yeli Wangrong watched the battle situation outside, a little anxious, and used his horn to command the cavalry that fell into the Song Dynasty's infantry army to kill back, and attacked Di Qing's cavalry army on both sides.

Di Qing saw the enemy kill back, twisted the horse's head again, and killed back, and the cavalry that rushed into the Song army's formation fell into the sea of the Song army again. Yang Wenguang also gave an order, and some archers responded by placing arrows from both sides.

The Western Xia army was cut off, their true surnames were revealed, people's hearts were shaken, and some soldiers wanted to retreat. Almost at the same time, Yang Wenguang and Di Qing shouted: "Rush! ”

With the retreating Western Xia army, Juan rushed out towards the main force of Western Xia.

"Withdraw!" Yeli Wangrong saw that it was not good and shouted.

Di Yang and the others only chased six or seven hundred steps and came back, they didn't chase far, and they continued to stalemate, the longer the time, the more beneficial it was to the Song army.

At the end of the first battle, each side lost hundreds of soldiers. But what made Yeli Wangrong most depressed was that he lost more than a hundred war horses, and the Song army did not ride many horses, but this was in the northwest, although there were not many horses, they were also common, and some soldiers usually borrowed the war horses of their comrades to ride, and there were better riding skills, but they suffered from the lack of war horses and had to continue to be a foot army.

Let Yang Wenguang pick and choose, and select a hundred or more soldiers to take over the war horses, which not only made up for the loss of the cavalry just now, but also slightly increased the number of cavalry. I didn't expect the enemy to kill, and the weapons were not enough, although most of the weapons of the Tangut people were not as good as the Song army, but the production was also quite sophisticated, especially the Xixia sword, and the Wa sword, which has always been regarded as a treasure by the Song Dynasty. The weapons were removed, and even the good armor was replaced, and some of the Song soldiers were pitiful, and due to the greed of their superiors, they were wearing paper armor.

But he didn't relax, and Noli Wangrong was unwilling to fail like this, and still stood in the distance, and began to order the soldiers to have lunch hastily.

Zheng Lang said: "Eat." ”

It was too late to make a fire to make food, and like the Tangut people, they ate dry food.

Forcibly holding back the smell of blood on the battlefield, he and Wen Yanbo came to Di Qing and Yang Wenguang and said, "General Di, Yang commands, there is only this one of the enemies." ”

Until now, the enemy's rear army has not yet arrived, and there will probably be no rear army. Moreover, scouts were sent to check in front, but the scouts did not come back, there were only two possibilities, there was a rear army, the scout was killed by the enemy, and there was no rear army, and the scouts expanded the scope of reconnaissance.

However, there has been no movement in the rear until now, only the latter.

Wen Yanbo stroked his chest after hearing this, he came to the northwest and knew that there would be danger, but he didn't expect the danger to come so soon. Fortunately, Zheng Lang is not Fan Yong, he will not command indiscriminately, these two little generals seem to be good, regardless of the credit, let's beat this enemy away first.

Zheng Lang chewed the dry food, the food was tasteless, there were many dead bodies on the ground, and he didn't have that appetite, so he stared at the enemy again and saw a general in the middle of the lecture. He didn't know that it was Yeli Wangrong himself who came, otherwise he would have thought about it.

Turning his head to Di Qing, he said: "You fought with the Tanguts in front of the security army, compare, the two Tangut troops, which one is strong?" ”

"This one." Di Qing chewed a mouthful of dry food and said, "Actually, no matter which one, the Western Xia army is not strong, but they have many horses. ”

Zheng Lang was silent.

Di Qing also has a sentence to say, the physical strength is still strong in the Qiangzi, if the Western Xia army is well-trained, it will be very terrifying, such as some of the Fan soldiers in the Song army, the combat effectiveness is several times better than the forbidden soldiers of the Song Dynasty. The Song army is strong in the border army, and the forbidden army in the capital is like that.

But his position did not dare to say this.

The two sides had lunch, and Nori Wangei attacked again.

After a fierce battle for most of the hour, it was repulsed.

The cards on the table, Song Jun are getting fewer and fewer. So Yeli Wangrong issued an order, asking his subordinates to cut wood from the mountain, and made a simple crash wood, it was not possible to attack the city wall, but it was relatively easy to damage this small car formation.

As long as the car formation is damaged, your army can attack from several places. Once the defeat of the Song army appears, it will also win a big victory. The harvest is not in the time of battle, but in the moment when the victory and defeat appear.

The Song army had few horses and had no advantage in speed, so they had to watch them cut wood in the distance.

The wood was dragged in, and Yeli Wangrong said: "After a while, the car formation will collapse, and concentrate on rushing towards the man in white, as long as this person is taken down, this battle will be won." ”

All the Western Xia warriors turned their heads to look at Zheng Lang together.

Zheng Lang was also talking about Yeli Wangrong, he didn't know the identity of Yeli Wangrong, but he knew that he was the leader, and said: "You have a good look, if that person is caught, the official will be rewarded with a thousand yuan." ”

As for the bumping wood, let's hit it slowly, and the longer the time drags on, the better.

A group of horses flashed out from the rear, and one of the scouts sent out to investigate returned, panting and reporting: "The reassurance envoy has checked all the roads thirty miles ahead, and has not seen any rear army of the enemy. ”

"Got it."

I can't believe it all, there are many mountains and forests in the northwest, and the ambush is good, and it is not easy to find out if a few scouts are dispatched. But he only has two or three thousand troops in his hands, and it is worth such a careful ambush and an ambush battle to lure the enemy into depth?

The enemy rushed with a log in tow.

Yang Wenguang ordered the archers to release their arrows.

The Tangut people also released arrows, but compared with the two, only in terms of bows and arrows, the Tangut people were far inferior to the Song soldiers, and the Song Dynasty also had some strong crossbows, which were more lethal.

However, both sides were protected by shields, but a group of people fell one after another, hit the wood closer, and began to slam into the car formation.

Some Western Xia warriors were bold, and with the help of shields, they rushed forward and cut the rope.

Yang Wenguang frowned and said: "The combat power of this group of party members cannot be underestimated. ”

Zheng Lang smiled and said, "No, I'm afraid that the party members are dispatched this time." ”

All the Western Xia soldiers have such a performance, can they still let Liu Ping hold on to Sanchuankou for so many days? However, the Tangut people are also gradually growing, and the further they go, the more dazzling their performance becomes. Therefore, it is necessary to create a serious crisis for the Tangut people in these few years, otherwise in a few decades, no matter how strong the Song Dynasty is, it will not be able to extinguish this ambitious country.

After an hour, the sun was already in the west, and the car formation finally hit a dozen gaps.

At this time, there was serious attrition on both sides.

Zheng Lang asked the soldiers to transfer the wounded to the rear for treatment, listening to the howl of the wounded, Zheng Lang sighed, this is war, bloody and terrifying.

But it has to be fought.

Otherwise, it will hurt the people even more.

While he was thinking about it, Noli Wangrong sounded the horn of attack.

The Tanguts rushed up from all directions.

Yang Wenguang shouted: "Form a phalanx." ”

Although it was Yang Wenguang's first battle, his performance was very eye-catching.

The most surprising thing was his wife, who fought fiercely twice before and after, and killed five Western Xia warriors.

Zheng Lang said in his heart, could it be that this is how Mu Guiying's legend came from?

The fierce battle continued, this time even more intense, the armies of the two sides were almost wrapped together, and from time to time there were the screams of soldiers and the neighing of war horses.

The number of attritions is about the same.

This is still the Western Xia army's march in the middle of the night, which hurts the physical strength, otherwise the Western Xia army has the advantage of war horses, and the Song army has greater casualties.

However, the discipline and strong organization of the Song army also redeemed the disadvantages of the horse.

However, gradually the situation was not good, and the Xixia people rushed towards Zheng Lang's location. Wen Yanbo came over and persuaded: "Governor Zheng, retreat." ”

He is kind-hearted, and you are standing here as a living target, and all of them rush towards you, which seems to have become a burden.

Who knows that Zheng Lang said with a deep face: "Kuanfu, Hugh has to say this." ”

Standing here by yourself seems to be a living target, but what a boost to morale. As long as they retreat, the three armies will immediately seize the air. How to fight this battle.

Wen Yanbo couldn't persuade again, and said: "Let that ambush come out." ”

"It's not time to come," Zheng Lang said, staring at the battlefield.

The two armies continued to fight in a bloody battle.

Zheng Lang suddenly shouted: "This is how you washed away your shame in front of your sacrificed comrades? ”

This shout was loud, many Song soldiers heard it, and some soldiers rolled with blood, screaming, and exerted their strength to eat milk, and the Song army, which was originally slightly unfavorable, once again formed a stalemate with the Western Xia army.

Yeli Wangrong also made the Song army cold, if it weren't for the fact that the Song army was getting fewer and fewer, he would have been able to order a retreat.

The sun is setting in the west.

Zheng Lang silently calculated the time in his heart, since he sent the second batch of scouts, it has been more than three hours now, even if it is delayed, with the speed of the cavalry, it is almost to reach Qiaozi Valley.

It happened that the morale was strong, and the Western Xia people were cold, so Zheng Lang waved the banner of the Chinese army, which was an order for Su Keqing to bring out the more than 600 cavalry.

Yeli Wangrong was also watching the battlefield, and although it was a stalemate again, the situation was still very favorable to him. The morale of the Song army was temporarily boosted, but it would not last. If this anger continues, the defeat of the Song army will come. I saw Zheng Lang dancing the flag, and I was thinking, what does it mean?

Then many cavalrymen were seen killed from the flanks.

Yeli Wangrong screamed badly, and immediately said, "Withdraw." ”

Zheng Lang shouted: "Rush." ”

The defeat was like a mountain, and the Western Xia people saw that there were many Song Dynasty troops killed, or cavalry, and one by one they were blinded, and they fled with their horses.

This time it was not so easy to escape, and he fled for three or four miles, leaving the Song Dynasty infantry behind. But there were still many Song Dynasty cavalry soldiers who were reluctant to follow and slash in the back. Especially that devil bronze mask general, invincible.

In fact, at this time, there were more than 2,000 cavalry troops in Western Xia, and they had an advantage in numbers. However, the physical strength was seriously consumed, and the Western Xia army was originally lacking in combat effectiveness, and it was taken away again. Regardless of how many Song troops there were behind, he listened to the screams of his comrades behind him, and ran away.

Yang Wenguang continued with a thousand soldiers, but he didn't run, and he couldn't run the war horse, which was to clean up the battlefield and capture the captured war horse.

Zheng Lang and Wen Yanbo all stood still, and suddenly Zheng Lang fell to the ground and vomited.

Wen Yanbo asked nervously, "Governor Zheng, what's wrong?" ”

"I wanted to vomit for a long time, and I stepped on another corpse," Zheng Lang said, leaving the corpse of the Western Xia soldier.

Some of the soldiers laughed, it turned out that this champion was also afraid to see such a bloody scene.

But Zheng Lang turned his head and said, "We won." ”

Hearing Zheng Lang's words, the hundreds of soldiers left in the field all cheered, and some soldiers burst into tears.