Almost the whole city of soldiers and civilians poured in to welcome them.

But someone asked puzzledly, Xinjunma, why did you come to Fuzhou alone.

Someone asked again, how did you come to Fuzhou from Yanzhou alone?

It seems that there are such brave people on Linfu Road, but you are definitely not a civil official.

How did Zhang Kang answer?

Tell the truth, and the people of the city will despair. So he replied that this was a major matter for military aircraft.

Ambiguous, the common people really believe it.

The people's hearts are all stable, Zhang Kang takes over the handover matters, and there are no accounts to check, the seal letter will be handed over, Kang Deyu, you can do whatever you want, just don't get in the way in Fuzhou.

Then ask about the situation of the battle in the past two months.

You have to have an understanding in your heart.

Others didn't know, but Zhang Kang knew that it was probably impossible to expect Yanjun Road to send out rescuers. I didn't know what was going on on the east side of the river, but not a single reinforcement arrived. About the same troubles.

He didn't know what was going on.

Zheng Lang knew, but there was one thing, after something happened, Zheng Lang slowly figured it out.

Yang Kai loves the people and trains the army in Taiyuan, and the ministers of the court really count on him. Without this person stopping in Taiyuan City, maybe Zhao Zhen would have issued an order to continue to draw some troops from the capital and go to Fulin Road to help. Unless Zhao Zhen doesn't want it here.

It was not a day or two, but more than ten days Gao Jixuan brought the infantry of the capital to the outside of Linzhou, and the war lasted for four months, why didn't the capital send troops over? Could it be that Zhao Zhen didn't save it? If you don't save it, why let Taiyuan send tens of thousands of troops, and let Yanjun also draw out 10,000 troops to send food and materials from Hedong to Fulin Road?

Yang Kai is stuck in Taiyuan!

What a great gentleman.

But it is this gentleman who has created one legend after another.

Zhang Kang really didn't know the inside story, but he thought in his heart that it was estimated that the imperial court would not come to reinforce the troops, and everything would have to rely on himself.

listened carefully to what had happened in the past two months, and then looked at Wang Yuan.

Kant controlled his subordinates and did not allow them to participate in the battle, and all the ten people sent by Zheng Lang participated in the battle. He Yan returned to Jingyuan, and returned to Fulin with more comrades-in-arms. But it's not there yet.

Sun Xiaoyi and Yang Guangzu all died honorably in Fengzhou.

In fact, in the hurry of the city, there were only about 1,000 troops, which could not withstand the siege of Yuan Hao's 100,000 people.

It's a pity that both of them died in battle, and then Yuan Hao slaughtered the city and destroyed the city, and the records made disappeared in a fire. The truth is no longer known.

There is also Liu Zhen in Linzhou who is making records.

Fuzhou City had the largest number of people left, including as many as five people from Wang Yuan.

Only Wang Yuan, Hou Baode, and Wang Shougui remained, and the other two comrades-in-arms were also killed in battle.

There were too many people who died, and Zhang Kang didn't care how many of the ten people survived. But he asked suspiciously: "Your husband asked you to keep a record?" ”

"Yes, but Zhang Junma, our Xianggong has no ill will towards Fuzhou, and he usually talks about it occasionally, saying that the Zhejia Army is the strongest iron gate in the northwest corner of our Great Song Dynasty." Wang Yuan didn't know why Zheng Lang had to let them keep a record.

When it came to this, except for Kang Deyu, a few military attachés of the imperial court, who were forbidden to participate in the war, every soldier behaved very bravely. Why record?

Zhi Jimin's face was not very good.

The name is to keep notes, but it feels like an overseer. If it weren't for the fact that these people were very brave and took the initiative to participate in the defensive battle of defending the city, I am afraid that these three people would become the most unpopular people in Fuzhou at this time, except for Kang Deyu.

Zhang Kang's eyes lit up, and he said to Zhi Jimin: "General Zhe, there is help." ”

"What's the rescue?"

"Why did Zheng Xiaoxianggong want to record?"

"I don't know," Zhijimin said in a humming voice.

"Since Zheng Xiaoxianggong admires your family army, he will not disbelieve you, not to record, but to expect that you will make meritorious contributions, and I am afraid that you will ......" pointed to the sky: "Someone will hide merit." ”

"I see."

"That's not the case, think about it again, since Zheng Xiaoxianggong is ready to record your exploits truthfully. The spies he sent returned to Jingyuan. At this time, Yuan Hao's hundreds of thousands of troops flocked to Fulin Road, and Jing was in the southwest direction of the thieves, how far was it from here? ”

Riding a horse is actually very fast, inserting it from the Yinchuan Plain, and it takes six or seven days to arrive day and night. But this is a large army, weapons, food and grass, baggage, at least a little necessary. It's not a few thousand people, but there are some supplies available everywhere. Tens of thousands of people, if there is no adequate supply, what will they eat on this road? It is the cavalry, and when they get the news, it will take at least ten days to return to the front line of Weizhou in Tiandu Mountain.

Zhang Kang said again: "There are tens of thousands of elite soldiers in Jingyuan Road......

Zhi Jimin suddenly let out a long breath, feeling much more relaxed.

Zhang Kang said again: "Don't worry, I don't know how Zheng Xiaoxianggong arranged it, this matter can't be leaked to the outside for the time being." ”

"Zhang Junma, don't worry."

Wang Yuan also remembered and said: "Zhang Junma, General Zhe, when his subordinates came, our Xianggong summoned the Zhijun and Di Zhijun, Zhang Zhizhou and General Zhao to discuss together. ”

"That's right." Zhang Kang rubbed his hands excitedly.

When I came, my eyes were blank.

The army of more than 100,000 in Western Xia made a few fierce people in the Song Dynasty estimated that about 30,000 people were ruined. I'm afraid that the number of troops is still close to about 100,000, and he doesn't know how to fight.

Then looked at Zhang Qi, three fierce men, Wang Kai and Wang Ji were soldiers of Linzhou, and entered Linzhou with supplies.

It's not easy, with the victory of Tumaochuan, the enemy army is afraid, and it just so happens that Linzhou City has pulled out a gap, so it enters the city.

Although Fuzhou is more than 20 miles away, the situation is a little better, and the number of materials required is also less. If it weren't for this victory in exempting Maochuan, the supplies would have been taken outside the city, and even the city would not have been able to enter.

Zhang Kang's eyes were like looking at a lover.

Emotional.

At present, in addition to goods like Kang Deyu, I am also happy to have such a brave general.

There are also two bloody holes in the cheeks, which are beginning to scarre, and they still look a little ugly. After a few words of praise, Zhang Kang sat down and pondered.

Soon a piece of news made him wonder whether he was happy or worried.

When He Yan arrived in Lanzhou, he was only separated by the Yellow River, but what happened to the west was like another world. So he personally led several people, dived across the Yellow River, and came to Fuzhou. See Zhe Jimin and Zhang Kang, ask about the situation, and take it back to Jingyuan Road.

He Yan didn't know what Zheng Lang had planned.

But Zhang Kang was able to ask, asking what Zheng Lang was doing. Build a thin waist city, train the army, and Tuntian.

It sounded to other people's ears, as if Zheng Lang was preparing for defense. The slender waist city was to deal with the Sanqiang tribe that exterminated Tibet, the tuntian was to provide food for the coming year, and the army was trained to prevent the invasion of the Western Xia. But Zhang Kang asked again and felt that something was wrong. It's not right to send so many scouts to Fulin Road. Zhang Kang said: "You go back and tell your father-in-law, one and a half months." ”

He Yan had already returned to Weizhou, and the news that Yuan Hao personally led more than 100,000 Western Xia troops to Linfu Road also brought back to Jingyuan.

If Zheng Lang wanted to solve the crisis on Linfu Road, he would have taken action at that time, and there was no need to send another fifty scouts to Fulin to inquire about the news again.

You can't even pretend to be stupid.

I sent a scout over, and I already knew the news, and it was a dereliction of duty to pretend to be stupid.

What does this prove?

Zheng Lang wants to use the Linfu Road to drag the Western Xia army here, and use the men and horses of the Linfu Road to consume the Western Xia army, he will not only send troops there, but I am afraid that there will be a large-scale operation.

So let's say a month and a half.

You are the prime minister, with Tian Ji horse racing tactics, I can only force it hard, cooperate with you, but the Linfu Road is too tight, at most a month and a half. No matter what action you take, it must be launched within a month and a half, otherwise it will be your duty to lose the two cities.

In less than a month and a half, there are still more than ten days, Zheng Lang will be launched.

Seeing He Yan away, Zhang Kang sat down and pondered.

Don't think that this month and a half is very easy to keep, although Fuzhou and Linzhou are strong, they are built against the backs, and the first thing they lack is water.

The second is food, Linzhou City put a large number of people who took refuge, Kang Deyu did not let the people into the city in Fuzhou, although many people were forced to surrender or be killed, but it relieved the pressure on some of the Fuzhou City.

But later, due to public opinion, Yuan Hao attacked Fengzhou for four days, and released a large number of people.

The timing of Yuan Hao's attack was also very clever, it was before the autumn harvest that the army entered Fulin Road, and the imperial court was under heavy financial pressure, and it was impossible for the imperial court to support the materials to come to Fuzhou in the autumn.

There was nothing to eat in the two cities, but Yuan Hao calmly harvested the crops outside the city when they were ripe and stored them in the glazed castle. In order to flee for their lives, the common people did not care about their family property, and one fled to Hedong, or two state cities, and the cattle, horses and sheep they raised were obtained by Yuan Hao and placed in Liulibao.

If you want to hold on for a month and a half, you first have to solve the problem of eating and drinking.

So he took a detachment of men and horses out to look at it, and then came back and gave the order, and let the people go out, and cut wood and carry water.

The people fled in a hurry, lacking food and clothing, winter was coming, there was no firewood, do not fight, not only the people, but even the soldiers could be frozen to death.

However, when Western Xia saw that some people came out to chop wood and carry water, they sent troops to plunder money outside the city.

Zhang Kang led the army out, and under the defeat, the Western Xia people did not dare to meet the battle head-on, so they withdrew, and the Song army entered the city and came to plunder again.

But this time, the Tanguts hit a much larger iron plate.

In terms of bravery, among the generals in the west, Zhang Qi has the strongest combat effectiveness, the small soldier Wang Ji is also good, and the sacrificed Guo Zun and others are second, Di Qing is equivalent to Wang Ji, slightly inferior to Zhang Qi.

But when Zheng Lang came to choose, Zheng Lang still chose Di Qing, the reason is very simple, although the brave Di Qing is not as good as Zhang Qi, Zhang Qi and Wang Ji are generals, and Di Qing is handsome.

Is it important to be handsome or to be a general?

Zhang Kang is also handsome.

After thinking about it, I came up with a way, there was a carboniferous cave in Jiaoshan in the east of Fuzhou City, and a Dongsheng Fort was built, there was a vegetable garden in the lower city, a golden castle was built, and there was a water spring in the sand pit in the north of the city, and a stable fort was built.

Not only did the three forts and Fuzhou City correspond to each other, Dongsheng Fort also supplied some charcoal coal, Golden Castle supplied some vegetables, and Andingbao supplied water. At least the problems of water and heating are all solved.

And the terrain of these three forts is treacherous, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Otherwise, Zhang Kang would not have set up three forts here, wouldn't it be very simple to use water, there is a moat in front of the city gate, where can you build a fort for defense? The fort can only be built in the sandpit in the north of the city with the help of the terrain, and the enemy cannot attack unless the fort is broken.

Moreover, Yuan Hao's department eats a lot of meat, and the vegetables in the vegetable garden in Xiacheng did not let them spoil it. No one managed it for months, but some vegetables were barely edible.

Yuan Hao saw that Fuzhou was not besieged to death, on the contrary, the material resources outside the city were continuously transported into the city, and he was furious, and sent Rongzhou Assassin Shi Yebu to move to defend the Gui and lead the troops to attack, and transferred the three forts.

It seems easy, it is called Three Forts, what kind of forts can be built in just a few days?

In fact, it was a pile of trees cut down from the mountain and made a wooden fence, which had limited defense capabilities.

Not only the three forts, but also the two forts repaired by Yuan Hao are also very crude because of the relationship of time. Liulibao was built on a slight scale because it stored the materials captured by Yuan Hao, which were also relied on to support the Western Xia army in fighting a protracted war. As for the Jianning Village, it is a low wall half a person high that is built with mud. The defense was poor.

However, Yuan Hao didn't expect that the Song army could defeat his own army in the wild, and win one battle at a time, and after several times, they all won more with less.

Especially the battle of Tumaochuan, which made him feel a little panicked.

In the battle of Sansongling, it can be said that the Song army used the mountains to promote its strengths, avoid its shortcomings, and win by luck.

But the Rabbit Hair River is a real plain area!

Jebu moved to Gui and led his army to the Three Forts, and let the warriors dismount and attack.

There was a rain of arrows, and he finally came to the bottom of the fort fence, and through the cracks in the fence stretched out many spears, and stabbed down some warriors.

After a moment of fierce fighting, morale weakened, and suddenly a horn sounded in the fort, and the gate of the fort, the Song army actually took the initiative to kill from the inside.

Unlike before, at this time, the Song army won successive victories, and Zhang Kang's arrival boosted morale. They can win on horseback, and the Tanguts got off their horses.

After only a while, the killing retreated.

Jebu had no choice but to move to Gui, and set up a large camp in order to achieve long-term success.

Zhang Kang was also in the city paying attention to the battle situation.

He should be much more settled at this time than he was in history.

In history, Zhang Kang was really helpless inside and outside, and he was commanding the battle with the courage in his heart.

But if you want to drag down the Western Xia army for a month and a half, you must make good use of every ounce of strength in your hands.

Until now, the Zhejia army has suffered heavy losses, and the only one that has not been lost is the forbidden soldiers under Kang Deyu.

So I thought of a way, the people in the city formed a group of soldiers, and said to them, you go out of the city, you are all familiar with the land outside the city, no matter what method you use, dig traps, lay traps, smash black bricks, and release cold arrows, all I want is the head of the Tangut people.

As a result, the official and private paths outside the city, the grassy mountains and forests, and the Pingchuan River valley became the cemetery of Jebu's guards. You can't leave the barracks, as long as you leave the barracks, even if you release your hand, maybe your eyes will be dark, your soul will return to your hometown, and your head will be gone. Then their heads were carried by the border people, and they went to Zhang Kang to receive merit and ask for rewards.

Zhang Kang did what he said, not only giving money, but also rewarding the only brocade robe on his body to one of the fiercest warriors. He also connived at border citizens to drink and gamble with the money.

The forbidden soldiers' eyes were red, these rewards should have been awarded to them, but now they are more uncomfortable than killing them when they see being taken away by a group of dirt buns to enjoy and show off their might in front of them.

Looking for Zhang Kang, Zhang Kang said: "Until now, many people have made great military achievements, what about your military achievements?" ”

"Kang Junma won't let us fight."

"Hmph," Zhang Kang sneered.

It's not time yet, I haven't said.

…… has put Yuan Hao in a dilemma.

It's not going to go, it's not going to go.

At this moment, a rebel escaped from Linzhou City and reported a piece of news. It is said that there is a serious shortage of water in Linzhou City, and as long as it is trapped for three days, there will be no water to eat in the city.

Yuan Hao was also sleepy before, but he didn't expect the weather this year.

In normal years, there will be a light rain, and in fact, there have been a few autumn rains some time ago.

However, in October, there was no rain or snow.

From a meteorological point of view, there are two reasons for not falling snow, the first is a warm winter, without the influence of strong cold air, and a warm winter, there will be no snow or little snow. The second is that due to the strong and stable cold air from the north, the warm air from the south cannot go north, so the weather is dry and cold, with little or no snow.

Both are deadly weather conditions that can lead to drought and locust plagues in the coming year. The latter would also severely reduce winter crop yields.

Therefore, when it does not rain in winter, the emperor takes his ministers to worship the sky and pray for snow.

Yuan Hao is not a traverser, nor is he a god-level commander, so he neglected to have abnormal weather in the north this year.

Although he was trapped in Erzhou City, he was mainly prepared to deal with food, so that the people in the city would starve to death, or be dizzy with hunger, and that would be when he really attacked the city.

Otherwise, the siege losses are too heavy.

It is also necessary to prevent the arrival of reinforcements from the Song Dynasty, and it is his favorite to encircle and send reinforcements.

But since Gao Jixuan brought thousands of infantry over, none of the Song Dynasty's reinforcements arrived at Fulin Road.

This abnormal situation made Yuan Hao not figure it out.

So this siege was relatively evacuated at first.

It wasn't until this rebel reminded him that Yuan Hao officially besieged Linzhou City.

In the past, you could secretly bring some water into the city, or two autumn rains fell in the sky. After being besieged this time, Linzhou City could no longer get a tael of water. Later, it developed to a glass of gold for one or two for water.

After besieging Linzhou City, Yuan Hao looked south.

Three days is impossible, and it takes at least half a month or a month to see the effect.

If you take Linzhou City, Fuzhou is surrounded by the Yellow River to the east, Linzhou to the south, and Khitan to the north, which is equivalent to directly cutting off all the retreats of Fuzhou and becoming a lonely city in Hexi, which will not last. Then at the end of the year, it is possible that Fulin Road will be taken in its entirety.

Once the Fulin Road was captured, with the slowness of the Song Dynasty army, from Jingyuan to Hedong, even if the Khitan did not respond, he could drag the Song army to death.

Then I looked south.

Shaanxi Third Road has been very calm.

The little prime minister in the south was building the city and Tuntian, Fan Zhongyan was also building the city and Tuntian, and Pang Ji was also recruiting people, cultivating on the spot for military rations, and using the village as a base to move the village forward step by step.

This Li Yuanhao is not afraid, and wants to use the method of moving the village to coerce himself, how many troops does the Song Dynasty need, how many finances?

Sure enough, it's a group of civil officials!

But for some reason, he always felt a little uneasy in his heart.

Shaking his head, he gave another order to Yebu to move to defend Gui, you set up three villages outside the glazed fort, divide the troops to defend it, whether the city of Fuzhou can be captured or not, don't care about it first, give me the glazed fort first.

He brought the main army to the city of Linzhou, and the strength of Liulibao was empty, but if he wanted to fight a protracted war, the materials captured by Liulibao were particularly important.

…… Scout Reports.

Zhang Kang knew that the time had finally come.

If you want to remove the threat of Fulin Road, you must remove the glazed fort.

Just as the forbidden army came to make trouble again, Zhang Kang said: "Do you want to fight, do you want to be happy?" Okay, just get rid of the glazed castle with me. ”

The forbidden soldiers are called.

It seems to be another mythical story.

Liulibao concentrated almost all of Yuan Hao's materials, although it was not as strong as Fuzhou City, it also built a city wall more than one person high, and heavy soldiers were stationed in it. With the current strength of Fuzhou, forcibly transfer to Liulibao?

Zhang Kang didn't seem to think about it, and sent a scout to sneak in front of the glazed castle to investigate.

The scout was also bold, and crawled silently through the grass, and actually lurked under the wall, and through the cracks in some of the fences, he could not only see inside, but also hear the conversation of the enemy.

A large number of Western Xia soldiers were roasting around the bonfire, and a veteran soldier threw a piece of sheep's hip bone into the fire, allowing the flame to crack naturally, and then observing the direction and color of the cracks, similar to the ancient Chinese form of tortoiseshell divination.

It's hard to say whether it's accurate or not, but that night it was really godly, and the veteran watched it carefully and said, "It's not good, tomorrow morning the Han people will come to Liulibao to attack suddenly, and we have to dodge." ”

A soldier grinned and said: "The Han people don't dare to show their heads, and they suddenly attack, jokes." ”

The scout immediately went back to report it.

Zhang Kang was not only listening, but also thinking, thinking about it, the scout actually lurked under their noses, heard their conversation, and no one noticed, which shows the lax degree of defense of Liulibao.

So what are you waiting for? The Western Xia veteran said that if I attack tomorrow morning, I will attack at dawn tomorrow.

Looking at the sky, the third watch had not yet arrived, so he gathered the army and marched all the way.

After running for dozens of miles, the huge figure of Liulibao appeared in front of him.

It was dawn, the darkest time of the day, when the north wind blew like a wolf's howl.

The moon is dark and the wind is high, and it is the time to kill.

Zhang Kang waved his hand, and Song Jun stopped. Zhang Kang looked up at the glazed castle, and by the sound of the wind, he could faintly hear the snoring sound coming from the wind. The cold wind was like a knife, and several enemy soldiers on duty gathered around the campfire, hugged each other for warmth, their heads hung down, and they probably fell asleep. Zhang Kang snorted: "Kill." ”

The Song army quickly rushed towards Liulibao.

A new legend has once again kicked off gorgeously.