The autumn dew is frost, and the white mist is boundless.

A red glow appeared on the horizon, a large cloud of mist rose from the ground, and billions of trillions of dew turned into stars as crystal clear.

The morning scenery on both sides of Weishui is extremely beautiful, and the distant mountains are hidden in the mist, as if it is a fairyland.

Liang Yibury turned his head to look at the dilapidated ancient Wei city wall, and his eyes flashed with unwillingness.

Liang Yongneng is unwilling, and he is even more unwilling. But Liang Yibury did not realize that it would fail, unlike the battle of Huluchuan, the north of Guweicheng belonged to the Western Xia sphere of influence, and Huluchuan was the Song realm, which at least allowed the Song Dynasty to operate for several decades, and there was a certain mass base in the Western Envoy City of Xixia. The battle of Huluchuan was an absolute strong wall, so as soon as the grain and grass were burned, coupled with the cold weather, the three armies were angry. In the Western Envoy City, the Song people burned the grain and grass in the Western Envoy City, and there was still some grain and grass in the battalions, and the people in the suburbs could also provide some logistics, which could at least meet the needs of hundreds of thousands of troops to survive for a month.

A month is enough.

Even now, Liang Yibury was still unwilling and did not capture Guwei City, but the idea in his heart was to hold the West Envoy City and counterattack the Shrine Valley Lanzhou.

It's not strange for him to have this idea, there are many Song troops stationed in the Lanzhou area of the Niche Valley, but he has more troops in his hands, there are still nearly 100,000 soldiers, not only the troops in his hands, but the rear of the Niche Valley is the territory of Western Xia, and the Empress Dowager Liang is already collecting troops and preparing to attack the Niche Valley on both sides.

The difficulty is the army on his nephew's side.

Therefore, he sent people to the north of Xizhou City yesterday to give an order to Liang Yongneng. The Song army did not really seal Liang Yongneng's army, the east valley was sealed, and the west had two passes, Anxiang Pass and Ba Jinbao, which might be able to be taken, but there was a Song Dynasty chasing army behind, which was looking for death. But there is another road, crossing the Yellow River, from the mountain road north of Fenglin Guguan to the bank of the Yellow River in the southwest of Lanzhou. The second crossing of the Yellow River, where is there a small road, now the Song Dynasty has not been fully controlled, that is, it is controlled, Liang Yongneng still has tens of thousands of troops in his hands, can be stormed down, and then arrive at the south side of Jingyu Pass in Lanzhou, three crossings of the Yellow River, that is, the route where the guards of Jingyu Pass escaped, fled to Liangzhou.

Liang Yongneng's sacrifice in this line will be very heavy. But helplessly, separated by thousands of mountains and ravines, the two armies can no longer meet.

In fact, this battle was clearly in vain, and if it could not successfully counterattack, it would be considered a failure.

With this mood, Liang Yibury ordered: "Withdraw!" ”

Tens of thousands of troops exhausted and retreated to the north.

Watching the Xixia people slowly retreat, a cheer sounded over the head of Gu Wei City.

Dou Shunqing said: "Gong Zheng, I finally got through. ”

"Yes, but the sacrifice is too heavy." Zheng Lang sighed.

It turned out that the plan was not like this, when Zheng Lang came to the northwest, he said that the plan was to wait for the plan, and when the Western Xia army had not arrived in July. If the Tibetan Hou Conference is held, then many Tibetan and Qiang tribes will be bought, and more armies will join.

However, Zhang Kai proposed a thoroughbred.

At that time, Zheng Lang was stunned for a moment, thinking that Zhang Ji was referring to the Han people. Guilty of Han nationalism.

Then Zhang Qi said eight words, Zheng Lang will understand, the battle of Chibi. The Battle of the Rivers!

This purebredness has nothing to do with race, but refers to the purebredness of the army.

In the past, China was unified, and the Han and Tang dynasties could not be counted, it was the collapse of the Qin and Sui dynasties, and the separatist forces in various places had not yet penetrated into the hearts of the people. The battle between the Northern Wei Dynasty and Liu Song cannot be counted, it is a stalemate. There are only five reconquest campaigns that can be counted, and the successful examples are the Jin invasion of Wu, the Sui invasion of Southern Chen, and the Song expedition of Southern Tang, and the failed examples are the battles of Chibi and Weishui.

The Jin Dynasty successfully attacked Wu and also borrowed the power of Bashu, but the Jin Dynasty ruled for many years, and the main army came from the north of the Jin Dynasty, so the army composition was relatively clean. The same was true of the Sui Dynasty, not to mention the Song Dynasty, which did not even use the power of Qian Yue.

Negative examples are Cao Cao and Fu Jian. In the battle of Cao Cao's Chibi, the army was mixed, especially the naval army, which was mostly from the newly conquered Jingzhou troops. Fu Jian's army was even more chaotic, so Zhu Xu shouted in the rear, the Qin army had failed, and the entire army had not yet fought, and a big defeat appeared.

Zhang Qi did not evaluate the gains and losses of the previous five wars, but referred to the Fan Hou Plan, once the Fan Hou Plan was implemented, the first one could quickly screen the loyalty of all ethnic groups to the Song Dynasty, especially the current enemy, which could facilitate the identification of support objects in the future. The second role is to get a group of troops.

However, Zhang Kai thought that it was inappropriate, that is, to get some troops, but they could not work together, and the army was mixed, which might affect the combat effectiveness of the entire Song army.

In this regard, Zheng Lang is noncommittal, Zhang Qi's statement may not be right, it has nothing to do with purebred, the key is the ability to integrate, such as the later Taizu, even the Shandong bandits were rapidly reorganized, from the rapid expansion of the army to more than one million, from the world. Putting aside right and wrong, this integration ability definitely surpasses Jiang Zu. The same example is Wanyan Aguta, at the beginning of his army, there were only 3,000 people, but it was these 3,000 people, in a short period of time, who annihilated the Liao State and expanded to the Central Plains. In fact, this is not only the military ability of Wanyan Aguta, but also the terrifying integration ability. In these two cases, it has nothing to do with the purebred of Zhang.

However, Zheng Lang does feel that the enemy is at present, and holding the Fan Hou Conference will bring some uncertainty. Because of the reform, he was criticized by many people as a radical adventure, which is not right, in fact, Zheng Lang is very conservative in his bones.

If he is radical, Zheng Lang doesn't know how much trouble will happen over the years.

The meeting was postponed.

But this delay led to many casualties among the fighters. It can't be said that Zhang Qi is wrong, although there are a large number of casualties among the soldiers, it can guarantee victory, reduce the risk, and also show Hehuang the combat effectiveness of the Song army, which has a deterrent effect. Driven by this general policy, Zheng Lang even changed Wang Shao's plan and directly sent troops to Xige City, instead of borrowing the hand of Xibawen to join forces to defeat Ghost Zhang.

However, Zheng Lang taught by example, conservatives said benevolence, some people are women's benevolence, some people have ulterior motives, Zheng Lang does not know women's benevolence, if you want to pacify the northwest, you must pay a lot of sacrifices, but a large number of casualties, especially more than half of the casualties of the soldiers in Guweicheng, still make him very heartbroken.

The sun rose bright red into the sky, and Liang Yi's nightmare had just begun.

The road from the ancient Weicheng to the West Envoy City is only more than 100 miles, surrounded by reckless mountains and mountains, but it is not only a road, there are many rugged mountain roads to communicate with the outside world.

These trails are not suitable for large armies, but they allow small groups of troops to move. Since the retreat, Song armies have emerged from these mountain passes and have been harassing the Western Xia army incessantly. Once the Western Xia army counterattacked. They quickly retreated to the mountains and forests behind, and the rugged mountain roads were not suitable for large troops to march, but instead became the best natural guarantee for these small groups of Song troops attacking.

This situation is very similar to the original Huluchuan Battle, although it was not as harmful as it was at that time, but it slowed down the pace of the Western Xia army, and it took five days for Liang Yi to bring the army to the Western Envoy City on a road of more than 100 miles.

Although the casualties were not large, they further weakened the morale of the Western Xia soldiers. And this drag, after Zhou Zhang and Yang Sui's army defeated Liang Yongneng. Successfully rendezvous and rushed to Guwei City. Everyone knew that the Xixia people had failed, and the leaders of the various tribes also got some news from Zheng Lang's mouth, and beat the water dogs, not only the tribes in Xizhou were willing, but also the tribes in Guweicheng and Qinzhou. With their support, the Song army grew to nearly 70,000 men.

Zheng Lang personally led the army and slowly came to the city of the Western Envoy. To the north, the friendship is dead and blocks the road in the valley.

This large net was finally tightened, enveloping the Western Xia army in a small area.

From the point of view of the art of war, this practice is very unreasonable. Surround three and leave one, the Song army's approach is easy to make the Xixia people desperate, once the army becomes a mourning army, fleeing for their lives. will burst out with tremendous combat power.

But Zheng Lang did just that.

Because the Western Xia army has a fatal weakness, Zhang Qi said that it is necessary to maintain a pure breed, and the Western Xia army is not pure at all, and this weakness has been magnified from beginning to end.

The two armies confronted each other under the western envoy city. Zheng Lang sent someone to shout, surrender and not kill. The Tangut people are eager to go home, but they also have to go home. In the past, the Song Dynasty's policy of not killing and surrendering prisoners had an effect at this time, and in the encirclement on all sides, because of the shouts of the Song soldiers, the morale was further reduced.

Zheng Lang asked the soldiers to name and let Zang Huama surrender, if he doesn't surrender now, after taking the West Envoy City, Zang Huama will end up like the ghost Zhang family.

Of course, this shout may not work, but it can make Liang Yibury suspicious of Zang Huama.

Liang Yibury saw that the situation was not good, and left a part of his troops to guard the Western Envoy City, and led a large army to kill Rusha Valley. But at this time, many Song troops arrived from the states of Jingyuan Road to the Shrine Valley one after another, and Zhang Ji was able to draw out many troops to defend the line of Rusha Valley. He also built a thick fortification at the mouth of the Rusha Valley in advance, and attacked for three days in a row, but Liang Yi buried it without success. It was only at this time that Western Xia gathered 50,000 troops and rushed to Tiandu Mountain, and it would take at least a few days to reach the Niche Valley.

Under the western envoy city, Zheng Lang gave Zang Huama an ultimatum, and Zang Huama was disheartened when he saw that Liang Yibury could not even break through the defense line of Rusha Valley. Moreover, Gao Yongneng burned the grain and grass in the city, and in order to supplement the supply, Liang Yibury scavenged the grain from the people, and the people under his rule were miserable. Forced on both sides, Zang Hua Maju surrendered.

But he also knows that the treatment of this time is different from that of the other.

Zheng Lang led the army into the city and met with Zang Huama, and did not reprimand, but comforted him with kind words. But this time was not the other time, because of the looting of the Tangut people, a large number of tribal warriors were killed and wounded, and many tribes outside the city surrendered to the Song Dynasty first. Zheng Lang deliberately supported it, and in the future, the Western Envoy City will no longer be the world of Zang Huama. Zang Huama also knows, but what conditions can the defeated army put forward? While he was submissive, a bitter smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Next, Zheng Lang politely made a request, asking Zang Huama to take the initiative to integrate his subordinate army into the Song army, advance north, and engage in a general battle with Liang Yiburi.

In the end, Zheng Lang asked: "Zang Huama, if you feel embarrassed, I won't force it." ”

Zang Huama said bitterly: "Gong Zheng, I agree. ”

Dare to disagree? However, he sacrificed the Western Envoy City and sent troops to attack Liang Yiburi, not only did his power weaken in the future, but he could only go to the end with the Song Dynasty.

Zheng Lang moved quickly, quickly incorporated the army in Zang Huama's hands into the army, and immediately drove north.

After Liang Yibu learned that the Western Envoy City surrendered, his face changed drastically, and at this time he also got the news that Liang Yongneng's entire army would be annihilated, but he did not expect that the entire army would be annihilated. Because at the same time, he also got another piece of news, and the 50,000 troops of Western Xia rushed to the Shrine Valley in a few days.

can escape, but it is doomed to defeat.

However, he overlooked one thing, and that was the composition of his army. Now the army in Liang Yi's hands is still very considerable, especially Li Qing's subordinates, because Li Qing is very clever, he withdrew to Tongwei Fort in advance, and retreated to the west before Liang Yi was buried, and the loss was not large.

However, in this army, there are Xu Cong's children from the Shrine Valley and Liangzhou soldiers. If he can break through the mouth of the valley, then these soldiers will come in handy. Now it has not been breached, trapped in the mouth of Rusha Valley, and more Song troops have chased after it from the Western Envoy City, many Liangzhou and Gonggu soldiers are pessimistic, and their hearts are shaken together, and they want to surrender their names for the Song people to release them back.

In mid-September, Zheng Lang arrived at the mouth of Rusha Valley with his army, and Liang Yibu launched an attack on the Song army, but he did one more wrong thing, in fact, the elite troops in his hands were still there at this time, especially those iron harriers, and the casualties were not large. The Song army had traveled long distances and was somewhat tired, and although the number of the army had expanded, the composition was also very chaotic. The Western Xia army itself was very chaotic, and most of the soldiers did not want to fight, or even wanted to fight against the water, but these core armies were real mourning soldiers. If the iron harrier and the core army are used to attack, it will bring casualties to the Song army. The result will be defeated, but there will be a glimmer of life. But Liang Yi did not bury it, and still used the Han people and the soldiers of Liangzhou in the Shrine Valley as cannon fodder as the front to attack the Song army, wanting to use these cannon fodder to consume the Song army.

Just when the two armies were about to collide together, a Western Xia soldier suddenly turned against the water and raised his weapons to counterattack the summer camp. The Song army took advantage of the situation and raised troops to follow. Subsequently, Chongyi and Yanda led the Song army to fight out from Rusha Valley, and under the attack from both sides, the Western Xia people were defeated.

Li Qing realized that something was wrong early on, and when the striker defected, he fled to the vast mountains with his cronies. This allowed Li Qing to escape alive again, but only a few hundred people escaped. And because of his escape, the collapse of the Western Xia army was accelerated.

Before the ace army in Liang Yi's hand was dispatched, he was defeated, and he himself was captured by the Song army in a mountain nest.

With Zheng Lang coming to Lanzhou City, the Western Xia reinforcements had just arrived, but when they heard that Liang Yi's entire army was annihilated, they stayed in Huizhou and did not dare to move. Zheng Lang ordered people to bring Liang Yiburi, Liang Yongneng and Liang Gewei up, as well as some Western Xia nobles.

Zheng Lang ignored the others, just stared at Liang Yibury, and said, "Liang Daxiang, you have lost again." ”

Liang Yi's face was dark and he didn't speak.

Zheng Lang said again: "I will give you a chance to be Meng Mingshi, come and release these people." ”

Meng Mingshi is the son of Baili Xi of Qin State, after the death of Duke Wen of Jin, Qin Mugong wanted to be the overlord and sent Meng Mingshi to crusade against the Jin State, Yu Kunshan was defeated by the Jin army, and he was also captured by the Jin State. Fortunately, Jin Xianggong's mother was the daughter of Qin Mugong, and she pleaded with Jin Xianggong to release Meng Mingshi back. Qin Mugong was not ashamed of Meng Ming, and reused it again, and returned from a big defeat in World War II. Qin Mugong continued to reuse, and attacked the Jin for the third time, and this time he finally defeated the Jin people into an army, and he was terrified. When Zhou Xianggong heard about this battle, he sent someone to reward Qin Mugong with twelve bronze drums and recognized Qin Mugong as the overlord of the West.

For Zheng Lang to unconditionally release the three members of the Liang family to go back, many generals of the Song army were very puzzled and reluctant, and when they heard Meng Mingshi's three words, they looked at Zheng Lang even more suspiciously. However, Zhang Ji smiled heartily on the side. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )