Zheng Lang's analogy may not be agreed by everyone. In particular, he placed himself alongside Han Qi, under Fan Zhongyan and Pang Ji, and he disagreed. also excessively elevated the generals, which also made many scholars and doctors dissatisfied.

Each has its own right and wrong.

For the military, Zheng Lang may not be the strongest, the golden finger will play a role, but it is not a military talent, but over the years, from the northwest to the south, the grinding has also grinded out some levels. At least in terms of military cultivation, among the civil servants, only a few people Wang Shao and Zhang Qi are victorious, and if the overall situation is said, even Wang Shao can only be equal to Zheng Lang.

Militarily, Zheng Lang is not a layman, and he is in charge of Zhongshu and Sansi at the same time, so he quickly judged some of Wang Zhang's thoughts.

Liang Yi can't bury it.

At first, it was just for revenge, but Liang Yibury still held a cautious attitude, and as the fortresses were taken one by one, Liang Yibury relaxed his vigilance. Zhenrong Village is the military city of the original Zhenrong Army, since the Huaide Army expanded northward, Zhenrong Village lost its original military value, and gradually became one of the economic centers of Jingyuan Road, and later restructured, the Zhenrong Army was cut off, from Sanchuan Village to Zhenrong Village, Dongshan Village, Qianxing Village including Dingchuan Village, all of them were reduced to the jurisdiction of the Huaide Army, and Zhangyi Fort and Kaiyuan Fort were reduced to the jurisdiction of the Deshun Army, and the southeast of Pengyang City was under the jurisdiction of Weizhou, all of them were three. The political and military center was still Pingxia City, but Zhenrongzhai became the largest economic center of the Huaide Army.

Liang Yibury didn't lead the army to come without doing anything in advance, and made some preparations, such as intelligence, there were 80,000 or 90,000 Song troops on the entire Jingyuan Road, quite a few, but the Deshun army and Yuanzhou, Jingzhou and Weizhou wanted to send troops, not only to prevent Western Xia, but also to have some internal Tibet. The Song army at the front made preparations, and the entire Deshun army originally had more than 30,000 Song troops, an increase of 10,000, and more than 40,000 people. It seems to be the limit of Jingyuan Road.

The reason is simple. The cost of raising soldiers in Weijing two states. Almost half the size of the Wyed Army. He led a large army to attack, and the Song army compressed to the area of Pingxia City and Xiaoguan, almost cutting them off completely. Now there are only a small number of deserters in Zhenrongzhai, and the troops are dispatched from the other side. There are also not many troops.

Capture Zhenrong Village, and the harvest of this battle will be not small.

At this time, he still had a chance to take down the Nine Sheep Fort and other forts. Then in addition to Shimenxia, another one has been opened, at least you can return to Tiandu Mountain from the trail. But no.

The army arrived at the foot of Zhenrong Village.

Liang Yibury personally commanded, not as smooth as he imagined, the situation was critical, Cai Ting also rushed to the front line from Weizhou, and also personally sat in Zhenrong Village, and Yang Sui and Yang Sui jointly commanded the military and civilian defense in the village. The bloody battle began, and the battle was extremely fierce. Every day, a large number of soldiers fell in the city and down the city.

The eleventh day of the first month. The weather on Jingyuan Road is still very cold.

The Wyede army was in the north, colder.

It's twilight. From Jiuyang Village, a team of Song troops walked out.

This location is very important, under the control of the town of Qiang Village, connecting Deshun Military City, Haoshui River, southeast remote control Dingchuan Village Sanchuan Village, northeast pointing to Shimen Fort, east access to Gaoping Village. It turned out that Wang Shao and Zhang Qi both thought that there would be some trouble, but they didn't expect Liang Yi to bury and bump it. It's for the best.

The three armies gathered in the open area of the Jiuyang Valley outside the wall.

It was getting dark, and it was getting colder, but it was far from being compared with Miao Zhi's night attack on Dongguan some time ago. Although it is cold, it can be endured by the soldiers. Dou Shunqing named one by one, each team returned to its place, Dou Shunqing said: "Let's go!" ”

Three thousand soldiers and horses drove towards Gaopingzhai.

On the other side, there is a group of people and horses from Huaiyuan Village to Zhenqiang Fort, which is from the Deshun army to support, all of them march at night, and the fourth watch enters the village to rest. This team of men and horses will enter Jiuyang Fort at the fourth watch tonight to fill the vacuum of Dou Shunqing's departure.

It was not only this group of troops that set out, but there were also many of them, scattered in all directions of the Hulu River, but they were all small groups of men and horses, riding horses, and carrying some luggage on their backs.

At the end of the second watch, not far from Gaopingzhai, Dou Shunqing stopped, then looked at his subordinates, pointed at the two and said: "Qu Zhen, Guo Cheng, you have led a team of soldiers to the Hulu River to set that on fire." ”

Dou Shunqing didn't know what military abilities the two of them had, but when they usually trained, they saw that the two generals were very brave and clever, so he handed over this burden to the second general.

"Whoa." The two replied on horseback, and led a hundred soldiers eastward, quickly disappearing into the night.

There was still snow on the ground, and the horses were bound to their hooves, and all the way east, there was only a slight cracking sound in the night. After a while, these 100 people rushed to Gaopingzhai unconsciously, but in the south of Gaopingzhai, with the help of the gaps in the sparse trees, a large number of patrolling Western Xia soldiers could be seen on the head of the city. After the fall of Dongguan, the night patrols of Western Xia were also tightened.

The group did not panic and sneaked to the south, which is the source of the diversion canal in the wall. When they came to the gourd river, they turned over and dismounted one by one, took out shovels from their horses, and dug up the mud. The mud was frozen and hard, and it was very difficult to dig. But here is more than two miles away from Gaoping Village, plus the night is late, the Xixia people will not patrol here, everyone is not in a hurry, carefully lift the layers of soil above, revealing a huge skin. These days, Wang Shao and Zhang Kai have been worrying about these skins.

It stands to reason that there is nothing to do, the weather is cold, the soil is hard, who has nothing to do to run to the source to dig the soil? But God knows if anything will happen? Fortunately, it has not moved. Liang Yi was eager to bury his efforts and did not notice some details.

Gaoping Village is to lead the living water into the village, in fact, most of the forts have led to live water, and even put more wells in the village, Dingchuan Zhai Yuan Hao wants to kill the Song army to death, this matter has not passed for a long time, everyone is unforgettable.

However, some changes were made later, and the source extended a few hundred meters to the south, which made the water flow more rapid. There is also a sluice gate in the city, which was also demolished not long ago. The canals in the village were added and extended, so that the water could pass through the village for a longer time. It's all small details that are hard to notice. But it's deadly.

The soil layer was finally opened, and Guo Cheng said in a low voice: "Let's start." ”

One by one, they took out the saber and slashed at the skin, and soon the night liquid in the skin flowed from under the ice to Gaopingzhai with the water.

Guo Cheng turned over and got on his horse, his eyes silently looking at the north.

In these skins is fire oil, that is, oil, and some oil fields will automatically spew out or drain the oil out of the surface, which is collected by the Song people and widely used in the military. It was after Zhang Qi saw nearly 1,000 words about the conjecture of oil records in Zheng Langge's physics. Get inspired. It is lighter than water. Flammable, unless covered with sand, the more you put out the fire, the bigger the fire.

After a while, the skin gradually emptied.

There was some commotion in the village, and the water turned black. Sooner or later, it will be discovered. Guo Cheng raised the scimitar in his hand, and a group of soldiers began to trot all the way, smashing the ice on the canal, and then throwing torches one by one.

A fire dragon quickly spread to the middle of the village. It's cold. However, in the first month, the thickness of the ice cube was insufficient, and after being roasted by the fire, it quickly melted, and the fire dragon pounced into the village and turned into dozens of fire dragons. Under the fierce northwest wind at night, the houses and warehouses by the canal were set on fire one by one.

That's a clarion call.

As the fire broke out in Gaopingzhai, countless black shadows came out of the night, dumping a bag of goods on horseback into various wells and ditches. After pouring, it quickly disappeared into the night.

The Tangut people in Gaoping Village were in chaos. Some people ignored the order and actually opened the gate of the wall. Flee out. Guo Cheng shouted: "Rush." ”

They were closest to Gaopingzhai and took the city gate first.

One hundred people, divided into two parts, rushed towards Gaopingzhai with lightning speed.

Coming to the gate of Gaoping Village, Guo Cheng took the lead in killing several people, killed a bloody road, rushed to the head of the city, and protected the sling to prevent the Xixia people from pulling it up. With the arrival of Dou Shunqing's 3,000 military horses, there were many Xixia people in Gaoping Village, with 5,000 soldiers and horses, but in the panic, they fought separately, and most of them were killed or captured for a while, and only a few people escaped. Gaopingzhai changed hands again.

Fight like this, use more money. But the more money you use, the better the effect. However, Dou Shunqing did not covet Gaoping Village, but burned all the material houses in the village, and then withdrew from Gaoping Village, set off to the north, galloped to Shimen Gorge, and built a checkpoint at the mouth of the gorge.

At dawn on the twelfth day of the first month, Liang Yibury was shocked when he received the news, and almost all the logistics supplies were left in Gaoping Village. Now there were only two options to choose from, the first to attack the other village in order to obtain supplies, and the second to retreat immediately. But under the light enemy, he still chose the second way, changed to the west, and recaptured Dingchuan Village. Dingchuan Village, like Shimen Fort, is also one of the shames of Western Xia. First urge the destruction of Shimen Fort, and then urge the destruction of Dingchuan Village, its significance is no less than the Song Army's second burning of the Western Summer Palace.

From beginning to end, Liang Yibury had a misjudgment, believing that the Song Dynasty army was a regular army, including Zheng Lang, who used the people to defend the city, not to fight in the field. There are not many soldiers and horses in Dingchuan Village, and taking Dingchuan Village can threaten Jiuyang Fort. It can not only obtain logistical supplies, but also advance and retreat.

In fact, this idea is wrong, if it was before the Song Dynasty was not expanded, this idea is beyond reproach, but this is after the expansion, after the reduction, Jingyuan Road cut many soldiers and strong archers, this measure is to let the people recuperate, the results of the previous training are still there. Including Cai Ting, although many soldiers and military service were cut, they continued to organize archer training in the autumn and winter. The power of the civil society is still there. If you use it in peacetime, it is to disturb the people, and at this time, in order to defend your homeland, why can't you use it?

When Liang Yibury attacked Dangqiang Village, Cai Ting had organized 40,000 archers one after another, and some had already entered Pingxia City, Gugaoping Fort, Huimin Fort, Donghewan Fort, Narrow Mouth Fort, Suirong Fort, Tongyuan Village, and Shengqiang Village in advance. Some are in the rear, after the outbreak of the war, they came one after another, and successively entered Dingchuan Village, Sanchuan Village, Dongchuan Village and other forts, if Liang Yi buried at the beginning did not covet the materials of Zhenrong Village, directly attacked Jiuyang Village, Dingchuan Village, or there was a turnaround. At this time, it was too late to attack. Or can it be captured, but most of the materials are burned, is there still time for Liang Yi to be buried?

Liang Yi buried and changed to Dingchuan Village, and the battle of Qianxing Village began.

Last time he played a disgraceful role, Liu Changzuo was angry in his heart, Wang Shao made him quarrel, this time he was given a chance to make meritorious contributions, and took Liu Shaoyong, Li Hao and Da Yao to retreat one after another, not only to keep himself from sacrificing too much, but also not to make Liang Yi bury suspicions, this retreat is very learned.

In fact, at this time, Qianxing Village already had the strength to fight with 20,000 Western Xia soldiers outside the village. The most lethal Liang Yi buried another place and ignored a place, Yuanzhou, there are two kinds of Yuanzhou, one is more fierce than the other, dare to go around from Yuanzhou to Huanzhou, and then enter the Jiang Folding Society from Huanzhou, surprise attack the Xixia camp, and make great contributions, and return safely. Neither of the two should be underestimated. Moreover, Yuanzhou has long opened up the road to Qianxing Village and Tiansheng Village. Endure until now. It's time for the fire. Just as I heard that Gaopingzhai materials were burned. The soldiers of the Western Xia were panicked, and the siege of the city for several days was unsuccessful, and when the morale was low, two kinds of killing. Liu Changzuo decisively opened the gate of the village. The inside and the outside should be combined, and the army of the East Road of Xixia was broken, killing more than 4,000 people on the spot and capturing more than 2,000 people. Later, they pursued and killed more prisoners, and finally less than 7,000 people were able to escape back to Western Xia.

When the news reached Liang Yi's ears, he felt that something was wrong, and it was only then that he stopped his illusions and ordered the withdrawal of the army. Dingchuan Zhai and other forts were not taken, so they had to follow the north of Zhenrong Village, and then along Huluchuan, and withdraw from Wuyan Gorge. How much of a circle this has been, if from Dingchuan Village and Jiuyang Valley. Although the road is difficult, it is only a road of 200 miles. I arrived at Tiandu Mountain, and this detour became five or six hundred miles. The nightmare begins. Almost all the water sources were poisoned, and even when they reached Huluchuan, in front of the Tangut people, the Song army knocked open ice cubes and dumped large piles of things into the Hulu River. In fact, in the end, it is impossible to have so much arsenic croton, and most of the pigments are poured. But this is even more intimidating.

In winter, the water is small, the water flow is relatively gentle, and because the upper layer is frozen, after the paint is poured down, it does not melt for a long time, and the river water is covered with strange colors, who dares to eat this water?

Not only that, Jingyuan Road also has a product, horses!

Horses are more useful than cattle, and Zheng Lang uses them to plough the land, but it also has a greater role, transportation. Therefore, when the horses of the Tang Dynasty were at their peak, the official horses reached almost 700,000, not including private horses, but the price of horses was still more than 15 yuan.

Song Dynasty horses were more expensive.

Nowadays, due to large-scale breeding, the price has come down, and it is still more expensive than the Tang Dynasty, a good horse can reach 30 yuan, and a poor horse will be at least nearly 20 yuan. Either the cheap ones are the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, and they can only be used as horses for farming.

Zheng Lang promoted alfalfa cultivation, and almost no scholars paid attention to it, because of the cultivation of this alfalfa, which led to the strength of ancient Rome and the prosperity of animal husbandry. After more than ten years of implementation, the entire north has seen results. Yu raised 100,000 horses in the Shaanxi court, which was a helpless thing, and the cost of raising a horse was also very high, so I didn't dare to raise more. In addition to the imperial court, there are also folk ones, there are Han people and Tibetan people, and the Fan people are the majority, which are used to trade with the Han people. It is not known how many people there were, but there were only a lot more horses than the imperial court. Among them, Jingyuan Road occupies at least half of the number because it is open.

There are horses and people, and the soldiers of the Western Xia Dynasty are on the horses as soldiers and dismount as people, and their training may not be as good as the archers of the Song Dynasty. The individual is fierce in combat and can live in the border area, but the Fan Zi on this side of the Song Dynasty is not fierce? Well organized, everyone is with each other.

And there are generals, three kinds, big and small Yao, Yang Sui, Dou Shunqing, Liu Changzuo, Miao Zhu, Wang Guangzu, Wang Wenyu, Liu Shaoneng, Li Hao, Liu Zhongwu, Qu Zhen, Guo Cheng, Jia Yan, Zhang Yuntuo, some have been excavated and reused, and some have been used, but they have not been reused.

These generals were all later famous generals, and in terms of generals, the Song army was far superior to the Western Xia army at this time.

When Liang Yibu withdrew his army to Zhenrong Village, the nightmare began.

The generals led a detachment of Song Dynasty cavalry to kill from all directions.

When the Tangut people organized a counterattack, they quickly retreated, and if they could chase it, they even slowed down and let the Tangut people chase it, and when they chased it into the distance, they surrounded it in all directions and quickly annihilated. If you don't chase it, go to a distance to catch your breath for a while, and then come and harass you.

How much money was spent, Zhang Ji didn't ask, but he was happy to hear the news, and said, "It's better to be a cavalry." ”

Each time the scale of harassment was not very large, he pounced, fought fiercely for a while, and fled. Come back later.

In this case, how could the Tangut people be faster?

Moreover, he was accompanied not only by cavalry, but also by a large number of people, as well as some Han infantry.

Step by step, I can only use snow water when I am thirsty, and I dare not drink any water except snow water. There was a supply in the rear, but at this time the Song army exposed its fangs. Countless troops drilled out of Pingxia City, Tongxia Village, and Gugaoping Fort, and did not fight against the main force buried by Liang Yi, but it was enough to annihilate the logistics and transportation troops of Western Xia. And the Song army was ruthless enough, not greedy or greedy, and after defeating the logistics troops, they quickly set fire to the ground and burned them to the air. I can't save it if I want to.

After moving for six or seven days, the exhausted Tangut people came to Shimenxia with difficulty.

Dou Shunqing had been waiting for a long time.

A village was rebuilt, which was a fence and stone village, and it was hastily built, but it was enough to defend against the demoralized Western Xia army at this time. And after many days of preparation, although the village was built with grass, there were plenty of weapons inside. The Tanguts launched an attack, but the Song army did not go out of the village to fight, but hid in the village, firing artillery, explosives bags and bows and crossbows. It can be conquered, but if you want to capture it, you must have high morale, so that the soldiers dare to force their way to the stockade despite the danger.

The two waves of attacks have just begun, and they are very fierce, and they all want to go home.

Subsequently, under the counterattack of the Song army, the two waves of attacks were repulsed successively, and they were cold and hungry, some soldiers did not eat for two or three days, and could only dig wild vegetables from the snow to satisfy their hunger, and their original form was revealed, no matter how Liang Yibury shouted, they did not listen.

But it was not a nightmare, after a day of attacking, Guo Cheng took the initiative to ask for his life when he saw the Xixia military camp loose and straddling. With the help of night, with hundreds of death squads, using the cover of the mountains on both sides, they touched the camp of the Western Xia Hou and killed it. With another fire, the only little grain and grass in Western Xia was burned.

Seeing that the grain and grass were on fire, without Liang Yi's orders, the Western Xia soldiers spontaneously "retreated", and fled from Shimenchuan to Wuyanqian Gorge one by one, and then tried to escape from Wuyanqian Gorge to Wuyan Gorge. Afterwards, Zhang Qi scolded Guo Cheng fiercely, I am not ready, you will let them defeat themselves!

But Wang Shao likes it very much, yes, very brave, I like it.

The fact was lost too quickly, and the back was not ready, and after the spies reported, Wang Shao and Chong Ge hurriedly organized an army to intercept it. As a result, the next day, the mountains were full of deserters from the Tanguts, and it was not easy to catch.

Many people fled, and many others wandered around the mountains without knowing the terrain, or starved to death, or froze to death, or were shot to death. Liang Yibury rushed with an army of 120,000 people, and once attacked under the Zhenrong village, urging the destruction of more than a dozen walled forts. As a result, less than 50,000 people were able to return.

On the twentieth day of the first month, the war report was sent to the capital by fast horse.

One by one, they looked at it blankly.

It's confusing.

Or as Zheng Lang said, he can win, but he didn't expect it to be this kind of victory method.

Defeated the Western Xia army, fought, fought many times, but how to fight, defended, retreated, defended again, retreated again. Either the battle of Qianxingzhai was a real battle, but it could only be regarded as a medium-sized battle, and the total number of troops dispatched by both sides was no more than 50,000. But this is a war in which nearly 300,000 people participated! And then what? Not a single decent battle either.

Zhao Ji looked at the two newspapers, one was written by Cai Ting, and the other was written by Wang Shao, which was written in great detail, but after reading it, he raised his head and asked blankly: "Zhuqing, this is a victory?" (To be continued.) )