The map is a topographic map of the entire Eastern Route Army, but it is marked with various black lines, and these old men can't see anything from the black lines alone, but they can simply see that these black lines are the counterattack routes of the Song army.

The Song army will inevitably counterattack, but what surprised them is that there are so many counterattack routes, as many as more than forty, almost every road that can march, there are black lines drawn, and there are two that they pay the most attention to, one is Rusha Valley, and the other is the Niche Valley - Horsebit Mountain - Jiehe Fort, there is a thick black arrow under Jiehe Fort, and the Song army has already approached Jiehe Fort!

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Liang Yongneng also learned the news of the loss of Lanzhou, he was nervous, but not anxious.

Because he still has more than 30,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, as well as Jiehe Fort and Beiguan Fort, but this is not the main thing, the main thing is that he has not received the notice of Liang Yi's burial.

The Song army has not moved, he first let Liang Gewei lead a group of men and horses into the Jiehe Fort, the Jiehe Fort went north to Mabitshan, west of Hezhou, south to Xizhou, is a traffic artery, Wang Shao built the Jiehe Fort, built very tall, and now it has become Liang Yongneng's battle.

This idea does not seem to be wrong, that is, Zhou Shiqing and Zhang Yu led the left army to the south, plus the troops of Xihe City, Lingu Fort, and Kangle Village, the Song Dynasty still did not have an advantage. Besides, he was not informed and did not dare to withdraw his troops. In fact, it doesn't matter, Guan Jian is Liang Yongneng is unwilling!

Liang Yongneng's idea became a turning point in this battle.

Over the years, the Song Dynasty and the Western Xia launched many battles, with victories and defeats, but there was a law, if the two sides were equal in strength, the Western Xia would be defeated. Even those old men in the Six Valleys can see that Liang Yongneng is in the game, but he doesn't know it......

Soldiers are fast.

Jiehe Fort was not as safe as Liang Yongneng thought, but if it was attacked, the casualties would be very heavy. Zhou Shiqing and Zhang Yu may not be so dazzling in the history books, but they can also be regarded as famous generals.

In history, Wang Anshi's laws are not much controversial, such as the warehouse law, the farmland water conservancy law, etc., and the art of war.

It is similar to Zheng Lang's restructuring of the army. In view of the weakness of the Song army's soldiers who did not know the generals and the generals did not know the soldiers, there were 37 generals in Gyeonggi, 42 generals in the 5th Road in Shaanxi, and 13 generals in the 6th Road in the southeast.

This idea came from Fan Zhongyan. Fan Zhongyan once divided the 18,000 forbidden soldiers into six generals in Yanzhou, which had remarkable results, but took the art of war a step further, strictly ordering the generals and soldiers not to be transferred at will, and to go with the soldiers, and the soldiers to go with the generals. The combat effectiveness of the Song army did not decrease but increased, and there were many fierce generals, and even there were many times with less than 1,000 people, defeating tens of thousands of enemies. This was unimaginable in Zhao Zhen's time.

Zheng Lang changed the military system and took another step, first of all, to correct his name, not to mention the general. It is the regimental commander, this is very important, and you can sell dog meat on the head of a sheep. At least it can't be completely said that Zheng Lang overthrew the ancestral family law. Moreover, the strength of the army is between 1,000 and 2,500 people, and it is flexible and mobile, and at the same time, it does not make the scholars feel jealous. At the very least, scholars can't attack this military system, there will be An Lushan, what can 2,500 people do? Then the general can really go with the soldiers, and the soldiers can also go with the generals.

Soldiers and generals are together, understand each other, as the arm points out, and the generals can play a good record.

Several victories have also seen results.

Among them is Zhang Yu, who is known in history as the first of the thirty good generals in Hebei, that is, the best general among the thirty-seven generals in Gyeonggi.

These two people are low-key, but the facts cannot be underestimated.

And now Zhang Kai has sent 70,000 troops, and the rear army can be ignored, and the real elite troops are in the front two roads. On the contrary, Liang Yongneng may not be inferior in terms of troops, but most of his soldiers come from the area of Gonggu, Liangzhou, Huizhou, and Tiandu Mountain, and he is not the strongest army in Western Xia, the strongest army in Western Xia is in Hengshan, and the strongest army in Hengshan is in Yinxia, because this is the nest of Western Xia. The armies in other regions can go to take a bath, not because the race is weak, but because the cohesion is not high.

And also.

Before Zhou Shiqing set off, he asked the herald to go down and pass the word: "The army is going west, and the right road has captured Lanzhou, Xiguanbao, and Jingyuguan, and made meritorious contributions, but what about us?" ”

is also an elite soldier on Jingyuan Road, no one wants to be a dwarf, and the morale is inspired.

More than 20,000 high-morale Song soldiers quickly crossed the Mabit Mountain, came to the Dongchuan Valley, and arrived at the foot of the Jiehe Fort.

The front arrived, the people behind were camping, and the front launched an attack on the fort.

The fortress of Jiehe Fort is strong and tall, but Liang Yongneng is also negligent, that is, the source of soldiers.

Many of the soldiers came from the Niche Valley, and almost all of the escorts and logistics men who were busy outside the fort were from the Niche Valley, and many of the fathers and brothers among the soldiers of the Niche Valley who defended the castle were among them.

Guan Yu flooded Cao's army, and the Central Plains was shaken, but after Lu Meng skillfully captured Jingzhou City, Guan Yu had to defeat Maicheng, not to mention Liang Yongneng.

Liang Gewei, who was defending the city, saw that these soldiers were unwilling to fight, so he used brutal means to let the law enforcement team kill people and establish authority on the city, and reluctantly forced these soldiers to take up arms and fight back. However, the Song army under the fort was still stubbornly attacking, and under the low morale, some of the children of the Shrine Valley laid down their arms. Liang Gewei killed again, and under his persecution, some of the children of the Shrine Valley finally listened to the words brought by the scouts who had infiltrated the fort and brought the elders of the family, and picked up weapons in the nest and turned back.

The sturdy and tall Knot River Fort was taken down by the Song army at the second watch of the same night. Liang Gewei fled in panic with the remnants of his troops to Beiguan Fort.

Song Jun hastily rested for a day, and then pounced on Beiguan Fort.

Liang Yongneng tried to break the net, and fought back on the bank of the Taoshui River, and his subordinates had 3,000 iron harriers.

The so-called iron harrier is also a chain of heavy cavalry, from the soldiers to the war horses all heavy armor, often dozens of cavalry together with a hook and rope together, because the winch together, even if a horse is killed, the soldiers above will not fall under the movement of other horses, continue to annihilate the enemy. During the battle, the fish scale array is used to rush and kill the enemy, which is a primitive wolf pack tactic, divided into several squads, or gathered long, or scattered, to disrupt the opponent's defensive formation, and the rear army followed the cover.

History says that before the appearance of the Mongol cavalry, it was the most fierce military in the world.

Zheng Lang was very disdainful of this statement, the lethality of the Iron Harrier was very powerful, but it was not an invincible existence. For example, in the battle between Zhang Yu and Wang Jilinzhou, this so-called invincible iron harrier was broken, and later the Jin people extended out the more fierce iron floating map, which was still broken again and again by the Yue family's army.

Fierceness certainly has it, but it has one of the most obvious drawbacks, bulkiness!

The two armies handed over in a short time, and saw that the three thousand iron harriers were divided into more than 100 squads and rushed over with a fish scale array, Zhou Shiqing was not in a hurry, and first let the soldiers shoot with the divine arm bow and artillery. Then Zhang Yuqin led the infantry to kill.

Several cold weapons appeared here, such as horse chopping knives, horse chopping axes, and hook and sickle guns, which were used by the Song soldiers not to kill people and horses, but to deal specifically with horse legs that were not wrapped in armor.

The Iron Harrier is very strong, a squad of dozens of people, less than a dozen, even if a horse is killed, it still charges, but after five or six horses fall?

One after another Song soldiers were trampled to death by horses. But after paying hundreds of soldiers to die, the iron harrier became a stupid harrier.

Then the Song soldiers stretched out their hooked sickles and hooked the necks of the Western Xia people, and the battle lasted less than an hour. Of the three thousand iron harriers, more than two thousand iron harriers were killed.

Zhou Shiqing said coldly: "Rush." ”

As soon as the Iron Harrier was defeated, the remaining rear army had no intention of responding to the battle, and all fled to Beiguan Fort.

Zhou Shiqing asked the rear army to clean up the battlefield, and the rest of the people slowly came to Beiguan Fort.

Liang Yongyong learned his lesson. Imprison the children of the Shrine Valley in the fort and defend it with elite soldiers. However, there is not only this Song army, but also. Yang Sui's army!

With the news of the two defeats in Western Xia, Yang Sui ordered the conscription of strong men of all ethnic groups to participate in the war, and they were at a disadvantage, these tribes may not be able to dispatch their children to cooperate with the Song army, that is, they are dispatched, and the various ethnic groups have not returned to their hearts, and Yang Sui does not have the ability to integrate Yan Aguda, or they cannot give full play to their combat effectiveness.

But who doesn't want to fight the water dogs, and there are many gains in a big victory, logistics materials, weapons, armor, and war horses, and these tribes are also very eager for them.

Zhou Shiqing camped under Beiguan Fort to rest.

All the way to the hurried, the soldiers were a little tired, but it was in the course of the three days of rest that Yang Sui integrated many tribes, as well as his own subordinates, so that the strength reached nearly 20,000 horses, and the mighty slaughter out of Xizhou.

The two armies simultaneously launched an attack on Beiguanbao.

The next day, Beiguan Fort was lost, only a few of Liang Yongneng's subordinates escaped, and it could not be called an escape, and the soldiers who fled to the east did not want to go back, and only a few soldiers who fled to the west fled from the Yellow River to Liangzhou. The rest were all killed or captured, and even Liang Yongneng and Liang Gewei were also arrested by Zhou Shiqing. Zhou Yang's army met and killed Guwei City.

This battle became a reversal point.

But the real reversal is still in Guwei City.

Guwei City fought very hard, there were many Song troops in the city, but because of the topography of Guwei City, in order to prevent the Xixia people from going south or east, so that the rear was eroded, not only to defend, but also to attack from time to time, and drag the main army of Liang Yibury under Guwei City.

This delay lasted for more than 30 days, and the casualties among the soldiers in the city became larger and greater, and the defensive strength became weaker and weaker. Liang Yi buried and used the soft soil of the ancient Wei City, dug tunnels, and then erected a wooden frame under the city wall, set fire to it, and after the fire was burned to ashes, the city wall also collapsed. Zheng Lang had to let the soldiers forcibly block it with a fence.

The defensive power of the fence was far inferior to the city wall, and Liang Yiji saw the fence erected one by one, and forcibly hit the fence with a crashing car. Later, the Western Xia army successfully rushed into the city many times, if it were not for Zheng Lang in the city, the Song army fought tenaciously, and the ancient Wei city would have been lost.

Just when Guwei City was crumbling, the good news came that the Song army had advanced into Lanzhou.

The key to this game of chess is whether Liang Yi can retreat in time.

If you retreat in time, you will definitely not be able to break through the defense line of the Song army, but the rear is Western Xia.

The two armies are at war, and speed is important.

The Tangut people were half-ploughing and half-herding, and whether they were collecting troops or marching, they were faster than the Song people. From the Central Plains to the front line of Shaanxi, it is impossible for all the people who escort the grain and grass to escort the grain and grass from beginning to end, and there will be no grain and grass to eat, and the loss is too great, so it is passed on section by section. 10,000 people escorted grain and grass to Chang'an, and some of the grain and grass were consumed back and forth, so only 7,000 people escorted grain and grass from Chang'an to Baoji, and only 4,000 people from Baoji went to Weizhou. The same is true for Zhang Qi, the troops of Jingyuan Road are stationed in Gonglan, and the troops of Jingzhaofu are stationed in Jingyuan Road. Time is more than half of it.

However, it may not be as fast as the Tanguts, although the forces of the two countries on the eastern front contain each other, the Tanguts can still transfer an army from the rear in time to kill the Niche Valley.

Attacked from both sides, the Xixia people returned to the road with heart, morale was sad and angry, the Niche Valley was ruled by the Tangut people for more than ten years, some tribes were naturalized, and the internal cooperation echoed, and the Niche Valley defense line would be very dangerous.

It can only be said that the Western Xia people harvested in the autumn, which was very beneficial to the Song Dynasty.

This was the greatest difficulty of the Eastern Route Army.

In the face of this difficulty, Zhang Ji made a big gamble, not to defend, but to divide the main force of the army and attack south. When the Western Xia army did not arrive, the three-way army of the Western Xia people was eaten, so even if the Western Xia people came with 100,000 and 200,000 troops, the Song Dynasty would successfully defend the Niche Valley. Of course, if it doesn't succeed, the elite soldiers will be defeated faster, or even a crushing defeat.

The Song Dynasty successfully captured the Niche Valley, but Liang Yi was hesitating, shooting people and horses first, capturing thieves and capturing kings, no matter how the Song army surrounded, as long as they captured Guwei City and captured Zheng Lang, this battle would achieve a brilliant victory. Holding such a mentality, Liang Yibury launched a fierce attack, day and night.

Although the morale of the generals in Guwei City has risen, it is becoming more and more dangerous. In the face of this crisis, Zheng Lang also ignored the danger, stood on the front line several times, and took the lead in commanding, which barely kept Guwei City from losing. However, under the fierce attack of the Tangut people, the walls of Guwei City fell almost by three-thirds, and at least four or five street battles occurred every day, and the soldiers in the city suffered sharp casualties, leaving only more than 7,000 people. At this time, Liang Yongneng's entire army was annihilated, but a force entered the city in the Western Envoy City, and all the grain and grass in the Western Xia Dynasty gathered together in the Western Envoy City to supply Liang Yibu and Li Qing's two armies.

This army came to fetch grain and grass, and the soldiers who defended the city saw the token and let the eight hundred soldiers and horses enter the city.

Eight hundred soldiers slowly entered the city of the Western Envoy, and suddenly dozens of horsemen drew their weapons and pounced on the Xixia people on both sides of the city gate and the city, and most of the rest rushed towards several granaries in the city.

Rokutanibe!

Dozens of elders came to intercede, Zhang Ji showed them the marching map, and then the news came that the Song army had captured Jiehe Fort, and dozens of elders were forced to surrender their names. With their cooperation, Zhang Ji took their letter and sent scouts to the front line.

Liang Yibu sent Li Mu Langluo to take the soldiers to the Western Envoy City to get food.

Some of these soldiers were from the Shrine Valley and the Rokuya tribe, and on the way, the scouts secretly contacted these people and persuaded them with letters.

Another general, Gao Yongneng, made a move, quietly disguised himself as a hunter, met on both sides of the Xixia camp at night, attacked inside and outside, killed all Li Mulangluo's men, and then held the order, in order to prevent the news from being revealed, he immediately ignored the night and rushed to the Western Envoy City.

The sudden change made the soldiers in the city stunned, Gao Yongneng had already rushed to the granary and quickly set the granary on fire. Liang Yibury also made arrangements, fearing that the Song army would come out of Rusha Valley and capture the Western Envoy City, where many troops were stationed.

But the change came too quickly, and he was caught off guard, so that Gao Yongneng succeeded in setting a fire on all the granaries.

Seeing that the enemy was gathering more and more, Gao Yongneng shouted: "Withdraw." ”

With his subordinates and the children of the Rokuya Shrine Valley who rebelled, he killed at the gate of the city. In a bloody battle all the way, 800 soldiers fought out of the Western Envoy City, leaving only more than 300 people, and most of them were wounded. Gao Yongneng did not stop, and quickly killed Ganquan Fort.

All the way east, only more than 100 soldiers were able to escape back in the end, and even Gao Yongneng himself was seriously injured. But this battle achieved its goal, and succeeded in burning most of the grain and grass of the Tangut people together. As soon as the grain and grass were burned, the Tangut people no longer had the courage to fight.

Liang Yi was helpless, so he ordered the withdrawal of the army, and the other person was even more cunning, the front of the niche valley was lost, and Li Qing withdrew the main force and cronies from Gangu City to Tongwei Village. But it was too late.

The hunt begins. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )