There were not many soldiers in the rebellion. But if that's the case, it's not magical.

At this time, there was a very fatal factor in the city, that is, many people came from Huizhou, Niche Valley, especially after hearing the news of the arrival of 50,000 Song troops, almost all of the 5,000 troops increased by Meile Baoxi were forcibly recruited in Niche Valley.

In the case of logistical worries, a large number of troops is certainly a good thing, and it also depends on it, especially in a multi-tribal coalition like this, if the army is not aligned, it may not be a good thing, and this is the key reason for the defeat of Fu Jianshui.

The actual truth is revealed, which is not magical at all, such as the extra troops on Jingyuan Road.

This year's drought was severe and both the Khitan and Song dynasties were implicated in the drought, but the drought in Western Xia was not serious. The Khitan was forced to take care of themselves, and the Song Dynasty prepared a large amount of grain and grass in advance, and the drought had an impact, but it was not a fatal one. In many areas, if the Song army disguised itself as a disaster victim, and even before the Western Xia sent troops, it infiltrated Weizhou bit by bit, including all kinds of military materials were also transported to Weizhou in the name of relief food, as long as it was not the transfer of hundreds of thousands of troops, the secrecy work was done well, and it was difficult for the Western Xia people to notice.

And also.

The number of Western Xia troops was huge, but after many years of campaigning, whether there was a bank in the rear or not, the finances were very tight, and a large number of troops were inevitably requisitioned from the Shrine Valley, Lanzhou, and the Western Envoy City. Most of these areas are Tibetan people, and most of them are blind felt's subordinates. They became the biggest loophole in the Western Xia expeditionary army.

The Song Dynasty sent scouts in advance to investigate some of the tribes that were most resentful of the Western Xia, and then sent people to secretly invite the elders of their tribes to the cage city, and then let Zhao Bingyi, the second son of Mu Zheng, meet and lobby to ensure that the children of their tribe participating in the conquest army would not be killed and returned to their original tribes safely in the event of surrender. What will these tribes do? And there are these tribesmen's children in Huining Pass, and they are the ones who rebel.

Most of the Shrine Valley disciples don't know about this. But would they be willing to die for the Tanguts? The niche valley at this time is not the niche valley of history. Many people have received favors from Zheng Lang. It was not evil to the Song Dynasty. Seeing the sudden change in the city, these children of the Shrine Valley were stunned together.

This leads to one result.

There were not many soldiers in the rebellion, but it caused a lot of scuffle in the city.

Han Cunbao and Li Qi escaped from the battle, but Zheng Lang did not tolerate it. Not to mention the harm of the wall.

The city was in turmoil, the Song army below was storming, and before it got dark, more Song soldiers successfully climbed to the head of Huining Pass. And these rebellious Tibetans were still lobbying for the Song army, so more Tibetans laid down their arms and surrendered.

Sister Le Baoxi also wanted to resist, and later saw a large area of the Song army control many places in the city, and even put down the drawbridge, some warriors climbed down the city, ready to open the city gate, Sister Le Baoxi made a smart move and escaped. Ordered his men to open the West Gate and flee for their lives across the river.

As soon as the Lord will flee, who else will dare to resist. The remnant either fled or surrendered. Anyway, the Song Dynasty's policy of not killing and surrendering prisoners has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Surrender is not a big deal, it can save a life somewhat.

However, at this point, the Song army was still not over.

After a short discussion between Chongyi and Zhou Yongqing, he left the wounded soldiers and a small number of soldiers to garrison Huining Pass, and brought a little dry food to chase down again. Chasing sister Le Baoxi is fake, and sister Le Baoxi is not that important.

The real intention is the West.

The Shrine Valley area had been empty due to the withdrawal of troops, but at this time, it became even more empty when it was pumped again.

Chongyi crossed the Qingshui River with his army, and attacked Dingyuan City, Nusha Valley, Dongguan Fort, and Agancheng, and Zhou Yongqing invaded Niche Valley, Xincheng, and Mabitshan.

The Song army on both roads was mostly cavalry, and the speed was very fast, and Xincheng and Dingyuan City were not far from Huining Pass. Before the defeated soldiers of Meile Baoxi fled back to Xincheng and Dingyuan City, Chongyi and Zhou Shiqing's army were killed. Like Huining Pass, most of these cities were built with the help of Zheng Lang, and many of the walls were built with blue bricks, rather than rammed earth as walls as most walled forts in the northwest. When the Western Xia sent troops to the Shrine Valley, the Song Dynasty could not say that it did not support it, and supported many weapons and materials, but Mu Zheng himself was not angry and lost the Niche Valley. The most unfortunate thing is that he finally fell to Western Xia in disguise.

Under normal circumstances, there are several cities around the Niche Valley, and it is difficult to attack. But now there are almost few soldiers in these cities, and I didn't expect that the Song Dynasty would attack the Niche Valley, and at the time of the fourth watch, the two armies came to Xincheng and Dingyuan, but the city was quiet, and there was not even a patrolling soldier on the city. The two armies easily touched the city, opened the city gate, and the two cities fell into the Song army before the sky was clear.

Two roads and four generals, Zhou Shiqing has deep qualifications, so he is used as the main general, and Chongyi is Zheng Lang's son-in-law, and no one dares not to give face. But the two deputy generals Zhang Yu and Yan Da have been famous for a long time, and they are one of the top ten famous generals of the Song Dynasty in Zheng Lang's heart.

Of course, the people of the world underestimate it, and the actual strength is in Zheng Lang's heart, and he is still above Yan Zhang. Even Zhou Shiqing can't be underestimated, and he is definitely in the second echelon with Yang Wenguang and Bin and others.

None of the four generals is confused, the opportunity is rare, regardless of the fatigue of the soldiers, let the soldiers hastily eat a meal of dry food, leaving a part of the people to garrison the reorganization of the two cities, the sky is not clear, send troops again, when the day is just dawn, the army of Chongyi arrived at the city of Nushagu, and the army of Zhou Shiqing on the other side also arrived at the valley of the shrine.

The soldiers defending the city did not know what was going on, and the two cities changed hands again one after another.

Strike while the iron is hot, the two armies attacked again, Zhou Shiqing's troops entered the Mabitshan camp, and Chongyi was divided into two roads, he personally attacked Dongguan Fort, and Yanda went to Agancheng.

This time, after a few small bloody battles, in the evening, he once again won a camp, a fort and a city. In particular, the niche valley, the city is strong, there are many cellars, and the Xia people are the royal village. Although the Western Xia people brought a lot of supplies because of the troops in Guweicheng, there was still a lot of grain and grass in the Niche Valley.

got the niche valley, and this time the Song Dynasty sent troops to save even grain and grass. In fact, although Zhang Ji asked 20,000 people to escort the materials, most of them were weapons or other materials, and the proportion of grain and grass in them was not large.

Until this time, Zhang Ji's rear army had not yet arrived at Huining Pass. Hearing the report from ahead, Zhang Qi couldn't cry or laugh.

The victory completed the combat mission, it stands to reason that the Song army should stop and take a good rest, everyone and horses have not closed their eyes for two days and one night, and they have also gone through several battles, and they are too tired to do it. However, Chongyi was whimsical and gave an order to Yanda. Let Yanda follow the Agan City soldiers into Lanzhou City. He himself also pointed his arrow along the Yellow River to the city of Lanzhou. Lanzhou was known as Jintang City in ancient times. Easy to defend and difficult to attack. However, like the Niche Valley, because a large number of troops were drawn, most of the remaining troops were stationed at Jingyu Pass on the west side of Lanzhou to prevent the Song Dynasty's western army from entering Lanzhou City. At this time, the city of Lanzhou was also empty.

Almost at the same time, the two armies arrived at the city of Lanzhou in the dark.

As soon as the Song army arrived, the Western Xia soldiers defending the city noticed it, and the Song soldiers were sleepy and lacking horses at this time. However, there were few troops in Lanzhou City, and it was the time when he slept the most soundly, so he never thought that the Song army would be bold enough to dare to enter Lanzhou. In the past, when Zheng Lang was in the limelight, he didn't have the idea of Lanzhou, and now it seems that Western Xia has the upper hand. Therefore, although it was perceived, not many soldiers had time to participate in the defense. After a fierce battle, the Song army succeeded in taking Lanzhou City without precedented.

In the future, there will be time to celebrate, and the two armies will join together and attack Xiguan Fort. At this time, Xiguanbao was the same as Lanzhou City. The forces are empty. Less than noon, it changed hands again.

I can't gnaw anymore. Moreover, the Jingyu Guanxi Xia army in front was strong.

Only then did Chongyi stop his frantic pace, first sent someone to report the situation to Zhang Qi, and then quietly sent a few people to dive to Huangshui to contact Guo Cheng, who was sweeping away the anti-Song tribes such as the Shu tribe, and then ordered the three armies to take turns to rest.

At this time, Zhang Qi's vanguard army had just arrived at Huining Pass. Hearing the news, even Zhang Ji couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat, he used to think that Guo Chengmeng was fierce, but he didn't expect this little species to be more fierce.

If Han Qi was the commander, Chong Yi and Guo Cheng might be beheaded. But the reason why Zhang Kai and Wang Shao became a generation of famous generals was not Han Qi, they cherished their subordinates, in history, Wang Shao did not even deal with Li Qi and Han Cunbao, Zhang Kai silently regarded Guo Cheng as drinking all day long.

Although Guo Cheng did not listen to the military order, and the troops entered Ba Jin Fort and Miaochuan City, at least taking Ba Jin Fort lightly would have sacrificed more than 1,000 Song troops, which was suspected of good merit, but the war merit could not be denied. It's just that the troops later entered Miaochuan City somewhat of a snake, and if Wang Shao hadn't remedied it in time, it might have added to the chaos.

However, the approach of friendship is different, if you don't want Huangzhou, it may not make much sense to get Lanzhou City, on the contrary, it will be endless with Western Xia. plotting against Lanzhou, and preparing to invade Western Xia a few years later, it is of great significance to get Lanzhou City, which is equivalent to closing Huangzhou and Xixia East Road. There is also the west road of Dabadougu, but that road is difficult and rugged, and Yang Guangbing walked from this road when he attacked Tuguhun, and lost one-third of his soldiers. And to get Lanzhou City, although the Hexi Corridor cannot be locked up, it is closed by a third. As long as he takes a step further and takes the two prefectures of Lianggan, it is equivalent to completely cutting off the Hexi Corridor from the territory of Western Xia.

But to get Lanzhou, out of the plan expected.

Zhang Kai wiped the cold sweat on his head while thinking of remedy. What should I do when I encounter these fierce subordinates, Wang Shao wiped Guo Cheng's buttocks, and he could only wipe Chongyi's buttocks. On the one hand, he ordered the rear army to speed up and station in various city passes, and on the other hand, he sent troops to Lu Gongzhu, and asked Lu Gongzhu to transfer troops from the army to Weizhou, so that the remaining troops of Weijing could enter the Niche Valley in advance, otherwise the entire military operation would be affected.

This time the Song army moved too fast, and the news was fed back to Xingqing Mansion, and many people still didn't believe it. After being confirmed, all the Western Xia people were shocked, the reason was very simple, not only the Niche Valley area and Lanzhou were lost, but also Liang Yi's buried hundreds of thousands of troops were all locked in a big cage.

Zhang Ji was remedy, and Chongyi and his subordinates slept until the next day.

Chong Yi and Yan Da glanced at each other and laughed together.

Zhang Qi racked his brains in the rear, the two of them didn't care, they only thought that they had inadvertently done something earth-shattering. Before the time of celebration, there is still a city in the west, Jingyuguan.

The two gathered their troops and embarked on the journey again to Jingyu Pass.

Before the army came to Jingyu Pass, they did not immediately attack Jingyu Pass, but ordered to set up camp. There were 3,000 Western Xia defenders in Jingyu Pass, which was more than enough to defend the pass, but they did not dare to take the initiative to go out of the city to fight.

On the second day, Guo Cheng stopped the sweep, came as promised, gathered his men, and rushed all the way to the east, towards Jingyu Pass, preparing to join forces to attack Jingyu Pass from east to west. When the defenders of Jingyu Pass heard that Guo Cheng's army was coming, they saw that it was not good, so they wisely abandoned Jingyu Pass, fled to the southwest, crossed the Yellow River from the southwest, and fled to Zhuo Luo and the garrison of the Southern Military Division on the banks of the Kaluo River (Zhuanglang River).

did not abolish a soldier and captured the Jingyu Pass. In fact, it is the Western Xia people who resist, and the east and west are attacked, and the Jingyu Pass will also be lost.

Since then, not only Lanzhou has been in his hands, but also from Jingyuguan to Miaochuan, and has formed a line with the West Road Army.

The significance of this is not trivial. Guo Cheng and Chongyi Yanda met at Jingyuguan, jokingly beating Chongyi's chest and saying, "Boy, you cow." ”

"Don't dare, don't dare, I'm learning from General Guo."

Guo Cheng touched his buttocks and said: "Boy, I will attack Miaochuan City and let your Taishan beat a hundred rods, this time you are ready to take a big board." ”

Chong Yi said: "General Guo, it's okay, it's really not good, I'll call the lady to Lanzhou." ”

Guo Cheng was depressed, Zheng Lang's daughter stopped in front, who dared to fight the friendship board, and finally said angrily: "No, you have to invite me to drink." ”

"Okay."

The two armies drank and ate meat freely in front of Jingyu Pass. In any case, because the Western Xia soldiers entered Guwei City, causing many crises, and finally raised their eyebrows once, the whole army was very happy, and on this day, almost all the wine stored in Jingyuguan was drunk.

But the crisis is not over, and now the main question is whether Song Jun is a whale or an elephant?

Wang Shao is in danger of Wang Shao, and as the army goes deep into Henan, it is about to face the possibility of Qingzhuang, Dong Yu and Dong joining forces to counterattack.

The Song army succeeded in taking Ningguan, Gonggu and Lanzhou, and locked up Liang Yi's 150,000 troops inside, Liang Yibu had to withdraw his troops sooner or later, and the Tanguts would also counterattack, if the two Western Xia armies joined forces properly, not only would this cage be torn apart, but it would also bring a devastating blow to the Song army.

It's a whale, and this elephant is a great meal. It's a snake, and this elephant must open the snake's belly, even if the snake is a python. (To be continued.) )