Dagger.

Yuan Hao had just finished giving the order, and not long after the scouts left, the main force of the Song army finally appeared.

Almost all of the most elite troops of the Northwest Fourth Road were concentrated on the East Road, and they set off from Pengyang City in a vigorous manner, rushed to the East Cottage, rested for a day in the East Cottage, recuperated and recuperated, and gave Zhang Qi a buffer time to lead the army to the Nine Sheep Valley.

Then start from Dongshanzhai and enter Zhenrong Village, which is only less than forty miles away from Dingchuan Village. If you want to hide it, you can't hide it, so the Song army quickly rushed to Dingchuan Village. Entering Xiangjiaxia, Di Qing shouted: "Set off nine gunpowders." ”

There was no beacon tower, and there was no wolf smoke, so gunpowder was used as a signal.

After the explosion of nine extra-large gunpowder packets, nine loud noises were heard in the distance, and the general attack officially began.

Zheng Lang and Han Qi heard nine explosions in the village, and immediately stood up, Zheng Lang said: "Change the flag." ”

Gezi flag down.

In fact, after entering Dingchuan Village, he had nothing to do with Ge Huaimin. Ge Qi fell, two larger banners stood up, facing the wind, and the two big Zheng Han characters were particularly eye-catching.

The sudden change of flag was to win the morale of the Tangut people.

……

Before the Battle of Dingchuan Village began, another battle was fought.

More than 30,000 Tangut people whose hands were stained with the blood of countless soldiers and civilians in Weizhou wanted to go back, so easy?

The Tangut people attached great importance to scouts, and this time the Song Dynasty also attached great importance to scouts. As soon as Yuan Hao's fast horse left Dingchuan Village, the news arrived at Dongshan Village. If you don't stop it, let the Western Xia army in Weizhou withdraw first. Again and again, orders were issued. Finally, the old man said, "Let me go." ”

This line of work may not be pleased. The number of people is small, the task is arduous, and it is not the most glorious in this battle. Everyone looked at him together, and the old man said: "I have been on Jingyuan Road for a long time, and the soldiers are familiar with the terrain and terrain. It's not like General Di Qing, General Wang can charge into battle, or I'm the best to go. ”

Helpless, Di Qing had no choice but to agree to let the old seed go, but the old seed didn't go, so he could only let Wang Xin go, and the others were not at ease. However, although Wang Xin was brave and good at fighting, he was not familiar with Jingyuan Road.

Lao Chong took 5,000 horsemen to leave Dongshanzhai and went south directly, quickly gathering the soldiers of Dibei City, Kaiyuan Fort and Wating Village, gathering nearly 3,000 people and going south again. As for whether Yuan Hao would take advantage of the emptiness of the troops in the three places to lead the army south, no one considered it. As long as Yuan Hao dares to do this, he will go deep into the hinterland of the Song Dynasty and ensure that his army of more than 100,000 soldiers will not have 10,000 soldiers escaping.

did not go to Weizhou, but took advantage of the fact that before the Western Xia army arrived, he chose the narrowest place in the Danzheng Gorge, which was more than ten miles long, moved the stones on the mountain, and filled the canyon indiscriminately. Fan Zhongyan and Jingtai will do the same thing in Gaopingzhai, but on a larger scale.

It doesn't seem to be useful, as long as these stones are moved away, the road can be quickly cleared, but whether it is useful or not, you can only see it when you are in battle...... Danzheng Gorge.

Zhengxia Tang Dynasty Road, Xiaoguan Han Dynasty name. Even the mountains are connected to the jade plug, and the army controls the golden city.

The shape wins the double flow, and the universe is flat. With the handle of the high-minded bucket, the northeast is Shenjing.

Also known as the Golden Buddha Gorge, remote control Liupan, Wating and Xiao Pass, so it is also called the three passes. On the north bank of Jingshui, only a dozen miles away from the later Jingyuan City, it is said that Qin Shi Huang patrolled the west of Longxi, built back to the middle palace here, out of the Jitou Mountain, opened up the famous Jitou Ancient Road, opened up the Danzheng Gorge. This is a legend, it is difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood, but Liu Xiu of Han Guangwu did come out of this gorge and personally led his troops to break through the chicken head road guarded by Wang Meng and recover the northern territory. But because the war has been concentrated north of Longshan, this gorge that is nearly 20 miles long was gradually ignored in the Song Dynasty.

This is where the war began.

After receiving Yuan Hao's order, Wei Minghuan and Wo Yuzhen began to withdraw their troops from Weizhou City. Here, a second error occurs with the name ring.

The first mistake was the movement of the army.

He didn't expect Ji Zhen to dare to ignore Weizhou and divide his troops to Cage Pole City. No more scouts were sent to investigate, and a hasty judgment was made that this army would sneak into Weizhou from the mountains south of Weizhou City. This judgment caused the first consequence, Yuan Hao once again divided his troops to the south, weakening the strength of Dingchuan Village. The second consequence was that Yuan Hao could not clearly judge the intentions of the Song army, and delayed the time to recall them. If it was two days earlier, the Song army would not be able to join the siege, and it would be impossible for the old people to send an army to stop it. Unless he breaks through Weizhou City, it is a serious mistake if he does not break it.

The mistake made here was to think that all the Song army was concentrated in the north, and there were not many troops in the south, so they did not dare to stop it. It's not bad to think about, and it's important to see who will execute it. If you have a small army, you can't stop it? Besides, there are 300 miles from Weizhou to Dingchuan Village, which is blocked, and Yuan Hao's army is beyond the reach of the whip.

came up with this idea, and did not send scouts, and forcefully crossed the Jingshui and prepared to retreat.

At this time, I heard that seven or eight thousand Song troops had entered Weizhou City.

Wei Minghuan turned his head to look in the direction of Weizhou and sighed.

At this time, there was a cry in the city of Weizhou, and Dongshanzhai advocated that Bao Hou lead the army into Weizhou.

Yin Zhutie blushed and said, "Master Zhangzhai, it's so early." ”

Zhang Baohou dared to answer, knelt down on one leg, gave a military salute, and said: "My subordinates have seen Yin Tongju, and there is an order from the Xianggong here." ”

It was written by Zhang Fangping, Yin Zhu, you have done a good job and made a first-class contribution to the imperial court. You have to give Yin Su candy to eat, otherwise this kid will jump to his feet and scold his mother. Then he said, Chong Shiheng led the army to forcibly block the Western Xia in Danzheng Gorge, and you can't release the people out of the city. Also, you have to be prepared to act at the opportune moment, cooperate with Chong Shiheng to annihilate the more than 30,000 Western Xia troops, and don't want them to escape back to Western Xia.

You still have to fight, don't rush.

Yin Zhu snorted angrily, let's appease the people first, don't say anything about whether you fight or not, first calm the emotions of the people in the city. Too many people died, and the defense of Weizhou City was fought too badly.

The Battle of Danzheng Gorge begins.

The old seed was piling up stones, and when he saw that the Tangut people had not sent a scout, he had an idea and made a new arrangement, not only piling up a simple stone wall in this narrow place, but also continuing to put stones in front of him, and moving the rocks on the mountain together, or carrying or still, and getting them into the canyon together.

Scattered far away.

Then he gave some instructions.

Frustrated, Wei Minghuan came to Danzheng Gorge, saw the stones on the ground, and only started to be small, so he carefully dialed his horse and moved forward slowly. Danzheng Gorge is not long, the total length of the road is twenty miles, and the actual real canyon area is less than half. When the stones finally increased, Wei Minghuan had doubts in his heart, and ordered the soldiers to dismount and move quickly, and then sent scouts to the front to check. Suddenly, countless arrows fell from the mountains on both sides, and there were some treacherous places, and many large stones were thrown down from the top of the mountain.

The Western Xia soldiers were in chaos, and the Song army in front of them was killed, and there was chaos all of a sudden, and they were defeated in the southeast direction. It was not until the main army that it stabilized. It was this wave of attacks that brought down at least nearly a thousand Western Xia warriors.

Wei Minghuan listened to the report of his subordinates and made a judgment that the Song army did not have many men. So he asked the soldiers to dismount and touch along the hills on both sides. Send a part of the Bang Lang Orders to move stones. But he forgot one thing, once he dismounted, would he still be the opponent of the Song army? Moreover, the mountains on both sides of Danzheng Gorge are so steep.

The mountain was ambushed by the Song army, and the Bang Lang Ling sent out was killed by the Song army.

I had to send more men and be killed again.

On the fourth occasion, Wei Minghuan sent half of his men to finally clear the barricade, but the Song army calmly lined up at the highest barricade and shot down a group of Xia soldiers with ten thousand arrows. Look at this two-person high pile of stones, in fact, it is not difficult, if it is the Song army who is good at fighting under the horse, with the protection of the shield, climb up to fight, it is piled up in a mess, not built into a stone wall, can not climb up. But what can the Tangut people do when they get off their horses?

Looking at the twilight of the sky, Wei Minghuan was forced to quit Danzheng Gorge and set up camp, and rest for a night.

Then he was oversight, it was easier to get the stones down the mountain, but it was very difficult to move them up the mountain. The roadblocks were cleared, but they were all on both sides of the road. They retreated, and the Song army came, and they brought these stones to the middle of the road.

The next day, the story continued. After two days, Danzheng Gorge did not pass, but lost the lives of three or four thousand soldiers. Wei Minghuan is a little hooded. There are other ways to go back, return to Jingshui, and go to Pengyang City from Xinzhai, what are you going to do, don't mention the road, it's just sending you to death. Either from the west road, sneak to the cage city, not to mention that there are many fortresses of the Song Dynasty here, as well as roads. From Langgan City to Weizhou Avenue or Danzheng Gorge to Wating Zhai Road. There is a small road that crosses from the middle of Dalong Mountain, and it is from this road that a thousand reinforcements sent by Zhang Qi pass through to the city of Weizhou. But he still has nearly 30,000 troops under his command, including some logistics baggage vehicles, how can he cross Dalong Mountain from this trail?

I had no choice but to continue to storm the Kite Gorge.

The camp was set up on the mountains on both sides, and some soldiers were also sent to camp in the middle of the road, so as not to let the Song army put stones in the middle of the road.

On the third day, he was ready to attack this pile of stone mountains, at this time the Song army shouted, all Xixia brothers, don't dream, you can't go back, Dingchuan Village, your main force of Xixia has been defeated, surrender quickly, whoever kills Wei Minghuan or lying on the reputation of the person will be rewarded with five million, and the regimental training envoy will be rewarded. Five million dollars is five thousand yuan, which may not be touching, but the latter reward is quite exciting. When the blind felt first descended to the Song Dynasty, the reward was only for this official position.

Then he threw over the heads of many Western Xia warriors, which numbered in the thousands. Some of them are still known to them.

Hearing this news, in an instant, almost all the Western Xia soldiers were dumbfounded.

It was not intimidation, it was indeed the defeat of the Tangut people in Dingchuan Village. Yesterday's thing.

……

Zheng Lang heard the explosion and knew that Di Qing's army was about to arrive, so he and Han Qi went to the top of the city.

Suddenly, a strong wind blew, and the wind and sand blew in the face, and piles of black clouds surged from the north. This is the unique microclimate of Dingchuan Village, every autumn, because of the special terrain and water vapor around the mountains here, when the wind blows, black clouds can gush, accompanied by wind and sand, as if the black wind recorded in the history books. When he came to Dingchuan Village, Zheng Lang had seen such a special climate three times.

But it's hard to say who will be beneficial at this time.

This special weather generally does not last long, and after asking the local people, the elderly can only last for half a day, and the short ones only have one time to come. Zheng Lang whispered to Han Qi, "I hope Song Jun arrives early." ”

I believe Di Qing, Zheng Lang also said that in the northwest war, you must pay attention to the wind. You don't need to be like this when you go to Hebei, only in this sad place you need to pay special attention. Because where there is wind, there must be sand, and if there is sand, it will inevitably affect eyesight. Standing downwind, you can't open your eyes, how to fight?

But now the Song army is flexible and mobile, and the Tangut people besieged Dingchuan Village, but they died.

I saw that the Tanguts began to mobilize their troops. The tribes poured to the east.

Zheng Lang squinted his eyes, calculated the time in his heart, suddenly opened his eyes, and said: "Wang Ji and Zhao Xun, the two of you obey the order, each lead 10,000 horses, open the gate of Nanzhai, and take advantage of the wind to kill the enemy Nanzhai." Remember, don't be in a hurry, move steadily, cut off the enemy's way to the east, and form a formation so that the enemy will not be flanked on both sides. ”

Take the lead and pave the way for Di Qing's army to come.

"Whoa."

The two went down to clear the troops.

It has survived until now, and Zheng Lang's miraculous command and budget have also brought confidence to Song Jun. And Zheng Lang exaggerated, the four armies will gather here, and 140,000 troops will participate in the battle, and the soldiers will have confidence in their hearts.

20,000 people were caught in the black wind and killed.

It was a little difficult at first, and although Yuan Hao built twelve pontoon bridges, each pontoon bridge was heavily protected by heavy troops on the opposite side.

However, the Song Dynasty also had cavalry, and the number of cavalry in this battle was not a minority. After the two generals led the cavalry to pay a part of the sacrifice, they took advantage of the wind and sand to occupy the bridgehead, and the rest of the Song army continued to rush across the pontoon bridge and kill the enemy camp.

All the sons of the southern camp of Western Xia were cut off by the Song army. Yuan Hao used the banner to command and let the Xiying army forcibly flank the Song army from the flank. However, when the black wind rises, the banner command is not very bright, on the contrary, the Song army uses a set of drum orders invented by Zheng Lang, but it is smoothly carrying out command and dispatch.

It was too late, and the main army of the Song Dynasty arrived.

Di Qing saw the black wind and heard the sound of fighting, and knew that Zheng Lang was taking advantage of the rare weather opportunity to kill in advance, so he shouted: "Hurry." ”

The three soldiers and horses quickly pounced on Dingchuan Village.

The direction of the flutter is different, and it is pounced all the way to the northeast corner to occupy the upper hand. Di Qing looked at Wang Xin and said, "General Wang, I have wronged you." ”

He is fighting the idea of grain and grass, but he can't expose it in advance, and he must have a fierce army to cover himself.

But using Wang Xin as a pioneer officer is indeed a bit aggrieved.

Wang Xin was happy, patted Di Qing on the shoulder and said, "Give me 15,000 rides." ”

It's okay to let Lao Tzu be a pioneer, but you must give me a little more manpower, so that I can make more achievements.

"Okay."

Wang Xin led 15,000 horsemen and rushed straight over. It was easier to attack the Tanguts from the periphery. Yuan Hao was densely fenced, only inside, but not much defense was done outside. The Tanguts also came out to fight. But Wang Xin killed from the northeast to the southwest, and always grasped the upper hand. One after another, some soldiers fell by arrows, but more Song troops entered the enemy camp.

Two groups of people, totaling more than 30,000 people, stirred up in the camp of Western Xia, and there was chaos.

Di Qing looked at Guo Kui and said: "I heard Zhang Zhizhou say one thing, Zheng Xianggong once commented on the generals of Yuanbian to him, and listed you in the third class, before you, there are less than ten people. ”

"Subordinates dare that."

"Do you know who got ahead of you?"

"My subordinates don't know."

"So-and-so, Chong Zhizhou, General Wang Xin, Zhang Kang, Gao Jixuan, Zhang Qi, Wang Ji, and your sacrificial brother Guo Zun."

"Zheng Xianggong ......" Guo Kui's eyes moistened. His elder brother was the first to give a fair evaluation to Zheng Lang, and he had the grace of knowing him. Now when I hear such a high evaluation, I am so moved that I am about to cry.

Di Qing didn't have time to chat with him, so he quickly said: "There are still a few people with you, Zhao Xun, Yang Wenguang, Ji Zhen, Jingtai, Tian Fei, Zhe Jimin, Wang Kai, and Yu Jiang are all under you, and you also said that you are young now, and the future growth space may be above a certain level." I hope that in this battle, you will prove to the world that what Zheng Xianggong said is true. ”

Guo Kui was even more moved and said, "My subordinates will definitely prove it." ”

"Okay, I'll give you the strongest five thousand spirit riders."

These cavalry had more than 1,000 Jurchen cavalry and three battalions of cavalry, and the rest were all strong cavalry, and even Wang Xin took the lead in killing the enemy camp, but Di Qing was not willing to give it to him.

Guo Kui gathered five thousand horsemen, stared at Zhao Zhong, Zhao Bao, Zhao Sheng, and said: "You told your subordinates that this will be the last battle, and after the war, my Song Dynasty will enter a peaceful time, and I will be able to live a good life in the capital in the future, just see how many great feats you can make in this battle." ”

Zhao Zhong said unconvinced: "Why don't you fight?" ”

"My dynasty is not your birth of the Jurchen Division, the war is endless, there are very few war times, most of them are peaceful times, so the people are rich, once they go to the battlefield, the rewards for war achievements are heavy. Fight every year, fight every day, and the court has so much money and rewards? ”

"Yes."

"Ready."

"Whoa." Zhao Zhong and the three of them were doing brief support. There is no way, until now, there are still many Jurchens who cannot understand Chinese, so they can only let them convey orders by themselves. At the same time, Guo Kui's words were also said to Fanzi. The Jurchens are rewarded, and you can also be rewarded.

After a brief round of mobilization, 5,000 people mobilized.

After making a small circle, he went around to the rear of the Tangut people and gained the upper hand, at this time the black clouds gradually disappeared, and the wind seemed to be getting smaller.

Guo Kui looked at the sky, knew that he couldn't delay any longer, and said, "Kill." ”

Di Qing watched from afar, and in order to cooperate with Guo Kui, he ordered 10,000 troops to enter the Western Xia camp again.

Zheng Lang's army pinned down the Western Xia forces in the west and south, and Di Qing's men and horses again pinned down the Western Xia forces in the east. There was a chaotic fight everywhere. This lightened Yuan Hao's attention.

Guo Kui took the opportunity to lead his army into the enemy camp.

Zhao Zhong's three boys ran faster than him, this is also a psychological factor, these Jurchen warriors are from various departments, Zhao Zhong They will not cherish it too much, and they are eager to make meritorious contributions, as for how many girls and real people will die, what do they care, but if they want to make meritorious contributions, they must rush to the front.

To be honest, if the commander's command ability is almost the same, and the external factors are similar, there is no luck against the sky, and the combat effectiveness of the Tangut army is not as good as that of the Song army and the Tibetans, and even the Uighurs.

It's not that their individual quality is not good, the main thing is that Yuan Hao forcibly conscripted various departments, his loyalty is not high, his family is poor, his morale is not high, Yuan Hao's bandit-style fighting style, and military discipline is not high. Therefore, the combat effectiveness of the army is relatively low, which is also the reason why Zhang Yu created two mythical battles in Tumaochuan.

In the face of this group of Jurchens who were eager for military exploits and ranked first in fierceness, the Western Xia soldiers were like poor chicks, who were quickly killed one by one.

Zhang Fangping watched from the rear and couldn't help muttering: "What a fierce army." ”

"Zheng Xianggong also said that it can't be said that the Khitans are not good, if they are the guards of the Ghost Gate, they are a devil's army in the north, but there is a lack of eloquent people to screw them together, otherwise these northern sons will unite and no one in the world will be invincible." Di Qing said indifferently.

It's too fierce indeed.

This is more than 1,000 people, if it is 100,000 people, what will be the situation? Even Di Qing was sure that as long as he had 100,000 such troops, he would be able to pacify Western Xia and recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun.

Where do you need 100,000 people, there are 20,000 or 30,000 horses, with Di Qing's command level, then congratulations to him are enough to satisfy his **. Before the Jurchens and the Mongols did not fall, in the era of cold weapons, it was an unsolvable problem.

Yuan Hao continued to command the army.

But the strange black wind disrupted his position.

However, the wind gradually decreased, the vision gradually widened, and a heart finally settled. After all, he still had more than 70,000 military horses at this time. And it is possible that the army of the south will be able to return immediately. Suddenly, I saw the whereabouts of this Song army. At this time, he was chilling all over, and he gave orders again and again to where to dispatch the army.

Grain and grass.

But it was too late.

Nearly 2,000 people were sacrificed, and almost half of the Jurchens fell, and Guo Kui forcibly fought his way out of the barrier of the Western Xia army and came to the low mountain.

The Tangut people who were guarding the grain were in a hurry, and they kept firing arrows from the mountains.

"Kill."

"Whoa." Zhao Zhong and the three replied loudly. It's not that they really don't understand, once the enemy's grain and grass are burned, they will make the greatest achievements in this battle. The three of them braved the rain of arrows and led their subordinates to rush to the mountain.

The rain of arrows was very dense, and Zhao Zhong was hit by three arrows in a row and fell. Zhao Sheng also suffered two arrows, and was wounded and still fighting.

Sacrifice five or six hundred soldiers again, and kill the low mountain.

There were still some enemies on the mountain, but they were quickly dispersed by this group of wolf-like Song troops, and just as the Western Xia troops were about to gather, Guo Kui had already lit torches and threw them into the improvised granary. With the help of the wind that had not yet subsided, the fire immediately spread.

In the blink of an eye, dozens of granaries became a sea of fire.

Di Qing asked the remaining 20,000 or so troops to shout: "Xixia people, there is nothing to eat, what should you do?" ”