When he set off the next day, Yang Yi found that Aniya was gone!

The eldest princess of Kang Guo's face was tense, her eyes were slightly red and swollen, Li Yizhong's eyes flickered a little, and she tried to hide as far away as possible; Yang Yi simply didn't ask again.

He doesn't have any feelings for Aniya, but he has a deep sense of guilt for the eldest princess of Kang, but her identity is there, and this is the insurmountable gap between the two sides; Zhao Xu's person Yang Yi knows too well, he has an extreme personality, and he is already dissatisfied with himself, if he is entangled with the eldest princess of Kang again, the ghost knows how Zhao Xu will react.

In addition to Zhao Xu, there is also the entire Great Song Dynasty royal family and officialdom, from the previous reactions of Yin Ce and others, it can be known that it is impossible to deal with herself and the eldest princess of Kang, and the eldest princess of Kang can ignore these and live in a fairy tale world created in her heart, but it is impossible for Yang Yi not to consider these practical problems.

The iron hooves are rolling away, this is not destined to be the time for children to grow up.

The Mingtang River flows from north to south, and meets the Wuding River outside the city of Yinzhou, the passage of the Wuding River has always been a place for soldiers to fight, starting from the Qin Dynasty, this passage is one of the strategic arteries for the Han and Hu people; Qin Shi Huang's 200,000 army, under the leadership of Meng Tian, once attacked the Xiongnu along the north of Wuding River; Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's Shuofang County was also cast with blood on the uncertain side, and the Shuofang Duhufu of the Tang Dynasty was made of Turkic flesh and bones; Poor and uncertain riverside bones, like a person in a spring boudoir dream. It is not unreasonable for the poet to make such an exclamation, every powerful Central Plains dynasty must master the Hetao region south of Yinshan, because it is not only the main production area of war horses, but also overlooks Guanzhong in terms of topography, and Guanzhong overlooks the entire Central Plains.

To master the Hetao area, in addition to the passage of the Hulu River on Jingyuan Road, it is also inseparable from the strategic artery of the Wuding River, for thousands of years, I don't know how many Jin Ge iron horses rushed to Yinshan from here, I don't know how many battles were fought here, I don't know how much blood flowed into the Wuding River, I don't know how many dry bones piled up into the embankment.

And now, Yang Yi has been planning for so long, and it is precisely to compete for an important stronghold of this strategic passage - Mizhi City.

There are also six military divisions in the left wing of the Western Xia (similar to the division of the military region in later generations), but two military divisions are stationed on both sides of the Wuding River, namely the Xiangyou Military Division of Shizhou and the Shenyong Military Division of Mida Cave (Yulin), which shows the importance of the passage of the Wuding River in the Western Xia.

Fortunately, under Yang Yi's combination of attacks from the north and south, Western Xia was beaten dizzy, and the Xia army on the side of the Wuding River was transferred a lot.

Just when Yang Yi and Chang Zhidi were approaching Yinzhou along the Mingtang River, Liu An and Zhang Cheng, who had been "repelled" by the Xia army, suddenly raised 30,000 troops and approached Mizhi City.

In order to ensure that Mizhi City was taken within two days, Zhang Shiyong of Hedong Road also sent 20,000 troops to cross the Yellow River to attack Mizhi in the west.

The Wuding River flows to Mizhi through Yinzhou, Yinzhou is the backing of Mizhi, and Mizhi is the bridgehead of Yinzhou, the two are inseparable, once the Song army captures Mizhi, Yinzhou is directly exposed to the Song army's soldiers.

During the reign of Shenzong, Mizhi City was recaptured by the Great Song Dynasty and lost Mizhi City, and Western Xia was frightened at that time.

In the early years of the Yuan Dynasty, Sima Guang was a good neighbor and friendly, and with a stroke of the map and the slender orchid, he lightly assigned four fortresses, including Mizhi, to the Western Xia, and as a result, it was the turn of the Great Song Dynasty to live in peace.

Sima Guang is a master of historiography, in order to control the strategic passage of the Wuding River in the Central Plains dynasties, there are more than one million corpses, doesn't Sima Guang know the importance of this passage? To put it mildly, returning Mizhi City to Xixia is similar to taking off his pants and waiting for someone to masturbate, from this point of view, it is not an exaggeration to say that Sima is a natural masochist.

Now, Liu An took 30,000 Suide men and vowed to take back the mother-in-law Mizhi within two days.

The defenders of Mizhi City were only more than 4,000 people, and Bu Qin looked at the overwhelming Song army under the city, and his first reaction was to send people back to Yinzhou to ask for help.

It's just that Bu Qin didn't know that the Dutong army in Yinzhou was also anxious, and he suddenly heard that the "Liao Army" was going south along the Mingtang River and approaching Yinzhou, and sent 2,000 men and horses to rely on the Great Wall to block it, but he was defeated by others, and he was so angry that Wei Mingba Bu cut down the leading general Luo Ba with a knife!

Yang Yi led the army to gallop around Yinzhou City, although there was no strong attack, but the appearance was extremely arrogant and rampant, and the Xia army in the city was abused and mocked, and all of them urinated on Yinzhou City, and the face of the famous Baa was green, but the number of troops in the city was only eight thousand, and more than half of it was the city defense army that had no field combat ability, the failure of the Great Wall blockade, morale was low, and it was necessary to be cautious to fight.

Yang Yi naturally did not have a hard spot in Yinzhou, and after leaving some people to monitor the movements of the defenders in Yinzhou, he immediately wantonly burned and plundered the villages on the periphery of Yinzhou.

There is no mercy in the war, how can you weaken the other party to the greatest extent, just do it, when the Tangut invaded the Song Realm, they burned and looted, not the most cruel, only more cruel.

Under Mizhi City, Liu An, the soldiers and horses, gave an order, and the man from Suide snatched Mizhi Po Niang's action also began.

In the earth-shattering war drums, tens of thousands of Song soldiers held iron shields, carried sandbags, overwhelmingly rushed to the moat, the battle just began, the shouts resounded in the sky, the arrows on the city rained down, clanging on the iron shield, and some shot from the edge of the shield, piercing the body of the Song soldiers; The strong penetration of the divine arm bow made many arrows sink into the bricks of the city, so that the city seemed to grow a messy grass, and the entire head of the Xia army that was shot was pierced, and the red blood and white brains flew down, and the appearance was extremely tragic.

At the same time, the bed of the Song army also exerted its might, and the iron arrows the size of spears shot out quickly, hitting the city wall with a bang, and the iron arrows entered the wall for three points, and the tail of the arrows left outside the wall could be trampled on by the soldiers.

In less than half an hour, the moats on three sides of Mizhi City were divided into a twenty-zhang wide siege passage by the Song army's towns. As soon as the drum sounded, the first wave of 15,000 Song troops rushed towards the city wall with swords and shields, and behind them were huge siege vehicles, shouted trumpets by dozens of people, and pushed together to force towards the city wall; The attack is divided into east, south and west, this is a typical siege tactics of encircling the city of three and one, Buqin carried a knife in the south of the city, under his command, the catapult threw a boulder smashed into the Song army's array, the earth rumbled, the arrows were shot down like money, and the sound of the bowstring shook people's hearts.

Looking at the Song army like ants under the city, Bu Qin's expression was solemn, all the defenders of Mizhi City were combined, and the number of people was not as good as the first wave of siege troops in the south of the Song army, and the Song army made a huge shout when it charged, and slapped on the city wall wave after wave, as if it could destroy the city wall at any time; The siege vanguard of the Song army rushed to the city, stepping on the iron arrow nailed to the city wall, quickly climbing up, this way of climbing the city is much stronger than using a ladder, the whole city wall is filled with rows of iron arrows, the soldiers can flexibly jump from the side to that side, in order to avoid the rolling stones and wood smashed down on the city, and at the same time, the giant arrows on the upper layer can also play an excellent blocking role, and it is difficult to fall down against the city wall, so that it is difficult to hurt the Song army who climbed the city.

"Hot oil! Splash hot oil! Bu Bi shouted loudly, fighting with the Great Song Dynasty for decades, whether it was attacking the city or defending the city, the Xia army had all the moves of the Song army, a pot of hot oil was poured down against the wall, and the shield of the Song army was difficult to block the whole body, and one by one the soldiers who were seriously burned fell to the city screaming, and the iron arrows stained with oil also became slippery and difficult to grasp, and many Song soldiers fell down the city with their hands and feet.

Siege warfare has always come at the cost of heavy sacrifices, the Song army above fell down, and the Song army below climbed up again, under the urging of the rumbling war drums, one after another, continuously, and the hot oil and stones of the Xia army were always exhausted.

In front of the city gate, the huge rushing car is also braving the rain of arrows and stones, violently hitting the city gate, the loud bang shook the city head trembling, the Song army came too suddenly, the city gate of Mizhi has not had time to block, if the giant car is allowed to hit down like this, the city gate may be knocked down at any time.

Buqin ordered a large number of firewood, grass, fire oil and other flammable materials to be thrown under the city gate, using the raging fire to temporarily block the Song army from breaking the gate, and at the same time organizing the young people in the city to seal the city gate hole, the angry Song army used the fire of the city gate to ignite the "thunderbolt melon" and threw it into the city, and the dense explosion made the entire city gate tower burst into flames.

This reminded the other Song troops that the walls of Mizhi were about two zhang high, and after rushing through the moat, it was not a problem to throw grenades at the head of the city.

However, soon there was an explosion under the city, it turned out that because the fuse was too long, the grenade usually did not explode immediately after being thrown on the city, and the Xia army who was not afraid of death picked it up and threw it back to the city, one worked, and other Xia troops followed suit, and as a result, the Song army under the city was also bombed badly, and Liu An had to order to give up the use of "thunderbolt melon".

The first wave of 5,000 people was scattered, and the second wave followed, now every minute and every wonder can not be wasted, no one knows if Yang Yi's side can really hold on for two days, and at the same time, Liu An also organized a group of soldiers with loud voices to shout to the city: The Liao army is attacking Yinzhou, your reinforcements are out of force, open the door and surrender immediately, otherwise there will be no armor left when the city is broken!

The shouts of hundreds of people in unison echoed in the four fields, this kind of psychological war will not be effective for a while, but as long as there are no reinforcements for a long time, it will definitely greatly damage the morale of the Xia army in Mizhi City, and the army will have no heart to fight.

The Xia army in the city didn't have time to catch a breath, and the second wave of the Song army's attack began again...... On the other hand, Yang Yi in Yinzhou suddenly became quiet, and four thousand men and horses were quietly lying in a forest near the Niuhoi Station......

(To be continued)