Because he had some troops, Zheng Lang was not fast in going west. But along the way, he communicated with Guo Kui, Wang Shao, and Zhang Qi all the way, and at the same time, various orders were issued before Zheng Lang arrived at the front.

At this time, there was also controversy in China.

If it is not a struggle for whether it can cut down the summer, the army has arrived at the front line one after another, and most of the materials, grain and grass have also arrived at the front line, and the fight will not work. The contention is a question of troop strength.

Previously, Wang Shao suggested that the number of troops should not be too much, and he said several reasons.

First of all, there is grain and grass materials, Sun Tzu's Art of War said that the wise general should eat the enemy, eat the enemy for one minute, when I am twenty minutes, get one minute of grain from the enemy, when I arrive at the domestic transportation of twenty minutes of grain, from the enemy's hands to get one stone of fodder, when from the domestic transportation of twenty stone of fodder.

This sentence sounds quite reasonable, but the truth behind it is extremely cruel. What is the enemy, that is, after the army arrives in the enemy country, go and rob it, and burn it. However, the Song Dynasty was not only trying to defeat the Western Xia, if so, learn the methods of Jiaozhi, and if done well, they could save one-third of the military cost. However, if the Song Dynasty wanted to occupy and rule this land normally in the future, it could not move the Art of War set of Sun Tzu.

Wang Jian used 600,000 troops, and with the national strength of the Qin Dynasty at that time, he would definitely not be able to bear the grain and grass materials of the 600,000 army, and most of them were eaten by the enemy. But what about the people of Chu? Although there are three households in Chu, the death of Qin will be Chu.

When the Sui and Tang dynasties handed over the change, many large corps battles, but at that time the world was as black as a crow, not the way of the world, but the way of Shura, the road of hell, otherwise more than six million households to the Tang Dynasty when there were only two million households, so that Wei Zheng opposed Li Shimin's enshrinement when he was enshrined, and the vast plain area in Shandong (referring to the east of the Kushan Mountain, including Shandong, most of Hebei, Henan and the vast plain area in the south of Shanxi) was sparsely populated, full of grass and trees, which was to lead Rong Di into the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty and show our weakness. At that time, the Tang Dynasty was established for a long time, and even to encourage the people to have children. The people were forced to marry men at the age of 20 and women at the age of 15, and even widows to remarry. Therefore, the Tang Dynasty founded the country and launched the battle of the large corps, and the people did not complain.

The Song Dynasty was well prepared for the summer attack at this time, but it would also use sky-high money and silk, and even make the whole Shaanxi unpeaceful. Although the imperial court ordered a subsidy, whether it was a village soldier or a people's husband, they were treated equally with the forbidden army during the war, so as not to implicate their families and reduce the worries of the people and the villagers, but the war came. Shaanxi will allocate more than 200,000 people, tens of thousands of soldiers, and 90,000 township soldiers, and the entire Shaanxi agricultural production will be delayed by one-third, and prices will inevitably rise.

And that's just one of them.

The larger the army, the higher the command requirements. It was not that Wang Shao underestimated Zheng Lang, but Zheng Lang was also very careful and transferred Zhang Qi to his side. Assist as the second commander, but such a large army, once the battle begins, even if the grandson is alive. Inevitably, mistakes won't happen.

The army is mixed, the real forbidden soldiers are only 250,000, and the other armies are varied, such as the village soldiers. There are Hebei, Hedong, and Shaanxi. The soldiers were even more chaotic, including those on the Yanyan Road, the Huanqing Road, the Jingyuan Road, the Xihe region, the Huangzhou region, the Lanliangbo people, the Uighurs in Gansu Gua, and the Tibetan people, as well as the Tubo people, the Qiang people, a small number of Tuyuhun people, and Dangxiang people. If you don't get it right, you will have the end of the Battle of Chibi and the Battle of Weishui.

Therefore, Wang Shao suggested that the number of troops should be reduced, one should be smaller, and the other should be refined, and the domestic situation in Western Xia was very bad, and there was no need to mobilize the army.

Guo Kui put forward another theory.

Wang Shao and Zheng Lang quickly took Hehuang Lanzhou, and Zhang Qi quickly pacified the five states of the Hexi Corridor, which is for a certain reason, Tubo has not been evil to the Song Dynasty, there is no obvious contradiction, not to mention the Liangzhou Liugu Department and the Ganzhou Uighurs, the five dynasties yearn for the Central Plains civilization, Tubo since the death of the Tubo division and collapse, there is no cohesion, so the sense of resistance is not strong, coupled with the Song Dynasty's timely waiting system, large-scale investment and various ways to stabilize the people's hearts, won and obtained.

As for the Song Dynasty's light troops to take Jinghu, Bashu and the Southern Han Dynasty in the past, it was because the people of the Central Plains had a sense of great unification, including Bashu, if Wang Quanbin had not killed too much, Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun would not have caused any turmoil. You can't take the Han Jinghu Lake in the south of Bashu as Western Xia.

It has been many years since the Western Xia was officially crowned king, with a sense of national consciousness and cohesion, don't look at the current dispute between the two factions, once the Song Dynasty sent troops, it would not be the same thing.

Since Li Jiqian, to Li Deming, Li Yuanhao, Li Liangzuo, Li Bingchang, there have been five generations, the famous royal family has grown, all over the regions of Western Xia, even if the Song Dynasty light soldiers quickly take Lingzhou and Xingqing Mansion, the children of the royal family can still lead the tribes that disobey the Song Dynasty, with the help of Hengshan and the desert area to resist the Song Dynasty, may revert to the trend of Li Jiqian.

The troops are small, they must be light soldiers, but light soldiers cannot pacify Hengshan, but the Hengshan area is the base camp of Western Xia, and the Song army must pass through the place, which will be cut off from grain and grass, threatening the safety of the front.

He said another problem vaguely, if he wins, if he loses, there will be no such good time, and the system of the Song Dynasty is also destined to make it impossible to use the army to fight every year, even if it is a victory, and then the Xixia people will resurge, because of disputes, let the Xixia rise again. Besides, Zheng Lang will not be in the court at that time. As for the others, Guo Kui was a little unconvinced.

The two opinions arrived in the capital, and not many people knew about them.

Guo Kui's use of troops is relatively stable, so there is a saying that Wang Shao is brave, so he wants to win quickly with light troops.

Zheng Lang took the latter, and the two of them hadn't taken into account another factor, Khitan!

But the Khitan is a double-edged sword, that is, the Khitan support, the Song army is huge, and the problem does not matter, but on the other side, the Hedong region of Hebei and the capital are more or less empty. So before the war, he did all kinds of confusion, and even when the war began, the Song Dynasty threatened to send only 200,000 forbidden troops, which seriously reduced the number of troops, which made the Khitan have a contempt mentality.

Zheng Lang left, and the twists and turns of Wang Guo and the others also made many ministers know, and they thought that Zheng Lang had mobilized too many troops, but in fact, most of these people did not agree with the Song Dynasty's invasion of Xia.

No matter how controversial the rear is, the battle on the front has begun.

On the seventh day of the fifth month, the Song army officially launched an attack on Western Xia, but not under the banner of recovering Western Xia, but under the slogan of the Qing king's side and the Liang clan, launched an attack on Western Xia.

The army was divided into three theaters, the first of which included the Hexi Corridor and the Jingyuan Road. Here Zheng Lang and Zhang Qi are personally responsible, they are not only responsible for the mobilization of the Western Road Theater, but also responsible for the command of the entire battle. However, each theater was divided into several parts, and the western theater was divided into three roads in total.

Wang Guangzu stayed in Suzhou, and Li Hao and Qu Zhen led 30,000 troops and more than 10,000 people, and the soldiers went out to live in Yanhai.

The Haluocheon River in the southern part of the Weak Water River region is densely populated, but in the central and northern parts of the country it gradually becomes less populated, and although the water potential of the weak water is huge at this time, the soil and water are gradually destroyed. In summer, you can still see patches of shallow grass on the riverside, in addition to the wind and snow in the winter, the ground is covered with layers of yellow sand, coupled with the severe cold, it is gradually not suitable for people to live, but the Juyanhai area can still be suitable for human survival, can be pastured and fished, and is an important gateway to the north, and now there are tens of thousands of people. For the Khitan and Song dynasties, it was a piece of chicken ribs, but for the small and sparsely populated Western Xia. It is a rich piece of chicken and the gateway to the Hexi Corridor. Therefore, the Western Xia set up a military village in the south of Juyan Sea, the Yan Military Division of Heishui Town.

The soldiers lived in Yanhai, and Zheng Lang coveted the geographical location here. Moreover, in the future, it also occupies a large proportion in the construction of Western Xia, and the second is to prevent Western Xia from escaping from Helan Mountain to Juyanhai, and because the Song Dynasty occupies the back of Western Xia. The troops had to be stationed in Helan Mountain to achieve the goal of dividing the troops.

Juyanhai did not have many troops, and there were many soldiers who died for supporting Suzhou, the Song Dynasty army was on the way, and the Western Xia could not support here, Li Hao quickly got Juyanhai, did not send troops to Helan Mountain, and watched from Juyanhai, and expanded the Western Xia Heishui Military City in the south of Juyanhai, and built another new city in the north of Juyanhai. Two small towns were built on the river to serve as a supply point for the army and as a post station for the future.

The fighting was not fierce along the way.

The rest of the fighting intensified.

Guo Cheng, Wang Junwan, Chongpu and other generals led tens of thousands of troops to attack Huizhou, Quwu Mountain, and Tiandu Mountain.

Liu Changzuo, Li Shunqing, Liu Zhongwu, Wang Gan, Xiang Bao and other generals went out of Xiaoguan.

There are also the men and horses of the North Road, commanded by Guo Kui, Wang Wenyu, Zhe Kexing, and Zhe Keshi troops out of Fulin, attacking from Tumaochuan to Mingtang River, and the soldiers refer to Yinshi Xia Sanzhou, Chongge, Yanda, Liu Shaoneng, Gao Yongneng, and Gao Yongheng led the troops to attack Luowucheng and Rouge Village, and then the troops crossed the mountain and joined the army of Fulin Road, and the soldiers pointed to Youzhou. Zhao Di and Sun Lu were in charge of the rear army and logistics.

The Middle Route Army was commanded by Wang Shao, and it was also divided into two routes, Chongyi, Zhang Yu, He Bin, Lin Guang, Yao Brothers, and Zhang Chuan attacked Baibao City and Jintang City, and pointed directly to the Hengshan Zhuzhai and Hongzhou in Western Xia, and You Shixiong was in charge of the rear army. This army not only refers to Hongzhou, but also to the "Guoxin Post Road" in the Song and Xia, from the security army to the north, through Wanquanzhai, Naiwujing, Baichi, Rentou, Kujing, Guyu, Fenshankou, Ludu, across the Yellow River, through Yongzhou to Xingqing Mansion, is the only way for the envoys of the Song and Xia to come and go, but also the best road between the Song and Xia. To the south is Miao Zhu, Chonggu, Chongdiao, Zhang Yun, Zhao Long, Miao Lu, and Chongshi Dao to attack Hengzhou, and the soldiers refer to Yanzhou.

The 600,000 troops and more than 200,000 civilians are divided into three theaters and seven routes of soldiers and horses, each of which has almost 100,000 men. And the soldiers are not the Song soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, although there are such and such problems as Wang Shao said, at least 400,000 troops have been running in for more than a year, although the 110,000 Hebei Township soldiers are temporarily used as logistics troops, but most of the soldiers have been tempered in actual combat, and their morale is also higher than that of Qing after repeated victories. There are even more generals, almost all the brave generals of the Song Dynasty were transferred to the front line together. There is also the problem of handsome, Zheng Lang, as the commander-in-chief, is deeply loved by the soldiers, and the rewards and punishments are clear, and there will be no story in history that Gao Zunyu almost killed Liu Changzuo because he was jealous of Liu Changzuo's military exploits.

This is fatal, in the history of the summer, there were only a few generals who could fight Liu Changzuo and Chong Ge, and they were jealous of their achievements and killed in vain, which would hurt their morale.

But now, absolutely not.

The Song army came all over the land, and the Western Xia people were in chaos.

They don't believe that the Song Dynasty sent so many troops for the sake of the Qing monarch of Western Xia and eradicating treachery. Whether it is the royalist faction or the queen mother's faction, put aside prejudices together and work together.

First, we sent an envoy to the Khitan for help, our Western Xia is over, and the next Song Dynasty will concentrate on recovering the sixteen states of Youyun. But one by one there is not much confidence, so far the Khitan has not made any preparations, that is, this time it is sober, from the concentration of troops, the preparation of grain and grass weapons, it will take a while. There is little significance in supporting the troops with fewer troops, there are more troops, more logistics are prepared, and the time is longer, and it may not be possible whether the Western Xia can support it by then. Moreover, the Khitan also coveted the miscellaneous grain seeds and cultivation methods of the Song Dynasty.

It's prepared.

He also sent an envoy to Xiaoguan to beg Zheng Lang for mercy and agreed to let Li Bingchang return to power. Handling Liang Yibury et al. And without waiting for Zheng Lang to agree, Li Bingchang was released, and Liang Yibu was temporarily imprisoned, don't take it seriously, this is a show, and it is expected that Zheng Lang will not be able to withdraw from the army because of this, so it will also block the excuse of the Song Dynasty to mourn the soldiers.

In fact, it is impossible for Zheng Lang to agree, don't say that the Liang family is acting like a person, that is, really let Li Bingchang be in charge. Liang Yibury and others were executed, and it was impossible for Zheng Lang to withdraw from the army. Therefore, he forcefully said to the Western Xia envoy that it was okay to withdraw the army, and Liang Yibury and others must be put to death.

The war continued, and the Liang family asked the generals for advice, and Ren Duo Ding offered advice, so he did not need to refuse, but the walls were clear, and the troops went deep. Gather strong troops in Lingxia and copy its logistics supplies, the Song army has no food, but it can win without a fight.

The ministers in the Western Xia palace fell into deep thought. The Song Dynasty came with a six-way army, and the Xixia people on the weak water river side could no longer take care of it, and then from Xingqing Mansion to Juyanhai, they had to pass through the Xixia Emperor's Mausoleum and Keyi Gate. Over Helan Mountain, then through eight oases, 1,100 miles of road. In order to arrive, such a long road, the Song Dynasty had to transport grain and grass from the Hexi Corridor to Suzhou, and then from Suzhou to Juyanhai, there was no way to supply the Song army from the west. However, the other six-way armies were mortal threats, and the Western Xia lost the Hexi Corridor, so it was impossible to block the six-way attack of the Song army.

Renduo Lingding's method is not very good, this time, at least the Western Xia will lose the land of Huizhou Henan and even Tiandu Mountain after the war. But there is no way to use this strategy.

The Liang clan began to order that many tribes on the front line should be moved to the rear, and the more disloyal the tribes, the more they should be moved, so as not to join forces with the Song Dynasty, leaving behind the more loyal tribes, allowing them to take advantage of the difficult terrain to resist.

Just as summer arrived, the grain and grass were harvested in time and transported to the rear and the important cities. Then it was destroyed, destroying the crops in front, destroying all the sorghum and corn in the fields, leaving only the crops in the core areas of Lingzhou and Xingqingfu, Dingzhou, Yongzhou, Jingzhou, and Shunzhou.

No matter how many soldiers are soldiers, nine soldiers out of ten, almost all the foundation of the country is squeezed dry, more than 300,000 troops are concentrated, and the army is concentrated in a few places, and the Song army is dealt with regionally at a certain point.

Mizhi City.

Yinxia is the nest of the Western Xia, although Wang Wenyu and Zhe Kecun's uncle and nephew refer to Yinxia, but there is a long road from Linzhou to Yinzhou, and the road is relatively rugged. But let the army of Chong Ge cross Hengshan, and Yinxia will be attacked by the Song army on both sides, which will be dangerous.

Therefore, Liang Yongneng led 80,000 elite cavalry out of the fat village.

Rouge Village is on the edge of the fertile Wuding River, with abundant water and grass, and is known as Qibao Mountain. And because the Song army came quickly, the grain and grass harvested on the edge of the Wuding River were not transported to the rear in time. However, after the Song army withdrew from Luowu City, the Western Xia regained control of the area and built the Rouge Village tall and strong. In the face of the strong attack of the Song army, Rouge Village actually held on.

Liang Yi buried this idea, although the Song army was many, the soldiers were divided into two routes, the north and south attacked the Rouge Village, the troops were scattered, Liang Yong could arrive, but in the face of the Song Dynasty North Road Army, and could form a pincer attack with the Rouge Village troops, the abacus played well, 80,000 Western Xia iron cavalry, including a large number of iron harriers, arrived at Luo Wu City violently, and rushed from Luo Wu City to Rouge Village. Not far from the Rouge Village, there is a long and narrow river valley, with continuous mountains in the east and the Wuding River in the west.

Seeing that he rushed out of the valley, he was intercepted by the Song army, and the Song army used a large number of artillery and divine arm bows to stop the Western Xia cavalry in this valley at the valley. After a fierce battle for several hours, two Song armies suddenly flashed out from the mountains in the east, cutting off the Xia army.

This Song army was not ambushed on the mountain, nor could it be ambushed, Liang Yongneng was defeated by the Song army several times, he was extra careful, and sent scouts to inspect the terrain earlier. There was an ambush army, which was farther to the rear, and when the two armies fought fiercely, the cannon roared, and the Gao Yongneng brothers led these two ambush armies over several ravines and killed them in the camp of the Xia army.

On the other side, Liu Shaoneng is also fighting fiercely.

When Liang Yongneng's army arrived, the Song army dug a trench more than ten meters wide in the barracks, that is, in front of the Rouge Village. Liang Yongneng's army arrived, Zhao Du led the rear army to protect the military camp in the south of the village, and Liu Shaoneng led the Hebei township soldiers to stand in front of the trench.

Rouge Village sent troops, but let this trench be blocked, and finally crossed the trench, and was killed in the trench by this group of township soldiers of the Song Dynasty with big swords, condescendingly, and killed in the trench one by one.

The three-way army, because Yinxia is the nest of Western Xia, and the north road is the heaviest, so it is among the ten generals. The civil officials of the two palaces are not counted, and the eight generals have three generals, Gao Yongneng, Wang Wenyu, and Liu Shaoneng. There was almost only Gao Yongheng alone.

And the top ten generals are ranked by Zheng Lang, and the kind of man is ranked fifth, and he is somewhat unwilling in his heart, at least I am better than my younger brother and Guo Chengqiang and Liu Changzuo. Also unwilling is Wang Wenyu. The rouge soldiers were not allowed to come out, and the seed man personally beat the drum to cheer.

The Gao brothers led their troops to kill, and Chong Ge ordered Yan Da to rush to the river valley.

There is not much difference between the two armies in terms of strength. The Song Dynasty had a large number of troops, but some of the troops were divided into the south of the village, and the proportion of cavalry was small. But this narrow river valley is not conducive to the performance of the Western Xia cavalry, coupled with the fact that he was cut in two by the Song army, and he has not seen the Rouge Zhai soldiers for a long time, Liang Yongneng's heart is empty again.

Seeing that the Western Xia soldiers were defeated, Chong Ge personally put on armor and led the army to kill him.

Liang Yongneng was defeated, and nearly 20,000 cavalry were sacrificed again in this battle. Only then did Liang Yongneng escape. Liang Yongneng was defeated, and the Xia soldiers of Rouge Village surrendered.

This was the first battle after the summer war.

Later, Yanda pursued after him, recaptured Luowu City, and crossed the Yellow River. Take the remnants of Yongle and march to Yinzhou.

The second battle kicked off again.

Sangyuan Gorge is in the northeast of Lanzhou and southwest of Huizhou. It is divided into two gorges, the upper small gorge is ten miles long, and the lower large gorge is sixty miles long. The stone walls on both sides are steep, the Yellow River on the side shrinks to more than 70 meters, the river is rushing, the river is turbulent, this is the important gateway of Lanzhou to the north, and the soldiers must fight for the place since ancient times.

During the Three Kingdoms, Sun Jian and Zhou Shen fought against Han Sui and Bian Zhang, and suffered a great defeat here. After the Western Xia lost the Hexi Corridor, they built two military villages here, and then fought repeated tug-of-war with the Song army, that is, the two dozen or so subordinate troops of the Sang Yuan.

The battle began, and Guo Cheng's army marched north.

20,000 people in the Western Xia Prefecture defended the danger. Guo Cheng gathered the 800 artillery pieces in his hand, bombarded the summer camp, and placed 5,000 divine arm archers in the rear, using the range of the bow and arrow step by step to suppress the counterattack of the Western Xia people.

After a fierce battle for a long time, the Tanguts retreated to the Great Gorge.

Once again, all long-range weapons began to bombard, but at this time, Guo Cheng's strategy changed, and when the morale of the Western Xia soldiers was low, he suddenly let Wang Junwan lead the main army to attack the canyon. After a short bloody battle, the Tanguts were defeated, and some soldiers jumped into the turbulent Yellow River in terror.

Sangyuan Gorge was lost, Guo Cheng quickly marched out of Huizhou, captured the city of Huizhou, and marched into Quwu Mountain. He fought a terrible battle with the Western Xia people in front of Quwu Mountain, defeated the Xia army, marched to Tiandu Mountain, and took the palace of the Wuyi clan, but this time it was not burned, but left to the Wuyi clan.

The Song Dynasty invaded Xia in order to really occupy, there were many tribes who couldn't survive and defected to the Song Dynasty, and Zheng Lang successively captured a large number of party tribes and settled them in the rear, including those who did not move to the region, and some of them were integrated into the local area, and some of them had some contradictions because of different races, and this time the latter was moved back to the Western Xia one after another, after all, compared to most of the tribes in the Western Xia, these tribes were more loyal to the Song Dynasty. It also includes the non-immigrant people who were previously resettled in Qinzhou, and the non-immigrant people were transferred back to the Hulu River. The Wuyi clan was the queen of the Western Xia, and let the Wuyi clan live in the palace and use part of her influence to appease the people of the Western Xia.

The third battle is at the Mill Umbilical Pass.

Liu Changzuo's troops came out of Xiao Pass, at this time the Mo Na Pass was also repaired by the Western Xia with a thick military camp, and even in order to deal with the artillery of the Song army, countless trenches were built in front of the Hulu River, and the Xia army hid in the trenches and sniped the Song army's crossing with arrows.

As a last resort, Liu Changzuo had no choice but to attack.

This battle was even more tragic, Liu Changzuo himself was injured and sacrificed with two arrows in Xiang Bao's body.

After taking the Mo Navel Pass, Liu Changzuo ignored his injuries and marched out of Mingsha City. Mingsha River has Hulu River and Yellow River, which is an important grain base in Western Xia, known as Yucang. Part of the grain was transferred to the rear, but there was still a lot of food in the city.

Liu Changzuo rode out lightly and quickly captured Mingsha City. At this time, the Western Xia, Yinzhou, and Shizhou were lost one after another.

But Song Jun's pace slowed down.

After Liu Changzuo's troops entered Mingsha City, they divided their troops to attack Weizhou, and then joined Guo Cheng's soldiers and horses, and the troops of Zhiqiang Society, and Wang Shaoyanzhou's army joined a line, Wang Shao's North Road's soldiers and horses conquered Hongzhou, and slowly marched to Youzhou, and the soldiers and horses of Chong Ge and Wang Wenyu met in Yinzhou City, divided into three, one left to sweep, the main force set off in the direction of Xiazhou, and Yanda divided the troops into Longzhou.

It's not fast.

The terrain of Hengshan is complicated, and after various policies of the Song Dynasty, many of the Tibetan tribes have the intention of returning to the Song Dynasty, but most of them let the Liang clan forcibly send troops to the rear. There are still some tribes left, some are diehards of Western Xia, and some are the two ends of the first rat. Of course, there are also those who see that the situation is not good and defect to the Song Dynasty.

The Sixth Route Army was steady and steady, and sent many envoys to various ministries to clarify the position of the Song Dynasty, no matter what was right or wrong in the past, as long as it was submitted to the Song Dynasty now, it would not be investigated in the past, and at the same time, it would also implement the Fan Hou plan in Western Xia, and even take out more money than Hehuang in the future to invest in Western Xia. For the benefit of the people of all ethnic groups, the chiefs of each ethnic group themselves will also benefit from the Waiting Plan.

This large-scale envoy divided most of the Hengshan tribes, but for many years, the two sides have fought viciously, some tribes hold grudges, contradictions can not be resolved, and even some tribes rely on the sinister position of their tribes to kill the Song envoys.

Therefore, with the cooperation of the submissive tribes. The Song army launched a large-scale extermination.

Now that the Western Xia has not been taken, no matter how you kill it, once you take the Western Xia, you will have to be appeased. And the tribes of Hengshan are not convinced. It will be harmful to the grain road, and even in the future, because of these tribes, it will bring the seeds of revival to Western Xia.

If you drag it out for a day, you will give the Khitan a day to react. A lot of money will be spent in the country. But for the sake of the future stability of Western Xia, we can only take it slowly step by step, especially in the Hengshan area. In the land of Silver Summer, the army had to slow down and stifle all the unstable factors in advance.

Although the speed slowed down, it just gave some time for the army to integrate, especially those village soldiers, who just took advantage of these rebellious tribes and gave them the opportunity to fight.

By the end of July, Yanxia and other prefectures had recovered, and the Hengshan tribes had barely suppressed the rebellion.

The rear continued to suppress, and the front three armies gathered, slowly advancing from Weizhou, Yanzhou and Xiazhou to Xingqingfu and Lingzhou.

At this moment, the Western Xia suddenly dug the embankment of the Yellow River, and the surging flood rushed towards the Song Dynasty's Nanzhong Second Route Army. However, at this time, the Western Xia plan did not succeed. The Song army had already taken precautions, close to Lingzhou, the military camp must be close to the slope, the river was rolling in, the Song army all moved to the slope, and then countless flat boats suddenly appeared in the flood. The digging of the Yellow River embankment only achieved the goal of delaying time, but did not harm the Song army. On the contrary, this embankment flooded hundreds of people's villages, making the Liang family even more unpopular.

In early August, two armies, nearly 300,000 soldiers and horses, besieged Lingzhou. The tragic offensive and defensive battle began, on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Feng Gao and Wei Zhifang, who turned into Li Yan and Li Wei, quietly let their cronies open the city gate in the city, and the Song army entered Lingzhou City at night, and then the two cronies responded to the turmoil in the middle of the city, so that the Song army could successfully take the strong Lingzhou.

Liang Yi was killed that night, but the specific process of capturing Lingzhou City was kept secret by the Song army. There are two more people, Lu Yi and Zhao Shanjin are in Xingqing Mansion at this time, and they will be reused. At this time, eighty percent of the territory of Western Xia was occupied by the Song army, and the east of Helan Mountain was called Saiwai Jiangnan, relatively speaking, Lingyan and other places in Hedong began to appear a lot of saline-alkali land, but Hexi was the most fertile place for Xixia water and grass, Xixia built Xingqing Mansion, Yongjing Shun several states, and built Dingzhou City in Helan Mountain, Mi'e Prefecture Military Division was set up on the west side of Beihetao, and Wurahai City in the south of Montenegro set up the Black Mountain Wei Navy Division, and Woniang Mountain set up the Tiande Army.

The Beihetao was temporarily out of control in the Western Xia, and almost all the human and financial resources in the country were concentrated in the Hexi region, relying on the natural danger of the Yellow River to confront the Song Dynasty.

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Standing at the head of Lingzhou City, Zheng Lang watched the yellow leaves fall and said, "Husband, the scenery is different in autumn, and autumn is coming." ”

Zhang Qi did not make a sound.

Zheng Lang said again: "Husband, this line of work has worked hard for you. ”

Originally, it was planned for Chong Ge to lead the Northern Route Army to conquer Dingzhou, and then troops out of the Beihetao in case of accidents. He received the order, but he was a little reluctant. After all, the most glorious part of this battle is the entry of soldiers into Xingqing Mansion. Maybe others didn't pay attention to this detail, but Zheng Lang did.

Therefore, it was changed, and let Chong Ge lead an army of 20,000 to Lingzhou, and Zhang Ji and Chongyi, Chongshi Dao, and Zhao Long led the army to Hue Ferry to have an exchange. Fortunately, the three armies were not very far apart at this time, but Zhang Ji was also a little resistant to this.

Zheng Lang used the golden finger to line up the generals, and six of them went in. Others don't know, maybe the six generals of the seed family do have military talents, but there are not too many generals in the army with combat effectiveness, such as Guo Jingxiu, the brave general under the plantation tent, Wang En, the general under Guo Cheng, Wang Zude, the general under Miao Zhi, and Li Zhongjie, the general under Liu Changzuo.

Because of this, it doesn't matter if the ranking is lower, after all, the entire family has now become the largest family of famous generals in the Song Dynasty.

In fact, Zheng Lang is also helpless, he can fight, no less than Miao and Liu Changzuo, but his selfishness is too heavy, such as the battle of Yongle City in history, Zheng Lang deliberately asked his cronies to pay attention to the expression of the seed when he passed the order, that is, he was afraid that the seed would commit Yongle City again, and ruin his own big things.

The recovery of Beihetao is not very brilliant, but it is related to whether the Khitan can bring in the army.

So far, the wave of resistance in the rear has not subsided, and once the Khitan gets the Beihetao in advance, it will be dangerous to pacify the Western Xia in the future. After thinking about it, let Zhang Ji go, as a scholar, there is no need for this military merit embellishment, and as the deputy marshal of this battle, the merit is already very high. For example, Guo Kui and Wang Shao, after this battle, they will be transferred to Xifu and then hidden. downplay Zhang Qi's military exploits, and then "whitewash", so that he can become a scholar again, not a military general, then there will be a good candidate for the coach to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun in the future.

It took a lot of work to convince Zhang Ji.

Today is to see off Zhang Qi.

Sending off his army, Zheng Lang suddenly received an urgent report from Tanma.

The Khitans came, and the Khitan sent 30,000 soldiers and horses, also under the banner of King Qin, starting from Dongshengzhou and galloping to Western Xia. The name Khitan is not wrong, Western Xia was a vassal state of the Song Dynasty, and it was also a vassal state of the Khitan. However, the entry of the Khitan army of 30,000 will undoubtedly release a signal, so that the Western Xia will fight with the Song army, and the wave of resistance in the rear will be higher. But can Zheng Lang not let the Khitans settle in?

Looking at the information, Zheng Lang said to Li Xian and Gao Zunyu: "The Khitan is quite interesting, the front got the seeds provided by our court, and then sent troops to Western Xia. (To be continued......)