On the loess road leading to Xixia Prefecture, the Song army marched for several miles, at the forefront of the team, Han Qi sat on the war horse, waved the horse whip in his hand, and cautiously looked at the surrounding movements, and beside him was Xia Sui, the commander of the Zuo Shenwu Army who followed him to Xiazhou. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info full // this \ small // say \ net

The Song army slowly marched very long, the front was the 25,000 new army led by Han Qi, with the temporary rest of the Song-Xia War, Zhao Lei had mobilized troops from all over the country to supplement the various armies with heavy losses, Han Qi's new army because it was Zhao Lei's descendant, was the first army to be replenished, and the selected soldiers were all good at fighting, and after a short period of training, the new army was supplemented by a large number of logistics materials in Bianjing, and it became the most warlike army in the northwest.

In the middle of the Song army, is the Zuo Shenwu Army under the command of Xia Sui, this Bianjing Forbidden Army has been the main force in the attack on Weijiazhai and the decisive battle of Haoshuichuan, is the largest loss of the four forbidden armies in Bianjing, after the war can fight less than 15,000 people, although the number of replenishment restored to the heyday, but the huge loss is not the number of people can be compensated, although after training, but the Zuo Shenwu Army has lived up to the enthusiasm and generosity of the time, and was sent to attack Xiazhou again Zuo Shenwu Army, can only be reduced to the new army attached, And Xia Sui also became Han Qi's lieutenant general.

At the back of the procession, there were 30,000 people who had transported supplies from Bianjing, and these 30,000 people were pushing nearly 5,000 carts with various materials on their backs, and slowly followed the back of the team.

"The front is the junction of Linzhou and Fuzhou, and thirty miles further north will enter the territory of Western Xia, and the order will go down, so that the new army and the Zuo Shenwu army can camp on the spot." Han Qi, who was sitting on a war horse, looked up at the sunset that was gradually setting in the west, and said in a deep voice to the herald beside him.

"Lord Han! Why don't you go to Linzhou Anhua Village for repair, which is too close to the summer realm. The terrain is too gentle, and if the Western Xia cavalry gets the news of our arrival and suddenly attack, the army will probably fall into a bitter battle. Xia Sui, who was following Han Qi's side, looked at the gently undulating terrain of the vast Loess Plateau nearby, and questioned Han Qi puzzled.

"This official chose to set up camp here, just in the hope that those Western Xia people can be smarter and come over and sneak attack at night, you must know that after the start of the Songxia War, the mines of the new army have not yet been put to great use, and the grenades have not exploded due to their due deterrence and lethality because of their dispersion. But there are tens of thousands of grenades and mines, Lord Zhao gave us half of these things, just so that we can take Xia Prefecture at the lowest cost and contain the soldiers and horses of the Western Xia army. Attract more reinforcements from Xingqing Province. "Xia Sui is the commander of the Zuo Shenwu Army, but he was born as a military general. There is a difference between heaven and earth compared to Han Qi in terms of the status of the imperial court, so the plans discussed by Zhao Lei, Han Qi and Fan Zhongyan, these forbidden army generals do not know at all, so Han Qi can only carefully explain the purpose of this attack on Xiazhou.

Han Qi's careful explanation made Xia Sui smile bitterly, you must know that this time it is deep behind enemy lines, not the usual offensive and defensive battles, the war against Xia Zhou is carried out on the Western Xia land itself, and the new army and the Zuo Shenwu army only have 5,000 cavalry, most of them are still burdened with heavy materials, and only thousands of scouts have the same mobility as the Western Xia cavalry. In this case, there was no need to consider logistics and logistics at all when going deep into Western Xia to attack Xiazhou, because once entering the territory of Western Xia, there was no Song army that could protect the logistics army transporting supplies. It is precisely because of this that this attack on Xiazhou brought 30,000 people and 5,000 carts, which were all the supplies of the Song army on this expedition to Western Xia. As soon as there was a problem with these supplies, the new army and the Zuo Shenwu army became turtles in the urn, waiting for the capture of the Western Xia army.

With Xia Sui's bitter and worried smile, Han Qi smiled slightly and said indifferently, "Is General Xia still worried about whether this trip can conquer and hold Xiazhou?" ”

"Not bad! Xiazhou is the place where the party members started, as early as the late Tang Dynasty, the party people have begun to operate Xiazhou, after such a long time of occupation, the party people's power in Xiazhou is deep-rooted, intertwined, even if we take Xiazhou, I am afraid it will be difficult to hold, and Hengshan is near the residential area of the Western Xia ethnic minorities, hundreds of large and small tribes are staggered, Hengshan is the road of our army after all, it is easy to fight the past, but once it loses in Xiazhou, it is difficult to come back, not to mention that there are not a hundred large and small bunkers on the way to Xiazhou, there are eighty, Our army is fighting over or bypassing it one by one! These are these questions, and it is a headache to think about. Xia Sui continued to smile bitterly and complained to Han Qi.

"General Xia is too worried, there will be no difficulties in the war! If the number alone can balance the difficulties, with the population of the Great Song Dynasty has already annexed Liaoxia, although this trip is difficult, but Lord Zhao has prepared the best conditions for us, if it fails, even if the official has no face to see the sky, can General Xia meet the official family with peace of mind! Han Qi said his inner thoughts indifferently, and the meaning of his words was full of the meaning of unsuccessful and benevolent.

"The last general has been taught, and the last general will definitely live up to the trust of the officials!" Xia heard the danger of this battlefield from Han Qi's words, and at the same time understood Han Qi's determination to be loyal to the country, and made up his mind to die in Xia Zhou even if he died.

"A few people from the ancient conquest are still alive!" Han Qi looked at the back of Xia Sui leaving, sighed in a low voice, and spurred his horse towards the nearby high hills.

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Compared with the high morale of the Song army in Yan'an Mansion of the Great Song Dynasty, Xiping Mansion in Western Xia is gloomy and bleak, and the Xixia Army suffered heavy losses in one stop of Haoshuichuan, not only killing more than a dozen senior generals of Western Xia, but also from Xiping Mansion

Renduo Baoren also died in the battle of Haoshuichuan, plus the loss of nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses in the Western Xia, the people began to panic, if it were not for Yuan Hao's high-pressure coercion there, I am afraid that many people in the Western Xia would have crossed the border and fled to the Song Realm to escape the disaster.

In the Xiping Mansion, Yuan Hao moved a new pair of prayer beads, flipping through the various news from Xingqing Mansion in his hand.

The current Yuan Hao has a headache, and the failure of Hao Shuichuan is like a scar for Yuan Hao. Lying on the prestige of Yuan Hao, his original prestige gradually could not suppress the forces within Western Xia that opposed the war against the Song Dynasty.

But now the situation in Western Xia makes Yuan Hao unable to stop this war, the Song-Xia border curtain is closed, although the Xixia has thousands of miles of territory, but the barren land can not sustain the consumption of tens of millions of people in the Western Xia, every year in the Western Xia has to exchange cattle, sheep and horses for a large number of consumables such as grain and cloth and tea in the Great Song Dynasty through the curtain field, less than a year after the war between the Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty, the Western Xia has been short of food and soaring prices, and the price of cloth and tea unique to the Great Song Dynasty is even higher, If Yuan Hao can't end this Song-Xia battle in a short time. At that time, Western Xia will face the fate of the people without clothes and tea, which will greatly affect his prestige and control over the country for Yuan Hao, who has just established the country.

However, the battle of Song and Xia has reached this point, Yuan Hao is going to fight if he is not fighting, for this war, Yuan Hao has overdrawn the war reserves of the Western Xia for ten years, regardless of the war horses, soldiers and weapons and equipment, no matter whether the war is won or lost, the Western Xia has no ability to take the initiative to go to war with any country within ten years, and can only passively defend the pressure from all sides. So the current Yuan Hao has no advance or retreat. can only bite the bullet and fight until Da Song is soft to negotiate.

Yuan Hao's ears moved, the rosary in his hand stopped turning, listening to the familiar and somewhat hurried footsteps, Yuan Hao knew that something big was coming, otherwise Yeli Renrong's footsteps would not be so flustered.

"Your Majesty! The Song army sent troops to attack Xiazhou. Yeli Renrong appeared in front of Yuan Hao a little haggardly, and in addition to panic in his eyes, there was boundless anger.

"Zhao Lei is different from other Great Song Wenshuai, and it is also expected for us to take the initiative to attack, why are you afraid?" Yuan Hao didn't understand why he guessed that Ye Li Renrong was still so frightened, so he asked puzzled.

Heard Yuan Haodi ask. Yeli Renrong said in a deep voice of resentment: "The Song army that attacked this time is not Ge Huaimin's Linzhou army, but the two forbidden armies of Bianjing New Army and Zuo Shenwu Army, and the commanders are Han Qi and Xia Sui, who came out of the border of Linfu. Seventeen fortresses were stormed along the way, and now they have crossed Hengshan and approached Xiazhou City. ”

"How is that possible! Didn't I order those tribes in Hengshan to stop the Song army with all their might! How is it possible to get them across the cross mountain so easily? Yuan Hao looked at Yeli Renrong in surprise and asked.

"Your Majesty! Seventeen fortresses that Han Qi broke along the way. About 20,000 of my Xixia people were slaughtered, thousands of people were enslaved, Han Qi also forced many party members to attack the city, did not conquer a fortress to rob all the supplies, and then burned the stronghold, Hengshan Aluo tribe blocked the Song army, but was broken by the Song army, a tribe of nearly 4,000 people were all slaughtered, other Hengshan tribes were afraid of the Song army, did not dare to block, sit back and watch the Song army pass through Hengshan safely! Yeli Renrong reported to Yuan Hao hatefully.

The lives of more than 20,000 party members are nothing to Yuan Hao, who kills people like hemp, he has been fighting for half his life, he has been fighting for the first time at the age of thirteen, and he has fought hundreds of battles of all sizes, and the lives of the people who ordered the slaughter are as many as one million, so he has no sense of anger at the Song Army's bloody actions now, but the only strange thing is that the Song Army has always been benevolent and righteous, why did he suddenly change his style?

"The literary commanders of the Song Army have always regarded face as more important than anything else, and benevolence and righteousness come first at every turn, why did Han Qi change his style this time and be so ruthless?" Yuan Hao didn't look at Yeli Renrong, looked up at the weeping willow outside the window, and said to himself in confusion.

"Zhao Lei is a terrible person, he is different from other literati in the Great Song Dynasty, not only does he not have the concept of benevolence and righteousness first of the literati, not to mention the vicious methods, and his actions are even more weird, he is definitely not a scholar educated by the orthodoxy of the Great Song Dynasty, I heard that Zhao Lei is from a deep mountain to avoid disasters, and he has not seen the market in the Spring and Autumn Period, is his art of war from Guiguzi, and has the ability of Pangsun?" Yeli Renrong touched the short beard under his chin, frowned and said to Yuan Hao.

Laiye Li Renrong just said it angrily and unintentionally, but when the words reached Yuan Hao's ears, they led to the strategy in Yuan Hao's heart.

"Zhao Lei actually ordered Han Qi to kill the people of Western Xia like this, this is not in line with the style of benevolence and righteousness of the Great Song Dynasty, if this news is exaggerated and spread to Bianjing, someone will definitely impeach Zhao Lei, Zhao Zhen, that child, will Zhao Lei be transferred back to Bianjing because of this?" Yuan Hao's eyes rolled, and he immediately thought in his heart that since it was difficult to deal with Zhao Lei on the battlefield, why not lead the struggle to the officialdom! Xixia and many officials in Bianjing have an inextricable relationship, and it may be a good way to borrow them to deal with Zhao Lei. Thinking of this, Yuan Hao immediately said coldly to Yeli Renrong.

"The emperor has a good plan! Weichen knew that the conservatives and reformers in Bianjing were attacking each other, and Zhao Lei was a practical figure of the reformists, and there were many officials in the Song Dynasty who looked at him unpleasantly, and brutality was also a major crime of the literati of the Great Song Dynasty. Yeli Renrong heard Yuan Hao's words and said loudly in surprise.

"Don't forget to prepare a few big gifts and let the envoy contact a few of Xixia's officialdom friends in Bianjing!" After Yuan Hao instructed Yeli Renrong, he looked at Nan with a sneer, and had already begun to think in his heart that if Zhao Lei really returned to Bianjing, how to take the opportunity to defeat the Song army and force the Song Dynasty to negotiate.

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