Chapter 25: The Ambush of Western Xia, the Battle of Longmaling
Located on the Loess Plateau, Hwachi is the only border city in the northeast of Gyeongju City and the Western Xia border. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info、qΒ5。 c0m/
On the ancient Qin plank road in the Meridian Ridge in Huachi, about 700 Song cavalry, under the leadership of Yang Zun, followed the ancient Qin plank road, vigorously and resolutely, and went straight to Jieyi Peak.
The plank road became narrower and steeper, and General Yang Zun, who was wearing heavy armor at the front of the Great Song cavalry team, suddenly waved his hand to stop his horse and stop the team from advancing.
"What's up ahead?" About thirty years old, General Yang Zun, who was strong and strong, looked around vigilantly and asked the cavalry behind him.
"General Yang, in front is Jieyi Peak, on which there is a beacon tower set up by the Gyeongju Army, with the beacon tower as the boundary, the Meridian Ridge is divided into two, the northern section is the Moonwood Ridge, and the southern section is the Yongma Ridge." The cavalry behind Yang Zun said respectfully to his commander.
"Any news on that?" Yang Zun still asked cautiously.
"Yes! Not long ago, I received news from the beacon tower on Jieyi Peak that the Western Xia army had been advancing southward along the ancient Qin plank road, had taken Xianmuling, and was storming the Fengchuan Village guarded by General Cao on Longma Ridge. The beacon tower on the cavalry Yifeng said to Yang Zun.
"General Cao, is it General Cao Zong, who is the appeasement envoy of Huanqing Road?" Yang Zun asked in surprise, the Cao Zong in his mouth was not an ordinary person, he was a descendant of the Cao family of Bianjing. Cao Meiren's brother in the palace, the body of the uncle, if something happens, it will be difficult for him to explain to the people above.
"It is the Huanqing Road that appeases General Cao Zong!" The cavalry replied.
"How many people are there in General Cao? How many people were in the Western Xia army? Is Fengchuan Village safe? Yang Zun hurriedly asked.
"I don't know very well, General Cao led a thousand men and horses to support the collapse of Fengchuan Village, and Fengchuan Village originally had 500 people. It's hard to say how many will be left now. The cavalry pondered for a moment, then said resignedly.
"Then what are you waiting for, immediately support Fengchuan Village, and you can't let the Western Xia Army continue to advance south." After Yang Zun finished speaking, he led his seven hundred cavalry and galloped south along the ancient Qin plank road.
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Longmaling Fengchuan Village is also a strategic fortress built by the Great Song Dynasty, but because of its remote location and difficult roads, Fengchuan Village built on Longmaling is built with stones and trees.
Fengchuan Village. Shouting to kill the heavens, about two thousand Xixia foot soldiers, pushing all kinds of siege weapons, attacked the fortress of Fengchuan Village, which was not too dangerous.
Inside and outside Fengchuan Village, corpses are everywhere. The corpses of the Western Xia army and the Song soldiers covered the entire battlefield, and on the wall, thousands of Song soldiers resisted the enemy's attack with blood.
On top of the city walls, a tall and handsome young man aged twenty-five or sixteen. With a bloody face and a look of embarrassment, standing on the city wall and commanding the defending soldiers, he is Cao Zong, the temporary commander of Fengchuan Village.
Cao Zong saw that there were at least thousands of Western Xia troops under the city carrying siege equipment such as ladders and walls. Rushing towards the city, and then turning his head to look at the exhausted soldiers around him, he scolded in his heart that those guys in Western Xia who bullied the few with more actually used tens of thousands of horses to take turns attacking Fengchuan Village, tired of his soldiers, and now he didn't even have any available soldiers, and he could only hold out for another hour at most.
"Artillery ready!" Cao Zong looked at the Western Xia army rushing up in a loose formation, and said loudly to the soldiers behind him who were manipulating the giant stone thrower (the so-called cannon in the Northern Song Dynasty).
Hundreds of soldiers behind Cao Zong heard his words. Together, they pulled the tendon strings of the five directional projectile guns on the wall hooks behind the wall.
As the Western Xia army got closer and closer, and when it was less than a hundred paces, Cao Zong immediately ordered his soldiers to shoot the gunpowder weapon fireball bomb on the artillery.
Cao Zong's gunpowder weapon fireball bomb is just a very backward fire-burning weapon, first wrap the gunpowder with multiple layers of paper and seal it, paste it into a spherical hard shell, and use it after it is dry and solid, when fighting, first put the fireball firearm in the throwing pocket of the stone-throwing machine, and then use the red-hot ground to burn the cone, the spherical shell is burned through, and then they are thrown to the enemy's position, and the gunpowder in the ball is ignited by the burned spherical shell to achieve various combat purposes.
"Put!"
With Cao Zong's order, the servants forcefully cut off the tendon strings of the cattle that were close to the ground, and the prepared fireball bounced towards the Western Xia army outside the city.
Rumble!
Within a few hundred meters of the Fengchuan Walled City, Cao Zong poured fierce fire oil (oil), the fierce fire oil touched the fireball bomb, and burned violently, and the thousands of Western Xia troops who came to attack, in addition to the fierce fire oil area, there were also fast Western Xia soldiers, and the others all fell into the sea of fire, screaming and fleeing for their lives, but they couldn't escape the pursuit of death.
Cao Zong looked at the sea of fire under the city, he didn't have time to pity, and began to think about retreating, the fierce fire oil was the last hole card in his hand, after using it, there was no strong defensive weapon, except for retreat, there was really no second way to go.
"Prepare to withdraw ......" Cao Zong was about to say the words of retreat, when he suddenly saw that the temporary military camp of the Western Xia army under the city wall suddenly became chaotic, and a Great Song cavalry, covering from behind the Western Xia army, hurriedly withdrew and prepared to say the words of retreat.
People on that side? Cao Zong looked at the reinforcements rushing in suspiciously.
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Yang Zun led 700 cavalry, killed several teams of Western Xia horses along the way, and came to the rear of the Western Xia army camp without a trace.
When Yang Zun came to the Fengchuan Walled City, it was when the fierce fire oil was extinguished, and the entire Fengchuan Walled City was filled with the smell of burnt corpses.
"Yang Zun came to support the inspection of the edge of Huanqing Road, General Cao quickly opened the door!" Yang Zun came to the city gate and said loudly.
"Open the door!" Cao Zong didn't even ask, he instructed the soldiers behind him, he knew that at this time, the Western Xia army could take Fengchuan Village in just a little time, and there was no need to engage in any tricks to deceive the city.
Taking advantage of the fact that the Western Xia army did not rush up, Yang Zun led seven hundred cavalry and quickly entered Fengchuan Village, while the Western Xia Army that rushed up could only watch the reinforcements enter Fengchuan Village without any way.
"General Cao Zong, thank you General Yang for coming to reinforce me!" When Cao Zong saw Yang Zun entering the village, he immediately greeted him and said.
"General Cao doesn't have to be polite, it is the responsibility of our Great Song military to resist the Western Xia army, I don't know how the battle is now?" Yang Zun was not polite, and immediately asked the question he was most concerned about at present.
Hearing Yang Zun's question, Cao Zong said with a wry smile: "General Ben was ordered to support the front line, and when he walked to Fengchuan Village, the Western Xia Army suddenly appeared here, and was attacking Fengchuan Village, so he raided in to help defend Fengchuan Village, but the Western Xia Army seems to be all here, and the number is definitely more than 10,000, and Fengchuan Village plus the general's reinforcements, it is only 1,500 people, and the Western Xia Army has more than 100 people, and it takes turns to fight, but in one day, it has exhausted the defensive weapons of Fengchuan Village, if it is not for the arrival of General Yang, General Ben is ready to retreat from the back mountain trail with the soldiers and civilians of Fengchuan Village! ”
Yang Zun turned his head to look at the overtired soldiers in Fengchuan Village, all with pale faces, and weak and trembling all over his body, and sighed in his heart, he knew that Fengchuan Village could not be defended, and the reinforcements he brought were all cavalry, and it was a waste of strength to help Fengchuan Village defend the city, plus Fengchuan Village had no defensive weapons, and staying here was just a remnant.
Cao Zong looked at Yang Zun's suddenly changed face, and also turned his head to look at his subordinates and the cavalry brought by Yang Zun, smiled bitterly again, and said in his heart that Fengchuan Village could never stay.
"Along the ancient Qin plank road to the south, there is a fortress Dunliang Village that existed in the Tang Dynasty, the defense is stronger than Fengchuan Village, and the defensive weapons prepared in it are very sufficient, which is a good place to defend." Cao Zong saw that Yang Zun was not going to defend Fengchuan Village, and immediately sent a soldier to bring a topographic map of the vicinity and said.
"Good! Taking advantage of the fact that the Western Xia army is not attacking the city now, we will immediately retreat to Dunliang Village! Yang Zun immediately agreed to Cao Zong's proposal, commanded his subordinates together with Cao Zong, and began to retreat to Dunliang Village.
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Outside Fengchuan Village, in the Xixia military camp, the general of the Western Xia Army, Wei Ming, was sleeping with a beautiful woman contributed by the Qiang tribe in his arms.
"General Qiyu, the Song army in Fengchuan Village has retreated." A Western Xia herald hurriedly walked into the camp tent, and saw the beautiful women around Wei Ming Shouquan exposing their delicate bodies with undulating peaks and peaks, and while peeking with squints, he said loudly to the commander.
"What! The Western Xia army retreated, and finally waited for this moment, by the way, where did they retreat? The tall and tall Xixia fierce general Wei Mingquan guarded the whole name, and his eyes were originally squinted, but he suddenly opened his eyes and asked the herald.
The herald saw that Wei Ming Shouquan suddenly got up, brought the quilt on his body, and completely exposed the figure of the sleeping beauty, and while swallowing his saliva, he said to Wei Ming Shouquan: "General Hui, the Song army has retreated to the south, look at the direction, it should be retreating to the south of Dunliang Village." ”
"The pier beam collapsed!" Wei Ming Shouquan didn't care about the herald's squinting eyes, pondered for a while, waved his hand and said: "We keep up, only besiege and not attack, and let people always watch the movement of the Yongxing Army's three-way reinforcements, our target is not the Song army in Fengchuan Village, but the three-way reinforcements sent by Wang Deyong for each road of 10,000 people, as long as the three-way reinforcements are defeated, the king's plan for revenge will be completed, we can't completely offend the Great Song Dynasty now, we can only teach a lesson." ”
"Yes! Checkmate! The herald agreed, and immediately walked out of the camp to convey the meaning of the name of the herald.
Wei Ming Shouquan saw the herald walk out of the camp tent, hehehe, a pair of rough hands touched the beauty next to him who was pretending to sleep, and the Qiang beauty who touched it groaned and screamed.
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A hundred miles south of Fengchuan Village, Wang De used the three-way reinforcements sent to march together and march towards Fengchuan Village.
At this time, Zhao Lei had just defeated the 2,000 cavalry of the Capture Army and the 5,000 Qiang Army led by Rendo Baoren, and returned to the Gyeongju military camp outside Gyeongju City.
After the war, snowflakes finally fell near Gyeongju, and even God, I began to mourn and cry for those Gyeongju soldiers who died in battle.
Zhao Lei sat solemnly in the command post of the Gyeongju military camp, holding a wolf pen in his hand, pondering what he kept writing on the rice paper on the desk.
The battle with the Qiang army and the Western Xia capture army did not bring Zhao Lei the joy of victory, but only the contemplation and sad memories after the failure of the reform.
Di Qing gave Zhao Lei a detailed post-war inventory, and Zhao Lei realized that the material and financial resources of the Qingzhou Army were not comparable to the Qiang Army and the Western Xia Army, but the Qiang Army and the Western Xia Army, with the quality of the soldiers and the excellent war horses, forced the Qingzhou Army to the brink of defeat.
Why did you put in more effort than the Western Xia army, but you couldn't defeat those barbaric party members! Zhao Lei has been thinking about this problem, until the tragic victory over the Western Xia army Zhizhou, Zhao Lei understood that the statement of cavalry against cavalry is simply nonsense, not to mention that the Great Song Dynasty simply does not have enough high-grade war horses to fight against the Western Xia and Liao, even if it pays a huge price to have war horses, it will take at least ten years for the Great Song Dynasty to train a group of elite cavalry that can compete with the cavalry of the Western Xia and Liao, and after training the elite cavalry, the Great Song Dynasty also needs a commander who is proficient in battle formations to lead the elite cavalry against the enemy country, but the Great Song Dynasty has been peaceful for decades, Go there and find enough generals to command the elite cavalry!
Fighting cavalry against cavalry, after losing the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, this is simply a beautiful dream, an unattainable dream.
Zhao Lei's idea of training cavalry against cavalry now has an idea. He was completely disappointed, and he understood that even if he really trained powerful cavalry, it would be absolutely impossible to find someone who could lead these cavalry in the Great Song Dynasty, which was heavy on literature and light on military force, so the only way for the Great Song Dynasty to become militarily strong now was to speed up the process of gunpowder weapons.
Fireball bombs, thistles. Quinoa balls, poison smoke balls...... The power is amazing, it can be used to attack and defend, attack everything, and be invincible! Zhao Lei looked at the list of gunpowder weapons provided by the Great Song Gunpowder Bureau at hand, and looked at the boastful comments of the officials of the Gunpowder Bureau next to him with a wry smile.
"Invincible, invincible, so powerful, I haven't seen any victories in the Great Song Dynasty!" Zhao Lei said with a mocking smile.
"Say what?" Xiao Ruoruo walked into the command post with a cup of hot tea and heard Zhao Lei talking to himself. Asked in surprise.
"Nope! Consideration is being given to how the combat effectiveness of the army can be significantly increased in the short term. Zhao Lei took the hot tea in Xiao Ruoruo's hand and said with a smile.
"Greatly improve the combat effectiveness of the army in a short period of time, you think you are a god!" Xiao Ruoruo said to Zhao Lei jokingly, but she didn't notice the firmness and confidence in Zhao Lei's eyes.
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Qi Songju, the capital supervisor of Huanqing Road, led 10,000 Yongxing soldiers. Hurried all the way, and finally arrived in Huachi.
The red sun hung in the west, seeing that the sky was about to fall into the night, Qi Songju, the capital supervisor of Huanqing Road, who was born in the East Palace of the official Zhao Zhen, was wearing heavy armor. Sitting on top of the warhorse, looking out over the surroundings, behind him. A simple camp has begun to take shape, and it seems that it is going to set up camp here.
"General! Huachi reported urgently, the Western Xia army stormed Fengchuan Village, General Yang Zun and General Cao Zong were too few troops, and they were invincible, and they had retreated to Dunliang Village. A Song soldier walked up to Song Judi and said loudly.
"What! The Western Xia army took Fengchuan Village, how many Western Xia troops were there? Song Ju was shocked and asked cautiously.
"There are about 10,000 people. However, the attack on Fengchuan Village lost at least 1,000 people, and now there are up to 9,000 people. Song Bing, who gave the order, replied loudly.
Nine thousand! Song Ju immediately felt relieved, he was afraid that the Western Xia army would suddenly increase its troops, and there would be forty or fifty thousand people, even if they went to reinforcements in three ways, they would have no chance of winning, and now when they heard that there were only nine thousand people, they immediately started to defeat these Western Xia troops and made the first contribution.
"General! Gyeongju good news, Gyeongju defense envoy Zhao Lei, Lord Zhao, led 6,000 Gyeongju troops to defeat the invading 5,000 Qiang troops and 2,000 Western Xia cavalry. Another Song soldier came to Song Ju's side and said loudly with joy.
"Really!" Song Ju immediately asked in surprise.
To the herald nodded, the small abacus in Song Ju's heart immediately fought, Zhao Lei was able to defeat seven thousand soldiers and horses with six thousand soldiers and horses, and it was also the most elite two thousand cavalry of the Western Xia Army, it seems that the Western Xia Army is just a paper tiger, and there is nothing to be afraid of if it is easy to tidy up if it is happy, and now the head work has been lost, if Zhao Dexuan and Wang Wen rushed to Dunliang Village first to defeat the rest of the Western Xia Army, then he would not be able to get any credit.
Thinking of this, Song Ju hurriedly said loudly to the heralds: "You immediately pass on the general's order, stop building the camp, and rush overnight to support Dunliang Village." ”
"General! Our army has been marching for a day, exhausted, if we don't rest and march overnight, if we encounter the Western Xia army, I'm afraid our army will not be able to resist! The herald hesitated for a moment, and said cautiously to Song Ju.
"Bastard! Are you a general or am I a general, hurry up and pass on the general's order, wait for us to reach Dunliang Village, and the defenders of Dunliang Village will flank the Western Xia army before and after, and it will not be too late to rest after defeating the Western Xia army. Song Ju roared and said to the herald.
Of course, the herald did not dare to disobey the general's order, and returned to the camp to convey Song Ju's order.
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Outside the Dunliang Village, the Western Xia Army surrounded the gates of the camp, but in the barracks, there was a calm, and there was no pre-war tension.
The commander of the Western Xia Army, Wei Ming, sat lazily on a wolfskin chair, holding a roasted yellow leg of mutton in his hand, and in front of him, a Qiang beauty knelt respectfully on the ground and gently beat his leg.
"General Waiming! The Song army came, and as Xia Guan guessed, Song Ju rushed to come overnight in order to compete for merit. A roe deer-headed mouse-eyed, thin figure, dressed as a Great Song scribe, walked into the camp and whispered to Wei Mingshouquan.
"Sure enough, Li Liangjun really knows about those Song officials. can actually guess that someone will march overnight in order to fight for merit, this is a taboo for soldiers, and only those dog officials in the Great Song Dynasty can do this kind of thing, by the way, are the ambushes ready? Akina asked aloud triumphantly.
"It's ready, there is a very steep road on the ancient Qin plank road. One side is against the mountain, one side is near the stream, it is a good place to ambush, the lower official has sent three thousand soldiers to ambush on both sides, there is the only way for the Song army to reinforce the Dunliang village, plus the sky is dark, the Song army is difficult to distinguish the number of our army, the Song army is defeated this time. Li Liang, the Western Xia military master with a roe head and rat eyes, said with a sneer.
"In that case, let's entertain the Song Jun from those sources! That's right. Where are the other two reinforcements of the Song army? Wei Ming Shouquan took a bite of the leg of mutton in his hand, and asked the military advisor Li Liang vaguely with the oily corners of his mouth.
"It's all outside Huachi, and they've all been camped and repaired, and it's estimated that it will take a day to get here." Li Liang said to Wei Ming Shouquan with a smile.
"That's right. Is the second plan to welcome Song Jun ready? He pondered for a moment and continued to ask.
"General Huiyu, it's ready, it took five days for a thousand soldiers to dig a trench, and the top of the trench has been covered with wooden planks, and the Song army will not show up." Li Liang immediately replied.
"In that case, then General Ben doesn't have to go out. Let the sons and daughters play slowly with those big fools in the Song army! After listening to Li Liang's answer, Wei Ming Shouquan laughed twice and said proudly.
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The place where the ancient Qin plank road on the south side of Yifeng passes, there is a place called Dahu Bend, there are two large bays several kilometers long, one side is against the mountain, one side is near the stream, and there is only a narrow plank road of several hundred meters long between the two bays.
On both sides of the narrow plank road of the Great Lake Bend, three thousand Western Xia troops were quietly ambushed here. At their hands, all kinds of bows, crossbows, rolling wood, round stones, grass balls and other weapons are placed at random in their hands.
The night of the Great Lake Bend was dim, the dark clouds were thick, and the Crescent Moon was quietly hiding behind the black veil, and it couldn't bear to see the miserable situation that the Great Song encountered next.
Song Ju led tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, all the way to the Great Lake Bend, and kept urging the soldiers to hurry, but he never expected that on both sides of the Great Lake Bend, the evil wolves from Western Xia had opened their bloody mouths, revealing their hideous and sharp wolf teeth, ready to eat the 10,000 Song troops led by Song Ju.
"Quick! Be sure to rush to Dunliang Village before dawn! Song Ju took the lead, urging the soldiers to hurry up and say.
At this moment, a sudden mutation appeared, thousands of bows and crossbows and arrows reflected the dim night, with the breath of death, suddenly covering the Song army that was hurrying, and at the same time shouting the sound of killing, the earth shook the sky, on both sides of the big lake, thousands of torches suddenly appeared, throwing them at the Song army, exposing the Song army in the light.
"Enemy attack!" The terrible screams of the Song army spread all over the bend of the lake, and the Song army on the narrow plank road, seeing the sudden ambush, became a mess, raised bows and crossbows to fight back, knelt and surrendered, and fled to the place of escape, all kinds of ugliness appeared in the Song army.
Song Ju was at a loss, and stayed on the war horse in despair, he never thought that there was an ambush of the Xixia army here in Dahu Bend, a narrow plank road of less than two zhang, and now it was a problem to escape, at this moment, hundreds of huge rolling logs and dozens of round stones rolled down from the mountain, and the target was directly aimed at the Song army on the plank road, and the middle was mixed with burning straw fireballs, burning violently towards the Song army.
Song Ju looked around in fright, the current team was very long, and the plank road was too narrow, there was no chance to turn around and retreat, thinking of this, Song Ju said loudly to the cavalry beside him: "Quick!" It's safe to rush out of the plank road, hurry forward! ”
Song Ju behaved very "heroically", leading the cavalry around him to rush forward and prepare to escape.
But Song Ju had just rushed to the end of the plank road, but he didn't notice that near the ground, several tripwires were lying there quietly, as if thin fish wires with hooks, waiting for the fish to bite the hook to appear.
Rumble! Song Ju sat down and fell to the ground hard, wailing and neighing, and Song Ju himself, with only the three words "tripping horse" in his mind, fell heavily to the ground, and then fell unconscious.
(I suddenly received an orange alert last night, and there was a raging storm outside, and I actually needed flood control, oh my!) The desert lives by the river, today I went to the embankment to see, the water level is less than two meters from the embankment, the embankment park that can be seen two days ago, part of it has been flooded by the river, the weather forecast and heavy rain, the desert is a little scared! Now I start to hate the rain. )
In the first battle of Dahu Bend, 10,000 soldiers and horses led by Song Ju were shot, crushed, and burned to death on the spot, and 2,000 people successfully escaped from the battlefield, and another 1,000 people were squeezed down the plank road in the torrent, life and death are unknown, and the other 5,000 men and horses surrendered and were all captured.
In the Xixia military camp outside Dunliang Village, the commander of the Western Xia Army, Wei Mingshouquan, sat on the empty square of the military camp with a cruel smile, in the square, more than 5,000 captured Song soldiers looked at the commander of the Western Xia Army in front of them with a trembling face, remembering the reputation of the Western Xia Army in the past, many soldiers have been frightened and incontinent, and the whole square is full of stench.
"! What kind of taste, a group of cowards without guts, I really don't understand why the king didn't give the order to fight directly to Bianjing, these guys who are less courageous than mice are even called soldiers, and they are not as good as the dogs raised by our Xixia! Wei Ming Shouquan looked at the trembling Song soldier in front of him, and said loudly with a sarcastic expression.
In the face of Wei Ming Shouquan's ridicule, the more than 5,000 captured Great Song soldiers, none of them refuted and the atmosphere, they all looked at Wei Ming Shouquan with a servile face.
"To tell the truth, five thousand captives, our Western Xia army can't afford to raise it, after all, Western Xia is not as rich as the Great Song Dynasty, plus along the way, although we have won a lot of Great Song Dynasty walled cities, but the food in it is pitiful, not enough for us to eat! I'm afraid there won't be much food left for you captives, so be it! Among you, there are skilled people who can save their lives, and everyone else is buried alive. Wei Ming Shouquan looked at the Great Song prisoners in the square with a playful face, and said with disdain.
As soon as the words of the name Shouquan came out. The five thousand captives suddenly became chaotic, for the chance of survival, they rushed to the Wei Ming Shou, this said that he could write words, that said he could compose poems, that could sing, and that he could blow, and that every soldier said his skills, and some people danced directly in the square to please the Xixia soldiers. Those who compete for skills are full of ugliness for a while.
"This is the so-called elite border army in the Great Song Frontier, what kind of thing, this kind of thing is not as good as a dog, and I can fight a hundred of them with one Xixia soldier." Wei Mingshou said sarcastically to Li Liang, the military advisor of the Western Xia Army beside him.
"That is, the Western Xia army is invincible, and of course it can easily defeat the Song army." Li Liang, who is a Song person, did not feel uncomfortable and said that in his heart, he himself is no longer a Song person, but an authentic Xixia person.
That's when it happened. A Western Xia herald suddenly ran over with a shocked face, walked to Wei Mingshouquan's side, and exclaimed, "General! General Ninda has returned, and they have been defeated. I heard that the Qiang army was completely defeated when it encountered the 6,000 men and horses led by Zhao Lei, the defense envoy of Gyeongju, and the 2,000 cavalry of the capture army led by General Renduo lost 800 people, and then retreated to the White Leopard City. After the repair, I came to support. ”
"Impossible! Although General Renduo captured the cavalry of the Shengsheng Army, it was the most elite army in Western Xia, with 2,000 cavalry. Even if we have 10,000 people who are difficult to contend with, how can we be defeated by 6,000 people! Besides, there are 5,000 Qiang troops to assist! Wei Ming Shouquan looked at the herald with a shocked face and asked in disbelief.
"General Nido is outside, and the general will know as soon as he asks." The herald looked at the angry Wei Ming Shouquan, startled, and quickly explained.
Wei Mingshouquan looked at the ugly five thousand Song army captives on the square with a gloomy face, he really didn't want to believe that how could these Song troops, who were less timid than rats, defeat the two thousand most elite cavalry of the Western Xia Army!
"These captives. Those who are skilled stay, others cut off their ears or noses and let them go! Wei Ming Shouquan said coldly.
"General! Isn't it to bury them alive? A Western Xia soldier asked puzzled.
"I thought that the Song army was all cowardly and Song dogs, but I didn't expect that there were hero-like characters, leave some people, humiliate that hero, let him see what his companions are." Wei Ming Shouquan said coldly to the Western Xia army.
Hearing that there was no need to worry about his life, as long as he left one ear, Song Jun, who was trembling with fright, immediately felt at ease.
When the Western Xia army heard Wei Mingshouquan's words, they immediately began to execute, and those who had skills were imprisoned and prepared to be brought back to Western Xia, while the useless people all cut off one of their ears and prepared to let them go, and the entire square was immediately filled with the smell of blood and terrible screams.
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In the military camp of the Song army outside Huachi, Zhao Dexuan was groggy and sleeping in the camp tent.
At this moment, the barracks suddenly became chaotic, and there were noisy sounds everywhere, which directly woke up Zhao Dexuan who was in a coma.
"What's the matter? So noisy! Zhao Dexuan asked loudly outside.
"General Qiyu, our army encountered several defeated Song troops, who were soldiers under the command of General Song Ju, General Song Ju hurried overnight, ambushed in the bend of the Great Lake, and the whole army was annihilated, and General Song Ju was captured." A tent guard walked in and said nervously and loudly.
"What!" Hearing the guard's words, Zhao Dexuan said with a look of shock and confusion.
"Have you informed Lord Wang?" Zhao Dexuan, who was extremely shocked, immediately began to hesitate whether to rescue or stand still, and hesitantly handed over the decision to Wang Wen, who was advancing with him.
"Someone has been sent to inform Lord Wang." The camp guard said.
Zhao Dexuan sighed, stunned looking at the night outside the camp, he never thought that Song Ju, who was drinking together a few days ago, has now become a prisoner, and the Yongxing army that resisted the Western Xia army in three ways has already lost all the way before it meets the face of the Western Xia army, it seems that this time it will be unlucky, it is good to be able to successfully defeat the attacking Western Xia army, if it fails again, I am afraid that the military forces of the entire Yongxing military road will be affected by this defeat.
Western Xia Army! Is it really that scary? Zhao Dexuan thought in a daze.
Wang Wen, who also led 10,000 soldiers and horses to support, led his soldiers to camp ten miles away from Zhao Dexuan, and when Zhao Dexuan got the news that Song Ju's entire army was destroyed. Wang Wen also learned the news.
"Song Ju, that idiot, actually marched at night, and took such a difficult road as the ancient Qin plank road, committing such a taboo in the army, I really don't know how he led the troops to fight, it's just a rice bucket!" Wang Wen heard the news of the annihilation of Song Ju's entire army. Roaring said angrily.
"My lord! Song Ju has been defeated and captured, where should we go? A general stood up and said worriedly.
"What to do, of course, is to continue to reinforce Dunliang Village, but with the experience of Song Ju, we must march cautiously, come to someone, inform Zhao Dexuan Zhao, and go out tomorrow to rescue Dunliang Village." Wang Wen pondered for a while and said loudly.
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In the early morning, the morning light swayed the heavens and the earth. The high slopes of the loess are becoming more and more desolate and green.
Cloaked in the morning light, Zhao Dexuan and Wang Wen led 20,000 Song troops, marching cautiously one after the other, heading towards Dunliang Village.
The Western Xia army under the Dunliang village seemed to have become stupid as pigs overnight. The Song army, which did not appear suddenly, was attacked by Zhao Dexuan, Wang Wen, Cao Zong, Yang Zun and others, and retreated southward in defeat.
Under the Dunliang Village, the four generals of the Song Army, Zhao Dexuan, Wang Wen, Cao Zong and Yang Zun, finally succeeded in meeting the division.
"Victory is pride. The Western Xia army is not atmospheric, we chase! After Zhao Dexuan joined several other generals, he proudly looked at the direction of the Western Xia army's escape. Said excitedly with a bang.
"Wait! Lord Zhao, the last general always felt that something was wrong, the Western Xia army knew that the three-way soldiers and horses supported Dunliang Village, and after ambushing General Song Ju, why was it easily defeated by our army, I'm afraid there is something wrong with this? Cao Zong frowned and looked at the direction in which the Western Xia army left, and said worriedly, he was not like Zhao Dexuan and Wang Wen, both of whom were leaders from scribes. And he just came to the Yongxing Army, and he didn't understand the power of the Western Xia Army at all, but Cao Zong knew that after he was a general, he had served in the Yongxing Army for five years, and he was an old opponent of the Western Xia Army, so seeing through the retreat of the Western Xia Army at a glance definitely included conspiracy.
"What's the problem! Song Ju, that stupid man, marched overnight, and ambushed in a steep place like Dahu Bend, and committed a military taboo before he was defeated and captured, if he faced each other head-on, my Great Song soldiers would never lose to the Western Xia Army, so it was normal for the Western Xia Army to be so frightened when they saw Lord Ben and Lord Zhao coming! Seeing that the Western Xia army was easily defeated, and the military merits had been obtained, Wang Wen also sneered arrogantly, and began to wonder if Cao Zong wanted to steal the merits.
"The last general also feels that something is wrong, although the Western Xia army is not good, but it is not so easy to be defeated by our army, why did it lose so badly and so quickly this time?" Yang Zunke is a practical general who climbed up from small soldiers step by step, and he also understands that the retreat of the Western Xia Army is boring, but he can't clearly say the fact that the Song Army can't defeat one of the Western Xia Army even if it is three, so he can only persuade Wang Wen and Zhao De very tactfully.
"You are afraid of the Western Xia army, Lord Ben and Lord Zhao are not afraid, since you are not willing to pursue, don't make excuses, General Cao and General Yang, you will stay in Dunliang Village! The task of pursuing the defeated troops of Western Xia will be left to us! Wang Wen sneered and looked at Cao Zong and Yang Zun, said proudly, no longer paid attention to the advice of Cao Yang and the two, and together with Zhao Dexuan, led the troops to chase in the direction of the defeat and retreat of the Western Xia army.
When Cao Zong and Yang Zun heard this, they had no choice but to obey the order to stay in Dunliang Village, and watched Wang Wen and Zhao Dexuan go to pursue the Western Xia army, secretly praying in their hearts that the two would not be defeated too badly.
To the south of the Longma Mountains, there is a long and narrow valley with steep cliffs on both sides of the valley, and the terrain is very steep.
Zhao Dexuan and Wang Wen hurried all the way, and when they saw the canyon, they didn't care, and rushed to the canyon with 20,000 soldiers behind them.
Just when the Song army rode 15,000 people into the canyon, a change suddenly occurred.
On the high cliffs on both sides of the canyon, there was a sudden earth-shattering shout of killing, and countless Western Xia military flags appeared on it, followed by dense bows and crossbows and arrows and countless rolling wood boulders that were pressed by dark clouds and rolled towards the canyon.
"Enemy attack!" Everything seems to be a reappearance of last night, and the Song army, who strayed into the trap of the Western Xia army, was in a panic, like a headless fly, stumbling around.
Just when Zhao Dexuan and Wang Wen were about to lead their troops to retreat, at the entrance of the canyon, a half-zhang long wooden plank was suddenly turned up, and under the plank, there was a one-meter-deep trench, and inside the trench was a fierce fire oil filled with a pungent smell.
As several torches of the Western Xia army were thrown into the trench, a huge wall of fire suddenly appeared, forcibly intercepting the retreat of the Western Xia army.
Seeing that the retreat was blocked, Zhao Dexuan and Wang Wen panicked and prepared to rush forward with their soldiers, but a shock shook the mountain, blocking their last living road, and the exit of the canyon had been blocked by a pile of rocks.
The front and rear roads were blocked, Zhao Dexuan and Wang Wen glanced at each other with remorse, and suddenly each pulled out the sword at his waist, and without waiting for the surrounding guards to stop him, the horizontal sword killed himself.
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