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Draw a horizontal line between Baoding and Tianjin in later generations, and the three passes are roughly distributed on this horizontal line, which is very close to Youzhou (Beijing). Moreover, most of this area is plains, and the supply of ordnance and materials for the Liao army is also very easy.

Since the Liao army's large-scale attack, the three passes have been under tremendous pressure, especially the easternmost Sikou Pass, where the Guancheng is located is not a mountain at all, but some relatively high soil slopes, and the defense is extremely unfavorable.

Under the attack of the Liao general Xiao Dezhen day and night, the Song army relied on soil bombs to barely hold on, but on the fourth day, it rained heavily, and the Song army's earth bombs were used in the rain, and the fuse became a dud bomb when it was wet;

Liao general Xiao Dezhen seized the opportunity and personally led the army to tackle the key problems, and more than 20,000 Liao troops broke through the silt pass in one fell swoop.

Seeing that the Liao army was swarming in, Nie Qing, the commander of the Xin'an Army guarding the Sikou Pass, ordered to retreat to Yantou Village, and he was in a panic all day.

Just when Nie Qing reorganized his army and planned to fight to the death with the Liao army on the plain, his staff member Ding Cong gave him an idea: break the embankment!

As if grasping at a life-saving straw, Nie Qing immediately sent troops to dig up the embankments of Nanyishui, Baigou River, and Hutuo River respectively, and for a time, from the east of Bazhou to the west of the Yellow River (at present, the Yellow River flows north through Cangzhou to the west of Tianjin, and then grabs the east of the Baigou River to flow into the sea. Several counties became a swamp country, and there was still heavy rain in the sky, which made Xiao Dezhen stop at the silt pass.

But in this way, Xiao Dezhen moved to the west, and the pressure on Waqiao Pass and Yijin Pass was greater, and even Pan Rui made preparations in advance for the Hebei Road Recruitment, and first stored water in the Cao River, Juma River, Sushui, and Luo River.

Thanks to the developed water systems on the Hebei Plain at this time, these water systems began to disappear slowly with the deterioration of the environment after the Song Dynasty, but now, these water systems are still a stagnant strategy.

The war in Hebei was in full swing, and Hedong was not having a good time, 40,000 Liao troops suddenly launched a rush to attack Yanmen Pass, and the walled fort in the north had been lost, and the Liao general Bante Haoli continued to send small groups of cavalry to break into the Song realm from the mountain trails on the border, burning and looting everywhere; Yanmen Pass is dangerous, and there is no danger of losing for a while, but Hedong is also not optimistic.

The Great Song Dynasty is undergoing an unprecedented test, and in total, the total strength of the Liaoxia attack on the Song Dynasty has reached 400,000, from Hebei to Shaanxi, the wolf smoke is billowing on the border line, and the blood is flowing.

This is a huge national war related to the life and death of the Great Song Dynasty.

Every day, war reports flew into Tokyo like snowflakes, destroying food and grass, armour, money, asking for reinforcements, retreating, and attacking.

The messengers of Mercedes-Benz were on the way, the van troops and civilians escorting the logistics were crowded on the road, and the Fourth Army of the Upper Ark defending Gyeonggi was also waiting for the battle.

The entire Great Song Dynasty was overloaded, the thick clouds of war hung over the sky, and even the city of Tokyo lost its former vitality, and the people walked in a hurry with sad and troubled looks on their faces.

The lights in the two courtyards are constantly lit day and night, Zhang Dian and Xu Jiang's hair is rapidly turning white, and there is no progress in the negotiations with the Liao State, Xiao Wang's conditions are no longer the original four villages, but three passes and ten counties, almost to the original Zhou Shizong recovered Ying, Mo Erzhou and three passes of the land before refusing to stop.

Every day, the differences between the DPRK and the DPRK are getting more and more serious, the clamor for compromise and peace is louder and louder, and the local accusations of the New Party for arbitrarily provoking the New Party since it came to power and the current crisis are endless.

The impeachment of Yang Yi is undoubtedly the most, and many people directly accuse him of bringing disaster to the country and the people, shaking the country's foundation, and endangering the society, and they want to get rid of him quickly;

The remarks proposing to abolish the New Deal, clean up the hearts of the people, and tide over the national disaster together are even more high-sounding.

There are even people who have proposed to move the capital, just in case.

On the Jiangnan East Road, there was an outlaw An Zhaohui, who played an anti-flag, called himself King Ning, gathered 200 bandits, and broke the two counties of Ningguo and Yicheng.

Empress Liu is close to giving birth and is no longer able to go to the court to listen to politics;

Zhao Ru, a half-grown child, was so frightened that his face was pale, and he even privately begged the ruling jae to let him abdicate and make way for Xian.

With a mess and crises, these words are not enough to describe the current situation in the Great Song Dynasty.

The Great Song Dynasty can't drag it on, and if it doesn't break through the current predicament, I'm afraid that an avalanche will occur in the Great Song Dynasty first. Under this huge pressure, the Shangshu Province, the Privy Council, and the two military and political heads of the Great Song Dynasty issued orders one after another. In particular, the combat orders for the northwest were like chasing Yue Fei's twelve gold medals, one after another.

This time, it is not to chase the northwest and strike the troops, but to let the northwest go all out to fight, repel the Xia army as soon as possible, and break the current crisis of being attacked from both sides as soon as possible.

Theoretically, the most powerful of the Great Song Dynasty was the Upper Fourth Army that defended Gyeonggi, but the Upper Fourth Army usually did not go to the battlefield; If the entire Great Song Dynasty talks about the real combat strength, it is none other than the Western Army, the total strength of the Northwest has reached more than 200,000, and these more than 200,000 people have all been baptized by actual combat, if you want to break the current predicament, if you don't count on the Western Army, who else can you count on?

Huanzhou, as one of the centers of the storm, is even more overwhelmed by black clouds.

Empress Dowager Liang's 150,000 troops are rolling in, and the soldiers and horses of the headquarters of Huanzhou have almost been evacuated, only the 10,000 horses taken from Gyeongju can stop the Xia army's Taishan overpower, even Yang Yi himself has no bottom in his heart.

Under Yang Yi's strict order, the entire Huanzhou has been cleared of the wilderness, and the people have either avoided the deep mountains or moved their families south. All the strong men were also organized, and the two passages for the Xia army to go south were already full of trenches and traps, and the stone walls near the cliff were blown up by Yang Yi's order, blocking the road as much as possible, even if it could stagnate the Xia army for half a day.

In addition to leaving 2,000 people to garrison Huanzhou, the remaining 9,000 men and horses were all taken to the northern line by Yang Yi. With the handy Huanzhou generals, now only Xie Jingting is left, Yang Yi ordered him to take 4,000 men and horses to garrison the Guide Fort on the front line of Dechuan, and personally led 5,000 men and horses to garrison Qingping Pass in Baimachuan, intending to use the terrain to block layers of attacks and delay the invasion speed of the Xia army to wait for reinforcements.

"Report! Lord Zhizhou! Xia General A Gulu led 10,000 pioneers to pass the Clam Ridge, and it is expected that the soldiers will come to Qingping Pass at the time of dinner. ”

"Got it, probe again!"

As soon as the scout soldiers withdrew, Ma Hanqing clenched his fists and asked, "My lord, fight!" Or no fight! ”

"Fight!" Yang Yi said while putting on his armor, "These Gyeongju soldiers have just been commanded by me, and the morale that they have worked hard to boost up, if they retreat without a fight, I am afraid that their morale will be greatly damaged, so not only must they fight, but they must also frustrate the enemy's edge and fight with courage in the first battle!" ”

Qingping Pass is not a pass, strictly speaking it is a military fort, standing on the west bank of the Baima River, one side of the fort is a low mountain, the army can pass through the low mountain; In front of him was a clearing, and Yang Yi led 5,000 men and horses to line up in the clearing.

The 10,000 forwards of Agulu rolled in, and I saw that the Song army was in a strict formation, with swords and guns like a forest, and the momentum was as dignified as a mountain, and the big banner with the word "Yang" was hunting and rolling in the wind.

Seeing this banner, and the Song army was less than half of his own, Ah Gulu's excitement was indescribable, Yang Yi! Xixia's eye is a thorn in the flesh! Not to mention being captured, even if he can defeat Yang Yi in one battle, it is enough to make Agulu the "God of War of Western Xia".

After a little arrangement, the whining horn sounded, Agulu led 5,000 men and horses to the formation, and the general Yexiu led 5,000 cavalry to immediately launch a fierce charge against the Song army, the iron hooves were like a tide, and the five thousand cavalry charged collectively.

The Song army's side was still silent, as if frozen in ice, and only a row of Song troops thirty zhang in front of the formation quickly separated, revealing ten iron buckets.

No diamonds, no porcelain work.

If there is no preparation, Yang Yi will never bring thousands of infantry to fight with Agulu, these ten iron barrels are made by him according to the People's Liberation Army's "no conscience cannon", this kind of earthen cannon is very simple to make, an iron bucket is filled with propellant first, put the explosive package bundled into a disc shape, ignite the propellant, and the explosive bag can be thrown nearly 200 meters or so.

Sergeant Song lit the fuse and ran back quickly, Xia Jun had never seen anything, and he didn't know what it meant, and the five thousand cavalry still rushed over.

Ten iron barrels burst into flames almost at the same time, and ten explosive packets smashed towards Xia Jun at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble......

Soon after the explosives package landed, ten huge roars shook the heavens and the earth, and the Qingping Pass two miles away was almost collapsed, and the explosives bag weighing a full twenty pounds was ah!

When the explosion occurred, the huge ball of fire rolled up, and the shock wave swept the horses out one by one, and the severed limbs and stumps flew in the air, and the bloody wind was blowing endlessly, and the terrifying sound made people feel as if the sky had collapsed.

Those war horses that were not directly injured by the explosion were frightened, like crazy, threw down the Xia army on the horse, trampled on it with a long neigh, and fled in all directions, and there was a miserable situation everywhere in sight......

The war drums of the Song army immediately sounded, and 5,000 men and horses followed Yang Yi down from the slope, shouting, swords and guns rang out, killing the Xia army that was unable to form an army, and a ** arrow rain was like hail, harvesting the lives of the Xia army.

Fortunately, the 5,000 men and horses in the battle were far away, and they quickly controlled the commotion of the mounts, and seeing that the front army was hunted and slaughtered, Agulu led the remaining 5,000 men and horses to meet and strangled with the Song army.

Blocked by the frightened horses in front, their horses were not very fast, and their formation was a little scattered; On the Song side, due to being too excited, the formation was also scattered when chasing and killing the rout, so that the two sides almost became a big melee.

Yang Yi slashed and scolded, these Gyeongju soldiers were under the banner for the first time, and it was very difficult to command, not to mention that they were like Li Yizhong, and they were like an arm, and a good victory was beaten like this, and they couldn't get down, what the hell is going on? Even if you win, I'm afraid it's a miserable victory, miserable! Miserable!

Ah Gulu is also desperate, last time he was cleaned up like a dehaired pig, and ran back to Xixia naked, if he failed again this time, I am afraid that the head will not be guaranteed, and this is why the former army is under the rout, he still desperately rushed up.

Just under the stalemate between the two sides, Qingping Pass killed another team of people, from the perspective of clothing, it was two or three hundred armor soldiers, and the one who rushed to the front was a female general, dressed in a tight-fitting suit, heroic and cool.

I saw her straddle the peach blossom horse, carrying the pear flower gun, and when she rushed closer, the pear flower gun hung on the victory hook, took off the longbow behind her backhand, jumped on the back of the galloping horse, and took the arrow and the bow like flowing water!

The sound of a buzzing bowstring, and the two arrows fired in unison, shooting Xia Jiang Agulu off his horse at once.

Yang Yi couldn't help but exclaim: Mu Guiying?

(To be continued)