"Zhang Xianggong, why don't you say it? Does Xianggong want to learn from Li Linfu? Ouyang Xiu said.

He was the biggest stick in the court to stir that thing, and the general ministers now had a headache when they saw Ouyang Xiu.

But Ouyang Xiu and Bao Zheng are both interesting, Fu Bi and Zheng Lang or Lu Yijian, I was wrong, degrading my official, or what the court did, made me dissatisfied, and I didn't become an official with my hooves. Or teach the emperor that you are not doing well. Ouyang rhetoric will never destroy the emperor, and Bao Zheng will never resign if he resists the emperor.

Zhang Dexiang took the initiative to shut up.

I'll ignore you.

Ouyang Xiu looked at the other prime ministers again, and in the face of Ouyang Xiu, Lu Yijian also felt a headache, and said to Zhao Zhen: "Your Majesty, Zheng Lang's letter can be taken out for everyone to see." ”

Otherwise, Ouyang Xiu will be allowed to go online.

Such a big matter, only a few of you prime ministers know, so what do you want other ministers to do, what do you want to say, listen, Li Linfu has come out, and in the end he can make several prime ministers disgusted to death.

Zhao Zhen sent someone to bring the fold and circulate it down.

All stunned.

Even now, even the Buddha will be angry and ashamed.

Capturing the prince of Western Xia alive, even if he is released in the end, its significance is not trivial, at least it can give an explanation to the people of the world.

It's no wonder that several bigwigs lost their temper in the early dynasty, and they would lose their temper if they changed themselves.

Fu Bi shouted: "Take the map." ”

You have to look at the map, how far the Song army is from the Tiandu Mountain Palace.

The map was brought and the ministers crowded together to look at it. This is the map of Jingyuan Road, if you look at the virtual control area of the Song Dynasty, it is only a hundred miles away from the Western Summer Palace. But no longer understand, no minister really regarded the entire Wuyan Gorge area as the territory of the Song Dynasty.

Then from Shimen Gorge or Wuyan Qianxia to the Western Summer Palace, it will reach two hundred miles.

I don't know the specific situation in the northwest, but I can guess the difficulties encountered along the way.

Many people looked at each other, not knowing how Zheng Lang did it.

There is also a letter in front of the main letter, which is written in detail, and the two pieces are read together, and the ins and outs will be very clear, Guan Jian's letter is now in Tongguan, or in Luoyang. It should have left Shaanxi, but did not reach the capital.

So everyone is confused.

Let's have a heated discussion about whether Zheng Lang will succeed. This time, Zhao Zhen didn't leave them, and waited patiently for news one by one.

After lunch, the news has not yet come.

So I drank tea and chatted.

In the evening, Zheng Lang's second recital finally arrived.

Written very simply, the minister ordered Di Qing to sneak into the territory of the enemy Kou Tiandu last night, four more to break the front village of the Kou Tiandu Palace, annihilated six hundred enemy Kou guarding the village, arrived at the palace at dawn, the soldiers fought bloodily, Tianming captured the city, and killed more than 700 enemies, captured hundreds of enemies, Tiandu grottoes and temples monks, the prince of Western Xia, and hunted nobles in Tiandu. The re-burning palace is a cave temple. He returned to several fierce battles with the enemy, defeated three enemies, captured the village set up by the Kouwu Smoke Village, and killed more than 2,000 enemies. He camped in Kouzhai to rest, in order to lure the enemy to Shimenxia and expand the results of the battle.

That is, after five bloody battles and three battles to capture the village, the prince of Western Xia was finally captured.

Because of the hurry, Zheng Lang couldn't know the details, so he wrote it very simply, and the approximate meaning was written.

He also said, Your Majesty should not worry about this battle, the minister's worries about Yuan Hao Kou Fulin are not successful, and the army will withdraw, and Kou Jingyuan will vent his anger. The terrain of Jingyuan is flat, and there are few brave generals. In the first battle of Fulin, the stars gathered, and several episodes of the world flowed here, Zhang Kang, Zhe Jimin, Gao Jixuan, Miao Jixuan, Wang Kai, Zhang Qi, and Wang Ji were all enemies. The minister begged His Majesty to transfer Zhang Qi and Wang Ji to Jingyuan for reinforcements.

Zheng Lang didn't want to take credit for these people, he was telling the truth.

Jingyuan Road has a lot of troops, even if he lays off 10,000 or 20,000 people according to his wishes, there are only more than 60,000 people left, and the troops are far stronger than Fulin Road, and at least 10,000 archers can be mobilized for reinforcement when needed.

Most of these archers were born in Orion, and grew up in this border wilderness area, with strong surnames, excellent archery skills, brave battles, and practice, no less than the elite infantry in the capital. Moreover, nearly 20,000 people were laid off, and the old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers who did not want to make progress were laid off one by one, and the remaining soldiers themselves had the strength to fight.

From the soldiers alone, it is enough.

But the major general.

Zhao Zhong, Zhao Bao, and Zhao Sheng are just brave men, let them take the lead in killing people, but their command ability is not enough.

Cao Ying and a few other generals also have some military exploits, such as Cao Ying made some contributions when he broke the enemy's Houqiao Village, but what kind of battle was that? Just annihilate a few hundred enemies who are guarding the fortress, will the surname be equal to the battle of tens of thousands of people?

They are not bad, they can be of some use, and most of the generals can't even be used.

Zhao Xun, Liu Hu and others can reuse it a little, but there are still deficiencies. Jingtai seemed to be better, and Zheng Lang was also a little relieved. The only ones who can really get their hands on it are the old ones and Di Qing, the old ones are wise generals who lack the ability to fight on the front line. So there is only Di Qing, does any battle have to be completed by Di Qing?

Shuai Cai himself and Lao Chong and Di Qing match each other, it's enough. But there is a lack of talent.

Among the generals of Fulin Road, Wang Kai was reused, and later there were a series of battles, which flashed and shined.

It's okay for Zhe Jimin to provide temporary support, but Fuzhou can't do without him.

Gao Jixuan is about to die of illness, and it is useless.

Zhang Kang's brilliance has not yet fully bloomed, and it is not convincing.

Miao also disappeared after the declaration of war, and he did well in Linzhou, but his actual combat ability was not his forte.

Only Zhang Yu and Wang Ji are left, and the imperial court doesn't seem to regard these two 10,000-strong enemies as the same thing, so it is better to take them to Jingyuan Road, and they can still play a role.

With these two generals, plus Di Qing, Jingtai, and Zhao Xun, then Jingyuan Road must be handsome, general, and soldier, even if Yuan Hao's army comes to attack, he will have the strength to fight, and even in the wild, he can fight with him.

These two people don't play all they have in Fulin Road, it's almost fantasy, incredible, as long as they show half of their bravery in Fulin Road, Yuan Hao will not be able to get any benefits if he sends an army of 100,000 to Jingyuan.

Everyone was very happy at first.

Then like Zhao Zhen, he was very dazed, who are this Zhang Qi and Wang Ji?

All looked at Zhang Dexiang with suspicious eyes.

Zheng Lang sent someone to inform Fu Linlu, and the ministers of the DPRK and China also knew that this was a notice, not a command, and it was not an overreach.

I heard some news, so I asked for these two generals.

But it is definitely not an ordinary man to let Zheng Lang ask for it solemnly and deal with Yuan Hao's angry invasion, why didn't he hear any rumors? The bigwigs of Xifu have been derelict in their duties.

The corners of Zhang's mouth were bitter, and he didn't know how to say it.

Zhao Zhen said for him: "I will send someone to Fulin Road to inquire in person." ”

There must be something wrong in the middle, where it is, Zhao Zhen doesn't know. Then he asked, "What do you think about this prince?" ”

is to be escorted back to Beijing, or locked up in Jingyuan Road to coerce Yuan Hao, or according to Zheng Lang's wishes, he will be released and released.

Most people still want to escort Li Lingming back to the capital and insult him severely.

But they couldn't grasp the severity of the matter.

There was silence.

……

The court was thinking about the prince, and the Jingyuan Road meat grinder was already bloody and twisted.

……

Wuyan Gorge is actually not wide, so the Liang clan sent an army of 300,000, causing the Western Xia army to fill the entire Wuyan Gorge.

But Wuyan Gorge is not a road, the mountains are tortuous, and there are many canyons, so the Song army actually got lost in the battle of Pingxia City. And most of these trails lead to Tiandu Mountain.

That's the key to the terrain.

Therefore, the Yongle City of the Song Dynasty failed, and Zhang Qi built the Pingxia City in the Wuyan Qianxia Gorge, instead of building it in the Wuyan Gorge. Zhang Kang destroyed the glazed fort and started a new village.

Di Qing stayed behind in this humble small village, the terrain was favorable to Ye Li Yuqi, but the disadvantage was that he could not gather more troops in Tiandu Mountain, and he had to continue to recruit troops from other places. This Song army must be dragged down.

But after a day and a night, is Song Jun still here?

Hurriedly rushed with 10,000 soldiers, and the news he heard seemed to be fine, and the Song army was in the stockade in front.

There is a stockade defense that is very annoying, and what makes Yeli depressed is that this stockade was built by his own subordinates, and he didn't expect the Song people to use it instead.

Without thinking much about it now, the order was given to attack.

The Western Xia army is roughly divided into five kinds, the first is the heavy armor iron harrier, the second is the capture army, which is specially used to plunder the other party's people and materials, which is very similar to the Khitan grass valley, but the Western Xia is poorer, and the shot is more ruthless, and the place where it passes is cleaner than the locusts, because of the desire for people, money, and goods, this army has reached more than 100,000 people.

In the words of the old seed, this group of people is simply a bunch of damn bastards!

The third is the Wei Rong army, there are not many people, and they are served by the children of the nobles, and the ones used to guard the gate are actually hostages.

The fourth type is the Minxi Army, which is the kind of camel artillery.

The fifth is to hit Lang Ling, only give them rudimentary weapons, let them rush in front to consume the enemy, mostly composed of Han Chinese and captured acquaintances. If you turn against the water in front of the battle or use your sword to face your own people, immediately slaughter the whole family or even the whole clan of this person in the rear, and forcibly coerce them to be cannon fodder.

In short, despicable, shameless, and shameless, this word is infinitely magnified in Yuan Hao.

The Yeli jurisdiction is close to the desert, and it also brings a Mixi army.

The siege will not work, but it is not a big problem to use this artillery against this small stockade.

Ordered the Takki army to ride camels forward and prepare to fire stone projectiles.

Di Qing gave the order unhurriedly and asked the soldiers to hit the fence on some of the stumps that the Tanguts had cut down yesterday.

Then they brought the captives and pressed them to the stump.

When he fought against Western Xia, when he discussed the military arrangements with Lao Chong and Zheng Lang, he said similar things, don't learn the battle of gentlemen, like Song Xianggong, then you will die. How practical how to come.

As soon as the Miki army was about to put the stone bullet on the bracket and throw it into the village, Yeli hurriedly said, "Stop, stop." ”

It's not dawn yet, God knows if there is a prince among these captives, but no, so many masters, so many sons and daughters, if they let the stone bullets stone to death, they can't wash themselves by jumping into the Yellow River.

With a gloomy face, he sent someone to shout in front of the fence: "Listen to the Song army in front, release your prisoners, and I will let you go back safely." ”

Di Qing laughed and said, "Do you Xixia people know what credit is? ”

I can believe the pig's speech, but I can't believe what you Tangut people say!

In fact, Di Qing also secretly felt a pity in his heart, if it weren't for the fact that both parts were very tired, the army led by Yeli came from a long journey, rushed away, and could be defeated.

But for now, we have to rest, there is still a long way to go back, and it will be a hard journey.

Yeli was helpless and asked the soldiers to rest on the spot and prepare breakfast.

Di Qing looked at it, and then looked at the north, it was estimated that the enemy from Tiandu Mountain would not be able to transfer troops, and even if they were transferred, there would not be many, so they did not dare to block the front. With a small number of ambush soldiers, they wanted to break more than 10,000 cavalry of the Song Dynasty and give the Tangut people the courage of the tiger, but they did not dare.

There would be a rear army coming from the direction of the Shojikou, so that his army would be blocked from both sides, so Yeli began to have the soldiers cook instead of attacking.

He whispered an order to the guards beside him, and asked him to lead a group of rangers again to monitor the movement in the direction of the Xiangyikou.

It is necessary to stay here, and the longer you stay, the more enemy troops you will attract, and the better the effect. But you can't really let the enemy make dumplings, that will not outweigh the losses.

The east was gradually dawning, and suddenly a troop of cavalry hurried in.

They were sent by Zheng Lang, not only to send a new battle plan, but also to send Li Lingming, the prince of Western Xia.

Di Qing couldn't cry or laugh, but he was also a little moved in his heart.

It's best to leave the prince, you don't have to do any plan, as long as you push the prince out, Ye Liyu begged to know that he would be fooled, and obediently followed the back of his buttocks.

However, the stakes were great, and he still sent Li Lingming to the Chinese army camp.

The little prime minister sent the prince back again, which was a trust in himself.

After reading Zheng Lang's battle plan, he immediately put it on the bonfire, looked at Li Lingming and said, "Do you want to eat something?" ”

"I've eaten it," Mr. Li said.

Escorted to the Song army Dazhai, Zheng Lang personally received him, prepared a sumptuous food and hospitality, and said some Confucian insights with him while eating.

This was the first time he had met the top ministers of the Song Dynasty, and it was only because of his bearing, and he thought that he was a thousand times better than his father.

However, because of himself, many soldiers of Western Xia will be sacrificed, which makes him feel very sad.

As the sky gradually brightened, Di Qing stood in front of the fence and shouted, "Is Ye Yu begging here?" ”

"I'm here." Yeli Yu begged to come out of the army.

Di Qing pushed Li Lingming out and said, "Your prince is here, and you have the ability to recapture him." ”

Ye Li begged and bowed, and cried loudly, saying, "Your Highness, I will definitely save you back." ”

Li Lingming did not answer.

Ye Liyu retreated in tears.

After breakfast, he launched two attacks.

Before the army reached the fence, ten thousand arrows were fired, even if they rushed to the fence, and let the Song army stab the crack in the fence with their spears, or stab the war horses, and the horses fell and stopped. There were also three or two fences that were washed away, which quickly allowed the Song army to quickly repair them.

Yeli Yuqi ordered the attack to be halted and waited for reinforcements to arrive.

At noon, four or five thousand people came one after another to meet most of the Yeli beggars.

The number of people had already surpassed the Song army, but Di Qing gathered the Song army that had woken up, gathered 3,000 elite troops, used the Jurchens as arrows, and in turn opened the gate of the fortress and rushed towards the Western Xia people.

After a moment of fierce fighting, under the impact of three thousand elite cavalry, the defense line of the Western Xia army was crumbling.

The riding skills may be more sophisticated in the Western Xia, but the morale is not high, and under the leadership of Yuan Hao's bandit-style fighting, the battle is not fierce. As well as physical strength, after resting for such a long time, Song Jun's physical strength has not fully recovered, but it has recovered most of it, and so have the horses.

The narrow canyon restricts the play of a large number of troops, and can only compete to see who is more fierce, although the number of Western Xia troops is large, but the area in front of the battle falls into the disadvantage.

Di Qing asked the guards to blow the horn, and all the Song troops rushed out of the stockade together.

The Yeli tribe was in chaos, and many people turned their horses and fled back, but there were their own people blocking the way, and they trampled on each other countless times for a while, and immediately retreated.

But Di Qing immediately ordered and did not chase again.

This is only a part, and there is a big head in the back, and you can't lose the big one because of the small.

Slowly withdrawd, escorting the captives away.

On the horseback, he sneered again: "Wild, wild, you can't do it either!" ”

Seeing that the Song army was about to flee, Ye Li Yuqi finally integrated the army again, and hung behind him and hesitated.

It's not that his army is very poor, he and Yeli Wangrong's army are very strict, but Yuan Hao's expedition to Fulin Road has taken away all the elite troops, and the battle just now made him completely sober up, and if he really fights, he can't beat this Song army.

But the Song army was not in a hurry, and walked in front unhurriedly, without leaving them behind.

Yeli Yu beggar felt even more bad in his heart, but what to do? Fortunately, he had already given the order to collect troops everywhere to support this side.

After walking more than 20 miles, 6,000 troops from the direction of Rouwolf Mountain and Huizhou rushed over from the rear.

This was the army that supervised the Tibetans, and half of them were elite soldiers, and Yeli Yu begged to increase his confidence and ordered an attack.

Di Qing turned his head to look, pushed these captives out, blocked the front, watched the enemy arrive, used the captives as shields, and released arrows in the back.

Ye Liyu was so angry that he was about to vomit blood, he thought about it and said, "Shoot!" ”

No matter what evil consequences will occur after these great monks and soldiers are shot to death, it is important for the prince to save them.

The great monk and these captured soldiers shouted for help on horseback.

However, the two armies were firing at each other, and a rain of arrows was thousands, and after two or three strokes, the arrows on both sides really reached 10,000. All of them were shot dead in a moment.

Di Qing laughed and shot as soon as he shot.

Push out these captives one by one, only those few noble sons and ladies stay, anyway, if you bring them back, they will be killed, and it will be a burden to keep them. It's a pity that these horses, although they were picked, were all old and short war horses, and they were all horses, and they were worth more than these prisoners of war to bring back.

Not only did they push these monks and soldiers, as well as servants and maidservants, to the front and make shields.

There were casualties in the fire, and almost all of the captives were killed. It's not without use, but it can have a serious impact on the morale of the beggars.

The last monk fell, and Di Qing said, "Withdraw!" ”

Finally galloped.

The two armies retreated and pursued, raising countless dusts.

After turning a corner, hundreds of trees suddenly rolled down the mountain, crushing dozens of enemy horsemen.

There were dozens of enemy horsemen rushing over, Di Qing turned his head and said, "Kill." ”

Quickly killed. More than 200 Song troops rushed down the mountain, joined the army, and headed south again.

Poor Tangut people are still moving wood behind. These large logs are hundreds of pounds, and it doesn't take much effort to push them down the mountain, but it takes more than a dozen people to move them away from the flat ground. When the wood was removed, the distance between the two sides was more than a mile.

Turn around again and arrive at Shimen Gorge.

Smoke and dust rose in the distance, and nearly 10,000 enemy troops came from the north. This is the army transferred from Weizhou and Leshan.

Killed from the mouth of the reward.

There were still some reinforcements that did not arrive.

Yeli Yuqi was really crazy, and almost all the troops on the line from Jiangzhou to Weizhou were recruited to rescue his precious nephew.

If you don't save it, you can't save it, if the prince doesn't save it, Yuan Hao's return to the army is furious, and he can't even save his life!

But Di Qing was afraid that his troops would not be enough, so he led his army to cross a small river, and took advantage of some slopes on the riverbank to line up to fight back.

This kind of terrain was unfavorable to the Tanguts, but the Tanguts were victorious at this time because they had plenty of troops, and Yeli Yuqi continued to order a strong attack.

For a time, the small river was full of many Western Xia soldiers, but they were crushed in the river by the Song army, but there were many people, and finally some soldiers rushed to the other side of the river and fought with the Song army.

Di Qing ordered the guards to blow the horn.

With the sound of this horn, layers of white waves rushed up from the upper reaches of the small river, and quickly rushed in. In the blink of an eye, they were approaching, and the more than 3,000 Western Xia troops in the river did not even have time to shout, and were rushed downstream.

This is also the last hand that Zheng Lang prepared for Di Qing.

You have to give Di Qing the opportunity to throw the enemy, otherwise entanglement, the number of enemies is more than the Song army after all, even if it is not much, it is not Zheng Lang's wish to force the battle and win a crushing victory. First, they cut down wood to block the road, and then took advantage of the shallow water of the river at the end of October to build a small dam upstream to collect the river water. The amount of water is limited, and not everyone will drown, but at least half of them will see the Dragon King.

The river was flowing in a tumultuous manner, and it was temporarily impossible to cross the river, and Yeli Yuqi could only watch as hundreds of his men on the other side of the river were besieged and killed by the Song army, or expelled to the river, and washed downstream by the river.

One of his lieutenants said: "King Yeli, the little one is worried about it, there is Shimen Gorge in front, and the terrain is even more vicious. ”

"Send scouts to check after level." Ye Li Yu begged to say.

If there is danger, chase it.

After giving the order, I felt bitter in my heart, I knew this, so it was better to forcibly escort my nephew back to Xingqing Mansion.

The water quickly calmed down, and the whole army crossed the river and chased towards Shimenxia.

This canyon is even narrower, and only a dozen rides can be passed at the narrowest point. Fortunately, the Song people did not set up an ambush here, and soon chased out of Shimenxia and came to Shimenchuan.

But Yeli Yu was stunned.