Chapter 159: The Demon is one foot high

Zhao Ta was anxious and uncomfortable, but Brother Cha seemed much calmer, after withdrawing from Zhenwu City, he only brought 20,000 iron harriers and 1,000 Poxi troops to accompany him, and the rest of the soldiers would be released back to the station. He did it as a last resort.

In the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Western Xia, although the population was increased by plundering, encouraging fertility, and inducing surrender, the population was still difficult to replenish and consume due to continuous wars, and the population was only more than 1.8 million so far, and each time the army was sent out hundreds of thousands, it was almost necessary to transfer the young and strong soldiers of the whole country, even if the young and strong women had to be conscripted, and undertook the task of transporting the baggage and defending the city. Another problem is that the Western Xia implements a military system that is both soldiers and people, and all soldiers are in the army, and the densely populated areas are often areas with developed agriculture and animal husbandry, and the young and strong are all in the army, and now it is the spring ploughing season, the fields are uncultivated, and the livestock cannot be transferred, which will destroy the fragile economic base of the Western Xia, and the result will also be devastating.

However, his opponent seemed to have seen his own thoughts, and kept creating incidents, so that he had to send troops again, so in order to reduce the supply pressure in the war zone, and in order to allow the soldiers to go home for spring ploughing, Cha Ge only brought more than 20,000 elites, prepared to cross the Yellow River, and recruited troops on the spot in Weizhou, Youzhou, Yanzhou and other border state capitals to alleviate the economic pressure brought by sending troops.

Song and Xia along the border of the mountain boundary, east from Hengshan, west to Tiandu Mountain, Horsebit Mountain, although it belongs to the mountainous area, but the ecological environment is relatively good, suitable for farming and animal husbandry, suitable for the development of production, densely populated, only the garrison reaches tens of thousands of people. Its troop distribution and garrison tasks are: 70,000 people from Hebei to Wulayu Mountain to prepare for the Khitan; 50,000 people in Hongzhou, Baibao, Anyanzhou, Luoluo, Tiandu, and Weijingshan in Henan Province to prepare for Huan, Qing, Zhenrong, and Yuanzhou; 50,000 people on Youzhou Road in the left chamber to prepare for Dun, Yan, Lin, and Fu.

On the 10th day of the first month of May, Cha Ge led the army to cross the Yellow River and enter the Xixia Henan region, and transferred 60,000 elite soldiers in the Xishou Baotai Military Division, Jingsai Military Division, Jianing Military Division, and Xiangyou Military Division, plus 10,000 remnants of the Shenyong Military Division, and on May 20, Chen Bingmingtangchuan, the whole army totaled 90,000 people, known as 200,000, and set up a posture of a large-scale attack on the Linfu area.

It is said that the rescue of the army is to pay attention to the quick attack and quick attack, and quickly break the siege, so as not to have too many dreams at night. But after Brother Cha put on a shelf, he did not move, although Fengzhou was in a hurry three times a day, and the court was constantly urging, he just hesitated.

The army attacking each other is like a master's move, the emphasis is on being quiet as a virgin, moving like a rabbit, the master generally does not shoot, the shot will see blood, and the blood will be fatal. () Brother Cha and Zhao Ta are both such masters, and as soon as the two of them make a move, they must be dead and dead, a sea of corpses and a sea of blood, bleeding thousands of miles.

In fact, the battle between the two had already begun before the army moved. Brother Cha had long seen through Zhao Ta's plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao, and he was unwilling to use troops for Fengzhou, which had become an isolated island, and gave up the good situation on the Western Front. On the other hand, he still moved out of the old-fashioned anti-intermediary scheme, which made people spread rumors everywhere, saying that the king of Jin Chage had his own army and wanted to establish himself as the king of Hexi, and now he did not obey the orders of the king of Xia, which is a sign.

These strategies are not clever, but some people believe it, because Zhao Ta calculated that someone will believe it, and those in power are most afraid of losing power, even their younger brother will not rest assured, in the spirit of 'rather believe it than not believe it', King Xia strictly ordered Brother Cha to withdraw troops from the Western Front to rescue Fengzhou.

In this first round, Zhao Ta appeared to have a slight upper hand, but in fact did not take advantage, although Brother Cha sent troops, but successfully delayed for a month, not only alleviated the problem of lack of labor in spring ploughing, but also waited for the grass to sprout, in ancient times to transport baggage, because the horse grass is heavy, it is generally solved on the spot, not included in the supply, after the grass returns to green with soldiers, it solves the problem of horse eating, and Zhao Ta mobilized a large army to besiege the city for a month, people eat horses and chew but consume a lot of food and wages, delaying the agricultural time. …,

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"Lord Wang, now that Brother Cha has arrived, there is an urgent report from Hezhou, asking for reinforcements!" In the military tent of Yong'an, Wang Jin presented an urgent report and said.

"Wang joins the army, what is your opinion?" After reading it, Zhao Ta put the letter on the case and asked.

"Lord Wang, Brother Cha is a famous general in Western Xia, using soldiers like gods, we have to defend, now that we have completed the purpose of mobilizing the Xia army and relieving the siege of the Western Front, we should transfer troops to reinforce Hezhou and relieve the siege of Mingtangchuan!" Wang Jin thought for a while and replied.

"What about Toyosu?" Zhao asked again.

"What does the prince mean to defeat Fengzhou and then reinforce Hezhou?" Wang Jin looked at the prince, but he couldn't see anything on his face, and then said: "If we attack Fengzhou, Brother Cha will definitely storm Hezhou, at that time we will fight on both sides, and the enemy will be outnumbered, I'm afraid we won't be able to do it!" ”

"Then you mean to abandon Toyosu, reinforcements and states, right?" Zhao Ta asked, Wang Jin hesitated slightly, but still nodded, "If we really do that, we will do what Brother Cha wants, and fall into his plan!" ”

"Huh?! What did the prince say? Wang Jin asked in surprise.

"Brother Cha is now Chen Bingmingtangchuan is not moving forward, is to tell me, he has seen through my strategy, as you just said, he concluded that we have a small number of soldiers, Fengzhou and occupy an advantageous area, it is difficult to capture Fengzhou in a short time, in order to avoid a two-front battle, can only withdraw the siege and reinforcements Hezhou, he has achieved the goal of surrendering the army without a fight, we are busy!" Zhao said.

"Then the prince means to take Fengzhou City, and then reinforce Hezhou, but a big war is inevitable, and our chances of victory can be geometric!" Wang Jin guessed.

"I received information the day before yesterday that Xixia deeply felt that the national strength was declining and it was difficult to fight again, and it was already decided to negotiate peace with my country!" Zhao Ta did not answer Wang Jin's question directly, but revealed an inside information to him.

"What the prince means is that whether we attack Fengzhou or not, a big war is inevitable, or the two countries will cease their troops, and we will have no chance to recover Fengzhou!" Wang Jin immediately figured out the key to it and replied.

"Yes, but the Western Xia rebellion is impermanent, this time we lost the opportunity, in the future, once the national strength of the Western Xia is restored, we will provoke again, and then it will be a disaster for my Great Song Dynasty!" Zhao Ta said that at this time, he not only knew that the Western Xia was ready to negotiate peace, but he was also very clear about Tong Guan's attitude, and he couldn't wait to get out of it and turn the defeat into a big victory.

"The prince is ready to fight, not only to capture Fengzhou, but also to hit the Chago army hard!"

"Wang joins the army, you are too conservative, my plan is not only to seize Fengzhou, but also to annihilate the army of Brother Cha, occupy the land of Henan, let Xixia bow down to the ministers, pay tribute every year, and dare not provoke my Great Song Dynasty again!" Zhao Tan drew a big circle on the map on the case with a pen, and pulled all the south of the Yellow River into it, Wang Jin looked at the big circle drawn by the prince, and didn't speak for a long time, this prince is really not shocking and endless, the Great Song Dynasty has been fighting with the Western Xia for a hundred years, and he has not occupied such a large territory, but he has to rely on the strength of the whole way to do it alone, it can really be said that he swallows the elephant with a snake...

On May 26, the Hedong Army besieged Zhuolun with the eighth and ninth generals of the Zelu Road Forbidden Army, and fought a battle, completely cutting off Fengzhou's contact with the outside world; The eleventh and twelfth Lanshi Road will sweep through the large and small tribes in Fengzhou, except for some people who fled to the territory of Liao, all of them were subdued; On May 27, the Loyal Warrior Army and the Fuzhou Army took control of the large and small roads of Toyosu City, and the troops came to the city to complete the siege of Toyoshu.

Fengzhou prefect Qingyang climbed the city tower to look at the city, only to see the flag outside the city, the Song army in the city three miles away from the village, a soldier and horse in the city three hundred steps away from the array, the door flag flashed, revealing a venerable weapon that had never been seen, but the Weng Li behind him was seen, this thing is extremely powerful, as long as it is sticky, it is broken bones, because there is a loud noise when launching, and there is firelight, like a thunderbolt in the air, the Xia army is afraid to call it 'thunder'. …,

"Prince Yan of the Great Song Dynasty, the envoy of the Hedong Economic Strategy informed the officials and people of Fengzhou that if the city surrendered, their lives and property could be saved, and they would not be blamed for the past; If they resist, when the city is broken, all the troops will be enslaved and their property will be confiscated. From this time on, I will give you three hours to consider, and when the time comes, the heavenly soldiers will come, and there will be no tile! At this time, the first general rushed out of the Song army's formation, shouted loudly to the city, and then shot the notice on the city head with an arrow, and returned to his own position.

"Hmph, let's surrender, dream!" Qing Yang read the notice and threw it under the city and roared angrily, "Shout to me: Yellow tooth child, dare to be the king, dare to attack the city, bury the bones under the city!" ”

The defenders at the head of the city heard the prefect's orders, shouted loudly to the city, they also felt that the Song army was talking about a dream, Wang Yuanhao led hundreds of thousands of troops in the summer of that year, and attacked Fengzhou City several times, all of which were lost, and later took advantage of the mistakes of the Song army generals to capture the city, and now the Song army under the city is only 20,000, they are backed by the strong city to occupy the geographical advantage, the food in the city can also last for a month, 100,000 reinforcements are 200 miles away, how can it not be lost.

These people became more and more courageous, shouting and shouting changed their taste, and began to carry some private words, greeting the eighteenth generation of the ancestors of the Song army, Qingyang saw that the Song army was silent, pointing to the city and laughing, but before he finished laughing, he was pressed to the ground by Weng Li beside him, and the thunder sounded in his ears, and this thunder seemed to explode above his head, followed by the earth shaking, as if the entire city wall was shaking...

"What's going on?" After a long time, Qingyang woke up from the shock, raised his head and saw that the city tower had collapsed, and the soldiers who were shouting and scolding just now in the smoke had changed their words, the wails of 'mother, mother, father', 'mother, father', those who didn't shout, those who didn't stand up, those who didn't sit, and those who spit blood in their mouths were honestly motionless.

"This is just a punishment for your disrespectful prince, if you don't wake up, this is the end!" The officer in the Song army came back from his horse and shouted to the city, Qingyang looked at the bottom of the battlement, and wanted to say a few hard words, but looking at the tragic situation on the city, he swallowed it back into his stomach raw...

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