After crossing the border, the Western Xia Corps did not scatter to attack, nor did they determine the main attack point, but hung far away in the middle of the Song Dynasty's northwest roads, as if maintaining a striking force at every point. For this point, the Privy Council of the Song Dynasty attached great importance to it and gave Zhang Ji an order - pay close attention to the enemy situation and ensure the safety of every place in the territory!

On the other hand, Zhang Qi, he has put all his bets on Pingxia City from the first moment! When the Liang clan was busy luring the enemy, Zhang Ji calmly transferred troops, first determined the main general of Pingxia City, and then recruited troops from all walks of life to form an attack lineup. Note: Not a fire brigade, but an aggressive ambush!

At this time, it is necessary to talk about the next chapter of the Pingxia City plan, which is indeed very similar to the previous Yongle City plan on the surface, but it is completely different from the fundamental point! Yongle City was built as a bridgehead for a large attack on the Western Xia mainland, and served for a series of expeditions later. Therefore, in the early stage, although there were a lot of troops, they were all concentrated in the city, and there was no exclusive military echelon on the periphery. As a result, when Yongle City was besieged, it could only temporarily order the people and horses of the garrisons to rush to Yongle City. In this way, there is no guarantee from the first place, because it is an unprepared battle.

However, the plan of Pingxia City is different, it is actually a pit, building a city on the land that both sides must fight, forcing the Tangut people to besiege it. The Song army set up a heavy defense in the city, and a strong ambush force lurked on the periphery, and after the Tangut people besieged the city for a long time, the periphery ambushed the soldiers, the center of the city blossomed, and the internal and external attacks were carried out, burying the Tangut people under the city!

This plan is very tempting, if it succeeds, it must be the most brilliant record of the Song army in the Song and Xia Hundred Years War! But if it fails, it will collapse inside and out, and no one will be able to deal with the aftermath at that time! The most crucial part of how this double-edged sword can only cut the enemy without hurting itself is to find a general who can defend the city and break out in time. This is not a job that anyone can do, this is not only the general's unique personal talent, but also the label of the manager's tactical system.

War is an art, a work of creativity, and its uniqueness must be recognized. Every major battle throughout the ages has been engraved with the unique mark of the manager. In this sense, wars are never done collectively. All of them are unique individual achievements! For example, in the Tang Dynasty, it was only Li Jing who traveled thousands of miles and captured the Turkic Khan, and Hou Junji could only repair Gaochang. The Han general Wei Qing could only defeat the Xiongnu army in the center of the desert, and the only one who broke through the desert barrier and sealed the wolf was Huo Quai! Only its peerless edge can be unhindered!

Specific to Zhang Qi, he combines the characteristics of various generations of Northwest generals before the Northern Song Dynasty, like an all-round talent. In the two Pingxia City Wars, he revealed his unique characteristic - calm! In order to elect the defender of Pingxia City, he was selected in the Northwest Fifth Route Army, and everyone had the opportunity to give their opinions. Personally, he is completely subservient to the will of the people. The person who won the most is called Guo Cheng! Guo Cheng is the fifth deputy general of the Jingyuan Army, who once participated in the Battle of the Five Roads with Liu Changzuo, and is impeccable in terms of qualifications, meticulous and steady in characteristics, and theoretically the best candidate to defend the city!

Time is urgent, Zhang Qi immediately decided, it is you Guo Cheng! But a few days later, someone suddenly wrote an anonymous report letter, saying that Guo Cheng had a huge flaw and that he was a good drinker. Zhang Qi's brain buzzed. Immediately dizzy. Isn't this about human life? Letting a drunkard take on such a task is purely a disaster for the country and the people! But he was very calm, and did not directly replace people, but ordered all the masters to gather urgently. When everyone arrived, he announced the task - to drink! Today is for you to fight strongly, everyone let go of the amount of drink!

In the process of drinking, Zhang Qi's heart became heavier and heavier, and there was no need to observe carefully. Guo Cheng in the wine bureau is the most dazzling star, this person has to drink to the bottom, the cup is bottomed, and he has never been empty from the beginning to the end of the game... to this one. Zhang Qi still didn't collapse, and when everyone left, he left Guo Cheng alone: Come, let's talk about something serious...

Zhang Kai and Guo Cheng talked about military affairs, talked about strategy, analyzed the current situation, and focused on understanding the equipment for defending the city. It turns out that there are really people in this world who are more and more energetic the more they drink, and Guo Cheng's state is better than when he didn't drink... No problem, Guo Cheng rushed back to Pingxia City overnight, ready to be beaten by the 300,000 Xixia crowd at any time...

Soon the Xixia people came, and Xiao Lianghou felt that the temptation of the enemy had been in place, so she took the whole army of 300,000 people and pounced on Pingxia City. Looking at her posture at this time, she really looks like a heroine among women and a flower in the army... The Western Xia army crossed the Wuyan Gorge, entered the Jingyuan Road, and controlled all the places they passed. After arriving at Pingxia City, lay down the Lianzhu Dazhai, reach the Hulu River in the east, connect Shimen Gorge in the west, stretch for more than 100 miles, and the momentum is unprecedentedly huge. Seek truth from facts: Before the Battle of Youyan of Song Taizong, the Northern Expedition of Yongxi, and the Five-Way Expedition of Song Shenzong, even if the number of people exceeded 300,000, it never condensed into a legion... A large number of people equals the size of a fist, and a large fist is still very cautious. Xiaoliang is really not like a straw bag, she gathered heavy troops under the city of Pingxia, the siege was in charge of Wei Ming's burial, and a part of the elite cavalry was led by Mei Le Du, far away to the periphery, always vigilant Song Dynasty reinforcements. In addition, in the farther periphery, the Western Xia Horse and Luo Tun soldiers Luo Saling, containing the Xihe Corps, the big leader Bu Xintun soldiers Liang Tatai, Wei Mingji stationed in Baichi, resisting Yan Yan, Qin Feng Zhulu... Such a combination of far and near, forming an echelon, both besieging the city and sending reinforcements and then containing, it can be said that all aspects are covered, according to Xiaolianghou's thinking, the war is carried out in this situation, if the Song Dynasty is timid, she can steadily take Pingxia City, pull out this nail, and by the way, hack to death a large number of Song Dynasty officers and soldiers, and reproduce the achievements of Yongle City! If the Song Dynasty was bold and dared to mobilize troops to reinforce her, she would be able to turn the surrounding area of Pingxia City into a slaughterhouse, and let countless Song soldiers die in this battle...

The abacus jingled, giving full play to the characteristics of the work of female comrades - big desires, careful eyes, and special ruthlessness. It's a pity that the person she met this time was wrong, the Song army started with the main general Zhang Qi, and every candidate to participate in the war exuded a vicious spirit...

In addition to the drunken guards in Pingxia City, take a look at a few reinforcement bosses on the periphery. The main general will be Wang En, the deputy governor of Jingyuan Road, and the rest are Pu of the Yan Army, Wang Dao of the Qin Fengjun, and Miao of the Xihe Army. The number of troops in the 4th Route Coalition is not large, and it should not exceed the 80,000 people last time. The reason why there has been less is that the Privy Council, the military department, is panicked, and they strictly ordered Zhang Ji to take into account the overall situation and not bet only on one point. The second is that if Pingxia City wants to fire in the center, it must give Guo Cheng enough strength, if Guo Cheng can't withstand it first, everything will fall...

The lack of people is fixed, let's see what these generals are:

Chong Pu is the grandson of Chong Shiheng, the son of Chong Ge, needless to say, no one is fighting according to the convention, abducting and deceiving, borrowing knives to kill, setting up a game out of a thousand... It was the turn of the third generation of small breeds to breed Pu. This style continues to be carried forward. He was the best staff officer in the Northwest Army at that time!

Miao Zhu, he is arbitrary, he can do whatever he wants, and the main general dares to make small moves around him, is this a qualified soldier? On the other hand, why did he make such a big oolong as last time, causing more than 1,000 elite cavalry to fall off the cliff, and the superiors did not severely punish him, and the subordinates continued to believe in him? This person is a hero on the battlefield, even if he fouls for victory!

The royal road is not very famous. He's a doer, there's not much to say. Focus on Wang En, the main general of the reinforcements. Can you believe it? The person in charge of such a major task, the first line of his resume is actually - timid, when he encounters the enemy, he turns around and runs...

Wang En, who escaped, was very unlucky, and happened to be caught by the governor at the time. Now it's okay, kill a deserter, boost the morale of your army, any commander will do this business! Seeing that the future lord was about to be disciplined on the battlefield, and a miracle appeared at a critical moment, the commander hesitated. I actually let him go! It was an absolute miracle because the governor at the time was... Miao Grant! Miao Zhu, who was desperate for victory, didn't kill the king who escaped from the battle, no matter how you look at it, it's weird...

Today, many years later, the deserter of that year actually became Miao Zhu's superior. Is there anything odd about this? The answer is no! You must know that Wang En and Miao Zhu are both officers of the Shenzong Dynasty. During this period of time, every soldier is full of opportunities, and every soldier has the possibility of promotion, as long as you have enough courage and combat power!

Wang En had only escaped in the first battle in his life, and it was not strictly a sin when he first came to the battlefield. Lin Biao, the Marshal of the People's Republic of China a thousand years later, had the same experience, and was almost shot dead by his later subordinate and then superior, General Chen Geng! After that, Lin Biao and Wang En's performance was amazing, and Lin Biao grew up to become the youngest division commander in the Republic. The commander who was the first to defeat the main force of the Japanese army, the youngest marshal, the soldier with the largest liberated territory, no matter what other aspects, on the battlefield, he was always invincible like the god of war!

Wang En once braved the rain of arrows and arrows of the Xixia people under the city of Lanzhou, and he was more brave when he was hit by several arrows. In the face of tens of thousands of enemy troops, a single man rode out to compete with the enemy general, shocking the entire battlefield. He is in the northwest, so that the Liao people in the north know his name, called "Jingyuan King Cavalry General" The original king ran ran, he was already an iron-blooded soldier, and became the courage of the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty! Zhang Kai chose him because he could give the army the courage to win in a dangerous situation!

As mentioned earlier, the arrangement of the Empress Dowager Liang of Western Xia can be called comprehensive, no matter what the Song Dynasty does, it will be dead? She even camped for hundreds of miles, divided the road to fortify, and turned the surrounding area of hundreds of miles into the Xixia military defense area, how careful it looked, but unfortunately it was useless! Wang En, Miao Zhu, and Chong Pu somehow did they find a hole in the gathering place of 300,000 enemy troops with tens of thousands of people, and moved to a mountain col around Pingxia City. How did they do it? When the Battle of Pingxia City began, the Tangut people didn't feel anything wrong around them at all...

The first to go crazy was a general of the Song army, his name was Guo Zude, he heard the shouts of killing in Pingxia City, and the Xixia people finally made a move, and immediately fidgeted... Guo Cheng in the city is his righteous brother, how much material there is in Pingxia City and how many people there are in the Western Xia Army, he knows it clearly! Common sense told him that he couldn't hold on, and he had to attack quickly to save his brother. But looking back, the commanders of the reinforcements are all leisurely, closing their eyes and recuperating, and they don't have the slightest intention of going to war...

Guo Zude was anxious, walked up to the commanders and said: How important is Pingxia City, don't you need me to talk nonsense? Lost it, Jingyuan Road was immediately pierced. You led the elite soldiers to the rescue, and you waited like this, are you not derelict in your duty? Besides, my eldest brother Guo Cheng is in the city, once it is dangerous, can you bear it?

These words immediately ignited the explosives of Wang and Miao among the commanders, and the two of them just wanted to explode, and with a bang, the pile of explosives surnamed Yao had exploded. Yao Xiong is here too! He was going to take Yao Jiajun out of Lu at that time! What are the Tangut people, when has Lao Tzu ever been cowardly!

In the midst of the crowd, only one person is still very quiet: planting Pu! He only said one sentence: General Guo, if you want to attack, you have to know the situation on the battlefield, so you can take people out of the valley and visit...

Guo Zude didn't say a word, led 1,000 people and rushed out, and after a while, he came back covered in blood. He said two situations: 1. The enemy army was boundless, and it was like an ant, "filling the valley with no eyes before and after", and he was drowned when he came out, and he rushed back only after playing with his life. 2 He did not flinch at all, on the contrary, he was more urgent: the enemy army is strong, the city of Pingxia is in danger, give me a few thousand more men, I will rush into the city, and live and die with my eldest brother!

Guo Zude's words lit all the powder kegs, and decades ago, predecessors such as Sanchuanguchi and Haoshuichuan, such as Liu Ping, Guo Zun, Wu Ying, Ren Fu, Wang Qi and others, were all heroes who would rather die in battle than give up their comrades. Could it be that today's Great Song Dynasty and Western Army have degenerated into a bad seed? The blood is getting hotter and hotter, and the brain is getting simpler and simpler! Fuck guys! This is the lingua franca of GIs in all eras.

Slow! Someone stopped them, but they were still a kind of park! This man was like a block of ice, not fluctuating from beginning to end. He asked this group of bloody soldiers, "There are 300,000 Xixia people outside, can we kill them all when we go out?" and "can't", the mood is low, this is a fact...

"Is it possible for us to fail" "Yes" Emotions continue to be depressed, is this still a fact...

"After our defeat, the Tangut people took our heads to show off under the city of Pingxia, what will the defending troops think, will the army be disheartened" and "will" become depressed, this is all a fact...

"So what are we going to do, remember the mission"... Everyone was completely speechless, after all, Zhang Ji had a comprehensive and detailed plan, and they only needed to implement it. At the very beginning of the plan, they could only watch Pingxia City being besieged by 300,000 people, and prayed that the attack would be as hard as possible, so that the Xixia people would consume their combat power and morale under Pingxia City.

Well, we can only wait... Not far from the direction of Pingxia City, the firelight rose violently, and the Xixia people used professional siege equipment from the very beginning.

The nearly 100-year Song-Xia War not only trained the Northwest Army, the strongest force of the Song Dynasty, but also gave the Western Xia great gains. The party and clan have written words, unified their clothing, refined government functions, and enriched the arms of war. Not only can they ride horses, but they can also attack cities! This time, Xiao Liang later raised troops from all over the country to attack Pingxia City, and all the household items in the treasury were brought out. First, the shovel team went into battle, and a round of dust was flying, and after the team was closed, the entire trench outside Pingxia City was gone. Then the barracks was full of clanging noises and sawdust flying, tossing and turning for a long time, pushing out hundreds of wooden war towers with more than ten meters high and wheels underneath. Each of these warbuildings could hold hundreds of soldiers, and the outside was covered with cowhide thick felt, and they pushed towards Pingxia City with arrows like raindrops. Familiar, right? This thing was originally a weapon of the Song Army, called "Pair of Cars", nicknamed "Happy Encounter", from the manufacturing process to the use of the method is a patent of the Song Dynasty, how did the Xixia people learn it? Don't worry, this is just one of them! The tall war tower above went directly to the top of the city to attack, and the lower side was not idle, and the Xixia people quietly slipped under the city wall and began to dig holes. They are very treacherous, just dig into it, at best it is only half the thickness of the city wall and stop, then set up wooden planks to support the wall, continue to dig, continue to support, until a certain amount of people withdraw and set fire to the wood... Still familiar, right? This is obviously the wall destruction method used by the Song army, which contains accurate civil engineering measurement methods, and it is not possible to find a few mining people at random...

There are many more similar, what is going on after the investigation? It will be found that it is not the genetic mutation of the party race that has become smarter, but the price paid by the Song Dynasty in every war. Han craftsmen were the most valuable property in the world at that time, and the current party members and future Mongolians were more energetic than robbing beautiful women! After nearly a hundred years of playing with their lives, science and technology have naturally advanced by leaps and bounds, and they will have what the Song Dynasty will have! (To be continued......)