At the head of Pingxia City in October of the lunar calendar, Guo Cheng held a wine bowl in one hand and pointed at the city with the other, scolding, and his mind was in chaos. He doesn't understand and doesn't want to understand the bullshit theory of national integration and everyone's development of productive forces, he just wants to howl "Zhang Dashuai, you lied to me, you didn't say that Xixia has a source-level plug-in, how to fight this battle?"

According to common sense calculations, when fighting Youzhou City, the Song army did not reach 200,000, and half a month later, Han Derang was about to collapse... Now Pingxia City is just a small dwelling compared to Youzhou City, and the number of Xixia people outside the city has reached 300,000, which is almost double the increase, plus hundreds of siege towers, no matter how you look at it, Guo Chengdu can never support Han Derang's limit back then? But before half a month arrived, it was the Western Xia side that collapsed first! Xiao Lianghou is going crazy, she watches the smoke billowing and fires inside and outside Pingxia City every day, her war tower and a platform have become a salute flower battery, and her cave soldiers are buried in the tunnels in groups, every trick has failed, she wonders if it is these waste techniques that Song Chao wanted to yin her and deliberately threw out?

What's even more hateful is that every night is a nightmare for the Tangut people. The Xixia soldiers who were so tired during the day just wanted to fall asleep, and the small, smoky Pingxia City actually dared to send troops out to sneak attack, one cut and one accurate, the direction and location were different every night, unless you gave up the siege and hid away, you can't prevent it at all! This is not the worst, 10 days later, the Tangut people were shocked to hear a bad news, as a nomadic people, they were actually robbed by the Song Dynasty people of the farming people, until then they understood the grief and indignation that the Song army could not keep up with the supply every time, it was really easy to defend and difficult to attack!

Even so, Xiaoliang still wants to overcome layers of difficulties and uproot Pingxia City, because this is extremely important to her political life and life happiness. So another 3 days passed, and the most declining moment of her life came! That night, the wind was fierce, and the entire Western Xia army was in great trouble... The strong wind blew down the war tower, blew away the tent, and blew the flames into the sky, and the camp of the Xixia Baili Company turned into a fire dragon. 300,000 people are like ants in a flood, they can only go with the flow...

Xiao Liang witnessed all this, her true form was revealed, this woman howled and cried bitterly, like a peasant woman who died in a circle full of fat pigs, and there was no longer the image of a noble lady... She knew that no one could save her army, let alone herself, and she had to throw away her jewelry like last time, and put on makeup as a Western Xia soldier to escape back...

The process of escaping is exciting. After the fire broke out, suddenly a large group of Song troops rushed out of nowhere? The standard robbery took advantage of the fire, and chased it all the way for dozens of miles before stopping. Xiao Liang thought that there was nothing to do, and he would flee back to the border not far away? But who knew that just as he wanted to take a breath, another Song army rushed out, even more ruthless than the batch just now, slashing and chasing to death, and chased until the border of Xixia before coming back unrelentingly... This was another ambush where Wang En distributed reinforcements, and the strongest 10,000 men were distributed from the very beginning. No matter how far Pingxia City and my reinforcements have hit, they have been lurking on the border line, waiting for this opportunity!

It's finally safe... The Western Xia soldiers all over the mountains want to cry without tears, a miracle. Nothing was gone overnight, and this was just too magical? Look around, don't talk about living, even the food is burned clean. This is the northwest wasteland in the middle of October of the lunar calendar, there is no food, grass, no tents, and I have to walk back to Xingqing Mansion. Can't you get people to eat people?

In their lamentation, they waited for a more magical order - Xiao Liang's order: the whole army immediately turned around and returned to the Song Realm! The target is not far from the border line of Zhenrong Military City, this goal is not big, there are not many garrisons, the best thing is that the military materials are abundant, in the rout of the whole line suddenly kill a horse gun, the Song Dynasty people must not have expected, the city is whitewashed, the political significance, military situation, of course, the most important thing is life-saving materials, there are huge benefits!

The Queen Mother is wise! All the Western Xia soldiers burst into tears, collectively worshipping Liang's super high IQ, what they didn't say, for survival, for survival, for going home, everyone ran up and grabbed it-

Let's be honest: Liang's order was used when it collapsed, which was absolutely unexpected. And the goal is clear and rational. With the scale of the Zhenrong army, even if there are more than 200,000 people fleeing for their lives, it can't stop it! History proves that the Liang family is accurate, Zhang Qi has all the hole cards in his hand are pressed on the first line of Pingxia City, after 13 days of offensive and defensive confrontation, he is defenseless, and even the northwest roads are in a state of prostration, no matter where Liang turns back to attack, he will basically succeed? But fighting a war is a comprehensive test of people's comprehensive quality, not that whoever has strong combat power and high resourcefulness will be able to win, sometimes the two sides compare more than these, more important is character!

When the Western Xia soldiers rushed to the city of Zhenrong with great difficulty and recklessness, the weather changed again, this time not with strong winds, but with heavy snowfall. No food, no grass, no tents... Do you have to keep running? In the face of these, everyone was trembling, and a large part of the Western Xia soldiers decided not to play, they chose to freeze to death directly!

The Second Battle of Pingxia City ended in a complete defeat for Western Xia! Xiaoliang is afraid, the whole party is afraid, the loss is only one aspect, and what is even more terrible is the next revenge of the Song Dynasty! In this case, if there is another five-way expedition to Xia, Western Xia will directly lose the country!

In the crisis, all the tricks that could be used by the Tangut people were used. Applying for international aid from the Great Liao State, completely imposing martial law on the Song-Xia border, digging cellars in all state cities, hiding grain underground, and moving the nomads in the border areas inward, everything that is too late to hide is destroyed! The strong walls and clear fields, with the cold winter that is about to come, hope to block the people of the Song Dynasty...

This is only one aspect, some of the Western Xia people were scared, and all they thought about was how to save their lives. But others are excited, they think the opportunity has come! The famous royal family, they have been suppressed by the Hou Party for decades, and the failure of Xiaoliang Hou makes them happy even if they drag the Western Xia Kingdom into the water together! Take this opportunity to take back military power, fight a few beautiful battles, and the party and the royal family will turn over!

In order to increase the bargaining chips, they pulled another door behind the door - Ren Duo Baozhong, the son of the party god of war Ren Duo Ling Ding. They took the initiative to ask for orders and led people to station in Tiandu Mountain, which was at the forefront of the Western Xia defense line. I plan to train well for the winter and launch an offensive in the spring...

Theoretically, this is another perfect offensive and defensive strategy, no matter how you look at it, it can at least let Xixia tide over the current difficulties, right? This is also the consensus of the entire Western Xia Kingdom, they think: the most conservative calculation, the current winter is still safe? It's a pity that their opponent is Zhang Qi! When this man is guarded, he can make the Tanguts fall into a big pit, and when he attacks, he makes the enemy even more undreamable. One month after the end of the Battle of Pingxia City, the northwest completely entered a severe winter climate, and in the middle and late November of the lunar calendar, the icy wasteland was the cemetery of all life, and even the rats hid in their holes. Song Chaojing's original road is handsome, but the crowd is surging! Zhang Kai ordered: Four ways to select generals, select the best of the best, gather 10,000 people, all cavalry arms, led by Zhi Keshi, Guo Cheng, Li Zhongjie and others, go out to do a big deal!

This transaction is a unique initiative in the history of the Northern Song Dynasty, and before that, the Song Dynasty had two generations of generals with brilliant achievements, one in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China and the other in the Shenzong period. For example, Cao Bin, Pan Mei, Di Qing, Wang Shao, Guo Kui and others, although they have their own strengths, have left glorious achievements in history. But what Zhang Ji wanted to do at this time was something they didn't dare, and they didn't even dare to think about!

Zhang Qi completely violated military common sense and the congenital defects of his own troops, he sent the cavalry of the Song Dynasty to attack the frozen land and ice fields for thousands of miles, and killed the Tiandu Mountain, and dealt a blow of destruction to the Western Xia lord stationed there!

Zhi Keshi and others rode lightly, each leading thousands of cavalry, and the specific details were thought of by themselves. The target is the famous Ah Bury, Mei Le Du Kui, and Ren Duo Bao Zhong on Tiandu Mountain. These three people are the only remaining famous generals in Western Xia, and they are the source of confidence in Western Xia, don't they plan to send troops in the spring of next year to save face? Zhang Kai decided to kill all three of them in this winter. Let Xixia be completely depressed!

The plan is crazy, and you need to be careful when implementing it. In order to succeed, Zhang Kai used the spy network he had created for a long time, and at this point. He did almost as well as Chong Shiheng, the old Xianggong borrowed a knife to kill people back then, and fooled Li Yuanhao to kill his most powerful general, the Yeli brothers. Zhang Kai has done the intelligence work in the core position of the war - in the enemy's front-line headquarters!

The inner line said: Wei Ming's burial and sister are in the tin well of Tiandu Mountain. At first, I felt very hidden. Second, I feel that I am very good at fighting. There are very few people with them with them, and there is no time to miss it!

Zhang Qi didn't hesitate, and almost immediately ordered a gathering and sent troops to attack! Unlike before, this time he did not give any details of the operation, only one request - fast! As fast as you can, the decapitation must hit with one hit! If it's slow, it doesn't mean that you can't kill people smoothly, and even if you finish killing people, you won't be able to run back!

2 There are not many people around the famous generals, which does not mean that there are few people on Tiandu Mountain. It was the forefront and the most important line of defense in Western Xia, as long as there was a slight delay, it would immediately be surrounded by heavy troops! At that time, far from the rear, there were only 10,000 people in the whole army, even if Yue Fei was born 20 years early, he didn't want to bring people back...

Just do it, the 10,000 elite horsemen divided into 6 roads, quietly slipped across the border, and hid towards Tiandu Mountain. It is said that although this road is abroad, the soldiers of the Song Dynasty are still very familiar with it...

Tiandu Mountain, Li Yuanhao built the palace here, Xiaosan placed here, soaked here every day and night, in short, this is the Xixia set sacred, solemn, enchanting, erosion in one of the integrated places, no matter which one is not allowed to approach, inviolable! It's a pity that Li Yuanhao's descendants are too useless, and they have lost this imperial garden more than once, and the worst time was killed by Li Xian, the great eunuch of the military god of the year, and burned to the ground. According to the tradition of the Song army, the maps along the way after the collection of troops were recorded in detail and archived stubs, which became a compulsory course for every general in the northwest. So Dao is very familiar, especially there is Zhi Keshi, a party member who is very standard in blood, in fact, he goes back to his hometown to visit relatives almost every year, and every time he kills bloody. After a lot of times, are you still worried about getting lost?

People unknowingly touched Tiandu Mountain, bypassed the open and dark piles, and Zhi Keshi and Guo Cheng successfully arrived at the Xiwei Well. Looking at it from afar, the bonfires and figures in the tents of Wei Ming Ah Bury and Mei Le Du were shaking, and it was obvious that they were carrying out the favorite social activity of men in winter—barbecue and drinking. Song Jun was furious when he saw it, it was unbearable! Rush up and kill him!

Wei Ming A Bury and Mei Le Du, these two Western Xia generals who have ideals and strength, and have been looking forward to spring, became prisoners of the Song army in this way! Until the moment they were caught, they couldn't believe it was true...

Tiandu Mountain is boiling! The 6 Song armies had their own tasks, and at the same time that Wei Ming Ah Bury and Mei Le were arrested, Renduo Baozhong was also attacked. However, luckily, inheriting the ferocious and cautious nature of the God of War father, his station was moved back slightly, which saved his life from a usually inconspicuous distance. When Li Zhongjie attacked, this person reacted super quickly, sending his own soldiers forward and running away while turning around... After Li Zhongjie killed all his subordinates, he found that he had run too far and could not catch up...

The next thing was the biggest test for the Song army, the Western Xia soldiers around Tiandu Mountain quickly surrounded it, so fast that the Song army didn't have a chance to take a breather, and at this time, the war horse could not run anymore due to overwork. In a crisis, Guo Cheng wanted to give him the horse, and he wanted to break through the siege, and he came to break off...

If you don't agree with it anyway, if you want to die, you will die together! This is a wise decision, and it is the essential difference between the Song army and the Western Xia soldiers! When Zhi Keshi made up his mind, the Zhejia army went crazy collectively, and the whole army started a decisive battle after a thousand miles of attack, and the result of the battle was unbelievable!

What could not have been done in theory has become a reality! They defeated the Western Xia army, which was several times their size, in Tiandu Mountain, and rushed out of the siege with Wei Ming Ah Bury and Mei Le Du, and returned to the border of the Song Dynasty on a long march. This is only a part, they also brought back more than 3,000 captives, more than 100,000 cattle and sheep, plus a Xixia princess...

Such a record makes people speechless, to use the simplest numbers, assuming that the 10,000 cavalry of the Song army are full, they also have to carry 1 prisoner for every 3 people plus 30 cattle and sheep to drive, such a formation actually returned to their own borders, what is going on? There is only one answer - the essential difference between the Song army and the Western Xia soldiers!

After the victory of Pingxia City, the history of the Song Dynasty commented that "Chuangzhou 1, Walled City 9, repeatedly defeated the Xia people." Zhulu also built more walled cities to force summer. and the defeat of Pingxia, the Xia people did not recover "Before and after the victory of Pingxia City, the Song army built hundreds of walled cities on various roads in Shaanxi (because there are too many, I will not list them one by one), and the Western Xia Kingdom has been flattened! At the same time, Tiandu Mountain was secretly attacked, Wei Ming was buried, Meile Du was captured, and Renduo Baozhong was defeated, which means that the nearest defense line on the periphery of Xingqing Mansion, the capital of Western Xia, has also collapsed! Western Xia is on the verge of extinction!

The fire finally burned under the eyebrows of the upper echelons of Western Xia, and they collectively flocked to the palace to ask Empress Xiaoliang for an explanation. When I arrived, I found that Xiaoliang was angry and asked for an explanation from the Great Liao Kingdom!

She doesn't care about anything at all, her nature is full of life and death, what nobles, what face, all disappear from her! It is also said that how can such a way of life cultivate a smart, elegant, and measured brain by making a fortune and getting rich by robbery?

Liang didn't think about why the situation had become so bad, did she make a mistake herself? Instead, they tried in vain to transfer the crisis to the Great Liao State. On November 1, the envoys of the Great Liao, Xiao Yaoshinu and Yeluyan, specially sent an envoy to the Great Song Dynasty for her to mediate the disputes between Song and Xia. But he still didn't get a single word of answer from Song Zhezong and Zhang Dan. So Xiao Liang repeatedly asked the Liao State to put pressure on the Song Dynasty... Endless requests. Don't even think about how Yeluhonki will feel!

Let's change places! If the Great Liao State loses the battle and its strength is damaged, it puts pressure on the small countries attached to it, and wants this and that, which is normal, but why should the superiors listen to the words of the subordinates? lost all his money, and reached out to the robber family to ask for money, and his brain was caught in the door frame!

Yelu Hongji began to ignore Xiao Liang... That's pretty polite, at least not to take advantage of the fire. Xiao Lianghou was even more angry, in the face of her request, Liao Guo actually ignored it? It's so hurtful, so I don't take her seriously! In her anger, she habitually spat lotus flowers in her mouth, and "greeted" the character of the emperor of Xia Liao on various occasions... The matter was simple, Yelu Hongji quickly learned this, he thought about it: this woman is really superb, I have to give her some reward?

In January of the 2nd year of Yuanfu (1099), a team of Liao cavalry crossed the desert and entered Xingqing Mansion, the capital of Western Xia, and brought a small gift to Xiaolianghou - a glass of wine! (To be continued......)