They mobilized 6 troops from the Military Supervision Division, but they were afraid that they would not be enough, and they would reach 9 out of 10 in the civil conscription! A total of 300,000 troops were gathered, with enough food for 100 days, and assembled on the original road of Jingyuan in the Song Dynasty. As a result, after waiting for more than 1 month, Li Xian didn't move at all, but Yongle City was built over there! The Xixia people were angry and anxious, they really pressed down the gourd and scooped up, they couldn't afford to delay any longer, and the whole army drove closer to Yanyan Road and pulled out the nail of Yongle City!

At this time, the garrison sent people to Mizhi City for urgent help. The first to receive the information was the general Gao Yongheng, his brother was Gao Yongneng, who was second only to Qu Zhen in the Yan army, and the brothers played a decisive role in the battle of the Wuding River Valley in the recent westward expedition. Such a person should be respected for his prestige in the army. Gao Yongheng immediately went to see Xu Xi and put forward his opinion that "there are few soldiers in the city, there is no water source, and it is difficult to hold on" In all fairness, this is an objective fact. But Xu Xi's reaction was to be furious and put this coward in prison! After that, he smiled and looked at the northwest, and said a very good word, "The Xixia people came to die, this is a good time for me to make meritorious contributions and gain fame" He gave two orders: 1. Please ask Shen Kuo, the nominal supreme governor of the northwest, to sit in Mizhi, on the grounds that the commander should not be moved lightly. 2I led my troops to Yongle City to meet the enemy!

All the Song Jun trembled together, and the coldest of them was Shen Kuo. He regretted it. As the supreme governor of the Northwest, the Yongle City plan could not have been implemented without his support. From this it can be judged that he has a bad conscience! With his all-encompassing knowledge of astronomy and geography, would he not even understand the huge flaw of Yongle City's lack of water sources? Obviously, Shen Kuo regarded the city as a government project rather than a war readiness project. And then the test came suddenly! Shen Kuo thought and thought. He reminded Xu Xi: The difference in strength is too great, the enemy army is 300,000, and our army does not exceed 40,000, and this battle cannot be fought. It is better to use Yongle City as a bait and let the Tanguts occupy it. After that, we gathered all the armies of the Northwest and fought against them... But Xu Xi smiled at Shen Kuo: The emperor has given me full authority over the affairs of Yongle City. You are the commander, I will leave you 10,000 troops, just stay in Mizhi City and listen to my good news...

Xu Xi took more than 20,000 people on the road, and even more than 5,000 people in Yongle City. The Song army was around 30,000. 300,000 Western Xia troops. Doesn't this contrast sound familiar? Right! Like the battles of Sanchuankou and Haoshuichuan during the period of Li Yuanhao, they were all 1:10!

On the 8th, Xu Xi and Li Shunju came to Yongle City, and he was greeted by the general Qu Zhen. For the sake of the war situation. Qu Zhenshi didn't want Xu Xi to enter the city: I will dispatch the soldiers and horses. You can go back to the rear Mizhi City to supervise the battle!

Xu Xi smiled, "Quhou veteran." How cowardly he is" He entered the city with a smile, he had a lot of ideas, and how uncomfortable he was holding back! After entering the city. His first order knocked down the whole army - everyone: the reward rules for this battle must be changed! In the past, everyone judged the merit by cutting the head of the enemy, which is very bad, and everyone often delays the battle situation in order to grab the head of the dead, well, it also affects unity! Now, in order to concentrate on killing the enemy, I declare: military merit is equal, everyone is the same!

This was only Xu Xi's first thought, when on the 9th, 300,000 Western Xia troops came to Yongle City under the leadership of Ye Fuma and Ba Xuan, and the rest of his thoughts were revealed one by one. I have to admit that these ideas are not only a huge torture for the Song army, but also an extraordinary destruction for the Western Xia army!

Ye Weima and Baa have been fighting for many years, and it is the first time they have encountered such a thing? The contrast in strength between the two armies reached 1:10, and one side did not hide in the city, waiting for the enemy to climb the city wall and throw stones down, but walked out and lined up under the city! The two of them were immediately frightened into a cold sweat, before the Song army often lined up outside the city, killing the Xixia people everywhere with one enemy and ten kills, this time it won't be staged again, right? They regret that if this is the case, they have a big problem in the distribution of troops!

Across the Wuding River, the Western Xia army had to cross it first. In order to facilitate the siege of the city, Ye Weima and Baa sent the infantry to cross the river first, and the heavy cavalry such as the Iron Harrier stayed on the other side of the river. The Song army in the city also discovered this. Originally, when Xu Xi sent troops out of the city, all the generals were against it, and it was not that the Yan army could not fight tough battles, but it had never been so loyal and simple, and we were very accustomed to fighting insidiously...

But Xu Xi denied it in a word, he sat at the head of the city and said the ancient text "You can know that the king is not a drum and is not a column", as soon as this statement came out, the Yan Yanjun collective was confused: Brother, we are all coarse people with knives, you are knowledgeable, you don't understand!

Here is a brief introduction to the phrase "the king does not drum and does not form a column" from a god in the Spring and Autumn Period. This person is famous, and Chinese basically know that his name is Song Xianggong. When he said this, he was at war with the Chu army, which was recognized as a barbarian in the Spring and Autumn Period. The Chu army crossed the river to attack, and someone in the Song army persuaded him to take the Chu army to cross the river only halfway, and immediately launch an attack, so that he could win more and less. Song Xianggong said this sentence with great righteousness. As a result, he was defeated by the Chu army after the whole army crossed the river, and was hit by an arrow in the thigh, and died of serious injuries... For thousands of years he was a big joke, the opposite type. At this time, it was actually mentioned by Xu Xi, as if it was still shining! Xu Xi, you are just a wage earner who takes people's wages and fights for others, what kind of elephant are you pretending? Think you are Song Xianggong and want to fight for the hegemon?

Xu Xi doesn't care, in the unprecedentedly relaxed political environment of the Song Dynasty, he just wants to play his own style! So, Ye Weima and the iron harrier heavy cavalry also crossed the river, and the Western Xia army attacked! Before they could move, the Song army attacked first! Thousands of cavalry of the Yan Army, armed with snow-bright silver spears and wearing different brocade battle robes, rushed towards more than 50,000 heavily armored iron harrier soldiers...

This is an incredible move, unless it is the Han Tiger Benjun or Tang Xuanjia Cavalry, otherwise it is tantamount to looking for death. But Yan Yanjun rushed over like this, with Xu Xi's death order - it must be attacked 3 times! After 3 times, the infantry in the back can go into battle! This means that whatever happens to these thousands of Silver Lancers, the rest of the allies will have to sit idly by!

What happened after that made people speechless, the military discipline of the Yan Yan Army was really strong, and every request of Xu Xi was strictly enforced. The Silver Spear Army faced more than 10 times the heavy armored cavalry and charged 3 times in a row. After 3 times, the Western Xia Iron Harrier fought back! No matter how much they resisted, the inferiority in numbers and equipment made the Silver Lancers defeated!

When he was defeated, he was meeting the infantry rushing up from behind... The infantry will go into battle after 3 attacks! The cavalry rolled backwards into the phalanx of the marching troops. In a chaotic situation, more than 60,000 people were slaughtered together, no one could turn the tide, and the Yan army was defeated, and retreated to the city wall of Yongle City in chaos...

And that's when the opportunity came back to us. As long as you grasp it, the Song army can still win! At the head of the city, Qu Zhen, the general of the Yan army, found the fighter plane in the chaos, and he urgently proposed to Xu Xi: the more than 50,000 iron harriers of the Western Xia people were exhausted, and the Yan army should immediately send all the remaining cavalry to go around to the Wuding River. All that remained there were the old and weak of the Western Xia army. With the strong attacking the weak and caught off guard, the Tangut people will definitely be in chaos! At that time, the Iron Harrier came to the rescue, and the Yan Yan army took advantage of the situation to cover up and kill. Defeat can be overturned immediately! But Xu Xi stopped watching. Stopping means that he is in a momentary state of stillness. Don't say yes or no. No orders were given, and the gates were shut...

The battlefield waits for no one, and more than 50,000 Iron Harrier troops are like giant shields piled up in iron armor. Squeezed the Yan army towards the city wall. To escape, they climbed a cliff and jumped into the city of Yongle from there. A total of more than 800 people were killed in the battle, and more than 15,000 returned, including silver spear cavalry and infantry, but there was no difference. Because war horses can't climb cliffs and jump city walls, more than 8,000 war horses were left outside the city and became the trophies of the Tangut people!

Xu Xi's stop watch continued, and Ye Weima and Baa buried their eyes on the second target, which was the death hole of Yongle City - the water source! There was no water in the city, and a water village was established outside the city, with a total of 14 wells drilled, heavily guarded, and the chief quartermaster Li Ji was in charge. The bad thing is bad for Li Ji! This person is a natural financial manager, and he was born to love money like life. There is not only a water source in the water village, but also a lot of grain and grass, and the people and soldiers who built Yongle City sometimes come to beg for it, but he refuses! And the van army has their own way, they quietly dug a secret passage to get in...

This secret passage was discovered by the Tanguts! The water source was suddenly broken, and in just a moment, the fatal wound of Yongle City was revealed! When the news came, all the generals and colonels of the Yan Army were stunned, and everyone knew what it meant. There is no way to hold on, only to ask for help!

Song Shenzong soon got the news, and he strictly ordered the troops in the northwest to immediately approach Yongle City and relieve the siege at any cost! The military order was conveyed, but there were only three hopes: 1 kind. 2 Shen Kuo. 3 Li Xian...

If he can quickly penetrate the encirclement and enter Yongle City and regain control of the Yan army, the effect is undoubtedly the most ideal! But after the military order passed, the seed refused to carry it out! He didn't say how depressed, angry, or aggrieved he was, he emphasized objective facts. There are only a few thousand old and weak soldiers at hand, what do you want me to use to penetrate the encirclement of the 300,000 Western Xia army? Emperor, are you okay with your brain?

After Shen Kuo received the order, he immediately pulled the entire army out of Mizhi City to rescue Xu Xi. didn't go far, and suddenly received an inside message. If you want to say that the Song army did intelligence work before, it is really useless, and the inside line is the younger brother of the Western Xia general Ayole! This younger brother reported to Shen Kuo: His brother is leading troops to fight Suide City, and there are 300 Qiang people in the city to do internal response! Shen Kuo panicked when he heard this, the crisis of Yongle City, if Suide City was lost again, the northwest defense line of the Song Dynasty's Yanyan Road would be over! After a simple trade-off, Shen Kuo led his troops to Suide, and he must first keep the rear defense line! When he arrived, the battle that should have taken place did not take place, and Ayol retreated as soon as he showed up. This is not to say that the information is false, but Suide City is well prepared, and when Ayole arrives, he sees the corpses of the Qiang people hanging on the city wall, and all the inner should have been killed by the Song army! With such a toss, Shen Kuo's reinforcements were also delayed...

In the end, the hope was pinned on Li Xian, the great eunuch who had maintained a complete victory record since his birth, including helping Wang Shao to pacify the Xihe River and the Western Xia Expedition on the Five Routes, sent troops on the 17th, broke through the blockade one after another, and traveled thousands of miles. Looking up, the Xixia military camp outside Yongle City was nearly 10 miles thick! What is the weakness of the heart... Li Xian was a sensible eunuch, he stepped back a little and stationed not far away, watching the situation while recovering his military strength...

In this way, Yongle City is alone, floating in the sea of 300,000 enemy soldiers... Time passed day by day, and at the end of 10 days of rain, the Yan army in the city could only quench their thirst with the juice wrenched out of horse dung. In a desperate situation, Qu Zhen and Gao Yongneng jointly built a plan: take out all the coins to reward the soldiers, and while they still have some combat strength, concentrate their forces to break through! If nothing else, at least six or seven adults can escape... The victory or defeat of the war is never the gain or loss of one city or one place, the living force is the most valuable, especially the elite soldiers of the Yan Yan Army, who are the most rare wealth of the country!

But Xu Xi objected again: Yongle City is in a dangerous terrain, how can he give up easily? What's more, when the main general fled, the army's heart was shaken. Whether this is right or wrong, I really don't have the mood to pay attention to it. This is a person who does not distinguish between right and wrong, and only does things according to his own heart. Of course, such a person also has his benefits. In a desperate situation, Xu Xi climbed to the top of the city and defended with the soldiers. When he is hungry and eats baked cakes, he sleeps on the lap of a soldier when he is sleepy, at least in terms of personal ethics, Xu Xi is worthy of the battlefield and soldiers!

Xu Xi worked so hard to temporarily suppress the fatigue and resentment of the Yan army, and everyone defended the city together! In the face of 300,000 enemy troops, Yongle City is never broken! But this also attracted a bad star - the party god of war Ren Duo Lingding! After the blow of the five-way war, the Western Xia had already run out of oil. Yongle City is really forcing them to go to Dao Mountain, and they have to take it quickly no matter what! For this reason, they once again dealt this final hole card!

The brutality of Rindo Zero Ding is rare. After this man was in place, the attack of the Western Xia army suddenly escalated, completely ignoring the casualties, and sent more than 10,000 troops to climb up the city like ants every day, and thousands of corpses were piled up under the city every day. At the beginning, the Tangut people still had a lot of respect for their corpses, and they wrapped them in blankets and dragged them back. Later, Renduo Lingding's strong attack order drove people crazy, and he didn't care about anything! Thousands of corpses were piled up under the walls, and those who were still alive stepped on them and climbed up the city. This kind of attack strength, throughout all the wars since the founding of the Song Dynasty, even when Song Taizong expeditioned to Yanyun and decided the fate of the Song Dynasty, he did not reach it...

In the face of these, Xu Xi, who can be called a dead-brain melon that has only been seen once in thousands of years, also hesitated. Hard fighting is not the way, reinforcements have been delayed, and he thought of negotiations. Either way, even if you delay for a while... He sent Lu Wenhui first, and Renduo Lingding asked Qu Zhen to come before he could talk. sent Jing Siyi to go again, and the other party finally proposed the price. Negotiations are okay, unless the cities of Lanzhou, Mizhi and other cities taken by the Song army in the middle of the Five Roads Expedition are returned to Western Xia! Xu Xi smiled bitterly, this is impossible! Even if he wanted to say yes, it was beyond his authority. At this time, Ren Duo Lingding appeared under Yongle City, and shouted to the city in a playful manner, "The Han people have no water, right?" Why don't you surrender yet?"

Xu Xi immediately picked up a kettle and poured the whole pot of water, "No water?" What is this" Ren Duo Ling Ding laughed, "It's only a little bit" Turn around and go back to the camp and attack immediately! The hearts of the Yan soldiers in the city are cold, this Xixia people are really ghosts, even more ghosts than Li Yuanhao back then! He was right, there were only 2 pots of water left in the entire Yongle City at that time, one pot was in Xu Xi's hand, and the other pot was in the hand of the eunuch Li Shunju. Xu Xi wanted to use the old method of deceiving Li Yuanhao in Linzhou City back then to deceive Renduo Lingding, but unfortunately the other party was not fooled!

The drought continued, the assault continued, until September 20th, this day was the fate of the Yan Yan army, dark clouds rolled in the sky, lightning and thunder, and a heavy rain was about to fall! Yan Yanjun's fatal thirst must be quenched! The party god of war is crazy! He ordered to attack the city at any cost, even if he died! Heavy rain, finally fell, it was late at night, there was no light except lightning in the darkness, torches could not be lit, hundreds of thousands of people inside and outside the city fought to the death in the dark, they couldn't see who they killed, or who killed themselves, the darkness will eventually engulf a qiē, this moment has finally arrived... Late at night on the 20th, Yongle City fell, and was immediately demolished by the Tanguts...

Li Ji died, and the quartermaster rushed to the city gate and died in the chaos of the soldiers. The commander of the Fan army made Ma Gui die, and he killed dozens of Tangut people and fell in a pool of blood. The general Gao Yongneng also died, and he could have escaped. His grandson, Gao Changyi, led his horse in danger and told him that there was a path to escape. But Gao Yongneng was sad and indignant, and shouted in the dark, "I joined the army, I have not tasted defeat, I am seventy this year, I have received the great favor of the country, today is the day I serve the country" (to be continued......)