After six hours of fierce fighting, the morning was almost over, and even the most courageous soldiers began to get tired. Just as Liang Yongneng was hesitating whether to withdraw from the battle and think of another way, suddenly there was a drum sound on the hillside... Afterwards, he knew that it was the Song Army's main general, Chong Ge, who was personally beating the drum! The Tangut people who heard the sound of the drum suddenly became frightened in fatigue and frustration, and the most annoying thing was this kind of thing, the sudden beating of the drum and gong must be dangerous, but I don't know where the danger comes from!

Danger came from all directions, and until this time Liang Yongneng couldn't believe that the Song army, who had been fighting hard for 6 hours with 80,000 iron horsemen, hadn't done his best? What kind of madmen are the breeder army of the Great Song Western Army! There were so many soldiers who had been quietly lying in ambush, watching from the sidelines until they were exhausted... It's cunning, it's crazy! The whole morning's suffering was exchanged for an overwhelming advantage at this time. Ambushes arose, the deadliest attack occurred on the hillside, an elite cavalry of the Song army rushed down, condescending, Guo Jingxiu took the lead, and the two armies met "two giant chiefs" to rush the party cavalry to pieces! There was no suspense in the battle, the Xixia people "ran to mourn the two sides" and the floating corpses in the Wuding River were "blood-stained Yinchuan, and they were all red" The family army chased and killed more than 20 miles, beheaded more than 8,000 ranks, captured 5,000 horses, and countless other banners, and captured 7 generals such as Chi Togo, the official of the Privy Council of Western Xia...

Liang Yongneng ran away, and tens of thousands of cavalry made meat shields for him. In the process of escaping, he was frightened, confused, puzzled, and perhaps even more resentful, he couldn't understand what the Xixia people in Mizhi City were doing? After a whole morning of fighting here, it was obvious that the Song army had joined the war, why didn't Mizhi City come to help? If you hit back and forth. Never like that!

What he didn't know was that the Tangut people in Mizhi City were more depressed than him. They heard the fighting in the valley, but let them rush out and join in? It's not easy!

Before leaving, he dug a trench outside the city gate, which was deep and long, and a large line of Song Dynasty soldiers stood on the edge of the ditch with a bright sword, wanting to get out of the city? Obviously, the order of action is to jump down the ditch, climb, take a knife, and then fall back into the ditch... This kind of exercise really has to be thought about. As a result, when they had almost thought about it, the seed seed also returned.

With the bloody trophies of the Western Xia cavalry, and then showing off the contradictions, cave cars and other professional siege equipment, the soldiers of the Song Dynasty began to erect cloud ladders and cross trenches, but they all did it in vain. Didn't wait for the fight to start. The gate of Mizhi City was opened from the inside... On October 4th, Mizhi City surrendered!

After the great victory of the Yan army, it was postponed in time, and the second big victory was Li Xian's Xihe army. The Xihe Army set out from Lanzhou. Again eastward into the valley of the female sha. It was surrounded by at least 100,000 Western Xia troops. As soon as he came out of Lanzhou City, he was discovered.

The Tanguts lost in a hurry. Without waiting for all the main forces to assemble, they rushed head-on, and from the inertial thinking, they came to a conclusion - it was easy for the people of the Song Dynasty to take the initiative to go out of the city, and the field was the world of cavalry. It's the world of nomads! The female shagu is the focus of turning the situation around!

Li Xian gave them this opportunity, want to go field? The Xihe Corps started from the very beginning of field warfare! On the 7th, there was no fog, no calculation, no danger in the battle of Nusha Valley, the two sides fought naked hand-to-hand combat, and nearly 3 hours later, the Xihe Corps repelled the Xixia people. In the repulsion result, there is also a very difficult technical aspect - strictly control the direction and squeeze the Xixia people into a deep ditch and stream!

The Tanguts threw down a large body and floated on the water, and the wolf fled to the other side of the stream. If they don't give up, they feel that they are not convinced no matter what, how can they lose the field battle to the Song Dynasty? That's impossible? So they made a very "rational" decision - not to escape, to recover first across this big stream, and then to compete with the Song army when their bodies eased up! In the process of restoration, they were not idle, sending a large number of archers to fire at the Song army...

Playing with bows and arrows with Song Jun? This is something that the Khitans, Jurchens, and even the Mongol army did not dare to think of. Until the end of the late Qing Dynasty, the country was opened by the Western strong ships and cannons, and in the past 800 years, on the land of East Asia, the Song army's bow and arrow were invincible in the world - the divine arm bow, on!

Across the big stream, the two armies shot at each other, and the Tanguts were killed like targets. There is no suspense in the ending, the party members have run away, how far and how far they run! There's no reason to be tortured anymore!

Li Xian finally led the Xihe Corps to continue to advance to the hinterland of Western Xia, and the target was the core of the party carefully built during the Li Yuanhao period, Tiandu Mountain, where the Western Xia Palace was located!

On the 12th, the flames of war finally burned to the most prominent place. After a series of fierce battles on the periphery, the real main target of the Song army, the battle of the strength of the two armies of Jijingyuan and Huanqing to attack Lingzhou finally began!

Liu Changzuo, the commander of the Jingyuan Army, has very distinctive characteristics, such as saying that he is a cunning wolf and full of danger. He is a fierce tiger, and with him on the battlefield, the light of both friend and foe will be taken away by him. It's a one-day general!

Before this expedition, he had fought against the Tanguts. At that time, the Xia soldiers invaded Liugou Fort, Liu Changzuo led 2,000 cavalry to meet the enemy, and the Western Xia people were very strategic and introduced him into the encirclement set up in Montenegro, where 10,000 cavalry were ambushed... 10,000 to 2,000, and to wait for work, possession of natural insurance. Who thinks that this battle is a must-win game? But when it happened to Liu Changzuo, he was depressed. He was indeed surrounded and caught in a bitter battle, but no matter how the Tanguts killed him, they couldn't get him. Fighting until dusk was almost dark, the commander of the Western Xia Army finally couldn't help it, and personally led the charge to make a break! It's really broken, Liu Changzuo shot an arrow and shot the brave coach through, taking this opportunity, he broke out of the encirclement and went home to sleep without anything... This is strength, the most unreasonable and justified thing on the battlefield!

At this time, according to the original plan, Liu Changzuo led the Jingyuan army to the north along the Hulu River, and joined the Huanqing army on the way, and the two armies jointly besieged Lingzhou City. The actual march was similar to the plan, such as going north along the Hulu River and breaking through the Western Xia army, Liu Changzuo really faced the enemy at the Monavel Pass, but the Huanqing army waited left and right and saw no one!

Gao Zunyu missed the appointment, where did he go? It's a secret, this man is very wonderful in warfare, and everyone will not know him until he appears. whispered: This Tianzi No. 1 relative is not simple!

The Huanqing army of 87,000 Han infantry cavalry and 95,000 people was nowhere to be seen, and the Jingyuan army, which had only more than 50,000 infantry and 5,000 horses, was a little hesitant, which was the weakest of the five route army. Before carrying out the final assault on Lingzhou City, it is a very rational idea to preserve the strength, right? In line with this idea, his subordinates persuaded Liu Changzuo to avoid the limelight and go to the vicinity of Weizhou to find the powerful Huanqing army...

After listening to this large amount of verbosity, Liu Changzuo gave an order - the whole army was divided into 4 teams, with shield bearers at the front, the second row of divine arm bows, the third row of crossbowmen, and the fourth row of cavalry. Meet the enemy with all your might! 3x bounty after victory! After speaking, he lifted two large shields, one in each hand, and walked to the forefront!

The battle begins! Liu Changzuo quickly put out this formation according to local conditions. It seems simple, but in fact it has a clear sense of hierarchy. He is the first line and the shield-bearers are the first line. It is also the only line of defense. It's destined to be very vulnerable. If the Western Xia cavalry rushed, this line of defense would soon collapse. But the combination of the two rows in the back is very knowledgeable. First, the Divine Arm Bow snipes at a long distance, and if there is a net, the crossbowman fires a salvo again, so that it can rush to the shield hand. It's going to be the end of the crossbow...

The actual situation proved that this design was very successful. The Song army's position was impregnable. And no matter how elite the enemy on the opposite side is, it is inevitable that he will not have enough energy after 4 hours of non-stop impact. At this time, Liu Changzuo's hole cards and the fourth row of teams that had been hidden in the Song army's formation. The 800 elite cavalry led by Guo Cheng finally waited for their chance!

Guo Cheng came out of the battle, and the decisive battle was decisive, and the nearly 4 hours of hard work of the whole army, including the previous main general, were all created for him to create this opportunity! He rushed out with 800 cavalry! In a matter of moments, both sides were in the air. Guo Cheng was wounded several times, but the more he fought, the more courageous he became, and he broke the formation of the Western Xia army at once. The Song army pursued the victory and chased it out for more than 20 miles, capturing 22 people below the enemy's main general's nephew and nephew, and slashing more than 2,460 levels!

After the victory, the Song army did not repair and continued to hurry. When they got to the port, they had two ways to go. One is due north to Daidailing, and one is northwest to Mingsha River. Which one to take? Liu Changzuo sent spies, and soon the good news came unexpectedly - there is a treasure in Mingsha River, and the Xixia people have a munitions depot there! So what are you waiting for? Kill it! In enemy territory, food first, grab it first! After arriving at Mingshachuan, Song Jun realized how big the surprise was. The abundance of materials in this warehouse made it called "Yucang" in Western Xia, and the Jingyuan Army was a hundred times more energetic, and they worked together to whitewash Yucang! Set off with a large bag and a small bag and head for Lingzhou City!

At the same time, the Yan army of the cultivators occupied the five prefectures of Yinxia, the starting base of Western Xia. On the 15th, he entered Xiazhou, and on the 16th, he entered Yinzhou. On the 17th, Wang Zhongzheng's Hedong Army came to Xiazhou. But Xiazhou has been recovered by the seeds, and the eunuch Wang is unhappy. Therefore, without consulting with the planters, on the 20th, they attacked Youzhou (Yinxia 5 states or Yinxia 4 states, that is, Yin, Xia, You, Suihe and Jingzhou, which were abolished with the establishment of You. Suizhou has long been recovered by the Plantation Army. That is to say: by this time, the land of the party's Wang Ye Zhaoji had all fallen into the hands of the Song army) There was no difficult process worth mentioning during this period. The previous field battles in the valley on the banks of the Wuding River made this piece of Western Xia military power a vacuum. Seeds are rampant, and they are in a situation where they can fight as much as they want, and they will win wherever they want.

Of course, he remembered what the original plan was, the main attack point of the 5th Route Army was in Lingzhou (Xiping Mansion, the capital of Western Xia), and the ultimate goal was Xingqing Mansion, the capital of Western Xia behind Lingzhou! Take them and win!

For this reason, he only swept away the remnants of the Western Xia army in Yinzhou and Xiazhou cities, destroyed the enemy's administrative department, and did not send troops to stay behind, but still marched with all his troops and advanced to the next target, Yanzhou!

Let's talk about Gao Zunyu, the No. 1 cousin of Tianzi. On the 17th, he recovered the Tongyuan army. On the 20th, the slowest of the 5th Route Army, he entered Weizhou on the border of Western Xia. At the same time, a notice was issued to show appreciation.

The focus of the war shifted from the middle road to the west, and Li Xian's Xihe Corps marched quickly after breaking through the Nusha Valley, arriving at Quwu Mountain on the 22nd, and then going forward is the Tiandu Mountain Imperial Palace, which was once the core of Western Xia and built by the founding emperor Li Yuanhao!

Although the capital is in Xingqing Mansion, it is the spiritual holy place of the party people. Not to mention the strategic significance, just to say that the beautiful and huge palace complex on the mountain is the wealth accumulation that has been repaired and perfected by 5 generations of talents in the Western Xia! That's money! That's what the poor, barren party members who only produce local products such as green salt and horses have saved for several lifetimes! No matter from which point of view, Li Xian has touched the bottom line of Xixia's non-negotiable! No matter how tight the other four fronts are, he will never be allowed to invade Tiandu Mountain!

Western Xia urgently mobilized tens of thousands of elite soldiers, gathered at the foot of Tiandu Mountain, and fought to the death with the Xihe Corps! It was another field battle, and at this time the war was fought, it is believed that the Western Xia side had a new understanding of the Song army. Chong Ge and Liu Changzuo both defeated them in the field, and at this time, in the face of the Xihe Army, which was the strongest in the field in the Song army, did they have any new methods? The answer is no!

It's not something you want to have! The ability and characteristics of the army determine what kind of battles it can only fight, and the western army of the Song Dynasty has reached its current height only through painful blood exchanges. The Tanguts want to catch up in an instant? It was an unrealistic dream!

This battle was a remake of the battle in the valley on the banks of the Gully. It was another foggy day, and in the foggy fog, Li Xian ordered the forward to defeat and lead the enemy into the encirclement. The Tanguts only escaped from the rear team, and the entire forward was annihilated! What happened after that was the lifelong dream of the predecessors of the Western Army, such as Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi, Pang Ji, Di Qing, Zhang Kang and others!

Li Xian rushed to Tiandu Mountain and burned the Xixia Palace left by Li Yuanhao to the ground, turning it into a scorched earth with no grass!

At this point, the three major armies of the Song army, Xihe, Yanyan, and Jingyuan, had faced off with the Western Xia army, and without exception, they won a big victory and advanced to the hinterland of Western Xia one after another. Among them, the fastest move is still the Yan Yanjun of the plant. On the 23rd, Quzhen under the jurisdiction of Yanyan Road defeated the Western Xia army again at Putao Mountain.

The seed man went around in a big circle on the battlefield. He grabbed Mizhi, Yinzhou, and Xiazhou, and then crossed Hengshan and approached Lingzhou and Xingqing Mansion, but he didn't take the nearest straight line from Suide City, where he was stationed...

Some historical books attribute it to the strategic idea of the cultivator: the cultivator claimed that the main force of the Western Xia was assembled on the eastern route, the line he took. If he avoids going to the west road, then he will inevitably have Lingzhou Jiancheng in front and the main force of Western Xia in the back, and he will drill into a dead end. Rather than that, it is better to "face its front and defeat it, the military voice is vibrating, and there is no one who dares to resist for thousands of miles" is stronger and stronger when it is strong, and it is a head-on decisive battle, how strong! Just a little flipping through the map will reveal that there is a last resort. He does have the courage and strength to face it, but it is destined that he will not be able to take shortcuts...

The most recent shortcut was reserved for Gao Zunyu, the No. 1 relative of Tianzi. The five armies have their own routes, and you are a border general who wants to compete with Empress Dowager Gao's uncle? Don't even think about it! Chong Ge and Liu Changzuo are just the followers of the front station to protect the flanks of the big eunuchs and big relatives!

Despite this, heroes still have their own achievements to annotate life! Throw away all the branches and forks and march madly to Lingzhou! He ignored it, the northwest was cold, and at this time it had entered the 11th month of the lunar calendar, and the northwest land was about to be frozen. It has to be fast! Drag it out any longer? The cold alone will put an end to this battle!

On November 1, Liu Changzuo's Jingyuan army had burned the flames of war to the gate of Lingzhou! That's right! It's not under the city, it's the gate. Jingyuan Iron Cavalry rushed forward, and the choice of action route and timing were unprecedentedly successful! When they appeared in Lingzhou City, the Western Xia people guarding the city did not react at all. They don't understand, why is the Song army still suddenly appearing when they are blocked layer by layer?

To the astonishment of the Western Xia army, a very heroic and miscalculated decision was made. In the face of the Jingyuan army, they immediately sent troops out of the city to meet the battle, instead of holding on to it at the first time. Is this self-confidence? But use your brute brains to weigh the balance of power between the two sides! Since ancient times, the best city defense troops don't want to fight with the field troops on a flat ground, the Jingyuan army can break through so many Xixia field corps along the way, its combat effectiveness can be imagined, can you defensive city wall soldiers deal with it?

But the Tanguts rushed out of the city in this way. Liu Changzuo was ecstatic in an instant, the sky was above, this was the good fortune he didn't dare to hope for in advance. Through these Western Xia soldiers who rushed out, what he saw was the wide open gate of Lingzhou City...

Liu Changzuo ordered the forward to drag the enemy army, and the rear army rushed up and directly grabbed the city gate! (To be continued......)