Chapter 154: Attack it and save it

The Song side lost more than 100,000 people in the battle of Tong'an City, including more than 20,000 elite cavalry, which was greatly injured, and the loss of military supplies was also very serious, Lanzhou fell into a crisis - kbook update and these are not the most serious problems, Liu Fa died, the Western Army and even the Great Song Dynasty did not have a general who could take charge alone, and the talents of the Western Army have gradually withered, and now the old species - the seed master Dao is more than sixty years old, and his physical strength and energy have obviously begun to decline, he wrote to Emperor Huizong to ask for retirement, although he was retained, but Lian Po is old.

Han Shizhong, Liu Guangshi, Wu Jue, the two brothers in the Western Army are still fighting at the bottom, and now a rising star in the Western Army is named Yao Pingzhong, although he is young, he is brave enough to win the three armies, his father Yao Gu, now he is the pacification envoy of Huanqing Road, his grandfather Yao Yu, his uncle Yao Xiong, and he has been a famous general in the West for generations. The Yao family has been as famous as the breeder for decades, but the well-known "Yang family general" is far from being as famous as imagined; The other two fierce generals Liu Yanqing and Yang Keshi are both excellent in martial arts, besieging the city and cutting generals, invincible, Liu Yanqing is old, good at catering, is behind the gate, a little practice of the art of war; Yang Keshi was born in the army, with more than enough courage and insufficient strategy.

The performance of the three of them in the later crusade against Liao and Jingkang was very poor, and it was impossible to expect them to turn the tables, and Tong Guan may also know their details, while transferring troops to defend, while writing a letter to Zhao Ta, asking him to immediately launch an attack on the eastern front, attract the Chage army to the east, relieve the pressure on the western front, and let himself take a breath.

The letter is written with sadness and sorrow, pitiful, and has the meaning of pulling a brother, Zhao Ta sneered when he saw Tong Guan's letter, he knew why he was at the beginning, but he knew the ending after that, and Xixia was now exhausted, so he took advantage of the power of victory to strike the army and ask for peace, and the result was to maintain the status quo, and the year coin was still the same. Tong Guan's class master Hui Dynasty brazenly exaggerated the victory, concealed the defeat, and even the annihilation of Liu Fa's entire army made up an unprecedented victory, and what nonsense was to eliminate tens of thousands of elites in Western Xia. The courtiers congratulated the emperor and celebrated the great "victory" of the Celestial Empire. Tong Guan rose to the top, was promoted to the rank of Taifu because of his merits, and was in charge of the Privy Council with the old minister Deng Xunwu. An unknown eunuch in the Shenzong Dynasty grew up to become the military head of the empire.

Zhao Tan didn't want this to happen, and at least he had to fight the Western Xia to surrender for twenty years, so that he didn't dare to use troops against the Song Dynasty easily, so that the Great Song could deal with the crisis wholeheartedly. Zhao Ta is determined to use troops, but how to fight is still a problem, one is the choice of targets; The second is the opponent he will face - Brother Cha, he is also a young hero, but there are many similarities in the life trajectories of the two, but they debuted earlier than him, and when he was digging ditches in Xiangyi, he was already the commander of the Western Xia army.

Brother Cha is the younger brother of Li Qianshun, the lord of Western Xia, and the king of Jin. In the early years of Chongning, at the age of sixteen, although the famous Western Xia general Ren Duo Baozhong led the army to aid the Qinghai Tubo Department to resist the Song Dynasty, he had been pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger at the beginning, and had no opinions or actions, until the Xia army failed to rescue Nanzongbao and was blocked by the Song army in Huangshui, he shot the Song general who chased after him with an arrow, so that the Xia army retreated safely.

Brother Cha's arrow not only established his authority, but also won the respect of the sergeant, which can be said to have exchanged the greatest benefit for the smallest cost, which is much more clever than Zhao Take. After that, Renduo Baozhong had frequent contacts with Cai Jing and Wang Hou of the Song Dynasty, and although Brother Cha knew about it, he kept it hidden. If Brother Cha was in a hurry to denounce Renduo Baozhong from the beginning, then because there was not enough evidence at that time, not only would he not be able to defeat Renduo Baozhong, but he would also expose himself and push himself to the opposite side of Renda Baozhong. When Cai Jing couldn't hold his breath and sent Wang Hou's brother to come, Brother Cha finally let people go to the border to intercept him, and he took over the military power of Renduo Baozhong as quickly as possible, so that Renduo Baozhonghao had no power to fight back, so he could only obediently return to Xingqing to accept Xia Chongzong's fate. …,

In September of the third year of Chongning, Qianshun named Brother Cha as the king of Jin. He began to reform the military system of the Western Xia, learn from the Song army, select the strong and brave Han Dynasty, teach strong crossbows, carry bows and hoes in peacetime, and advance in battle, greatly improving the organization of the Western Xia soldiers, greatly improving the efficiency of wartime troops, and optimizing the arms of the Western Xia State, the cavalry infantry is professionally differentiated, the plains are galloped with iron harriers, and the valleys are chased by foot, so that the traditional cavalry and infantry combat ability has been unprecedentedly improved, and the troops are flexibly used according to the time and place, and finally become a major enemy of the Song army.

The war situation has evolved to such an extent that it is incumbent upon us to send troops, whether for the sake of the country or for ourselves. Two days later, Zhao Ta ordered, the loyal army pulled out the camp and took the lead in the northward movement, the eighth and ninth generals of the Zelu Road Forbidden Army, the eleventh and twelfth generals of Lanshi Road set off ten days later, and assembled in Linzhou and Fuzhou, and the state prefect Yeli summoned his soldiers and horses to enter the Mingtang River to strictly guard the passes, and the mobilized troops plus the three generals of Linfu Road had a total of 11 generals and horses, more than 40,000 people. At the same time, he ordered the Hedong Road Transit Division and the state capitals along the way to mobilize grain, grass, and people to move with the army.

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The movement of the army, there is no secret at all, Hedong Road made such a big move, it has long been detected by the spies of Western Xia, and it has been transmitted to the country through various channels, although people continue to be captured by the Song army, but there is still information transmitted to the territory.

The information obtained by the spies was delivered to Cha Ge at an expedited speed of 800 miles, and at this time, he re-launched the siege of the Zhenwu army with the power of the great victory of Tong'an City. The battle broke the Song army and Liu Fa died, which can be described as a rare victory in Western Xia in recent years, and Chage's prestige also reached the peak of his military career. Prior to this, the Song army implemented a shallow offensive strategy, after more than ten years of efforts, the right wing army of the Western Xia West Front had fallen into the Song Dynasty's encirclement at this time, the only thing that could be relied on was the nearby rivers and mountain gorges, but it was closely adjacent to the Song army's garrison, and the Song army could send troops in at any time.

Although the Right Wing Army is farther away from the Xingling area than Hengshan, the right wing army from the Xingling area is not as isolated by a desert as from the Hengshan area to the Xingling area. Once Song broke through the Right Wing Army, the next road to Xingling was a flat river, which can be described as overwhelming! What's more, the deployment of Western Xia's troops has always been "real in the east and virtual in the west", if the Song army broke through the Right Wing Army to attack the Xingling region from the west, it would not be easy for the Western Xia to adjust its troop deployment, and the outcome of the Western Xia would be self-evident!

In this battle, the Song army was frightened, the strategic situation underwent a fundamental reversal, and the ancient bone dragon city built by the Zhenwu army, that is, Tong Guan. The ancient bone dragon city is located in the gorge of the Qilian Mountains in the northwest of Huangzhou, the peaks are undulating, steep and leaning against the sky, easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is a strategic place, the Western Xia army is condescending, retreat can return to the hinterland, enter can lead troops to Huangzhou and Xining Prefecture. As long as this walled city is laid, the army can go straight to Lanzhou, and then go deep into the interior, which has been a problem in Western Xia since it was captured by Liu Fa a few years ago. If the city is taken again, the Xia army can turn defense into attack, and it is not impossible to regain the lost territory.

Brother Cha looked at the urgent report that Wang Ting transferred to him, and sighed, for this new star on the northwest front of Zhao Ta, after the battle of the Left Wing Divine Brave Army Division last year, he also conducted an investigation to understand, although it was not detailed, but the context was generally clear. This son was assassinated several times when he was young, took refuge away from the Beijing Division, earned a huge family business by his own strength, and then regained favor, made trouble in Beijing, went down to the south of the Yangtze River, can be described as a bad deed, muddied a pool of water in the court, and was jealous of all the rulers when he was 'dispatched' to Hedong, he was just a small gangster in the eyes of everyone, but he became famous in the first battle of patrolling the border, and captured his uncle Wang alive with only 3,000 pro-army troops, destroyed 20,000 Xixia elite soldiers, seized a large area of land in Hengshan, and subdued countless people. …,

In the eyes of others, the rise of this Prince of the Great Song Dynasty may be a good fate, a good opportunity, and stepping on shit, but in Brother Cha's opinion, this son's city is deep, his vision is far-reaching, and his kung fu is deeper than his own, far more powerful than the old opponent who has no **, and he is really his own fierce rival. This time, he had just won a victory on the Western Front, and he started an incident on the Eastern Front, and there were only two possibilities for him to use his troops, one was Fengzhou, which was under siege; The other is the Left Wing Brave Military Division who was greatly injured.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is a plan to save Zhao from Wei Wei, how could Brother Cha not see through it? But the places where this kid might attack are all places that must be saved.

The west and north of Fengzhou are Xia Tu, the northeast is the Khitan realm, and the east is the east road of the Song River, if the Western Xia obtains the two states of Lin and Fu, it can not only completely eliminate the difficult situation that the Western Xia has been fighting in northern Shaanxi and has been in the difficult situation of Yan Yan and Lin and the belly of the Fu to suffer the enemy, but also has great significance for the Western Xia to attack the East Song River Road. Once the three prefectures of Lin, Fu and Feng were seized and heavily garrisoned, the armies of the Song River East Road and the Volcano could be mapped, and they could take the river as a danger and advance and retreat freely. Therefore, from the beginning of the founding of the Western Xia Dynasty, the three states of Lin, Fu and Feng of the Northern Song Dynasty were eyeing each other, and they were bent on annexing them and clearing the way to attack the east of the Northern Song River. After more than a dozen encounters, he finally won Toyosu and won the bridgehead.

Now the Song Dynasty has seized a large area of land east of the Mingtang River, isolating Fengzhou, although there is a natural danger of the Yellow River, but across the Mu Us Desert from other military divisions, there is only a narrow passage connected with the Weifu Military Division of Montenegro hundreds of miles away, but it will be cut off by the Song army at any time, forming a lonely place, several times to send troops to relieve the siege, all because of transportation difficulties, the road is difficult and dangerous and abandoned halfway, but because of its strategic position, it has to be saved.

Xia has Xia, Sui, Yin, You, Jing and other states in northern Shaanxi, its northeast is Song River East Lulin, Fu, Fengzhou, south is Song Yan and other roads, these states are connected with Song, is the area where the two countries frequently exchange troops, and is also the focus of Xia fortification, Xia has set up several military divisions here to defend, but now the Shenyong Military Division has lost most of it, and the only remaining Yulin County is surrounded by Song on three sides, and last year was plundered, the population and property suffered heavy losses, and the vitality was greatly injured, and now I heard that the name of Prince Yan will flee in despair. If the entire Shenyong Army Division was lost, Xiazhou would be exposed to the attack of the Song army. As long as the Song army went west along the Wuding River Valley, it was able to bypass the defenders on the border and go straight to Xiping Mansion, across the river from Xingqing Mansion.

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