The two have been fighting for twenty or thirty rounds, Xiao Heda already knows that although the person in front of him is a woman, he is skilled in swordsmanship, and his horse control skills are also excellent, but his martial arts are not inferior to men, and he has become a sick cat at this time, as Zhao Ta expected, but with the rich fighting experience accumulated over the years, it is not easy to defeat her.

At this time, Xiao Heda heard the news of the loss of the Iron Gate Pass, it can be said that he was shocked, the Iron Gate Pass was lost, and there was a vast plain ahead, there was no danger to defend, and the might of the Song army was bound to be difficult to resist, even if he could protect Lingzhou with the high and deep city wall, the price paid was amazing. Just when he was in a trance, Zhi Meiluan seized the opportunity to move forward, and at the moment when the two horses were staggered, the two knives slashed head-on, and Xiao Heda was too late to dodge, so he could only put his hands together and fight hard.

Zhe Meiluan was originally standing behind the prince as a guard, but she watched him fall from the horse under Xiao Heda's plot, this stirrup crossbow Zhao Ta was the first time she had seen it, but she knew that it was not big, and its power was not small. The bowstring is mixed together with two ox tendons, and the arrows and crossbow machine are also made of iron, and the structure is extremely exquisite, although the range is limited, but it can pierce the heavy armor within fifty steps, which is specially used for plotting opponents on the battlefield, and even more will feed the arrows with poison, and the middle ones will all die...

Seeing the moment the prince fell from the horse, Zhe Meiluan's heart seemed to be taken away suddenly, and then she understood that in her heart, the 'naughty boy' who had sacrificed her life in the deep alley to save her, the Golden Palace and the Zhe family to relieve the siege, pestered herself to teach bows and arrows, and later ignored herself with the Zhe family for Fengzhou's affairs, the position in her heart is irreplaceable, so she hated her hands and was full of killing moves, bent on revenge for her 'sweetheart', and now how can she easily let it go when she gets the opportunity.

'Dangchang' made a crisp sound, and the three knives collided together, Zhe Meiluan was bound to win this time, and he exhausted all his strength, although Xiao Heda was brave, it was time for the lamp to run out. Although he blocked this knife, he also exhausted the strength of his whole body, and was shocked to crack his mouth. Spat out his blood, crouched on the horse's back and hugged the saddle, if he hadn't tied himself to the horse, he would have fallen from the horse.

"Hugh away!" Fold Meiluan is unforgiving. But the two horses staggered, lost the opportunity to mend the knife, only to see the two legs of the folded Meiluan clamp the horse's belly, the double knife into the sheath, and the hand with the reins. The war horse man stood up, she had already taken off the carved bow at this time, put on the carved arrow, twisted her body and shot back, these few movements were like flowing water, all in one go, and everyone in the loyal army cheered, just a few moments. Everyone is ashamed of themselves. Among them, perhaps only the high-level pet who has been practicing shooting since childhood can do it.

The arrow is like a meteor catching the moon in the middle of Xiao Heda's heart, and there is no arrow feather, this arrow actually shot through Xiao Heda's two layers of armor, which shows the strength of the foot. Zhe Meiluan had already returned to the horse at this time, drew a knife in his hand, and hit the horse to catch up with Xiao Heda. A knife beheaded him, and the poor generation of fierce generals ended up in a different place. Lose your life! At this moment, the battlefield has also calmed down, and the generals brought by Zhe Meiluan are also elite. Thinking about their martial arts heirloom and a hundred years of conquest, how can their subordinates not have some soldiers who are accustomed to fighting, and Zhao Ta's guard battalion is also full of warriors who are one in a hundred, and their combat power is extraordinary.

Zhe Meiluan hit the horse and returned to the formation, only to see the prince looking at her with a smile in the crowd, stunned for a moment, flew off the horse and threw himself into his arms, "Prince, I thought you..."

"Hehe, you think I'm dead, so kill him to avenge me, but at this time I didn't die, but Xiao Heda died, isn't it a little wrongful to die!" Zhao Ta hugged her into his arms, patted her on the back and said.

"Lord Wang, don't make fun of me, I really thought you were hit by an arrow at that time, am I stupid?" When Zhi Meiluan heard everyone's laughter, she quickly broke free from the prince's arms, hid beside Zhao Xin, blushed and lowered her head and said. …,

"Ha Luha, it's stupid enough..."Zhao Ta was amused by Zhe Meiluan's naïve appearance and said with a smile, but this laughter is really happy, this girl seems to be in love with herself, but look at Zhao Xin on the side, she is a little frustrated, when will this girl confess to herself?

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After receiving the news that the leopard general would occupy the city gate, Zhao Ren, who took over the command of the prince, immediately dispatched troops to the iron gate pass, and the two main generals of the iron gate pass died and fled, the dragons in the city were leaderless, and the army was unstable, Zhao Ren immediately seized the opportunity to order the whole army to launch a fierce attack. Under the full attack of the loyal army, the Xia army that stayed in the city quickly lost its support, broke out of the city, and fled in the direction of Lingzhou with the footsteps of the famous Anhui!

Zhao Ta did not take a routine break this time, but ordered the whole army to attack, pursue and kill the defeated army, crossed the Iron Gate Pass, crossed the Qingling, and entered the Hetao Plain, where there is no danger, only two hundred miles away from Lingzhou City, the Hedong Army traveled day and night, and pursued at the speed of a rapid march. The defeat was like a mountain, the Tiemen Pass defeated army could no longer organize an effective defense, under the day and night pursuit of the Hedong army, could not get a moment of peace, was cut off by a detour, interspersed with the back road, on the road to Lingzhou left corpses for hundreds of miles, the weapons of the army were lost.

On the third day of the eighth month, after two days of pursuit, the Hedong army finally arrived at the city of Lingzhou, and the forefoot of the Ming Anhui, this time learned the lesson of the Tiemen Pass, and closed the door to the Western Xia rout that followed, in case the Song army took the opportunity to attack the city again. Thousands of defeated soldiers cried under the city, wailing and begging, and finally could not enter the city, and were annihilated by the Hedong army, and the whole city was solemn...

Lingzhou was built in the Han Dynasty, and the Northern Wei Dynasty was called Bogulu Town, and later changed to Lingzhou; The Western Wei Dynasty was renamed Lingzhou Pule County; In the Northern Zhou Dynasty, it was changed to Lingzhou and Lingwu County; Sui changed to Lingwu County, stationed in Huile County, relocated Lingzhou, Shuofang Jiedu envoy stationed here, Tianbao changed to Lingwu County at the beginning, and later changed to Lingzhou.

Lingzhou is located on the west side of Xiazhou, relying on Helan Mountain, leading the Yellow River, and is a famous town in the northwest frontier of the Tang and Song dynasties. In the west of Lingzhou, it is the main road to the Western Regions in ancient China - the Hexi Corridor, and the southwest of Lingzhou is the distribution area of the Tubo tribe. As a result, Lingzhou became the focus of contention among the Han, Uighur, Tibetan and Dangxiang ethnic groups.

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, Li Jiqian rebelled against the Song Dynasty and led 50,000 elite soldiers to conquer Lingzhou in one fell swoop. He likes the situation of the mountains and rivers in Lingzhou very much, and thinks that "Xiping controls the river and Shuo in the north, and leads Qing and Liang in the south. ”

Because the original base of Western Xia, the area of Yin and Xia, the southeast was the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the northeast was the powerful Liao State, which was militarily vulnerable to threats and was not conducive to outward expansion. The Lingzhou region is rich in water and grass, surrounded by grains, and is the sphere of activity of the Uighurs, Tibetans and other ethnic groups with relatively weak military strength, which is convenient for opening up territory to the northwest.

Another Lingzhou area is based on the upper reaches of the road, choking the key points in the west, and its geographical location is much superior to that of the silver and summer areas. Lingzhou was the traffic hub of the northwest region at that time, with a road network extending in all directions. After the late Tang Dynasty, the Silk Road mainly passed through Lingzhou to the Western Regions. In addition, Lingzhou has developed agriculture and animal husbandry, fertile land, abundant products, commonly known as "plugging the south of the Yangtze River", benefiting from the irrigation of the Yellow River, and has a superior economic environment for building a capital in drought and flood protection.

Therefore, Lingzhou has both the natural, economic and military conditions of the capital, Li Jiqian moved from Xiazhou to Lingzhou in the second year, where he repaired the city and dug trenches, trained soldiers and accumulated grain, built a large number of buildings, and built palaces and temples, until his son Li Deming later moved the capital to Xingzhou again for 18 years, and the two generations of monarchs of the Western Xia worked hard in Lingzhou. …,

When Zhao Tan arrived in Lingzhou, he was not in a hurry to attack the city, but went down to the village five miles away from the city, strengthened the camp, besieged Lingzhou without attacking, and then sent troops to occupy the surrounding villages and towns, collected grain and grass, and made the appearance of fighting a protracted war. His actions caused the Western Xia monarchs to have differences in the attack and defense of Xiazhou...

One side believes that the Song army besieged Lingzhou but did not attack, not because of the inability to follow, but to besiege the city and send reinforcements, to wait for work, to annihilate the main force of the most rear-end army in Xingqing Mansion, not only to see the crisis in Lingzhou, but also to see the Jingshi Xingqing Mansion, that is their ultimate goal. The city of Xingqing Mansion is high and deep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and only by first consuming the living forces of Xingqing Mansion can we successfully conquer the Beijing Division. Because the Song army knew that if Lingzhou was captured immediately, we would concentrate our forces in Xingqing Mansion and refuse to defend the city. Xingqing Mansion has the advantage of holding on, and then there is this army, even if the Song army is fierce, it is difficult to overcome.

On the contrary, Lingzhou is the barrier of Zhongxingfu, if they besiege Lingzhou but do not attack, then we cannot risk losing Lingzhou after all, but will inevitably send troops to reinforce Lingzhou. At that time, the reinforcements of Xingqing Mansion came from afar, and the Song army had already recuperated and was ready to wait for work and annihilate it in one fell swoop. And if the defenders of Lingzhou City saw the defeat of the reinforcements, they knew that there were no reinforcements to fight, so they could only open the city gate and surrender. At that time, the Song army annihilated our most rearly main force, Lingzhou was lost, and Xingqing Mansion was unable to defend, so it could only be tied up.

On the other hand, the Song army besieged but did not attack because they had a long expedition, the soldiers were tired and the horses were lacking, and the grain and grass were insufficient. Therefore, a small army should first harass the Song army in turn, cut off its grain routes, and the main force of the army held the city, and at the same time mobilized the elite of Xingqing Mansion to aid Lingzhou, taking advantage of the lack of strength of the Song army's Hedong Army, to annihilate or defeat it first, then the Shaanxi army attacking Lingzhou Sichuan saw that it could not join forces and must retreat, and the siege of Lingzhou was relieved, and the land of Henan could be recovered, and the danger of destroying the country could be solved.

Just when the Western Xia monarchs and ministers were arguing about the pros and cons of increasing troops, it was reported in Lingzhou that the Song Army's Hedong Army suddenly divided its troops to control the Yellow River crossing to Lingzhou, and at the same time sent troops to attack Yaode City on the Lingzhou River... (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )