Lingzhou, also known as Lingwu, is the place where the river is controlled, it is not only the place where the river and Shuo are controlled in the north, and the key place where Qing and Liang are introduced in the south, but also the most important grassland and granary in the northwest. After the Anshi Rebellion, Cai Heng ascended the throne here and pacified the world. If the Saibei barbarians want to graze horses in the Central Plains, Lingzhou is a must-take place. Lingzhou, the former Tang Dynasty built town, because of "the north gate of Shuofang country, the west royal dog Rong, the north Yu Lynx", so it is also called Shuofang Town. With the strong city of Lingzhou and the fertile soil of Hetao, the Shuofang army attacked the Turks in the north and the Tibetan defense in the west. During the five dynasties, there were eight major governors in the world, headed by Lingzhou, and Shaanxi, You, Wei, Yang, Lu, Zhen, and Xu were secondary. For more than 1,000 years, Helan Mountain has been like a cloud, and the feathers have been heard day and night, and this Lingzhou city has not known how many Han men and Saiwaihu people have been soaked in blood. For the Dangxiang Tuoba clan, who is entrenched in the five states of barren land and poor people, this Lingzhou and the land of Hetao are temptations that cannot be resisted no matter what. But for the party army, which has almost no ability to attack fortifications, Lingzhou Xiongcheng is too strong.

The Dingyan army is not without sharp weapons, the ancestors of the Tuoba clan, the desert of North Latitude, the Central Plains in the south, in order to deal with the armored horse, the Han craftsmen made crossbows and special arrows, improved in the past dynasties, at this time, it has been able to shoot more than 340 steps, into the wood half an inch. In order for the artillery battalion to keep up with the movement of the cavalry, the Whirlwind Cannon was reduced in size and transported on horseback, and later it was more able to be fired directly on the back of a camel. The famous sword made by the sword-forging technique handed down by the Tuoba clan is extremely sharp, and it is extremely precious, and it is known as "seeing blood and sealing the throat". The armor used by the Iron Harrier is stronger and lighter than the armor used by the elite of the Great Song Dynasty and Khitan.

However, for a long time, in the barren and impoverished land of the five states of Dingnan, the Tuoba clan had military weapons, but they did not have the strength to manufacture them in large quantities. After a hundred years of accumulation, there are only more than 3,000 pairs of Qizi armor, only more than 5,000 crossbows, only more than 100 whirlwind cannons that are most conducive to siege, and only more than 200 gunners. In front of Lingzhou, which is almost the first fortified city in the northwest, more than 100 whirlwind cannons are like tickling giants, although Cai Jifeng concentrated all the crossbow arrows and whirlwind cannons on the east city gate, he still can't cause great casualties to the defenders at the head of the city.

"The warriors of the party are still not good at attacking cities. Cai Jifeng frowned, he attacked for a few days, except for the dead, there was nothing else, and even a landing on the city failed to achieve, whether the walls of Lingzhou were too strong, or the people of the Dangxiang clan were too incompetent.

"Brother, don't we have Han people who can attack the city?" Cai Jiqian pointed to the Han soldiers and people who were camping behind the Xiazhou army, these Han soldiers who transported grain and grass from Shaanxi Zhulu were left under the city of Lingzhou by Cai Jifeng, and asked them to build barracks for the party army and cut firewood and grass. "How can the officials and soldiers of the imperial court shed blood and fight for us. Cai Jifeng sighed, if there is a regret, the overwhelming power of the Great Song Dynasty Forbidden Army when attacking the city, he has seen it, the crossbow arrows are used like flowing water, and the power of millions of arrows is guaranteed by strong national strength, and it is because of this that Cai Jifeng is not confident in restoring the former glory of the Tuoba clan.

"Those who are sent to escort grain and grass for us, what kind of backing can they have in the court? As long as Lingzhou City is captured, even if the court is to blame, what can it do? At that time, the official family will also be the envoy of Shuofang Jiedu with a dumb eye. Cai Jiqian concealed his ambition in his heart, and looked mockingly at the Han military camp with Chinese characters and flags fluttering. If you get Lingzhou, through the land of the Hetao, you can plunder the Han people from the Central Plains, the Han people are good at defending the city and attacking the city, if there is such a Han army under the command, plus the party Xiang Qiang fierce cavalry, the iron harrier is unstoppable to charge, the big position in the Bianliang Dynasty should also be sat by the Tuoba family. Although the Xianbei Tuoba clan is not numerous, it can enslave many races in the world for its own use, and it is the true noble bloodline promised by the Immortal Heaven.

In the Han army barracks, Cai Jifengqiang, who was condemned to the military festival, stayed under the city of Liangzhou to engage in labor, and the soldiers and people from Guanzhong were full of complaints, and even the officers were scolding. "The heroes in our customs have been fighting for generations, and we are strong, escorting grain and grass to this party member. Yao Liangbi, the envoy of the Huanzhou regiment, who was escorting the grain and grass this time, listened to Yu Hou Wanjian's complaints, and said in a deep voice: "Don't criticize the imperial court's dispatch, and honestly hand over the errand." "The plan of the imperial court, he still knows in his heart, Wu Yingying is a Han Chinese, the threat to the imperial court is greater, and the party is barbarian, occupying the border land of the five states that are difficult to determine, the food and salary are all dependent on the imperial court, and the internal fighting is frequent, it is really not a concern, not to mention, no matter how strong the party is, it is only one of the Uighurs, Tubo and other northwest tribes, the imperial court in the northwest has always adopted the strategy of razing and razing, instigating all the sides to check and balance each other, at present, this Lingzhou Anxi army, but it is a thorn in the eye of the imperial court to get rid of it quickly.

Suddenly, Sun Meng, the head of the infantry army, rushed in from outside the tent and shouted: "It's not good, General Yao, the party people are surrounded by the military camp!" "What?" Yao Liangbi and Wan Jian stood up at the same time and strode out of the military tent, only to see about 10,000 party cavalry gathered in front of the barracks, and more than 10,000 cavalry scattered around, all of them bald and arguing. Yao Liangbi felt a sudden shock in his heart, he was the most difficult to deal with in these students, and he would have to face each other with a knife, so he only smiled and said: "This general is Yao Liangbi, the training envoy of the Huanzhou regiment, if there is any misunderstanding, please come forward and speak." ”

Xiazhou Yanei commanded Cai Jiqian to slowly gallop out of the middle of the party cavalry, and immediately saw Yao Liangbi coming out, so he said loudly: "There is an order for the military festival to be difficult, and Yao Liangbi leads the headquarters to attack Xiazhou." The look on his face was extremely arrogant, and he pointed at the Huanzhou regimental training envoy with a horsewhip to speak, as if he was a slave in his family, even if he was a character like Yao Liangbi who mixed up with the elite in the officialdom, he couldn't help but feel on fire. Sure enough, as soon as Cai Jiqian's voice fell, there was an uproar in the Huanzhou army, "Attack your grandma." Sun Meng, the head of the infantry army, immediately scolded, the early Song Dynasty Xiang army did not have the responsibility to fight, only responsible for forced labor, not to mention the thousands of miles to fight for the party people, for a time the scolding was everywhere, and there were many border troops in the Xiang army who selected the remaining forbidden army, although the ability was not as good as the forbidden army, but the courage and cultivation of scolding people were comparable.

Seeing the commotion of the Huanzhou soldiers, Cai Jiqian's face sank, his left hand was raised, and the cavalry from the Dangxiang tribe behind him all bent their bows and arrows, pointing directly at the Han army, while the rear team drew their blades and shouted loudly to suppress the angry scolding of the Han army. The Huanzhou army came to escort grain and grass and camped among friendly troops, so they did not build a wall, and even antlers were not erected. Yao Liangbi was pointed at by the iron harrier behind Cai Jiqian, and his face suddenly sank: "Cai Jiqian, you threaten the official army, but do you want to rebel?" Although his words were tough, but the inside was false, the border department killed people at every turn, and the imperial court was trying to calm the people, if they were unable to suppress it, they would appease the matter, and the killed border soldiers and Han people would become unjust ghosts. Now that Cai Jiqian and the party members behind him have revealed their murderous intentions, the only thing to worry about is that there are more than 20,000 soldiers and civilians here, and they really dare? But after a while, Yao Liangbi never had a chance to regret it.