Shaoxi eight years, autumn.

Temujin sent his troops south.

In just two months, the Mongol army captured all parts of the Western Regions, broke the Tantric Sect, destroyed the Baituo Villa, and wiped out the Tibetan tribes.

Immediately, Temujin marched eastward, and lightning surrounded Lingzhou City, an important town in Western Xia, cutting off the connection between the east and west of Western Xia, and at the same time, it also choked the retreat channel of Xingqing Prefecture, the capital of Western Xia, to the south, so that Western Xia had no way to retreat.

The Western Xia was shaken, and the lord of the country listened to the advice of the ministers, concentrated all the elites of the country in the capital Xingqing Mansion and Lingzhou, and relied on the Yellow River and Helan Mountain to fight with the Mongols.

And so—

Temujin had 100,000 troops, and soon after his expedition to the west, he destroyed Western Liao, and his morale was inevitably exhausted.

The Western Xia had an army of 300,000 people, living in the danger of mountains and rivers, united as one, and the morale was extremely high.

The two sides contrasted and started a big battle in Lingzhou City.

By the way, a hundred years ago, the Northern Song Dynasty sent an army of 300,000 troops, and it was also in Lingzhou City to fight fiercely against Western Xia.

In that battle, the Western Xia was fortified and cleared, luring the enemy to go deeper, first tired and then attacking, but it was a few victories, almost annihilating the main force of the Song Dynasty.

Therefore, this time, the lord of the Western Xia Kingdom is full of confidence and wants to reproduce the glory of the year.

However, no one expected that Temujin would use only one move to encircle the point and send reinforcements, and he would play with Western Xia in applause.

Outside the city of Lingzhou is the Yellow River, which is already in winter, when the Yellow River is frozen, and it can walk, but it cannot bear the weight of the cavalry, and the speed is extremely slow.

Therefore, the side that took the initiative to launch an attack was bound to be unfavorable, and Mongolia and Western Xia confronted each other across the Yellow River, and no one was willing to move.

If this stalemate continues, it will undoubtedly suffer a loss for the Mongol army, which has penetrated deep into the enemy's belly.

Unexpectedly, instead of dealing with the army outside the city first, Temujin turned around and went to deal with Lingzhou in the high city and deep pool, ordering the soldiers to surround it, pile up firewood and grass, and pretend to set fire to the city.

The black smoke rose straight up, and the Western Xia generals in the distance were shocked when they saw it, and immediately waved their troops to help.

Temujin deployed a large number of archers to shoot the infantry slowly advancing on the ice, and at the same time deliberately allowed some of the remnants to enter the city.

The defenders of Lingzhou City sent scouts to signal no reinforcements, but they were all shot by the Mongolian army, and the generals on the other side also found out about the plan and ignored it, wanting to consume the Mongolian grain and grass.

However, Temujin sent people into Xingqing Mansion to spread rumors, saying that there were already Mongol laborers in Lingzhou City, and they wanted to cooperate with the outside, but the reinforcements outside the city had bad intentions and would not save them when they saw death.

The lord of Western Xia ordered that the city should be kept safe no matter what, but the general refused to obey and actually changed the general temporarily.

As a result, the defenders in the city did not dare to rush out of the city, and their reinforcements were also divided and consumed.

What's even more vicious is that the soldiers who were deliberately put into the city are basically in a state of rout, not only have no heavy weapons, but also have no supplies and medicine, and the pressure in the city is getting bigger and bigger.

When more than 100,000 troops were gathered in Lingzhou City, they could not afford to consume grain and grass at all, so Temujin besieged but did not attack, waiting for the other party to eat up the food and bring about his own destruction.

The defenders were helpless, Kaicheng broke through the siege, and fought to the death, but unfortunately Temujin had already bent his bow and arrows outside the city, waiting for those exhausted Western Xia troops to throw themselves into the net.

In just half a month, the Mongols captured the city of Lingzhou and turned Xingqingfu, the capital of the Western Xia Kingdom, into an isolated city.

In this battle, nearly half of the 300,000 main forces of the Western Xia were killed, and the Mongols suffered less than 5,000 casualties.

This brilliant victory shocked the world, but Temujin also experienced a test of life and death-

Void Bamboo Assassination!

The battle was extremely tragic, and thousands of Mongol warriors followed one after another to repel the heavy blow to Xuzhu.

Temujin disappeared for three days before returning.

At this time, the lord of the Western Xia had asked the Song for help, groveling, willing to be a subordinate, just to repel the Mongols.

Shaoxi nine years, spring.

The Great Song Dynasty sent troops.

Gu Cheng drove his own expedition, raised an army of 100,000, marched quickly within eight days, entered the territory of Western Xia, and stationed in Helan Mountain.

"Immortal Heaven is above, may you bless my Mongolian warriors, the men of the steppe, continue to be invincible and invincible!"

In the city of Lingzhou, Temujin offered cattle and sheep and sacrificed to Shangcang with the etiquette of the grassland.

His face was as white as jade, but he did not hide his rugged and heroic, domineering momentum, but his tone was extremely humble, attributing his achievements to the sky.

Temujin knew he would face the greatest challenge.

The resilience of Western Xia was unexpectedly strong, and the fall of Lingzhou City and the rout of the 300,000-strong army did not mean destruction.

When the Mongol soldiers besieged the capital Xingqing Mansion, they were greeted by the last roar of the party members.

Rather die than submit!

In fact, this is also self-inflicted, why did Mongolia destroy Western Liao so quickly?

Two words - slaughter the city!

As long as they do not surrender, they will slaughter the city, and the corpses will be like mountains of bones wherever they pass.

Therefore, with the experience of the past, facing the danger of extinction of the country and the extinction of the species, the Western Xia still did not fight for his life?

Temujin swept the Western Regions, laid down half of the Western Xia Dynasty, and besieged the capital, which took only a few months, which was as fast as lightning, but in the next few months, it was spent on the siege of the city, hard bridges and hard horses, without any fancy.

Just like facing Xiangyang in the future, the Mongolian cavalry, who were good at fighting on the plains, suffered heavy casualties, and failed to capture Xingqing Mansion, so they could only surround it, hoping that the city would run out of ammunition and food, and defeat itself without a fight.

At this critical moment, Gu Cheng set off with the whole army.

As soon as the reinforcements of the Great Song Dynasty arrived, not to mention that it became difficult to intercept the enemy's grain routes and reinforcements, and even the Liupan Mountain area that the Mongols had occupied became precarious.

Therefore, Temujin had to defeat the Song army and destroy the last hope of Western Xia.

Otherwise, he will give up all his previous achievements, and can only roll back to the grassland in ashes, and Western Xia was conquered by the Great Song Dynasty without much effort, which is simply a wedding dress for the enemy.

A few days later, the Mongols poured out of the city of Lingzhou, and the soldiers pointed to Helan Mountain, where the Song army was located!

Among the great mountains of China, there is no one like Helan Mountain, which has been in the midst of various wars almost all kinds in all dynasties.

The war between the Qin people and the Xiongnu lasted for hundreds of years, and the first emperor who unified the six countries finally failed to wait for the day when he captured Helan Mountain.

In the Han Dynasty, the famous general Wei Qing led his army north to fight against the Xiongnu, and for the first time, the military power of the Central Plains regime was extended to the Helan Mountain area.

However, the war did not stop, and the robbery clashes, small-scale ambushes, and mountain encounters between the nomads and the Central Plains regime were fought for another 700 years.

Needless to say, in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the ethnic minorities who ruled the Helan Mountains were the Turks, the Tibetans and the Hui, and the most courageous of them were the Turks.

In the first year of Zhenguan, Jieli Khan led 100,000 Turkic cavalry to attack Weishui, and their army of Jingyang was only 70 miles away from Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty.

After another dynasty, it was finally born by the Dragon, an empire relying on the mountains.

One hundred and fifty years ago, Li Yuanhao was proclaimed emperor, and the Khitan cavalry came on an expedition, and suffered a crushing defeat in Helan Mountain, and the Western Xia officially rose, forming the Northern Song Dynasty, the Liao State, and the Western Xia Three-legged Trend.

Now, the Great Song Dynasty and Mongolia have finally fatally launched the final showdown here to complete their unfinished business!

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(Thanks to the book friends "Tianjing Hun Tian Baojian" and "Feng Yu Wufei" for their tips.) ）