Soon after the Western Xia army crossed the river north, a fleet appeared at the place where the Western Xia army crossed the river and blocked the river.

The Western Xia army marched quickly, and a day later, the army arrived at the foot of Wuyuan City.

A huge city suddenly appeared on the vast plain, which really frightened Cui Shancheng, and it could be seen that this city was newly built, and the city walls were as high as three feet high, all of which were made of big bluestone, and they were extremely strong.

But soon, Cui Shancheng found some clues, there were not many soldiers in the city, sparse, the city was too big, and the defenders were scattered, and that's it, the key is that there were many soldiers who didn't even have armor, wearing cloth clothes, and holding rough spears, Cui Shancheng quickly guessed that this was a craftsman who repaired the city, and was temporarily pulled by the Song army to participate in the defense of the city.

He boldly judged that there would be no more than 3,000 soldiers of the Song army in the city, and he believed that as long as he pressed the city with a large army and attacked the city with absolute superiority, he could capture this newly built city in one morning.

This is actually Cui Shancheng's helpless move, he received the order to go north lightly and quickly expel the Song army and herdsmen, so he didn't even bring a heavy account, and led the army all the way north.

But he never thought that the Song army had already built the city, which was completely different from the grassland battle he expected.

The Western Xia army did not bring much dry food, and at most he could only stay in the Hetao area for five days, and then he had to return to Xingqing Mansion, and Cui Shancheng was not mentally prepared for a long-term war at all.

He then ordered his soldiers to go to the nearby woods to cut down trees, and made hundreds of rudimentary siege weapons overnight.

Early the next morning, the rumbling war drums resounded through the grassland, 15,000 Western Xia troops attacked Wuyuan City from four directions at the same time, Cui Shancheng seized the weakness of the Song army's weak strength in defending the city, leaving only 1,000 soldiers to guard the horses, and the remaining 14,000 troops pressed on the whole line, and he asked to take the city within a morning.

Black-pressed soldiers rushed to the city from all directions, shouting as they ran, carrying improvised siege ladders and rafts.

But Cui Shancheng never dreamed that there would be 30,000 soldiers waiting for them in the city, and another 7,000 cavalry hiding in the woods miles away, waiting for the order to attack.

The ten-zhang wide moat could not stop the Tangut soldiers, they quickly reached the pontoon bridge with rafts and planks, and rushed through the moat, only sparse arrows were shot down on the city, and there was no threat to the overwhelming Tangut soldiers.

A siege ladder was set up at the head of the city, and the Western Xia soldiers frantically killed the city, and the Song soldiers on the city resisted desperately, and they held on for less than a quarter of an hour, and the Western Xia soldiers continued to rush to the city.

'When! While! While! The bell of the withdrawal rang from the inner city, and three thousand soldiers quickly retreated to the inner city.

14,000 Western Xia troops poured into the outer city, extracted siege ladders, and began to continue attacking the inner city.

Cui Shancheng also climbed to the head of the southern city, and he saw the original appearance of this big city clearly, there was an inner city and an outer city, the inner city was the former Tiande City, and the outer city was all open land, and there were patches of vegetables planted.

Cui Shancheng frowned slightly, he always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it.

The 14,000 Western Xia troops all entered the outer city, the siege ladder was set up on the city wall, and the attack on the inner city continued to be carried on a large scale.

Arrows rained down on the city, and the arrows were much more dense than before.

"That's not right! How did the defenders of the Song army suddenly become more numerous. ”

He found that there were at least 10,000 Song troops at the head of the inner city, far more than the thousands just now, with 10,000 defenders, they could completely defend the outer city, why did they give up the outer city?

'Lure the enemy deeper!' ’

Cui Shancheng suddenly jumped out of his mind with this word, he suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly ordered: "Collect the troops!" ”

As soon as the words fell, the sound of war drums suddenly sounded in the inner city, 'Knock-knock-knock!' The voice was low, like a signal for action.

Immediately afterwards, the overwhelming rockets in the inner city took off and shot out of the city, and a fire was accidentally ignited outside the city, and the fire was ignited in the fire buried in the earth, and the fire spread rapidly in the outer city, the smoke was billowing and the flames were flying, and the soldiers defending the city kept pouring fire oil, and the siege ladders were ignited.

The Western Xia soldiers were suddenly in chaos, turned around and ran to the outer city wall, the fire was too big, many soldiers ran, one fell into the flames, was burned and screamed, the Western Xia soldiers desperately pushed, trampled on each other, 30,000 defenders shot arrows together, the arrows shot out like raindrops, and the Western Xia soldiers fell down with arrows, and the casualties were extremely heavy.

At this time, Cui Shancheng turned his head suddenly, and he heard the sound of a horn outside the city, and the sound of the horn was low.

I saw two cavalry teams with thousands of people each, one left and one right, killing the soldiers left outside the city, and the thousand soldiers left behind outside the city could not resist, and were killed by the Song army and scattered and fled, and the war horses and dry food were also snatched away by the Song army.

Cui Shancheng realized that he had been fooled, and he had paid a heavy price for underestimating the enemy, and he was full of remorse, kneeling on the head of the city, and beating the ground.

Some soldiers advised him, "General, withdraw quickly!" As much as you can remove! ”

Cui Shancheng also knew that it would be too late if he didn't leave, so he nodded and ordered: "Order the whole army to retreat!" ”

Thousands of people have fled back to the outer walls, but they are faced with a more grim reality: how can they get out of the city?

The siege ladders were burned down by the inner city wall, and they could only go down the city again, rushing out from the city gate, and many soldiers were so anxious that they jumped directly into the moat outside the city, jumping a little farther, and could barely fall into the water, if the leg strength was not enough, they could only fall to death on the spot if they jumped down.

However, the fire burned the most violently, that is, near the outer city gate, the fire oil jar thrown by the Song army fell to the ground and shattered, and a large amount of black fire oil flowed along the ditch to the outer city gate, and the fire could not be extinguished in half an hour.

Cui Shan Cheng saw that the soldiers outside the city were killed in scattered pieces and were about to be wiped out, he was also anxious, and ordered: "Take off your armor and jump into the river!" ”

This is a good way, anyway, you have to take off your armor when you go out from the city gate and swim across the moat, so it's better to take it off now and jump straight into the river.

Thousands of soldiers took off their armor and jumped into the moat, the soldiers who knew the water swam directly to the opposite bank, while the soldiers who did not know the water struggled to grab the rafts, climbed onto the pontoon bridge, and stumbled to the opposite bank.

But when they rushed ashore, it was the beginning of another hell, and the 7,000 Song cavalry had already routed the 1,000 Western Xia soldiers who were left behind, and they all rode up to kill the Western Xia soldiers who rushed across the moat.

It was almost a one-sided massacre, and Cui Shancheng finally escaped from the city gate, and had just rushed across the pontoon bridge with a dozen of his own soldiers, but died under the random arrows of the Song cavalry.

In this battle, the Song army took advantage of the misjudgment of the Western Xia army and Cui Shancheng's heart to underestimate the enemy, and annihilated the 15,000 Western Xia army under the Wuyuan City, and the back road of more than 200 cavalry who fled was cut off, and finally only a dozen people swam across the Yellow River and fled to the Hue military city a hundred miles away.

The news first spread to Bianliang, Tokyo, and the city immediately celebrated, and the major newspapers published headlines on the front page, 'Xiao Fan Xianggong swept the Hetao, bravely annihilated tens of thousands of enemies in the Western Xia, and returned to the Great Song Dynasty in the hometown of the Han and Tang Dynasties. ’

The court was very encouraged, and the Empress Dowager Cao issued an order to canonize Fan Ning as the king of Wu Jun and crown him as the prince.

Historically, although there were many kings with different surnames in the Great Song Dynasty, almost all of them were posthumously gifted, and there were very few people with different surnames during their lifetimes, and they were mainly concentrated in the Southern Song Dynasty.

This is not only the reward of the victory of the Hetao, but also the victory of Hebei, the two major merits are superimposed, and the non-feudal king cannot be commended for his merits, the Empress Dowager Cao conformed to the situation and finally gave the prince to Fan Ning, this year, Fan Ning was thirty-one years old.

The Son of Heaven Zhao Ji firmly believed in the feasibility of attacking Western Xia from the north, and ordered to send 200,000 troops and 80,000 war horses, led by Di Qing, the privy deputy envoy, to kill the Hetao, and transfer millions of stone of military grain from Liyangcang and Taicang, and transport them to Yulin by water.

The news also reached Xingqing Mansion, but it shocked the whole country of Western Xia, and the Empress Dowager Liang finally realized that the problem was serious, and the Song army seized the Hetao, not only to get a place to raise horses, but also to attack Western Xia from the north.

And there is no defensive city in the north of Xingqing Mansion, a horse Pingchuan, once the Song army goes south, it will directly attack the city of Xingqing Mansion.

Empress Dowager Liang was frightened, and immediately ordered to cancel the plan to attack Qingzhou in the Song Dynasty, and the 300,000 army was transferred back to Xingqingfu, and then ordered the general to be the main general, and led the 100,000 army to the north to attack the Hetao, including 3,000 iron harrier heavy armored cavalry.

At the same time, Empress Dowager Liang sent people to Shangjing to persuade Liao to attack Yulin from the east and cut off the supply of the Song army in Hetao.