Huaizhou is located in the southeast of Xingqing Mansion about 20 miles, surrounded by endless wheat fields, the east is also close to the Yellow River, Huaizhou city is not high, even slightly low, it was not designed for defense, just an agricultural center, need such a city.

Huaizhou is located in the center of grain production, the grain depot in the city is huge, it is the second largest grain depot in Western Xia after the Xingqing Fu Wharf Grain Depot, with 400,000 stones of grain, 200,000 quintals of forage, which is twice as large as the royal grain depot in the city of Xingqing Fu.

Huaizhou was originally garrisoned by 20,000 troops, and after King Qin rushed to Xingqing Mansion, Huaizhou fell into the hands of the Song army, and the grain depot naturally became the bag of the Song army.

Zhang Fu was right, Xingqing Mansion had too many people, and there was a serious shortage of food, and after driving out the Han people, they still couldn't solve the problem of serious food shortage, so they turned their eyes to the outside world, first of all, they stared at Huaizhou, Xiping Mansion had food, but it was too far away, and on the east bank of the Yellow River, Dingzhou, Jingzhou, and Shunzhou did not have much grain, and only Huaizhou's 400,000 stone grain was enough to solve their immediate crisis.

Du Romewei immediately sent spies to investigate the surrounding and Huaizhou situation, except for the Yellow River and beyond, within a radius of ten miles, it was not found that the Song army Huaizhou had about two or three thousand garrisons, and Jingzhou and Shunzhou also had thousands of garrisons.

Although there were not many garrisons in several cities, Du Luowei did not intend to take back all the surrounding cities, and he knew very well that the Song army wanted him to divide his troops, so that they could easily break through each of them, and it was their top priority to seize food.

After observing for several days, there was no sign of the grain being transferred, and the spies found that at night, the garrison of the Song army was extremely lax, and there were few defenders at the head of the city. After all, several other cities are the same, and Huaizhou is not special.

After two days of hesitation, Du Luowei, who was tormented by the lack of food, finally made up his mind.

At the time of the two watches, a 30,000-strong army of 30,000 people arrived in Huaizhou, they drove thousands of carts to wait outside the city a mile away, at this time the city suddenly broke out of the shouting and killing, the general Li Qing was shocked into a cold sweat, at this time, a soldier rushed to report: "The defenders in the city have been alarmed, but the city gate has been taken by us, please enter the city immediately." ”

Li Qing was overjoyed and shouted: "Kill into the city!" ”

20,000 soldiers roared, rushed towards the city, and entered the city in a moment, and the 3,000 Song troops in the city saw that the enemy army was attacking in an all-round way, and they withdrew from the east gate.

The Western Xia army reoccupied Huaizhou, and the 10,000 Western Xia who drove the cart outside the city rushed to the city gate, and the grain depot had been opened, and there were mountains piled up inside, about 200,000 stones, and half of them were still transported away by the Song army, but Li Qing was already very satisfied, and he immediately ordered all the soldiers to move the grain together.

At this moment, the black Song army outside the city had surrounded Huaizhou City, tens of thousands of bows and crossbows were aimed at the west gate of Huaizhou, and 30,000 cavalry were ambushed on the road to Huaizhou from Xingqing Mansion.

At this time, there was an abnormality in the grain depot, after the Xixia soldiers moved the two thousand stone grain on the surface of the first layer, they suddenly found that the grain below had become heavier, and some soldiers used daggers to cut open the grain bag, and suddenly exclaimed, it was not grain, but sand.

Li Qing was also stunned, and strictly ordered to check again, and soon a soldier reported that except for the first batch of 2,000 bags of grain, there were all sandbags underneath, and then there were not even sandbags underneath, but mud piled up directly.

"Fooled!"

Li Qing turned around and shouted sharply: "This is a trap, the whole army retreats immediately!" ”

But it was too late, and suddenly a fire broke out in all parts of the city, and the houses in the city were full of brimstone, dry wood, wheat straw, and other things that started fires, and the fire quickly spread throughout the city.

The 30,000 Western Xia soldiers were terrified, scrambling to flee outside the city, the Western Xia soldiers rushed out of the city, but they were greeted by the Song army's merciless rain of arrows, countless soldiers screamed and fell, and then rushed out and were shot down, only a moment, the corpses outside the city have been quickly piled up.

Outside the eastern city, the Western Xia soldiers who tried to escape from the eastern city were also attacked by the Song army's brutal rain of arrows, and 20,000 Song army crossbowmen blocked the east and west city gates, and the fire in the city became bigger and bigger, and countless soldiers were engulfed in merciless fire before they could run away from the city gate.

Many soldiers ran towards the city, but there was no fire on it. can escape for the time being, even so, they can't escape the Song army's clean-up after dawn.

The whole Huaizhou City is full of flames, dozens of miles away can be clearly seen, Du Rome Wei stood at the head of the city, looking at the raging fire and billowing smoke in the distance, what he was most worried about still happened, 30,000 troops were in the middle of the plan, at this moment his heart seemed to fall into the abyss, which made him anxious, and immediately ordered the general Cui Yinliu to lead 20,000 troops to rush to respond, and save as much as he wanted.

The city gate opened, 20,000 infantry rushed out of the city, rushing to the southeast, in the night, nothing could be seen clearly, surrounded by woods, many generals wanted to remind Du Rome, beware of the Song army set up an ambush halfway, but in the end no one said.

Du Luo Wei is the backbone of the mother party of the Empress Dowager Liang, Liang Yi buried the henchmen who were promoted, and he has deep seniority in the army, but this person has no real ability, but he boasts of being first-class, in order to please the Empress Dowager Liang, and even publicly expresses his loyalty to the Liang family, flattering the superiors, being harsh to the subordinates, and scolding and scolding subordinates is commonplace.

And all Roman tail is ruthless, greedy and abnormal, this time he took away all the property of thirty Han rich families, it is said that the gold alone amounted to 100,000 taels, but he did not even give a penny to his subordinates, all of them were greedy, and the property of other ordinary Han people was said to be distributed to the soldiers, but five or six days have passed, there has been no movement at all, many people speculate that this wealth is probably greedy by his family.

It is precisely because of Du Luowei's flattery and arrogance, cruelty and greed that he was hated by the majority of generals of the Western Xia Army, making him a lonely man, and no one reminded him to pay attention to the risk of ambushes, and even many generals secretly hoped that he would plant a big fight in Huaizhou tonight.

There is about 20 miles from Xingqing Mansion to Huaizhou, all around are vast plains, the canals are dense, the largest of them is called Haowang Canal, it is located in the east of Xingqing Mansion eight miles, it is dredged and built when Li Yuanhao reigned, the canal is 24 zhang wide, 300 miles long, and three wooden bridges are built on the canal.

20,000 troops ran across the wooden bridge and continued to run in the direction of Huaizhou, but just ran out of less than three miles, there was a continuous earth-shattering explosion behind them, the soldiers stopped and looked back in shock, only to see not far behind them, three puffs of smoke rose into the air, from the distance of the smoke, many people guessed that it was the explosion of the three wooden bridges on the Haowang Canal.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of bangs in the north of the official road, and then ten thousand arrows were fired together, and the dense arrows hit the soldiers of the Western Xia Army on the official road like a storm, and the soldiers were caught off guard, and suddenly a large area was shot down, and the soldiers were terrified, turned around and ran southward.

'Woo-' a low horn sounded.

The overwhelming cavalry of the Song army killed, and 30,000 cavalry rushed directly into the group of Western Xia soldiers, dividing and crushing their ranks, and the impact was scattered, and the Western Xia soldiers could not resist, and the whole line was defeated, throwing away their armor and running wildly in the boundless wheat fields, followed by the cavalry who pursued them, cutting off their necks without mercy and piercing their hearts.

It was a night that made the Tangut people feel painful, and a full 30,000 troops who were robbing food and 20,000 soldiers who responded died in the flames, under the hooves of horses.

The day gradually brightened, the wheat fields that were nearly twenty miles long were trampled to pieces, the corpses of the killed Western Xia soldiers could be seen everywhere, a group of Song soldiers cleaned up the corpses in the wilderness, more than 17,000 people were killed by the Song cavalry, but there were still more than 2,000 people who swam across the Haowang Canal and fled back to Xingqing Mansion.

In this cruel war of annihilation, the Song army did not accept prisoners of war, and all the Western Xia soldiers were physically eliminated, including the 30,000 Western Xia soldiers who stole food and fell into the trap last night, the fire in the city has gradually been extinguished, the corpses of the two city gates are piled up, and the thousands of Western Xia soldiers who escaped the fire on the city finally failed to escape the Song army's purge, and all died under the arrows and swords of the Song army at dawn.

War has always been cruel, the strong are swords, the weak are fish and meat, in the previous twenty or thirty years, the Song soldiers were brutally slaughtered by the Western Xia army will not be less than hundreds of thousands, but today it is the turn of the Western Xia soldiers.

Du Rome listened to the report in a daze, and the 50,000 troops he sent were slaughtered overnight, and only more than 2,300 people fled back, which made his heart and gall crack, and he suddenly spurted out a mouthful of blood, and fell to the ground on his back.