Jiancheng, also known as Jincheng, (now the open-pit mine site of Baiyin City), was originally the capital of Xitai when begging to return to Qian, in 400 A.D. due to the collapse of Jincheng Nanjingmen, the king of Xitai begged to return to the warrior city (Yuzhong) of the capital Yuanchuan, this Jiancheng is full of gold, but no one knows at this time, to the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, mining silver, the official set up a mining and refining agency "silver factory" here, there is "sunrise gold" and "accumulation of gold city" said, silver is named because of this. In 1956, the world-shattering mine blasted and created a modern mining city.

The Fourth Army of the Wolf Tooth Army, the Yuan Shan Gang Army led by Guo Tong, was stationed here. After Guo Yong received the military order, he returned to Jiancheng with Gao Bao, a highly favored reconnaissance staff officer.

Gao Zhong is very optimistic about this mountain army, which is like a modern mountain combat unit. They walk in the mountains and forests, like walking on the ground, walking like flying, good physical fitness, excellent archery, and have a fight with the high-quality Flying Tiger Army. Only then did the four armies form a separate army and attack from the west of Lanzhou. In order to better execute the tactics and understand Gao Bao's tactical thinking, Gao Bao, a reconnaissance staff officer among the four staff officers, was sent to help complete the task. This is also related to the difficulty of the roads and the complex terrain of the Western Front.

In order to ensure the completion of the task, Gao Zhong sent 500 heavy troops, brought the skins prepared in Xingcheng, and prepared them to cross the river.

After the Fourth Army swore its divisions to go on the expedition, Jiancheng was left to a company of Flying Tiger Army to supplement the squadron.

It took them half a day to arrive at Gaolan. At this time, Gaolan was not assigned to the princess territory, and she had to pass the relevant anti-seal letter. According to Li Qianshun's imperial decree, without permission, the princess's prison army could not leave the princess's territory. In order to fight this battle well, in order to prevent accidents a few years ago, Gao Zhong was prepared, and with the approval of Li Qianshun, in the Privy Council, he had already done a good job of customs defense.

It took nearly an hour for the confirmation of the customs defense to be released.

Gaolan's guard Bu Qi was confused in his heart, what is this prison army doing, I haven't heard of anything big happening here, and everyone has been at peace with the Jin State for two years, the Jin army has never crossed the boundary between the original Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty that now belongs to the territory of the Great Jin, of course, they will not run to the territory of the Jin State without incident, and only two years ago when the Jin army did not arrive to Lanzhou to rob once, but did not occupy it, at that time the Song Dynasty almost did not have an army to defend the city. The troops all went to the front to fight the Jin army.

Big Brother Bu was curious, and asked a few times where the prison army was going, what was he doing, but he only said:

"It's a military secret, no comment."

When did I speak like this in the Great Xia Dynasty. People usually say this kind of thing. Since other people's troops are moving, there is always a possibility that something will happen, and the people below must wake up, and the armaments must also be checked. Say to the soldiers:

"Let the county commander, the county commander, the chief and deputy commanders of the Xiang army, and the captains and above of the regular army go to the middle tent to discuss matters."

Guo Tong took the brigade and Gao Bao out of Gaolan City, to the southwest of the ancient official road leading to Lanzhou, although the road was blocked, but with Gaolan's seal, the road was also smooth. After crossing the Wild Horse Ditch, they arrived in front of Zhonghe Fort, and the brigade stopped.

Zhonghe Fort, which is the most cutting-edge castle at the junction of Western Xia and Dajin, although it is only fifty miles away from Gaolan County, but it is guarded by five hundred Western Xia troops. After this Zhonghe Fort is the land of the Jin Army, and there is a forward defensive stronghold of the Jin Army Fujiabao five miles away from Zhonghe Fort. With more than 300 people guarded, it was still a fortified castle.

From here, the Fourth Army will divide into two roads, one to the northwest to Sandaowan, to the west, to Yinjiaqi, to the south, to Shajingyi to cross the river, to attack Xiguqi, and the other road is due south, all the way to Shimenqi, opposite Lanzhou.

"General Guo, I think it is to pull out the Jin army's Huijiabao first and then divide the troops. After dividing the troops, I will follow your adjutant general, General Li Mo, with 500 troops out of the Shajing Post to cross the river and pull out Xigu Fort. Then go to the west of the Leitan River to ambush, and you pull out the Jin army stronghold due south all the way, ambush on the north bank of the Yellow River, guard the ferry, and do not let anyone cross the river, waiting for orders. Isn't that good? ”

"Staff Officer Gao, I am the main general, it is my task to pull out Xigu Fort and ambush on the west bank of the Leitan River, how can I let you go?"

"That's fine, but I have already taught General Li Mo how to cross the river, and it is enough for me to lead three hundred people here, and you can take seven hundred."

"You go and bring five hundred, I'll bring seven hundred, do you underestimate me Guo Yong? I also bring five hundred, don't fight, I am the main general. ”

"As soon as it gets dark, we will launch an attack and sweep away this Fujia Fort first."

"Yes!" Staff Officer Gao followed Li Mo to organize and prepare for the attack.

On the way, Gao Bao asked Li Mo:

"General Li, how many crossbows do our troops have?"

"There are more than thirty crossbows." Adjutant General Li Mo replied.

"Concentrate the strong crossbows, and deal with the defenders on the city wall at that time, everyone's task is clearly assigned, shoot at close range, so that one hit must be hit, reduce the time for the enemy to react and find out, and each crossbowman will send two archers with good archery skills to assist."

"Okay"

"Choose another team, the noose master, as a commando, once the enemy guards are cleared, immediately launch a surprise attack. After going up to the city, the people on both sides approached the city gate, opened the city gate, and enlarged the team to enter. ”

"Okay, I'll arrange it."

"Surrounded on all sides day and night, launch an attack."

Fujiabao has 300 gold troops living in it, and there are more than 400 people with some subordinate soldiers. The castle is very large, with two gates in front and back, and a wall nearly two feet high on the north side is built to the hills on both sides, and there is an arrow tower at the corner of the mountain on both sides. The entire passage was separated by a city wall, which was built by the Song Dynasty to prevent the invasion of Western Xia. There was a ditch in front of the northern wall, but due to the lack of water, there were only two or three feet of sewage in the ditch. The southern wall is only one zhang high.

Guo Yong did not choose to attack head-on, but let the Shanyan army bypass the mountains on both sides and attack both sides, first, there were no trenches on this mountain, and second, the defense on this side was relatively weak.

Two hundred men passed on each side of the wall, and six hundred men and their subordinates hid themselves at the foot of the hill on both sides, waiting for the signal that the two sides were successful.

Half an hour later, a signal came from the west, and shouts of killing were heard from the east, and the sneak attack turned into a strong attack.

Guo Yong knew that the situation had changed, and the sneak attack had been discovered, so he immediately made a decision and commanded the troops to launch an attack, and the soldiers rushed towards the enemy wall in front.

This Li Mo led people to the mountain on the east side of the city wall, everything went well, but during the attack, a few soldiers did not shoot the enemy with an arrow, so that the enemy sent a signal, Li Mo hurriedly ordered an assault, and when the wall was reached, a team of Jin troops rushed over, and it was killed.

There is a rule in this Jin army, and those on duty generally wear a good armor, or wear leather armor and an iron armor inside, in case the enemy sneaks up on the attack. The main reason for the success of the Flying Tiger Army is that the high-favored arrows are slender steel-core armor-piercing arrows, while the arrows of the Western Xia Army are just ordinary iron arrowheads.

The steel-core armor-piercing arrow is manufactured by two methods, one is casting, but it is required to cast white iron, and the other is forged with high-carbon steel, plus a slender arrow, which has a very strong armor-piercing ability.

The reason why the attack on Gao Bao's army on the west side was successful was that Gao Bao eliminated the enemy troops on the enemy arrow tower, and with a little luck, the enemy rushed forward before he could give a warning.

Seeing the failure of the sneak attack from the east, Gao Bao immediately organized people to rush to the middle gate, and at this time many golden soldiers had rushed under the middle gate, and they were climbing up the city wall along the steps on both sides, and he took out a grenade from his waist and threw it at the dense enemy group.

"Boom"

There was a loud bang, and the enemies within a radius of ten paces were either killed or wounded. While the personnel on both sides were stunned by this loud noise, Gao Bao still had a second one.

"Boom"

Another loud bang.

Just listen to the Jin Jun below shouting:

"The general is dead, the general is dead"

"Surrender or kill, rush quickly."

Gao Bao himself threw a machete and rushed towards the enemy. Guo Yong's Shanyu Army couldn't imagine that a civilian officer of the Flying Tiger Army was so brave, and shouted:

"Surrender or kill! Surrender or kill! "Fight your way to the enemy.

The enemy's general died, and the Western Xia army rushed so bravely, and more than a dozen people died on the opponent's side with a thunderbolt. In a hurry, knives and guns were thrown on the ground, and they surrendered.

And Gao Bao saw that the east was still fighting, and shouted:

"The first team will go down and open the city gates, and the second team will follow me to support General Li."

When they rushed to the East Arrow Tower, the battle in the east was over. It turned out that someone in the Jin army saw that the middle gate had surrendered, and shouted, 'The north gate is broken!' Everyone was stunned, and when they saw Gao Bao and them rushing over, they surrendered.

Li Mo came over, took Gao Bao's hand, and said:

"Thank you, Brother Gao, otherwise the mission will fail, and I will kill and wound more than thirty brothers."

In less than half an hour, so many people died, how cruel the white-knuckle battle was in the era of cold weapons.

"Hurry up and treat the wounded and stop the bleeding first."

But this mountain army doesn't know much about stopping the bleeding. Gao Bao went past a seriously wounded soldier and saw a knife in the chest that was deep to the bone, so he took a first-aid kit to stop the bleeding. Let people bandage up, and then go to see the next wounded person. But Gao Bao didn't have much on him, because the northward detachment each brought two more first-aid kits, a total of four first-aid kits, and the rest could only be dealt with by the soil method.

When Gao Bao dealt with the wounded and arrived at the south gate, Guo Yong was turning back to the castle. It turned out that after Guo Yong came in, he saw that someone opened the city gate and ran south, and chased down.

"Fortunately, I didn't let the enemy chief run away, otherwise this road would have been in trouble."

"It's still the general who thinks it through."

"Staff Officer Gao, you are here to deal with the follow-up matters, and I will take people to the west, which is far away. There are also some enemy villages, and it is more convenient to solve them at night. You are here to be safe. ”

"Yes, by the general's orders!"

"Li Mo, I'll go first, you have to listen to the opinions of the senior staff officer more!"

"Yes!" Li Mo saluted General Guo's chest.

Wait for Guo Yong to take people away. Li Mo asked Gao Bao:

"Senior Staff Officer, what should I do next?"

"General Li, I think this Fujia village is used as a baggage camp, it is relatively safe to be close to Zhonghe Fort, leaving 50 regular troops and 100 subordinate troops and baggage teams to guard this fort. Keeping the prisoners in check, we continued to carry out the scheduled execution in the evening. The north gate was closed, and there was no military order for the people below not to come into contact with the people of Hezhong Fort. In order to prevent extraneous branches, the Jin army will know the intentions of our army. ”

Along the way, Li Mo led people to kill the past without any more accidents. Until the stone gate in the south of Xujia Mountain.

There are a lot of people living in this Shimen in the original Song Dynasty, this is because this is the ancient passage of Lanzhou into Xixia and Hexi, and there is salt brine flowing out of Xujiashan, many people boil salt here, and it is also the market of Xixia and Song Dynasty transactions, which is very lively. But now that the cash country has closed the city, the Song people are dead, and there are not many people left who have fled, and this place has suddenly become deserted.

There are not many Jin troops in Shimen here, and the difficult thing to deal with is to gather the people here, for fear that someone will run out and report to Lanzhou City.

Li Mo asked the soldiers to prepare for crossing the river, took out the rafts, and inflated them with a pump, mainly to check whether there was any air leakage.

The troops managed the ferry, ambushed it, and only waited for the order of the high pet.