Chapter 70: The Four Sides Shake

The wounded more than 100 officers and soldiers of the left route, after being disinfected with disinfectant alcohol prepared by Wu Zhi, also greatly reduced the wound infection, except for a few cavalrymen who were injured to internal organs because their injuries were too serious and the treatment was ineffective, the rest were treated, greatly reducing the mortality rate due to injuries.

The miraculous effect of disinfectant alcohol made everyone impressed, and the medical officers in the army were even more amazed, like a treasure.

After cleaning the battlefield, Wu Zhi ordered the cavalry to put all the corpses up and burn them clean, in the autumn of October, the sun was still relatively blazing, and the corpses would rot if they were not disposed of, which would easily cause the plague, so Wu Zhi did not dare to be careless.

After dismantling all the available materials, Wu Zhi ordered a fire to burn the enemy camp, and with the captured horses, cattle and sheep, grain and grass, prisoners and soldiers, everyone happily returned to the camp at the southern foot of Tiandu Mountain, resting and rectifying.

Wu Zhi wrote the good news overnight and showed it to the generals of the Left Route Army, and after everyone said that they had no objections, they immediately handed it over to the scouts for 800 li and sent it to Wang En urgently. Then the cattle were slaughtered and the sheep were slaughtered, the three armies were rewarded, and the captured goods were distributed to the soldiers, who were smiling, and the whole camp was as joyful and lively as the New Year.

After rewarding the three armies, Wu Zhi ordered more than 3,000 cavalry to escort more than 4,000 prisoners to the territory of the Song Dynasty and handed them over to the Deshun army guarding the border; At the same time, he ordered more than 1,000 cavalry to send 100,000 cattle and sheep back to the territory of the Song Dynasty, or handed them over to the Deshun army to take over.

After resting for two days, after the 4,000 cavalry escorting the captives and cattle and sheep returned to the camp, Wu Zhili defied public opinion, took the Red Guard battalion and the cavalry, disguised themselves as party members, and quietly rushed to Wuyan Gorge.

When Wang En, who was sitting in Longgan, received the good news, he didn't care when he first saw the cover of the good news, and he was still a little disgusted that Wu Zhi made a fuss, and took a little effort as a success to show off, but when he opened the good news and saw it, he was instantly shocked and jumped up, and his hands trembled to read the good news, and his heart suddenly flooded with turmoil.

9,000 soldiers and horses against more than 70,000 people, less than three hours, killed more than 40,000 enemies, wounded the enemy, more than 4,000 prisoners and soldiers, captured more than 10,000 horses, more than 100,000 cattle and sheep, countless grain and grass, and our army only killed and wounded more than 200 people, and lost more than 100 horses! Isn't this a liar? Wang En was shocked when he saw it, and his face was full of disbelief.

"This Wu Zhi is too bold! Dare to tell this kind of big lie! Wang En was angry in his heart, gritted his teeth with hatred for Wu Zhi, and threw the good news aside, ignoring the scouts who sent the good news, he went wherever it was cool, he didn't believe the good news written by Wu Zhi at all.

But how do you know that half a day later, Liu Zhongwu, Chong Pu, Wang Sunchen's letters also arrived in his hands one after another, when he read them one by one, he was frightened, and immediately picked up Wu Zhi's good news and compared it again, Wang En's heart was completely not calm, and he hurriedly found a scout and inquired in detail about the war situation at that time. When the scout talked about the battle situation at that time, Wang En believed the fact that the good news was played, that is, the officers and soldiers of Wuzhi's Red Guard Battalion had a secret weapon in their hands, and they really stunned, defeated, and scattered the enemy at once, and the battle of Tiandu Mountain was won and achieved amazing results!

Happiness came too quickly, Wang En was instantly pleasantly surprised, especially Wu Zhi said a sentence in the good news that made him very happy, that is, "Under the correct leadership and command of the commander Zhang Qi and Wang En, the deputy head of Jingyuan, the Left Route Army has won a major victory in the siege and annihilation of Tiandu Mountain!" This sentence mentions Zhang Kai and his credit as the head and deputy coach.

"This Wu Zhi is terrifying in the future, and he is also very good at being a man!" Wang En muttered to himself, and suddenly had a good impression of Wu Zhi.

"Someone!" Wang En hurriedly summoned his entourage, rewarded the scout with some silver taels, and then handed over the good news and the letters from the generals to the scout one by one to continue to deliver them to Weizhou, asking him to send them to the hand of the coach Zhang Qi as soon as possible. At the same time, Wang En sent a cavalry of personal soldiers, and hurried to Tiandu Mountain, asking to return to Longgan to report to him after finding out the situation as soon as possible.

The same scene was also played out in Weizhou, when receiving the good news from Wang En, Zhang Qi and the generals who stayed behind also went from disbelief and indignation at the beginning to ecstasy in the end. This Wuzhi and Red Guard battalion was so amazing that they destroyed the enemy camp in an instant, and in less than three hours, the party army of more than 70,000 people was wiped out in this way! Myths and stories are not so supernatural.

When the good news arrived in the capital, the court was shaken inexplicably, and the city of Bianliang was full of lights and celebrations.

Zhao Xu and the ministers of civil and military affairs went from the initial disbelief, annoyance, and denunciation of the pen, to the surprise and surprise after comparing the letters from the generals and the secret performance of the military supervisors, and their mood was like a roller coaster. After confirming the news, Zhao Xu and all the officials were instantly stunned and dumbfounded.

"Tianyou, my Great Song!" Zhao Xu was inexplicably excited and ecstatic, this Wuzhi and the Red Guard Camp gave him too much face! Originally, the civil and military officials still had a slight complaint about his promotion and reuse of Wu Zhi, and the impeachment continued, which made him very annoyed these days and under a lot of pressure.

Speaking on both sides, after Zhang Kai received the victory of Tiandu Mountain, he also accelerated the pace of encircling and annihilating the enemy of Yanzi Mountain, and the four-way army quickly assembled after arriving at Yanzi Mountain, and attacked the base camp of the Xixia Zhuoluo Supervision Army Division with lightning speed under the leadership of Zhong Fu, killing and wounding countless enemy troops, killing more than 20,000 enemies, capturing more than 3,000 enemy troops, capturing more than 3,000 war horses, and countless cattle and sheep.

The right army also achieved a great victory in Yanzi Mountain, but its own casualties were also very dramatic, although the sudden attack caught the party members by surprise, but the party people were frightened and still organized a relatively stubborn resistance, most of the soldiers broke out of the encirclement, and the Song army also paid a heavy price of more than 3,000 wounded and more than 1,800 deaths!

Following the great victory at Yanzi Mountain, coupled with the great victory at Tiandu Mountain, the party people in Western Xia had almost no available troops. When the news that the two armies of the Dangxiang were attacked by the cavalry of the Song Dynasty and had all been defeated and fled reached the camp of the Dangxiang army under the city of Pingxia, the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang was so angry that her face turned pale and she fainted in shock. Li Qianshun rolled his eyes and almost lost his breath, but fortunately, the attendant next to him quickly stroked his back before he was relieved, coughing with bloodshots.

In this attack on the Song Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang and Li Qianshun can be said to have poured out the country, and put all the troops that could be recruited and mobilized in the Western Xia into the battlefield, claiming to have more than 1 million troops to the outside world, but in fact there were only about 400,000, and the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang and Li Qianshun were determined to win this attack on the Song Dynasty.

Empress Dowager Xiaoliang and Li Qianshun personally led the main force of 250,000 troops to cross the Wuyan Gorge and besiege Pingxia City, while the remaining 150,000 troops were divided into two routes, stationed at Tiandu Mountain and Yanzi Mountain respectively as a countermeasure. The three-way army is spread out in an inverted zigzag shape, and the situation of each other's horns is already solid in the eyes of the party members.

How do you know that although the army besieging Pingxia City is outnumbered, it can't help the more than 20,000 soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty led by Guo Cheng and Zhi Keshi, who are holding the city. It has been more than a month of frenzied siege, not to mention the loss of troops, but there is no progress, and the army is still attacked by the Song army from time to time, and it is impossible to prevent it. After a long time of attacking, Empress Dowager Xiaoliang and Li Qianshun were already upset, and now they suddenly heard that the two armies of Tiandu Mountain and Yanzi Mountain, which were the help of the horns, had been defeated and scattered by the Song army overnight, and the army besieging Pingxia City suddenly fell into the danger of being surrounded by the Song army.

When the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang woke up from a coma, extremely weak, looking at the panicked appearance of the full camp, she couldn't help but feel sad, and in desperation, she could only order a quick withdrawal of the army with tears in her eyes and retreat to the territory of Western Xia.

The next day, before dawn, the chickens and dogs jumped, and the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang and Li Qianshun hurriedly retreated with all their strength with the remaining 220,000 party troops. But less than ten miles away, Zhang Qi hastily dispatched an army of more than 10,000 people to follow and pursue, with countless casualties and countless routs. When retreating in a panic, the Dangxiang army fell into an ambush of 20,000 reinforcements led by the two brothers Yao Xiong and Yao Gu on the way, and fled into Western Xia in a hurry after leaving more than 10,000 corpses.

Empress Dowager Xiao Liang and Li Qianshun evacuated with the party army all the way, and after being pursued first and ambushed by Yao Xiong and Yao Gu's army, the Empress Dowager Xiao Liang fainted again, and when she woke up, she had already stepped into the territory of Western Xia, thinking that she was safe, and she breathed a sigh of relief. So she decided to lead the army straight to Wuyan Gorge, and led the remaining 180,000 horses to return to Xingqingfu, the capital of Western Xia. She was completely scared and needed to hurry back to the capital of Western Xia. But Empress Dowager Xiaoliang and Li Qianshun never thought that on the way they withdrew home, there was a bigger "surprise" waiting for them in Wuyan Gorge!

After Wu Zhi's victory in Tiandu Mountain, he repaired for two days, and then he overrode public opinion and ordered the army to pull out the camp and rise, not to return to the dynasty, but to wear the captured party clothes, disguise themselves as party members, and quietly touch the Wuyan Gorge, and after the army arrived at the Wuyan Gorge, order the troops to lurk on both sides of the Wuyan Gorge.

The soldiers had been impressed by him, and although they were puzzled and suspicious, they did not know what kind of big fish he could catch in such an ambush, but they still carried out his orders without complaint and followed them meticulously.

Wu Zhi estimated that under the stimulation of the victory of Tiandu Mountain, Zhang Ji would definitely speed up the pace of attack, and the battle of Yanzi Mountain would start in a few days, and when the good news of Yanzi Mountain came out, it would be the day when the party army besieging Pingxia City fled north, and it was not surprising that Wuyan Gorge would be the only way for Empress Dowager Xiaoliang and Li Qianshun to retreat, so he led everyone to lurk here and wait for the rabbit.

Wu Zhi divided the team of nearly 9,000 people into three roads, with the Red Guard Battalion in the center, lurking on the mountain beams on both sides of the canyon, lined up, condescending; Liu Zhongwu led nearly 5,000 cavalry from his headquarters to ambush on both sides of the north side of Wuyan Gorge to block the way; Chong Pu and Wang Sunchen led nearly 3,000 cavalry from their headquarters to ambush on both sides of the south side of Wuyan Gorge and copy their rear roads.

Wu Zhi particularly emphasized that the signal for the cavalry to attack at that time should be based on the time when the enemy troops fled in chaos after the Red Guard battalion launched an attack, and should not attack in advance. The cavalry generals had already seen the power of the bamboo tubes in the hands of the officers and men of the Red Guard Battalion, and obeyed his arrangement.

In the Battle of Tiandu Mountain, the officers and soldiers of the Red Guard Battalion threw a total of more than 3,000 bamboo grenades, and there are still more than 4,000 bamboo grenades on everyone.