Before Xicheng, it was miserable, the corpses were lying in the wilderness, and the blood flowed into a stream.

The ground, which was already muddy and not dry, was full of devastation, and the red soil slurry exuded a fishy smell, and the stumps of men and horses were scattered everywhere.

The broken blade of the halberd, the headless barrel of the gun, and the steel knife with the gap, all seemed to be decayed under the rays of the setting sun, and there was no longer a trace of light.

Zhao Ta stood at the head of the city with his hands in his hands, secretly saying that there was a big battle in his heart.

Since he led the troops, he has fought in the south and in the north, and tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of people have also encountered charging and killing together, but they are not as fierce as they are now.

Even if Du Yan and Li Yanxian attacked this Western Xia reinforcement army on both sides, he used a flying artillery bed crossbow to cooperate at the head of the city, but it was still difficult to fight.

The opponent's team is far from being comparable to his side, well-trained, quick to react, and cooperates with each other well, even if they are covered in blood, they can still fight.

The number of people and horses on each other is almost the same, if the cavalry on his side does not have Du Yan Xu Ning's special professor, and the infantry has 10,000 rattan armor to take advantage of the equipment, then even if it is a flank attack, Li Yanxian's sneak attack behind may not be able to guarantee victory.

It's too difficult, how can Xixia still have such a stakes team? And this is not a border army, generally speaking, the most powerful army of any country is a border army, but this one is obviously not.

Zhao Tan couldn't help but wonder in his heart, what kind of army is this?

He looked at the battlefield cleaning down for a moment, then turned his gaze to Li Changshuo, who was brought to Xicheng, and said, "Where is this team?" ”

Li Changshuo's body trembled at the moment, his heart was finished, everything was over, he couldn't wash it away by jumping into the Yellow River, and even if he died, he couldn't wash away the charge of treason and defection to the enemy.

He was powerless to answer, and he didn't want to answer, and the whole person stood like a puppet with a lost soul.

"Lord Wang, I know what kind of team this is." Yuan Guo invited Gong Dao on the side.

"Oh?" Zhao said: "What team?" ”

Yuan Guo said: "The elite soldiers in this team should be the outer six classes of the Central Su Guard Army!" ”

Xixia Xing, the spirit of the soldiers, the refined and 25,000, don't be a deputy to 70,000 soldiers as support, the number of the royal siege of six classes, divided into three times to the guard, the number of six classes straight, and then there are six classes inside and outside.

There are 25,000 elite soldiers in Xingzhou and Lingzhou in Western Xia, which refers to the guards of Xingqing Mansion, including six classes of 5,000 people and 3,000 iron harriers.

Coupled with the soldiers of the Lingzhou and Xiangqing Supervision Military Divisions in the south of Gongwei Xingqing Mansion and the right wing in the north of Gongwei Xingqing Mansion and the Central Western Xia Group of Chaoshun Supervision Military Division, there were about 25,000 people.

As for the other 70,000 deputy soldiers, they are similar to the existence of the Xiang Army and Township Soldiers, just to assist the 25,000 elites.

The commander of the central corps of the core of the Western Xia, composed of these three military horses, is the king of the Western Xia Jin Dynasty, known as the "capital commander of the army, the head of the town", and Li Qianshun's younger brother Li Chage.

It is similar to the Great Song Dynasty Gyeonggi Forbidden Army, and the unified corps of the three forbidden armies of Jingnan Road, Jingbei North Road, and Jingxi Road that guarded Gyeonggi Road.

But this central corps of Western Xia is far from being comparable to the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army of the Great Song Dynasty has no combat power at all, so Zhao Ta has taken it out for training in the past few years, otherwise I am afraid that I will not even dare to go to the battlefield.

And Xixia is 25,000 elites, although it is doubtful whether all of them are elite soldiers, but Zhao Ta thinks that there are half of them, and even if the rest cannot be called, they must be stronger than ordinary soldiers.

"The outer sixth class of the Central Guard?" He spoke slowly.

"Exactly, the villain watched just now, the elite soldiers inside must be the sixth class and the sixth class, and the others should be the people from the Northern Corps of the Weifu Military Division of Montenegro!" Yuan Guo was an official in the Western Xia army, and after careful observation, he naturally recognized the origin of this team.

Li Changshuo glared at Yuan Guo angrily at this time, and Yuan Guo sneered: "You horseman looks at it very well, and now you are a traitor in the eyes of Western Xia, and you have abandoned the secret and surrendered to the Ming under the hands of the general." ”

When Li Changshuo heard this, his face suddenly turned red and white, and he was angry, and he couldn't hold back any longer, and spit out a mouthful of blood with a "wow".

Zhao Ta glanced at him, and suddenly raised his hand to shoot out two silver needles, which shot at both sides of Li Changshuo's neck, and his expression was better.

"Kill me, kill me!" Lee Chang Suk muttered to himself in grief.

Yuan Guo said disdainfully: "The general saved you, but you want to die or live, I really don't know what to do." ”

Li Changshuo said: "What do you know about this rebellion, there are a few people in the world who are as ruthless and unrighteous as you and abandon their families and countries. ”

Yuan Guo said unhappily: "You don't talk much about the cool words, as far as I know, you are both parents died, in addition to a bunch of wives and concubines in the family, there are no children under your knees, and you have no worries about the old bull, and you actually talk to me about what to abandon the family, it's really a big joke." ”

Bulls are called bulls, bulls, bulls, and yaks. However, the bull is different from the bull, the ox, and the yak, which originally referred to the cow, but when describing people, it specifically refers to the castrated bull, and is mostly used when mocking and insulting.

Li Changshuo was so angry when he heard this, although he married a lot of women, but no one has ever given birth to a son and a half daughter to him, and he has also seen a famous doctor, knowing that it is his own problem, he is helpless about it, and he is most afraid that someone will mention this matter on weekdays, but whenever someone says it, he thinks it is a shortcoming, and they are all like thunder.

"Traitor, I, I'm going to kill you......" The silver needle he fixed at this time had long been removed, and although it was tied up again, it was able to move under his feet.

Yuan Guo saw that he looked like he wanted to eat people, and hurriedly retreated in fright, Bai Ba and Bai Zhan grabbed Li Changshuo and reprimanded: "Be honest, be honest!" ”

At this time, Li Yanxian went to the city to report that his robe had already been soaked with blood, the blood stains were dry and black and hard, and his voice was hoarse: "General, the following count has been completed, a total of more than 5,000 prisoners have been captured, about seven or eight hundred have escaped, and the rest have been killed!" ”

Zhao Ta nodded, this is not difficult to count, you only need to check the head, and the error will not be too big.

In this battle, the opponent was killed about 10,000 people, which is not tragic, it is estimated that the elite soldiers of the six squads of the central army of Western Xia all died on the battlefield, and the soldiers of the inferior northern military division surrendered.

As for escaping a few hundred, it is also helpless, after all, there is not much difference in the number of each other, and it is almost impossible to annihilate them all, not to mention that the opponent's combat power is so strong, it is the only thing that Zhao Tan has seen since he led the troops.

"How's the loss?" Zhao Ta's expression was complicated.

Li Yanxian softly reported a few numbers, Zhao Ta was silent for a moment and nodded, it is impossible to make a small loss under this kind of big battle, it is already a blessing to have fewer deaths and more injuries, the casualty figures After he saw the other party's combat strength, he estimated it slightly in his heart, and it was still within the acceptable range to listen to Li Yanxian at this moment.

"Continue to clean up the battlefield, and organize everything captured to replenish consumption." Zhao Ta said lightly: "There are also prisoners, those captured in this war are all locked up first, and those who can surrender in Shichuan two days ago will be given half of the military salary higher than that of Western Xia, and if they perform outstandingly, they will be given the same salary as the soldiers of the headquarters." ”

The military salary of the Great Song Dynasty itself was higher than that of the Western Xia, and after each was increased by 50 percent, it was much higher.

"Those who have made meritorious contributions can be promoted, and they can divide the fields in Xihe." Zhao Ta continued: "If you hit Xingqing in the future, you can also divide the fields in Hexi. ”

The party was originally nomadic, but from Li Yuanhao, began to reclaim the land, to Li Qianshun at this time to encourage the cultivation of land, Hexi water and soil are fertile, there are already most of the party people only rely on farming to make a living.

"Yes!" Li Yanxian said.

"By the way......" Zhao Ta thought for a while: "Don't do it as a guard commander, you haven't been rewarded for your credit in flooding the river last time, so let's be a deputy commander in the second army first." ”

"Thank you, General!" Li Yanxian hurriedly saluted.

Zhao Ta raised his hand at him, and then went straight down the city and walked towards the palace.

Seven days later, there was no more rain in the sky, and the traces of the two battles in Fuchuan City had long disappeared.

Huizhou is still the same, no reinforcements have arrived, the four gates are closed every day, and the soldiers at the head of the city are constantly patrolling.

Huizhou City was empty, and Zhao Ta also asked about it from Li Changshuo's own mouth, probably no more than 5,000 soldiers, these people could barely take turns to defend the city, and they couldn't afford to do anything else.

Now the Western Xia army is divided into two, one part is on the Xihe Road, and the other part is defended near the grassland in the north, in case the Liao army is defeated, and it is also afraid that the Jurchens will take advantage of the situation to kill.

It was not wrong for Western Xia to arrange it this way, taking advantage of the fact that the northwest roads of the Great Song Dynasty were transferred to the Liao State and were unable to invade the border, they took the initiative to attack the Xihe River, intending to take advantage of it and tear off a piece of meat from the Great Song Dynasty.

But after thousands of calculations, I didn't expect that Zhao Ta's army would be killed from Qin Wangchuan, go down to Zhuo, fight Xiliang, and actually covet Huizhou.

This completely disrupted Western Xia's plans, leaving it in a dilemma.

The army of Western Xia is not endless, it is claimed to be 300,000, and it is estimated that it can reach 500,000 in wartime, which is already a very high proportion of joining the army, you must know that the total population of Western Xia is only two or three million.

Of course, even if the number of 500,000 is really mobilized, not all of them can fight, at most, some township soldiers and engineers who served in the previous 300,000 miles are directly transformed into regular soldiers, and the vast majority of the newly mobilized will continue to be used as conscripts.

However, mobilization takes time, and this time is not measured in terms of days or ten days, mobilization, recruitment, settling down, and issuing blades, but also a simple training, and then the division of troops and dispatch, I am afraid that it is at least a month.

Zhao Ta estimated that Western Xia was mobilizing at the moment, and he didn't want to transfer troops from the north to the south, nor did he want to withdraw the military horses that had already attacked Xihe, so he could only mobilize the new army and then assign it to various troops to intercept his side.

Huizhou should also be waiting for this part of the people, but this part of the people has not arrived for a long time, so Huizhou can't hold on, even if it is Shikikawa, it doesn't care at all.

And Brother Richard sent troops to aid Shikikawa, probably based on his own opinion, or even Li Changshuo said in the letter that it was powerful, so Brother Richard sent people over, thinking of protecting the Shikigawa, but he did not expect that almost the entire army would be wiped out.

Zhao Tan thought about it for another day, and finally decided to try it in Huizhou.

If you can't beat it, you can withdraw it, and if you can lay it, you can just occupy it directly, but Huizhou is a choke point, if you can stand firm here, you can barely be regarded as having the qualification to call for the Xingqing Mansion.

The next day, he began to transfer troops, this time he only brought 10,000 horses, and did not consider a strong attack, although there were few soldiers in Huizhou, but it was not something that he could attack by force.

It is to see if there is a chance, if there is a plan, if there is no chance, withdraw to Shichuan, and then carefully manage the west line of Rouwolf Mountain, and occupy this place to the death.

Zhao Ta didn't let Du Yan follow, and asked him and Xu Ning to stay, and took Zhang Xian, Li Yanxian, and Yang Zhi with him, and swept through Rouwolf Mountain and went straight to Huizhou City.

Thirty miles away from Huizhou, he stopped for the time being, and then waited for the return of the horses, and did not send a vanguard to attack the outpost.

With the return of waves of exploration horses, they even reached dozens of miles away from the north city of the east city of Huizhou, and did not see ambushes and the like, so they reopened until they set up camp and excavated fortifications five miles in front of the city.

You could see this scene from afar in the city of Huizhou, but there was no reaction, as if they didn't exist.

Zhao Ta watched with a telescope, shook his head and smiled: "It seems that this state has been prepared for a long time, and intends to defend it to the death, there is no water to rely on here, and the fire can't burn the city, and it can't be attacked by force, I'm afraid it will be difficult to take it." ”

Li Yanxian said: "Lord Wang, the so-called hundred secrets are sparse, and then let your subordinates look around to see if there are any loopholes." ”

Zhao Ta nodded and said: "Be careful, you can take this city if you can, if you can't take it back, you can run Fuchuan for the time being, and then find other strategies." ”

Li Yanxian nodded yes, and after Zhao Ta returned to the big tent, he thought left and right, and really had no idea, so he called Yuan Ying to practice martial arts and watch.

This expedition he not only brought Yuan Ying with him, but also Yuan Ji and others in the prisoner car, these people can only rest assured when they are around, otherwise who knows if there are any spies buried by Yuan Jing in advance in Fuchuan City, and then try to save a few of them, but it will be a failure.

In the evening, Li Yanxian returned with his troops and did not check any omissions in Huizhou, but he did not give up and said that he would go again tomorrow.

Zhao Ta is also up to him, in fact, he also wants to walk around, after all, the current time is good, he can carefully observe the terrain, if he can't take Huizhou this time, the increase in troops will come in the future, and it will be difficult to move around at will.

In a blink of an eye, the next day, Zhao Ta was unbearable, just when Li Yanxian came to ask for an order to continue to wander, he went to explore together, Li Yanxian couldn't help but be overjoyed, and hurriedly led the horse, Zhao Ta ordered a thousand horses, and then took Yuan Ying, and ran towards Huizhou City.

After staying for a moment outside the city of Huizhou, the city ignored them, and if they got closer, they would shoot arrows in unison.

Zhao Ta smiled, beat the horse around the city to the northeast, this time he ran straight out for more than 20 miles before returning, and he was not afraid that people from the city would copy the back road.

There are only less than 5,000 soldiers in the city of Huizhou, and where do you dare to act rashly, if you want to eat the 1,000 cavalry led by Zhao Tan, I am afraid that it will take 2,000 cavalry to be enough, if there are 2,000 cavalry, the large army in front of the city will outflank it, and I am afraid that the city will no longer be able to protect it.

Near evening, Zhao Ta came back with soldiers and horses, and basically explored everywhere, although this state is Rouwolf Mountain in the west, the distance is not close, and the other three sides are bare, not even a forest, and you can't find a place to ambush.

After dinner, there was no word at night, and another day came.

In the morning, Zhao Ta was sitting in the tent reading a book, and suddenly someone reported that there was a woman outside the camp who asked to see him.

Zhao Tan frowned and said, "Who is it?" ”

Xiao Bing replied: "General, this woman said that she came to Zhuo Luo City when she was here, and her name is Zhiling......

(End of chapter)