On the second day, Zhao Ta reorganized the army, reported one report after another, and went directly out of the city to kill a wave, killing the Western Xia army hundreds of miles away, and won a complete victory.

In fact, it is extremely difficult for the Western Xia army to break through the Xiakou Pass, after all, their own army is not as many as the Guannei, so how can they break through the city?

The side defending the city itself has an advantage, and the army strength of the besieging side is multiplied in the city, so that the attack can be effective, and the result is not as many as the people in the city, as long as the city does not defend it, this battle is actually not of much significance.

But this Western Xia team was anxious, after all, Brother Richard was defeated and the Iron Harrier army was annihilated, which was an earth-shattering thing, and it was a dangerous situation that had never been seen in more than a hundred years since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

The Song army choked the Xiakou Pass, which was the choke point to Xingqing Mansion, and was won by the Song Army here, and Xingqing Mansion seemed to be choked by someone's neck, and it was not angry.

That's why this Western Xia army attacked fiercely, trying to see if it could have a chance to break through the pass, but it turned out that there was no chance at all, and it lost a lot of men and horses.

However, this army was not discouraged, and sent people to send a letter to Shunzhou to bypass the Xiakou Pass, and Shunzhou will definitely send troops and horses to cooperate, and then the north and south sides will attack, and this Xiakou Pass will be broken!

Zhao Ta saw that the Western Xia army withdrew from Baili and found out that it was camped at the boundary of the territory, so he no longer paid attention to it, he had already seen the other party's thoughts, and the other party was waiting for the soldiers and horses of Shunzhou in the north to come.

Brother Richard was defeated and left, the Iron Harrier was completely destroyed, if this gorge is not taken back, he will completely lose Xingqing's throat, then his sin will be great.

It's just that the defeat is excusable, after all, victory and defeat are common things in soldiers, where is there a long-term victory on the battlefield, the Western Xia Song Dynasty has fought for more than 100 years, and has always had its own victory and defeat.

But losing the key roads such as the Xiakou Pass is different, this is not a simple defeat, this is to expose the Xingqing Mansion in front of the Song army.

At this moment, there is only one Shunzhou in Xingqing Mansion, but although Shunzhou is the Acropolis of Xingqing, it has a certain protective effect, but the terrain is not dangerous, and it can even be bypassed from the side and reach Xingzhou.

So if there is any mistake in Shunzhou, won't the country be at fault? If you don't recapture the gorge pass, it will be a big crime!

Therefore, Brother Richard must want to make a comeback, and the best way to recapture the pass is to attack from the north and south.

Xiakou Pass is not as big as some Xiongguan cities, it only has the north and south gates, he is a pass, not a city.

In addition, the juncture is narrow, if it is attacked by troops on both sides, it is better than the ordinary city, but there is a problem here, that is, how to communicate with each other to inform the news.

This is also the advantage of the Xiakou Pass, as a pass, guarding the main road, blocking one side, so that the north and south can not communicate with the news, probably can only fight alone, and a single side is not easy to break.

The west of the gorge is the Wulong Ridge, stretching for a long time, the cliff in the east, the Mingsha River below, connecting the Yellow River, the Mingsha River has been controlled by Zhao Ta at this moment, the white sails on the river fly across, hundreds of boats compete for the stream, it is very lively, there are no ships in Xixia, and it is almost impossible to transmit news from the river.

Then if the north and the south want to flank together, unless they send people back and forth in advance to agree on the time of attack, it is impossible to make contact now.

Zhao Ta also expected that this Western Xia army would definitely send people to bypass the Xiakou Pass and go to Shunzhou to the north to find Brother Richard, but I don't know when the two sides will agree to attack together.

The Western Xia army outside the city was a little anxious at the moment, and originally wanted to hit the opportunity to see if it could take the Xiakou Pass, but it kept losing, although it was not enough to suffer any heavy losses, but it always withdrew a hundred miles away, which was a loss.

At this time, the Chinese army was discussing in Dazhai, and the commander of the Western Xia Army was the commander of the Jingsai Military Division.

There are also two chief generals below, namely the Jianing Military Division and the Xiangyou Military Division, and there are more than a dozen generals, all with complex and dignified expressions.

This is quite surpassing Mangfeng, and he can be regarded as a famous general in Western Xia, guarding the border for 20 years, and has fought countless big and small battles with the Song army, because the military division is facing Jingyuan Road, and he has been fighting with the seed master road.

The Tao of the Seed Master is the old seed of the world, the contemporary head of one of the three major forces of the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty, and the official Jingyuan Road is slightly pacified.

In fact, there are only three generals in the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty, that is, Zhe, Chong, and Yao, and there are no less than ten or twenty small generals.

The Zhejia is the largest general, and the hereditary governor of Hedong Road Prefecture.

Fuzhou is on the stone mountain beam on the north bank of the Yellow River, the city wall is built according to the mountain situation, the negative mountain blocks the river, the terrain is precipitous, it is the place where the soldiers have always fought fiercely.

When Taizu was the time, he gave the location of Fuzhou Zhizhou to the Zhi family, so that the land could be directly hereditary to the Zhi family, which shows the trust in it, and there is no second in the entire Great Song Dynasty.

At that time, the Yang family in Linzhou was only an ordinary general, and the Yang family was actually a subordinate of the Zhe family at first, the so-called Yang Ye's wife She Lao Taijun was actually the old Taijun, and the daughter of the Zhe family married the Yang family.

The Zhe family is in Hedong, the seed family and the Yao family are in Guanzhong, the two families are not in harmony, Yao Pingzhong fought with the children of the seed family, and he made a lot of reputation.

Now the seed master Dao led the troops to the north to attack Liao, Jingyuan Road was unable to advance westward, so he could only defend, and he was quite surpassing Mangfeng, so he was relieved to wave the army at the mouth of the gorge and wanted to recover this place.

On the way, he joined up with half of the Western Xia army withdrawn on the other side of the Yellow River, nearly 60,000 soldiers and horses, and wanted to hit the mouth of the gorge by surprise, but the result was nothing.

However, he had already sent people to bypass the Mingsha River and send a letter to Shunzhou in the north, so that Brother Richard could learn that his Chen Bingxia Pass was in the south of Guannan, and if Brother Richard agreed to the strategy of attacking, he would definitely make an appointment.

In fact, quite super Meng Feng still wants to recapture the Xiakou Pass by himself, after all, this is a great achievement, but in front of him, there is little hope, not to mention, it is simply impossible, and he has to wait for the news from Shunzhou in place.

The people of Western Xia discussed things for a long time, and they had no clue, so they had to disperse, and quite Chao Mangfeng ordered to defend carefully, don't let the Song army steal the camp, and then could only wait silently for Brother Richard to reply.

Zhao Ta also gave the generals a discussion in the Xiakou Pass, in fact, it was a matter of deliberation, but it was better to teach the profession.

In the lobby, there were more than 100 people, all of whom had official positions above the commander of the army, as if they were Mengtong, sitting on chairs and listening to Zhao Ta.

Zhao Ta looked at the following people, no more than ten of them had read the art of war, and the rest didn't even know about some military masters in history, let alone read what they wrote.

But fighting a war is not a dinner party, at the beginning you can still rely on bravery, luck, general trend and other factors to win some battles, the real battle for a long time, confrontation, stalemate, and even annihilation of the opponent's some wars, just with blood and luck is not enough.

Whether it is the commander or the general who leads the troops below, he must understand the art of war, know strategy, and have his own set of combat skills.

This is not nonsense, Han has Han Xin, Zhang Liang, Chen Ping, the Three Kingdoms has Zhuge Sima Zhou Yu, Tang has Li Jing, Li Tao, Wei Zheng, even the Great Song Dynasty followed Taizu back then, there were Zhao Pu, Lu Yin, Shen Yilun.

There must be a strategist, or even a general who understands the art of war, otherwise it's okay to make a small fuss, Zhao Ta can lead his own troops, and all kinds of military affairs can be corrected at any time under his nose.

But when it really comes to the gathering of the wind and clouds, when the sword is pointed at the world, where there will only be one or two teams, and it is impossible to say how many places to divide the troops, and then it will not be possible to keep an eye on them one by one, and the generals will have to make their own ideas at any time, maybe mistakes will occur frequently, even if Zhao Ta sets the strategy unchanged, the following may not understand, will not, and do not know how to execute, to put it bluntly, in fact, it is to leave Zhao Ta, most people don't know how to fight at all!

In addition to General Lu, Li Yanxian, and Zhang Xian, Zhao Tan's subordinates are familiar with the art of war, and Du Yan, Yang Zhi, and Xu Ning can only be counted as half.

As for Luda, Shi Jin, Wu Erlang and others, they haven't read it at all.

Some of the guards below barely read and read, and they read some war reports, but they haven't even seen the appearance of military books.

So Zhao Ta thinks about it, instead of waiting for those capable people and hermit masters to take the initiative to vote, it is better to teach his own family, even if the teaching is not very good, but it is not bad to teach, right?

took advantage of the gap to wait for a class for a group of people.

At this time, he told everyone about Sun Tzu's Art of War, which is the ancestor of the Book of War, the earliest and most basic book of war that has been handed down in history.

If you want to learn soldiers, you can't get around this military book, but Zhao Ta can't start from the beginning for everyone word by word.

You must know that the way of the military is not something that can be fully comprehended overnight, and he doesn't have so much time to explain it completely and in detail, not to mention that everyone has different talents, so they may not comprehend it the same.

He just explained the basics of Sun Tzu's Art of War, so that everyone could know why and when to march, what conditions were needed for the march, and what preparations were needed, and then began to talk about the use of soldiers in detail.

This is the point, for the officers below, why the march to fight is not important at all, whether it is enough to march and fight the conditions, it has nothing to do with them, that is what the commander will consider, for the level of the guard commander, the strategy of winning is the most important.

The first strategy for using soldiers that Zhao Ta told them was the fire attack chapter in Sun Tzu's Art of War.

Because he often attacks with fire, he is good at attacking with fire, as early as when he was fighting Fangla, Jiangning, Hangzhou and other places used fire to attack.

Especially in Hangzhou, a fire burned Fang La's command to death, Fang La finally broke his arm, jumped out of the city, and relied on the fire attack.

Therefore, he first talked to the people about the use of fire, and when he talked about the use of fire, he had to talk about the main material of fire, such as oil.

When he conquered Fangla, he told his generals about the fierce fire oil, many people did not know about this thing at that time, Zhao Ta also once asked them to go to Mengxi to write a conversation, which was recorded in detail, and also asked them to go to the merchants in the market to buy it for research, many generals used this thing to illuminate at night, and the result was smoked to a lot.

This is all in the past, it happened before, but most of the subordinates at that time were generals of the forbidden army, and now it is no longer a thing, and I have to tell everyone in front of me more.

He took Mengxi pen talk as an example, according to Jiang Ning's time, in fact, it is not the first time in Jiangning to talk about Shen Kuo's book, as early as Dengzhou went to sea, and Huang Jue, Lei Laohu, etc. have talked about it, because Mengxi pen talk has recorded the compass, which is a sharp weapon for navigation.

These people in front of them are basically from the northwest, and they don't know fire oil compared to the generals of the Central Plains, not to mention that after stepping into the Western Xia realm, they have used it a few times in a row, and they can understand it with a little dialing, in fact, there are many other ways to set fire to it, not only the simple and crude direct smearing and ignition.

As for other fireworks, they are all ordinary, and there are no special things like fire oil, and even gunpowder Zhao Ta talked about it.

At this moment, there was already gunpowder, which was discovered by the alchemists of the Tang Dynasty by accident during the alchemy process.

In this dynasty, the use of gunpowder has gone beyond the original purpose of alchemy, and has been used in some other places, but at this time gunpowder is black powder, which is weaker and causes little damage, and is not used much in military affairs.

In military affairs, gunpowder was not used to generate power or propel projectiles because it was not very powerful, but was used as an accelerant in fire attack tactics.

In fact, it is the same as fierce fire oil, which is used as a fire material.

In addition, gunpowder at this time was mostly used for firecrackers, for ornamental use, and also for acrobatics and puppet shows, as a performance tool, such as spitting flames and spitting fire, to increase the entertainment of the show.

During the time of Renzong, Zeng Gongliang organized people to compile a book called "Wujing General Essentials", which was completed in four years.

This is the first work in history that includes military technology, and in this book, the word "gunpowder" is used for the first time.

In this book, there are three of the world's earliest gunpowder formulas, namely the fireball gunpowder formula, the tribulus terrestris fireball gunpowder formula, and the poison smoke ball gunpowder formula.

Although there are a lot of things used in the recipe, it is very simple to make, and even if it explodes, it is not particularly powerful.

The usual process is to boil oil, fat, and wax into a paste, mix the gunpowder ingredients into powder and paste, and then wrap five layers on the outside with paper, tie it with hemp rope, and then melt it with pine resin or asphalt to wrap one layer.

After drying, this shell not only protects the medicine inside from moisture, but also facilitates it from being pierced and ignited from the outside.

When used, use the fire cone to burn through the spherical shell and throw it into the enemy camp to burn, smoke, and disperse poison.

Even under this extension, there are fireballs, tribulus fireballs, thunderbolt fireballs, smoke balls, poison smoke balls, iron-billed fire harriers, bamboo fire harriers, gunpowder arrows, gunpowder whips and arrows and other things produced.

However, because the power of the gunpowder formula itself is limited, all these things, no matter what tribulus terrestris, poison, poisonous smoke, etc., cannot be used as real killing utensils, and all the bells and whistles are actually only used as tools for ignition and combustion.

After talking about the oil and gunpowder, Zhao Ta began to explain the art of fire attack again, starting from the Three Kingdoms, especially the Battle of Chibi, which lasted for more than an hour.

The Battle of Chibi is the biggest fire attack strategy in ancient times, which has been planned for half a year, and there are various strategies such as bitter meat schemes, chain schemes, making things out of nothing, stealing beams and changing pillars before the fire attack, which can really be called a model of military strategy.

Some of the people below have heard three points, know some chibi stories, and some don't know, and they are dumbfounded.

In this way, Zhao Ta lectured the generals on the art of war and strategy for two days in a row, until the evening of this day, when a scout suddenly sent news that the army of Shunzhou in the north had moved......

(End of chapter)