In the third year of Xingqing in the Great Song Dynasty, in late May, in the territory of Western Xia, the Yellow River was nine songs.

The sun is shining, the summer is scorching, and there are few people on the post road. Beside the post road, there are sparse and unsurviving broken walls, undulating hills, and human bones scattered everywhere, making the wilderness even more desolate.

In the ruins beside the post road, two young men crouched among the rubble, one holding a clairvoyant mirror in his hand, and was cautiously looking through a forest on the west side of the post road.

The trees are located next to the post road at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain is towering, forming an oval valley floor, and the trees are shady, just right for summer coolness.

And on the post road next to the woods, which is more than 100 steps, hundreds of grain carts are piled up, densely packed, blocking the post road.

However, on a hot day, it is a wilderness, pedestrians are rare, and it is wartime, so I am not afraid of affecting traffic, nor am I afraid of robbers coming to rob it.

Besides, the Mongol army attacked the city, and the Western Xia soldiers and civilians were killed and wounded, where did the bandits come from? Die early!

"Wang Ying, it seems that this is a Tatar grain cart, which should have been transported from Hexi to Yingli City."

The scout who spoke put down the clairvoyant mirror and saw that his face was thin, his age was no more than his early twenties, his homespun clothes blended in with the surrounding land, his cheekbones were slightly protruding, and the stubbornness and heroism of the Northwest man were fully displayed.

Yingli is an important town of the Yellow River, a transportation hub connecting Hexi and Xingling, so it is no wonder that there are Mongolian troops stationed.

"Commander Li, it's too hot, will the Tatars leave for a while, we have to go back and report to General Cao."

The swarthy and sturdy Wang Ying stared at the woods without moving.

It is not far from Yingli City, and there are no other big cities around. The Mongol army had invaded Western Xia for more than a year, and the grain and grass in Yingli should be exhausted, and it was necessary to run from Hexi.

"Have you remembered the number of people, vehicles, and war horses and forests?"

Li Shou was still not at ease and continued to ask.

"The number of Tatars was five hundred, and the horses were more than a thousand, and the grain carts were two hundred and sixty, and the people were eight or nine hundred. The Mongolian soldiers had two or three bows, 100 feather arrows, ropes, knives, iron rods, iron bones and other things. ”

Wang Ying said, and Li Shou also remembered it clearly.

"Let's go, go back to life!"

Li Shou cautiously got up.

Both of them were dressed in the same way, with hats made of willow branches on their heads and homespun clothes, both of which were used as cover-ups.

With the help of the clairvoyant mirror, the two of them can see the situation in the distance clearly from a distance of three or four miles, without getting too close to reveal their whereabouts.

"Wang Ying, don't call me the commander in the future. I'm just a regular scout in the army right now. ”

Li Shou said, his expression darkened.

"Commander Li, the matter of Jiezhou, the Tatar army is a sneak attack. Don't be sad. Let's work hard and avenge Wang Yu, Fang Da, and all the brothers and people in Jiezhou! ”

Wang Ying comforted Li Shou, and felt uncomfortable.

The Mongol army attacked the city of Jiezhou, and a few of them escaped. Because the people of Jiezhou were slaughtered, Li Shou was swept from the deputy commander of Jiezhou to the end, Wang Ying was also degraded, and the two became ordinary scouts in Lu Wende's army.

"Commander, if you don't bring someone to watch here, I'll take someone back."

Wang Ying took the initiative to ask. Li Shou has been in a bad mood recently, and he also wants Li Shou to worry less.

"It's okay, you take someone back to report, and I'll take someone to watch here."

Li Shou nodded. If it weren't for the fact that there were too few scouts who came out, only a dozen or so, he would have led people to do it alone.

Since the city of Jiezhou was broken, he has always wanted to make meritorious service and atone for his sins, and he has been living with his eyebrows raised.

Wang Ying led people to tiptoe out of the broken wall and ruins, ran four or five miles south, turned around, and entered the deep valley overgrown with weeds in the Weijing Mountain.

"Five hundred Mongolian troops, two hundred and sixty grain trucks......"

Hearing Wang Ying's report, Deputy Commander Cao Erxiong was also shocked into a cold sweat.

He led the front army of 2,000 people from Lanzhou, crossed the Yellow River, and crossed the Rouwolf Mountain, with the purpose of capturing Yingli in the Jiuqu of the Yellow River and controlling the surface of the Yellow River. The wind and waves were calm along the way, and he was about to lead the army forward, waiting for an opportunity to capture Yingli, but he heard the news.

In case he was touched by the Mongolian army, disturbed the Mongolian army in Yingli, and besieged him from all directions, wouldn't he be surrounded by regiments, and might even be besieged and annihilated.

The grain cart of the Mongolian army still went to Yingli, so that he would not have to worry about the supply of grain and grass. Isn't that providential?

"Wang Ying, how is the terrain around the woods? Can you get closer? ”

Cao Erxiong asked in a deep voice, his heart was already itching.

"General, the Tatar cavalry are all in the woods, the woods are in the shape of deep valley pockets, as long as they hold the official road, the Tatars will not be able to escape."

Wang Ying drew as he spoke, and Cao Erxiong gathered the generals and immediately ordered them to go down.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the weather was hot, and in the woods next to the post road, about 500 Mongolian cavalry talked and laughed, sat on the ground, and leaned against the trees to enjoy the coolness, or sat or lying, how comfortable and how to come.

On the east side of them, eight or nine hundred people were gathered together, unkempt and tattered, and they were resting with a sad expression, and the people were quiet, not daring to make a sound, for fear of alarming the Mongol cavalry.

The weather was too hot, and many of the Mongolian soldiers took off their armor in the hope that it would be cooler.

Wang Ying led the army to sneak in from the side of the valley, and everyone was cautious and soon approached the woods. Seeing the Song army sneaking in, many people widened their eyes.

"Shh

Wang Ying put her finger on her lips and made a silent gesture, the people knew it, many people were silent, and many people closed their eyes.

You will not live!

Looking at the reactions of the people, I also know their hatred for the Mongolian army. It was only thirty or forty paces away from the place where the Mongolian army rested.

Wang Ying, together with all the grenadiers of the Song Army, moved gently, unscrewed the iron cap of the grenade, lit the fire fold, and ignited the fuse of the earth-shattering thunder.

"What's wrong?"

The lead "呲呲" burned, and the Mongolian cavalry, who were squinting and resting, suddenly shouted.

"Get down on your stomach!"

Wang Ying yelled at the people, ran a few steps, and the smoking earth-shattering thunder in his hand was thrown out by him.

The people lay down one after another, and the grenadiers of the Song army threw bombs together, and the earth-shaking thunder smoked, and the raindrops flew towards the Mongolian army in the woods.

The grenadiers threw out the first grenade, and continued to throw the bomb without looking at the effect, and after three rounds of indiscriminate bombardment of grenades, Wang Ying and all the Song army pikemen stepped over the people and rushed into the woods with guns.

At the same time, countless Song troops appeared in all directions and surrounded them one after another.

And the artillery of the Song army was erected on the official road one after another, blocking the exit of the woods.

"All of them!"

Loud thunder came and went, and the columns of smoke rolled in the woods, all shrouded in endless smoke, and the screams of the Mongol army and the neighing of war horses filled the woods.

By the time the wind blew away the smoke of gunpowder, the pikemen of the Song army and the remnants of the Mongolian army had already met on a narrow road.

"Thorn!"

Wang Ying shouted loudly, his spear trembled, like a poisonous snake, and a single shot knocked over the Mongol cavalry on the opposite side.

The pikemen held guns and stabbed them on top of each other, and the heads of the spears were numerous, and in an instant they were drenched in blood, and the Mongolian army was stabbed down several people. The Song army came from all sides, spear after round, and killed the remnants of the Mongolian cavalry on the spot, the scene was blurred with flesh and blood, and the iron and blood were blended.

The Mongol army fled with their lives, and they relied on the cover of trees, turned each other's horns, and fired arrows frequently, and immediately shot down several Song pikemen.

"I'll go! Grenadier! ”

Cao Erxiong was furious and shouted loudly.

The grenadiers lit grenades one after another, and dozens of grenades flew around, surrounding several Mongolian troops. After a loud bang, the Mongolian army fell to the ground, and the flesh and blood lay down countless times.

Some Mongolian cavalry tried to flee on horseback, desperately rushing out of the woods and meeting the Song soldiers coming from all directions. The Mongol army relied on superb cavalry and archery, desperately firing arrows, although they shot several Song soldiers, they were overwhelmed by the surging counterattack of the other side.

A Mongolian knight shot down two Song cavalrymen, but several knights on the other side still rushed quickly, the knight dodged one man's spear, but was stabbed under the horse by another iron rod and spear, one left and one right.

The sound of "whooshing" continued, and the Song army's bows and crossbowmen fired crossbow arrows in unison, and the Mongolian knights on the horses were shot down one after another, like hedgehogs.

The spearmen of the Song army were in groups of two or three, fighting in formation, the Mongolian army in the woods was divided and surrounded, and was constantly beheaded by the Song soldiers, and the range of fighting became smaller and smaller, and the lonely Mongolian army was killed one by one, and the blood was abnormal.

"Get out!"

The Mongolian generals took the lead, the Mongolian cavalry went straight to the official road to the west, they fired arrows together, endlessly, the Song gunners and shields fell down, there was a gap when the official road was ascended, the Mongolian cavalry took the opportunity to rush up the official road from the slope, and shot arrows and slashed the Song soldiers who were panicked and dodged on the way.

"I'll fuck your uncle!"

Li Shou and another Song soldier suddenly appeared on the opposite side of the Mongolian cavalry rushing out, Li Shou held a shield, a bundle of smoking earth-shattering thunder hung around his neck, his abdomen was bleeding, and his eyes were red. Another Song soldier limped, holding a smoking earth-shattering thunder in each hand, roared on the second day, and crashed into the Mongolian cavalry and horses.

The violent explosion was earth-shattering, blood and flesh were flying, blood arrows were shooting, war horses were screaming, the Mongolian cavalry and men and horses were overturned one after another, and the official road was full of scattered pieces of meat and human organs.

"Artillery! Shoot Lao Tzu! ”

"Grenadiers, are they all dead?"

Cao Erxiong roared loudly, and his eyes instantly turned red.

The artillery roared, the shotguns flew, the Mongolian cavalry on the official road and at the official road entrance were beaten to the ground, and the dead bodies of men and horses were stacked on the slopes of the official road and the woods, and the death and injuries were tragic, like hell on earth.

The artillery bombarded violently, the earth-shattering thunder followed, and the Mongolian cavalry, under the heavy casualties, jumped back in terror and fled towards the depths of the woods, but finally was blocked by the steep hillside and could not climb, so they could only turn around and resist stubbornly, making the last struggle.

After the Song army's artillery, crossbow arrows, and earth-shattering thunder were harvested, pikemen took over the battlefield. As time passed, the battle quickly came to an end.

Seeing dozens of Mongolian soldiers throwing away their weapons in their hands, kneeling on the ground, screaming indiscriminately, and some people kept kowtowing, many Song soldiers opened their eyes wide.

"The Tatars also surrendered?"

There was a young Song Bing, who asked curiously.

"What's so strange about this, Tartars are also people, and they are not stones, and if they are hit by a cannon, their flesh and blood will still be blurred!"

Older veterans, pretending to be deep.

"Bundle them all! Clean up the battlefield, make up for two shots if you don't die, and don't leak the news! ”

Cao Erxiong led his soldiers up, waved his hand, and the Song soldiers stepped forward and tied up the surrendered Mongolian troops.

After the battle, the Song army began to clean up the battlefield, some people were on guard outside, and medical officers came up to treat the wounds of the wounded.

In a sneak attack, outnumbered by the enemy, one hundred and ten soldiers were killed and wounded.

"It's a pity Brother Li Shou!"

Cao Erxiong's face did not have any joy of victory.

"Li Shou ......"

Wang Ying hugged his head and cried, and under the persuasion of the army, Wang Yingcai choked and stood up.

Li Shou and another Song soldier died in battle, and the two didn't even leave a corpse, so they didn't know how to explain to their wives and children?

"Brother, get up, can you speak Chinese?"

Wang Ying wiped away her tears and called up a man squatting on the ground with a dark face, this person was in his forties, with Han hair in a bun, he should be no different from the Han people of Western Xia.

"Yes, yes, yes!"

Minfu smiled and nodded again and again, he looked at Wang Ying, and asked cautiously:

"Master Jun, are you Xia Jun, or ......"

These officers and soldiers were so fierce that the Mongol cavalry killed them all turned on their backs, and none of them deserted.

Is this the official army of Western Xia?

"Big brother, we are the official army of the Great Song Dynasty, and we have already fought the Yellow River. Let me ask, where did you go to escort so much grain? ”

Wang Ying and Yan Yuese asked.

"Great Song ...... Officers and Soldiers...... Beat...... Pass...... Yellow River ......"

The middle-aged man looked at Wang Ying in shock, and it took a long time to react.

"Return, if you return to the military master, these grains are transported from Shatuo to the Tatar camp in Yingli, where there are more than two thousand Tatar soldiers, and three or four hundred surrendered soldiers, a total of two thousand five hundred people, most of the Tatar cavalry live in the Tatar camp outside the city, only the officials and a small part live in the city!"

The middle-aged man said everything he knew and what he didn't know.

"Only two thousand five hundred?"

Wang Ying was a little disappointed. There were only 2,500 people, and 5,000 Song soldiers were sent to attack, but Lu Wende was still too careful.

After a skirmish and a tragic death of his comrades, his fighting spirit was blazing and completely stimulated.

Only 2,500 people?

The middle-aged man was secretly surprised. The Tatar cavalry was like a wolf and a tiger, and the corpses of the Western Xia were all over the field, and there was no one for thousands of miles. These Song Jun, what a big breath!

"Two thousand five hundred, living outside the city......"

Wang Ying's words made Cao Erxiong groan for a moment and looked at the officers beside him.

"Brothers, what do you say? Do you want to wait for the army to come up? ”

The three thousand soldiers of Lu Yuanting behind him were still forty or fifty miles away.

"General, there are only more than 2,000 people, and they are still outside the city, let's do it!"

"Wait for the army to come up, if there is a leak, but the work will be wasted!"

The officers were gossiping, and everyone had blazing eyes, as if they had seen a charming and touching newlywed wife who had not seen her in March.

"General, I have an idea, the transportation of grain is day and night, it is better to ...... like this"

Wang Ying thought for a moment, and then said 1510.