"This is simply impossible to do, how can the Song army brave the cold to fight!"

Ali Gu received the report from the guards of Longzhu Heicheng and said in shock.

In the northwest, the cold winter is a natural barrier, even the most vicious beasts will lie dormant in winter, and various tribes will also let down their guard and recuperate in winter.

"The last general did not dare to deceive, the Song army was wearing cotton armor, not only did he move freely in winter, but his defense was also good." The Longzhu Black City guard said with a wry smile.

Winter warfare was a taboo in all dynasties, but the Song army found a different way, combining cotton clothes and armor, and had armor that could fight in winter.

Qingtang didn't notice it for a while, and finally suffered a big loss.

"Cotton armor!"

Ali Gu, the lord of Qingtang, couldn't help but change his face, and couldn't help but think of the kidnapping horse that defeated the Qingtang cavalry at the beginning, and what it was equipped with was cotton armor.

I didn't expect that the cotton armor, which only had the advantage of being lightweight, would pose such a big threat to Qingtang.

"King Qiyu, the Song army swept through the Hehuang tribes, Zongge City has been broken, and the army is about to come to Qingtang City."

Soon, bad news came one after another, the Song army came prepared, and the various departments of Hehuang fought separately, coupled with the winter battle, the iron armor was like ice, the bowstring was frozen and difficult to pull, and the cavalry and archery that the Qingtang tribes relied on to become famous no longer had an advantage, and they were defeated one after another.

Ali bone suddenly like a lightning strike, Zongge City is the important city of Qingtang, second only to Qingtang City, Zongge City is broken, Qingtang City has no barrier.

"The Song people are too cunning, the two countries have concluded a peace treaty and will be together forever, but the Song people have betrayed their promises and attacked Qingtang!" The eldest prince said with great hatred.

He was responsible for sending people to the Great Song Dynasty to sign the peace treaty, and the Great Song court only gave a verbal warning, but did not expect that not long after returning from the Great Song Dynasty, the Song army immediately turned its face and tore up the peace treaty.

"The revenge of the Song people is coming!" Ali Gu smiled bitterly.

Once he united with Western Xia to attack the Great Song Dynasty for the first time, but he was defeated, and the Great Song Dynasty only gave him a verbal warning in order to win him over, allowing him to escape.

But when Xixia proposed to attack the Great Song Dynasty again, he had a lot of concerns, but he coveted the five hundred cold forging armor of Xixia, coupled with the luck psychology for the first time, in the end, greed prevailed over reason.

In addition, he thought that he was backed by the Tubo tribes and the Qi epidemic, and thought that even if he was defeated, the Great Song Dynasty would not be able to help Qingtang.

As a result, this time he made a mistake, the Song people are not without temper, and now they have the cotton armor to fight in winter, and they will take the weakest Qingtang to kill chickens and monkeys as soon as possible.

"Father, hurry up and send someone to ask for help from the Western Xia and Qingtang departments!" Blind Zheng said urgently.

Ali Gu said bitterly: "Asking for help? Now how can the people of the ice and snow come over? ”

Now Qingtang is in the midst of severe cold, and there is ice and snow everywhere, not to mention fighting on horseback, it is a problem to go out on horseback.

Not to mention how to solve the supply of men and horses along the way, the reinforcements from various departments came to the rescue of Qingtang City, I am afraid that Qingtang City has already fallen.

As for Western Xia, Ali Gu shook his head even more, Western Xia defeated Pingxia City twice in a row, and it was difficult to protect himself, how could he rescue Qingtang.

Blind Zheng hurriedly said: "Father, don't panic, I waited for the Three Kingdoms to sign a peace treaty, and the Great Song Dynasty openly attacked Qingtang, Liaoxia will definitely work together to pressure the Great Song Dynasty, and my Qingtang is even more blessed by the epidemic, as long as I survive the winter offensive of the Song army, after the coming year, launch a counterattack, and the Song army will definitely have no return." ”

Blind Zheng, as the prince of Qingtang, does have some insight, if it was the previous Great Song Dynasty, according to the strategy of Blind Zheng, it would definitely have miraculous effects, but they didn't know that the strength of the Great Song Dynasty has increased greatly now, and they have found a way to crack the gas epidemic.

Ali Gu was thrilled when he heard this, and said loudly at the moment: "The Song people have a saying: Stay in Qingshan without worrying about no firewood, blind recruitment, you are responsible for staying in Qingtang, and my father and son will immediately retreat to Tibet, and when the weather gets warmer, I and my father and son will immediately counterattack the Song army." ”

"Ahh Seeing this, Blind Zheng couldn't help but be shocked and said: "Father, I'm afraid it will be difficult for the child to take on this great responsibility!" ”

"You are the prince of Qingtang, and your father now orders you to supervise the country and guard Qingtang City, remember to delay until the weather warms up, and wait for your husband to bring reinforcements to relieve the siege of Qingtang." Ali Gu directly appointed.

He was defeated twice by the Song army, especially the last time, under the Song army's Tiefutu and Kidnapping Horses, and the Qingtang cavalry had little chance to fight back.

This time the conquest of Qingtang is still a kind of Park Yaoxiong, and Ali Gu has already been frightened.

At the moment, Ali Gu handed over the defense of Qingtang City to Blind Zheng, and while the Song army had not yet besieged the city, he led a small number of elites and henchmen directly towards the hinterland of Tubo.

………………

Qingtang City!

Blind Zheng looked at the 18,000 soldiers and horses of the Song army under the city, and couldn't help but look embarrassed.

Qingtang City was defeated by the Great Song Dynasty before, and it already suffered heavy losses, coupled with the Song army sweeping the Hehuang Valley, the Qingtang tribes suffered heavy losses, and there were no reinforcements, not to mention that Ali Gu took away a lot of soldiers and horses, and the troops of Qingtang City were even weaker.

"Prince Qiyu, the Song army did not immediately attack the city." The guard of Longzhu Black City frowned.

Unexpectedly, the Song army did not attack directly like Longzhu Heicheng, but was stationed under Qingtang City.

Blind Zheng said bitterly: "If nothing else, the Song army is making siege weapons. ”

Qingtang City is the capital of Qingtang, the city wall is quite tall, as Blind Zheng guessed, there is no shortage of trees in the Hehuang Valley, the Song army took local materials, and built siege weapons on a large scale.

Floor cars, ladders! Trebuchet!

In order to make this attack on Qingtang foolproof, the ordnance supervisor has already advanced many core components behind the back, and the Song army only needs to use local materials, and in just a few days, a large number of siege weapons have been built.

"The general's siege equipment has been prepared." Yao Xiong looked at Qingtang City, which was waiting for him, and said excitedly.

"Attack!"

Chong Pu waved his hand at the moment.

With the cooperation of the trebuchet, Song Jun controlled the building car and the ladder and went straight to Qingtang City.

"Kill!"

The morale of the Song army soared and they rushed to attack the city first.

Although the Qingtang defenders fought back, the Song army, with the assistance of the Divine Arm Crossbow and the Heaven-Shaking Thunder, was directly broken by the Song army in just two days.

"Kill!"

The Song army poured into Qingtang City like a tide.

"General, there is only Prince Qingtang in the city, and there is no Ali bone!" Yao Xiong quelled the resistance in Qingtang City and hurriedly came to report.

"Ali Bone has escaped!" Chong Pu couldn't help frowning.

He originally thought that by breaking through Qingtang City and capturing Ali Gu, Qingtang could be completely recovered, but he didn't expect Ali Gu to flee without a fight, leaving the prince to blindly conquer the country.

Yao Xiong also sighed helplessly, although the Song army has completed the established results, I am afraid that it will usher in Ali Gu's counterattack.

Chong Pu shook his head and said, "It's okay, after losing Qingtang City and the land of Hehuang, Ali Gu is just a lonely ghost and a wild ghost." ”

Qingtang City and the land of Hehuang are the core of Qingtang, and without these two territories, Ali Gu is not afraid.

"What should I do with the blind signs?" Yao Xiong frowned.

Chong Pu immediately ordered: "Send someone to escort the blind expedition back to the imperial court, and at the same time subdue the surrounding tribes of Qingtang, find high ground, and let the Song army adapt to the gas epidemic, as long as there is no gas epidemic, even if Ali Gu unites with the Tibetan tribes, there is nothing to fear." ”

Yao Xiong nodded heavily.

With the surprise attack of the Song army on Qingtang, they captured Qingtang City and captured the blind expedition of the prince of Qingtang.

The news soon spread throughout the Tibetan tribes, Western Xia, and Liao.

All of a sudden, the world was shocked.

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"The Song army is attacking Qingtang?"

Xingqing Mansion is the closest to Qingtang, and Empress Dowager Xiaoliang was the first to get the news of Song Jun, and she was immediately incredulous.

Wei Ming A Wu Yu reported: "Empress Dowager Qiyu, the Qiang tribes in the land of Hehuang came to report, Chong Pu led the Song army to take advantage of the ice of the Yellow River, suddenly crossed the Yellow River, attacked Longzhu Heicheng, swept across the Hehuang Valley, Qingtang City is in danger. ”

Western Xia is also a powerful country in the northwest, and Zhuqiang naturally has a bad relationship with Western Xia, and Qingtang has undergone such a great change, so it is natural to spread the news to Western Xia as soon as possible.

"How is that possible? Now that it is a cold winter, Song Jun is not afraid of snow disasters! Nito Baozhong couldn't believe it.

The generals of Western Xia couldn't help frowning, what they were most shocked about was not that the Song army attacked Qingtang, but that the Song army sent troops in winter.

Hutian is snowing in August!

In the northwest, the cold is the biggest enemy in the marching battle, when Li Yuanhao attacked the Great Song Dynasty and won consecutive battles, but in the end because of a heavy snow and suffered heavy losses, the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang attacked the Great Song Dynasty, and also because of the sudden heavy snowfall, and the defeat returned.

And now the Song army is attacking Qingtang in the snow in the bitter winter, which is simply the most evil and violates the art of war.

Wei Ming Ah Wu said bitterly: "If it is not expected by Weichen, the biggest reliance of the Song army in winter is the cotton armor worn by the abduction horse!" ”

"Cotton armor!"

The Western Xia couldn't help but be in an uproar, the defensive power of cotton armor was not as good as iron armor, let alone compared with cold forging armor.

The Western Xia had excellent weapons and equipment, and when they learned that the Song army used cotton armor for their kidnappers and horses, they didn't think it was at all, thinking that it was just an opportunistic trick by the Song army in order to make up for the disadvantages of the war horses, but they didn't expect that the cotton armor would play such a big advantage in winter operations.

"The Song army can surprise Qingtang, will it also use this trick to spend the Yellow River in winter and attack Western Xia in the future?" Empress Dowager Xiao Liang said worriedly.

"Qingtang is naturally not better than Xixia, the high walls of Xixia City are thick, and the weapons are excellent, naturally it is not the Qingtang soldiers and horses who lack iron weapons can compare, if the Song army comes to attack, it will definitely let the Song army have no return." Wei Ming Ah Wu said proudly.

Empress Dowager Xiaoliang was a little relieved.

"Empress Dowager Qiyu, Qingtang reported urgently, Qingtang City fell, Ali Gu fled back to the hinterland of Tubo, and the prince was captured blindly!" Suddenly, Liang Yiqi hurriedly said.

"The Song army actually has such combat power!"

The ministers of Western Xia couldn't help but gasp.

Liang Yikui couldn't help but smile bitterly, his marriage with Ali Gu was to marry his daughter to Blind Zheng, and now the Song army has captured Blind Zheng and disrupted all his plans.

"What's more important now is that Qingtang is broken, how can I deal with it in Xixia!" Wei Ming Ah Wu frowned.

Empress Dowager Xiaoliang said coldly: "The Song army suddenly attacked Qingtang, it must be for the battle of Pingxia City, the union of Qingtang and Western Xia, and now Qingtang is in trouble, if Western Xia sends troops to help, it can just take revenge with one arrow, and it can completely move Qingtang closer to Western Xia." ”

Regarding the attack on the Great Song Dynasty, Qingtang has always been a snake and rat at both ends, when the Western Xia is strong, Qingtang will take the opportunity to take advantage, and when the Great Song Dynasty is strong, Qingtang will fall to the Great Song Dynasty.

Now that the Great Song Dynasty has sent troops to attack Qingtang, it will definitely make Qingtang completely fall to the Western Xia side.

"The Queen Mother is wise!"

Liang Yikui arched his hand.

Qingtang was his ally, and he was naturally inclined to send troops from Western Xia.

Wei Ming Ah Wu hurriedly dissuaded: "The Queen Mother can't, it is taboo to use troops in winter, our army has no cotton armor, I am afraid it will be difficult to resist the cold." ”

Renduo Baozhong also smiled bitterly: "Our army has just been defeated, and it has suffered heavy losses, I am afraid it will be difficult to form an army, and the Song army has not attacked Western Xia, if Western Xia sends troops, I am afraid that it will violate the peace treaty between the two countries, and I am afraid that it will not be able to explain to Liao." ”

The battle of Pingxia City, the Western Xia was defeated, and the Liao State reluctantly promoted the peace treaty in order to contain the Song State in the Western Xia, if the Western Xia took the initiative to attack the Great Song Dynasty, it would be equivalent to tearing up the peace treaty again, and I am afraid that it would offend the Song and Liao countries again.

Empress Dowager Xiaoliang was suddenly angry, the Liao State may not value Qingtang, but for Western Xia, Qingtang is the top priority.

If the Song army occupied Qingtang, the Western Xia would be under attack, and the situation would be even worse.

"However, after all, the Liao State does not want to see the Great Song Dynasty too powerful, and the Queen Mother should immediately send an envoy to the Liao State to put pressure on the Great Song Dynasty together with the Liao State, so that it can be released from the blind expedition and withdraw from Qingtang." Liang Yiqi proposed.

Wei Ming Ah Wu continued: "Now that Ali Gu has retreated to the hinterland of Tubo, he will definitely secretly seek a counterattack, and now that I can't send troops in Western Xia, why not hand over five hundred cold forging armor to Ali Gu, and then help Qingtang." ”

Liang Yiwei looked at Wei Ming Ah Wu angrily, in order to contain him, Wei Ming Ah Wu deliberately stuck the cold forging armor, and now the Qingtang prince who married the Liang family's concubine has been captured by the Song army, and the five hundred cold forging armor was delivered to Qingtang, which did not benefit him at all.

"Accurate!" Empress Dowager Xiaoliang waved her hand at the moment.

At the moment, the Western Xia prepared with both hands, on the one hand, supporting Qingtang with weapons and armor, and on the other hand, immediately reporting to the Liao State on the military situation of the Song army's troops.

When Emperor Yelu Hongji of Liao received an urgent report from Western Xia, it was already after the Lantern Festival.

"The Song army attacked Qingtang!"

When Yelu Hongji saw this urgent report, he couldn't help frowning.

Qingtang's life and death are irrelevant to him, what really cares him is the Song army's reliance on winter battles.

"Cotton armor?" Yelu Hongji frowned.

The Liao State is located in the north, and the winter is extremely cold, so it is impossible to fight at all, and the Song army actually created a precedent for winter warfare, how can he not be sideways.

"This should be the masterpiece of the evil doctor Fan Zheng!" Yelu Yanxi affirmed.

Since the evil doctor Fan Zheng was born, almost all the unreasonable things have come from his hands.

"Da Liao should also have his own cotton armor!" Yeluhongji Road.

"But the intelligence of Western Xia shows that the defensive power of cotton armor is not as good as that of iron armor!" Yelu Yanxi frowned.

"There must be losses and gains, the winter battle alone is enough to make the Liao State infinitely useful, the Great Song Dynasty equipped cotton armor to guard against the Liao State, but I didn't know that the Liao State also needed cotton armor to deter the Jurchen and other tribes who were more resistant to bitter cold." Yelu Hongji looked worriedly to the northeast and northwest.

On the east and west sides of the Liao State, the Jurchen tribes in the northwest and the northeast are growing stronger, and as the overlord of the grassland, the Liao State naturally attaches great importance to the threat of these two tribes, after all, the Khitan was so strong in the first place.

"Grandson understands!"

Yelu Yanxi nodded slightly and said, "Regarding the request of Western Xia, how should the Liao Kingdom respond." ”

"Naturally, at the invitation of the Western Xia, I reprimanded the Song army for innocently raising troops, but there is no need to make a big move, what we need is to contain the Great Song Dynasty and let the Great Song Dynasty fall into the quagmire of war, whether the Great Song Dynasty fights with the Western Xia or Qingtang, there is no difference." Yelu Hongji sneered.

In Yelu Hongji's view, Qingtang is not isolated, it is a relatively powerful part of the Tubo tribes, and now that the Song army is attacking Qingtang, the Tubo tribes will definitely not give up, and this battle will definitely not end so easily.

"Grandfather is wise!"

Yelu Yanxi admired.

(End of chapter)