Dayu 5th year spring, February.

Dong Huang worshiped Fazheng as the generalissimo of the expedition to the west, commanding 450,000 troops and soldiers to attack Xia in five ways.

From north to south and from east to west, the first road was led by Lejin, commanding the legions of Yu Ban, Li Tong, Zhe Keqiu, Zhe Yanzhi, etc., with a total strength of about 150,000 people, attacking Xiazhou from the direction of Linzhou and Fuzhou.

The second road was led by Zhang Ren, commanding Wang Ping, Pu Hu, Gao Pei, Lei and other troops, with a total strength of about 100,000 people, attacking Yinzhou from Suizhou.

After the two sides have completed the set objectives, they will continue to attack westward.

The third road was led by Huang Zhong, commanding Xiahoudun, Xu Shu, Zhao Qu, Huang Xu, Wu Li and other troops, with a total strength of about 150,000 people, attacking Weizhou and Lingzhou from Huanzhou.

The fourth road was led by Xiahou Yuan, commanding Yan Xing, Liang Kuan, Fu Gan, Zan Tongmei and other troops, with a total strength of about 70,000 people, attacking Huizhou from Lanzhou.

The fifth road was led by Guo Huai, commanding Fan Quan, Sun An, E Quanzhong and other troops, with a total strength of about 30,000 troops, and harassed Liangzhou from Xining.

The Five Route Army attacked almost simultaneously, which immediately made the Western Xia court mourn.

The Western Xia had just fought with the Song State the year before last, although it won, but it did not reap any benefits, but because of the war with the Song State that lasted for nearly half a year, the Zoroastrian power in the territory increased greatly, and in a blink of an eye, it had already plagued one-tenth of the population of the Western Xia.

After that, Western Xia had to fight with these Zoroastrian fanatics, but the cities of these guys were in treacherous places, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it took Li Qianshun a lot of effort to destroy them.

Until now, it has only been wiped out by nine-tenths, and this has seriously affected the agricultural production of the Western Xia, and the Western Xia, where all the people are soldiers, has long been exhausted.

Just a month before Dong Huang sent out his troops, Western Xia had just disbanded most of the troops, and now Dong Huang's army is coming again!

Li Qianshun, the lord of the Western Xia Kingdom, felt that he was going crazy.

Li Qianshun had to call up the army again.

In Li Qianshun's view, the Dayu Army's five-way expedition to summer is quite a bit of the flavor of the Great Song Dynasty's five-way expedition to summer, you must know that the Great Song Dynasty was a fiasco back then.

At that time, the strategy adopted by the Western Xia was to lure the enemy deeper, block it with a fortified city, and then cut off its grain routes.

The generals such as the lord Li Qianshun and Wei Mingchage and Li Liangfu all felt that they could replicate the battle examples against the Song Dynasty, and decided to take the Lejin Division, Zhang Renbu and Huang Zhong as a breakthrough first, and as for the partial divisions of the Xiahou Yuan Department and the Guo Huai Division, Li Qianshun, who was short of troops, decided to let it go and wait until the main force of the Dayu Army was defeated before making plans.

Li Qianshun once again recruited about 350,000 soldiers who could fight across the country, handed over 250,000 to Brother Wei Mingcha to deal with Le Jinjun and Zhang Renjun, and handed over 100,000 to Li Liangfu to resist Huang Zhong's subordinates, and at the same time, sent people to ask Da Liao's father for help.

In March, the Wei Ming Cha Ge Department fought with the Lejin Department in Xiazhou, but he did not fight.

Huang Zhong's troops seized Xiaoguan, Meiliqi, and Pingxia, and confronted Li Liang's auxiliary troops on the front line of Weizhou.

Because of the gap in soldiers' morale and equipment, Li Liangfu did not dare to take the initiative to attack.

Xiahou Yuan's troops conquered the city of Saqizong and besieged Huizhou (Jingyuan, Gansu).

In early April, Guo Huai's troops attacked Liangzhou (Wuwei, Gansu).

Throughout April, the Western Xia army and the Dayu army fought fiercely, each with its own victories and defeats.

The Western Xia army has not found a suitable time to go around.

This made the Western Xia high-level anxious.

Because of the conscription of large armies for many years, the Western Xia has delayed spring plowing for two years, and the soldiers, especially the tribal soldiers, are also very tired, especially as the weather gradually gets hotter, the fear of war in the Western Xia army is even worse.

As the most outstanding general in Western Xia, Brother Wei Mingcha became more and more uneasy.

He knew very well that the Western Xia, which had been fighting for many years, really couldn't fight a protracted war. The previous battle with the Great Song Dynasty could only be said to have hurt the skin, but the war against Zoroastrianism hurt the roots.

Under normal circumstances, against the nearly 500,000 troops of the Han people, the Western Xia would have to raise at least 500,000 troops, but the current Western Xia can no longer afford to recruit 500,000 troops.

"I really envy the Han people, you can easily gather an army of 500,000!"

Brother Wei Mingcha couldn't help but sigh.

However, what Brother Wei Mingcha didn't know was that Dong Huang's army of nearly 500,000 was actually just a front.

Dong Huang's real killer is the 350,000 army led by Dong Huang himself.

The so-called five-way summer attack is just a smoke bomb released to Dong Huang's army in one fell swoop.

In this world, only Dayu can have the luxury of investing 500,000 soldiers and 500,000 people, just to cover the main force.

Dong Huang, who occupied the essence of the Liao State and most of the area north of the Yangtze River in the Great Song Dynasty, had a total strength of 2 million people after nearly a year of repairing and running-in.

Dong Huang even deliberately divided 60,000 tiger troops and a large number of fourth-order summoned troops, and in the newly organized army, more than half of the grassroots officers and the vast majority of middle and high-level officer positions were ensured, thus ensuring the loyalty and combat effectiveness of these troops.

This time, Dong Huang attacked Xia, Dong Huang directly mobilized 800,000 troops, more than 1 million people, more than 1.5 million livestock, and the military strength can be said to be more generous than when he fought the Song State before, in order to destroy the Western Xia in one fell swoop.

If it is said that in history, the Great Song Dynasty spent a hundred years to launch wars against the Western Xia many times and failed to destroy the Western Xia, it is because the Great Song Dynasty's own factors accounted for most of it; Then even Temujin fought five times to defeat Western Xia, which shows the tenacity of this country.

But Dong Huang didn't want to fight five times, he wanted to make a contribution in one fell swoop, unify the East as soon as possible, and then start the global war mode.

Therefore, Dong Huang mobilized so many troops, in order to overwhelm Mount Tai and win or lose a battle.

In late April, Dong Huang's main force of 350,000 elites, one man and three horses, and carried a large number of siege equipment, grain and grass supplies with horse-drawn carriages and other animal power, and entered the territory of Western Xia from Xijing through the grassland outside the Yellow River.

After that, the army moved south along the Helan Mountain and the Yellow River, and penetrated into Xingqing City (now Yinchuan), the capital of Western Xia.

The sudden change made the ministers of Western Xia completely dumbfounded.

Li Qianshun didn't expect that Da Yu would not play his cards according to the routine, and he would not fight in the summer on five roads, and the main force would come from the north for a big detour. And the north was precisely the weakest place in the Western Xia defenses.

Because he was so good with Da Liao that he was about to wear a pair of pants, and because the war on the southern and eastern fronts was tight, Li Qianshun not only did not increase the strength of the Weifu Military Division of Montenegro, but instead transferred his military strength to less than 5,000. As a result, as soon as the Dayu army came, Western Xia was completely blinded.

At this time, the total strength of Xingqing City was only about 30,000 people, even if all the people were soldiers, they could only make up 100,000 people to defend the city wall, but the elite level of the soldiers was really worrying.

"What can I do about it!"

Li Qianshun was almost white-headed overnight.

"Your Majesty, don't panic, Da Liao will definitely come to save us!"

Li Qianshun's queen Yelu Nanxian said with great confidence.

(End of chapter)