During the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, Helian Bobo was called the King of Xia, built the capital of ten thousand cities, destroyed the country of the Northern Wei Dynasty, changed the ten thousand cities to Xiazhou, and governed Yanlu County; Sui changed Shuofang County here, and the Tang Dynasty was restored to Xiazhou. During the Tang Dynasty, Tuoba Sigong, the leader of the Party Department, was appointed as the envoy of the Xiazhou Festival by the imperial court, because of the meritorious service of the Pinghuangchao Uprising, once regained Chang'an, and was given the surname Li again, and was named the Duke of Xia, and the town of Xiazhou was carried out for generations;

In the Xiazhou Prefecture Yali, Ren Dejing faced his generals and said with a serious face: "Yang Zhixi has already occupied the four prefectures of Huozhou and Hetao, and almost all of them have been lost to the east and north of the Yellow River, and this situation is very serious, because we can't be sure where the enemy will come from. There are too many narrow places suitable for crossing the Yellow River in this area, and we do not have enough troops to deploy defenses in the Yellow River, so we must continue to resist Qizhou. Li Gongliang, you go to the Guye River camp, and I will replenish you with 10,000 people. ”

Li Gongliang stood up and said: "The last general understands that Yang Zhi is so quick that our army does not even have time to fight back, and now Qizhou cannot be lost, in case the northern army is only opening the way for the Song army, and the last army to rush over is the army of the Song army, so Yang Zhi must be stopped east of the Yellow River and wait for the opportunity to take Qizhou; if Yang Zhi forcibly advances westward, I will attack the Volcano Army." ”

Li Gongliang's thinking was very clear, Ren Dejing nodded with satisfaction and said: "Yang Zhi is not very old, but he is a rare famous general, he has the style of Li Mu in the past, he must not be underestimated, the opportunity for him to choose is very good, it is that we and Yelu Yujian and the Jin people are powerless, we can only wait for the Jin army to enter the Hetao or attack the clouds to have a chance, and now the imperial court has ordered the difficult army to come to reinforcements, and the final victory will definitely belong to us." ”

Neither Xiazhou nor Qizhou expected that Yang Zhi would directly cross the Yellow River to attack Jingzhou, and Yue Fei suddenly went south on the way to the east, and joined Yang Zhi under the city of Jingzhou. At this moment, the two of them were looking at Jingzhou City not far away from the hill. The city of Jingzhou is not big, it is the barrier of the north of Xiazhou, it is 750 meters long from north to south, 500 meters wide from east to west, the city wall made of earth ramming, there are city gates and urn cities on the east, south and west sides, there are defensive facilities such as corner towers and horse faces on the city wall; there are 3,000 Western Xia troops in the city, including the Western Xia army that withdrew from the south of the Heqing army.

Yue Fei and Yang Zhi frowned after looking at the terrain: "If we don't have engineering equipment, we really can't attack." ”

Yang Zhi smiled and said: "Pengju, this city is not strong, let my own soldiers take action, and take this city tomorrow." ”

Yue Fei saw that Yang Zhi's personal soldiers, under the command of Wang Gang and Cao Zheng, were building the proposed chariot and covering it on the wooden frame with cowhide, and suddenly woke up: "Senior brother is going to use gunpowder. ”

Yang Zhi nodded and said: "If it is a stone city wall, it is difficult to dig a hole and install gunpowder, but the civil city wall is easy to dig a hole under the tools made of iron. The envoys sent by the Western Xia to the Song Dynasty were all arranged in Jingzhou, and when Shuozhou was first conquered, Zhu Wu copied the map of Jingzhou, and handed it over to you if the city was captured. "Little Snail Chinese Network

Yue Fei was overjoyed and said, "As long as the city wall is blown up, everything depends on me." ”

At dawn, the north wind was howling, and the wind and sand were rolling up all over the sky, and Yue Fei could see with the naked eye the three rough outlines dug up by Che Xitu with the masters of the rivers and lakes, and immediately ordered the siege of the city; the Dingbei army only had a few simple ladders, and they pretended to pose in an offensive posture, which made the Western Xia army at the head of the city laugh. When the two sides exchanged fires, Cao Zheng led people to hide under the camouflaged chariot and rushed to the city wall, and constantly corrected and expanded the three holes according to the requirements of burying gunpowder, and was busy until noon to bury the gunpowder.

The 4,000 people who were really ready to attack the city had already had a full meal, and immediately replaced the feint attack under the command of Yue Fei, and the Western Xia army in the city thought that the Song army was going to attack the city again, Cao Zheng and others lit the gunpowder and fled back without their lives, Yang Zhi watched the line of fire burn all the way in the telescope, and then the gunpowder in three places exploded almost at the same time, Yue Fei gave an order, the war drums sounded, and the Dingbei army swarmed up.

The city wall collapsed at once, the most important thing is that the Xixia army on the city wall fell to death and overturned countless times, even the living Xixia soldiers did not understand what was going on, and the Dingbei army had already entered the city in a daze; Yue Fei rushed into the city only to find that even the Xixia army in the nearby streets and alleys did not react, and the Dingbei army was killed until the gate of the Jingzhou Supervisory Army Division only encountered stubborn resistance, but at this time the city gate had been opened, and Yang Zhi led the whole army to rush into the city.

The Western Xia army did not have any fierce generals, and they were not opponents at all when they met Yue Fei and Yang Yi, but they were completely defeated by the Dingbei army after resisting for half an hour, and only more than 400 horsemen escaped from the city, and the rest were all trapped in the city, and the whole city was full of cheers from the Dingbei army. The Dingbei Army not only captured more than 1,000 Western Xia troops, but also the Jingzhou Military Supervision Department specially supplied supplies for the four states of Hetao, and it was also a yamen that was not short of money, in addition to more than 2,000 war horses, there were 4,000 sets of unused armor and saddles, a large number of arrows, weapons, food, and so on.

Yanzhou is in Xiazhou, Yinzhou, Xiping, Jingzhou, Jingzhou was conquered by the Dingbei Army, Yanzhou's Xingliao Army can not only contact with the Xingliao Army north of the Yellow River, but also directly border with the Dingbei Army, can transport the green salt eastward, through Jingzhou, the Yellow River, Huozhou directly to Shuozhou. Since the Western Xia had not originally envisaged any war between Yanzhou and Jingzhou, the post road was the same, and there were no castles along the way.

It's just that Jingzhou itself is a city divided from Yinzhou, and from the perspective of using troops, Yinzhou is now under the control of the Song army and the Dingbei army on three sides, but the Dingbei army and the Song army are not the same thing, and they can't expect to send troops together; Yang Zhi sighed wistfully and said: "Accumulate grain and build a high wall, we can only complete the dream of capturing Xiazhou when we go on the next expedition." ”

Yue Fei and Yang Zhi had discussed the situation of the Jin army going south many times in Jincheng, and they knew Yang Zhi's plan, after stabilizing the western front, they would wait for an opportunity to kill the Taihang Mountain and go straight to Hebei, occupy Xiangzhou and other prefectures and counties surrounding the Taihang Mountain, and let the Jin army suffer from the enemy; Yue Fei shook his head and said: "Senior brother, to stabilize the western front, the three states outside the river must be captured first, otherwise once the Jin army sends troops, it can easily cut off the Hetao and Yunzhong, and even detour from Fuzhou to Taiyuan. In fact, if you can't occupy the entire Hedong, it will be meaningless to defend Taiyuan, it is better to start as soon as possible, as for Hebei, there is no need to worry, Bianliang will continue to arrange officials to go north, we just arrive, and those people may not listen to us. ”