The 20,000 Dingyan army led by Ye Liguang were all veterans of a hundred battles, and they couldn't help but feel a burst of joy in their hearts when they watched Yang Zhi and Li Yanxian's army go to Suizhou and disappear on the horizon; Wu'er Siqi's army really did not evade the spies of the Dingbei army, and Yang Zhi clearly wanted to set a trap for the Western Xia army in Suizhou. Finally, his people marched at night and came to the outside of Youzhou City at risk, and at a critical moment, they won a chance for Daxia.

The scouts of the Western Xia army are all good hands, and they can fully see that the neat pace and movements of the expeditionary army are all battle-hardened elites; Ye Liguang nodded with satisfaction after asking, and turned to ask the leader of the cave department beside him, Qi Qiqiong, who was the inner response: "Is the chief sure that Yang Zhi's 30,000 infantry army is ambushed between Youzhou and Suizhou?"

Qi Qiqiong nodded and said: "Sure, the Dingbei Army is divided into five routes, and the closest to Suizhou is less than seventy miles, Yang Zhi clearly can't guess the movement of our army, so he has made two preparations, both to reinforce Suizhou, but also to return to Youzhou, this person is cautious in using troops and really deserves his reputation, but unfortunately this time he was also calculated by the general." Youzhou is facing Lingzhou, and Qu Duan and Liu Ziyu's army is all in the east, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

Qi Qiqiong hoped to get a piece of the pie when the Western Xia army recovered Youzhou, which was naturally a good thing to say, but Ye Liguang was not a fool, and he was much clearer about the current situation between Song and Xia than Qi Qiqiong, and said with a wry smile: "If Yang Zhi is ruthless enough, General Wu'er Siqi is there, I am afraid it will be difficult to retreat with his whole body." We laid down Youzhou, just to understand the siege of Lingzhou, and we can only take one step at a time. What you have to do is to transfer the people to Xingzhou as soon as possible. ”

Ye Li is light is kind intentions, knowing that if the two armies really fight to the death, or fall into the offensive and defensive battle of the city, Yang Zhi's means are invincible, and Wu'er Siqi's idea is to exchange space for time, even if Youzhou is defeated, sooner or later it will be lost. If the Cave Department stays near Youzhou, it will definitely be liquidated by Yang Zhi and retreat to Xingzhou, which can be regarded as an explanation to Qiqiqiong, which is also in line with Daxia's idea of gathering the population now.

Qi Qiqiong nodded, and two horsemen galloped in the distance, and saw Ye Liguang announce: "The Dingbei Army is already thirty miles away. ”

"Okay, all the troops. Ye Liguang gave an order, and 20,000 Western Xia troops and more than 4,000 soldiers from the cave department came from the hidden place

Fang came out and screamed to Youzhou. However, the thousands of bows and arrows on the head of the city caught the Western Xia army off guard, and almost in an instant, the people turned on their backs; the clansmen of the cave tribe were the reserves, responsible for transporting the siege equipment that had been secretly built, but they were attacked by Wu Lan's 4,000 cavalry, and watching the firelight appear on the flank, Ye Liguang had a bad feeling.

Qu Duan stood at the head of the city, smiling gloomily, making the soldiers around him a little hairy, they had seen Qu Duan's same expression, but it was a precursor to someone's bad luck. When Qu Duan saw the fire, he knew that the Xixia people had lost, and everything was in the expectation of his eldest brother, so he just smiled, roared hoarsely, hid behind a bunker, and watched the soldiers defend the city wall, shooting the Xixia troops under the city wall one by one. Hua Heng College

The pressure on both sides erupted in an instant, and they both knew that they had no way out, and only by killing their opponents could they end the battle. The mood of the Dingbei Army is obviously much better than that of the Western Xia Army, and Wu Lan's reinforcements have appeared in sight, even if Wu Lan did not enter the Western Xia Army, but only pulled the attack of the Western Xia Army on the flank, but it still gave people the illusion that the other party was surrounded by himself.

The battle only lasted for half an hour, and you could feel the trembling of the ground, and Song Xia understood on both sides that this was not an illusion, and Yang Zhi's cavalry had already killed them in two ways. There was no need to report at all, the speed of the cavalry of the Dingbei Army was amazingly fast, no less than the cavalry of Western Xia; Ye Liguang understood that he was too wrong, and with the Song army in the city to respond, Yang Zhi only needed to transfer back the cavalry to form an effective encirclement of himself, and he didn't care whether the infantry army could arrive or not.

Suddenly, an exclamation sounded, and Ye Liguang followed the fingers of the soldiers, and ten huge balloons floated out of the city; this is a legendary killing weapon, even if the Xiazhou army did not catch up with the battle in Gyeongju, they have heard of the horror of this weapon. Before Ye could react, the balloons flying above the Western Xia army had begun to throw thunderbolts downward, and at the same time, the city gates opened, and thousands of Dingbei troops slaughtered out of the city.

The sound of the explosion was mixed with a huge air current, the Western Xia army collapsed almost in a few breaths, the men and horses clashed and trampled on each other, more than half of the Western Xia army chose to retreat, and most of the soldiers who were besieging the city did not even have time to escape back to the side of the war horse, they were surrounded and killed by the Dingbei army. Among the army, this is the most taboo, as soon as the morale is discharged, even if Sun Wu is alive, he is powerless to turn the tide of the war.

Notoshi knew that he had no power to return to heaven, so he had to arrange for a rear army of 5,000 cavalry to fight a way so that the army could break through, but soon found that it was a mistake and instead allowed his army to be divided and surrounded by the Dingbei army. Yang Zhi stood on a high place to command, the flag fluttered, Li Yanxian, Chen Guang, Wu Luan, Yang Zhongwu four armies clashed separately, fierce battle for two hours, the 20,000 Western Xia troops and the Cave Department who participated in the battle were all annihilated, Ye Liguang was captured alive, the Western Xia army was killed 11,000 people, and more than 16,000 people were captured.

Before the smoke of the battlefield had dissipated, Yang Zhi immediately ordered Qu Duan and Chen Guang to attack Xiazhou, and Wu Lan was responsible for attacking the Cave Department. Looking at Qu Duan's banner drifting away, Li Yanxian asked Yang Zhi suspiciously: "Yang Shuai, I don't understand, after the great victory of our army, we should go to Suizhou to reinforce and eliminate Wu'er Siqi's Western Xia army, if Wu'er Siqi returns to Xiazhou now, Qu Shuai will be very dangerous." ”

"At best, it's nothing. Yang Zhi said with a smile: "Our key is Youzhou and Lingzhou, Suizhou is not our jurisdiction, or reinforcements, and it is not something I can say; if we arrive, Wu'er Siqi has already occupied Suizhou, and it will not take us a day or two to attack the city, what should we do on the side of Youzhou? If we lose Youzhou, the responsibility must lie with me and Quduan, so I can't take this risk." Even if the Western Xia occupied Suizhou, it would only be a remnant, and in the midst of heavy troops, even if they had three heads and six arms, they would no longer be able to escape. ”

Li Yanxian sighed, in this case, Suizhou must be lost, and the next morning he got the news from Suizhou, the defenders held out until midnight, the city was broken, and Ma Shen was captured. At noon, news came from Xiazhou that Qu Duan used Ye Liguang to pretend to be the Western Xia army to deceive Kaicheng and seize Xiazhou, and Chen Guang was currently attacking the last Changze County.