At the end of the third year of Shaosheng, in mid-November. After returning to Yan'an Mansion for replenishment, the Zhenjiang Army was dispatched to Jingyuan Road to support Zhang and ensure that Zhang's operation could be carried out smoothly.

At the same time, a large number of fortification materials were also transported. Tang Ning didn't know what this was for, but Zhang asked for it, thinking that he was going to build a city on the front line to resist the attack of the Tanguts.

After the decisive battle of Yan'an, the number of Zhenjiang troops was reduced from 18,000 to 15,000. Lu Huiqing is quite particular, and he scraped together 5,000 people to Tang Ning, which can be regarded as compensation for Tang Ning.

There were also a thousand cavalry among them, which surprised Tang Ning inexplicably, and he almost hugged Lu Huiqing's thigh and said Big brother, I will mess with you in the future.

As a result, when receiving the soldiers, Downing found that the thousand cavalry did not bring horses at all, and their horses had to be obtained for them themselves.

So Tang Ning's good impression of Lu Huiqing was gone, and he even spit on this person.

After arriving at Jingyuan Road, Zhang came out to meet Tang Ning. Although the old man said that he wanted to see Tang Ning, after he came out, his eyes did not stay on Tang Ning for long.

walked straight to the cart that escorted the construction materials, and after inspecting it, he freed up his hand to catch up with Tang Ning.

Four years ago, Downing and he were acquaintances. This old man said something very pertinent to himself, which has been used by Tang Ning to this day.

Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that Zhang is half a teacher for him.

However, Zhang's mind didn't seem to be on Tang Ning, and after saying a few words, he asked the secretary of Jingyuan Road Jiedu, who came with him, to settle everyone down, and then hurriedly returned to the mansion.

He seemed to have something to do, and Downing understood.

Zhang's movements on Jingyuan Road were not too big, and the soldiers were only active in the territory of the Song Dynasty. The Tangut people had just suffered a defeat and did not dare to act rashly.

Jingyuan Road does not have many troops, and it is also the same. As a result, the Tangut people could only follow the vanguard army deployed on the front line by Zhang, staring at each other across the border, and occasionally scolding a few words with their waists crossed.

This situation was not until the beginning of the fourth year of Shaosheng, when Zhang transported the prepared materials for building the city to the border and began to build Shimen City and Haoshui River.

At the same time, in order to prevent the Western Xia people from harassing the fortified city, Zhang asked the rest of the roads to feint to contain the main force of the Xia army.

Lü Huiqing ordered Liu Fa to send troops to plunder Hongzhou on Hengshan, and Sun Lu sent his troops to capture Yanzhou and occupy it. Zhong Chuan made a lot of noise on the outskirts of Lanzhou, and he began to build Jincheng Pass on the north bank of the Yellow River to threaten the right wing soldiers of Western Xia.

Although in addition to them, the Song army in the entire Shaanxi Province made many efforts, but still did not let the Western Xia people relax their vigilance against Jingyuan Road.

The location at the stone gate of Tiandu Mountain is too important, and the Xixia people say that they don't want to lose this place.

So after that, the Western Xia general Mei Le Dukui led the six branches of Ganzhou, Youxiang, Zhuoluo, Weizhou, Zhongzhai and Tiandu Mountain in the twelve superintendent army divisions, and sent troops to attack the Song military headquarters

Combat units stationed on Jingyuan Road.

The matter has come to this point, and the other roads naturally cannot sit idly by.

Qinfeng Road, Xihe Road and Huanqing Road each sent 10,000 troops to support Jingyuan Road.

Counting Tangning's Zhenjiang Army, as well as the strength of Jingyuan Road itself, Jingyuan Road has now gathered 80,000 soldiers, which can be worthy of a battle.

The wind is sluggish and the water is cold, and the strong man will never return. When Zhang led his soldiers to the border of the territory, a war unsurprisingly began.

Twenty miles outside the stone gate, a slightly high slope plain is where the Song army and the Xia army fought.

The Song army occupied the highest place in the entire area, and then began to shoot arrows at the Xia army.

Because Wei Ming Ah Wu returned to China after defeat, and recounted the scenes encountered in this battle, Mei Le Duqi knew that the Song army would use drought mines to carry out large-scale killing.

Therefore, he specially trained his soldiers to form a scattered formation, and when the arrows that led the mines fell, they immediately avoided the area, and tried to avoid damage as much as possible.

This method worked well, and when fighting against Ah Wu, a single gunpowder arrow could kill at least four enemies. By the time we arrived at Maidus, a single arrow could only inflict damage on a maximum of four enemies.

But you have a good plan, and I have a wall ladder. Tang Ning had been on Jingyuan Road for four months, how could he not be prepared at all?

He ordered his subordinates to use the Tiger Squat Cannon, so after Ling Zhen calibrated it, he shouted out the elevation. The operator of the Tiger Squat Cannon immediately adjusted, and then Ling Zhen shouted to fire, so the twenty Tiger Squat Cannons threw out the powder cannons whose fuses had been ignited.

Seeing this situation from afar, a sneer appeared in her heart. The Song people really don't know what to do, and they have already seen through your attack methods, do you still want to use this to defeat our army?

What a fantasy! What about Lei Gong's help? You cowardly lambs are destined to become rations for the offspring of steppe wolves......

Just thinking of this, Mei Le Duqi saw the thunder pendant flying out of the Song army's formation, and exploded above the Xia army's military formation.

Sister Le Du wanted to laugh, now even Lei Gong is unwilling to help them, Lei Yin has not fallen to the ground is a thunder, isn't this the best proof?

Poor Song Dog, surrender honestly, maybe my sister Le Duqi will spare your life.

He was thinking with pity, when he suddenly saw that where the thunder blew out, Xia Jun fell one by one.

"What's going on?!" His eyes were so stunned that he couldn't even believe his eyes.

The adjutant was also sweating profusely, and his sister asked him, who did he ask? So he hurriedly sent a herald to investigate the situation, and in a short time a small soldier came to Meile Du with the body of a fallen soldier on his back.

She asked the soldier to place the corpse on the ground and glanced at the corpse's face and head.

The corpse's head was covered with rusty pieces of iron, and there were quite a few on its face. In addition, there are many projectiles smaller than the nails, embedded in his body.

With a trembling hand, she removed one of the projectiles from the corpse and placed it in her hand.

He suddenly remembered the thunderbolts that exploded above Xia Jun's head, and he couldn't help but tremble.

At the same time, the Tiger Squat Cannon was fired again, and the Xia army, which was charging, suffered another catastrophe.

Seeing this, the sister Le Duqi couldn't suppress her emotions anymore, threw the projectile to the ground, and roared: "This is a bullshit drought thunder!" Wei Ming Ah Wu hurt me!! ”

He then told the heralds to inform the front-line soldiers that if the Song army dropped that kind of thing again, they would raise their shields to protect their heads.

The order was quickly conveyed, and when the tiger squat cannon was projected again, the Xia army immediately stopped in place, formed a formation with a shield, and protected his head.

Seeing this, Tang Ning said in his heart that this sister Le Duqi deserves to be a famous general, and she still has some ability, and her reaction is indeed very fast.

But it's still the same sentence, you have a good plan, I have a wall ladder. Tang Ning ordered that all the eight bull crossbows be pushed out......

After two rounds of the Eight Bull Crossbows were fired, the Xia army that rushed over had already been blown up. The Western Xia cavalry that came from both sides to attack the flanks of the Song army were also startled by the sound of gunpowder explosions.

So Downing ordered the infantry to charge at this time, and the crossbowmen continued to suppress long-range fire.

Zhang sat in the big city in the rear, and there was no on-site observation. However, Yao Xiong and Zhen Keshi, these two people really saw it.

The two of them scratched their heads vigorously, only to feel that their scalps were numb. Downing's way of fighting is really contrary to their battlefield experience.

It turned out that the destruction of the enemy in the path of the charge was not just a matter of talking, and it turned out that the ratio of archers to melee infantry in the army was three to one, and it was not groundless.

The power of gunpowder completely subverted the two people's perception of the battlefield, and although Zhi Keshi had experienced it, it was the first time he had seen this kind of fragmented gunpowder bag.

As soon as there was a sound, a group of people fell like leeks, and the killing efficiency was even higher than that of a team, and there was no risk at all.

The rest of the Song soldiers were also somewhat in a trance, even including the soldiers of the Zhenjiang Army.

"The Lord's Thunder Law is really getting more and more mysterious......"

"Don't talk nonsense, you and I both know it's gunpowder, not some bullshit. That's what my old cownose used to fool us around, and now that I think about it, it was so stupid back then......"

"Yikes! Be careful when you speak, don't be listened to by Daoist Pei! ”

"What are you two doing! Didn't you hear the Lord giving the order to charge? Don't mumble here, give it to me! ”

"Yes! Kill! ”

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