In the Sanya Forbidden Army, the two armies of Xiaojie and Youyi of the Dianqian Division, the three armies of Zhongrui, Weibian and Kerong of the Ma Military Division, and the four armies of Xiongwu, Xiaoshun, Changning and Jinyong of the Infantry Division, totaling more than 50,000 men and horses, all arrived in Lanzhou in batches and stationed in advance. After Zhao Chen officially issued the order, Yang Yan led the three armies of Xuanfeng, Xuanfeng, and Shengjie of the front division of the palace, and the first army of the Ma Jun Division, with a total of nearly 32,000 men and horses from Jiankang and rushed to Lanzhou.

This time, Jiankang's Sanya forbidden army dispatched a total of more than 83,000 horses, including nearly 30,000 cavalry, including 5,000 armored cavalry and more than 700 war elephants. Twenty pieces of artillery, and a number of other firearms.

Among the soldiers and horses in the Sichuan-Shaanxi area, all the men and horses of the Lanzhou Imperial Front Garrison will be mobilized, and then 15,000 men and 10,000 horses will be drawn from the Chengzhou Imperial Front Garrison and the Jinzhou Imperial Front Garrison respectively, for a total of 55,000 men and horses. Together with the more than 80,000 people of the forbidden army, these 140,000 troops will constitute the main force of this attack on Western Xia.

In terms of the main generals, Gao Zhen will go to Lanzhou with Yang Yan and will serve as the chief general of the Eastern Route Army attacking Xia, while the chief general of the Western Route Army, Yang Yan will be appointed by Yang Changpeng, the commander of the Lanzhou Imperial Garrison. At the same time, because Zhao Yueru, who is pregnant, is now unable to go to war with the army, this time the entire Jingyan army also stayed in Jiankang and was not going out with the army. And in order to take care of the family, Yang Yan also left Zhang Wei behind.

At the same time, because of the need to prevent the Jin army from attacking the Western Xia region during the Great Song Dynasty, Yang Yan was afraid that Bi Zaiyu would be alone on the front line of Jianghuai, so he left Cao Xun to help Bi Zaiyu defend the Jianghuai defense line. Bi Zaiyu served as the commander of the Huainan West Road, and Cao Xun served as the commander of the Jinghu North Road, and the two of them were responsible for the entire Jianghuai defense line.

There was nothing wrong all the way, and Yang Yan arrived in Xingzhou on August 30. Here, Yang Yan, Zhao Ruyu, Xin Qiji, and Liu Heng, the Sichuan Xuanfu envoy, took control of the other four imperial garrisons in Sichuan: Meng Zongzheng, Wang Dajie, Li Haoyi, Yang Juyuan and others gathered together to discuss the logistics support of the army after the start of the attack on Western Xia, as well as the deployment arrangements in Sichuan and Shaanxi after the men and horses entered the Xia.

At this time, all kinds of materials prepared by the imperial court for this war were basically in place, of which more than half were gathered in Xingzhou, and the other half was transported to Lanzhou by warp, which will be used as the first batch of materials carried by the Song army to attack Western Xia.

In addition, in addition to the forbidden army and the imperial garrison in Sichuan and Shaanxi, the soldiers and horses of other vans and horses were basically assembled, with a total of more than 73,000 people, of which more than 50,000 were mobilized from all over the country, and more than 20,000 people were recruited in Sichuan. Most of them were veterans who had resisted the southern invasion of the Jin soldiers five years ago, and had a certain combat effectiveness. Now they are also stationed in Lanzhou and Xinhuizhou.

It can be said that in the early stage, Sichuan Xuanfu made Liu Heng obviously do a lot of fruitful work, and now all the preparations have been completed, just waiting for Yang Yan to arrive, and then after an order, the army can go to Lanzhou and attack Western Xia.

Yang Yan was also very satisfied with this, thanked Liu Heng again and again, and then discussed with Zhao Ruyu and Liu Heng about the logistics support arrangements after the army launched the attack, and how to report the progress of the war to the imperial court in a timely manner.

At the same time, everyone also decided that the garrison in front of the Chengzhou Imperial Army would command Yang Juyuan to send troops with Yang Yan to attack Western Xia. After the people and horses of Chengzhou and Jinzhou were all under his command, and after the Song army all went to Western Xia, the vacant defense matters left in Lanzhou and Chengdu were temporarily represented by Meng Zongzheng, the commander of the imperial garrison of Xingzhou.

Everything was decided one by one. Zhao Ruyu stayed in Xingzhou and carried out comprehensive dispatch, while Yang Yan, Xin Qiji, and Yang Juyuan continued to lead the army north, and two days later, they arrived in Lanzhou.

There were 1670,000 people who arrived in Lanzhou in advance, stationed in Hezhou, Lanzhou, Xinhui and other places. After Yang Yan arrived, he immediately gathered all the army commanders to gather in Lanzhou and prepared to start the final arrangements for attacking Western Xia. Moreover, at this time, Lai Wenzheng, who was responsible for the entire Western Xia spy system, also rushed back to Lanzhou with Ren Dejing's distress envoys to report to Yang Yan on the current domestic situation in Western Xia.

At present, in order to attack Ren Dejing, this time Western Xia dispatched a total of 160,000 troops, of which Dong Mingzhao stationed 30,000 horses in the Xishou Baotai Military Division to prevent the Song army from rescuing Ren Dejing. He led 30,000 horses and horses to confront Ren Decong, who was stationed in Jingsai Military Division, in Weizhou, and restrained Ren Decong from returning to the army to support Ren Dejing.

Gao Shandu personally commanded an army of 100,000 people, and together with the Jin army led by Naheban, he attacked Lingzhou from the east and west. However, the Jin State still did not send a large army, and it was still garrisoned by 30,000 horses and horses stationed in Xiazhou, but there are still more than 10,000 Western Xia troops under Naheban, and because Lingzhou has not yet been breached, most of the places captured by the Jin army in the previous stage have not been handed over to Western Xia, and are still occupied by the Jin army. But because of this, the strength of the Jin army was greatly dispersed, and there were only more than 10,000 people in the area around Lingzhou at this time.

And Ren Dejing guarded Lingzhou and Weizhou to the death, and he was a stubborn man, with about 100,000 men and horses. There are about 30,000 horses in Ren Decong's department in Weizhou, 50,000 horses in Lingzhou, and the others are stationed in important places between Lingzhou and Weizhou.

Although at present, the guards of the two places are still very strong, and the grain and grass in the city are also very sufficient, and there will be no danger of being broken for the time being, but this has exhausted all the strength of Ren Dejing, and Western Xia obviously still has potential. If there is no foreign aid, after a long time, I am afraid that I will not be able to support it, so the messenger sent by Ren Dejing burst into tears and was willing to ask Yang Yan to send reinforcements quickly.

After Yang Yan understood the situation clearly, he comforted the envoy a few words and asked him to rest first. At this time, all the generals also rushed to Lanzhou, and Yang Yan immediately recruited the generals and arranged the dispatch of troops.

Yang Changpeng was the chief general of the Western Route Army, leading all 30,000 horses and horses of the Lanzhou Imperial Front Garrison, plus 20,000 Xiang troops, starting from the Gaolan Army to attack Xiliangfu and block the reinforcements of Gansu, while also protecting the left flank of the Song army. Gao Zhen was the chief general of the East Route Army, and his subordinates were the three armies of Xiaojie, Youyi, and Qifeng in front of the palace, the two armies of Zhongrui and Weibian of the Ma Military Division, and the two armies of Xiongwu and Xiaoshun of the Infantry Division, with a total of 48,000 men and horses, plus 30,000 local troops. The rest of the men and horses were personally led by Yang Yan and were the middle route army.

The Right Route Army and the Middle Route Army first joined forces to capture the Xishou Baotai Military Division, and then divided the troops, Yang Yan led the army to rescue Lingzhou, and Gao Zhen led the army to rescue Weizhou.

After the distribution of the men and horses, the generals returned to their respective stations, packed up the men and horses for the final reorganization, and after ten days, each marched according to the plan. Then Yang Yan called Ren Dejing's envoy and asked him to go back and tell Ren Dejing that he would hold on for half a month at most, and the reinforcements of the Great Song Dynasty would arrive. At the same time, Yang Yan summoned Lai Wenzheng and others, and asked them to rush back to Western Xia immediately, and follow the reading to closely monitor the dynamics of the Western Xia Kingdom and cooperate with the frontal attack of the Song army. And actively pay attention to the movements of Mongolia, as soon as there is any news, report to the Song army at any time.

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Just as Yang Yan had arranged various arrangements for sending troops to attack Western Xia and was preparing to launch an attack on Western Xia, in the north of Western Xia, the Mongolian Temujin was also ready to attack with his troops.

Temujin and Yang Yan reached an agreement in March of this year to attack Western Xia together. However, this agreement was secretly agreed between the two, firstly, because they had just defeated Naiman, and the Mongol soldiers were very tired and did not want to enter the next war, and secondly, it was also to keep it secret and prevent Western Xia from guarding against Mongolia, so except for a few of Temujin's cronies, no one else knew about the Mongols. Temujin was only preparing in secret, and at the same time, he was constantly sending people to collect various situations in Western Xia.

During this period, Mongolia also did a big thing. In order to demonstrate Temujin's great feat of unifying the entire steppe, and to highlight the supreme authority of Temujin from other steppe chiefs, everyone unanimously agreed that the Mongol Khan was no longer enough to cover Temujin's merits and virtues, and that he should be presented with a more solemn and majestic honorific title.

After a sacred prayer, Temujin was finally honored with a new honorific title: Genghis Khan.

By July, the reorganization of the Naiban tribe was initially completed, and the Mongol warriors had fully recovered from their fatigue. And at this time, the Song Dynasty sent an envoy to tell Tie Yuzhen that everything would proceed according to the previous agreement and attack Western Xia together.

Temujin immediately summoned the Mongol generals, officially announced the agreement with the Song Dynasty, and ordered that in September, he would join the Song Dynasty in sending troops from the north and south to flank the Western Xia.

After the order was issued, many people were a little puzzled, and Belgutai first asked: "Brother Khan, our Mongolian enemy is the Jin State, and we have no hatred for the Western Xia, so why do we suddenly want to help the Song Dynasty to attack the Western Xia?"

Yelu Ahai, a Khitan who surrendered to Temujin last year, also said: "Great Khan, the Southern Song Dynasty people have never kept their promises, and they formed the 'Yuanyuan Alliance' with our Great Liao State, but they colluded with the Jurchens to destroy our Great Liao State together, so the Great Khan must not believe in the Han people, so as not to be deceived by them." I think it's better to actively prepare to attack the Jin Kingdom. ”

The master also said: "Great Khan, we and the Song Dynasty are agreed to attack the Jin State together, if the Song Dynasty is going to fight the Jin Kingdom, of course we should send troops, and now the Song Dynasty is going to fight the Western Xia, then let them fight it themselves, why should we sacrifice our Mongolian warriors for the Song Dynasty." ”

After the three of them finished speaking, many Mongol generals felt that they were reasonable, so a few more people spoke, and they all questioned the attack on Western Xia.

Temujin only listened quietly to what the crowd had to say, and remained silent.

At this time, Borshu said: "But don't forget, we defeated Wang Han and defeated Naiman, and the Yang Horse and Princess of the Song Dynasty helped us a lot, is it difficult for us to forget it so quickly?" Now it's our turn to help the Song Dynasty, why can't we? ”

He was one of the first Mongol generals to know of the agreement between Temujin and Yang Yan, and he also supported Temujin's resolution very much. His words silenced many Mongolian-born generals. Mongolians are relatively simple in nature, and they will repay their kindness, so many people have some active thoughts about Borshu.

But Yelu Ahai said: "It's true that the people of the Song Dynasty helped us, but if someone gave me a sheep, I can repay him a horse, but I can't return the entire herd to him, and the Song Dynasty only uses hundreds of people to help us, is it difficult for us to use tens of thousands of people to repay?" ”

After listening to it, Borshu also felt that Yelu Ahai's words had a certain amount of truth, and it was difficult to refute them for a while.

Mu Huali said: "Have you ever thought about it, why did the people of the Song Dynasty help us at that time?" ”

was asked by Mu Huali, and Yelu Ahai couldn't answer for a while. The Zaba'er Fire Man on the side smiled: "That's to help us sweep away the troubles around us, so that we can join forces to deal with the Jin Kingdom wholeheartedly in the future." ”

Mu Huali nodded and said, "That's right, Kelie and Naiman are our troubles, then Western Xia is the Song Dynasty's troubles." The ultimate enemy of our Mongols and the Song Dynasty is the Jin State, but before attacking the Jin State, we must clear all our own troubles, so the Song Dynasty will help us attack the Kerebu and Naiman before, and now we should also help the Song Dynasty attack the Western Xia. ”

After listening to Mu Huali's words, everyone felt that it made sense, and they were a little convinced. Even the brothers Jelu Ahai and Jelu Bald had nothing to say

At this time, Temujin said: "There is another point that Mu Huali didn't say just now, attacking Western Xia is not only to help the Song Dynasty, but also for our Mongolia. Our ultimate goal is to defeat the Jin State, but the land of the Jin State is larger than ours, and the people are a hundred times larger than ours, with our current strength of Mongolia, it is impossible to win the Jin State, so this time we can seize the land of Western Xia and plunder the people of Western Xia to strengthen our own strength. Moreover, I heard that the way of fighting in the Golden Territory is completely different from that of our Mongols, Ahai, you should know this best. ”

Yelu Ahai nodded and said, "Yes, Great Khan." The grassland is flat, and everyone fights straight to the ground, at most it is just a night attack or something, so everyone uses cavalry to fight in the grassland. The topography of the Jin country is much more complicated, plains, mountains, hills, forests, rivers, all kinds of terrain, and there are various ways of fighting, frontal, flank, detour, surprise attack, scratch attack, etc. ”

Yelu Bald also said: "And more importantly, all the cities of the Jin Kingdom have built walls, and most of the people and wealth are in the cities, and the Mongols have always only had cavalry, and without a reliable infantry, they cannot break through these cities. ”

Temujin said: "Yes, I heard that the combat method of Western Xia is very similar to that of Jin, so through this attack on Western Xia, we must learn to adapt to this combat method in the Central Plains and prepare for the future attack on Jin." At the same time, we also have to form an infantry, Ah Hai and Bald Flower, and I will leave this task to you two brothers. ”

Yelu Ahai and Yelu Bald were happy to surrender, and at the same time, they were excited that Temujin had entrusted such an important task to him, and Yelu Ahai said angrily: "Please rest assured, I will do my best to train an elite infantry army for the Great Khan." ”

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