Suddenly, there were a lot of people rushing out, but Xiaoshi had expected it. At the beginning, he felt that Fang La would lure him to such a deep place and would not give him good fruits to eat, but now he really guessed it.

Therefore, Xiao Shi naturally did not sit still, and he, who had long been on guard against this hand, turned his horse's head and galloped towards the way he came.

Fang La's initial imagination was that if he could persuade Xiaoshi to his side, it would be the best. But now it seems that it is impossible to make Xiao Shi turn against the Dog Emperor, so he must at least catch him.

He is an extremely unstable factor, and he may have taken the lead in beheading the generals of the rebels in any battle, resulting in a great defeat of the rebels.

So no matter what, Fang La has to leave the little stone here, whether it is captured alive or ......

Fang La closed his eyes, he and Xiao Shi were always friends, and the last thing he wanted was the appearance of the last situation.

Xiao Shi's bravery is one of the best, and the catcher who can be sent by Fang La to carry out such an important task is also a matter of course, the soldiers of the Zhenguo Army who defected with him at the beginning.

But because of this, they are quite afraid of small stones, but they are a little constrained. The small stone rushed left and right, and no one dared to step forward to intercept it.

I could only throw the lasso and the fishing net at him from afar.

But the crowd had gone deep into the forest, and under the obstacles, how could they hit a small stone thrown far away? So they had to reluctantly watch the little stone flee to the main road, and then leave the dust.

"Forget it." At this time, Fang La appeared behind and said, "Since you can't catch him, then don't catch him." Pass the order down, it's time to retreat. ”

"Retreat?" A soldier was stunned for a moment: "Helper, now we have the advantage!" ”

"If you want to give an order, you will go to give an order, where is all this nonsense?" Fang La frowned and said, "What about taking the advantage?" Can we overthrow the rule of the Dog Emperor alone? ”

"Helper, what do you mean ......?"

"You'll know in a few days." After Fang La dropped this sentence, he left with two or three of his own soldiers, and the rest of the people urged the horse to convey Fang La's order. ”

The first battle between the Zhenguo Army and the Righteous Army ended so uneventfully, and it can be said that neither side achieved any proud results.

The Zhenguo army tried their best to resist under the surprise attack, but in the end they only held out until the rebels retreated. Although the rebels attacked the Zhenguo army on both sides, they did not achieve any effective results.

Therefore, it is not unreasonable to say that the two sides are evenly divided.

In the following period, the rebels suddenly died down and did not show up for a long time. The other bandits in the western part of the city needed to be dealt with by the Zhenguo Army, so the two sides did not fight each other again during this time.

And in this situation, the most depressed should be the Western Army.

They ran from the Great Northwest of the Song Kingdom to the Central Plains, and from the Central Plains they were transferred back to the Great Northwest. The most important thing is that they have not achieved much success, and although the battle with the rebels can be said to be narrowly won, they also paid a lot of costs.

Before entering the Central Plains, the exact total number of troops dispatched by the Western Army was about 80,000, but when they returned, there were only 60,000 left.

Twenty thousand sincere men died like this, and they were worthless.

When the time came to October, the Xixia people who had just harvested in autumn began to advance towards the area of Pingxia City.

The elderly Chongpu was in charge of commanding the battle, but because the weather changed from warm to cold too suddenly, Chongpu has been catching colds repeatedly during this time, and the medicine is a pot of drinking, but the illness is not getting better.

The doom of this person should be when Zhao Xu captured Hehuang seven years ago, when Chongpu died in battle, and Wang Sunchen also became famous through this battle.

However, because of Downing and gunpowder, the battle in Hehuang was brought forward by a few years. Moreover, with the joint efforts of several large armies, the Hehuang land was successfully pocketed, and the Song army also had reliable war horses.

After this, Chong Pu and You Shixiong have been busy quelling the rebellion. The leader of the riverside tribe felt that the Song people had promised him and did not do it, so he raised an army to rebel, and was finally attacked by Chong Pu and You Shixiong, and it took two years to finally completely eliminate the influence of this guy.

Perhaps because of this reason, Chong Pu's physical condition has not been very good in the past few years. A man in his sixties is as old as an eighty-year-old man.

There were no fancy movements, no prior warnings, and no inscriptions or war letters, and after nearly ten years of peace between the Song and Western Xia, they fell into a state of war again.

For this matter, no one was surprised except Zhao Ji. Everyone knows that the hatred between Western Xia and Song has been indelible with time.

Xiao Liang's two personal expeditions to the Song State were all humiliated, and several defeats caused tens of thousands of Western Xia men to die at the hands of the Song people.

Before, they didn't have the strength to fight this battle, but now, they have been recuperating for more than ten years, and they have also received the secret support of the Liao State, coupled with the mediocrity and incompetence of the monarch of the Song State, the generals of the Song State died and retreated, and it is time to get back what they lost at the beginning.

Zhao Ji was very puzzled by this, it was obvious that it was the Western Xia who attacked their own Song State first, and the Song State counterattacked to cause them heavy casualties, why would they rely on the Song people for this matter?

However, this is the case, although the Tangut invaders, in order to find a reason to invade again, they do not care to disguise themselves as a victim.

As long as this reason is enough to mobilize the people and soldiers in the country, they will be killed

It is enough to mobilize enthusiasm for war.

The defender of Pingxia City is still Guo Cheng, a veteran who has been in a hundred battles and has been sticking to his post in the northwest all these years.

Times have changed, and they are not the same as they used to be. The reason why the Song army is not afraid of any opponent now is because they have gunpowder in their hands.

Guo Cheng and Tang Ning didn't meet much, but the two exchanged a lot of letters. Most of them were Guo Cheng asking Tang Ning how to maximize the function of gunpowder.

For a general like Guo Cheng, Tang Ning has never been stingy with his kindness. Almost all the ways he could think of the use of gunpowder were taught to Guo Cheng.

How much Guo Cheng can comprehend depends on his own ability. And now, the Tangut people have tasted the bitterness.

The technique of timed detonation was first used in the summer camp, but this required the help of arithmetic. Guo Cheng has no talents around him who know how to do arithmetic, but there is a saying that as long as the thinking does not slip, there are always more ways than difficulties.

When the Xia army had not yet set off, he was also preparing near Pingxia City.

He dug countless tunnels outside Pingxia City, on the route of the Xia army's attack, and hid a large amount of gunpowder in the tunnels.

And he was a thief, he had no intention of using gunpowder on the first day, and on the fourth day, the cannon fodder troops used by the Xia army to consume the Song army's city defense force were almost dead, and when the regular troops began to attack the city, he began to use gunpowder.

A huge amount of gunpowder exploded at once, and large chunks of dirt were overturned into the sky, dazzling light, trembling earth, the Tangut people did not expect such great power at all.

Even though their formation was dispersed enough, they still suffered heavy casualties in the face of Guo Cheng's large-scale use of gunpowder.

Moreover, the large area that appeared after the explosion also became an obstacle to their advance.

The dust was everywhere and the earth was full of debris, and soon after the Song army on the city wall was surprised by the power of gunpowder, they reacted and began to shoot wildly at the Xia army who was crying for his father and mother.

The smoke and dust were so thick that Xia Jun couldn't see Pingxia City clearly, let alone those sharp arrows that pierced through the smoke and dust. In the first encounter, the Song army won a complete victory, and the Xia army fled in a hurry.

As the commander-in-chief of the Xia army's battle, Renduo Baozhong was so angry that he almost vomited blood after seeing this situation. After not fighting for so many years, Song Jun is now becoming more and more frustrated.

Looking at the deep ditch outside Pingxia City, which was comparable to a sinkhole, Renda Baozhong felt that even if he used a pontoon truck, he might not be able to rush through.

What's more, the Song people may have some other tricks in their hands that they haven't used, counting the cannon fodder troops, they only brought 150,000 people over, although they claimed to be 300,000 troops, but 300,000 couldn't help but fight like this!

It's only been four days, and 50,000 people have already died, and God knows how many more casualties will be killed and injured if the fight continues......

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