In this battle, the Western Xia army was defeated, more than 6,000 people were beheaded on the spot, and nearly 4,000 people were captured. And won more than 1,000 war horses, other swords, guns, equipment, gongs, drums and flags. The Lingzhou army also killed nearly 3,000 people, and the Song army died less than 300 people.

Waiting for Wei Mu Yanping to go around in a circle, he finally escaped back to Dazhai peacefully, for fear that the Song army would take advantage of the situation to attack Dazhai, so he immediately ordered the gate of the village to be closed, prepared a strong bow and crossbow, and strictly defended to prevent the Song army from attacking. Then check the people and horses, in addition to the original people and horses who stayed in Dazhai, plus the defeated army that fled back to the village before him, there are only seven or eight thousand people in total, if the Song army really comes to attack Dazhai at this time, I am afraid that it will not be able to hold it for half a day. Therefore, Wei Mu Yanping hurriedly ordered people to go to Huaizhou and Jingzhou, which were adjacent to him, for help, and at the same time sent people to Pegasus to report to Xiangqingjun urgently, asking for reinforcements, and at the same time he kept silently thinking in his heart, hoping that the Song army would come slowly and the rescuers would come faster.

However, perhaps it was Wei Mu Yanping's sincere prayer that really moved the heavens, and until the evening, the Song army did not come to attack his Dazhai. And Huaizhou and Jingzhou each sent 5,000 men and horses, and even Xiangqingjun sent someone to tell Wei Muyanping that he must hold Yongzhou Dazhai, and Xiangqingjun will immediately send troops to support. At this time, many defeated soldiers fled back to Dazhai, and thousands of people gathered one after another.

With reinforcements, Wei Mu Yanping was also a lot more relieved, but it was a little strange why the Song army didn't attack and immediately ordered someone to investigate. As a result, it turned out that after the Song army won the battle, it had already withdrawn its troops back to Lingzhou.

Wei Mu Yanping was completely relieved. Only then did the examination of the losses in this battle begin. In this battle, the Western Xia army was defeated very badly, with losses of more than 10,000 people, and only more than 9,000 people fled back to Dazhai, and most of them were wounded. At least 2,000 of them will not be able to recover in the short term and will fight again.

The Song army withdrew, and the Huaizhou and Jingzhou reinforcements could not stay in Yongzhou Dazhai forever, and they still had to go back to their respective defense areas to garrison. But once the reinforcements are gone, it is difficult for Wei Mu Yanping to hold Yongzhou Dazhai with his current strength, so Wei Mu Yanping hurriedly wrote a letter to the high mountain capital of the Xiangqing army, reporting his losses and asking for more troops for himself.

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In the following days, several other strongholds defended by the Western Xia army also encountered a similar situation to Yongzhou Dazhai, and it was the people of Lingzhou who went to challenge first, and the Western Xia army took the initiative to fight when they saw that it was the Lingzhou army.

But after the Western Xia army went to war, the Lingzhou army either resisted a little, and then deliberately retreated, and when the Western Xia army pursued, the Song army's ambushed men and horses suddenly came out and killed the Western Xia people and horses to a great defeat. Or when the Western Xia army and the Lingzhou army were in the middle of a fierce battle, the Song army suddenly killed from the Lingzhou army formation, caught the Western Xia army by surprise, broke through the formation of the Western Xia army, and made the Western Xia army's array chaotic, and had to retreat. However, after the victory of the Song army, they all took the initiative to withdraw their troops and did not attack various strongholds.

Although the seven strongholds of the Western Xia army's defense line have not yet been broken by the Song army, in the past few days, Yijing has suffered several defeats, and the total losses of men and horses in various places have exceeded 30,000. Moreover, the losses of each stronghold had to be filled, which almost exhausted all the mobile forces in the hands of the high mountain capital. Therefore, Gao Shan was also greatly enraged, so he had to order all the strongholds, whether it was the Lingzhou army or the Song army to challenge in the future, they all stuck to the stronghold in the strongholds, and they were absolutely not allowed to fight.

After Yang Yan learned about it, he couldn't help but feel funny. In fact, the Yellow River defense line of the Western Xia army seemed to be strong, but in Yang Yan's eyes, it was not vulnerable at all, because distributing hundreds of thousands of troops over a distance of nearly two hundred miles would only disperse the forces and give the Song army the opportunity to break through one by one. It is better to abandon all the land on the east bank of the Yellow River, clear the wilderness, and retreat the whole army to the west bank of the Yellow River to guard the area around Xingqingfu, which not only shrinks the defense line, but also expands the place occupied by the Song army, and disperses the troops.

And now the Song army only needs to break through one point of the defensive line, and the whole situation will collapse. Although the various distances of the defense line can support each other, it is just right for the Song army to use tactics such as attacking the east and attacking the west, encircling the point and sending reinforcements, so with only Yang Yan's seventy or eighty thousand Song troops, they can break through this defense line at any time.

But Yang Yan didn't do this for the time being, because on the one hand, the Song army was short of troops after all, although it could easily break through this defense line, but it could force the Western Xia army to retreat to Xingqing Mansion. But it will lengthen its battle line, which will cause the Song army to be passive. Therefore, at least until Gao Zhen's Eastern Route Army has completed its goal and the Song army has sufficient troops, it will not launch an attack on the defense line of the Western Xia army. On the other hand, it was also waiting for the progress of the Mongol army, because the attack on Xingqing Province required the cooperation of both sides, and it was difficult to win by relying on the strength of the Song army alone.

And Yang Yan made the tactic of letting the Lingzhou army lure the enemy, and then let the Song army raid, but did not attack the stronghold, just to annihilate the living force of the Western Xia army as much as possible first, and reduce the difficulty of attacking Xingqing Mansion in the future. At the same time, it was also to shock the Western Xia army, so that they only dared to hide in the stronghold and did not dare to attack easily, so as to reduce the pressure on the Song army.

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"Woo-woo-woo-woo-" The horn in the Song army's formation sounded like a tide.

The Song army and various vehicles that were advancing towards the city wall stopped and began to retreat. But there were several rows of shield bearers holding their shields aloft and standing still, apparently preparing to meet the Song army that was besieging the city.

At this time, by the city wall, the Song soldiers who climbed the ladder and the tower car quickly went down to the ground, and the Song soldiers who attacked the city head tried their best to get rid of the entanglement of the Jin army, retreated to the tower car, and then went down to the ground from the tower car. Seeing that the Song troops on the city wall were getting fewer and fewer, although some Song soldiers died in the process of retreating, most of the Song troops gradually withdrew safely under the city wall.

Naheban also breathed a sigh of relief, no matter what, this time he held Yanzhou City again.

The Eastern Route Army of the Song Army, led by the main general Gao Zhen, reached the city of Yanzhou and immediately launched a fierce attack on Yanzhou. The Jin army, under the leadership of Naheban, strictly defended the city and finally resisted the offensive of the Song army. Gao Zhen saw that Yanzhou City was difficult to capture, and also ordered to stop the siege. Instead, he took advantage of the situation to sweep the counties and towns around Yanzhou City. Successively captured the camel mouth, Qinggang Gorge, Dingbian, Yanchi and other places. However, Naheban did not dare to send troops to attack easily at this time, so he had to firmly hold the city.

After all the perimeters of Yanzhou City were cleared, the Song army once again concentrated 60,000 troops and launched an attack on Yanzhou City. At this time, there were nearly 20,000 defenders in Yanzhou City, and under the leadership of Naheban, they also made a lot of preparations to defend the city.

In order to defend the city, Naheban prepared a large number of archers, and wanted to rely on the cover of the city wall to inflict heavy losses on the Song army with dense arrows, but the siege of the Song army was very layered, and it was by no means desperate to erect a cloud ladder or a tower cart, blindly attacking the city. Instead, they first piled up the earth mountain outside the city, set up a bed crossbow on the earth mountain, and then launched more than 100 bucket trucks, and the lifting bucket was even higher than the city, and the bed crossbow and the archers in the bucket fired crossbow arrows into the city together, and immediately suppressed the archers in the city, so that the role of the Jin army's bow and arrow was greatly reduced.

After suppressing the bows and arrows in the city, the Song army began to attack the city in a big way. During the siege of the city, the road was opened by the tower car, and the cloud ladder followed left and right, and the city wall was attacked at once. And under the city, there are also crashing cars to hit the city gate, and the three-pronged approach makes the Jin army scramble and unable to prevent it.

Only then did Naheban see the siege tactics of the Song army, whether it was the siege equipment, application and tactical arrangement, it was indeed far above the Jin army. Fortunately, Naheban commanded quite well, and when he saw the siege formation of the Song army, he also made a decision immediately, and gave up the tactics of relying on the city wall and resisting with bows and arrows. Immediately ordered the archers to retreat to the rear row, so that the soldiers who were good at hand-to-hand combat, such as axemen and pikemen, would go up to the city to defend, and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Song army on the city.

At the same time, dozens of carts were collected from the city, filled with bags of mud and sand, and parked at the city gate, as soon as the Song army crashed into the city gate, it was immediately blocked. In the end, 3,000 cavalry were prepared to stand by in the city, ready to attack the siege team of the Song army at any time.

Naheban's arrangement was really useful, although the Song army was able to attack the city wall, but after all, the city wall was still a large number of defenders, and it also occupied the favorable terrain, and after the two sides fought in a melee, the Song army's bow and crossbow did not dare to release arrows at will to the city, so although the Song army was able to attack the city wall, it immediately fell into a bitter battle and could not go further.

Under the city, although the Song army finally crashed open the city gate with great effort, but before the cheers of the Song army ended, I saw a vehicle full of dirt and sandbags pushed out of the city one by one, parked in the city gate, and in the blink of an eye, the city gate hole was blocked tightly, so that the Song army had no chance to take advantage of it.

Seeing this, Naheban immediately sent another cavalry army to kill from the city, wanting to catch the Song army by surprise. But the Song army was also prepared for this hand, and at any time during the siege of the city, a force was reserved for vigilance, and as soon as the Jin army was killed, it immediately went up to meet the enemy, and the enemy of the Jin army did not affect the Song army to attack the city at all. Naheban sent troops to attack twice in a row, but they were blocked by the Song army, but they lost hundreds of men and horses, so they did not dare to send men and horses out of the city to attack the Song army.

The Song army attacked for two days in a row, although it stepped on the city wall several times and broke open the city gate, but it was still blocked by the Jin army and could not capture Yanzhou, losing nearly 5,000 men and horses. However, although the Jin army was able to hold Yanzhou, this way of defending the city also left the Jin army with little advantage, and it could only fight hard with the Song army, so it also caused a lot of losses for the Jin army, and the total number of dead exceeded 3,000.

However, it was finally consumed that the Song army retreated, and Naheban was also greatly relieved, at least today it was to hold Yanzhou.

At this time, the Song army withdrew all the city walls, and the tower carts and cloud ladders were also pulled away one by one, and retreated to the large array of the Song army. Naheban was about to order the archers to release arrows, intending to use the Song army's retreat to take advantage of it, but at this time, the Song army's bed crossbows and crossbowmen on the bucket cart also began to fire arrows on the city to cover the safe evacuation of the Song army.

After the Song army withdrew from a distance, the shield bearers immediately rushed forward to protect the retreating Song army, and slowly withdrew from the range of the Jin army's bows and arrows. The entire retreat process was orderly and not chaotic at all, so that the Jin army had no chance to take advantage of it. Henaban couldn't help but admire that the Song army was really well-trained and the commander was well-directed.

It took another long time for the Song army to reorganize its ranks and slowly withdraw its troops. The battlefield where the earth-shattering sound of killing just now was silent at this time, and there was no sound. Only the soldiers on both sides of the battlefield were running back and forth.

The Jin army also fought for a day, and they were very tired. Seeing that all the Song troops had retreated, and only a few Jin troops were left to guard the city walls, Henaban ordered the other soldiers to go back to rest.

In fact, he was tired for a day, and his mental and physical strength were almost at the limit, so after he had finished assigning all the things, he also went down to the city and returned to his dwelling, and ordered his subordinates to prepare meals, and he could not even take off his clothes and armor, so he fell asleep on the bed first.

I don't know how long I slept, but when I woke up, I only felt that my stomach was shrinking with hunger. In fact, the congren had already prepared the meal, but when he saw that he was asleep, he didn't dare to wake him up. At this time, when I saw him wake up, I hurriedly brought him up. Henaban was hungry, and when he saw that the food was served, he immediately picked up the dishes and chopsticks and began to eat.

But before he could eat a few bites, a person ran in from outside the hall in a panic and said, "Report to the general, the big thing is not good, Xiazhou has been lost." ”

"What?" When Henaban heard this, he was struck by lightning, and the chopsticks in his hand fell to the ground.

It turned out that when Gao Zhen sent troops to attack Yanzhou, he sent Wu Xi to lead the front division of the palace to urge the front army, first to the north to Lingzhou, and then jumped over the Great Wall and turned to the east, bypassing Baichi City and Tiemen Pass, and went directly to Xiazhou.

At this time, the elite men and horses of the Jin army were concentrated on the front line of Yanzhou, and the defense around Xiazhou was very empty, so Wu Xi's men and horses were killed and took Xiazhou without any effort.

Xiazhou is the garrison of the Jin army, once lost, the entire supply of materials to the Jin army is interrupted, and Yanzhou is naturally unable to hold it. After learning about it, Henaban knew that the general situation was going to go, so he could only give up Yanzhou, and he did not dare to continue to stay in the territory of Western Xia, but withdrew his troops to the south overnight, hoping to jump over Hengshan and withdraw to the territory of the Jin army.

However, after the Jin army withdrew from Yanzhou, as soon as they reached Helan Plain, they were ambushed by the Song army. It turned out that Gao Zhen also counted the loss of Xiazhou, and the Jin army would not dare to stay in the Western Xia realm, and the nearest route back to the Jin country would take Helan Yuan and jump over Hengshan, so an ambush was set up here, and the Jin army was really defeated, and the men and horses were almost wiped out, and even Naban also died in the chaos.

After annihilating the Jin army, Gao Zhen immediately continued to march eastward, and along the way, he successively captured Hongzhou, Longzhou, Shizhou, Yinzhou and other places, and occupied the entire eastern part of Western Xia.

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