On the second day after the Song army entered Lingzhou, Lai Wenzheng immediately rushed to see Yang Yan and told him that the Mongol army had sent troops from the north and captured the city of Arahai. Where is the fastest update of the book artifact? Please be sure.

Yang Yan was also very happy after hearing this, the Mongol dispatch of troops as agreed meant that the north-south attack on the Western Xia would be formed, and the Western Xia had to deal with it on both sides. The Song army will be able to calmly make arrangements for the next march. At the same time, he also praised Lai Wenzheng's work, and then ordered Lai Wenzheng to continue to pay attention to the movements of Western Xia, and at the same time immediately get in touch with the Mongol army, so that both sides can understand each other's situation, so that they can better cooperate with each other in the future.

And Lai Wenzheng left Zhao Cao and fifty people who were familiar with the internal affairs of Western Xia in Yang Yan's army, so that Yang Yan could better grasp the various situations in Western Xia.

Although the march of the Song army has been very smooth until now, Yang Yan also has a clear understanding of this. This is not because the Western Xia army is vulnerable, but because they are consciously shrinking the defensive line, lengthening the battle line of the Song army, and increasing the difficulty of logistics and transportation. In the fifth year of Xining, when the Great Song Dynasty attacked the summer on the fifth road, Western Xia used this trick and finally repelled the attack of the Song army. Therefore, there must be no carelessness.

However, the current situation is still in Yang Yan's expectations, so next, the Song army will divide the troops into two routes according to the plan, Gao Zhen will continue to lead the army to the east and attack Yanzhou, and Yang Yan's middle route army will stay in Lingzhou and prepare to attack Xingqing Mansion.

For this reason, Yang Yan found Ren Dejing and directly put forward three requirements to him: first, transfer grain, grass and materials from Weizhou and Lingzhou to support the Song army; 2. Handed over Weizhou to the management of the Song army as a stronghold for the Song army's Eastern Route Army to attack Yanzhou; 3. Gather all the men and horses of Ren Dejing's subordinates near Lingzhou, prepare to help the Song army attack Xingqing Mansion, and hand over all of them to Yang Yan for dispatch.

Ren Dejing discussed with Ren Decong, Ren Chunyi and others for a day, and finally agreed to Yang Yan's conditions in full. For the Song army, if it can't defeat the Western Xia army, at most, it will be a matter of returning to the Great Song Dynasty, but for Ren Dejing, once the Song army is defeated and withdraws, it means that his clan will die and have no place to be buried, so no matter what conditions Yang Yan proposes, he can only agree to victory in order to win.

And the current situation is: after the Western Xia withdrew from attacking Lingzhou and Jingsai Military Division, along the Yellow River from the gorge to Huaizhou, with the Xiangqing army as the core, formed a defensive line, it can be said that in order to block the attack of the Song army, the Western Xia also took great pains. In a distance of only more than 180 li, 150,000 horses were gathered, and the seven cities along the Yellow River, Wuzhong, Xiangqingjun, Lingwu, Jingzhou, Yongzhou, and Huaizhou were strongholds.

At present, Yang Yan's middle route army only has 85,000 men and horses, and it has to be stationed in Liying, Mingsha and other places, so the actual available men and horses are only more than 70,000 people. Although Ren Dejing knew that Yang Yan was good at using troops, and the Song army was also brave and good at fighting, after all, the disparity in strength was too great, and it was by no means easy to break through this line of defense. The Song army's Eastern Route Army attacked the Jin army in order to avoid the Song army from falling into the predicament of being in turmoil, so in the current situation of insufficient troops, it is not too much to ask for the use of Ren Dejing's men and horses. And to use men and horses, it is necessary to get the command of men and horses, which is also reasonable, and the Song army's current battle line is elongated, and the logistical difficulties are increasing, if the Song army is not funded, I am afraid it will be difficult to attack, and Ren Dejing has no reason to refuse.

Therefore, Ren Dejing immediately ordered all the troops of the Xisai Army Division to be transferred to Lingzhou, and Weizhou was handed over to the jurisdiction of the Song Army's Eastern Route Army, leaving only 5,000 people to help the Song Army maintain law and order in the city. Now there are more than 80,000 horses under Ren Dejing, and the command power has all been handed over to Yang Yan. At the same time, he opened the treasury and took out all the grain and grass materials he had accumulated for many years to supply the needs of the Song army.

In fact, Yang Yan didn't pay much attention to the defense line built by the Western Xia army, and he had a way to deal with this kind of defense line. The purpose of this is to control the actual control of Youzhou and Lingzhou, and further empty the Ren family. The purpose of the Great Song Dynasty's dispatch of troops to Western Xia this time was to fully occupy Western Xia, although Ren Dejing was a pro-Song party, but after all, it was still a local force in Western Xia, and Yang Yan did not dare to completely rest assured of them. If Ren Dejing knew the ultimate goal of the Great Song Dynasty, it would be difficult to guarantee that he would not have dissenting intentions, so he would take advantage of the fact that he had to rely on the Song army now to weaken their actual power and reduce a lot of trouble for the full occupation of Western Xia in the future.

However, Weizhou and Lingzhou are both places where Ren Dejing has been operating for many years, and they do have a large amount of grain, grass and materials. It does reduce a lot of worries. Because, to a certain extent, fighting a war is the logistical force to fight.

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After Gao Zhen took over the management of Weizhou from Ren Decong, he immediately reorganized Ren's military horses, and inspected the treasury, and sure enough, he got a large amount of grain, grass, military supplies and horses, which were enough to support the Song army to complete the goals set in the first stage. Then Gao Zhen scattered all the 5,000 men and horses left by Ren Decong, leaving only 1,000 in the city to maintain law and order in the city, and the rest were all stationed in the towns around Weizhou to guard. He left 5,000 Song troops to garrison Weizhou, and then led a large army to attack Yanzhou.

Yanzhou is more than 100 miles east of Weizhou, with Hengshan Mountain in the south and the Great Wall in the north, which is the only way for Weizhou to enter the east. At present, the Jin general Naheban has more than 40,000 men and horses, including 30,000 Jin troops and more than 10,000 Western Xia troops, and now Yijing has gathered nearly 30,000 horses on the front line of Yanzhou, ready to resist the attack of the Song army.

The Song army first divided its troops into two routes, with the Si Xiaojie army and the Youyi army as the vanguard, and first attacked the two places of the Camel Club and the Shrimp Toad Village in the southwest of Yanzhou.

The palace front Si Xiaojie army rushed to the shrimp toad village first, the command of the Xiaojie army is called Yu Yuanhua, the whole army has a total of 8,000 people, including 2,000 cavalry. And there are only 3,000 defenders in the shrimp and toad village. Seeing the Song army coming, the guards did not dare to go out of the village to fight, and asked for help from Yanzhou on the one hand, and defended on the other.

As soon as Yu Yuanhua saw that the Jin army did not dare to fight, he immediately ordered to enter the city. Shrimp toad village is a small village, there are only more than 10,000 people in the village, and the highest place of the city wall is less than two zhang, there are a few sections even less than one zhang and five feet, almost only with people to carry, you can attack the city wall. Therefore, the Song army did not bring large siege equipment such as tower carts and cloud ladders, but just erected wooden ladders and rushed to the city wall, and at the same time dispatched a crash truck to hit the city gate.

The Jin soldiers defending the city immediately opened their bows and arrows to block the advance of the Song army. But the sparse bows and arrows did not do much, and the archers of the Song army also fired arrows into the city and fired back at the Jin army.

After a while, the Song army rushed to the city wall, set up a wooden ladder and climbed up to the city. The defenders also held the battlements and engaged in a white-knuckle fight with the Song army. At this time, the crashing car also advanced to the edge of the city gate, and the Song soldiers manipulated Chongmu and began to hit the city gate.

This is the first direct confrontation between the army since the success of the Song-Jin peace in the first year of Jianxing (117o), which also means that the peace situation between the Song and Jin that has been maintained for more than five years has finally ended, and the two sides have once again moved towards the mode of war in which they meet each other.

So even though it was only a skirmish, it was still very intense. The soldiers on both sides were very brave, and they did not back down in the slightest. The Song army tried desperately to storm the city walls, but the Jin army desperately resisted.

The fierce offensive and defensive battle lasted for nearly two hours, and the Song army had many people in the end, and attacked in turns, and finally broke through several gaps and attacked the city wall. But the Jin army still did not give up resistance, and still fought to the death against the Song army on the city wall.

But at this time, the Song army's ramming car smashed open the city gate. Yu Yuan incarnated as a pioneer and led the Song army into the village, but the Jin army could not resist, so he had to abandon the village and flee in the direction of Yanzhou. On the way, I happened to meet the 5,000 men and horses who rushed to rescue the shrimp and toad village, and saw that the shrimp and toad village was lost, so they had to collect the defeated army and retreat to Yanzhou.

The other attacking Song army encountered some trouble. The mouth of the camel is much larger than the shrimp toad village, and there are 5,000 defenders, seeing that the Song army is killed, the guards do not defend to the death, but open the door to meet the Song army.

The commander of the palace Si You Yijun is Guo Shixiong, and the number of people is also 8,000. Seeing that the Jin army took the initiative to go out of the city to meet the battle, he was also in the middle of it, and immediately commanded the Song army to attack the Jin army.

However, although the number of the Jin army was not as large as that of the Song army, it was backed by the city wall and the battle line was contracted, so that the Song army's strength was not fully deployed, and it was impossible to use the advantage of being numerous, so it could only fight face-to-face with the Jin army. The Jin army also had archers on the city walls to support them, so although the Song army fought to the death, it could only maintain a situation of evenly matched opponents

Although after several years of training, the combat effectiveness of the Song army has improved a lot compared with that of the Jin army's southern invasion, but in recent years, the Jin army has also been preparing for war very seriously and has not fallen behind. Moreover, in the past few years, the imaginary enemies trained by the two sides have all been each other, and now that they have really met on the battlefield, it is natural that everyone is brave, each does not fight against each other, and the fight is very fierce. When a warrior falls, he is immediately replaced by his companions, and it is very difficult to take a step forward.

Guo Shixiong saw that the numerical advantage of the Song army could not be waved, so he immediately changed his tactics, divided the Song army into two groups, and took turns to attack the Jin army's formation, and the attack point abandoned both sides of the Jin army, all of them were placed in front, pressing layer by layer, advancing step by step.

This really worked, and after two or three rotations, the Jin army was a little physically exhausted, and was defeated and retreated by the Song army. Seeing that the Song army was about to win, at this time the reinforcements of the Jin army also rushed to the mouth of the camel. After half a day of fierce fighting, most of the physical strength of the Song army was consumed, so Guo Shixiong really gave the order and led the army to withdraw from the battlefield. Seeing that the Song army was not chaotic and retreated, the Jin army did not dare to pursue easily, and saw that the Song army had retreated, so they also collected their troops and returned to the city and continued to garrison.

After Gao Zhen received the battle report of the Song army on the two routes, he immediately led the army in person and killed in front of Yanzhou City.