"Hahaha......"

The one who was smiling forward and leaning back was the captain of the Great White High Kingdom, and the left wing of the Divine Brave Army was in charge of the army.

What made him laugh was a shallow and narrow trench that had been dug crookedly. It was supposed to be a long moat for the siege, and behind the moat was a low breastwork built with sacks of earth.

However, the wall is so low, and the ditch is so shallow that you can jump over it with a jump on a horse, how can you besiege the party in the city? The soldiers and horses of the Song people are really stupid, obviously doing stupid things.

"It seems that Song Dog's famous general, Gao Yu, is nothing more than that," Wu Yi Boma said to the left and right with a smile, "What is the use of such a trench breastwall?" It's just a waste of manpower. ”

"Father," said the voice of Wu Yi Boma's son, Li Zhongliang (who was given the surname Li), "give your son 3,000 soldiers and horses to fill in the trenches of Song Gou." ”

Wu Yi Boma retracted his gaze, looked at his son, and said lightly: "The trench of the Song people is a joke, but the armor soldiers and armor horses guarding behind the trench are all genuine!" ”

The trench was "fake", but behind the trench were lined up with real armor soldiers and armor horses, which were used to cover the construction of the government soldiers and engineers. Among them, the armor soldiers are all dragon warriors, everyone is holding bows and arrows, stretching their necks to look at the head of the city, as if they are expecting the party members defending the city to send their heads to be cut off......

The cavalrymen all dismounted, holding a horse pistol in one hand and a reins in the other, and they all stretched their necks to look at the party on the city wall. Their heads...... You can exchange for knighthood and 1,500 acres of land, and it is also the land of the rich Central Plains!

It's a pity that the party members in Tongwan City attach great importance to their heads, and they are easy not to be cut off.

"Let's go!" Wuyi Boma smiled and said to his son, "Go back and drink!" Just let that Song dog dig a ditch!

Even if this ditch is dug deep and wide, it won't hurt half of our hair. ”

"Hahaha......"

The generals of the Divine Warrior Division on the left side of the surrounding area all laughed out loud in response, and some people spoke in agreement.

"Yes, the top of the sky is the siege. But the reserves in our Tongwan City are enough for tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians to eat for a year! ”

"And we are not afraid of cutting off the water, the city has already built a water cellar, and it is full of clean water, enough for us to drink for six months!"

"They can't take the city...... We had already cut down all the trees around us, and we didn't even have a single sapling the size of chopsticks left. If they want to build siege equipment, they have to go to Yinzhou to cut down trees. ”

"Hahaha......"

Li Zhongliang frowned at this time and reminded: "Father, Song Dog can also attack the city in the cave. ”

Wu Yi Boma looked at his son appreciatively, nodded and said, "Okay! It's not easy to think of that. However, His Royal Highness the King of Jin had already expected that Song Dog would dig tunnels, so he had people bury many large water tanks at the base of the walls in the city, which could be used to listen to the movements underground. Where Song Dog digs a hole, let's dig a trench in the corresponding direction in the city. ”

Siege is not a new tactic, but a very old method of siege. It's also easy to defend yourself by burying a tank in the ground, determining in which direction the enemy is digging, and then digging a trench parallel to the city wall.

In this way, when the enemy's tunnels are dug through, they will encounter the trenches in the city. When the enemy emerges from the tunnel and enters the trench, he is attacked by his own pikemen from above. One shot at a time, basically didn't run.

However, the excavation project presided over by Huang Shilang and Zhu Xingshu, the engineer commanders under Wu Haogu, did not need to dig through the city wall. They only need to dig a hole under the wall of Tongwan City, and then bury thousands of catties of improvised explosives to demolish the 700-year-old city wall.

The breakthrough was chosen under the east wall of the eastern city of Tongwan City, and in order to ensure the success of the blasting, the two tunnels were started at the same time. Four hundred sappers (mainly miners) and thousands of government soldiers were divided into four shifts and dug tunnels day and night.

The movement of digging four tunnels together is very large, and after digging for a few days, it was discovered by the party members in Tongwan City.

"Sure enough, it's digging a hole!"

Wu Yi Boma laughed and said to his son, who had come to report, "Son, you should immediately take someone to dig a trench and dig along the east wall of the eastern city, and you must dig deeper!" We can't let them dig under our trenches. ”

"The child got it!"

Wu Yi Boma said: "After digging, select another 1,000 warriors, hold spears and staffs, and wait in two shifts day and night. As long as those Song dogs show their heads, they will all be given results immediately! ”

Li Zhongliang received his father's order and immediately went to dig a trench. However, when his trench was dug, the excavation work of the Song people suddenly stopped, and for several days, the soldiers who listened to the cylinder did not notice any sound of excavation. Two days later, the soldiers listening to the cylinder at the south wall of the West City reported that they had found the sound of the Song army digging tunnels......

Originally, Tongwan City had two cities, east and west, and there was a city wall between the two cities. If only one city wall is blown up, it is not enough to contribute to the two cities of Tongwan and East and West at the same time.

Therefore, Zhao Zhongge and Huang Shilang, who formulated the siege plan, decided to blast the east wall of Tongwan East City and the south wall of West City at the same time.

This will allow you to capture two cities in one fell swoop!

……

Just when Wu Haogu was preparing to use gunpowder to forcibly demolish the city of Tongwancheng, Wang En and Guo Cheng's two armies had already captured the three Western Xia fortresses of Shilijing, Niuxinting and Longzhou. and once again divided the troops into two routes, one led by Wang En himself, to attack Youzhou; One route was led by Guo Cheng to attack Hongzhou.

The news of the division of the Song army was soon reported by the rangers of Western Xia to a water source called Wanjingkou, 60 miles west of Tongwancheng.

Located on the edge of the Gobi Desert in the Hanhai Sea, there are a number of wells with abundant water. Caravans or armies that want to enter the desert usually replenish their drinking water here. The Western Xia regarded this place as a key point, built a castle, protected the water source, and hoarded a lot of grain here.

After the failure of his last attempt to invade Yan'an Province across the Hengshan Mountains, Chage placed his army of 40,000 on the edge of the desert west of Wanjingkou. By the end of January this year, another 32,000 troops had been ordered to march from Xingqing Mansion and also stationed west of Wanjingkou.

And he himself was stationed in Wanjingkou Castle not long ago, and used this place as his headquarters.

When the news of the division of the Song army came, he was in his section hall looking at the military report sent by the Right Wing Army - he was the commander of the Great White Gao Kingdom, and the armies of more than a dozen military divisions on the left and right sides were under his control.

And right now, his attention can't all be on the battlefield of Wudinghe, and he has to keep one eye on the battlefield of Hexi. If Qin Wangchuan City is not protected, he will have to immediately give up on the battlefield of Wuding River to reinforce Hexi.

According to his calculations, the elite main force that could be used in Western Xia, including 15,000 garrisons, 3,000 iron harriers, and 54,000 support troops, a total of 72,000 troops, must take into account both the eastern and western fronts.

Therefore, after defeating the Song army under the cities of Dunbing Xia and Youerzhou, Wei Mingchage had to take the remaining army and rush to Qinwangchuan non-stop to fight a decisive battle with the Song army's Hexi army!

If both major battles can be won, then the national fortunes of Western Xia can be reversed.

"King, the enemy is divided into three places," Xiao Heda, who was increasingly trusted by Brother Cha, heard the news and walked into Brother Cha's festival hall, "Our plan will be completed!" ”

"Heda," Brother Cha stood up, walked to the side of the wooden map on a table, looked at the three small wooden figures placed in Tongwan, Youzhou, and Hongzhou, and asked thoughtfully, "Which enemy army should we eat?" ”

"Naturally, it's the Song army that dominates Wancheng!" Xiao Heda said, "Most of the Song troops who are in charge of the Ten Thousand are the three straights of the Emperor of Laoshizi, but they are the strong soldiers of the Song people, if they can be destroyed, the tide of the battle will be completely reversed."

Moreover, there are 300,000 stone grain and 500,000 stone forage stored in Tongwan City, as well as a large number of weapons, which is our foundation in the Wuding River area! If there is a case, then even if we destroy the other two Song armies, we will not be able to gain a foothold in the Wuding River. ”

Xiao Heda said this, in fact, half of it was for the benefit of Liao. He had already realized that the Song Army's Imperial Front Three Straights not only crowned the Three Great Song Army, but also meant the revival of the Great Song Eastern Army!

Although he didn't know what method Gao Yu used to make the originally languishing Kaifeng Forbidden Army become like a wolf, he could still smell the extremely dangerous temperature.

No matter how strong the Western Army of the Song Dynasty was, the threat to the Great Liao was limited. Because half of the combat strength of the Western Army was in the Fanhan archers, and the Fanhan archers were a combination of soldiers and peasants, it was impossible to expedition to Yanyun. They are going to Yanyun, how to plant the 200 acres and 250 acres of land at home?

Therefore, the Western Army that came out of Shaanxi had only half of its strength at most. And it's impossible to transfer all the Northwest Forbidden Army, right? Therefore, in fact, half of the strength cannot be exerted, and the top of the sky is one-third.

And the three straight fronts of the emperor must be the "Long March soldiers", they have been on the northwest battlefield for almost a year, and they are still alive and well?

If this army grows up and has 180,000 troops, then the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun will be hanging.

Therefore, Xiao Heda wanted to use the 72,000 army of Western Xia to fight the Song army's three fronts.

"That's right!" Brother Cha thought for a while and nodded, "But the Song people's imperial front three straights are very strong......"

Xiao Heda said: "It is precisely because they are strong that they can't let go of the current opportunity!"

If they are allowed to develop for a few more years, the number of people in the three straight fronts will increase to 100,000! So can our Great White High Kingdom survive? ”

"One hundred thousand?" Brother Cha took a breath, "How much will it be?" ”

"Now the Great Song Dynasty, but the Khan of the Heavens!"

"Tian Khan...... "Brother Wei Mingcha gritted his teeth, "That's right, we can't let them grow any longer."

Heda, go to pass on the king's general order, gather troops and horses, and go straight to Tongwancheng! ”

"The last general obeys!"