"Great official, the commander of the Western Thieves is a thief surnamed Li, who is very cunning, and wants to trick us away from Fort Ansai and then go to war with us!"

Gao Yu is so smart, how could he let Brother Cha and Xiao Heda's tricks be deceived? When he returned to his own array, he told Tong Guan about the other party's tricks.

Tong Guan just smiled: "It's just a small skill of carving insects, our family has already seen through it." ”

Gao Yu smiled: "I know that I can't hide it from the big official, so let's go back to the village." ”

"Go back?" Tong Guan shook his head, "You went back without fighting?" ”

"Still fighting?" Gao Yu shook his head and asked with some trepidation, "Aren't the officials afraid of fraud!" ”

"Don't be afraid." Tong Guan said with a smile, "We also have the strength of four generals, an army of 20,000 people, and seven or eight thousand soldiers, but it is not so easy for the western thieves to break through." Besides, the terrain from Ansai Fort to Saimen Village is not very open, and there are thousands of ravines along the way, and there are dangers everywhere. In the past, Yuan Hao personally led an army of 100,000 to attack Liu Ping, Shi Yuansun and Sanchuankou, didn't he also fight hard for many days before he could decide the winner?

Is it possible that this thief army in front of him can be compared with Yuan Hao's army of 100,000? Moreover, Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun were lone soldiers in the past, and there was no support from all around, so they were broken by Yuan Hao. And now the armies of Yanyan Road are approaching Yan'an, and there are Wuhao ancient armies approaching Shizhou and Xiazhou at the northern foot of Hengshan. The thief army in front of him can be described as being attacked on the back of the enemy, which is extremely unfavorable. Our army only needs to advance slowly, and it will not be afraid of being ambushed. If it is a dignified array, what is there to fear in such terrain? ”

Gao Yu is now a little more courageous, after all, he has seen the sea of corpses and blood in Huangzhou, and the elite of the party members has not been defeated. Besides, the 20,000 party soldiers in front of him don't look very strong, and they should be weak soldiers who are easy to deal with.

But there was always some hesitation, and he whispered: "Official, that's what you said, but I'm afraid that there will be a case!" Now the situation is in our favor, and the credit is enough...... It's useless to have too much! ”

The last sentence is really a bit too straightforward, and Captain Gao has already earned enough credit! Wu Haogu also has a share of the credit he won in Yinzhou. He also has his share in the credit for retreating from the enemy in Ansaiburg, is he afraid that there is no remote county?

Besides, is it true that the warriors of the Song Dynasty have as much merit as possible? Today's official family has a big heart, but after all, his surname is Zhao! Moreover, there are many civil ministers in the court who like to make trouble with military attachés. It's okay if the credit is not big, if the merit is high, some people say that you have to be afraid of going to the old for a long time, how boring this day is!

Gao Yu, who was born in the leftovers of the door, understands this set of rules too well, so he doesn't have too high requirements, and he is satisfied to have a third government manager in this life, and then he will be the target of public criticism when he goes up to the Privy Council.

Tong Guan already understood what Gao Yu meant, and he thought about it again, "It's better to be like this, let's hang 10 miles behind the West Thief, and at the same time send the elite forward to occupy the high ground along the way, so that nothing goes wrong." ”

This is Yan'an, northern Shaanxi, where there are thousands of ravines, and the winding road in the ravines and ravines for ten miles is already a safe enough distance for the army of Gao Yu and Tong Guan. Don't look at Tong Guan Gaoyu's hands, there are actually only 14,000 people in his hands, but as long as these 14,000 people rely on the terrain and put up a gun and arrow array, ten times the Western Xia army will not dare to rush hard.

After Tong Guan and Gao Yu made a proper plan, they led four generals, with a book of 20,000, but in fact no more than 14,000 infantry and cavalry brigades, marched in formation, slowly chasing behind the Western Xia army that pretended to be chaotic and retreated.

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In the night, bonfires burn vigorously in the ravines and valleys. The Western Xia army, which had retreated for most of the day, temporarily settled down on the rugged terrain between Saimen Village and Ansai Village.

The garrison cavalry, which had already retreated in advance, turned the surrounding valleys and ravines upside down to ensure that no Song army lurked, and then occupied several more high ground to cover the huge Western Xia army.

A large number of bonfires were then lit, and all kinds of delicious food collected from the villages that had been found on the way south from Saimen Village were burned hot by the accompanying bearers, and went out to serve the iron harriers and the masters of the garrison.

There are also some soldiers who take advantage of the cooking and eating, set up tents, and all the small tents are set up on the side of the bonfire, and the blazing flames dispel the low temperature of this cold winter in northern Shaanxi a little.

At this moment, Brother Cha and Xiao Heda climbed a loess plateau with a wide field of vision, and looked at the camp of the Song army more than ten miles away.

Gao Yu really lives up to his reputation! Although he was lured out of Ansai Fort, he was not in a hurry to catch up with the Western Xia army, but slowly followed behind the Western Xia army, more than ten miles away.

Moreover, during the march, small groups of elites were constantly sent to seize the commanding heights along the way before the large army, almost moving forward step by step. It's really not revealing a flaw to the opponent!

Xiao Heda looked at it for a while, and said to Brother Cha: "King, if you don't know if a certain family will lead troops to test it later?" ”

"Temptation?" Brother Cha looked at Xiao Heda.

Xiao Heda smiled and said, "By the way, I will lose a few more battles." ”

"A plan for arrogance?"

"Yes!" Xiao Heda said, "The day before yesterday, Saimen Zhai came up to report that there were a lot of foot soldiers from the Hengshan Fan Department who came to vote, which just drove them to fight with the Song army. ”

"Good! Just do it! ”

Of course, the little robbers in the Hengshan region support the big robber of Western Xia, and the big robber will lead the little robber to rob the Han people! So when they heard that the soldiers and horses of the Great White High Kingdom had crossed the Hengshan Mountains and went south, they naturally came to vote one after another.

It's a pity that in this world, it is possible to lose money as a thief.

Shizhou, the original nest of the Western Xia Xiangyou Military Division, is now surrounded by nearly 20,000 Song legions.

However, today is not a good day to siege the city, because the heavy snow of Layue is falling like goose feathers, covering everything around it in a white expanse. The surface of the Wuding River, which meanders from the left side of Shizhou, has become as hard as steel in winter.

Unlike the dilapidated Yinzhou City, Shizhou City is not a ruined city, although the city defense is far from strong, the city wall appears low, the ditch outside the city is only shallow, and there is no fort or corner tower to strengthen the defense. But the city wall is at least intact, and when the temperature plummeted last night, the western thieves guarding Shizhou also poured cold water from the head of the wall to the outer wall, using the low temperature and cold wind to form a slippery "ice armor" on the surface of the outer wall, making the city wall difficult to climb.

In addition, because Shizhou has been under the threat of force from the Song army after the four or five years of the Great War in Yuanfeng. Therefore, the Xiangyou military secretary who guards this place had all the trees in the surrounding radius of a hundred miles cut down all the trees in the early morning, which made Huang Shilang's engineer commander a little difficult to be a skilled craftsman.

However, Huang Shilang couldn't solve the problem, but Wan Yanxie, who should not have been able to attack the city, also came up with a countermeasure - attacking the city with negative soil!

This is the most primitive and quite murderous method of attack. It is said to be primitive because the method of piling up a dirt slope to go up to the city probably came into being at the same time that humans learned to build a city. It is brutal because it is often carried out by enemy civilians who are in charge of the mounds.

"Hurry up and dig, if you can't finish digging, you won't have anything to eat!"

Wu Tian, who was wearing a robbed warm fur, was acting as the overseer of all evils at this time, carrying a leather whip in one hand and a long sword in the other. The young face showed a fierce expression, and he kept urging with blunt party words.

And those who were urged by him to dig the soil, needless to say, were all old and weak women and children of the party who were captured! Thereinto...... And that party who looks a bit like Yan Po'er! I don't know if I'm tired of playing or something else, but now I'm also driven by Wu Tian and his brothers to use shovels to dig on the hard ground.

The woman still had some illusions about Wu Tian, and when Wu Tian walked past her, she threw herself over and knelt on the ground to plead, but the response was two fierce leather whips.

"Stinky bitch, go work!" Wu Tian roared, the woman cried, and the other party members, old and weak, women and children, had already dried up their tears and were numb to dig the soil. Someone is so tired that he falls, and soon a boy from the Dummy Army will go up and punch and kick him...... The sound of screams sounded in the ears of Wu Haogu, who was watching from time to time.

Wu Haogu looked a little frowned, not because he agreed to the siege method proposed by Wan Yan Xianye...... He still understands the truth that Ci is not in charge of the army. And there is no cheaper way to siege a city.

According to reliable information, there are not many defenders in Shizhou City now, and the Xiangyou Military Division of Western Xia has already withdrawn, and only a few hundred remaining troops are in Shizhou City. If it weren't for the fact that their own cavalry was so ferocious that they didn't dare to run away, Shizhou would probably have been taken.

What made Wu Haogu sigh was the performance of his fake sons...... Too cruel, too cold-blooded, without a bit of sympathy, and turning his face and not recognizing people.

Wu Haogu thought to himself: That Wu Tian said ten days ago that he wanted that party mother-in-law to be his wife, but now he has turned his face...... Does this kid have normal human feelings? No, the fake knights that I spent a lot of money to train are all a little mentally ill?

Brother Zhao Zhong and Wang Yu arrived at Wu Haogu's side with a smile at this time, bowed their hands, and Brother Zhao Zhong said: "Xuanzan, two thousand and hundreds of earthen bags are almost enough, let the third commander of the cavalry supervise these party members to pile up soil and attack the city early tomorrow morning." ”

Wu Haogu nodded, "Okay." He asked the king again, "Have all the warriors been chosen?" ”

"It's chosen," said Wang Yu, "1,000 warriors, all of whom don't have enough to get a suite, and their eyes are red when they see so many heads cut off by the knights." The remaining 2,000 warriors all went into battle with bows and arrows to keep the party members who could suppress the city. ”

"Good! That's good! Wu Haogu said with a smile, "At that time, this official will also be the same as Gao Shiyan, and he will take the deed to supervise the formation." ”

Wang Yu smiled: "That's foolproof!" ”