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In the face of the spear and heavy armor of the Western Xia army, that is, the mountain army, both in terms of numbers and equipment are at a disadvantage, behind the dammed lakes and canyons, it can be described as a backwater, the Song army can only passively resist the enemy's attacks again and again.

But the only advantage of the Song army is the geographical advantage, the narrow mountain road makes it impossible for the Western Xia army to invest all the troops and the Song army at one time, they can only use long-distance archery, close range by the heavy armor soldiers to fight with the Song army, especially they are condescending, with a strong impact.

In the midst of shouting and killing, another round of dozens of heavily armored soldiers rushed up, and Li Yanqing shouted, "The second team is on, build a shield wall!" ”

More than forty soldiers roared, raised their shields and rushed up, quickly formed a shield wall, desperately resisting the impact of the heavily armored soldiers, in a crash, the shields of the two soldiers broke, the spears pierced into the crowd, and the plasma burst out, the two soldiers screamed and died on the spot, at the same time, the spears of the Song army also pierced the two Western Xia heavy armor soldiers and fell to the ground.

After a violent impact, the two sides were like two fists dead together, the spear lost the effect of sprinting, and the war knife could not split the scale armor, they could only use their bodies to fight, the heavy armor Xixia soldiers tried to push the Song soldiers into the lake with the advantage of heavy armor mixed into the high, the Song army desperately resisted, the two sides were deadlocked, and then it was another impact after the heavy armor soldiers retreated.

The soldiers behind fired arrows at the Western Xia soldiers, and the arrows on both sides rained down, and there were many casualties, while Li Yanqing shot the eyes of the heavily armored soldiers under the cover of the shields of the two soldiers, and shot more than 20 people in a row, which made the Western Xia heavy armored soldiers very frightened and had to bow their heads to confront the Song army.

The 150 soldiers led by Wang Gui on the other side also encountered the resistance of 100 heavy armor soldiers, who lined up in five rows and raised copper spears more than a zhang long to confront the Song army, and the dense spears blocked the Song army from going ashore like a forest.

Behind the heavily armored soldiers, more than 200 soldiers kept firing arrows at the Song army standing on the dam, and Wang Guihe and his men could only raise their shields to resist, but some soldiers were still shot by arrows and fell to the dam in pain.

Wang Gui was in a hurry, and shouted to the soldiers behind him: "Don't attack, everyone, just confront each other like this, and strive to wait until the reinforcements arrive!" ”

The task of the intelligence battalion was originally to seize the dam and prevent the other side from demolishing the dam, so that although the confrontation could not take the dam, at least the other side could not tear down the dam, and when the reinforcements arrived, the two sides would outflank and kill the enemy, and they would not suffer too many casualties.

Li Yanqing's army on the west bank had already faced the fourth onslaught of the heavy armored soldiers of Western Xia, Li Yanqing's voice was already mute, and he shouted: "The third team is on!" ”

Forty-one soldiers of the third team rushed forward with a roar, forming a wall with their shields, and in the darkness, many people closed their eyes to meet the fierce impact of the bronze spears in the hands of the heavily armored soldiers.

'Boom! With a loud bang, several shields shattered, and spears stabbed into the crowd, and one soldier grabbed the spear that pierced into the crowd, and several soldiers followed with a sharp tug, dragging a heavily armored soldier into the crowd, and several sharp daggers stabbed down fiercely, stabbing the soldiers on the ground to death.

Li Yanqing seized the opportunity to shoot three arrows in a row, and three heavily armored soldiers fell on their backs, and at this moment, a horn sounded from the top of the mountain, and a thousand Song soldiers came from the bottom of the mountain under the leadership of Liu Kuang.

Liu Jian rushed to the front, he was brave in martial arts, wielding a big sword, killing dozens of people in a row, and even the deputy general of the Western Xia army was also killed by him.

The Western Xia soldiers gathered on the hillside were in a great confusion and retreated one after another, and dozens of heavily armored soldiers saw that the situation was not good, and they also withdrew north along the hillside.

The soldiers of the intelligence battalion cheered, and the angry soldiers pursued with spears, stabbing several people in a row, and then stopped chasing and watched the enemy retreat.

The Western Xia soldiers on the opposite bank also seemed to have received an order, and began to retreat slowly, they took a step back, Wang Gui led the soldiers to take a step forward, the two sides seemed to have a tacit understanding, only a moment, a hundred heavily armored soldiers retreated into the mountains and forests, Wang Gui led the soldiers to occupy the river bank, he stopped the impulse of the soldiers to pursue, "Don't put down the shield, beware of the enemy's deception!" ”

After a long while, it was finally confirmed that the soldiers had retreated, and at this time, a soldier rushed from the opposite bank and said, "Wang Dutou, Li Senjun asked you to count the casualties." ”

"You go and tell Li Senjun that seven people were killed and eleven wounded on our side, all of them were arrow wounds, and the injuries were not serious."

Li Yanqing's casualty statistics also came out, 31 people were killed, 22 people were wounded, and the casualties reached 30 percent.

The soldier who was still alive an hour ago turned into a cold corpse in the blink of an eye, which filled his heart with strong self-reproach, he made two major mistakes, he should not bring a knife, he should not bring an arrow, he should not bring a bow, but a crossbow, with a crossbow and armor-piercing arrows can shoot through the heavy armor of the Western Xia soldiers within fifty steps.

At this time, Liu Jian walked up to him and sat down, comforting him: "You have killed more than a hundred soldiers, the record is already very good, we fought against the Western Xia soldiers, the casualties were half to half, I think the main thing is that you did not carry armor and spears, otherwise the casualties will be greatly reduced." ”

Li Yanqing sighed, "People are dead, there is no point in saying this, I just hope that I can learn a lesson, and I will never make similar mistakes again." ”

"Everyone came over like this, I heard that the first time the commander fought with heavy casualties, he was almost beheaded by the old commander, everyone interceded for him and beat a hundred military sticks, besides, you are still a civilian official, it is rare to fight like this, don't blame yourself, deploy it quickly! I'm worried that the Western Xia army will fight back. ”

Li Yanqing nodded, he immediately ordered to dig the soil and pack the bags, and built two simple defensive lines on the slopes of the mountains on both sides, with six hundred people stationed on each side, with bows and arrows, waiting for the battle.

At this time, a bunch of raging fires were lit at the Dao Gorge on the top of the mountain, the flames were soaring to the sky, particularly dazzling in the night, and they were clearly visible hundreds of miles away, which was to notify the Song army of Siwuzhai and the big camp to come to support.

The main camp of the Song army, on the high observation tower, two sentries were closely watching the movement in the valley, just now a sentry seemed to see a trace of fire, and after staring for a long time, they finally saw that there was indeed a fire burning dozens of miles away in the depths of the canyon.

This was a major military situation, and a sentry hurriedly climbed down the guard tower and rushed towards the Chinese army's tent.

In the big tent, the seed master Dao is deploying the final battle plan to more than a dozen generals, he hung out a map of the Hengshan Gorge on a wooden board, pointed to the Tiger Roaring Gorge and said to everyone: "According to the latest intelligence, the water level of the lake blocked by the Tiger Roaring Gorge is three zhang deep, which means that the entire north of the Tiger Roaring Canyon is an ocean, and it doesn't matter to us whether the flood is discharged or not, even if the flood is discharged, at least until the winter freezes our army can continue north along the Tiger Roaring Gorge, but the official's request is to end the Western Xia Campaign before the winter comes, Obviously, this is not realistic. ”

"We can go the ancient way!" A senior general reminded.

Seed Master Dao nodded, "The premise of taking the Guyuan Road is that the intelligence battalion can successfully seize the dam and the flood will not leak, so we can indeed take the Guyuan Road." ”

The Seed Master Dao pointed to the Guyuan Road on the map, "It is also the Western Xia Army that wants us to take the Guyuan Road, but we have no choice, whether we are a detour or a strong attack, Yinchuan City is a hurdle that we can't pass, otherwise even if our main force passes, the logistics will not be able to pass." ”

"I can use the logistics to lure the Western Xia army out, which is a good way to take Yinchuan City."

The seed master said lightly: "Maybe it's a method, but in fact, this method has been used thirty years ago, I believe that the Xixia people already have a way to deal with it, they have deployed a large number of scouts on the periphery, which is equivalent to growing countless pairs of eyes, whether it's true or not, you can't hide it from them." ”

"Then can we only attack?"

"Maybe you can use the method of attacking from the north and south."

"In fact, I had already transported a large number of siege weapons to the Jinning army a few months ago, and the strategy of the Western Xia army had long been expected by me. ”

At this time, a personal soldier rushed into the big tent and reported loudly: "Qiqi Marshal, there is a fire in the direction of Tiger Roaring Gorge!" ”

The planter suddenly turned around and walked outside the big tent, and all the generals followed, at this time, the fire in the direction of the Tiger Roaring Gorge was even more violent, standing in the camp, it was clearly visible, and the eyes of the planter narrowed, and this fire meant that Li Yanqing had successfully captured the dam.

He immediately ordered: "General Sun Chuanzhi can lead 5,000 troops to rush to the Tiger Roaring Gorge immediately, and you must keep the dam for me!" ”