At sunrise, the morning bell reverberates on the Wuding River.

The first glow of the new year sprinkled from the hill on the east side to the city of Suide.

However, in Suide City on New Year's Day in the fourth year of Xining, there were no firecrackers, no noise, only 20,000 soldiers ready to go, and only the mighty battle spirit that rose into the sky.

The school yard in Suide City can't accommodate too many troops. The 20,000 troops who were about to go to battle gathered in the empty field outside the north gate. On the makeshift stage, the priest is presiding over the pre-battle ceremony. Every general was solemn, and they all understood that this battle was a matter of national fortune and would be a sign of the change of offensive and defensive situation between the Song and Xia countries. Once the city of Luowu was captured and held, the demise of Western Xia was just around the corner.

Chong Jianzhong looked up at his uncle on the high platform, and Chong Ge was holding the imperial long sword, cutting off the ears of the black ox and ox of the sacrificial flag.

If this success is achieved, the positions held by Di Qing and Guo Kui at the beginning, his fifth uncle will also be qualified to sit on it. The reputation of the breeder will shine in the capital, and the regret of the grandfather will also make up for it.

The building is now a kind of script under the tent. His official position is only temporary, not an official position in the various marshals' mansions. Around him, the young military attachés Chong Pu and Zhi Keshi also held the position of Jiyi in the army - they are not qualified to actually lead the army, but the quality of these young generals is a rare talent in the army. Therefore, he was appointed as a counselor in military affairs.

"But this time I only brought three days of food and grass. There are also accompanying people......" Zhi Keshi glanced back, in the city, there were tens of thousands of people who were about to set off with them. Thirty thousand mouths, if you want to rely on manpower to transport, he whispered to the cultivator beside him, "The Taiwei ordered them to bring more tools for building the city, and the rations only brought three days' worth of rations. ”

"Don't worry too much, for you don't hear that you take it for the kingdom, because the food is for the enemy...... There is food in Yokoyama! There must be food! ”

In addition to his own talent, thanks to his grandfather Chong Shiheng intermittently guarding Qingjian City for nearly ten years, he left connections and relationships among the Tibetan people.

Know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles. This old saying has always been an unbreakable truth.

He drank the liquor infused with ox blood, drew his sword and pointed upward. The flags were unfurled, and Wansheng's shouts were accompanied by heavy drums.

The first day of the first month of the fourth year of Xining.

Just when hundreds of millions of people in the world were celebrating the New Year, Chong Ge led 20,000 foot cavalry, soldiers out of Suide, along the solidified Wuding River, and rushed north.

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The second day of the first lunar month.

The defender of Luo Wu City, Du Luo Rang, is drinking and carnivaling for the arrival of the New Year.

The Western Xia nominally proclaimed himself a vassal to the Great Song Dynasty, and as a sign of being a vassal, the calendar used in the country was to follow the calendar prevailing in the Great Song Dynasty. After the autumn of each year, the new year's calendar is calculated and approved by the Qin Tianjian and presented to the Son of Heaven, and then promulgated to the world, and the subject countries of the Great Song Dynasty are also given a new calendar at this time.

For party members who do not have a high level of astronomy, it is really difficult to let them calculate the calendar by themselves, but it is convenient to use the Great Song Dynasty. Otherwise, with their courage to set their own era name and come to fight the famine every once in a while, they would not have left any face for the monarchs and ministers of the Song Kingdom.

Although Du Luo Rang is a son of the Du Luo family, he has always been very lenient, and he is not interesting to drink, so he put more than 200 people guarding the fort, and they all brought to drink and sing, and in the open space in the city, a pile of fires was lit, and a mouthful of peeled sheep was set up on the fire, and it was roasted in circles. The mutton fat dripped on the fire, sizzling, and a burnt smell spread throughout the town.

It's not that no one reminded Du Luo that there was an abnormal movement in Suide City recently, and it needed to be strictly defended. But Du Luo asked him to think that the party members would celebrate the New Year, and the Han people would also celebrate the New Year. It's been a year of hard work, and it's going to be easy on either side, and there's no way to send troops to fight for the New Year.

The value of Yokoyama to Bactria and the importance of the Wuding River, of course, Du Luorang, who is guarding here, will not be ignorant of the way. However, there is a large army stationed in Yinzhou City on the other side of the mountain, and his uncle, the capital of Roman, is in Yinzhou City. If there is a military situation, it will be imminent, and there is nothing to worry about.

Since Chinese New Year's Eve, he has taken the defenders of the fort with him, and when he wakes up, he drinks and sleeps, and it has been three days now, and there is still a third of the stock in the wine storehouse.

There is no other benefit to guarding this lonely castle, that is, from the returning caravans, there is a lot of money drawn from the passage in private. Among them, there are also goods such as wine and silk to pay for tolls. The warehouses used to store weapons are now occupied by wine and silk. Du Luo rang patted his round belly, he had been in Luo Wu for three or four months, and his belt had loosened by more than half a foot.

"What a great place!" He sighed heartily.

A terrible trumpet sounded suddenly, completely covering up Du Luorang's exclamation.

"What's wrong?!"

Luo Wu guarded the drowsy was forced to the head of the city, just looked at the river valley below the city, under the guidance of the red battle flag of the Song army, hundreds of cavalry have surrounded the gate of Luo Wu City, and the valley in the far south is covered by gray-yellow smoke and dust, I don't know how many soldiers and horses are rushing towards Luo Wu City.

Du Luo rang was dumbfounded, and his mind was full of blank alcohol: "This ...... This...... How is this possible?! ”

The incoming Song military operation answered Durojan's stupid question. More than 100 cavalrymen rushed to the city, dismounted directly, and began to shoot at the head of the city with a rain of arrows. The astonishing precision of the rain of arrows overwhelmed the defenders at the head of the city. And the rest of the cavalry, under their cover, unloaded a section of the pre-built components from the horseback, and in the blink of an eye set up a dozen ladders.

These hundreds of cavalry are all selected from the elite of the Yanyan Road Army, all of whom are skilled in bows and horses, brave in battle, and called the selection of the front. Not only Yan Yanlu, but also the rest of the roads also have at least one commander of the elite of the selection, as the team that the coach relies on the most and uses to change the tide of the battle. He released them from the beginning so that he could take the city in one fell swoop. When the ladders were formed, the leaders shouted, carried these ladders, and rushed straight down the city.

"City Lord!" The party soldiers guarding the city of Luo Wu called Du Luo Rang, hoping that he would have a proposition.

And Du Luo rang was left with only one thought, "Let go of the beacon fire!" Hurry up and set off the beacon fire! ”

He kept repeating it. The Song army came unexpectedly, and the tools to defend the city were not prepared, and Du Luorang had no hope of defending the city. The only hope is that his uncle can avenge him.

When the first Song army chose to climb the head of Luowu City, the outcome of the war was already doomed.

Unable to wait for the order of the city lord Du Luorang, the desperate defenders launched a resistance on their own, but in the shadow of the sword and sword of the Song army Xuanfeng who kept pouring into the city, they were defeated and retreated, and they were powerless to resist at all. When the gates were captured and opened, the Song army, which was guarding outside the city, swarmed in and began to suppress the remaining resistance in the city

In just half an hour, Luowu City, which was regarded as the center of Hengshan, was easily captured by the army of Chongge.

In the eyes of the Western Xia people, Luowu City is only a part of the Yinzhou defense line, although it is important, but because Yinzhou is just outside the mountain, the rapid march is half a day, and there is no need to garrison the army in Luowu. At the beginning, Liang Yi buried Luowu City, but also with the idea of using this place as the forward line of defense.

However, in the eyes of the Song people, Luo Wu on the south side of Hengshan is far more important than Yinzhou on the north side. If you control Luo Wu, you will be able to divide Hengshan equally with the party members, and with the squeeze of the Hengshan Fan Department by the party people, once both the Song and Xia sides have a core stronghold in Hengshan, it will be inevitable that the Hengshan Fan Department will completely fall to the Great Song Dynasty.

The focus is different, and the disposal of Luo Wucheng is also completely different. The Western Xia minister ordered people to build a walled city, which was only 200 steps in circumference. And after the kind of man captured Luo Wu, in order to resist the counterattack of the Western Xia people, he was going to expand Luo Wu City, but it was a thousand steps wide. Moreover, Luowu City cannot become an isolated city, it is attached to Luowu, and the defense system with it as the core must also be built at the same time. In the predetermined plan, two walled cities were to be built at the same time to protect the communication line from Suide to Luogu.

"This is just the beginning." When he stepped into the city with the army, he thought so.

He was assigned the task of counting the grain stocks in the city of Luowu. As the information obtained from the prior reconnaissance, the Luowu City of the Tangut people was only two hundred paces in circumference at most, but the grain and grass in it were piled up into a mountain.

The grain hoards that need to be raised to see the whole picture are enough for the 20,000 foot riders and tens of thousands of people to eat for more than two months. Chong Jianzhong couldn't help but sigh secretly that the Hengshan tribes were really cowardly as mice. was bullied by the Tangut people to such a situation, and he didn't even resist at all. However, this is a good thing for Da Song. The party members are leviing and extorting violently here, and the Great Song Dynasty treats each other with leniency and harmony, and within half a year, the Tibetan department here will be completely centered.

Of course, the prerequisite was to defeat the Western Xia reinforcements stationed in Yinzhou first.

Just when he had just advanced to the city of Luowu, he had already sent his general Lu Zhen to lead his headquarters of 1,000 people as scouts to the northern mountain pass to reconnoiter the movements of the enemy army.

By mid-afternoon, the scouts had come back in the morning. In the direction of Yinzhou, the western thieves have already sent troops to the rescue. The banner is the capital of the western thieves stationed in Yinzhou, and there are more than a dozen flags for participating in politics and governing the city.

"Its pioneer has arrived at Tachikampei in the mountains, and in half an hour, it will arrive at Mato River!" The scout shouted in the tent.

Lishengping is under the mountain pass between Luowucheng and Yinzhou, and if you count the time it took to enter the outpost to report back, the reinforcements of the Western Thieves have now crossed the mountain.

'It's coming so fast! Chong Jianzhong was shocked when he heard this, and exchanged a surprised look with Zhi Keshi beside him, it really came too fast!