"Newspaper Zhanggong, the lord of Western Xia will be Renduo Lingding." The scout said.

"Renduo Lingding?" Several people looked solemn, don't look at this guy who was killed by Wang Ju very badly in Gyeongju. But in the Song Dynasty, the performance was the most eye-catching.

After the flooding, it was this person who led the Western Xia army to constantly bite the remnants of the Song army like a wolf and a tiger, not only did the main force of Gao Zunyu Huanqing Road suffer heavy losses, but Liu Changzuo's 50,000 soldiers and horses on Jingyuan Road only came back 13,000 people under the flooding and Renduo Lingding, and the loss was three-quarters!

Such a loss almost made Liu Changzuo, a super tiger general, depressed and languishing!

So some soldiers said, why is this happening, think about the previous achievements against Western Xia, many soldiers cried loudly, and it is reported that Liu Changzuo himself was also crying loudly in the military tent that day.

Zhang Qi looked at everyone's faces and said, "Don't be afraid, in the past, when I was in Gyeongju, the Taibao said that this person should not be underestimated, but there is no need to look at him too highly. The Taibao once divided the generals of ancient and modern times into six ranks. Super generals are not called generals, but gods of war, such as Li Jing and others, since ancient and modern times, there are only a few people. The second-class generals, such as Xue Rengui, Yelu Xiuge and other generals, these generals have few opponents, but they can't reach the level of the god of war, because they still have many shortcomings in them after careful search. But it is such a main general, and there are only dozens of people in ancient and modern times. Again, it is a second-rate main general, such as Di Qing, Zhang Kang, Wang Shao, and a certain in our dynasty. Taibao said that even if they are second-rate generals, there are only more than 100 people who have come and gone from ancient to modern times. ”

Here, Zhang Kai is still very complacent.

Don't look at it as second-rate, it will also be ranked in the top 200!

"And then there's the third-rate general. Such as planting, high Yongneng. And this Ren Duo Ling Ding. At most, Ren Duo Ding is a little higher, so what is there to be afraid of! Guo Dutou, you continue to report. ”

"Well, the enemy's total strength must be more than 100,000, but it may be less than 150,000 soldiers. During the day today, I used all kinds of armor captured from our dynasty to protect the soldiers to fill the trench in front of Pingxia City. But just as the earthen embankments were about to reach the opposite bank, General Guo suddenly asked the soldiers of the three armies to take out the divine arm bows. Killed and wounded many Tangut soldiers, forcing the Tanguts to stop the attack, and the three armies rested. However, according to the estimation of the White Army on the front line, at most at noon tomorrow, the Tanguts will be able to repair the earthen embankment to the opposite bank. ”

As long as the Western Xia repaired the earthen embankment, the tragic offensive and defensive battle officially began.

"I know, Guo Dutou, you go down and rest for a while."

"Whoa."

Guo Du's head went down.

Zhang Qi glanced at the generals on the left and right, and said: "The enemy did not dispatch 200,000 300,000 soldiers and horses this time, and I thought there were several reasons. Outside Lingzhou City. The flooding of our army in Western Xia caused heavy losses of soldiers and horses on both roads of Huanqing and Jingyuan. may be in the hearts of the Western Xia people, that is, a certain came to Weizhou, successively set up many border troops, and trained for more than a year, but they were eventually recruits, and most of the elite were folded outside Lingzhou City. ”

"There are only four generals and soldiers in Pingxia City, only eight or nine thousand people, and more than 10,000 people, unlike Yongle City, there are tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, hundreds of thousands of people, so there is no need for so many troops to exterminate."

"Ren Duo Ling Ding himself may be a little proud."

"There is also a possibility that the enemy will have a follow-up force that will move south from Xiaoguan, but it has not arrived. However, this possibility is extremely small, because the officers and soldiers of the Chao Dynasty on the Huanzhou side have taken the initiative to attack several times during this time, and they will contain the Xia army forces over there. ”

The best thing in Western Xia is to win more than less.

Once the strength of the two sides was about the same, the Tanguts often did not know how to fight.

Especially during the reign of the Liang clan, it was often 300,000 troops when it was dispatched, and in fact, Zhang Qi was speechless when he thought about it, even if the cost of the Western Xia army was low, it was 300,000 troops when it was dispatched, so it really didn't cost money?

No wonder Wang Ju said that the Liang clan was poor and dethroned.

However, I wanted to launch the Xia War the year after tomorrow, and Zhang Ji still wished that Western Xia would do it, and even the more troops dispatched this time, the better.

Now there are 100,000 fewer troops than expected, Zhang Kai is a little disappointed, but also a little lucky, no matter what, Renduo Lingding is not a vegetarian, the enemy who came has a little less troops, but the certainty of victory has also increased a little.

"Wang En, Yao Gu, Lin Guang listen to the order."

"Wow," the third general stepped forward.

"Wang En is the front army, Yao Gu is the rear army, Lin Guang is the lieutenant general, and the three-way soldiers and horses immediately rushed to the old city of Haoshui, but remember, Haoshui is very close to the front line, and the enemy's army is coming violently, and the three armies are at the time when the edge is exposed, so they rush to Haoshui, but they can't really reach Haoshui, if the enemy is prepared, immediately set up camp for defense, and before an order, no one is allowed to invite merit to fight, otherwise the military law will be punished."

Good water is an extremely important fort, no smoke gorge down, is Shimen River Shimen Bridge, to the east is Pingxia River, to the southeast is Shimen Gorge, there are many temples in this mountainous area behind Shimen Gorge, it is also an important place to worship Buddha in the Huluchuan area south of Xiaoguan in Xixia. Out of Shimen Gorge, it is a good water.

And from the good water to the southeast is the Lanxiao River, and then to the southeast, it is the Tiansheng Village, or from a small road, you can go straight to the Dingchuan River.

Of course, go south along the Hulu River, which is the avenue, and go straight to Rongzhai, Xiningzhai Town......

It turned out that before the Song Dynasty lost Lingzhou, it was impossible to build a big city in Pingxiachuan, and it was a waste of troops, so a small stone was built here and named Haoshui.

However, with the expansion of Li Jiqian, the good water was too far ahead, so the Song Dynasty had to discard it, and now only some remnants remain.

The three generals were ordered to go down.

"Chong Pu, Guo Jingxiu, and Liu Sunchen obey the order."

"Oh," the third general came out again.

"The three of you, Liu Sunchen is the front army, Chong Pu is the middle army, and Guo Jingxiu is the rear army, starting from Dingchuan and going straight down the trail to the water, but remember, you are clearly trying to save Pingxia City all the way, but in fact, you should cooperate with Lin Guang's actions of soldiers and horses all the way, and you must not invite merit to attack without authorization."

"Whoa."

Wang Guangzu was anxious: "Zhang Gong, what about me?" ”

"You have more important tasks, but now wait for someone to lead the soldiers to arrive......"

…………

The Song army dispatched troops. Western Xia also sent many scouts. The news also quickly reached the ears of Renduo Lingding.

And the two-way soldiers and horses launched by Zhang Kai this time were not surprise attacks. Therefore, Renduo Lingding has plenty of time to prepare.

Wei Wei, one of his generals, called out: "You lead 30,000 soldiers and horses, immediately repair the waste wall (good water, so the wall), and do a good job of defense, but you can't take the initiative to attack." The enemy came with six generals, and I don't know very well about Wang En, Chong Pu, and Yao Gu. However, Lin Guang, Liu Sunchen and Guo Jingxiu are three brave generals, all of whom have the courage to be unstoppable, and they must not be underestimated. ”

Needless to say, Lin Guang, Liu Sunsin was retreating. became a super machine gun, which also frightened Xixia, Guo Jingxiu and Wang Ju didn't pay much attention, but in the battle of the rice fat village, this general also shined, and his combat achievements were second only to Zhe Keshi.

And not only these two Song armies, but also a Song army in Shimenxia, the main generals are the famous Qu Zhen and Zhe Keshi, and there are also Wang Wenzhen and Li Zhongjie, it seems that these two generals can also fight.

However, as long as Wei encounters it, the good water will be blocked. The Song army in the south could not go north, and Qu Zhen's army could not be withdrawn. Then maybe after taking Pingxia City, he will be able to catch turtles in an urn with Qu Zhen's Song army.

If the Song army on these two roads fails one by one, the main force of Jingyuan Road will suffer heavy losses, so he can take more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, and the captured grain baggage, and invade the Zhenrong army and Weizhou in a mighty south.

Wei met it, and took 30,000 soldiers and horses to the south to get a good water.

However, the remaining soldiers and horses of Western Xia still exceeded 100,000, which constituted enough coercion on Pingxia City.

But the efficiency of his attack was lower than Zhang Kai imagined.

It was not until the afternoon that an embankment reached the other side.

The dense Xia army pounced from the earthen embankment, many with shovels in their hands, and others carrying the crashing wood.

Guo Cheng immediately dispatched troops and horses and shot desperately.

Soon after, however, another earthen embankment opened the trench.

Finally, when the fifth earthen embankment was opened, there was a gap between the shovel and the striking wood under the desperate attack of the Western Xia.

"Jia Yan, you personally lead your subordinates to block that gap."

"Whoa."

Jia Yan rode a horse and rushed over with his subordinates.

Under the leadership of him, it was not easy to repel the Xia army that broke into the gap.

In fact, when you enter the city, there is a fence inside.

But Guo Cheng didn't want to retreat into the fence immediately, because it would be too dangerous for the remaining three days. And with only one fence separating it, there will inevitably be a lot of casualties.

However, because of the Xia army's containment of the Song Dynasty's forces, several earthen embankments were repaired one after another.

"Brother Heizi, you killed another Xia soldier," Guo Xiaosi said enviously.

So far in the battle, Brother Kuroko has shot and killed five Western Xia warriors, which means that after the battle, this reward alone has reached fifty times!

Besides, there are another fifteen and sixty-five guan, how much wealth is this for the people in the border area?

Brother Heizi said: "Little Four, it's so close, even a rabbit can shoot to death, why haven't you shot an enemy until now?" ”

This made Brother Kuroko feel speechless.

In fact, not only Guo Xiaosi, but also many people, because they were nervous, or did not practice bows and arrows, although dozens of arrows had been shot, not a single enemy was killed.

But Brother Heizi can't figure it out, Guo Xiaosi is a capable person in the village, he can speak, and he has a smart mind, why is he performing so poorly now.

He doesn't know the difference, can he fight if he can speak? In that case, the scholars and doctors of the Song Dynasty could not fight all eight adults?

In fact, Guo Cheng had been watching the battle at the head of the city of Wengcheng, and he was also dissatisfied with the performance of these people.

As for the wasted arrows, don't worry too much, this time he brought the army and civilians to build the city, and prepared a large number of armor, and nearly two million arrows alone were prepared, enough to squander them in these five days.

The main reason is that the killing efficiency of the people is too low, otherwise there would not be a constant danger this afternoon.

He thought for a while and ordered Liu Fa: "General Liu, you lead six battalions of cavalry to fight from the north city gate, along the west city wall all the way to the south city gate, and defuse the enemy's offensive." ”

At this time, the Western Xia launched an attack from all directions, but the main offensive was still in the west.

"Well," Liu Fa replied.

"You must be fast, don't fall in love with war, otherwise it will be dangerous." Guo Cheng said again.

But he was still a little worried. After all, Liu Fa is too young. I don't know why. Let Wang Ju order, from a capital head quickly promoted to the twenty-sixth general of Shaanxi Road, although he used to be the head of the capital when he fought bravely, but that is the head of the capital, now he is a general.

can't blame Guo Cheng for worrying, at least the current Liu Fa is not the Liu Fa at his peak. However, in history, Liu Fa was killed by Chage, a real famous general in Western Xia.

But this famous Western Xia general, who is almost no less than Yelu Huge, has just been born, and Wang Ju doesn't need to think about it at all.

Liu Fa carried a big knife. Turn over and get on the horse.

The big knife in his hand is not the long-handled knife of the previous Song Dynasty, but also the Mongolian-style war knife pushed out by Wang Ju. But unlike ordinary sabers, this saber is thickened and lengthened, and it is a foot and a half long, but this means that the weight of this knife has reached more than 30 catties.

Don't think that the weight of more than 30 catties is not too heavy, there is no shortage of heavy weapons at this time, such as whips, iron shovels, hammers, and axes, but these heavy weapons are very short. The heavier and longer it is, the more strenuous it is to wield, so many people question the Mo knife of the Tang Dynasty. I thought it wasn't a long-standing and extra-large sword, but a combined knife. Otherwise the warrior simply waved and could not move.

Ren Duo Lingding was also watching the battle on the front line, at this time the city wall was not repaired, and there was no one tall in some places, and soon he saw Liu Fa gathering six battalions of cavalry, so he immediately ordered: "Mobilize troops and horses to support the north." ”

However, the front is besieging the city, and there is still an army left behind to prevent Qu Zhen from coming from the rear, and there are many troops moving stones on the mountain so that the tiger cannon can continue to fire.

Therefore, under the rush of the Xia army, the suspension bridge of Beiwengcheng in Pingxia City has been lowered.

"Rush!" Liu Fa roared, and the prancing horse took the lead and rushed out of the city.

Not far away, there happened to be a group of Xia soldiers who were building an embankment, and saw the Song cavalry rushing out and wanted to flee back.

Liu Fa had already pounced, his hand was up and down, his strength was very great, this knife was also very heavy, and with a knife down, he split the head of a Xia soldier in half, this bloody scene made several timid Xia soldiers so frightened that they were about to pee.

Liu Fa continued to rush down, and one enemy soldier after another was chopped to the ground by him.

But the farther you go to the west of the city, the more and more enemies you encounter.

The people of the Song Dynasty paid attention to burial, but the funeral forms of the Tangut people were diverse, first of all, the sky burial, followed by cremation, water burial and earth burial, the burial was not the original traditional habit of the Tangut people, it was a foreign product, imported from the Song Dynasty.

So in the two days of fierce fighting, the Tangut people also held a celestial burial

At this time, there were many wild animals, including South China tigers, and at this time there must be at least tens of thousands of South China tigers in the Central Plains, including vultures, many vultures pecking at the corpses on the ground.

However, with the arrival of Liu Fa's cavalry, these ugly vultures were frightened one by one.

"Amazing, amazing," Liu Fangxing, the capital supervisor of Pingxia City, said in admiration.

Guo Cheng looked at Liu Fa's unstoppable bravery, and his eyes also lit up, he seemed to see his heroic appearance from Liu Fa.

But as Liu Fa killed the city of Xiweng, the cavalry mobilized by Renduo and Ding was also arranged one after another and entered the battlefield.

On the battlefield, the number of soldiers may not be the only key to victory, but the number of soldiers is also an important factor.

Just like the battle of Langya Village back then, if it weren't for the large enough troops under Yelu Xian, how could Yang Ye be captured, and how could he die without food for three days?

Seeing that the Xia army was entangled with more and more troops, the speed of Liu Fa's six battalions of cavalry was getting slower and slower.

"Porphyry!"

Two sounds sounded at the same time, the first was the sound of Liu Fa's big horse knife slashing into the head of a Xia soldier, and the second sound was the sound of the Xia soldier stabbing the knife into the belly of Liu Fa's war horse.

Liu Fa had to turn over and fall off the horse.

Liu Fangxing looked at it with a telescope and asked worriedly: "General Guo, is that General Liu?" ”

This battle was to take advantage of the unpreparedness of the Tangut people and use the tactics of galloping at high speed to slow down the siege of the Tangut people in order to win a precious day. After all, at this time, the Western Xia forces still occupied an absolute advantage, if the Western Xia repaired more than a dozen earthen embankments and broke through more than a dozen gaps, then the Western Xia could use the advantage of the army to attack the city day and night. The remaining three days and four nights of Chenguang will be difficult to get through.

Could it be that before the Song Dynasty completed the strategic deployment, the final decisive weapon was taken out and used?

Or just sit and watch more than 10,000 people, as well as thousands of officers and soldiers, stay in the fence and let the Tanguts kill them one by one.

So Guo Chengbing used a risky move and sent Liu Fa.

Liu Fa fell off the horse, once he left the war horse. Outside of this city. How dangerous it would be. As soon as Liu Fa died, the morale of these six battalions of cavalry was low, and together with the most elite cavalry battalions of these six battalions, they were also in danger.

Guo Cheng looked at it, his eyes splitting.

In fact, as Liu Fa fell off his horse, the cavalry of the six battalions all agreed and stopped sprinting.

"General Guo, you go." Dutou Li Ping said.

With that, he rolled over and dismounted. gave the war horse to Liu Fa.

This person is also a tiger general who can fight well, but he didn't fight, his status is low, and his reputation is not obvious.

What this let means, Liu Fa knows, but at this critical time, Liu Fa must not be soft-hearted. He carried a large knife and turned on his horse. In order to cover him on the horse, Li Ping was desperately killing the enemy, just in the blink of an eye. Li Ping had been stabbed several times by a weapon, and blood trickled out of his armor.

"Li Dutou. I've taken care of your family," Liu said.

As he remounted his horse, the cavalry of the six battalions let out a cheer together, and Liu Fa said, "Kill." ”

It was only half a square circle, because he had killed so many enemies that the blood spurted out by the enemy stained his armor bright red.

The cavalry of the 6th Battalion broke through the enemy's encirclement and continued to fight south.

But Li Ping gave up his war horse and was stabbed by the Xia soldiers who surrounded him with a sword and a gun.

"Li Dutou," Liu Fa muttered with tears in his eyes.

This change was so fast that Brother Heizi and Guo Xiaosi didn't see it.

"So I'm so good at cavalry." Brother Heizi said, how can I actually say it, the Western Xia cavalry is just like that, at least the light cavalry sent now is only that. But there is something more powerful, that is, the iron harrier in Western Xia, but the number of iron harriers has also decreased one after another because of the country's financial difficulties, that is, there are iron harriers, and Renduo Lingding also brought iron harriers, but because of the rush of time, the iron harriers are all draped, and it is too late to put them on the battlefield.

This created a false impression among the people, thinking that the Western Xia cavalry was like that.

Of course, this is a good thing, otherwise the people will be frustrated, and there will be more than three days to go, and it will be difficult to hold on to Pingxia City.

Looking at Liu Fa's heroic performance, Guo Xiaosi's fear weakened a little, and finally killed a Xia soldier outside the moat with one arrow.

"Whew!" Guo Xiaosi stood up happily and cheered.

But then an arrow almost hit him in the head, but he dodged quickly, and this arrow also messed up his bun, but fortunately, Brother Kuroko pressed his head down in time.

Li Ping had fallen in a pool of blood, Liu Fa hated in his heart, the knife in his hand was wielded more and more urgently, and he didn't even know if he was hit by an arrow, and the six battalions of cavalry were led by him as an arrow, like a sharp axe, splitting the layers of green bamboo, invincible, and successfully killed under the gate of Nanurn City.

In fact, there are not many Western Xia soldiers who are really killed, but don't worry, it is precisely because of Liu Fa's sprint, from the North Urn City of Pingxia City to the South Urn City, the army that is attacking the city in Western Xia is all disrupted by Liu Fa, this stunned kung fu, don't forget, there are thousands of Song Dynasty officers and soldiers behind the city wall, and more than 10,000 people with weapons in their hands.

Therefore, Liu Fa only killed more than 1,000 Xia soldiers in this sprint, but it was precisely because of his sprint that more than 2,000 Xia soldiers were indirectly shot.

It was getting dark.

Renduo Retail Ding frowned.

The Song Dynasty lost more and won less, and this reason was not something that Renduo Lingding could understand, but the Song army's performance on the battlefield surprised Renduo Lingding many times.

Not to mention the Battle of Gyeongju, a little more distant such as the Battle of Haoshuichuan, more than 10,000 soldiers such as Wang Qi were killed in battle, and no one surrendered. Now it's the same again.

This made him a little puzzled, the soldiers of the three armies were so heroic, you must know that the Song Dynasty was not the Western Xia, there were more than one million troops, there were more than 500,000 forbidden soldiers, and there were a large number of border troops, even if the non-combat type of military soldiers was not counted, the number of combat-type troops also reached more than 700,000, why could they be defeated by the Western Xia.

It's not bad to think like this, it's true that something went wrong, but once these problems are corrected, Western Xia will be very dangerous...... But Ren Duo Ling Ding didn't know.

Liu Fa successfully entered the city, and then sobbed: "Li Dutou ......"

At the beginning, Wang Ju only reduced the army and reduced the number of people who could eat empty salaries, which was very different from Cai Ting's art of war.

The so-called art of war is the military head system in the early Song Dynasty, which is divided into dozens of generals, each of which has as little as three battalions, as many as five or six battalions, and as many as seven or eight battalions, but the head of the army is not called the head of the army, but has been changed to a general.

Liu Fa is a general, and the officers and soldiers of several battalions under his command may not be clear, but they are all above the head, and Liu Fa is not clear. Li Ping's death made him feel uncomfortable. But Rindo Lingding also felt uncomfortable, and had to order a temporary halt to the attack, and talk about it tomorrow morning...... (To be continued.) )