"General Dudo, there may be 6,000 troops in Liyuan Fort." Said an adjutant general.

In the afternoon, due to the order of Liang Yiburi, Du Dolayan had no choice but to attack, but during the attack, he deliberately sent people to a high place to watch the troops in Liyuan Fort. These more than 6,000 people are not only officers and soldiers, but also strong men and horses. Of course, they also had to be considered troops, picking up bows and arrows, and Yao Ji issued them some compound bows, at least when defending the city, they were more fierce than the forbidden soldiers.

These troops, if they go out of the city to fight, it is almost equivalent to looking for death.

Although their combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated, it is impossible to defeat seven with one. However, when it comes to defending the city, it is this bit of strength that also gives Du Dora a headache.

The first general said again: "It's not easy to attack." ”

Even if you are not afraid of heavy sacrifices and don't attack to the end, the forces of Liyuan Fort are finished, and their forces are also finished.

The battle of Slush Castle hasn't been heard yet, otherwise they would have been even more frightened.

"But under the pressure of Liang Xiang's ** order, who dares not to listen?" Du Duo Lazhen smiled bitterly.

"If this is the case, I have a plan, it is better to divide the generals into several armies and attack in turns day and night." The other will say again.

If you have to attack, this is the only way.

¥@然而就是这样, the sacrifice will be just as heavy.

Just when everyone was at a loss, the scouts outside came in and reported: "General Dudo, an army from Yanzhou has just arrived in Huachi Town. ”

There were not many Song troops in this army, only three battalions of miscellaneous troops.

That's it, Guo Kui and Han Jiang also discussed for a long time.

Han Jiang acquiesced, but Guo Kui disagreed, believing that Yanzhou itself needed some troops to garrison. There is also the division of troops promised below. I can't draw out my troops. Besides, it wasn't Wang Ju's request. What is Yao Ji! In fact, these two are tearing up.

Han Jiang was also reluctant, but Guo Kui objected, so he agreed, and in the face of Guo Kui's reproach, Han Jiang said that there was still a force, and that was to return to the mother's clan. Now the patriarch of the Guiniang clan is the original Guiniang Lang buried, because of the merit of seizing Anjiang Fort. He became the head of the Song Dynasty, although this head of the army was a fictitious position, but his subordinates' clan accounts were divided into familiar households of the Song Dynasty. And the Gui Niang clan has quite a prestige among the surrounding tribes.

If the battle is done well, after this battle, the Great Wall Ridge can be recovered, which is very beneficial to these tribes, and they may never be harassed and plundered by Western Xia in the future. Therefore, if these tribes are assembled, they can also assemble a considerable force.

Guo Kui was speechless, although Wangjiazhai had moved away, their original roots were in the north of the security army. In a sense, Wang Ju still has some prestige among these tribes. The two were entangled for a while. Draw three motley armies.

Why is it a miscellaneous army, because one is the Baojie army, and the two are strongmen drawn from the southwest of Yanzhou, although the combat effectiveness is not easy to say, but it is close. Besides, Yao Ji also explained that there is no need for combat effectiveness, as long as they come with great fanfare and make an appearance.

Therefore, the three battalions of soldiers, more than 1,200 people, are not many troops, but they are fanfare and countless flags, and it seems that it is a mighty army, which quickly arrived in Huachi Town from the road that Wang Ju renovated before.

In this way, the Western Xia scouts must have found out.

It's just that they came from behind Huachi Town, and the scouts didn't find out the specific number.

Yu Yu exclaimed: "These Song soldiers are plotting against me. ”

He went to Fengchuan, one is to seize the stone, and the other is to fish. Tempt the troops of Huachi Town to come to the rescue, so as to send reinforcements on the outskirts of the field. But according to the current distribution and mobilization of the Song army's troops, if he really dared to go to Fengchuan at the beginning, it would be really dangerous. As long as the Song army in Huachi Town drags its main force, it will definitely be able to hold back, although the main army has many troops, but there is still a Song army in Liyuan Fort. So how many troops can be sent over, at most 10,000 people.

However, the strength of Huachi Town, the strength of Pingrong Town, and the small number of troops of Xihuachi Town, plus the reinforcements that came tonight, the strength of the army had already exceeded 10,000.

Then they will definitely be able to drag the encirclement forces that have been divided, and even be able to divide their forces to attack their rear, plus Fengchuan has more than 10,000 Song troops, and their own 10,000 soldiers and horses will be more than lucky. The final result, the scene under Anjiang Fort last night will be staged again.

Thinking of this, he first shuddered and then laughed: "Fortunately, I ordered the army to stop, and General Dudo, you transferred my military horses back." ”

Du Dora smiled reluctantly.

It seems that the Song army is far inferior to the Xia army this time. Then at the right time, form a superior force, one bite and ten thousand, not more, as long as you come to the first mouth, ten mouths, no need to fight, the morale of the three armies is low, and they will retreat, and they will retreat with heavy losses.

But is that really the case?

With such a huge troop transfer, the Western Xia scouts are really jealous?

After this series of battles, it seems that the Song people were not so stupid.

But if this is not the case, the distribution of forces is very unreasonable. After all, Huachi County is not the real main direction of attack in Western Xia this time. The main direction of attack is Gyeongju.

He thought of this and brought the map.

First of all, we will look at Huachi Town, Pingrong Town, Liyuan Fort and Fengchuan Town. The combined strength of these four forces is not trivial, and it is estimated that there are 30,000 Song troops.

Do you want to eat your 40,000 soldiers and horses, just like the battle of Dashun City?

But this is unlikely, after all, the Western Xia troops under Rouyuan Village are more, and the two phases are not too far apart. As long as you don't go deeper, you will be under Liyuan Fort, even if the Song army has 50,000 soldiers and horses, it is not enough to be afraid.

So he thought about it and wrote a letter to Liang Yiburi, explaining the situation, and saying, I can feint Liyuan Fort here and drag so many Song troops, so the Song army behind Huai'an Town is empty. As long as the Xia army takes Fort Meili and the three armies meet, they can divide their troops from Rouyuan Village and attack Gyeongju City directly.

What to do?

If it is a strong attack, not to mention that it may not be able to be captured, even if it is captured, if he loses too much, Liang Yibury will also find trouble for himself.

The letter soon reached Liang Yi's hand.

Liang Yizhu is also discussing the origin of Liu Changzuo's more than 10,000 soldiers.

Song Ji said: "General, this Song army must be reinforcements from Chang'an. ”

"So, they already knew we wanted to attack Gyeongju?"

"Not necessarily. If that's the case. It is impossible to have troops on all three sides. and the movement of food and grass supplies to the front line. ”

You must know that this push has piled up countless mountains of gold and silver, and made the people of the three roads on the edge of the edge hard.

"Then why did more than 10,000 Song troops pop up?"

"It may be the case, our Xia State army was the first to mobilize the troops of Hexi (referring to the troops of the Hexi Corridor, because they are far away, so the earliest mobilization time), and then Dong Yu learned about it. This person hates us the most. So he sent someone to inform the Song people, but the Song people did not confirm it. Therefore, more than 10,000 Song troops were assembled in Chang'an first. If Yanzhou is in danger, you can rush to Yanzhou. If Weizhou is in danger, you can rush to Weizhou. If Gyeongju is in danger, you can rush to Gyeongju. This is a well-assembled army, so our army approached Dashun City, and this Song army immediately set off and grabbed Fengchuan. But their original target was not Bongcheon, but Gyeongju City. It's just that the general sent heavy troops to Liyuan Fort, and Fengchuan didn't have a garrison, so he changed direction halfway. I went to Fengchuan. In the future, they will inevitably divide their troops and go to Gyeongju from Longpan County. ”

"Say so. Only more than 10,000 reinforcements? ”

"It's almost, after all, when the three armies are assembled, they need food and grass, and the Song army is weak in combat, but the military expenses are very high. Moreover, the Yongxing Military Road itself does not have many troops. If the general is not at ease, he can send a scout to Gyeongju to inquire. ”

That seems to be the explanation, right...... Liang Yi buried his head in agreement, and asked again: "Then what about the direction of Liyuan Fort?" ”

"General Du Duo must be allowed to take it, if you don't take Liyuan Fort, Dashun City can't be taken. Only by taking Dashun City and the back road is unobstructed, can we really plan the entire Huanqing area. ”

There's no way, if you don't push Du Dora into the fire pit, your life will be difficult.

Liang Yibury obeyed, and asked Kuaima to give an order to Du Dola, and he must capture Liyuan Fort in the shortest possible time.

Du Duo La is so angry that he wants to spurt blood, it would be good to be able to capture Liyuan Fort, and there will be the shortest time! However, for the time being, the center of gravity of the battlefield is not in Liyuan Fort, but in Rouyuan Village, Huanzhou, and a further place......

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The boundaries of Song and Xia are staggered, especially on this side of Huanqing Road.

This area was later known as Dingbian County, Wuqi County, Huachi County and Huan County. However, the later Huachi county seat is not in the current Huachi Town, but in Rouyuan Village.

Among them, most of Dingbian County and Wuqi County belonged to Western Xia, and most of Huachi County and Huan County belonged to the Song Dynasty. However, the Western Xia also controlled part of Huachi County and Huan County, and the papaya fort built later in the Song Dynasty was on the west side of Fengyangzhuang Village, Zhangkui Township, Dingbian County.

On the west side of Papaya Fort is the Carriage Gorge Road, but the Papaya Castle was not built to threaten the Carriage Gorge, nor can it threaten the Carriage Gorge Road. It is mainly for the security of the rear, and it happens that there is Whitinburgh and West Valley in the rear, forming an iron triangle. There is also a Pingchuan in Papaya Fort, which the Song Dynasty did not want, and it was about to be invaded by the Tangut people. If you want not to be invaded by the Tangut people, then you have to build forts and garrison soldiers.

But in general, the Song Dynasty was mainly defensive, so it did not dare to build any forts on the Guide River Road and the Chexia Road...... I'm afraid that the Xixia people will be angry!

The so-called carriage gorge road is from Yanzhou to carriage gorge, cedar village, Jingbian village, Damingbo, Tongsaichuan, and arrive at Huai'an Town. According to the geographical location of later generations, it is from Dingbian County to Jipan Township, Baiwanzi Township, Fanxue Township, Zhangkui Township, and then to the Yuanchengchuan River Valley in the northeast corner of Huanxian County, Qiaochuan in the northwest corner of Huachi County, and arrived at Huai'an Township, which is now Huai'an Township.

The other two roads are the Guide Chuan Road, which can lead to Lingzhou and Yanzhou, which is more important. However, Western Xia came to attack Gyeongju this time, so they did not march from this road.

The other is from the southeast of Yanzhou, through Wuqi County Tiebian City, Loufangping and then to Baibao Town, that is, Baibao City Road. These are the three main roads that communicate between Huanqing Road and Xixia. The other is Dashuncheng Road, but that has to come down from Jintang City. Or from Jintang City can reach the security military city, or from the Great Wall Ridge can also reach the security military city.

Other roads are not what Wang Ju pays attention to. The main thing is the Carriage Gorge Road.

Whether it is now or in the future, there are so many rivers, gorges, and berths on this road. Chuan refers not only to rivers, but also to narrow plains. A gorge refers not only to a narrow river, but also to a narrow ravine. Po is the lake.

In fact, in later generations, there are some small lakes on this road.

As a result, the road is relatively flat in most areas.

But the two sides are different, after all, it is through the Hengshan Mountain.

As the night gets dark, the battle doesn't stop......

Under Fort Murray, 20,000 Xia troops fell asleep, and there was also a pool in the middle of their camp.

So he asked his men to dig a large pool, and then put the wooden shield together in the pool to soak.

Then he ordered the three armies to rest and prepare for tomorrow's siege.

Slush Castle is so difficult to attack, not to mention the slightly renovated Fort Merry.

But fortunately, Liang Yongneng and Liang Yi's two armies will join forces, and tomorrow they will divide a group of troops and horses to attack on both sides.

But in any case, the casualties in this battle tomorrow will be very heavy, and whoever lets the siege of the city is the shortest of the Western Xia army.

Farther away from Fort Murray is the Higashiya Ridge.

As night fell, a group of scouts came back to report that there were enemy rangers during the day, but in the evening the enemy rangers returned with them. Although because Gao Yao's army arrived in Donggu, the current Donggu is about to become an isolated city, so the Western Xia people didn't care too much.

"Good news." Yao Lin said.

"It's just a sunny day." Gao Min sighed as he looked at the light in the eastern sky. The good weather for two nights undoubtedly caused trouble for his march.

"Or put it off a little longer."

"It can't be delayed any longer, it's too difficult to walk."

Yao Lin was speechless, after all, he had been in Gyeongju for a relatively short time, and he was far less familiar with the terrain than Gao Min.

"These are the outposts set up by Rindo Zero." Yao Lin opened the map, pointed to it and said. In order to find out this information, more than twenty scouts were sacrificed. Then he said, "But tonight you will do a miracle." ”

"Ming Gong has the ability to be ghostly." Gao Min said with a smile.

"Well, at least it will increase morale."

After the two finished speaking, Gao Min quietly took the officers and soldiers of the sixth battalion under his command to leave Donggu again, and went northwest along the rugged and difficult mountain road.

Qi Zhong asked in surprise: "Are we going to the carriage gorge?" ”

"It's not the carriage gorge, where are you going, looking for death. But this time we're going to do a big miracle. Gao Min said with a sharp voice.

"Where is that going?"

"Three forks in the door!"

"Wow." Qi Zhong gasped.

The three forks of the Meng Gate are in the rear of Damingbo, in front of the Xixia Jing border village, and twenty-five miles to the west is the papaya fort. But don't expect the troops of Papaya Fort to come to you, this is the hinterland of Western Xia, and there are countless mountains in between. As long as one is sent to lightly separate, the reinforcements of Papaya Fort will be blocked. But its geographical location is extremely important, in front of it is the Xigou River and the Beigou River, the Donggou River, the Xigou River and the Beigou River two rivers confluence there is a triangular sunny slope, where is the Mengmen three forks.

Qi Zhong said again: "We are ...... interception"

"Don't say it, don't worry, there will be reinforcements on the side of Jingyuan Road at that time."

"Good Dongdong." Qi Zhong suddenly understood the intention of doing this.

"So this time we play well and we will make a big difference."

"That's not it."

"But everyone must be careful along the way, that Renduo Lingding has set up garrisons at almost all intersections."

"How do you get there?"

"Dongling Peak!"

"Dongling Peak?" Qi Zhong asked suspiciously, where there is no road at all, there are just mountains, mountains are connected to mountains, it doesn't matter, it's a big deal, just climb slowly, but in addition to the mountain, where there is a bottomless steep cliff, it is impossible to reach the three forks of Mengmen. (To be continued......)