Chapter 554: All the Way North (Part II)

"Wang Junwan, Yanzhou has already sent troops to Jintang City, and you also lead your subordinates to Jintang City, not too fast, but the momentum should be big. In this way, the Xia army in Jintang City can be forced away. Wang Ju said.

The results of this battle are enough, the icing on the cake can be the icing on the cake, but there is no need to pay heavy sacrifices to add icing on the cake, the siege of the Western Xia people is not good at long, and the Song army also has a headache. Although Jintang City cannot be called impregnable, it is almost close to the forts on the front line of Western Xia, and it can at least be regarded as a tall and majestic fort.

Therefore, Wang Ju tried to take Jintangcheng without a fight.

In addition, there was a large amount of grain and grass in this fort, which could be obtained by the Song army as long as the enemy withdrew.

Immediately, this grain and grass problem will also be the turn of the king giant.

"Ming Gong, this," Wang Jun was hesitant.

"Jun Wan, in this battle, you have enough credit, is it possible that you want to seal the wolf Juxu?

Feng wolf Juxu refers to Huo Quai's dispatch of troops from Daijun for more than 2,000 miles, crossing the Houshan Mountain, crossing the Gonglu River, engaging with the Xiongnu Zuoxian King, annihilating more than 70,000 enemies, chasing and killing to the Wolf Juxu Mountain, holding a sacrifice to the heavens in the Wolf Juxu Mountain, and holding a sacrifice to the ground in the Guyan Mountain, the soldiers have been approaching to the Hanhai Sea (Lake Baikal), after this battle, the Huns are far away, so that there is no royal court in Monan. Some of them fled to Europe, and then the first whip of God came in Europe.

Since then, the sealing of the wolf has become one of the highest achievements of the Han people's military exploits.

But in the Song Dynasty, it was almost impossible, unless the Western Xia was destroyed and a large number of war horses were obtained, there would be no cavalry, and they would go to the desert. That could be sent to death.

Don't ask, Huo Qubing is also dominated by infantry. Were there horse pedals back then?

Of course. Wang Ju made a little joke, although Wang Junwan was full of confidence at this time, he didn't dare to say that he could seal the wolf.

Wang Ju said again: "The war is coming to an end, and there is not much credit, and it is necessary to give others a chance to sharpen themselves. You came with me all the way. The clearest thing is, how difficult is this plan? ”

How difficult it is, Wang Ju can't see it on the outside, he must maintain a calm appearance in order to give everyone confidence. However, Liu Changzuo and Wang Junwan also luckily participated in the plot and knew the real inside story.

In short, this battle does not reflect the true level of the armies of the two countries, and the main thing is to win by intrigue and trickery, even if it is the final battle. The reason for the great victory was the repeated suppression of the enemy's morale. Mobilize to help their own morale, and there is a big gap in morale. terrain, reasonable deployment of troops. If by virtue of this battle, it is believed that the Song army is invincible in the world, it is tantamount to going from one extreme to another.

"The future battle will still be like this, the cooperation of the generals is the key, the court can't expect to be a general that you can use, there must be many kings, preferably twenty, thirty. Then there is another qualified coach and the support of the rear, and the next conference battle will be won. As long as there are two or three such battles, the Western Xia will not be defeated. ”

After this general, many generals will retire from the stage one after another.

For example, Dou Shunqing gradually felt that his body was overwhelmed, and Wang Ju had to let him be responsible for escorting grain and grass.

This task does not have to be so day and night, but it is also very important, if it is not an experienced veteran, in case the Xixia people rob the grain and grass, the big thing will be rested. And to the back is the enemy territory, of course, in the enemy territory will not use prisoners of war to transport grain and grass, the prisoners of war escort location is only Dashun City, White Leopard City, behind the Song Dynasty officers and soldiers and people's tasks. But in enemy territory, anything can happen. This requires an experienced and steady veteran, and Lao Dou is undoubtedly the best choice.

In addition to Dou Shunqing, there are also Yang Wenguang, Liu Yan and He Bin from Huanzhou, all of whom are old.

Including Li Sangou, he will gradually withdraw from the stage.

However, there are many famous generals in the Mesozoic Era, such as the Yao brothers, Yan Da, Gao Yongneng, Miao Zhu, Liu Changzuo, Zhou Yongqing and others, these people not only know how to play and command, but also have good personalities, but if you want them to go on the stage, you must give them room to grow.

Compared with the previous generals, Wang Junwan's personality is indeed a bit bad, but Wang Ju didn't say it.

"Ming Gong, don't say it again, I'm going." Wang Junwan said embarrassedly.

Wang Junwan led his men to Jintang City.

Liu Yan and Liu Shaoneng led the cavalry to Malingchuan early in the morning to support the battle on the Western Front.

Dou Shunqing escorted the prisoners of war and horses, and returned to Rouyuan Village early in the morning, most of these prisoners of war continued to be escorted to Gyeongju, so that they could take on the duty of escorting grain and grass, and there were many tasks, not only Gyeongju, but also a large amount of grain and grass from the rear.

Wang Ju "overdrafted" before the war, and asked the people of Zhucun to hand over the grain and grass to the officers and soldiers of Zhubao along with livestock and poultry, so Zhubao got a large amount of grain and grass at once. But when the people returned, they had to return food to them, and that had to be slowly transported from the rear. These prisoners of war came at the right time. At least in terms of labor, there is no need to bother the people. In addition to grain and grass, there are many affairs, and Wang Ju took advantage of the great victory to gnaw off a large piece from Hengshan in Western Xia. However, if you want to defend it, you must build more than ten medium-sized forts. It may even be like the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty, where an army was placed.

This requires a lot of labor, and what's more, the Western Xia is coming, although the walls are clear, but the Western Xia people have demolished a lot of houses, since the government has made a promise in advance, now it is necessary to send labor and money to rebuild their homes for them.

If it weren't for the fact that he had these huge prisoners of war in his hands, just labor, it would have hurt the king immediately.

However, Dou Shunqing's main task is to provide food and grass, and in addition, Rouyuan Village has traveled seven or eight miles east of the city to White Leopard City, and I don't know how many corpses there are along the way. The corpse still needs to be screened, the body of the Song army must be taken home, and the Xixia people must find a place to bury it, otherwise they will be frightened by the people who have returned.

Yang Wenguang continued to search for Xia Jun in the surrounding area.

At this moment, the White Leopard City only left Gui Nianglang to bury a soldier and horse, and it was very quiet.

"Ming Gong, why don't you take this big victory and advance into Lingzhou?" Gui Nianglang asked.

What a good time, at least Cai Ting will cooperate with Wang Ju, although Yanzhou Guo Kui may not cooperate with Wang Ju, but that Han Xianggong has won Gyeongju. Then Han Jiang returned to Yanzhou. Yanzhou will also allocate a number of soldiers and horses.

After this defeat. How many troops and horses can Western Xia draw to resist?

Wang Ju shook his head and said, "There is no money." ”

Not only did they have no money, but once they faced the resistance of destroying the country and breaking the net of the Western Xia fish, the Song army still faced some unpredictable risks.

Therefore, Wang Ju has made some arrangements since last year, an arrangement that no one could imagine, Helan Yan!

At least now is not the time to destroy Western Xia.

"Out of money?" Gui Niang Lang's face is incredible. Not much, even if half of the property of the rich people on Shaanxi Road is withdrawn, it is enough to support the war of extermination. Why is there no money?

Wang Ju really can't answer this question.

Just like the end of the Ming Dynasty. Li Zicheng rebelled, was the Ming Dynasty poor? The Ming Dynasty was not poor, what was poor was the state revenue, as long as the landlords of the Ming Dynasty donated one-twentieth of their property, the problem of famine in Shaanxi could be solved. How did the Qing people get in?

"I don't know what's going on on on that side of the west?"

"Buried in the waves, don't worry, you underestimate General Liu Changzuo."

That is the first good general of the Great Song Dynasty.

Ren Duo Lingding continued to withdraw his troops, but at this time, Miao Zhi led his soldiers and horses to follow decisively.

The Xia army retreated, and he led his men. Just kill the enemy in the back. The Xia army counterattacked, and he immediately ordered his men to stand by. Defend in place. Of course, his soldiers and horses will not be put in the eyes of Ren Duo Lingding, but this is a ravine, and no matter how many soldiers and horses there are, they will not be useful, on the contrary, because of the counterattack, it will delay time.

Miao's soldiers and horses are not afraid, but where are they behind.

Ren Duo Ling Ding had no choice but to pull out the most powerful infantry palace and continue to move forward while fighting Miao Zhi's subordinates.

In fact, at this time, the morale of his subordinates also became low.

Not far ahead is the territory of Western Xia, but when you get to the territory of Western Xia, what can you do? The troops in the rear were exhausted together, and the Song army chased them to Wuyan Gorge, and there were no rescuers.

But they didn't even think of reaching the territory of Western Xia.

The two armies kept entangled, and when they saw that the Xixia people were forced into this dozens of miles long ravine together, Chong Gu asked Chong Yi to lead the army to follow, he understood, Wang Ju raised his little brother, so give him a chance to make meritorious contributions.

Gao Min also asked to fight, and Chonggu also agreed.

Gao Min left, and Liu Changzuo's army came.

With Liu Ru with thousands of cavalry also killed.

And it doesn't end there.

Seeing that noon had passed, the Zang Kui sent people to ask for surrender, but put forward the condition that we could surrender and that we must be allowed to go home.

If in the morning, he could talk about the conditions, but now that he talks about the conditions, Zhou Yongqing will ignore him at all. War horses are good, but wouldn't it be better if there were so many prisoners of war? But he had a sign hung in front of several large camps with a line of large letters: "Surrender, please enter." ”

Please come over if you surrender voluntarily.

But it didn't work, so Gao Min hung up a sign with a line of big characters: "Those who don't descend when Shen Shi dies!" ”

Shen is three to five o'clock in the afternoon, but literally, it does not mean five o'clock, but three o'clock!

It was already past one o'clock, and they were left with only an hour.

As soon as this sign was hung, the order of the reckless hiding was useless, and countless Xia troops laid down their weapons one after another and rushed towards the Song camp. No matter what happens in the future, it's better than death.

Moreover, since yesterday afternoon, there has been a shortage of firewood for cooking in their barracks, so that they have used all the bedding grass for heating at night for cooking. Could it be true that from now on, start eating raw horse meat?

You don't have to fight, as long as it's night, you'll automatically blow up the camp.

With a long sigh, he committed suicide with his sword.

In any case, in the end, he died a very heroic death, so much so that Zhou Yongqing deliberately ordered someone to build a coffin for him to be buried.

The three armies of Western Xia surrendered, and Zhou Yongqing arranged manpower to detain them in Yonghe Village first, and then chased them down with a large army.

Now there are not only Miao Zhu's subordinates hanging behind Renduo Lingding, but also Chong Yi, Gao Min, Liu Changzuo, Yao Ji and his son, Qu Zhen, Lin Guang, Li Sangou, Gu Yongping, Yang Pei, Liu Yan and Zhou Yongqing's respective subordinates.

There's a lot more ahead.

In fact, at this time, the strength of the Song army had already exceeded the strength of Renduo Lingding.

Of course, the number of cavalry in Renduo Lingding's hands is more, but in this ravine area, it is not even as wide as the ravine in Rouyuanzhai, how much role can the cavalry play?

Renduo knew that something was wrong, and kept watching the sun, constantly urging the army to speed up.

That's when it happened. The front scout is reported. It is said that in front of him, the Song army built a fence wall at the mouth of the Daluo Qianchuan River.

Renduo Lingding's head was about to explode when he heard it.

He continued to move the three armies forward. Then ride to the front to look.

In front of it is the fence wall of the Song army, which may have been built urgently from the morning, because of the time, the fence wall on the east side was slightly weaker and not completely built. But is that really the case?

Now Renduo Lingding has some understanding, in fact, if it weren't for the arrival of 10,000 reinforcements from He Bin and Guo Cheng, even the fence under Suyuan Village, they would have to attack it for a long time. in order to break through. However, with the arrival of Hebin's reinforcements, Liu Changzuo "arbitrarily" changed Wang Ju's plan, allowing Chonggu to release in advance to reduce unnecessary casualties, but it was necessary to force Renduo Lingding's army into this ravine. Then He Bin led 10,000 Song troops from the original Jingyuan Road, marched here last night, and rushed to repair this fence wall at dawn.

But it's not completely blocked, otherwise the Tangut people will have to fight hard, besides, the mountains here are short, and the soldiers and horses under Renduo Lingding are huge.

Therefore, the east fence wall was deliberately imperfect.

Ren Duo Ling Ding didn't expect it to be a conspiracy. Thinking of it, it's also a conspirator.

Whether you think about it or not, Song Jun left this gap. He had no choice but to attack.

The offensive and defensive battle began again.

After fighting for more than half an hour, it was approaching evening, and He Bin said, "Let's go." ”

Let go of the east fence.

But at this time, Liu Changzuo had already led his soldiers and horses to catch up.

The main reason is that the morale is too low, Ren Duo Ling Ding thought about it and said: "Drop the baggage and retreat quickly." ”

Don't ask what to do at night, you have to cross this death line.

Miao Zhi and Liu Changzuo successively ordered: "Clear the barricades, anyone who picks up the loot and beheads them to ask." ”

"Hunt and kill."

The three armies rushed up in the rear.

If it is a head-on collision, it is not easy to say whether the winner or loser, but at this time, how many Western Xia people still have the courage to continue fighting, and the road ahead has been out of the way.

Even Ren Duo Lingding himself wisely did not give the order to let the three armies turn around and resist, but urged everyone to withdraw quickly.

Then flee, but it was not so easy to escape, they retreated from the east wall, and He Bin and Guo Cheng led their men to keep firing arrows behind the west wall, and this oppression forced the Xia army to flee along the narrow passage further east to Daluo Qianchuan.

However, this squeeze began to trample on each other again.

Renduo Lingding sent a law enforcement team in advance to enforce military law, but it didn't work.

Under the frantic cunning of the Song army behind, more and more Xia troops poured into this passage. In the blink of an eye, the passage became Death Canyon.

Not only that, but Liu Yan arrived with the cavalry.

Thousands of cavalry poured into the front line, which immediately strengthened the combat effectiveness of the Song army, and soon Zhou Yongqing approached here with a large army. Although there is still a distance, you can see Zhou Yongqing's subordinates and see his military banner.

With the arrival of this wave of Song troops, the Xia army behind the palace finally lost the courage to fight, and also turned around and began to flee.

"Kill." He Bin said.

They were in the front, so they were immediately killed, and as the Western Xia army became entangled, in order to maximize the damage to the enemy.

In front of the Song army, there were still Song troops beside him, and there were more Song troops behind him, and finally under the shouts of the Song army, the Xia army began to surrender one after another.

The encounter of the Xia army on this road may be slightly better than that of the Xia army buried by Liang Yi, but it was still very miserable, and the Song army chased it all night, and almost chased it to the Hulu River in Xiaochuan.

In fact, being able to hunt down here is also the work of various generals. In particular, Liu Changzuo's department and Hebin's department, and Hebin set off yesterday, rested for only three hours, and then rushed to Daluoqianchuankou, and then the big battle. The same was true of Liu Changzuo's troops, who first participated in the battle of Rouyuanzhai and then rushed to Huai'an Town. Yesterday, during the day, he marched 80 miles and penetrated to the mouth of the Daluoqian River. The fact that the two armies were able to pursue frantically all night was already a miracle.

Therefore, the three armies were sleepy, and most of the soldiers couldn't run, so Liu Changzuo stopped the pursuit, rested for a while, and returned to Suyuan Village with the prisoners of war and horses.

The sun was rising, and Wang Ju took a deep breath in the fresh morning air.

Spring is finally coming, and if you stand at the three forks of the Mengmen, you can see that the ice wall is rapidly melting at noon, and large droplets of water flow down the smooth wall to the surface. But spring came at the right time.

Wang Junwan, Yang Wenguang and Gui Nianglang are counting the soldiers and horses.

Wang Junwan was reluctant to go to Jintang City, but not long after he sent out his troops, the Xia army of Jintang City saw the two Song armies rolling in, and they were so frightened that they immediately turned their horses and fled to Western Xia.

Since the Xixia people fled, Guo Kui also got Jintang City, Wang Junwan's task was completed, and he immediately turned back.

Wang Ju also smiled bitterly helplessly, then march to the north.

The three armies went all the way to the north.

Since Li Yuanhao invaded the White Leopard City, the north of the White Leopard City, the Song army has not entered at all. From now on, every time they march north, they are making history. (To be continued......)