"You see, this is how the bow should be used. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info"A leader is teaching the volunteers around him hand in hand.

Yao Lin looked at it and nodded with satisfaction.

In the past few years, the main reason why there is a kind of North Second Road of the Zhijia Army is that the Xia army of Yinxia and several states will not be swept away, and it will inevitably allow the Western Xia to harass the rear and logistics supply.

The truth seems to be such a truth, but in doing so, the problem is that the Five Route Army is far away and cannot cooperate well with each other, and it is guilty of the second attack on Liao during the Song Taizong.

But the fundamental problem was that it was almost August at that time, and it was too late. Unless the Song army can take Western Xia within two months, it is impossible, even if Western Xia does not resist, it is impossible to run the entire territory of Western Xia within two months.

If you can't do it, winter is coming......

Therefore, it is inevitable that the summer harvest was not successful.

This time, Wang Ju deliberately punished the lessons of the last summer and pushed the time to spring. Now it's another month, and there won't be any problems in the season.

Then the route of several armies to the summer was also changed.

The first is Hexi Road, Wang Wenyu is the main general, Chong Yi is the deputy general, Liu Zhongwu and Zhao Long are the forward, and Li Xian is the commander of the three armies.

However, the two Song armies did not dispatch much, mainly from the Fan army from Hehuang.

Originally, Dong Yu used troops in the Hexi Corridor many times to deal with the Tanguts and Uighurs in the Hexi Xia Corridor, and the Tibetan army had a psychological advantage and was relatively adaptable to the local terrain and climate. In particular, the terrain of the Hexi Corridor is slightly high, and the temperature is still a little cold, with a general temperature of only a few degrees Celsius at night, and even some cold places are still below freezing. However, this kind of temperature and terrain are the most suitable for the Tibetan army to fight.

With this general mobilization, it was actually a process of real recognition of the Song Dynasty.

Saving troops and military spending.

Once again, it was okay to screen each as its master, but now that Hehuang has all recovered, if the Song Dynasty is not recognized, it can be suppressed in the future. The distribution of post-war rewards, the development of road commerce in the future, and the dispatch of poverty alleviation funds can all be suppressed and supported. Even too much, those half-hearted tribal warriors who only dispatch a small number of strong men can be directly used as cannon fodder to weaken the power of these tribes.

There are also a very small number of tribes who rely on the strength of their tribes and directly refuse the transfer of the Song Dynasty, it is better to do, this summer war cannot be delayed until after the autumn, and they are not willing to listen to the dispatch of the Song Dynasty at this critical time, after the army withdraws, whatever the Song Dynasty does, there is also a reason.

Therefore, a total of more than 60,000 Tibetan troops were mobilized this time, but to prevent Gao Xianzhi's mistake (referring to Gao Xianzhi's battle with Dashi, and the sudden reversal of the Qarlu army, which led to the defeat of the Tang army), the entire Hehuang Road Fan army was all dispersed and then reorganized.

Of course, there are still many such problems, but this road seems to be a huge force, but it is not the main force. The Western Xia people can no longer take care of the Hexi Corridor, or the Black Khan, if the Black Khan sees the arrival of the Song army, it is best to take the initiative to retreat. If the Song army arrives, they will not retreat, they will fight if they can, give them a profound lesson, and fight back to the Western Regions! If you can't fight, you will start to defend and wait for news from the north, but you must stop the momentum of the black sweat moving eastward.

Wang Wenyu took the three generals of the Song army, as well as tens of thousands of Tibetan troops from the Western Envoy City, Xigong and Qin Prefectures, to Liangzhou in the west, and the rest of the Song army was transferred to Weizhou to support the main force of the North Road.

Chongyi also took the three generals of the Song army, as well as the Fan army from Hehuang, and the scattered Fan army was mainly his way, crossed the Liuling Mountains, went north to Liangzhou, and joined Wang Wenyu's army in Liangzhou.

Although the troops were divided, they were kept not too far apart so that they could respond to each other instead of fighting separately.

However, the original Song Dynasty garrison in the Hehuang area was not transferred to Weiqing, first, it was too far, and second, it was newly annexed, and some Song troops must be retained in the local area to prevent some tribes with bad intentions from taking the opportunity to rebel and rebel.

The main general on the left side of the center is Kumamoto, the deputy general is Miao Zhu, and the chief army is the Li Shen who is very capable of fighting. This road is also divided into two routes, Miao Zhu took Xigong and the Song army of Qinzhou, set out from Tiandu Mountain, forcibly swept the Xixia Xishou Baotai Military Division located on the north side of Tiandu Mountain, between Lingbo Mountain, Weijian Mountain, and Rouwolf Mountain, and then forcibly crossed the Yellow River from the ferry port of Yingli County in Western Xia, and then followed the Yellow River to the opposite bank of Mingsha City.

Xiong Ben led the three armies of Jingyuan Road to attack the Xixia military villages north of Xiaoguan such as Xiangyikou and Cuttazhai again, and then conquered Mingsha City and Weizhou City, and erected a pontoon bridge on the Yellow River in the west of Mingsha City, and joined the Miao Army, and then the two armies continued to go north across the Yellow River, the Song army on the west side of the Yellow River pointed to Shunzhou City in the north of Qingtongxia, and the Song army on the east bank of the Yellow River pointed to Lingzhou, and the real main Song army on the right side of the center and right converged.

Along the way, there were also divisions, but they were also very close to each other.

In short, such a division of troops still seems a little clumsy, but the current Song army can only be like this, imagine the Tang Dynasty Li Jing extinguished Tuyuhun like the division of troops, and can successfully cooperate with each other, make contributions to each other, that is impossible, not to talk about soldiers, just talk about generals, now the Song Dynasty is there are some very capable generals, but how many people can match Li Jing, Hou Junji, Li Daozong, Li Daliang and Qi Bi What is the force? Wang Ju couldn't take that risk. At least it's a little clumsy, but it's stable and doesn't make serious mistakes.

The center-right army is the real main army, which is also the result of geographical factors.

Because of the advance preparations made very early, the reinforcements from Jingzhao Road and Hadong Road were gathered on the front line of the Security Army, Gyeongju and Huanju, and ten days were enough. But to assemble on the front line of Xiaoguan, I am afraid it will take a month, and it is impossible to drag it on for a month.

In addition, the materials, in addition to the materials prepared in Pingxia City and Xiaoguan in advance, the rest of the materials are mostly mobilized from the Central Plains, and it is impossible to go far and slowly transport the materials to Xiaoguan.

Therefore, Wang Ju sat in Gyeongju, and this army not only gathered the Song troops of Huanqing Road, Juyan Road, and Jingzhao Road, but also transferred a large number of troops and people from the side of Hedong Road.

The main general will be Wang Ju's own son, the deputy will be Liu Changzuo, the master of the road, and the supervisor is the "old minister of the three dynasties" Liang Congji, this person has been over Wang Ze, and the Western Xia has fought many times, has rich experience in fighting against Xia, has been an official to pay homage to the imperial city envoy, and the seniority is old, loyal to the Song Dynasty. Having this person monitor the three armies, firstly, can reassure the Song Dynasty, and secondly, it will not become a drag on the three armies.

This road is still divided into two roads, Liu Changzuo sent troops to Yanzhou, after taking Yanzhou City, stationed a part of the troops to defend, and the rest of the troops went south to the Luluo Society, and the soldiers pointed to Pule City, Lingwu Avenue, and Wang Ju's main army.

Wang Ju's troops sent troops to Shrimp Toad Village, and at the same time sent a flank to sweep the Qinggang Gorge, Qingyuan Military City, Mengjing, Zhejianghui and other Western Xia garrisons in the north of Hengshan.

However, there is a flaw in this use of troops, that is, it has let go of the large rear areas of Youzhou, Hongzhou, Xiazhou, and Tiemenguan. Moreover, the Liao State has repeatedly sent envoys to "mediate", and if these remaining rear Xia troops converge with the Liao army, it will seriously threaten the security of the rear of the Song army.

Therefore, in order to prevent accidents, the strongest army in the northwest, the Zhijia army, and the original Song Dynasty garrison from Yinzhou to Daizhou, did not dare to move to the south, in case the Liao State made any changes.

However, fortunately, the preparations for this summer attack are sufficient, just like this transfer of the three armies, involving the troops of Hehuang Road, Qinfeng Road, Lanzhou, Jingyuan, Huanqing, Yanyan, Fulin, and Hedong Road, if you include the soldiers and people, the strength has reached an astonishing nearly 600,000 people, which is 100,000 more soldiers and horses than the summer attack in previous years! In the entire history of cold weapons in China, the number of unilateral use of troops has also squeezed into the top ten.

Moreover, in order to prevent the Liao State from reacting, the time for the transfer was very urgent, and apart from the fact that there was some confusion in the recruitment and transfer of the people, there was no major chaos among the officers and men of the battalions.

In addition, the front line was moved to Tiandu Mountain and Hengshan Mountain, which saved marching time.

Including the materials, most of them were also transported to the front line in advance, and there will be no more situations where the materials could not keep up with the previous summer war.

However, the flaws still exist, even though many troops were stationed on the Hedong front, Fulin Road and Yinzhou areas to monitor the movements of the Liao State, but the Xiahong region was still under the control of the Western Xia, so the Song Dynasty had to take Lingzhou before it could really use troops in Xingqing Mansion in Hexi.

However, although the Song Dynasty took advantage of the unpreparedness of Western Xia the year before last, captured Lingzhou, and destroyed many city walls, it was withdrawn, but after more than a year apart, as the most important gateway to Hexi, Western Xia has been repaired completely, Kumamoto with troops, has completed the convergence of the three armies, Lingzhou still has not been taken.

This forced the rear to mobilize a large amount of materials to support the Battle of Lingzhou.

In addition, the battle plan was advanced by nearly a month, and a large number of supplies from the rear could not be transported to the front line in time, so this logistics team was extremely huge, with nearly 10,000 horses alone, more than 30,000 large livestock of other types of goods, and tens of thousands of large baggage vehicles.

However, the back 40,000 strong men and archers are also an intentional arrangement, one is the lack of local Ding Zhuang on Shaanxi Road, and the other is to take advantage of this opportunity to let them arrive in Lingzhou, moderately participate in the offensive and defensive battles, and let them feel the actual combat, after all, the focus of border defense in the future will gradually shift from Shaanxi Road to Hedong Road and Hebei Road.

However, the military quality of these people was very poor, and most of them could not even use the black lacquer bow, that is, the composite bow used by the officials of the Song Dynasty. However, it has nothing to do with Zhang Qi, Hedong Road actually trained many border troops, but after Yao Lin's border army was drawn to the Shaanxi battlefield, in order to prevent Liao from moving, these border troops and the forbidden soldiers in the border, as well as a small number of soldiers in the northwest, including the Zhejia army, were stationed on the border together, and they did not dare to move again.

So Yao Lin transferred some veterans and stuffed them into the ranks of strong archers in various battalions in Hedong, and when he set up camp in the evening, he took the time to teach them to use the standard weapons of the imperial court in turn to integrate the ranks of the team.

Yao Lin turned, then looked into the distance.

This huge logistics escort brigade has just passed Pule City, in front of which is Yaode City, which was originally the two garrisons placed by the Song Dynasty, and after the loss of Lingxia, it became the garrison place of Western Xia. But now it's all back.

Yaode City used to be Lingzhou, and if the situation was normal, it would take two days to reach Lingzhou City.

But not anymore.

If there is no imperial edict to allow, and a peace agreement is reached during the Spring Festival, Wang Ju rashly uses troops, so how many ministers must be impeached.

However, Zhao Ji and several prime ministers knew that this was just a show, in fact, Wang Ju ordered the arrest of the Western Xia scouts, and at the same time as he forced confessions, he began to order the garrisons around the country to prepare.

The edict was quickly sent to Wang Ju with a fast horse, and Wang Ju immediately ordered the officers and soldiers from all over the country to march towards their respective targets, and the officers and soldiers on the border entered the Western Xia, and quickly took the border forts on the edge of the Western Xia, such as Gaizhu City, Xiangyikou, and Shrimp Toad Village.

Otherwise, the transfer of so many troops and people, Western Xia will soon get the news, and will inevitably send elite troops to these border forts, and most of these forts are located in treacherous terrain, which will slow down the marching speed of the large army behind.

The Western Xia were not defenseless at all, and they would not believe that the Song Dynasty had really negotiated peace, although they were somewhat lucky in their hearts. But this time, the speed of the Song army was too fast, and it was so fast that Hu Xixia expected. After receiving the news of the Song Dynasty's dispatch of troops, Liang Yikui immediately had an idea that the Song Dynasty had secretly joined forces with Black Khan.

This is worse than bad news.

So Liang Yiqi made a crazy move...... Horitsutsumi!

If Hori Di was not for the purpose of flooding the Song army, he could not have expected Wang Juneng to make such a low-level mistake. Moreover, Wang Ju used his troops to strive for two words when he occupied an absolute advantage this time: stability! It is impossible to give Xixia such a chance.

The reason for the embankment was to flood the roads along the way, so as to slow down the march of the Song army, and then send troops to ask for help from the Liao State. However, fortunately, the Yellow River and the tributaries along the way, Chunxun, have not yet completely come up, so several main forces of the Song army have arrived at the city of Lingzhou one after another.

Hori also includes the Lingzhou River on the edge of Yaode City, and now the river is going down one after another, even if there is a waterlogged area, it has been paved with mud bags by the main army, but there are still many areas along the way The roads are relatively muddy, that is, originally from Pule City to Lingzhou, this trip took at most three days, but now I am afraid it will take five days.

The sky gradually darkened, and suddenly a few war horses galloped in the distance, and when they came to the front, several scouts dressed as herdsmen hurriedly dismounted, and said: "Yao Gong, Liu Gong, General Li, there are about fifty or sixty thousand horsemen coming from the north, and it is only an hour away from our army. ”

"Okay, go down and rest." Yao Lin said.

Liu Shaoneng said: "It's just in time. ”

Yao Lin nodded, then turned his head to look at Li Sangou and said, "General Li, you are old and can command, but don't be greedy, otherwise I won't be able to explain to the Taibao." ”

Li Sangou haha.

This battle, for many veterans, may be the last battle, and it is also Li Sangou's last battle. In fact, it is better to use his force than to use his prestige in the hearts of the Tibetan people.

Yao Lin began to order, at this time the camp has been set up, although it is a logistics army, there are many people, but all the way, they are all camped according to the marching standards, there are camp fences, there are trenches.

However, even in the process of marching, he was not afraid of the surprise attack of the enemy cavalry, because there were too many baggage vehicles, and he deliberately formed a convoy of more than four vehicles to advance, and divided the convoy into two, which was connected together, which was two standard defensive lines. Of course, now that it's coming, it's even better to have a camp.

But in order to stabilize it, Yao Lin still ordered to push the baggage cart in front of the camp fence and connect it with the camp fence to prevent the enemy from clashing with the cavalry.

However, the tens of thousands of strong archers from Hedong began to panic, and many of them had frightened expressions on their faces. But that's exactly what Yao Lin needs!

The Song Dynasty still did not have a developed intelligence network in the Liao State, but because of the Liang family's perverse behavior, the people were not able to make a living, so Wang Ju easily spread the intelligence network to a large area of the Western Xia.

Soon after Wang Ju sent out his troops, he received a message that there were nearly 10,000 cavalry lurking in the area of Baichi City in the west of Tiemen Pass.

After receiving this news, Wang Ju immediately judged the idea that the Western Xia people wanted to fight the logistics of the Song army. The reason is very simple, now the Song army is taking Lingwu Avenue and Huluchuan Road, and it has nothing to do with the ancient Great Wall. The focus of the attack was Lingzhou, and after Lingzhou was taken, the troops were sent to Hexi, directed at Xingqing Mansion, and implemented the beheading policy.

This marching plan was all laid out, so there was no need for the Western Xia to place nearly 10,000 cavalry on the side of the ancient Great Wall. There is also the loophole of the Song army's march itself, in order to maintain the smooth cooperation of several armies, they are very close, and at the same time, they also abandon the territory on the north side of Western Xia. Therefore, no matter what movement the Western Xia had in the north, the Song army was beyond the reach of the whip.

The local topography, south of the ancient Great Wall, west of Yanzhou, north of Pule City, east of Yaode City, the Western Xia people called this area Hanhai.

This is the saying of the Western Xia, the real Hanhai is not this area, but refers to the Mongolian Plateau, Lake Baikal or the Junggar Basin, the reason why the Tangut people call this area Hanhai, is that this area is mainly swamps, salt flats, dry steppes, desert Gobi desert terrain, not suitable for human habitation, so it is mostly a no-man's land, the same is not suitable for the Song army, there is no other reason, there is no sufficient water source, a small force is also counted, and the army is a large army dominated by infantry, just a water, so that the three armies are daunted.

However, this Hanhai is a funny Hanhai after all, if it is all cavalry, running through this "sea", the small scale is not high in logistics requirements, and half a day is about the same, so after the victory in Gyeongju, Wang Ju sent a large force of rangers from Yanzhou to the outskirts of Lingzhou to harass the Xixia people. If it is a large force of cavalry, as long as you bring enough dry food and water, you can also pass through this "sea" in a day.

Because most of the area was a no-man's land, Wang Ju took the initiative to abandon the north, providing convenient conditions for the logistics of the Western Xia soldiers to attack the Song Dynasty. Even if you are ambushed, because of such terrain, you can take advantage of the cavalry to retreat quickly.

This time, the number of troops sent by the Song Dynasty, in order to successfully take the Western Xia, Wang Ju dispatched a large number of troops and people regardless of the cost, which also produced an astonishing consumption every day. Although sufficient grain and grass materials were prepared in the early stage, grain and grass must be transferred from the rear in the later stage.

However, it is impossible to transfer from the Central Plains to Guanzhong, and then step by step to Weizhou, from Weizhou to Xiaoguan, and then to the front line, how much waste will be generated? Therefore, it must still come from Gyeongju.

But Wang Ju can't judge how many troops the Western Xia will mobilize to prepare to attack the logistics of the Song Dynasty, not only the 10,000 cavalry, but also some nomads in the North and South Hetao, which is not what Wang Ju is worried about, what worries him the most is the Liao side, whether the Liao State sends troops from Bai Dadan's side, or from the side of Zhubu, they are all in the northernmost part of Western Xia, and they are also where the Song Dynasty scouts can't find out.

So Wang Ju made this plan.

There were a lot of materials transported this time, and many of them made the hearts of the Western Xia people excited. If they don't make up their minds about these supplies, they won't fight the logistics of the Song Army in the future.

Secondly, only some of Yao Lin's subordinates and the Fan army were wearing armor, which was also normal, so many materials were transported, wouldn't they send troops to escort them?

The rest are not armored, especially these tens of thousands of strong archers, they are called archers and strong men, what is the difference between them and the people? is what you want to behave like this kind of performance, if everyone is like Yao Lin's trained subordinates, and there are so many soldiers and horses, will Western Xia still dare to attack?

With the bait in hand, it was time to calculate where the Tanguts might attack. Most of them will not be in the area from Shrimp Toad Village to Pule City, because it is too deep, and when you get here, most of them will be detected by the scouts of the Song Dynasty, and even if they successfully attack the grain and grass, they will be easily cut off by the Song army.

In order to prevent the Tangut people from committing neuroses, Wang Ju intends to send a wide range of rangers in this area, of course, if this is the case, the Tangut people are still making up their minds in this area, so there is no way, so they have to fight.

It is also impossible to be too close to the main force of the Song army in the area from Yaode City to Lingzhou.

Therefore, the location of the attack will most likely be between Pule City and Yaode City, although it is not too far from Lingzhou, but because the Western Xia opened the embankment of the Lingzhou River in advance, many low-lying areas were covered with stagnant water, which slowed down the march of the logistics troops and also slowed down the speed of the rescue Song army. At the same time, above it is the real "Hanhai", which is almost a no-man's land, and it is easy to sneak over.

Just like at this time, although the Song army was allowed to set up camp, when the cavalry of these tens of thousands of enemies approached the camp, it was already dark, and it was a good time to attack the camp!

One order after another was issued, and the Baojie and Fan soldiers on the Shaanxi Road, as well as Yao Lin's original subordinates, were fully armed.

The tens of thousands of strong archers on the Hedong Road had no armor allocation, but they also opened their baggage carts and took out their weapons, either with bows or knives and spears. However, most of these people are still very nervous, but with the strength of the people in Hedong, as long as they have experienced a few actual battles and overcome the fear of war, then most of them can successfully turn into a qualified soldier.

Song Jun continued to arrange.

And the enemy came...... (To be continued.) )