Zhao Ji happily got up from his chair, rushed out, and quickly dismantled the express music sent from the front line from the eunuch's hand.

After reading it, he said, "Okay, okay." ”

Then grinning, laughing non-stop, and handed it to Wang Ju again.

Wang Ju also flipped through it, this report is very long.

First of all, Yao Xu, Zhang Shouyue and Miao Lu were soldiers and horses, Yao Ji and Zhang Shouyue have been famous for a long time, but Miao Lu has been famous for several battles in the south, and his fame is not under Yao Zhang at all.

These three are the real tiger generals.

But this line is not very smooth, in order to keep secret, the three of them took their subordinates to travel day and night, and also carried some baggage, not food, they only carried five or six days of dry food in this line, and if they didn't win, they would be a fiasco! There is no need to bring so much food to slow down the march.

However, the baggage could not be avoided, and there were dozens of small cannons in the marching tents.

Therefore, it did not arrive on the fifth day, but on the afternoon of the sixth day, it was inserted into the back of the Western Xia army.

Because of this delay, many people once felt panicked, and at this time, dozens of earthen embankments in the Western Xia were completely repaired, and many unrepaired city walls were also knocked down, so the Xixia people continued to attack this fence, and even finally simply avoided some of the military camps from the four urn cities, just outside the city wall in the trench.

Seeing that the morale of the soldiers and civilians in the fence is insufficient, the danger is continuous.

Yao Zhangmiao and the three of them were killed.

It's actually a little far away, but Guo Cheng stood on the urn city, and according to the condescending position, with the help of a telescope, he also saw it.

Of course, the Tanguts had discovered this Song army in their rear earlier.

Rindo Lingding sent 20,000 soldiers and horses to meet the attack.

Epoch-making weapons appeared, and fifty artillery pieces roared in unison.

In fact, artillery at this time was just like that. Its lethality is similar to that of the late Ming Dynasty. And it's still a small cannon. The lethality is even more limited.

The key is not in the size of the lethality, but in the fact that it is the first advanced weapon, although the cannon is small, the usable is a flowering projectile, and it is also a breech loading, and after repeated research and development, the speed of fire is also faster than the artillery of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the range is not far. It also reached nearly a kilometer.

Therefore, in the first round of bombing alone, nearly two hundred Xia soldiers were killed, and in the face of such sharp weapons, the Western Xia people were stupid.

The real killing was used.

This cannon sound is the signal for the general attack!

In fact, several major battlefields are not far from Pingxia City, the farthest is only more than 20 miles, mainly because the terrain is a bit complicated, in addition to Huluchuan, which is flat from north to south, there is also Pingxia City is surrounded by a horse Pingchuan, and the rest is a mountainous area, but this mountainous area is not a big mountain like Qinling. It is mainly the terrain of the ridges, including the mountains north of Shimen Gorge. There are not many real lofty mountains, and the main ones are still the terrain of the ridges. But no matter how tall the mountains are, they are still mountains.

With these mountains, it was successfully separated by the Song and Xia sides into seemingly isolated war zones.

However, it was not far away, and because of the outbreak of the great war, many people fled their homes one by one, except for the battlefield, it was very quiet in all directions, so although it was dozens of small cannons, the sound spread far away.

The fastest to hear the sound of artillery was undoubtedly Guo Cheng's Song army.

Small cannons are lethal, but make no mistake, it's just small cannons, and there are a hundred cannons!

But where are the hundred cannons, Pingxia City! Inside the four urns of Pingxia City.

Who would have thought?

Hearing the sound of artillery, Guo Cheng knew that the general attack had begun, and immediately ordered the four urns to be loaded. In fact, a piece of artillery has been placed a long time ago, and even many Western Xia people have seen it, but no one can think of its use!

In terms of lethality, this is a lethal weapon.

What's more deadly is that now many Western Xia troops are storming the fence of the inner city, and there are still many Western Xia soldiers in the moat outside the city.

There are dense enemies everywhere, and this kind of cannon, the flowering shells are undoubtedly very large, and every shell can cause several or even dozens of deaths.

Then two hundred tiger cannons were also moved out, but maybe this was also the last glory of the trebuchet, but now the number of artillery is still very small, and the cost is high, so the tiger cannons can not completely withdraw from the battlefield, and the tiger cannons will smash large thunderbolts one by one, or small canisters filled with refined fire oil to the Xia army.

Maybe at this time, Renduo Lingding reacted, why the Song Dynasty built the urn city so big, in fact, it was not to protect the safety of Pingxia City, it was precisely because of the big size, so there was enough space to equip so many artillery and tiger cannons to the city......

For a time, the Xia army in Pingxia City was killed and cried wolf, and Liu Fa and Jia Yan took the opportunity to kill more than 10,000 soldiers and civilians from the fence.

But this is just the beginning, the small cannons in the north and the cannons in the south are constantly roaring, Qu Zhen and Zhe Keshi heard the sound of bombing, and led their men to kill from Shimenxia.

The Nanzhong Route Army of Wang En, Yao Gu and Lin Guang, and the Nanxi Route Army of Chong Pu, Guo Jingxiu and Liu Sunchen launched a strong attack on Haoshui Guqi. And each of them had fifty small cannons in his hands.

Although Wei Yude led 30,000 Xia troops to the defense of Haoshui Guqi, he did not build Haoshui Guqi, which was exactly the same as in Pingxia City, but built a trench and a fence, which was not wide or deep.

How to block the damage of artillery.

But only these two soldiers and horses can't break through this fortification in a short time, Guan Jian still has a road of soldiers and horses, Wang Guangzu, Wang Wenyu and Li Xiang's Nandong Road Army, this team except for Li Xiang's two generals, the rest are all cavalry battalions.

When they heard the sound of artillery, they rushed to the flank of the Tanguts.

The Tangut people were stupid by the Song army's artillery again, and what made them lose their morale even more was that there was still a sound of artillery bombardment in the back, and it was useless to guess, they all knew that there was an accident in the base camp, and how many soldiers could still have the heart to fight.

The second king did not bring artillery, but brought a large number of the most elite cavalry, and the Xixia people had no intention of fighting, so with the two tiger generals killed into the Xixia camp, the Xixia camp began to be chaotic, Wang Enliu will take the opportunity to rush through the trench, the three-way army impacted, and the 30,000 Xia soldiers only fought for a while. There was a massive rout.

At this time, Zhang Shouyue, Yao Ji and Miao Lu also launched a counteroffensive.

The Xia army that came to deal with them was not a small number of troops. A full 20,000 soldiers and horses. However, they were stupid by the artillery one by one, and they heard more bombardment from the south, and they also knew that the situation was not good, so the same unintentional love battle, under the impact of the three tiger generals, the 20,000 Xia army also quickly collapsed.

Zhang Shouyue's three generals pursued for a while, collected the three armies, and slowly advanced south.

On the other side, Qu Zhen and other generals will be. He also brought out the army and slowly pressed eastward.

Don't ask about the three queyi, you can't enclose it, the northwest corner is countless ridges, as well as Wuyan Gorge, you Xixia people want to escape, where to escape.

But now it is only a siege, and it is not yet time for a real decisive battle.

However, not long after, only in the evening, Wei Yuya retreated with the defeat of the three armies. The Song army in the back kept chasing and killing.

The opportunity came, Guo Cheng looked at the empty Pingxia City. Immediately an order was given to direct a hundred cannons outside the city.

Its range is not too far, the maximum range is only 3,000 meters, and the effective range is only more than 2,000 meters, but it is enough to cover most of the military camps in Western Xia.

The artillery kept roaring, but then a sad thing happened, and one of the guns exploded. The technology is not mature, and it is inevitable to blow up the chamber......

However, the effect was very significant, under the continuous bombardment of artillery, the entire Western Xia army also had serious chaos, and even Renduo Lingding did not know what to do.

With the three roads in the south, the Song army was killed.

The Song army in the north also killed them.

The Song army from the west also pounced.

However, it cannot be said that it is pounced, but forced, forming a phalanx to prevent the Xia army from clashing, and then using two hundred small cannons to cooperate with the one hundred cannons in the city to continuously bombard.

In fact, at this time, the Song army was still not as strong as the Western Xia people, but in the face of such sharp weapons and the Song army surrounding from all directions, even Renduo Lingding could not judge how many soldiers and horses came from the Song Dynasty, which made ordinary Western Xia soldiers how to fight.

Three hundred artillery pieces are constantly bombing, and every time they bombard, at least nearly a thousand Western Xia soldiers will be harvested.

The hundreds of thousands of Western Xia soldiers and horses that were compressed together became more and more panicked.

Seeing the arrival of the fighters, Guo Cheng waved the banner and officially launched a general attack.

He led his military horses out of Pingxia City, and the other three Song troops also pounced fiercely.

The Great Western Xia Defeat began.

However, for this battle, only the army, Jingyuan Road used a total of 780,000 soldiers and horses on three routes, although it was not as large as the Western Xia troops, but for the Song Dynasty, this was also a huge army. And in this battle, the stars are like clouds, such as Zhang Shouyue, Yao's father and son, Miao Lu, Zhe Keshi, Wang En, Lin Guang, Wang Wenyu, Chong Pu, Liu Fa, Jia Yan, Guo Cheng, Guo Jingxiu, Liu Sunchen, Wang Guangzu, although they cannot be compared with Yue Fei, but they are also rare brave generals, and even Qu Zhen, who has changed his taste slightly, can also be regarded as a brave general.

Therefore, under the mediation of Guo Chengju, the officers and soldiers of the first general, under the leadership of various famous generals, kept pursuing until they were at the foot of Tiandu Mountain, and then stopped.

In this battle, more than 29,100 Xia troops were killed, but don't worry...... Think about the previous two Song Dynasty defeats, but although defeated, the losses of the Western Xia people were not small, not to mention that hundreds of thousands of Xia troops were killed in the early stage of the war, that is, the battle of Yongle City, at the beginning, the Xia army under the city was also a mountain of corpses.

In fact, the Western Xia really couldn't draw up many troops, so the Song army once set up the camp at the foot of Tiandu Mountain, and then continued to search for the Western Xia deserters, and it took four days to retreat, resulting in the capture of more than 68,000 prisoners of war.

Renduo Lingding brought more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, and less than one-third of them were able to escape safely!

What does this mean?

There were about 700,000 households in Western Xia, and more than 1 million Ding Zhuang, that is, from the beginning of the Battle of Vaxia to the present, nearly one-fifth of Ding Zhuang was killed or captured by the Song Dynasty.

The Western Xia claims that everyone is a soldier, but the number of people who officially serve in the military is only five or six hundred thousand, and the most capable of fighting is these five or six hundred thousand conscripts, but so far, at least half of them have been lost!

Therefore, after this battle, just like the Battle of Gyeongju, even if Wang Ju sent a ranger to wander outside the city of Lingzhou to plunder, Western Xia was helpless.

So we move on to the second step.

Pingxia City still needs to be repaired, but this is not really a fortress, but an important material transfer station for the future of Felling.

So Zhang Kai sent people to clean up the battlefield, after issuing rewards, he entered the second step, built Shimen Fort in Shimenxia, built Lingping Village in Haoshui Ancient Fortress, and built Jiuyang Village under Shimen Fort. It was used to defend the Huaiyuan Fort of Dingchuan and Deshun Army. Zhenqiang Fort was built under Jiuyang Fort.

Before the smoke, the gorge was built. The construction of the Dangqiang Gorge in the Wuyan Houxia also posed a direct threat to Tiandu Mountain.

At the northwest entrance of Longquan Valley, Tongyuan Fort was built above the Dangqiang Fortress, and Longquan Fort was built at the southeast entrance of Longquan Valley, so that Tongxia Fort, Dangqiang Fortress, Tongyuan Fort, and Longquan Fort became a whole again. You can help each other.

In the diffuse mouth, the top of the Tongyuan Fortress was built Shengqiang Fortress, and here, it was only sixty miles away from Xiao Pass, and no matter how slow the infantry was, one day it could also reach Xiao Pass under Xiao Pass. But this is still a little thin, so in the vicinity of the Tongxia Fortress and built Kipkou Fort, Donghewan Fort, Gugaoping Fort, Huimin Fort. The five forts of the ditch fort were used to increase the strength of the front line.

It may cost a lot of money. However, Shengsheng advanced the front line to the north for more than 170 miles, and if the second summer war started, think about how much convenience this 170 miles would bring to logistics and transportation. And since then, Tiansheng and other villages have completely become the rear area, and most of the places with abundant water and grass south of Xiaoguan are occupied by the Song Dynasty, and the left wing of Huanzhou will never be harmed by the invasion of the Western Xia people again......

Not only that, Li Xian also took the opportunity to build several forts in the northwest of Lanzhou, and bit Nanhui Prefecture from the territory of Western Xia.

In fact, the people did not use much, and the forts on the front line were built by sergeants and people, and the forts in the back were all handed over to prisoners of war.

Some prisoners of war were not convinced and wanted to resist with tools, but they were quickly suppressed.

This time they don't want anything good to happen again, so let's work slowly, these forts are repaired, and they will soon be taken to Guanzhong to be turned into transportation coolies......

The construction of the fortress will continue until the beginning of winter, and it is not written in the newspaper, only the process and achievements of the battle.

However, it also made Zhao Ji very happy.

As the banking department gets better and better, Wang Ju is getting closer and closer to leaving the capital, and when he goes to Shaanxi, he will also get closer and closer to leaving the Song Dynasty.

If Wang Ju doesn't leave, maybe Zhao Ji will still have an idea, Wang Ju wants to leave, and even doesn't want to marry his daughter to his son in order to get involved, Zhao Ji is a little reluctant.

This victory came at the right time, at least the country in addition to Wang Ju also had to ask for a Dinghaishen needle, and now this Dinghaishen needle has appeared.

He said, "Summoning all the ministers to you." ”

The eunuch went to the various ministries and departments to spread the word, and after a while, hundreds of ministers were brought to the Yanhe Hall together.

Zhao Ji asked Xiao Huangmen to read the battle report sent from the front line.

Except for some people with ulterior motives or diehards, the rest of the ministers were very happy when they heard it.

Think about it, after the battle of Yongle City, the Song Dynasty was as if the sky had fallen, and this good news was undoubtedly a rain from heaven.

And there are some ministers who know a little about the military are even more amazed, because the Song Dynasty is short of horses, so it is often defeated by defeat, but the victory can not be a big victory, or the battle of Wang Juqingzhou, that is also the introduction of the Western Xia people into the belly of Gyeongju, only to achieve the results. If it is placed on the front line, Wang Ju will have no trouble. Or like the Battle of Mancheng, the Song Dynasty fought so beautifully, and the Liao State lost less than half of its soldiers and horses. But this is on the front line, in the enemy territory, and Zhang Ji won more with less, biting off more than half of the enemy.

It's actually really hard to do that.

…………

Wang Ju went to Lao Wang's mansion again, and failed twice, which made Lao Wang feel guilty and uneasy all the time.

So I have to give Lao Wang a good news.

"Won?" Lao Wang also sat up from the bed with joy and said.

"Great victory, about half of Xia Kou was captured or killed by Zhang Qianfu, Guan Jian is my general border extended more than 170 miles, and can threaten Xiao Guan and Tiandu Mountain at any time."

These two places are taken, and the front is Mingsha City, what is the place in front of Mingsha City? Lingzhou!

This strategic position is extremely important.

Moreover, the Western Xia is embarrassed, and the loss of this large area of abundant water and grass will have a big impact on the economy of the Western Xia?

"Zi'an, Jun's military talent is unmatched."

Obviously Zhang Ji typed it, why did Lao Wang praise Wang Ju? Zhang Qi was recommended by Wang Ju, and many plans were also formulated by Wang Ju, as well as the meritorious generals on the front line, and most of them were deliberately transferred to Jingyuan Road by Wang Ju.

Therefore, in this battle, Wang Ju had to take half of the credit, but Wang Ju was hidden behind the scenes, but Wang Ju no longer needed to use his military exploits to prove himself.

"It's a pity that the old man can't see you recovering Western Xia," said Wang, coughing violently.

Wang Ju couldn't comfort him, he thought about it and said, "I heard that your grandson has a daughter. ”

"You said Li Gefei was that bastard."

"That's him."

"He has a daughter."

"Prince, in the past, you wanted to marry your daughter to me, but I made a marriage appointment and couldn't agree. However, I have three sons, the youngest son was born to a concubine, and it seems that he is only five or six years older than the little girl of Li Yuanwailang. ”

The men are five or six years older than the women, and they are not too big.

"So I want to book a family business for them."

"Really?" Lao Wang was overjoyed.

Wang Ju doesn't like to marry the scholars, and at the same time often ridicules this matter, it can be said that Wang Ju did this, which is an exception.

And don't underestimate Wang Ju, although he refused Zhao Ji's euphemistic retention, and even refused his daughter to become the future queen of the Great Song Dynasty, in order to show that the future went to the other side and completely cut off any relationship with the Song Dynasty. But don't take it seriously, even if Wang Ju goes to the other side, as long as he succeeds in destroying Western Xia, even if he is tens of thousands of miles overseas, it will still have a far-reaching impact on the Great Song Dynasty.

Although the object of the joint marriage is his niece, it will also have a lot of useful help for the Wang family in the future.

"Compared to the prince's protection of the boy, it is just a small bond, what is it."

"Okay, the old man agreed for that bastard." After Lao Wang finished speaking, he closed his eyes with relief.

"Ah," Wang Ju immediately put his hand on his nose to probe Wang's breathing. However, Lao Wang left, but the victory on the front line, as well as this joint family, Lao Wang left with a smile.

The palace cried together, and where Wang Ju stood silently, he was also very sentimental.

After Zhao Ji heard the news, he also rushed to Wang's house with his ministers.

Shen Kuo said silently: "Taibao, although it is a big loss for the country for the prince to go, but then again, it is also the time when Taibao will be successful." ”

Lao Wang died, and Wang Ju undoubtedly became the first prime minister.

However, Wang Ju was shocked......

PS: Thank you for the helmsman reward, plus a more. (To be continued.) )