Some time ago, in order to reduce the casualties of the soldiers of Zhutushan, the Song army not only used the divine arm bow to shoot at the Xia army, but also used siege tower vehicles and a small number of artillery, but the artillery was not used much. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

But today is different, the mountains are full of dense artillery, tiger cannons, large and small artillery trebuchets have reached nearly a thousand, and on both sides of the artillery stand a large group of shieldmen and bowmen, the shield bearers are to protect the soldiers behind, the crossbowmen are all the strongest warriors, they hold all the strengthened version of the divine arm bow, that is, the heavy divine arm bow, this kind of bow requires two stones of arm strength, but after continuous improvement, its range has reached three hundred paces away.

The Western Xia soldiers at the head of the city were dumbfounded.

They also underestimated the firepower of these weapons, and as the horns of the Song army sounded, countless cannonballs, boulders, gunpowder packets, and crossbows were sprinkled like a torrential rain in every corner of Lingzhou City.

This dense fire attack lasted for a day and a night.

In fact, Wang Ju did this, and I don't know how many scholars will attack him in the future, but Wang Ju doesn't care, it's over, he went to the other side, whatever you say.

So he did something even bloodier the next day.

As the day and night passed, the entire city of Lingzhou was almost reduced to rubble, and the people in the city were so dumbfounded by this dense fire that they forgot the grief caused by the loss of their loved ones.

The attack stopped, and the Song army pushed more than 10,000 prisoners of war captured in the first battle of Lingzhou River to the bottom of the city, and behind them were large groups of Song troops carrying various siege equipment.

With a trumpet, the Song army in front raised the knife in his hand and killed all the more than 10,000 prisoners of war outside the city, in front of the Western Xia army at the head of the city. As the firepower started again, the Song army behind also launched a siege at the same time. It was only now that the Song army really attacked Lingzhou City.

However, the Western Xia soldiers and civilians in the city were frightened by the bloody scene just now, and before the Song army could attack the city, many Western Xia soldiers laid down their weapons together and shouted surrender.

Wang Ju divided his troops again, and Liu Changzuo and Yao Lin led an army of 100,000 and 50,000 people to go up the Yellow River, and the first destination was Weicheng in that province. The second division of troops was carried out here, and the strength of the Beihetao of Western Xia was explored first, but it is estimated that there were not many Western Xia garrisons in the Beihetao at this time. Then a part of the troops and horses were divided, and they continued to go up the Yellow River, pointing directly at the Black Mountain Weifu Military Division in the Northern Hetao of Western Xia, and occupied Wurahai City and Muna Mountain, so as to prevent the Liao army from moving west and occupying this important area first. Otherwise, the Liao Kingdom will march south at any time in the future and threaten the rule of this region of the Song Dynasty. Most of the rest crossed the Yellow River, detoured to the rear of Heshan Lanshan, and pointed directly at the Baimaqiang Town Military Division and the Right Wing Chaofu Military Division in Western Xia, but Wang Ju estimated that these two military divisions did not have many soldiers and horses in order to support Xingqing Mansion. Then the army continued to move south, conquered several checkpoints in Helan Mountain, converged with the main army, and attacked Xingqing Mansion in the north and south.

Of course, in this battle, the Song Dynasty dispatched countless troops, and there were enough troops for Wang Ju to "squander" like this.

He also left a group of soldiers and horses in Lingzhou to prevent the Liao State from sending troops to rescue, and at the same time left some people to cut down wood and build boats, and even escorted the people of Western Xia to speed up the speed of boat building.

This is to cooperate with the transportation in the Hetao area.

Many sections of the Yellow River have large water level drops and are not ideal waterways, but from this section of the Western Xia to Muna Mountain (Qingtongxia to Baotou), the river is stable, and all dynasties and generations have made full use of this waterway since ancient times. For example, in the Northern Wei Dynasty, the town built more than 200 ships of Daoyong, which was used to transport grain and grass, and made great achievements. The Tang Dynasty also used this waterway to set up a six-city water transport envoy to manage the water transport of this section of the Yellow River. Liaoxing Zong attacked Xia, used the Jurchens to build ships, and also wanted to use this waterway to alleviate the difficulties of transportation, but before he could use it, he was defeated by Li Yuanhao in the meander.

Therefore, Wang Ju picked up this section of the channel again to alleviate the difficulty of transportation, otherwise the grain and grass will be transported to the Beihetao step by step, which will consume too much, and not only the current garrison needs grain and grass, but also the resettlement of immigrants in the future needs a large amount of grain, grass and materials.

The remaining three armies began to cross the river and converge with the army of Miao Zhu in Hexi, and the troops pointed to the city of Shunzhou in Western Xia.

At this moment, Wang Ju received an urgent report from Wang Wenyu.

Under the attack of the huge armies of the two countries, coupled with the suffering of the people, as well as some of Wang Ju's previous arrangements and co-optation, the hearts of the people were separated, and the army and the people had no intention of fighting. Therefore, the army of the Song army and the army of the Black Khan marched very quickly, and the soldiers and horses of the two roads of Wang Chong quickly advanced to Ganzhou, and the soldiers and horses of the Black Khan also approached the city of Suzhou.

When Hei Khan heard that the Song Dynasty had sent troops, he sent envoys to Ganzhou to explain the reasons for their troops. This is not a prevarication, the Black Khan still retains the traditions of the original Western Regions countries, and attaches great importance to commerce. However, the Western Xia controlled the Hexi Corridor, and the commercial taxes were extremely heavy, especially the commercial goods transported to the Song Dynasty, forcing the Black Khan to change to the Qinghai South Silk Road, but this road was very difficult, and most of the roads along the way were uninhabited, lacking supplies, and the transportation costs were extremely high. Because of this, the Black Khan was extremely displeased with the Tangut people.

But there is another reason why the Black Khan did not say, because the current Black Khan has been divided into two countries, the East and the West, and the trade routes between the Eastern Black Khan and the West are blocked by the West Black Khan, so they rely more and more on the Eastern Trade Routes. However, with a Western Xia blocking the east, trade with the Central Plains was never smooth, so the Black Khan hated the Western Xia people very much.

There is another reason, after the Song Dynasty took Lanzhou, the Western Xia counterattacked, and it happened that the Black Khan sent envoys to the Central Plains with camels to carry the goods, and the Song army lacked livestock to escort the materials, so they negotiated with the Black Khan envoys and requisitioned them, and as a result, the Xia army broke through the Xiguan of Lanzhou and took the Black Khan envoys and camels away. Although the Song Dynasty made some compensation, this plunder made the Black Khan furious, so in history, the Black Khan sent troops to the Western Xia twice.

That is, Black Khan sent troops this time, firstly, to take revenge on Western Xia, and secondly, to cooperate with the Song army to take the Hexi Corridor and open up trade routes.

The Black Khan envoy explained the reason, and Wang Wenyu immediately wrote to Wang Ju.

Wang Ju read the letter and replied.

The revenge was credible, and he remembered that in another time and space history, the Black Khan did send troops to Western Xia.

However, this cooperation can only be believed in a part, most likely because Black Khan saw the emptiness of Western Xia and sent a large army to reap the benefits. But if the Song Dynasty did not make a judgment in time and let the Black Khan take Suzhou and Ganzhou, and this area was dominated by the Uighurs, coupled with their fanatical religion, then nine times out of ten they would not leave.

Therefore, Wang Ju made a comment, first asking Hei Khan to hand over to the Song army and withdraw his troops back. Second, it is forbidden to burn people's houses. Third, there are still large groups of Han Chinese scattered in Shazhou and Guazhou, and it is possible that many Han Chinese have also become Uighurs, but the Black Khan must not harm these Han people, let alone take them as prisoners of war and take them back to the Black Khan. As for the rest of the people, let it be you.

However, Wang Ju also breathed a sigh of relief, because he was far away, and Wang Ju did not know much about the situation on the side of the Black Khan, but he knew that these Uighurs attached great importance to commerce, and if they fought with the Song Dynasty in order to occupy the three states of Suguasha, and thus interrupted trade, it would be more than worth the loss.

Because of this, no matter what mentality they have when they send troops, there will be no major problems.

Then Wang Ju instructed Wang Wenyu that since he had captured Ganzhou, he could send an army to live in Yanhai along the weak water. At present, the two lakes of Juyanhai have abundant water and an amazing area, including weak water, both sides of which are places of abundant water and plants. Occupying Juyanhai is equivalent to guarding the gate of the Hexi Corridor.

The messenger left, and Wang Ju ordered an attack on the city of Shunzhou.

Ten days later, under the strong firepower of the Song army again, Shunzhou was conquered, and the Song army continued to go north and marched to Jingzhou.

The Western Xia built many cities in Hexi, the largest of which were Xingqingfu, Shunzhou, Jingzhou, Huaizhou and Dingzhou. The remaining small cities, Western Xia gave up, and it was these big cities that were sticking to it.

Although the area of this area is not large, because it is the core area of Western Xia, the loyalty of the people to Western Xia is relatively high, and the Western Xia once again took measures to clear the wilderness, and most of the main forces withdrew to this area, so the pace of the Song army was very slow.

It took more than ten days for the Song army to take Jingzhou and enter Dingzhou.

At the same time, Yao Lin led his subordinates to capture the Beihetao at a rapid speed, and sent troops to Muna Mountain, and the rest of the troops began to build various forts and organize defenses. Most of these border troops will become the first batch of immigrants in Beihetao, and after the war, the imperial court will pay them handsomely to encourage them to relocate their families and carry out reclamation. If they are unwilling, the imperial court will not be reluctant either, let them return to Hedong, and the battalions will be reorganized to protect the safety of the front line in Hedong.

Liu Changzuo led a large army to conquer Lou Bobei (Jilantai Salt Lake, the station of the White Horse Military Division of Western Xia) and Keyimen (the station of the Right Wing Military Division of Western Xia), and then divided the troops into two routes to attack the grain city of Helan Mountain and the Great Trap Valley of Luobao.

Except for the battle of Lingzhou Chuan, in fact, this time the Song army came all the way and did not use any conspiracy and tricks, and almost completely relied on superior forces and sophisticated weapons to crush it.

Maybe it's a big waste and it's not fast, but it's incomparably safer.

Ten days later, Liu Changzuo took the grain city, the army designated the state city, and the main army also conquered Huaizhou City.

At this time, Wang Ju received two more letters, one was a letter sent by Liao, Liaoguo tore up the peace agreement, expressed bitter reprimand, and ordered Wang Ju to immediately withdraw his troops back, otherwise, Liao would declare war on the Song Dynasty.

What was protested and condemned, but it was replaced by Liaoguo, which made Wang Ju laugh after seeing it.

However, he did not intend to provoke the Liao State for the time being, but patiently explained the reason to the envoy sent by the Liao State. It's not that I want to tear up the peace treaty, but that the Western Xia plot is not treacherous, and the court has to use troops.

Use this excuse to send the Liao envoy back.

At the same time, the Liao State also sent a more fierce letter of state to the Song Dynasty, and that Wang Ju didn't care.

But soon Wang Ju received another secret letter, a secret letter written by someone he did not expect, blocking the leader Mogus.

This person is brave and good at fighting, and has a high prestige in the various departments of Divination, and after the death of Yu Guhao in history, the Liao State canonized him as the new leader of Divination. But this person has always been very dissatisfied with the Liao State, so three years after the canonization, that is, four years later, the Mogus uprising, the Liao State spent countless troops and financial resources, and it took more than eight years to suppress this uprising.

This long and huge uprising almost dragged the Liao State into the sea.

This year, Yu Guhao brought 30,000 cavalry to support Western Xia, and he must have brought Mogusi, who could fight. Mogus was not very happy, but he was forced to come with the army.

That night, when the Song army switched to artillery and opened fire, Mogus sensed that something was wrong and took the lead in fleeing the battlefield with his men. Subsequently, the cavalry of the Song Dynasty continued to encircle, but Mogusi slipped quickly and fled to Tiemen Pass in time, and after the remaining deserters were reorganized at Tiemen Pass, they withdrew to Xiazhou, intending to flee to Liao from Huangyangping and Dijinze, and return to block divination from Liao. There was no way to escape from the Beihetao, because Miao Lin had already led the three armies to the Beihetao.

Wang Ju didn't know what kind of mentality Mogus had, and even he didn't know the person Mogusi, but he knew that there was a section of divination people who fled east to Huangyangping.

Then run away, there is no time to clean up this part now, and they are all cavalry, fast, if you really want to escape, there is no good way to clean up.

However, an accident happened at this time, just when they were about to flee to the Heqing army, they suddenly received an order from the Liao State to enter Xiazhou, saying that the Liao State would soon send troops to support Western Xia.

Mogus was originally very dissatisfied with the Liao State, but that night he saw the strength of the Song Dynasty's army, or the strength of the Song Dynasty's weapons, and at this time, the entire northwest was full of hundreds of thousands of Song Dynasty soldiers and horses, he didn't believe that the Liao State could send a part of the troops to defeat the Song army.

Then stay in Xixia City, they can only find death.

In fact, if the Liao State asked them to withdraw, Mogus had no other ideas for the time being, and he would not rebel until a few years later, but maybe under the pressure of the Song army, the Liao State would slow down its exploitation of the Divination, and he would not rebel.

In history, although Mogusi was very dissatisfied with the Liao State, he did not have the idea of betrayal at first, until the Liao State recruited Yelu Helu to attack the Mogusi Department by mistake, resulting in a large number of casualties among the Mogus tribes, and Mogus himself was very dissatisfied with the Liao State, so Mogus killed the Liao State leader Tugusi and rebelled against Liao. Then He Lu Sagu personally led a large army to suppress it, but was defeated by Mogus, and the troops of the Second Chamber, the Sixth Yuan Department, the Gong Branch and other armies under the command of He Lu Sagu and the special Manchu herds all fell. The Liao State also appointed Yelu Tart Buye as the main general, Mogusi faked his surrender, booby-trapped Tart Buye, and the Liao army was defeated again. It wasn't until more than two years later that the Liao State sent Yeluyute to come to conquer and suppress, and although he defeated Mogus, he only killed more than 1,000 of Mogusi's subordinates.

Think about how many Ding Zhuang are in the blockade, these Tartar Ding Zhuang are warriors, even if a small half of the blockers betray with Mogus, Mogus also has tens of thousands of people.

Therefore, although Mogusi was defeated in this battle, the main force still existed, and continued to fight with the Liao State until more than six years, when he was captured by Yeluyutra, Yeluhongji was angry and ordered Mogusi to be chopped into meat sauce.

However, because of this suppression, the Liao State spent countless manpower and material resources, and under the heavy pressure of the Liao State, the various ministries blocked Bu, Wugu, and enemy uprisings one after another, although the Liao State was not dragged into the sea, but eventually led to the Liao State being wiped out by the Jurchens.

That is, if there was no such order, Mogus would not have the idea of betraying the Liao State. But now that the Liao State let them continue to stay in Nanhetao, and even stationed in Xiazhou City, they directly confronted the Song army again, and Mogus was shaken.

So Mogus sent someone to send a secret letter, saying that he would lead the Divination Department to attach to the Song Dynasty in the future, and it was a dependence, not a defection, but it was impossible for the Song Dynasty to have any interest in the desert of Divination. However, with the power of obstruction, it is impossible to fight against the Liao State. Therefore, Mogus hoped that the Song Dynasty would provide some support, especially the powerful bow and fire-spitting weapons that night, that is, the divine arm bow and artillery.

Mogus sent another piece of information that the Liao State had put down the rebellion in Liaodong, and the army began to retreat. As for whether these troops will be transferred to the Song-Liao front, Mogusi is not very clear, but it is also valuable news. (To be continued.) )