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The Liao army began to attack Yanzhou City, is there such a strong man, is there really any, is he loyal to Western Xia? He was indeed very loyal and well-known in the local area, but when he heard that the Liao army was coming, he secretly prepared to rebel against some people, and was noticed by Wang Ju's senior brother You Shixiong and immediately executed.

As for who wrote this letter, God knows.

Speaking of the people's hearts, compared to the Xiazhou side, the people's hearts on the Yanzhou side are not at all what Utera thought, although the battle of Gyeongju killed many Western Xia people, but later Wang Ju did a good job and benefited many ordinary people. As for those die-hard people, the Song army entered Yanzhou three times and was almost cleansed.

There are also some people who were moved to Gyeongju by the Song Dynasty, and some people secretly fled to Gyeongju by themselves, although they can't be said to be well-off living there, they can always maintain a food and clothing, and look at how miserable the life of the people here in Western Xia is.

Therefore there are those who oppose it and those who support it, and the number of those who support it is greater than the number of those who oppose it.

In fact, including the Xiazhou side, although they hate the Song Dynasty, there are also some people who hope that the Song Dynasty will take down the Western Xia as soon as possible, so that we can have a stable life.

Where did he know this, so in an unfamiliar battlefield, except for those geniuses, it was difficult for ordinary people to achieve outstanding feats.

The city was attacked, and the Song army in the city was not very many, as he inquired.

But the problem is that unlike Xiazhou, although the Song Dynasty captured Yanzhou three times, it did not destroy the city wall. As for Neiying in the city, he didn't even see a ghost shadow.

At this moment, two evil nightmares came in a row.

If you want to flood Xingzhou City, it is not so easy.

The water level of Qingtongxia is very high, why in the autumn and early winter when the water level is the lowest, Xixia Hori opened the seven-level canal, and it can also flood the Song army, it is precisely because the seven-level canal is from the high-water level of Qingtongxia, even at the beginning of winter, the water level in the canal is still relatively high.

Gao Zunyu did not send someone to investigate, so he won the bid. In fact, this tragedy can be completely avoided, think about such a large area outside Lingzhou City, where can you not camp?

However, this example cannot be used in flooding Xingzhou City, one is in a low-lying place, and it is convenient to camp on the water source, and the other is a tall city, even if it is in the beginning of winter and the other in summer, the nature will be completely different.

Moreover, Qingtongxia is too far away from Xingzhou City, even if the Song army opens the steep gate of the two canals, the flood rolls down, and it will indeed flood many places, but it has not yet reached Xingzhou, I am afraid that the flood will have already flowed back to the Yellow River in the low-lying place. At most, many crops in Hexi have been submerged, but now that the capital is dying, can you still take care of these crops?

But Wang Ju had his own way, and the project was being repaired outside Xingzhou City, and Wang Ju personally came to the south and observed along the two canals.

Then Yu Jingzhou flanked and chose a location, on a few dirt hills on both sides of the two canals, forcing the prisoners of war and the people to surround the embankment, which was not a regular reservoir after all, but just a temporary stockpile of water, which did not need to be too strong, so it was built quickly.

The intention is also very simple, in fact, it is to build a temporary reservoir here, and then completely open the steep gate of the two canals, and take advantage of the water level suspension to quickly hoard a large amount of river water.

Because some canals were rebuilt in Xingzhou, and these canals were facing Xingzhou City, as long as the two canals in Xingzhou were blocked and the simple embankment was blown up, then the flood would quickly rush to Xingzhou City.

Qingtongxia is far away from Xingzhou City, but here is only thirty or forty miles away from Xingzhou City, Xingzhou City Wall was destroyed by the Song Army in many places, even if the Xixia people blocked these gaps, the whole city wall is no longer a whole, if it is not a whole, there is no resistance, and although the standing city wall is there, there are also many city walls that have been shaken by the explosion The wall foundation. If the huge flood roars away, it will break down a large area of the Xingzhou city wall. But it wasn't over yet, because the Song army had already surrounded the perimeter with earthen embankments, and these floods had nowhere to go but continued to rush into the city.

Then there will be a large number of houses, soldiers and civilians, swept away by the flood, after the flood recedes, the Song army calmly entered the city, and no one resisted.

If you can't break down a large part of the city wall for the first time, there is another way, because there are earthen embankments around the perimeter, and the flood will inevitably accumulate around Xingzhou City, and its height cannot exceed the head of the city, but that doesn't matter, because a large section of the city wall has been soaked in the flood. Song Jun once again blocked the above gap and brought water over.

After a few days, the flood will inevitably retreat from this imperfect earthen enclosure, but when the second flood peak comes, the already weak city walls, coupled with the soft foundation of the wall soaked by the flood, will inevitably break down more sections of the wall.

Still like that, a large number of houses, soldiers and civilians were swept away by the flood, and the Song army calmly entered the city.

This is Wang Ju's plan.

Seeing that this reservoir was about to close, the Song army also began to retreat from the city in great strides, living in a high-pitched place.

Although the Song army gave up many gaps, they could patrol tightly, especially when there were always a few hot air balloons floating over the camp, and then the soldiers stayed in the hanging blue and observed every move in the city with binoculars, and the gaps were opened, but no one in the city wanted to escape.

But at this time, there was an accident, some people had a very big brain, and some people didn't have a brain.

Some Song generals couldn't understand Wang Ju's inexplicable stop attacking and engage in these projects, so they asked Wang Ju, and Wang Ju didn't hide it, so he explained.

But I don't know that the big mouth actually spread Wang Ju's intention and spread it to the ears of these prisoners of war and the people. Many people are numb, but there are some people who have families and relatives in the city of Xingzhou.

Think about how many people will drown if Wang Ju's plan succeeds?

There were brave people who organized and absconded to Xingzhou after night, and the Song army was strict inside and outside, so that many prisoners of war successfully escaped to the city of Xingzhou, so that the Xia army at the head of the city was brought to the city.

Liang Yikui listened to it this time, and no longer thought that Wang Ju was brainy, after all, Wang Ju was born in water conservancy, and that Zheng Baiqu had become a major symbol of Wang Ju's political achievements and water conservancy projects in the Song Dynasty.

Now he was a little suspicious.

The main reason is that now the Song army has surrounded Xingzhou, and built large and small ships in Lingzhou, the big ships are used to load goods, and the small boats are used to patrol the Yellow River, and there is no news from the east and west of the river. They had no way of knowing if the Liao had sent troops, but the crazy Xiao Liang still insisted on resisting. Liang Yi had no choice but to send a few groups of scouts to sneak out of the city, but none of them succeeded.

However, the number of prisoners of war who escaped was quite large, more than 100 people, and the news spread.

Then they found another thing, Xingzhou City is still some distance away from the Hanyuan Canal, but it is very close to the Tanglai Canal, next to the Tanglai Canal, including the moat is also led from the Tanglai Canal. But now the water level of the Tanglai Canal is slowly lowering.

Even if the upstream embankment is completely closed, it is impossible to cut off all the water flow, there are underground water sources, and there are water sources from various small tributaries, and the water level is not large and the water level is slow downstream, so the water level line declines relatively slowly. However, this represents a signal.

At the same time, they saw that there were officers and soldiers in the Song army camp who continued to use rafts to make some small rafts, so they finally caused more panic among the soldiers and civilians.

Moreover, the Song army destroyed many houses with firepower, and they were fighting at that time, and they were red in the eyes and wanted to die, but the Song army stopped attacking, and for more than 30 days, they were engaged in these strange projects, and this breath was relieved.

Then they felt the "hardships" of life, lack of food and clothing, living in a piece of rubble, if they could hold the city would be better, but the problem may not be able to hold, counting on the Liao country, but the Liao army has been so long, and has not seen a shadow coming, and many people are depressed.

Coupled with this panic, if you can get away with holding the city, then continue to defend it. The city is destined to fall soon, not only will it be lost, but the flood will also rush into the city.

At first, many people took refuge in high places with their luggage, but there were so many high places, so conflicts broke out one after another. The conflict is getting bigger and bigger, and I don't know who caused it first, which led to a large number of Xia soldiers mutiniing, demanding to open the city gate and surrender on their own initiative, at least not to be drowned.

Liang Yiwei sent troops to suppress it, and Xingzhou can still hold it until now, and it is the same heart, this is only a month ago, when the Song army attacked the city so fiercely that day, it still held the city without losing. But now that their own people have killed their own people, most of the low-level generals have led their subordinates to resist Liang Yikui's suppression.

In less than half a day, from the city to the city, fierce battles began on both sides.

Wang Ju saw it, the opportunity is rare, don't drown, and ordered the three armies to attack the city immediately. This became the straw that crushed the camel's back, and there was no way to defend the city, so the Song army successfully climbed to the top of the city, killed some Xia soldiers who were still resisting, opened the city gate, and the three armies entered the city.

Wang Ju released the prisoners of war the next day, announced the relevant policies, and calmed the people's hearts. However, for some radical nobles in Western Xia, as well as the Liang family, as well as related clans, none of them were spared. Wang Ju asked the soldiers to take them all to the west of the river, and then executed them all in a desert and buried them in the yellow sand.

Western Xia finally came to an end, and it may have cost a lot of money.

But the account depends on how to calculate, without the danger of Western Xia, the Song Dynasty does not need to be distracted by the northwest, but concentrates on defending the north, and can get a large number of war horses and organize a large number of cavalry, which is not trivial in this military significance alone.

There are also related economic accounts, not to mention the military expenses saved in the future, it is a benefit of green salt, at least a year also brings more than two million yuan of income to the imperial court, the original income did not fully enter the Western Xia treasury, part of the income of the local nobles, part of the income of the two countries of private salt merchants, part of the bribe income of some officials, now most of these income can be obtained by the hands of salt for the imperial court.

As well as the benefits of commerce, it has nothing to do with the obstruction side, mainly the reopening of the trade route in the Western Regions, this trade route did not benefit much in the Tang Dynasty, but in the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty has formulated a complete commercial tax system, so the benefits of commerce and trade can also get more than one million yuan of profits for the imperial court a year.

Of course, the Song Dynasty cannot be called to recover all the Western Xia, and the ancient Great Wall is still controlled by the Liao army.

But later, when the imperial court heard about the battle, Zhao Ji wrote an edict asking Wang Ju if there was no civil strife in Xingzhou City, could Wang Ju's water attack be successful?

It turned out to be a Western Xia person, so you can toss it no matter how you want. But now it belongs to the Song Dynasty, and Zhao Ji is worried.

Wang Ju was happy when he saw it, and then wrote back and wrote a detailed story.

In fact, it was a psychological tactic, and from the beginning, Wang Ju never thought of using water to break through Xingzhou. However, the Western Xia soldiers and civilians in Xingzhou City held their breath, as long as this breath was there, even if there was no city wall, the battle would not end for a while.

Therefore, Wang Ju came up with this strategy, first let the Western Xia soldiers and civilians relax, the Song army will not attack the city, and life is so difficult, so that the Western Xia soldiers and civilians in the city will live in torment, coupled with rumors, people's hearts will inevitably turn from a battle to the death. Then he deliberately passed on the water attack plan to the prisoners of war, and the prisoners fled into Xingzhou City. If this was not an intentional arrangement, not to mention more than a hundred prisoners of war, not a single prisoner of war would have escaped from the city. Just like the Liao army, they also sent a large number of scouts to explore here, but none of the scouts succeeded in sneaking into the west of the Yellow River.

As for whether it can be flooded to Xingzhou City, maybe it can be flooded, but it is very difficult to break down the wall foundation of Xingzhou, so it is better to worry about Xingzhou, it is better to worry about Jingshi, that section of the Yellow River is the real hanging river on the ground.

And it is still a question mark whether the improvised embankment can store the huge floods, and the reason why the river has become shallower is only because all the steep gates upstream are closed.

But it is a signal, that is, in the future, the imperial court should not only pay attention to the poetry and scriptures, but also pay attention to these miscellaneous paths, if it is not gunpowder, how can it shake the city wall of Xingzhou, then with the morale of Xingzhou City at that time, it may take several months to take it down, and it will cost the lives of countless soldiers. When the three armies are exhausted, how to deal with the Liao army?

Now it's just black powder, some crude artillery, what if there are more advanced weapons in the future?

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A grain and grass team crossed the Yellow River one after another, and then entered the Jinsu military city, although the army entered the summer realm, but because the troops were a little urgent, the grain and grass were not carried much, so the rear continued to prepare grain and grass in several states behind the mountain, and the rear asked the rear to support more grain and grass, not necessarily transported to the front line, but first put in the Jinsu city, in case the war dragged on and worsened.

Therefore, during this time, the states continuously transported grain and grass across the Yellow River, and the Liao army in Jinsu City did not pay much attention......

There is a strange place on Hedong Road, that is, Fulin Road, Linzhou, Fuzhou and Fengzhou, only Linzhou really belongs to the jurisdiction of the imperial court, Fuzhou is under the management of the Zhe family, and Fengzhou is under the management of the Wang family. Below is Suizhou, which belongs to Western Xia.

Therefore, some people say that this area is lonely overseas, especially Fengzhou, which is in the top corner, and it is really lonely overseas, because it was captured by Li Yuanhao, which caused the Song Dynasty to want to abandon these three states for a time. It was fortunate that Song Renzong did not agree, so that the Song Dynasty did not give up this important portal.

At the time of the fiasco of Shaanxi ********, the defense of Fulin Road glowed with a completely different brilliance, whether it was the Zhijia army, or Miao Jixuan, the governor of Miaozhou, and Gao Jixuan, Wang Kai, Zhang Qi, Wang Ji and other generals who were later transferred, all performed well, defeated the Xia army with strong troops several times, and beat Li Yuanhao to the head of the rat, and returned in a fiasco.

Only then did the imperial court gradually restore the establishment of Toyoshu.

However, because of the defeat of Kulidui, the Quye River in the Fengzhou section, the Zhuolun River, and the west bank of the Quye River in the Linzhou section were successively occupied by the Western Xia. The situation was not improved until the opening of the border by the plantation, and the officials of Fulin Road also defeated the Tanguts many times, went south along the Yellow River, and opened up several forts, but they had not really communicated with Yanzhou, and it was still an enclave.

It was not until a few years ago, after Wang Ju came back, that he began to operate the northwest, and the imperial court successively recovered the entire Suizhou, and Fulin Road and Yanyan Road were connected as a whole. Then the imperial court joined forces to take Yinzhou, and the imperial court adopted Wang Ju's suggestion, with Donghengshan as the boundary, Yinzhou and other places were handed over to the jurisdiction of Fulin Road.

The main future Fulin Road is still at the forefront, and there must be enough people to cultivate, so that there will be sufficient grain and grass mobilization, otherwise it will be too expensive to rely on the imperial court to transfer grain from the rear. Secondly, if you want to start a war, unless it is a large-scale operation, it is generally handled by each side by itself, and Fulin Road must have sufficient troops. The area is small, the garrison is also few, and when the Liao State is at odds with the Liao State in the future, there are not enough troops to ensure victory and safety on the whole road. Now not only is there more Yinzhou on the Fulin Road, but also the Song Dynasty also took the opportunity to recover the Quye River on the west bank of the Quye River, the Quye River and the Zhuolun River on the west side of Fengzhou, and successively built many forts, and allocated a large amount of arable land to the border soldiers for them to cultivate, and at the same time built many important roads throughout the territory.

The current Linzhou Zhizhou, that is, the first governor of the Fulin Road is called Zihu, a military general, this person may not be famous in later generations, in fact, in the Song Dynasty at this time, quite prestigious, is the first general of the twelve generals in Hedong, brave and good at fighting, and defeated the Western Xia people many times.

It was in this situation that Wang Ju and Zhang Qi came up with an incredible tactic.

The Liao army went west and attacked the city of Xiazhou, and at the same time many Song troops entered Suizhou from Yanzhou, and then sneaked from Suizhou to Linzhou, Fuzhou, and Fengzhou!

But I did a rest in Suizhou, mainly to let everyone rest for a few days to ensure physical strength, and the other is to gather the three armies. At the same time, Wang Ju ordered the commanders of the three armies to obey Zhang Qi's command, in fact, in the future battle, Wang Ju was completely handed over to Zhang Qi, and he only cooperated in the west. After leaving himself, the Song Dynasty had to find a qualified successor. However, some people in the imperial court still did not trust Zhang Kai, and the next battle was the battle of Zhang Kai's real reputation.

Seeing that the troops from all sides were almost mobilized, and many materials were also transferred to the front line in Linzhou, Wang Ju took Xingzhou again, mainly the last one, and if Xingzhou was not taken, the troops could not be completely released. Zhang Kai ordered the general offensive to begin.

Liu Changzuo, Seed Master Dao, and Zi Hu did not go to the front line, and they had to be responsible for the safety of the road to prevent the Liao army dogs from jumping over the wall and running around.

However, the Song army dispatched a lot of troops, and the troops were divided into two routes, the main general of the main army on the west route was the veteran general Zhang Shouyue, and the supervising army was Li Xian, who was transferred back from the Hexi Corridor.

Both of them are "old guys", but because of their age, they will march steadily. Stability is still the key to the next battle. The deputy general is Lin Guang and Miao Xu.

It is Guo Cheng, Wang En and other generals who are moving forward.

The main general of the East Route Army is Yao Xiong, the deputy general is the governor of Fuzhou, and the forward is Liu Fa, Jia Yan and other generals.

The soldiers of the western route refer to the city of Jinsu, and the soldiers of the eastern route refer to the city of Yongbian.

Song Liao has been in peace for a long time, and the Song Dynasty has always been very cowardly towards Liao, including Wang Ju, although he has repeatedly targeted the Liao envoys, but there is more or less a strong inwardness, but it is true, even the strongest Northwest Army of the Song Dynasty has more or less suffered from Liaophobia. If it weren't for the successive victories, and the main battlefield was in the northwest, even if the Northwest Army did not have any psychological advantage over the Liao army now.

Although he repeatedly instructed everyone to be careful before leaving, it was just that the Liao army thought that the main force of the Song Dynasty was on the Xingzhou side, so they were a little careless.

Zihu did a good job in front, including the transfer of a large number of materials to Linzhou, but the Liao army did not notice it.

The front line of the Song Dynasty is now too close to the two cities, and the city of Yongbian is barely a hundred li, and the city of Jinsu is not even a hundred li.

In fact, the Liao State also set up some forts in these two armies and one state, including several forts on the Song-Liao border, but they are the strongest, only to beat people, and will not be beaten by others, so these forts are not strong and tall, and it is better to say that they are forts, but they are not posts, and there are not many troops left. Although he was mostly in the position of the key to the strong, the Song army pounced on him, caught off guard, and was quickly taken down by the Song army.

By this time, the battle plan had completely changed.

Originally, Wang Ju didn't want to have too much trouble with the Liao State, including these two armies and one state, although it was a thorn, Wang Ju didn't plan to take it back.

However, the Liao State openly sent troops, and it was not the obstruction soldiers who came out, but the real army of the Liao State, and the war was over, so what are you hesitating about!

The Song Dynasty's two-way army continued to advance, and quickly pushed under the two cities.

Zhang Shouyue's main army divided his troops again, Guo Cheng led the way forward and pounced on the Heqing army, and Zhang Shouyue began to attack the city.

The most critical of these three cities is Jinsu City, because it is related to the logistics of the Liao army, so there are thousands of soldiers and horses left here.

The siege begins.

The two armies fought for a day and rested with each other. When night fell, there was a sudden chaos in the city, and a group of people of unknown origin went around killing people and setting fires, and then they went to the city.

This is Zhang Kai's arrangement.

There were many private merchants, that is, smugglers, on the border between Song and Liao.

Zhang Ji found two smuggling merchants in Hedong, who were more familiar with the Liao side, at least the border side, and then promised some benefits to let them infiltrate the Liao border with a group of death squads. After infiltrating the Liao State, he used some means to obtain relevant news and passwords, and then purchased some vehicles, livestock and grain at a high price, disguised as the people and officials who supported the front line in various places, crossed the Yellow River, entered the city of Jinsu, and stayed, for today.

Zhang Shouyue immediately ordered a night attack on Jinsu City, and quickly captured the city under the cooperation of the inside and the outside.

What is needed is speed, and although it is too late for the army of Utra to return, there are still many arrangements to be arranged.

The two armies and one state in Hexi of Liao were quickly taken by the Song Dynasty.

Song Jun began to weave prison cages...... (To be continued.) )