Zhou Yongqing and his subordinates were slowly climbing the mountain, and Gao Min was so anxious that he jumped to scold his mother. Seeing that the fourth watch was about to pass, and it would be dawn after a little more delay, Xiang Fang said worriedly: "Could it be that something happened in the rear?" ”

"Impossible." Yao Xiong said uncertainly.

The enemy has a large number of troops, and a division of troops is calculated by 10,000 people, so that Wang Ju is full of emotion, even if he is a thousand soldiers and horses, he calculates and uses them, but he is mobilized in units of 10,000 soldiers and horses.

But it is impossible for the enemy to divide his troops indefinitely, and besides, if he really divides his troops to Papaya Fort, won't he send someone to inform him?

But if that's not the case, why haven't the reinforcements arrived yet?

Just when they were worried, Qi Zhong said, "It's here." ”

Gao Min immediately took the telescope and looked at Wangsong Ridge, a little far away, although there was no snow tonight, but the weather was not very good, so it was not very clear, but the big flag could still be seen, with the blowing of the mountain wind, like a white fairy dancing in the night sky.

"Damn, it's finally here." Gao Min said excitedly, and after speaking, he looked at the enemy camp again, and his expression was even more happy.

Like Song Ji, he did not build a complete fence wall.

But the nature of the two is different, Song Jina is purely careless, and there is no time for Zang Kui.

When he came, he immediately launched a siege, but he just wanted to build a tent, and he didn't have tents, tools, or other supplies in his hands. ↖

Then, at dusk, the army sent by Mei Qing Ba Luo arrived, and they also hurried to the three branches of the Meng Gate, so there were no supplies either.

It wasn't until the arrival of 5,000 soldiers in Huai'an Town that the relevant tools were brought.

However, the tools were brought, and the trees had to be cut down slowly with axes and saws. Then use the rope to carry it back to the camp. Then ram it under the ground with a hammer. However, they came from Huai'an Town. It is equivalent to walking the entire Tongsai River.

This Tongsai River includes part of the later part of the Yuancheng River, and the entire Qiaochuan, strictly speaking, Huai'an Town is the end point, and the three forks of Mengmen are the www.biquge.info of Biqu Pavilion. In addition, there is a small road, that is, the Horse City Road, it is rumored that Li Jing broke the Tubo victory here, and entered the court, so it was named the Horse City. Don't take this seriously. During Li Jing's time, the Tubo power had only spread to Dajishi Mountain, and had not yet spread to Qinghai, so how could it fight fiercely with the Tang Dynasty here?

However, there is indeed a ruined ancient castle here, only seven or eight miles away from the ancient Qin Great Wall, and it is rumored that this road is the fork of the Great Qin Straight Road to Yanzhou. It's hard to know if it's true or not, but the road is also deserted.

Therefore, Tongzhai Sichuan Salt Road is Qiaochuan Road, and the Western Xia army is also Qiaochuan Road. After the three forks of the Mengmen, this slightly wide river avenue began to shrink, becoming narrower and narrower, and finally became a real mountain narrow road. Xixia placed a quiet border village at the narrow road entrance.

So this army came relatively late, and then two more divisions were replaced and entered the battle. Although I brought tools with me, I didn't have much time to cut down trees and build a camp, and besides, it was dark, so it was inconvenient to move.

Another reason, the same idea as Song Ji, is that he underestimated the strength of the Song Dynasty. Don't use the Tibetan Gang to send scouts, the actual surrounding information, the Western Xia scouts have already inquired. Including Zhao Puna's 5,000 soldiers and horses stationed in Fort Papaya and Fort Whitin, and rotated the army of Chonggu.

Whitinburgh's Song army did not dare to draw, it was too far, and it was very close to Xigu Qi, once it was drawn to the three forks of Mengmen, the Xia army could draw a force from Xigu Qi at any time to take Whitinburgh and break through the chain defense line of Huanzhou.

Only the two or three thousand Song soldiers in Papaya Fort can be drawn, but Papaya Fort also has to send troops to stay behind, so only some of them can be drawn. It is very close from Papaya Fort to Mengmen Sancha, only twenty-five miles away. But this is the real mountain road! Moreover, there was a small village in Western Xia in the middle, and after a little block, the Song army was blocked.

Besides, if the Song Dynasty really had this idea, then it would have transferred its troops over last night, firstly, to speed up the construction of forts, and secondly, to strengthen the defensive forces here. Instead of tonight, if you really have more than 10,000 soldiers who are jealous?

In short, the Song Dynasty still had fewer troops, so it was overstretched everywhere, and it was nothing more than to risk building a city here, but it was nothing more than trying to force the Western Xia people to retreat, and there was a lack of a grain route, so they didn't obediently retreat from Anjiang Fort.

The idea was born, and he made the same mistake as Song Gil.

However, unlike Songji, despite the strong attack for so long, the Zang Kui still sent many people to patrol and guard.

Either way, it's a great opportunity.

Gao Min said to Yao Xiong: "Go and wake everyone up." ”

"Oh," Yao Xiong went down to the city, which was also said a long time ago, maybe there were still many Song soldiers who had not fallen asleep and were waiting for this moment.

At this time, the battle under the city of Gyeongju was basically over. Wang Ju rushed to Yele Town with more than 10,000 Song troops, and Yang Pei with more than 3,000 officers and soldiers was cleaning the battlefield, capturing prisoners of war, and preparing to release the people out, and cooperating with the Song army to capture the remaining Western Xia deserters who were fleeing in the field.

Zhang Qi thought about it at the head of the city......

Zhou Yongqing had just led his men to complete this extremely difficult mountain road.

This also shows the importance of the terrain, although it is located on the border, but Wang Ju and Zhang Qi are not very familiar, so the strategy formulated is relatively vague, just let a few strongmen who are familiar with the local roads enter the army as guides, and the rest is left to Zhou Yongqing to play.

Zhou Yongqing said: "Let's take a break and drink a little wine." ”

Chopping wood is not afraid of sharpening knives, in order to climb this mountain road, it strictly consumes everyone's body, so Zhou Yongqing asked everyone to rest for a while, and then drink a little soju prepared by Papaya Fort to warm up the body.

Thousands of soldiers and horses sat together in the ice and snow, panting for breath and taking a few sips of wine.

Zhou Yongqing asked the scout to go to the front to investigate, this place is not far from the front line, and the scout will return to report the information after a while.

"Good news, let's go." Zhou Yongqing said.

The three armies hurriedly rushed towards the three forks of Mengmen.

In the battle just now, Gao Min's subordinates lost more than 800 people killed and more than 300 were seriously wounded, and they withdrew from the battle. However, Western Xia also suffered two or three thousand casualties.

Compared with the strength of troops, the Song army had more than 9,000 people, and the Western Xia could only fight 12,000 people, eight to ten.

Body lì consumption. All the soldiers under Gao Min who can still fight. The body is almost consumed. However, the 8,000 soldiers brought by Zhou Yongqing were all new forces, although they had consumed some of their strength along the way, but there was no big problem. Almost all the soldiers on the Western Xia side participated in the siege battle, and they also consumed Yan zhòng.

Compared with the level of sobriety, although the Zang Kui sent a large number of soldiers to patrol, the rest of the Xia army all fell asleep. Some of Gao Min's subordinates on the Song army's side were very sleepy and had not been able to get a good rest for dozens of hours. However, Zhou Yongqing's 8,000 soldiers slept all day.

Prepare for comparisons. One has a heart, and even a few days ago was mentally prepared for this battle, and the other is unintentional.

Only a few miles away, Zhou Yongqing led the army to pounce in the blink of an eye.

The patrolling Xia Jun immediately blew the horn.

He was immediately awakened, and he expressed his puzzlement, where the Song army came? Not only was he puzzled, but all three armies were puzzled. I guessed that most of the Song troops rushed over from Papaya Fort, but the troops were wrong, so many troops from Papaya Fort?

However, when Zhou Yongqing arrived at their barracks, he had already come to his senses. And quickly dressed, and walked out of the tent. Begin to command.

"Open the gates." Gao Min said.

Wang Ju also prepared two doors in advance, and they are iron doors that can be installed in combination, although they are not big, but they can be regarded as doors. But in order to prevent the enemy from knocking down, all the mud bags were blocked behind during the day, but just now Gao Min quietly asked the soldiers to move the mud bags.

Although the door is small, it can at least allow the Song army to kill out.

Because the Xia soldiers who patrolled in advance made an alarm, almost all the three armies of Western Xia got up.

But if you can't get up, you have to assemble into a formation.

Puzzled, he hurriedly ordered.

However, Zhou Yongqing had already led the three armies to rush into their camp, and if the camp gate was built, Zhou Yongqing would encounter great difficulties in this battle. However, this sad fence ......

Therefore, although many soldiers were dispatched to patrol and the police were reported in advance, the buffer time given to them was still very short.

There is also a disadvantage, if you don't get enough sleep, and after strenuous exercise, then everyone gets up and feels weakness in their limbs. This is also the reason why the three armies finally ordered the three armies to rest and plan to attack tomorrow morning, if there is no arrival of Zhou Yongqing's army, the Song army will be very dangerous to attack the city at that time, not only this ice castle will be lost, but even the three armies will be destroyed.

However, he never dreamed that what he said would fall on his own army.

Now the entire Xia army is weak and not well organized, at first everyone was still working hard to assemble under the leadership of the generals, but as the Song army rushed in, they soon fell into their own battles.

The attack of Gao Min's subordinates may be a joke, but it is not a joke in this situation.

Although the more than 1,000 Song troops were overdrawn more strictly, their morale was still very strong, they were saved, and they made great contributions. The attack they launched was tantamount to invisibly further shaking the morale of the Xia army.

The battle lasted only a moment, and as countless warriors fell, or screamed as they were wounded, the old problem of the Tangut people recurred, that is, although it was hard, it was not strong enough, and it was not long enough, and many soldiers saw that the situation was not good, and fled to the rear. A few miles away, a battle broke out at the same time. Hearing the sound of the horn here, the battalion of Song troops climbed over the wall at the same time and killed the Xia army who was sleeping. The Xia army guarding the village immediately blew the horn to call the police, but now does he have the heart to care about their life or death?

"Defeated, general, quickly withdraw." The guards under the Zang Kui commanded him.

"I can't withdraw it."

"Everyone is running away, they can't fight anymore, and the people of the Song Dynasty use soldiers to come out of nowhere, every time it seems that a divine soldier descends from the sky, there is no way to fight, it is not a crime of war." The guard said eagerly.

Because the Song army was about to enter the middle camp, it was only a few dozen steps away from them.

"It's not a crime of war," Zang muttered, he can also be regarded as a brave general, otherwise Renduo and Ding would not let him come to recapture the three forks of the Meng Gate, but what if he doesn't run away now? He watched his subordinates fall in a pool of blood one by one, his eyes seemed to be about to breathe fire, but in the end he reluctantly got on his horse and fled in the direction of Qiao Chuan.

As soon as he fled, the remaining Xia army had no morale to resist, and the whole army retreated eastward. What's worse is that their line also brought many war horses, and most of them were killed or fled by the Song army before they had time to get on the war horses. At this time, at least 3,000 war horses were left in the army.

What's even worse is that most of the archers brought by Zhou Yongqing are border archers, and many of them are Tibetans. They were not cavalry, but many could ride horses.

It is enough to be able to ride a horse, so why ask for a high level of riding skills in this case, and even be able to fight on a horse?

Zhou Yongqing immediately ordered the soldiers who could ride horses to turn over and get on their horses, and he personally led them to pursue them. The rest of the soldiers were handed over to Gao Min, who continued to capture or kill the few Xia soldiers who were stubbornly resisting, and clean up the battlefield.

chased all the way, almost chased to the bottom of Xigu, Zhou Yongqing did not have blind impulse. Unlike Wang Ju's side, the troops he pursued were too few, and Huai'an Town hoarded heavy troops, and it was far closer to Xigu than Huai'an Town to Yele Town. And it seems that the enemy on the other side of the West Valley was also alarmed, lit the torches, and with the help of the morning wind, heard the sound of people shouting and horses shouting from the other side, and it was impossible to surprise the attack. Besides, the light is starting to get brighter.

Only then did Zhou Yongqing order to stop the pursuit, lead the three armies, and escort the prisoners captured on the way back. In the first battle of Mengmen, the Song Dynasty invested 12,800 troops. The number of troops invested in Western Xia was more than 15,500 men. The extra 2,000 troops of the Song Dynasty were Zhao Pu's sniper troops, which should also be calculated. The more than 500 troops in Western Xia were the troops of the small village.

The Song army suffered nearly 3,000 casualties, but the number of Western Xia casualties and prisoners of war reached more than 11,000, and the three armies were almost wiped out.

But on this night of death, the music of death is not over. Here, Zhou Yongqing ordered the soldiers of the cavalry to mount their horses and pursue, and the battle on the side of Yele Town also began. (To be continued......)