"Gao Du Jian is careful." Yao Xiong let out a loud shout, then threw the knife in his hand and stabbed it fiercely on the back of the Xia soldier. The man's hand was weak in pain, and the straight sword fell, so that Gao Min was not stabbed.

Gao Min turned his head, also saw this thrilling scene, and said with some fear: "Thank you General Xiaoyao." ”

"Gao Dujian, you'd better command in the back." Yao Xiong said.

Gao Min's martial arts are good, and he takes the lead in fighting, and he has also won everyone's respect, including Yao Xiong's respect. However, so far, there have been heavy casualties, and Gao Min has become the backbone. In case something happens to Gao Min and the morale of the three armies is low, this ice castle will not be saved.

"Are these Tanguts crazy?" Gao Min took a step back and said.

In fact, this is what Zang Kui wants to say the most, it's not that the Tangut people are crazy, but that this group of Song people is crazy. From the afternoon Shen Shi Zang Kui launched an attack, and then Mei Qing Ba Luo's rear army arrived, replaced his men, and launched another onslaught.

At the end of the first watch, the five thousand infantry arrived again with supplies, replaced them, and stormed until the third watch. But instead of capturing this ice city, it brought heavy casualties to itself.

In fact, the Song army suffered equally heavy casualties.

After all, it is not a real fortress, it can only be said that it is repaired like this, and there is a fortification. However, compared to the fort, its defensive function is still very crude, and even the height is less than five meters high=. If the ice wasn't too slippery, several people could climb up the wall.

The Tanguts stormed for almost eight hours, killing more than 800 soldiers and more than 300 seriously wounded. Had to withdraw from the fight. More than forty percent of the troops were lost. Nearly half of the remaining troops were still hung with colors. Six Commands. Guan was killed, Huang Ji was seriously injured, and Gao Min, Song Ping, and Qi Zhong also hung up their colors. As for the middle and low-level generals below the commander, there were more people killed in battle, including two deputy commanders and twelve heads. In other words, if it were an ordinary battle, the morale would have been weakened long ago, and the three armies would have surrendered.

But in this battle, Gao Minbiao is really good. Without him to take the lead, morale would also be lost. Of course, Zhou Yongqing's support soldiers in the second half of the night also played a role in rallying morale. At least everyone has a hope, otherwise they won't be able to fight again.

As for Yao Xiong, he finally released a dazzling brilliance in this battle.

Because of his outstanding martial arts, he almost became the most dazzling firefighter, and where there was danger, he took him to fight wherever he went, and extinguished several crises of Yan zhòng. As for how many enemies he killed. Even Yao Xiong himself doesn't know, the most impressive thing is that he killed so many enemies. I wasn't hurt yet.

The fierceness of the Song army finally made the reckless retreat, and he said to the lieutenant general beside him: "They are now in full swing, and their morale is relatively high. Well, let's rest for a few hours and attack again tomorrow. Let's see how long they can keep their morale so high. ”

It seems to make sense, now all the Western Xia people don't know where Gao Min's Song army came from, but no matter where it came from, they must have walked last night, and then came to build a city, and then fought for a long time until now.

Holding it in one breath, but this breath, this breath is gone, and the bones of the body are also lacking, and at that time, if you launch a continuous onslaught, this ice castle will be taken.

Everyone had no opinion, and he ordered the siege to be stopped, and the three armies rested.

"Finally stopped." Chu Banzhou said. This is the real battle, I couldn't imagine it in Sanyuan before.

Xiang Fang said: "Which side of Rouyuan Village is like this every day." ”

This statement is wrong, Rouyuan Village is fighting every day, but it is still far less cruel than today's battle.

"Let's heal the wounded first," Gao Min gasped and said, "Commander Qi, where is Wangsongling?" ”

Qi Zhong tightened the bandage on his arm, and then Gao Min's telescope looked to the west, and said after a while: "Where is it, but the person hasn't come yet." ”

"It's okay, it should be soon." Gao Min said.

Why did Zhou Yongqing have to come over at night? This is also forced by the terrain, in fact, from the West Valley to Whitinburgh to Papaya Fort, it is equivalent to a triangle on the front line. On the left side is the Tokugawa Salt Road, and on the right side is the Wagokyo Salt Road.

So why didn't the Song Dynasty build forts on the two salt roads like Dashun City? It can't be repaired. If it is land, it will be repaired, and it will not occupy much land in Western Xia, and strictly speaking, this place does not belong to the territory of Western Xia, but the idle field area.

However, with such a repair, what should I do with private salt? As soon as these two salt roads are blocked, the Tangut people will be desperate. From the Qingli War to Zhao Shu's death, was the Song Dynasty afraid of the Western Xia people's desperate efforts?

Therefore, the Song Dynasty built Papaya Fort and Whittingburg, mainly to prevent the Tangut from encroaching on farming, of course, but also to protect the safety of Huanzhou, but not to threaten the two salt roads.

This triangle is actually very thin, and the army of the Tangut people has arrived at the foot of the Xigu, so it is conceivable how many Tangut scouts will be active in this triangle? If Zhou Yongqing set out to Papaya Castle during the day, he would inevitably be detected by the Western Xia scouts. Then the question arises, now that the Song Dynasty Qingzhou has insufficient troops, and Papaya Fort is not the main war zone, or even a war zone, why did the Song Dynasty transfer 5,000 soldiers to Papaya Fort? Needless to say, Carriage Gorge! As long as the Western Xia people are a little vigilant, does Gao Min still want to build a city?

Therefore, Zhou Yongqing's troops could only quietly enter Papaya Fort from Huanzhou at night.

If Wang Ju's plan is not a day in advance, then now Gao Min has just come here to build a city, and Zhou Yongqing will be stationed in Huanzhou during the day today, and he will set off to Papaya Fort at this time.

But after Zhou Yongqing arrived at Papaya Fort in the second half of last night, why didn't he march in a hurry and rush to Mengmen Sancha, which made Gao Min so critical?

The reason is equally simple, Papaya Fort is not very far from the three forks of Mengmen, only twenty-five miles, and it is actually stretched in a straight line, even less than fifteen miles. But the Song Dynasty built forts, and the Western Xia didn't build forts?

And now this back road is extremely important, next to the Song Dynasty's papaya fort, even if there is no fort, Renduo Lingding will also build a fort. There is a small village stuck in the middle, and there are hundreds of Xia soldiers inside.

Zhou Yongqing wanted to hide from the enemy's eyes and ears, and quietly brought the three armies to Papaya Fort, and he could not set off until it was dark. No matter how you rush. It's almost four o'clock when I get to Papaya Fort. Then to this little village. The road is not good, and the sky is almost dawning. At that time, the offensive and defensive forces were on the side of the Western Xia, first, it would alarm the Western Xia people, and second, as long as the Western Xia people could hold on for a few hours, and the reinforcements arrived, Zhou Yongqing would not want to reach the three forks of Mengmen.

Then Gao Min's army not only did not work, but came to die in vain. Of course, it is also possible to bet. Before the Western Xia reinforcements came in the future, this stockade would be taken, but it would be too risky to gamble like this.

So there is only one way, come at night and quietly touch this stockade.

So why didn't the Tangut people guard against the Donggu Fortress? The same precautions were taken, several posts were set up at the intersection, and there was also a stockade. However, Gao Min flew from Dongling Peak, who would have expected it?

Gao Min had no choice but to wait.

He drank soju to keep out the cold, while the soldiers cleaned his wounds and bandaged them with gauze.

Over there, Zhou Yongqing was in a dilemma.

He looked at the enemy village in front of him in a daze. With the help of night. It is not difficult to touch this village, but the difficult thing is how not to let Xia Jun, who is more than ten miles away, hear.

This time. Not only did he have 5,000 soldiers and horses, but also Zhao Pu's 3,000 soldiers and horses, that is, at this time, Papaya Fort was completely empty. Zhao Pu's 3,000 soldiers and horses came over, not only to bring some supplies and arrows, but also for another purpose.

This is also Wang Ju's order, but Wang Ju's estimation is wrong, that is, Wang Ju estimated that the Western Xia people may be less than 10,000 soldiers and horses, after all, Gao Min's troops are less than 3,000, and the Xia army has arrived, and I believe that the ice wall has not been repaired. Can you use so many troops? But I didn't expect that at this time, the strength of the Western Xia was 14,500.

This obviously brought difficulties to Zhou Yongqing.

Once the Western Xia army is alarmed, this stockade will be taken, but a battle of division plus a sneak attack will evolve into a frontal battle, so that the victory and defeat will be inseparable.

He called a strongman from Orion who was also the guide of this line: "Liu Minzi, are there any other trails around here?" ”

"There's a trail, it's just hard to walk."

"Take so-and-so to have a look."

Liu Minzi took Zhou Yongqing to the foot of a mountain peak, which had a path, and by bypassing it, it was possible to bypass this village. However, Zhou Yongqing looked at this trail and couldn't help but gasp.

The trail is not only small, but also extremely steep, almost 90 degrees upward, with bare rocks on both sides, and the trail is covered with snow and ice, and it shines in the cold of this cold night.

An archer from Huluchuan was surprised and said, "How can you go up here?" ”

Liu Minzi said: "There are very few people who walk, that is, when the Song and Xia did not fight in the past, we came to hunt, and we rarely walked from this trail, but there are still people walking, and those medicine pickers will occasionally insert from this road to the mountains behind to find medicinal materials in order to make a living." ”

"Isn't there a road next to it?"

"There is a road, but there are Tangut people."

Everyone stopped talking, and at this time the boundaries were very vague, even if people were sent to deliberately divide them between countries, such as between Song and Xia, between Song and Liao, but they were still fighting, such as the twelve land boundaries, and later the Liao State blackmailed again. In fact, there are a large number of buffer zones between the two countries, that is, idle fields.

If the relationship between the two countries is not tense, it is generally not deliberately used to build forts and relocate people to farmland, but to use it as a buffer zone. Of course, if there is peace between the two countries, some people will come to graze, or hunt for medicine and fishing.

But in general, even if the two countries are peaceful, the people of Xia and Liao are swaggering in the buffer idle area. The people of the Song Dynasty were like thieves, coming to Xiantian District to find a way to live.

If you don't taste it, once you taste it, as long as you are a bloody person, you will feel very cowardly.

It is precisely this situation, although the border between Song and Xia was relatively peaceful in the past few years, that is, there was no hidden and false Pang invasion of farming, although there are some Pingchuan here, it is relatively narrow, and there is no value of invasion. However, some Song people came here to hunt or collect medicine, and they still tried to avoid the Tangut people, let alone the Tangut soldiers. These Western Xia soldiers were sometimes really cruel to the Song people.

There is a road over there, but there is an enemy village over there.

"After this battle, it will not be the same as before," Mr. Zhou said.

After finishing speaking, he looked at this "road", couldn't delay, and went back, Zhou Yongqing ordered, selected dozens of dexterous people to open the way in front, and then let the three armies cut their robes, twist the robes into cloth ropes, with the help of poor sparse mountain trees, knot a safety belt with cloth ropes, and the rest of the soldiers grabbed this cloth rope and climbed up.

I don't think this road is difficult to walk, but if it weren't for the night, it would still be discovered by the enemy.

Then Zhou Yongqing threw down 500 soldiers and horses, lay in front of the enemy village, and once there was a shout of killing in front of him, he rushed into the enemy village, killed the enemy, and burned the enemy village.

However, time was delayed.

Zhou Yongqing's subordinates advanced like snails on this mountain road, and Gao Min had to sit on the head of the Ice Castle City and look through the autumn water......

The battle on the other side has just ended.

Song Ji ordered: "Let everyone rest." ”

He took 20,000 soldiers and horses to the city of Gyeongju. Gyeongju Castle is not so easy to fight, the city defense is complete, and the city walls are tall.

However, this is the same as Dashun City, although the larger the city, although it is conducive to the garrison of soldiers and food, but it must be defended by more soldiers.

But how many troops does Gyeongju City have now? The poor battalions of officers and soldiers under Yang Pei, as well as some strongmen sent from the rear, the total strength was less than 4,000 people.

Are there not people in the city, and they may be organized? However, now that even Zhizhou is gone, the enemy is current, and the people are panicking, and that person has the ability to organize the people?

Therefore, Song Ji arrived in Gyeongju with 20,000 Xia troops, hastily made some siege ladders, and immediately launched an attack. With the onslaught for several hours, Gyeongju was in crisis many times.

The three armies withdrew to rest, but Song Ji was in good spirits and called the generals to the big tent of the Chinese army to discuss.

Song Ji said: "Tomorrow we must capture Gyeongju City, Gyeongju City will be taken, the dragons will be leaderless, and Gyeongju will be obtained by our country." ”

It seems so.

Moreover, he sent back a message from Mengmen Sancha in time, one is to say the tenacity of the Song army in Mengmen Sancha, and the other is to say one of his judgments. The commander of the Song Dynasty may have been a very popular and adventurous man, but his troops were inadequate, and all of them were put to the front.

He also gave a few reasons.

First of all, the Song army is very tenacious this time, if the commander will not win the hearts of the people, at least the hearts of the generals of the various armies will not be so tenacious.

However, because of the lack of troops, the Song army took the risk of putting all the main forces on the front line, and launched several night attacks early, trying to force the Xia army to retreat, but the strength was not enough, otherwise they would not have sent 2,000 people to snipe Mei Qingbaluo's subordinates, but would have sent more soldiers and horses to snipe, or even without sniping, marching directly from Papaya Fort to Mengmen Sancha to build the ice castle. Therefore, the Song army may have pushed all its forces to the front line together and laid them out, but there were no troops available in the rear.

This judgment was also recognized by Ren Duo Lingding, after all, it was the strength of the Song army, and the number was also very large. So he handed over the information sent by Gangzang to Liang Yi with a fast horse, and after Liang Yi buried it, he immediately ordered Song Ji to capture Gyeongju City.

The Xia army also couldn't afford to delay, not only the grain and grass materials, but after a long delay, the Song Dynasty would also transfer reinforcements to Gyeongju in a steady stream, and it would be even more difficult to take Gyeongju at that time.

As long as the city of Gyeongju is taken, the Song army on the front line will immediately lose morale and be demoralized, and the resistance of the fortress will not be so fierce. Also, taking Gyeongju City, the Golden Cabinet Town, Chicheng Town, and Pengyuan County Town behind Gyeongju City will be naked in front of the Xia army, and these forts and towns will be more empty, plus the Western Xia will capture Gyeongju City, and the army and people will have no courage to resist. At that time, Xia Jun will easily take them one by one one easily, so there will be no need to worry about food and grass at that time.

At the same time, he also ordered Renduo Lingding to draw another 5,000 soldiers and horses from the front line to support Song Ji tomorrow.

What Song Gil discussed with the generals was how to take Gyeongju Fortress faster tomorrow...... Dare to love this guy and want to make a world-class contribution for Western Xia. (To be continued......) R1292