Mu Qing didn't kill it, and the four battalions of horse infantry were all full, a full 1,800 people, and the whole army was wiped out. At the same time, there were also Song Dynasty officers and soldiers who stopped outside the valley, who wanted to kill and rescue, but they were unsuccessful, and they also sacrificed one or two hundred people, and finally saw that the Song army in the valley was getting fewer and fewer, so they retreated miserably.

After Qu Zhen learned about it, she knew that the matter was big.

Because when Wang Ju talked to Zhang Qi, he deliberately said that there was no smoke gorge, in fact, Wang Ju didn't say it, Zhang Qi would also notice the smoke gorge, so he ordered to snipe, the number of Xia soldiers who came first would not be many, and the hole cards were not yet at the time to take out, so let Xia Jun frustrate a little and chase into Wuyan Gorge, there is no need to go deeper.

All 2,000 officers and soldiers died in vain.

He was the deputy commander of the Jingyuan Road Horse Infantry, so he directly bypassed Zhang Ji, first wrote to the imperial court, reported the matter, and then put the responsibility on Zhi Keshi, saying that he ordered Zhi Keshi to rescue, but still Zhe Keshi did not rescue, resulting in the death of all the officers and soldiers of the fourth battalion.

After the battle of Yongle City, although Qu Zhen is still very capable of fighting, the hot-blooded and simple young man in the past is no longer there......

Originally, this piece of music was handed to the Ministry of War, and then transferred to Wang Ju.

However, Li Qingchen proposed that since Han Zhen had already served as the same court, the military affairs should first be handed over to the privy council, and then transferred to the military department according to the severity or not.

That is to say, it is mainly based on the Western Mansion and supplemented by the Ministry of War, but unlike the original, now major military affairs can be read and handled by the Chinese book.

Wang Ju didn't object, there must always be a priority, it's better not to go to war, as soon as the war starts, it will be chaotic immediately. Wang Ju has no opinion, where does Xu Jiang dare to compete with Han Jin?

However, Han Jin has just received this recital, and he hasn't figured out how to deal with it yet.

Wang Ju is in the rear, of course he doesn't know the truth.

He just thought in his heart that Zhe Keshi was not this kind of person.

History says that he joined the army at the age of sixteen or seventeen and fought for more than 40 years. Hundreds of battles with the Xia army, all battles. He also said that for more than 40 years, he has not been in the army every day, and he has overcome every battle, and has repeatedly performed miraculous feats. Enwei parallel, the generals have no return to their right. None of them are more powerful than Fold!

Wang Ju doesn't know this evaluation, but he knows that this person, among the generals of the Zhejia Army, may be able to rank in the top five, and this Zhejia general includes all the generals of the Zhejia Army from the beginning of the Song Dynasty to the end of the Song Dynasty.

Qu Zhen is very capable of fighting, but Wang Ju believes that it is not enough to be compromised, and he has won a great victory in the rice fat village. Zhe Keshi has already made the first contribution in that battle! It's not that he deliberately promoted Liu Fa, the young general, who has already played out.

Therefore, Wang Jucai transferred Zhi Ke to Jingyuan Road last year to serve as the commander of Ma Bujun and help Zhang Qi.

But without this, I believe that Qu Zhen would not dare to lie.

There is indeed a yes, but when Zhi Keshi received Qu Zhen's order and ordered the three armies to turn their horses back, the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty on the front line had already retreated, and explained the situation one by one. There's no way to save it, it's all two. How about everything two? That is to take advantage of the narrowness of the valley, and send armies on both sides to hold the valley, and everything is two! Not to mention that I don't know how many people I can save when I go back, even if I rescue a few people, it is very likely that the officers and soldiers of these battalions under my command will be able to increase the loss by half. That's not eight for one, maybe eighty for one!

Zhe Keshi retreated sensibly.

Finally, Zhang Kai himself investigated. There is no blame for the setbacks, can it be saved? didn't blame Qu Zhen, Qu Zhen was not too wronged, he did give an order, and he really didn't listen. As for Qu Zhen's command error. The war has begun, can it be pursued again?

But now Wang Juke didn't know, he thought for a while and asked: "Han Gong, my martial arts are as good as the Han and Tang Dynasties?" ”

"Not in time?"

"Can Han Tang have suffered defeats? If it is a battle like Gaoliang River, Qigou Pass, Junziguan, Haoshuichuan, Dingchuan, and Yongle City, it can still be heavy, and if there is a small defeat of one or two thousand people sacrificed like this, will the sky fall? ”

The truth is such a truth, but Wang Ju is also a little dissatisfied, he doesn't know what happened, but this kind of sacrifice is unnecessary.

Of course, Zhang Kai was dispatching troops in the rear to arrange logistics grain and grass materials, and after getting it, he was also very dissatisfied and came to Zhenrong Village to personally investigate and deal with it.

"Han Gong, Zhu Gong, do you still remember that the Empress Dowager Xiao of Liao State went south to the Central Plains? In fact, when the Liao army arrived in Lanzhou, it had many confrontations with our army, all of which were unfavorable, but it was unfavorable at the beginning, but when it arrived in Lanzhou, there was no disadvantage, it seemed that the service was defeated, and in the end it was undefeated! Yuanjia Northern Expedition, was defeated by the Northern Wei Taiwu Emperor Tuoba Tao, and then Tuoba Tao went south, first victorious, and finally defeated with Emperor Wen of Song, seemingly victorious, and finally defeated, although the Southern Song Dynasty was hit hard, the Northern Wei Dynasty was also hit hard, and because of this defeat, the temper became irritable and eccentric, and was killed by the eunuchs. Therefore, in a battle, you can't look at a certain battle at the beginning and a certain battle in the middle, you have to look at the result. There is also Liao Xingzong's western expedition to Western Xia, which was victorious at first, but in the end, it was defeated in Hequ! ”

"And Zhe Keshi has gone through dozens of battles, all of them are pioneers, and they are by no means a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death. If the recital does not arrive after a few days, you can send an edict to ask. ”

"One more thing to say......"

That's the language of wine.

After Guo Cheng took office, a general wrote to Zhang Qi, saying that Guo Cheng was addicted to alcohol, and it was not that the general wanted to make a small report.

Fortunately, during the Battle of Gyeongju, Wang Ju transferred Guo Cheng to Gyeongju, and Zhang Ji was the No. 2 commander in the Battle of Gyeongju, knowing that Guo Cheng liked to eat two cups.

So there was an inexplicable banquet that day.

In fact, it is to observe Guo Cheng's amount of alcohol, like ordinary turbid wine (rice wine) in the northwest, ordinary people may eat one or two catties may be about the same, but if Guo Cheng drinks a lot of wine, big enough to eat seven or eight catties, then usually eat two or three catties, maybe his subordinates will think that Guo Cheng will be greedy for a cup and misbehave.

In the end, the banquet ended, many generals were slightly drunk, Zhang Ji observed Guo Cheng, and saw that Guo Cheng's face was not more colorful, but it was not easy to say, some people did not hurt their faces when they ate wine, so they talked with Guo Cheng. It turned out that Guo Cheng drank several buckets of turbid wine, but his words were coherent.

In fact, Guo Cheng reminded that Zhang Kai had already made arrangements. He brought the generals to Pingxia City, firstly, to observe Guo Cheng, after all, Guo Cheng was the main general of Pingxia City, the core of the core. There can't be any mistakes, the second is to take Zhuyuan to watch the surrounding environment of Pingxia City, so that everyone can have an understanding, and the third is to let Qu Zhen and his subordinates enter Shimenchuan to garrison immediately.

However, how many resources does Zhang Qi have in his hands, and how many resources can Guo Cheng have?

When did Zhang Qi plan it. When did Guo Cheng think about it?

This is not easy, so Zhang Qi wrote a letter and said to Wang Ju, Taibao, the Guo Cheng you recommended is very good.

Wang Ju wrote a letter to Guo Cheng, although you drink a lot of alcohol and like to eat a glass or two, but the enemy is at present, you should be cautious. It's best to eat less alcohol.

Now Wang Ju has turned this matter over again, which means that Guo Cheng is very talented in military affairs, and the second is that the decisive battle is in Pingxia City, not the small mistake of Wuyan Gorge. If it was just for this small-scale battle, why spend so much money and make so many plans?

"Alright, Your Majesty, bring me the map of the northwest." Wang Ju said, anyway, the decisive battle on the front line is coming. Wang Ju is not afraid of the plan being leaked.

The eunuch brought a map of the northwest, and Wang Ju told Zhang Kai's plan together.

But this may not be victorious, Guan Jian still has that artillery.

When the truth was revealed, many ministers were relieved.

Wang Ju said again: "If you want to cut down the summer, logistics is a serious problem, but what will happen if you transport the grain and grass to Pingxia City in advance? And also. If there are prisoners of war this time, no one will mention the word release, and whoever mentions me will be in a hurry. In addition to the auxiliary forts in the back, these prisoners of war will also be transferred to the rear to serve as escorts for food and supplies. ”

There are a lot of these grains and grasses, and what if there is a disaster year?

Moreover, it was after Wang Juping destroyed Western Xia. There are still a few years to toss, even if Wang Ju is gone, he will have to toss, maybe there will still be a rebellion inside, and the Liao State may not intervene.

In the next few years, the northwest will not reduce troops, and the troops will be pushed to the more distant front, then logistics will be very important.

And also beware of one person.

Dong Yu died the year before last, he had two sons, and his own son died early, so he let his adopted son Ali Gu ascend the throne. Because Ali Gu Fei was Dong Yu's own son and was a Uighur, he was internally unstable, so until now, no envoy has been sent to report the funeral.

Although the Song Dynasty was concerned, it belonged to the internal affairs of Huangzhou and could not interfere.

However, this Ali bone is a white-eyed wolf, so Hezhou can not relax either, if the Western Xia is destroyed, and the troops will be divided into Ganzhou, Suzhou, Shazhou, if ignored, maybe Ali Gu will use his identity to engulf this area, then it is a harm and a harm.

In addition, it is necessary to prevent disaster years, so in the harvest year, more grain, grass and materials must be transferred to the various fronts in Shaanxi, but in this way, more people are needed, and the people are hired, not to mention that the officials are greedy for ink, and the court will also spend more money and silk, and the forced conscription without employment will make the people of Shaanxi suffer.

Therefore, the prisoners of war in this war may well be the best free labor!

After making it clear and everyone has cleared up their doubts, let's disperse.

Wang Ju stayed.

Zhao Ji looked at Wang Ju, and Wang Ju said, "Your Majesty, can you ask the imperial doctor in the palace if he knows how to play five birds?" ”

"Hua Tuo's five-bird play?"

"Exactly."

After a while, the eunuch brought an imperial doctor, and he bowed down and said, "See Your Majesty, Your Highness, and Taibao." ”

"Do you know how to play five birds?" Wang Ju asked.

"I know a little, I don't know if it's an authentic five-bird play."

"You come to teach Your Highness," Wang Ju turned his head to look at Zhao Maid and said, "Your Highness, look at the minister's fist again." ”

Wang Ju played a set of boxing techniques taught to him by the eldest son of the second son when he was a teenager, in fact, it is best to teach Zhao Maid's Taijiquan, but Wang Ju himself can't do it, how to teach it?

"The minister practices once or twice every morning, so the minister has always been very healthy, and he rarely gets sick. Many guards will also, although the boxing techniques are different, but the effect is the same, as long as His Royal Highness insists on practicing a set of such boxing techniques in the morning and evening, and then practicing the five bird plays, the body will become healthier and healthier, and with exercise, the meal will become fragrant. Your Majesty, in fact, you can also practice the Five Birds Opera, the Great Song Tai needs a healthy person. ”

The first few emperors, none of them died well, Zhao Kuangyin died unexplained, Zhao Kuangyi died of tetanus inflammation, and then Song Zhenzong, Song Renzong, Song Yingzong, Song Shenzong, and this Song Zhezong all died of illness.

If Song Shenzong hadn't died of illness, but died of Gao Taotao, what would the Song Dynasty be like?

Or Song Zhezong died after the Empress Dowager Xiang. If Zhao Ji is not established as the king, what will the Song Dynasty look like?

Therefore, Wang Ju's words come from the bottom of his heart.

Besides, he has done so much for the Song Dynasty and laid a more solid foundation, as long as it can last for one or two hundred years, the Song Dynasty may complete the transformation. Otherwise, when you go to the south of the Yangtze River, you will live in a corner. What other drastic changes are you talking about?

"This ......"

"Your Majesty, the combination of work and rest, the combination of movement and static, or the Book of Changes, opens the world, and then there is no yin and no yang in that hexagram?"

Is yin and yang hairy related to work and rest? But in this era, with the I Ching, with yin and yang, you will immediately be tall.

"Maybe the Queen Mother and the scholars have an opinion. But you can look at it from another point of view, like Your Majesty is governing the country, Your Royal Highness is learning, focusing on literature and culture, but you can't forget martial arts, don't say that our dynasty has a strong northern neighbor, even if Tang Taizong is lonely, he doesn't dare to forget martial arts. This can also be regarded as a kind of text-based. It is a symbol of internal governance, supplemented by martial arts. Even if it doesn't make sense. At the very least, let His Highness eat more and have a healthy body. ”

"Yes, maid, I haven't thanked the Taibao yet."

"No, no, no."

Zhao Maid gave a big salute respectfully, stood up and asked, "Taibao, I heard you say that you have both ability and political integrity." Is there no minister in our court who has both ability and integrity? ”

"Yes, in order to defeat Lu Yijian, and if you have good ethics, then Li Xin can be similar to Lu Yijian. The two dukes with good ethics are Wang Dan and Wang Zeng, and they are slightly second, and the two dukes with good ethics are Zhang Zhibai and Du Yan. ”

"No Fan Wenzheng?"

"Fan Wenzheng's ethics have reached an unimaginable height, but he is slightly inferior to Du Yangong and a few others."

Zhao Ji was also interested: "What about me?" ”

"There are also two people, Fan Youcheng, but he is inferior to his father in terms of ethics and talent, and Youcheng is enough, but the prime minister is not. There is another one, Zhang Shangying, but this person's ethics are not very easy to say, quite similar to Zhang Qixian, with a chivalrous demeanor, and a lack of elegance. Although the rest have integrity, but the talent is slightly insufficient, or the minister does not know it. ”

"Who has the best talent for the prime minister?"

"Zhang Zihou is thick, but his ethics are slightly lacking, of course, compared to Lu Yijian and his ministers, his ethics are much better."

In fact, this is tantamount to a disguised question and recommendation between monarchs and ministers......

…………

The Battle of Pingxia City kicked off.

It is very difficult to build a castle in Pingxiachuan, where the terrain is flat and the surroundings are open, so if you want to build a castle, the castle must be large enough.

But if it is large enough, it will be necessary to send many heavy troops to garrison it in order to be able to hold it. Therefore, there was no way for Western Xia to build a fort in Pingxiachuan. But for the Song Dynasty, it doesn't matter, there are more people, more soldiers, and more money!

Now the city is big enough to open its gates on all sides.

In order to defend, the four city gates are placed with a large area of urn city, the first to repair is the urn city, but the rest of the city wall has not been repaired, some have repaired one person to be high, and some have repaired only half a person high.

In addition, in the center of the city, a circular fence was built to prevent the Tanguts from sudden attacks, and there were some simple warehouses inside, stacked with various materials, grains and grass.

The Tanguts came.

There are more than 100,000 troops in the mighty army, and Qu Zhen only has more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, so he can only watch from the wall in Shimenxia.

But Xia Jun's line was a bit strange and brought a lot of shovels.

The march had to prepare some equipment, such as building bridges and opening roads, shovels, axes, hammers, chisels, saws, etc., but they carried a lot of shovels in this line.

This is also forced, there are many fences in Pingxia City, although the city wall has not been repaired, but if you climb over the city wall, the outer city wall, and the Song army inside has a fence to cover, which just becomes an arrow target. Either you enter from the four urn cities, but this urn city is very tall, and each urn city is almost no less than some extra-small forts, and if it is repaired, how can it be captured.

Therefore, the city wall had to be destroyed, so the Song Dynasty soldiers and civilians in the city had no danger to rely on, and the second Yongle City victory appeared again.

It shows that the Tangut people came prepared.

…………

Guo Cheng gathered more than 10,000 people.

He said: "The Western Xia army is about to arrive, but you fathers and fellow villagers, please rest assured. This was a planned arrangement, and it was planned by the Taibao, so Zhang Gong was transferred back from the south. ”

"The Taibao?" Someone asked curiously.

"The royal Taipo of the Gyeongju victory." What should I do, Zhang Ji's fame can't convince these people, but Wang Ju's fame is enough to make most people believe it.

"And we're just going to have to hold on for five days. There will be a big victory. In only five days, do you know about the defeat of Yongle City? The defeat of Yongle City was mainly due to the lack of water in the city, and that was it, the Tanguts attacked for many days and did not take it, but twenty days later. Heavy rain fell from the sky, the foundation of the new city wall was first exposed to the sun, and then it rained, and there was no time to ram and solidify, so it was crushed by the Xia army, and our army was hungry and tired, which allowed the Western Xia people to take Yongle City. But are we short of water now? ”

The ground here is humid, and if you dig it, you can dig a well. Where will there be a shortage of water?

"And that time the Western Xia dispatched 300,000 soldiers and horses, this time only 100,000 soldiers and horses came, and as long as we hold on for five days, can't we do it?"

In fact, in the battle of Yongle City, Xu Xi's performance can also be regarded as heroic, carrying two baked cakes every day, patrolling the city back and forth, and personally resisting the enemy. If you are sleepy, you will sleep on the soldier's lap for a while. Therefore, the three armies wept and killed the enemy with thirst. As a result, the three armies of Western Xia under the city were piled up like a mountain. But the mistake was in the hands of this person, first Gao Yongheng persuaded that the city was short of water and could not be defended, and this person had few troops. Xu Xi thought that Gao Yongheng would shake the morale of the army and almost killed Gao Yongheng. Then Gao Yong could see that Xu Xi was unreasonable. He persuaded Li Ji that the new city had been soaked by rain for a long time, and the soil was loose, so it was better to go out of the city to recruit dead soldiers and break through. Ten people can still live seven or eight people, otherwise they can only sit and wait for death. Qu Zhen forwarded this to Xu Xi, and Xu Xi said that Qu Hou had lost the army and wanted to abandon the city! Qu Zhen was so angry that she wanted to scold her mother, what ability do we have to defeat the 300,000 Xia army with this little soldier and horse? When the city was finally broken, Xu Xi had nothing to say, Li Shunju tore his clothes and silk and played it, and he had nothing to hate, and he hoped that the official family would not take this enemy lightly. Li Ji also played hastily, and the ministers suffered a lot.

But it also fulfilled Wang Ju, and because of this, Wang Ju's requests were either excessive, or inexplicable, and Zhao Ji agreed to them one by one.

Guo Cheng didn't want to say much about the rights and wrongs of Yongle City, and said: "After five days, as long as you are willing to participate in the battle, regardless of whether you make meritorious service or not, the Zhang Guild will give each of you a salary of five times, and those who kill an enemy at the same time will be rewarded with ten pieces of money." Remember, it's only five days. ”

As he spoke, he made a gesture to the guards beside him.

After a while, the officers and soldiers moved boxes one by one, and Guo Cheng first opened the boxes in front of him, which contained many copper coins and silk handover.

"This is your reward, and it will be distributed in five days."

Then he opened the box in the back, there were many compound bows in it, and some war knives: "These are all weapons, those who are willing to participate in the battle, sign up immediately, and come to receive weapons." ”

The mystery is revealed, in fact, including the fact that Pingxia City is built so big, not only needs it to be big, but also serves as an important storage area in the future.

There is also the Minfu, the Minfu who was transferred this time was paid a very high salary, but the Minfu was deliberately selected secretly, and those who were not strong were not used, for these five days!

Of course, these folks don't know.

There are thousands of ways to say, it is better to be realistic, and money is the moving thing.

Besides, they came to the front line to repair the city for ten yuan salary, which one didn't come from a poor family?

Guo Cheng raised his fist again: "Fellow villagers, ten times plus five times, plus the reward of killing the enemy, whether your family can live a happy life depends on the past five days." ”

"Can you retreat in five days?" One asked.

"Don't you believe in the Taibao. Also, if you don't reject the enemy, you will die, why don't you reject the enemy in exchange for riches! ”

Finally, all the people were moved, and one by one they went to get their weapons.

More than 100,000 Xixia soldiers and horses are rushing to Pingxia City, and the people are being organized in Pingxia City, and they can't be allowed to fight blindly, they also have to form a team, as for what the team is exempted, but a hundred people are a capital, five hundred people are a battalion, five battalions are a general, Guo Cheng arranged each soldier for the generals of each people's husband, and the commander and the head of the capital, the actual candidates have been arranged early, but they have not told the people, so as not to panic.

The city finally finished weaving all the capitals, battalions, and generals, and the Western Xia army officially arrived.

Guo Cheng did not go out of the city to fight.

It's useless, there are too many enemies, and most of the people who go out of the city will end up in Qu Zhen in Yongle City, which will shake morale.

But the Tanguts did not attack the city either, because the weather was approaching dusk, and they had to set up camp.

After a sleepless night, the sky was bright again.

The courageous man said, "The night has passed." ”

It has to be calculated that five days is five days and five nights, and a tenth of the time has passed.

The Tangut people dispatched, and they launched many tiger cannons, and some people with a little insight couldn't help but ask strangely: "Isn't this our Great Song weapon?" ”

Another man said: "In the year before last, the three armies were defeated and captured by the Western Xia. ”

Guo Cheng immediately ordered, so that the people couldn't help but worry, just lie behind the city wall. There were no gunpowder packets in Western Xia, and even if they were captured, most of them were soaked in the water of the Yellow River and could not be used. Therefore, although there are tiger cannons, only stone bullets are fired, and it is easy to find stone bullets, and there are mountains and mountains not far away, but the stone bullets are thrown in an arc, so they cannot hurt the people hiding behind the city walls.

Hearing the order, the people and the soldiers came to the city wall together. There are also timid people, whose bodies are constantly trembling.

This is an army of more than 100,000 people, so vast that it almost reaches the sky.

Especially these people, how can they not be afraid?

Guo Cheng looked at Jia Yan, Liu Fa, and Wang Shu, the three young generals, Jia Yan and Liu Fa were recommended by Wang Ju, and Wang Shu was discovered by Zhang Qi, but these three young generals looked very excited and did not look scared. Guo Cheng nodded secretly, it was still very good.

He said, "It seems that the Western Xia will use a large number of weapons and armor from our dynasty in this battle. ”

"That's right, this battle has taken them all back." Liu Fa clenched his fists and said.

"As you say!" (To be continued.) )