Zong Ze shook his head and said: "General Xu doesn't need to be so tragic, we went to Taiyuan to fight a way out for the Central Plains, the Western Xia and Jin people are mainly cavalry, and it is impossible to solve the war by sticking to one city, I see it this way, if you are not willing to seek Fuzhou, then you must run Lanzhou and Shizhou, and take the two places if necessary." As for Qizhou and Fuzhou, let Yang Zhi bother the gods, Lord Wang, we must prepare for the Jin soldiers to come in from the south and Taihang Mountain. ”

Zhao Kai did not embarrass Xu Huiyan, so he replied to Yang Zhi on the spot according to Zong Ze's intentions, agreeing to all of Yang Zhi's appointments, and letting Yang Zhi make his own decisions in the Hetao clouds and keep his strength; after Yang Zhi read the letter, he left Yang Yue as the governor of Huozhou Prefecture and Hengguzhai Zhizhai, and Jia Qiong as the general judge of Huozhou Prefecture and the governor of Shuizhai Village, and immediately accelerated the preparation of recruiting various departments.

Due to Yang Zhi's success in capturing Jingzhou this time, in addition to the large-scale attachment of the Tibetan Talent Department, some small tribes with good relations with the Basi Mother Department and the Wanggu Department came one after another, and many Han people in Hetao also came from all over the country to join the army, Yang Zhi selected 2,000 elite soldiers from them, and the rest participated in the transportation of materials as daring soldiers and Fan soldiers. Knowing that the Jin army in Datong Mansion still had not moved, the Balhu Division had reached Huozhou, and Yang Zhi decided to attack Yinzhou.

Seeing that it was going to be winter, Yang Zhi was worried that the large number of people of the two tribes would cause all kinds of contradictions, but there would be no problem in attacking Yinzhou, and the spoils obtained would just survive the winter; the number of the Western Xia army in Guyehe was reduced to 5,000, and the Dingbei army formed a partial superiority in strength over Yinzhou and Kuyehe. As for whether he can hold Yinzhou after the fight, or how long he can hold it, Yang Zhi doesn't care at all.

Yinzhou belonged to Bai Zhai in ancient times, and Emperor Wu of Zhou in the Northern and Southern Dynasties first placed Yinzhou in three years; now Yinzhou in Western Xia is located in Hengshan, located in the south of the meeting of Wuding and Yuxi two rivers, and is on the dividing line between the Mu Us Desert and the Loess Plateau. The east and west cities are called "upper and lower cities" side by side, the upper city is the begging silver city built by Emperor Wu of Zhou in Baoding for three years, the lower city is the Shangjun Fushi city in the Qin and Han dynasties, the Li family of the Western Xia is rising here, so the Great Song Dynasty has broken through Yinzhou several times, and the Western Xia has recaptured it at all costs.

In addition, Yinzhou has the Mizhi Village on the Mizhi River, the Kaihuang Fort on the Yongle River, and the Miaojiazhai on the Yuxi Bay; the Kaihuang Fort is the Yongle City of the original Great Song Dynasty, and Li Yuanhao changed its name after defeating Xu Xi. Now there are 5,000 Xixia troops stationed in Yinzhou City, 2,000 Xixia troops in Mizhi Village, Kaihuang Fort, and Miaojiazhai, and there are about 6,000 people around. Yang Zhi directly ordered the Balhu Department to send 4,000 troops to attack Miaojiazhai, 10,000 Tibetan Cai people to attack Mizhi Village, and Yang Zhi himself led 3,000 elite soldiers to support.

When the Tibetan Cai army approached Mizhi Village, Yang Zhi asked Che Xitu and Cao Zheng to blow up a wall, and the Canglang Camp took the lead in occupying the gap; then the Tibetan Cai people threw tens of thousands of dirt bags into the horse trap, and it took less than half an hour to pave a road that the horse team could rush into, and the cavalry continued to kill into the village.

The wall of Mizhi Village is considered unbreakable in normal times, so there is no road blocking in the wall, and the two directions guarded by the heavy soldiers of Mizhi Village have all become decorations. Zhang Shiheng looked up to the sky and sighed, it was the first time he had seen such an attack, and he immediately understood why Jingzhou was lost in one day. The Dingbei army actually just blew up a wall, but the Western Xia army had never seen such a strange scene, most of the Western Xia army in the Dingbei army shouted "the Western Xia, the day is angry with the party" in the fighting spirit of the whole thing, either fled in a hurry or knelt on the ground to pray, watching the enemy army unscrupulously slaughter into the village.

Zhang Shiheng was glad that he was one step late and did not enter the village, and at the same time, he immediately discarded the grain cart on the Mizhi River and fled back to the Kuye River with his subordinates; Li Gongliang was shocked when he heard the news, and Li Gongliang understood that the heavy losses of the Huozhou Biancao put the Western Xia army of the Guye River at a disadvantage, but he did not expect Yang Zhi's actions to be faster than he imagined. Li Gongliang did not hesitate to send troops, if there was such a means, Yinzhou would just fall one by one, it would be better to concentrate his forces and fight Yang Zhi in a decisive battle. Quick Eye 123

Ren Decong, the defender of Yinzhou, also thought so, and the Mizhichuan fell in the same way on the second day of the loss of Mizhichuan, if the desert fort was lost, it would be too late; under the opponent's fierce attack, it can be estimated that no village can be defended for three days. It happened that Xiazhou sent 2,000 horsemen, and Li Gongliang two reinforcements arrived, Ren Decong immediately gave up the plan to defend the village and decided to fight a decisive battle with the Dingbei army.

On the morning of August 27, a wave of wolf smoke rose from the city of Yinzhou, and the horn of the Western Xia army was noisy, and it was divided into four ways to kill in front of the Yinzhou River, and the battle flag covered the sky and the sun. Yang Zhide smiled slightly, and said to the generals around him: "The first battle of Yinzhou, just today, is in the open area. ”

The chief of the Balhu tribe, Ah Shubi, said with a smile: "The governor is famous, and it is the time for us to make a name for ourselves. ”

Ah Shibi was very satisfied with the customs of Huozhou, and knew that if he captured Yinzhou, the three tribes of the Tibetan Cai clan would be resettled separately, so he was naturally full of expectations for the prospects; however, the 2,000 cavalry from Xiazhou turned out to be the Dingyan army, and the 13,000 Western Xia army and the 17,000 Dingbei army were inseparable, and if it were not for Kong Yanwei and Yang Yizhong leading the 2,000 cavalry to entangle the Dingyan army, the Dingbei army would have the possibility of defeat. However, the combination of Yang Zhi and Basi Xuanling and Wang Gang is still invincible, whether it is Li Gongliang or Ren Decong, they are all retreating from the wind; Yang Zhi is a few masters in the martial arts, if he is beheaded by Yang Zhi in a head-on fight, wouldn't it destroy the confidence of his own military horses.

Yang Zhi was charging, and suddenly the Dingyan army was divided into two teams, one team blocked Kong Yanwei and Yang Yizhong, and the other team killed Yang Zhi, and the generals led by him shouted in the army: "Yang Zhi, Zhang Yanyi of Western Xia is here, can you dare to fight a decisive battle?"

Zhang Yanyi's voice was loud, there was a taste that ran through everything, hundreds of people nearby heard it really, Yang Zhi laughed loudly: "The two armies are facing each other, and the victory lies in the whole army, if Brother Zhang wants to fight to the death, why not before the melee, now that he knows that the defeat is decided, do you want to delay time?"

Yang Zhi's voice didn't seem to be as loud as Zhang Yanyi's, but everyone's feeling was that Yang Zhi seemed to be talking in his ear; Li Gongliang secretly screamed badly, he didn't know how good the two were martial arts, but he knew that Yang Zhi was a famous general who swept Yanyun in a hundred battles, even the Western Xia Army would not doubt Yang Zhi's opinion, thinking that the Western Xia Army was at a disadvantage. Li Gongliang was about to remind, when he suddenly heard a whistle, three fireworks flew into the air, and suddenly there was a dense sound of war horses galloping from the north, and the galloping sound kept increasing, and the earth trembled violently under the iron hooves of war horses.

Yang Zhi shouted: "Reinforcements have arrived." ”