The Poxi army is one of the three trump cards of the Western Xia, and it is another nightmare of the Great Song army, the whirlwind cannon on the back of the camel has the mobility and high rate of fire that the Great Song Dynasty does not have. The other two strong forces with the same name as the Poxi Army, the Iron Harrier Heavy Cavalry and the Infantry Army, were all killed by Yang Zhi, only the Poxi Army has not yet met with the Dingbei Army on the battlefield.

"If that's the case, it's our luck. Sang Zhong sighed, since the Western Xia was fighting for the whole country and wanted to scare the Dingbei Army with bets, how could he not take the last trump card; after all, Yang Zhi had almost no defeat in the face of the Western Xia, and there was no Poxi Army, so I am afraid that the confidence of the Western Xia generals was insufficient.

Yang Zhi sneered and said: "Just prepare according to this transfer, I will report to Taiyuan, and you will do your own things next, and transfer the army as quickly as possible." Liu Xi, you are in Huanzhou, you must ensure the safety of Huanzhou, and consider the enemy attack from the two directions of Wuyuan County and Hengshan. ”

"No problem!" Liu Xilang agreed: "I want another five hundred veterans, a total of more than 3,000 troops is enough, it is a war horse, Yang Shuai, you have to solve a little." ”

"I can only give you fifty war horses to use as scouts, and you have to deal with the rest yourself. Yang Zhi smiled slightly: "Maybe I have another task for you at that time." ”

Yang Zhi and others discussed for two days, and finally came up with a plan that after a large amount of consumption of the Western Xia army, they would concentrate their forces to carry out counterattack operations to break the enemy's siege; Taiyuan sent Cai Suitian over, those tribes were indeed contacted by Meng Yue, and Zhao Kai told Yang Zhi that he could arrange his own troops. The first target Yang Zhi chose was Mou Ning Keren, there were more than 17,000 people in Dingzhou, and there were only 30,000 troops in Mou Ning Keren, so there was a chance.

Yang Zhi asked Cai Suitian to come over and persuaded the leader to keep in touch with Western Xia, pretending to negotiate surrender, but in fact looking for an opportunity to withdraw from Dingzhou and escape to the south bypassing Youzhou, while Li Yanxian and Yang Zhongwu set out from Weizhou respectively and put on a posture of going straight to Youzhou. After Yang Zhi learned of Zongze's plan, he had already mobilized 130,000 troops from Xihe Road, Qinfeng Road, Huanqing Road, and other routes, arranged combat tasks, and immediately quietly dispatched them; in the north, Yue Fei and Yang Zongmin set out from Jingzhou and Yanzhou respectively to contain them, and to cover for Xu Huiyan and other armies of the three routes.

Yang Zhi expected that the Western Xia army would rely on a large number of troops and be anxious to solve the war, so it would definitely focus on movement warfare, and ordered Li Yanxian and Yang Zhongwu to garrison the Shengzhou City built by the Sui and Tang Dynasties and the Shanan County of the Han Dynasty respectively;

Under the night sky, three thousand Tuntian soldiers flashed out like ghosts, and quickly gathered around Li Yanxian, this is a group of elites selected by the Tuntian army, followed Liu Ziyu to the front line, and all of them were handed over to Li Yanxian by Yang Zhi;

Li Yanxian slowly turned around, pointed the horse lance in his hand to the castle and said, "Kill ......"

The 3,000 Dingbei army touched the vicinity of the castle, and it could be seen that the transportation of the Western Xia army did not stop because of the cold weather and night, and a team of 100 people was leaving the fort with a vehicle; Li Yanxian rushed out first, and his own soldiers behind him shot wolf tooth arrows, and the two Western Xia generals who were standing at the gate of the city and talking roared and fell. Whether it was the soldiers escorting the supplies or the soldiers guarding the door, they were all panicked, and they were overwhelmed by the death of the main general, and a quick-eyed Western Xia soldier sent a signal that they were attacked.

The piercing whistle sounded up and down the city tower, but the Xixia soldiers on the scene were unable to make an effective interception, Li Yanxian rushed into the vicissitudes of the castle with four hundred horsemen without obstacles; the deafening sound of killing quickly advanced from the city gate to the city, and the sound of gold and iron resounded in the sky. The whistling sound of arrows pierced the night sky, and although the Dingbei army was a long-distance attack, the Western Xia army was taken by surprise.

In less than an hour of fierce fighting, the desolate horn of the bull horn gradually rose at the gate of the city in the north, and the Western Xia army, which was fighting hard with the Dingbei army, heard the sound of the horn and immediately pulled out their horses and walked away, only a moment of effort, more than 100 cavalry retreated from the melee battlefield cleanly, leaving only more than 300 foot soldiers to fight to the death; but in front of the cavalry formation of the Dingbei army, more than 300 people were completely vulnerable, and all of them were killed in less than a stick of incense.

Under the dark starry sky, the dark red flames in the city reflected the roads, there were scattered weapons and corpses everywhere, and the north wind howled angrily, which could only blow away the military flag of the Western Xia army, but could not blow away the heavy smell of blood; Li Yanxian ordered not to chase, and quickly counted the materials and water sources in the city, and prepared to meet the counterattack of the Western Xia army. After an hour, Li Yanxian learned that Yang Zhongwu had occupied Shanan City, and immediately sent a captain from Guanzhong Academy to report to Yang Zhongwu and ensure the storage of grain in the two cities as much as possible.

There were no people in Shengzhou City in the Sui Dynasty and Shanan City in the Han Dynasty, but it was the only way for Youzhou to lead to Wuyuan County, which stunned Youzhou and Wuyuan County at once; Knowing that Wu'er Siqi and Mu Wei were attracted by Yue Fei and Yang Zongmin's suspicious soldiers in Suizhou, Qu Duan and Niu Gao's actions on the West Road made Hot Gongji unable to get out, and Ren Dejing could only let Ren Decong return to Youzhou to try to solve this trouble.

In order to attract the Dingbei army to the north, Ren Decong took the initiative to retreat from the Baotai army and the front line of Xining Prefecture, leaving only the elite garrison in the two cities, and the vast area outside the city no longer considered defense, so that the Dingbei army could pass by boldly and with confidence; Ren Dejing, who saw him off, glanced at Ren Decong lightly and said: "Although the Dingbei Army has few soldiers, it is an elite division, especially Yang Zhi is cunning beyond ordinary people, those two castles are hidden dangers, the faster they are pulled, the better." ”

Ren Decong sighed and said: "Hot Gongji and Wu'er Siqi are not successful people, and now they are unwilling to come to the rendezvous, I am worried that we will be defeated by the Dingbei Army sooner or later." Big brother, you stay here, be careful. If things don't go well, get out of the way early. ”

Ren Dejing bowed his head and said, "I understand, waiting for your good news." ”