"Will the war start?" Kang Cheng thought with concern.

But it was not a big elephant, because this rank seemed to have a large number of people, one battalion of Guangrui, one battalion of foreign cavalry, one battalion of cavalry, one battalion of cavalry, one battalion of guards, and two battalions of imprisonment troops, almost reaching three thousand.

The number of people was not small, but Kang Cheng didn't believe that the Song Dynasty dared to go out to fight with these three thousand troops alone.

Could it be that it is a training exercise? Why is it so mysterious?

Kang Cheng couldn't figure it out, and the location of Huziling was not very good. It was not located directly in front of Dashun City, but on the northwest side of Dashun City. In other words, if you want to retreat, you must go from some rugged mountain roads to retreat to Dashun City. However, if a military army in Xixia blocks the retreat, the prospects will be bad.

As dusk approached, the army stopped. Kang Cheng was in charge of camping while thinking about it.

Then he saw a man standing by the stream. Kang Cheng walked over and said respectfully: "General Yeli."

"My name is no longer Yeli, and my name is Zhao Huaizhong." The bearded general said, he was the instructor of the battalion of the Fan army and a member of the Yeli tribe. With the completion of the construction of Zhengbaiqu in Shaanxi, the border army was also reclaimed, such as Cai Ting in Huluchuan, Wang Shao in Weiyuan, and Guo Kui in Dasanchuankou, and the border army's food was gradually self-sufficient. With this alone, a lot of money will be saved in a year.

This situation led to some tribes in Xixia who could not survive and sent them back. In the past, they were sent back by the Song Dynasty. First, Gouhe, and second, there was insufficient food in the border areas. These tribes came to the border areas, which would further bring food pressure. But now it is different, and it happened to be right. Ding Zhuang was selected as archers to let them reclaim the fields. Therefore, many people in Xixia defected to Qingzhou and Yanzhou. It happened that Wang Ju took back the Xinjiang Ball Fort and let the Xinjiang Ball Fort to Dashun City, Liyuan Fort, and Rouyuan Village completely control the flat irregular quadrilateral of the Song Dynasty. So many of the remaining tribes of the Yeli tribe on the other side of the mountain fled to Qingzhou. Later, under the leadership of Li Sangou, a Xinfan Cavalry Camp was built. His commander was the young chief of a large tribe of the Yeli tribe, with extraordinary archery skills, that is, the person Kang Cheng spoke.

"General Zhao, your subordinates are so envious of you. The so-called strong soldiers and horses are just like this."

"Hahaha." Zhao Huaizhong was very happy.

Kang Cheng said a compliment for a while and said, "General Zhao, do you know what we are doing in this industry?"

"Boy. Talk too much." A sound came from behind Kang Cheng.

Kang Cheng turned his head and immediately changed his color and said, "Yes, General Zhong."

Zhong Shiheng has eight sons, Gu, Diagnosis, Consultation, Song, Yan, Instrument, and Friendship. What can be done is Zhong Gu, Zong Diagnosis, Zong Yan and Zong Yi, but Lao Qi is not simple. He is Zhong Shidao's father. As for the other three, they are also used as military generals one after another, but their reputation is not obvious. For example, Zong General Jun Zong Yong in front of him is the fourth brother of the fourth brother of the Zhong family.

The four generals in this trip were Li Xin, Liu Fu, Guo Gui and Zhong Yong.

Zhong Yong walked a few steps. Without blaming Kang Cheng, he walked back and muttered to Liu Fu and the others for a while, then summoned the soldiers of the three armies to tell the truth about the trip.

Earlier, Xixia sent tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians to build the Naoe Fort at Twelve Panpan, claiming to be 100,000 people.

The reason why this Naoe Castle was built is very simple. Once this castle was built, Baibao City and Jintang City would become a whole. In fact, Xixia has never been built, otherwise it might have played a role when the Song Dynasty counterattacked in history.

Li Liangzuo built a time, but Dashun City was defeated in a crushing defeat, and Cai Ting ordered people to destroy it. But it was not because Cai Ting was unreasonable or crossing the border, nor was it in the Xixia territory that civil officials said. It belonged to the idle field area and did not return to the Song Dynasty or Xixia.

Now Xixia seems to be on a downward road, and it is a succession of failures. Liang picked it up again. However, it is not the Naoe Castle built by Li Liangzuo, but two forts. The Naoe Castle built on the north side of the Twelve Panling Mountains, and there is a fort in the south, named Twelve Pan Fort. The purpose is still the same, linking the White Leopard City with Jintang City, the second is to invade large areas of idle fields, and the third is to prevent the people from defecting.

After Yan Da defeated the Xixia army in Suizhou, Guo Kui sent an edict to Youzhou. The Liang family was afraid of something. Although they claimed to be 100,000, there were actually far less than 100,000 people. Among them, there were only a few thousand soldiers and all the others were civilians. If the Song Dynasty became radical and assembled tens of thousands of troops on Huanqing Road, all the tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians would be finished.

Therefore, Liang immediately ordered to stop building forts and let the civilians return first, and the army continues to stay.

Now most of the civilians have returned to Xixia, with less than 10,000 people remaining, and thousands of troops with low morale.

So Wang Judu had a misunderstanding, and he didn't want these thousands of Song troops to die in vain. After receiving the news of the fortification in Xixia fortresses a long time ago, he wrote a letter to Li Fugui and said, "Don't underestimate the people of Xixia." If they put down their weapons, they would be the people, and if they picked up weapons, they would be the soldiers. Then I thought to Fu, Li Fugui wouldn't be so stupid. If that were the case, would the battle to defend Dashun City in history be successful? Although the battle was very fierce, it seemed that many soldiers died in the Song Dynasty.

But he can't remember many of them, and the current Shaanxi has made him mess around, which gradually has errors with the history of his previous life, and even the errors will become larger and larger in the future.

Of course, Li Fugui was not that stupid. After seeing Wang Ju's letter, he just smiled. Besides, Wang Ju had no right to let Li Fugui do whatever he wanted.

When Xixia was building a fort, Li Fugui did not move.

It was not until this time that they issued an order to sneak attack Naoebao. The reason was very simple. Now there are less than 20,000 soldiers and civilians in Xixia, and less than one-quarter of the real soldiers were divided into two places. So they summoned the four generals Li Xin and Liu Fu Zhongyong, and gave them a strategy. They asked them to go from Liyuan Fort to Huziling to Naoebao from a small path to Naoebao, defeat the military and civilians of Naoebao first, and then turn around to attack the Twelve Pan Fort closer to Dashun City. Then they can not only defeat the Xixia army, but also kill the remaining nearly 20,000 soldiers and civilians to achieve military merits.

Why are there three thousand soldiers? Because this time it was a surprise attack, I walked a rugged mountain road and went straight to Naoebao. If there were too many people, the journey would be slow and the target would be exposed. Now there are three thousand soldiers, half a cavalry and half a step, especially two Poches and a Fan army. Many of them participated in the Battle of Dashun City a few years ago.

The power is not small anymore.

But there is no need for Li Xin to explain this to everyone.

In order to ensure victory, Li Fugui asked the security guard's army's Fuyandu patrolman Bai Yu to lead nearly a thousand Song troops from the security guard to go straight to the rear of Naoe Fort.

When the war broke out, a thousand white jade soldiers suddenly arrived and the enemy would be defeated.

Li Xin finished speaking in one breath. Thousands of soldiers listened silently. They were all thinking in their hearts that the whole plan looked perfect.

One is intentional, the other is unintentional. The morale of the Song army is just that, but the morale of the Xixia side is very depressed.

Then there will be a chance of winning this battle.

Once a great victory is achieved, the harvest will be extraordinary.

The first is the captured armored war horse.

The second is supplies. Xixia mobilized tens of thousands of civilians to build the fort, all with them carrying various supplies and equipment. They have not been withdrawn yet. As long as they are defeated, most of these supplies can be obtained for themselves.

The third is food, grass, cattle and sheep. So many people have to eat. The Xixia people eat half meat and half vegetable. Not only does they have food, but there are also many cattle and sheep. Just like the battle last year, nearly 10,000 cattle and sheep were seized, but in fact, the rest was distributed to the soldiers.

The fourth court will also receive some rewards.

As I think about it, most people's eyes shine with excitement, and the opportunity to make a fortune has come.

When Li Xin and Zhong Yong saw the morale rising, they nodded. Everyone's morale rising and their victory was guaranteed. There were examples in the past few years. That was the ancient Chinese attack on the Zhejianghui, which was a longer trip. They went deeper into the enemy's territory and faced more enemy soldiers.

They thought so too...

The army rested for a night and continued on the journey.

In fact, common place names in later historical books, such as Rouyuanzhai, Liyuan Castle, Dashun City, Jintang City, and Baibao City, are not very far away. However, the transportation is not developed now and is located at the junction of Ziwu Mountain and Hengshan Mountain. There are many mountains and forests, and the Song and Xia are divided. Otherwise, even if you walk ordinary, it will take only one or two days to go.

They were walking on a path, so they were particularly slower.

Before noon, the army arrived at the Naoebao.

When the Xixia servant saw the Song Dynasty army, he was uproared: "We are just building a fort and not competing with the Han family."

Most people in Xixia called the Song Dynasty the Han family, and China rarely called the Song Dynasty. This is also the disapproval of most Dangxiang people towards the Song Dynasty.

Li Xin ignored him and looked at it. Both forts had been built for more than ten days, but the number of days was not large, but there were many people. Some places had a good example. Most of the fort walls were high, but there were still a few gaps. He rode on his horse, looked at the gaps on both sides of the east and west, and ordered two cavalry, that is, the foreign cavalry and the Poche cavalry, to let them rush over.

When the Xixia people saw that "reasoning" was not possible, they had to resist.

Under the intensive shooting of bows and arrows in Xixia, the two cavalry quickly sacrificed more than a dozen people, so Li Xin had to order a retreat.

This was just a tentative attack. Even Kang Cheng looked behind him. The enemy soldiers were not many, most of them were the servants resisting shooting. As long as they rushed into the fort, there would be a great victory, and at most they would have to pay a lot of sacrifices. Moreover, there would be a powerful reinforcements in the rear that were about to arrive.

Li Xin issued another order, allowing two infantry troops to cover the front and two cavalry attacked from behind.

Generally, the tactics of the Song Dynasty were that the British army rushed forward, and could tear the opponent's formation and the imperial guards followed behind. If the British army could not tear the opponent's formation, even if the imperial guards were sent, the effect would not be great. Not only Li Xin, but Zhong Yan, but Wang Shao was like this. Only Lu Huiqing was fantastic and carried out reforms. The British and Han attacked the enemy and Han, but failed.

However, when facing a group of scared and disgusted servants, is this still necessary?

Unexpectedly, as the Song army's offensive increased, the counterattacks in the fort became more dense.

Moreover, this is a battle-type fortress, and it is very cautious in choosing the terrain. For example, the predecessor of Dashun City was the Houqiao Village of Xixia. It was east of the Xishan Mountain. After Fan Zhongyan and the foreign general Zhao Ming seized it, they immediately built a city west of the Xishan Mountain. For example, the Xinjiang Fortress was also east of the hillside. After Wang Ju seized it, he destroyed the fort and rebuilt the fort in Poxi and named it Anjiang Fort.

The reason for doing this is to benefit the terrain.

The same is true for Naoebao, built on the east side of the ridge, condescending to the heights.

The Xixia people fought back tenaciously, but this attack failed.

Li Xin had no choice but to order the three armies to suppress him.

Under normal circumstances, when a large army is fighting, both sides need to retain a reserve team to prevent accidents, break through, or respond to the side... However, the soldiers are indefinitely in a constant state. The current situation is that as long as they rush into the fort, they will usher in a brilliant victory. What these cowardly husbands are relying on is just the terrain. Now Li Xinyong's superior force charges forcibly.

The officers and soldiers of the Sixth Battalion were divided into two routes, with infantry in front and cavalry in the back, and several generals were commanded at the end.

The Guangrui Army where Kang Cheng is located is also located in the middle and presses against him.

They attacked the gap in the north.

There were sounds of shouting, howling, and tragic crying from time to time in front of me.

This time the war was more intense and also meant more sacrifices. But it would not pose a threat to Kang Cheng for the time being. His team was also full of cavalry, pressing behind. Once the infantry rushed into the gap, it was time for them to charge officially.

At this moment, a big banner was raised in the fort.

Almost at the same time, loud trumpets sounded from the mountains on both sides, and a large number of Xixia soldiers and the servants holding weapons rushed over from the mountains on both sides.

In the blink of an eye, all three thousand Song troops were besieged by these people.

Kang Cheng's scalp numb and he thought, it's over. Not only him, but other soldiers of the Song Dynasty also knew it was over, and they were ambushed.

Li Xin's eyes were blank, but he quickly gave an order, causing the two battalions in the middle to pounce on the two wings, the infantry in the front to retreat, and the two cavalry in the back turned around and rushed to the rear.

Such an arrangement cannot be said to be wrong. The infantry in front pounced on the two wings does not work. Only when the two battalions in the middle pounced on the two wings can the enemy's encirclement time be extended, and it is impossible to stop it. Then the two powerful cavalry in the back can tear the gap in the encirclement behind, and only three thousand soldiers can escape from heaven.

Li Xin had a good idea, but he ignored the terrain, mountains, and mausoleums here!

The advantage of cavalry is not very big here.

The fierce battle began, and the entire Song army also turned into a strange inverted triangle. Li Xin and his chief generals led the two battalions of cavalry to charge directly behind. The Song army in the middle was blocking the Xixia people's encirclement, and the two battalions of cavalry in the rear retreated to the gap between the two battalions.

However, facing the careful design of Xixia, no matter how Li Xin rushed, the ambushers behind used the terrain to block them. The fatal one was that the "husband" in the fort also rushed down.

But even so, the Song army was still resisting tenaciously.

Suddenly, the Xixia people sent an order, and the commander shouted loudly: "Kill the soldiers but not the generals, and open a corner of the circumference in front of you."

It's not a kind-hearted person from Xixia.

The military strategy surrounds three vasses and one magistrate!

The Xixia people did this in secretly match the three quarry one. Otherwise, if they continue to fight, they may not be able to annihilate all the thousands of Song troops. Even if they can be annihilated, the price they pay is very high. Maybe under the long battle, this army composed mainly of servants will have variables and will make the Song army turn defeat into victory.

The order was passed down, but in fact it was quite disgusting. Do you need to shout loudly? You can command it with a flag.

The messenger shouted loudly, and quickly gave up a hole in front of him. Several main generals were originally behind the palace, but now they have become directly in front of him. Seeing the hole appear, Li Xin and his generals didn't want to die, so they rushed over quickly with their confidants.

In the blink of an eye, hundreds of cavalry rushed into the sky with Li Xin, and the Xixia people blocked the hole again.

As several generals fled, the morale of the remaining Song Dynasty soldiers fell down. Kang Cheng's head buzzed and suddenly shouted: "Follow me to the north."

It can no longer be blocked, it will be a dead end. Only by forcing the north to rush north can you escape.

Several of his subordinates, as Kang Cheng forced his way to the north, also had some clever Song soldiers joining them and rushing to the north at the same time. However, there were too many enemy soldiers, and Kang Cheng didn't know how many enemies he had killed, but he could not rush out. On the contrary, dozens of Song soldiers behind him were fewer and fewer, leaving only a few people.

"Kill." Kang Cheng shouted loudly. This is not to live for himself. He also has a gentle and virtuous wife, son, and an old mother in his family. If he dies, the family will usher in a tragic fate.

Seeing that there were fewer and fewer enemies in front of him, suddenly the war horse he was standing underneath neighed and overturned him to the ground. (To be continued...)

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