"Be careful." Yao Xiong shouted loudly, then threw the knife in his hand and stabbed it hard on the back of the Xia Bing. The man's hand was so painful that his straight sword fell down, so he did not stab Gao Min.

Gao Min turned his head and saw this thrilling scene. He said with fear: "Thank you General Xiao Yao."

"Gao Dujian, you'd better be in command from behind." Yao Xiong said.

Gao Min is good at martial arts and takes the lead in fighting, which has won everyone's respect, including Yao Xiong's respect. However, until now, there have been heavy casualties, and Gao Min has become the backbone. If something happened to Gao Min and the morale of the three armies is depressed, the ice castle will not be able to be saved.

"These Xixia people are crazy?" Gao Min took a step back and said.

In fact, this is what Wang Zangbu wants to say the most. It is not that the Xixia people went crazy, but that these Song people went crazy. From Shen Shi, Wang Zangbu launched an attack, and then the younger sister Qingmeluo's rear army arrived, replaced his subordinates, and launched fierce attacks again and again.

With the end of the first update, the five thousand infantry arrived again with supplies, replaced them and attacked until the third update. However, they did not capture the ice city, but instead caused heavy casualties to themselves.

In fact, the Song army suffered heavy casualties.

After all, it is not a real fortress. It can only be said that after repairing this way, it has a fortification. But compared with the fortress, its defensive function is still very rough, and even the height is less than five meters high. If the ice surface is not too slippery, a few people can climb up with a wall.

The Xixia people attacked for almost eight hours, killing more than 800 soldiers in the Song army, and more than 300 were seriously injured. They had to withdraw from the battle. More than 40% of the troops were lost. Nearly half of the remaining troops were on the lottery. Six commanders were killed in the Guansou, and Huangfan was seriously injured. Gao Min, Song Ping and Qi Zhong also got the lottery. As for the middle and lower-level generals below, more people were killed, including two deputy commanders and twelve Dutou. In ordinary battles, morale would have been dispersed and the three armies surrendered.

But Gao Min performed very well in this battle. If he had not taken the lead in fighting, his morale would have also been dissipated. Of course, Zhou Yongqing's support troops in the second half of the night also played a role in gathering morale. At least everyone has one hope, otherwise they would not be able to fight.

As for Yao Xiong, he finally shone with dazzling glory in this battle.

Because of his outstanding martial arts, he almost became the most eye-catching firefighter. Wherever there was danger, he took him to fight and put out several serious crises. As for how many enemies he killed, even Yao Xiong himself didn't know. What was most amazing was that he killed so many enemies. He was not injured yet.

The fierceness of the Song army finally made Wang Zangbu retreat. He said to the deputy general around him: "They are working together now and their morale is relatively high. Let's take a few hours to rest and attack tomorrow. Let's see how long they can maintain, such a high morale."

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

I held my breath in one breath, but this breath was gone and my body bones were also exhausted. At that time, I would launch a continuous attack and the ice castle would be taken down.

No one had any objection, and Wang Zangbu ordered the siege to stop the siege and the three armies rested.

"I finally stopped." Chu Banzhou said. This is the real battle. I could not imagine it in Sanyuan before.

Xiang Fang said: "Where is this happening every day in Rouyuan Village?"

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

"Let's treat the wounded first," Gao Min said gaspingly, "Qi ordered, where is Wangsongling?"

Qi Zhong tightened the bandage on his arm, then Gao Min's telescope looked west and said for 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 come over at night? This is also due to the terrain. In fact, from Xiguzhai to Whidinburgh and then to Papaya Castle, it is equivalent to a triangle heading on the front line. On the left is Guidechuan Salt Road, and on the right is the Salt Road of the Carriage Gorge.

So why did the Song Dynasty not build fortresses on two salt roads like Dashun City? It cannot be built. If it is land, it will be built after it is built, and it will not occupy much of the land of Xixia. Moreover, strictly speaking, it does not belong to the territory of Xixia, but is an idle field area.

However, what should I do if I repair this way? Once these two salt roads are blocked, the people of Xixia will fight to the death of Zhao Shu in the Song Dynasty? Is it afraid that the people of Xixia will fight to the death of Zhao Shu?

Therefore, the Song Dynasty built Papaya Fort and Whidinburgh mainly to prevent the Xixia people from invading and plundering. Of course, it was also to protect the security of the Huanzhou, but not to threaten the two salt roads.

This triangle is actually very thin. The army of the Xixia people has arrived at Xigu Village. It is conceivable how many Xixia scouts will be active in this triangle? If Zhou Yongqing set out to Papaya Fort in his day, he would have been found by Xixia scouts. Then the problem comes. Now the Song Dynasty's Qingzhou army is seriously insufficient, and Papaya Fort is not the main war zone, or even a war zone. Why did the Song Dynasty transfer five thousand soldiers to Papaya Fort? It goes without saying that, the carriage and gorge! As long as the Xixia people are a little alert, does Gao Min still want to build a city?

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

If Wang Ju’s plan was not in advance, then Gao Min had just arrived here to build a city. Zhou Yongqing entered Huanzhou during the day and set off for Papaya Fort at this time.

But after Zhou Yongqing arrived at Papaya Fort in the second half of the night yesterday, why didn’t he marche and rushed to Mengmen Sancha, making Gao Min so critical?

The reason is also simple. Papaya Fort is not very far from Mengmen Sancha, it is only twenty-five miles away, but it is actually pulled into a straight line, or even less than fifteen miles. But did the fortress be built in the Song Dynasty, but did not build a fortress be built in the Western Xia?

Moreover, this back road is extremely important now. Next to it is the Papaya Fort of the Song Dynasty. Even if there is no fortress, Renduolingding also wants to build a fortress. 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 quietly brought the three armies to Papaya Fort. He had to set off when it was dark. No matter how he arrived, it was almost four o'clock in the morning. Then when he arrived at Papaya Fort, the road was not good, and it was almost dawn. At that time, the offensive and defensive forces were on the side of Xixia, one would alarm the people of Xixia, and the other would be that as long as the people of Xixia could defend for a few hours, Zhou Yongqing would not have thought of reaching the Sancha of Mengmen.

Then Gao Min's army not only did not work, but came to die for nothing. Of course, you can also bet. Before the Xixia reinforcements came, they would take down this village, but the risk of betting was too great.

So there is only one way, come over at night and quietly touch the village.

So why were the people of Xixia not guarding against Donggu Village? They were also guarding, and several outposts were set up at the intersection, and there was also a village. However, Gao Min flew from the Dongling Peak, who could have expected it?

Gao Min had to wait.

While drinking soju wine to keep warm, he let the soldiers clean his wounds and then bandaged them with gauze.

Zhou Yongqing was in a dilemma over there.

He stared blankly at the enemy camp in front of him. With the help of the night, it was not difficult to touch the village. The difficult thing was how to prevent Xia army from hearing it from around ten miles away.

This time, he came. Not only was his five thousand soldiers and horses, but Zhao Pu's three thousand soldiers and horses, which was the entire Papaya Fort was empty at this time. Zhao Pu's three thousand soldiers came not only to bring some supplies and arrows, but also to have an intention.

This was also Wang Ju's order, but Wang Juju's guess was wrong, that was, Wang Ju estimated that the people of Xixia might be less than 10,000 soldiers. After all, Gao Min's troops were less than 3,000, and the arrival of the Xia army, I believe that the ice wall had not been repaired. So many troops were needed? But I didn't expect that the Xixia troops were 14,500 at this time.

This obviously brought difficulty to Zhou Yongqing.

Once the Xixia army is alarmed, the village will be captured, but a battle of division and sneak attack will turn into a frontal battle, and the outcome will be difficult to distinguish.

He shouted a strong man from a hunter and the guide of this line: "Liu Taozi, are there any other paths nearby?"

“There is a trail that is just hard to walk.”

"Take someone to take a look."

Liu Taozi took Zhou Yongqing to a mountain. There was a path on this mountain. Bypassing it, you could bypass the village. However, Zhou Yongqing looked at the path and couldn't help but take a breath of air conditioning.

The trail is not only small, but also extremely steep, almost ninety degrees up, with bare rocks on both sides, and the trail is snowy again, shining with cold light on this cold night.

An archer from Huluchuan said in surprise: "How can you get up?"

Liu Huazi said: "There are very few people walking. Even when Song Xia did not fight, we came to hunt and rarely walked on this path. However, there were still people walking. For the sake of livelihood, those herb collectors would occasionally penetrate from this path to the mountainous area behind to find medicinal materials."

“Isn’t there a road next to you?”

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

Everyone stopped talking. At this time, the boundaries were very blurred. Even if people were sent to deliberately divide them, such as between Song and Xia, Song and Liao, they were still arguing, such as the Twelve Pan Territory, and later the Liao Kingdom extortion again. In fact, there were a large number of buffer zones between the two countries, that is, i.e., i.e., i.e., i.e., i.e., i.e., i.e., i.e., i.e., i.e., i.e., i.e., i.e., i.e., i.e., i.e., i.e.,.

This place is also an idle field. If the relationship between the two countries is not tense, they generally do not deliberately set up forts and move people to farm fields, but use them as buffer zones. Of course, if the two countries are peaceful, some people will come to grazing, hunt, collect herbs and fish.

But in general, even if the two countries are peaceful, the people of Xia and Liao are swaggering in the buffer zone. However, the people of the Song Dynasty came to the zone to find a way out like a thief.

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 borders of Song and Xia were relatively peaceful in the past few years, it was because of Wuzang Epang's invasion of farmland. Although there were some plains here, they were relatively narrow and had no value for farmland. However, some Song people came here to hunt or collect herbs, so they tried to avoid the Xixia people, let alone the Xixia soldiers. These Xixia soldiers sometimes treated the Song people really cruelly.

There is a road there, but there is an enemy camp there.

"After this battle, it will not be like before," said Zhou Yongqing.

After saying that, he looked at the "road" and couldn't delay. When he returned, Zhou Yongqing ordered to select dozens of people who were flexibly leading the way in front, and then asked the three armies to cut their robes, twist the robes into a cloth rope, and use the poor sparse mountain trees to form a safety belt with cloth ropes. The remaining soldiers grabbed the cloth rope and climbed up.

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

Then Zhou Yongqing threw down five hundred troops and hid in front of the enemy camp. Once there was a shout of killing in front of him, he rushed into the enemy camp, killed the enemy, and burned the enemy camp.

However, in this way, time was delayed.

Zhou Yongqing's subordinates were moving forward like snails on this mountain road, so Gao Min had to sit on the top of the ice castle and look through the autumn water...

The battle on the other side has just ended.

Song Ji ordered: "Let everyone take a break."

He brought 20,000 troops to the city of Qingzhou. Qingzhou City is not that easy to fight, with complete city defense and tall city walls.

However, this is the same as Dashun City. Although the larger the city, it is conducive to garrisoning troops and grain, there must be more soldiers defending it.

But how many troops are there in Qingzhou City now? The total strength of the poor battalions of officers and soldiers under Yang Pei and some strong men sent from the rear was less than 4,000.

Aren’t there people in the city? You can organize the people. However, now even the governor is gone. The enemy is in a panic. Who has the ability to organize the people?

Therefore, Song Ji and 20,000 Xia troops arrived in Qingzhou. After creating some siege ladders on grass, they immediately launched an attack. With the fierce attack for several hours, Qingzhou suffered crises many times.

The three armies withdrew and rested, but Song Ji was in great interest and called the generals to the Central Army to discuss.

Song Ji said: "Tomorrow, be sure to capture Qingzhou City, and if the leader of Qingzhou City is taken, Qingzhou will be earned by our country."

It seems to be like this.

Moreover, Wang Zangbu sent back a message from Mengmen Sancha in time, one was about the tenacity of Mengmen Sancha Song army, and the other was about his judgment. The head coach of the Song Dynasty may be a person who is very good at winning people's hearts and is very adventurous, but his troops were seriously insufficient, and all of these troops were placed on the front line.

Wang Zangbu also gave several reasons.

First of all, the Song army performed very tenaciously this time. If the commander did not win over the hearts of the people, at least he could win over the hearts of the commanders of each army, the Song army would not be so tenaciously.

However, due to insufficient troops, the Song army took the risk of sending all the main forces to the front line and launched several night attacks early and tried to force the Xia army to retreat. However, the troops were seriously insufficient. Otherwise, they would not have sent two thousand people to snipe the subordinates of Mei Qingmeluo, but would have sent more troops to snipe, without even sniping, and directly marched from Papaya Fort to Mengmen Sancha to build the ice fort. Therefore, all the troops of the Song army might have pushed to the front line together and put them out, but there were no soldiers available in the rear.

This judgment was also recognized by Ren Duoling Ding. After all, the number of troops deployed by the Song army was also very large. So he handed over the information sent by Wang Zangbu to Liang Yiming on a fast horse. After Liang Yiming looked at it, he immediately ordered Song Ji to capture Qingzhou City.

The Xia army could not afford to delay it. Not only food, grass and supplies, but also long after it was delayed, the Song Dynasty would also continuously transfer reinforcements to Qingzhou, which would be even more difficult to capture Qingzhou at that time.

As long as you take down Qingzhou City, the Song army on the front line will immediately lose morale and be depressed, and the resistance of the fortress villages will not be so fierce. Also, if you take down Qingzhou City, Jingui Town, Chicheng Town and Pengyuan County Town behind Qingzhou City, you will be exposed naked to the Xia army. The troops of these fortress cities will be even more empty. In addition, the Western Xia will seize Qingzhou City, and the military and civilians will have no courage to resist. At that time, the Xia army will gradually and easily take down one by one, so you will no longer have to worry about food and grass.

At the same time, he ordered Ren Duolingding to draw another 5,000 troops from the front line to support Song Ji tomorrow.

What Song Ji and the generals discussed was how to win Qingzhou City faster tomorrow... It turns out that this guy wants to make great achievements for Xixia. (To be continued, please search Piaotianwen, the novel is better and faster!
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