"Report to Mr. Zhang, the general of Xixia is Renduo Lingding. "The scout said.

"Rendu?" The few people looked solemn. Although this guy was killed very badly by Wang Ju in Qingzhou, he performed the most eye-catching when the Song Dynasty attacked Xia in the fifth route.

After the flood, this person led the Xixia army to bite the remaining Song army like a wolf or a tiger. Not only did Gao Zunyu suffer heavy losses, but Liu Changzuo's 50,000 troops on Jingyuan Road were bitten by the flood and Renduolingding, only 13,000 people were recovered, and three-quarters of the total loss!

Such losses almost made Liu Changzuo, a member-level tiger general, depressed and depressed!

So some soldiers said, why is this happening? Think about the past achievements in Xixia. Many soldiers cried bitterly. It is said that Liu Changzuo himself also cried loudly in the military tent that day.

Zhang Feng looked at everyone's faces and said, "Don't be afraid. When he was in Qingzhou, Taibao once said that this person should not be underestimated, but he should not look at him too high. Taibao once divided the generals from ancient times to six levels. The generals were not called generals, but called the God of War, such as Li Jing and others. Since ancient times, there have been only a few people. The second-rate generals, such as Xue Rengui and Yelu Xiuge, these generals rarely have opponents, but they cannot reach the level of the God of War, because they have carefully searched, they still have many shortcomings. But even such generals, who have only dozens of people, have been in exchange for ancient times and present. Then, they are second-rate generals, such as Di Qing, Zhang Kang, Wang Shao, and a certain person in our dynasty. Taibao said that even second-rate generals have only more than one hundred people in exchange for ancient times and present."

Here, Zhang Feng is still very satisfied.

Even though it is second-rate, it will be ranked in the top 200!

"Then there are the third-rate generals, such as Zhong Yan, Gao Yongneng, and this kind of lord has more digits. At most, liters have more digits, and liters have more digits, so why are you afraid of? Guo Du Head, continue to report."

"Here, the total enemy's total force must have exceeded 100,000, but it may be less than 150,000 troops. During the day, the various armors seized from our dynasty were used to protect the soldiers to fill the trenches in front of Pingxia City. But just as the earth embankments were about to reach the other side, General Guo suddenly asked the soldiers of the three armies to take out the divine arm bow, killing many Xixia soldiers. The Xixia people had to stop attacking and rest. However, according to the White Army on the front line, at most, at noon tomorrow, the Xixia people could build the earth embankments to the other side."

As long as the earth embankment is repaired in Xixia, the fierce offensive and defensive battle will officially begin.

"I understand. Guo Du, go down and rest for a while."

"Here."

Guo Du went down.

Zhang Qi looked at the generals on both sides and said, "The enemy did not dispatch 200,000 and 300,000 troops this time. I thought there were several reasons. Outside Lingzhou City, the Xixia water flooded our army, causing heavy losses to the two troops of Huanqing and Jingyuan. Perhaps in the hearts of the Xixia people, it was that someone came to Weizhou and 6 continued to establish many border troops and trained for more than a year. But they were finally new recruits, and most of the elite troops were left outside Lingzhou City."

"There are only four generals, soldiers, only a thousand people in Pingxia City, and there are more than 10,000 civilians. Unlike Yongle City, there are tens of thousands of officers and soldiers and hundreds of thousands of civilians, so there is no need for so many troops to wipe out."

"Rendo Lingding himself may also be a little proud."

"There is another possibility that the enemy will have subsequent troops, and will go south from Xiaoguan. It's just that it has not arrived. However, this possibility is extremely small, because our officers and soldiers in Huanzhou have taken the initiative to attack several times during this period, which will restrain the Xia army's forces there."

The best thing about Xixia is to win less with more.

Once the troops on both sides are similar, the people of Xixia often don’t know how to fight.

Especially during the reign of the Daliang clan, he often had an army of 300,000 when he was in power. In fact, Zhang Qing was speechless when he thought about it. Even if the cost of Western Xia was low, he would have an army of 300,000 when he was in power. He really didn’t spend money?

No wonder Wang Ju said that the Liang family was defeated and demoted the military.

But I thought that the war would start to attack Xia the next year, and Zhang Feng was eager for Xixia to do so. Even the more troops we dispatched this time, the better.

Now there are 100,000 fewer troops than the expected force. Zhang Feng is a little disappointed and a little lucky. No matter what, Renduoling Ding is not a vegetarian. The enemy's troops are a little less, but the confidence of victory is also increased a little.

"Wang En, Yao Gu, Lin Guang obeyed the order."

"Here," the three generals stood up...?`c?o?m?

"Wang En is the marching forward, Yao Gu is the rear army, Lin Guang is the lieutenant general, and three groups of troops rushed to the ancient city of Haoshuizhai. But remember that Haoshuizhai is very close to the front line, and the enemy army is coming in a fierce manner. The three armies are at the right time, so they rushed to Haoshuizhai, but they cannot really arrive at Haoshuizhai. If the enemy is prepared, camp immediately to defend. No one can take credit for fighting before receiving a certain order, otherwise the Military Law Department will take the lead."

Haoshui Old Village is an extremely important fortress. When Wuyan Gorge comes down, it is Shimen River Shimen Bridge. Going east is Pingxiachuan and going southeast is Shimenxia. There are many temples in the mountainous area behind Shimenxia. It is also an important place for worshipping Buddhas in the Huluchuan area south of Xiaoguan. After leaving Shimenxia, ​​it is Haoshui Old Village.

And from Haoshui Old Village to the southeast, it is Lanxiaochuan, and from the southeast, it is Tiansheng Village, or from a small path, you can directly enter Chuan Village.

Of course, following Huluchuan south, it was the road, and it went straight to Xiningzhai Town Rongzhai...

It turned out that before the Song Dynasty lost Lingzhou, it was impossible to build a big city in Pingxiachuan, which wasted military power, so a small village was built here, named Haoshui Village.

However, with Li Jiqian's expansion, Haoshuizhai was too far ahead, so the Song Dynasty had to abandon it, and now there are only some broken walls left.

The three generals took the order.

"Zhong Pu, Guo Jingxiu, Liu Shunchen obeyed the order."

"Here," Zhong Pu San General came out again.

"You three, Liu Shunchen is the front army, Zhong Pu is the central army, Guo Jingxiu is the rear army, he left Dingchuan Village and went straight to the old village along the small path. But remember, you are pretending to save Pingxia City on the way, but you should actually cooperate with Lin Guang's troops and horses, and you must not seek credit without authorization."

"Here."

Wang Guangzu was anxious: "Mr. Zhang, what about me?"

"You have more important tasks, but someone is waiting for someone to lead the soldiers to come..."

…………

The Song army dispatched troops and generals, and the Xixia also sent many scouts, and the news quickly reached Renduolingding's ears.

Moreover, the two troops that Zhang Qi led this time were not surprisingly attacked, so Ren Duoling Ding had enough time to prepare.

Wei, the brave general of his general, met and called out: "You lead 30,000 troops and horses, immediately Xiu goes to the abolition village (Haoshui Old Village), and do a good job of defense, but you cannot take the initiative to attack. The enemy has six generals, Wang En, Zhong Pu, Yao Gu, I am not very clear about it. But Lin Guang, Liu Shunchen and Guo Jingxiu are three brave generals. They all have the courage to be unstoppable, so they must not be underestimated."

Needless to say, Lin Guang was a member of the machine gun when Liu Shunchen retreated. It also made Xixia frightened. Guo Jingxiu and Wang Ju didn't pay much attention, but in the battle between Zhongyan Mizhizhai, this general shone brightly, and his military achievements were second only to Zhe Keshi.

And not only these two Song troops, there is also a Song army in Shimenxia, ​​with the famous Qu Zhen and Zhe Keshi, and there are also two generals Wang Wenzhen and Li Zhongjie. It seems that these two generals can also fight.

However, as long as Wei meets the old village of Haoshui, the Song army in the south cannot go north and Qu Zhen's army cannot retreat. Then maybe after taking Pingxia City, he will be able to catch Qu Zhen's Song army in a jar.

The Song army of these two routes failed one by one, and the main force of Jingyuan Road would suffer heavy losses, so he could bring more than 100,000 troops and the seized food and supplies to the south and invade Zhenrong Army and Weizhou.

Wei Hui brought 30,000 troops south to Haoshui Old Village.

However, the remaining troops in Xixia still exceeded 100,000, which put enough pressure on Pingxia City.

But his offensive efficiency was lower than Zhang Shi imagined.

It was not until afternoon that an embankment reached the other side.

The dense Xia army rushed over from the earthen embankment. Many people were carrying shovels in their hands, and some were carrying bumps to the wood.

Guo Zhi immediately dispatched his troops and shot desperately.

But not long after, another earth embankment opened the trench...??`

Finally, when the fifth earth embankment was opened, there was a gap under the desperate attack of Xixia. It used a shovel and hit the wood.

"Jia Yan, you personally lead your subordinates to block the gap."

"Here."

Jia Yan rushed over with his subordinates on a horse.

With his leadership in fighting, he finally repelled the Xia army that broke into the gap.

In fact, I entered the city. There was a fence inside.

But Guo Cheng didn't want to retreat to the fence immediately, as it would be too dangerous for the remaining three days. And only one fence would inevitably lead to a large number of casualties.

However, because this Xia army restrained the Song Dynasty's troops, several earth embankments were continued to be repaired.

"Brother Heizi, you have killed another Xia Bing." Guo Xiaosi said enviously.

Up to now, Brother Heizi has shot and killed five Western Xia soldiers, which means that the reward alone has reached fifty taels after the war!

Besides, there are another fifteen stakes and sixty-five stakes. What is the wealth this is for the people in the border areas?

Brother Heizi said: "Xiao Si, even a rabbit can be shot to death. Why haven't you shot an enemy until now?"

This made Brother Heizi speechless.

In fact, it was not only Guo Xiaosi, but also many civilians. Although they were nervous or not skilled in bows and arrows, even though they had shot dozens of arrows, one of the enemies did not kill them.

But Heizi couldn't figure it out. Guo Xiaosi was a capable man in the village. He was good at speaking and had a smart mind. Why did he perform so poorly now?

It turns out that he doesn’t know the difference. Can he fight if he can speak? In that case, not 80% of the scholars and officials of the Song Dynasty could fight?

In fact, Guo Cheng was watching the battle on the top of the city wall, and he was also not satisfied with the performance of these civilians.

As for wasted arrows, there is no need to worry too much. This time he brought the military and civilians to build a city and prepared a large number of weapons and armor. The arrows alone prepared nearly two million, which was enough to spend the past five days.

The main reason is that the civil servants’ killing efficiency is too low, otherwise there would be no danger this afternoon.

He thought for a while and ordered Liu Fa: "General Liu, you will lead the sixth battalion cavalry to break out from the north city gate, and follow the west city wall to the south city gate, and resolve the enemy's offensive."

At this time, Xixia attacked from all directions, but the main offensive was still in the west.

"Here," Liu Fa replied.

"Be sure to be fast and don't fight, otherwise it will be in danger." Guo Cheng said again.

But he was still a little worried. After all, Liu Fa was too young. For some reason, Wang Ju ordered to be promoted from Dutou to the 26th general of Shaanxi Road. Although he used to be Dutou and fought bravely, he was Dutou and now he is a general.

Guo Cheng cannot be blamed for worrying. At least Liu Fa is not Liu Fa at its peak. However, in history, Liu Fa was shot dead by the real famous general Cha Ge, the Western Xia.

But this famous Western Xia general who was almost no less than Yelu Xiuge had just been born, so Wang Ju didn't have to think about it at all.

Liu Fa carried a big sword and turned over the horse.

The big sword in his hand was not the long-handled sword of the Song Dynasty in the past. It was also the Mongolian-style war sword launched by Wang Ju. But unlike ordinary sabers, this sabers were thickened and lengthened, and it was one and a half feet long, but this meant that the weight of the knife reached more than thirty kilograms.

Don’t think that the weight of more than 30 kilograms is not too heavy. At this time, there are many heavy weapons, such as whips, iron maces, hammers, and big axes, but these heavy weapons are very short. The heavier and longer, the more effort it takes to swing. Therefore, many people questioned the Tang Dynasty’s unscathed sword, thinking that it was not a special sword, but a combined sword, otherwise the warrior would not be able to wield it at all.

Rendoringding was also watching the battle on the front line. At this time, the city wall had not been repaired, and some places were not as high as one person. Soon he saw Liu Fa gathering the cavalry of the Sixth Battalion. So he immediately ordered: "Mobilize troops and support the north."

However, there was an army in front of the city, and there was a left behind to prevent Qu Zhen from coming from behind to help. In addition, many troops were moving stones on the mountain so that the tiger cannon would continue to shoot.

Therefore, just as the Xia army was in a hurry, the Beiwencheng Suspension Bridge in Pingxia City had been put down.

"Run!" Liu Fa shouted, jumped to the front, and rushed out of the city.

Not far away, a group of Xia soldiers were building a dike. When they saw the Song cavalry rushed out, they wanted to escape.
To be continued...