Zhao Xu happily stood up from the chair, rushed out, and took apart the quick-throne sent from the front line from the eunuch.?

After reading it, he said, "Okay, OK."

Then he grinned, kept smiling, and handed it to Wang Ju.

Wang Ju also flipped through the comments, and the report was very long.

First, Yao Shui and Zhang Shouyou made a military trip with Miao Lu. Yao Shui made a date with Zhang Shouyou made a name for a long time, but Miao Lu had passed through several battles in the south and was not as famous as Yao and Zhang.

These three people are real tiger generals.

But this journey was not very smooth. In order to keep it a secret, the three of them led their subordinates to travel at night and also brought some supplies, not food. Their journey only brought five or six days of dry food. If they failed, they would be defeated! There was no need to bring so much food to drag down the marching.

However, baggage is inevitable, including marching tents and dozens of small cannons.

So it was not arrived on the fifth day, but it was only inserted behind the Xixia army in the afternoon of the sixth day.

Because of this delay, many civilians felt panic. At this time, dozens of earth embankments in Xixia were completely built, and many unrepaired city walls were knocked down. Therefore, the Xixia people continued to attack the fence, and even finally simply avoided some of the military camps and built them outside the city walls in the trenches.

Seeing that the morale of the military and civilians in the fence was insufficient, the danger continued.

Yao, Zhang and Miao were killed.

It was actually a bit far away, but Guo Cheng stood on the wall city, condescending, and with the help of a telescope, he also saw it.

Of course, the Xixia people appeared earlier and the Song army was inserted into their rear.

Rendoring Ding sent 20,000 troops to fight.

Epoch-making weapons appeared, and fifty cannons roared in unison.

In fact, the artillery at this time was just like that. Its lethality was similar to the late Ming Dynasty, and it was a small cannon, which had a limited lethality.

The key is not the level of lethality, but the first advanced weapon it was released. Although the cannon is small, it can be used for flowering bullets and breeze-loading. After repeated research, the shooting degree is faster than that of the Ming Dynasty artillery, even if the range is not far, it has reached nearly a thousand meters.

So in the first round of bombing alone, nearly 200 Xia soldiers were killed. Faced with such sharp weapons, the Xixia people were stunned.

The real killing was used.

This cannon sound is the signal of the general attack!

In fact, several major battlefields are not far from Pingxia City, and the farthest is only twenty miles away, mainly because the terrain is a bit complicated. In addition to the flat river of Huluchuan, which is flat in the north and south, there are also a flat river around Pingxia City, and the rest are mountainous areas. However, this mountain area is not a big mountain like the Qinling Mountains, mainly the terrain of the Mailiang, including the mountains north of Shimenxia. There are not many truly lofty mountains and steep mountains, and the main one is still the Mailiang terrain. But no matter how high the mountain is, they are all mountains.

With these mountains, they were successfully separated by Song and Xia into seemingly isolated war zones.

But it was not far away. Moreover, because the war broke out, many people fled their homes one by one. Except for the battlefield, the surroundings were very quiet. Therefore, although there were dozens of small cannons, the sound was very far away.

The quickest person to hear the sound of cannons was undoubtedly Guo Cheng, the Song army.

Small cannons are lethal, but don’t make a mistake, that’s just small cannons, and there are a hundred cannons!

But where are these hundred cannons placed? Pingxia City! In the four urns of Pingxia City.?

Who could have thought?

When Guo Cheng heard the sound of cannons. He knew that the general attack had started, he immediately ordered the Siwangcheng to reload. In fact, one cannon had been installed long ago, and many people in Xixia saw it, but no one could think of its purpose!

In terms of lethality, this is a lethal weapon.

More deadly, many Xixia troops are now attacking the fences of the inner city. Don’t worry, there are many Xixia soldiers in the moat outside the city.

There are dense enemies everywhere, and this kind of cannon has undoubtedly a large flowering bullet. Each shell can kill several or even dozens of people if it hits.

Then two hundred tiger cannons were moved out, but this may be the last glory of the catapult, but the number of cannons is still very small and costly, so the tiger cannon cannot completely withdraw from the battlefield. The tiger cannon smashed a large thunderbolt bullet or a small can filled with refined hot oil at the Xia army.

Perhaps Renda Lingding realized at this time, why did the Song Dynasty build the urn city so big? In fact, it was not to protect the safety of Pingxia City. It was because of its size that there was enough space to equip so many artillery and tiger cannons onto the top of the city.

For a time, the Xia army in Pingxia City was killed so hard that they cried and howled. Liu Fa and Jia Yan took the opportunity to kill more than 10,000 soldiers and civilians from the fence.

But this was the beginning. The small cannons in the north and the cannons in the south kept roaring. Qu Zhen and Zhe Keshi heard the sound of bombing and led their men to kill from Shimenxia.

Wang En, Yao Gu and Lin Guang's Nanzhong Army, Zhong Pu, Guo Jingxiu and Liu Shunchen's Nanxi Army, launched a strong attack on the Fortress of Haoshui. Each of their troops had fifty small cannons in their hands.

Although Wei Yudeya led 30,000 Xia troops to the Haoshui Fort to defend, he did not build the Haoshui Fort, which was exactly the same as in Pingxia City. However, a trench and a fence were built. Even this trench was not wide or deep.

How to block the cannon's damage.

But these two soldiers alone cannot break through this fortification in a short period of time. There are also troops and horses, Wang Guangzu, Wang Wenyu and Li Xiang's Nandong Road army. Except for Li Xiang's two generals behind the palace, the rest of this team are all cavalry battalions.

After hearing the sound of cannons, they rushed towards the flanks of the Xixia people.

The Xixia people were stunned by the Song army's artillery bombing again, and what made them lose their morale even more was that the sound of artillery bombings continued to be heard from behind. It was useless to guess. Everyone knew that there was a change in the base camp and how many soldiers could still have the heart to fight.

One of the two kings did not bring artillery, but brought a large number of the most elite cavalry. The Xixia people were not interested in fighting. Therefore, as two tiger generals entered the Xixia camp, the Xixia camp began to get into chaos. General Wang Enliu took the opportunity to rush across the trench, and three armies attacked. The 30,000 Xia soldiers were defeated on a large scale after only a while.

At this time, Zhang Shouyou, Yao Shi and Miao Lu also launched a counterattack.

The Xia army came to deal with them, with a total of 20,000 troops, but they were all stunned by artillery bombings. Moreover, they heard more bombings from the south, and they also knew that the situation was not good, so they were not interested in fighting. Under the impact of three tiger generals, the 20,000 Xia army was also quickly defeated.

Zhang Shou asked the three generals to chase after him for a while, seized the three armies, and slowly advanced southward.

On the other hand, Qu Zhen and several generals also brought the army out and slowly rushed eastward.

Don’t ask if you can’t surround the three quarries and one circumference. There are countless ridges and Wuyan Gorges in the northwest corner. You Xixia people want to escape. Where can you escape?

But now it's just a siege, and it's not time for a real decisive battle.

However, not long after, just in the evening, Wei Yu retreated with his three armies, and the three Song troops behind him kept chasing him.??Look?

The opportunity came. Guo Cheng looked at the empty Pingxia City and immediately ordered a hundred cannons to aim outside the city.

Its range is not too long, its maximum range is only three thousand meters, and its effective range is only more than two thousand meters. But it is enough to cover most of the Xixia military camps.

The cannons kept roaring, but at this time something sad happened, and a cannon exploded. The technology was immature, and it was inevitable that the explosion was caused by the explosion.

But the effect was very significant. Under the continuous bombardment of artillery, the entire Xixia Central Army also suffered serious chaos, and even Renduolingding didn't know what to do.

Following the three southern Song troops killed.

The Song army in the north also came to kill.

The Song army from the west also rushed forward.

However, it cannot be said that it is a pounce, but a force, and a square formation to prevent the Xia army from clashing. Then, two hundred small cannons were used to cooperate with one hundred cannons on the city and continued to bombard them.

In fact, the Song army was still not as powerful as the Xixia people at this time. However, facing such sharp weapons and the Song army surrounded by all directions, even Renduoling Ding could not tell how many soldiers and horses the Song Dynasty had come. This made ordinary Xixia soldiers fight.

Three hundred artillery pieces are constantly bombing. Each time they bomb, they will at least harvest nearly a thousand Xixia soldiers' lives. How can they continue to bomb like this?

The more than 100,000 Xixia soldiers and horses compressed together became more and more panicked.

Seeing the arrival of the fighter plane, Guo Cheng waved his flag and officially attacked.

He brought his army and horses out of Pingxia City, and the other three Song troops rushed forward fiercely.

The great defeat of Xixia began.

However, for this battle, Jingyuan Road used a total of 70,000 to 80,000 troops in three routes. Although it was not as strong as the Western Xia, it was also a huge army for the Song Dynasty. In this battle, generals, such as Zhang Shouyou, Yao's father and son, Miao Lu, Zhe Keshi, Wang En, Lin Guang, Wang Wenyu, Zhong Pu, Liu Fa, Jia Yan, Guo Cheng, Guo Jingxiu, Liu Shunchen, and Wang Guangzu, although they could not be compared with Yue Fei, they were considered rare brave generals. Even Qu Zhen, who had a slightly changed taste, was also considered a brave general.

Therefore, under the central adjustment of Guo Cheng, a general and general, led by various famous generals, kept chasing him until the foot of Tiandu Mountain before stopping.

In this battle, more than 29,100 Xia troops were killed, but don’t worry about the previous two defeats of the Song Dynasty. However, even though they were defeated, the Xixia people suffered a lot of losses. Not to mention that more than 100,000 Xia troops were killed in the early stage of the attack on Xia, it was the Battle of Yongle City. At the beginning, the Xia army under the city was also full of corpses.

In fact, Xixia really couldn't draw out much troops, so the Song army once set up the camp at the foot of Tiandu Mountain, and then continued to search for Xixia deserters. It took four days to retreat before retreating, resulting in more than 68,000 prisoners of war.

Rendor Lingding brought more than 100,000 troops, less than one-third of the time he could escape safely!

what does that mean?

There were about 700,000 households in Western Xia, and more than one million young men were strong. That is, from the beginning of the Battle of Xia, to now, nearly one-fifth of the young men were killed or captured by the Song Dynasty.

Xixia is known as everyone is a soldier, but the number of people who officially serve in the military is only 500,000 or 600,000. The most capable of fighting is these 500,000 or 600,000 soldiers, but at this point, at least half of them have been lost!

So after this battle, just like the Battle of Qingzhou, even if the Wang Ju sect roamed outside Lingzhou City and plundered, Xixia was helpless.

Therefore, we will enter the second step.

Pingxia City still needs to be built, but this place does not really exist as a fortress, but is an important material transfer station for future destruction of Xia.

So Zhang Qi sent people to clean the battlefield and after giving the reward, he entered the second step, built Shimen Fort in Shimenxia, ​​built Lingping Village in Haoshui Old Village, and built Jiuyang Village under Shimen Fort. He used it to protect Dingchuan Village and Huaiyuan Fort in Deshun Army, and built Zhenqiang Fort below Jiuyang Castle.

Tongxia Village was built in Wuyanqianxia, ​​and Dangqiang Village was built in Wuyanhouxia, which means that the complex terrain of Wuyanxia was controlled halfway, which also posed a direct threat to Tiandu Mountain.

Tongyuan Village was built at the northwest entrance of Longquan Valley, above Dangqiang Village. Longquan Fort was built at the southeast entrance of Longquan Valley. In this way, Tongxia Village, Dangqiang Village, Tongyuan Village, and Longquan Fort became a whole and could rescue each other.

Shengqiang Village was built above Tongyuan Village. When we arrived here, we were only sixty miles away from Xiaoguan. Even if the infantry was slow, we could reach Xiaoguan Pass from this village in one day. But this was still a little thin. Therefore, the five Forts of Qiankou Fort, Donghewan Fort, Gugaoping Fort, Huimin Fort, and Jiegou Fort were built near Tongxia Village to increase the thickness of the front line.

It may have to be spent a lot of money, but the front line was pushed north by more than 170 miles. If the second attack on Xia started, think about how much convenience it would bring to logistics transportation. And from then on, Tiansheng and other villages completely became the rear area. The place with relatively abundant water and grass south of Xiaoguan was mostly occupied by the Song Dynasty. The left wing of Huanzhou would never be harmed by the Xixia people again.

Not only that, Li Xian also took the opportunity to build several forts in the northwest of Lanzhou, and bit Nanhuizhou from the territory of Xixia.

In fact, the civil servants did not use much. The front-line fortresses were built together by soldiers and civil servants, while the back-line fortresses were all handed over to prisoners of war.

Some prisoners of war were dissatisfied and wanted to use tools to resist. But they were quickly suppressed.

They can't think of having another good thing, just work slowly. After these forts are repaired, they will be brought to Guanzhong again soon. They will become transport laborers.

The construction of Zhubao Village will last until early winter, and the report did not write it, only the battle process and achievements.

However, it also made Zhao Xu very happy.

As the bank office became better and better, Wang Ju left the capital and got closer. When he went to Shaanxi, he also left the Song Dynasty.

If Wang Ju doesn't leave, maybe Zhao Xu will have some ideas. Wang Ju is determined to leave, and even in order to get involved, he doesn't even want to marry his daughter to his son. Zhao Xu is a little reluctant to leave.
To be continued...