"General Lin, Xixia has 150,000 troops.●⌒," the scout reported.

"Fifteen thousand?"

"Maybe 150,000 is less than 100,000, but it is definitely more than 100,000, and there are more than 10,000 Makui soldiers." said the scout.

They were in a distance to investigate and could only see one approximate point, and it was impossible to count points one by one.

"Oh my god," Zhe Keshi sighed.

The sky did not refer to the Makui soldiers. There were female soldiers in Xixia for a long time. What surprised Zhe Keshi was this force. Now, the normal Ding Zhuang in the entire Xixia from the age of 20 to 50 will not exceed one million people. And this includes the Uighur tribes such as Shazhou, Ganzhou, Suzhou and other Uighur tribes in the Hexi Corridor.

Just a little bit of Tsing is strong, and one-third of them cannot be fully mobilized by Xixia. Where can Pingxi Village be 100,000 soldiers and horses be dispatched now? There is no limit on this.

But Xixia was helpless, Liang Yibi could not withdraw. Do you still expect Aligu to fight the Song Dynasty? Even the alliance that the two countries had just formed had expired.

Although the Song army had not many troops in Mingsha City, there were a large number of Song troops stationed in Xiaoguan, and they could come to support them at any time. Moreover, the Song Dynasty considered that the Xia harvest, so there was no Xia harvest in Xixia? And the food was more precious to the current Xixia than the Song Dynasty.

Therefore, Mingsha City must be quickly taken back, and then several fortresses were built in Shaniuling and other places to block the Song army. In this way, a large number of troops would undoubtedly be dispatched.

"Can you eat it?" Lin Guang whispered, and then sent someone to inform Zhang Yu that the Xixia army had arrived, claiming to be 150,000, but less than 150,000. But there were about 100,000 soldiers and horses. Among them, there were more than 10,000 Makui soldiers.

Lin Guang then began to prepare for the challenge.

Wei Ming Awu arrived quickly with an army of more than 100,000.

Immediately divide the troops into three groups. Besieged Mingsha City, only the South City Gate has no troops stationed. Leave a way out for you and run away quickly. We can only chase after you escape, otherwise siege the city is really not our strong point.

OK. He also knows that he is surrounded by three que 1.

But to his disappointment, no Song army fled, so he had to attack the city.

After a day of conquering, there was no result.

Wei Ming Awu was furious and ordered to attack the city in different squads overnight. Anyway, there were only three generals and soldiers in Mingsha City, so they used their number to crush them to death.

After a night of attack, there was still no result.

It was not until the evening of the next day that a gap was broken and entered the city, but there was no hurry. There were many city walls in the city. Some Song soldiers stood on the walls of these city walls and continued to shoot.

I wanted to run along the city wall, but the Song army built solid city towers on the city wall. I even deliberately widened the thickness of the city walls under the city tower, and wanted to break through them. It was more difficult than climbing to the top of the city wall.

But no matter what, I finally entered the city.

Weiming Awu ordered to continue to expand overnight. On the afternoon of the third day, he occupied seven or eight areas. At least the Xia army behind him entered the city, avoiding the harassment of the Song army.

Weiming Awu also entered the city.

He looked around and saw that the situation in the city was very strange. Not only was there this strange formation, but because he wanted to quickly build this formation, the Song army was eager to get dirt in the city, so it was full of potholes. However, in this way, the original 100,000 soldiers and civilians could not camp and rest, so they dug up drainage ditches.

The military camp was in a high-pitched place, and even the toilets were placed on the mounds. The city walls were built. When the Song army returned, the three generals and soldiers in the city left the city to drive out the people outside the city. Therefore, no one dealt with the matters in the toilets, and the smell so bad that Wei Ming Awu couldn't help but cover his nose when he came to inspect.

But now is not the time for him to deal with it, and he still has to conquer Yucheng.

So he looked again, worried that the Anjiang Fort would burn. There were indeed many thatched huts in the city, not the ones where the Song army of the three generals lived, but the original 100,000 military and civilians. The houses in the city were not enough to live in, and many huts were built on high places, but there were ditches around them, and there were ditches in the ditches, which did not look like fire attacks. In fact, after the attacks in the past two days, the Song Dynasty had not used fire attack tactics.

As for this ** formation, Wei Ming Awu can understand it a little more now.

According to common sense, it is unreasonable to design the city like this, especially for these military cities, the roads must be clear so that the enemy can send reinforcements, materials and weapons to the critical city wall as quickly as possible when siege the city.

A simple example is like Taiyuan, known as the Jintang City. Whether it is An Lushan or Song Taizu, they were all sad under this city. However, after the Song Dynasty took Taiyuan, Pan Mei moved Taiyuan City to Hedong and designed the streets and alleys into a "t" shape. In fact, this was intentional design. In this way, the road was nearly doubled to prevent the people of Hedong from rebelling against Taiyuan City in the next time. As a result, the people of Hedong did not rebel, but it facilitated the Jin people to attack the territory, and they took Taiyuan in one, two, and three...

However, it makes sense if it is placed in Mingsha City.

This city is different from Taiyuan. It is surrounded by flat land. There are some small mountain areas inside and outside. It cannot be called mountains, but local buns. However, the Yellow River is to the west and the Hulu River is to the south. Now the water and soil have not deteriorated to the later generations, so it has become an important grain base in Xixia.

It didn't matter. Although it was not easy to defend, it was protected by Xiaoguan in front, so it not only became a grain base for Xixia, but also an important grain storage area for Xixia.

But after the Song Dynasty captured Xiaoguan, the Western Xia became nervous and transported the grain storage to Lingzhou together.

Therefore, when the Song army did this, the Song army was unable to defend the city when the Western Xia recovered Mingsha City, so they engaged in street battles with the Xia army. After a few days, the Song army reinforcements arrived.

Thinking of this, Wei Ming Awu was still a little nervous. He didn't know if there was any force on the Pingxi Fortress to hold back the Jingyuan Road. If not, many troops could still be drawn out on Jingyuan Road. Not to mention any field battles, the Song army's field battles are also very strong now, and the outcome will be uncertain.

Thinking of this, he began to order to strengthen the intensity of siege or street fighting.

He was worried about it soon. When evening came, the scouts came back from the south to report that a large number of Song troops began to gather in Xiaoguan.

But time is still too late. And after entering the city, it occupied seven or eight areas, which means it can accommodate more soldiers to enter the city to fight. Although these in the city can also be regarded as city walls, are they really tall city walls on the periphery?

Even many city walls cannot keep up with their thickness and are newly built soon, so they can knock them down with a bump on the wood.

Therefore, on the fourth day, Xixia controlled half of Mingsha City.

But the courage of the Song army also made Wei Ming Awu feel heartbroken.

On the fifth day, the Song army was finally forced to several small areas of the South City Gate by Wei Ming Awu. However, the 50,000 or 60,000 Song army troops behind him came to the scene at the same time.

However, Weiming Awu is no longer afraid now. Although Mingsha City is very small, this is relative to the city. Since it is a city, it is also an important grain storage area in Xixia in the past. It is much larger than ordinary forts and is even almost the same as Dashun City.

Although there are many troops in Xixia, the city makes the Song army messy, but if you squeeze, you can still squeeze it. Then Xixia relies on this city to attack and defend. More importantly, this is the boundary of Xixia, and troops can be drawn from the rear.

So Wei Ming Awu said, "Attack fiercely."

The Song army must be driven out before the large Song army troops arrive.

The casualties of the officers and soldiers of Lin Guangsan have been a little severe in the past few days. Of course, the casualties of Xixia are even worse.

Moreover, compressing it into these small areas will be detrimental to the Song army in terms of space, but fortunately, the large troops in the rear will arrive soon, because they are flat and you can see the vanguard of the army without even using a telescope.

So Lin Guang ordered a retreat.

"Chasing!" Wei Ming Awu ordered.

He not only asked the city to chase the troops, but also ordered a small number of troops still stationed outside the city to pursue them from both wings. However, when he was about to catch up with Lin Guang's three generals, a roar came from the city.

Wei Ming Awu turned his head, and the roar continued to explode, but the fire had already started to rise.

This is the plan carefully designed by Wang Ju and Zhang Ju.

It turned out that Wang Ju's idea was to concentrate all the gunpowder on Shaanxi Road, including civilian gunpowder for road construction and mining, and also gathered it and buried it underground, giving the Xixia army a surprise.

There is no problem in technology, but Zhang Feng carefully analyzed the terrain of Mingsha City and thought it was inappropriate. Because if you want to succeed, you must try your best to lure more Xixia troops into the city. If the Xixia army enters the house and does nothing, the problem is not big. But if you dig randomly, if you dig underground, the truth will be revealed and the whole plan will fail. Either it will be buried very deeply, but then there will be no power. Or you can quickly put the Xixia army in, but there is no danger around Mingsha City. The officers and soldiers in the city must hold on for a while, so that the large troops in the rear can reach it, and the Xia army will inevitably attack from all sides or three sides. If this plan is successful, unless Lin Guang and the three generals and officers and soldiers are buried with them, this will definitely not work.

So Zhang Yue made changes to Wang Ju's plan, and gunpowder was used, but it was just an introduction.

The real killing is the fierce turbulent oil extracted by the court now, and there are also many northwests. The war is mainly in the northwest. It is also a very powerful defensive weapon. Therefore, some important forts have been reserved, and some forts have even reserved 20,000 to 30,000 kilograms, which are respectively placed in the pottery altar, and the mouth of the altar is sealed with mud to prevent it from evaporating.

Zhang Feng secretly ordered the turbulent oil to be transported to Xiaoguan together, and into three new forts built near Xiaoguan this spring. After taking down Mingsha City, the 100,000 soldiers and civilians had to eat and drink, so they were secretly transported to Mingsha City with the food and grass.

Then buried it in the ground and built a toilet on it. Although it doesn't sound nice, it works. Even if the Xixia people dig in the city, they will not dig under the toilet. Then they put gunpowder in the middle, and some flammable materials were wrapped in oil paper nearby, and buried them underground together. The gunpowder fuse was placed in a sealed bamboo tube. The bamboo tube was placed under the city wall, which was placed on the ground. The city wall was built on it. No matter how hard you dig, these city walls could be dug, so it would be better to use a bump into the wood and then extend to the vicinity of the south city gate.

Moreover, as Xixia attacked these ** formations, many soldiers entered the city.

What street fighting is necessary?

If Xixia encircles all sides together, it will not be a big problem, so it will be a little later. When the vanguard troops in the rear arrive, they will cooperate inside and outside, ignite the fuse, and break out of Mingsha City.

Now there are countless fierce tincture oil buried in Mingsha City, and even the fierce tincture oil used to defend in Pingxi Village has been collected. The gunpowder does not produce much lethality. The key is that they blast the soil and blast the pottery awnings containing fierce tincture oil to ignite flammable materials.

The burning tinder quickly flowed into the ditches in the low-lying areas. These ditches were not for the rain drainage. They covered the corners of each area. Although they floated on the water, they were still burning, and they also burned the thatch in the city and the supplies tents brought by the Xixia army themselves.

Moreover, these city walls are in strange shapes, with tic toe and back shapes wrapped around together. The soldiers near the city gate still have time to escape, but it is extremely difficult for the soldiers inside to escape.

"Kill!" Just when Wei Ming Awu was still in a daze, Lin Guang ordered Lin Guang, Zhe Keshi and Zhong Pu to kill the three generals and soldiers. At the same time, Yao Yi and Zhang Shouyou had arrived with more than 10,000 front troops, and they were all cavalry, most of them were fierce foreign cavalry, and there were still constant roars in the city, with flames raging, and who would not fight with the wind?

These monks screamed one by one, slapped the war horses, waved their scimitars, and pounced on them fiercely.

Moreover, Miao Lu also brought tens of thousands of troops to kill him.

"Retreat!" Wei Ming Awu saw that the situation was not good. He shouted, took the lead in slapping the horse and fled north.

"Chasing!" Yao Yi shouted.

As for the Xia army that was burning to death in the city, let’s solve the problem with the infantry behind. He and Zhang Shou made an appointment with the cavalry to chase northwards. This is what Wang Ju said. There are almost no troops in Lingzhou City now...

Less than 150 miles from Mingsha City to Lingzhou, if it is an infantryman, you can reach it in one day and one night. Even if the large army, with this flat place, you can arrive in two days. If it is a cavalry... it will be almost done in half a day.

In other words, when we chased Lingzhou, it was two or three o'clock. Even if there were still poor Xia soldiers in the city, they would not be prepared. Although the city gate was closed and there were some pack horses behind them, there would definitely be no ladders immediately, but there were many hooks.

Chase all the way north.

He didn't even inform the people of Xixia, so he almost chased Wei Ming Awu and cried. He chased him to the city of Lingzhou. Hundreds of left-behind soldiers in Lingzhou City had just noticed it. Of course, Wei Ming Awu could not enter the city and continued to flee north.

Yao Yi distributed some of his troops and continued to pursue. The remaining soldiers who could swim got off their horses, slapped the horses, waded through the moat outside Lingzhou City, and came to the bottom of the city wall. While holding a vine shield, he threw the hook hard towards the top of the city.

In the past few years, when the Song Dynasty attacked Xia, Lingzhou was not captured. Not only was the walls of Lingzhou tall and strong, but it was also because there were many guards in the city.

But now there is an army. Even the hundreds of soldiers are still old, weak, sick and disabled, and they are still fighting back. With thousands of Song soldiers coming to the city wall and forcibly climbing the city, they are gone.

In less than an hour, before the fourth day of the year, the Lingzhou city gate was opened and the suspension bridge was lowered. Yao Yi led his army into Lingzhou city.

This battle is a trick.

Liang Yibi dragged Tubo into the water, which gave Wang Ju some headache, but he placed a hundred thousand troops outside Pingxi Village, and the troops in the rear of Xixia were undoubtedly empty. However, due to various reasons, Xixia wanted to solve this matter quickly. Then the troops sent to Mingsha City must be quite large, and the troops in the rear of Xixia would be even more empty. As long as the plan was successful, the Song army could take advantage of the situation to attack Lingzhou and expand the results of the battle.

In late April, just as many ministers of the Song Dynasty were worried about the front line, a thrilling good news came from the front.

Zhang Feng used a trick to burn or kill more than 30,000 Xia soldiers in Mingsha City, and captured nearly 50,000 prisoners of war. Only one-third of the more than 100,000 soldiers and horses brought by Wei Ming Awu escaped.

Then Yao Yi easily took Lingzhou.

This is the old nest of Xixia, and for this city, there are countless Song soldiers who died. Zhang Shi even deliberately rode his horse outside the city to worship the dead heroes.

So Yao Yi was not polite and executed all the nobles in the city one by one, confiscated their property, leaving half of them for the soldiers to reward and pension, and half of them had other uses, that is, the expenses below.
To be continued...