"Look, this is how you should use your bow." A teacher taught the bravery around him step by step.

Yao Lin looked at it and nodded with satisfaction.

In the past few years, the five routes attacked Xia. The main reason why the Northern Second Route of the Zhe family army was that the failure to sweep the Xia army in several states of Yinxia would inevitably allow Xixia to harass the rear and logistics supply.

The truth seems to be this, but when this happens, the problem arises. The five armies are far away and cannot cooperate well with each other, which is also a disease of the second attack on Liao during the reign of Emperor Taizong of Song.

But the fundamental problem is that it was almost August and it was too late. Unless the Song army could take over Xixia within two months, it was impossible. Even if Xixia did not resist, it would be impossible to complete the entire Xixia territory within two months.

If you can't do it, winter is coming...

Therefore, the failure of that attack on Xia is inevitable.

This time, Wang Ju intentionally punished the lessons of the last attack on the summer season and pushed the time to spring. Now he has asked for another month, and there will be no problems in the season.

Then several armies' routes to attack Xia were also changed.

First, on Hexi Road, Wang Wenyu was the main general, Zhong Yi was the deputy general, Liu Zhongwu and Zhao Long moved forward, and Li Xian was the chief supervisor of the three armies.

However, the Song army from these two routes did not deploy much, mainly from the foreign army in Hehuang.

Originally, Dong Wen used troops to deal with the Xixia people and Uighurs in the Hexixia Corridor many times. The British army had psychological advantages and was more adaptable to the local terrain and climate. In particular, the terrain of the Hexi Corridor was a little higher, and the temperature is still a little cold now. At night, it is generally only a few degrees Celsius temperature, and even some high and cold places are still below zero. However, this temperature and terrain are the most suitable for the British army to fight.

With this general mobilization, it was actually a process of truly recognizing the Song Dynasty.

Save troops and military expenditure.

Once again, it would be fine if they were their masters, but now that Hehuang has been recovered, if the Song Dynasty is not recognized, it can be suppressed in the future. This suppression and support may not be subject to force. The distribution of rewards after the war, the development of road commerce, and the dispatch of poverty alleviation funds can be suppressed and supported. Even if it is too much, those tribal warriors who are half-hearted and only dispatch a small number of strong men can be used directly as cannon fodder, and this is used to weaken the power of these tribes.

There are also a few tribes who directly rejected the Song Dynasty's mobilization by relying on their own tribes. That would be even better. The attack on Xia cannot be delayed until after autumn. They are unwilling to obey the Song Dynasty's dispatch at this critical moment. After the army retreated, there is a reason for the Song Dynasty to do whatever the Song Dynasty did.

Therefore, a total of more than 60,000 foreign troops were mobilized this time, but it was not until Gao Xianzhi made a mistake (referring to Gao Xianzhi's battle with Dashi, and the sudden rebellion of the Gelulu army, resulting in the failure of the Tang army), the entire Hehuang Road's foreign troops were all dispersed and then reorganized.

Of course, there are still many problems like this, but this road seems to be huge, but it is not the main force. The Xixia people no longer care about the Hexi Corridor, either the Black Khan. If the Black Khan sees the arrival of the Song army, it is best to take the initiative to retreat. If the Song army arrives, they will not retreat. If they can fight, they will fight, and give them a profound lesson to fight back to the Western Regions! If they cannot fight, they will start defending and wait for news from the north, but they must stop the Black Khan's momentum to go east.

The troops were still divided throughout the journey. Wang Wenyu led the three generals Song army, as well as tens of thousands of foreign troops from Xicheng, Xigong and Qin prefectures, and went west to Liangzhou, and the remaining Song army was transferred to Weizhou to support the main force of the North Road.

Zhong Yi also led the three generals Song army and the foreign army from Hehuang. The main thing that he broke up was the six ridges he had crossed, headed north to Liangzhou, and joined Wang Wenyu's army in Liangzhou.

Although the troops were divided, they were kept at a distance, so that they could respond to each other instead of fighting each other.

However, the original Song Dynasty troops stationed in the Hehuang area were not transferred to Weiqing. One reason was that they were too far away, and the other was that they were newly recruited. The local area must retain some Song troops to prevent some tribes from taking the opportunity to rebel and rebellion.

The main general of the middle left line was Kumamoto, the deputy general was Miao Su, and the general was the chief supervisor, Li Xiang. The troops were also divided into two groups. Miao Su led Xigong and the Song army in Qinzhou to set out from Tiandu Mountain, forcibly swept the Xishoubaotai Army Division located between Lingbo Mountain, Weijian Mountain and Roolang Mountain on the north side of Tiandu Mountain, and then forcibly crossed the Yellow River from the ferry crossing of Yingli County in Xixia, and then followed the Yellow River to the opposite bank of Mingsha City.

Kumamoto led the three armies of Jingyuan Road to attack Zhuangyikou again, and cut the camps of Xixia north of Xiaoguan, and then conquered Mingsha City and Weizhou City. He built a floating bridge on the Yellow River west of Mingsha City to join the Miao Zu army. The two armies continued northward across the Yellow River. On the west side of the Yellow River, the Song army pointed to Shunzhou City north of Qingtong Gorge, and the Song army on the east bank of the Yellow River pointed to Lingzhou, and joined with the real main Song army on the right.

The troops were divided along the way, but they were also very close to each other.

In short, such division of troops still seems a bit clumsy, but the Song army now can only do this. Imagine that Li Jing of the Tang Dynasty could divide the troops like Tuyuhun, and cooperate successfully and make contributions to each other. Not to mention the soldiers, just talk about generals. There are some generals who are very capable of fighting in the Song Dynasty, but how many people can match Li Jing, Hou Junji, Li Daozong, Li Daliang and Qi Zhu Heli? Wang Ju can't take this risk. At least, although this is slightly clumsy, it is very stable and will not make serious mistakes.

The Zhongyou Army is the real main force, which is also the result of geographical factors.

Because I made preparations in advance very early, I gathered reinforcements from Jingzhao Road and Hedong Road to the Security Army, Qingzhou and Huanzhou Front, and more than ten days were enough. However, it would probably take a month to gather at the Xiaoguan Front, and it would not be possible to delay for a month.

In addition to the materials prepared in Pingxia City and Xiaoguan in advance, most of the remaining materials were mobilized from the Central Plains, and it is impossible to go far and slowly transport the materials to Xiaoguan.

Therefore, Wang Ju was in charge of Qingzhou. This army not only gathered the Song army on Huanqing Road, Fuyan Road and Jingzhao Road, but also drew a large number of troops and civilians from Hedong Road.

The main general is Wang Ju's own son, Liu Changzuo, Zhong Shidao, and the military supervisor is Liang Congji, the "old minister of the three dynasties". This man has been fighting with Wang Ze many times and has rich experience in fighting against Xia. He has been a New Year's Embassy, ​​and has a seniority and is loyal to the Song Dynasty. With this person monitoring the three armies, one can reassure the Song Dynasty, and the other will not be a drag on the three armies.

The route was divided into two routes. Liu Changzuo sent troops to Yanzhou. After taking over Yanzhou City, he sent some troops to defend. The remaining troops went south to the Pule City on Lingwu Avenue and joined Wang Ju's main army.

Wang Ju's troops were sent to Xiama Village, and at the same time, a group of troops were sent to sweep Qinggang Gorge, Qingyuan Military City, Mengjing, Zhejianghui and other Western Xia garrisons in the north of Hengshan. After the troops of Yu Pule City and Liu Changzuo merged, they went straight to Lingzhou City.

However, there is one flaw in such military use, that is, it let go of the large rear areas such as Youzhou, Hongzhou, Xiazhou, and Tiemenguan. Moreover, the Liao Kingdom has repeatedly sent envoys to "mediate". If these left-behind rear Xia army join the Liao army, it will seriously threaten the security of the Song army's rear.

Therefore, in order to prevent accidents, the strongest army in the northwest, the Zhe Family Army, and the original Song Dynasty garrisons from Yinzhou to Daizhou, did not dare to be transferred to the south to prevent any abnormal movements in the Liao Kingdom.

Fortunately, the attack on Xia was fully prepared, just like the three armies mobilized this time, involving the forces of Hehuang Road, Qinfeng Road, Lanzhou, Jingyuan, Huanqing, Fuyan, Fulin and Hedong. If the troops included the foreign soldiers and civilians, the troops reached an astonishing nearly 600,000, which was 100,000 more than the attack on Xia in previous years! In the entire history of cold weapons in China, the number of unilateral troops also squeezed into the top ten.

Moreover, in order to prevent the Liao Kingdom from reacting, the time for mobilization was very urgent. In addition to the confusion of civilians and men, there was no major chaos in the officers and soldiers of each battalion. It was because of the sufficient preparation that since last year, arrangements have been made.

In addition, the front line was moved to Tiandu Mountain and Hengshan, saving marching time.

Including materials, most of them were transported to the front line in advance, and there would be no situation where the previous summer detention would not be able to keep up.

However, the defects still exist. Even though the Hedong front, Fulin Road and Yinzhou area were dispatched to monitor the movements of the Liao Kingdom, the Xiahong area was still under the control of Xixia, which forced the Song Dynasty to take down Lingzhou in order to truly use troops to Xingqing Prefecture, Hexi.

However, although the Song Dynasty took advantage of the Western Xia's unpreparedness to capture Lingzhou and destroyed many city walls the year before, it retreated, but after more than a year, as the most important gateway in Hexi, the Western Xia has been repaired and completed the reunion of the three armies with its troops, and Lingzhou has not been captured.

This forced the rear to mobilize a large amount of materials to support the Lingzhou Battle.

In addition, the combat plan was nearly a month ahead of schedule, and a large number of supplies from the rear failed to arrive at the front line in time. Therefore, this logistics team was extremely large, with nearly 10,000 horses alone, and more than 30,000 large livestock transporting goods, and tens of thousands of large baggage trucks. In addition to transferring more than 10,000 foreign soldiers and strong men from Shaanxi Road, they regarded them as temporary civil servants. From the Hedong Road, the nearly 20,000 border troops trained by Yao Lin, as well as nearly 40,000 civil servants composed of strong men and archers from other prefectures.

However, the 40,000 strong men and archers later were also intentional arrangements. First, the locals in Shaanxi Road were not strong enough, and second, taking advantage of this opportunity to allow them to arrive in Lingzhou and participate in the offensive and defensive battle moderately, so that they could feel the actual combat. After all, the focus of the border defense in the future will gradually shift from Shaanxi Road to Hedong Road and Hebei Road.

However, these civilians have very poor military qualities. Most of them can't even use the black painted bow, or the compound bow used by the officials of the Song Dynasty. However, it has nothing to do with Zhang Yu. Hedong Road actually trained many border troops. However, after drawing Yao Lin's border troops to the Shaanxi battlefield, in order to prevent any abnormal movements in the Liao Kingdom, these border troops, the border guards, and the small number of foreign soldiers in the northwest, including the Zhe Family Army, were stationed on the border together, and they did not dare to mobilize them again.

So Yao Lin drew some veterans and stuffed them into the ranks of archers from various battalions in Hedong. Whenever he set up camp in the evening, he took the time to teach them to use the standard weapons of the court and integrate the team.

Yao Lin turned around and then looked into the distance.

This huge logistics escort brigade had just passed Pule City, and was ahead of Yaode City. It turned out to be the two garrison troops stationed by the Song Dynasty. After Lingxia fell, it became the garrison troops stationed by Xixia. But now all have been recovered.

Yaode City was in Lingzhou in the past. If the situation was normal, you could arrive at Lingzhou City in two days.

But now it won't work.

The imperial edict was issued, which was necessary. If there was no court edict allowed, and a peace agreement was reached during the Spring Festival, and Wang Ju used troops rashly, how many ministers would have impeached him?

However, Zhao Xu and several prime ministers knew that this was just a look. In fact, Wang Ju ordered the arrest of Xixia scouts. While forcing the confession, he began to order troops from all over the country to prepare.

The imperial edict quickly sent it to Wang Ju with a fast horse. Wang Ju immediately ordered the officers and soldiers from all over the country to advance towards their respective targets. The officers and soldiers on the border entered Xixia and quickly took down the Xixia border fortress, such as building a Zhucheng, enjoying the mouth and the Xiama Village.

Otherwise, Xixia would soon receive news from the mobilization of so many military and civilians, and would inevitably send elite troops to station these marginal fortresses, and most of these fortresses are located in places with dangerous terrain, which would drag down the marching speed of the large troops behind them at that time.

Xixia was not at all prepared, and would not believe that the Song Dynasty had really negotiated peace. Although they were somewhat lucky, the Song army came too fast this time, which was as fast as Xixia expected. After receiving the news of the Song Dynasty sending troops, Liang Yibu immediately had an idea, that was, the Song Dynasty secretly joined forces with Hei Khan.

This is a bad news that is worse than adding insult to injury.

So Liang Yi-bing made a crazy move...Hogi!

Horigidine was not for flooding the Song army, so he could not expect Wang Ju to make such a low-level mistake. Moreover, Wang Ju used his troops to strive for two words: stability! It is impossible to give Xixia such an opportunity.

The reason why the Horizon dike was the road along the way was flooded, which slowed down the speed of the Song army, and then dispatched troops and asked for help from the Liao Kingdom. Fortunately, the Yellow River and the tributaries along the way had not yet fully arrived in the spring flood season, so several main forces of the Song army arrived at the city of Lingzhou one after another.

The ones that open in Horizon also include the Lingzhou River next to Yaode City. Now the river has gradually gone down one after another. Even if there is a water-stacked area, it has been covered with mud bags by the main army. However, there are still many areas along the way with roads in relatively muddy areas. In other words, the journey from Pule City to Lingzhou was originally three days, but now it may take five days.

The sky gradually darkened, and suddenly several war horses rushed over from afar. When we came near, several scouts dressed in herders hurriedly dismounted and said, "Mr. Yao, Mr. Liu, General Li, about 50,000 or 60,000 cavalry came from the north, which is only one hour away from our army."

"Okay, you guys go down and have a rest." Yao Lin said.

Liu Shaoneng said: "It's coming just right."

Yao Lin nodded, turned his head to look at Li Sangou and said, "General Li, you are old and can command, but don't be greedy for merit, otherwise I will not explain it to Taibao."

Li Sangou laughed.

This battle may be the last battle for many veterans, and it is also the last battle for Li Sangou. In fact, it is better to use his prestige in the hearts of the foreigners than to use his force.

Yao Lin began to order that the camp had been set up at this time. Although it was a logistics army and many civilians, they all set up camp according to the marching standards along the way, with camps and trenches.

However, even during the march, I was not afraid of enemy cavalry raids, because there were too many baggage vehicles, and I deliberately formed a convoy of more than four vehicles to advance, dividing the convoy into two and connecting them together, which was two standard defensive fronts. Of course, now that it was better to have a camp now.

But in order to stabilize, Yao Lin still ordered the baggage cart to be pushed to the front of the camp and connected it with the camp to prevent the enemy cavalry from clashing.

But the tens of thousands of archers from Hedong began to panic, and many people had expressions of fear on their faces. But this was exactly what Yao Lin needed!

The Song Dynasty still had no developed intelligence network in the Liao Kingdom. However, because the Liang family was against the flow of action, the people were living in poverty, so Wang Ju easily spread the intelligence network secretly into a large area of ​​Xixia.

Shortly after Wang Ju sent his troops, he received a message that nearly 10,000 cavalrymen lurked in the Baichi City area west of Tiemen Pass.

Upon receiving this news, Wang Ju immediately judged that the Xixia people wanted to attack the logistics of the Song army. The reason was very simple. The Song army now walked on Lingwu Avenue and Huluchuan Road, and had no relationship with the ancient Great Wall. The focus of the attack was Lingzhou. After Lingzhou was taken, the troops were sent to Hexi, directed to Xingqing Prefecture, and implemented the beheading policy.

This marching plan is clear, so there is no need for Xixia to place nearly 10,000 cavalry on the ancient Great Wall. There is also the loopholes in the Song army's marching themselves. In order to maintain the smooth cooperation of several armies, they were all very close, and at the same time they abandoned the territory on the north side of Xixia. Therefore, no matter what movements Xixia is in the north, the Song army is far from reaching.

The local terrain is south of the ancient Great Wall, west of Yanzhou, north of Pule City, and east of Yaode City. The Xixia people call this area the vast sea.

This is what Xixia said. The real vast sea is not this area, but refers to the Mongolian Plateau, Lake Baikal or Junggar Basin. The reason why the Xixia people called this area the vast sea is that this area is dominated by swamps, salt swamps, steppes, deserts and Gobi decks, and is not suitable for human habitation. Therefore, it is mostly unmanned areas and is also not suitable for the use of troops by the Song army. There is no other reason, and there is no sufficient water source. A small army is forgot about it. The army is also a large army dominated by infantry. Just one water makes the three armies afraid.

However, this vast sea is ultimately a funny sea. If it is a cavalry that runs through this "sea", the scale is small and does not require high logistics, and it will take half a day to get it. Therefore, after the victory in Qingzhou, Wang Ju sent a large number of cavalry to come from Yanzhou to the outskirts of Lingzhou to harass the people of Xixia. If it is a large number of cavalry, as long as you bring enough dry food and water, the daylight can also run through this "sea".

Because most areas are unmanned areas, Wang Ju took the initiative to give up the north, providing convenient conditions for the logistics of the Western Xia army to attack the Song Dynasty. Even if he was in a low position, he could use the advantages of the cavalry to retreat quickly because of this terrain.

In order to successfully capture the Western Xia, Wang Ju sent a large number of troops and civilians at all costs, and also caused shocking consumption every day. Although sufficient food and grass supplies were prepared in the early stage, he would inevitably transport food and grass from the rear in the later stage.

However, it is impossible to transfer from the Central Plains to Guanzhong, and then to Weizhou step by step, from Weizhou to Xiaoguan, and then to the front line. How much waste will it be? Therefore, it must be from Qingzhou.

But Wang Ju couldn't judge how many troops the Western Xia would mobilize to attack the logistics of the Song Dynasty, not only the ten thousand cavalry, but also some nomadic peoples in the North and South Hetao. This is not what Wang Ju is worried about. What he worried about the most was the Liao Kingdom. No matter whether the Liao Kingdom sent troops to Dadan or the self-blocking troops to Bu, they were all in the northernmost part of the Western Xia, and they were also places where the Song Dynasty scouts could not find out.

So Wang Ju formulated this plan.

The many supplies were transported this time, which made the people of Xixia excited. If they didn't make any decisions about this batch of supplies, they would not make any decisions about the Song army's logistics in the future.

Secondly, only a few of Yao Lin's subordinates and the foreign troops were wearing armor. This is normal. So many materials are transported here, wouldn't they send troops to escort them?

The rest were all out of armor, especially the tens of thousands of strong men and archers. Their names are archers and strong men. What is the difference between them and civilians? What they want is this kind of behavior. If they are all like Yao Lin’s subordinates trained by him and there are so many soldiers, will Xixia still dare to attack?

Once the bait is available, we have to calculate the location where the Xixia people may attack. Most of them will not go from Xiamazhai to Pulecheng, because they are too deep, and when they arrive here, they will most likely be noticed by the scouts of the Song Dynasty. Even if they successfully attack the food and grass, they will easily be cut off by the Song army.

In order to prevent the Xixia people from becoming crazy, Wang Ju intends to send a wide range of roaming in this area. Of course, if this is the case, the Xixia people still have a plan in this area, so there is no way, so they have to fight.

It is impossible to be too close to the main force of the Song army from Yaode City to Lingzhou.

Therefore, the attack locations are mostly between Pule City and Yaode City. Although they are not too far from Lingzhou, the Xixia River opened the river embankment of Lingzhou River in advance, so many low-lying areas are covered with water, which slowed down the marching speed of the logistics troops and slowed down the speed of the rescue Song army. At the same time, above it is the real "union sea", which is almost unmanned land, and is easy to sneak up.

Just like at this time, although the Song army was allowed to set up the camp, it was already dark when the tens of thousands of enemy cavalry approached the camp, which was a good time to attack the camp!

Orders were issued one by one, and the Poche, the foreign soldiers and Yao Lin's original subordinates were fully armed.

The tens of thousands of strong men and archers on Hedong Road were not assigned armor, but they also opened the baggage truck, took out weapons, held bows, or swords, guns and spears. However, most of these people were still nervous. However, with the strength of the people of Hedong, as long as they experienced a few actual battles and survived the fear of war, most of them could successfully become qualified soldiers.

The Song army continued to arrange the arrangements.

The enemy is here...

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Chapter completed!