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Liu Changzuo then took over Dingzhou.

Now only the lonely Xingzhou City and some small forts in the surrounding Xixia are left.

The two armies quickly surrounded and successfully drove out these small fortresses, including the Li Palace on the edge of Helan Mountain outside Xingzhou City, and officially arrived at the city of Xingzhou.

Wang Ju asked Liu Changzuo to lead his subordinates back to Yanzhou and return to Yanzhou from Yanzhou. It was hundreds of miles away. Only when you arrived in Yanzhou in advance for rest can you ensure sufficient physical strength in the future. Otherwise, you would hurriedly turn back and become a team of the exhausted army. What physical strength will you do?

At this point, almost all the Song army's Zhongyou Road retreated, and only the Zhongyou Road army surrounded Lingzhou City was left, but the Zhongyou Road army's troops were less than that of the Zhongyou Road Army, and it was still a huge army.

Although there are quite a lot of troops in the Xixia city in Xingzhou City, it is enough to have the army on the left.

Or it is best if the Xia army goes out of the city to fight, but this Song army is not the rebels of Linghu Chao, and Liang Yibi is not Zhang Xun!

It would be fine if you don’t leave the city, but once you leave the city, the speed of breaking the city will be faster.

As Wang Ju ordered an attack, he first asked the prisoners of war to carry mud bags and forcibly fill the moat outside Xingzhou City.

However, at the critical moment, Liang Yibi didn't care whether these prisoners of war were from Xixia or not and began to order arrows. This forced Wang Ju to order many tower chariots. The soldiers stood on the tall tower chariots and used the divine arm bow to cover the prisoners of war. Otherwise, if the prisoners were shot to death together, they would force the soldiers and civilians to fill the river.

With the continuous whipping of the Song army, tens of thousands of prisoners of war filled the large sections of moat outside Xingzhou City in just over four days. At the same time, the Song army set up a earth mountain in the rear, which had little to do with artillery. It had two functions: one was a clear vision, and the other was to allow the Divine Arm Bow to exert greater power.

But the fortifications of the Song army were not over yet. Some of the Song army were building the earthen mountain, and some of the Song army was digging tunnels. As a large section of moats were filled, these tunnels were gradually dug under the walls of Xingzhou City.

Although he had an absolute advantage, Wang Ju did not despise it. There were too many examples of the enemy's final retreat by a city in history. For example, Zhang Xun's Juyang, but not only Zhang Xun's Juyang defense battle, such as the Jimo City defense of Qi in the Spring and Autumn Period, Wei Xiaokuan's Jade Bi Battle, and his opponent was the powerful brother Gao Huan! Liu Xiu's Kunyang defense battle, a generation of famous emperors rose slowly from then on. Zang Zhi's Xuyi defense battle, his opponent The stronger hand was the Emperor Tuoba Tao. Geng Gong Shule City’s defense battle, with ambition to eat the meat of the barbarians, laughing at the thirsty and drinking the blood of the Huns! Zhang Liao’s Battle of Xiaoyaojin, Wei Rui’s Battle of Zhongli, Li Guangbi’s Battle of Taiyuan. Later in history, there were Wang Jian’s Battle of Diaoyu City, Meng Gong’s Battle of Xiangyang, and their opponents were the powerful Yuan Meng Iron Cavalry. Zhu Wenzheng’s Battle of Hongdu, and Xue Yue’s Battle of Changsha in the Age of Thermal Weapons…

Liang Yiqiu cannot reach such a height.

But as long as it takes a few months, the consequences will be serious.

Let’s not talk about anything else, just talk about the Northern Han Dynasty. Zhao Kuangyin is considered to be awesome, but under the city of Taiyuan, Zhao Kuangyin has been repeatedly allowed to eat turtles.

Wang Ju estimated that Liang Yibi was also thinking that the people of Xixia thought that the Song army would not be able to fight in the field, but they quickly discovered that this understanding was wrong. In the field, the Song army defeated the Xia army again and again. However, it was the Song Dynasty's attack and the Xixia defense, so we used one city after another to survive with your Song army. Wang Ju even thought that Xixia and Liao had secretly made some agreement. In the end, the Liao Kingdom sent troops to provide assistance, and your Song army also went back obediently. One attack of Xia was unsuccessful, and the two attacks of Xia were unsuccessful, but the cost was greater than the other. In the end, the Song Dynasty believed Wang Ju and did not agree to attack Xia.

But Wang Ju would never let this happen.

So it was a kind of siege that was extremely rough and violent, and was displayed in front of the world for the first time.

Starting from the tunnel, one tunnel after another digging under the Xingzhou city wall, but unlike the tunnel that Gao Huan dug, Gao Huan asked his subordinates to dig the tunnel. The tunnel was very large, and then he used wooden pillars to support the soil on the top. After digging, he began to burn the wooden pillars with fire. The soldiers retreated. At the same time, the wooden pillars were almost burned. Without support, the soil on the top and the city wall began to collapse.

There is also Li Guangbi's Battle in Taiyuan, where he dug out the tunnel and used tunnel tactics to deal with Shi Siming, but the tunnel was also very big, but the tunnel was not under the city wall, but outside the city.

But now there is no need for that, gunpowder is enough.

The tunnels were dug up one by one, and wooden boxes filled with gunpowder were dragged under the tunnel by soldiers. This was imitating the tactics of Hong Xiuquan's attack on Nanjing. Using a coffin to slap the city walls was blown up. In fact, the principle was very simple. The power of the black gunpowder explosion was mainly a huge air pressure shock wave, so the air pressure would inevitably rush out from the relaxed place. The most relaxed part of a coffin was the coffin cover, so the air pressure just hit the upper part, either on the left or down, because the city wall was blown down.

Of course, this requires some luck, because people are below and cannot judge the location of the city wall. Even if they are aimed at the city wall, if they are biased, they will not be able to blow up the city wall.

The Xixia people also saw it on the top of the city, so they dug a trench along the city wall in the city and sent soldiers to listen. If there was any movement below, they would drill holes and pour oil into the holes.

Many Song Bing's feet were burned and asked his comrades to carry them back.

But the sound of cannons rumbled above. Even if you were lying on the ground, you might not be able to hear all the movements below. Therefore, from time to time, the Song army was asked to successfully send the gunpowder box under the city wall and then ignite the explosion.

Only one day later, a city wall was blown up, twisted a few times, and fell down with a loud bang.

The Xixia people immediately blocked the gap crazily, then tied the wood of the gate. The Song army carried out a large car and hit it. The Xixia people had to block mud bags behind the wall.

On the second and third day, there was a fierce battle at every collapsed mouth.

At least for the time being, the people of Xixia were very brave, but this was also as Wang Ju expected. Not only Xingzhou, but also in Hexi, the Xia army in all cities was very brave. After all, this area was the core area of ​​Xixia. But it was only this area, like the North and South Hetao, and the Hexi Corridor, when they saw the arrival of the Song army, they almost all descended. Even on the Hengshan line, from Yanzhou to Roulang Mountain, the Song army did not encounter any tenacious resistance.

But it doesn't matter. This is just underground and ground. With the official general attack, various sharp weapons come in handy. Almost every day and every moment, almost every day, almost day and night, a large number of shells, gunpowder packs, thunderbolt bombs with toxic smoke and caltrops, various rock bombs, and divine arm bows, just like raindrops, spreading in every corner of Xingzhou.

Then Wang Ju sent people to make dozens of large hot air balloons, not to land in the city. At this time, although the Western Xia troops in Xingzhou were not as strong as the Song army outside the city, there were tens of thousands of people and a group of fanatical people. Hundreds of "parkers" landed down to give snacks.

The reason why we used hot air balloons was that Wang Ju brought several things from the other side, that is, sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid, both of which were laboratory products, with very few quantity and expensive production. Therefore, it was not until now that it came in handy.

The soldiers took some ceramic jars and rose to the sky with the hot air balloons, and then sprayed them with a simple spray tube made of ceramics on the Xia army in the city. Because they were small in number, they could not kill people, but it hurts if this thing touched the body.

Faced with this three-dimensional and all-round attack, even Kumamoto Yao Yi was stunned.

Seeing that it was almost done, Wang Ju ordered a strong attack to officially attack the city.

However, I didn't expect that there were many brave Xixia soldiers in the city who were defending the city tenaciously and repelling the Song army again and again.

At the end of the day, Wang Ju ordered the three armies to rest.

Kumamoto sighed and said, "Taibao, I didn't expect that there are still many Xixia people who are unruly."

This is not a rebellious...

It doesn't matter, but in this way, if you want to win Xingzhou City, you will have to make huge sacrifices.

Or bombard a few more days... Wang Ju walked around and suddenly came up with an idea.

Then he issued a series of orders.

In order to irrigate, Li Yuanhao also built many water conservancy projects, including two famous water conservancy projects on both sides of Xingzhou City, the Tanglai Canal in the west, the Hanyuan Canal in the east, the Hanyuan Canal in the east, and the Liwang Canal in the east, and the Haoyuan Canal in the size of the Tanglai Canal. However, they are not new canals, and they originally had old canals, but they were barren and silted. The Xixia people re-drunk and used them to irrigate. Both canals were diverted from Qingtong Gorge and extended to Dingzhou on the bank of Heshan Lan.

Wang Ju first sent someone to investigate, and then began to build tall earth walls and some ditches on the outskirts of Xingzhou City.

When Liang Yibi saw Wang Ju's actions, he was puzzled at first, but suddenly laughed, thinking that Wang Ju was full of imagination.

Wang Ju didn't have a big brainshot, but some Xixia people began to have big brainshots. The Song army suddenly stopped attacking. What do you want to do in this situation?

Some people thought that it was about to enter mid-June, and it was the time when the river water surged. If the Song Dynasty opened the steep gate at the head of the Tang Lai Canal and Hanyuan Canal, the river water would go down the two canals, and then the flood would block the flood from behind because of the earth walls built by the Song army. So the flood would slowly rise outside Xingzhou City.

In the future, all Xingzhou City will be submerged, but now several city walls have been blown down. Although they are blocked with mud and wood, if there is flooding around them, they will inevitably penetrate and eventually lead to collapse. How can you defend the city then?

Thinking of this, many military and civilians were in chaos.

Liang Yibi was furious, how could it happen! If even this situation would happen, how could Xixia build a city in Xingzhou and be the capital of the country?

Well, due to his tyranny, everyone dared not speak out. But some people were unwilling to accept it. If it had no effect, could that guy from the Song Dynasty do such a stupid thing? He could do such a stupid thing, and even defeat Xixia in a row, and even destroy the country at any time!

Wang Ju ignored what the soldiers and civilians in Xixia City thought, and he continued to order the attack to stop and continue to build these inexplicable projects. Suddenly he received news from Yinzhou.

The secret envoy returned and mogussi paid for a long time. Although Wang Ju gave him very generous conditions, this was not a joke, and it was related to the life and death plan.

But at this time, the Liao Kingdom was not clear about the situation and sent people to urge it repeatedly. There was no way, so Mogus had to enter Xiazhou City. But after entering Xiazhou City, Mogus had not moved yet because he was still hesitating.

As the Song army was attacking Xingzhou City, Mogus sent someone to lurk over to watch. As a result, several scouts were stunned when they saw the Song army's all-round three-dimensional attack. This made Mogus make up his mind. In fact, this fate was already destined from his entry into the Western Xia territory. Even if he did not rebel against the Liao Kingdom, the Song army was not afraid, but Wang Juhuanxi's "double insurance" was gone.

At this time, Mogus had been in Xiazhou City for several days and was very familiar with the situation in the city. Suddenly, the people of Xixia were caught off guard and were suddenly defeated by Mogus. Then Mogus sent people to inform the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty in Yinzhou, and the two sides slowly handed over.

Accepting surrender is like facing the enemy, and handing over is like facing the enemy. First, Mogus slowly retreated until he retreated to a safe distance, and the Song army then entered the city.

But Mogus did not leave, but asked the Song army for armor. This was impossible. Once the more than 10,000 cavalrymen were fully armed and stayed in Qiliping, not far from Xiazhou City, it posed a serious threat to both Xiazhou and Shizhou. So the two sides began to argue, and Yinzhou had to report to Wang Ju.

Wang Ju immediately issued an instruction. This simple thing was that the armor transported from the rear of the court was mainly concentrated in Qingzhou, and it was impossible to turn the armor from land to Xiazhou step by step. It was too far away. However, many armors were concentrated outside Xingzhou City, and now there is only an isolated city in Xingzhou, which is left in Xixia, either the Hongyou two states in the north of Yanzhou, but they are all under the attack of the Song army on both sides, so they ignore it.

That is, the cavalry has temporarily lost its function, so Wang Ju instructed Mogus to take his subordinates to retreat to Shengwei City first and cross the Yellow River in Shengwei City. Wang Ju transported these armors to Hexi by ship, handed them over the armor in Hexi, and also drew out a batch of armor seized from Xixia to bring them back to Shubu to strengthen their strength in case of accidents. If you are not at ease, let Mogus send several envoys to ride horses to supervise.

Soon Zhang Shi also sent a message, and the scout discovered that a large group of Liao troops had entered Dongshengzhou. However, Zhang Shi's tone was very relaxed. It would be better for the Liao Kingdom to send troops. After successfully destroying the Western Xia, it would be possible to manage and immigrate. At most, the entire northwest would be settled in the spring of next year.

But if the Liao Kingdom sends troops, the worst thing is to send troops to Hebei, followed by Hedong. So now Zhang Yue is not in Taiyuan, nor in Yinzhou, but in Ninghua Army, because the imperial court ceded the north of Huangwei Mountain to the Liao Kingdom, causing the Daizhou defense line to be torn a hole. Once the Liao Kingdom goes south, the first ones will be the Gulan Army and Daizhou Han County. However, if the Liao army wants to attack Hedong, the army will inevitably go south from Yunzhou, which is a great road. It is impossible to go around Dongshengzhou, and then follow the cliffs, turn back to Shuozhou and launch an attack on Hedong.

But the favorite situation is that the Liao Kingdom put the battlefield in Hexi!

The Song Dynasty sent troops to Xixia this time, and dispatched nearly 600,000 soldiers and civilians. The Western Route Army cannot be counted now. There were not many real Song troops along the way. They all came from strong men from Tubo’s troops west of Hezhou. The requirements were too high, which would make these foreigners dissatisfied. Moreover, turning these soldiers back to Nanhetao from the distant Hexi Corridor, not to mention that the foreigners were unwilling to do so, the journey was too far.

Therefore, the Western Route Army has basically completed its mission, and some of its troops have begun to hand over to Hei Han one after another. However, Hei Han is also quite satisfied this time. This time, he has obtained wealth from the people, cattle and sheep and other materials. The Song Dynasty also clearly stated that it would divide the world and the world from now on with the ancient Yumen Pass as the boundary, and Zhao Xu personally wrote an edict to divide the boundaries.

After all, the Han and Tang dynasties managed the Western Regions many times before, and even the short-lived dynasty of the Western Jin Dynasty established the Western Regions Changshi Mansion, bringing the territory to the Pamir Mountains.

After the Song Dynasty destroyed Xixia, the business road was restored. This was good news, but Hei Khan was also afraid that the Central Plains dynasty would extend his hand to the Western Regions like the Central Plains dynasty in history.

In fact, if you really want to stretch out, black sweat is really nothing. Now black sweat is not the black sweat decades ago. It is divided into two and has also lost its ambitions. Therefore, it was defeated by Yelu Dashi and a group of defeated soldiers decades later in history.

It was not until this letter of nationality was delivered to the Hei Khan Lord with a fast horse that Hei Khan felt relieved, gained many people, gained some wealth, and his trade routes were restored, and he all happily retreated.

Therefore, Wang Wenyu has focused on governing stability and preparing for future immigration. At the same time, Zhongyi has led his retreat to Hehuang. However, there is a group of busy soldiers of the three armed forces on the Juyanhai. The Juyanhai is divided into two seas in the east and west. The middle passage is more than 60 miles on average, and the narrow place is nearly 50 miles. So the Song army built two cities in a narrow place through this passage, one south and one north. Wide ditches were dug on both sides of the castle and poured into the lake water of the two seas, so that the passage between the two cities formed a huge island in the middle of the lake, so that the border soldiers and their families could grazing and farming, and feed themselves.

Then, if you are attacked by the enemy in the future, as long as you have sufficient weapons, you can protect yourself even without external rescue. In fact, the Liao Kingdom will not be able to use troops from here in the future. It is too far away and the only logistics will make the Liao Kingdom unable to bear it. The main defense is the people of the Bubu, which has nothing to do with Mogus. God knows whether Mogus will turn back to the Liao Kingdom in the future. Besides, Mogus cannot control all the Bubu tribes.

With such construction, Ruoshuichuan can be guarded and become an important gateway to the western Helan Mountains and the northern Hexi Corridor.

The Song army there was no hope, but there were still many troops in Hedong. In addition to the Western Route Army, the number of military and civilians that the Song army could mobilize here could still be maintained at around 600,000.

In fact, the concepts of the war between the army and the people are very vague. The so-called people are not really the people. Although they use real people, they are only responsible for domestic escorts, including the original prisoners of war, and none of them are transferred abroad.

This civilian was actually composed of the Xiang army, the brave men, the brave men, Baoding, and some archers in the rear of Hedong, and some Poche troops east of Guanzhong and Tongguan. Although they were archers and Poche troops, they were in the rear and had not been accustomed to fighting for a long time, so they were classified as civilians.

However, these people have taught instructors before, but they have not been on the battlefield. Most of them have made progress during this period of hard work, at least they can stand on the top of the city to take up weapons to defend themselves.

But apart from these militias, the rest were the strongest troops of the Song Dynasty.

With such a huge force, even though Xingzhou City has dragged down many Song Dynasty troops, various forts and forts have to be guarded, but it can mobilize more than 200,000 mobile troops to fight against the Liao Kingdom.

When fighting here, the Liao Kingdom did not have an advantage, so Zhang Zhi was very curious about how many troops the Liao Kingdom could send to return without a crushing defeat.

In fact, Yelu Otla, the chief general of the three Liao armies, was expressing a headache this time.

The Liao Kingdom did not fully believe the peace promised by the Song Dynasty. It was half of the belief and half of the doubts. It seemed to be with the Western Xia side, thinking that there was another conflict within the Song Dynasty, so it also sent some scouts to sneak into the border between Xia and Song, which is the area north of Yinzhou.

But this time the Song Dynasty sent troops too fast, and the troops had no connection with Yinzhou. Therefore, when the Liao Kingdom heard the news, several main troops of the Song Dynasty had entered the territory of Xixia.

Officials from Xijing, Liao Dynasty immediately informed Yelu Hongji that disputes began to occur in Liao Dynasty. Some wanted to fight, some only expressed their reproach, and some expressed their threats to send troops, but they did not really use troops.

However, at this time, the Liao Kingdom received good news.

Lu Hui sent away the leaders and their subordinates' families. After no worries, they dispatched again. At this time, there were only a few thousand people. However, after repeated battles, they accumulated rich combat experience and became veterans of hundreds of battles. They also used guerrilla tactics. The small number of people means that they are very concealed and the logistics supply is not difficult.
To be continued...