Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 573 Xixia's Ambition

Gangneung City.

The military situation is like fire, and urgent reports come.The battle report was sent to Ezhou by boat, then changed to a fast horse, and galloped there in the starry night.

The fast rider on the horse with a small red flag planted behind his back entered straight from the west gate of Jiangling City, galloped along the avenue without any hesitation, and headed straight for the Privy Council.

All the way down the street, people were turned upside down, jumping like chickens and dogs, and the sound of cursing was repeated.But there are also some people, looking at the back of Kuaiqi going away, showing a look of worry.In Jiangling City, there are quite a few sons of the rich and powerful. These people may be clueless and incompetent, but they have good eyes and ears, and they have a lot of knowledge that they should have.They all know what a military emergency means.

That may have happened again!
Because I didn't hear the news along the way, the possibility of a great victory is very slim.In this way, there are only big defeats and sudden crises.

"The privy secretary hastened up, and the Tongling Zhejia brothers rebelled and led the army to Beitou--" He also intercepted a transport team that stopped in Tongling, and transported all the military supplies and supplies in his hands across the Yangtze River.

Yuqi ran straight into the lobby of the Privy Council holding the urgent report, and with one sentence, everyone in the hall was shocked.

"What a Zhejia, what a Zhejia..." Zheng Juzhong's face was congested, and his eyes were only black.

The land of Tongling is of course not very important, because in the middle of March, the Manichaeans had already retreated from Jinling City, and Jinling City had fallen into the hands of the Western Army.

Fang La is also helpless.Those small species all broke through Shezhou from Chizhou to the south, and the latter was Fang La's hometown.There are criss-cross mountains, criss-cross ravines, rugged and difficult to walk, easy to defend but difficult to attack, so the Manichaeans led Shi Bao to garrison here.Logically, it is foolproof.But the Manichaeism underestimated the Western Army after all. The latter also fought in the Hengshan area all the year round, and was also used to fighting in the mountains, especially the vassal soldiers under their command.This is where Shi Bao suffers.

As soon as Shezhou is broken, Xiaozhong's troops will be able to point directly at Hangzhou. How can Fang La be willing to fight hard in Jinling City?

Jinling City is very important, but Hangzhou is even more important.As soon as it was lost there, Fang La's territory was cut off in the middle.Besides, Fang La was planning to defeat the Western Army. As long as Lu Qian could win in the northwest as soon as possible and the morale of the Western Army would be shaken, the Manichaeism would still have hope!

With such a plan in mind, he would not want to lose too many troops.At present, from the north of Jinling City, they retreated by water, turned to the area east of Taihu Lake with Suzhou as the core, and fought steadily with the Western Army.

The victory of Jinling City can be said to be a shot in the arm for the panic-stricken Jiangling court, sweeping away the panic brought about by Lu Qianfei's attack on Yan'an Mansion.

But now, when the situation in these two battlefields is very good, the brothers of the Zhe family suddenly led the Tongling defenders to surrender to the Liangshan army, which really gave the Jiangling court a blow.

"The prefecture has been lost, and the Zhe family and the family surrendered to the thieves. It is not credible to ask for it and save it." At the beginning, Zhao Ji asked Guo Zhongxun to lead troops to build another new army for the imperial camp, and selected Yao Pingzhong, Liu Kai, and Miao Fu. , Liu Zhengyan and others were the commanders of the imperial battalion, but they only forgot Zhe Kecun who was as young as him, and the real intention had already been revealed.

"The old man had intentionally separated the military power from the two, and chose high-ranking officials to be honored and supported. However, there were those shameless and greedy people who deceived the saints with their rhetoric. "Zhe Keqiu, Zhe Kecun has three or four thousand Western troops under his command, and thousands of new troops recruited by Jiangnan. They are also a force. This time, they all invested in Jiangbei, and they added two points of strength to Lu Thief for nothing. , It caused the morale of the officers and soldiers to plummet.

Zheng Juzhong was dealing with official documents, and when he heard about the changes in Tongling, he slumped down on a chair.In such a good situation, he was stabbed suddenly, which caused extra pain.

Deng Xunwu, a member of the Privy Council of Tongzhi, took the letter and said, "Click..." Just halfway through reading it, he threw the report on the table.

This is so bad luck.

But now is not the time to be angry. The rebellion of the Tongling defenders seems to have given great courage to the Liangshan army on the opposite side. A small fleet was immediately deployed in Chaohu Lake, and it went out to block the Yangtze River waterway.

At present, the main force of the Song Army's navy is still Liu Menglong's department. Although the navy on Jingnan South Road, that is, Dongting Lake, is already under construction, due to lack of money and food, the results are obviously unclear.In this way, the main force of the Song Army's navy is in Jiangning Mansion, and the small navy fleet that came out of Ruxukou is not like a king without tigers and monkeys in the mountains.

Privy envoys, Tongzhi Privy Council affairs, and ministers of the Ministry of War and other important officials swarmed into the palace, which was already eye-catching.Then the Jingyang bell in front of the hall rang, and there was a rumble, and the officials in the political affairs hall rushed to the palace in a hurry.

In Tokyo and Xijing, although the Zhengshitang was set up in the forbidden area, the conditions in Jiangling City were poor, so they were separated.

The bell rang in front of the palace, startling all the civil and military people in the city, and countless pairs of eyes stared at the palace for a while.

"Hurry up, order people to go to the Privy Council to inquire!" Wang Dingliu, Yan Qing and others who were lurking in the city also jumped up and hurriedly ordered people to go down.

At this time, in the land of Kansai, at the frontier of the northern border, countless Xixia troops outside the city of Yinzhou had already flooded in.

Standing on the high city wall without using a telescope, looking at the boundless sea of ​​​​people and horses in the north with the naked eye is enough to shock people.It is really boundless and overwhelming.

Black figures obscured the view, dust drowned the sun, and the earth groaned under the hooves of the horses.

"It's really spectacular!" Zhe Keda has also experienced four or fifty years of fighting, but he has never seen so many people.

Xixia's 30 army has its own moisture, but at least half of it is real.Such a scene is really huge!It makes people tremble with goosebumps.

Zhe Keda has no timidity at all.Yes, there are many Xixia soldiers.But he was not alone.What's more, King Lu is currently in Mizhizhai. Although there are not many troops gathered there, Lu Qian can quickly lead the guards and horses all the way to northern Shaanxi, but the army in the Heluo area can't do that.But what is the identity of the family?
King Lu dared to come to gamble, but would his life count as a ball?
Brother Li Cha beat Ma Yinchuan city, looked at the folded general flag on the top of the city, looked at the dozens of heads hanging on the top of the city, and snorted angrily. "Old man, how presumptuous!" How dare you insult him like this.Hanging the head of the dead Xixia nobleman...

It's just that the hatred between the two sides is as deep as the ocean, seeing the word 'fold', brother Li Cha didn't even have the leisure to ask someone to scold him.With a big wave of his hand, he told the soldiers to attack and kill.

This time when he came to Yinzhou, he brought a lot of troops with him.It is the absolute main force of the Lord of Xixia - the bodyguard army. He has brought tens of thousands of cavalry, as well as a capture army of more than 3 people and a tribal army of more than 10 people.Although the latter hadn't gathered all of them yet, and sent out a troop to kill Yongle City, but at this moment, he still has [-] to [-] cavalry.

In Brother Li Cha's eyes, the Liangshan Army is at an absolute disadvantage this time around, because they still have Zhao Song as an ally in the south.

In the city of Yan'an, some soldiers and horses have been assembled recently.Adding up the north and the south, this is more than 20.

But how many Liangshan troops did they have?The number of cavalry who followed the Lu thief to northern Shaanxi was ten thousand cavalry.Even with the recently transferred infantry from Hedong, the total strength may be only 5 to [-].

How could this little army be their opponent?
Brother Li Cha knew what this meant.

As long as they can completely defeat the Liangshan Army, which has far fewer people than themselves, and even kill Lu Qian, before the follow-up army of the Liangshan Army arrives, the influence of this battle will directly change the direction of the situation in the Central Plains.

Once Lu Qian died, only the child he left behind couldn't speak, how could he be able to stay stable?The scene of Zhao Kuangyin and Chen Qiao's mutiny may not be repeated in Yidu.What's more likely is that the Liangshan army fell apart, and the huge Central Plains once again fell into a situation where heroes competed for hegemony.

At that time, Xixia may not be able to take advantage of the chaos to get a share of it.Although he knew that he wanted to kill Lu Qian, that possibility was far more difficult than defeating the Liangshan army here.

People are not stones, people have legs.

Not to mention the turbulent thoughts in Brother Li Cha's heart, just look at the dark Xixia soldiers camping outside the city, and a series of camps surrounded Yinzhou City from front to back.

This Yinzhou is located at the confluence of Mingtang River and Wuding River, but it is not at the intersection, but to the south of Wuding River.Because of the higher terrain at the intersection, the scouring of the two rivers made the loess wall there as straight as a knife, forming a high platform as high as a hundred feet.The terrain is like Chousangyuan at Hanguguan and Linzhiyuan at Tongguan, on which there is a vast flat land of more than 400 square meters.

It stands to reason that this should be an excellent place to build a fortress, but unfortunately, there is a serious lack of water here.

Therefore, the former military stronghold in Yinzhou was located at the southern end of the Wuding River, with the purpose of getting stuck from the Hengshan mountain area to the Wuding River.Later, the river evolved, and the southeastern part of the old city was submerged, and the western part was covered with high mountains and deep valleys. The Xixia people moved the city to the northwest instead.

Now it is surrounded by Xixia Corps, but as long as it is not captured by the Xixia Army, the transportation and passage of the Xixia Army will always be covered by the bows and crossbows of Yinzhou City.

Unless they can advance from the north bank of the Wuding River where Mingtang River joins, but there are deep gullies and ravines, it is extremely difficult to advance.At least not enough supplies.

If it wasn't for such benefits, why did the Song army set up a stronghold here?
Brother Cha went to sleep at night as usual, and only ordered people to go on duty at night, so be careful and not be careless.In this way, at the fourth watch, the Xixia soldiers on duty at night saw a sudden noise from the top of Yinzhou City. A few torches were shining, and a group of soldiers appeared at the top of the city. There were about a hundred soldiers in black The soldiers in the clothes were hung by ropes and let down the city, as if they were going to sneak attack the Xixia army in the dark.

The Xixia soldiers who were on duty at night couldn't believe their eyes, the Han people were not afraid of death.Just such a small group of people dare to come to touch the camp.

Seeing that more than a hundred black shadows had reached the middle of the city wall and were about to hit the ground, he quickly issued a warning signal to remind the enemy army of an imminent attack.

"The enemy's sneak attack from the city?" Li Heda, the former commander of the army, rushed out of the big tent and climbed onto the high platform in the camp.

"Command the army, all the enemy troops have been shot and killed." A moment later, a Xixia army general came to report.

It was found that Li Heda's face was full of seriousness.

(End of this chapter)