Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

Yang Shu said: "The Song army is a tired army."

"The exhausted division?" Yeli Jingren was even more annoyed, "As soon as the exhausted division arrived, they used troops against the southeast city wall?"

Yeli Jingren sighed: "Fortunately, it takes time for the Song army to build siege equipment, and I hope the reinforcements can arrive in time, so there will be a double-sided attack!"

The engineering battalion of the Song Army was busy day and night.

Two days later, on March [-], Zhou Jian, the commander of the Song Army's engineering battalion, reported to Liu Kai: "Liu Shuai, sixty trebuchets have been completed, and there are still fifty ladders."

Liu Kai gulped down the rest of the rice, slammed his chopsticks on the table, and said, "It was built so quickly?"

"Please Liu Shuai review!"

Liu Kai went out to inspect it with great interest.

He didn't expect the engineer battalion to be so fast.

It seems that those people transferred from Tokyo Institute of Technology are indeed more professional than those ordinary people in the past.

The engineer battalion is the current standard equipment of the Song Army, and all of them are professional soldiers.

They are not only more professional, but also more mobile and better equipped, and they can be a backup team at any time during wartime.

"Since the construction is completed, it is not too late to attack the city!"

Yeli Jingren, who was drinking in the city, heard the sound of war drums outside the city and asked, "What's going on?"

Not long after, the messenger ran in: "General, the Song army has attacked the city."

"Siege?" Yeli Jingren asked suspiciously, "The Song Army has only been here for two days, what are they going to use to attack the city?"

But the drums are indeed getting louder.

Catapults surrendered Zhentianlei to the top of the city, and exploded, causing Xia Jun to hide in Tibet and make chaos.

Not long after, goose carts connected to the ladder were pushed from the front, and Song Jun hid inside. When the ladder hit the top of the city, Song Jun began to climb up.

"Report! The Song army has a large number of trebuchets and ladders!"

Yeli Jingren was taken aback, and shouted: "This is impossible! The Song Army has just arrived for two days, how could there be a large number of catapults and ladders! Do you mean that the Song Army's catapults and ladders have grown legs, follow them All the way from Suide to Yinzhou?"

No one answered Ye Lijingren's question.

But now the Song Army has a lot of trebuchets and ladders.

These catapults and ladders of the Song Army are not big, and they are incomparable with the large catapults and ladders used by Wanyan Zonghan to attack the powerful cities of Taiyuan and Tokyo.

But attacking Yinzhou is enough.

It stands to reason that Yinzhou is such an important location, there should be a majestic city.

However, the greatest strength of the Xixia people is to fight mountain warfare, trek across mountains and rivers, ambush, or use cavalry to fight mobile warfare.

But building and defending the city are really not their forte. They may have limited funds, and all available money is put in Xingqing Mansion and Xiping Mansion.

The Xia army in the city was forced to separate part of it from the southeast corner to other places for support, and the pressure of the Song army in the southeast corner suddenly decreased.

In the afternoon, the Song Army's vanguard troops climbed to the north wall, and the north wall was quickly controlled by the Song Army.

When it was almost evening, corpses had been piled up in the southeast gap, including the corpses of the Song army and the Xixia people, and the river was completely stained red.

The stubborn Xia army retreated like a tide and fled into the city.

Liu Rui struck a Xia army centurion on the forehead with an axe, making a sound like chopping wood, and blood and brains splashed out.

The centurion froze, twitched a few times in pain, and fell to the ground.

All the obstacles in the southeast corner were shattered by the Song army, and the soldiers roared and rushed inside.

Military exploits and food are all inside.

In just three days, Yinzhou was captured by the Song army.

Yinzhou is located in the east of Hengshan Mountain, and when Yinzhou returned to the hands of the Song army, Liu Kai's army was like a sharp sword hanging beside the Xia army, instantly changing the entire battle situation on the Song and Xia east front.

Chapter 379 The Frenzied Summer Lord Li Qianshun (Second Update)

Because of Li Liangfu's defeat, Li Qianshun dispatched 3000 men from Jingsai Army Division to Zhuoluo and Nanjun Division.

But the situation has obviously exceeded Li Qianshun's prediction.

While Liu Qi on the Eastern Front achieved a key strategic victory.

Li Yanxian on the western front has already chased the Xixia people into the desert.

The Xixia people once again experienced the nightmare of being chased to the desert by Liu Fa.

On March [-]th, after Li Yanxian defeated Yingli City in Xixia, he beheaded [-] Xixia people, replenished his supplies, and then went all the way north.

This place is already the site of the ancient Great Wall, and the weathered earthen city walls have witnessed thousands of years of desolation and simplicity.

Today, they once again witnessed the Han Chinese going north.

Until March 200th, Li Yanxian traveled more than [-] miles into the desert.

In the endless yellow sand, the Song army galloped all the way, beheaded [-] Xixia people, and almost emptied Xixia's military defense west of the vast sea.

And the situation is still going in a direction that Li Qianshun didn't expect at all.

He had just issued an order to mobilize another [-] troops in Xingqing Mansion and Xiping Mansion. The army was still being mobilized, but the Song army on Huanqing Road and Jingyuan Road had already gathered on a large scale.

While Liu Qi dispatched soldiers and civilians to Suide to station in Yinzhou, Wu Lin, the commander of Huanzhou soldiers and horses, led the troops to the north and stopped at Guide Fort.

This place is only more than 100 miles away from Xixia Yanzhou, and you can reach Yanzhou within a few days.

The Dingbian Army is only more than 100 miles away from Hongzhou in Xixia, and Li Yongqi, the general manager of the Dingbian Army, also began to fight hard.

The two armies returned to Jingyuan Road Jinglue envoy Wang Shu, who claimed to have an army of 30, but in fact it was only [-].

The news was so fast, Song Jun openly stated that he would go north to attack Yanzhou!

With such a high-profile movement suddenly, Xixia's secret agents in Shaanxi couldn't sit still anymore.

On March [-], the emergency information from the secret agents fell on Li Qianshun's desk like snowflakes.

One message after another was telling Li Qianshun that the Song Army was mobilizing all its forces in Shaanxi to fight a life-and-death battle with Bai Gao Da Xia.

Li Qianshun almost jumped up on the spot: "Song Jun moved so fast! This is impossible!"

The Xixia side made a strategic response to Tokyo and speculated that from the beginning of the war to the transmission to Jingzhao Mansion, Jingzhao Mansion and then to Tokyo, both places had to digest the battle situation halfway.

It is impossible for them to make a clear-cut decision with very little knowledge of the situation. No one fights like that.

The most is to tell all walks of life to speed up the defense, and Shaanxi's defense will inevitably loosen a lot after the rotation.

Li Qianshun even speculated that if the Song Dynasty really wanted to take the initiative to attack, it would have to wait at least after May.

March and April are the best time for him to go south on a large scale.

But in fact, Shaanxi has already begun to mobilize, and even a large army has already displayed the frontier.

It would be fine if there were only one or two secret reports, it might be an intelligence error, but now there are more than a dozen secret reports on the table.

Moreover, these more than a dozen secret reports, including those from Yongxing Army Road, all have one thing in common: the Song Army is mobilizing unprecedented troops to the north.

Brother Li Cha said: "To tell you the truth, Zhang Jungang wrote a letter of guilt to my minister."

"Oh, where?"

Brother Li Cha took it out to Li Qianshun.

After reading it, Li Qianshun felt even more unbelievable: "It is impossible for Zhang Jun to advocate the mobilization of the army to the north. He does not have this power, even if he is a privy envoy, he does not have this power!"

The right to declare war and send troops is in the hands of the emperor.

The Song Dynasty had a strict system, especially the extremely strict military and political system, which was no longer like the Tang Dynasty.

The feudal towns in the Tang Dynasty had independent financial, judicial and personnel powers.

In the Song Dynasty, in order to prevent the warlords from becoming bigger, the military and political control was extremely strict, and Li Qianshun knew this.

Brother Li Cha suddenly said: "We dispatched troops on the [-]th of the first lunar month. It took two months to spread from the northwest to Tokyo, and Tokyo responded. It is theoretically possible."

Li Qianshun frowned and said, "You mean, once Zhang Jun's report arrived in Tokyo, the Zhao officials didn't discuss anything with the ministers, and directly asked Zhang Jun to mobilize all the troops in Shaanxi?"

"This is the only possibility for the Shaanxi Song Army to make such fast movements!"

Li Qianshun's face became more gloomy, and he roared in a low voice: "The Zhao man is crazy! He is crazy! Does he know that he is forcing Song Xia to go to war!"

Ren Dejing was also on the side, and he said: "Your Majesty, this may be a strategy of the Song Dynasty. It was deliberately shown to us. In fact, it did not mobilize so many troops!"

"More than a dozen secret reports! Even the "Shaanxi Wartime Daily" of the Song Dynasty has officially published it! Now there is a large army only a hundred miles away from Yanzhou!" Li Qianshun almost roared.

"Doesn't this person surnamed Zhao know that the Song and Xia countries are in such a fight, both sides will suffer, and the last one is the Jin country!"

"Also! Hebei Liuyu is using troops against Song! How dare he mobilize all the troops in Shaanxi without hesitation!"

This fucking is not normal thinking.

Who plays cards like this!

Fighting on two fronts, throwing nuclear bombs as soon as they come up?

Li Qianshun felt that the situation was out of control unprecedentedly, and it did not develop according to his expectations at all.

According to this posture, he will also mobilize all the remaining [-] troops in Xingqing Mansion and Xiping Mansion.

Isn't this forcing him to Stud?

Ren Dejing said: "Your Majesty, don't fall into the tricks of the Song Dynasty."

"What if it's true?"

Ren Dejing couldn't say a word.

Li Qianshun glanced at Ren Dejing coldly.

Brother Li Cha said: "Your Majesty, don't panic. Even if the Song Dynasty mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops to fight us, as long as we stand still, it will be difficult for them to come in."

"Yes! You're right!" Li Qianshun seemed to be grasping at straws, "As long as the troops stand still, the Song Dynasty will not be able to attack!"

This is not true.

There are two key battles between Xixia and Song Dynasty. One is Hengshan, which is to the east of the junction of Song and Xia, which is equivalent to the left arm of Xixia.

The second is Hehuang. Hehuang used to be the residence of various tribes of Tubo. They flirted with the Xixia people and kept harassing and attacking Huanqing Road in the northwest. The Song Dynasty suffered from enemies on both sides and could not concentrate its forces on Hengshan on the eastern front to fight Xixia.

Hehuang was cut off in the reign of Song Huizong, which is equivalent to the broken right arm of Xixia.

Now the most critical place left is Hengshan.

As for Li Yanxian going north from Lanzhou and going deep into the desert, he can't shake the foundation of Xixia.

why?

Li Yanxian went all the way north to Xixia Yingli, and further north was the desert. To the northeast of Yingli was Lingzhou, and a hundred miles to the north of Lingzhou was Xingqing Mansion.

However, to the east of the reason is the vast sea that spans hundreds of miles.

If you want to go to Lingzhou from Yingli, you must cross the vast sea.

The vast sea of ​​Xixia is a large sandy land with undulating terrain, nearly [-] miles from north to south. Once the Song army enters there, the Xixia army can set up border defenses in Lingzhou. When the Song army arrives in Lingzhou, Xixia can wait for work and finish the abuse .

Even if the Song army entered Lingzhou, they would be trapped to death in Lingzhou because of the depth.

Chapter 380 The situation is completely reversed! (third change)

Therefore, Li Yanxian's western front cannot threaten the hinterland of Xixia, which is determined by the geographical location.

This is also the reason why Li Yanxian must hunt down and kill the Xixia people.

The biggest shortcoming of Xixia is that there are few people, killing more batches will consume more Xixia's strength.

Not on the west line, but what about Hengshan on the east line?

For the Hengshan defense line, Li Qianshun is very confident.

As long as one side occupies Hengshan, Song Xia will take the initiative in the war.

If the Song Dynasty regained Hengshan, Xixia could only retreat to the Houtao area (Ningxia Plain). The Houtao area has developed agriculture, but the land is not large. In this way, the population of Xixia will be further reduced.

The Hexi Corridor from the Houtao area to the west can also be regarded as the strategic depth of Xixia, but there is also a desert between Houtao and the Hexi Corridor. If the two cannot be closely connected, it is impossible to exert a regional cluster effect.

How to explain this?

Quite simply, Houtao has developed agriculture and the Hexi Corridor has developed animal husbandry, but the grain in Houtao is difficult to feed the Hexi Corridor, because there is a desert in the middle, and there is not much food left after transporting it there.

This is the geographical segmentation, resulting in a cutting effect that magnifies the cost of regional operations.