A slight red color appeared in the sky. Under the pursuit of the Song army, I saw that it was getting dawn again. More people in Xixia were afraid of panic and fled one by one. They could not light up, and it was easier to catch up when they light up.

It was not until Tiandu Mountain that a Xixia army that came from Huizhou resisted Yeli Yuqi for a while before Yeli Yuqi was able to escape from the predicament. However, the two thousand new forces that arrived were soon annihilated most of the Song army with high morale...

In this battle, Yeliyuqi, the army including Tiandu Palace, mobilized a total of more than 38,000 people. The Song army, including Fan Zhongyan's army and archers who participated in the battle to build a village, mobilized a total of 65,000 people. Since the war between the two countries, the Song Dynasty has truly surpassed the other side in terms of military strength.

The results achieved are also prominent.

In addition, the enemies killed by Di Qing killed at least 16,000 enemy troops and captured more than 6,000 enemy troops alive. Some of them retreated from their armor, threw away their weapons and became civilians. Later, they were captured by the Song Dynasty again, and there were nearly a thousand people.

But Ye Liyuqi brought back only more than 8,000 troops, and nearly 7,000 people ran away one by one. Some were captured by the Song army, and some fled back to various troops and were in a daze. Some were requisitioned by Ye Liyuqi again, and some simply fled into the mountains and forests to avoid military service.

The war horses were obtained in this battle, with at least 4,000 intact war horses, and about 2,000 were only slightly injured. Once they were raised, they could go back to the battlefield.

The Song Dynasty lacked horses. The peak was during the reign of Emperor Taizong of Song. There were 170,000 horses. After the Yinchuan Plain was lost, the number of horses dropped severely, only a little over 100,000. During the reign of Emperor Shenzong of Song, the horse protection method was restored to 150,000. However, this horse was only a number, and most of them could not go to the battlefield at all.

The number of war horses that were truly able to go to the battlefield in the fourth route of Shaanxi was less than 30,000, and if the number of war horses of the foreign soldiers was added, it would not exceed 40,000. Zheng Lang got more than 10,000 war horses on Jingyuan Road, and Shiyi exchanged a batch. His ethnic policy was well done. Some foreign soldiers took the initiative to bring horses to the army, and then they gathered more than 10,000 war horses.

No one can count how many horses there were in Xixia. Although they were not as 700,000 war horses at the peak of the Tang Dynasty, most of them were exported. Each battle was almost all cavalry, with at least 300,000 horses. During the Jin Dynasty, they were even more powerful. They only sent troops to requisition 600,000 war horses at one time. They were requisitioned, and there were many war horses in the rear that were not used.

The six thousand war horses that can truly go to the battlefield are likely to be the sum of all the official horses on Qinfeng Road and Huanqing Road.

The harvest is not only here, but there are many Qiang people here, but in fact it is not. There were many Qiang people and Han people. The Tang Dynasty's policies led to the migration of many Dangxiang people, Turks, Tiel people, Uighurs, and Tuyuhun people one after another. Later, the Tang Dynasty declined, and this place was in the hands of Tubo people, and many Tubo people came. But the main body was still Qiang people. The Qiang people had a distinctive feature. On both sides, Qiang people would be strong and would fall to that side.

There were not many tribes that were truly loyal to the Western Xia, but the arrogance of the Han people, the arrogance of the Han officials, and the military decline of the Song Dynasty made many tribes either wait and see or surrender to the Western Xia.

This great victory broke the traditional concepts of these tribes in recent years.

Zheng Lang is not a truly traditional military general. To be precise, the responsibilities of civil servants are his best, including ethnic policy.

He used the army to capture the fleeing enemy prisoners and intimidate again. Many tribes lowered their heads to the Song Dynasty and led their tribes to Nantou. But it was not over. Di Qing led his army to plunder in Tiandu Mountain for four days, not resisting or killing the people, but he had to follow me. It would be fine if he didn't leave. He kidnapped all the livestock and burned the village with fire.

Within several days, nearly 20,000 ethnic groups were forced to move south one after another, but Zheng Lang was not at ease with these people, so he went to the junction of Jingzhou and Qinzhou, located at the end of Jingyuan Road.

This coercion not only made the north of Tiansheng Village almost a real no-man's land, but also many areas in Tiandushan, Xixia have become no-man's land.

During the coercion, he even spread the four military camps in Tiandu, which made Ye Liyu beg for sleeping and eating for four days.

Unable to do so, I wrote a letter to Yuan Hao.

Not to mention his own conscience to defeat, but to say that the Song Dynasty Jingyuan, Huanqing and Qin Feng joined forces to dispatch more than 100,000 troops to make him fail.

He also talked about the agreement between Zheng Lang and him and asked Yuan Hao what to do.

The letter soon came to Yuan Hao's hands.

Yuan Hao was furious.

After jumping for a while, his anger subsided. Now the Yeli brothers were divided into left and right wings, with huge power, and he was quite afraid.

The elite troops from all over the country came to attack Fulin, and the troops in the rear were empty. It was reasonable to lose this battle.

Now his situation is very good. With Linzhou being besieged and Linzhou is in serious shortage of supplies, Zhe Jimin had to take the risk of leading 1,000 or more soldiers to escort winter clothes and arrive at Zhongji Village. Yuanhao sent ten thousand Xixia troops to attack. Zhe Jimin did not have a miracle in this battle. He was defeated and all the winter clothes were obtained by Yuanhao.

The court knew nothing about other news, but the battle spread quickly and quickly reached the capital. Zhao Zhen did not get Zheng Lang's letter and did not investigate the matter clearly. So he issued an edict to surrender Zhejimin as the envoy of Rujing, and the governor was still there.

If we talk about it in a black-bellied way, we can only say that Yang Kai in the rear is too black-bellied.

It was not until the end of November that Zhang Kang won consecutive battles and Linzhou surrounds appeared. Gao Jixuan returned to Hedong. The court asked Gao Jixuan to replace the incompetent Yang Kai and serve as the Enzhou Tuanjian Commander Bingzhou and Hedong Road to pacify the border border crusade.

Now Gao Jixuan is still trapped in Linzhou and has not yet come out.

However, Linzhou was short of supplies, so Zhe Jimin asked Hao Zhi, the chief garrison of the Prefecture, and Ma Tian, ​​the Linfu army, to lead the army to provide food and salary to Linzhou. He encountered thousands of cavalry plunder. Hao Zhi pioneered the battle and beheaded hundreds of horses. However, when he arrived at Baigu, he was blocked by Xixia with a trench. He had no choice but to repair the Ningyuan Fort in Hanling behind and strangled the Xixia key to attack. In fact, he was self-protection. It cannot be said that it was a fort, but it can only be said to be a fort. Just as the broken walls of Ningyuan Fort that were destroyed by the Xixia people, some fences were inserted as military camps.

This shows that Linzhou is not only short of water, but also has little food, little clothing, and few military supplies. Everything is short of.

At this critical moment, can he lead his army back?

So he wrote an order to Yeli Yuqi. He quickly transferred 50,000 troops from Xingqing Prefecture and Lingzhou to Tiandu Mountain, and pretended to attack the Shimenxia Village, and took the main force of the Song army to attack Zhenrong Village and Luanggang City, and surrounded and attacked the support. As for my foolish son, you don’t have to worry about him. If Zheng Lang of the Song Dynasty gave you Shimenxia, ​​where would you build a village and guard that portal? Before I take down Linzhou City, you must give me an explanation.

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In the early morning, a thin layer of ice formed in Shimenchuan.

The ice edges shone with scales. Looking closely, there were flowers, clouds, brocades, and animals on it.

Suddenly a roar came, flowers trembling, clouds running, brocade dancing, and animals blew.

The iron cavalry raised dust and Di Qing led his army back.

Theoretically, the enemy in Tiandu Mountain is not very powerful, and even if it mobilizes troops from the rear, it will take several days. However, Zheng Lang is very careful and only gives Di Qing four days to plunder. Behind him, Yang Wenguang, Guo Kui and Zhao Xun lead the army to Huizhou controlled by the Xixia people, and plunder for another two days, retreat from Huizhou to Luanggang City, and come to meet with the main army.

The three of them have good qualifications, which is a kind of training to allow them to grow as soon as possible.

Di Qing jumped off his war horse, strode over, and said, "Mr. Zheng, I am convinced."

He and the old generation supplemented, and the main strategy was designed by Zheng Lang.

It was not what Zheng Lang thought of, but Zheng Lang compared it with history and found the loophole of Yuan Hao. If Linzhou did not give Yuan Hao a false image at any time, or if his son was appreciated by Yuan Hao, then Yuan Hao would lead his army back immediately, which might not be worth the loss.

"It just so happens that General Zhong and I will wait for you to come back to discuss the specific plan." Zheng Lang said.

The three of them came to a high slope, and below were the soldiers working on the construction.

This village will not last long, and after being squeezed, it will be completely destroyed. However, the process of mincing meat is at least stronger than that of ordinary camps. Some minor problems occurred in the middle, and Ge Huaimin made some tricks in the back to make things difficult for him.

Zheng Lang sent someone to Weizhou and said to him directly, if the military affairs are delayed, I will kill you immediately.

Otherwise, the archers on the side couldn't be adjusted in a row.

Lao Zhong once again persuaded Zheng Lang to take Ge Huaimin away, but Zheng Lang still didn't listen or explain.

The three of them looked at the busy construction site and sat on the withered turf and discussed carefully.

Then Zheng Lang came to the central army tent and first wrote a letter to Han Qi, Fan Zhongyan and Pang Ji.

The imperial court also dispatched more than 20,000 imperial troops on Qinfeng Road.

Zheng Lang didn't understand, what should I send more than 20,000 imperial guards to do on Qinfeng Road? To deal with the scoundrel? Or, what kind of sky can the blind felt jump out of the blind felt? It turned out that there were no soldiers on Qinfeng Road? Besides, the blind felt surrendered to the court.

I wonder what these big shots think. How much burden will it bring to the country if you provide more than 20,000 banish soldiers in the northwest?

But when thinking about Han Qi's little personality, Zheng Lang didn't say anything. He couldn't say it directly, but said that at this time I started a war with Xixia and the army was hard to support. Han Zhizhou, please support me with 10,000 soldiers.

Without these ten thousand soldiers, Jingyuan Road can also support the past, of course it is better to have it.

The main reason is that he has too much credit, he cannot take it alone, so everyone can share it.

I wrote another letter to Fan Zhongyan to express my gratitude and asked tentatively, because the prince was in Shimenxia, ​​which would attract most of the Xixia community. Are you interested in sending troops to Yanzhou in Xixia and not really attacking Yanzhou City, but from the east of Leshan to Yanzhou, there are some small military camps of the Xixia people, and there are also people, cattle, horses and sheep, which further weakens the national strength of Xixia.

I wonder if Fan Zhongyan will listen.

If you hear it, you will not leave a fatal serious injury on the Xixia people, but you will leave a deep wound.

If there are too many wounds, national strength will decline.

I wrote another letter to Pang Ji. Yuanhao's main army was dragged by the Fulin Road defenders. Are you really not interested in Hengshan?

Let’s make contributions together to avoid others’ jealousy.

If the three armies attacked together, it would have a good effect. Zheng Lang did not expect that Yuan Hao would destroy the country, but after this battle, Xixia would be even more embarrassed.

This will achieve his goal of consuming Xixia.

Finally, I wrote the memorial to the court, first wrote down the battle process in detail, and then solemnly wrote about something.

This was the first battle, and there was a fierce battle afterwards. So without waiting for the imperial court, I took out the money earned by the Shiyi first, and used a portion of the provincial treasury to reward and pension the soldiers and their families. Please forgive me.

It must be made clear, even if it is Shiyi's money.

Otherwise, some ministers would say, you would reward soldiers without the permission of the court, what do you want to do?

Wang Shao made a serious mistake. Look, I earned all this money. If I don’t use a penny in the court, I will make contributions.

result……

Not only did he explain it clearly, but he also said that when the battle was truly calmed down, how to reward him, and the court finally made a speech.

This is just a temporary reward. For laying the foundation for the following battles, all the masters, don’t wear small shoes for me.

I didn't write about wearing small shoes, but I wrote a sentence: The war is in danger, so I hope that all ministers will not speak of the tiger's advice and do the stern actions.

The Wei minister Pang Gong accompanied the crown prince as a charity and went to Handan, Zhao State. Before leaving, he told the King of Wei, someone told you, a tiger came from the downtown market. Do you believe it? The King of Wei said I don’t believe it. Pang Gong said again, if two people say it. Wei said I don’t believe it. Pang Gong then asked again, if three people say it? The King of Wei said, everyone said that I believe it. Pang Gong said, how could a tiger appear in the downtown market? Because the three people said there were tigers, it seemed that there was a tiger. I will go away from you. Handan is much farther from here than to the street market. There will definitely be more than three people who say bad things about me. Please think twice. Later, the King of Wei really believed other people’s comments. When Pang Gong returned from Handan, he would not summon him again.

This is still good. The worst thing is Wu Zixu.

Wu Zixu almost sent Fuchai to the ranks of overlords of the Spring and Autumn Period with only one hand. Because Bo Jing got the benefits of Goujian, he tried his best to slander in front of Fuchai, and even let Fuchai kill him. However, Fuchai soon came his retribution and was directly destroyed by Yue Kingdom.

Zheng Lang was also afraid that these people would slander.

The Song Dynasty's slander was terrible, and it was also named a gentleman and a gentleman, which could deceive history.

So they directly sealed their mouths.

Moreover, Zheng Lang not only boosted his morale, but also thought about the shameful insults that Han Qi was faced. More than 3,000 soldiers died in this battle. In the future, there may be more people than those who died in the Good Water Battle. There may be fewer people, but there are not many.

If you encounter something like Han Qi, thousands of veterans in Weizhou will surround him and ask, Mr. Zheng, my son will go to the front line with you, have you brought my son back?

How do you answer yourself?

So he ordered Zhang Fangping and Teng Zongliang to come to the door for his personal visit to the door for his own condolences. Many foreign soldiers also died. Not only did they give them generous pensions, but they also had to give them comfort and rewards to make the people convinced.

This is the real Zheng Lang.

It seems to be very bold, but it is actually very careful.
To be continued...