Because he led some troops, Zheng Langxi was not fast. But he walked along the way and communicated with Guo Kui, Wang Shao and Zhang Qing. At the same time, various orders were issued before Zheng Lang reached the front line.

At this time, there were also controversies in the country.

It was not just to fight for whether to attack Xia, the army had arrived at the front line one after another, and most of the materials, supplies and supplies were reached on the front line, and the struggle could not play a role. What was fighting for was the issue of military strength.

Previously, Wang Shao suggested that the troops should not be too strong, and he gave several reasons.

The first is food and supplies. Sun Tzu's Art of War said that wise generals should eat from the enemy. If they eat the enemy for one bell, they should get one bell of food from the enemy for twenty minutes. They should get twenty minutes from the enemy for twenty minutes. They should get twenty minutes from the enemy for transportation of food from the enemy for twenty minutes. They should get twenty stones of food from the enemy for transportation of twenty minutes from the domestic.

This sentence sounds quite reasonable, but the truth behind it is extremely cruel. Getting food and grass from the enemy is what it means, that is, when the army arrives at the enemy country, go and rob and burn it. However, the Song Dynasty not only wanted to defeat Xixia, but if it was learned in Jiaozhi, if it was done well, it would save one-third of the military expenses. However, if the Song Dynasty wanted to occupy and rule this land normally in the future, it would not be able to bring Sun Tzu's Art of War.

Wang Jian used 600,000 troops. With the national strength of the Qin Dynasty at that time, he would definitely not be able to bear the food, grass and supplies of the 600,000 troops, and most of them were employed to feed the enemy. But what about the people of Chu? Even though the three households in Chu were destroyed, Chu would be the ones that would be destroyed.

During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, there were many large-scale corps battles, but at that time the world was like crows, not the human path, but the Shura path and the hell path. Otherwise, there would be only two million households when the Tang Dynasty was established. Even Wei Zheng advised Li Shimin when he opposed the Fengshan Mountains. In Shandong (to the east of Mount Wu, including Shandong, most of Hebei and Henan, and the vast plains in southern Shanxi) were sparsely populated and covered with grass and trees. This led Rong Di to enter the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty and demonstrated our weakness. At that time, the Tang Dynasty was established for a long time, and even in order to encourage the people to have children, it was forced to marry men and women at the age of 15, and even widows had to remarry. Therefore, the Tang Dynasty launched the battles of various large-scale corps, and the people had no complaints.

The Song Dynasty was ready to attack Xia at this time, but it would use sky-high money and even make the whole of Shaanxi uneasy. Although the court ordered subsidies, whether the village soldiers or civilians, they were treated equally with the imperial guards during the war, so as not to implicate their families and reduce the worries of the village soldiers, the war was approaching. Shaanxi would allocate more than 200,000 civilians, tens of thousands of soldiers, and ninety thousand rural soldiers. The entire Shaanxi farming production will be deducted by one third, and prices will inevitably rise. The subsidies of the court are far less than the number of prices rising, and there are also layers of deductions from officials.

This is just one of them.

The more army there are, the higher the requirements for command. It is not that Wang Shao is concerned about Zheng Lang, and Zheng Lang is also very careful and transfers Zhang Feng to his side. As the second commander, but once such a huge army starts to fight, even if the grandson is alive, there will inevitably be no mistakes.

The army was mixed, with only 250,000 real bans, and the other troops were of different colors, such as the village soldiers. There were Hebei, Hedong, and Shaanxi. The foreign soldiers were even more chaotic, including the Fuyan Road, Huanqing Road, Jingyuan Road, Xihe area, Huangzhou area, Lanliang Fan people, Uighurs from Gua, Gansu. Even the foreign people also had Tubo people, Qiang people, and a small number of Tuyuhun people and Dangxiang people. If they were not done well, the Battle of Chibi and the Battle of Feishui would end.

Therefore, Wang Shao suggested reducing the number of troops, one should be small and the other should be refined. Moreover, the domestic situation in Xixia is very bad, and there is no need to mobilize troops.

But Guo Kui put forward another statement.

Wang Shao and Zheng Lang quickly took over Hehuang Lanzhou, and Zhang Feng quickly pacified the five prefectures of the Hexi Corridor. This is for a certain reason. Tubo has never been evil to the Song Dynasty and has no obvious contradictions, let alone the Liugu tribe of Liangzhou and the Uighurs of Ganzhou. During the Five Dynasties, they yearned for Central Plains civilization. After the death of Yan Siluo, Tubo split and collapsed and had no cohesion, so he was not aware of resistance. In addition, the timely British system of the Song Dynasty, large-scale investment and various practices to stabilize the people's hearts, and then he got it.

As for the light troops of the Song Dynasty in the past, Bashu and Southern Han were the people of the Central Plains who had a sense of unification. If it were not for Wang Quanbin's murder, even Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun would not have caused any storm later. Jinghu, the southern Han of Bashu, could not be regarded as the Western Xia.

Xixia has been officially king for many years, and has a sense of nationality and cohesion. Although the two factions are now quarrel, once the Song Dynasty sends troops, it will not be the same.

From Li Jiqian to Li Deming, Li Yuanhao, Li Liangzuo, and Li Bingchang, there have been five generations of people. The Weiming royal family grew stronger and spread throughout the Xixia areas. Even if the Song Dynasty's light troops quickly captured Lingzhou and Xingqing Prefecture, the children of various royal families could still lead tribes that were not convinced by the Song Dynasty. With the help of Hengshan and desert areas to resist the Song Dynasty, Li Jiqian's power may be restored.

If the troops are small, they must be light troops. However, light troops cannot pacify Hengshan. However, the Hengshan area is also the base camp of the Xixia. The Song army must pass through, and food and grass will be cut off, jeopardizing the safety ahead.

He also said another question in a vague way, it would be better to win, but if you lose, there would be no such good opportunity again. Moreover, the system of the Song Dynasty was destined to be impossible to use the army to fight every year. Even if it was victory, the people of Xixia would rekindle in the future, and because of the dispute, Xixia would rise again. Besides, Zheng Lang would not be in the court by then. As for the others, Guo Kui was a little unbelievable.

When the two opinions arrived in the capital, not many people knew about them.

Guo Kui's military use is relatively stable, so there is this saying: Wang Shao is brave, so he wants to win quickly with light troops.

Zheng Lang took the latter, and the two of them had not considered another factor, Khitan!

But the Khitan was another double-edged sword, which was the support of the Khitan. The Song army was huge, so the problem was not important. However, on the other hand, the Hedong area and the capital were empty. So he had various confusions before the war. Even when the war began, the Song Dynasty threatened to dispatch only 200,000 imperial guards, which severely reduced the number of troops, which made the Khitan feel contemptuous.

Zheng Lang left, and the memorials of Wang and Guo also made many ministers know that many of them believed that Zheng Lang mobilized too many troops. In fact, most of these people did not agree even to the Song Dynasty's attack on Xia.

No matter how controversial the rear is, the war on the front line has begun.

On the seventh day of the fifth month, the Song army officially launched an attack on Xixia, but not under the banner of recapturing Xixia, but under the slogan of the Qing king and killing the Liang clan, he launched an attack on Xixia.

The army was divided into three war zones in total, the first war zone included Hexi Corridor and Jingyuan Road. Zheng Lang and Zhang Feng were personally responsible for this. They were not only responsible for the mobilization of the West Road War Zone, but also responsible for the command of the entire battle. However, each war zone was divided into several parts, and the West Road War Zone was divided into three road zones in total.

Wang Guangzu stayed in Suzhou, and Li Hao and Qu Zhen led 30,000 troops and more than 10,000 civilians to leave Yanhai.

The southern part of the Ruoshuichuan area is densely populated, but it is gradually sparse in the central and northern parts. Although the weak water is huge at this time, the soil and water are gradually destroyed. In summer, you can still see scattered shallow grass on the riverside. In winter, in addition to the wind and snow, there are layers of yellow sand on the ground. In addition to the severe cold, it is gradually unsuitable for people to live in. However, the Juyanhai area is also suitable for human survival, which can be sheltered or fished. It is also an important gateway to the north. Now there are tens of thousands of people living in the Khitan and the Song Dynasty. It is a piece of idle rib, but for the small and sparsely populated Xixia, it is a piece of rich chicken and the gateway to the Hexi Corridor. Therefore, Xixia set up a military camp in the southern part of the Juyanhai, the Yan Army Division of Heishui Town.

When the troops left Juyanhai, Zheng Lang was still greedy for the geography here. Moreover, in the future, it also accounts for a considerable proportion of Xixia. In addition, it prevented Xixia from fleeing from Helan Mountain to Juyanhai. Because the Song Dynasty occupied the back of Xixia, it had to divide its troops and station it in Helan Mountain to achieve the goal of dividing its troops.

The Juyanhai had a small number of troops, and many soldiers died in support of Suzhou. The Song Dynasty army was approaching the border, and Xixia was unable to support it. Li Hao quickly obtained Juyanhai. Without sending troops to Helan Mountain, he watched in Juyanhai. He expanded the Xixia Black Water Army City in the southern part of Juyanhai and built another new city in the northern part of Juyanhai. Ruoshuichuan built two small cities as the supply points for the army and as the future station.

The war was not fierce all the way.

The rest of the war gradually became jiliè.

Guo Cheng, Wang Junwan, Zhong Pu and other generals led tens of thousands of troops to attack Huizhou, Qu Wushan, and Tiandushan.

Liu Changzuo, Li Shunqing, Liu Zhongwu, Wang Shan, Xiang Bao and other generals left Xiaoguan.

There are also troops from the North Road, commanded by Guo Kui, Wang Wenyu, Zhe Kexing, and Zhe Keshi's troops were out of Fulin, and attacked Mingtangchuan from Tumaochuan, and the troops were directed to Yinshixia Sanzhou, Zhong Yan, Yanda, Liu Shaoneng, Gao Yongneng, and Gao Yongheng led their troops to Luowucheng and Yanzhizhai, and then crossed Hengshan to meet with the Fulin Road army, and pointed to Youzhou. Zhao Ren and Sun Lu were responsible for the rear army and logistics.

The middle army was commanded by Wang Shao and was divided into two routes, Zhong Yi, Zhang Yu, Hebin, Lin Guang, Yao brothers, Zhang Qiong attacked Baibao City and Jintang City, directly pointing to the Hengshan villages of Xixia and Hongzhou, and You Shixiong was responsible for the rear army. This army not only pointed to Hongzhou, but also focused on the "Guoxin Post Road" of Song Xia. It went north from the Baoan Army, passed Wanquan Village, Naiwujing, Baichi, Rentou, Kujing, Guyu, Dishankou, Ludu, crossed the Yellow River, and arrived at Xingqing Prefecture through Yongzhou. This was the only way for the envoys of Song and Xia to travel between Song and Xia. To the south are Miao Shu, Zhonggu, Zhongchao, Zhang Yun, Zhao Long, Miao Lu, and Zhongshidao attacked Hengzhou, and the troops were directed to Yanzhou.

Six hundred thousand troops and more than 200,000 people were divided into three war zones, seven routes of troops, and each route had almost 100,000. Moreover, the soldiers were not the Song soldiers during the Qingli period. Although there were problems such and such as Wang Shao mentioned, at least 400,000 troops after more than a year of running-in. Although 110,000 Hebei Township soldiers were temporarily used as logistics troops, most soldiers were trained in actual combat and their morale was higher than those during the Qingli period. There were even generals, and almost all brave generals of the Song Dynasty were transferred to the front line together. There was also the problem of the general. As the commander, Zheng Lang was deeply loved by the soldiers and had clear rewards and punishments. There would be no story in history that Gao Zunyu almost killed Liu Changzuo because of his jealousy of Liu Changzuo's military achievements.

This is a fatal matter. In history, only Liu Changzuo, and the few generals who could fight in the attack of Xia, were killed in vain. How much harm would it have to be done to morale?

However, it definitely won't be there now.

The Song army came all over the world, and the people of Xixia were in chaos.

They didn't believe that the Song Dynasty sent so many troops to clear the ruling ruthlessness in the Western Xia Dynasty. Whether it was the royalists or the empress dowagers, they put aside their prejudices and worked together.

First, we sent envoys to ask the Khitan for help. After our Xixia is over, the next time the Song Dynasty will concentrate on recapturing the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun. But each of them is not confident. The Khitan has no preparations until now. This time, it will take some time to concentrate troops and prepare food and grass weapons. If the troops are less, the support is not very meaningful. If there are more troops, the logistics will be more prepared, and the time will be longer. Whether the Western Xia can support it may not be possible until then. Moreover, the Khitans still have to be greedy for the Song Dynasty's seeds and cultivation methods.

This is prepared for any trouble.

He sent an envoy to Xiaoguan, begging Zheng Lang for mercy, and agreed to let Li Bingchang return to power and deal with Liang Yimeng and others. Moreover, before Zheng Lang agreed, he released Li Bingchang and temporarily put Liang Yimeng in prison. Don't take it seriously. This is the same thing. He also expected that Zheng Lang would not be able to withdraw his troops because of this, so he blocked the excuse of the Song Dynasty and mourned the soldiers.

In fact, Zheng Lang couldn't agree. Not to mention that Liang's family was like this, even if they really let Li Bingchang take charge of the government and executed Liang Yimeng and others, Zheng Lang wouldn't be able to withdraw his troops. Therefore, he said to the envoy of Xixia toughly that it is possible to withdraw troops, but Liang Yimeng and others must be executed.

The war continued, and the Liang family asked for advice from the generals. Many benevolent people offered advice, and there was no need to refuse them. But they were strong and cleared the fields and allowed the troops to go deeper. They gathered strong troops in Lingxia and copied their logistics supply. The Song army had no food and could win without fighting.

The ministers in the Xixia Palace fell into deep thought. The Song Dynasty's six armies came, and the people of Xixia were no longer caring about it. Moreover, from Xingqing Prefecture to Juyanhai, they had to pass through the Xixia imperial tomb and Keyimen. They crossed Helan Mountain, and then passed eight oasis, and a thousand and one hundred miles of roads. They could only reach it. With such a long road, the Song Dynasty had to transport food and grass from the Hexi Corridor to Suzhou, and then from Suzhou to Juyanhai. There was no way for the Song army to enter the west. However, the other six armies were fatal. Xixia lost the Hexi Corridor and could not block the Song army's six attacks.

Renduoling Ding's method is not very good. In this way, at least Xixia would lose the land of Henan in Huizhou and even Tiandu Mountain after the war. However, under the premise of no way, this strategy had to be used.

The Liang family began to order to move many tribes on the front to the rear. The more disloyal the tribes were, the more they wanted to move, so as not to join forces with the Song Dynasty. All those left were loyal tribes, allowing them to use the complex terrain to resist.

Just as summer came, the food and grass were harvested in time and transported to the rear and the important cities. Then it destroyed the crops in front, destroying all the sorghum and millet beans in the fields, leaving only the crops in Lingzhou and Xingqing Prefecture, Dingzhou, Yongzhou, Jingzhou, Shunzhou and other core areas.

The whole people were soldiers, nine out of ten soldiers, almost exhausted all the foundations of the country, concentrated more than 300,000 troops, concentrated the army in several places, and regionally dealt with a certain point of the Song army.

Mizhi City.

Yinxia is the old nest of Xixia. Although Wang Wenyu and Zhe Kecun's uncle and nephew were in Yinxia, ​​there was a long road from Linzhou to Yinzhou, and the road was relatively rugged. However, if Zhong Yan's army crossed Hengshan, Yinxia would be attacked by the Song army on both sides, which would be dangerous.

Therefore, Liang Yongneng led 80,000 elite cavalrymen to the Zhizhizhai Village.

Yanzhi Village is located on the edge of the fertile Wuding River, with abundant water and grass, and is known as Qibao Mountain. Moreover, because the Song army came quickly, the food and grass harvested on the Wuding River were not transported to the rear in time. However, after the Song army withdrew from Luowu City, Xixia regained control of this area and built Yanzhi Village tall and strong. Faced with the strong attack of the Song army, Yanzhi Village actually stood firm.

Liang Yi was the one who was buried in this idea. Although the Song army was large, they divided into two groups, attacked Yanzhizhai from north to south, and their forces were dispersed. Liang Yong could arrive, but he faced the northern army of the Song Dynasty and was able to form a joint attack with the Yanzhizhai's forces. The abacus was good. The 80,000 Western Xia iron cavalry, including a large number of iron kalpas, arrived at Luowu City in a fierce manner, and rushed from Luowu City to Yanzhizhai. Not far from Yanzhizhai, there was a narrow and long river valley, with continuous mountains to the east, and the deep Wuding River to the west.

Seeing that he rushed out of the valley entrance and was intercepted by the Song army, the Song army used a large number of artillery and divine arm bows to block the Western Xia cavalry in this valley. After a few hours of fierce fighting, two Song troops suddenly flashed out from the mountains to the east, cutting off the Xia army in half.

The Song army did not lie on the mountain, nor could it be ambushed. Liang Yongneng was defeated by the Song army several times. He was extremely careful and had sent scouts to observe the terrain. There was a hunchback, which was farther behind. When the two armies were fighting fiercely, the sound of artillery rumbling. Gao Yongneng's brothers led the two hunchbacks to cross several valleys and entered the Xia army camp.

On the other side, Liu Shaoneng is also fighting fiercely.

When Liang Yongneng's army arrived, the Song army dug a trench more than ten meters wide in front of Yanzhi Village. When Liang Yongneng's army arrived, Zhao Cheng led the rear army to ensure the military camp in the south of the village, and Liu Shaoneng led the Hebei Township troops to stand in front of the trench.

Yanzhi Village sent troops, but after blocking this trench, it was finally difficult to cross the trench, but the Song Dynasty's rural soldiers held big swords and were killed in the trench one by one.

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In addition, the ranking of the ten generals was Zheng Lang, and Zhong Yan was ranked fifth. He was somewhat unwilling. At least I was stronger than my younger brother, Guo Chengqiang and Liu Changzuo. Wang Wenyu was also unwilling to do so. The soldiers in Yanzhi Village were not allowed to come out, so Zhong Yan beat the drums and cheered.

The Gao brothers led their troops out, and Zhong Yan ordered Yan Da to rush into the river valley.

The two armies had little difference. The Song Dynasty had many troops, but some were divided into the south of the camp, and the proportion of cavalry was small. However, this narrow river valley was not conducive to the operation of the Western Xia cavalry. In addition, it was cut into two pieces by the Song army. It took a long time since the Yanzhi Village troops came out, and Liang Yongneng felt weak again.

Seeing that the Western Xia soldiers were in a tendency to be defeated, Zhong Yan personally put on his armor and led the army to kill him.

Liang Yongneng was defeated, and nearly 20,000 cavalry were sacrificed again in this battle. Only then did Liang Yongneng escape from the sky. Liang Yongneng was defeated, and the Xia soldiers in Yanzhi Village surrendered.

This is the first major battle after the Xia Dynasty.

Then Yan Da chased after him, recaptured Luowu City, crossed the Yellow River, captured the remnants of Yongle Village, and headed towards Yinzhou.

The second battle began again.

Sangyuan Gorge is located in the northeast of Lanzhou and southwest of Huizhou. It is divided into two gorges. The upper reaches of the small gorge is ten miles long and the lower reaches of the Grand Gorge is sixty miles long. The stone walls on both sides are steep, and the Yellow River shrinks to more than seventy meters on the side. The river water is surging and the river flows fast. This is an important gateway to Lanzhou to the north and a place that military strategists have fought for since ancient times.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Jian and Zhou Shen fought against Han Sui and Bian Zhang suffered a great defeat here. After Xixia lost the Hexi Corridor, they built two military camps here, and then fought repeated tug-of-war with the Song army, which was the army of more than 20 Fanhou troops in the west of Sangyuan.

The battle began, and Guo Cheng's army headed north.

Twenty thousand people in Huizhou, Xixia were guarding the danger. Guo Cheng concentrated the eight hundred cannons in his hand and bombarded the Xia camp. He placed five thousand divine arm archers behind, and gradually used the range of the bows and arrows to suppress the counterattack of the Xixia people.

After a long battle, the Xixia people retreated to the Grand Gorge.

Again, all long-range weapons began to bombard, but at this time, Guo Cheng's strategy changed. When the morale of the Western Xia soldiers was depressed, he suddenly asked Wang Junwan to lead the main army to attack the canyon. After a brief bloody battle, the Xixia people were defeated, and some soldiers jumped into the turbulent Yellow River in horror.

When Sangyuan Gorge was lost, Guo Cheng quickly left Huizhou, captured Huizhou City, and advanced to Quwu Mountain. He then fought a tragic battle with the Xixia people in front of Quwu Mountain, defeated the Xia army, marched into Tiandu Mountain, and took the imperial palace where Wuqian clan was not burned this time, but left it to Wuqian clan.

The Song Dynasty attacked Xia for real occupation. In the past, many tribes could not survive and defected to the Song Dynasty. Zheng Lang captured a large number of Dangxiang tribes one after another and settled them in the rear, including Wuhuan tribes. Some integrated into the local area, and some had some conflicts due to different races. This time, the latter was moved back to Xixia one after another. After all, compared with most of the tribes of Xixia, these tribes were more loyal to the Song Dynasty. They also included the Wuhuan tribes who were previously placed in Qinzhou and redirected the Wuhuan tribes back to the banks of the Hulu River. Wuhuan tribes were the queen of Xixia, so they let Wuhuan tribes live in the palace and used part of her influence to appease the people of Xixia.

The third battle is to sharpen the navel.

Liu Changzuo's troops left Xiaoguan. At this time, the Mobei Pass was also built with a thick military camp by the Western Xia. In order to deal with the Song army's artillery, countless trenches were built in front of the Hulu River. The Xia army hid in the trenches and sniped the Song army's crossing the river with arrows.

As a last resort, Liu Changzuo had to attack.

This battle was even more tragic. Liu Changzuo was injured and Xiang Bao was killed by two arrows.

After taking down the Mobei Pass, Liu Changzuo went out of Mingsha City regardless of his injuries. Mingsha River has Hulu River and Yellow River, which is an important grain base in Xixia and is known as the Imperial Warehouse. Some of the grain is transferred to the rear, but there is still a lot of grain in the city.

Liu Changzuo came out lightly and quickly captured Mingsha City. At this time, Shizhou, Yinzhou, Xixia, was successively lost.

But Song Jun slowed down.

After Liu Changzuo's troops entered Mingsha City, they divided their troops to attack Weizhou, and then joined forces with Guo Cheng's troops, attacked Zheqiang, and joined forces with Wang Shaoyanzhou's troops. The troops on Wang Shao's northern route conquered Hongzhou and then slowly marched towards Youzhou. Zhong Yan's troops and Wang Wenyu's troops met in Yinzhou City, divided into three, and one part left to sweep the storm. The main force set out towards Xiazhou, and Yanda divided the troops to Longzhou.
To be continued...