The Song army in Lanzhou City went all out and killed the Xixia army outside the city, causing them to collapse and flee.

When Wei Ming heard that the army had retreated, he couldn't help but cursed Li Liangfu, blaming him for transferring the elite troops away, which led to this situation.

Today is really a big mistake for the Xixia people.

A good hand of cards was played like this.

Until dusk fell, the war that lasted for dozens of miles came to an end.

The Xixia cavalry broke into the left wing of the Song Army and almost cut the left wing of the Song Army several times. The left wing of the Song Army fell into disorderly chaos, and the center was also affected.

However, Atuhan's troops were crippled by the Song Army's vanguard, and Li Liangfu's main force was disabled by Li Yanxian. From the overall battle situation, it seemed that the main force of the Song Army was no longer needed.

The Xixia cavalry tried their best to rush in. They thought that after disrupting the main formation of the Song army, their main infantry could crush the Song army. Now it seems that the cavalry fought alone and the casualties were not small.

Li Liangfu escaped in the chaos, but others were not so lucky.

The battlefield can be described in one word: corpses everywhere.

If you walk in between, you will find that the soles of the shoes are sticky and slippery, and you can see incomplete limbs scattered everywhere.

Some of the Xixia cavalry broke out, but some were intercepted by the Song army who came to support with dense crossbows. People and horses were shot into hedgehogs and died tragically on the spot.

After the sun goes down, the war finally ends, and the world slowly returns to peace.

Countless bright red "carpets" are spread out for dozens of miles in radius.

Some tired Song troops rested next to the pile of corpses, and some Song troops who arrived later began to inspect the enemies who had not yet been completely killed.

In the Battle of Lanzhou, although the Song army suffered many casualties, the Xixia people suffered heavy casualties.

This was a severe blow to Xixia, which had a limited population.

It is said that someone counted afterward that in the Battle of Lanzhou, the Xixia people lost 40,000 people!

At this time, Li Liangfu and Wei Ming were also fleeing to Xi'an Prefecture.

Li Liangfu: There are still 5,000 troops left by me in Xi'an, which are enough to help me cross the river safely!

Is this the end?

not at all!

After two days of rectification in Lanzhou, Li Yanxian took action decisively.

He selected 10,000 elites and began to cross the Yellow River, preparing to launch a desperate counterattack against the Xixia people.

His first target was Xixia Zhuoluo and Nanjunsi, which were across the river from Lanzhou City.

Isn’t Lanzhou City running out of food?

In addition to seizing the little remaining grain and grass left by Li Liangfu's army, Li Yanxian was also preparing to go to the other side of the Yellow River to seize the Xixia people's territory.

The Yellow River was still very mild in spring. On the fourth day of March, 10,000 Song troops crossed the Yellow River and appeared in the territory of the Xixia people.

Also on the fourth day of March, Li Qianshun sent Wei Ming Anhui to inspect the Jianing Military Division.

Long before Li Liangfu launched the attack on Xi'an Prefecture, Xixia began to secretly mobilize its army.

In ancient times, wars generally required mobilization in advance. After all, there were no communication networks in ancient times, and mobilization took time.

Within two months, 100,000 elite troops were secretly assembled in the Hengshan area and distributed in the Hongzhou, Longzhou and Yinzhou areas, forming an offensive front extending hundreds of miles from east to west.

These elites are completely different from Li Liangfu's group.

The most elite of Li Liangfu's troops were 6,000 light cavalry and 10,000 infantry. The rest did not even have leather armor, and the number of crossbows was limited.

But the Xixia army gathered in the Hengshan area was completely different.

In addition to the "Bubazi" who are powerful in mountain warfare, there are also a large number of more well-equipped cavalry, and even a group of iron kite heavy armored cavalry.

A considerable part of these elites are the ace troops who defend Xingqing Mansion. You can understand them as Zhao Ning's Guards Brigade.

There are iron mines to the north of Hengshan, and in Xiazhou City there is the Xixia Iron and Steel Yamen, which was established during the Li Yuanhao era.

This area is also called Pingxia.

The ace cavalryman of Xixia, Tiehezi, also has another title, Pingxia Tiehezi.

As the name suggests, Tieyaozi is located in the Pingxia area. After all, the iron smelting center of the Xixia people is also here.

But Ye Tie Center alone is not enough to support Xixia to place its elite troops here.

As we all know, the cost of supporting such heavy armored cavalry is staggering.

Pingxia, north of Hengshan Mountain, is a fertile land that stretches east to west, with not only fertile farmland but also rich resources.

It is also a strategic location that the Song and Xia countries have fought for for nearly a hundred years.

Li Qianshun wanted to capture Song Dynasty's attention, so he did it in two ways.

Li Liangfu's army quickly suppressed the border, gathered the troops of Zhuo Luo and Nanjunsi, and attacked Xihe Road, drawing the attention of the front to the west front, making the Song army think that he was planning to attack Xihe Road and the Longyou Protectorate.

But in fact, the real elites have already begun to deploy in the Hengshan area in advance. As soon as the Song army supports Xihe Road, the real elites of Xixia will move south in an all-round way, like a torrent of steel, carrying out a devastating impact on the Yanyan Road walled city.

The mastermind of this attack on the Song Dynasty, Wei Ming Anhui, was personally inspecting the Jianing Military Division in Youzhou at this time.

He doesn't allow any problems to arise.

Because this matter was a task given to him by the Kingdom of Jin, it was related to his future political status in Xixia.

Weiming Anhui, who was inspecting the Jianing Military Division in Youzhou, did not know that Li Liangfu had already defeated Lanzhou.

He didn't even know that Liu Qi's 20,000 Song troops had secretly marched north a few days ago, and adopted an extremely radical strategy: their troops were aimed directly at Hengshan Yinzhou!

During this period, the three Song armies came out of Fuyan Road and galloped toward the northeast like spreading beans.

They will rendezvous in Suide, and then join forces to attack Mizhi Village. After recapturing Mizhi Village, they will use it as a rear stronghold for the army, and then move north to besiege Yinzhou.

In fact, this is the intention of the Chief Construction Department of Jingzhao Mansion, and Liu Qi is a very obedient and honest person. He will do whatever his superiors tell him to do.

This is the characteristic of Liu Qi. He is a person with a good temper and never causes trouble to his superiors.

Fighting Yinzhou is not that easy.

Since the war between Song and Jin broke out, the strength of the Song army was greatly reduced. Hengshan, which had been occupied by the Song Dynasty, was taken back by Xixia.

Many of the fortresses built by the Song Dynasty in this area were destroyed, leaving a large blank space, preventing the Song army from entering Hengshan deeply for a long time.

But Zhang Jun sent Liu Qi to attack Yinzhou, which clearly had Zhang Jun's intention.

On the fourth day of March, Liu Qi's main force arrived in Suide first, and on the second day, the left and right troops arrived one after another.

At this time, the Xixia people did not know that the Song army had launched a large-scale military operation in the Wuding River area.

They will attack Yinzhou, an important military town in the Hengshan area, to surprise the Xixia people.

On the fifth day of March, Zhao Ning's edict was sent to Jingzhao Mansion.

Zhao Ning assigned Zhang Jun a grand strategy: an all-out war with Xixia.
Chapter completed!