Some time ago, in order to reduce the casualties of Tutu Mountain soldiers, the Song army not only used the Divine Arm Bow to shoot with the Xia army, but also used a siege tower chariot and a small number of cannons, but not many cannons were used. Please see the most comprehensively!

But today is different. Each earthen mountain is filled with dense cannons, tiger-crawlers, and artillery catapults of all sizes reach nearly a thousand. There are large groups of shield hands and bowmen standing on both sides of the cannon. The shield hands protect the soldiers behind them, and all the archers are the strongest warriors. They hold the enhanced version of the divine arm bow, which is the heavy divine arm bow. This bow has a requirement of two stones for arm strength, but after continuous improvement, its range has reached 300 steps away.

The Xixia soldiers on the top of the city were all dumbfounded.

They also underestimated the firepower of these weapons. With the sound of the horns of the Song army, countless shells, rocks, gunpowder packs, and powerful crossbows were scattered in every corner of Lingzhou City like heavy rain.

This dense fire attack lasted for a whole day and a night.

In fact, Wang Ju did this and didn’t know how many attacks would be attracted by scholars and officials in the future, but Wang Ju didn’t care. After the matter was over, he went to the other side. Whatever you say.

So he did something bloodier the next day.

After a day and night, the entire Lingzhou City almost became rubble. The people in the city were stunned by this dense firepower, so they all forgot the sorrow of losing their loved ones.

The attack stopped, and the Song army pushed more than 10,000 prisoners of war captured in the Battle of Lingzhouchuan to the city. Behind it was a large group of Song army carrying various siege equipment.

With a sound of a cry, the Song army in front raised the knife in their hand and killed all the more than 10,000 prisoners of war outside the city, in front of the Xixia army on the top of the city. As the firepower started again, the Song army behind also launched an attack on the city. It was not until now that the Song army truly attacked Lingzhou City.

However, the Xixia soldiers and civilians in the city were frightened by the bloody scene just now. Before the Song army could attack the city, many Xixia soldiers put down their weapons and shouted for surrender.

Wang Ju divided the troops again, and Liu Changzuo and Yao Lin and other generals led a 100,000 army and 50,000 civilians up the Yellow River. The first stop was the Shangwei City. The second division of troops was conducted here, and first explored the forces of Beihetao in Xixia, but it was estimated that there were not many Xixia troops stationed in Beihetao at this time. Then he divided a group of troops and continued to go up the Yellow River, pointing directly to the Heishan Weifu Army Office in Beihetao in Xixia, occupying Wulahai City and Muna Mountain to prevent the Liao army from heading west.

This important area will take the lead in occupying it. Otherwise, the Liao Dynasty would go south at any time and threaten the rule of the Song Dynasty. Most of the remaining part would cross the Yellow River, go around the back of Heshan Lanshan, and point directly to the Baimaqiangzhen Military Office and the Right Chapel Fu Military Office in Xixia. However, Wang Ju estimated that in order to support Xingqing Prefecture, there would not be many troops. Then the army would continue to go south, conquering several checkpoints of Helan Mountain, joining with the main army, and attack Xingqing Prefecture from north to south.

Of course, the Song Dynasty dispatched countless troops in this battle, and there were sufficient troops to make Wang Ju "squander" like this.

He also left a group of troops in Lingzhou to prevent the Liao Kingdom from sending troops to rescue him. At the same time, he left some civilians to cut wood and build boats, and even escorted the people of Xixia to speed up the speed of boat building.

This is to cooperate with the Hetao area transportation.

The water level gaps in many sections of the Yellow River are large, which is not an ideal channel. However, from the section of Xixia to Qingtong Gorges in Munashan to Baotou, the river is stable. Since ancient times, all dynasties have used this channel to fully utilize this channel. For example, in the Northern Wei Dynasty, the town of Daoyong built more than 200 ships, using it to transport food and grass, and made great achievements. The Tang Dynasty also used this channel to establish the Six-City Water Transport Envoy to specialize in managing the water transport of this section of the Yellow River. Liao Xingzong defeated Xia and used the Jurchens to build ships. He also wanted to use this channel to reduce the difficulty of transportation, but before it could be used, he was defeated by Li Yuanhao in Hequ.

Therefore, Wang Ju picked up this passage again to reduce the difficulty of transportation. Otherwise, transporting the food and grass to Beihetao step by step would be too much consumption. Not only does the troops stationed now need food and grass, but the resettlement of future immigration also requires a large amount of food and grass and materials.

The remaining three armies began to cross the river and joined the army of Miao Shu in Hexi, and the troops were directed to the city of Shunzhou, Xixia.

At this moment, Wang Ju received an urgent report from Wang Wenyu.

Several states in the Hexi Corridor of the Xixia Hexi Corridor were attacked by the huge army of the two countries, coupled with the suffering of the people, and some arrangements and win over by Wang Ju before, which led to the disagreement of people and the military and civilians who were not interested in fighting. Therefore, the army of the Song army and the Hei Khan were advancing very quickly. Wang Zhong quickly advanced to Ganzhou, and the Hei Khan soldiers and horses also came to the city of Suzhou.

Hei Han heard that the Song Dynasty sent troops, so he sent envoys to Ganzhou to explain the reason for their troops. First, Xixia blocked the business road, which made Hei Han resentful. This was not an excuse. Hei Han still retained the traditions of the Western Regions and attached great importance to business. However, Xixia controlled the Hexi Corridor and had a heavy commercial tax, especially the commercial goods transported to the Song Dynasty, which forced Hei Han to change to the Qinghai South Silk Road. However, this road was very difficult, and there were many unmanned areas along the way, lacking supply, and the transportation cost was extremely high. Therefore, Hei Han was extremely disliked by the people of Xixia.

But there is another reason why Hei Han has not been mentioned, because Hei Han has now divided into two countries, east and west. The East Hei Han and the Western Trade Road are blocked by the West Hei Han, so they rely more and more on the Eastern Trade Road. However, with the Xixia blocking the East, the trade with the Central Plains has always been poor, so Hei Han hates the people of Xixia very much.

Another reason was that after the Song Dynasty captured Lanzhou, the Xixia counterattacked. The Hei Khan sent an envoy to the Central Plains with camels. The Song army lacked livestock to carry supplies, so they negotiated with the Black Khan envoy and recruited them. As a result, the Xia army captured the Xiguan in Lanzhou and kidnapped the Black Khan envoy and took them away with the camels. Although the Song Dynasty made some compensation, this abducted made Hei Khan furious. Therefore, in history, Hei Khan sent troops to Xixia twice.

That is, the Hei Khan sent troops this time, one was to retaliate against Xixia, and the other was to cooperate with the Song army to take down the Hexi Corridor and open up trade routes.

The Black Sweat Envoy explained the whole story, and Wang Wenyu immediately wrote to Wang Ju.

After reading the letter, Wang Ju gave a reply.

Revenge is credible, and he also remembers that Hei Khan did send troops to Xixia in another time and space history.

However, I can only believe that part of this cooperation was that most of the Hei Khan saw the emptiness of the Western Xia and sent a large army to get benefits. But if the Song Dynasty did not make a timely judgment and let the Hei Khan take down Suzhou and Ganzhou, this area was dominated by the Uighurs, and with their fanatical religion, then the tenth would be left in the future.

Use this excuse to send Liao envoy back.

The Liao Kingdom also sent a more intense letter to the Song Dynasty, and Wang Ju ignored it.

But soon Wang Ju received another secret letter, a secret letter written by someone he could not have imagined, and the leader Mogus.

This man is brave and good at fighting, and has a high prestige among the various ministries of the Bu. In history, after Yu Guhao's death, the Liao Kingdom appointed him as the leader of the Bu Xin. However, this man has always been very dissatisfied with the Liao Kingdom. Therefore, three years after the enthronement, that is, four years later, the Mogus uprising, and the Liao Kingdom spent countless troops and financial resources, and took more than eight years to suppress the uprising.

This long and huge uprising almost dragged the Liao Kingdom down from the sea.

This year, Yu Guhao brought 30,000 cavalrymen to support Xixia, and must have brought Mogus who could fight. Mogus was not very happy, but because of helplessness, he had to follow the army.

That night, when the Song army replaced the cannon and opened fire, Mogus realized something was wrong and took the lead to escape from the battlefield with his subordinates. Then the cavalry of the Song Dynasty continued to surround him, but Mogus slipped quickly and fled to Tiemen Pass in time. After reorganizing the remaining Zubu deserters at Tiemen Pass, he retreated to Xiazhou, intending to escape from Huangyangping and Dijinze to Liao Kingdom, and detour from Liao territory to Zhubu. There was no way to escape from Beihetao because Miao Lin had already led the three armies to Beihetao.

Wang Ju didn't know what kind of mentality Mogus was. He didn't even know Mogus, but he knew that there was a person who stopped the Bu people from fleeing eastward to Huangyangping.

Then run away. There is no time to clear this film now. Moreover, they are all cavalrymen with fast speed. If they really want to escape, there is no good way to clear it.

However, an accident happened at this time. Just when they were about to flee to the Heqing army, they suddenly received an order from the Liao Kingdom to enter Xiazhou, saying that the Liao Kingdom would send troops to support Xixia soon.

Mogus was originally very dissatisfied with the Liao Kingdom. That night he saw the strength of the Song Dynasty's army, or the strength of the Song Dynasty's weapons. At this time, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses were spread all over the northwest. He did not believe that the Liao Kingdom could defeat the Song army.

Then they can only seek death if they stay in Xixia City.

In fact, if the Liao Kingdom asked them to withdraw, Mogus had no other ideas for the time being and would not rebel until a few years later. But perhaps under the pressure of the Song army, the Liao Kingdom slowed down its exploitation of Zubu and he would not rebel.

Although Mogus was very dissatisfied with the Liao Kingdom, he did not have the idea of ​​betrayal at the beginning. It was not until the Liao Kingdom recruited Yelu Helu to attack Mogus's troops by mistake, which caused a large number of casualties among the Mogus' people. In addition, Mogus himself was very dissatisfied with the Liao Kingdom, so Mogus killed Tugus, the leader of the Liao Kingdom, the leader of the Liao Kingdom, and rebelled against Liao. Then He Lu Saogu personally led a large army to suppress him, and was defeated by Mogus. The second chamber Wei, Sixth Court, Gong Branch, and the special-man army led by He Lu Saogu were all destroyed. The Liao Kingdom appointed Yelu Tabuya as the main general, Mogus pretended to surrender and lured Tabuya, and the Liao army was defeated again. It was not until more than two years later that the Liao Kingdom sent Yelu Otla to fight for the expedition. Although he defeated Mogus, he killed more than a thousand Mogus' subordinates.

Think about how many Tings were there in Shubu. These Tings of Tartars were warriors. Even if a small part of the Tartars betrayed by Mogus, Mogus also had tens of thousands of tribes.

Therefore, although Mogus was defeated in this battle, the main force still existed and continued to fight against the Liao Kingdom. It was not until six years ago that he was captured by Yelu Otla. Yelu Hongji was angry and ordered Mogus to be chopped into meat sauce.

However, due to this suppression, the Liao Kingdom consumed countless manpower and material resources. Under the heavy pressure of the Liao Kingdom, various troops blocked Bu, Wugu and the enemy rifts one after another. Although they did not drag the Liao Kingdom into the sea, they eventually led to the extermination of the Liao Kingdom by the Jurchens.

In other words, if there were no such order, Mogus would not have the idea of ​​betraying the Liao Kingdom. But now the Liao Kingdom asked them to continue to stay in Nanhetao, and even had to send Xiazhou City to directly confront the Song army again, and Mogus was shaken.

So Mogus sent someone to send a secret letter saying that he would lead the Shubu tribe to rely on the Song Dynasty in the future, and not to defect to him, but the Song Dynasty could not have any interest in the Shubu desert. However, with the Shubu power, it was impossible to fight against the Liao Kingdom. Therefore, Mogus hoped that the Song Dynasty would provide some support, especially the powerful bow and the sharp weapon of fire that night, namely the Divine Arm Bow and the Cannon.

Mogus sent another piece of information, that is, the Liao Kingdom had quelled the rebellion in Liaodong and the army began to retreat. As for whether these troops would be transferred to the front line of the Song and Liao dynasties, Mogus was not very clear, but this was also valuable news. To be continued.
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