Chapter 1721: Breaking through its strong walls and clearing the fields
The poem goes: Far above the Yellow River, among the white clouds, there is an isolated city called Wanren Mountain. @Why should the Qiang flute blame the willows? The spring breeze does not pass through Yumen Pass.
There is a tragic and desolate mood in this poem.
What makes people sigh is that Yumen Pass has faded out of people's sight now. Since Xixia completely occupied the Hexi Corridor, this area has been stable and harmonious, and the road has also been transferred from Yumen Pass to Gua and Sha Erzhou. It is precisely because of Gua and Sha Er that
The rise of the state led to the fall of Yumenguan, leaving only a trace of desolation.
However, the sandbank that had been stable for nearly a hundred years faced a catastrophe.
The Jurchens are coming!
The fierce Jurchens began to launch a war against the Dangxiang people that may be unbearable for the Dangxiang people.
Moreover, this is a battlefield that has been planned for a long time!
Wanyan Zongwang came here, naturally, not for the Gaochang Uighurs and the Eastern Karakhanids. He only had one purpose, which was the Song Dynasty. However, the Song Dynasty stationed heavy troops in the Yanyun area, and there were layers of defenses from north to south.
Even if they win the battles in Taiyuan, Zhongshan, Hejian, and the Yellow River, they will probably only have a few dozen people in Bianliang. Therefore, Wanyan Zongwang does not want to tangle with the Song army in the Yanyun area anymore.
However, there are only two roads from west to east, either by detouring through Tubo or by passing through Xixia. Since the Song army blocked Shule, the Jin army had no illusions about Tubo, so there was only one road left.
That is---Xixia.
In fact, Wanyan Zongwang's first choice was Xixia, because Xixia was wavering and had frequent contacts with the Song Dynasty in recent years and had a very good relationship. If Xixia was not destroyed, if a critical moment came, Xixia's every move might lead to the entire war.
Therefore, Wanyan Zongwang believed that if he wanted to eliminate the Song Dynasty, he must first eliminate the Xixia.
It was just that the Song Army had just been fighting against Tubo at that time. If he could enter Tubo, he could cause greater trouble to the Song Army. Unfortunately, he failed, which strengthened his determination to attack Xixia.
In the vast sand dune area southeast of Yumen Pass, there is no end to a long queue, and the front queue only turns into a black spot in the desert.
Dozens of camel carts were interspersed among the crowd. The carts were piled with food, grass, clothes, quilts and water. The children were sitting on the carts, looking at their hometown gradually disappearing in the desert with pairs of fearful eyes. It was so sad and sad.
.The adults left footprints in the desert one after another, and the footprints disappeared. The hometown in their eyes also disappeared.
They are the residents of Yumen Pass. Although Yumen Pass has fallen, there are still many people living here. However, because Xixia's strategy is to defend the sandbank with all its strength, Yumen Pass has been silently abandoned. They must leave as soon as possible, otherwise
If they do, they may not be able to see the sun tomorrow.
But God seems to have no mercy on them.
On the black line in the west, several more black spots suddenly appeared. There were more and more black spots, and there were faint shouts.
The Jin Army is coming!
There was despair in the eyes of these party members. They could not run away, and they would certainly not be able to fight. But in the face of death, the party members still picked up their bows and arrows.
In panic, the men asked the women to hold their children and ride camels to leave quickly, while they used wooden carts to form a line of defense. Their eyes showed fear and bravery.
A light cavalry composed of a thousand people swept over with yellow sand all over the sky.
This was the elite of Wanyan Zongwang. This militiaman could not withstand it. When the yellow sand fell, the desert was already covered with blood. Regrettably, no one escaped.
The golden soldiers waved their swords and wandered around the women and children, their eyes showing excitement and arrogance.
But it's disgusting.
Despite the heart-rending cries of the children, they still could not escape the fate of being imprisoned.
These people are strategically abandoned.
As soon as the Jin army arrived at the border of the Hexi Corridor, they directly targeted the junction of Xixia and Gaochang Uighurs, which is the sandbank. After Xixia learned about it, they immediately adopted the tactic of strengthening the wall and clearing the country, abandoning the area north of the sandbank, which was all desert anyway, and surrounding it.
All the people moved to Guazhou later.
But the Jin Army came too fast. More importantly, the Jin Army seemed to be coming fiercely, but it did not launch any attack on the sandbank in the initial stage. Instead, it broke into pieces and divided the team into ten large columns.
, each large column consists of a thousand people, which is divided into ten small columns, each column has a hundred people. These people circuit around Guazhou, plundering everywhere, but do not have a direct confrontation with the Xixia army.
This also makes the Western Xia Army's strong determination to be very ridiculous, because during the migration process, all materials and manpower are very concentrated. Once the Jin Army catches them, they will catch them all in one fell swoop. Even the cars are ready, which is very convenient.
, you can just turn around and transport the goods back.
In the Jin army's big tent.
Shu Lie quickly jumped off the horse and grabbed a woman on the horse with a big hand. The helpless woman was like a sparrow in his hands and was thrown to a soldier on the side.
Shu Liesu laughed and said: "I'll give it to you."
The soldier thanked him excitedly.
Shu Liesu's laughter became even more wild as he strode towards the Chinese army's tent.
"Shu Liesu."
A tall man with a beard on the left suddenly waved to Shu Liesu and shouted.
Shu Lie quickly turned around and said, "Balu, you are back too."
"I'm back, I'm back."
Balu ran over excitedly and said, "How was your harvest?"
Shulie said quickly: "We captured more than a thousand people, a hundred camels, and some livestock."
Balu said hey: "This time I am a little more lucky than you. I was lucky enough to meet several groups of herdsmen. There are five to six hundred cattle, sheep and camels in total, and there are more than 2,000 people."
"You guys can do it!"
Shu Liesu vigorously patted Balu on the shoulder.
"Average, average."
Balu said, his pair of thick eyes swayed from side to side a few times, and he said: "After this month, the surroundings have been deserted, there is nothing to grab, and it is not interesting, it is just like hunting.
When do you plan to attack the sandbank?"
Shu Lie said quickly: "How do I know this? It depends on Du Tong's arrangements. Let's go and find Du Tong."
When they came to the big tent, they saw many people sitting inside. Shu Liesu and Balu looked at each other and said, "It seems we are quite late."
The general rushed to see him and said, "What's too late? You two are the last."
All the soldiers burst into laughter.
Quickly, Balu stepped forward with a slight embarrassment and saluted Wanyan Zongwang who was sitting on top.
Wanyan Zongwang also smiled and said, "Sit down."
"yes."
After Shu Lieshu sat down, he said: "Du Tong is really good at predicting events. He had already known that the Dangxiang people would adopt the tactics of clearing the country. I am afraid that the Dangxiang people never dreamed that we would use the plan to get rid of these things that slipped through the net first."
The fish was caught and brought back.”
Balu laughed and said: "They must be still frightened on the sandbank now."
"Ha ha----!"
Wanyan Zongwang waved his hand gently and said: "I didn't expect it to happen. It's just that I had long inquired about the past tactics of the Dangxiang people and learned that they relied on the vast desert. They had used this trick several times, so I gave the order.
You go ahead and capture these people."
Shu Lie said quickly: "I really didn't expect that we captured more than ten thousand people just by walking on a few main roads leading to the sandbank."
Liu Yanzong chuckled and said: "There are still sparsely populated areas here. If we were to catch them one by one, we might not even be able to make up for the losses of the war horses. It was because Xixia had notified the people on the border to move, and there were only a few roads nearby, so
That's why you are so concentrated. You will certainly gain a lot from a trip."
Shu Lie nodded quickly and asked: "Capital Commander, Deputy Commander-in-Chief. What should we do next?"
Wanyan Zongwang smiled and said, "I called you here today just to discuss this matter." As he said that, he ordered people to bring maps, and a group of soldiers gathered around him.
Liu Yanzong said: "According to the information we learned from the Gaochang Uighurs, Xixia was in Shazhou, and the Guazhou generation originally only had 50,000 troops. There were only 20,000 troops near the sandbank, but after the Gaochang Uighurs surrendered to us, Xixia conquered again here.
A lot of troops were sent. There were about 70,000 troops in total, mainly from the Xiping Military Division. However, since many of them were recruited temporarily, the real elite was probably only 40,000 to 50,000, and they were mainly infantry."
Although Xixia owns the Hetao area, it is still dominated by infantry. Their infantry is not the same as the previous Song army. Xixia's infantry is very powerful. They can go up mountains and water, are very hardworking and extremely fierce.
Wanyan Zongwang continued: "The enemy has been waiting for us for a long time and is fully prepared. If we attack by force, even if we win, we will probably suffer heavy losses. Therefore, we must lure the Xixia army to come out to fight us and annihilate them on the way."
Shu Lie quickly said: "But Commander-in-Chief, judging from just a few days, it seems that the Xiping Army has made up its mind and will not come out. No matter how provocative we are outside, they just refuse to come out. It is difficult to lure them out."
Wanyan Zongwang said: "The Dangxiang people are no better than the Han people. The Han people are cowering because they are really afraid. They really don't dare to come out to fight. They can only hide in the city. They come out to surrender. But the Dangxiang people are not because they are afraid, but because of their tactics."
, they don’t know our strength, so they can’t hold on.”
Liu Yanzong said: "Do you want to show your weakness to the enemy first and lure them out?"
Wanyan Zongwang nodded and said: "We will first recruit 10,000 soldiers from the Gaochang Uighurs, and then we will send out 20,000 soldiers. However, we do not plan to send out elite soldiers. Instead, we will mainly use the soldiers just recruited from the northwest to attack from the northwest and south.
Shazhou, this is definitely impossible to defeat, but in this way, we can not only understand the fighting methods of the party members, but also show the enemy with weakness. When they think that our army is so strong, we will replace the soldiers with elites.
, concentrated the main force to bypass the sandbar and attack Guazhou, the base camp of the Pingxi Army, leaving only 20,000 elite troops to deal with them near the sandbar."
Shu Lie quickly shook his head and said: "No, no, there are not many roads leading from the sandbank to Guazhou, there are only two main roads, unless we pass through the desert east of Yumen Pass, but it is said that this desert is extremely difficult to walk and requires a lot of risk.
The risk is that if our attack on Guazhou is unfavorable, then the enemy forces on the sandbank will cut off our supplies, and our army may be in a dilemma."
Wanyan Zongwang chuckled and said: "You also think that I am going to attack Guazhou, then the Dangxiang people will think so even more."
Balu asked curiously: "Doesn't Dutong want to attack Guazhou?"
Wanyan Zongwang said: "The attack on Guazhou is just a bait thrown by us. Shazhou is the front line. When the enemy learned that we were going to start a war with them, they must have transferred many troops from Guazhou to Shazhou. When the Shazhou army saw us
The strength is not as strong as they imagined. So, once they learn that we are concentrating the main force to march into Guazhou, they will definitely think that we want to take Guazhou first, and then circle around to surround the sandbank. They will definitely detach part of the army to rescue. At this time
We turn around and give this reinforcement a head-on attack, and then cooperate with the main force near the sandbank to attack from both sides. If we annihilate this main force first, then the sandbank will be within our grasp."
Liu Yanzong thought thoughtfully and said: "If we can annihilate Shazhou's army and capture Shazhou, I think it will not be difficult to recruit the Pingxi Army from Guazhou."
"You and I want to be together."
Wanyan Zongwang chuckled and said: "We should try our best to recruit those who can surrender. In this war, we are going to destroy Xixia. We need to fight more and more troops." As he said this, he said loudly: "Shu Liesu, please lead 10,000 horses from the west."
Attack the sandbank from the front."
"The general will obey his orders."
"Ben Jian, you lead 10,000 troops to attack the sandbank from the south."
"The general will obey his orders."
"Balu, you lead 10,000 troops to attack the sandbank from the north."
"The general will obey his orders."
Wanyan Zongwang said again: "Huoligai, Naye, Saila, Paidanghai, you will follow me and lead 30,000 elites to wait for the opportunity. When the time comes, immediately make a detour and march to Guazhou. Yanzong, when the time comes, you will lead
Twenty thousand elite troops are fighting against the enemy on the sandbank, fighting if they can, and retreating if they cannot."
Liu Yanzong hurriedly said: "Du Tong, just leave it to me to march into Guazhou."
Wanyan Zongwang smiled and said: "If I go, they will believe that we plan to go to Guazhou first, so that Shazhou's army will come out."
Liu Yanzong said: "The Tutong does not have to be like this. In fact, we only need to go under the banner of the Dutong. It is better for the Dutong to stay here."
The other soldiers also persuaded Zong Wang not to go.
After all, this is Wanyan Zongwang's first time leading an army on an expedition after recovering from a serious illness, and Wanyan Zongwang's health is not as good as before. They don't want Wanyan Zongwang to be too tired.
Wanyan Zongwang naturally understood their intentions and did not force it. This war was not a matter of one or two days. He nodded and said: "Okay, I have Yanzong to go on my behalf, but Yanzong and the Dangxiang people are not
Weak, don't underestimate the enemy."
Liu Yanzong hurriedly said: "General, please rest assured, I am willing to issue a military order."
Wanyan Zongwang waved his hand and said calmly: "There is no need for a military order. If I didn't trust you, I wouldn't send you if you issued a military order. I sent you, so naturally I have full confidence in you."
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