Liang Yimi and Liang Yongneng sent troops from Xingzhou and Hengshan respectively, claiming 800,000 to attack the Song Dynasty.
Although Liang Yongneng was a partial force along the way, he attacked cities and villages along the way, successively attacked the cities on Fuyan Road and Huanqing Road, and raided the cities along the route.
After Liang Yimi led his army out of Huluchuan, there was a turmoil on Jingyuan Road. The military envoy Shen Kuo asked Han Zhen for reinforcements, but Han Zhen refused because Liang Yongneng also attacked Yanyan Road and Huanqing Road.
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Liang Yi ordered General Wei Mingji to go to the gate of Pingxia City and deliver his own handwritten letter to the city guard Liu Changzuo.
Liang Yimi said, "Yesterday, when the war was in full swing, we fought against each other. Now I am writing to Zhi. The letter is not the result of changes and twists. It means that everyone is loyal to what he is doing, so he has to listen to it."
The letter also said, "Xi Xia has a seal of ten thousand li and hundreds of thousands of soldiers in armor. I have Khotan as my happy neighbor in the south and Liao as my strong support in the north."
Liang Yi said that the two families had not been fighting for more than ten years, so how could they give up.
Liang Yi buried the final conditions for peace with Xixia in his book. Unless the Song Dynasty promised to cede Lanzhou and Xi'an, there would be no peace.
Liang Yimi's words cannot be said to be arrogant, but his words of "If you want to fight, I will fight" really make people feel that this Party Prime Minister really has something.
After Liu Changzuo received the letter, he reported to Shen Kuo, and Shen Kuo reported to the officials.
The official sitting in the Jinluan Palace in Bianjing was furious when he saw the letter and almost tore it up on the spot. Then he summoned Wang Gui and Zhang Yue lost his temper.
Zhang Yue cursed Shen Kuo from the bottom of his heart, saying that he would burn this kind of letter and send it to Beijing to humiliate himself.
The officials lost their temper and blamed Zhang Yue for being so incompetent in the war against Xixia that he made Liang Yimi so rampant.
Seeing the incompetent official furiously spitting and dancing, Zhang Yue calmly wiped the spit on his face evenly with his hands, and then said with great concern: "Your Majesty, take care
Dragon body."
The official saw Zhang Yue acting like a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water, and immediately said coldly: "I don't need you to continue listening to the matter. I will go to the original road of Pijiajing to find Liang Yimi in person!"
When Wang Gui and Shi De saw this, they panicked and quickly tried to persuade him. Wang Gui advised Zhang Yue to compensate the officials for making them so angry.
Zhang Yue rolled up his sleeves and bowed to the officials: "Your Majesty, please appoint the prisoner of the country as soon as possible!"
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Liang Yi, who was buried in the direction of Jingyuan Road, only made a false shot. Instead, he sent troops to attack Xi'an Prefecture where Qinfeng Road was located. After destroying several newly built forts of the Song Army, he burned all the farmland and made a plan to attack Huizhou.
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When Li Xian was in Li Xian, Wang Hou dispatched troops to guard Huizhou and stationed heavy troops along Quwu Mountain, waiting for Liang Yi to come to fight.
However, Liang Yimi suddenly changed his route and crossed the Yellow River to the north, arriving along the river to Lanzhou to join the main force of Xixia.
Liang Yimi's use of troops this time can be described as a straw snake and a gray line, with thousands of miles of connections, which is quite worthy of Li Yuanhao's true legacy.
Use a partial division to attack Huanqing Road and Fuyan Road, then pretend to attack Jingyuan Road, Huizhou, and Tiandu Mountain, and finally gather a large army to attack Lanzhou City.
No matter Han Zhen, Shen Kuo or Wang Hou who was stationed in Huizhou, they all thought that Liang Yimi's main attack direction was on his side, but they did not expect that Liang Yimi would eventually circle back to Lanzhou City.
Under the city of Lanzhou where it was defeated.
Wherever the party's army passed, except for the large forts that were intact, all the small forts were destroyed, the cultivated fields were burned, and all the barns were looted.
This was the case when Dangxiang marched forward. The soldiers passed by like a comb, leaving almost no grass or tree behind for the Song people.
Zhang Yue wanted to use Lanzhou, Tiandu Mountain, and Pingxia City to consume the Dangxiang people, and conversely, the Dangxiang people did the same.
The same is true below Lanzhou City.
Li Hao is quite knowledgeable about troops. Judging from the sight of Dang Xiang sending troops to Jingyuan Road, Huanqing Road, and Yanyan Road this time, there was heavy thunder and little rain, but it was just a false force.
Instead, Dangxiang's cavalry crossed the Yellow River several times, wandered under the city, and quickly returned to the north bank. Xixia seemed to have the intention of attacking Lanzhou again.
Sure enough, Liang Yi came in person, and this time Dang Xiang claimed to have 800,000 troops on foot.
There must be a lot of moisture in the 800,000 yuan, and there is also some dry stuff in the moisture.
Li Hao and Wang Wenyu saw Xixia's most elite Bubazi, Tieyaozi, and the rumored new Poxi Army under the city.
There are only 6,000 soldiers in the city.
Six thousand versus eight hundred thousand...
This time the Xixia city was not surrounded by three buildings, but surrounded on all sides.
They saw Liang Yi's buried gold tent at the bottom of the city. The other party was drinking from a cup not far from the city in a arrogant manner. In front of them were party warriors dancing with shields.
Wang Wenyu pressed the knife on his waist, knowing that Liang Yi was deliberately provoking.
I, Liang Yi, am right in front of you. I have the guts to do what you did last time, leading 700 dead men here to steal the camp in the middle of the night.
Li Hao patted Wang Wenyu on the shoulder and said: "Defend the city well this time and don't think about anything else. Dangxiang said there are 800,000 troops, but there are definitely not so many soldiers and horses. Besides, how many days can the military rations last?"
Wang Wenyu smiled and said: "No matter how many soldiers and horses he has, I only have six thousand."
Lanzhou defenders Li Hao and Wang Wenyu were rewarded for their last victory over Xixia. Li Hao was promoted to the position of defense envoy, knowing Lanzhou and Xihe, and Qin Feng was the deputy envoy to appease.
Wang Wenyu joined the Rongzhou regiment as the training envoy, holding the sun, and the commander of Tianwudu became the deputy general manager of the capital.
The last time we experienced the Battle of Lanzhou, many generals in Lanzhou City were promoted to envoys.
Although there are not as many horizontal troops as dogs, they are still full of envoys.
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Previously, Li Hao and Wang Wenyu were worried that since they were promoted by Zhang Dun instead of Zhang Yue's confidants, they would suppress the rewards. Unexpectedly, the other party did not mind. The battle of Lanzhou was in January, and the rewards would be given in February.
The speed of this reward can be described as non-stop.
As soon as the military merits on Xihe Road arrived, a lot of chickens and dogs ascended to heaven. Even ordinary soldiers received five salt notes and a bolt of silk.
Everyone knows that in the prosperous times, Xihe Road was the only way to gain military glory. All the imperial students who graduated from martial arts went here, vowing to become scholars and marquises.
There are only 6,000 soldiers in Lanzhou City, and all of them are proud soldiers and powerful generals.
Xihe Road Soldiers and Horses was established by Zhang Yue and Wang Shao. Zhang Yue believed that the best patterns could be drawn with white paper. After the founding of the army, he always insisted on scholars leading the troops and using Taipei students as grassroots officers.
Scholars can not only write articles, but also lead troops and enforce strict military discipline, and at the same time show integrity.
At that time, when the Dangxiang, Khitan, and Song armies were fighting, including the Jurchens later, they still relied more on the bravery and martial arts of grassroots officers to lead their soldiers into battle.
But Xihe Lubing gives people a different feeling.
It's like those who have served in the military have a temperament of being a tiger when doing business, and scholars who have led soldiers have another temperament, which is stubbornness.
The martial arts of Taixue were all taught by Zhang Zai and Zhang Zai's disciples. Although Zhang Zai studied Qi, he was also in the lineage of Neo-Confucianism.
Like Zhang Zai and Cheng Yi, they were both able to fight Wang Anshi for dozens of rounds. Scholars with a Neo-Confucian background, especially had a stubbornness about them. This stubbornness was a little bit conceited, but Zhang Yue liked it very much.
As the saying goes, a stubborn person will never bring down the family.
Later generations denounced the shortcomings of Neo-Confucianism in the Song and Ming dynasties: "Sit back and talk about one's heart when there is nothing to do, and die in retribution to the king". However, more than 100,000 people in Yashan jumped into the sea, and more than 3,800 officials died after Chongzhen hanged himself.
It is easy to get into trouble if you are stubborn in learning, but it is very good when you use it to join the army.
Once these intellectual scholars become bloody in military service and war, it will be a terrible thing.
Many great figures in later generations came out of this way.
The battle moved from Lingzhou City to Mingsha City, and the army fought close to Wanxi River until the final moment when the city was broken. The strict military discipline, the patience and obedience of the soldiers, even the party members were frightened.
I have to say that Zhang Zai and his disciples are quite good at teaching Tai students.
After leaving Xihe Road, Zhang Yue only had two requirements for each successor, one was to be paid adequately, and the other was to train on time.
Only these two points could not be achieved by any soldiers and horses along the Song Dynasty. Only the Xihe Road could be achieved.
Everyone else saw that Zhang Yue was running the army on Xihe Road with clear rewards and punishments and making good use of people. Don't they know that establishing an organizational system is even better than the two?
Above the system, there is a first-class temperament, which is ideology.
This was decided by the first leader. Just like the Yue family army who "will not break down their houses to death and starve to death", but among the four ZTE generals, only Yue Fei will not drink the blood of his soldiers.
Although the party's 800,000 troops besieged the city, the soldiers in the city were tenacious and silent.
At dawn the next day, Dangxiang launched a large-scale attack on the city. His troops attacked the city from all sides, leaving no side behind.
Because there are sufficient troops, any side is the main attack, and we strive to achieve a quick victory.
Although the Xixia soldiers were tribal soldiers, they were very brave. They did not need to be driven away. They held the backs of swords in their mouths and climbed up the wall from the ladder to the wall.
At the same time, Liang Yimi also ordered his soldiers and horses to approach the city wall and dig tunnels to destroy the wall.
In addition, the Poxi Army of Xixia used a first-class cyclone cannon called the "Poxi Cannon".
They put the "joy cannon" on the back of the camel, then drove the camel closer, took out the stone bullets as big as fists from the saddlebags, and kept throwing them out.
However, the Song army at the top of Lanzhou City was not easy to deal with either.
The city was equipped with a large number of divine arm bows and crossbows, and countless arrows were shot down. Under a city wall, hundreds of party soldiers carrying ladders were shot over on the spot.
These dead people were all soldiers from tribes estranged from him and were purely cannon fodder. Liang Yimi didn't even look at them and ordered the leader of another tribe to lead troops to replace the tribe that suffered heavy casualties.
Under Liang Yi's eyes, Lanzhou City will be captured even if tens of thousands of people die.
At the top of the city, the officers and soldiers of the Song Army defended the city side by side, braving the arrows and bullets of Xixia. It was generally said that scholars had a noble status and could not join the warriors.
But this was the case with the Xihe Army. The soldiers and officers ate and lived together, drilled together every day, and of course went into battle to face the enemy together.
There is absolutely no "brothers, help me" phenomenon.
If the officer commander is killed in battle, his subordinates will not be scattered, but will be replaced by the adjutant. If the adjutant is killed again, there are arrangements for who will take over, and it is carefully written into the military regulations.
Paying attention to discipline is the characteristic of Xihe soldiers.
Under the leadership of low-level officers, the Song Army at the head of the city appeared to be very resilient. The Song Army at Xihe Road did not rely on individual bravery, but relied on organization and tenacious resilience.
Being good at attacking is not necessarily good at attacking, but you must be good at defending.
The next day, party soldiers built earthen platforms and artillery emplacements in the west. The soldiers and horses continued to attack, and then withdrew their troops at night.
At night, the Song army marched out of the city to attack the stronghold.
A few days later, the artillery position built by Dang Xiang outside the city was completed, and at the same time, the main force on Xihe Road led by Li Xian and Wang Hou rushed to the distance.
Li Xian and Wang Hou were shocked when they saw the Party soldiers all over the mountains and plains, and the city of Lanzhou being completely surrounded.
