Another stronghold around Xiaoguan was recaptured by the Song army. More than 4,000 Xia soldiers were killed, and almost no survivors escaped. Now Xiaoguan's natural dangers were no longer reliable, not to mention that two strongholds were captured in succession, and the Xia army also suffered losses.
With a large number of troops, the situation is now increasingly favorable to Xiao and Tang.
When the Song Army attacked the third Fengsui Walled City, the Xia Army defenders did not prepare enough defensive equipment there. The Song Army gathered from the front and surrounded the mountains, with a total of 15,000 people inside and outside.
The enemy hoped to hold on to the city and hope that Xiaoguan and even the Xia Kingdom in the north could send a large army to rescue them in time. However, Xiaotang had already set up troops to set up an ambush in the valley road leading to the city. To the north of Xiaoguan
If the Xia army doesn't come, we can fight another ambush.
The Song army organized a brave and vigorous climb up the Tengling Ridge. Archers on the high slopes and forests around the city fired rockets intensively downwards, igniting the wooden houses, granaries, firewood and trees in the village, which immediately caused fires everywhere, causing the Xia Kingdom's troops to retreat into chaos.
The fire was so fierce that the wooden houses in the village were roasted by the raging fire. Smoke billowed from the wooden houses in the village. After the fire gradually subsided, the Song army immediately launched a fierce attack on the city from the front. The small centaur was burned by the fire, and the rest were also covered in smoke.
The troops of the burning Xia Kingdom retreated and their morale was turbulent. The battle was not as brutal as the previous two attacks. The Song army attacked and surrounded the ridge and city. The Xia army in the city retreated steadily, and every step back left countless corpses.
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After about an hour, most of the Xia army was wiped out, and a small number fell into the nearby mountains and cliffs. The rest also knelt down and begged to surrender. The Fengsui Walled City here was again occupied and controlled by the Song army.
Several barriers and strongholds near Xiaoguan were all recovered by the Song army. The gates were wide open, and the villages commanded high altitudes and occupied dangerous areas. The strategic defense conditions that echoed each other had disappeared. Xiao Tang only had to repeat his old tricks and lead his troops along Liupan Mountain.
The mountain pass, with continuous mountains and thorny ridge roads, attacked in a roundabout way, occupying the commanding heights on all sides of Xiaoguan, and then launched a fierce attack on the pass from the front. Although Xiaoguan, whose left and right arms were cut off, was far stronger than the surrounding beacon fortresses,
However, judging from the current situation, the resistance to recapturing this dangerous pass on the Song-Xia border has been greatly reduced.
However, just as Xiao Tang was discussing with his generals how to deploy troops and horses to attack Xiaoguan with a fierce frontal attack or to bypass the mountains and outflank Xiaoguan, some sentry scouts hurriedly came back to report: Since seven days ago, the troops stationed at the top of Xiaoguan City have been guarded.
The number of troops gradually decreased, until today the sentinels could only look deep into the mountains, and after crossing several jagged mountains, they found that a large group of Xia troops were reorganizing their troops and chariots, and were withdrawing from Xiao Pass. It seemed that they were moving to the north towards the territory of Xia Kingdom.
Xia’s army actually retreated!?
Xiao Tang was shocked when he heard the report. Even the generals in the camp looked at each other in confusion. Xiao Tang immediately sent a small number of soldiers and horses to touch the wall of Xiaoguan under the cover of night. As expected, there was not a single soldier on guard inside and outside Xiaoguan.
It was so lifeless that it seemed that only an empty pass was left overnight, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses had long since disappeared out of thin air.
Xiao Tang immediately led his troops to advance into Xiaoguan, and sent Niu Gao to lead the Qingqi Scouting Horse out of the pass to search and grasp the movements of Xia's army. Five days later, the dispatched Scouting Horse scouts came back to report that they were near Killing Niuling in the northwest of Xiaoguan.
, a large number of dismantled and destroyed artillery and ordnance were found. It seems that the Xia army demolished it on the spot due to the inconvenience of transporting a large number of equipment, just like many remaining parts of ordnance that were burned and smashed in Xiaoguan.
However, the north was controlled by the Xia army, and it was inconvenient for the ranger sentry led by Niu Gao to go deep alone. Xiao Tang once again unfolded the map to check the surrounding terrain of the Song-Xia border and the distribution of military states. According to his idea, Xia soldiers and horses would make a long-distance attack and conquer Xia Xiao Pass.
, to the north are Xia Kingdom's Xishou Baotai Military Division and Weizhou Jingsai Military Division's troops and horses for support and logistical supplies. A large area of land to the north is still under the control of the Xia Kingdom. Defending Xiao Pass can not only control the Song Dynasty.
Xia's border area is critical, and defending here can consume a large number of his own troops. So why did Xia's army give up this dangerous pass so easily and hand over Xiao Pass?
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Kaanniu City was an important military town in the western part of the Xia Kingdom (it was renamed Tong'an when the Song Dynasty occupied it, and is now in the area of Huzhu Tu Autonomous County in Qinghai Province).
In the middle of the festival hall in the city, there was a commander sitting firmly at the head. I saw that he was well-groomed and looked cool and calm. Although he also scraped the top of his head like most of the Xia army generals sitting on both sides of the festival hall.
He is bald, but has a bunch of bangs on his forehead. There are also braids on the left and right sides that hang down over his ears. He wears a big golden earring on each ear.
Although the Han people of the Song Dynasty regarded him as very unconventional, they did not think that his appearance was weird or ugly at all.
The Xia Army generals sitting under the festival hall were all tough and rugged, and it was obvious at a glance that they were fierce warriors who killed without blinking an eye. However, they did not even dare to kick a blow in front of the very delicate Xia Army coach.
He also seemed very respectful and respectful.
And this Xia army commander was none other than Jin Wang Cha Ge, the younger brother of the current Xia Emperor Li Qianshun and the chief general in the current Xia army.
As a famous general of the Xia Kingdom, Cha Ge had led the army to rescue the anti-Song Tubo tribes in the Hehuang area as early as sixteen or seventeen years old. Although he suffered successive defeats in Qingtang and Huangshui,
In the hands of Miao Lu and Gao Yongnian of the Song army, when the whole army was destroyed, it was Cha Ge who killed the Song general with an arrow and immediately led his troops to counterattack, which caused the Song army to be defeated in panic. From then on, the Xia Kingdom
The descendants of the royal family also became famous in the Xia army and were widely respected by officials and generals.
Later, it was Brother Cha who had many military exploits in numerous attacks against the Song army. It was also he who suggested that Li Qianshun follow the example of the Song army and choose to train Tibetan and Han warriors, teach them how to use crossbows, and organize many tribes in the Xia Kingdom to carry bows on a daily basis.
As for the hoe, they marched in divisions before the battle. At the same time, they reorganized the heavy cavalry iron kite and the mountain infantry divisions. They repeatedly defeated the Song army due to their flexible use of troops according to the time and place, and gradually became the most important minister in the Xia army who controlled the military power...
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"Cha Ge Ning ordered, as Xie expected, there seemed to be movement from the remaining Tibetan troops in the Qing and Tang Dynasties in the Hehuang area. Tong Guan, the eunuch, had no choice but to be on guard. The Song army from the west was advancing in separate directions, and Liu Fanasi was still leading his troops at this time.
We are stationed in the Xining Prefecture area and seem to have no intention of leading the army to the north."
When Brother Cha heard the reports from his subordinates, he showed a calm smile on his face and said: "The people of the Song Dynasty were deliberately plotting the land of Hehuang, but it was too much to resort to military violence. Tong Guan sent troops to Hehuang to capture Qingtang, but when the people in the country were not stable,
At that time, they tried to attack Daxia, but the tribal leaders from various parts of Tubo controlled the territory. Although Tong Guan was rampant, he still had to beware of our Xia army uniting with Qingtang Qiang and Tubo tribes to attack his retreat. The Song army was greedy and could not take advantage of it.
Swallow the elephant, open the Xihe River, and expand the soil of the Hehuang River... Haha, at this time, I am focusing on one thing and not the other. If the Song Army still wants to forcefully send troops again, it will be exactly what I want..."
Chage paused for a moment, and then said: "Send a letter to inform the Tibetan tribes on the northern border of Kalochuan. The Song army has always planned to cut off the connection between Daxia and Hexi, but its advance was so rapid that it ignored
In addition to the flanks and rear, as long as our army still controls the northern border of Huangzhou, it can also go south at any time to pose a threat to the territory controlled by the Song army in the Hehuang land. The Song Dynasty sent three armies to invade our Daxia, and the grain and grass along the border front
The supply of military supplies is also huge, not to mention that Yongliang, Hehuang and other places have difficult transportation routes, so they can also wait for opportunities to intercept the Song army's food routes."
Hearing this, the generals of the Xia army in the festival hall immediately accepted the order. At this time, someone reported to Cha Ge: "Cha Ge Ning ordered that there was news from Weizhou in the east that our army troops who had captured Xiaoguan had already arrived.
Returning north, the Song general named Xiao Tang of the Song army on the east route must have recaptured the pass again."
