Chapter 155: Confrontation with Xixia (III)

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The Chinese army continued to launch an attack, defeated the enemy's formation, seized its shield, and killed more than 20,000 people. By the end of the sun, only more than a hundred soldiers in the Western Xia remained.

The Xixia general Mu Weibahu led the rest of his troops to fight, and rushed around with a large spear in his hand, as if he had entered a no-man's land.

Seeing that this general was unscrupulous, the Khitan soldiers sent several people to intercept Mu Weibahu in a narrow place, but all of them were cut by the fierce general.

Finally, Fan Yong sent a special force, pretending to be defeated while fighting, seducing him into depth, and then shot the fierce general to death.

The iron mace, gun and spear used by this person when he went into battle weighed more than 90 pounds.

The reinforcements were destroyed and the situation in Jingzhou was critical. Li Ganli ordered the troops to withdraw to the south of the Yellow River, but it was too late at this time. Fan Yong led 100,000 reinforcements to surround Jingzhou.

In the middle of the night, Fan Jiang gathered his troops to siege and attacked from all sides, conquering Jingzhou before dawn.

The Western Xia soldiers fought hard and were unable to support the battle, and most of them died in battle, and Li Qingdao was captured alive.

Later, when Li Qingdao sacrificed his soldiers to Kangguangling, he killed them.

Yu Xuyu breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the great victory of the Northern Army and had full confidence in the conquest of Xixia.

But the cruelty of the war surprised him. This time the Northern Army defeated 210,000 Xixia soldiers, but the Northern Army died nearly 110,000.

Because the Northern Route Army made great contributions in the first battle, Yu Xuyu named Kang Guangling as the Marquis of Pingxi and Fan Yong as the Marquis of the Marquis of the Survival. Both of them were awarded the title of Minister of War.The generals under his command also had rewards.All soldiers in their ranks are rewarded according to their merits.

Li Ganli was a little unable to sit still at this time. The United Nations troops had lost one-third of them, and the three armies were completing the strategic encirclement.

The North Bank Barracks were defeated, and Xixia was studying the reasons for the failure and holding the relevant personnel accountable, but the main generals of this battle were all killed. Regardless of the outcome, they did not escape to the fate of death in battle.

After Wu Hao took office in Ganzhou, he first changed his strategy to defend against the enemy.

He changed the tradition of choosing no one and taking officials as the order, but instead opened up a new path.

Wu Hao led 100,000 soldiers from Ganzhou, selected 60,000 elite soldiers, and selected six generals to train day and night, taking turns to fight or defend.

In this way, you can train both generals through combat and actual combat.

In just a few months after taking office, the 100,000 cavalry of Ganzhou were trained to become the most elite troops in Xixia.

Duan Yu was the marshal of the South Route Army. Ba Tianshi and Zhu Danchen were all strategic. As the deputy marshal, Yun Chong, a disciple of Hangu, was just a little bit of strategy. Yu Xuyu saw that Wu Hao was quite capable and transferred Tang Guoen, a disciple of Hangu who was proficient in military tactics, as military advisor.

Tang Guoen's strategy was far superior to Ba Tianshi and others. After several plans, Ba Tianshi and others were convinced. Duan Yu simply delegated the power to Tang Guoen, allowing Tang Guoen to direct command and coordinate the various battles of the Southern Army.

In July 2004, the Southern Army connected Xiafangtou, Jiangou, Ganfu and other military strongholds, and completed the encirclement of Ganzhou troops.

Wu Hao ordered his Western Xia general Huanqing to lead 10,000 troops, marched for 70 miles at night, raided Fangtou City, defeated the soldiers of the garrison of the Southern Army, seized the city and burned grain, and then quickly returned to Ganzhou, which greatly shocked the Southern Army.

Li Ganli also led his army to set out from Xingzhou, raided Jiangou and regained this strategic important place.

In October of the same year, in view of the prosperity of the Western Xia army, Yu Xuyu sent an envoy to ask Fan Yong, who was in charge of the military and political affairs of the Northern Route, and Fan Yong presented two plans for attack and defense, allowing Yu Xuyu to choose one.

Yu Xuyu decided to make an immediate decision to launch an offensive against Xixia immediately and issued an edict to order the Northern Army to divide the troops into 100,000 to reinforce Ganzhou, and to make an attempt together in the first month of 2005.

Li Ganli and Wu Hao have their own opinions and their own reasons for continuing to expand, recover lost territory or gather troops to defend in Ganzhou.

Li Ganli believed that the defense troops were scattered after the attack, and the front line was too long, which was inconvenient to defend, so we should stick to it and wait and see what happened.

Yuan Hao ignored Li Ganli's identity and insisted on his own opinion, believing that if he insisted on it, the soldiers would have no enterprising ambitions.

Wu Hao sent people to Xingzhou to meet Li Ganli, insisting that he had seen it, believing that the attack was the best strategy.

Li Ganli read Wu Hao's handwritten letter and sighed: Wu Hao used his troops and put it against the victory or defeat.Really courageous.

I told Ganzhou that I will not accept the orders of the king from outside. After you return to Ganzhou, let Wu Hao act cheaply.

All the generals of the South China Army were from martial arts figures and should be the first to be the soldiers.

After Yu Xuyu succeeded to the throne, he abolished the national policy of restricting the power of military generals in the Song Dynasty, corrected the mistakes, and tried his best to play the role of brave and powerful generals, focusing on cultivating military commanders who could be on the front line and know the soldiers and generals in the war.

In March of the 2005th year of Zhongyuan, just as Wu Hao was inspecting military affairs, the southern army had more than 300,000 troops again seized Jiangou and prepared to besiege Ganzhou, intending to fight to the death.

When Wu Hao heard the news, he ordered Xixia to send out all its troops near the prefectures and counties, recruit more than 18,000 soldiers, withdraw the periphery forces, gather troops in Ganzhou, and defend with all their strength.

Tang Guoen formulated a strategy to attack the Western Xia army from military locations such as Fangtou, step by step, and take the lead in counterattacking the Western Xia army.

The camps are forty miles apart, with convenient roads and easy transportation of supplies.

The leader of the joint camp will judge the situation and fight if he can, and if he cannot fight, he will be placed under the risk of being trapped and cut off his way back.

Tang Guoen said that he is well-established and has extraordinary literary and military strategies.

Tang Guoen issued a document in the Southern Army, warning all generals and circulated a manifesto to emphasize military discipline again. If any person violates military orders, even if he is a meritorious minister, he will be executed and unpardoned.

In April 2005, the Southern Army gradually approached Ganzhou, and the armies of the various routes gradually formed a combined attack. They defeated the Xixia troops in Zhangzongbao, south of Ganzhou City, and beheaded thousands of them.

The Xixia army abandoned the horses, sheep and camels, and pretended to be defeated and lured the enemy.

Tang Guoen ordered the army to pursue the victory. If any of the enemy abandoned the enemy, the army would beheaded immediately.

Duan Yu led the spirit to chase after him, and Yun Chong and others would follow him.

The vanguards who spyed on intelligence came to report that the Western Xia had very few troops, and Duan Yu and others suddenly lost their vigilance.

When Tang Guoen heard the news in the rear army, he believed that the Western Xia soldiers might have ambushed and urged the rear army to hurry up and rescue the front army.

Duan Yu wrote a letter to Tang Guoen, and made an appointment to join forces in Ganzhou tomorrow, so that the Xia people would not return.

In fact, Wu Hao led an army of 100,000 and headed south along Ganzhou and set up an ambush at the entrance of the valley on the west side of Yaojiachuan. The previous defeated army of Xixia was the bait that led Chinese soldiers to penetrate deep.

Duan Yu ran to attack lightly, not carrying enough food and grass, and was in short supply. He walked west along Yaojiachuan, and suddenly found the Xia army who had been in good order five miles away from Ganzhou City.

Duan Yu knew that he had fallen into the enemy's plan, and formed a formation, calling on the soldiers to fight to the death.

Then the battle was fought.

I saw a sound of drums and soldiers and horses in Xixia rose up.

Although Duan Yu's troops knew that the middle was in vain, they were not discouraged. Duan Yu first jumped onto the formation, hoping to buy time for Yun Chong to set up the formation.

After all, the Western Xia troops waited for a long time and were well prepared. They immediately sent cavalry to attack the formation in turn. After a long time of rushing, they finally disrupted the Chinese formation.

When Yun Chong of the Later Army saw that the situation was not good, most of the generals and envoys in his troops were disciples of Hangu, and they were quite steady. Their respective command centers rushed to fight separately, hoping to occupy the favorable terrain to defeat the enemy.

Suddenly, the Bao Lao Banner, a life flag created by Xixia, suddenly erected on the mountain. He waved his left and the ambushed troops on the left.When they waved right, the ambushing soldiers on the right rose, and the ambushing soldiers in the Western Xia all stood high, and the soldiers of the Chinese Southern Army suffered serious losses.

When Tang Guoen heard the military report, he ordered Ba Tianshi to lead 60,000 troops to attack Ganzhou by taking a detour. He led a large army to divide into five groups. Some rescuers and those who cut off the enemy's rear were used to make plans and siege the troops of Xixia.

At this time, about 60,000 elite cavalrymen from Duan Yu and Yunzhong were robbed by Wu Hao's troops and trapped in the river.

Duan Yu assembled the powerful martial arts people in the army and pointed to the middle high ground and said: We will fight to the death and seize the central high ground.Regardless of the formation of the armies, whether the organization is disrupted, the high ground is the target of the attack.If the superiors and subordinates are scattered, each department will be led by those with the most important official positions, and the officers of the same level will be led by those with the elderly. If we are not afraid of the Western Xia army's defeat of our army's military formation, our army will have no combat effectiveness.

After military orders were issued, Duan Yu led his elite troops to attack the central highland in the dark.Everyone approached the high ground, Duan Yu ordered his men to rest on the spot for a while, listened to his long roar and attacked upwards.