Li Qingxia walked to the huge map hanging on the side of the hall, with all the civil and military personnel standing behind it. Li Qingxia's eyes stopped for a moment on the huge pocket southeast of Tiemen Pass and east of Yanzhou, and she couldn't help but feel a wave of excitement in her heart.
Excited. Then his eyes moved westward and landed on Xiliang Mansion east of the Snow Mountain. This Xiliang Mansion was Wuwei in the Han Dynasty and Liangzhou in the Tang Dynasty. It is now the most important city in western Xixia, not only in western Xixia
It is the economic and political center of the country, and it is a strategic point that must be fought over by military strategists. Li Qingxia frowned slightly and murmured: "What I am most concerned about now is not the Yanyun Army, but the Tubo Army! I don't know about the Generalissimo.
How's the situation going?"
Prime Minister Zuo Li Tongren said: "Since heaven has blessed us with successfully pocketing the Yanyun Army, it will also bless us to defeat Tubo! Now that God's will is on our side, our army will win!" Everyone agreed, and Li Qingxia nodded.
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At this time, a herald rushed in, came behind Li Qingxia and others, knelt on the ground, raised a letter with both hands and reported: "Your Majesty, the Generalissimo has received military information!"
Everyone immediately turned around. Li Qingxia stepped forward to take the letter, hurriedly opened it, took out the letter paper, unfolded it and read it quickly. Her originally nervous face suddenly showed a look of great surprise, and she said excitedly: "That's great.
Great! Great! Heaven bless you, the Generalissimo has lived up to my great trust!" Everyone was very curious after hearing this, and Li Tongren hurriedly asked: "Your Majesty, has there been any good news about the Generalissimo?"
Li Qingxia raised her head and said with great excitement: "Not only is this good news, I want to tell you that our army successfully ambushed the Tubo army in Xiliang Mansion. The Tibetan army of 200,000 was defeated by our army at Xiliang Mansion, and the remaining troops have fled back.
Now, the Generalissimo has led the army to regain the Snowy Mountains, and the threat of Tibet has been eliminated!" Everyone did not expect that the threat of Tibet was resolved in an instant, and they were all in disbelief. The scene was completely silent, and then everyone burst into enthusiastic cheers.
They hugged each other, shouted to each other, everyone was carried away, the atmosphere was very warm, the mood that had been suppressed for a long time was completely released at this moment, everyone was so happy!
Li Tongren said to Li Qingxia with a look of reverence: "It's all thanks to His Majesty's strategizing that we were able to defeat the powerful enemy!" The scene fell silent, and everyone looked at Li Qingxia with reverence and worshiped together: "Your Majesty is wise!"
Li Qingxia secretly wiped away the tears from her eyes, turned around, and said with a smile: "If the soldiers had not sacrificed their lives, my strategy would not have succeeded no matter how brilliant it was! The first person we should be grateful to should be the soldiers fighting on the front line.
, According to my decree, all the soldiers who participated in the battle of Xiliang will be rewarded with one thousand coins, one catty of wine, and two catties of meat. All officers above the captain level will be promoted to one level, and Li Zongdao will be given gold armor and purple belt. I will praise and worship him.
Confess the King of Xiliang!"
Everyone bowed in unison: "Your Majesty is wise!"
Li Qingxia said again: "Send messengers and horses to spread the news about this great victory!" The general beside Li Qingxia, Gao Feng, agreed and immediately ran down.
Li Qingxia said to the herald who was still kneeling in front of her: "Go back and tell the generalissimo that after arranging the defenses of the snowy mountains, he will immediately lead his troops to support him. The war is fierce here and his support is needed!" The herald said:
"Reporting to your Majesty, when the villain left, the Generalissimo had already arranged the defenses of Xueshan and Xiliang Mansion, and had led the main force of 80,000 troops towards this side. It must have almost reached the west bank of the Yellow River at this moment!" Everyone was pleasantly surprised!
The herald said: "Your Majesty, if you don't have any other orders, I will go back and resume my duties!" Li Qingxia said: "The generalissimo is old and strong. I have nothing to say. You can go ahead." The herald said.
He responded, bowed again, stood up, stepped out, then turned around and hurried away.
Li Qingxia walked to the gate and looked at the sky. She felt that the sky and the earth suddenly became empty and clear. She couldn't help but murmured: "As long as we can annihilate Yang Yanzhao and Gao Hu's army, our army will be sure of victory!"
Li Qingxia's previous plan was to first attack the Tubo army, then Yang Yanzhao and Gao Hu's troops, and finally concentrate on dealing with Yang Peng in the north. At the beginning of the war, the situation was extremely unfavorable for Li Qingxia. First, there was a large-scale invasion by Tibet, and secondly,
It was Yanyun who unexpectedly launched the attack almost a year in advance. Faced with such a critical situation, Li Qingxia had no choice but to make a dangerous move. For Yang Yanzhao and Gao Hu's troops, he adopted a strong wall and cleared the field to lure the enemy in deep. For Yang Peng, he
They sent troops to stop the attack, and at the same time deliberately abandoned the snowy mountains, pretending that the army was defeated to lure the enemy deeper. The Tubo side really fell into the trap. They were overjoyed when they saw that the snowy mountain defense line easily fell, thinking that Xixia's fighting will had still collapsed. In order to seize the opportunity
The Yanyun Army occupied Xingqing Prefecture before capturing it. General Zan Butai led his troops to advance directly towards Xiliang Prefecture, preparing to capture Xiliang Prefecture in one go, and then return to the northeast to capture Xingqing Prefecture.
However, Zanbutai's army fell into the trap carefully designed by Li Qingxia. Just when they were full of joy and thought that capturing Xiliang Mansion was just like picking out a bag, they were suddenly attacked by a hundred thousand Xixia troops led by Li Zongdao and Li Fenglong.
The fierce attack caught the Tubo army off guard, while the Xixia army, stimulated by the crisis of national subjugation, broke out with an astonishing fighting force against the same enemy. Each one of them was one against ten, and they killed the Tibetan army corpses all over the field and blood flowed into rivers. The Tubo army collapsed.
After traveling thousands of miles, they rushed back to the country in one breath, and the Xixia army recaptured the Snowy Mountains in one fell swoop.
Xixia won a complete victory in this battle, completing the first step of the three-step strategic goal formulated by Li Qingxia. Now it is time to proceed to the second step. The situation is very favorable for Li Qingxia. She seems to have taken seven or eight of them.
It's a win.
His eyes turned to Yang Peng.
Yang Peng led an army of 220,000 people to march along the Yellow River by land and water, first attacking the Xixia Army fortress in Chena Mountain. Chena Mountain is located on the north bank of the Yellow River, also known as Wula Cui Mountain. The terrain is dangerous and it is the first place where the army enters the hinterland of Xixia.
This is a dangerous pass. Xixia stationed three thousand troops here to control the water and land routes. Don't think that it is easy to capture this place with only three thousand defenders. The mountains here are steep, with walls cut thousands of feet high. The mountains are rugged with strange rocks and no grass grows. The castle is located on the top of the mountain.
, even hiking on the mountain is very difficult. If you want to attack the fortress from your head, you can imagine the difficulty; since it is difficult to attack, can you go around it? This is also difficult. The location of the fortress is just right, Xixia Sergeant
Using weapons such as crossbows and catapults, you can block the southern passage, but it is even easier to block the northern land passage. The passage is actually a valley, at the foot of the mountain where the fortress is located. If the Yanyun Army starts from here
Go, the Xixia people only need to throw stones at the bottom of the mountain to make the Yanyun Army suffer heavy casualties and find it difficult to advance. However, there is nothing else on this mountain, but there are many stones. To sum up, if the Yanyun Army wants to continue to advance, the only way
There is a way to break the fortress.
Yang Peng was not in a hurry to launch an attack, but ordered the army to set up a camp on the flat land more than ten miles away from the fortress.
The Xixia army on the mountain looked down at the Yanyun military camp at the bottom of the mountain. They saw that the camp stretched for more than ten miles, the mountains were like mountains, and the troops were in good order. They couldn't help but feel frightened. Xixia general Weiming Shouzhong, who was responsible for guarding the fortress, cheered for the soldiers and said: "Everyone
Don't be afraid! Our camp is located on the top of a dangerous mountain. One man can guard it and no one can open it! Our three thousand people can resist their millions of troops, not to mention they only came with about two hundred thousand troops! Ours is the sky that reaches the sky.
It is impossible for human armies to conquer Pass!"
After the soldiers heard this, their original worried mood calmed down a lot. They felt that the general was right. Although Yanyun's soldiers were numerous and powerful, they still couldn't break through such a dangerous barrier!
Weiming Shouzhong continued: "After the war, we will all enjoy great achievements. Our ancestors will be honored and our wives will be crowned as wives. Good times are yet to come!" The soldiers laughed and the atmosphere became more relaxed. Some soldiers asked loudly
"General, I don't have a wife anymore. I have made great contributions, will your majesty reward me with a wife?" Weiming Shouzhong said loudly: "I dare not say whether your majesty will reward you, but I will definitely reward you with a woman.
! And she’s a beautiful woman!” The soldier thanked him with great joy. The other soldiers were envious and asked Wei Ming Shouzhong if he wanted a woman. Wei Ming Shouzhong would not refuse anyone who came, and promised to all, and finally said loudly: “Beautiful.
What women like are brave men. As long as you act like a man, I will not reward you with women. There will be women crying and shouting to marry you! But if you are a coward, I will reward you with women.
If I give you a woman, you definitely won’t be able to keep it. If I reward you today, I’m afraid she will run away with someone tomorrow!”
All the soldiers laughed, and then shouted: "General, don't worry, we will defend the fortress to the death!" "I will live and die with the fortress, and I will never lose the face of the party men!" The scene was noisy and the crowd was excited.
Night has fallen. The dark clouds have covered the stars and the moon today, and the earth is extremely dark. It can be said that you can’t even see your fingers, and no one can be seen even a few steps away.
However, in such a dark night, Yan Yun's army quietly left the military camp, picked up the bells from their horses, and quietly marched towards the enemy's fortress. Since it was difficult to see in the dark, the people and horses were connected with ropes.
Prevent them from getting separated. Although it is impossible to see in the dark night, the outline of the majestic mountain can still be seen, so the army will not go in the wrong general direction.
Almost half an hour later, the army arrived at the foot of the mountain and stopped. Tens of thousands of troops were hidden in the darkness and could not be detected even if they were very close.
Wang Kai groped and ran to Yang Peng, clasped his fists and whispered: "Master, Zhang Daniu and the others are ready!" Yang Peng nodded, "Tell them to be careful and take action!" Wang Kai responded, groping and running again.
He went back and came to the five hundred secret guards who were waiting for orders. He didn't see Zhang Daniu, so he asked in a low voice: "Where is Commander Zhang?" Yin Sha in front of him pointed to the side. It turned out that Zhang Daniu was next to him.
Kai didn't even see it.
Zhang Daniu asked: "Master gave the order?"
Wang Kai looked at the vague outline and said: "The master has given an order, asking you to act immediately and be careful." "Don't worry!" Then Zhang Daniu patted the shoulders of the shadow killers next to him, followed by several secret guards.
He patted the shoulders of the secret guards below and passed them on like this. This was to convey the order, because if you want to sneak attack the enemy camp in the quiet night, you can't convey the order loudly. Wouldn't that not inform the enemy?
In just a moment, the order was passed to each secret guard. Each one untied a package on his back, opened it, and took out a large piece of gray asbestos cloth. The light was too dark at this time, so he couldn't actually see the asbestos cloth.
The color was so bright that only a vague outline could be seen. The secret guards put on asbestos cloth and slowly climbed up the mountain.
Wei Mingshouzhong climbed up the fortress wall and looked down the mountain. He saw nothing but darkness and could not see anything at all. The torches on the wall could only illuminate the surroundings for a few feet, and there was darkness a few feet away. Wei Mingshouzhong
Ming Shouzhong couldn't help but feel a sense of fear in his heart, and frowned and said: "It's too dark. Even if the enemy comes in front of you, I'm afraid he won't notice it yet!" He immediately turned to an officer beside him and said: "Send the order, order.
Sergeant, fire rockets outside!" The officer promised and ran down. A moment later, hundreds of Xixia troops lit up rockets, bent their bows, and shot arrows out of the city wall. Hundreds of rockets flew out like a swarm of fireflies, landing far and near.
On the hillside where I was waiting, there were dots of stars, reflecting some of the scenery on the hillside. Although it was very unclear, it was completely different from what it could not be seen before!
Seeing that there was nothing unusual on the hillside, Weiming Shouzhong felt relieved and ordered to the officer beside him: "Set off a wave of rockets every quarter of an hour!" The officer bowed and agreed.
Weiming Shouzhong made a tour and saw that there was nothing unusual, so he went back to sleep.
The wave of rockets fired just now gradually extinguished, and the hillside turned into darkness again, and nothing could be seen. The officer ordered the soldiers to set off more rockets, and hundreds of rockets flew out of the city wall and landed on the hillside, lighting up again.
When they reached the hillside, a soldier said strangely: "Hey, it seems that there are a lot of big rocks on the hillside?" The soldier next to him laughed and said: "There are already a lot of rocks here, what's the fuss!" The soldier who spoke before felt the same way.
, and threw the idea behind him.
The rockets gradually extinguished, and darkness returned outside the city wall. A soldier vaguely seemed to hear the sound of rustling, but he didn't pay attention to it. After a while, the officer raised his voice and shouted again: "Fire arrows! Get up and fire arrows."
!" It turned out that at this moment many soldiers could not resist the intrusion of drowsiness and sat on the city wall and dozed off. At this time, they heard the shouts of the officers and woke up one after another. They quickly got up, picked up the rockets wrapped in oilcloth and lit them on the torches.
Then hundreds of soldiers bent their bows and fired arrows toward the outside of the city. Hundreds of rockets flew out. The bright light flashed across the thick night sky, illuminating the hillside under the city wall. The Xixia Army officers and soldiers on the city wall suddenly saw that the city wall
Countless Yanyun Army officers in black clothes and black armor appeared on the hillside with fierce expressions. The Xixia Army officers were horrified when they thought of such a scene. Some people couldn't help but exclaimed: "The enemy..." However, the sound
It stopped abruptly as soon as it sounded, and there was a whistling sound in the air. Hundreds of sharp arrows flew up the city wall and shot down most of the unsuspecting Xixia army soldiers. The screams rang out in the night sky, making people shudder.
Immediately, half of the secret guards continued to shoot arrows at the city wall, while the other half threw the lock hook on the city wall and began to climb the city. The Xixia Army soldiers on the city wall never dreamed that the Yanyun Army would suddenly come to the city wall like ghosts and launch a fierce attack.
, panicked and overwhelmed, some timid ones actually threw away their weapons and fled down the city wall.
In the first batch, dozens of secret guards climbed onto the city wall first, drew out their horizontal knives and charged into the panicked Xixia soldiers. The brave shadow kill was like a tiger entering a flock of sheep. The sharp horizontal knives raised blood wantonly, and screams came one after another.
, the Xixia army was chopped up and staggered back, feeling extremely frightened. The officer shouted and urged his soldiers to fight, but a secret guard rushed towards him and chopped off his head with a knife, making the scene even more chaotic.
Weiming Shouzhong, who had just fallen asleep, was awakened by the sudden killing sounds and screams. Gulu jumped up and ran out of the military tent. Following the sound, he saw flames flickering on the east wall facing the enemy and figures moving around.
Apparently the enemy had already stormed the city wall. Weiming Shouzhong was shocked and felt unbelievable.
At this moment, an officer stumbled over and ran over in despair, knelt down with a plop, and shouted: "Oh no, general, the enemy, the enemy has invaded!"
Weiming Shouzhong frowned, pulled out his scimitar, and shouted: "Why are you panicking! Send an order to all soldiers and horses to follow me to counterattack!" Then he led hundreds of soldiers and ran towards the east city gate. At the same time,
The messenger ordered all the armies in the fortress to assemble and join the battle. At this time, all the soldiers who were resting had woken up and felt overwhelmed by the sudden change. The whole fortress was in chaos.
Wei Ming Shouzhong led hundreds of soldiers to the city gate. At this time, he discovered that the fighting situation on the city wall was extremely bad. His own soldiers were retreating in succession, and Yan Yun's army was about to take control of the city wall. Wei Ming Shouzhong was shocked.
He was about to lead his soldiers to the city wall to counterattack. However, at this moment, there was a sudden earth-shattering loud noise at the city gate, boom! At the same time, fire shot into the sky and gravel flew everywhere, and the mountain shook violently, as if it was about to collapse!
The soldiers of the Xixia Army were horrified, and then they were horrified to see that the gate no longer existed and a huge gap was opened. Countless Yanyun warriors were rushing in, shouting. The soldiers of the Xixia Army subconsciously wanted to escape, but Wei Mingshou
Zhongque raised his scimitar and shouted sternly: "Come with me!" Shouting, he rushed towards Yanyun's army first. All the Xixia soldiers got a courage from nowhere, and followed Weiming Shouzhong to meet the rush.
The coming Yanyun War Cavalry.
The two sides collided violently, with horse hooves trampling them and cold light flashing. The Xixia army soldiers were killed until their bodies were covered in blood. In an instant, they were rushed to pieces. The handsome Shouzhong escaped and was killed by Zhongzhong.
Protected by his own soldiers, he escaped from the hellish killing field and fled towards the south gate.
At this time, Yanyun's army had already invaded the castle, and the Xixia army suffered heavy casualties. The remaining Xixia army was defeated and was in a state of complete defeat...
In the early morning of the next day, the dark clouds dispersed and the early morning sunshine shone on the mountain tops. The battle was already over. There was a busy scene in the fortress. The Yanyun Army officers and soldiers were cleaning the battlefield. At the same time, on the Yellow River in the south, a long
A fleet of ships carrying grain, fodder and troops was moving upstream past the fortress, while in the valley to the north, a long marching team was also heading west.
Weiming Shouzhong led a few defeated soldiers and ran towards the west, panicking like a bereaved dog and anxious like a fish that slipped through the net. At this moment, Weiming Shouzhong still seemed to be in a dream. He couldn't believe that the fortress was lost like this!?
Wei Ming Shouzhong and others ran all the way and arrived at Wulahai City in the evening. The Yellow River is in the Hetao area, at the top of the big character, it divides into north and south two. After flowing for more than 300 miles, it merges into one. That afternoon
The Lacuishan Fortress is located more than a hundred miles downstream of the confluence, and Wulahai City is between the two rivers. Southeast of Langshan, it is a more important strategic location than the Wulacuishan Fortress. It can be said that it is north of Xingqing Mansion, the capital of the Western Xia Dynasty.
The most important barrier is precisely because of the important strategic significance of this place. Therefore, the Xixia people established Wulahai City here at the beginning of the founding of the country, and set up the Langshan Weifu Army Division to control this strategic point. Langshan Weifu
The military general, Wei Mingxiu Ge, was also a famous general in Xixia, second only to Generalissimo Li Zongdao.
Wei Ming Shouzhong rushed into the general's house and saw Wei Mingxiu brother. He knelt down with a plop and said with shame on his face: "Brother, my younger brother is incompetent and lost Wu La Cui Mountain!!" Wei Ming Shouzhong is Wei Ming.
Brother Xiu's younger brother, so he is called so.
Brother Wei Mingxiu was taken aback, "Wula Cui Mountain is so dangerous that one man can guard it against ten thousand others! How did you lose it?"
Weiming Shouzhong said with both anger and fear; "It's those secret guards under Yang Peng! They, they are just like a group of demons from hell! My younger brother has been very careful to defend, but they still suddenly and silently
Appeared under the city wall and launched a surprise attack on us! Our army was caught off guard, and they attacked the city wall. At this time, they used gunpowder to blow open the city gate, and the army surged in. Our army was finally defeated and lost the fortress!..."
The generals standing on both sides whispered to each other, and everyone looked very worried. Brother Weiming Xiu frowned and said: "I have long heard that the Yanyun Army is brave and good at fighting, and it is indeed well-deserved!" Then he smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, Wu La.
Although Cuishan is lost, there is still Wulahai City. Yanyun's army can conquer Wula Cuishan, but they cannot capture Wulahai City!" Turning to face the majestic general wearing a bearskin cape on the right,
Said: "Hu Xiong, you immediately lead your troops to reinforce the ferry to prevent the enemy from rushing to cross the Yellow River, and report the situation at any time!" This mighty and majestic general is named Wei Ming Hu Xiong, and he is also the younger brother of Wei Ming Xiu.
He is a warrior as famous as Li Chongshan in Xixia. He has bravery that no man can match, and he has repeatedly made military exploits in the wars with the Liao Kingdom.
Weiming Huxiong bowed his head and accepted the promise, and hurried down.
The slightly elegant general standing on the right side asked Brother Weimingxiu: "General, do you want to report the military situation here to Your Majesty?" Brother Weimingxiu thought for a while and shook his head, "No! Wula Cuishan
The loss of defense is not a big deal, there is no need to interfere with His Majesty's determination because of this incident!!" The elegant general felt that Brother Weimingxiu's words made sense and nodded. This general with a rather elegant temperament
, his name is Zhang Jiang, a Han nationality, and he is the most knowledgeable general under Brother Weimingxiu. Brother Weimingxiu also relies heavily on him. Brother Weimingxiu is a party member and is proficient in military strategy, but not good at managing politics.
However, as the general of Langshan Weifu Military Division, he is in charge of all military and political affairs in Wulahai City and its surrounding areas. It is not good for him to not be good at managing politics. However, Zhang Jiang is well-read in poetry and books and is very good at internal affairs, so he is named Xiuge.
He handed over all government affairs to him.
What happened after all? Let’s look at the breakdown next time.