Chapter 1,265 Fierce Battle

Standing on the mountain next to the river valley road, Zhong Ji's gaze seemed to penetrate the heavy fog until he saw the two castles hundreds of miles away that embody his lifelong shame.

Lawu City, Funing Fort.

That is the most critical place on Fuyan Road. Once it is occupied, Fuyan Road will completely close the door to the Xia people. Its importance is just like that of Ningxia City to Jingyuan Road.

More than ten years ago, he had already set his sights there, and once successfully surrendered Weiming Mountain, captured Lawu City, and built Funing Fort.

However, the subsequent military trend was completely opposite to Duke Fu's management of Ningxia City. Duke Fu achieved absolute success, but he himself failed completely.

The army was lost, the city was lost, and a state was left to manage it.

No one understands me, no one even sympathizes with me. I only received one comment from the court - "If you plant five things, you will not die, but there will be endless troubles on the border."

Those days were the darkest moments in Zhong'e's life. He was drunk all day long, thinking that he would never have the chance to display his ambitions and ambitions.

Even if my eldest brother comes to scold me in person and asks me to cheer up, I am still like a dead fish.

Until I received the letter from Duke Fu.

After learning that he had failed, Duke Fu wrote a long letter to himself. There were no words of comfort in the letter, but he directly pointed out that Lawu City was the key to the Yanyan Road and was the key to changing the offensive and defensive positions of the Song-Xia Yayan Road.

The overall situation.

There is no doubt about this. Goro, your view of grand strategy is definitely the best among the generals of the Western Army!

Afterwards, the war was analyzed in detail. In addition to the fact that Lawu City was too far from the base camp militarily, the military power available on the Yanyan Road was too empty, and the generals were too restricted by civil servants, there were many factors.

Political, economic, human, material, court, local...

There are also relationships between generals and soldiers, between generals and generals, between civil servants and civil servants, between civil servants and common people, between civil servants and military officers, between the central government and local governments, between Han people and Tibetan people...

The Duke of Guo collectively referred to these relationships as "contradictions" and listed the various contradictions on the Yanyan Road one by one. He also listed which ones were the main contradictions and which ones were the secondary contradictions.

Then tell yourself that the entire Fuyan Road is such a huge complex of contradictions. Sending troops to attack Lawu City before many contradictions have been resolved is an attempt to build castles in the air, and it is impossible to succeed.

The logical world described in the letter made me feel like the fog in front of me had been cleared.

Everyone knows that they are decadent, but they don’t know the reason for their decadence, so until this button is unlocked, no one can persuade them.

Failure is not terrible. Failure without knowing why is truly terrible.

The letter from Duke Fu pointed out many problems along the way to Yanyan, letting Zhonge know why he failed.

Xu Xi is here. He is very popular, generous and knowledgeable, and he is not bad at Yan Yan Road. However, his vision and aura are not even comparable to those of Duke Fu ten years ago.

However, I am no longer the young and vigorous Zhongwu I used to be. In order to realize my ideals and improve my relationship with civil servants, I did not hesitate to agree with Xu Xi and Shen Kuo, and played the "New Version of the Strategy of Yanyan" with them.

He knew that he would definitely be rejected by Duke Fu, but this loss of face was nothing compared to improving the relationship with the local transportation department and the Economic Strategy Department.

The Duke said that the main contradiction should be resolved first...

Sure enough, Duke Fu was not polite at all and slapped him back several times, leaving Xu Xi in a state of embarrassment and making Zhong E secretly feel happy.

Xu Xi now proposed a new plan to build Yongle City by the Wuding River.

The address of Yongle City almost overlaps with Luowu, separated by only one hilltop.

The only difference from Lawu City is that there is no water source there.

In order to show the court that this was his own "initiative", Xu Xi did not hesitate to abandon Lawu City, which had better conditions, and worked hard to "build a new hilltop" near Lawu City.

This alone made Zhong E even more contemptuous of Xu Xi. Compared with Duke Fu's frankness, the two men's characters were as different as clouds and mud.

Gao Yongneng came over: "Wulang, the Xia people are here."

"how many people?"

"Yongheng came to repay, eighty thousand."

He paused for a moment and then said: "Wu Lang knows things well. Liang Yongneng's scouts can only go five miles away. Although they are powerful, they are arrogant soldiers."

"We occupy the mountainous terrain and attack from the flanks together, and we will definitely win."

There was no expression on Zhong E's face: "Notify brothers, eat well tonight and go to bed early. People in Xia don't dare to act rashly in the heavy fog. Tomorrow will be the time of war."

Gao Yongneng hesitated for a moment: "The Xia people have iron kites... Should we ask Sun Xie to bring them back?"

Zhong E shook his head: "No, he has to tie the mouth of the bag tightly for me. There is a carriage, a gun and shield hand, and a crane-shin crossbow, which is enough."

After saying that, he turned around and walked towards the main camp down the mountain: "Tell Guo Jingxiu that no matter how critical the Chinese army is tomorrow, he cannot move. He must wait until our Chinese army has carried the iron kite before letting the forward selection battalion attack. Otherwise, no matter how critical he is afterward, he will not be able to move."

No matter how great his military exploits are, I want his head!"

"As you command!"

There was no talking all night, and when the fog gradually dissipated, the armies of both sides were officially revealed in front of each other.

The place chosen by the Song Army was very appropriate. It was a gourd-shaped battlefield, with high ground on both sides and the middle of the road, and a relatively open area in the valley in front.

But the number is obviously much smaller than that of the Xia people.

Liang Yongneng sat on a temporarily built high platform: "Tear down the camp and let them attack!"

Lu Duoge, an official in charge of the Privy Council under his subordinates, was shocked: "General Manager, how can this happen?"

Liang Yongneng pointed his whip at the Song army's formation and sneered: "Who knows if there are thunderbolts buried in front? Let them attack and make their tanks useless!"

Only then did Ma Nuang Doge react: "That's right! The Chinese army sent an order to dismantle the camp!"

Sure enough, after the camp was dismantled, two cavalry troops led by Gao Yongneng and Gao Yongheng from both wings of the Song formation came out.

Zhong'e's central army also sounded drums, moved their swords forward, and moved their spears behind them. Then the three crossbowmen phalanxes and the three infantry formations began to move forward.

When Zhong'e's army advanced halfway, Liang Yongneng waved his hand, and the entire front army of Xia's army rushed towards Zhong'e's middle army.

The two armies were a hundred steps apart, and the Song army's crane-shank crossbows began to fire.

Two thousand crossbow arrows, like overwhelming locusts, plunged into the Xia army's camp at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The light shields and leather robes were not very effective against crane-shank crossbows. The Xia army attacked the front of the army, and hundreds of them fell immediately.

It's just a hundred-step attack, and three shots are fired when facing the enemy. Even if a crane-shank crossbow is used, it's only five shots.

The Song Army's crossbow array now also has a method of warfare, which shoots in three stages and can reach nine arrows in a hundred steps.

In just a hundred steps, the Xia people lost more than a thousand people, but this loss didn't matter to Liang Yongneng. The main force of the Xia people's forwards was fighting with Zhong'e's front army in a blink of an eye.

The fierce battle began.

Zhong E sat on the high platform and said a few words to the drummer beside him. The sound of the drum suddenly changed, and the Song army's formation in front began to shrink and gradually became denser.

"Kill!" Countless spears were thrust out from under the cover of the sword and shield men, taking away a wave of Xia people's lives.

However, the Xia people were also brave. Many Xia troops who dared to die in battle shouted and used their warhammers and axes to swing their spears away, and then swung the weapons in their hands towards the gaps between the opponent's shields.

In the blink of an eye, the Song army also began to suffer casualties.

The Xia people had too many people, with the front army alone numbering 20,000. They adopted traditional tactics, which was to divide the cavalry into several teams and attack the Song army's infantry formation in turn until the infantry formation collapsed, and then began to cover up and kill them.

However, Liang Yongneng's front army was not all cavalry. Today, the national strength of Xixia has undergone some changes compared with that in real history.

There is no doubt about the bravery of the Xia people. Seeing that his front army was at a disadvantage, Zhonge waved his hand and the drum beat changed to another rhythm.

The front line of the Song Army's infantry was finally broken open by the Xia Army, which was not afraid of death.

However, at this moment, the light cavalry on the left and right of Gao Yongneng and Gao Yongheng had already arrived.

The commander of the Xia people's front army had been paying close attention to these two light cavalry, and immediately let the infantry continue to attack the Song army's front line, and sent several cavalry troops to the left and right to fight.
Chapter completed!