Three days later, in the early morning, the 100,000 army led by Li Bingchang had been resting for two days, and after two days of rest, although the elite of the 100,000 Xia army had not fully recovered its combat effectiveness, it had at least recovered to more than sixty percent, so before dawn, the entire Xia army was screaming, and it was not easy for the 100,000 army to cross the Yellow River.
"Lord Wang, the sentry cavalry has reported that there is no Song army within fifty miles of the east bank of the Yellow River."
Li Yanzong walked to Li Bingchang's side and said.
Li Bingchang looked at the rolling Yellow River and issued a military order: "Order, the army began to cross the river, the old general Benwang personally led the first batch of troops to cross the river, and the follow-up river crossing army has you to command." ” "Yes, Lord Wang" The ferry of the Xia army was very simple, how could it take a day for the army to cross the river in batches, the first batch of troops to cross the river had 5,000 soldiers and horses, Li Bingchang led 5,000 Xia cavalry to cross the Yellow River, immediately set up a defensive formation; Although the sentry cavalry reported that there was no Song army within fifty miles, Li Bingchang still did not dare to slack off, after all, this was the most vulnerable time for the Xia army.
As more and more soldiers and horses crossed the river by the Song army, the mouth that Li Bingchang was carrying in his heart could finally be loosened; At noon, there were more than 40,000 Xia troops who crossed the Yellow River, and Li Bingchang really couldn't wait, so he issued a military order to the deputy general beside him: "You lead 10,000 soldiers and horses here to protect the army to cross the river, and this king leads the rest of the 30,000 troops to rescue Xiping Mansion for the vanguard." ” "Lord Wang, why don't you let the last general serve as the striker?"
"So much nonsense, after the army has all crossed the river, the whole army will be under the command of General Fuyuan" "Yes, the last general commands."
Li Bingchang glanced back at the army that was crossing the river, and led the 30,000 army to the northeast, there was still a distance from the Yellow River crossing to Xiping Mansion, even if the lower army flag was all cavalry to rush to midnight, Li Yanzong, who was standing on the west bank of the Yellow River and commanded the follow-up army to cross the river, saw a puff of dust and smoke on the east bank, and had already guessed that Li Bingchang led the army first, and Li Yanzong had to order to speed up the crossing of the river.
Li Bingchang's march on the way was very smooth, as early as before entering Liangzhou, Li Bingchang received news that the Song army general Zhang Dunli led 100,000 troops to withdraw from Lanzhou to the north, breaking through Weizhou to attack Xiping Mansion, but on this road Li Bingchang did not even see a shadow of the Song army, which made Li Bingchang very surprised, so Li Bingchang sent a large number of sentry cavalry to reconnoiter everywhere, in case of the Song army's ambush.
Besides, after Zhang Dunli went north in Weizhou, except for leaving thousands of soldiers and horses in Weizhou to defend the city, the rest all went straight to Xiping Mansion, Zhang Dunli and Li Liangzuo had a hatred of taking his wife, Li Liangzuo's concubine Zhao Kang, originally Song Shenzong's sister Princess Shoukang, was Zhang Dunli's wife, and the two also had a son Zhang Miao, Concubine Chen was robbed by Li Liangzuo's forced action Bianliang, of course, there are very few people who know the inside story of this matter, but Zhang Dunli is clear in his heart.
Since ancient times, the hatred of killing his father and taking his wife is a deep hatred that does not share the sky, before when the Song Shenzong sent Zhang Dunli to attack Lanzhou, Zhang Dunli was very dissatisfied, so he was not sad about the attack on Lanzhou Zhang Dunli at all, but secretly transferred the troops and horses to the north, ready to attack Xiping Mansion at any time, which fortunately has a holy decree of Song Shenzong to transfer troops, if there is no Zhang Dunli, I am afraid that he would have led the troops to the north privately.
Although Zhang Dunli was given a big green hat by Li Liangzuo, this did not prevent Zhang Dunli's feelings for Princess Shoukang, the reason why Zhang Dunli was so active in the Northern Expedition was to snatch Princess Shoukang back from Li Liangzuo's hands to wash away his shame, and the second was to destroy the Great Xia Empire for the Great Song Empire and expand the territory for the Great Song Dynasty; In today's terms, Zhang Dunli is holding the country's army to do his own private affairs.
At the south gate of Xiping Mansion, there is the old Chu King Wei Ge Ningling personally commanding, and the commander of the Song army besieging the city is Zhang Dunli, Zhang Dunli's Daxu stands outside the range of the crossbow in the city bed of Xiping Mansion, he doesn't want to hang up before he has revenge, Zhang Dunli, who led the army to Xiping Mansion, changed the norm, and launched an offensive against Xiping Mansion is as fierce as a wave, and under the encouragement of Zhang Dunli, the 100,000 Song troops are completely in a state of sacrifice and forgetfulness.
"Father, the guards of the Xia army are too tight, and our army has suffered heavy casualties, so the child implores his father to withdraw for the time being."
A handsome and burly young man of sixteen or seventeen years old said to Zhang Dunli.
"Miao'er, although the Xia army is now heavily guarded, it won't be long before their arrows and thunder stones will be exhausted, and it will be easy to break the city."
Zhang Dunli said to Zhang Miao with a smile.
"But Father, if we continue to attack like this, our army will suffer too much losses."
"Miao'er, you remember that the most important thing in my Great Song Dynasty is soldiers, my Great Song Dynasty has a population of hundreds of millions, even if the 100,000 troops are exhausted, the imperial court will organize a second and third 100,000 army, even if you use people to pile up, you can pile up Xia Guo to death."
Listening to Zhang Dunli's words, Zhang Miao's heart was cold, Zhang Miao had never seen his father like this, since attacking the summer, Zhang Dunli was like a different person in Zhang Miao's heart, and he was completely desperate to fight a battle, which was completely different from the originally amiable father that Zhang Miao knew.
In the end, because the defense of the Xia army was too tight, the attacking Song army suffered huge losses, so it had to retreat and reorganize the troops to attack. ” "Dashuai, brother has done his best" "Reorganize the troops, this time with the commander himself leading the troops."
"Father, you are the commander of the army, if there is anything in case, the army will be uncommanded."
"If your father dies in battle, you will take my letter and hand it to Lord Xu, let him temporarily command the army, and then report to the emperor, and let His Majesty send a general again, when the time comes, don't stay here, stay for your father's corpse and return to Bianliang, remember" Zhang Dunli blew his beard and glared.
Zhang Miao cried and said, "The child remembers." ” After arranging everything, Zhang Dunli personally led the army to launch a fierce attack on Xiping Mansion, this time Zhang Dunli pressed most of the troops, there was a commander to take the lead in the Song army's morale like a rainbow, forgetting to die, the Song army's offensive was very violent, catapults, bed crossbows, rushing cars, building cars, ladders can be used all used, Zhang Dunli's martial arts are not very high, but the archery skills are outstanding, on the way to attack, Zhang Dunli found a veteran who was holding a war knife to command the enemy, Zhang Dunli shot without saying a word.
"Chirp" a wolf tooth arrow mixed with the dense arrow rain rushed towards this veteran, this veteran is none other than the old Chu King Wei Ge Ning Ling The imperial uncle of the Great Xia Empire, after Zhang Dunli shot the wolf tooth arrow, Wei Ge Ning Ling felt a trace of danger approaching him, how could he be old, slow to move, although he avoided the vital parts, but this wolf tooth arrow was still located on the right chest of Wei Ge Ning Ling.
"King, King," the lieutenant next to him shouted eagerly.
The coach was injured, which made the already precarious Xia army's defense line more dangerous, and Wei Ge Ning Ling, who was hit by the arrow, fainted on the spot, although the Xia army was still desperately resisting, but the morale was low, and the command was chaotic, and in the evening, the Song army, under the leadership of Zhang Dunli, finally broke through the south gate of Xiping Mansion, controlled a part of the southern city of Xiping Mansion, and laid a solid foundation for tomorrow's attack.
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