Late at night, outside Hanya Pass.
A small detachment of five hundred people is secretly moving forward in the dark night, each of them is wearing night clothes, walking on the dark road and it is not easy to be found, in addition to each carrying a Song army's standard war knife, and then there is a sky-shaking thunder hanging on everyone's body, which is their main weapon for tonight's night attack, in order to ensure the success of the night attack, the master personally led the army.
Due to the limitations of the terrain, the Xia army was not all stationed in the Guancheng, most of the Xia troops were stationed in the large camp outside the Hangu Pass, the main task of this part of the force was to warn the Song army and guard the captured laborers, the defenders in the pass were the reserves, once they encountered an emergency, they would take the lead in attacking, and Li Yue and Qin Hu also had a division of labor, Qin Hu was mainly in charge of the Guan, and Li Yue commanded the garrison outside the pass and was responsible for building the Guancheng.
"You and I each take a team, you go to attack the Xia army inside the pass, and the Xia army outside the pass will be handed over to me."
Seed Master Dao said to the lieutenant general beside him; "Remember to launch an attack as soon as you arrive, I will do it after you do it, the main thing is to create chaos for them and contain the Xia army."
"The last general understands, please rest assured."
The Song army of 500 dead soldiers divided into two ways, the seed master led 300 people quietly came to the summer army camp outside the ambush, not long after, Li Yue, who was sleeping in the camp, was suddenly woken up by a thunderclap, Li Yue got up from the bed very tired, walked barefoot to the outside of the big tent to look at the night sky, and found that it was not raining, so he asked the guards of the guard: "What was the thunder just now?"
Before Li Yue's words fell, there were several bang, bang, bang sounds, and then Li Yue saw that the Xia army camp in the pass began to glow red, Li Yue's first feeling was that something was wrong, the Xia army camp in the pass was attacked, and Li Yue immediately issued a military order: "Order the army to assemble and support the camp in the pass." ” "Yes, Master Hou."
Li Yue drew 5,000 cavalry from the camp outside the pass to support the pass, and as soon as the army reached the gate of Hangu Pass, Li Yue heard a bang, bang, bang explosion behind him, and Li Yue thought in his heart; "Oh no, Lao Tzu has a plan, now the enemy situation is unknown, the Song army must have used some new weapons to make such a big move, the Song army dared to attack the battalion should have mobilized a large number of soldiers and horses, otherwise they don't have the courage" After thinking of all this, Li Yue decisively issued a military order: "Pass the order, sound the horn, and order the defenders in the camp outside the pass to immediately withdraw into the Hangu Pass." ” "Woo, woo" A horn sounded, the Xia army in the camp outside the pass quickly assembled to Hangu Pass, Li Yue left 4,000 soldiers and horses to board the Hangu Pass, which had not even been built and did not even have a city gate, and led a thousand cavalry to support the camp in the pass, when Li Yue came to the camp in the pass, the whole camp was still burning, and Qin Hu was leading people to extinguish the fire After Li Yue found Qin Hu, he asked, "General Qin, what the hell is going on?"
"Our army received an attack from the Song army, it was really evil, this time I didn't even see the shadow of the Song army, and I don't know what the Song army used, except for being able to make a loud noise, it caught fire wherever it touched, and even the grain and grass camp was burned by them, and the losses of our army have not yet been counted; What a hell of a thing.
Qin Hu said to Li Yue with a look of annoyance.
"The key now is to hold the Hangu Pass, my large camp outside the city has also been attacked, and I have ordered the transfer of the army to the pass; Now you immediately organize your troops and horses to search for the small force of the Song army that has infiltrated the pass, and annihilate them all. ” "Yes, I'll straighten out the soldiers."
Qin Hu replied.
After the Song army's 200-person squad attacked Qin Hu's camp, he immediately divided his troops into two ways to kill the castles on the hills on both sides, these two small castles The Xia army arranged not many defenders, only a few dozen people, in the face of the attack of more than 100 Song troops, these two castles quickly fell, these two castles are the strategic commanding heights of the entire Hangu Pass, and taking here is equivalent to taking the entire control of the entire Hangu Pass City.
When Li Yue led people to the city wall of Hangu Pass, the Song army had already been overwhelmed, in the dark night Li Yue couldn't see how many soldiers and horses the Song army had, and the sound of horses' hooves behind the Song army continued, the first feeling to Li Yue was that the Song army had a lot of soldiers and horses, but Li Yue couldn't understand that the main force of the Song army had fallen into the strategic encirclement of the Xia army, and where did the Song army outside the pass come from.
Although the Xia army occupied the advantage of the city wall, the city wall was not completed, so the advantage was not very large; The Song army led by the master Dao to the city and immediately launched the most fierce attack, the earth-shaking thunder and rockets tied the powder keg to the crossbow arrows to increase the range and power of the new weapons such as the upward movement, and the Xia army led by Li Yue could not raise their heads.
"Fight back for Lao Tzu, bed crossbow, catapult counterattack" "Our army was in a hurry and did not carry heavy weapons at all, and the offensive of the Hou Ye and Song troops was too fierce, and our army was almost unable to hold on," an adjutant general said to Li Yue.
At this time, Qin Hu came to Li Yue's side and said: "Master Hou, it's not good, the Xia army occupies two castles, and at present, our army is completely exposed to the attack of the Song army, and we will only be beaten in vain if we stay here." ” "General Qin, you are guarding the pass here, and I will lead the troops to attack."
Li Yue said eagerly.
"Nope."
Qin Hu said unusually calmly this time; "I don't know how many Song troops there are outside the Guan, what if they fall into an ambush, our army will already be injured after the Western Expedition, and there can be no more unnecessary losses."
Li Yue looked up at the night sky, and unwillingly issued a military order: "Pass the order, withdraw the army back to Tongguan." ” With the retreat of the Xia army, the battle of Hangu Pass ended with the victory of the Song army, in fact, the two sides did not lose many people in this battle, although the Song army's earth-shattering thunder was very fierce, but the lethality was not strong, the Xia army only suffered hundreds of casualties, but at that time, because it was dark Li Yue and Qin Hu did not know the real situation, they thought that the army suffered heavy losses, and when they knew all this, they regretted that they almost hit the wall with their heads.
The Battle of Hangu Pass was an important turning point in the Western Front of the Xia and Song Wars, after which the main force of the Xia Army on the Western Route was unable to advance eastward, and the Song Army recaptured the Guancheng of Hangu Pass, completely blocking the Xia Army on the Western Front in Guanzhong; This was also a powerful counterattack when the Song army was defeated, and it also made many Xia army generals realize that the Xia army still had a long way to go if they wanted to destroy the Song army.
After occupying the Hangu Pass, the seed master road immediately continued to build on the basis of the unfinished construction, and the Hangu Pass built by the Xia army was different from the emphasis of the Han Gu Pass, the Han Gu Pass that the Song army needed was the west wall to be built taller and stronger; In order to prevent the counterattack of the Xia army, the division of the road recruited troops on the spot, reorganized the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty, and hoarded heavy troops at Hangu Pass.
Besides, Li Xiaoren, the king of Chu, immediately walked back after catching Zhao Ji and Wu Jieyi, but if it was almost dark today, it was impossible to go back before dark, and it was easier to get lost in the forest as soon as it was dark, so Li Xiaoren had to speed up the pace of return The second is to continue to ask for support: