Although Tong Guan forced Liu Fa to lead his army to attack Tachou Village at night, he was still very worried. Liu Fa was the only general in the Song army to conquer Tachou Village. If even Liu Fa failed this time, then they would be dangerous to attack Tachou Village. You must know that Tachou Village is several times more difficult than reward and refusal. There were 30,000 casualties in attacking the reward and refusal. So how much does it cost to attack Tachou?

But Tong Guan had no choice. Zhong Shidao won consecutive victories on the Eastern Front. The good news was suppressed by him and did not report it to the court. However, the news of the great victory on the Eastern Front would sooner or later reach Bianjing.

But he was unable to break through to Tachou Village for a long time. How could he explain to the official family?

Tong Guan paced back and forth in the big tent with his hands behind his hands, feeling anxious and uneasy. He hadn't been asleep for almost a night

The terrain was built on the mountain, and the terrain was very dangerous. It guarded the only way for the Song army to go north. The only way to take the baggage was passed by the mountain village. This road could be easily blocked from the mountain village. Once the Song army headed north, even if the army successfully crossed mountains and ridges to go north without logistic support, the Song army would have the fate of being wiped out by the entire army.

Tachouzhai was an inevitable fierce battle between the Song army. At the first update, Liu Fa led 5,000 troops to approach Tachouzhai. Five years ago, he successfully captured Tachouzhai through night battles. He had long discovered that Tachouzhai had a weakness, that is, there was no dangerous place to set up beacon towers along the way, and even if beacon towers were built, it was easy to be attacked by the enemy. The consequence was that the Song army often came to the front of him and the Western Xia defenders would discover it.

If they attack during the day, the defenders in the village would find them more than ten miles away, but if they attacked the city at night, they would catch the enemy off guard.

As long as you can reach the sight of the parody, even if you pay the price of hundreds of casualties, you can eventually break through the parody gate.

Under the leadership of Liu Fa, five thousand soldiers bypassed a beacon tower along a small path. This was the only beacon tower built on the hillside. Unfortunately, it still could not serve as a monitoring of the enemy.

Bypassing a small hill, the beacon tower was no longer visible. Then, I circled back from behind the hill. The beacon tower just now was ten miles away. They might be able to see them during the day, but at night they had exceeded the beacon tower's sight.

In the past two updates, Liu Fa led 5,000 Song troops to a forest three miles away from Tachouzhai. This forest covers an area of ​​about 100 acres and is the best place to hide.

Liu Fa led his army to hide into the woods and immediately sent two spies with high martial arts to inquire about the enemy's news.

But just as the two soldiers ran out of the woods, two screams came from afar. It was particularly clear in the quiet night. Liu Fa was shocked and blurted out: "No! There is an ambush."

He hurriedly ordered, "Return immediately!"

But it was too late. Suddenly, fires broke out outside, and troops from all directions surrounded them. Rockets kept passing through the air and shooting into the woods. The turbulent oil and sulfur buried in the woods were ignited. The fire was extremely rapid. In an instant, when the Song army heard the swallowing one-third of the woods, they shouted in panic.

Liu Fa was experienced. In the face of crisis, he was still not panicked and shouted: "Break through the north!"

The south is their way, and the north is Tachouzhai. Logically, they should break through from the south, but Liu Fa did the opposite and broke through from the direction of Tachouzhai. He bet that the Western Xia army had not many troops in the north.

Liu Fa shouted and urged his horse to run north. Dozens of personal soldiers around him were guarding him tightly. Although Liu Fa was a famous general, he was a civil servant. He could not do martial arts and could only rely on more than a hundred personal soldiers with excellent martial arts skills. He only had a sword in his hand.

Liu Fa's judgment was not wrong. The north side was indeed the weak link with the least force of the enemy. Unfortunately, this time the Xixia army mobilized 40,000 troops to ambush the Song army. Even in the weaker north side, there were 7,000 Xixia soldiers surrounding it.

What Tong Guan never expected was that Xixia invested 200,000 troops on the Western Front this time to defend, and the commander was no one else, but Xixia Emperor Li Ganshun.

At this time, the general who ambushed the Song army in Tachou Village was Li Ganshun's brother, King Li Chage of Jin. He was very good at ambushing and sneak attacks. Five years ago, he led 10,000 iron kites, which is the most elite cavalry in Xixia to attack the Song army camp at night. Liu Fa was defeated. This time, he used the same trick again and set up a net of heaven and earth before Tachou Village. When the Song army fell into the net of himself, Liu Fa fell into his trap again.

"Your Highness! The Song army is about to break through from the south."

A spy from Xixia discovered the intention of the Song army and hurriedly reported to Li Cha Ge. Li Cha Ge said coldly: "Only five thousand troops can break through? Pass my order, shoot with a crossbow, and kill all the soldiers without being surrendered, and not keep one!"

Cao Jing, a general next to him, advised: "I heard that the Eastern Front is not good, so it is better to leave some surrendered soldiers to prevent any trouble."

Brother Richard nodded, "If you send the order again, the surrender will be spared from death!"

At this time, Liu Fa led thousands of soldiers to run out of the woods less than a hundred steps. Suddenly, countless crossbowmen appeared in front, like a human wall. The sound of chucks sounded, and the Western Xia army was firing arrows at the breakout. The dense arrows shot towards the Song army like a storm. The Song army soldiers fell down like cutting wheat. Liu Fa, the chief general who rushed in front, was shot like a hedgehog. He screamed and died on the spot. A generation of famous generals fell.

The Song army was shot to death by more than 1,000 people, with heavy casualties. After failing to break through, they had to retreat. More than 2,000 people were suppressed in a ditch that was more than ten feet wide and less than one mile long. At this time, the soldiers of Xixia shouted, "Surrenderers can avoid death, otherwise they will be killed!"

More than 20,000 people surrounded them. Under the threat of death, more than 2,000 Song soldiers in desperate situation had to put down their weapons and raise their hands to surrender, and the five thousand troops were completely destroyed.

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Before dawn, Tong Guan, who was dozing on a chair, was awakened by a burst of rapid footsteps. A personal soldier was reporting outside the tent: "Taiwei, there is an emergency battle!"

Tong Guan stood up suddenly and hurriedly said, "Come in!"

The curtain was lifted, and two soldiers covered in blood rushed in, knelt down and cried, "Mr. Liu was ambushed and his entire army was wiped out!"

"ah!"

Tong Guan's eyes turned dark and he sat down weakly. He asked for a while: "What the hell is going on?"

"The people of Xixia already knew in advance that our army was heading north and hiding heavily near the Tachou Village. When we entered the ambush circle, the enemy attacked with fire. He suffered heavy casualties when breaking through the siege. Liu Gong was unfortunately committed to his death and death."

Tong Guan was stunned, Liu Fa was actually dead. How could he explain this to the emperor?

After a second thought, he asked again: "Then how did you come out?"

The two soldiers lowered their heads for a while and said, "We were captured by the Western Xia army. Because they were looking for someone to deliver the letter, they put us back."

"asshole!"

Tong Guan was furious, drew his sword and stepped forward and stabbed one of them to death, then pressed the other's throat with the sword, and shouted angrily: "What letter should I send? Tell me!"

The soldier trembled all over in fear and stammered: "They want to replace the body of Liu Gong's body with Li Liangfu!"

"Go to die!"

Tong Guan stabbed the soldier to death with one sword. At this time, several personal soldiers rushed into the tent. Seeing the blood on the ground, their faces changed so much that they didn't know what had happened.

Tong Guan waved his hand with a blue face and said, "Drag them out!"

Several personal soldiers quickly dragged the body out and fed water to wash the ground. Tong Guan stood in front of the map with his hands, squinting his eyes and staring at the Tachou Village on the map. Isn’t Liu Fa dead right? He was worried that he could not explain to the emperor why he couldn’t take the Tachou Village for a long time. Let Liu Fa take this responsibility!

The death and injury of five thousand people was just a drizzle for Tong Guan, and he would not take it seriously. Instead, the Xixia people reminded him that Li Liangfu's head was very valuable and he must immediately send it to Beijing to report good news to the emperor.

At present, Li Liangfu's head is in the hands of Tong Guan. Tong Guan is the commander-in-chief of the attack on Xixia this time. Zhong Shidao was also controlled by him. The military rules were strict. Zhong Shidao could not surpass Tong Guan to report the war to the emperor without authorization. He had to report to Tong Guan. Tong Guan summarized it and reported to the emperor. A few days ago, Zhong Shidao wrote a war report and sent it to Tong Guan together with Li Liangfu's head. However, Tong Guan was jealous of Zhong Shidao's meritorious service and had never been detained.

Now that Liu Fa is dead, Tong Guan feels unable to explain to the emperor, so he has to take out Master Zhong to report his victory to the emperor to cover up his own failure.

Tong Guan quickly wrote a good news for the victory, and asked someone to take out the ice box containing Li Liangfu's head, and found a team of informants, which prompted them to rush to the capital to report the victory.

But Tong Guan had to face the reality. After sending off the soldiers who reported the victory, Tong Guan ordered the army to go north and attack the Tachou camp at all costs.
Chapter completed!