It took a full day for a hundred thousand troops to pass through the Tachou Village. When night fell, the 100 thousand troops finally walked away and the Tachou Village became quiet.

Tachouzhai is a rather strange mountain village camp. Not only is it easy to defend but difficult to attack, but it is also very dangerous to attack in the north. The attack is difficult. Due to the hasty retreat of the Western Xia army, the mountain village is in a mess. The Song army guards who had been busy for a day have already been exhausted. After a night patrol was arranged, the five thousand soldiers took a break and went to bed early.

There is an extremely dilapidated house in the middle of the back mountain. The door is full of firewood and the door is ragged. Almost no one will pay attention to this dilapidated house.

At the first update, the door of this house, which should not have been inhabited by anyone, opened with a squeak. In the night, the two of them tiptoed out of the room. They looked around and observed for a moment, without any abnormality. They immediately turned around and waved their hands, and saw countless Xixia soldiers coming out of it.

It turned out that this dilapidated house was hidden in a secret path. The Xixia army hid hundreds of people in the secret path. Hundreds of murderous Xixia soldiers, led by a powerful general, rushed toward the village gate north of the Tachu Village.

Tong Guan's goal was to take Weizhou 120 miles north of Tachou Village. He took one step more than the army of Zhong Shidao on the Eastern Front. Zhong Shidao took Yinchuan City in Hengshan, he took the reward and eavesdropping in Douling, Zhong Shidao took Shizhou, and he took the Tachou Village. Zhong Shidao did not take Xiazhou, but he captured Weizhou. Next, he no longer had to go to Beijing for the battle report of Zhong Shidao to report good news.

Tong Guan has been frustrated for this day for a long time, and he must seize Weizhou at all costs.

Weizhou is the southern gate of the capital of the Western Xia Dynasty. If Weizhou is captured, the southern gate of Xingqing Prefecture will be opened, and the Song army will be able to attack Xiping Prefecture and Xingqing Prefecture along the Lingzhou River.

Ninety thousand troops were running all the way. In the afternoon, the army was still thirty miles away from Weizhou. At this time, a team of Song cavalry rushed towards him and rushed to the front of the army for a moment. Soldiers led them to Tong Guan.

The leader of the soldiers said anxiously: "Report to the Taiwei, General Wang has entered Weizhou, but Weizhou is an empty city, without a single soldier."

Tong Guan was stunned for a moment. There were no defenders in Weizhou. He hurriedly asked, "Is there any civilian?"

"There are no civilians, and all the civilians in the city moved to Xiping Prefecture two months ago."

After pausing, Tong Guan suddenly remembered an important matter and asked again: "Is there food and grass in the city?"

The sergeant shook his head, "Only 20,000 dan of forage was found, but not a grain of food."

At this time, Tong Guan felt something was wrong. He seemed to have fallen into a trap. Weizhou City had nothing, and he also hoped to obtain supplies after seizing Weizhou City.

Seeing sweat on Tong Guan's forehead, he quickly turned around and said to General Yang Guan, "You can quickly bring 10,000 troops back to Tachou Village, and hold on to Tachou Village for me, so you can't make any mistakes."

His logistics supply has not come yet. If something happens to the village, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Just as the general Yang Guan was about to set off, a side general rushed over from a distance with several cavalrymen. He was covered in blood and had many injuries on his body. When he saw Tong Guan, he burst into tears, "Taiwei, we have fallen to the camp, we have fallen!"

Tong Guan's eyes turned dark and he almost fainted. He grabbed the general and shouted: "Why are you missing?"

"There are many Xixia soldiers hidden in the village. They worked together inside and outside last night and captured the gate of Beizhai. Tens of thousands of enemy troops entered the village. The brothers could not resist and retreated from the Nanzhai and fell from the village."

"What about my logistics supplies? Where are they?" Tong Guan asked roaring.

"The logistics supplies are still halfway, and I haven't arrived at Tachuo Village yet, so I should be safe!"

Tong Guan wanted to draw his sword and stab this bastard to death. What does it mean to be safe and have no logistics supplies? What should they do with their 100,000 troops?

He knew that he had fallen into a trap. The Xixia army used the almost triumph of the village to cut off his logistics supplies. Although they carried a small amount of supplies with the army, this little food can only last for ten days at most. What should he do if the food and food are cut off after ten days?

Tong Guan gritted his teeth and shouted: "The whole army turned around and regained the Tachou Village!"

The deep night covers the earth, the sky is covered with dark clouds, and the stars are all gone. The outline of Hengshan in the distance is looming in the darkness, like a sleeping monster.

But the city of Shizhou was brightly lit, and hundreds of torches were inserted around the open space covering thousands of acres in the north of the city. The fires shone, illuminating the open space as daytime.

But at this time it was no longer an open space, and it was filled with various wooden and pig iron parts. From the appearance of the parts, it can be seen that they were fire cannons and catapults. At this time, the Hedong Song army had been successfully prepared for more than half a year, and made 300 fire cannons and more than 200 heavy catapults, as well as thousands of serial crossbows. The logistics army had all transported them to Shizhou City.

For several days, hundreds of craftsmen from the Song army were assembling these large city guards day and night. "If you want to do it well, you must first sharpen your tools!" Zhong Shidao knew the truth well. Without good city guard weapons, no matter how dangerous the city is, it may not be able to defend it.

"This is the latest fire cannon, and the military weapon surveillance was only delivered this spring!"

Zhong Shidao stroked a fire cannon that was being installed and smiled at Li Yanqing: "Its elasticity is extremely strong, enough to shoot the shaking laser three hundred steps away, but it takes fifteen people to operate it."

A craftsman next to him smiled and said, "Master General, Li Chanjun has been studying this fire cannon this afternoon!"

"Is that true?" Zhong Shidao turned around and looked at Li Yanqing.

Li Yanqing nodded. He had been checking these trenchers these past two days. He was already very familiar with these giant city-defense weapons.

"The Grand Marshal never seemed to have considered seizing Xiazhou? Including before, the Shizhou garrison had not divided his troops to defend Xiazhou. At that time, it was easy to seize Xiazhou, but the Grand Marshal had no idea at all. He had always been puzzled."

This is something that Li Yanqing has always been deeply confused. He has proposed to bypass Shizhou more than once and first seize Xiazhou with empty troops, but Zhong Shidao just smiled and refused. After he and Zong Ze ambushed the enemy, he proposed to expand the results of the battle to capture Xiazhou, but Zong Ze refused sternly. He felt that the general seemed to not want to attack Xiazhou at all.

Mr. Zhong smiled and pointed to the city and said, "Let's go to the city to take a look."

There are also a large number of craftsmen on the top of the city, and the trenchers and fire cannons need to be fixed, so one square pond after another must be built with blue bricks, and the base can be fixed therein.

Mr. Zhong seemed to be worried. He patrolled for a while, then involuntarily walked towards the city wall, holding the battlements and looking into the distance.

"Yanqing, do you think it is necessary to attack Xixia this time?" Zhong Shidao asked with a deep sigh.

"The Grand Marshal is worried about the Jurchens!" Li Yanqing came to the nail on the head.

Zhong Shidao nodded, "The lips were gone and the teeth were cold. The Jurchens would definitely attack the Song Dynasty in large numbers, but we put a lot of resources on the attack on the Western Xia. How unwise it is!"

"Why did the imperial court fight against Xixia?"

"This is because some people, to be precise, most civil officials in the court..."

"Civilian Group!" This word popped up in Li Yanqing's mouth.

Zhong Shidao was slightly stunned. He continued to think for a moment: "Even if it is a civil servant group! But not only them, but also Tong Guan, Liang Shicheng and others, they have formed a fixed idea for a long time. The reason why the Song army could not destroy Xixia was because the Liao Kingdom supported Xixia behind the scenes. Now the Liao Kingdom was restrained by the Jurchens, they thought that Xixia could not support it and unanimously supported the attack on Xixia. They had a good idea, but they did not know that the Song army is no longer the Song army a hundred years ago, and now the Song army has no ability to destroy Xixia at all."

"The national strength should be OK."

"What's the use of relying on national strength alone? What's the difference between a big but not strong and a fat sheep? It depends on the army to fight. Look at what the millions of imperial guards are like now. They eat, drink, gamble, and have a low morale. If they become soldiers, they will lose their fortunes. It is simply a strange story in the world. Without a hundred years of war, the elite soldiers and generals of the past have become corrupt, and even the bandits in Liangshan cannot defeat them. They are really regrettable."

Speaking of this, Dao Zhong sighed, "Now the imperial court has a million troops, and the army with relatively strong combat effectiveness is only my 100,000 Hedong Army and Liu Fa's 50,000 Hexi Army, which is the so-called Northwest Army. The attack and rewards are circulating. Nearly 30,000 Hexi Army was killed or killed. Liu Fa unfortunately died in the battle. In the end, the remaining Hexi Army fell into Tong Guan's hands, and the Northwest Army was only my 100,000 army. This is why I don't want to attack Xiazhou. Once I attack Xiazhou, Li Qianshun will come to rescue him. Both sides will suffer heavy casualties. Not to mention it, it will be meaningless. In the end, it will be cheaper for the Jurchens. I don't want to do such stupid things."

Li Yanqing also sighed softly, "I'm afraid that the Jurchens will destroy the Liao Kingdom, and in the end, the Western Xia will rely on the Jurchens, which will become a major disaster in our northwest!"

Mr. Zhong was shocked, “Will this happen?”

Li Yanqing nodded, "Xixia itself has been dependent on the Liao Kingdom for nearly a hundred years, and relying on the Jin Kingdom is also dependent. There is no difference for Xixia. I believe that the people of Xixia will accept this reality."
Chapter completed!