After two days of rest at Xiaoguan, Li Yanqing led 24,000 troops to continue northward and arrived at Tachou Village two days later.

What Li Yanqing did not expect was that he had an unexpected harvest from seizing the reward and slaughter village. In addition to tens of thousands of stones of food and grass, there were 50,000 sets of Song army armor, which were the spoils left to the Western Xia army when Tong Guan's entire army was destroyed. The new armor sent to the front line by the military weapon supervisor has not been opened yet.

"It's not easy to keep it in a dry cave for so many years!"

Li Yanqing gently stroked the spear head of the Sumu gun, and there was a layer of oil stain on it. The spear head was long and angular, with sharp corners, and the sharp spear tips were shining with cold light. It was worthy of being a fine product created by the Great Song Military Arts Supervision. The gun rod behind it was repeatedly soaked in oil and dried, very strong, without a trace of cracks.

The spears of the Song army's infantry were mainly Sumu guns and Crowneck guns, and there was also a kind of throwing shuttle guns, which were a powerful weapon to deal with cavalry.

Zhang Shun introduced on the side: "The chief of the Communist Party of China, the shuttle gun was put in a wooden box. He counted it. There were fifty boxes in a box, a total of 3,000 boxes, with a total of 150,000 boxes. There were also military weapons and surveillance paint seals on the box, which had never been opened."

Li Yanqing nodded and came to another cave. There were five thousand sets of armor placed there. Unfortunately, they were all ink-painted leather armor, without copper armor and gold-stained iron armor. As for mountain-patterned armor and black hammer armor, they were not even aware of it. They were equipment of the Tianlong Imperial Guard. In addition, only generals and above can wear it.

"It's a pity that these leather armors are a little hardened!" Zhang Shun said regretfully while stroking the leather armor.

Li Yanqing twisted a handful of leather armor and smiled and said, "It's okay, tanning it a little more will make you as good as before!"

"Master, do you have to transport these soldiers and armor back?"

"Of course, you have to transport them back. When the logistics and logistics team comes to Xiaoguan for the second time, you can transport these weapons and armor back to Jingzhao."

As he was speaking, Yan Qing rushed over quickly, clasped his fists and said, "Report to the governor, the scout who investigated the information has returned."

Li Yanqing nodded and said to Zhang Shun: "You register all the troops and armor, and move goods into the car after the baggage team arrives. This matter is very important, so don't be careless."

Zhang Shun's face changed. Does this mean that he could not go to Weizhou anymore? He was anxious, "President, let the Beizheng go to Weizhou!"

Yan Qing was proud of himself, patted his shoulder and said with a smile: "Xiao Shunzi, the military order is like a mountain. Since the governor said it, it will not change it. You can accept it!"

Zhang Shun glared at him fiercely, and had no choice but to lower his head, feeling hatred! He actually became a logistics force.

Li Yanqing waved his hand, "Tacuo Village is very important. Tong Guan despised Tacuo Village back then, which led to the destruction of the 100,000 troops. I don't want to repeat the same mistake. You must guard Tacuo Village for me no matter what."

Zhang Shun was a little aware, "The governor said that the Western Xia army would come to attack Tachu Village?"

Li Yanqing smiled slightly, "Weicheng is the front line of Xixia, but the cutting village is our front line. I will pull the army up and leave the opportunity to the people of Xixia. It depends on whether they come to bite the bait. You are the bait protector, so don't let the people of Xixia really bite the bait away."

Zhang Shun was overjoyed and bowed, "With a humble position, there will be no mistakes when he is in the village."

Li Yanqing turned around and left, but Zhang Shun smiled and patted Yan Qing on the shoulder, "Xiao Yan'er, my brother took the title, I'm sorry!"

Yan Qing's face was a little bad, and he snorted, "I will only know who the head master is when I take down Weizhou."

"Haha! Let's wait and see."

The two of them had a habit of talking a few words, and Yan Qing turned around and ran to Li Yanqing.

Weicheng is far from being a big city, it can only be regarded as a very small military city, but it is an absolute strong city. If the Shengyikou and Taqizhai are the southern entrance of Xingqing Prefecture, then Weicheng is the throat of Xingqing Prefecture. After passing Weicheng, it enters the Heshuo Plain, which is very suitable for cavalry combat. Xixia is also well aware of the disadvantages in the terrain, so she exhausts the national strength to raise an Iron Harrier Cavalry of 80,000 people.

Weicheng is located on the remnant of Liupan Mountain and is built on the back of the mountain. It is surrounded by a towering mountain ridge for hundreds of miles. The mountain behind it is like a knife is split, and a canyon of more than ten miles long appears. Weicheng is located at the entrance of the canyon, directly cutting off the passage to the north.

This way of building a city fully reflects the Xixia people's style of doing things and grasps the key points, so the defense methods of enjoying and moving the mouth, treading the sect and Weicheng are the same.

The halfway up Weicheng was not too high, only a dozen feet away from the ground, but looking up from the bottom to the sky, the momentum of the city of sky was so strong that people could not breathe. The soldiers on the top of the city were descending from a high place, and the dense swords and halberds shone brightly in the sun. It was impossible to capture the city without paying a heavy price.

A few miles away, Li Yanqing rode a horse around dozens of generals to look out at the city from afar. With his rich experience in siege and defending the city, he was sure to capture this city within one day, but capturing this city was not his goal. In Li Yanqing's eyes, war was just a means, a means to force Xixia to compromise politically. Only when Xixia was really hurt, it would retract its black claws.

"Did General Liu see a little bit of reputation?"

Li Yanqing asked Liu Ziyu next to him with a smile. Liu Ziyu was both civil and martial, and was a bit similar to Li Yanqing. He was very skilled in martial arts and had excellent riding and shooting skills, but he was also very talented in literary talent. Yan'an Prefecture gave a third place in the Examination Examination, but unfortunately he failed to pass the Jinshi, otherwise Tokyo people would call him Li Yanqing the second place in Liu Ziyu.

Liu Ziyu stared at the city and said in a deep voice for a while: "This city can only accommodate up to five thousand people. If the Xixia reinforcements arrive, where will they be stationed?"

"General Liu looked at it very carefully. What about General Liu's opinions?"

"Reporting to the governor, Weicheng's dangerous situation actually doesn't require so many defenders. Xixia also sent reinforcements here, so it can only be said that they don't want to be in Weicheng."

Li Yanqing got news from the scout that a 20,000-strong Western Xia reinforcements had arrived from Xiazhou and stopped in Luocheng fifty miles east. As Liu Ziyu analyzed, such a small city could not accommodate 20,000 people, then the purpose of this army was very obvious. They either wanted to fight directly with themselves, or they wanted to regain the Tachou village and cut off their own retreat.

"Master, what should we do next?" Liu Qi asked in a low voice behind him.

Li Yanqing smiled slightly, "First set up a camp opposite Weicheng and wait for the opportunity!"

The commander's military order was issued, and the 30,000 army began to quickly build a camp. The five hundred chariots that came with the army carried two thousand large tents. The tents were built in an empty place about five miles away from Weicheng. Three thousand cavalry and two thousand infantry rushed to a forest thirty miles west to cut down trees. Soon, the cavalry dragged back one by one, two feet tall and the size of bowls, to build a camp bar.

At dusk, the Song army's camp had been built, and two thousand large tents were neatly arranged in the camp. More than 100,000 woods were woven into the camp. Eight watchtowers were built around the camp, and hundreds of patrol scouts were released.

The chief general of Weizhou is Chaka. He is a black and fat middle-aged general. He is very sinister and cunning. He had dealt with Li Yanqing back then. In recent years, he has been promoted from a middle- and low-level general to a Weizhou Army Supervisor and the commander of the Jingsai Army. He commanded the 8,000 troops in the army that were rewarded and moved, and cut off the village and Weicheng.

At this time, Chaka was standing at the top of the city, squinting his eyes and looking at the large camp of the Song army several miles away. This time, the Song army used a sneak attack to capture the reward and the Tachou village. He caught Chaka off guard. He didn't have much force and did not dare to go to rescue the Tachou village rashly. Only when the soldiers who fled from Tachou village later told him that there were less than a thousand Song troops attacking the sneak attack, Chaka was extremely regretful, but it was too late, and the Tachou village had been captured by the Song army.

Chaka knew that he had made a big mistake and might lose his official position. He sent someone to find his backstage, King Pu Li Renhe, and spent 20,000 taels of silver to calm the emperor's thunderous anger and leave him a word, guarding Weicheng, he had no merits and no faults. If he could not defend Weicheng, he would come to see him.

But the emperor's handwriting finally made another promise, if he could regain the trench village and reward and transfer the mouth, he would be promoted to another level.

This promise made Chaka really excited.

To be honest, Chaka was not worried about defending Weicheng. Weicheng was strong and dangerous. He had only lost once since the founding of the Western Xia Kingdom. That was when the Song general Liu Fa succeeded in a sneak attack more than ten years ago. If it were a siege of the city openly, the Song army might not be able to capture Weicheng.

What Chaka is now considering is not the issue of defending Wei City, but how to regain the Tachou village and cut off the Song army's retreat?
Chapter completed!