"The chief official, the commander of the Western thief is a thief named Li. He is very cunning and wants to deceive us away from Ansé Castle and then go to war with us!"

Gao Qiu is so smart, how could he let Brother Cha and Xiao Heda's tricks be deceived? When he returned to his own formation, he told Tong Guan about the other party's tricks.

Tong Guan just smiled: "Our family has seen through the tricks of being a little bitch."

Gao Qiu smiled and said, "I know I can't hide it from the high-ranking officials, so let's go back to the village now."

"Go back?" Tong Guan shook his head, "I went back without even being beaten?"

"Is there still a fight?" Gao Qiu shook his head and asked in a panic, "Are you not afraid of fraud?"

"Not afraid." Tong Guan smiled, "We also have four generals, a large army of 20,000 and seven or eight thousand soldiers, but it is not so easy for the Western thieves to defeat them. Besides, the terrain from Ansai Fort to Saimen Village is not very wide, and there are many ravines along the way, and there are dangerous places to defend everywhere. In the past, Yuanhao personally led a 100,000 army to attack Liu Ping, Shi Yuansun and Sanchuankou, and they fought hard for many days before they decided to win or lose?

Could this bandit army be compared with Yuan Hao's 100,000 troops? Besides, in the past, Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun were alone and had no support from all over the place, so they were defeated by Yuan Hao. Now the troops of the Fuyan Road are moving closer to Yan'an, and there is a Wuhaogu army approaching Shizhou and Xiazhou on the northern foot of Hengshan. The bandit army in front of us can be said to be attacked from both sides and is extremely unfavorable. Our army only needs to advance slowly, so we are not afraid of being impoverished. If it is a dignified formation, what are you afraid of in this terrain?"

Gao Qiu is now a little more courageous. After all, he has seen corpses and blood in Huangzhou, and the elite of the Dangxiang people have not been defeated. Moreover, the 20,000 Dangxiang soldiers in front of him are not very strong, and they should be weak soldiers who are easy to deal with.

But hesitated a little and whispered: "Master, I'm afraid there is something wrong with that! The situation is good for us now, and we have earned enough money... It's useless if we have too much!"

The last sentence is really too straightforward. Taiwei Gao has made a lot of contributions! He also has a share of the contributions Wu Haogu won in Yinzhou. He also has a share of the contributions he has made to retreat to the enemy in Ansai Fort. Are you still afraid of not having a good county?

Besides, the greater the contribution of the military men in the Song Dynasty, the better? The current officials are very enthusiastic, but after all, their surname is Zhao! Moreover, there are many civil officials in the court who like to cause trouble for military officers. It would be fine if they don’t have much contribution. If they have a great contribution, some people say that you are domineering and you will be afraid of being too domineering for a long time. How boring is this life!

Gao Qiu, who was born in the door, understood this set of rules very well, so he did not have too high requirements. He would be satisfied with having a three-yamen management army in his life. Going up to be the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the Communist Party of China would be the target of public criticism.

Tong Guan already understood what Gao Qiu meant, and he thought for a while, "Why not do this? Let's hang 10 miles behind the Western thief, and at the same time send elite troops forward and occupy the high ground along the way, so that we can be foolproof."

This is Yan'an, northern Shaanxi, with thousands of ravines. The winding roads in the mountains of ten miles are already a safe distance for Gao Qiu and Tong Guan's army. Although Tong Guan actually only has 14,000 people in his hands, as long as these 4,000 people rely on the terrain and set up a gun forest formation, the ten times the Xixia army dare not rush forward.

After Tong Guan and Gao Qiu made up their plans, they led four generals, with a 20,000-yuan cavalry brigade of 20,000 people on the books, and actually less than 14,000 people, and slowly chased behind the Xixia army that was retreating in chaos.

...

In the night, the bonfire was burning vigorously among the gullies and valleys. After retreating for most of the day, the Xixia army temporarily set off on the rugged terrain between Saimen Village and Ansai Village.

The garrison cavalry who had retreated early turned the valleys and ravines around them up to the sky to ensure that there were no Song troops lurking, and then occupied several high grounds to protect the huge Xixia army.

A large number of bonfires were then ignited, and all kinds of delicious food collected from the villages that had been found on the way to the south by the accompanying soldiers were burning hot to serve the iron kites and the garrison masters.

Some soldiers also set up tents while cooking and eating. Small tents were placed by the bonfire. The burning flames slightly dispelled the cold winter temperature in northern Shaanxi.

At this moment, Cha Ge and Xiao Heda climbed a loess plateau with wide views and looked up at the camp of the Song army more than ten miles away.

Gao Qiu was indeed well-known! Although he was lured out of Ansai Fort, he did not rush to chase the Xixia army, but slowly followed behind the Xixia army, more than ten miles apart.

Moreover, during the march, small groups of elite troops were sent to seize the commanding heights along the way before the army, and they moved forward step by step. They really did not reveal any flaws to their opponents!

Xiao Heda looked for a while and said to Brother Cha: "Master, why don't a certain family lead troops to test tomorrow night?"

"Test?" Brother Cha looked at Xiao Heda.

Xiao Heda smiled and said, "By the way, you will lose a few more battles."

"A plan for a proud soldier?"

"Yes!" Xiao Heda said, "The day before yesterday, the Semen Village came to report that there were many Bubazi from the Hengshan Fan tribe who came to surrender, which just drove them to fight with the Song army."

"Okay! Just do it!"

Of course, the little robbers of the Hengshan Fan tribe supported the big robbers of Xixia. The big robbers would lead the little robbers to steal the Han people! So when they heard that the soldiers of the Dabai Gao Kingdom had crossed Hengshan again, they naturally came to surrender.

It’s a pity that in this world, being a thief may lose money.

The original nest of the Xixia Xiangyou Military Office, Shizhou, has now been surrounded by nearly 20,000 Song Army.

However, today is not a good day to attack the city, because the heavy snow in the twelfth month fell like goose feathers, covering everything around it in a vast white area. The surface of Wuding River, which winds through Shizhou, has become as hard as steel.

Unlike the dilapidated Yinzhou City, Shizhou City is not a waste city. Although the city defense is far from solid, the city walls appear low, and the trenches outside the city are just shallow, and there is no fortress. The corner tower is used to strengthen defense. However, the city wall is at least complete. When the temperature dropped sharply last night, the Western thief guarding Shizhou also poured cold water from the wall to the exterior wall. Using the low temperature and cold wind, a slippery "ice armor" was formed on the surface of the exterior wall, making it difficult to climb.

In addition, since Shizhou was under the threat of force from the Song army after the fourth and fifth years of war in the fourth year of Yuanfeng, the Xiangyou Army Office, who guarded the place, had already cut down all the trees in a radius of hundreds of miles around, which made Huang Silang's engineer command a little bit unlucky.

However, the problem that Huang Silang could not solve was that Wanyan Xie, who should have not been able to attack the city, also came up with a countermeasure to attack the city with the help of the local people!

This is the most primitive and quite cruel method of attack. It is said that it is primitive because it is the method of building a city on a slope, which is probably the same time that humans learn to build a city. It is said that it is cruel because the people responsible for piled up the soil are often the enemy civilians who are being held hostage.

"Dig quickly, if you can't finish digging, you will have no food to eat!"

Wu Tian, ​​wearing a warm fur that he had stolen, was acting as a vicious supervisor at this time, holding a whip in one hand and a long sword in the other. The young face showed a fierce expression, and he kept urging him with stiff words.

Needless to say, the ones who were urging him to dig the soil were all captured by Dangxiang, the weak and the women and children! Among them... there is the mature Dangxiang woman who looks a bit like Yan Po'er! I don't know if I get tired of playing or for some other reason, but now she is driven by Wu Tian and his brothers to use shovels to dig soil on the hard ground.

The woman had some fantasies about Wu Tian. She took advantage of Wu Tian walking past her and then rushed over and knelt on the ground to beg, but the response she received was two whips.

"Stinky woman, go and do your job!" Wu Tian roared, and the woman cried, while the other Dangxiang old, weak and women had already shed tears and digged the soil numbly. Some people fell down so tired that they would soon be young men from the fake legion to punch and kick... The screaming sounded in Wu Haogu's ears watching from time to time.

Wu Haogu frowned a little, but he was not guilty because he agreed to the siege method proposed by Wanyan Xie... He still understood the principle that Ci was not in charge of troops. And there was no lower cost siege method than this.

According to reliable information, there are not many defenders in Shizhou City now, and the Xiangyou Army Department of Xixia has long retreated, and only hundreds of left-behind troops are in Shizhou City. If it weren't for their own cavalry that they would not dare to run away, Shizhou would probably have been taken down.

What made Wu Haogu sigh was his fake performance... it was too cruel, too cold-blooded, without any sympathy, and even turned against others.

Wu Haogu thought: Wu Tian said that he wanted the wife of Dangxiang to be his wife more than ten days ago, but now he has turned against him... Does this kid have a normal relationship? No, is the kid who he has trained for a lot of money? Are there some mental illnesses?

Brother Zhao Zhong and Wang Bing smiled and came to Wu Haogu's side, bowed and bowed. Brother Zhao Zhong said, "Xuanzan, the two thousand and hundreds of earth bags are almost the same. Let the third cavalry commander urge these Dangxiang people to pile up soil to attack the city early tomorrow morning."

Wu Haogu nodded, "Okay." He asked Wang Bing again, "Are all the warriors selected?"

"Selected," said Wang Bing. "The 1,000 warriors didn't get enough for a house. Seeing the knights cut so many heads, their eyes turned red. The remaining 2,000 warriors were all carrying bows and arrows to keep them under the control of the Dangxiang people in the city."

"Okay! That's good!" Wu Haogu said with a smile, "When the time comes, I will take the deed to supervise the formation like Gao Shiyan."
Chapter completed!