The two brothers Weiming Ganshun and Weiming Cha Ge really fought, and they had to fight!

Even if the country does not fight against Dabai Gao Kingdom, even if the country does not destroy it, the whole country will have to move west to the Western Regions. Because without Xiping Prefecture (Lingzhou), Xixia could not gain a foothold in Xingqing Prefecture!

After Zhao Kai took over Xiping Prefecture, he did not have to attack Xingqing Prefecture, nor did he have to recover Xia, You and Yin Prefectures. At most, Weizhou and Mingsha City are the two strongholds, and then he can return to Mingsha City. On Zhao Kai's way to Xiping Prefecture, Weizhou is on the edge of Lingzhou River. Zhao Kai can return from Lingzhou River and take down Weizhou at will, without any trouble.

In addition, Zhao Kai did not need to leave heavy troops in Xiping Prefecture (Lingzhou), Mingsha City and Weizhou, because his people could also dig the Yellow River to flood the Xixia army besieged Xiping Prefecture!

And doing this will not actually cause any losses, because once Xiping Prefecture is taken down by him, the surrounding areas will inevitably become the battlefield for the battle between the Song Dynasty and the Great Bai Kingdom!

The Dangxiang people around Xiping Prefecture would flee immediately, while the Han people would be moved by the Song Dynasty government.

At that time, the Yellow River irrigation area outside Lingzhou City will be turned into an unmanned area and will be flooded without any losses, even if the water is released!

Therefore, the ownership of Lingzhou is related to the rise, fall, survival and demise of Xixia!

The key to determining the ownership of Lingzhou is whether Zhao Kai can seize the dam west of Lingzhou before digging the Yellow River Dam in Xixia. As long as the Song army can seize the Yellow River Dam, Lingzhou will be the one in his pocket.

This battle is very similar to the battle of the Wannian New Dike in the eight years of Xuanhe. The key is the Yellow River Dam and the Song army must attack the enemy when the enemy may dig the dam at any time.

So Weiming Cha Ge, who was ordered to lead an elite army to assist Xiping Prefecture, seemed to have a great chance of winning at first glance. In his opinion, the biggest uncertainty factor was the witch who could attract thunder. Although "Shui Kekele", Cha Ge was still not relieved.

Therefore, when leaving Xingqing Prefecture, he went to the Great Buddha Temple and "invited" the eminent monk from Tubo and several disciples of Darba from Darba to the army. With the monk with profound magic power, Cha Ge was relieved and boldly brought five thousand elite soldiers in the six squads of the Imperial Siege, 15,000 soldiers (deputies), and a total of 20,000 troops to Xiping Prefecture.

Don’t think that Gan Shun brought too few soldiers to Cha Ge to support Xingqing Prefecture. In fact, the elite soldiers of the Xixia guards who guarded Xingqing Prefecture, known as the sixth squad within the imperial encirclement, had a total of only 25,000 people. Moreover, they were also armed similar to the soldiers of the palace, divided into three groups to the guards.

In other words, unless the entire army mobilized, there were only more than 8,000 elite soldiers in the service of Suwei, and Ganshun gave Cha Ge 5,000, which was really not a small number.

These five thousand people are all "master soldiers", one is matched with three deputy, so there are 15,000 deputy soldiers, and one is 20,000 yuan.

In addition to these 20,000 people, there are 3,000 Iron Harrier Cavalry and 5,000 Proton Army in Xingqing Prefecture City, and more than 20,000 Iron Harrier Cavalry and Proton Army deputy soldiers.

However, Iron Harrier was the basic armed forces directly controlled by the Western Xia Wuzhe, and they were attacking cavalry, so it was too wasteful to use them to defend the city.

As for the Proton Army, it is not used to fight, which is composed of the sons and nephews of the leaders of various tribes in the Western Xia territory. It is actually hostages. If you want to go to the battlefield, it’s fine if you kill them. If the enemy catches a lot, it will be a big problem.

Therefore, although Xixia, which is full of soldiers, is said to be able to send 500,000 troops, before the completion of the order, the number of troops that Wuzun could use was only 40,000, of which only 11,000 or 2,000 soldiers (8,000 six squads in the imperial encirclement and 3,000 Iron Harriers).

Of course, the security of Xingqing Prefecture is still very guaranteed. Because this narrow plain between Helan Mountain and the Yellow River is extremely fertile and is also a settlement for the Xixia people. Once foreign enemies invade, a general mobilization can be carried out at any time.

Moreover, foreign enemies cannot cross the Yellow River in the desert and suddenly appear at the foot of Helan Mountain, but Xiping Prefecture is not that safe!

On the day Wei Mingcha Ge led his 20,000 army to Xiping Prefecture, the Song army with more than 20,000 people had already appeared on the west bank of Lingzhou River.

However, Wei Ming Cha Ge did not find Zhao Kai's six black flags and two white flags, only one with a moon-white general's tooth flag and one with a red flag with a black "天" character.

Wei Mingcha Ge, who was standing at the highest point of Xiping Prefecture City, looked down at the Song army camping on the other side of Lingzhou River, but his brows became tighter and tighter.

The "Xiang" banner that stands high on the west bank of Lingzhou River should be Xiang Ke, the commander of the Shaanxi army of the Song Dynasty. According to the information that Chage possessed, Xiang Ke was one of Zhao Kai's sworn brothers and the general of the Xiang family of the Western Army of the Song Dynasty. He was highly valued by Zhao Kai. After Zhao Kai took over Chang'an, he has been leading troops in Shaanxi. Now, he has become one of the three military and political chiefs of the Song Dynasty court in Shaanxi together with Liu Qi, the Shaanxi Pacifier and He Ji, the Shaanxi Envoy of the Battlefield.

Although the army of Dabai Gaoguo has not fought against Xiang Ke, who is the commander-in-chief, Dabai Gaoguo still felt that Xiang Ke was a very stubborn enemy through the small conflicts between intelligence and the border. Although the number of the Shaanxi Song army has decreased a lot in the past year (many Shaanxi prefecture soldiers were transferred to Jingxi Road to resettlement), their combat effectiveness has been significantly improved!

The current Song army in Shaanxi is strong in morale and has a strong desire to fight. The equipment and training level are much better than in the past. Although they have changed from recruiting soldiers in the camp in the four seasons to the government soldiers who take turns to serve in the first place, and only need to serve in the first place for four months every year (the extension requires additional money). However, the amount of training they completed in these four months is more than in the past two years!

In addition, every military soldier who stayed in Shaanxi now has received at least 100 acres of vocational land and 100 acres of permanent land. In addition, the court also encouraged them to bring their own horses, equipment, armor and auxiliary soldiers (usually the children of military soldiers) and will issue corresponding subsidies. This greatly improves the combat readiness level of the prefectures in the border prefectures in Shaanxi. The soldiers and soldiers in the township can wear armor at any time with their weapons!

So since last year, the Xixia military departments on the Hengshan Front have been in a situation of suffering losses and being beaten in the border conflict with the Song army, which made the Xixia generals look up to Xiang Ke a few times and regard him as one of his few strong enemies.

Now this strong enemy has arrived at the city of Xipingfu, and after entering the defense zone of Xiping Xiangqing Army Office (the military supervisor department that guards the Xipingfu area), the army led by him has repeatedly defeated the cavalry sent by Xiangqing Army Office, showing great combat effectiveness!

Under the bright red flag recognition, groups of cavalry wearing dazzling iron armor spread along the Lingzhou River, firmly guarding the camping infantry. From time to time, they took out bows and arrows to provocatively shoot at the Xixia cavalry on the east bank of the Lingzhou River, showing a strong fighting spirit.

But seeing that their number was more than three thousand, and everyone was wearing shining iron armor, Wei Mingcha sighed and ordered: "Send the order, the cavalry should not pass through Lingzhouchuan."

After several personal soldiers left, Cha Ge asked again: "Zhao Kai's big flag and white banner are still outside Mingsha City?"

"To the Baotai Army Department, Yu Zang Zhongliang sent an envoy to report this morning, saying that the Song State officials personally led a 100,000 army to surround Mingsha City on three sides (Mingsha City faces the Yellow River) and are preparing to attack the city!"

The answer to Cha Ge's Xixia General Li Liangfu, he was the general of Xixia, who served as Xiangqing's military supervisor a month ago, sent him to Xiping Prefecture to prepare for the war against Song that began in autumn. He needed to collect enough military rations and grass in Xiping Prefecture and then transport it to Zhuola and the Southern Military Office.

"Mingsha City cannot be lost!"

Wei Mingrenzhong also came to Xiping Prefecture with Cha Ge. He is no longer as nervous as he first arrived at Xingqing Prefecture. Because he learned from the military envoy sent by Yu Collector that his father Wei Ming Abao was not "Chengren". Instead, after being defeated outside the city of Shengyikou, he fled to Mingsha City and is now guarding the city with Zhongliang, the head of Yu Collector.

Although Mingsha City where Weiming Abao is located is not as important as Xiping Prefecture, it is also a "unable to lose" castle.

Because Mingsha City was lost, the Baotai Army Department of the Yu Collector was left with only Lingbo Mountain, Kaniuling, Roulang Mountain, and Jingshan and Yingli City on the north bank of the Yellow River.

Those mountains were surrounded by Mingsha City, and the Yellow River was surrounded by the Yucang family and the foreign tribes (the Yucang collector was a Tubo) who depended on the Yucang collector and the Xixia court of Xingqing Prefecture were cut off! You don’t need to think about what will happen!

And Yingli City on the other side of the Yellow River will soon fall because it is too isolated!

As a result, the connection between Xingqing Prefecture and the Hexi Corridor has become a problem again. In short, Xixia is really a bit precarious now!

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"Let's guard Xiping Prefecture first!" Cha Ge frowned and said, "Mingsha City was also taken down by the Song army, and there were also a lot of food and grass taken away at the same time. But after the battle of Xiping Prefecture, wasn't Mingsha City still recovered by us?"

He was telling the story of Empress Dowager Liang. In fact, if the Song army stopped in Mingsha City, it would be hard to say whether Xixia could survive until now!

Cha Ge paused and asked, "If Zhao Kai comes, how much time will it take for us to dig the Yellow River dam?"

As he spoke, he turned his head and looked at the Yellow River Dam west of Xiping Prefecture and the civil fortress built against the dam.

"A day is enough!" Li Liangfu said with a smile, "Don't worry, the general will lead his troops to Dicheng today to be ready to dig the dam at any time! If Zhao doesn't come, he will keep it. If he comes, keep it without returning."

"Where is Xiping Prefecture City?" asked Brother Cha, "It won't be flooded by the flood, right? It's summer now!"

The last time when Queen Mother Liang released water in Xiping Prefecture, it was dry and winter, but now it was a summer of abundant water. Don’t let the water flood the Cha Ge himself!

"No." Li Liangfu smiled, "The city wall of Xipingfu is high and strong, and the water of the Yellow River cannot pass through the city wall."

"That's good," Cha Ge smiled, "Now wait for Zhao Kai, we will let the water go as soon as he arrives!"
Chapter completed!