The army of Jing State was just launched, and Xia State was already in panic, and many people began to run towards the border of Jing State.

Some people are preparing to go west to avoid disaster. Jing State's military strength is too strong, and many people do not think that Xia State can stop Jing State.

At the Xia Kingdom Palace, Li Ji was already panicked and kept ordering soldiers to increase the number of troops. Regarding the increase in troops, Li Ji was almost crazy, completely at the point of not considering the actual situation.

So by mid-April, before the Jing Kingdom's army arrived, civil strife broke out in various parts of the Xia Kingdom, and the area at the foot of the Helan Mountains rose up and almost attacked Kyoto.

Fortunately, Li Yuanchang was decisive and skillful, and used both to slap the turmoil quickly.

But the Jingguo army was still approaching the door.

This time is different from the past. If it was defeated in the past, the Xia Kingdom still had the last way to run to the grassland to preserve its strength. Their ancestors did do that.

At that time, the grassland was messy. They could defeat the local tribes and quickly gain a foothold and survive. But now the grassland tribes have been unified under the Mongolian flag. If they dare to go north, they will die without a place to bury them.

The court was quarreling in a row, and most civil officials felt that it would be better to surrender to Jingguo, otherwise going north and falling into the hands of the Tatars would only lead to death even worse.

However, the emperor's uncle Li Yuanchang firmly disagreed and promised the court that he would block the Jing army in the south.

According to Xia's spies and spies, they only knew that Jing's country had increased troops in two directions.

One is in the direction of Tanglong Town, and the troops in the border town are increased.

As a nail, the Xia Kingdom sent general Wei Mingling Gong to lead his army eastward to resist the enemy coming from the direction of Tanglong Town.

Li Yuanchang led his main force to the Shun Army and the brave army to move south to resist the enemy from the south.

Because of previous misleading information, coupled with the fact that Di from Jingguo arrived at the army, Li Xingzhou's army was still on the way, and the spies' rewards were incomplete.

This made Xia State misjudgment the overall situation. They believed that the enemy in the south and camps in the west were all deployed, and the general Liu Ji of Jing State led the main force of Jing State to attack Xia.

As always, they will attack north from Yanzhou.

The direction of Tanglong Town to the west is mainly to restrain and harass. It should not be the main force. Even if there are many people, it is still the soldiers of the Prefecture, Taiyuan, Hezhong, and Yunzhou, not the elite of the Central Imperial Army.

So it's relatively relaxed to the west.

The Xia Kingdom also attaches great importance to the river channel. Jing Kingdom has a strong and invincible navy, which is well-known to everyone in the world.

Therefore, Li Yuanchang ordered that the states along the river would collect civil ships, gather near the shallow water of Shikou, and sank them uniformly to block the river channel, so that ships in Jingguo were not allowed to pass.

This matter is easier said than done. First, if you collect the people's ships, you will be subject to resistance. For the people living by the river for generations, they rely on boats to support their families.

Secondly, gathering ships from all over the country is also a big project, which is very time-consuming. The person who sponsors this matter is Wang Yuan, the new secretary of the Central Secretariat of Xia Kingdom.

The project is huge, coupled with the long waterway and poor waterway conditions, Jingguo still goes up against the current and has difficulty sailing. The wind direction is unfavorable at this season, and Wang Yuanzi believes that he can complete this task well.

However, this was just a precaution. In his heart, he did not think that the people of Jing Guo would be so idle that they could go deep into the hinterland to attack the north.

As for the south, because the waterway was no longer under their control and could not be defended, Wang Yuan was not very concerned about this matter and felt that the king was just in a hurry to seek medical treatment, and he was already in a panic and was full of soldiers. In fact, it was not like this at all.

So I don't care much about doing things.

...........

One hundred and fifty miles west of Tanglong Town, Weiming Linggong rode his horse to the loess hillside. From a distance, the army in the valley below was stretching eastward.

The infantry marched through the valley, across a slope, and on the other side were most of the cavalry.

"General, I see that he unexpectedly attacked Tanglong Town and might be able to seize it in one fell swoop." The deputy general next to him said.

Wei Ming Linggong just shook his head, "Although I have many soldiers under my command, they are not elite, all of them are in the south. Besides, Jingguo is no longer the Jingguo of the past, do you really think there is an opportunity to take advantage of it?"

"This... I don't understand?" The deputy general obviously had a broad vision and could not see the overall change.

Weiming Ling Gongjiu Town border, which is a rare general in Xia State. He explained slowly: "In the past, Jing State did not dare to do his best when he came from Hedong. Among the sixteen states of Youyun, Huanzhou, Shuozhou, Yingzhou, Weizhou, and Yunzhou are all in the hands of the Liao State. If they all out the main force in Hedong, then the Liao army will go west from Shuozhou and Huanzhou for fifty miles, and a one-day journey will reach Yanmen Pass. Do you think they dare to go west with all their might?

So in the past, it was not that the Hedong army had no courage, but that they had worries.

This time it was different. The crown prince of Jing State took back the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun. There were Yunzhou, Wuzhou, Xinzhou, Guizhou and Ruzhou as barriers in the north. They had no threats to the north and no worries.

If we rashly fight, we will definitely not be able to get it."

Wei Ming Linggong sighed, "This time the emperor was also panicked and actually forced to recruit a large army. Now the army of Xia Kingdom has exceeded 200,000, but the soldiers recruited in this way are lazy in training and insufficient military preparations. In addition, their homesickness makes them unable to fight.

Although I have 80,000 troops under my command, if I really fight, the only ones that can be fought are the original 20,000 border troops.

Therefore, we cannot confront the Jing army directly, otherwise once the war is defeated, the entire army will be defeated, and we can only build camps, set up obstacles, and block them layer by layer, so that the Jing army can take the initiative to attack."

After hearing this, the deputy general nodded: "The Grand Marshal is brilliant."

"Haha, it's not that it's because of the situation. If the elite soldiers are in hand, I will fight with Jingguo too! The war is so frustrating and weak, who doesn't feel humiliated?"

.........

In mid-April, Weiming Linggong led a large army to set up obstacles on both sides of the road west of Tanglong Town, build fortifications, and prepare to block the enemy's advance westward.

Zhe Weizhong and Yang Ye, who had increased their troops in Tanglong Town, also received news, but apart from sending scouts to advance westward to investigate the enemy's defense, they did not continue to move forward, nor did they send troops.

Because the imperial decree sent by the court repeatedly emphasized that after they increased their troops, they should defend the bridgehead of Tanglong Town, and not make a rash move, as long as they defended it would be a great achievement.

Moreover, the scouts also found that the other side had at least 50,000 people, and their troops were brought by Zhe Weizhong from the prefectures and prefectures, Yang Ye brought by 5,000 people from Taiyuan, and the three thousand defenders who originally guarded Tanglong Town, there were only about 11,000 people.

Fortunately, they brought forty cannons and two thousand five hundred musketeers.

Yang Ye arranged for forty guns on the north slope, and behind Tanglong Town, and arranged 2,500 musketeers to the northwest of Tanglong Town to build fortifications and build the first defensive front.

More soldiers were stationed in the city, and cavalry were stationed on the top of the north slope, ready to support at any time, adopting a completely constrained attitude, and not ready to confront the enemy at all.

At the same time, Zhe Weizhong was responsible for preparing a large number of ships and connecting the army to cross the river.

There are mainly two methods. One is to send two battalions of cavalry to go up and down along Henan, and to requisition ships of the people along the river. If they are not given, they will be seized by force.

In addition, it is made locally and made by yourself.

Work together to start construction.

Newspapers were also constantly coming. In mid-April, the troops of the world's military commander Li Xingzhou had already passed Taiyuan, Xianzhou and Lanzhou were rushing towards Tanglong Town.

By the afternoon of April 21, the soldiers of Tanglong Town could see dense flags on the other side through the river.

Yang Ye was still guarding, while Zhe Weizhong hurriedly took a boat to cross the river to welcome the crown prince.

The main army has arrived!
Chapter completed!