At the end of April, Li Xingzhou personally led an army of 50,000 to cross the Yellow River and arrived in Tanglong Town.

Among the more than 50,000 people, three new troops were in the new army, the Lingnan Jie Army and the Right Army were 10,000, and the Xiang Army was drawn as auxiliary soldiers from all over Hedong and Hebei.

The total force reached more than 55,000.

At the end of April, Li Xingzhou met with Zhe Weizhong and Yang Wenguang and asked about the war in Tanglong Town.

With the help of telescopes, Zhe Weizhong's family army was originally a Dangxiang person, so they were familiar with the terrain and people's conditions in the northwest and understood the situation in the northwest. They were appointed as the vanguard envoy of the camp by Li Xingzhou, and two regiments of the new army army were selected for command.

Everyone thought it was inappropriate. The vanguard commander of the camp was the one who led the vanguard in the army. Everyone thought it would be Wei Yubai or Yan Shen. Even Zhe Weizhong himself thought it was this way, because the two regiments had more than his Zhe family army, let alone the new army, the prince's personal army.

Li Xingzhou stopped their discussion and said, "Everyone understands Ma Su's loss of Jieting."

Everyone looked at each other, not understanding why he suddenly said that Ma Su lost Jieting.

"I used to wonder why Ma Su was so stupid. He didn't even understand the principle that people needed to drink water." Li Xingzhou said: "Later, after thinking about it, I thought of a possibility that it was not that he was stupid, but that he didn't know."

"The landform of our Jingguo country has a different appearance after crossing the Qinling Mountains and Huai Rivers, and the difference is huge. I guess Ma Su was in Shu Han, and he didn't know that there was still no water source on the mountain.

In the mountains in the south, you can have water by just a ravine. If you find a low land, you can be a river pool. How can there be no water source on the mountain? He didn't know that he had crossed the Qinling Lines and was another world in the north.

Therefore, adapting to local conditions, appointing experienced people has always been the way to win. Now, only General Zhe is the most familiar with the situation in the northwest, and he is the most reassuring for me as a forward."

Everyone stopped talking, Zhe Weizhong took on this great task, and repeatedly stated that he would not let down his high expectations.

Then, the main army of 30,000 began to march westward.

On April 27, the central army was still on the road, and good news came from the front. Zhe Weizhong's front army defeated six camps of the Xishanzhai Front Army in the north of Xia Kingdom, killed more than 800 Xia troops, and captured more than 1,100 people.

Li Xingzhou was overjoyed, and the forward continued to advance westward, and then allowed the army to accelerate.

Along the way, the central army basically could not see the battle situation, and could only smell the smell of gunpowder, piled up on the roadside with no time to deal with the prisoners who were constantly sent back.

Some people were cleaning the abandoned baggage, armor, and weapons on the ground.

The vanguard army had already pushed all the way under the leadership of Zhe Weizhong, and the central army had almost no resistance to follow up.

Good news kept coming, until the fourth day of the fifth month, when the army successively captured 14 camps of the Xia army, killed more than 1,000 people, and captured more than 2,000 people.

Everyone was overjoyed, and there were a large number of grids and roadblocks set up by the Xia army on the roadside.

Li Xingzhou is now considered a long-term general. He can become a good doctor even if he is sick for a long time, let alone he has fought so many battles.

More importantly, he heard the surrendered Xia army confession, and the commander of the Xia army's western route was Wei Mingling Gong, who led a total of 80,000 troops.

Others don't understand, but he has heard of the name Weiming Linggong. Because it is so famous, Temujin, the last general of the Western Xia Kingdom, also suffered repeated losses in his hands.

Such a person shouldn't be so impatient, and Li Xingzhou became more and more uneasy.

Looking at the grids, mounds, camps and fortifications built with stones and destroyed by the front army everywhere on the road, he felt that this matter was not that simple.

Just so happened that Qi Fang followed him in a dress of a man. Seeing that he was worried, she said in confusion: "The war is so smooth, the enemy is defeated again and again, and our army is winning step by step. Why is Your Highness still worried?"

Li Xingzhou looked back at her heroic face, "The battlefield changes rapidly, who can tell me clearly? I always feel that the Xia army should not be defeated again and again. We have the advantage of firepower, but they are familiar with the terrain. In these valleys, our army cannot spread, and they should not be defeated so quickly."

Li Xingzhou didn't finish his words. It was not surprising that he was the one who led the army and lost so quickly. After all, the new army's firepower advantage lies there, and there is a generation gap, but Wei Ming Linggong is not an ordinary person.

His army, which was dominated by infantry, repeatedly defeated Temujin. He should not be so bad and would collapse at once.

In the past few days, the forward Zhe Weizhong won consecutive victories, and encountered almost no difficulties. He has advanced 200 miles westward.

"Who is the enemy of the new army in the world? Your Highness is thinking too much. Besides, beheading and capturing more than 3,000 will be a significant loss to any army, and there should be no backup." Qi Fang didn't think that this was normal. She knew the power of the firearm, but she didn't know the reputation of Wei Mingling Gong and his future actions. It was reasonable to make such a judgment.

Li Xingzhou saw the remains of the Xia army all over the mountains and fields, and his anxiety became even stronger. He immediately stopped his horse, "Go back and go to the prisoner of war camp. I have something to ask those prisoners of war."

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The soldiers behind were surprised that Li Xingzhou suddenly came to the camp where he was warding prisoners of war.

Li Xingzhou immediately found a few soldiers who knew local dialects and entered the camp to interrogate prisoners of war.

He did not interrogate individuals or officers, but instead asked about a dozen people.

Slowly, Li Xingzhou asked several information, but in fact, these were almost all new recruits, the second was that the main force of the Xia army was in the south.

The main force is in the south, and Li Xingzhou has known for a long time, because it was deliberately misleading, but the ones who were captured and almost all the recruits died in battle, which is a coincidence!

If the Xia army was really defeated by a fierce battle, how could it put all the recruits who could not fight the most? Even if you really want to fight hard, you should use the method of veterans leading the recruits to exert your maximum combat power!

In conjunction with obstacles all over the mountains, Li Xingzhou understood Wei Ming Linggong's plan almost instantly, and hurriedly waved: "Go and pass Yan Shen quickly, Yelu Dashi comes to me! Come and go quickly, don't delay!"

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Liuta Town is an important town in the eastern part of the Xia Kingdom. With the surrounding villages, there are nearly 10,000 households. Going west, it is the deserted desert next door.

If the Jing army passed this place, it would completely occupy all the important towns on the west bank of the Yellow River, and the army in the western part of the Xia Kingdom could only be forced to move south or north.

Using this as a stronghold, the Jing army from Hedong could also attack Xia Kingdom south or north without any obstacles.

The main gathering area of ​​Liuta Town is located in a narrow river valley. It is on the east bank of the river. The valley stretches for more than ten miles, enough to have a hundred thousand troops, but it can only form a long snake formation.

Weiming Linggong is firmly in charge of the civilian houses, and the surrounding people have temporarily left with their families because this place is about to become a battlefield.

Wei Ming Linggong already knew that he was facing the main army led by the Crown Prince of Jing State.

At first, he was actually very uneasy, and his morale in the army was also hit. Li Xingzhou was too famous and anyone who destroyed Liao and attacked Jin would be frightened when he met him.

They have the advantage of military strength, but Wei Ming Linggong knew that it was impossible to defeat the Jing army if they fought head-on. It was not only because of the powerful firearms, but more importantly because of morale.

With the ravines and ravines, it is difficult for the army to spread out the mountains in the northwest. The power of the firearms is greatly limited. The most powerful cannons of the Jing army were too heavy to keep up with the vanguard on the difficult mountain road.

Even so, Wei Ming Linggong knew that head-on confrontation was not advisable.

But after all, he is a long-time general on the battlefield, so he would not be afraid of it and would not dare to act and lose his footing.

After calming down, he thought of Liuta Town, which was a natural ambush point. The hillsides on both sides were hundreds of meters above the bottom. There was a narrow and flat ground in the middle. It narrowed to the northern pass, and could only accommodate six or seven people in parallel.

So he made up his mind that the war must be fought, which is related to the survival of the Xia Kingdom, but it is not a random fight.

In the north, he asked soldiers to cast the city with stones, and strangled the valley entrance with elites, and then deployed more than 2,000 cavalrymen, who were most proud of Xia and his best attack, on the top of the east slope, and deployed more than 20,000 elite infantrymen and crossbowmen on the highlands of the east hillside.

Behind the mountain across the southwest river, 12,000 people were arranged to be responsible for cutting off the rear. Once the Jing army entered the narrow valley of Liuta Town, they would cross the river and cut off their retreat.

Along the way to Liuta Town, Weiming Linggong kept ordering soldiers to set up a large number of obstacles, while sending unbearable new soldiers to defend at all levels.

First, let the Jing Jun van striker work hard and time-consuming to eliminate roadblocks, do hard work, and waste their physical strength and patience. He is at the end of his strength to Liuta Town.

On the other hand, it allowed the Jing army vanguard to win consecutive battles, and to be arrogant and underestimate the enemy, and to enter the ambush circle he set up without any scruples.

Wei Ming Linggong's idea was to set up an ambush with superior forces and concentrate its forces to eliminate the Jing army vanguard who was advancing lightly and aggressively.

He had already found out that if the Jing army vanguards were 7,000. If they were introduced into the ambush site as planned, they would not be able to gather in the narrow valley, and their formation would inevitably be scattered. They would face three attacks of at least 40,000 troops, and their only way to retreat was to retreat into the river.

Wei Ming Linggong was sure to win this because according to recent information, Jing Jun was walking step by step in the direction he imagined, annihilated 7,000 Jing Jun vanguards, which would definitely greatly damage their confidence and defeat their morale!

He will also be the first to defeat Lee Sing-Chaw!
Chapter completed!