Fu Song

Chapter 188
The battle on the Shaanxi Road entered a fierce stage in May, but it was also a stage that people looked forward to.

Because at this time, the two sides are actually fighting each other.

Ma Xing sent Xiao Ding, the most powerful under his command, to lead Guangrui, Dingbian and other troops across the vast sea, and went straight to Xingqing Mansion, an important place of Li Xu's confidant, to solve the problem in one fell swoop.

But in Suide, Li Du raised an army of tens of thousands and launched a fierce attack on the Song army.

In May, Yelujun Wang, the governor of Nannan Road in Daliao, Qishui County, also intervened in the battle. First, he regained Guiyi City in one fell swoop, and then more than [-] troops crossed the Juma River, and launched a mad attack on Dasong North Road. .

It seems that Song State is already in danger on Shaanxi Road and Hebei Road.

Everyone thought that Li Du must be on the front line to urge his subordinates to attack the Song people's defense line, because once he broke through this defense line, the next step would be to march to Yan'an Mansion, where the yamen of the Shaanxi Road appeasement envoy was located.

But unexpectedly, Li Du was standing on the wall of Siwu Village at this moment.

Siwu Village is being renovated and expanded on a large scale.

Tens of thousands of civilians, under the surveillance of the army, are like worker ants, making this kind of city on the main throat change day by day.

These civilian husbands were all kidnapped by Li Du after he entered Suide this time.

The first thing he has to do is to build the Siwu Village to be as solid as gold, and when the Siwu Village is completed, the surviving civilian husbands will also be moved to the north of Hengshan by him.

The generals under the Dingnan Army are now very excited. In their view, it is no longer a problem to take down Yan'an Mansion and sweep Shaanxi Road.Because the Liao people also took action at this time.

In the past, they had been worried that the soldiers and horses from the East Road would enter Shaanxi to fight and encircle them, but now they had definite information showing that the soldiers and horses from the East Road were indeed being mobilized, but their destination was Hebei Road.

And the Jinning Army of Hedong Road, which was about to make a move, is now hiding in its old lair tremblingly after being transferred away from some elites. Let alone come to fight against the difficult army, what they are most worried about now is the difficult army With a hot head, I went to the east of the river for a walk.

People in Hedong can only wish Shaanxi Road good luck.A dead fellow Taoist is not a poor fellow, it’s not that my younger brother doesn’t show loyalty, it’s because I really can’t take care of you now, now on Hedong Road, I can sweep the snow in front of my house with all my strength, as for the frost on other people’s roof tiles, it’s true I can't control it.

Compared with the Liao army, Li Xu and Li Du can only be regarded as scabies.

If you can deal with Shaanxi Road, you can deal with it. If you don’t deal with it, it’s the same. Anyway, even if all Shaanxi Road is lost, it is estimated that Dingnan Army will find it difficult to swallow it in a short time. It means that the Liao people have a result, and then look back It is not impossible to clean up the mess on Shaanxi Road.

"Hao'er, when Luowu City is completely completed, tens of thousands of troops will be stationed here." Li Du pointed to the already large-scale city, and said with a smile: "At that time, with Luowu City in hand, we will have a weapon to stab The sharp long sword of the people of Song, if it doesn’t solve this problem, the people of Song will not dare to reach out to us, but want to solve this problem, hehe”

Siwu Village has now been renamed Luowu City by Li Du.

"I'm afraid they can't solve it!" Li Hao laughed.

"Yes, when Luowu City is fully completed, it will become an indestructible city!" Li Du nodded.

Seeing Li Du's expression, Li Hao hesitated for a moment, and said: "But Second Uncle, the situation is very good now, why don't we take advantage of the situation and launch a larger-scale offensive to really take down Yan'an Mansion and even Shaanxi Road? After all this has been done, in retrospect, it will be too late to repair Luowu City!"

"Do you think things are going well now?"

"Of course. The Liao people aggressively attack Hebei Road. For us, such an opportunity is once in a lifetime. I'm afraid it will not be easy to persuade the Liao people to help us next time." Li Hao said.

Li Du laughed: "Do you think the Liao people are helping us?"

"Isn't it? Didn't the second uncle go to Beiliao specifically for this? He also obtained the imperial edict from the Great Xia King for his father." Li Hao said: "Right now we only need to concentrate on dealing with the soldiers and horses along the Shaanxi Road, and work harder Put your strength, or you can break through."

Li Du slowly shook his head and said: "Jing'an, to us, Song people are fierce tigers, so why are Liao people not hungry wolves? Rather than saying that they are helping us now, it is better to say that the Liao people are using us as a bargaining chip to the Song people." Putting pressure on. You always think that we can break through the defense line outside Yan'an Mansion if we put in more effort, right?"

"Isn't it?" Li Hao waved his fist and said.

Li Du shook his head: "When our first attack failed to lay down this line of defense, I had no hope."

Seeing Li Hao's unconvinced appearance, Li Du continued: "Now you always have this feeling that you can break through the opponent's defense line with more force, I'm afraid it was done on purpose by the enemy."

"Do it on purpose?"

"Yes, they want to lure us to invest more power here!" Li Du laughed: "I have to say that Ma Xing is really a courageous person, such a decision, even if he succeeded in the end , in the court of the Song people, he will also be attacked by countless people, because he sacrificed the interests of the entire Suide region."

"Second Uncle means that this place is just a bait?"

"Of course!" Li Du pointed to himself, and then to Li Hao: "Compared to your father, we are all just small roles. Ma Xing places his hopes on Xiao Ding."

"Want to break Xingqing Mansion, is he dreaming?" Li Hao snorted.

"That's why I invite you back." Li Du said, "Take three thousand cavalry and rush to help Xingqing Mansion!"

"Is Second Uncle planning to give up attacking Yan'an?"

"Of course I still have to fight. I have to cover you and leave quietly!" Li Du said: "But I have already started preparing for the retreat. I am not going to take the initiative to attack next. I will confront the Song army for a while, and then Just drag it slowly until Luowu City is completed, at most half a year, Luowu City will be fully completed, and by this time, I will retreat across the board."

"Second Uncle, Father doesn't need me, right?" Li Hao said, "Xingqing Mansion and its surrounding areas have tens of thousands of garrisons, plus the Tubo soldiers under Yuzang Huama's command. The state and other places withdrew some troops.”

"Never pin your hopes on outsiders." Li Du said solemnly: "Shazhou and other places have always been unstable and need to be suppressed by the army. Trust them, they will never do anything for you. I have calculated carefully, the current situation in Xingqing Mansion is roughly [-]-[-] between the two sides, and if they really fight, it will probably be a stalemate, but If there is a strong team appearing on the battlefield at this time, it will be the biggest variable."

"Second uncle wants me to be a variable?"

"Of course. At this point in the war, Suide's side is completely unimportant." Li Du said: "We never thought about occupying this area. The main problem at this time is to completely defeat Xiao Ding's Guang Ruijun, if we win this battle, our Li family will be able to gain a foothold in the north of Hengshan. Those people in Hengshan are like grass on the wall. Once we win, it will be easy to bring them back."

Speaking of the Hengshan Party Item, Li Hao couldn't help but gritted his teeth.

"There is no need to hate them!" Li Du smiled and said, "They will only choose the strong to follow. If we want to conquer them, we have to become stronger ourselves."

"I see, when shall I leave?"

"Two days later." Li Du said: "I dispatched these three thousand cavalry from various troops. will react."

Li Hao nodded, this is all from experience.

Neither side is a fool.

The army led by Xiao Ding has already set foot on the land of Xingqing Mansion.

After crossing the gorge, there will be sporadic enemy cavalry in the first two days, but their main purpose is to harass the advance speed of the Song army. As long as they ignore them, they will have nothing to do.

On the third day or more, these small groups of enemy troops completely disappeared and never appeared again.

"Li Xu is gathering his troops." Xiao Ding immediately made a judgment, "General Yang Wei, do you think Li Xu will fight us decisively, or will he retreat into the city for defense?"

Tuoba proudly said: "If I were Li Xu, I would choose to fight the enemy in a decisive battle."

"Why is General Yangwei so confident?"

Tuoba Yangwei laughed, and turned to look at a middle-aged man dressed as a scribe next to Xiao Ding, "Judge Zhang, why don't you talk about it first, and see if we have a good understanding?"

Judge Zhang is Zhang Yuan who has just transported a new batch of luggage to the front line. Hearing Tuoba Yangwei's words, Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "I also agree with General Yangwei's judgment. In fact, there are two points. The first point, until now So far, Li Xu is still holding the banner of the Dingnan Army, so in name, he is still a vassal of the Song Dynasty. We attack him on behalf of the court, and occupy a condescending advantage in morality. The land of Xingqing Mansion, There are naturally many people who are dissatisfied with Li Xu. Li Xu dare not procrastinate. If we can defeat us in one fell swoop, no matter how many potential enemies there are, they will disappear. With full confidence, the Dingnan army itself is a rare and powerful army in the Song army. Like the Hebei frontier army, they have never stopped fighting. And because the Hebei army is facing the Liao army, so They are better at defending. And the Dingnan Army has been expanding westward, constantly attacking Tubo, Uyghur and other tribes, so they are better at attacking."

Xiao Ding nodded: "Judging from the battle of more than half a year, this is indeed a strong enemy, but the weakness is also obvious!"

"Commander, what weakness do you see in them?"

"They seldom fight positional warfare!" Xiao Ding said with a smile: "The tribes they have been attacking have fought a lot, but basically they are quick and quick, and they won't get too entangled with them. Long, the Dingnan Army has also formed such a fighting style. Although the battles that come and go like the wind are very mobile, it also makes the soldiers lack the psychological preparation for hard and difficult battles. But this time, they That’s the kind of battle that’s going to be fought.”

"Because this time, they have nowhere to go." Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "They have to defend Xingqing Mansion and defeat us in a short period of time. This is a contradiction in itself. They want everything, and in the end , can only get nothing!"

Tuoba nodded vigorously: "Actually, Li Xu's biggest hole card is Yuzang Huama, right?"

"He definitely thinks so!" Xiao Ding said with a smile, "But placing hope on others is a ridiculous thing in itself."

There was a rapid sound of horseshoes ahead, and they stopped talking, and turned their heads to look in the direction of the sound of horseshoes, "The two sides seem to have handed in hand." Tuoba said proudly.

"This is a good battlefield!" Xiao Ding said with a smile.

For a tens of thousands of troops, it is almost enough to move around on a battlefield of tens of miles. On one side is the Yellow River and on the other side is Tangqu. The losing side will have a lot of difficulty in escaping. He had the intention of swallowing Song Jun all in one mouthful.

Coincidentally, Xiao Ding thought so too.

In the front, the first to fight is a team of scouts from each side, and there are only a few hundred people on both sides.

Xin Jian was riding on the horse. Behind him, two thousand iron kites had already gathered in formation. Behind them, more flags of the Song army flashed out one after another.

On the opposite side, Li's troops are also appearing in their field of vision one after another.

The two scouting troops collided several times. Dozens of corpses were found on the open ground, showing the cruelty of the hand-to-hand combat between the two sides. Every time they collided, someone would be knocked off their horses. Circled on top.

After another collision, the scouts of both sides never looked back, but ran towards their own large troops.

"The elite of the Dingnan Army really deserve their reputation!" The corner of Xin Jian's mouth twitched, and he said to a party general beside him.The iron kite was a selected fighter, but in this battle between scouts from both sides, he didn't take advantage of it.

"They can have this level, hundreds of people at most!" The party general said with a smile: "But our two thousand people are all at this level. Didn't Commander Xin say that one person is not strong, and everyone If you are strong, then you are really strong. If we can’t even do it, we’ve sweated and sweated for half a year, but it’s all in vain.”

In the past half a year, even Xiao Ding couldn't stand the hardships of Iron Harrier's training.But the training plan was made when Xiao Cheng was still there, and after Xin Jian practiced for a period of time and saw the strength of it, he followed it exactly.

Xiao Ding's banner of the general was erected.

Xin Jian instructed the lieutenant beside him, and galloped to the flag of the chief general.

On the opposite side, Li Xu's flag of the general was also flying high.

(End of this chapter)