Fenghou

Chapter 413
In the dark night, a cavalry soldier of the Song Army rode his horse and galloped, stirring up yellow dust billowing on the official road. At the fourth watch, Longxi County was already in sight. It took a while for the army cavalry to get up and come to the horse, only to see that the horse was twitching all over, foaming at the mouth, and it was already dying.

The cavalry sighed, took off their horse bags, and ran towards Longxi County in one group.

Not long after, the cavalry ran to the gate of the east city and shouted to the top of the city, "Please open the gate! Please open the city gate!"

After a while, someone from the top of the city asked, "Who are you?"

"I'm Zhou Jin, a soldier of the Dutong, and I'm coming from Tongxi County. I have a hundred thousand urgent situations to report to the Dutong!"

The people on the top of the city went back, and after a while, a general asked: "Since you are all soldiers, where is your horse?"

"My horse is exhausted, Commander Hou Kai, I know you."

After a while, a basket was placed on it, and the city leader said: "Put the military badge in the basket, and I'll take a look. You know what it is to open the city gate at night."

The card of the personal soldier general was put in the basket, and the basket was put back. After a while, the city gate slowly opened, the drawbridge was lowered, and the personal soldier Zhou Jin ran into the city. The commander Hou Kai brought a horse over, "Get on the horse! You go to see Du Tong."

Zhou Jin got on his horse and followed Hou Kai towards Daying.

Chen Qing was awakened by the soldiers in his sleep, turned over and sat up, and asked in a deep voice, "What's the matter?"

"Zhou Jin is back, and he said that there is an urgent situation that needs to be reported!"

Zhou Jin is the head of Chen Qing's personal soldier who stayed in Tongxi County to help the two children bury their fathers. Chen Qing nodded, "Let him in!"

After a while, Zhou Jin walked into the big tent, knelt down on one knee and saluted, "See Dutong!"

"Dutong, a Xixia army is heading towards Longxi County quickly, and it may arrive by dawn."

This was a bit beyond Chen Qing's expectation, he quickly asked: "How many people are there?"

"It looks like seven or eight thousand people. There are infantry and cavalry. The infantry is running all the way, and the marching speed is very fast."

Chen Qing pondered for a moment. It should be that the Xixia Army from Dingxi County had gone south. They didn't know that Xia Baihu's army had been completely wiped out, so they came here to occupy Longxi County.

"How about those two teenagers? Li Songnian and Li Songshi."

"Their father has already been buried. Xiaowu and Zhang Shun sent them to Chengji County. Both of them have read a lot and feel that they can take the imperial examination."

Chen Qing nodded, "You have worked hard all the way, go down and rest first!"

"Humble job. Humble job galloped all the way, and the horse unfortunately died of exhaustion."

"This is a special situation, you go tell Yan Jun, he will arrange a new horse for you."

Zhou made a salute and retreated.

Chen Qing pondered for a moment and ordered: "Quickly tell Yang Zaixing, Gao Ding, Liu Cui and Niu Gao to come see me!"

Not long after, the four arrived in a hurry, and Chen Qing said slowly: "I just got the news that about seven or eight thousand Xixia troops are heading towards Longxi County. It is estimated that they will arrive at dawn. I am considering ambushing the enemy."

"Dutong, the ambush is too close to the county seat, I'm afraid it's easy to be spotted by enemy spies!"

Chen Qing shook his head and smiled, "Because it's too close to the county seat, the enemy's spies would not think of it, and they would pay more attention to the situation in the county seat."

Seeing that everyone didn't understand, Chen Qing pointed to the oil lamp on the table and said with a smile: "This oil lamp is the county seat, will you notice what's going on under the oil lamp?"

"They all said it was dark under the lights!" Everyone reacted at the same time.

Chen Qing nodded, "We're going to the county seat soon. Of course, the enemy general sent spies to check the situation in the county seat. Who cares about the villages around the county seat?"

Everyone cheered up, "Dutong, we have to go now!"

Chen Qing nodded, "You immediately notify the army to get up."

"Follow the order!"

The four turned around to leave, Chen Qing shouted: "General Niu Gao stay a step!"

Niu Gao stopped in his tracks, and Chen Qing asked with a smile, "How's the recruiting going?"

Chen Qing decided to recruit two thousand children to defend Longxi County in Longxi, and Niu Gao was in charge of this matter.

Niu Gao bowed and said, "It started yesterday afternoon, and we recruited [-] people in one afternoon. It is estimated that we will be able to recruit all of them by today."

"Then you continue to recruit today. I will leave a thousand soldiers for you, and you will be responsible for defending the city."

"Humble post obeys orders!"

It was getting brighter, and the six thousand cavalry had been waiting for a long time. They hid in a forest twenty miles away from the county seat. The soldiers were full of energy, their horses were recharging their energy, their spears were like forests, their armor was shining, and they were waiting with high morale. World War I.

Chen Qing put on the curtain and looked into the distance, only to see dust flying seven or eight miles away, covering the sky and blocking out the sun, and a mighty army was coming.

The enemy's scouts had already rushed to the county seat to inquire about the situation in the county seat. The main army behind did not expect an ambush near the county seat at all.

Chen Qing stared coldly at the enemy army that appeared three miles away. Six thousand cavalry were gearing up behind him, waiting for the final order to attack.

The Xixia army was getting closer and closer, Song Jun had already seen the appearance of the enemy army in the dust, and was less than [-] steps away from them. Chen Qing saw the exhaustion of the opponent's soldiers, and he made an instant move Decided not to volley in the middle this time, he wants to attack head-on.

Chen Qing raised Fang Tian's painted halberd and shouted to the six thousand soldiers: "We once defeated a hundred thousand Xixia troops, but that was a city defense battle. Today we will use cavalry to hit them head-on. Brothers, let the Xixia Tartars try Let's have a taste of the great Song cavalry!"

Six thousand cavalry raised their spears and shouted.

"Kill—" Chen Qing roared.

"Kill!" The six thousand cavalry roared together, like ten thousand horses galloping, and charged head-on at the Xixia army two hundred paces away.

The Xixia army never dreamed that the Song army would lie in ambush here and wait for them. The Xixia army panicked immediately, and the horns kept sounding, reminding the soldiers in the army.

This Xixia army consisted of [-] men, including [-] infantry and [-] cavalry. They indeed went south from Dingxi County to take over Longxi County. Little did they know that Xia Hu's army had been wiped out.

It was only at this moment that he suddenly realized that Longxi County had been occupied by the Song army, so what about Xia Hu's army?

They marched for two hundred miles, almost without sleep all day and night, but the opponent was waiting for work. Can they defeat the enemy?

There will be no answers to the questions in his stomach, whether he wants to or not, he has no choice.

The cavalry of the Song army collided with the Xixia soldiers suddenly, and killed the Xixia army by surprise. Before many Xixia soldiers could even react, the Song army's spears had already taken their lives.

Chen Qing personally led an army into the hinterland of the Xixia Army, killing the soldiers of the Xixia Army with blood and flesh flying all over the place, and thousands of Xixia soldiers wailing and howling, stumbling and fleeing for their lives without fighting spirit.

In fact, the Xixia soldiers who marched for a day and night had no physical strength to fight the Song Army. The well-trained Song Army cavalry turned into six thousand-man teams, and the six thousand-man teams split into sixty hundred-man teams. It was so torn apart that it was not a decisive battle at all, and they were defeated after a little resistance.

Li Qixia met Song Army General Gao Ding, and within three rounds of fierce fighting, Li Qixia was shot three times in a row, almost piercing his throat on the spot. If his own soldiers hadn't rescued him desperately, Li Qixia would have been decapitated by Gao Ding.

Li Qixia was so frightened that he didn't even bother to bandage his wound, so he turned his horse and fled north.

Although the Xixia soldiers were famous for their tenacity, they couldn't stop their own army from being defeated. More than a dozen generals of the Xixia army who originally wanted to resist saw that the master ran away, and they lost their fighting spirit. The Xixia army was defeated like a mountain.

The cavalry of the Song army chased and killed for more than [-] miles. They killed everyone they met, leaving no prisoners of war. They killed more than [-] Xixia soldiers. Only more than [-] cavalry escaped from the pursuit of the Song army and fled northward in panic. .

This battle was the "Longxi Ambush" written into the textbook by the Northwest Army Yanwu Hall. It described the importance of early intelligence, but because the early intelligence was not in place, it was unknown that the Song Army had already occupied Longxi County. The Xixia army marched desperately and without rest for a day and a night. As a result, the Song army waited for work with ease and collapsed head-on.

However, the lack of early intelligence was not entirely the main reason for the defeat of the Xixia Army. The main reason for the Xixia Army's ambushes was tactical problems.

The key is the choice of the ambush location of the Song army. Although the Xixia army also sent spies, but because they were too close to the county, the Xixia spies habitually went to investigate the situation in the county, but ignored the dangers around the county. This is a typical case under the lamp. In the case of the black war, the county seat is too eye-catching, and its surroundings have become blind spots.

This battle also forced the Xixia Army to give up their plan to capture Gongzhou, and began to shift from offense to defense, and began to consolidate their existing occupation of Xihe Road.

Among the prefectures on Xihe Road, Lanzhou, Huizhou, Huangzhou, Kuozhou, Xining Prefecture, Hezhou, and Lintao Prefecture, these six prefectures are currently in the hands of Xixia people, while Taozhou, Minzhou and Jishi Army are in Tubo hands.

Strictly speaking, the Gongzhou and Qinzhou currently controlled by Chen Qing do not belong to Xihe Road, and his Xihe Road Jiedushi is still a nominal title.

(End of this chapter)