The struggle of the reborn prince

The two had fought for twenty or thirty rounds, and Xiao Heda already knew that although the person in front of him was a woman, she was proficient in swordsmanship and horse control, but her martial arts were not inferior to men's. Unexpectedly, she became a sick cat, but she was struggling to support it with the rich fighting experience accumulated in many years of fighting. It was not easy to defeat her. 1

At this time, Xiao Heda was shocked when he heard the news of the fall of the Iron Gate Gate. Once the Iron Gate Gate was lost, there was a vast plain in front of him, and there was no danger to defend. The city wall to keep Lingzhou, the price paid is also amazing.Just when he was in a trance, Zhe Meiluan seized the opportunity to gallop forward, and at the moment when the two horses pedaled wrongly, both swords came down and chopped down head-on. spell.

Zhe Meiluan was originally standing behind the prince as a guard, but she watched helplessly as Xiao Heda plotted him to fall off his horse. It was the first time she had seen this stirrup crossbow, Zhao Tuo, but she knew very well that it was not big in size but powerful Not small.The bowstring is made of two tendons, and the arrows and crossbow are also made of iron. The structure is extremely delicate. Although the range is limited, it can pierce heavy armor within fifty steps. It is specially used to assassinate opponents on the battlefield. What's more, they will feed poisonous arrows on the arrows, and all of them will die...

Seeing the moment when the prince was hit by an arrow and fell from the horse, Zhe Meiluan's heart seemed to be taken away suddenly. Only then did she realize that in her heart, the one who had sacrificed his life to save her in the deep alley, the golden palace and the Zhe family rescued, The "naughty boy" who pestered me to teach bow and arrow, and later ignored me for the sake of Fengzhou with the Orie family, has an irreplaceable position in my heart, so I hate to use all my killer moves, and I want to do it for my own sake. "Sweetheart" revenge, now that he has the opportunity, how can he let it go easily.

With a crisp sound of 'Danglang', the three knives collided together, Zhe Meiluan was bound to win this time, and she gave all her strength. Although Xiao Heda was brave, it was time to run out of fuel.Although he blocked the knife, he exhausted all the strength in his body, and his tiger's mouth was split open by the shock.Spitting out hot blood, he leaned on the horse's back and passed by with the saddle in his arms. If he hadn't tied himself to the horse, he might have fallen off the horse.

"Don't go!" Zhe Meiluan was unreasonable.But the two horses passed by each other, and lost the opportunity to make up the sword. Zhe Meiluan clamped the horse's belly with both legs, with both swords in the sheath, and a rein in his hand.The horseman stood up, and she had already taken off the carved bow, put on the carved feather arrow, and turned around to shoot. These movements were like flowing clouds and flowing water, done in one go, and everyone in the Zhongyong Army applauded, just for a few moves.Everyone feels ashamed.Among them, perhaps only Gao Chong, who has practiced since childhood, can do it.

Like a shooting star chasing the moon, the arrow hit Xiao Heda's back heart without any arrow feathers. The arrow actually pierced through Xiao Heda's two layers of armor, which shows its strength.At this time Zhe Meiluan had turned her horse back, drew her knife in her hand, and beat her horse to catch up with Xiao Heda.Killing him with a single knife, the poor generation of fierce generals will end up in a different place.Kill other countries!At this moment, the battlefield has also calmed down, and the generals brought by Zhe Meiluan are all elite.Thinking about how they passed on martial arts to their families and fought for a hundred years, how could they not have any fighters who are accustomed to fighting, and Zhao Tong's guard battalion is also full of warriors selected from a hundred, with extraordinary combat power. Be quiet.

Zhe Meiluan rode back to the formation, only to see the prince looking at her with a smile in the crowd, startled for a moment, flew off the horse and threw himself into his arms, "My lord, I thought you..." Her tears wiped away. It flowed down and murmured.

"Hehe, you thought I was dead, so you killed him to avenge me, but at this time I didn't die, but Xiao Heda died. Isn't it a little wronged to die?" Zhao Tang embraced her in his arms, gently He patted her on the back and said.

"My lord, don't make fun of me. At that time I really thought you had been hit by an arrow. Am I stupid?" Hearing everyone's laughter, Zhe Meiluan quickly broke free from the lord's arms and hid Next to Xin Zhao, blushing and lowering his head, he said.

"Haha, it's stupid enough..." Zhao Tun laughed amused by Zhe Meiluan's silly appearance, but the laughter was genuinely happy. Looking at Xin Zhao next to him, he was a little frustrated, when will this girl confess to herself?

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After receiving the news that the Leopard General had seized the city gate, Zhao Ren, who took over the command of the prince, immediately dispatched troops to enter the Iron Gate Gate, but the two main generals of the Iron Gate Gate died and the other fled. Zhao Ren immediately seized the opportunity and ordered the whole army to launch a fierce attack.Under the full attack of the Zhongyong Army, Xia's army staying in the city quickly collapsed, broke out of the city, and fled towards Lingzhou following the footsteps of Weiming Anhui!

Zhao Tang did not take a routine rest this time, but ordered the whole army to attack, chase and kill the defeated army, passed the Iron Gate Pass, crossed the Qingling Mountains, and then entered the Hetao Plain. Here, the Hedong Army traveled day and night, chasing them at a rapid march.The army was defeated like a mountain, and the defeated army at Tiemenguan could no longer organize an effective defense. Under the day and night pursuit of the Hedong army, they could not get a moment of peace. There are hundreds of miles of corpses, and all the military equipment is lost.

On the third day of August, after two days of pursuit, the Hedong army finally arrived at the foot of Lingzhou city. Anhui, the Wei name who arrived at the front foot, learned the lesson of Tiemenguan this time and refused to accept the rout of Xixia soldiers who followed, so Fang was attacked by the Song army again.Thousands of defeated soldiers wailed at the base of the city, their wailing shook the sky, begging bitterly, but they were finally unable to enter the city, and were completely annihilated by the Hedong army.

Lingzhou was built in the Han Dynasty. It was called Bogulu Town in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and then changed to Lingzhou; the Western Wei Dynasty was changed to Lingzhou Pule County; Le County was restored to Lingzhou, where Shuofang Jiedu envoys were stationed. At first, Tianbao was renamed Lingwu County, and later changed to Lingzhou.

Lingzhou is located on the west side of Xiazhou, leaning against Helan Mountain and leading the Yellow River. It has a prominent position and was a famous important town in the northwest frontier during the Tang and Song Dynasties.To the west of Lingzhou is the Hexi Corridor, the main road leading to the Western Regions in ancient my country, and to the southwest of Lingzhou is the distribution area of ​​Tubo tribes.Therefore, Lingzhou became the focus of competition among the Han, Uighur, Tubo and Dangxiang forces.

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, Li Jiqian rebelled against the Song Dynasty and led [-] elite soldiers to conquer Lingzhou in one fell swoop. Because of Jiqian, Li Jiqian was named the emperor by the Liao Kingdom in the north, and Lingzhou was gradually changed to Xiping Prefecture.He liked Lingzhou's mountains and rivers very much, and believed that "Xiping controls the river and Shuo in the north, and Yinqing and Liang in the south. According to the upper reaches of the roads, control the key points in the west. Don't know what to prepare for."

Because the original base of Xixia was in the Yin and Xia areas, the southeast was the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the northeast was the powerful Liao Kingdom, which was vulnerable to military threats and was not conducive to outward expansion.The Lingzhou area is rich in water and grass, surrounded by five grains, and is the range of activities of Uyghur, Tubo and other ethnic groups with relatively weak military strength, which is convenient for expanding their territory to the northwest.

Another Lingzhou area is based on the upper reaches of the roads, controlling the key points of the western frontier, and its geographical location is much superior to that of the Yin and Xia areas.Lingzhou was the traffic hub of Northwest China at that time, with a network of roads extending in all directions.After the late Tang Dynasty, the Silk Road mainly went to the Western Regions through Lingzhou.In addition, Lingzhou has developed agriculture and animal husbandry, fertile land, and abundant products. It is commonly known as "the south of the Yangtze River".

Therefore, Lingzhou has both the natural, economic and military conditions to be a capital. Li Jiqian moved from Xiazhou to Lingzhou in the second year. After moving the capital to Xingzhou for 18 years, the two generations of Xixia monarchs worked hard in Lingzhou. From the perspective of historical facts, it is actually the capital of Xixia, a local regime in the true sense.

When Zhao Tun arrived in Lingzhou, he was not in a hurry to attack the city. Instead, he left the city and went to the camp five miles away to reinforce the camp. He besieged Lingzhou without attacking it, and then sent troops to occupy the surrounding villages and towns, collected food and grass, and made a plan for a protracted war. appearance.His actions caused Xixia monarchs and ministers to disagree on the offense and defense of Xiazhou...

One side believes that the reason why the Song army did not attack Lingzhou was not because of the lack of successors, but because they wanted to besiege the city and fight for aid. , that is their ultimate goal.However, the city of Xingqing Mansion is high and deep, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Only by consuming the active forces of Xingqing Mansion first can the capital be successfully conquered.Because the Song Army knew that if Lingzhou was captured immediately, we would concentrate our troops in Xingqing Mansion and refuse to defend against the city.Xingqing Mansion has the advantage of holding on, and with such a large army, it is difficult to conquer even the fierce Song army.

On the contrary, Lingzhou is the barrier of Zhongxing Prefecture. If they besiege Lingzhou and do not attack, we cannot risk losing Lingzhou after all, but will inevitably send troops to reinforce Lingzhou.At that time, the reinforcements from Xingqing Mansion came from a long distance, and the Song Army had already recharged their batteries and was ready to wait for work, annihilating them in one fell swoop.However, if the defenders of Lingzhou City saw that the reinforcements were defeated, they knew that they had no reinforcements to rely on, so they could only open the city gate and surrender.At that time, the Song army wiped out our last main force, Lingzhou was lost, and Xingqing Mansion was unable to defend, so it could only wait for death.

The other side believed that the reason why the Song army besieged and did not attack was because they had long-distance expeditions, were exhausted, and lacked food and grass. One was to wait for the rear to transfer food and grass, and the other was to have insufficient troops. .Therefore, a small group of troops should be used to harass the Song army in turn, cut off its food supply, and the main force of the army should stick to the city. If they are defeated, the Shaanxi army attacking Lingzhouchuan will inevitably retreat when they see that they cannot join forces, the siege of Lingzhou will be lifted, the land of Henan will be recovered, and the danger of annihilation of the country will be resolved.

Just as the Western Xia monarchs and ministers were arguing about the pros and cons of increasing troops, it was reported from Lingzhou that the Song Army's Hedong Army suddenly dispatched troops to control the Yellow River Ferry leading to Lingzhou, and at the same time sent troops to attack Yaode City on the Lingzhou River... .