Chapter 114 The war begins

More and more information shows that the main attack direction of the Xia army was Yamato Fort. The left-wing Divine Army Division mobilized more than one-third of the troops, with a total of nearly 20,000 people. It was led by five military supervisors and stationed troops in three Sichuankou. The reconnaissance cavalry they dispatched had contacted the Tenglong and Feihu Battalions many times. The intelligence personnel of the Xia Kingdom lurking in the Linzhou area were also extremely active. They sent people to move in the Yincheng area to collect information about the Xiangyi Army. However, Zhao Qiong remained unmoved and was still training and studying in the military camp, as if he was not aware of the Xia army's mobilization.

On the fifth day of the fifth month, Zhao Jie, the governor of Hedong Road, held a banquet in Yincheng, and invited the lords of the forts, lords, lords of the villages along the border to spend the Dragon Boat Festival together, and set up sheds in the city to distribute rice dumplings and enjoy the people.

On the sixth day of the fifth month, Zhao Jie, the governor of Hedong Road, visited the Shenmubao military farmland, comforted the Han people, solved their difficulties in life and production, and gave them ten sets of new agricultural tools.

On the eighth day of the fifth month, Xia soldiers came out of Tumaochuan to invade Xintai. Zhao Qiyan ordered the governor of Linzhou Han Sizong to join the third general of Hedong, and the third general of Ze Kecun to dispatch troops to reinforce and strictly guard the border.

On the tenth day of the fifth month, Prince Yan's personal army, Tenglong, Xunliu, Flying Tiger, and Jaguar, all returned to Yincheng.

On May 12, Prince Yan led all his personal troops to attack and went to Linzhou Prefecture to supervise the battle. That night, all the forts along the border were martial law, and everyone was prohibited from traveling. Those who had private releases were punished as the crime of colluding with the enemy. At the same time, all prefectures and counties acted in a unified manner and launched a large-scale search. All suspicious persons who had no identity certificate or guaranteed three or more households were detained.

On May 13, Prince Yan suddenly appeared in the Dahe Village and summoned the five commanders of the Wuhan Han archers who went to Xintai for assistance. At the same time, he transferred a large number of baggage to the camp. He decided to leave Zhao Ren, the commander of the relative army, to unify the command of the Feihu Camp, part of the direct machine artillery team, and most of the baggage camp stationed in the Dahe Village.

On May 14th, Prince Yan left the village and went to Dahe Fort, carefully inspected the terrain along the way. He stayed in Dahe Fort that night and summoned the fort owner Baoji and the military commander Zhou Dajun.

On May 15th, Prince Yan led the third battalion of his own army, the guards, engineers, scouts, and the rest of the artillery team to leave secretly, but disappeared. On that day, the fort was sealed, and only allowed to enter but not leave. He ordered the farming of the Han people near the fortress to enter the fort and evacuated overnight.

On May 16, the Xixia Brigade's scout cavalry appeared in Jialuchuan, Xialuchuan and Tuweihe Valleys.

On May 17, Xia thieves were 100,000, and the soldiers invaded the Yahe Fort. The camps ran for ten miles. The defenders of the Yahe Fort could not resist the troops. They used suspicious tactics to abandon the fort and evacuated overnight. A large number of soldiers and food could not be carried away, which was captured by the bandits.

On May 18th, the Xia bandits conquered the Yahe Fort. The Jialuhe Army Supervisor Li led 3,000 troops to the vanguard and entered the Yahe Village. The bandit chief Yun King Li Jifeng took all the forts, food and grass to lead the central army to move slowly. The Yahe Fort left the rear army to respond.

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After entering the river valley by Dahe Fort, less than five miles, the Jialu River flows into the Xialu River, rushing northward and then into the Yellow River. The original ancient river channel forms a thirty-mile-long river valley, with the widest place reaching six or seven miles, and the bottom of the valley becomes a road. The loess plateaus on both sides are washed by rain, forming gullies, like capillaries on human arteries, with lush trees growing inside, and the valley wall is hundreds of feet high, making it difficult for even monkeys to climb.

Nori originally thought that there was a hard battle under Yamato Fort, but he didn't expect that the guard generals fled and left him an empty city. Looking at the armored soldiers and soldiers that could be seen from time to time on the road, he knew that they were running in a hurry. However, the last battle left a huge shadow in his heart, and the weapons in the Xiangyi army made him even more afraid. He sent people to sneak into his garrison many times, but he could not see his true face!

"What are you afraid of? The ants have bitten to death. Besides, the Xiangyi army has gone to Xintai. Since they are back, the army has arrived in Yincheng and the soldiers have reached the hinterland of Linzhou. I am afraid that they will not dare to fight at that time!" Yeli turned around and looked at the marching troops in the valley, and his confidence has increased greatly. But he was also afraid of the ropes of the well after being bitten by a snake for ten years. He let the reconnaissance cavalry go back and forth ten miles away to prevent being buried. He did not arrive at the Dahe Village until the evening, where the gates were closed and it was too late to attack the city. Yeli ordered the camp five miles outside the village. The central army camped after one of the miles, burying a pot and making rice to prepare for a battle tomorrow.

The next morning, the whole army had a full meal. Ye Li brought his troops to the foot of the Dahe Village, but the scene in front of him did not make him angry. Needless to say, the village must have been built on the danger. The city walls five hundred steps away blocked the way forward, which surprised Ye Li, who was used to fighting formations. But what was so annoying was that they not only arranged several horse-blocking piles, stumps and horse pits within 300 steps outside the village, but there were more than a dozen trenches that were about to be wide, and the digging of soil was cultivated into low walls. The trenches were dug densely, but they were also bending and winding, and the two reserved paths were even winding. Not to mention horses, even if people accidentally got out of the ditch!

"General Yeli, you are here again. I haven't thanked the horses I sent us last time. How many times will I bring this time?" Just as Yeli was angry, the gate of the village opened wide and two teams of soldiers rushed out of the front line. A man who looked like an officer rode forward and asked loudly through the trenches. However, there was no loudspeaker these days, and the officer was afraid that he would not be able to hear clearly. He said, and the soldiers behind him shouted in unison, and the valley was filled with sound, and the return could be transmitted far.

"Bastard" as the saying goes, "Don't slap people in the face, and don't expose their shortcomings." Every sentence of the other party hits his heart. Yeli didn't learn Chinese well enough, so he learned this "Bastard" from the Tongjun. He felt that he was not satisfied with the scolding, so he simply changed it to his hometown dialect.

"Hey, Yeli Army Supervisor, thank you for sending the little prince to us. Now you have brought the old prince again. Our general said that he didn't catch up last time. This time he captured the old guy and reported to the court to ask for merit for you. Our Lord will definitely give you a high official..." No matter how he scolded, it was very civilized there, and he gave him some truth and reasoned, and greeted their female elders in a corner.

Yeli is a lot of illiterate people and does not speak much Chinese. But he is so angry that he is furious. He is thinking about whether he is asking for help from the army. The army has sent people to scold him in front of his many subordinates. Of course, the words "bastards" are indispensable, asking him if he is still in contact with the Song army, why he only speaks but does not act and delays time.

Yeli was so frustrated that he was scolded on both sides. He had nowhere to complain, so he immediately dispatched troops to attack the city, but the situation in front of him made him unable to be happy. If he thought of the city, he had to pass through this obstacle area and fill the trench. However, more than a thousand archers on the other side had already set their bows and arrows ready. It was obvious that if he wanted to pass, he had to fill it with his life! But it was difficult for Yeli to let everyone dismount, put down his swords and guns, carry the shovels and picks, and become a migrant worker first, and really do his job of building bridges across mountains and rivers, and do his best to complete a pioneer's job.

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The ditch was filled until the lamp was lifted. Yeli looked back suddenly and found that less than half of the more than 3,000 people he brought out. This road less than fifty steps wide and two hundred steps long was paved with his own corpse!

He suddenly realized that the commander was killing people with a knife. He said that his son died in his defense zone because he was unexpectedly not taking it to heart, but actually he was holding a grudge and waiting for an opportunity to take revenge. Thinking about the small tribes that vassed him, he suddenly wanted to "remarry" others. It must have been Li Jifeng who was at the bottom of the trouble! Even if he won, his elite troops would be lost, and his strength would probably be greatly damaged after he returned. The most direct consequence was that he was driven down from the position of the tribe leader and his relatives were enslaved. Thinking of this, Yeli was cold in his heart and put down the whip in his hand.

That night, Yeli went to the central army's tent to suffer excessive losses and asked the general to send troops to reinforce the army but failed. The next day, the attack was difficult, but the progress was slow. In the afternoon, Li Jifeng, the commander of the brave army in the left wing, went to the front line to supervise the battle. Seeing this, he was furious and wanted to kill Yeli. The generals pleaded for mercy to avoid death. He beat fifty military sticks, removed him from his position as a vanguard, and transferred him to the rear army to wait for punishment. Everyone understood at a glance that Yeli's people died in vain. Everyone sent troops to advance funds, relying on plunder to subsidize their family income, and could still get oil and water behind others' butts. The deal was compensated. However, everyone did not expect that Yeli was very brave. In the evening, he actually led his troops back to Yamato Fort, killed the main general who guarded the city, robbed the food and supplies he had stored there, and passed Jialuchuan overnight to prepare to return to his old nest.

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"Prince, Yeli ran away, will we chase after him?" Yeli moved things back with big bags, but no one noticed it. He just left Kawaguchi and let the scouts discover it, and Jiang Fei hurriedly reported.

"Yeli ran away? Did they discover our intentions?" Zhao Yong on the side couldn't help but speak.

"It's not like the situation. The spy heard a shout of killing in Yamato Fort, and then Yeli rushed out. He killed all the pursuers. It should be Yeli who rebelled!" Jiang Fei analyzed.

"Let him go, but he won't let me talk a lot!" Zhao Qi looked at the sky and said, "They have been nesting in this valley adjacent to Yamato Fort for a few days. Every day, they just ate when they are full, eat when they are full, eat when they are free, watch the sun during the day and the moon at night.

"Second Master, when will we attack? It has been two days since we fought. I wonder if Zhao Ren can withstand it?" Although it is already May, the valley is still very cold. Zhao Yong tightened the cloak on his body and asked next to the prince.

"He has a battalion of Xiangyi Army and five commanders of the French Han archers, plus nearly 5,000 original defenders, guarding the city. If he can't even defend for two days, will he still have the face to see us?" Zhao Qi smiled and said, "The attack has to wait. The King Yun has not suffered yet. When he hits his head in the Dahe Village and is exhausted, it is the time for us to attack!"

"Well, but I'm worried that the old guy was scared by our guns and ran back after a few hits, and our plan was completely lost!" Zhao Yong said with some concern.

"You don't have to worry about that. It's been two days since you heard a cannon? Our weapon hasn't been used yet. Zhao Ren is not as stupid as you. Go back to bed quickly. Second Master should go to bed too!" At this time, Zhao Xin came over and kicked Zhao Yong and said.

"Oh!" Zhao Yong rubbed his butt and left. The prince was still a little privileged. Everyone was lying on the ground, but he had a small tent that could shelter from the wind and rain. Zhao Qi took off his armor, took off his boots and crawled in. "Zhao Xin, come in and sleep too. Two people can lie down in the tent!" Zhao Xin had just put on a felt pad and unfolded his sleeping bag. When he heard the prince talking, he hesitated for a moment, picked up his sleeping bag and crawled into the prince's tent.

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