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Chapter 642 The Butcher
Since ancient times, marching has mostly been along river valleys.

There are many reasons, and the river valley is naturally the flattest place.The amount of water has been changing over the years, and there will be dry riverbeds on both sides of the valley, which is the most convenient path for marching.Moreover, the water source is indispensable, and the soldiers are simply unable to carry the water needed for more than ten days of marching.

All in all, when marching in the mountains, there are only a few roads.

There are five roads from Qishan to the north, and two roads to Gongchang, Mumen Road and Luomen Road.

Because the Luomen Road needs to cross mountains and ridges, there are few people marching, and it has long been abandoned.Therefore, marching in the west of Longxi usually takes the wooden doorway, heading for the Tianshui, leaving the Weihe River in the east and entering Gongchang in the west.

It is said that Zhuge Liang ambushed Zhang He at the wooden gate.

In recent years, Li Xia often read "Three Kingdoms" and "Zizhi Tongjian", thinking about Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition, and realized that it would never be successful for him.

But he believes that the situation he is currently facing is far luckier than Zhuge Liang.

According to Liu Taiping, Brother Alibu is about to go south in a big way.Then, it is impossible for Kublai Khan to mobilize large-scale troops to support the West Road in the short term.

And the West Route Army has been seriously injured after the decisive battle with Hunduhai.

There is another key point. Once the counterattack reaches the territory of Mongolia, Mongolia's "tolerance" towards princes will expose huge flaws.

Mongolia's indulgence of warlords, and the Song court's advocacy of literature and suppression of military affairs, these two different approaches have always brought great victories to Mongolia in the past.

Because the princes divided the land, they were able to work hard and use their troops freely.

But the strength and weakness of the system have never been constant. Is it really good for local warlords to be domineering?
It was because Wang Liangchen used his troops so freely that he easily fell into ambush and was annihilated by the entire army.

That is to say, because the Wang family divided the region, Li Xia did not have to face the entire northern army like Zhuge Liang.

He just needs to take down Gongchang in one fell swoop.

There is no need to guard the street pavilion, and there is no need to approach the Weihe River.

In fact, there is no need to go through the wooden door.

If it is said that Li Xia has always followed Zhuge Liang's intention in terms of general strategy, this is the first fork in the road.

On the evening of May [-]th, Li Xia was preparing to cross the river on a floating horse at the intersection of Xihanshui and Yongping Road. Thinking of this, he suddenly turned around and said, "Bring those guides up."

The so-called guides were more than a dozen captives he personally selected, and soon they stood coweringly in front of him.

"You have followed me to attack Longxi. If you are captured by the Wang family, you will die. Do you understand?"

In fact, there is no need for Li Xia to say anything more.

When he asked if there was a small road approaching Gongchang, soon a prisoner stood up and raised his hand to point to the rear.

"Great... Commander, along the Yanzi River, there is... there is a mountain road..."

The prisoner talked for a long time.

Li Xia kept looking into his eyes, and finally said: "Okay, you will lead me the way."

"Master, trust me?"

"If I remember correctly, you were surrendered on the cliff?"

"Yes Yes."

"You didn't follow Wang Zuochen, you are very smart. Today you made the right choice again. What's your name?"

"Ma... Ma Dexi."

~~
Since Tianshui was prepared, Li Xia actually had two choices.

One is to wait for the next five thousand elites to arrive and attack.

The second is a surprise attack on Gongchang.

Li Xia's reluctance to attack Tianshui was not because he was afraid that he would not be able to defeat him, but because he did not want to give Guanzhong time to react, which was considered a longer-term consideration.

In this battle, since the strategy of "soldiers are precious and swift" has been set, it cannot be repeated.

The most recent counterexample is Mongol.

Once the brain is hot, Tianshui may become Li Xia's "fishing city".

learn a lesson.

Without hesitation, Li Xia immediately decided to go the Luomen way.

The horses were capable of pulling up the hill, but he left most of his baggage behind, with only six days' rations.

Because it is calculated that it will take about five days for the news of the enemy to reach Gongchang, and it will take two or three days for Gongchang to prepare.

There is no need to bring rations for the return trip, only extra thunderbolt guns.

From Qishan to Luomen Road to Luomen, more than 130 miles of mountain road.From Luomen to Gongchang, it is a hundred li official road.

Before setting off, Li Xia asked the soldiers.

"Deng Ai smuggled across the Yinping Road. The mountains are high and the valleys are deep, and it is extremely difficult and dangerous. He traveled more than 130 miles in more than [-] days. Wait, we can travel [-] miles in four days, can we do it?!"

"Faster than Deng Ai! Faster than Deng Ai!"

The elite of Shuzhong led the horse and walked, splitting the thorns all the way, without stopping, and it only took three days to cross the Luomen Road.

After resting all night, sneak attacking the Luomen stronghold, after that, gallop to Gongchang.

On the night of the fifth day, they had reached the city of Gongchang.

~~
"Enemy attack!"

"Enemy attack..."

There was a loud bang, followed by an explosion.

Wang Wei was going up to the Weiyuan Tower in the center of Gongchang City. He listened carefully, thinking that the defenders at the top of the city had already thrown down the thunder.

On his head, hung two huge plaques.

One is written "Gong Changxiong Town", and the other is written "Four Great Sounds".

This high-rise building was built by Han Qi, a famous minister in the Song Dynasty, to strengthen his military equipment. It was named "Weiyuan Building", which means "megatron in the distance".

Later, when Wang Shixian expanded the city wall, he moved it to the city.

It's called Weiyuan Building, but in fact, the Song army lost all of their battles against Xixia.

Li Yuanhao broke the Song Dynasty and proclaimed himself emperor. After winning the three major battles, he was full of ambition and said, "I want to visit Weishui in person and directly occupy Chang'an."

So Lu Yijian, Prime Minister of Zhao and Song Dynasties, exclaimed again and again, "The first battle is not as good as the first battle, and it is terrible!"

Every time he climbed Weiyuan Tower, Wang Weizheng couldn't help but think of the ridiculousness of Song Jun.

Unfortunately, he, Wang Weizheng, was the only one who failed to avenge his father's revenge when facing Song Jun, lost Zhou, and lost Hanzhong... Now, let Song Jun come home.

anger.

The rage seemed to burn Wang Weizheng alive.

But his uncle did not allow him to personally command the defense of the city, and only allowed him to watch the battle in Weiyuan Tower.

Li Xia was twenty at the time, the same age as him, and he was also in charge of the handsome side.

The difference is that Li Xia has been able to lead the army in person, but he is still treated like a child!
"Give me the bow!"

Thinking of this, Wang Weizheng shouted and spread his hands.

A six-stone bow was handed to him. He took the arrow, nocked it, and looked towards the alley on the long street.

"Whoosh!"

The arrow shot sharply, hitting a banner in the distance.

The anger in Wang Weizheng's eyes did not rest, and he wished he could shoot Li Xia himself.

Because the Song army can't attack here...

"what!"

A scream suddenly came from the north.

Wang Weizheng turned around abruptly and strode towards the other side of Weiyuan Building.

"Boss, be careful!"

As soon as the shouts sounded, a series of figures were already glimpsed in the eyes, shuttled through the streets and alleys, and went straight to the commander-in-chief's mansion.

The Marshal's Mansion is to the east of Weiyuan Building.

In the night, the flames flickered, and something was thrown towards the gate of the mansion.

Wang Weizheng just walked to the railing, and immediately shouted: "Commander Gongchang Wang Wei is here!"

"Fire arrows!"

"boom!"

There was an explosion, and the gate of the General Commander's Mansion was blown open.

Wang Weizheng was furious and took another shot.

"boom!"

"Commander!"

A soldier rushed over and threw him down. In an instant, rubble kept falling from the roof, and the tower was shaking slightly.

"Kill!"

It turned out that more than a hundred Song soldiers rushed out from the west, and they had quickly reached the bottom of the tower.

"Protect the commander-in-chief and go!"

"Wang Wei is right there!"

"..."

Just when Wang Weizheng got up, he saw that Song Jun had come upstairs.

At this time, the torches on Weiyuan's upper floor were brightly lit, but in the chaos, he couldn't find his bow, so he had to draw out the saber at his waist, trying to kill the enemy.

But the guards hugged him and went downstairs to kill him.

~~
"puff!"

A long spear stabbed a Mongolian Han army over.

Liu Jinsuo looked up, and could already see the bright flames upstairs, illuminating the golden armor on a young and short boy.

"Hahaha, the child will die!"

While speaking, spears danced wildly, stabbing the two of them again.

He didn't do any meritorious service in Lin'an, so Liu Jinsuo is holding back his energy and determined to do meritorious service this time.

Originally, when Qi Shandao was ambushing, he first snatched Pan Dao Mountain, which was most likely to hit the position of the enemy's chief general.

Because when surveying the terrain at that time, Li Xia said, "If the enemy has 5000 people, when the whole army passes Daya Mountain, Pandao Mountain will be at the center of the enemy's formation."

It's not that the calculation is inaccurate, because Li Xia also said later that "if the enemy reaches 7 people", it will be so and so, but in short, he didn't get the credit.

But it doesn't matter, Wang Weizheng is the commander-in-chief of Gongchang.

Tonight Liu Jinsuo led people around the city and headed straight for the commander-in-chief's mansion in order to behead the Wang family and the like.

It takes no effort to get it!
At this moment, there were only thirty guards on Weiyuan's upper floor, and they were panic-stricken, Liu Jinsuo charged himself, and quickly rushed to the top of the building.

The soldiers of the Song army on his left and right were also unwilling to fall down, stabbing with their spears indiscriminately.

Blood splattered.

Liu Jinsuo was already facing Wang Weizheng's panicked face.

"Hahaha! Are you watching here?!"

"..."

Wang Weizheng was stunned.

He didn't think he was frightened, he dared to yell downstairs just now, to attract the attention of the enemy for the family.

But at this moment, the blood splashed in front of his eyes, making people forget what to do for a while.

~~
There are artillery carts, thunderbolts, wood and stones on the top of Gongchang City...but they are useless.

The Song army arrived too fast, and when Wang Hanchen came out of the commander-in-chief's mansion, the Song army had already entered the city. When he summoned [-] soldiers and rushed to Weishui Street, [-] Song troops came to kill him.

As soon as they meet the enemy, it turns out to be street fighting.

"kill!"

Without hesitation, Song Jun raised his spear and began to charge.

"Fire arrows!"

Wang Hanchen was caught off guard.

He was still thinking about closing the city gate a moment ago, but the arrow had already been thrown towards him.

"Hold on!"

Without more words, the soldiers from both sides collided.

It's directly Roubo.

The spears stabbed at the neck of the Mongol and Han army obliquely. Some spears were avoided, some were blocked, and some directly pierced the neck.

The fallen soldiers were still twitching on the ground.

There was also a single-handed chop on the shoulder of a soldier of the Song Dynasty.

Blood dripped from the cracks in the bluestone slabs.

"Puff puff……"

Wang Hanchen took two steps back, trying to calm down.

He knew that if the Song army suddenly attacked Gongchang, there would never be too many people, at most two or three thousand, otherwise the movement would not be covered.

Although there are not many defenders in Gongchang, the neighboring counties can send reinforcements.

In other words, it is enough to just hold on to this night.

"Block the streets! Guard the commander's mansion! Go and send reinforcements!"

Wang Hanchen is indeed a general, he has quickly cleared his mind and confirmed the key points of defense.

Although he was panicked by being killed suddenly, he still had a chance.

Li Xia is still using Wei Yanzi Wugu's plan, which seems fierce, but in fact the danger is too high to make things happen.

suddenly.

The sound of Mingjin sounded.

Wang Hanchen turned his head to look, and saw that Shuai Qi had slowly fallen from Weiyuan upstairs.

He turned around and ran towards the commander's mansion in disbelief, not understanding what happened.

It is clear that Song Jun has been blocked on the long street...

At this time, the Mongol and Han troops were in chaos, and Wang Hanchen was still shouting, when suddenly someone rushed into the chaos, grabbed him and ran away.

"Those who dare to retreat will die!"

"Uncle Fifth, it's me."

Wang Hanchen fixed his eyes and shouted: "Wei Qin? Wei Xian? Wei Xiao? You..."

"Uncle decided to surrender..."

Wang Hanchen was furious and shouted anxiously: "I am about to fight to the death! Why surrender?"

"We don't know either." Wang Weiqin's eyes were red, and he said: "Uncle, please ask Uncle Wu to go to Lintao quickly, gather troops and horses, and recruit the remaining [-] Panshan captives. It doesn't matter if you surrender to brother Alibu, or whatever. They come back."

Wang Hanchen gritted his teeth and turned his head to look. Seeing that Song Jun was about to kill him, he gritted his teeth and made a decision.

"Follow me!"

He immediately turned to West Street with his confidant soldiers.

~~
In the past, Liu Zheng was brave enough to defeat Xinyang at [-] years old, and his reputation shook the world.

Li Xia never wanted to be compared with Liu Zheng, but the idea of ​​breaking the city was the same.

"Attack, capture and defend".

He wanted to take Longxi, so he took Gongchang first, and if he wanted to take Gongchang, he took the commander-in-chief's residence first.

The people who broke the city in the south were already rare soldiers, but at the same time they were also empty soldiers. Li Xia personally went around to the north of the city, like a goshawk pouncing a rabbit, and went straight to Wang's mansion.

Why is the idea of ​​this battle the word "fast".

Because when the Wang family hadn't heard the news of Wang Liangchen's defeat, it was impossible for the defenders in the city to react to this point, and there was no suspense about the outcome of this battle.

Therefore, Li Xia dared to decide not to bring rations for the return trip.

No need.

It seems to be gambling, but in fact it is putting all the chips on a game that is sure to win.

……

There was still blood on the long sword.

Holding the sword, Li Xia walked into the Wang family's commander-in-chief's mansion step by step.

The footsteps were hurried and orderly, and rows of Song soldiers surrounded them with spears.

In front, Wang Zhongchen was leading dozens of Wang family nephews to kneel on the ground.

"Wang Zhongchen, who was captured, has subdued Li Yushuai Tianwei...begging to surrender!"

Wang Zhongchen closed his eyes, leaned over, and put his head on the ground.

His mood must be extremely desolate, but after this prostration, his eyes can no longer be seen, only his white hair can be seen in the firelight.

Li Xia didn't answer right away, he raised his sword and glanced at each of the Wang family's nephews, only to see that many people were quite upset, and they lowered their heads and dared not make a sound.

"The sinner, Wang Zhongchen, begs to surrender." Wang Zhongchen said again, with tears in his tone.

Li Xia didn't come forward, and said, "Accepting surrender is like waiting for the enemy, it's not easy."

Wang Zhongchen felt sad, raised his head, moved a few steps forward on his knees, and cried out sadly: "Please learn from Li Shuai! In the past, everyone was the master. Every time Li Shuai was better than the Wang family, the Wang family never bullied Li Shuai." Shuai... I just want to spare the innocents in my family and save the people of Gongchang!"

"Your father surrendered to Kuo Duan back then, did he ever kneel down and beg like this?"

Wang Zhongchen didn't dare to answer, and bowed down again.

Everyone in the courtyard knew that when Wang Shixian surrendered back then, he must have been much more respectable than now, and the second prince, Kuo Duan, treated each other with courtesy and treated him like a distinguished guest.

How can you start with a sword like Li Xia?

"Don't answer? It seems that you have no sincerity to surrender."

As Li Xia said, he turned his head and looked out the door. After a while, Liu Jinsuo strode in, holding a head in his hand, and tossed it in front of Wang Zhongchen.

"what!"

Immediately the whole courtyard exclaimed.

"Big brother!"

"Wuuuuu... Big Brother..."

The men of Wang's family were either frightened or furious, and got up one after another.

Seeing this, the soldiers of the Song army raised their bows and arrows, or stepped forward with spears.

"Kneel down! Kneel down!" Wang Zhongchen yelled.

When he knelt down again, he could not make a sound, and his body was trembling violently.

Because in front of him is Wang Weizheng's head.

The young commander-in-chief died with horror and anger in his eyes.

Wang Zhongchen didn't want to cry, but the tears were already flowing.

"Kneel down... all kneel down... Li Shuai, Li Shuai, why are you here?! Weizheng... Weizheng is still a child...he is a literati...a literati, he builds a library, carefully compiles a subset of classics and history... He's a literati..."

"You don't have much time." Li Xia said, "Tell me what I want to hear."

"The Wang family is willing to submit to Li Shuai!" Wang Zhongchen kowtowed heavily immediately, "In today's world, the only one who can help the world is Li Shuai..."

Li Xia took a step forward and raised Wang Zhongchen's head with the tip of his sword.

"Like to chat? Okay, answer my question just now."

"My father... My father originally intended to return to the Song Dynasty, but the Song court refused to accept it, so he returned to Mongolia."

Wang Zhongchen was not afraid of the sword in Li Xia's hand.

In other words, he is not afraid of death.

But he was trying his best to look scared, his body was trembling, his tone was fearful, but his eyes only had sadness and pity, without real fear.

"What am I asking?"

"When Kuo Duan accepted surrender to my father, my father did not kneel down and beg."

"Then why did you and I come to this point?" Li Xia asked, "Why did you wait until you knelt down and begged me before you surrendered?"

"I'm usually... blind."

"I don't think so." Li Xia said, "I'm not strong enough. You still think I'm not strong."

"Don't dare...don't dare, Li Shuai is a hero in the world! The reason why I haven't voted yet...is...it's because Zhao Song is too weak..."

"You're running out of time."

Wang Zhongchen broke down in tears, and asked bitterly, "I don't know what Li Shuai wants?"

"It's better to ask what you want, to let go of the innocent family? To save the people of Gongchang? Well said, it is really a good prince in the village."

"Li Shuai... I can recruit Qinzhou and Lintao... the garrisons of all states and counties add up, and there are still tens of thousands of troops... I only hope that Li Shuai can spare the innocent people in his family and save the people of Gongchang, so that the ancient books of Wanjuanlou will not be lost. Destroyed by the flames of war...Wang's family precepts, the articles are morally consistent..."

Li Xia shook her head.

He turned his head and looked out the door.

After that, he murmured.

"You're running out of time."

When Wang Zhongchen looked up, his liver and gallbladder were torn apart.

He saw a one-eyed man walking in with a head in his hand, and the soldiers behind him were all holding their heads.

~~
"Commander, all the roads leading to Lintao have been blocked, Wang Hanchen and the others are here."

"Show them."

"Yes……"

Listening to this conversation, Wang Zhongchen's eyes darkened, his throat sweetened, and a mouthful of blood gushed out from his heart.

After finally coming to his senses, he finally understood what Li Xia meant.

Li Xia was willing to let the Wang family surrender, because the garrison troops in Longxi... no, it was Lintao's situation, and Li Xia had already taken care of it.

but,
The phrase "You still feel that I am not strong" has explained everything.

"Shuai Li! Shuai Li!"

Wang Zhongchen didn't dare to look at Wang Hanchen's head, and cried, "Give me one more chance...Give me one more chance! Let the Wang family go! Give me one more chance...Qinzhou..."

"You still dare to mention Qinzhou?" Li Xia asked, "Did I never give you a chance? Is it my fault? And you only obey the power, what's wrong with you?"

"I was wrong! It's all my fault, I don't dare to think about it anymore..."

Wang Zhongchen kowtowed hard until his head was covered with blood, begging endlessly.

He was very afraid, very afraid that some nephew behind him would shout "Father, don't do this" or "Uncle, don't do this, fight with them".

This is what he fears most.

"Don't dare! I just ask Jieshuai to give me another chance..."

I don't know how long it took.

Li Xia finally spoke again.

"You said that there are innocent people in your family. Then tell me, who are not innocent?"

"I'm guilty, it's all my fault..."

"You alone are not enough." Li Xia said, "You said you wanted to protect the people of Gongchang, and you said that your Wang family collected classics and handed them down with their articles and morals... But I remember that Wang Shixian's collection of books was transported from Chengdu."

Wang Zhongchen raised his head, let the blood flow from his forehead, opened his mouth, but couldn't answer.

Li Xia said: "In the third year of Duanping, Wang Shixian defeated Cao Youwen at Yangping Pass, and Kuo Duan went to Sichuan to slaughter Chengdu...for now, it counts as 140 million people?

In the first year of Jiaxi, Wang Shixian took Wuxin City at night, took all of its treasury, and invaded and plundered Puzhou and Zizhou. How many people were slaughtered?
In the second year of Jiaxi reign, Wang Shixian re-entered Sichuan and Shu, and his army went to the south of Jiameng. Taking advantage of the victory, he captured Zizhou and plundered Jiadingfu, Emei and other places. How many people were slaughtered?In other words, how many people are left for Jiading Mansion?

In the third year of Jiaxi, Wang Shixian attacked Shu, broke through Kaizhou, entered Wanzhou, took the night to ambush his troops upstream, attacked and defeated the Song Zhou division, and pursued Kuizhou..."

"It's Kuo Duan! Kuo Duan's crimes are too numerous to write down! Kuo Duan deserves to die! Death is not enough to atone for his sins. If he is alive again, he should eat his flesh alive!"

Wang Zhongchen was furious and cursed at the sky.

"Since the Mongolian captives entered Shu, tens of thousands of people have been slaughtered, all of them have been ordered, my father... my father... I don't want to be the commander-in-chief these years... I..."

Li Xia looked at him quietly for a long time, and said, "Since you are going out with your father, are you willing to die?"

Wang Zhongchen was taken aback for a moment, then nodded slowly.

"I would like to make amends, but I only ask Li Shuai to spare the innocent Wang family..."

All night long, he kept saying that, and that was all he asked for.

Sincere.

"Okay, but it's not enough for you to die, point it out, which ones went to Chengdu with you..."

"Brother! I fought with Song people..."

"puff!"

"Puff puff puff..."

In the middle of Li Xia's speech, the generals of the Wang family and members of the Wang family had already rioted in the courtyard.

The soldiers of the Song army had been on guard for a long time, and they stabbed the spears mercilessly.

Blood splattered.

"Don't move!" Wang Zhongchen shouted, "Don't move..."

Li Xia grabbed Wang Zhongchen's hair and lifted him up.

"You don't die until you finish everything I ordered. Or, your family has more than four hundred people, men, women and children, and I won't leave any of them..."

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