Wang Shao did not stop after removing Fenzhou City. There were subsequent troops who followed him to repair it and then stationed. The situation here was different from the Shaanxi Sixth Route. You can ignore it after the battle. Anyway, as long as the army kept fighting in front, there would be no big trouble behind.

But here borders the Liao Kingdom, it must be fought and taken over immediately, and the army will be allowed to guard and prepare for garrisoning to prevent the formation of a power vacuum and let the Liao Kingdom take advantage.

Fortunately, the current Xixia engineering capabilities are amazing. The collapsed city walls can be poured with cement and can quickly form combat effectiveness.

Wang Shao led 30,000 cavalry forward. Along the way, he wanted to pull out Taiyuan, Zhending Prefecture, and Hejian Prefecture to form a passage connecting the ocean.

However, Wang Shao's 30,000 cavalry were just vanguards, and there was a follower army. After Wang Shao pulled out the Xiongcheng, he immediately took over.

A large army of 30,000 was stationed in Taiyuan. Wang Shao came from Fenzhou City. The general who led the troops caught him off guard and led his army to intercept Wang Shao.

Wang Shao was not an ordinary person. He happened to take advantage of the opportunity of the Song army leaving the city to fight a field battle with the Song army.

The army of the Northern Song Dynasty can be divided into three parts: the imperial guards, the wing army and the township soldiers, among which the combat effectiveness of the wing army and the township soldiers is relatively weak.

The imperial guards, as the main force in the army, are also divided into three parts-Hebei imperial guards, Northwest imperial guards and Central imperial guards.

As for the various southern routes, all the imperial guards combined, the number is less than any of the above three parts.

The Northwest Imperial Army maintained strong combat effectiveness for a long time because of its strong customs in Shaanxi and its long-term war against Xia.

It can be said that the Western Army of the Northern Song Dynasty was the cradle of famous generals and strong troops in the Northern Song Dynasty. However, the Song and Liao Dynasty did not have much war after the alliance between the Chanyuan. Under the long-term distant battle formation, the combat effectiveness of the Hebei imperial guards was actually not as good as that of the Western Army.

Although the Western Army had poor military discipline, the Western Army had the famous Zhe Family Army, the Yang Family Generals of Linzhou, and the Zhong Family Army in Qingjian City.

It is already well-known in the world that the Western Army can fight hard and dare to sacrifice. The Four Routes of Shaanxi started to operate from Fan Laozi Fan Yong. It has been the name of strong soldiers for nearly a hundred years. In addition to the four main troops, the Western Army did not care about foreign soldiers, strong, and the Bow and Archery Society, and had been entangled with the Western Xia and Qingtang Qiang for a hundred years. It was an army that dared to go deep into the vast sea and gobi Desert to conduct field battles and expand territory for the Song Dynasty!

In the Shaanxi dynasty, all the families served in the Western Army for generations. The man could not survive thirty, and there were many scenes of widows living together.

The creation of the Hebei Imperial Army gradually declined, the military was slack, and the soldiers were exhausted. Therefore, when the Jin army advanced south, Wanyan Zongwang Eastern Route Army rushed to the city of Bianjing without any blood. It can be seen how much the Hebei Imperial Army had declined to the point of the Song-Jin War.

Now, in September of the first year of Jingde of the Song Dynasty, the Emperor Saint of Liao, Yelu Longxu and Empress Dowager Xiao Chuo personally led a large army south to attack the city and capture the villages. Nearly a hundred years have passed since the Battle of Chanzhou under the city of Chanzhou. The Hebei imperial guards, which had withstood the pressure of the Liao army under the coercion of Kou Zhun, had declined to the extreme.

The military discipline of the imperial guards is similar, and even the command is very common.

The Xixia army has attacked cities and villages this year, not only beat the Western Army's generals, Yang family generals, and Zhe family generals, but also pushed forward again. He was a cruel character who beat the Western Army's Dangxiang army!

Just this Song army general dared to bring only a few thousand cavalry and tens of thousands of infantry to confront Wang Shao's tens of thousands of cavalry. Wang Shao was also curious, so Wang Shao beat the Song army hard and defeated the Song army. He also deliberately captured the Song army's general alive.

Wang Shao lifted the general over to ask questions, and he couldn't help but laugh.

It turned out that this general was not intended to come out. He knew very well about his army and knew that this Hebei army could no longer fight, so he wanted to stay in the city safely... Oh, no, he was already ready to escape at any time, but Cao Yu, the commander of the Hedong Road Army, forced him to leave the city to fight, so he had to come out to fight.

When Wang Shao knew about this, he couldn't help but laugh even more happily.

Cao Yu knew it, and he had a deep connection.

Cao Yu's father was Cao Qi, the eldest son of Cao Guojiu of the Song Dynasty.

After hearing the news, Wang Shao quickly led his troops to attack Taiyuan City. He wanted to capture Cao Yu alive.

Ouyang Bian has always been generous and will not be cruel to political enemies. Even Han Qi, Ouyang Bian will not persecute others after ousting others, but he is still a little resentful of the Cao family. Although he has never told him, Wang Shao can feel Ouyang Bian's disgust towards the Cao family.

In Ouyang Bian's description, although Han Qi has repeatedly caused him a lot of trouble, Han Qi is still a person who does practical things. However, a family like the Cao family is really a pure borer, and Ouyang Bian is extremely disliked.

Relying on the power of his sister Empress Dowager Cao, Cao Qi encircled the people everywhere to persecute the people, and in the end he gained a good reputation. The Cao family even took control of the army. If the army was really done well, it would be different. Even if they were like the generals of the Zong family and the generals of the Zhe family, they could fight. The Cao family not only did not talk about the opponent, but also made the Hebei army lose any combat power, which made Ouyang Bian extremely angry.

It is probably possible to think that the Cao family is a poisonous insect that is lying on the Song Dynasty and sucking blood and spreading viruses.

Empress Dowager Cao was in trouble in the court, forcing Emperor Yingzong to pretend to be crazy and wasted several years. If Han Qi had not been tough, Empress Dowager Cao would probably have to do something about the hen Sichen.

Cao Qi used his sister's power to scoop up land everywhere to harm the people, while the Cao family's children were raising chaos in the army and fighting in wars. However, they were a top-notch expert in suppressing the backwards and engaging in internal strife.

Such a family is indeed a cancer.

Cao Yu did not have much bad reputation, but it was just because he took Cao Qi's route. The bad things were caused by distant tribes and even people from the outside, so they made a good reputation, but they would not lose any benefits that should be taken in private.

Wang Shao also hated these people very much. The Song Dynasty was ruined by these people.

Therefore, we must capture it in person and send it to Ouyang Bian. If it is not a meritorious person, we just want to see the faces of these people.

At this time, Taiyuan City was no longer the original Taiyuan City. In the fourth year of Taiping Xingguo in the Song Dynasty, Zhao Guangyi burned water and razed a three cities in Taiyuan that had been more than 1,400 years into ruins. After building a new Song Taiyuan City on the east bank of the Fen River, about 35 miles northeast of the ruins of the ancient city.

Of course, the newly built Taiyuan City is as unmatched as the three cities of the Tang Dynasty, but the key points are not inferior at all.

In the subsequent battle between the Jin and Song dynasties, a small town that was only ten miles long had resisted the siege of powerful Jin army cavalry and infantry for more than 200 days.

It was not until the Northern Song Dynasty surrendered to the power of the Jin people to cut Taiyuan into the Jin Dynasty that the Taiyuan soldiers and civilians fought to the death with the Jin people without food inside and without rescue troops outside until they fell.

It can be seen how solid this Taiyuan City is.

However, this sturdy city still seemed vulnerable when facing the explosives of the Xixia army. After about ten shocking explosions, the city collapsed and the Xixia army rushed in. Unfortunately, after searching the city, it was found that there was no trace of Cao Yu. I thought I had escaped long ago, which made Wang Shao quite regretful.
Chapter completed!