"It's been smooth at last!" Wang Jinghui breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. Since he made the plan, he has been paying close attention to the development of the situation in the northwest. In order to achieve the initial strategic goal, he personally left a message to Wuxin and tried to deal a heavy blow to the Dangxiang people. Li Qing's main fortune was the animal husbandry industry. If he felt insecure on his territory, his foundation would probably be over.

Wen Yanbo received a 600-mile fast foot from Yang Chongyue in the morning. The letter was too much to be passed on by a pigeon. Although it happened ten days ago, he learned that the special forces had received good news when they first fought. Not only did they get more than they imagined when they robbed their houses, but they also destroyed Hongzhou City for the second time. Although it can only be called a village now, this was very exciting for him. He sent someone to invite the prince-consort to the Privy Council early in the morning.

In Wang Jinghui's eyes, the situation of the special forces is very good now. As long as his plan goes smoothly, the special forces will not be hit by a devastating blow and can return safely. It can be foreseen that the Privy Council will use this as a model to continue training and expanding the special forces, and the tactics of the northwest will naturally become the main feature of its combat methods.

"Revise it, you and I will meet together later. Although there are complete corresponding strategies in this war, we should still act carefully!" Wen Yanbo was relieved by the fact that the special forces were able to successfully achieve his goals. After all, it was not easy to lead the Privy Council as a civil servant. He was under a lot of pressure on the issue of the special forces forming an army. Now he can finally see a trace of effect. He is even more excited than Wang Jinghui himself.

"Mr. Kuanfu, this time, using special forces to participate in the war in the northwest is just the beginning of a small test. It will take time to test whether they can achieve the expected results. After all, the task of this operation is really difficult, and it is still between whether they can succeed!"

Wen Yanbo also became silent after hearing this. Of course, he would not forget what the special forces' mission was to participate in the war this time - it was not just to harass Li Qing's defense line, but to wait for an opportunity to take action against the Jianing Military Office or Li Qing himself. If one of the two can be achieved, the entire strategic goal of the region will be achieved. No matter how optimistic the special forces are, he will frown at such a task. In the Privy Council military officer system, he felt that this was a fantasy.

"Whether Yang Chongyue can defend the Three Forts of Wuning is the top priority. If it is broken by Li Qing, the northwest sweep will fall into a state of decay!" Wen Yanbo murmured.

"Yang Chongyue's Wuning Sanbao is guarded by 15,000 soldiers. From the perspective of force, although Li Qing's military strength is more than ten times that of his territory, and the soldiers under Yang Chongyue's troops are not the most elite troops in the court, but Wuning Sanbao is dangerous and easy to defend but difficult to attack. The Korean Gong is also powerful, and the fort is concentrated in the fort. It is not easy for Li Qing to eat Wuning Sanbao. Moreover, Li Qing cannot delay too much time when counterattacking the Song Dynasty. Yang Chongyue only swears to persevere for half a month. When the surrounding tribes fight for profit, Li Qing will face a dilemma. And the Song Dynasty can also escape calmly!"

Wen Yanbo smiled and said, "The prince-consort has always made perfect plans. I'm afraid that it will still have a deep meaning to annoy Li Qing this time?"

After hearing this, Wang Jinghui laughed and said, "Li Qing's troops have hundreds of thousands of people, almost all cavalrymen. They are helpless against them on the grassland. However, it was his turn to attack the city to make him attack the leader of our Song army with his own short-term attack. Li Qing, as a famous general, should not know this. However, with the special forces robbing them everywhere, his survival will be completely destroyed. Even in the worst case of our Song Dynasty, our Song Dynasty, we will lose the Three Forts of Wuning, and there is Shunning Village in the rear to resist. Li Qing cannot afford to lose, but our Song Dynasty can afford to lose!"

Wen Yanbo raised his eyebrows after hearing this. Although this strategic arrangement made him feel uncomfortable, it means that the special forces he had put a lot of effort into forming may be swallowed up by Li Qing. The brilliant achievements of the Battle of the Security Army two years ago - Wuning Three Forts were also sacrificed. But in the long run, after this battle, Li Qing's power will be completely disintegrated without the Song Dynasty. Whether it is the Queen Mother Liang of the Later tribe to relieve hatred or the royal tribes, the Jianing Army Division that Li Qing worked hard to manage will fall into the hands of others. It is much easier to deal with these miscellaneous troops than to deal with Li Qing's dippy Xi army, and Wuning Three Forts can also be easily recaptured!

"Is such a sacrifice too great? Does the emperor agree?!" Wen Yanbo asked.

"Li Qing did not surrender to the Song Dynasty, and he would not be willing to join the Dangxiang Hou tribe and the royal family. It was obvious that he was waiting for Xia Zhubing Chang to grow up and take charge of the government and assist. Although such a person is relatively peaceful to the Song Dynasty now, he will definitely become a confidant in the future! As long as Li Qing is eliminated, the Northwest Dangxiang will be unable to launch any military movements against our Song Dynasty within ten years. The military expenditure saved can be calculated in billions of qians, not to mention that our Song Dynasty does not take ten years at all. It only takes another two or three years to have the ability to wipe out the Western Xia! At the beginning of this plan, the students have explained the reasons to the emperor, and the sages are the same!"

"The strategic one is greater than the tactical one hundred!" Although Wang Jinghui was a doctor, he was still very clear about this famous military saying in later generations. As the last armed force in Xixia that could threaten the Song Dynasty, the eradication of it was of vital significance to the Song Dynasty. This was also a trump card that he could convince Emperor Zhao Xu.

In Wang Jinghui's eyes, if Li Qing had a brain, he would never do anything about the Three Forts of Wuning. At most, it would be a tentative attack. However, even if Li Qing was unwilling to attack the Three Forts of Wuning, under the endless harassment of unintentional special forces, Li Qing would have no choice but to encircle and suppress the Three Forts of Wuning. As long as he was willing to leave the Jianing Military Office, Wang Jinghui's goal would be achieved. The rest depends on the ability of Empress Dowager Liang and the dog-headed military advisor in the surrounding tribes. However, the development of this incident far exceeded Wang Jinghui's previous expectation-Li Qingzhen rushed to the Three Forts of Wuning directly, but there was no delay in the middle...

After Wuxin waited for the special forces that were escorting horses to Wuning Fort, the two thousand troops continued to roam around and rob the captives. However, this time they did not escort the spoils back to Wuning Fort as before. Instead, every time they attacked a place, they dispersed the herdsmen, seized horses, drove cattle and sheep into the grassland, and looted all the food. In addition to meeting their needs, they also left some for the herdsmen, and burned the rest - although the war was cruel, Wuxin did not want to turn himself into a butcher.

Of course, if you dare to resist them, Wuxin will never be lenient, because he knew that these herdsmen could resist them today and would join Li Qing's army tomorrow. He had participated in the war in the northwest and was very clear about the composition of Dangxiang's army - a Xixia with a population of only a few million can gather hundreds of thousands of troops every time he invaded the Song Dynasty on a large scale. The most was that Liang Zuo led an army of 600,000 to besiege Dashun City for three years. Fighting in such a country where all the people are soldiers, being kind to the enemy who dares to attack him is equivalent to pushing himself to a dead end!

It is impossible for the special forces to obtain sufficient and timely supply land in the rear, and Wuxin also participated in the battle of the security army. He knew very well in his heart that food was the foundation of the special forces' operations. He buried the robbed food in different places. The soldiers had only three days of dry food. However, what he was pleased that nomadic peoples had the tradition of making jerky meat, and the special forces would never let go of jerky meat. In order to make the soldiers have sufficient physical strength to continue fighting, they tried to carry more jerky meat. Thanks to the robbery everywhere, Wuxin's special forces did not spend much energy. They only had three horses, and the food and jerky meat were enough for them to fight on the grassland for six or seven days. However, Wuxin's Shuxin life did not last long. After destroying Hongzhou Village for only five days, they finally met Li Qing's Poxi Army.

It was very accidental to meet the Poxi Army. In the plan formulated at the beginning, the special forces should try their best to avoid the main force of the Poxi Army and avoid fighting head-on. Although the special forces have amazing individual combat power, they will not have any effect on the battlefield facing tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of people on the battlefield. Wuxin also carefully formulated his own route to the Jianing Army Office according to the map. He did not expect to encounter the Poxi Army so soon. Fortunately, Wuxin released the ward when he was camping, and the troops were equipped with telescopes to discover the enemy slowly approaching in advance.

The encounter was very unexpected. The Poxi Army, which had about 500 people, was not targeted by Wuxin and others. Wuxin's food and jerky were cooked food, so there was no need to light a bonfire to heat it when resting and eating. What exposed the opponent was the smoke rising from the stove exposed them in advance, and the other party did not realize that there was such a unit around him.

Wuxin immediately set up a battlefield around and decided to ambush the team of the Poxi Army. The combat effectiveness of the Poxi Army trained by Li Qing was not comparable to that of the ordinary Party and herdsmen they had encountered in the past. Although it was an ambush, the special forces still paid the price of thirty deaths to completely eliminate the 500 people. However, this result made Wuxin worry about the combat effectiveness of the Poxi Army, and corrected the team's route again, continued to move westward towards Yanzhou and then head north to the Jianing Army Office.

Just when Wuxin was raiding the Jianing Military Office for a long distance, Li Qing had already decisively brought 120,000 troops away from the Jianing Military Office and rushed towards the Wuning Three Fortress. Unlike Wuxin's marching method, no force could stop such an army on the grassland. He went south without any concealment. The eight hundred miles of road arrived in just three days. At this time, Wuxin and others were sneaking in a hidden place two hundred miles southwest of the Jianing Military Office.

Li Qing was not a reckless man. On the contrary, he highly praised military strategy. Although the Song army had always had poor front lines, he admired the Song army's siege and defending the city equipment. The small horse-drawn trencher equipped by the Poxi Army was made by Han craftsmen who were proficient in this art.

The Poxi Army is definitely an alternative in the military organization of the Dangxiang people. Li Qing praised the equipment used in the Song people's combat. Although the Dangxiang people were still very backward in this regard, in his army composed of almost 80% of the Han people, various combat equipment were the most excellent. They even had firearms. Although they could not achieve the effect of the Song people's firearms, due to the limited number of Xixia resources, this is also extremely rare.

Li Qing did not participate in the battle of Liangzuo's 600,000 people besieging Dashun City. In his eyes, such a huge force besieging Dashun City for three years without conquering it, which had a great impact on him. The reason was that the weapons defending the city in the hands of the Song people. By the end of the war, Liangzuo was killed by the Song people's firearms, which made him more aware of the importance of combat equipment. This time he came to deal with the Three Forts of Wuning, he did not come empty-handedly - the Poxi Army already had a large catapult, which Li Qing obtained by bribing the Liao people, and was also worse than the catapult of the Song people, but the huge power of the large catapult in the siege battle was also among the best in the siege equipment.

Li Qing had sufficient animal power, and with his great creativity, he dismantled all the catapults, which allowed him to transport the catapults to the battlefield in a short time, and for this, the craftsmen of the Poxi Army and the military reached a record two thousand people - this was Li Qing's entire family. He didn't know why the Song Dynasty attacked him, but he must let the Song people know his power, and take the opportunity to defeat Wuning Fort and garrison troops here. Only in this way can he completely defend his achievements.

The war had just begun, and Wang Jinghui made a wrong judgment on Li Qing's determination to fight - Li Qing had a very thorough understanding of a stable environment to develop himself. He not only wanted to prevent the Song army from entering the grassland, but also wanted to occupy the three forts of Wuning to intimidate the Song Dynasty and completely resolve the military threat from the Song Dynasty.

Wang Jinghui was far away in Kaifeng, Biandu, thousands of miles away. He could not have known that Li Qing had such a great determination to fight. He also had his students in Wuning Fort. Guan Liang and Jicheng accompanied Yang Chongyue to carefully observe the layout of Li Qing's troops on the top of Wuning Fort. After using a telescope to carefully observe the layout of the platoons of Li Qing's troops, he knew that the current situation had developed beyond the scope of the original plan from the beginning. Now, it was obvious that it was too late to ask the Biandu Privy Council. After discussing, Yang Chongyue and the other two immediately sent people to report to the security army - they needed a large number of firearms, and incendiary bombs were also needed. Because in their opinion, there were actually thirty or forty large catapults in Li Qing, and the Poxi Army was constantly sending people to log wood everywhere. Obviously, they wanted to make more catapults in front of the formation, which was not good news for them, but the best weapon to deal with the stone cavalry was the new type of incendiary bombs fired through the crossbows.

Li Qing did not come up to attack the city, which made Yang Chongyue and the others feel relieved. Faced with such a strong opponent, they are also mobilizing all the forces in the city to replenish various materials for defending the city. Tianji even made simple lathes in the fort to specialize in processing crossbow arrows.

Guan Liang sent people to quickly convey the news that Li Qing attacked Wuning Fort in the Song Dynasty to Pingrong Village. There, as long as you cross the Great Wall Ridge, it was the territory of the Dangxiang Royal Tribe. Now it was time for those dog-headed military advisors to take action. Not only that, he also released a pigeon to send a message to Xi'an Prefecture, Qinfeng Road, where there was a spy teleportation system from Wang Jinghui to Xixia. He hoped that the situation here would be released to Xingqing Prefecture as soon as possible through spies, and exaggerated that Li Qing was not in a smooth attack in the Song Dynasty and suffered losses of soldiers and generals. He hoped that Empress Dowager Liang of Xingqing Prefecture could intervene in and muddle the water.

The intelligence network of the Dangxiang royal family and the release of water to Queen Mother Liang were all calculated in advance by Wang Jinghui - the royal family was greedy for profit. Li Qing had long made the surrounding royal tribes jealous of the Jianing Military Office. However, it was because of Li Qing's strength, but if Li Qing's strength was greatly damaged, it would be a big deal. And Queen Mother Liang didn't need to incite at all. In this era when information transmission was relatively closed, spreading rumors was the most effective method. If Queen Mother Liang knew that Li Qing suffered a great loss in the hands of the Song people, it would give Li Qing the most violent blow like a bloodthirsty beast.

Of course, Wang Shao, who runs Xihe in Hezhou, stopped all military operations against Dangxiang two months ago, for fear that Empress Dowager Liang would not dare to send troops to deal with Li Qing. However, Wang Shao was not idle either. In addition to firmly supporting Wang Anshi's reform, he still maintained close correspondence with Wang Jinghui, and his personal relationship did not change much because of Wang Anshi.

Wang Jinghui knew that Wang Shao would not stay in the Xihe area for long. Although he tried his best to win time for Wang Shao to govern Xihe in the court, the political system of the Song Dynasty could not place a general who had achieved such a great victory in the place they could not control. Wang Jinghui wrote to Wang Shao many times, asking him to resolutely crack down on all Tubo forces that dared to resist, and even used tricks to condone these resistance forces first, and then found an excuse to wipe out them in one fell swoop. This time, Wang Shao also had a foreshadowing of Yongxing, so he naturally would not let him be more beautiful than before, so he stopped harassing Dangxiang. He only strengthened the military force against Qingtang City to prevent the Dangxiang people from raiding, so he pointed his finger at the Tubo tribes on his territory who were still lucky.

Under Wang Shao's conscious indulgence, Mu Zheng connected Dong Jingbian to Biebian and led many people to harass Hezhou. The magistrate Jing Enliu fought back. Mu Zheng's forces rose up again and then invaded Minzhou and later entered Hezhou. After Wang Shao heard the news, he traveled day and night to Xizhou, adopting the new tactic of "attacking what he relied on" and "criticizing the kung rush". He led 20,000 soldiers to Dingqiang City (now Guanghe County), breaking the Tubo tribe, cutting off the road from Tubo to Xixia, and entering Linning Hezhai (in Hezheng County, Gansu Province today), and breaking the Tubo tribe, cutting off the road from Tubo to Xixia, and entering Linning Hezhai (in Hezheng County, Gansu Province today).
Chapter completed!