Early the next morning, Wang Fei's military situation arrived. The enemy attacked Guyuan for more than 80,000 yuan. Zhang Chenguang's brigade and his third brigade sniped stubbornly, with nearly half of the casualties. The enemy was hit by our flank and retreated thirty miles and seized more than 10,000 horses.

Zhao Xiaobing looked at the battle report and felt heavy in his heart. Fortunately, the cavalry that supported the army arrived, and General Cao had already arrived at the battlefield.

From this point of view, his enemies will not exceed 80,000, or maybe around 50,000.

In the afternoon, Li Xinzhi requested to attack.

Zhao Xiaobing agreed and fought as much as he said he would. The battlefield changed rapidly, and they decided on their own how to fight.

Target: Take down Lingzhou.

In the evening of that day, Chen Jilin's 7th Brigade entered Xiazhou, and Chen Jishan's 8th Brigade recovered Suide. The enemies of the two cities were less than 5,000.

In this way, the enemy situation is already clear. The enemy is just a feint attack on the east side and will undoubtedly attack the west side.

He immediately ordered the Xihetao recovery operation to be launched in full, and don’t worry about the Xi Group. Because the better the fight here, the lighter the pressure on the West will be.

Two days later, Chen Jishan began to eliminate the remaining enemies and waited for food and grass. Chen Jilin occupied Yanzhou and advanced to Lingzhou for investigation. Zhao Xiaobing activated the logistics to follow up.

Zhao Xiaobing told them that with Heliansheng as an insider, he would have a chance to take Lingzhou. He suggested that they take a defensive head north, and the troops advancing westwards to find out the enemy's situation before taking action. If the enemy counterattacked, they would be able to destroy it.

After the Western Group pursued the enemy for 30 miles, the enemy immediately launched an attack. Yang Zhan's main 2nd Brigade and the First Brigade of Preparatory Brigade used the night to dig trenches, set up horses, bury land mines, repair fortifications, and resisted the enemy cavalry's attack for the whole day.

It successfully delayed the enemy and allowed the Western Group to encircle the enemy.

After receiving the battle report, Zhao Xiaobing immediately ordered the East Group to attack from both sides and cut off the enemy's return.

So Chen Jilin led an army of 20,000 to advance to the city of Lingzhou, and easily occupied Lingzhou City with the cooperation of Heliansheng.

Li Xinzhi commanded 30,000 troops to sweep away from behind.

This is the reason why Genghis Khan was violent when he fought against Xixia, and the city wall was broken. In addition, Heliansheng's terrifying sky-high cannons that scared the new army, the dismantling efficiency was even higher.

In Pingliang and Guyuan, the Mongolian army will surely soon know that Lingzhou has been lost. Zhao Xiaobing asked Yingying's intelligence department to send a message to Feige of the West Group: three are surrounded and one is missing, and let the remaining enemies go west to Gongchang.

Lingzhou is gone, so they can only go to Gongchang Prefecture. It is impossible for them to go to Lingzhou to deliver it to their doors and let them capture it.

He asked Deng'an to order Li Xingzhi to organize a southward pursuit, and Chen Jishan swept away the remaining enemies in Lingzhou.

Two days later, he received a report from Wang Feilai's army. Two days later, the enemy was defeated after two days of fierce fighting. The remaining troops fled to Gongchang Prefecture, and Xiaojun was pursuing him.

He has been to Gongchang Prefecture for at least a thousand miles, but his Mongolian army has little food and clothing, so he will definitely be caught by Xiaojun.

At this point, the victory of the Guanzhong Defense Battle has been a foregone conclusion, and the Hetao recovery battle has also begun smoothly.

With Heliansheng's uprising and surrendering, it was very easy to accept other towns and passes.

Half a month later, Chen Jilin and Chen Jishan completed the western expedition and occupied the cities and passes along the river.

Zhao Xiaobing asked Luo Zekuan's preparation 1, 2 and 3 to be transferred to the 22, 23 and 27th brigades, and was assigned to Yang Zhan, Wang Fei and Chen Jilin to control it and immediately consolidate the defense.

Luo Zekuan quickly gathered the new recruits trained from various places and reorganized the reserve brigade.

On October 15th, Zhao Xiaobing returned to Chang'an, and Cao Youwen had been here for many days.

Lao Cao changed his decadence and became energetic.

It’s really a pleasure to be happy when there are happy events.

Everyone was very happy and made a happy comeback.

Zhao Xiaobing hurriedly told him that the official report should not say that we had won a big victory, but that we would say that we had suffered heavy casualties, miserable victory, miserable victory.

Not to mention taking back Hetao, we only say regaining Lingzhou, but still in a tug of war. What if it is lost again tomorrow?

He said that the government had planned the first half of the year and should have won a decisive victory, but unexpectedly it was defeated. We fought back and won the battle. What would the government think? Then, we might be invited back to Lin'an and torture to death.

Lao Cao initially opposed it, and why he didn't report such a great contribution to the truth. Later, he agreed, because there were supervision from the Du Yuhou at all levels.

However, the battle report only narrowed the results, not exaggerating the victory.

Lao Cao said it was a pleasure to fight with his new army and he washed away all the bad luck in front of him.

Zhao Xiaobing said that it was not that we could fight, but that we had the advantage of geographical advantage and military strength. If we ran over to fight them, we would definitely lose.

Cao Youwen participated in the command of the Western Group this time, and when the enemy was exhausted from fighting with the infantry, he suddenly rushed to attack and joined the battlefield.

First, his imperial guards attacked the right wing. When the enemy saw that it was Cao Youwen's main force of the Song army and the offensive was fierce, they began to mobilize troops to protect the right wing. Cao Youwen saw that it had disrupted the enemy's deployment and immediately ordered the cavalry of the Minjiang New Army to attack the enemy's left wing.

The three-eyed gun, a new weapon that the Mongolian army had never seen before, directly dispersed the Mongolian army as soon as it entered the battlefield. The grenade bullets were easily thrown into the dense enemy crowd. There was also an observation post in the distance to guide mortars to attack the Mongolian army.

The cavalry of the new army covered the tent of Subutai. Although Subutai's personal army was very brave, the new army's weapons were too advanced and the firepower was too strong. The offensive troops split the Mongolian army like a plow.

Seeing that the Song army was getting closer and closer, Subutai couldn't stop it at all, so he had to run away reluctantly.

It would be impossible not to run. Behind him were all the new army cavalry with guns and Cao Youwen's imperial cavalry. He had to go to Gongchang Prefecture to avoid the disaster.

But the Song army did not give him a chance to breathe, and the infantry and cavalry cooperated and kept chasing the prisoners behind.

Zhao Xiaobing wanted to let the West Group open up the gap and stop surrounding him.

One is to let their desire to survive exert their sense of escape and weaken their resistance. The other is to give Wang Sixian the opportunity to sell favors, and also to let him see clearly that the Mongolian soldiers are not always victorious soldiers.

Cao Youwen went back to Lizhou.

Guanzhong relieved the danger and recovered the lost land, and Zhao Xiaobing was also in a happy mood.

He called Guyueqiao to drink and studied the administrative management of Huilingzhou.

He told him to set up Lingxia Mansion and let the Hui people live there in a concentrated manner, so he asked Helian to be the first prefect.

Then he called Deng'an to send a message to inform Heliansheng to come to Chang'an for an interview.

This time, the Mongolian army counterattacked, and the new army's defense zone was directly along the river to the west. The large area of ​​lost land was recovered and the Yueqiao was busy for a while.

Yueqiao is also an old comrade from Luocheng. He is very compatible with his taste. As long as he is a little bit, Yueqiao will know how to do it.

Zhao Xiaobing asked him to take people to go and implement it. This counterattack can only be regarded as regaining half of Hetao, which almost brought back the territory of the Li Dynasty of the Western Xia Dynasty.

If we want to eliminate the threat from the Mongolian army above our heads, we will have to fight.
Chapter completed!