Isn’t the Song Dynasty famous in history books for its redundant officials and excessive personnel?

When did organizational capabilities become so high?

Therefore, for anything, you cannot just read a sentence in a book and then make a label-style summary.

The Song Dynasty did not maintain such efficient organizational capabilities at all times, but not all of them were extremely inefficient.

In other words, its organizational capabilities can be divided into parts and wholes.

The Yongle City case occurred in the northwest, the northwest of the Song Dynasty, which was composed of a large military region.

The military towns here have been at war with Xixia for a long time. If they were as inefficient as the yamen in Tokyo, they would have been doomed long ago.

In places that have been threatened by foreign enemies for a long time, the organizational capabilities of militarized areas are very strong.

For example, after the mobilization orders for Fuyan Road and Huanqing Road were issued at this moment, both the military and civilian forces were moving towards the boundaries of Yinzhou in large numbers.

Song and Xia had an unprecedented mobilization competition within a month, and no one was willing to be outdone.

By April 20th, the total number of troops that the Song Dynasty could put into the battlefield, including engineering regiments, some logistics troops (Xiang army, Tu army), and even the military supervision team of the military governor's office, had reached 60,000.

As for the investment of ordinary people, it has already reached a scale of 50,000.

On April 21, a small Xixia elite mountain field force broke into the Song army's defense fifty miles west of Yinzhou City.

The two sides started a fierce field battle at noon.

From start to finish, it lasted two hours.

This Xixia elite consists of one thousand elite cavalry and three thousand infantry, as well as three hundred iron kite heavy cavalry.

With the cooperation of foot and cavalry, they took advantage of the mountainous terrain and immediately unleashed the terrifying power of the Xixia elite.

The Xixia light cavalry repeatedly attacked the Song army's formation with extremely terrifying and sudden movements.

The Song army responded with a dense rain of crossbow arrows.

When the killing was at its most brutal, the Iron Kites suddenly came out, pressing towards the Song Army like a torrent of steel, instantly tearing apart the Song Army's defense.

Until the iron kite ran over a relatively narrow mountain road, the ambush Song army smashed the iron kite that rushed in with stones to pieces.

The Xixia people collapsed and quickly retreated and then regrouped. The Song army also partially collapsed and quickly replenished their formations before regrouping.

Neither side gave in, and the battlefield ended with a stalemate between the two sides. The Song army's reinforcements arrived and the Xixia troops retreated.

In the evening, the killings in that area were filled with rivers of blood, and it was extremely cruel.

More than a thousand elite troops from both sides were lost there.

The Xixia general who led the army was Yeli Qingduo, and the Song general was Liu Xi.

This was obviously a tentative attack by Xixia.

After Ye Li Qingduo returned to Shizhou, he immediately met with Li Qianshun.

"Your Majesty, the Song army is extremely powerful. I have repeatedly charged and killed it several times, but it cannot be defeated!"

"Isn't it possible for Iron Kites too?"

"The Song Army's defenses were all deployed along mountain roads. When the mountain roads were narrow, our army's iron kites could not stretch out, but were repulsed by the Song Army's rocks."

Ren Dejing, who was accompanying him, said: "Your Majesty, why not take this opportunity to attack with the whole army? The Song army arrived in a hurry and must not be ready yet."

"Not ready yet?" Li Qianshun was a little impatient. He hated Ren Dejing now, but if Ren Dejing surrendered, he had to use Ren Dejing.

First, Ren Dejing knew many things about the Song army, and second, he wanted to show the Han people in Xixia and make the Han people more willing to loyal to him, Li Qianshun.

"In today's battle, our army has dispatched Iron Kites and Buba Zi, but still failed to break through the Song Army's defenses. Is this because we are not ready yet?"

Ren Dejing was speechless.

After dark, Liu Qi, who was in command in Yinzhou, also received a report from his brother Liu Xi.

Liu Qi said: "It seems that the Xixia people are impatient to fight a war."

Han Zhi said: "Liu Shuai, do you want to send more troops to the front?"

"No, defenses have been set up at various passes. The most critical thing for us right now is not to fight to the death with the Xixia people, but to delay the time so that the reserve troops, civilians, and food can be delivered one after another."

"As long as we build more fortresses in the Yinzhou area to support each other and increase the depth, we will win this battle."

Even Li Yongqi couldn't help but nod. He said: "What Liu Shuai said is absolutely true. Xixia will come with all the strength of the country. We don't need to fight it head-on. As long as we can hold Yinzhou and establish contact with the rear here, we will win."

Yes. This is why the Xixia army is anxious to attack us today, they are more anxious than us."

Sure enough, the commanders and generals who led the troops in this frontier looked at military issues more simply and thoroughly than ordinary civil servants.

"So in the past few days, the scouts must move frequently to investigate the whereabouts of the Xixia people."

At noon on the second day, just after lunch, Han Zhi came running: "Liu Shuai, the Xixia envoy wants to see you."

"Messenger from Xixia?"

"Yes, just outside the city."

Wang Sheng, the counselor of the Economic and Strategy Department of Fuyan Road, said: "The Xixia envoy coming now must be to inquire about the strength of our army. Liu Shuai will definitely not see this person."

Liu Qi thought for a while and said: "It doesn't hurt to meet him. He wants to find out the reality of our army. We can also find out the reality of the Xixia people."

Not long after, the Xixia envoy came in.

This Yinzhou Marshal's Mansion was the place where Yeli Songren lived before. Now that Yeli Songren was captured, Liu Qi adapted it into Yinzhou Marshal's Mansion.

After the Xixia envoy came in, he raised his head and said coldly: "May I ask who the Song general is?"

"Presumptuous!" Liu Rui on the side said angrily, "Who do you think you are? How dare you speak in such a tone!"

The Xixia envoy continued in a cold voice: "This Yinzhou was originally the land of our Baigao Daxia Kingdom. Why did the Song Dynasty invade our territory now?"

Liu Rui scolded: "If you come here to talk nonsense like this, I advise you to go back quickly!"

"The Song Dynasty is a state of etiquette in the Celestial Dynasty, why is it so arrogant?"

"Barbaric? What kind of etiquette is needed to deal with treacherous barbarians like you?" Liu Rui was quite disdainful. Liu Qi, who was sitting in the coach's seat, remained silent.

The Xixia envoy continued: "Today, His Majesty, the Emperor of Daxia, has personally led a large army. Four hundred thousand Daxia soldiers are dozens of miles away. The two countries are old friends, so why should we hurt the harmony? Why don't you withdraw from Daxia?

Your Majesty is benevolent, virtuous and wise, so let’s forget about this!”

Liu Rui laughed loudly: "What a good thing to forget the past. You Xia Guoxing's unknown army killed our people in the Song Dynasty. The emperor was furious and ordered me to raise an army to attack and bring justice to the universe. In order to appease the anger of the world, the anger of humans and gods, the thieves and chiefs

How dare you speak of benevolence, virtue, and sage wisdom here!"

The Xixia envoy's expression changed slightly, and Liu Rui continued with a knife-like tone: "Go back and send a message to the Lord of Xia, asking him to submit a surrender letter, pay homage to the heroic souls of the Song Dynasty who died in vain, and apologize to the emperor. Otherwise, I will recruit the righteous masters of the world to join us."

Cut it down! Fight until death!"

"You!" the messenger was furious, "I came here for peace between the two countries, but you openly insulted my Lord!"

"Then there's no need to talk anymore!"

"you!"

At this time, Liu Qi finally spoke, and he said: "Envoy, please be patient. I'm afraid there may be a misunderstanding. We also heard that you attacked Xihe Road in the Song Dynasty, so we raised troops. We need an explanation."

Although Liu Qi was an honest man, he also knew how to delay the attack.
Chapter completed!