Chapter 42 Section 6 Take Dingchuan Village lightly

Ge Huaimin, who was eager for meritorious service, did not listen to the advice of his generals, and led more than 10,000 soldiers and horses to take the initiative to fight. As a result, he encountered Li Yuanhao's 100,000 troops in Dingchuan Village.With such a disparity in military strength, how will Ge Huaimin respond to the battle?What kind of painful price will Song Jun pay for his insistence on going his own way? Ge Huaimin saw that the enemy army was coming, so he lined up with his back against the Dingchuan village, preparing to rely on the city village to defend against Xia's army.He guards one gate by himself, and Cao Ying, the Zhijun and general of the Zhenrong Army, guards the other gate.

Li Yuanhao saw that the place where the Song army lined up was a place of death, and shouted heaven bless me!First of all, burn the pontoon bridge on the Dingchuan River to cut off the retreat of the Song army.Secondly, the water source was cut off in the upper reaches of the river, and the Song army died of thirst. Ge Huaimin saw that the enemy was cutting off the water source, so he hurriedly sent his troops to snatch it.But the Song army had fewer soldiers, and the Xia army had more soldiers, so they didn't grab it.The Song army had no fighting spirit at this time, and when they retreated into the Dingchuan village, the soldiers crowded, trampled, and crowded in.Ge Huaimin was also pushed off his horse, and the soldiers stepped on him and rushed in, almost crushing him to death.Ge Huaimin fainted, the soldiers rushed over and carried him into the Wengcheng, smacked his mouth and poured cold water on him, and then he woke up.Another general, Cao Ying, was shot in the neck by an arrow during the fierce battle and fell off the city wall, seriously wounded.Marching to see the battle so far, it is equivalent to two half-dead people commanding the army.The people will discuss together what to do next.Cao Ying advocated sticking to it and waiting for help. After all, Dingchuan Village still had a city wall and a moat.Ge Huaimin didn't listen to the advice of the generals and insisted on going his own way. He opened the city gate at night, and more than 10,000 soldiers from the Song army rushed out in a swarm.In order to save their lives, Song Jun was really brave, and he rushed out for more than two hundred miles, but his strength was also exhausted.It doesn't matter if it's a human or a horse, if you don't eat food, you can bear it, but who can bear it if you don't drink water?In the end, the Song Army was overtaken by the Xia Army, and all the generals under Ge Huaimin were killed. More than 9,400 soldiers of the Song Army were captured, and more than 600 horses were captured.

At this time, Li Yuanhao was proud of the spring breeze, and ordered Zhang Yuan to draft an imperial edict for him and send it to the Song Dynasty, declaring that "I am now in the Weishui River in person, and directly occupy Chang'an", you Song Dynasty just wait. At Sanchuankou, Haoshuichuan, and Dingchuanzhai, the Song army lost three battles and lost ground, especially many generals who had been in the northwest for a long time.Since then, Song's strategy against Xia has been forced to change and adjust.Li Yuanhao is definitely not a clown in Xirong, "As soon as the heavenly soldiers arrive, they will be wiped out with a drum", it is not that simple.From then on, Song Ting stopped fighting and took a defensive stance, and repeatedly warned the frontier generals not to go deep into Xiadi, and it would be best to use war to force peace and let Li Yuanhao negotiate peace with us.So, is Li Yuanhao willing to negotiate peace?