It was nearly this day and night that they caught up with the Dali army, which had set off two days earlier.

The Dali soldiers camped in the wilderness.

Torches swayed in the camp.

The barracks alone are not too big.

When Duan Qilin was in Dali, he let Feng Hebi, Wang Ziqian and Chi Fenggu lead the army to attack the Song Dynasty, waving hundreds of thousands of troops, and finally lost a big defeat. This is almost to wipe out Dali's family foundation.

Although there were hundreds of thousands of people who followed him from Dali to Jiading Mansion, the vast majority of them were ordinary people, and there were only less than 70,000 real soldiers.

Moreover, this is still counting all the forbidden troops and defenders brought by Duan Qilin.

And Chi Fenggu has led 50,000 soldiers to Tongchuan Mansion. These went to Chongqing Mansion with less than 20,000 soldiers, and they could only be regarded as a rabble.

There were no troops left in the New Song Dynasty.

Throughout the entire New Song Dynasty, except for the guards in the palace and the defenders of the cities, Duan Qilin, the soldiers who could be mobilized, had already pressed them to the front line.

Chengdu Mansion, Tongchuan Mansion, and now Chongqing Mansion.

Among them, Tongchuan Prefecture has the largest number of soldiers, with more than 80,000 people.

Chengdu Mansion is second, with more than 20,000 people.

The least is now Chongqing.

Qin Han's Luzhou army was almost completely wiped out in Chongqing Prefecture, which made it impossible for Duan Qilin to deploy a heavy army in Chongqing.

It is also due to the narrow terrain of the New Song Dynasty, and the mountains are high and dense, and the terrain is steep. Otherwise, the situation in the new Song Dynasty will only be more difficult.

Although they still have more than 100,000 troops, this is really too little for the whole country.

You must know that even if Zhao Dongting implemented the elite soldier policy in the Great Song Dynasty, due to the vast territory, the soldiers in the entire Great Song Dynasty added up to hundreds of thousands.

That is, Zhao Dongting could not transfer all the forbidden troops from all over the country to Chongqing Mansion at this time, otherwise, it would be impossible for the New Song Dynasty to have the slightest way to survive.

After the group of people from the Guigu Palace Master arrived outside the barracks, they quickly alarmed the generals in the barracks.

This Dali army, Duan Qilin did not continue to hand over to the command of Dali's generals. Now, it is led by a person named Du Xiuwei in the Guigu Academy.

Although Du Xiuwei's performance in the Guigu Academy Palace is far less dazzling than that of Qin Han, Wang Ziqian and others, if he is put outside, he is also an excellent talent.

Duan Qilin sent him as the general of this Dali army to Chongqing, which was also a helpless move.

The top talents in the Guigu Academy Palace are now dead, and those who vote for the Great Song Dynasty are left with the Guigu Palace Master, the Deputy Palace Master and the Chi Fenggu.

Duan Qilin had to promote these slightly inferior talents. Because these people are always much better than the vast majority of civil and military generals in the court, especially the courts of the New Song Dynasty and Dali.

After a long period of stability, the officials and generals of these two dynasties did not have too much edge.

And Du Xiuwei is a person in the Guigu Academy, so he doesn't dare to be a little neglectful of the Guigu Palace Master.

As soon as he heard the news from the soldiers that the Guigu Palace Master had arrived outside the camp, he hurriedly ran towards the outside of the camp. When he saw the Lord of the Ghost Valley Palace, he even knelt down and saluted, "The student has seen the teacher. ”

He is also a personal disciple of the Guigu Palace Lord.

And the Ghost Valley Palace Master just nodded lightly at him, "Get up!" ”

For this disciple who has followed him since he was a child, studied hard and studied diligently, but he has never been able to become the top talent due to talent limitations. The Palace Master of Guigu was a little disappointed.

Especially at the moment when Qin Han was dead and the new Song Dynasty urgently needed to be able to be a great talent on his own, seeing Du Xiuwei, the Guigu Palace Master would inevitably feel a little more disappointed.

Immediately, he sighed softly.

After all, great talent is not so easy to cultivate. It takes diligence, but it also needs talent.

In fact, Du Xiuwei is already good. Although it is not the top in the Guigu Academy, no matter which court you go to, you can be worthy of a great responsibility.

Perhaps because of the softness of this moment, the Guigu Palace Lord suddenly felt a little sympathetic to Du Xiuwei in his heart.

He patted Du Xiuwei's shoulder rarely, and said, "Xiuwei, you've been with your teacher for more than thirty years, right?" ”

Du Xiuwei, who was over forty years old, was slightly surprised, and nodded in agreement, "Yes, the student has been following the teacher for thirty-two years and five months. ”

The Ghost Valley Palace Lord nodded slightly, "Since I am old, I have been thanks to taking care of me by my side all these years. ”

With that, he walked towards the barracks. At this moment, there was a slight difference in his eyes.

Du Xiuwei didn't notice it, so he just followed and asked, "Why did the teacher suddenly arrive?" ”

The Palace Lord of Guigu sighed and said, "Qin Han was killed by Qingwu, and the young master asked me to go to Chongqing Mansion to sit down. ”

Du Xiuwei suddenly showed a look of extreme surprise, "Senior brother is dead?" ”

Then he asked: "Why did Qingwu kill his junior brother?" She shouldn't be a talent from the Song Kingdom. ”

Qingwu has also been in the Broken Army Academy Palace since he was a child, and at that time, the two palaces of Guigu and Broken Army were still in a state of seclusion, and it was impossible for the Song Kingdom to suddenly install such a spy into the two palaces.

The palace master of Guigu was a little interested, and said, "She is from Wuzhou. The people of Chongqing Mansion were in turmoil, and Qin Han wanted to slaughter the city again, but she didn't want to see Qin Han go on like this again. ”

After that, there was no follow-up.

He was clearly reluctant to say anything more on this matter. I don't even want to think about it anymore.

Qin Han is the proud protégé he admires the most, and when he dies, he is also heartbroken.

Du Xiuwei was also very knowledgeable, and did not ask about it again.

Only after arriving in the military tent, he immediately handed over his tiger talisman to the Guigu Palace Master.

The palace master of Guigu also suffered.

That night, he and dozens of masters stayed in the army.

The next day, he went to Chongqing Mansion with the army.

Dozens of masters did not cause much movement in the army, because they did not show their cultivation, and those soldiers did not know the details of these people.

And so it went on for a few days.

Yue Peng, Wen Qi and Xiao Yulin led the two armies of Tiankui and Tianjie to finally pass through Dazhou and arrive dozens of miles north of Tongchuan Mansion.

The armies of Du Hu and Zheng Yihang have been camped here for half a month.

The Tongchuan Mansion army did not leave the city, so they only practiced soldiers in the camp, and they did not mean to attack Tongchuan Mansion in a hurry.

In the territory of Lizhou East Road, New Song.

Helian Cheng and Qu Rujian led more than 20,000 troops through Pengzhou and Bazhou, and continued to go north, without encountering much resistance, and finally arrived outside Dexingyuan Mansion.

Although the 20,000-strong army is really not a large number of generals, it is a force that cannot be ignored for the current Lizhou East Road.

Pang Hongguang also knew that he had reached the point of life and death these days, and tried his best to transfer all the soldiers and horses that could be mobilized to Xingyuan Mansion.

Even so, there were only a few thousand defenders in Xingyuan Mansion at this time.

Everyone can see that Pang Hongguang is declining, and even those officials who were loyal to him in the past now have many choices to draw a line with him.

Speaking of which, it's already good that these people didn't fall into the ground.

If it weren't for Pang Hongguang's desire to remain in everyone's hearts over the years, he wouldn't even need Helian Cheng and Qu Rujian to arrive, he would have been killed by the people below.

His head is now the treasure of his former cronies who surrendered to the empress.

Now those who are still willing to follow him to guard Xingyuan Mansion are all his diehards.

When Helian Cheng and Qu Rujian led the army to the south gate of Xingyuan Mansion, Pang Hongguang also rushed to the city in person.

Looking at the banner waving in the Western Xia Forbidden Army, his face was unexpectedly ugly.

There was no sign of sending troops to help Tongchuan Prefecture, which made him disappointed and resentful.

He knew that he had been regarded as an outcast by the young master and the Guigu Academy.

But he didn't have a choice.

Because even if he chooses to abandon the Guigu Academy now, the empress will never leave his life again.

He secretly designed to work with the New Song Dynasty to destroy Helian City and Qu Rujian, which is a heinous crime. Not only did he not live, but his family had to die.

In front of the army outside the city, Helian City slowly drove forward.

Now he's quite in high spirits.

The spear in his hand pointed directly at Pang Hongguang at the head of the city, and Helian Cheng shouted: "Pang Hongguang, if you are interested, you will immediately go down to the city and arrest it, and wait for the emperor to send it!" so as not to harm the innocent! ”

Pang Hongguang sneered, "If you tie your hands, can I live?" Can my brothers live? ”

Then he suddenly raised his head and laughed, a little sad, "It's only strange that Pang Mou made a bad move, but he was calculated by that woman!" Ha ha! If you want to attack the city, you will attack the city, and Pang also wants to see what kind of ability they have. ”

Although he has been an official in Yuan and Western Xia all these years, he is from the Guigu Academy. In the art of war, he has also made considerable achievements.