On July 4 of the fourth year of Shaoxi, Mo Xiaobao, Zhong Silkworm, and Tian Lin finally captured Jinzhou, which had been resisting fiercely since the beginning of the war, so that the three of them were finally able to breathe a sigh of relief, and take a break and reassure the people in Jinzhou, which was devastated and the city walls no longer existed, and the city was still full of wolves.

In this battle, the Xia Anbei army also suffered heavy losses, and then they did not have any counterattack power to take the city again, so that in the past few days, Jinzhou City, which had changed hands many times, was finally put into the bag by the Song army.

After that, it was only half a day, and there was a steady stream of officials from Liangzhou, rushing from Pingliang Town and Lanzhou to start dealing with the more practical Anmin dispatch, and also allowed Zhong Silkworm, Mo Xiaobao, and Tian Lin to continue to advance to Ganzhou, Suzhou, Yumen, Shazhou, and Xiping Mansion west of Jinzhou after resting.

As the besieging party, the losses of Zhong Silkworm and the others' three-way army were not less than those of the Xia people's Anbei army, not to mention the prerequisites for land and people, so after this battle, the degree of loss of troops and generals even exceeded the expectations of the three of them.

But fortunately, at the same time, Li Heng, who was guarding the central guard, took Li Zhongfang and Jia She, but completely restrained the Xia people who wanted to rush to the reinforcements in the direction of Liangzhou.

In addition, the change of guard between Jia Shi and Liu Keshi was successfully completed, and now Jia Shi has led his troops to join Li Heng, and after Liu Keshi withdrew to Pingliang Town, he also began his most handy pacification and logistics supply dispatch.

Pingliang Town's original small number of troops, after Liu Keshi's retreat to the town, was sent to Liangzhou to aid Mo Xiaobao and the three of them as soon as possible, so in the early morning of July 6, the army was at its peak and the mighty nearly 20,000 troops successfully joined the army of Mo Xiaobao and the three of them.

On July 7, the Song army, which had left Jinzhou and advanced to Ganzhou, did not march very fast, but after the 20,000 fresh troops joined, the army under the command of the three began a half-day march and a half-day reorganization of the calm rhythm, without the slightest intention of pursuing the victory.

It's not that Mo Xiaobao didn't want to take advantage of the victory to pursue after capturing Jinzhou, but because whether it was the Xia people or Zhong Silkworm, they all knew very well that the key battle with the Xia people would probably happen in Ganzhou.

Even if Jinzhou has made both sides feel the cruelty and tragedy of the war, but because of the importance of Ganzhou to the Xia people and the importance of military strategy, even when the Xia people defend Jinzhou, Ganzhou behind them is also heavily guarded just in case, and they are afraid that they will be exploited by the Song people.

The reports of the spies and scouts made Mo Xiaobao dispel the idea of pursuing the victory, and had to be patient to settle down in Jinzhou for a day, and then use the distance of the road to rest while marching, and continue to wait for the arrival of reinforcements.

Ganzhou is an important turning point for the now warring Song and Xia, no matter who wins the battle of Ganzhou, then it will completely change the balance of victory in the entire Hexi Corridor.

Ganzhou, located in the middle of the Hexi Corridor, has always been regarded as a choke point, and its importance is naturally self-evident, and the nearly 300,000 people in the city are also another reason why the Xia people are confident and unwilling to lose this city.

As the name suggests, Ganzhou is full of sweet springs, holy snow-capped mountains, fertile grasslands, beautiful flowers abound, and more importantly, it is the source of war horses for the Xia cavalry.

As sung in "The Tragic Song of the Huns": Losing my Yanzhi Mountain makes my women colorless. Lose my Qilian Mountain, make

I don't have a lot of life. It can be seen from this that Ganzhou and other places are very important to the nomads and the Xia people who started from here.

It is precisely because of the importance of Ganzhou that it has become the place that Ye Qing wants to occupy the most, such an attractive natural environment, as well as the source of sufficient war horses, coupled with the important geographical location of the throat artery, so as long as Ganzhou is captured, even if it can't take the next Suzhou and other places, for Mo Xiaobao, Zhong Silkworm, and Tian Lin, it is already a huge merit that is enough to straighten their waists and ask for credit and reward in front of Ye Qing.

No one dares to underestimate the enemy in this battle, no one on either side can afford to lose this battle, the Xia people are defeated, and the entire Hexi Corridor will be returned to the Song sooner or later, and the Song people will be defeated, and everything before will be useless.

Yu Yunwen, who was in Lanzhou, also knew how important the next battle was to them, so he thought about it for three days with a frown and a gloomy face, and then when Mo Xiaobao and they were about to capture Jinzhou, they finally made a risky decision: they ordered Hengqiao, who was guarding Lanzhou with him, and led the Guanghua army to aid Jinzhou.

Just like pouring all the Xia Realm Song army into Ganzhou, there is no difference, but when Hengqiao's Guanghua army just left Lanzhou for less than a day, Yu Yunwen looked at Lanzhou City, which was about to be empty and there were few Song troops, and his heart began to become uneasy.

So one after another, eight hundred miles of urgent letters for help, like snowflakes, were sent to Liu Keshi in Pingliang Town.

Seeing the first letter of Yu Yunwen's request for help, Liu Keshi immediately scolded in the direction of Lanzhou, scolding Yu Yunwen for being an old birthday star hanged and impatient. Now that the entire summer realm is in short supply, where can he find him 20,000 horses?

In the direction of Lanzhou, Yu Yunwen, who was yawning and nervous, seemed to have no idea about Liu Keshi's difficulties, and since Hengqiao left, he tirelessly asked Pingliang Town for help.

It's just that with the passage of time, the number of troops has decreased from the initial 20,000 to 18,000, and then it has not waited for Liu Keshi's response, so it has been reduced to 15,000, and still has not waited for Liu Keshi's response, which has been reduced to 13,000.

The letter for help was still sinking into the sea, Yu Yunwen consciously dropped to 10,000, and then stayed up late to write again, 8,000 people were enough.

After dawn, I thought that I deserved it, and I shouldn't embarrass Liu Keshi, and it was okay to be considerate and reduced to 5,000 people.

With Yu Yunwen's more persevering letters than when he wrote love letters to the woman he pursued, a steady stream of letters were handed to Liu Keshi, who was also like guarding the empty city, and Liu Keshi, who was a good woman who had no rice, looked helplessly at the letter that was hotter than a letter asking for help, and finally wrote down a word angrily: Get out!

Yu Yunwen is still persevering in bargaining: Three thousand, as long as three thousand people are enough, you don't have to worry about money and food, I only need three thousand people is enough, please.

This matter is obviously beyond the scope of Liu Keshi's disposal, not to mention that he is poorer than anyone else now, even if he can't make up for Yu Yunwen with three thousand people, so the two thieves and thieves, when they trust each other and scold each other, they don't know what to do, and they don't care about the lives of their allies, they also send letters to Ye Qing who is on the Yanyan Road for help.

looked at Yu Yunwen's letter: Senior Brother Ke, Brother Yunwen is polite: 3,000 people, as long as 3,000 people are enough, you don't have to worry about money and food, I only need 3,000 people is enough, please.

Ye Qing couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly, and then he thought a little mischievously in his heart, if Yu Yunwen added a comparison to Liu Keshi at the end of the letter, he might be able to completely make Liu Keshi mad.

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Ye Qing, who is also worried about the lack of reinforcements, is also struggling to support the Jin people alone, like a poor bastard, who has no penny on his body, but when he still needs to fill his stomach, he will naturally do everything in his means.

At this time, Ye Qing naturally couldn't care about how the Lin'an Imperial Court would instruct Yushi to impeach him, or even convict him, once the Lin'an Imperial Court learned about it, or Han Yanxuan learned about it.

After all, these are all things in the future, and for now, we still have to solve the problem of insufficient troops.

Like Yu Yunwen, Ye Qing will also look forward to it, if he has another 20,000 life forces for him, he will have the confidence to spend it with the begging stone martyrs until the New Year.

In fact...... 18,000 is fine, no matter how bad it is 15,000, I can survive it, or 10,000?

Ye Qing, who had the same idea as Yu Yunwen, finally set his sights on Dasanguan on Lizhou Road again, Heng Qiao's appearance made him solve his urgent need at the beginning, and now that Heng Qiao has gone to Jinzhou to help Mo Xiaobao and the three of them, can he still repeat his old tricks?

Even if there is now Han Yanxuan in charge of Lizhou Dasanguan, the commanders of the Anfeng Army and the Jiangyin Army are Sima Jian and Zhao Fang, and Zhao Fang doesn't need to say much, so he almost carved the word Han Party on his head.

And Sima Jian was the newly recruited military general when he merged Huainan East Road, and now it seems that he can only be secretly sent to solve his urgent needs.

So on the 10th day of the seventh month of the fourth year of Shaoxi, Yu Yunwen, who had been trembling alone in Lanzhou City for several days, finally came to a new force with the hope of the stars and the moon, but he stood on the city tower, looking at the army covered by loess smoke and dust, with his experience in leading the troops for many years, it didn't look like there were 10,000 people, at most it was only the scale of three or four thousand people.

With the opening of the city gate and the arrival of friendly troops, Yu Yunwen, who had the mentality that it was better than nothing, happily ran down the city tower to greet him, and then in the hands of the general, he first received a concise and concise letter: The war on Yanyan Road is tight, and I promised you 10,000 people, lend me 6,000, thank you. This is 4,000 people, please check, be sure to guard Lanzhou, otherwise military law will be involved. Ye Qing.

"Engage you with a hammer!" Yu Yun scolded the letter angrily, obviously he didn't expect that Ye Qing would snatch most of the people so blatantly and shamelessly.

"I dare to say that the remaining six thousand Anfeng troops must have been sent to Pingliang Town by him!" Yu Yunwen looked at the military generals of the Anfeng Army who had just entered the city because of his broken mouth, and the somewhat stunned generals of the Anfeng Army had to change their smiling faces to welcome him to help him defend Lanzhou.

At this time, Liu Keshi, who was in Pingliang Town, was in almost the same mood as Yu Yunwen at this time, and he pinched the letter given to him by the military general of the Anfeng Army with a blank expression, and the content on it was concise and to the point: The war on Yanyan Road is tight, and I promised you 10,000 people, lend me 6,000, thank you. This is 4,000 people, please check, be sure to guard Pingliang Town, otherwise military law will be engaged. Ye Qing.

Ye Qing, who originally promised to give him 10,000 horses, actually broke his promise, no, it was not a broken promise, it was blatantly borrowed 6,000 people from him without his consent.

"Do you even want to engage in military justice? I...... Scold...... How can I defend Pingliang with 4,000 people, I am not a military general who leads the troops to fight, and I was able to win some time ago because of good luck, because I have more troops to win the Xia people! Liu Keshi shook the letter in his hand.

Two days later, after quietly communicating with Yu Yunwen, after learning that each other had been forcibly borrowed by Ye Qing with 6,000 troops, for some reason, the two suddenly felt a lot more balanced in their hearts.