I don't know if it was a coincidence or intentional, the day after the controversy in the Lin'an court had just stopped, the military department and the Privy Council, including Han Yanxuan and the entire imperial court, had just learned that the Guanghua army stationed at Dasanguan on Lizhou Road had all gone north to attack the Lanzhou Mansion of Xia without informing anyone.

In the hall of the hundred officials at the Liubu Bridge, Han Yanxuan cut off half of the corner of the table with a knife, with a gloomy face and red eyes, and ordered the military department to immediately order Hengqiao to withdraw his troops from the territory of Xia.

At this time, Qian Xiangzu told Han Yanxuan lightly, he already knew about this matter, and the reason why he didn't tell him Han Yanxuan was entirely because it was a matter within the military department.

Meng Hui of Dali Temple also shirked for various reasons, and borrowed Qian Xiangzu's words, bluntly saying that since Qian Xiangzu, the secretary of the Ministry of War, had already known, it could not be regarded as leaving his post without permission, not to mention, Hengqiao's attack on Xia was also to deal with Ye Qing, so it is enough to show that Ye Qing has never had the heart to rebel.

Han Yanxuan was shocked by Qian Xiangzu and Meng Heng's attitude, after all, in the court yesterday, the two of them didn't say a word, and they didn't participate in the court at all to ask Ye Qing about the crime.

So he didn't expect that in today's matter of Hengqiao, the two of them would protect Hengqiao together and send troops without authorization.

Ye Qing could expect that once he entered the summer, Jin Ren and Lin'an Chaotang would inevitably learn the news as soon as possible, but no matter what, at this time, he who was in Guanshan Guguan couldn't take care of it so much.

As for whether the Jin people would take advantage of the emptiness of the Jingzhao Mansion and the Hetao Three Roads to sneak attack their backs, Ye Qing had to temporarily put it behind him at the moment and only focus on all the summer attack matters in front of him.

On the first day of June in the fourth year of Shaoxi, it was already the second day of the destruction of the city of Huizhou, and Mo Xiaobao and Li Zhongfang continued to go south non-stop as soon as the city was broken, pointing to the nearest Jincheng from Lanzhou, which was also a big city where the Xia people garrisoned as many as 20,000 people.

However, in three days, on June 4 of the fourth year of Shaoxi, Jincheng was broken, and the remnants of the Xia people retreated to Lanzhou, and at this time Hengqiao had been shouting outside the city for several days, but he had not been able to capture the next city, but was repelled several times by the defenders outside Lanzhou, so that in this seven or eight days, he had been playing a game of hide and seek with the defenders outside Lanzhou.

The enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy retreats and I advance, from the second day, Hengqiao will no longer fight hard with the Xia army, it is like a scoundrel, he will run when he sees the enemy, and he will chase after the enemy when he can't see it, so as to annoy the Xia army outside the city, so he simply calmly withdrew to Lanzhou City and did not come out, and let Hengqiao shout under the city: You beat me...... You beat me, you can't hit me, you can't catch up with me, there's no way, I'm just so powerful......

On June 4, the fourth year of Shaoxi, when the remnants of the Jincheng Xia people retreated to Lanzhou, Hengqiao was extremely cunning to get the news before the scouts were ahead of the Lanzhou defenders, and then beat the water dogs against the retreating Jincheng defenders, causing countless casualties.

And when the defenders in Lanzhou City went out of the city to support, Hengqiao's Guanghua army almost didn't have to wait for Hengqiao to open his voice and shout to retreat, and the habits of many days made them very consciously avoid the anger of Xia Jun in his stomach for several days, and ran away without a trace.

This time, the Lanzhou guard, who was determined to pursue, scolded at the rolling dust, and swore that this time he would pursue them to the ends of the earth, but the Jincheng guard appeared in front of him in a timely embarrassment.

When he learned that Jincheng and Huizhou had been broken by the Song people, and now they were chasing them in the direction of Lanzhou, the Lanzhou guard instantly shut up, his face was blue, and he immediately led the army back to the city without saying a word, fearing that if it was later, the pursuing Song people would take advantage of the loophole.

At this point, whether it is the Lanzhou garrison or the Lanzhou prefect Li Dezhi, although they know that the Song people have broken through Huizhou and Jincheng, and they have been harassing Lanzhou City for several days, they have always believed that the reason why the Song people will suddenly attack Xia is to help the king of Zhenyi County seize the throne of Xia State, and they and others, as long as they guard Lanzhou City, see the development of Xingqing Mansion, and then make a decision.

In Li Dezhi's view, whether it is the successful usurpation of the king of Zhenyi County, or the success of Li Chunyou to keep the throne, as long as he does not lose Lanzhou City, then no matter who becomes the emperor of the Xia Kingdom, he only needs to present a letter of surrender at that time, and the big deal is to send himself from the position of the prefect of Lanzhou to other states.

So at this time, Li Dezhi is still leisurely in Lanzhou City, even if the Song army is now outside with a banner waving, besieging Lanzhou City like a lonely city, Li Dezhi is still an old god, regardless of the Lanzhou guards, and the defeated Jincheng guards, how to persuade Li Dezhi bitterly, this time the Song people don't seem to be here to cheer for the king of Zhenyi County, menacing, no matter how you look at it, it looks like they came to invade the Xia Kingdom.

But Li Dezhi still believes in his own judgment, and believes that in just a few days, once Li Chunyou and Li An'an of Xingqing Mansion have separated the victory and defeat, the siege of Lanzhou will be solved.

As for the Song people's invasion of the Xia Kingdom, Li Dezhi naturally scoffed, how could it be, after stealing a Guanshan, could it be that the Song people were really arrogant and arrogant, believing that they really had the ability to invade the Xia Kingdom? It's a pipe dream.

On June 5 of the fourth year of Shaoxi, when the remnants of Jincheng were defeated and retreated to Lanzhou City, when the city gate was tightly closed, Mo Xiaobao, Li Zhongfang and Hengqiao outside the city, a total of 60,000 troops, gathered under Lanzhou City.

"I can only leave after the city is broken, so I will rush west to help Zhong Silkworm and Tian Lin, so Lanzhou must be broken quickly, and we have no time to delay." Mo Xiaobao looked at the tall walls of Lanzhou City at sunset, and said a little anxiously.

Hengqiao looked at Mo Xiaobao and Li Zhongfang, who he was more familiar with, and then said: "In the past few days, I have been following Lord Ye's orders, but I have mainly harassed them, and I have never fought with them in a real way, now I guess they will be a little careless, right?" But there is no guarantee, after all, I was the only one before, and now there are two more of you outside the city, and there are also the remnants of the defeated Xia Kingdom in the city, and it may be that they are now defending Lanzhou day and night. ”

"Early tomorrow morning, if Lord Yu Yunwen has not heard from us, we will ...... Besiege! Mo Xiaobao looked at Li Zhongfang and Zhong Silkworm, and asked for their opinions.

Li Zhongfang hesitated for a moment before saying, "What about the safety of Lord Yu Yunwen?" He is now in Lanzhou City, what if Li Dezhi has already met with him when he attacks the city early tomorrow morning? Will you be in danger when the time comes? ”

Hengqiao next to him was stunned when he heard this, and after a long time, he was not the first to arrive in Lanzhou, it turned out that someone had already entered Lanzhou before him, but it was just ...... What is the use of Yu Yunwen going to Lanzhou City alone?

"If it works, you'll know when the time comes." Mo Xiaobao smiled and said to Hengqiao, who was a little dazed, and then lifted his helmet and prepared to patrol the camp with his waist knife.

"What else is there I don't know?" Hengqiao looked at the back of Mo Xiaobao leaving, and then asked Li Zhongfang.

"You don't know much, even I don't know all of Lord Ye's strategies." Li Zhongfang patted his armor, and the crisp sound of the noise and dust sprayed out of the cracks in the armor.

"Then if the city is broken...... Are you not going to stay in Lanzhou either? Heng Qiao thought about Mo Xiaobao's words just now, since Mo Xiaobao was going to go to Liangzhou after Lanzhou City was broken, then ...... In this way, after Li Zhongfang broke the city, he would definitely go to other places, right?

After all, his own dispatch was to follow Lord Yu Yunwen to defend Lanzhou after the city of Lanzhou was broken, and as for Yu Yunwen, who had not yet met after the war began, Hengqiao thought that Yu Yunwen was still in Jincheng or Huizhou to clean up the mess, but he didn't expect that Yu Yunwen at this time had already entered Lanzhou City before him.

Li Dezhi knew that the pacification envoy of the Song Dynasty Jingzhao Mansion was Yu Yunwen, so when someone asked him and Yu Yunwen came to visit, the smile on Li Dezhi's face became brighter, originally he had already decided that this time the Song army suddenly appeared in the Xia Realm, completely to help the king of Zhenyi County, and now that Yu Yunwen asked to see him in person, he was naturally more determined in his thoughts.

Looking at Lanzhou and Jincheng guards, Li Dezhi smiled proudly: "See? If the Song people really want to invade my Great Xia, how could they let a high-ranking official like Yu Yunwen appear here alone? Could it be that he could be sent to death? ”

"My lord, I'm afraid they have ulterior motives." The Jincheng guard looked at Li Dezhi, the scene of the battle of Jincheng was still vivid, looking at the ferocity of the Song people when they attacked the city, he really couldn't think of this as just to contain them, not to annihilate them.

"Prefect, this person ...... Even if the identity is true, but ...... Why did he suddenly appear in our Lanzhou at this time? When did he sneak into our Lanzhou, we don't know very well. The Lanzhou guard vaguely reminded Li Dezhi that he should be careful of Song Yu Yunwen.

Li Dezhi smiled disapprovingly and waved his hand, and said confidently: "The intention is obvious, they must be here to make amends, they just want to tell us that they are doing this because of the dispute between the king of Zhenyi County and the saint for the throne, not because they intend to embarrass us." ”

Signaling his subordinates to bring Yu Yunwen, the envoy of the Song court, to come over to see him, Li Dezhi continued to say to the guards of Lanzhou and Jincheng: "The two of you must know that the king of Zhenyi County has won over his official three times before, and even ...... The descendants buried by Liang Yi back then were all given to the official, which is enough to show that the king of Zhenyi County has long been disobedient. But what is it, this is a matter of the clan, not to mention that at the beginning of the succession of the saint, it was indeed too harsh on the king of Zhenyi County, and the king of Yue was also regarded as a favor to the saint, but as soon as the king of Yue died, the king of Zhenyi County, who should have taken his title, not only did not have the title of hereditary king of Yue, but was reduced to the king of the county, and the fief was sealed to the stone closer to the Song Dynasty, no wonder the king of Zhenyi county has always been obsessed with the saint. Not to mention the king of Zhenyi County, I am afraid that if other clans are treated so harshly, they will also have resentment and disobedience. If we are courtiers, since we can't control it, and we don't want to choose which side to support, if we still want to protect ourselves, then the best way is to do nothing, so that no matter who wins or loses in the end, we will not be implicated. It's just that this Song people are ...... now The hand is stretched long enough, when Ren Dejing was concerned, he once sent that Ye Qing to my Xia Kingdom, and now it is him again, this person is really quite powerful in the Song Dynasty, and the power is tilted towards the government and the opposition, and it seems that he cannot be easily offended in the future. ”

"Lord Li is worthy of being magnanimous, Lord Ye has been recalling the past these days, talking about the skirmish with Lord Li's son in Lanzhou when he was an envoy to your country, and bluntly said that he couldn't stand Lord Li, and hoped that one day, he could personally make amends to Lord Li in front of Lord Li." Yu Yunwen strode into the front hall and saluted Li Dezhi, as well as the guards of Lanzhou and Jincheng.