Seven thousand iron armor rode out of Bianliang City, and a few days later, Yanyun's 50,000 mighty army also began to pull out, and now the mighty army, everyone has horses, but they can't be called cavalry, at most they can be regarded as infantry who can ride horses, because these people's riding skills are far from being skilled, and it is not realistic to fight horses and charge into battle.

However, even the infantry on horseback is far more effective than the ordinary foot soldier, at least the mobility is greatly enhanced, and the ability to carry heavy loads and baggage is also strengthened.

Ganqi followed the Yellow River to the west and then north along the Yellow River, and the road was not difficult.

Yanzhou City, is being beaten, not to attack the city, but every day feather arrows are fired, the party people obviously do not want to use their lives to pile up the city wall, only continue to shoot arrows into the city, all activities in the city have stopped, but from time to time there are still soldiers and civilians are hit by stray arrows.

This is probably revenge, and it is also a lesson.

The party people also calculated that the army in the city did not dare to go out of the city to fight, which was the basic strategy of the northwest state capital of the Great Song Dynasty in the past 20 years, that is, not to take the initiative to attack, and resolutely not to fight with the party people.

A good water river has brought a negative impact to the Great Song Dynasty for more than 20 years, and the strategy has changed greatly.

Song Jun retreated in the city, and the party members continued to vent the anger in their hearts with various bows and crossbows, and slowly became happy, and began to scold, pee, and shout all kinds of insults.

For so many days, Lu Shu was also at ease, as long as he didn't attack the city, everything was easy to say, anyway, the city couldn't be lost, it was safe.

The party members are also unscrupulous, even if they know that the Song people are waiting for reinforcements, they are not afraid at all, if the Song army comes to reinforce the troops, it is just that simple, just retreat. It was like this in the past, and the Song people didn't dare to chase it deeply.

The situation was thus deadlocked, and both sides were satisfied.

Gan Qi once again passed through the Beibi Mountains on the banks of the Yellow River, where he met the astonishment of the fast horses.

He was about forty years old, with a stubble on his face, and a powerful body, but he was wearing an old Confucian shirt, and he was accompanied by a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy Confucian student, who was also in good shape, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist.

Seed stunned came forward to worship: "The last general will be stunned, meet Gan Xianggong!" ”

Gan Qi dismounted, looked the two up and down, and also helped the stunned man who was kneeling on one knee, and said with a smile: "General Chong is coming quickly." ”

He was a little flattered to see that Gan Qi actually got off his horse to help him, and said: "As soon as the last general got the military order, he didn't bring anything, so he brought some dry food and galloped on his horse. ”

"I'm sorry for you, it's the court that can't stand you, this time you will go with me to kill the enemy, after the meritorious service, I will guarantee you, the past will not be corrected, and there will be a heavy reward." Gan Qi said so, even if it is a little psychological comfort for Chong Su, but also to give Chong Su some confidence, it is rare that this Great Song Dynasty still has an enterprising general, and it can't dispel the enthusiasm of this kind of person.

"The great grace of the minister, the last general will be unforgettable, and there will be a good reward!" Kind of stunned moved very much, not that he is easy to move, but now this kind of home, quite a bit of the meaning of the river, the family has been guarding the northwest for generations, and the ancestors of the family are a generation of great Confucianism. In the generation of Seed Stunned, under the shade of grace, Seed Stunned is forty years old, but he is just a guard of a small town in the northwest of Qingjian, with 3,000 men and horses.

If it weren't for the accession of Shenzong to the throne in the future, and then give the seed a chance to be stunned, this kind of family would obviously slowly disappear in the long river of history, and the descendants of the seed family would probably be the same as the blue-faced beast Yang Zhi, the descendant of the Yang family in that story, and no longer talk about any glory.

Gan Qi is now saving the seed family from decline, and the seed is naturally very moved, the seed family will open the door, and there is almost no way, and Gan Qi sent this door back to him. In fact, it is also the descendants of the seed family who are fighting for qi, not only for being stunned, but also for the future planters.

Gan Qi looked at the young Confucian behind him and asked, "Is this young man a descendant of the Seed Family?" ”

Chong was stunned and hurriedly introduced: "Xianggong, this is the last general's nephew to breed the master." ”

He was stunned and gestured behind him again, and the seed master hurriedly stepped forward: "The villain seed master said, meet Gan Xianggong!" ”

In fact, Gan Qi had a guess, and it was confirmed at this time, and he was overjoyed, and asked: "How old are you?" ”

"Back to the prime minister's words, the villain is seventeen years old!" The young seed master Dao was still a little shy and restrained, and his official position was too high, which made him a little nervous.

"Martial arts?" Ganchi asked again.

The seed master smiled modestly, put his arm forward, and replied: "The villain has been studying since he was a child, but he has also trained his body, and it should be useful to go into battle to kill the enemy. ”

The master was modest, but he was a little anxious, and hurriedly answered: "Xianggong, don't look at the master and the Taoist is dressed in a Confucian shirt, but he is also skilled in archers and horses, and he grew up in the army with the last general since he was a child. He will be a good soldier in the future. ”

Parents are always like this, sparing no effort to boast about their descendants, and they are afraid that the way of planting teachers will be looked down upon.

But I don't know how Gan Qi can't know the way of the seed master? Gan Qi laughed: "Yunwen Yunwu, rare in the world." ”

Stunned when Gan Qi said this, he was overjoyed, and immediately gave Gan Qi another sycophancy: "Xianggong, if you want to say Yunwen Yunwu, who in this world remembers you?" The way of the teacher is still far from it. ”

The martial artist who does not have a jinshi and the first is so sad, even if he is stunned, he has to flatter Shangguan carefully, Gan Qi didn't say much, looked left and right, and said: "Duba, take a good armor and send it to the Seed Master Dao, and the Seed Master Dao will follow me in the future." ”

Before the seed master Dao could react, he pulled the corner of the seed master Dao's clothes and bowed down: "Xie Xianggong!" ”

The seed master Dao also hurriedly bowed: "Thank you for raising the minister." ”

Gan Qi waved his hand: "Keep marching." ”

The Seed Master Dao hurriedly changed into a heavy armor, and followed Gan Qi on a horse.

While marching, Gan Qi chatted with Chong stunned: "General Chong, how is the party's combat power now?" ”

"Back to Xianggong, now the party is no longer as good as it was back then, if it was twenty or thirty years ago, the party was only 100,000 people in the country, all of them were very elite, and the leather room army was even more fierce. Although there are more than 300,000 troops in the party today, they are far from the same. If the imperial court can really concentrate its forces to fight a battle, the party will inevitably be difficult to parry. Kind of stunned said this, it was also a low status, and it was simpler to think.

Gan Qi knew that he was stunned and wanted to do the party in his heart, but it was unrealistic to concentrate his troops. However, Gan Qi will not dispel the enthusiasm of the stunned, but nodded: "Speaking of which, the party has a good foothold in the first battle, and now more than 30 years have passed, and when the edge is exhausted, Li Yuanhao is also a hero, but the hero also has a twilight day." How is Tibet? ”

Stunned to hear Gan Qi's words, he felt that Gan Qi thought the same as him in his heart, so he completely relieved his heart and said bluntly: "The disagreement of the Tibetan tribes is not a big disaster. ”

"This time, I have two strategies, Yanzhou retreats from the party, and I have to fight forward, enter the Jianing Military Division of Western Xia, and cut off the territory of the central and eastern parts of Western Xia. The second strategy is to open the border to the west, hit Tubo, and completely take down Xihe Lanhuang, so that the Xiliang and Gansu military divisions of the party can be threatened, so that they can form a situation of encirclement, what does the general think? Ganchi had already thought it through a few times along the way.

The country of Western Xia is not as good as the Great Song Dynasty and the Great Liao, because Western Xia has no real strategic depth, and Western Xia is a rectangular country. Moreover, the main territory is in the south of this rectangle, east to the area of Baode and Jia County in Shanxi Province in the future, and to Dunhuang in the west.

Most of the hinterland of Western Xia is desert, with the Mu Us Desert in the east, the Tengger Desert in the middle, the Badain Jaran Desert in the west, and many small deserts, even Dunhuang is mostly the Gobi region.

To sum up, the main territory of Western Xia was actually near the border between the Song and Xia countries, and his capital was in Xingqing Mansion, which was later known as Yinchuan, which was also the line between the north and south of the Yellow River. This line is his only strategic depth.

The Western Xia is a long snake formation, and if you want to fight the Western Xia, you have to cut the snake into several sections, so Gan Qi wants to march west to Qinghai in the later generations, so that the snake of the Western Xia will be completely exposed in front of the Great Song Dynasty. If you go west to Qinghai, you will inevitably have to fight with Tibet. Many tribes in Tibet have been fighting with the Song Dynasty, and in the Song Dynasty, the Tibetan tribes disturbed the border many times, and they also joined forces with the Western Xia to attack the Song Dynasty, which must be punished.

Ganchi rarely comes once, so there are many things to achieve. However, there are also many difficulties, the northwest side does not have to be on the border of the Liao and Song Songs, the northwest side is difficult to go wherever the mountains and roads go, the ravines and valleys are everywhere, and the Gobi Desert is far away.

Stunned to hear Ganqi's words, thought for a while, his eyes lit up, and replied: "Xianggong these two policies, is the strategy of seeking the country, if it is successful, it will inevitably be a defensive position, and it can be turned into an offensive at any time, this is the method of encirclement, Xixia will inevitably be difficult to care about in the future, and Xianggong is clever!" The last general is willing to serve the work of dogs and horses. ”

Gan Qi nodded, he still thought far-reaching, when he had tens of thousands of real cavalry coming and going, it would be the real time to enter.

Now it is the first to think about the grand strategy, the country of the party item for thirty years, it can be regarded as a fortune, the impact of the first war of Haoshuichuan is far-reaching, Gan Qi obviously will not let the party item have one hundred and eighty-nine years of national ancestry, thirty-four years is enough, and there is a stroke in history. Anyway, in the history of Western Xia, there are only a few strokes in total, less than one more, it doesn't matter.

The army continued to walk, and Zhang Ji slowly followed with his baggage. The 50,000 mighty army is much slower, and it is still on the way.

Starting from the vicinity of Jingzhaofu (Xi'an) in Xijing, the imperial army led by Gan Xianggong was coming, Lu Xuan was excited, he even went to the city in person, and shouted at the enemy army: "Wait for the party to be barbarian, don't retreat quickly, the imperial army will arrive soon, if you don't retreat at this time, when will you wait?" Don't you really want to have countless casualties and fail? ”

Lu Xu's mentality is really incomprehensible, the imperial army is coming, and he actually came to persuade the party to run away in person. If Ganchi were here, he would be to death.

Not to mention, the party people really listened to persuasion, maybe they believed what Lu Shu said, maybe they really knew that the reinforcements of the Song people were coming, and they really retreated, and the army shrank to Suizhou.

When Lu Shu saw this scene, he was naturally overjoyed, and ordered the soldiers to beat gongs and drums to celebrate.

Then a few days later, Gan Qi really came, and Lu Shu took many officials to greet him at the city gate.

This time, Gan Qi did not dismount, but only greeted everyone on his horse.

After Lu Xu's visit, he immediately spoke: "The prestige of Gan Xianggong is far away from the barbarian party, as soon as the party people heard that Gan Xianggong came with troops, they retreated in a panic, a big war, only in the name of Gan Xianggong, they surrendered without a fight, congratulations!" ”

Gan Qi's face darkened when he heard this, and his tone was not good: "Didn't Governor Lu think that Benxiang came with tens of thousands of troops to travel thousands of miles to travel?" ”

After saying that, Gan Qi hit his horse and entered the city, because when he had not yet arrived in Yanzhou, he heard a report that the party members were scared away by Lu Xu.

If you don't fight and surrender to the soldiers, how can Gan Qi not be angry?

Stunned as Gan Qi beat the horse, looked at Lu Xu, who was stunned on the side, and snorted heavily, at this time, he was really relieved, and when Gan Xianggong came, it was really different.

Lu Shu immediately saw a kind of stunned, his face sank, and he had a bad premonition in his heart.

Gan Qi took care of himself and went straight to the palace, sat down in the middle hall, and the military generals were on duty, and the civil officials were also on duty.

Gan Qi darkened his face and asked, "What's going on in Suizhou?" ”

Lu Shu hurriedly stepped forward and replied: "Back to Xianggong, a letter came from Suizhou, saying that the party members began to hesitate, and the camp tent had also retreated seven or eight miles, and the troops might withdraw at any time. ”

"If they retreat, where will they go?" Ganchi asked again.

"It's Longzhou City." Lu Shu replied.

Gan Qi frowned, and asked left and right: "How can this battle be fought?" Do you have a plan? ”

Still fighting? Lu Xu's heart tightened, and asked: "Xianggong, since the party has retreated, I don't dare to easily violate the border again, Suizhou has been saved, and it has been promoted, and the court will definitely have a reward." ”

"All the work?" Gan Qi wondered, how could it be all done? No wonder history records that the Great Song Dynasty won more foreign wars and lost less, no, it won again! Defeated the party's 150,000 troops, returned with a great victory, or surrendered without a fight, and was very clever.

Gan Qi shook his head with a dark face, looking at Chong in astonishment.

He was stunned and immediately replied: "Xianggong, the last general thinks that when you go up the Dali River, besiege Longzhou, and let the party send troops to rescue." ”

Lu Xue was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly spoke: "Stunned, what nonsense are you talking about?" How can a war between the two countries break out lightly? ”

At this time, he already knew what Gan Qi was thinking, where was the former Shangguan, and ridiculed him: "Lu Zhifu, although the lower officials are shallow, they also know the way to fight, if they don't hurt the party, as soon as the imperial army leaves, they will come back, what should they do?" ”

"I was stunned, the party members fled in panic this time, they have already lost their courage, how dare they come again? At the end of the war, I don't know how many lives will be killed, and if the party comes with the strength of the whole country, the victory or defeat is unpredictable. If something goes wrong, who's responsible? Are you stunned that a small military general can afford it? Lu Shu asked again.