Xingqing Mansion, today's Xia King City, the early Song Dynasty abolished the county as a town, Tianxi four years, Xia Taizong Li Deming expanded the city here, built a palace, renamed Xingzhou.

In the second year of Song Mingdao, Li Deming's son Xia Jingzong Li Yuanhao expanded Xingzhou again, and at the same time promoted Xingzhou to Xingqing Mansion and established a civil and military class. In the first year of Song Baoyuan, Li Yuanhao built the south of the city in Xingqing Mansion, and on October 11 of the first year of the Heavenly Rite Law Yanzuo, he was canonized here, that is, the emperor's throne, and the Xia Kingdom was established from there.

In October of the fourth year of Shaoxi, Li Heng, Li Zhongfang, and Jia She's Zhongwei attacked Xingqing Mansion again, and Li An'an at this time was no longer able to stop the Song people from attacking the city, and he was even more unable to send troops to aid the Hexi Corridor.

The Mongolian generals Borshu and Mu Huali went all the way down from the northwest to the southeast, and the Xia State was in the military town on the border with Mongolia and the sixteen superintendents, six of which remained, and Xia was about to die.

In October of the fourth year of Shaoxi, Mo Xiaobao, Zhong Silkworm, and Tian Lin broke through the four cities in a row, and arrived at Xiping Mansion, the last house of the Xia Kingdom in the Hexi Corridor, and Song won soon.

On September 15, Yu Yunwen hurriedly urged Li Heng, Li Zhongfang, and Jia to attack Xingqing Mansion for 17 times in a row, and it was imperative not to give up Xingqing Mansion to the menacing Mongols. And....... Ye Heng looked at Ye Qing, who was tired and had lost a lot of weight, and after a pause, he still said: "If Li safely surrenders to the Mongols, then we will be equivalent to tossing for more than half a year." ”

Looking at the silent Ye Qing, Ye Heng was a little anxious and wanted to urge, but looking at Ye Qing, who was already exhausted, he couldn't bear it, but if he didn't urge, he couldn't just watch the good situation of Xia Guo and slip away from his hands, right?

Xingqing Mansion may not be so important in itself, in the eyes of the rich Song people, it can be described as a poor city. However, if you look at it from the map, after occupying Xingqing Mansion, it is equivalent to realizing the ideal strategy of Ye Qing's construction, and you can completely rely on Xingqing Mansion located between Helan Mountain, Longshou and Horsehair Mountains to contain all the routes of the Mongols to the south, and completely isolate the Mongols from the Central Plains.

"Of course, I also know that with the current strength in Li Heng's hands, even after capturing Xingqing Mansion, it is not very clear whether they will be able to hold the Mongols with this city, but ...... Just as you analyzed at the beginning, the Mongols' current conquest of the vast grasslands is naturally unstoppable, but Xingqing Mansion is a big city with strong walls after all, as long as Xingqing Mansion is taken while the iron is hot now, relying on this city, and the continuous supply of materials behind us, the Mongols will not be able to besiege Xingqing Mansion at all. Ye Qing, Lord Ye, now is not the time to hesitate....... Ye Heng was extremely anxious in his heart at this time, and he couldn't wait to hold Ye Qing's shoulder, wanting to shake the tired Ye Qing to wake up harder.

The war with the Jin people was like the battle in the summer realm, no matter who it was, they didn't expect that it would last for nearly half a year, and there was no sign of ending.

Even, no one knows how the next war situation will develop, and whether it will continue indefinitely until the end of the world.

The Jin people were defeated in Jinan Mansion, so that Wan Yan Jing had no choice but to put all his focus on the area of Hedong Road, so in the past half a year, the strength of the gods and slaves of Qishilie has never been less than 100,000 people a day.

And on the side of Ye Qing of the Song Dynasty, the strength has always been swaying between 230,000 or 40,000, and every time it is like squeezing toothpaste, watching the troops finally suffer casualties of more than 20,000 people, but at a critical juncture, they can always squeeze out some troops to come to the rescue.

Like Xiao Qiang, who can't be killed, the two sides now don't know how many troops have been thrown into the Yellow River to worship the river god, and even the embankment that was originally unattainable and has complex terrain has now been trampled into a small dirt slope with a gentle slope, even if they are now closed, Song and Jin soldiers can feel their defensive positions very familiarly, but even so, there is still no way to distinguish the winner between the two with a huge disparity in strength.

In the past half a year, the begging stone martyrs have had several opportunities to almost climb the embankment and defeat the Song people, but in the end, it will always be because of the strong combat power that the Song people burst out at the last moment, and then fall short, and it seems that they are always a little bit short of good luck in winning the war.

Similarly, Ye Qing's side was not only passive defense in the past half a year, and secretly took advantage of the darkest moment before dawn to launch several counterattacks with the help of the captured ferry, but the effect was not ideal each time, and it was impossible to repel the Jin people with huge troops and the same tenacity.

The war has reached the present, and the relationship between the begging stone lie gods and slaves and Ye Qing is just like Ye Qing joked: Now in this world, I am afraid that the person who knows me best has changed from the lady in my house to the begging stone lie god slave who hates me to the core.

All kinds of all-encompassing means, insidious and cunning, and shameless methods have been tried on each other, but no one can help each other across a river, and even now, it has been formed that every day when the sky is bright, Ye Qing and the begging stone lie gods and slaves on the opposite side will invariably walk to the embankment, smiling and friendly across the river to have a psychological war with each other, and then after turning his head, his face immediately became gloomy, and with a wave of his big hand, he began to order the army again, Really fight with each other.

"Give up the Hetao Three Roads, right? Jingzhao Mansion is used to guard the gold ....... Ye Heng saw that Ye Qing was still speechless, so he had no choice but to agitate.

"It is impossible to abandon the three roads of the Hetao. Even if we can take the Xia King City, we can't give up here. Tell Li Heng that on October 11, if he can't sit on the chair in the palace of Xingqing Mansion, then let Jia Shi send me his head. Ye Qing looked at the cracks in the tiger's mouth on his hands and said in a deep voice.

The waist knife that Liu Keshi gave to Ye Qing at the beginning had already been scrapped in the battle for half a year, and now, without the waist knife in his hand, he had no choice but to "follow the customs" and pick up the cheapest spear to fight against the Jin people, so the wounds on the left and right hands have never been completely restored in the past two months.

"Okay, I'll send a letter to Li Heng immediately." Ye Heng hurriedly got up and walked to his tent.

It has been nearly two months since he came to the front line, although he has not been on the battlefield in person, but in the past two months, Ye Heng has completely admired Ye Qing.

In several large and small battles in the past two months, at the last moment, or when the Jin people's offensive was the most ferocious, Ye Qing could always be seen leading his eight hundred elite soldiers to join the battle.

At the beginning of the war, Ye Qing's personal guards were only two hundred, but now, Ye Qing's personal guards have reached eight hundred, and the generals under his command, as well as the original Wang Chong, Xie Lun, and Xu Han, have slowly increased to one more Sima Jian, more than two months ago, there was one more Ye Heng who was originally in Yanzhou, and later directly left Qing Wang Zhao Kai and led eight thousand new troops over.

Zhou Zong, the prefect of Luoyang, and Zhang Kui, the prefect of Kaifeng, have been able to deal with the few golden soldiers with ease, which also makes the military judgment, and finally quietly led the troops to the front line of Yanzhou more than a month ago, so that Ye Qing's current strength has reached as many as 40,000 people.

It was also because of the arrival of the military judgment that Ye Qing now had a force of 40,000 for the first time, competing with the troops of as many as 130,000 on the opposite side.

"Immediately pass Lord Ye and ask for a meeting." As Ye Heng had just left for a moment, the sound of a capable judge sounded outside the tent.

waved his hand to signal the guards to let the military judge in, and then he felt a cool breeze sweeping in, and a resolute figure had already gained a firm foothold in front of him.

"What's the matter?" Ye Qing looked at the martial judge who was much better than his own and asked.

"My lord, we can't go on with the Jin people anymore, the time and place are favorable, and in some time, not all of them will be on our side." Wu Juan looked at Ye Qing, who was half-lying and half-lying, worriedly, and his waist was not uncomfortable, but he was pillowing the hard helmet.

"Nonsense, I know it all without you saying it. But at the moment, I haven't figured out a countermeasure, how to defeat the begging stone martyrs in a battle, now whether it is me or him, we already know each other well, and I want to renovate tricks to lure the enemy, but it's too difficult. Ye Qing thumped his somewhat drowsy head, the battle yesterday had not eased him up yet.

"But we can't sit still, although King Qing and Chongguo Gong have already sent us cotton clothes, but ......." Wu Juan looked at Ye Qing, stretched out his hand and pointed outside the tent, and then said: "We can't add a quilt to the Yellow River, once it enters the cold winter and the Yellow River freezes, the Jin people don't have to use ferries anymore, they can drive straight in." ”

"Is this already the case on the other side?" Ye Qing's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly sat up straight and asked.

"The last general thinks so, even if it is not yet, but the last general dares to guarantee that I am afraid that the Jin people will not fight with us to cross the river again, and will definitely wait for the river to freeze, and then fight to the death with us. In these days, the last general observed, and after each battle, the Jin people would immediately fill the river with ferries again the next day, but today is different, not a single ferry is arranged. The last general sent people to investigate the left and right flanks, and the upstream and downstream were also empty, and not a single ferry boat had increased, which was not a good signal, my lord. Wu Juan looked at Ye Qing and said with some confusion.

"In this way, the beggar gods and slaves have made up their minds, and they don't plan to fight with us again before the river freezes...... Take me to see it. Ye Qing stood up and walked out with the martial judge, but just as he was about to walk out of the camp, Ye Heng, who had just gone out not long ago, crashed into Ye Qing's arms, and then Ye Qing's feet were as steady as Mount Tai, but Ye Heng staggered back a few steps and sat on the ground.

"Li Heng's letter, secret letter, I didn't dare to open it, you quickly open it and see if there is something abnormal in Xingqing Mansion." Before Ye Hengren could sit up from the ground, the letter in his hand was handed to Ye Qing.

Wu Juan took a step forward, pulled Ye Heng up with one hand, took the letter with the other hand and handed it to Ye Qing, just when he was about to bow his head to open the letter, the sound of horses' hooves sounded in his ears again, and the herald from Yanzhou handed Ye Qing a letter that was also marked with a secret letter: Lanzhou Yu Yunwen's secret letter, please take a look.

"What's wrong with Lanzhou? How is this possible? Could this be a coincidence? Or is there really something unusually critical in the summer realm? Ye Heng was frightened by the five words of Lanzhou Yu Yunwen, jumped three feet high, and hurriedly looked at the herald in a panic and asked.

Ye Qing frowned: "How old are you, can you be more steady, you are suspected of disturbing the morale of the army before the battle." ”

"Then you should open it and take a look." Ye Heng didn't have time to care about Ye Qing's impoliteness to him as an elder at this time, and his whole mind was focused on the two secret letters in Ye Qing's hand and said.

"Look as you go." Ye Qing looked at the secret letter on his left and right hands, then waved his hand, and continued to signal the military judge to lead the way, Ye Heng was like a fart, tightly urging Ye Qing to hurry up and see what was said in the letter.