Liu Keshi, who is in Pingliang Town, has been busy recently, and he must personally preside over and inquire about all the cumbersome and complicated logistics matters, plus several captured cities, and he also needs to send officials to appease the people, so today's Liu Keshi is almost equivalent to Yu Yunwen's deputy envoy, and he will report to Yu Yunwen here, and he will immediately start to implement it.

But after Han Yanzhou arrived in Lanzhou, Liu Keshi instantly felt a cool breeze on the back of his neck, and he was afraid that Han Yanzhou would suddenly come to inspect Pingliang Town in the name of the imperial court, and then follow him to snatch the power in his hands.

Although today's dispatch and official position are already senior officials of the fourth grade, in front of today's Zuo Prime Minister Han Yanxuan, he is not a weighty official at all, but now he is the most powerful official in the entire Xia territory, except for Yu Yunwen.

Therefore, once Han Yanxuan arrived in Pingliang Town, he pointed fingers in front of him, or asked his entourage to cooperate with him to appease the people, he Liu Keshi really had no way at all.

After all, after all, he is the left minister of the imperial court, and whether it is Ye Qing, Yu Yunwen, or he Liu Keshi, nominally, he is still an official who obeys the dispatch of the Song court.

After explaining that in the past six months, after several officials who had been trained in Pingliang Town were sent on some occasions, Liu Keshi, who had always liked to spend the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, immediately led two hundred guards to slip away, preparing to change to other places to avoid the limelight.

Li Heng, Li Zhongfang, and Jia She's side don't have to worry about him much, not to mention Zhongwei, Jingtai, and Xingqing Mansion, which is negotiating peace, even after taking it, with Li Heng guarding and pacifying, plus the few officials he sent yesterday, it should be enough to deal with the nobles and clans of the Xia Kingdom.

Therefore, Liu Keshi, who thought about it for a while, set his sights on Liangzhou, and according to his plan, he started from Liangzhou and went westward, all the way to the west, and finally arrived at Xiping Mansion, so that he could not only avoid Han Yanxuan's possible difficulties for himself, but also be able to settle down in Xiping Mansion and do something that might happen.

Liangzhou and Jinzhou traveled all the way, whether it was the heavy city of Ganzhou or Yumen, or the sandbar closest to Xiping Mansion, they were carefully inspected by Liu Keshi in the past month or so.

Ganzhou is naturally the top priority, as an important source of war horse supply, Liu Keshi naturally redoubled his attention, although it is already the cold winter season, the entire northwest is already desolate, but looking at the horses, cattle, sheep, and even taller camels in Wuyang, Liu Keshi's heart instantly has a sense of pride.

On October 10, the fourth year of Shaoxi, on the way to the front line with the convoy of grain and grass supplies set out from Shazhou by Liu Keshi, he finally received the news about Xingqing Mansion in his heart.

Li An'an, who had only been on the throne for three months from the hands of Emperor Li Chunyou of the Xia Kingdom, finally led Su Dao and other Xia ministers out of the city to surrender, and opened the city gate to welcome the Song army into the city.

On October 11 of the fourth year of Shaoxi, Liu Keshi, who arrived at the city of Xiping Mansion, watched Mo Xiaobao, Zhong Silkworm, and Tian Lin attack Xiping Mansion again, and Li Heng at this time had already led the Song army into Xingqing Mansion and occupied the palace, and Li An'an and others were also imprisoned in the palace.

The Song army began to appease the people, receiving the entire city defense and the surrender of the Xia army, and the entire Xingqing Mansion began to implement a curfew under Li Heng's order, and anyone who dared to go to the streets would be killed.

"The Song people captured Xingqing Mansion." Qiu Chuji didn't care about the etiquette that the Mongols were beginning to rise now, and in the face of the heavy snow, he plunged into the tent of the king of Temujin and hurriedly said: "It suddenly began to snow a few days ago, which hindered the speed of our march, and the remnants of the Xia people have been stubbornly resisting, and we are still ...... Xingqing Mansion To attack or not to attack? ”

In the silence of the Mongol king's tent, most of the generals who followed Temujin on his expedition to the east and west turned their eyes to the fuselage of the mound with cold cheeks, and Temujin sat behind the desk, not saying a word.

"Ye Qing is the enemy in his life." Temujin was silent for a moment before he spoke in a deep voice.

At the beginning, when Ye Qing and Temujin attacked the summer together, whether it was Temujin, or the generals on both sides of the tent, or Mu Huali and Borshu, they actually thought of the possibility that Xingqing Mansion would let Ye Qing take the lead.

But even so, whether it is Temujin or Qiu Chuji, even Mu Huali and Borshu, who have been in the territory of the Liao State at the beginning, and the terrain of the city is like a bamboo, in fact, they have always had a lucky idea in their hearts, that is, they still have seven points of certainty in their hearts that they can seize Xingqing Mansion before Ye Qing.

But in the end, because of the sudden heavy snowfall, they lost all the opportunities to capture Xingqing Mansion before the Song people, but because of the war with the Sixteen Supervisors of the Xia People, they finally made a wedding dress for Ye Qing, which reduced the pressure on Ye Qing to attack Xingqing Mansion.

If Temujin had not been tempted by the situation of internal strife in Xia, then Ye Qing would never have been able to attack the city of Xiqingfu so easily, even if he attacked the city of Xingqingfu, but as long as the Xia people still held the sixteen prison divisions, then it would be enough to calmly deal with the offensive of the Song people, and Li An'an, who had successfully usurped the throne, would never have left the city and surrendered to the Song people so quickly.

But the final result was that Temujin helped Ye Qing contain all the troops of the Sixteen Prison Divisions, so that the Song Dynasty could take advantage of the opportunity to seize Xingqing Mansion in one fell swoop.

The grasslands guarded by the sixteen superintendents of the Xia people were not unusual to the Mongols, after all, there were countless vast and fertile grasslands behind them, and this grassland of the Xia people was not rare at all.

Naturally, they hoped to get a piece of the soup when Xia and Jin were fighting, hoping to capture Xingqing Mansion, the city they valued the most.

Whether in the eyes of the Mongols or in the eyes of the Song people, Xingqing Mansion is not only a place for soldiers to fight, but also because the Xia people's forging of weapons and armor is the reason why the Mongols and Temujin are the most popular and want to take it for themselves.

Once the Xia people had siege weapons, weapons, armor and other equipment, Temujin could make his campaign strategy more flexible after conquering the Liao State, but after losing the opportunity to occupy Xingqing Mansion, everything had to be forged by their own hands, which was obviously far less fast and convenient than plundering.

"Ye Qing is unkind, then don't blame me for being unjust." Temujin clenched his fists tightly and slammed them on the desk, and there was a bang in the silent tent, as if it had slammed into everyone's hearts, and everyone who was frightened, including Qiu Chuji, couldn't help but shake his whole body.

"Immediately blockade the city of Kedun, and never allow any Liao people to enter Xiping Mansion from now on, especially ......." Temujin raised his head, his cheeks were covered with iron blue, and after a pause, he continued: "Strictly search for the whereabouts of Yeluyue, the princess of Liao, and the remnants of the Wild Army, no matter who it is, as long as you catch her, you will be rewarded with a thousand heads of cattle and sheep!" Ten thousand taels of gold and silver! ”

When he and Ye Qing helped Liao together, Temujin passed through Xiping Mansion of Xia State with Ye Qing, Qishilie Zhushennu, and Su Dao, and then entered Kedun City on the border of Liao State, so when Temujin decided to attack Xia with Ye Qing, he had already begun to order people to go south and seize Kedun City, which bordered Liao and Xia.

At the beginning, even Qiu Chuji didn't understand why Temujin did this, why he didn't keep going west and take the Liao King City, but now it seems that Temujin did not hesitate to slow down the pace of conquering the Liao King City, and also took the only Kedun City in the Liao State that can enter the Xia Kingdom, which was premeditated.

Temujin had a back hand from the beginning, although he didn't know whether a woman was so important to him in the eyes of a tyrant like Ye Qing now, but at the beginning, Qiu Chuji always thought that Ye Qing was by no means a ruthless and unrighteous person's words, and finally made him make up his mind that no matter what, he would capture Princess Yeluyue alive.

As for whether he can blackmail Ye Qing, Temujin doesn't know, Qiu doesn't know, but no matter what, for Ye Qing, as long as Princess Liao is captured alive by him Temujin, it will make Ye Qing a little jealous.

In the Mongolian king's tent, the atmosphere was very solemn as if he had lost a battle, and under the city of Xiping Mansion, Liu Keshi was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, so far, he only saw the battle so tragic that his legs were a little weak, but he didn't find where the three main generals Mo Xiaobao, Zhong Silkworm, and Tian Lin were.

Therefore, at this time, Liu Keshi, in the Song army's somewhat empty siege camp, as long as he saw the soldiers of the Song army, he immediately let the front pull people's sleeves and asked urgently: "Are there any Liao people in the camp?" ”

"Have you seen a Liao merchant travel in the past few days, or a very beautiful woman passing by?"

"Are there a large number of Liao people coming from Xiping Mansion?"

"Are there any Liao people in Xiping Mansion, do you know?"

The entire camp was about to be turned over by Liu Keshi, but everyone he asked shook their heads silently, I don't know if this adult has a brain disease, and now there is a siege battle going on outside, he doesn't go to the front line to supervise the battle and support, he is looking for a woman here!

"Where are the three generals Mo Xiaobao, Zhong Silkworm, and Tian Lin now?" Liu Keshi looked at the gate of the camp with some despair, grabbed the arm of the soldier who was carrying the wailing soldier on the stretcher, and asked anxiously again.

The soldier on the stretcher was unable to answer his words at all, and the whole person's attention was on his injured leg, but the man carrying the stretcher looked at Liu Keshi, and then pointed to the battle in front of him with his chin, and said: "The three adults are attacking the city, and they are under the banner of Shuai." ”

After finishing speaking, he ignored Liu Keshi, and quickly ran to the camp with the wounded soldiers.

Liu Keshi looked at the direction pointed by the people's chins, there were quite a few banners of the Song army, densely packed like the sound of fighting that had been ringing in his ears, and it was impossible to determine which one was the real handsome banner.

"This ...... Is it true that you want to go to the battlefield again? Liu Keshi was so anxious that he scratched his ears and cheeks, looked at the two hundred guards behind him, and then looked at the battlefield in front of him, and finally gritted his teeth and stomped his feet: "Go, immediately rush into the battlefield with me and find someone." ”

Two hundred and one war horses kicked up countless dusts, like sharp arrows, and plunged headlong towards the battlefield under the city of Xingping Mansion, which seemed to be very close, but was actually far away, and where a tragic battle was taking place.