When Xiao Tang and Cai Yan went to Yan'an Mansion to rectify for a few days under the response of Pei Zhong, Wu Jue and other generals, and then set off north to enter the boundary of Suide Prefecture, some military officials sent a battle report from the front, saying that the generals such as Yao Pingzhong, Yang Keshi, and Qu Ke led by the seed master Dao and the seed master to build a Xi city on the side of the Hulu River, and on the other hand, they were facing the Xia army that led the army to attack on both sides of the river; Liu Fafa led Kang Jiong, Zhu Dingguo and other generals to lead their troops to attack the west side of Hengshan Mountain in Xia State; Liu Zhongwu commanded the Jingnan Army in Hedong and Jiazhou on the west bank of the Yellow River; Tong Guan gathered several troops and horses to occupy Zhenrong Prefecture (now Guyuan City, Ningxia) on the western front, preparing to fully capture Hengshan, the barrier of the Xia Kingdom.

When the group of chariots rushed to Linxia City, the whole army was already sleepy and lacking horses. Coincidentally, "Boom! It was another great thunderclap that shook the heavens and the earth, and the ground trembled like a tremble, and then the raindrops the size of beans poured down, and the militia men scolded bitterly, "This thief does not choose a good time when it rains," while struggling to drive the cattle and vehicles full of clothes and grain and grass in the muddy road. The officers escorting the escort ran before and after the chariot to give orders and maintain order, so that the convoy could rush into the city as soon as possible.

The fiery red horse under his crotch suddenly snorted, it was uneasily stepping on the spot with its hooves, Xiao Tang's battle helmet was also being beaten by the rain, and the cloak he was wrapped around had also been completely wet by the rain, but Xiao Tangwu stood on his own horse, stopped and looked at the Linxia city in front of him, which was not very large, and then looked westward, staring at the outline of the vague and hazy Hengshan mountain forest a few miles away.

The fog envelops the mountain, the mountain locks the fog, not to mention the thousands of peaks and ravines in the mountain, and the terrain is very complicated, which adds a layer of illusory and ethereal veil to the dangerous mountain. Xiao Tang said in his heart that this is a corner of Hengshan that the Xia Kingdom relies on, every time the Song and Xia wars, the Hengshan tribes enter the Kou in a big way, and they must be the vanguard, and how many soldiers and horses of the Xia Kingdom are sneaking ambushes in Hengshan at this time?

At this time, Wu Jue also braved the rain and rode his horse, rushed to Xiao Tang, and hurriedly crossed his hands as a salute, and said: "Xiao Jieshuai has worked hard! The matter of the capital prisoner being escorted into the city was not taken care of by the escort army, and Xiao Jieshuai was invited to enter the city to rest first. ”

"I am also a soldier who has been in the military for a long time, and my body is not so expensive. Cai Xianggong has already entered the city and made arrangements? ”

After listening to Wu Jue's response, Xiao Tang turned his head and asked him again: "Commander Wu, although I am not from the western army of the border court, I have also heard for a long time that the Hengshan tribe is scattered in the rock valley and controls the dangerous places, and the tribesmen go up and down the hillside and in and out of the stream, and they are even more fierce and good at fighting, and you are an official from Jingyuan Road, and you have more experience in fighting with the Xia army. As you can see, will the enemy attack the hinterland of our army by relying on the geographical advantage? ”

Wu Jue's face froze, and he raised his head again, just as he saw Xiao Tang looking at him with burning eyes, he also knew that the Xiao Jieshuai in front of him, who was famous in the Great Song Dynasty military circles, was not as foolish as Cai Ying, who avoided swords and swords, so he also said frankly: "How dare you hide anything from Xiao Jieshuai?" Judging from the last general, it is not impossible to do so, and the Xia thief used his troops to make good use of the trick of outflanking our army's rear road. But now that our Great Song Dynasty soldiers are approaching the Xia Realm in three ways, if the enemy army crosses the mountains and mountains to attack the Zhuzhai of Suidezhou, the guys will have to delay even greater danger. First, our army is based on the method of encroachment on the land of Zhangzhuang Jiangong, after all, the Xia army does not have an advantage in strength, and it is inevitable that the multi-front battle will be overstretched, and secondly, it is adjacent to Hedong Road in the north and Yan'an Mansion in the south. ”

Xiao Tang shook his head after hearing this, and said leisurely: "But all the fighters win with the right and the odd, and now most of the heavy supplies of the soldiers and horses on the eastern front of our army are also stationed in Linxia City, Kerong Village and other military towns...... If you want to gather troops and horses to raid the villages of Suidezhou, it can also achieve miraculous results. ”

The raindrops slipped from the edge of Wu Jue's battle helmet, and Xiao Tang couldn't see Wu Jue's expression for a while, but after a while, he heard Wu Jue suddenly speak: "If you are not the commander of the Xia army, you may plan to surprise the rear of the enemy army in this situation." ”

Xiao Tang shook his head when he heard this, and he now knew what Wu Jue really thought in his heart, the Xia army had always been better at sports attacks and disturbances than the Song army with the advantages of mountain infantry and archery and horse army, and in the previous Song and Xia wars, the Song State also had a headache because of the Xia army's encirclement and roundabout attack style. It was not until the Yuan You period that Zhang Qi, a famous minister who was both talented and civil and military, proposed the strategic policy of combining fortress tactics and shallow attack tactics to combine them and cyclically encroach on the borders of the Xia State according to the Song Dynasty's many years of combat experience, that the Song army gradually suppressed the Xia State in the battle situation and occupied a dominant advantage.

It's just that since avoiding the real and winning by surprise is the style of play that the Xia army is very good at using, Linxia City in Suidezhou is now regarded as the rear military important place of the Song army to attack the Xia State, although the Xia army had to gradually shrink the defense line under the encirclement of the Song army, but the Song-Xia front stretched for hundreds of miles, and the Xia army took advantage of the fact that the main force of the Song army gradually devoured the Hengshan barrier, and copied the possibility of stabbing the enemy in the rear...... It's not for nothing.

"Pass the order, teach the officers and soldiers of the three armies to be on strict alert, Cai Xianggong and the Eastern Front grain and grass hoarding here, and there must be no room for loss."

Xiao Tang gave the order, and then breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "If the summer thief doesn't come, it will be too peaceful, but if you really plan to sneak attack the villages of Suidezhou by taking a detour...... Anyway, I can be taught to be able to come in handy, and I will not wait here for the good news of the generals of the Western Army, so I have to give in to my desire to make contributions in the border court. ”

Listening to Xiao Tang's leisurely sigh, there seemed to be a flash of light between Wu Jue's eyes, he raised his head slightly and glanced at Xiao Tang, who was looking at Hengshan from afar, and the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned.

At this time, the torrential rain gradually stopped, but suddenly there was a terrible eagle roar in the long sky, and a goshawk pierced through the sky and swept a few laps in midair. The goshawk flew quickly from a height of several hundred zhang above the head of the Song army chariot that was slowly driving into Linxia City, and when it soared to the deep valley of the rainy and misty Hengshan Mountain, it suddenly gathered its wings and swooped down.

In the depths of the dense forest of Hengshan, several figures suddenly appeared, and those men were all in braided hair and wearing large brown felt, and one of them stood up and stretched out his right arm with a leather gauntlet, and the goshawk fluttered its wings while sticking out two claws and landed firmly on his right hand.

The man's face was gloomy, and he used his pair of eyes as sharp as a goshawk to pass through the deep valley and mountain forest, and looked at the outline of Linxia City and the large number of Song military chariots that had entered the city for a moment, and then let the eagle climb on his shoulder, and then took off the bamboo tube tied to the eagle's feet. The man took out a piece of paper and wrote a dozen Xixia characters on the paper, then stuffed the paper into a bamboo tube and tied it to the eagle's foot, and waved his arms to make the goshawk spread its wings and fly west again.

The man immediately ordered a few people behind him: "Inform the leaders of the five departments of Hengshan that the dispatched infantry and capture troops have arrived at the boundary of Jingbian, and teach them to lead the sons and daughters of the subordinates to act in coordination with the army...... The report of the spies in Suide Prefecture was not bad, the Song army not only put a large amount of grain and grass in Linxia City, but it seems that several of the main generals transferred were also respected figures in the Song army. ”