At this time, Xiao Tang did not know what had happened in Tongyu County of the Weisheng Army, and several party tribes that had entered Kou Qian gathered, and he led the officers and soldiers to rush back to help, and rushed to the Huyan Mountain area west of Taiyuan Mansion to join forces with Wang Huan and Han Cunbao's troops and horses to resist the Xia tribes who planned to burn and loot in the north of Hedong Road again.

The invasion and plundering of foreign nomadic tribes was naturally more serious than the invasion of villages by strongmen in the Great Song Dynasty to "borrow grain". After all, although there are many strongmen who gather to be thieves, even if they are Tian Hu and others who want to rebel and divide the territory, and deliberately send thieves to set fire to houses and cultivate fields, forcing the people to have no way to find a way to find a way to go, so that as long as the court in the Song State is properly pacified, the degree of harm is also within the controllable range, and the nomadic tribes of the Xia State patted their butts in the Song Dynasty and then returned to their homeland, and most of the time the officials and soldiers can only be vigilant, but cannot completely eliminate such hidden dangers.

"Those party tribes in the Xia country are actually nothing great, but the guys can fight if they can fight, and the enemy can flee, which is good at riding and shooting and is mainly nomadic, once they flee in all directions, they can escape, but they can't chase it, if they can't gather and annihilate it, they will hurt his fur at most, not to mention that now watching the movement of the Xia thieves, that gang of birds seems to be going to take a detour, not fighting desperately with our army, as long as they invade the state and seize the county everywhere and drag down our people......"

In the tent, Yao Pingzhong, who had rich experience in fighting with the Xia army, was telling Xiao Tang about the tactics that the nomadic tribes of the Xia people were good at, and before Xiao Tang could speak, Hu Yanzhuo, who was beside him, immediately asked for his life and said: "Rao is a Xia thief can ride and shoot well, not to boast, the three thousand strong horses I have worked hard to select and train in Runing County may not be lost to those nomadic tribes." It is to raise troops for a thousand days and use them for a while, since this time it is to intercept the Xia people's roundabout attack, and the last general is willing to fight for the first success. ”

Yao Pingzhong glanced at Hu Yanzhuo, but he shook his head and said: "In the past, when our military brigade fought with the Xia people, we either relied on building walls and fortifications, or set up battle formations with foot bows, because my Great Song Dynasty was short of horses, and Huyan commanded a state military division but there were 3,000 horse troops, which was far better than the configuration of the ordinary state government command division to prohibit the army and horse army, but 3,000 sons and 3,000 war horses, and the rest of the state capital army Sima military camps were enough to allocate war horses, and it was not uncommon for the full camp of 300 horse troops to have only one or two hundred old thin horses. However, all the men and women of the party can ride and shoot, Hugh said that it is the elite of the Xia army, and an ordinary herdsman has three or four or even five horses to rotate and ride, so that its advantages such as defeated army, no grain road, and roundabout strikes can be brought into full play.

Among the 3,000 horse army under Huyan's command, there are also 1,000 heavy cavalry equipped with armor, even if the charge can be as long as the Xia army's heavy cavalry iron harrier, but the Xia thief light cavalry comes and goes, if the other party has no intention of charging head-on with the heavy cavalry under Huyan's command? The light cavalry army set up by each army in my Great Song Dynasty is to be randomly moved, and it must be coordinated by foot and horse, if it is only one or two Xia tribes, but now there are many Xia thief tribes and horse armies headed by Yinzhou Qiaobian Village, and Huyan wants to use cavalry to control cavalry, but I am afraid that it will be dragged down by Xia Shengsheng. ”

"This ......" Hu Yanzhuo was choked by Yao Pingzhong for a while, and he didn't know where to start, it is said that the descendants of Hu Yanzan, the founding general of the Great Song Dynasty, are keen on cavalry tactics, how can they not know the advantages and disadvantages of the horse army's heavy cavalry and light cavalry in the face of various war situations? It's just that the army is impermanent, and Hu Yanzhuo just wants to be the first to ask for battle, and then act according to the situation, but Yao Pingzhong didn't save him any face, and he wanted to accuse Hu Yanzhuo of asking for war in public.

Xiao Tang has been with Yao Pingzhong for a long time, and he can roughly figure out his temperament, this kid gets along well with the people he can see, but as soon as he comes up, Tong Guan and other powerful people will not take it seriously, not to mention Hu Yanzhuo, the commander of the military department in other states? After all, Yao Pingzhong and Hu Yanzhuo were also discussing how to eliminate all the party departments that had invaded Hedong Prefecture, so Xiao Tang coughed lightly, and immediately said: "What Yao Dujian said is very true, but Hu Yan's command is dedicated to serving the country, his heart is commendable, and if he thinks of a comprehensive strategy first, the 3,000 horse army under your command will definitely be of great use." ”

Xiao Jiasui also nodded when he heard this: "Where you know the war, on the day you know the war, you can fight for thousands of miles." Although he killed the Xiongling Guan Metropolitan Supervisor in Taiyuan Mansion the previous time, he killed the party Xiang Qiaobianzhai, but the rest of the Xia army still escaped most of them by taking advantage of the horse war. If we want to treat both the symptoms and the root causes, and sweep them all away as soon as possible, the most important thing now is how to arrange soldiers and horses to drag down the summer thieves. ”

And Xiao Tang had a detailed discussion with the generals and confidants in the handsome tent, and suddenly a military official came to report that the post officer issued a gold medal document, and there was an important military situation to report to the marshal. Xiao Tang's heartstrings moved, and he said that the affairs of the post station in the Song Dynasty were all managed and dispatched by the Privy Council of the Imperial Court and the Ministry of War, and the various ministries and departments under his rule were in charge of the post post statutes, personnel deployment, and horse delivery. The gold medal post arrived with military intelligence documents, and there must be very important military operations in the Bianjing court or other military states to report to him immediately.

Xiao Tang hurriedly took the document presented by the military officer, opened it and read it carefully, and the expression on his face gradually relaxed.

"I see...... After all, the entry of foreign thieves and chieftains into the country is different from the bandits and thieves in the country, and the imperial court has also prepared to use troops against the Xia State. ”

Xiao Tang groaned, then stood up, and said loudly to the generals and henchmen in the tent: "Now that the summer thieves are defeated, it is just around the corner to be able to return the peace and happiness of the people of Hedong." ”

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"Woo~~~~"

On the west side of the Huyan Mountain, on the bank of the Wenshui River, there was a desolate sound of horns, followed by the heart-pounding sound of hoops and the sound of horses' hooves like dense drums, and several groups of nomads dressed in party costumes were roaming around, and several large felt tents were erected on a flat land not far from the riverside.

A melodious and passionate party folk song echoed around the felt tent, and several tribal leaders sitting in the big tent couldn't help but echo it. A man about fifty years old who sat at the top of the tribe suddenly clapped his palms, and the singing gradually subsided, and everyone looked towards the head of the tribe.

At this time, there was a soothed foot, Xia people called a soothed sooth into the felt tent, he had blood stains on his body, exuding a fishy smell, this soothsayer held a charred sheep spleen bone in his hand, and said to the head: "The white stone god is above, the wild leader of the chaos, I have done divination with Bajiao, calculation, and curse sheep... We have been away from our hometown for a long time, and the Song people have a large army waving, if we still want to entangle and fight, I am afraid that there will be great danger......"

Western Xia highly admires superstition, in such a season, most of the party and the people believe in ghosts, still curses, and ask for divination in case of trouble, which can be said to be the fashion of the Xia country, and every time the army is sent out, it is necessary to ask the good luck and evil in advance. And when he heard that the diviner said that fighting with the Song army would lead to a great murder, the leaders of the other tribes in the felt tent looked at the elder of the party who was called the leader of the wild rebellion, and their expressions were also very complicated.

The brooding Wild Chaos Kui slowly opened his eyes again, and the light in his eyes seemed to be slightly gone, he sneered and said, "Lady Xiao, you said that it is unlucky to use the sword again, but is this the will of the White Stone Heavenly God, or is it the intention of you and the leaders?" ”