At that time, the Zhenwu City built by Liu Fayi Mountain along the river was used as the advance fortress of the Song army to advance into Xiajin. The location of Zhenwu City and the Song army in northern Shaanxi and Longyou can form a flank attack on Western Xia, but now when the Xia army occupies the advantage of strategic initiative, this city built in the mountain gorge has geographical advantages and dangers, but it is also very difficult in the transfer of grain and wages. Brother Cha suddenly ordered his troops and horses to counterattack, but when he saw that he could capture this city, the main general of the Xia army, who was about to shake the army, led his troops to retreat.

Because the Xia army that attacked Zhenwu City had already received the military order passed by Brother Cha: "Don't break this city, it's better to keep it as a sick block of the Southern Dynasty." ”

The strategic-minded Cha Ge also considered that if his side took the initiative in the war, leaving Zhenwu City in front of the geographical location would be able to contain the Song army, and at the same time tested that since Liu Fa's fiasco, most of the rest of the Song army tended to be on the defensive, and at this time, there was no aggressive momentum when he entered the hinterland of Xia some time ago.

It was he who was able to rest assured that he would lead the main force to move south and continue to form an encirclement of the Song army under Xiao Tang.

However, it is said that Xiao Tang led his troops to fight with the Xia army and the cavalry who were entangled all the way, and finally rushed to a fortress built by the Song army eighty miles north of Lanzhou Mansion, and the Chinese army commander's tent was set up on the high hill in the middle of this military village, and the horse infantry army commanded the camp tent to guard the Chinese army in turn, in addition to the outer part of the city wall with a number of broken city walls and fenced defense, and several battalions of crossbowmen were deployed to look at the watchtowers at the four corners. The other troops also walked around according to Wang Jin's arrangement, firmly guarding the Chinese army. After establishing a camp here, the cavalry battalion of the Song army also sent several teams of sentinels to scout the outposts every day. While sending a message to the southern Song realm, he tried to make the quickest response when the army led by Cha Ge moved south.

At the location of the crack in the city wall, several battalions of soldiers were moving earth and stones to repair the hole. Stoves were also set up in the walled city, and the soldiers of the various battalions who had been fighting for a long time could finally eat a steaming meal.

Although the army has been temporarily rested, Xiao Tang's face is still very solemn, under the siege of several armies of the Xia army, now Hao Siwen and Han Tao under his command are trapped in the enemy army, and the generals of the other departments are more or less with light or severe wounds.

For example, Guan Sheng, who was hit by the enemy's cold arrow during the breakout, was finally able to rest and treat the arrow wound, at this time the armor on his body had been removed, and another military member was helping him apply the golden medicine powder and scrub the wound, although Guan Sheng was silent, his red face was sallow and yellow, and the sharp arrow that hit his right arm was a triangular arrow cluster, which was not only difficult to heal, but also caused by wound infection in this era without antibiotics is also very likely to be fatal and serious. Therefore, it would be a blessing if Guan Sheng's arrow wound could be healed for a period of time, and in order to avoid the arrow sore wound bursting, in the short term, Xiao Tang's command would also lose the combat power of a fierce general.

After visiting Guan Sheng's injuries, Xiao Tang, who had no chance to talk to Wu Song in detail about the urgency of the war before, was finally able to have a long talk with his sworn brother in private at this time.

Under the fierce battle, Wu Song's majestic body was wrapped in a blood-stained white cloth. He, a fierce and happy man, has been sharpened by several killings in the past few years, and at this time he is more like an iron-blooded soldier who has survived a hundred battles, although he is also scarred and injured, but Wu Song still remembers Liu Fa's injury in his heart, so he said to Xiao Tang: "Although Liu Jingluo fainted several times along the way, now the Zhai family brothers and Zhu Xianggong take turns to take care of him, but fortunately, there is no danger of life now." ”

Wu Song paused, then lowered his voice, and said: "Brother Xiao Tang, Rao is a son of the border court army who is willing to repay the country with his life, but the court and the middle are treacherous and evil to seize power, and those guys use the means to make the loyal and upright cadres of the country be imprisoned and framed.

When he was surrounded by summer thieves in the mountains, Liu Jingluo had the will to die, and he also told me that Rao was able to save his life this time, and Tong Guan's eunuch eliminated dissidents...... Although I know some martial arts, I am just a rough man, I can't deal with that traitor in the court like your brother, and now Brother Zhishen, Po Han Wu and others are also doing great things with you in the green forest, how to protect Liu Jing at that time, but it is up to you to think of a good strategy. ”

Xiao Tang slowly bowed his head and said: "Second Brother Wu can rest assured that Liu Jingluo is famous in the border court and famous in the army, but he is just a big man, and he is not willing to climb the power and be driven by the eunuch to meet Tong Guanna, who is a strong man in the army, and I don't want them to be fish on the chopping board of power rape, like Liu Jingluo, how can I let him be manipulated by power rape...... It's just that judging from the current situation, it is not too late to discuss Liu Jingluo's matter in the long run. ”

Wu Song also knew that the war situation was urgent, so he groaned slightly, and said: "Brother, when we are born and die, we only hate that the traitor will miss the state affairs. Now the situation of the war is turning around, but it will fall on us and others. In your opinion, our army is outnumbered, how should we resist the enemy at this time? ”

Xiao Tang was silent for a moment, suddenly smiled bitterly, and said: "Now the military brigade deployed on the West Road, except for the soldiers and horses under my command, the rest of the forbidden army are all controlled by Tong Guan, Liu Jingluo was not harmed by the Xia army, and I can also say that it is a good thing to spoil Tong Guan." The defeat of the Shuo side and the Xia army counterattacked vigorously, and Tong Guan also had a reason to turn a blind eye and close an eye, and strictly ordered the troops deployed in Hehuang and Ganlong to shrink the front line to defend... However, our army was isolated for a while, but we could not blindly retreat, behind our army was the county and town of Junzhou under the rule of Xihe Road, if the Xia army took advantage of the situation to advance all the way south, I don't know how many border soldiers and civilians would be slaughtered by the enemy......"

According to Xiao Tang's thoughts, according to the historical records, there were many battles between the Song court and the Xia Kingdom, both sides spent a lot of manpower and financial resources, and in the east road of the old Xianggong Division's troops and horses into the Hengshan land, the Xia State facing the loss of the barrier was already in an absolutely passive situation strategically, but with the failure of the plan of the Song army to take Shuo Fang on the west road, Brother Cha took advantage of the victory to defend as an attack, so that the Xia State took advantage of the favorable situation of the big victory to ask the Song Dynasty for peace again. The Song court, which had a very serious consumption of military salaries and military expenses, had no choice but to accept the proposal of the Xia State to stop the war, and Tong Guan concealed the responsibility of the defeat and reversed the victory of the imperial court, becoming the biggest beneficiary of this war......

As for Liu Fa, the famous general of the Western Army, countless Song soldiers and soldiers who died heroically in the siege of the Xia army, and the nearly 100,000 soldiers and civilians of the Song Dynasty in the border court slaughtered by Cha Ge when he took advantage of the situation to counterattack, Tong Guan also walked on the road paved with corpses and bones, and took another step closer to his goal of being canonized.

Even if the Song army can fully occupy the Hengshan land of the Xia State, the Song court will soon turn its attention to the Fangla Uprising that broke out in the south of the Yangtze River, and how to conspire with the rising Jin State in the northeast of the Liao Territory to attack the Liao State, and in the matter of taking the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, the elite of the Western Army will also be transferred to the south of the Yangtze River and the east of the Hedong Province successively, and there is no energy to plan to annex the entire territory of the Xia State.

And now Xiao Tang thinks that he can save Liu Fa, so that this famous general of the Western Army in the border area will no longer hate the battlefield according to the original trajectory, but Brother Cha has begun to take advantage of the victory and wave his army south, can he save the tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the border court from the fate of being slaughtered by the Xia army?