"What you stammered just now, you say it carefully!"

Only then did the scout open his eyes and see that the person in front of him was a general, and he hurriedly straightened out his breathing, and then he smiled excitedly and shouted again. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Good news! Huanzhou victory! Huanzhou Tongyuan Army defeated Xia Army! Under the leadership of Yang Houye, Tong Guan Tong Jian Army and Yang Shihu Yang, the Huanzhou Tongyuan Army defeated the elite of the 20,000 Xia Army of the Western Xia Jingsai Army with 3,000 defenders, killed more than 6,000 enemies, captured more than 10,000 people, and the rest of the remnants of the Xia army fled from Huanzhou! ”

"What? Kill 6,000 enemies and capture more than 10,000? You kid ran out of confusion, didn't you?! ”

The officials were also overjoyed at first when they heard this good news, but in addition to joy, they also felt that something was wrong, and after listening to the scouts of the border army who sent the good news, they understood what was wrong with this military report.

The border army of the Great Song Dynasty has always had the bad habit of falsely reporting the results of the battle, killing four or five Xia troops, they lied that they had killed more than 100 enemies, and if they captured twenty or thirty Xia troops, they dared to say that they had captured 300.

Anyway, the emperor is far away in that place, and it is impossible for officials to stretch their hands to such a far place, and the high-ranking officials who are used to enjoying it will not really go to that kind of difficult place to verify on the spot, and they have always known that the generals of the border army or those supervising troops like to exaggerate their merits by at least ten times.

And the imperial court, it will not really deal with these border army officials, people are suffering in the northwest, it is understandable to invite more credit, and the imperial court is not short of that bit of reward, as for what vain positions, it will be more, and it has nothing to do with the overall situation.

Another point is that those in power since ancient times like to exaggerate their own merits, and the soldiers under their hands can make more military exploits, as if they also have light on their faces, and even the saints of the ages have praised their merits a hundred times, and now the soldiers of the border army are only exaggerating ten times, which is not much.

But the problem is that the good news of the Tongyuan army is too exaggerated, 3,000 people fought 20,000 people, not to mention the victory, but also killed 6,000 enemies and captured more than 10,000 prisoners, even if the real situation is calculated according to the shrinkage of ten times, it is still 600 enemies killed and more than 1,000 prisoners.

This kind of credit is not big or small, because Song Xia has fought so many battles over the years, and there have not been many great victories, and such results are already very outstanding.

But here's the problem, the Jingsai army dispatched 20,000 elites to force Huanzhou, which is the news that the scouts from many other border states and counties have returned, and it seems that this matter is true.

The 3,000 soldiers of the Tongyuan Army are dealing with the 20,000 elites of the Xia Army, even if they defend the city, it is impossible to win, and as for such things as beheading the enemy and capturing them, it is even more unreasonable.

Therefore, many of the civil and military officials present began to ponder, maybe this is because Yang Huairen has no experience, so he is overblowing, or Huanzhou has fallen, and this scout who came to report the good news is a spy, all of which is a strategy of the Xixia people.

In any case, they don't believe it anyway, and in the opinion of several bigwigs in the Privy Council, this good news is at least seven points untrustworthy.

Seeing that the officials seemed suspicious and didn't quite believe his words, the scout who delivered the letter immediately tore away the hands of the general who was holding his shoulders, straightened up and said loudly, "No matter how bold Xiaodi is, he doesn't dare to use the eight-hundred-mile urgent Red Flag Order Military Report to entertain the adults!"

The good news that Xiaodi said is true every word, and every sentence is true. I personally participated in this battle!

On the Qingping Pass, the brothers of our Tongyuan Army killed the enemy bloodily, swore not to retreat, and stubbornly defended the city wall with 2,000 people, and did not let the attacking Xia Army step into the Qingping Pass!

In this battle, the sky was dark, from dawn to sunset, the brothers blocked the attacks of the Xia army again and again with flesh and blood, killing more than 3,000 enemies, and we also killed and wounded more than 1,000 soldiers. ”

When everyone saw that the frontier scout who gave the order was conclusive and did not allow others to doubt it, they seemed to believe two or three more points in their hearts what he said.

The military attachés present praised the officers and men of the Tongyuan Army for their courage in killing the enemy without fear of life and death, and also sighed in their hearts how good it would be if they could be there, and even had some eager thoughts to try.

The general listened carefully, and suddenly became interested, patted him on the shoulder and said excitedly, "Good boy, your Tongyuan Army is really not bad!" By the way, why did you stop, continue to say, don't you know that the Tongyuan Army abandoned the Wuguan Eleven Village outside Tongyuan County? ”

The scout continued, "Yes, Qingping Pass was later abandoned, but it was not because our brothers in the Tongyuan army were afraid of the Xia army, but because they had built huge catapults, and Qingping was concerned that they would not be able to defend it, so they retreated strategically.

However, Yang Houye did not withdraw to Tongyuan County like this, and gave up the five passes and eleven villages outside the city to Xia Jun in vain, but came up with a plan to 'stay in the stove to show goodwill' and deceive Xia Jun into entering the customs. ”

"What? What's the matter? ”

The general was confused when he heard this, frowned and asked, "Don't think that Lao Tzu has read less books, those military books Lao Tzu has read all of them, what "Sun Tzu", "Wu Zi", "Wei Xuanzi", as well as "Sima Law", "Taibai Yin Sutra", "Tiger Bell Sutra", I have only heard of Sun Bin's plan to reduce the stove to show weakness and Zhuge Liang's plan to add the stove to show strength, where is there any plan to 'stay in the stove to show goodwill'?"

You kid is a young man, are you a three-year-old boy who doesn't know anything?! ”

The scout ran so far that his body collapsed, and he was slapped by him so much that even his bones almost fell apart, so he hurriedly told Xia Huairen about the delicious beef and mutton that Yang Huairen deliberately left for Xia Jun with dozens of cauldrons.

However, he didn't know how Yang Huairen did it, he only said that Yang Houye used a strange poison, which was colorless and tasteless in the broth cauldron, and Xia Jun couldn't stand it when he smelled the delicious food made by Yang Houye, so he was poisoned by Yang Houye.

But this poison will not attack immediately after eating it, but it will be poisoned after two days, and two days later, it happened that the Xia army attacked Tongyuan County on a large scale and was attacking the city, and the Xia army was poisoned on a large scale.

And the Song army had already made preparations under the arrangement of Yang Houye, and when the Xia army was poisoned, he rushed out of the city, chasing the Xia army who had no power to fight back because of the poison all the way.

Therefore, it is not surprising that in the entire campaign, more than 6,000 enemies were killed and more than 10,000 were captured. It's a pity that the general of the Jingsai Army, Ye Lituli, was not caught in the end, and he fled back to Western Xia.

In the end, he said categorically, "The corpses of the more than 6,000 Xia soldiers, they didn't have time to take them away when they were defeated and fled, and they were still outside Huanzhou City.

There are also more than 10,000 captured Xia soldiers, all of whom were collected by the Tongyuan Army and guarded in the barracks of Hongdeguan, I don't believe you can go to see them! ”