The tactics of the Xia army attacking the camp in Yinzhou City were discovered, and the 5,000 Xia soldiers who attacked the camp at night were also killed by the ambushed Song army. Although he did not take advantage of the situation to break through the city in one fell swoop that night, he lost more than thirty percent of his troops in Yinzhou City that night, and if Xiao Tang decided to forcibly attack the city at this time, the enemy resistance he would encounter would be greatly reduced.

However, when the armies of Shizhou, Xiazhou and other places in the Xia Kingdom saw that Yinzhou was in an emergency, they gathered their troops again and carefully guarded against the sneak attack of the Song army all the way, and killed the enemy troops who rushed to the attack, but when they finally saw the Yinzhou City in the distance, they found that the Song army company camp under the city had already been empty, and there was not a single soldier.

More than ten days later, the main generals of the Xia army, such as the Shenyong Military Division and the Xiangyou Military Division stationed in the eastern part of the Xia Kingdom, received an urgent report that the army led by Xiao Tang had been killed to the Shizhou boundary in the western part of Yinzhou, and the Shendui Station and other military villages had been suddenly killed until the Song army broke through, losing more than 3,000 soldiers.

The Xia army, with nearly 50,000 soldiers and horses, pounced on the air, and the main generals in the army also thought that since Yinzhou was the capital of the border court where the Song and Xia sides were most fiercely contested, the Song army on the eastern front was moved and was bound to seize the place where the soldiers would fight. What's more, since the enemy army attacked the city and set up an ambush to besiege the city for reinforcements, they must not want the defenders in the city and the reinforcements outside the city to cooperate with the outside, because they did not expect that the Song army, which had gradually gained the upper hand in the siege battle, would resolutely withdraw its troops, and in a detour, they would go to Shizhou, which was only a few dozen miles away from Yinzhou, to kill the generals.

In fact, Xu Guanzhong's strategy to Xiao Tang, whether it was besieging the city to help annihilate the enemy's field force, or luring the enemy out of the city to kill and injure the soldiers and horses garrisoned in Yinzhou City, was just a part of his strategy, and Xiao Tang's ultimate purpose in invading the Xia realm was to disturb the peace in the eastern part of the Xia Kingdom.

Whether it was Xiao Tang or Xu Guanzhong, they were also very clear that the goal of the Song court's decision to divide the army to attack the Xia State this time was to conquer all the military fortresses in the Hengshan Territory, so that the Xia Kingdom would lose the barrier. The Song army was victorious in terms of soldiers and sufficient food, and only needed to occupy the land where the Xia people were plastered in Hengshan and then enter Xingqingfu, the capital of the Xia State, so that the Great Song Dynasty could comprehensively suppress the Xia State militarily. Conquering a city and a corner is only the goal of a local war in a full-scale campaign, and from a strategic perspective, as long as it can lead the whole body and force the enemy army to defend the eastern state capital of the Xia State to take care of one thing and lose the other, the troops under the command of the generals of the Western Army such as the World Dao and the Seed Division will be able to more easily move forward and encroach on the Hengshan territory of the Xia State.

Although it is very dangerous to lead the army in the territory of the enemy country in such a swagger, but in the Xia territory Xiazhou, Yinzhou, Shizhou and other military states are adjacent to the Great Song River East Road and Yanyan Road, Xiao Tang's current seemingly chaotic march route can actually be said to be wandering in the Song-Xia border area, not to mention that the team under his command now gathers Liu Zhongwu, Liu Qi, Wu Jue, Xiao Jiasui, Xu Guanzhong, Hua Rong, Guan Sheng, Hu Yanzhuo, Niu Gao, Wang Jin and many other think tanks and fierce generals, as well as Li Yongqi, Xuanzan, Hao Siwen, Peng Xi, Han Tao, Wang Wenbin, Dang Shiying, Dang Shixiong and other partial generals obeyed orders in front of the official tent, and most of the subordinates under Yan Yanlu now obeyed their orders...... Therefore, when Xu Guanzhong made a plan and mentioned it to himself after deliberating on the strategic objectives of the Song army, the topography of the Song-Xia border, and the current trend of the war situation between the two sides, Xiao Tangdang even understood that he did not have to be strict now

Hold steady, but take the initiative to plan the deployment of the troops and horses on the front line of the Xia Kingdom.

These days have been repeatedly lost and defeated, and the name of Xiao Tang, the commander of the Song Army on the East Road, has become more and more famous in the Xia army, although the current Xiao Tang is not as good as the previous Song-Xia War Di Qing, Fan Zhongyan, Chong Ge, Zhe Keshi, Chong Shi Dao, Liu Fa and other important ministers and famous generals can teach the Xia people to be famous, but now the Xia people also regard him as a great disaster in the enemy army. Now the Xia army under the left wing of the Xia State Shenyong Military Division and the Xiangyou Military Division are also eager to immediately set up a decisive battle with Xiao Tang's subordinates, so that they can do it once and for all, so the Xia army continues to send sentinels and light cavalry, and at the same time encircled and outflanked the Song army led by Xiao Tang, forcing the other party to take the initiative to find their own army for a decisive battle.

After all, there were mountains and impenetrable fortresses in the southern part of military states such as Xia and Shizhou, and Xiao Tang could invade his own territory from the territory that changed hands frequently between the Song and Xia countries from the Yinzhou side, but as the Song army went deeper to the west, it was easier to grasp its whereabouts.

However, all this was also expected by Xu Guanzhong.

About half a month later, the commander of the Xia army of the Xiangyou Military Division and the Shenyong Military Division of the Left Chamber, had to report that the Song army led by Xiao Tang had indeed only swept a few military villages under the rule of Shizhou, and then drove in the direction of Longzhou Shibao Village and Niuxin Pavilion in the west, and they also immediately sent fast horses to report to the Jianing Military Divisions of Rong Weilong, Hong, Xu and other military states, and ordered the other party to send heavy troops to intercept the Song army, and on the other hand, they ordered 50,000 soldiers and horses to pursue westward, intending to flank Xiao Tang's men and horses on both sides. In the past two months, the Xia army in Xiazhou, Shizhou, Yinzhou and other places was disturbed by Xiao Tang, and they couldn't wait to immediately wipe out this rampant Song army, but it was also because the generals of the Xia army who unified the army became more and more impatient and unbalanced, but they unconsciously entered the ambush circle carefully deployed by Xu Guanzhong, Xiao Jiasui and other strategists under Xiao Tang......

The undulating mountains were overgrown with shrubs and weeds, and the soldiers and horses of the Xia army advanced at the northern foot of the mountains.

However, the rangers only noticed that there were no enemy troops hiding in the nearby bushes, but they did not notice that there were many shallow pits dug in the grass not far from the foot of the mountain, and although the pits were not very deep, they could still allow people to hide their whole bodies in the holes, and the top of their heads was covered with planks or shields, and covered with turf and earth, and only the gaps were exposed for people to breathe. Although scouts or hunters who are good at tracking in the mountains can also find clues when they look closely, but the Xia army is eager to catch up with Xiao Tang's men, and Shizhou is more than a hundred miles away from Longzhou, how can the scouts in the army investigate every detail and delay the pursuit of the Song army?

The soldiers who led the Song army to ambush were Liu Qi and Wu Jue, two generals from the Western Army, who had lived in the border court for a long time, and they had also read in detail the topographic map of the nearby mountains that had been under the control of the Great Song Dynasty, and they knew the terrain well, and fought with the Xia army for a long time, Wu Jue was also very good at setting ambush traps. At this time, the Western Army under the command of Wu Jue and Liu Qi held their breath, and they first quietly watched as the Western Army Rangers, the Front Army, and the Chinese Army marched from a position seventy or eighty steps away from the front, and then the rear of the Xia Army was getting closer and closer to them.

"Kill!" Liu Qi took the lead in jumping up from the shallow pit Zhongnong, he raised the longbow in his hand and immediately roared out with an arrow, even if he shot an arrow through the heart of a Xia army general!

The soldiers of the Song army who were lying in wait at the back of the valley also got up one after another, and they raised the divine arm bow in their hands and looked at the rear soldiers of the Xia army.

The ambush led by Liu Qi and Wu Jue was not only within the range of the strongest lethality of long-range sharp weapons such as the Divine Arm Bow, but also had many uneven mounds in front of them in front of them, which was not only conducive to dodging the arrows shot by the enemy, but the Xia army was suddenly ambushed, and for a while they did not see where the enemy was hiding, and they did not know where to return fire in a panic.

"Whoosh !!" A fluffy cluster of sharp arrows suddenly arrived, and in an instant, the soldiers in the rear of the Xia army were like mowing grass and were shot down on their backs, and the army formation became a rout, and in the continuous miserable howl, a Xia army general shouted hysterically: "There is an ambush, it is the Song army sneak attack!" ”