(Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, three watches today!) ）

Youzhou, an important town in the south of the Western Xia Kingdom, has been surrounded by water, and the camp tents of the 100,000 troops of the Song army are densely arranged, and the banners and guns are towering like a forest; During the day, the sound of war drums and horns resounded in the sky, mixed with the whistling stones and arrows fired from catapults and bed crossbows, and puffs of smoke rose to make it bustling.

Su Jin's big tent was set up on the top of a hillside five miles away from the south gate of Youzhou, the noise on the edge of the city was much quieter here, and there was no tense atmosphere in the big tent at all.

"Didn't the soldiers and civilians in the city evacuate a month ago? Why are you asking us to stop the bombardment? Su Jin played with the handsome seal in his hand and asked lightly.

"Su Dashuai, the small one was ordered by Commander Li to stay in Youzhou, you said it was a feint, but the stones and arrows always smashed into the city, there are still many people in the city, there are many casualties, and the houses have also collapsed a lot, if this continues, the small one will be stabbed when Commander Li comes back." The lieutenant snorted.

Su Jin smacked his lips and said, "What do I say about you?" I have long asked you to concentrate the personnel in the north of the city, but you just don't listen, the efficiency of the work is too poor, okay, the commander knows, but after you go back, you must immediately gather the people in the north city, otherwise there will be no casualties. ”

The lieutenant said, "Can you please don't smash it into the city?" Just smash it into the open space outside the city. ”

Su Jin shouted with a heavy face: "Don't get an inch, I immediately order General Pan to stop attacking for an hour, you go back quickly to evacuate the people, and after an hour, you will still smash into it." ”

The lieutenant pleaded, "Why bother? If it's a feint, why ......"

Su Jin shouted: "An hour has passed for thirty breaths, if you are willing to grind your mouth here, you will grind slowly, left and right, pull him out and stand in the snow and nag slowly, Ben Shuai has no time to talk to you." ”

The deputy general had no choice but to leave: "The villain will evacuate the people, don't be angry, and the little one will retire." ”

Su Jin waved his hand and didn't even look at him.

After the deputy general stepped back, Li Chong on the side suddenly smiled and said: "These guys, they have to look at Longwangshu, and they don't know how to keep secrets at all, hey." ”

Su Jin sighed: "Yes, I just don't understand with them, do a full set of dramas, the Liao people must have eyes and ears on the battlefield, of course, you really have to throw stones and arrows into the city, and it is normal to smash houses and kill people, otherwise it can be realistic there?" Not only that, but tomorrow we will organize people to charge and attack the city, and after climbing to the top of the city, they will pretend to be defeated, and then charge up and be defeated, so as to show that our Great Song army is desperately attacking the city; Lao Tzu brought 200,000 troops to accompany them to act, and they also chirped crookedly to put forward conditions, which is really unreasonable. ”

Li Chong laughed and said: "Su Shuai's hand is big enough, a few days ago, dozens of carrier pigeons have flown up from the mountains in the southwest, it seems that the news has been sent to the Liao." ”

Su Jin said: "Don't take it lightly, let's continue to act, anyway, it should be combat training, and being idle is idle, but how are our materials prepared, how did you do the thing I asked Brother Zhaoting to help me do?" ”

Li Chongdao: "Things are going well, although it has caused a lot of criticism, but you have spoken first in front of the emperor and said that there are extraordinary actions, so there is no reaction from the court." ”

Su Jin waved his hand and said: "Regardless of them, where can I make up such a huge amount of money for the purchase of weapons and armor, I can only issue bonds in the name of the three divisions, and mobilize the Great Song Prefecture to purchase it, in the name of the imperial court, with various preferential conditions as a lure, and then make a compulsory apportionment, the three-pronged approach can naturally make up this money." ”

Li Chongdao: "The first batch of 30,000 sets of armor, 50,000 pieces of swords and guns, 30,000 pairs of bows, 1 million arrows, and 1.6 million stones of grain have already been secretly transported to the Xia Realm, the second batch of 80,000 sets of light armor, 5,000 barrels of fire oil have been shipped, and the third batch of 2 million stone grain is about to be shipped. ”

Su Jin said with a smile: "Brother Zhaoting is my head of the house, I don't know what to do without you, Brother Zhaoting, why do I have to pull you back to Beijing when I return to Beijing after the war, I am in the Third Division, and I will also get you into the Yamen of the Third Division, and it is not bad to be a salt iron or a degree envoy." ”

Li Zhong smiled: "I'll go wherever Zicong goes, and I'll follow you." ”

Su Jin said: "What if I don't become an official? ”

Li Chong was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "Then I will also resign, live next to you, and talk about poetry and wine every day." ”

Su Jin laughed and said, "Okay, a good friend for a lifetime!" ”

Li Chongdao: "What a good friend? ”

Su Jin scratched his head and said: "Don't mention this first, remember to let the Empress Dowager Yeli make a receipt, and the things will be sent to them in the future, and they will forget our kindness, so they will come to turn over the old accounts." ”

Li Chong laughed and said, "It's the same with your mother-in-law." ”

Su Jin smiled and said: "My mother-in-law is not a fuel-efficient lamp, her husband dares to kill, do you think there is anything they can't do?" We're going to keep a hand. ”

……

As soon as the sky was bright, Xiao Hui's army had already set out for camp, and on the endless Gobi Desert, the sparse wild grass and rocks were covered with frozen frost flowers, and the mouths of people and horses were spewing long white gas, like a boiling teapot.

Xiao Hui ordered to call Xiao Bise, the right-hand man under his account, and ordered him to lead 10,000 cavalry to set off first, both to explore the road and to take on the responsibility of searching, although the scouts heard very clearly, after the Gobi spread for sixty miles, there was a mountain, and to the south of the mountain was a small city in the Xia Kingdom called Kedun City; Although from the topography of the city, it is a fortress that guards the main road, but according to the garrison at the head of the city, judging that there are less than 1,000 garrisons in this city, and it is defenseless, Xiao Hui did not take this small city in his eyes at all.

"Vice General Xiao, this king ordered you to lead 10,000 iron cavalry to set off immediately, occupy Kedun City before sunset, and our follow-up food and grass supply and material supply will be based on this city, I will lead the army to pull out the camp and advance slowly, and the first work of destroying Western Xia will be cheaper for you."

Xiao Bise held the wolf's tooth lance and crossed his arm on his chest and bent down and saluted: "Thank you, the king, you don't have to wait until sunset, you will see you in the afternoon." ”

Xiao Hui said: "Nonsense, sixty miles in the afternoon may not be able to rush to the place, and I am not afraid of the wind flashing my tongue, but this city is not worried, let's do it quickly." ”

Xiao Bise shouted loudly and led the order out of the tent, and rolled into the distance with 10,000 cavalry like muffled thunder, gradually becoming black spots, and the dust and sand raised polluted half of the sky.

Xiao Hui smiled and watched the departure of the vanguard army, and said in a relaxed tone: "Let's not be in a hurry, we will move forward slowly, just rush to Kedun City before sunset and station, the corpses everywhere will be disgusting if they go early, and it will save trouble when they are cleaned up." ”

Left and right laughed and said: "King Gaojian, General Xiao should have done some hard work after taking the lead, otherwise I would be unhappy." ”

Xiao Hui said with a smile: "Don't be upset, from today onwards, you all have the opportunity to show your talents, all pack up your own things, and march into the camp." ”

The generals agreed in unison and dispersed, and the whole camp suddenly became lively.

The 10,000 cavalry of Xiao Biser, who was like a storm, reached the mountains soon in the afternoon, the mountains were not high, but they were not able to be ridden by war horses, and the canyon between the two mountains formed a natural passage, which was the only place to pass through on the south.

Xiao Bise's combat experience is very rich, and he sent two hundred-man teams into the valley to advance slowly, although he knew that the other party only had more than 1,000 troops and seemed to have no possibility of ambush, but his high military quality still prompted him to make normal moves.

The two teams of cavalry searched until they reached the open area outside the valley, and they could see the black walls of Kedun City, and they did not dare to go any further, so they hurried back to report it.

Xiao Biser carefully inquired about the situation in the valley and outside the valley, and concluded that the enemy did not notice the attack of the great enemy, so he waved his hand and ordered, and the whole army slowly entered the valley.

In fact, Xiao Biser also felt that his caution was quite superfluous, and there was nothing on the slopes on both sides of the valley except for the black rocks, and it was a completely barren land, and there was no place for Tibetans at all; The army passed through the valley without any suspense, and was faced with an open field, and the city of Kedun was three or four miles away.

"Give the order to the whole army, quickly pass through the canyon, and prepare the whole team to charge." Xiao Bise's face was grim and he issued an order, and the cavalry behind him poured out from the mouth of the valley in a steady stream, lined up in a long column.

The earth shook a little, rumbling like thunder, Xiao Biser thought it was the sound of his own army marching, but soon he realized that something was wrong, it was the sound of the war horses running at full speed to shake the ground, and his team was slowly moving to set up a queue.

In an instant, a huge yellow dust rose from both sides of the city of Kedun as far as Xiao Biser's eyes could see, like a yellow cloud swept in, and below the yellow cloud were countless black jumping black spots, which were dense cavalry troops, I can't tell how many people there were, I can't tell how many people, I can only see the immediately shining scimitar flashing a dazzling halo in the winter sun, and the people who look at it are dizzy.

"That's ...... Not good! Enemy attack! ”

Xiao Bise shouted, and his heart tightened for a while, didn't he say that there were only more than a thousand defenders in Kedun City? There were tens of thousands of cavalry in this swarm, could it be that they fell from the sky?

Xiao Bise rubbed his eyes and ears, all this was not an illusion, it was indeed tens of thousands of cavalry from Western Xia rushing in.

"Meet the enemy! Meet the enemy! Xiao Bisse let out an earth-shattering scream, and at the same time raised the mace in his hand high......