"Renli, are you joking?" After a moment, Xia Chongzong smiled and said.

"The stakes are very high, how can the younger brother come to report it?" Li Renli said.

Li Renli's expression was extremely anxious and panicked, and Xia Chongzong couldn't help frowning!

"Nonsense! What is the current situation in Guanshan, we don't know! Now Guanshan is facing threats from three sides, more than 100,000 troops of my Jurchen are in Guanshan, and the Han emperor in Jiangnan still has 600,000 troops in Guanshan! Under such circumstances, how could the Xuanwu Emperor of Guanshan dare to go north? Is he crazy? Is he not going to be shut down? Wanyan Zonggan scolded angrily on the side.

"Your Majesty, Lord Wanyan, what I said is true!" Beads of sweat appeared on Li Renli's forehead, and he said.

"How is this possible?" Xia Chongzong frowned.

"Your Majesty, my brother is in charge of the affairs of the Privy Council! In the morning, a group of defeated soldiers entered the Privy Council, all of them from Hongzhou, Youzhou, and Jianing! Originally, the ministers didn't believe it, but just now, the prefect and guard of Yanzhou sent someone to say that the Song army was heading towards Yanzhou! Now, I'm afraid that the Song army has surrounded Yanzhou! At this time, the younger brother had to believe it! Li Renli said.

"How is that possible? This is ridiculous! Wanyan Zonggan also frowned at this moment!

But what Li Renli said was so conclusive, at this moment, Xia Chongzong and Wanyan Zonggan were cautious in their hearts! But when they think about it, they still find it incredible!

"Where are all those defeated generals? Where is the messenger sent from Yanzhou City? Let them come to me now! Xia Chongzong said.

"Brother, let them come! In fact, they are now waiting outside the palace for His Majesty to summon! Li Renli said.

When such a thing happened, Xia Chongzong and Wanyan Zonggan didn't have the heart to eat, and at that moment everyone returned to their seats in the palace, waiting for the arrival of those defeated soldiers, defeated generals, and messengers!

After a quarter of an hour, hundreds of people appeared outside the palace! More than a dozen of these hundreds of people are dressed quite neatly, and they are the messengers of Yanzhou City! The rest of the people are unusually embarrassed, they are the defeated soldiers and generals everywhere!

At that moment, Li Renli first walked in with the messengers from Yanzhou City, and these dozen messengers fell to their knees! The leader was a school captain, and at this moment the school captain said: "Your Majesty, my lords, the Song army is extremely numerous, and they have already conquered Hongzhou and Youzhou, so General Renduo ordered us to come to Xingqing Mansion to summon the news!" Your Majesty, although General Renduo is confident that he can hold Yanzhou City, it is difficult to expel all the Song troops! So he asked for the imperial court's aid! ”

"Is this true?" Xia Chongzong is still unbelievable!

At this time, Li Renli had already walked in with a few generals! The generals looked extremely tired, one of them had a broken arm, and the rest had wounds on their bodies! Their eyes were dull, their lips were chapped, and they fell to their knees!

Seeing their appearance, Xia Chongzong immediately knew that they had experienced a big battle!

"Is the Song army really invading?" Xia Chongzong said anxiously.

"It's true! The Song army has really invaded! "A rout.

"How many people are there in the Song army? Is it just a small group of enemies? You don't have an embankment, that's why you failed? Wanyan Zonggan said coldly.

"The number of Song troops is extremely large, I am afraid that there are hundreds of thousands!" A rout.

Once the army loses in battle, in order to shirk responsibility, it often exaggerates the number of enemies! At this moment, the same is true of this Western Xia rout! Of course, sometimes it's hard to tell how many enemies there are on the battlefield! Whether it is an army of more than 100,000 or hundreds of thousands, from a distance, it is crowded with people, dense! At first, he did think that it was hundreds of thousands, but along the way, he kept thinking about it, and the impression in his heart became more and more blurred, and now he also faintly felt that hundreds of thousands might be right! Besides, it was more than 100,000 people who attacked the city that day, and maybe there were other Song troops in the distance! So he felt that he was not wrong to say hundreds of thousands!

"Hundreds of thousands? How can it be? Wanyan Zonggan couldn't believe it.

"Your Majesty, this lord is hundreds of thousands! We couldn't be mistaken! "That's the way to go."

"Tell me, how many people are there?" Xia Chongzong looked at the rest of the generals and said.

"Your Majesty, it is indeed hundreds of thousands!" The generals said.

At this moment, Xia Chongzong already felt that something was wrong, if there were really hundreds of thousands of people entering Western Xia, he was afraid that the entire eastern part of Western Xia would fall! Even Yanzhou City may not be able to stop hundreds of thousands of Song troops!

Li Renli had already called the defeated soldiers outside one after another at this moment, and Xia Chongzong asked carefully one by one! Some of those soldiers said it was hundreds of thousands, some said hundreds of thousands! But no matter what, the Song army has an extremely large number of soldiers and horses, there is no doubt about it!

Moreover, Hongzhou City only lasted for an hour, and Youzhou and Jianing also held out for an hour or two before falling, which is enough to witness the large number and strong combat power of the Song army!

"How is that possible? Under such a situation, how dare the Song army go north? Wanyan Zonggan's brows furrowed at the moment.

"Lord Wanyan, it seems that this is true! The Song army has really entered my Western Xia! Now my Western Xia is being attacked by hundreds of thousands of Song troops! Xia Chongzong is restless at the moment!

Wanyan Zonggan nodded, hearing the words of these defeated soldiers, defeated generals, and messengers with his own ears, and seeing the embarrassed appearance of these defeated soldiers and generals, he also had to admit that the Song army had indeed entered Western Xia! At present, Western Xia is under threat!

"Come on, let Brother Cha come immediately!" Xia Chongzong shouted loudly!

Not long after, a Western Xia general entered the Yinchuan Palace! This Western Xia general is not very tall, but his body looks unusually thick, he has three long beards, and his face is red! He is the famous general Richard Brother in the history of Western Xia, because his face is somewhat similar to Guan Erye, so he is called "Little Guan Yu" by the Western Xia people! He is a child of the royal family, and he entered the Western Xia army at the age of more than ten years, starting from the lowest soldier until he became the commander of the Western Xia! In the early years, he participated in the wars between the Western Xia and the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty! Later, the Jurchens invaded Western Xia, and he also led a large army to fight against the Jurchens, but he was far from being the Jurchen opponent! But even so, he is still the first person in the current Western Xia army, the main commander of the Western Xia!

"The last general will see Your Majesty!" Brother Richard knelt down and said.

"Brother Cha, you immediately command the army to Yanzhou City!" Xia Chongzong said.

"Ahh Brother Richard was taken aback and said, "Why is that?" ”

He has just arrived, and he does not yet know what is happening in the East!

"The Song people invaded! Now you must resist the Song army! Xia Chongzong said.

"The Song people invaded in a big way? How is this possible? "Brother Richard is also unbelievable, staying there!

"Renli, you tell him!" Xia Chongzong said.

At that moment, Li Renli stepped forward and told Brother Richard the news of the Song army's invasion! Brother Richard was also unbelievable, and at that moment, Li Renli ordered those defeated soldiers, generals, and messengers to describe the situation in the east to Brother Richard! Brother Richard asked carefully, and his face became worse and worse! He has unusually rich battlefield experience, so he can naturally judge that what these people say is basically correct! The only thing that is doubtful is the number of Song troops, but even according to the smallest estimate, it is more than 150,000! It is quite possible that it has already reached hundreds of thousands, as these soldiers say!

"How is that possible? There is a Jurchen army in Guanshan, and there is an army of hundreds of thousands of Emperor Jianyan, how can the little emperor in Hanzhong dare to go north? Don't they want to shut down Shaanxi? At this moment, Brother Richard couldn't help but ask such a question!

"Brother Cha, now is not the time to think about this! You must immediately command the army to march east to resist the Song army! If not, I'm afraid that all parts of Xiazhou and Yinzhou will be occupied by the Song army! At that time, half of the country will not be in our hands! Xia Chongzong said.

"Your Majesty, the last general will raise the army and march eastward! Now there are a total of 300,000 troops around Xingqing Mansion, and Weichen will lead 250,000 people to the east! In addition, there are also garrisons in Xiping Prefecture, Huaizhou, and Jingzhou, and the last general asks His Majesty to give an order immediately to let the garrisons in these places also go east at the same time! Wechen will join them in the area of Baichi City, so that the number of troops can exceed 300,000! Enough to resist the Song army! Richard said.

"Good! I'll let the Privy Council decree it! Xia Chongzong nodded!

"Your Majesty, I am willing to go on the expedition with General Chago!" At this time, Wanyan Zonggan stood up and said.

"It's an unusual danger on the battlefield, what is Wanyan-sama going to do there?" Xia Chongzong said in disbelief.

"The movements of the Han people are too weird! I really can't believe that the Han people would dare to go north and enter Western Xia at this time, so I'm going to go to the east to have a look! If they can catch the captives of the Han Chinese, I should ask them how they can contain our Jurchen army! "Wanyan Sect trunk road.

"What do you mean, Lord Wanyan, that they have used trickery to contain your country's army?" Richard said.

"Naturally! Moreover, they not only restrained my Jurchen army, but also restrained the army of Emperor Jianyan of Jiangnan! Otherwise, they wouldn't have dared to go north! "Wanyan Zonggan is worthy of being the son of Wanyan Aguta, the tiger father has no dogs, and in a short period of time, he has already analyzed the stakes!

"It must be like this!" Brother Richard nodded!

At that moment, Brother Richard and Wanyan Zonggan came out of the palace, and Brother Richard immediately ordered the army to gather!

However, the quality of the Western Xia army was too ordinary, and from noon to dusk, the army was assembled! It was already dark, and Richard hesitated for a long time and decided to send troops tomorrow morning!

"General Chago, the military situation is urgent, there can be no delay at this time, and the troops should be marched immediately!" Wanyan Sect trunk road.

"It's getting dark! At this time, even if I give the order to march, the soldiers will not agree! Richard said.

A mocking smile appeared on Wanyan Zonggan's face, in his opinion, there was too much difference between the Western Xia army and the Jurchen army! If it is a Jurchen army, it will definitely march east without hesitation at this time! Of course, the Jurchen army is no longer as strong as it was ten years ago, but even so, they are still stronger than the Western Xia army!

"300,000 troops, I don't know if we can defeat the Song army!" After a while, Wanyan Zong said again.

"We will definitely be able to defeat the Song army! Back then, I also fought with the Western Army in Guanshan, and the Western Army was nothing more than that, and there was a gap between it and our Western Xia Army, and the Han people relied on only the strong city! Now that the little emperor of the Han people has ascended the throne, the western army has plummeted, and it is not our opponent! Moreover, according to my estimates, the Song army will definitely not stay in my Western Xia territory for long! Although they used intrigues and tricks to contain your country's army and the Jiangnan army, but after all, the conspiracy and trickery can't last long! They will definitely attack the army of your country and the army of Jiangnan at any time to attack Guanshan! Therefore, we just need to take it step by step and not fight them, and they will definitely retreat after a long time! At that time, we will follow them and hunt them down, and we will definitely be able to annihilate the invading enemy! Richard said.

After Brother Richard finished speaking, Wanyan Zonggan was stunned, and after a while, he nodded and said, "Not bad!" General Li is worthy of being a general, and Zong Gan admires it! ”

Wanyan Zonggan has been in the Jin Imperial Court all these years, and he has participated in very few wars! Although his strategic vision is good, he is still inferior to Brother Richard in pure tactical use! After listening to Brother Richard's words, he had more confidence in Brother Richard!

In the early morning of the second day, Brother Li Cha and Wanyan Zonggan led 250,000 Western Xia troops towards the east! These 250,000 troops were mixed with infantry and cavalry, with infantry and cavalry accounting for half each! In addition to the army, there was also a long line of carrying grain and grass and baggage! The speed of the army's march was extremely slow, coupled with the difficult roads in ancient times, and the weather was unusually cold, it would take at least half a month to rush from here to Yanzhou!

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At this moment, in Xi'an Prefecture, Qinfeng Road, northern Shaanxi, Zhao Zhe, the coach of Jingyuan Road, is in the palace!

The military headquarters of the Jingyuan Army is being set up here, and countless staff officers are now here!

Information from all over the country is constantly being sent here, especially the information of Western Xia is delivered as soon as possible!

The information that the Northern Shaanxi Forbidden Army and the Huanqing Army went north to conquer Hongzhou, Youzhou, and Jianing has been sent, and the information that they are about to attack Yanzhou has also been sent! Of course, the communication conditions in this era were unusually backward, and when the information was sent, Zhao Zhe understood that the Northern Shaanxi Forbidden Army and the Huanqing Army must have conquered Yanzhou!

At this moment, more than ten army commanders under the Jingyuan Army have already arrived here!

Zhao Zhe held the information, his eyes swept over the bodies of the more than ten army commanders below, and said: "The Northern Shaanxi Forbidden Army and the Huanqing Army have conquered several cities in Western Xia!" The capital of Western Xia must have gotten the news, and now the main force of Western Xia should have set off from Xingqing Mansion! Let's also set off immediately and go to Xingqing Mansion! ”

The commanders of the armies below had excited expressions on their faces! At the end of last year, they had already received orders from the General Staff Headquarters to prepare to go north and enter Western Xia at any time! At the beginning of this year, they received an edict from Zhao Chen, ordering them to be ready at all times, once they got the news of the forbidden army in northern Shaanxi, it was time for them to enter Western Xia! They had been waiting for Zhao Zhe's order, and now the order has finally been given!

"Within a quarter of an hour, an army of 100,000 marched north with all its might! Don't carry any baggage, go lightly! Come to Xixia Xingqing Mansion in the shortest possible time at all costs! Zhao Zhe said.

"The last general will be ordered!" More than a dozen military commanders stood up one after another and said.

"Remember, this battle is related to the fortunes of the country, and we must not slack off! If this battle is won, there will be no more boundless troubles in the north of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Great Song Dynasty will no longer have to worry about the southward movement of Western Xia! If this battle is lost, I am afraid that the entire Guanshan will be lost! Hanzhong and Sichuan and Shu were also in danger, and the real country was ruined at that time! So, please, don't fail! Zhao Zhe also stood up at this moment, he bent down and bowed to these military commanders.

"Don't worry, even if all of our Jingyuan army is dead, we must ensure victory in this battle!" One of the army commanders below said.

"Your Majesty has now entered Western Xia! Your Majesty is watching us from afar, and we will never fail! "Another general said.

"Excellent! Gather your troops and go! Zhao Zhe said.

Originally, there were 50,000 people in the Jingyuan Army, but later 100,000 young people entered the Jingyuan Army, and now the total strength of the Jingyuan Army is 150,000! It's just that in addition to Western Xia, there is also Tubo in the west, of course, Tubo in this era is no longer the Tubo Empire of the Tang Dynasty! After hundreds of years, the Tibetan Empire has long since collapsed, and now Tubo has become countless tribes! The relationship between the Song Dynasty and the Tibetan tribes has always been very good, but even so, the Jingyuan army must leave enough soldiers and horses to defend the Tibetan tribes, and they can only use 100,000 troops!

From the moment the military order was issued, in just a quarter of an hour, the 100,000-strong army moved! They didn't carry any baggage, each of them only carried ten days' worth of dry food, and then they headed for Western Xia! In contrast, it took the Western Xia army a full afternoon to complete the formation, and then set off after a night's rest, which shows the great difference in the military quality of the two armies! Of course, the Jingyuan army has been preparing for the battle of Western Xia, and although the Western Xia army is also preparing to go south to Guanshan, it is not so urgent!