I don't know if I have doubts about Song Jiang's words; Or Chao Gai is really reluctant to give up the property of the village when this matter comes to an end; Or is there really something wrong with the quality of this group of people?

In short, the group dragged on for a long time, until the arresting officers and soldiers had rushed all the way to less than five miles in Dongxi Village, and the group was still carrying gold, silver and jewelry in the Zhuangzi and packing their luggage.

In the end, even the Liangshan secret agent, who had been ordered to pay attention to this matter, couldn't stand it anymore, so he had to send a person to run over on a fast horse, show the waist card of the Liangshan army, and say, "The official army is less than three miles away."

Chao Gai's group hurriedly rode two or three horses, set up two four-wheeled carriages, and went out of the village gate to the east in a panic, heading towards Liangshanbo.

It turned out that Yuncheng County was only more than 20 miles away from the west bank of Liangshanbo, and Dongxi Village was more than 10 miles east of Yuncheng County, so Chao Gai and Liangshanjun were also close neighbors.

Wu Yong couldn't ride a horse, he sat in the carriage of the first four-wheeled carriage, and his panicked mood suddenly became ecstatic.

It is also a shame that there is no short circuit in the brain at this critical time, and I suddenly thought that Liang Shanjun was talking to the court about Zhao'an at this time.

Their group blatantly went to Liangshan Boxi City, and it was not good to be seen.

So the cargo poked its head out of the window and shouted, "Brother, brother, go straight to the edge of the water, and there will be an answer!" ”

Chao Gai's mind was in a mess at this time, and he simply didn't want to ask, so he hurriedly ordered someone to change direction, and quickly whipped his horse and went straight to the nearest water's edge, and sure enough, there were three small boats waiting here.

"Chao Baozheng, Wu Xuexue, my brother who is the military master of my family has asked me to wait here for a long time!"

Wu Yong was overjoyed when he heard the voice, and hurriedly jumped out of the carriage, looked up, and saw that the person who spoke had his face raised and his eyebrows raised, and his mouth was slightly sudden, and he was fisted on all sides, was it not Ruan Xiaoer, the deputy governor of the Liangshan Army and the Navy, or who was it?

Wu Yong almost laughed out loud in his heart, then Lin Chong actually sent Ruan Xiaoer to wait here early in the morning, and then sent someone to report the news, it seems that he intends to accept his own people into the gang.

I heard that Liang Shanjun was talking to the imperial court about Zhao'an, but the imperial court was vigorously promoting that Liang Shanjun was asking for peace with the imperial court, expressing his willingness to coexist peacefully with the outside world, and willing to obey the imperial court's requisition and dispatch to go to Guanxi to fight Western thieves.

This is obviously a ploy of the imperial court, which wants to consume the strength of the Liangshan army, and then find a way to get rid of the Liangshan army.

When I went up the mountain, I offered advice to Lin Chong, stirred up Huang this time, and made the court have nothing to say; Then he proposed to prepare for war, and kill the court so that he was afraid of it, and then he could recruit peace!

With such an insight, are you afraid that Lin Chong will not be impressed with him and appoint himself as the first military division?

Not to mention that Wu Yong felt good about himself and thought about it in his heart, but said that in the meeting hall of Wanzi City, Liangshan, Lin Chong smiled and asked Chen Zongshan his own questions.

I sent people to Kansai to investigate, and the 200,000 western troops have surrounded Xingqing Mansion, dug trenches, built long walls, and built fortresses and walls, and have besieged Xingqing Mansion so that not even a fly can fly.

Moreover, this set of fortress tactics and shallow attack tactics that the Western Army is best at, and the destruction of the Western thieves is just around the corner, so why is the military situation urgent?

Chen Zongshan was slightly shocked in his heart, but he was already ready to speak: "Lord Lin doesn't know that it is not bad that the Western Army has surrounded Xingqing Mansion, but the city of Xingqing Mansion is high and deep, but it is not so easy to be broken for a while.

Moreover, the western army was only 200,000, and it was necessary to divide the troops to stay on the Guanxi Zhulu and the fortresses and walled cities along the way, and the western army besieging Xingqing Mansion became less and less.

The Western Thieves fought on their own soil, and the number of troops was already greater than that of the Western Army, and the puppet capital Xingqing Mansion was besieged, and the Western Thieves had to break the siege at all costs, and the offensive was extremely fierce.

According to the intelligence, now the western thieves have formed a larger encirclement outside the fortress camp of Xingqing Mansion surrounded by the western army, and the enemy is attacking day and night with several times the enemy.

If this battle continues, the outcome is really unpredictable! And ......"

He paused and looked at Lin Chong, General Lü, Xu Guanzhong, and Zhu Wu, and said solemnly: "Also, although the Liao State promised to be neutral before, it has recently frequently increased troops to the Western Xia border.

You must know that the queen of Li Qianshun, the lord of Western Xia, is the daughter of Emperor Liao, Princess Cheng'an, Yelu Nanxian, and Li Qianshun's prince is the grandson of Emperor Liao, and now the two are also besieged, who dares to guarantee that Liao will not send troops to aid Xia?

Therefore, the Western Army did not dare to move lightly, so they had to stay in Fuzhou to guard against the soldiers and horses of the Liao State. ”

When Lin Chong heard this, he hurriedly nodded: "If you say that, the battle to destroy the Western Thieves has indeed reached a crucial time. If it wins, the thief will perish; If defeated, the strength of the Western Army will be greatly damaged, and from then on, the offensive and defensive forces will change positions, and even Kansai will be in danger. The strength of the Western Army cannot be restored for 20 years.

At that time, the Jurchen went south, wouldn't my Han family be in danger! ”

However, what Lin Chong thought in his heart was that the siege and reinforcement tactics he handed over to Huan Yi were actually a variant of the fortress tactics and shallow attack tactics that the Western Army was best at dealing with the Western Xia Army.

More than ten or twenty years ago, when Zhang Qi was in command of the Western Army, he used this set of tactics to inflict heavy losses on the Western Xia Army many times.

The Battle of Hongdebao Zhang Qi used this method of warfare to lure the Empress Dowager Liang (Li Qianshun's mother) to attack Hongdebao (砦), and then ambushed the troops, killing the Western Xia army defeated, with countless casualties, and the two Liang Empress Dowagers were almost captured.

After Zhang Kai was transferred away because of Song Shenzong's wife Empress Dowager Gao, the Western Army was passively beaten, fortunately, Empress Dowager Gao died soon, Song Zhezong immediately transferred Zhang Kai to Guanxi to lead the Western Army, and immediately used this tactic to accumulate small victories into big victories, and defeated and retreated in Western Xia.

The so-called fortress tactics and shallow attack tactics are actually to advance the fortress little by little, relying on the fortress, the Song army raided and plundered the Western Xia, similar to fighting guerrilla attacks and running away after the opportunity, and you retract back to the fortress to defend after chasing me.

Then the Western Xia was harassed and depressed, so there was the Battle of Pingxia City, and the Western Xia poured the strength of the whole country into 400,000 troops to attack Pingxia City.

The situation at that time was much more critical than what Chen Zongshan had just said, and the Western Xia army stormed Pingxia City day and night for thirteen days, and even used tactics such as digging tunnels, rushing and building cars;

However, the Western army in Pingxia City only had 20,000 people, and they stubbornly held the city without losing it, and caused heavy losses to the Western Xia army, buying time for the support and counterattack of other Song troops.

In the end, the Western Xia army could not attack for a long time, the grain and grass were exhausted, and the casualties were heavy, and the morale was low, so they had to retreat overnight. So the Western armies seized the opportunity to counterattack, chased and killed all the way, and only killed 400,000 Western Xia troops and almost wiped out the entire army.

That is to say, although the Western Army was not good at fighting the Liao State in the plains, it relied on cities and fortresses to defend; There are also relying on fortresses to carry out shallow attacks, sneak attacks and lure the enemy into deep ambushes, but they are extremely good at it.

Lin Chongcai did not believe that the Western Army would not be able to hold the fierce attack of the Western Xia Army on the periphery.

Unless it is a child and a hot brain, he underestimates the enemy's rashness; Or the generals of the Western Army grabbed the merits, did not save each other when they saw death, and demolished each other.

Therefore, Lin Chong thought that the war in Western Xia should be no problem, so at this time, how could the Liangshan army go all the way to fight the Western Thieves?

Now in the past, destroy the main force of Western Xia, and then let the Western Army free up its hands to fight itself?

The best situation is that the Western Army and the Western Thieves fight slowly, for about a year, that is, Xingqing Mansion should be captured, and the Western Xia army that came to the rescue was almost consumed by the Western Army, and then the Western Army captured other areas of Western Xia in one fell swoop.

However, it is impossible for the Western Army to be without losses, and it is impossible for all parts of Western Xia to be honest and obedient to the people, so the Western Army must stay in the local garrison to suppress it, and it should have no time to look east for three or four years.

This is in the interests of Liang Shanjun.

However, Liao is indeed an uncertain factor.