"Lao Li, do you think the Tangut people will let us go?" Wang Gui kept looking back and asked. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"I have counted their numbers, they still have about a hundred or so people now, we only took fifty horses, then they still have one hundred and fifty war horses, I think they will continue to chase, unless we enter the Oolong Village, they will never give up."

Wang Gui sighed, "You're right, the Tangut people are notoriously unwilling to admit defeat, we have to speed up, they will catch up soon." ”

The crowd quickened their horses and ran, about twenty miles, when a soldier suddenly pointed to the front and shouted: "Is that our army?" ”

Li Yanqing and Wang Gui both saw that an army of about 2,000 people was rushing towards this side, only a few hundred steps away from them, Wang Gui was overjoyed: "Reinforcements must have arrived!" ”

He urged the horse to gallop forward, waving his hand and shouting, "I am the Divine Arrow Agui!" ”

Li Yanqing suddenly looked back, he faintly felt a slight vibration on the ground, although it was very slight, but it was an out-and-out signal, and the Western Xia army was chasing after him.

Li Yanqing almost thoughtlessly urged the horse to gallop, and in a moment he rushed to Sun Qing, he didn't have time to say more, and said urgently: "Quickly order the army to ambush on both sides, and the Western Xia cavalry is coming." ”

Sun Qing reacted very quickly, turned around and shouted: "Ambush on both sides immediately!" ”

The soldiers of the Song army were well-trained, and they ran to both sides separately, lying on the land on both sides, and Li Yanqing said to Sun Qing again: "Please know that the village is also invited to ambush, and we will continue to run forward to lure the enemy." ”

"How many are there?" Sun Qing asked anxiously.

"About a hundred or so, all cavalry."

Only a hundred cavalry, Sun Qing breathed a sigh of relief, turned his horse's head and ran eastward, and soon hid behind a mound, Li Yanqing led everyone to continue to gallop forward, only a moment later, countless small black dots appeared hundreds of steps behind them, and a hundred Western Xia cavalry were chasing after him, stirring up rolling yellow dust.

Zuo general Ye Li'an was killed, the two leaders felt that they could not go back to explain, except to continue to chase, they also had no way out, a hundred Western Xia cavalry fast horses, galloping on the Loess Plateau, soon the soldiers were riding two horses, the speed was fast.

At this time, one of the leaders finally saw a group of horses running ahead, and he was overjoyed, and shouted: "They are ahead, catch up with them!" ”

The Western Xia soldiers were all skilled in equestrianism, they suffered heavy losses when attacking the mountain, and were robbed of war horses, they had already held their breath, and kept beating horses and galloping, galloping like a gallop, but unexpectedly fell into the ambush circle of the Song army.

Sun Qing saw that the time had come, and ordered: "Shoot!" ”

The sound of archery suddenly sounded, the Song soldiers who were ambushed on both sides opened their bows and released arrows together, and the dense arrows shot at the hundred Western Xia cavalry, the ambush came too suddenly, the Western Xia cavalry was caught off guard, and they were hit by arrows and fell off their horses, and the hundred cavalry were forty percent of the arrows, and more than 40 people fell off the horse.

Seeing that the situation was not good, one of the leaders shouted: "Retreat! ”

The surviving more than 50 Western Xia cavalry turned around and fled, the Song army drummed loudly, 2,000 soldiers surrounded and killed, surrounded more than 50 Western Xia cavalry, dense like a forest of spears stabbed, the Western Xia cavalry continued to scream and fall off their horses.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the ambush battle ended, all 100 cavalry were killed, none of them survived, the Song army captured more than 100 war horses, plus Li Yanqing's captured war horses, there were 170 war horses, Sun Qing was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth, and completely annihilated 200 captured soldiers, which may be the biggest record of the Song army in the past two years.

At this time, Li Yanqing stepped forward and hugged his fists and said, "Thank you Sun Zhizhai for arriving in time, otherwise I will not be able to escape this disaster this time!" ”

"Where! Where! It is our duty to protect Li to join the army, and it is our poor protection that makes Li join the army frightened. ”

Li Yanqing sighed, "If it weren't for the desperate escort of the official Wang Gui, how could I have escaped the capture of two hundred cavalry, the king of the official is both wise and brave, and I hope that Sun Zhizhai will promote and reward him well." ”

Sun Zhizhai didn't know that Li Yanqing knew martial arts, and he was also surprised, Wang Gui only had a dozen people, and he actually killed more than 100 people, this is a great talent! It is worthy of being learned from martial arts, and it is a pity to be a prisoner, and he suddenly has a sense of entrapment towards Wang Gui in his heart.

said to Wang Gui: "From now on, I will promote you to the head of the team!" Three hundred taels of silver. ”

Wang Gui listened to Li Yanqing's invitation for himself on the side, his face was already red through the roots of his ears, he was moved and embarrassed in his heart, at this time, Li Yanqing gave him a look on the side, helpless, he had to step forward and bow down and said: "The young general Xie Zhizhai is rewarded, but can you allow the young general to share the reward to the brothers who fight together." ”

Seeing that he treated his subordinates well, Sun Qing was even more impressed with him in his heart, nodded and said, "Then you can give them another two hundred taels of silver, and you can share it with them." ”

"Thank you for your understanding!"

Wang Gui saluted Li Yanqing again, "Thank you Li for joining the army!" ”

Li Yanqing smiled slightly, "You have earned so many war horses for Oolong Village, Zhizhai is still grateful to you!" ”

Sun Qing was overjoyed, "Li Senjun promised to give us all these horses?" ”

Li Yanqing said with a smile: "I only need twenty horses as the patrol foot force of my subordinates, and the rest will be allocated to Oolong Village." ”

It is Li Yanqing's power to allocate military funds, for the sake of his brother's future, Sun Qing's favor and face, how can he not give it?

.........

Although he completely annihilated the Western Xia ambush soldiers, Li Yanqing also suffered heavy losses, the guide died, and half of his entourage died, so he could only temporarily abandon the plan to go to Shenquan Village and return to Wulong Village.

Li Yanqing calmly considered the causes and consequences of this matter along the way, he was almost certain to be the plan of Zhao Yuan, who joined the army, and the two of his subordinates were also involved, from the very beginning, Zhao Yuan was extremely cold to him, the reason was that he had robbed him of the position he had almost set into, although they had been safe in the past few months, it did not mean that Zhao Yuan had let him go, at least Li Yanqing knew that Zhao Yuan had accused himself of being incompetent in front of the Seed Master Dao twice.

But he didn't have any evidence to accuse Zhao Yuan of this, and there was a key link missing in the middle, that is, how Zhao Yuan colluded with Western Xia, without this key evidence, the Seed Master Dao would not believe his accusations, after all, Zhao Yuan had followed the Seed Master Dao for more than ten years, and he Li Yanqing had only been in office for a few months.

He must not be rash in this matter, he needs to let the seed master make his own choice.

At noon, Li Yanqing arrived at Wulong Village, and Yang Huai and Yan Jiuling hurriedly greeted him, "I heard that the army was ambushed, we were so worried that we didn't sleep all night!" ”

Li Yanqing smiled faintly: "Thank you two for your concern, I am lucky, thanks to Sun Zhizhai's timely rescue, I was lucky to escape this catastrophe." ”

Yang Huai patted his chest again and again, as if he had palpitations, "What a blessing!" If there are three strengths and two weaknesses in joining the army, how can we go back and explain? ”

Yan Jiuling couldn't hide the guilt in his heart, lowered his head, Li Yanqing's eyes were like torches, he could see clearly, he suddenly realized that this Yan Jiuling might be a breakthrough.

But at this time, it was not an opportunity, Li Yanqing said to the two of them quietly: "Clean up!" Tomorrow we will go back to Taiyuan. ”

"Shenquan Village and Tongqin Village are not going?" The two asked in unison.

Li Yanqing shook his head, "The official documents are all lost, how can I go?" Let's talk about it later! Besides, this area is too unsafe, there are Western Xia spies everywhere, I almost died once, but I don't want to meet a second time. ”

"Joining the army is reasonable, and we also hope to return to Taiyuan as soon as possible, it's too frightening here."

........

At night, in the tavern of Wulong Village, Wang Gui put wine to see Li Yanqing off, Li Yanqing stared at the turbid liquor in the cup, the liquor swirled in the cup, and a layer of white foam floated.

Wang Gui was a little embarrassed and said: "In the small village in the mountains and fields, there is really no good wine, and their family's sheep wine is already the best." ”

Li Yanqing smiled and said: "It's already very good that you have wine here, you should feel lucky if you drink a hundred rods once in the Taiyuan camp, and you will be beheaded three times if you drink alcohol." ”

"This is also true, everyone says that the border village is very difficult, in fact, we think it is good, we have wine to drink, we can find women, we want to eat meat, we go hunting outside, it is a little more dangerous, but when the war starts, who is not dangerous? Damn, live a day and be happy for a day, tomorrow's things think it's useful! ”

Li Yanqing suddenly remembered that he had teased Wang Gui for secretly going to a brothel, his face was flushed at the time, and he tried his best to explain, but now, ...... Looking for a woman has already come out casually, this is the environment changes people, Li Yanqing feels that Wang Gui has embarked on his own life path, and he doesn't need to deliberately change anything, in fact, Yue Fei and Tang Huai are not like this.

Thinking of this, Li Yanqing drank all the wine in the cup and said to Wang Gui: "I won't go to Shenquan Village, if you see Niu Gao, tell him for me, and I will go to see him next time." ”

Wang Gui nodded, "I will." ”

After a moment of silence, Wang Gui said again: "Your risk is much greater than ours, you are careful yourself, the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty is very dark, in fact, the Northwest Army is the same, nominally the master is the commander, but in fact he only controls part of the power." ”

"What do you mean by that?" Li Yanqing asked.

"I also heard Zhizhai say when he was drunk, the Northwest Army has the power of Tong Guan, and there is also the power of Gao Yu, in contrast, in fact, the power of the handsome is the smallest, just look at the Xixia people who ambushed you this time, Sun Zhizhai told me today that Ye Li'an, who was shot by you, is the No. 1 general of the capture army in Western Xia, and he is very famous in Western Xia, he came from Xingqing Mansion, not a frontier general, Sun Zhizhai was also very surprised, you actually alarmed Xingqing Mansion, Yanqing, do you think the water here is very deep?"

Li Yanqing nodded silently, maybe things are really not as simple as he thought.