In the north of Xingqing Mansion, a hundred Song army cavalry is galloping on a low hill, this is a battalion of cavalry, the cavalry of the Jingzhao army is smaller than the infantry, the infantry is a battalion of 300 people, and the cavalry is a battalion of 100 people, and the chief officer is called the general, that is, the original capital.

In order to prevent the Western Xia nobles from transferring wealth, Li Yanqing sent 10,000 scout cavalry of Tiancewei into 100 teams to patrol north of Xingqing Mansion, and in addition, a large number of ships were also sent by waterway to intercept on the Yellow River.

More than 100 cavalry rushed to a hill to pause, at the foot of the hill was an endless forest, at this time, a soldier suddenly pointed to the woods and shouted: "General Wang, there is a different color over there!" “

General Wang Qiu immediately looked closely, and after a while, several soldiers also shouted, "There is movement in the woods!" “

Wang Qiu also saw that there was a figure of a horseman inside, and he immediately shouted: "Go down and have a look!" “

A hundred horsemen rushed down the hillside and ran into the woods, and in a moment they rushed into the woods, but no sooner had they entered the woods, 'Whoosh! A cold arrow came and almost hit Wang Qiu, grazed his ear, and nailed it to the tree.

Wang Qiu was startled, and immediately shouted: "The other party has guards, use a shield!" ”

The soldiers took off their shields one after another, and at this time, several more arrows were fired, and a soldier's war horse was hit by an arrow, and the war horse neighed miserably, fell to the ground, and pressed the soldier under him, and several soldiers hurriedly dismounted and dragged the suppressed soldier out.

"Fuck, fight back!"

The soldiers did not find their target, so they raised their crossbows together and shot in the direction of the arrows, and a flurry of arrows flew by, only to see a few black shadows running out from behind the big trees and rushing towards the south.

The soldiers were about to chase after him, but Wang Qiu waved his hand and said to one of the escorts: "Lao Xie, you take twenty brothers to chase, he wants to lure us away, Lao Tzu is not fooled!" “

These people are actually running south, how can the other party go south?

The Xie Escort team led twenty cavalry shouting and chasing after several black shadows, but Wang Qiu led the rest of the soldiers around the road from the outside, and went around to the front of the other party, there was a path in the woods, and they lay in ambush at the end of the path.

After a while, a camel team came to the south, about 100 camels, full of boxes and sacks, an old man of the Dangxiang clan rode a horse to lead the way, in addition to the camel driver, there were about 30 guards with knives, they kept looking to the south, looking quite nervous.

When the camel team walked more than 20 steps away, Wang Qiu took out a crossbow and loaded it into the crossbow, and when he was wound, he raised the crossbow and aimed at the old man at the head. The arrow was fast and ruthless, hitting the left shoulder of the old man of the party, and the old man of the party screamed miserably, turned over and fell off the horse.

The cavalry came out together, shouting and killing the thirty guards, and the thirty guards resisted desperately, but where to go to the opponents of the cavalry, in just a moment, they were killed cleanly, and not one was left.

Several camel drivers were so frightened that they were so frightened that they squatted on the ground with their heads in their hands, trembling all over, Wang Qiu took out his war knife and jumped off his horse to come to the old man of the party, the old man was shot through his left shoulder by an arrow, and he begged with a dying breath: "Spare your life, don't kill me!" “

"Tell me the truth, I won't kill you, and I will bandage your arrow wounds, but if you dare to lie, they will be your end!" Wang Qiu pointed to the corpses all over the ground and said viciously.

"I don't dare!"

"Then you say, who are you and what are you transporting?"

"The villain is..... The second butler of the military department is still a noble bookkeeper, send a batch of gold and silver.... Go to Datong Mansion! ”

"Humph! I'd rather give it to the gold soldiers than leave the gold and silver to buy my life, it's really damned, how many batches did he send, how many batches are you, and there is still a team that transports wealth before and after? “

"I don't know how many groups of villains there are, but we must be the first batch of the British Mansion, and there seems to be a team transporting supplies behind us, about ten miles away from us."

Wang Qiu immediately said to his subordinates: "Bandage his arrow wound and bring it back to the intelligence battalion for torture." ”

He quickly walked up to the camel and raised his knife to slash at a sack of hemp, which was suddenly split with a large opening, 'Dangchang! With a bang, dozens of large silver ingots rolled out of it, each weighing at least fifty taels, and this sack was at least two thousand taels of silver, and the weight on the camel lost its balance, and the two boxes rolled down from the other side, and the lid of one box was opened, and inside were dozens of yellow and clear gold.

Wang Qiu probably understood, the sack was filled with silver, and the box was gold, no wonder there were many sacks and few boxes.

With a great gain, Wang Qiu ordered his men to put away the gold and silver again and let the soldiers guard it, and he led the rest of the soldiers to the south to kill, he wanted to intercept another team.

...........

Five days later, 120,000 Song soldiers came to the city of Xingqingfu, the capital of the Western Xia Kingdom, which was the first time that the Western Xia soldiers were under the capital of the enemy country since the founding of the country.

At this time, the mountains and rivers in Xingqing Mansion were almost exhausted, and the chief of the Tuoba Department personally led 20,000 cavalry to Xingqing Mansion, and the Tuoba Department could not get more troops, and the 20,000 people were brought back by his son Tuoba Wei.

They rushed to Xingqing Mansion in time and threw themselves into defending the city, and the 10,000 Iron Harrier Army who were originally going to Henanshan also changed their plans because the coalition army was completely annihilated and continued to stay in the city.

In addition, Li Qianshun ordered the conscription of 200,000 party civilians in the city, and 50,000 were recruited, but the soldiers in the city were only enough to arm 20,000 people.

The current 20,000 soldiers are still collected from the houses in the city, so that there are barely 50,000 soldiers in the city, and 30,000 people to support the war.

Among the 50,000 troops, 20,000 recruits are party peasants, unlike herdsmen who can still fight on horseback, they can only farm the land, basically have no combat effectiveness, and can be ignored.

The other 20,000 people, the Song army fought with them, and their combat effectiveness was average, and they were defeated by the Song army.

However, the Iron Harrier Army is more famous, the dragon sees the head but does not see the tail, the real Iron Harrier here is only 3,000 people, and the remaining 7,000 people are the more warlike Pop Xi Army.

In the morning, a party contingent came to the Nancheng Gate, among them was Xiangguo Cao Price and the military department Shangshu Yinggui, they were ordered to go to the Song army to negotiate to see if they could use peace talks to solve the crisis of the destruction of the Western Xia.

The city gate slowly opened, and dozens of Western Xia cavalry escorted the two important ministers to the Song army camp ten miles away.

At this time, Li Yanqing did not have the intention of attacking Xingzhou City, he was still waiting patiently, Xingqing Mansion was like a bait, to attract all the people who supported Xingqing Mansion, annihilate them one by one, leaving no hidden dangers, and let the Western Xia ministers in the city gradually lose confidence, and the trees fell and scattered, and the time to attack Xingqing Mansion was really ripe at that time.

Of course, the face of the imperial court must also be given, and the last step to involve the imperial court is not necessarily a bad thing.

The camp of the Song army was stationed ten miles south of Xingqing Mansion, and Li Yanqing had already sent the news of the attack on Xingqing Mansion to Lin'an by means of flying eagle transmission, which was a kind of relay transmission, the first stop was to Chang'an City, and then the pigeon letter was sent to Chengdu Mansion, the third station was to Jiangling, the fourth station was to Jiangzhou, and the last stop was Lin'an Mansion, and it took at least five or six days on the road.

If you send someone to deliver the letter, it will take at least a month, and the journey is too long.

In the barracks, Li Yanqing was inspecting all kinds of wealth seized by the patrol soldiers in a big tent, which were all the nobles and high-ranking officials of Xingqing Mansion who were preparing to transfer the wealth, and were intercepted by the Song army patrol posts.

Yan Qing, who was in charge of the operation, introduced to Li Yanqing: "The brothers have captured a total of 32 batches, far exceeding our expectations, there are only eight batches by land and water, and the rest are all transported by land, by camel, all kinds of gold, silver, jewelry, silk and satin, and many gold and silver utensils and precious carpets from the far west, which can be said to be jaw-dropping. ”

"Where do they transfer their wealth?" Li Yanqing asked again.

"Most of them have been transferred to Datong Province, but a small part has also moved to the Hetao area, where is the Black Mountain Weifu Military Division of Western Xia, with thousands of garrisons, and a city called Haicheng, it is estimated that they want to use Haicheng as a new foundation."

"That's their wishful dream, but I'm a little curious, why did the Western Xia nobles think that the Jin Kingdom would offer them like an ancestor and honestly protect their property for them? Autumn is not guilty! ”

"I can answer that question!"

There was a hearty laugh behind him, Li Yanqing turned around, only to see Liu Tao walking in briskly from Xihe Road, Li Yanqing was surprised, "When did Liu Jingluo come?" ”

"I just arrived, and I'm here to report the situation to Marshal Du."

"Liu Jingluo is too polite, let's go sit in the big tent of the Chinese army!"