The situation in the city of Xingqing Mansion suddenly became tense, and groups of soldiers were running on the streets, Wei Ying opened the door and looked out for a moment, his face gradually became solemn, these soldiers were actually running in the direction of Liang Wangfu, and he suddenly felt a little bad.

Hurriedly ran back and said to the old servant and a few men: "You guys go quickly, maybe the army is coming to seal our shop." ”

Everyone immediately panicked, "That..... What about the shopkeeper? ”

"I'm going to go too!"

Wei Ying ran back to the room and took a few pieces of silver, stuffed one for each person, "Leave through the back door!" ”

The guy and the old servant were all Han Chinese from Xingqing Mansion, and it was not a big problem to have a family here, so they packed up their things and left through the back door in a hurry.

Wei Ying burned a few letters in the room, put more than 100 taels of silver in the cabinet into his arms, took a knife and left through the back door, but he didn't go far, but sat in a restaurant diagonally opposite to drink **, watching the movements of Qi's business from a distance.

There are only some samples in the Qi firm, and the delivery of money and goods is in other places, Wei Ying is mainly responsible for negotiating business and receiving orders, the reason why he is worried is because the firm has been raided several times, and it was King Liang who kept them, King Liang has three elements in the firm, and has deep interests with the Great Song Dynasty through the Qi firm, of course he doesn't want anything to happen to the firm.

But on the other hand, if something happens to King Liang, then the Qi family firm will definitely not be able to escape this catastrophe.

Wei Ying was thinking about it, when he saw a large group of soldiers suddenly rushing in the distance, heading straight for the Qi family's trading house, he was shocked, and hurriedly lowered his head, covering his face with a big bowl filled with **, but his eyes were staring at the group of soldiers.

Seeing that the soldiers slammed open the door of the Qi family trading house and rushed in, Wei Ying sighed lowly, King Liang must have had an accident, he put a handful of money on the table, turned around and left quickly.

In fact, Wei Ying was a little worried, Brother Richard did not have the evidence that King Liang was a spy of the Song army, he was just because of the financial constraints of Western Xia and the difficulty of military spending, so he began to fight the idea of big households, King Liang is the richest man in Western Xia, and he is an outdated relative, at this time, he will not slaughter anyone, the Qi family firm was investigated only because King Liang voted in it, and it was not only the Qi family firm that was affected, all the shops and firms related to King Liang had to be raided.

At the same time that Xingqing Mansion was in chaos, Richard led an army of 40,000 to the south to support Weizhou and Xiazhou.

At present, the army guarding Weizhou and Xia Prefecture is the slave soldiers of Western Xia, the so-called slave soldiers, as the name suggests, is an army composed of slaves, and there are a large number of slave households in Western Xia, including salt slaves, mine slaves and cheap slaves, most of whom are Han Chinese, but also Qiang and other ethnic minorities.

These Han people were taken captive to the Western Xia to become slaves, and the children of the slaves were also slaves, but they were born in the Western Xia, grew up in the Western Xia, and had a sense of national identity for the Western Xia, but they were very unfamiliar with the Great Song Dynasty, and the Western Xia gave them household registration, and they were organized as slave households, mainly engaged in dirty and tiring hard labor, although they would not be killed at will, but their social status was extremely low, they were only allowed to wear black clothes, they were not allowed to be officials, they were not allowed to do business, they were not allowed to marry with other civilians, and they had no social rights.

However, these slave households also have the opportunity to turn into normal households, that is, to join the army, as long as they can make military achievements, or sacrifice their lives for the country, then their families can be turned into Western Xia civilians.

Therefore, there is such a stealth slave army in the Western Xia army, the number is about 12,000 people, and they are said to be invisible because they are not in the establishment of the Western Xia army, they have no name, each person has only one military number, they use the worst equipment, eat the worst military food, and defend the most difficult places.

Although their status was low, this army was very loyal to the Western Xia, and was eager to make meritorious contributions, even eager to sacrifice their lives for the country, and their morale was high, so Richard Ge deployed them in the mountains and mountains on the Song-Xia border.

At present, the 12,000 people are mainly distributed in Weizhou and Xiazhou, Weizhou is the western passage of Hengshan, the first line of Xiangyikou and Taqiaozhai, 6,000 troops are deployed, and the other is deployed in the first line of Xiazhou, including two important military strongholds of Xiazhou City and Bole City.

Originally, there was a Yinzhou city in the northernmost part of the Tiger Roaring Gorge, but this city was destroyed in the war and had been abandoned, and the Western Xia army strengthened and expanded Bole City, making Bole City the first fortified city of the Western Xia army in the eastern part of Hengshan.

At this time, the Western Xia army was launching an attack on the Qinggangxia military village, which was the emergency response of the Western Xia army, and the capture of Qinggangxia could prevent the Song army from going north to a certain extent and buy time for the deployment of Western Xia troops.

Qinggang Gorge is a part of the Hengshan Grand Canyon, and it is also the northernmost section, about ten miles long, half of the valley is the river, the river bank is relatively narrow, but the terrain is very flat, it is conducive to the cavalry to pass quickly, the Xixia cut off the river in that year, the Qinggang Gorge was flooded by the river, the Song army came out from another Tiger Gorge, but the Tiger Gorge was blocked by rocks in an earthquake three years ago, and can no longer pass, and now there is only one passage in Qinggang Gorge.

Qinggangxia military village is an important stronghold of Qinggangxia, it was originally a platform on the mountainside, covers an area of dozens of acres, was rebuilt into a military cottage, from the mountain of dozens of zhang high, it poses a great threat to the passage of Qinggangxia, regardless of the north and south.

In the morning, the sound of shouting and killing in the rear of the Qinggangxia military village shook the sky, a Xixia army of about 5,000 people was attacking Qinggangzhai, the front of the Qinggang military village was a cliff, but there was a mountain road leading to the foot of the mountain, although the Song army built a lot of fortifications on the mountain road, but still could not stop the crazy attack of the Xixia army.

Hundreds of Western Xia soldiers held their shields high and crawled along the mountain road, dozens of steps above them, the Song army built a defensive wall with sandbags, but the mountain road was narrow and could not accommodate too many people, only more than thirty Song soldiers raised crossbows behind the defensive wall to shoot, this is the last defensive wall, take it, and the entrance to enter the military village is in front of you.

The soldiers of the Song army raised their crossbows and shot at the Western Xia soldiers on the hillside, the arrows were very strong, each arrow pierced the shield, and the soldiers behind the shield screamed and were shot immediately.

But there were too many Western Xia soldiers to kill, and soon they were less than thirty steps away from the defensive wall, and the governor of Xiazhou, who was supervising the battle behind, shouted: "Kill me!" ”

'Woo-' the horn of the charge sounded.

Hundreds of soldiers got up and rushed to the sandbag wall with a shout.

At this time, Wu Lan shouted: "All withdrawn!" ”

The bell rang, the Song soldiers retreated, and the Western Xia soldiers rushed into the sandbag wall, and the last line of defense was broken by the Western Xia soldiers.

Wu Lan brought 3,000 reinforcements over, plus the original 1,000 people, there were 4,000 people in the military village, and he was not afraid of 5,000 Western Xia soldiers with backward equipment.

It's just that he wanted to use the earth-shattering thunder, but the Western Xia soldiers were scattered very widely, and the lethality was not strong, so Wu Lan lured the Western Xia soldiers up the mountain step by step.

Seeing that the last line of defense had been captured, Sajin, the governor of the Western Xia army, was overjoyed in his heart and shouted: "Go up the mountain and fight to the death with the Song army!" ”

Thousands of Western Xia soldiers under the mountain immediately lined up and rushed towards the mountain.

From the back mountain to the front mountain where the military village is located, it is necessary to dig out a passage from a rock on the side, the passage is only six feet wide and about ten zhang long, and dozens of Song soldiers are blocking the other end, constantly firing arrows at this side of the passage.

Thousands of Western Xia soldiers had gathered on the side of the passage near the back mountain, they were huddled together, waiting for the final impact, and on the cliff passage, dozens of Western Xia were holding large shields and advancing step by step.

At this moment, seven or eight giant earth-shaking thunderbolts used to explode the city suddenly rolled down from the top of the heads of the Western Xia soldiers, emitting sneering white smoke, and rushed directly into the crowd in the back mountain.

The mountain shook, the gravel flew wildly, the flesh and blood splashed, the black smoke covered the sky and the sun, and the Song army, who had been prepared for a long time, covered their ears and lay on the ground.

After a long time, the smoke gradually dissipated, more than 30 Xixia soldiers on the road had disappeared, it is estimated that they fell off the cliff, thousands of soldiers were blown up into a blur of flesh and blood, there were stumps and broken flesh everywhere, the blood plasma stained the entire mountain red, many wounded soldiers were moaning in pain, the scene was extremely tragic.

Only the more than 1,000 soldiers on the periphery were not affected by the earth-shattering thunder explosion, and they were already frightened, and when they came back to their senses, they shouted in fear and ran down the mountain.

The governor of the capital, who had not yet made it up the mountain, was so frightened that he also turned on his horse and fled in the direction of Bole City with his soldiers.

A large explosion killed more than 2,000 Western Xia soldiers, the morale of the Western Xia army collapsed, and that night, Wu Lan led 3,000 troops to attack Bole City at night, and he captured this fortified castle in one fell swoop without much effort.