Li Yanqing was in charge of the cavalry division, and he knew that all the Song army horses west of the Yellow River added up to only two or three hundred, where could hundreds of cavalry appear, needless to say, this must be the Western Xia cavalry cut off his retreat, and he had a feeling of falling into a trap. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

But now he didn't have time to think about it, so he rode his horse to the northeast, and he only ran three miles away, and met one of Wang Gui's men, and the soldier shouted: "Li joins the army here!" ”

Li Yanqing grabbed him, "Get on the horse!" ”

The soldier was pulled onto his horse, and he pointed forward, "We are on the hill in front, and the officer asked me to go to Wulong Village for help!" ”

"Do you know any other way than where we came from?"

"I know, there are two more paths."

"Then take the path, our way was cut off by the Western Xia cavalry."

Li Yanqing took the soldiers to a ravine, and the soldiers said: "There is also a path from under the ravine to Wulong Village, Li Senjun and I will go together!" ”

Li Yanqing shook his head, the war horse and two people couldn't outrun the Western Xia cavalry, and sooner or later they would be caught, "You go and report the news, be careful yourself." ”

The soldier jumped off his horse and ran down the ravine, Li Yanqing rode his horse everywhere and continued to run forward, but the pursuers behind did not speed up the pursuit, but stared at him unhurriedly, this is a typical prey, as long as night falls, it will be difficult for him to escape the pursuit of the wolves.

At this moment, he saw a flag waving on the top of a hill in front of him, and he immediately urged his horse to run towards the hill.

This hill is the same hill they were ambushed just now, but when they were ambushed, they were in the westernmost way, and now they are in the easternmost side, and Li Yanqing led his horse along a winding path to the top of the mountain.

When he didn't reach the top of the mountain, Wang Gui greeted him, "I just sent a brother, have you met it?" ”

Li Yanqing nodded, "He took a small road to report the news." ”

After a pause, Li Yanqing asked again, "Why are you here?" ”

Wang Gui gritted his teeth and said: "Damn, there are also archers ambushed in the east, and two brothers have died, so we can't get by, so we have to go up the mountain." ”

Li Yanqing's brows furrowed, "It's really strange, our retreat was also intercepted by at least a hundred cavalry, I feel as if we have entered an ambush circle, are the Western Xia spies ambushed like this?" ”

"Nonsense, there will never be more than ten spies in Western Xia, and I don't know what's going on, how can there be hundreds of cavalry?"

"They're coming!" There were soldiers shouting.

Li Yanqing hurriedly stepped forward, handed over the horse to one of his subordinates to settle down, he walked behind a large rock, and looked at the foot of the mountain.

I saw two Western Xia cavalry converge from the east and west, there were one hundred and fifty or sixty people, Wang Gui's face changed, how could there be so many Western Xia enemies?

Li Yanqing looked back at their troops, three of Wang Gui's men died, one went to report to one, only six people remained, one of his own men was seriously injured, one died, only four people remained, plus him and Wang Gui, there were only twelve people in total.

"When will reinforcements arrive?"

"It depends on whether Qin Er can escape the interception of the Tanguts."

"He's taking the path, he should be able to escape!"

Wang Gui thought for a while and said, "It's about forty miles away from Wulong Village, and the reinforcements won't be able to arrive until noon tomorrow at the earliest." ”

Li Yanqing's head was big for a while, and he beckoned to everyone, "Everyone come here!" ”

Ten soldiers surrounded him, and Li Yanqing said to everyone: "The person they want to arrest may be me, but once I am arrested, the Xixia people will not stay alive, if they don't want to die, everyone will fight, as long as we hold on until the reinforcements arrive, we have hope of survival." ”

Wang Gui hurriedly added: "You may not know that Li joined the army but was the first place in the bow and horse competition the year before last, and even the first archer in Western Xia was defeated under his bow. ”

Hearing that Li Senjun was actually the first place in the archery horse competition, everyone's eyes showed a glimmer of hope, and they all clenched their fists.

Li Yanqing counted the weapons again, each of them had a pair of bows and arrows and a knife, but Wang Gui also collected the bows and arrows and weapons of the two fallen soldiers, a total of fifteen pots of arrows, twenty arrows in one pot, nearly three hundred or so arrows.

Li Yanqing looked around and looked around again, there were only two roads, either from the side of the ridge or from the path he walked up the mountain, which was very beneficial to them.

Li Yanqing said to Wang Gui: "There are not many arrows, and it is a bit of a waste for everyone to shoot arrows together, so it is better to pick a few brothers who are accurate in archery to shoot arrows, and others to shoot them with stones." ”

Speaking of stones, Wang Gui suddenly remembered something, "Lao Li, don't you know how to hit stones?" ”

Li Yanqing nodded, "I still have a pair of stone chess pieces in my horse bag, thirty-two, it was originally a boring game of chess for everyone on the road, but now I plan to use it at the most critical moment." ”

Wang Guiyan was like being injected with a strong shot, he knew very well how strong Li Yanqing was in hitting stones, and he suddenly became excited, "I heard that I said that I have a plan that can allow us to add a lot of bows and arrows." ”

He whispered a few words in Li Yanqing's ear, Li Yanqing was angry and funny, and slapped him on the head, "You are using me as bait again!" ”

Wang Gui smiled and said, "They are obviously here to arrest you!" ”

Li Yanqing's face suddenly became solemn, Wang Gui's words hit the nail on the head, nearly two hundred Western Xia spies came to arrest him, how did they know who they were? How did they know their route, and besides, the Tanguts must have received the news in advance and sent two hundred people to lurk, and who told them?

Li Yanqing remembered the two who found an excuse to stay in Wulong Village, his face became extremely ugly, from the very beginning, he fell into the trap, and someone wanted to use the hands of the Western Xia people to eradicate himself.

"How?" Wang Gui asked, "Is my solution feasible?" ”

Li Yanqing gritted his teeth and nodded slowly: "Since he wants to play, we will accompany him to play to the bottom!" ”

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Half an hour later, twenty Western Xia soldiers slowly climbed along the sheep intestine path to the top of the mountain, each with a shield in one hand and a spear in the other, extremely cautious.

On the top of the mountain, Li Yanqing smiled at Wang Gui: "People go up the mountain with shields, do you think they will let me succeed?" ”

Wang Gui was a little stunned, he originally wanted Li Yanqing to use a stone to attack the Western Xia soldiers who were trying to attack at close range, but they were not stupid, they were holding a shield and going up the mountain, what should I do?

Li Yanqing said with a smile, "If you still act according to the original plan, you can at least get a few sets of armor and shields." ”

Wang Gui nodded and waved to a few of his subordinates, "Follow me!" ”

They lurked from the other side of the mountaintop, and lay in ambush halfway up the mountain, which was not very high, about thirty zhang, that is, about 100 meters, and there was a flat land sixty meters from the mountainside, overgrown with shrubs.

This Western Xia cavalry is a captive army under the Shenyong Army Division of the Left Wing of the Western Xia, and the capturing army is notorious because the party has always had a tradition of plundering Han people as slaves.

In order to meet the large needs of the party society, Li Yuanhao specially set up an army of 100,000 people with the direct goal of plundering slaves, which is the captive army.

Li Shishi's grandfather was plundered by the captive army and sent to Western Xia as a salt slave.

The lowest level of officers in the Western Xia army is called the small leader, and the hundred people have the main leader, and then the top is the main and deputy adjutant generals, and today the two hundred captive troops are the elite of the elite, and they are also the team that captures the most slaves, and they have made great contributions.

The leader of the elite cavalry of the Western Xia was a deputy general, named Ye Li'an, a party member, who was ordered to arrest the important civilian chief of the Northwest Army to join the army, and he was ordered that this civilian official was worth 5,000 slaves, and he must capture the Western Xia.

Most of the party members are illiterate, especially the party members in the various tribes, their concept of wealth is camels, cattle and sheep and slaves, the Great Song civil official worth 5,000 slaves, how could Ye Li'an not pay attention to it, he set up an ambush according to the information he received in advance, and sure enough, he surrounded and intercepted this civil official.

Ye Li'an has extremely rich experience in capturing Han slaves, over the years, he led the army into the Song realm dozens of times, never lost, and even many Song hunters were captured by him.

His experience is not to be in a hurry, as long as he stares at the prey, and when the prey is tired, it is naturally the time for them to start, but this time Yelian did not expect that the prey actually ran to the top of the mountain, which made their cavalry advantage useless.

"Zuo General, from the west side of the mountain, you can directly kill them to their hiding place!" One of the leaders suggested in a low voice.

Yelian looked at the hill and shook his head. "Don't worry, test their strength first, the Han people say that knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent will win all battles, and we are the same!"

"I'm afraid they'll run west."

"No, there are twenty sentries I ambushed over there, and they can't get through."

"I'm afraid that these twenty brothers will be more than lucky!"

Wild Ann smiled coldly, "This is exactly what I was hoping for. ”

In each Western Xia army, there will be some foreign soldiers, that is, soldiers of the non-Dangxiang tribe, they are also called Bang Linglang, mainly Han slaves and slaves of other nationalities, they are used in the army to charge, kill a certain number of enemy soldiers, they can get free, which has a great temptation for these slave soldiers.

Twenty soldiers were none other than Ling Lang, and they were dressed in heavy leather armor, which could not penetrate the double leather armor on their bodies, not to mention the protection of shields.

By this time, twenty raiding soldiers had climbed up the mountainside and were climbing towards the top of the mountain.