The fire, ignited by the gunpowder arrows of the Song army, did not burn for several days and nights like the dam fire, but gradually extinguished at noon, and finally burned only one hill. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Song soldiers had already dug a large pit on the hillside, and kept throwing the charred black corpses found from the pine forest into the pit, and several soldiers recorded beside them, "Four thousand three hundred and seventy-seven, four thousand three hundred and seventy-eight.......

Li Yanqing sat on a big rock, holding his map in his hand and looking at it carefully, he knew that there were still many Western Xia soldiers who had escaped, they did not completely block the hill, and there were fewer soldiers defending in the east and west, at least two or three thousand soldiers broke through and escaped.

At this time, Zong Ze slowly walked to his side, "Since our Song army began to use a lot of gunpowder, attacking with fire has become the norm on the battlefield, and today's result is also that this Western Xia army master will be stupid." ”

Li Yanqing pointed to a road on the map and said with a smile: "This road leads directly to Xiazhou, only about eighty miles away from us, the old general said that we should take the opportunity to capture Xiazhou in one fell swoop?" ”

Zong Ze shook his head, "Without the commander's order, we must not act rashly, if it weren't for the fact that the enemy army is from the Maitreya Cave, the Linzhou army should not attack the Maitreya Cave, this is already a bit of a violation, how can we be wrong again and again?" ”

Li Yanqing was a little disapproving, Xiazhou, Shizhou, and Maitreya Cave themselves are one, they can send troops to Xiazhou, and they don't necessarily have to get the boss's consent, but since Zong Ze is unwilling, he is no longer reluctant.

At this time, a general rushed forward and reported: "General Qiyu Zong, Qiyu Li has joined the army, the results of the battle have been counted, a total of 5,889 enemies have been killed, 1,744 people have been captured, and the whereabouts of other enemy soldiers are unknown." ”

"How many casualties have we suffered?" Li Yanqing asked.

"We lost 183 casualties and 374 wounded, and because of the fierce fighting that took place between the two sides when the enemy troops broke through on the east and west sides, our troops suffered heavy casualties, and there were basically no casualties on the north and south sides."

Li Yanqing stood up and said to Zong Ze: "The old general will lead the army back first!" I took 3,000 cavalry to the Maitreya Cave to meet them. ”

Zong Ze nodded, "Okay! I'll lead the army back first, and you take care of yourself. ”

The two immediately divided into two routes, Zong Ze led the main army to escort the prisoners of war back to the camp, and Li Yanqing led 3,000 cavalry to rush to Maitreya Cave.

Maitreya Cave is the name of the place, it is located in the west of Yinchuan City about 150 miles, to the east from the Song Dynasty Jinning Army 70 miles, to the south from the Suide Army 60 miles, in the Song and Xia strategic points, here the terrain is dangerous, and the Jinning Army of the military village is the same, the Xixia Army also built a military camp that can accommodate tens of thousands of people according to the mountain, this is the Maitreya Cave Military Camp, but also the military office of the Left Chamber, at the beginning of the year Li Yanqing was ambushed by the Xixia Army in the Jinning Army Inspection, two hundred Xixia cavalry is from this military camp.

Li Yanqing led 3,000 cavalry to gallop on the trail, and along the way, he kept seeing the armor discarded by the deserters, and most of the soldiers who escaped did not rush back to the barracks, but directly became deserters and fled back to their hometowns.

The reason why he took the initiative to ask for an order to go to the Maitreya Cave military camp was mainly because he wanted to find some important information from the Western Xia military office, when Gao Yu wanted to kill himself and achieve the goal of removing the planter, the high-ranking official of the Western Xia who he colluded with was undoubtedly Li Liangfu, Li Liangfu died in Yinchuan City, so will there be Gao Yu's letter in his military office?

At dusk, they ran to a hillside, condescendingly, and saw the Western Xia army camp ten miles away, built on the mountain, green smoke wafted over the camp, and the war seemed to be over.

Wang Gui pointed to the green smoke, "Lao Li, it can't be that the military government was burned!" ”

"Let's go!"

Li Yanqing was so anxious that he galloped down the hill and ran towards the camp in the distance......

The division led 20,000 troops only one hour earlier than Li Yanqing arrived at the Maitreya Cave military camp, there was no suspense in the war, although there were 3,000 Xixia soldiers in the military camp, but these 3,000 soldiers were frightened birds who fled back from Yinchuan City, the army was disheartened, morale was very low, when the 20,000 Song troops arrived at the bottom of the barracks mountain, a group of soldiers killed the guards, opened the camp gate and surrendered.

The cottage is not only a military camp, there are more than 1,000 houses, basically all of them are military families, after the Song army entered the village, began to search the hidden enemy army from house to house, the cottage was in chaos, the silver vault located on the top of the mountain was also looted by a group of Western Xia rebels, and also set fire to the silver vault in an attempt to cover up the crime, but they were intercepted by the Song army when they fled with silver ingots, hundreds of vicious soldiers were killed on the spot, and the Song army seized a large amount of gold and silver.

And at this moment, Li Yanqing led the cavalry to arrive in front of the gate of the cottage.

"Who are you?" The defenders of the Song army inside the gate asked loudly when they saw that this cavalry was also a Song army.

Li Yanqing urged him to step forward and said: "I am Li Yanqing, the head of the Intelligence Department and the army, please inform the second general immediately!" ”

'Seed two generals' is the Song Army's internal name for the seed division, belonging to a semi-formal title, immediately a soldier ran to report, not long after, the barracks door opened, the seed division walked out quickly, Lao Yuan smiled: "Is Li joining the army coming?" ”

Li Yanqing didn't have much to do with the seed master, he had only seen it twice, he hurriedly turned over and dismounted, stepped forward and bowed, "Yanqing see the second general of the seed!" ”

The seed master smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "This time, thanks to you luring the snake out of the cave, we have the opportunity to occupy the Maitreya Cave military camp and solve the urgent need, speaking of which, I have to thank you very much." ”

Li Yanqing was anxious, he didn't want to continue to delay in this kind of meaningless politeness, so he asked: "I saw green smoke above the barracks just now, where did it burn?" ”

"It was a group of bastards who robbed the silver vault and set fire to it and tried to escape, but we intercepted it, and none of them escaped."

Hearing that the silver treasury was burned, Li Yanqing breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "What is the situation with the military office?" ”

The seed master smiled slightly: "Since the head of the intelligence department is here, of course the military government will be handed over to you, please!" ”

Li Yanqing let the cavalry march into the village to rest, and he led the soldiers of the 300 intelligence battalion to go straight to the military office, which was built at the highest place, which was an official office made of stones, covering an area of about seven or eight acres, and there were also more than a dozen Western Xia civilian officials, but they had been taken to other places and imprisoned, and the gate of the military office was closed, and there were seals on it.

Li Yanqing led the soldiers into the military office through the side gate and ordered: "Give a careful search, all places are not allowed to be spared, and all documents are collected!" ”

The soldiers dispersed, and at this time, Wang Gui stepped forward and whispered: "Otherwise, I will take a few brothers to interrogate those civil officials to see if there are any secret rooms or anything like that." ”

Li Yanqing nodded, "Go ahead!" ”

Wang Gui waved his hand excitedly, "Follow me!" ”

He took a dozen soldiers to the backyard to interrogate the prisoners, while Li Yanqing walked into Li Liangfu's official room, which was large and tidy, and seemed a little empty, and several soldiers were squatting on the wall and knocking on the wall, looking for a dark room that might be hidden somewhere.

Li Yanqing walked to a bookcase, opened the bookcase, it was full of all kinds of books, and on the very edge of the second-floor shelf, there was a thick stack of letters tied with thread.

Judging from the various books on the shelves, Li Liangfu was a Tangut royal family who was proficient in Chinese, so his correspondence with the Song Dynasty would not be in Tangut script, but must be in Chinese.

Li Yanqing quickly found the letters in his hand, these letters are relatively lettered, at least they are all letters from this year, and soon, Li Yanqing found a total of three letters written in Chinese from more than 30 letters, and the first letter surprised him a little, it turned out to be a letter written by Li Kui, the transfer envoy of Jinghu North Road, to Li Liangfu.

Li Yanqing hurriedly opened the letter and read it carefully, but the content made him breathe a little relieved, it seemed that Li Liangfu wrote a letter to ask Li Kui how to identify beautiful jade, and Li Kui wrote back to tell him that ancient jade is the top, and the current jade is the bottom; White jade is the top, and colored jade is the bottom; Stone jade is the bottom, the pidony jade is the top, and a page is written in sprinkling, and the payment time is January this year.

Li Yanqing took the letter into his arms, and the second letter was a correspondence between Li Liangfu and the famous prostitute Mei Liangji in Western Xia, which was actually in Chinese, and Li Yanqing put the letter aside.

The third letter made Li Yanqing's gaze freeze, this letter was the letter he was looking for, 'The former commander of the Great Song Palace, Gao Taiwei, sent a letter to His Royal Highness the King of Zhongwei County in Western Xia. ’

Li Yanqing quickly took out the letter inside and looked at it carefully, Gao Yu was still relatively cautious, and did not mention specific matters, but only mentioned the matter dictated by Steward Zhang last time, hoping that the two sides could speed up the implementation, but Gao Yu suggested in his heart that he should start with the new science and technology of the Northwest Army to put pressure on the government and the opposition, forcing them to resign from the common goal........

Zhang Xuan couldn't help sneering, 'New Science and Technology Advancement of the Northwest Army', who else will there be besides himself?