In September, the troops of the three divisions of Yan, Yongxing, and Qinfeng, which were controlled by the red-haired tiger Xu Wu, went out of the Wufu Road, opening the curtain of the Western Army's operations. However, Xu Hong did not fight the Jin army, but the remnants of the party army entrenched west of the Yellow River, nominally loyal to Li Renxiao, the king of Xia, but in fact controlled by the Jurchens.

After Xiao Hanli, the marshal of the Liao army, led the army back to China, Yelu Yanshan, the commander of the Liao army who stayed in the old border of Western Xia, continued to purge the remnants of the party. Not only threatened the rule of the Khitans in the Xia Realm, but also frequently harassed the Linfu Road controlled by the Western Army. As soon as the army of Xu Hong, Yang Yan, and Zhang Xian arrived, the remnants of the party fled in despair. It was not until mid-September that the remnants of the party gathered more than 20,000 people and lined up in the place of Dahengshui in an attempt to resist the western army. As the vanguard force, the general under Yang Yan, Li Cheng, nicknamed Li Tianwang, led the 7,000-foot army to arrive in advance, and without waiting for the main force to follow, he engaged the remnants of the party. After defeating the enemy for a while, more than 2,000 people were killed, and the party members were unable to form an army and fled north in a hurry.

Within September, Xu Hong commanded the three western armies to win successive battles, and at a very small cost the remnants of the party fled into the desert, basically sweeping away the worries of the future, and immediately transferred to the northeast to attack the Jin army's Yongbyon Prefecture. Yongbian, in the past, was not much, but since Song Liao formed an alliance, especially the last time Song Liao sent troops at the same time, one west and one east, it really made the Jurchens not lightly.

Since then, the Jin army has shifted its defense to the west, something that Wushu himself did before his death. Speaking of this Ningbian state alone, in the past few years of the Song-Jin truce, the city has been strengthened, equipment has been added, and the defenders in the city are mostly Jurchen Bohai tribes.

The defender of Ningzhou, a Bohai Wanhu even shouted that the journey of the Western Army ended at Yongbian! When Xu Hong led the troops of the Three Roads West to the city, this Bohai Wanhu was even more arrogant to send someone to Xu Hong and other marshals to send a batch of fruits, and asked people to spread the word, the army came from afar to work hard, a cart of melons and fruits, and talked about my intentions. After eating, let's fight again. Xu Hong was breathless, but Yang Yan was suddenly furious and even more arrogantly scolded the envoy of the Jin army, saying that Ben Shuai has followed the king of Xu Jun for decades, crisscrossing the north and south, attacking and taking, Vabik, and the little Ningbian, and dare to block the car with his mantis arm? Come down early, and save your life!

In the face of the threat of slaughtering the city issued by the famous Yang Dashuai, the chief general of the Jin army scoffed, saying that the soldiers defending the city said, Yang Yan is just an eagle dog of Xu Hu'er, see me cut off his minions.

After all, the verbal battle was false, and soon the Song and Jin armies saw the real trick under their hands. Xu Wu commanded 40,000 horse infantry troops, mainly infantry troops, all of whom were fierce athletes who had survived a hundred battles, and they didn't take the little Ningbianzhou in their eyes at all, and they all clamored to kill into the city. But Xu Hong suppressed the army, erected more than 40 mighty giant robes, and stormed the southern city of Ningzhou. After many years of fighting with the Western Army, the Jin Army had already learned that the Song Army was well-armed, so the city defense of Yongbyon was very targeted. There is no tooth buttress wall on the city, and all the corner towers of the flat-headed city are demolished to reduce the chance of being hit. When the Song army attacked in robes, the defenders were all hidden under the wall. One day, the robes fell, and although the houses in the city were destroyed countless times, the walls were not bad, and the casualties were very small.

The next day, the Western Army approached the siege operation, and the first thing to do was to fill in the trenches, and the Jin army seized this opportunity and fired arrows and stones. Although their robes are not as long as the Weiyuan robes, they are discounted by robes, "but they are a great threat to the Western Army troops who are operating in the near future."

At the end of the day, the Western army suffered thousands of casualties, but the moats had not been completely filled. At this time, the three ministers realized that the arrogance of the chief general of the Jin Army was confident.

It took another day for the Western army to fill in the moats, and the large siege equipment swarmed up and launched a general attack.

At this time, Wei Yuan's robe was also changed to the earth-shattering thunder, the eight-bull crossbow was nailed to the wall pile, and the warriors of the Western Army flocked forward!

The battle was fierce from the very beginning, and the western army braved flying arrows and stones, using chariot shields as a cover, desperately climbing up the city. The Jin army greeted him with strong bows and crossbows, robes and rolling stones. The two sides fought from early morning to noon, and the western army could not cross the thunder pond one step. And they are good at blasting the city gate, and they are also suffocated, and the Jin army is making trouble with iron in the city gate, and you blow up the city gate, or block it out.

It took two days for the Western Army to collapse a corner, and Zhang Xian personally organized hundreds of Hu'er Army soldiers who were not afraid of death, all of whom were stubborn and stubborn, and broke through from this lack of caliber. The two armies fought fiercely at the head of the city! It is worth mentioning that the situation faced by the Western Army this time was unprecedented.

In the past, when they attacked the city, they had to face only the enemy. But this time, the Jin army defending the city was supported by the people of the city. They carried equipment, delivered food and drink, and even fought on the front line. Who live in Yongbyon? Most of them were Han Chinese, but there were also Khitans, and it was said that they should respond to the Western Army. However, Ningbian first belonged to Liao, and then to Jin, and the people in the city had no sense of identity with the Western Army at all, let alone any national righteousness. Because of the unity of the army and the people defending the city, the western army fought very hard, and the casualties increased day by day.

But this didn't shake Xu Wu's determination at all, Xiao Xiaoning couldn't bite it, how could he explain it to his cousin? In the following battle, the Western Army used a large number of firearms, in addition to the earth-shaking thunder, thunder arrows, and even the three-eyed gun. Finally, after seven days, the western army broke the impregnable Yongbyon Prefecture, Xu Hong did not accept the surrender, and few people surrendered, the western army entered the city and opened a killing spree, and the defenders were all executed from 10,000 households to below! Hang your head on the city wall for public display!

Yang Yan had to slaughter the city, but Zhang Xian refused to listen to it, and in the end, Xu Hong used his power of moderation to suppress it. As soon as Ningbian Prefecture was concerned, the Sanlu Western Army pounced non-stop on the Jinsu Army and the Heqing Army. These two military cities, both located in the "Hetao", the region, were built by the Liao State for the conquest of Western Xia in the past, and they were also the fortresses of the Jurchens on the west bank of the Yellow River, gathering part of the Jin army and many remnants of the party. The fall of Yongbyon Prefecture also greatly intimidated the enemies of these two military cities, the defenders of the Jinsu army opened the gates of the city and surrendered without a fight, the defenders of the Heqing army heard the news, abandoned the city and fled, after the soldiers captured the two military cities without blood, in mid-October, the three-way western army conquered Yulin again, and completely expelled the forces of the Jurchens from the Hetao!

It was not until this time that the four-way soldiers and horses led by Xu Wei rushed to Pingyang Mansion and marched to Liangguan in Yangyang. Since the last expedition to the river, the Song and Jin armies, bounded by the north and south passes of Yangliang, the Song army controlled the south pass, and the Jin army controlled the north pass, whether it was north or south, it was not easy.

But the arrival of the Western Army of the Fourth Route still shocked the Jin army in Yangliang Beiguan. They saw that the Song army was constantly gathering and assembling in the city, and as far as the eye could see, there was a company camp, especially the royal flag of Xu Wei in the camp, which unmistakably showed that this army was under the command of the prince of Dongguan County!

However, the soldiers and horses of Huanqing, Jingyuan, Xihe, and Liangxing did not rush to detain the pass, and set up camp in front of the pass. The Jin army in Yangliang Beiguan watched the Song army prepare equipment and set up camps on the pass every day, although there was no real movement, but the huge pressure still made the defenders breathless. The police situation was reported to the commander of the Jin army in Hedong to scatter the loyalty, loyalty and righteousness, and now there is only Taiyuan left in Hedong, if he does not protect it, he cannot explain. Then he personally led the army into Fenzhou and sat in Yangliang Beiguan.

When Fusan Zhongyi saw Xu Wei's royal banner, he was also convinced, he knew that the most feared opponent of the Dajin Kingdom was in the camp of the Song army not far away, and the purpose of the other party's trip was to seize Taiyuan and recover the entire territory of Hedong. Although Yangliang Beiguan is dangerous, no one dares to guarantee whether it can block the thunderous blow of the Western Army.

The Jin army thought that Xu Wei was in the camp in front of the pass, but at this time, it was the two senior staff members of the Sichuan and Shaanxi Xuanfu Disposal Division, Ma Kuo and Zhang Qing, who acted on behalf of Xu Wei in the Song military camp. So where did Xu Wei go?

Longde Mansion, that is, the area of Changzhi in Shanxi in later generations. In the battle of the Western Army to recover Hedong, Wang Yan led the Liangxing Army to recover, and then Shao Yi was the chief of soldiers and horses, acting as the prefect. At this time, the Longde Mansion was almost the Changzhi Basin of later generations. It is surrounded by mountains on all sides, and the traffic is inconvenient.

There is a county in the northeast of Longde Province, called Shexian County, located at the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain, as long as it crosses Taihang to the east, it is the boundary of Hebei. A small mountainous county like this is not worth mentioning.

However, because of a dangerous path about 40 miles long from east to west, an elite of the Western Army secretly assembled here.

Prior to this, Shao Yi, the commander of the soldiers and horses of Longde Mansion, was personally in charge and sent Deli soldiers into the mountains to reconnoiter and spy on them. It has now been proved that there is nothing abnormal in the whole process of Fukou, and the obstacles set up by the rebels in the canyon in the past are also intact. Even Cizhou, Hebei Province, at the other end of the mountains, is peaceful.

The news was reported to Xu Wei, and he immediately ordered the Longde garrison to open up the Fukou Junction, and Li Chengwei and Yang Zaixing's cavalry immediately left the Fukou and entered Hebei!

On this day, in the humble pavilion of Shexian County, Xu Wei met with General Li Yang and made his last instructions before the war. Originally, Zijin Tiger has never liked noise, and he will not say what he has said a second time. But this time, the Western Army re-entered the land of Hebei after many years, and the two leaders were both famous generals in the Western Army, so he had to remind him repeatedly.

"Once you have passed smoothly, I will immediately send troops into Cizhou as your basis. If the war situation in Hebei is unfavorable, your comrades in Cizhou will receive you. Remember, this trip to Hebei "is for a surprise attack, if you encounter a large number of enemy troops, you can't fall in love with the war." Xu Wei did not sit on top as usual, but sat down with Li Chengwei and Yang Zaixing.

"Rest assured, the king, remember your humble duties." , As a concubine, Li Chengwei nodded.

As he was talking, he suddenly saw Shao Yi hurriedly entering, and said with a shocked face: "King, there is a situation!" ”，！ ~！