Wei Ying grabbed a horse on the road, and when he arrived in Lingzhou, a hundred miles away, it was already two watches in the middle of the night.

He went straight to the Song army camp in Nancheng, and there were still hundreds of steps from the camp, when a Ming Di said 'Huh!' flew by, so frightened that Wei Ying hurriedly reined in the war horse.

"Who are you?" A sentry rushed forward and asked.

He's just one person, otherwise the patrol would have called the police a long time ago.

Wei Ying hurriedly said: "I am a spy of the Song army in Xingqing Mansion, and I have extremely important information to report to Li Dutong. ”

Several soldiers asked, "Do you have a token?" ”

Wei Ying shook his head, "No tokens!" ”

"That's not going to work, you can't enter the barracks without a token."

Wei Ying was anxious and yelled, "I was a spy who was personally planted by Dutong to come to Western Xia eight years ago, and at that time I was still an old breeder, and Dutong had just joined the army, and there was no shadow of Jingzhao Army, so how could I have any tokens?" ”

More than a dozen patrol sentries looked at each other, and after a long while, the patrol team headed by the patrol team hugged their fists and said: "I'm really sorry, then go to the camp with us, but we can only enter the camp after the report is completed." ”

Wei Ying also realized that his attitude was not good, everyone was acting according to the rules, there was no need for him to yell like this, he nodded and said: "The military situation is urgent, I want to report to the capital immediately." ”

"Then please!" And they ran with him to the camp.

.......

At this time, Li Yanqing had already fallen asleep, but he had not fallen asleep, and a personal soldier reported outside the sleeping tent: "Qiyu Dutong, the outside patrol has come to report, saying that a spy from Xingqing Mansion has come to report to you an important military situation." ”

Li Yanqing was a little stunned, he didn't arrange spies in Xingqing Mansion! Could it be.......

Li Yanqing suddenly sat up and asked, "Is it Wei Ying?" ”

"It seems to be surnamed Wei."

"Bring him to me at once, and go!"

The soldiers turned around and ran, Li Yanqing also put on his coat, the most sorry person he had over the years was Wei Ying, he sent him to Xixia as an undercover spy, this time it was eight years, the intelligence battalion had long been disbanded, his career had been bumpy, Wei Ying was like a kite with a broken string, nowhere to be found, until the Qiao brothers found him last year, he didn't know that Wei Ying was still in Xingqing Mansion, and he had been silently collecting intelligence for eight years.

Thinking of this, Li Yanqing's nose was sour, he had forgotten him a long time ago, but he had always been loyal to Song Jun and had never forgotten the task he shouldered, I was really sorry for him.

Not long after, Wei Ying was brought into the big tent, he fell on the ground and cried loudly, and many years of grievances poured out at this moment.

Li Yanqing also hurriedly helped him up, so that he could be appeased, Wei Ying also felt that he was a little too much, and hurriedly wiped away his tears and said: "There is an important military intelligence report for the humble position!" ”

Li Yanqing asked him to sit down and drink a cup of hot tea, and asked people to find Wang Gui and Liu Kuan, and after a while, Wang Gui and Liu Kuang hurried over, and Li Yanqing introduced Wei Ying to the two of them, and both of them were overwhelmed.

"He Nanshan is very lively over there, there should be action in Xingqing Mansion, right?" Wang Gui asked with interest.

Wei Ying hurriedly said: "The humble position is to report this matter." ”

He explained in detail the decision of the Western Xia to replace the Iron Harrier with the Tuoba army to defend the city, and Liu Jian said with a smile: "It is really difficult for the Western Xia people to think of such a method. ”

Li Yanqing pondered for a moment and asked, "Is the source reliable?" ”

Wei Ying nodded, "It was Lang Zhong of the Western Xia military department who revealed that his name was Wang Yanzhao, he was a Han man, and he was excluded in the Western Xia officialdom, and he has been providing me with information all these years." ”

"The deployment map of the pass troops in various parts of Western Xia last time was provided by him?" Li Yanqing asked.

"It's him!"

Li Yanqing believed that Wei Ying asked Zhang Jiu to send a map of the deployment of the pass army last time, which was very meaningful, and it showed the situation of the garrisons and cellars of grain in the Western Xia army in hundreds of passes, so that the Song army did not have to search one pass after another, and concentrated on exterminating more than 30 passes with a small number of garrisons, and found nearly 100,000 stone cellars of grain, which also enabled the Song army to quickly station in these supplied passes, which had extremely high strategic value.

"What else?"

"There is also the fact that Western Xia began to strictly control the city gates, only allowed to enter and not to leave, and began to comprehensively investigate the Han people in the city."

"What does it mean to check the Han people in the city?" Li Yanqing asked puzzled.

"Qiyu Dutong, this statement has a long history, there are hundreds of thousands of Han people living in Xingzhong City, they are aborigines, not captured Song slaves, the Western Xia court has always been more polite to them since Li Yuanhao, they are also relatively wealthy in Western Xia, with a large number of good land, but in recent years, the national strength of Western Xia has declined, and there have been party nobles who accuse these Han people of exploiting party people, and ask the court to take them to open the knife, but they are also strongly opposed by Han ministers like Jiao Yanting, and now Western Xia is facing life and death crisis, and financial resources are exhausted, They began to attack the Han people's idea, the so-called inventory is to loot their property to supplement military expenses, if they resist, they will definitely be slaughtered. ”

Li Yanqing couldn't believe it, the Han people were the most important financial source of the Western Xia court, and robbing the Han people was not just killing chickens and eggs?

"Xixia's financial resources are so embarrassed?"

Wei Ying smiled bitterly, "I have been in the Western Xia for eight years, I really understand the Western Xia thoroughly, the population of this small country was less than three million at the most, and now it is only two and a half million people, and in the past ten years, they have been fighting almost every year, and they are reckless, how can they afford their national strength, especially they were squeezed by the Jin State, failed to fight for Datong Mansion, surrendered to the Jin State, lost a lot of property, and had to bear the grain and grass military expenses of 20,000 Jin soldiers in Datong Mansion, they have been overwhelmed, and last year they were extorted by the Jin State for a million sheep due to the snow disaster, This incident completely intensified the internal contradictions of the Western Xia, and the Western Xia court could be described as a domestic and external difficulty, stormy and stormy, even if the Song army did not march north, we suspect that they themselves will break out into a civil war. ”

Wang Gui next to him said with a smile: "I'm afraid it has something to do with the failure of the invasion of Xihe Road the year before last!" ”

"It does have a relationship, Wang Yanzhao told me that after the failure of that dispatch, the armament depot of Western Xia was completely empty, and the financial resources could not afford so much military spending, so they began to reduce the number of soldiers."

After a pause, Wei Ying said again: "But I personally think that the reason for the decline of Western Xia is not only the poor army, but also related to the extravagance of their nobles, they are typical poor temples and rich abbots, the treasury is empty, but the nobles have accumulated a lot of wealth, the last time Li Qianshun raided the Liang Palace, I heard that the silver alone copied out millions of taels, hundreds of thousands of taels of gold, to support the military expenses of the party alliance, but the king of Liang is still only one of them, the Li royal family, the prime minister, the Shangshu these important ministers, which is not a house full of ayaluo, gold and silver full of cellars, The Xiangbing Department is still a noble book, and even the maids in his house use the Baoyan Zhai red box, which shows the luxury of their lives. ”

Li Yanqing said with a smile: "In this way, I still have to send a cavalry to patrol the north of Xingqing Mansion to prevent them from escaping with their wealth." ”

"It is very necessary, and not only cavalry, but also ships must be sent to prevent them from escaping to Datong Mansion by water, and the Jin Kingdom will be cheapened for nothing."

Li Yanqing nodded, turned around and asked Cao Ye, the chief bookkeeper, "Is Zhang Shun and Ruan's Sanxiong's fleet coming?" ”

Cao Ye hurriedly said: "Back to the capital, the fleet has arrived in Mingsha County." ”

The fleet was a surprise army arranged by Li Yanqing, led by Zhang Shun and Nguyen Thi Sanxiong, a total of 500 large and small ships and 6,000 sailors, starting from the Wei River, entering the Yellow River and then turning north, the Yellow River is the main transportation artery of the Western Xia, if you want to destroy the Western Xia, you must first control the Yellow River.

Li Yanqing asked his soldiers to take Wei Ying to rest, while he and Wang Gui and Liu Jian continued to discuss the deployment of troops to deal with the new changes in Western Xia, especially the Iron Harrier cavalry was going out of the west of the city, which made Li Yanqing see the hope of annihilating them.

........

At the same time that the Western Xia court decided to replace the iron harrier with the Tuoba army, the news of the Song army's bloody sweep of the various departments of He Nanshan also reached the Jingzhou coalition camp, which made the coalition camp suddenly like a fried pot, and the crowd was excited.

At this time, Li Zhizong also received an express report from the imperial court, and he urgently summoned the leaders of the various armies to calm their emotions.

"Please rest assured, the Son of Heaven will never let the Song army ravage He Nanshan, I just received a report from the imperial court, the Son of Heaven has sent 10,000 Iron Harrier cavalry to He Nanshan, and will definitely stop the Song army's atrocities in He Nanshan, please rest assured, don't shake the heart of the army."

At this time, Xi Fengbei also asked: "The 10,000 troops in the capital went to Henanshan, isn't the capital empty, what if the Song army takes the opportunity to attack the capital?" ”

"This ..... The imperial court has made arrangements, and the imperial court has asked the Tuoba Department to send 30,000 troops to guard the capital. ”

Li Zhizong explained repeatedly, and finally calmed everyone's emotions, and he breathed a long sigh of relief.

Inside the big tent, the fine seal was also pacing back and forth with his hands in his hands, and he was really anxious in his heart, and the big chief fine seal Heita asked him to immediately return to the army to rescue the ox horn letter on the table, so that the fine seal was also undecided for a while, at this time, the voices of the other two generals came from outside the tent, "We are looking for the marshal!" ”

"Let them in!"

As soon as the curtain was lifted, the chief generals of the Yeli Department and the Mi Capture Department walked in quickly, "Big brother, what do you think about this?" ”

Li Zhizong tried his best to appease everyone, but everyone didn't buy his account, they believed more in the words of the fine seal farewell, and the fine seal farewell also made the two sit down, and said with a cold gaze: "If I guess correctly, the Iron Harrier Army did not go to the rescue of the He Nanshan tribes." ”

The two were shocked, "Could it be that the imperial court will also lie to us?" ”

"The court won't lie to us, since we agreed, then the Iron Harrier should send troops, I just said, the matter is not as simple as Du Shuai said, the Iron Harrier should still be in Xingqing Mansion, and they haven't set off, they are still waiting!"

"What are they waiting for?"

"They are waiting for the arrival of the Tuoba army, and the imperial court will never let the capital become an empty city, and the two armies must hand over the defense before the iron harrier will go west."

The two generals were anxious, "When are you going to go?" ”

"The problem is here, it will take three days to go from Xingqing Mansion to the pasture of the Tuoba Department at the earliest, and this is six days, whether the Tuoba army is willing to come or not is one thing, even if they come, they have to bargain, this will take at least two or three days, so even if the Iron Harrier sends troops, it will take eight days at the earliest, and when they reach the ranch, ten days have passed, our people have long been dead, what is the point of them sending troops?"

"Meaningful!"

Ye Li, the head of the Ye Li Division, said coldly: "You can continue to lie to us and sell their lives to them here, this is their only purpose." ”

Xi Fengbei also sighed, "I don't understand, why they didn't let us retreat to Xingqing Mansion, and then everyone sent troops to rescue He Nanshan, why did they have to let us confront the Song army in Jingzhou." ”

"I'm afraid they're buying time!"

Mishudley suddenly uttered something earth-shattering, "Buy them time to transfer their wealth." ”

Xi Fengbei's face also changed greatly, I'm afraid this sentence is the truth.