Due to the premature use of Fengsui, so that Fengsui lost the meaning of alarm, until two days after the Song army seized Xiping Mansion, Li Qianshun from some of the tribe herdsmen who fled to Xingqing Mansion to get the news of the loss of Xiping Mansion, this news made Li Qianshun shocked, he only learned the news of the destruction of 20,000 reinforcements from the flying eagle message in Weicheng three days ago, did not expect the Song army to go north so quickly, actually captured Xiping Mansion two days ago.

Li Qianshun urgently convened important ministers overnight to discuss countermeasures.

Those who entered the palace to discuss countermeasures were still several important ministers from before, including Xiangguo Cao Price, Deputy Prime Minister King Lian Feng, Pu King Li Renzhong, Wei King Li Zhizhong, and the military department Shangshu Yinggui and the household department Shangshu Jiao Yanjian.

The ministers of Western Xia knew what the loss of Xiping Mansion meant, and they all asked Li Qianshun to immediately send the Guards Cavalry, that is, the most elite Iron Harrier cavalry in Western Xia, to the south to recapture Xiping Mansion.

After discussing for just half an hour, everyone reached a consensus on sending troops, and Li Qianshun made a decision to order Li Renzhong, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites and the king of Pu, to lead 30,000 Iron Harrier cavalry south to recapture Xiping Mansion.

As soon as the morning dawned, 30,000 iron harrier cavalry swarmed out from the west camp of Xingqing Mansion, and killed Xiping Mansion 250 miles away, the yellow dust stirred up by 30,000 cavalry covered the sky and the sun, and the sound of horses' hooves on the official road was like thunder, and soon, the news of the loss of Xiping Mansion spread all over the capital, and the wind in the capital of Xixia was loud, and the price of grain rose rapidly, driving the prices in the capital to rise in an all-round way, and the people of the army and the people were panicking.

There are Jingzhou and Shunzhou in the south of Xingqing Mansion, 30,000 iron harrier cavalry arrived in Lingzhou City after running for two days, Li Renzhong took the lead in rushing to Baitong Mountain, this is Xiangguo Cao Price repeatedly instructed, Baitong Mountain warehouse has accumulated copper and silver for three years is very important to Western Xia, nothing else can be cared about, but millions of catties of copper and silver can not be lost.

But the result made Li Renzong completely disappointed, except for 80,000 quintals of forage, all the rest of the materials were swept away by the Song army, but even the 80,000 quintals of forage that was difficult to take were set on fire by the Song army and turned into a pile of ashes.

Not only were there no supplies, but more than 200,000 Song slaves in Baitong Mountain also escaped cleanly, and the former dirty and crowded Baitong Village was also burned to the ground.

Li Renzong felt extremely lost, he sent people back to Xingqing Mansion to report to Li Qianshun, and at the same time led the army to continue to kill Lingzhou City thirty miles away, at this time Li Renzong already had a faint sense of unhappiness in his heart, judging from the burning of Baitong Mountain, the Song army evacuated at least two days ago, such a rapid retreat, he couldn't believe that how much population and wealth would be left in Lingzhou City?

Li Renzong's army marched all the way south, and encountered several small tribes along the way, all of which were ravaged by war, the cattle and sheep in the pen disappeared, the camp tents were completely burned, the population disappeared, and several small tribes almost suffered a catastrophe.

Li Renzong sighed and led the army to continue south, five or six miles away from Lingzhou City, and saw the city gate open from a distance, but there were no pedestrians outside the city, and there were no defenders at the city gate, everything seemed deserted.

The closer they got to the city gate, the stronger the bad feeling became, and when the 30,000 cavalry slowly entered the city, almost everyone was stunned, and they were greeted by an empty city, with the doors of shops wide open, all kinds of valuable items swept away, and the streets were empty, without a single pedestrian.

At this time, an old man was found by the soldiers, and the soldiers brought him to Li Renzong, and when he saw Li Renzong, the old man of the party cried loudly, "All the people have been arrested, and the wealth has been robbed by the Song army, but if there is any resistance, the Song army will kill him, oh my God!" Lingzhou City is all over. ”

Li Renzong was stunned, and asked for a while, "When did this happen?" ”

"The day before yesterday, the last group of people were escorted away the day before yesterday, and thousands of carts transported all the accumulated wealth, what is the difference between the Song army and the bandits?"

At this time, a soldier rushed to report: "Your Highness, the official warehouse is all empty, and all the officials have been arrested." ”

Another soldier stepped forward to report: "Wang Shangshu's mansion has also been ransacked, the door of the cellar has been smashed open, and it has been empty, and more than 300 family members have been taken away. ”

Wang Shangshufu is the largest household in Lingzhou City, Wang Shangshu once served as the envoy of the Western Xia, stayed in Tokyo for 20 years, and had a close relationship with the Song Dynasty, and even it was looted, which means that the whole city will not survive anymore, and Li Renzong's heart seems to have fallen into an ice cellar.

"Your Highness, what should we do now?" General Li Chenghao asked in a low voice.

"What else can I do?"

Li Renzong sighed, "What should be done must be done to the end!" ”

Li Renzong immediately divided his troops into two routes, and ordered his deputy general Li Chenghao to lead 10,000 cavalry to pursue the enemy along the Lingchuan River, while he himself personally led 20,000 cavalry to rush in the direction of Weicheng.

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The reason why Lingzhou City can become the commercial center of Western Xia, a big reason is that from Lingzhou to the boat can finally arrive in Jingzhao, which has a vital impact on the transportation of bulk goods, Lingzhou water is the upstream, after entering the Hengshan Mountain Range, it is called Baima River, after entering the Song Dynasty, it is renamed Maling River, this river is a large river with stable water potential in Western Xia and Song Dynasty, and can travel 500 stone cargo ships.

But in the Hengshan mountain range affected by the terrain, the river flow is turbulent, especially in spring and summer, when the water potential is very large, the raft is like surfing, it is easy to lose control and hit the boulders on both sides, only in autumn, the water flow becomes gentle, and the White Horse River is no longer like a wild horse that has escaped, but becomes a slightly docile donkey, at this time, the transportation of bulk goods is possible, and at this time the transportation of bulk goods is only limited to the river from the Western Xia down to the Great Song Dynasty, and it is also more difficult to go up the river from the Great Song Dynasty.

It is only in winter that the Hakuba River freezes completely, and large sleds can transport large quantities of goods to the north.

But not only for commercial or military purposes, the strategic significance of Baimachuan is extremely important, the Song and Xia countries built a large number of fortresses in their respective borders, for Xixia, the most important fortress is called Qinggangxia Military Village, Qinggangxia is a part of the Baimachuan Grand Canyon, located at the north entrance of the Hengshan Mountain Range, both sides of the canyon are up to hundreds of zhang of cliffs, but there is a platform at the mountainside of the east canyon of 30 zhang, this platform is about two miles long, about 70 zhang wide, equivalent to more than 200 meters in later generations, the terrain is very flat, With the cliff in its back, a small road winds down the mountain from behind, leading to the official road to Xiazhou.

The Western Xia army used this platform to build a military village, called Qinggangxia Military Village, which is holding the top of the Baima River, and its strategic position is extremely important.

Qinggangxia military village originally had 300 soldiers stationed, under the jurisdiction of Xiazhou, a few days ago Xiazhou mobilized troops to rescue Weizhou, 300 soldiers in the military village were transferred away 250 people, only 50 people were left to guard the cottage, but just two days ago the night, Gong Zuwen led a thousand soldiers to raid the cottage, 50 Western Xia soldiers could not resist, the military village was captured by the Song army.

A large number of rafts full of old and weak women and children, copper and silver materials, and more than 100,000 Song slaves have passed through the Baimachuan Grand Canyon to the south, but Gong Zuwen did not give up the Qinggangxia military village, on the contrary, they built fortifications, collected materials, and started the idea of preparing to occupy this military village for a long time.

The Qinggangxia Military Village is not only a dangerous pass to deal with the Song army, but also a dangerous pass to deal with the Western Xia army.

On the mountain road behind the military village, the Song army built a fortification with mud and sandbags, collected a large number of rolling wood and stones, fire oil and earth-shaking thunder, and sprinkled a large number of quenched tribulus thorns on the mountain road, and Gong Zuwen sent a hundred soldiers to guard the rear mountain road.

He himself led 900 men to re-fortify the Tangut fortifications, which were a low wall made of large stones, on which soldiers could crawl to attack the army below.

Immediately behind the cliff there were hundreds of houses made of wood and boulders, which were barracks and warehouses, and that afternoon, the soldiers were gathering in the open field for dinner, when suddenly the alarm bell sounded from the guard tower, and the soldiers stood up one after another, and many soldiers instinctively picked up their bows and crossbows and ran towards the low wall on the edge of the cliff.

Gong Zuwen walked quickly to the watchtower and asked in a loud voice, "What's wrong?" ”

The soldiers on the watchtower pointed to the distance and shouted, "General, there is a continuous mirror reflection in Bole City!" ”

Bole City is located thirty miles away from Qinggang Gorge, is a supply military city, is from Lingzhou City south to Baimachuan must pass through the city, the Song army ambushed a disguised soldier there, with a bronze mirror aimed at the Qinggangxia military village to reflect the sun, now the signal is coming, it means that the Western Xia army is killing in the direction of the Qinggangxia military village.