"Xianggong, I'll be in Pingxia City in the afternoon. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info "After Zheng Zhi asked Luda, he went to the front to tell Tong Guan.

"It's finally here." Tong Guan no longer looked like when he first set off at this time, his face was dusty, but he could see a little firmness in his eyes, it seemed that Tong Guan was also used to the hardships of such a march.

"Xianggong, do you want to enter the city?" Zheng Zhi asked, it was really this Tong Guan who passed by the fortress all the way later, and most of them did not enter. But this Pingxia is different, it is the last military fortress on the front line, and it is also the main material supply, if you don't enter the city to replenish, the road will naturally be more difficult after that.

"Enter the city, repair for a day and then leave, and also see General Liu Pharaoh." Tong Guan raised his head and said, he also wanted to see Liu Fa, the veteran Liu Fa knew the situation on the front line best, and Tong Guan naturally wanted to talk to him in detail.

The more you go to the border, the more veterans are in charge, Liu Fa in Pingxia, and the old seed in Yan'an Mansion, this is the truth. To the south, it is the younger generations of the small species and the fold can be asked to run it. This arrangement is also one of the important means for the Great Song Dynasty to press forward step by step in the northwest.

In the afternoon, a city was in front of him, and Zheng Zhi went to the city to beat his horse and walk slowly, and he also carefully looked at this legendary border fortress.

Pingxia City is a city that is different from what Zheng Zhi has seen before, neither the majesty of Bianliang nor the vitality of Weizhou. The city is not large, and the outline can be seen from a distance, but the city wall is very high, which is higher than the Bianliang city wall.

But it does not have the cyan beauty of the Bianliang city wall, and the city wall is full of potholes, even the battlements have many gaps, and of course, there are also soldiers and civilians who slowly repair them.

Before getting closer, this Pingxia City looked more and more dilapidated, but it also had a solemn atmosphere.

When everyone entered the city, Liu Fa did not greet them from afar, but only listened to the people's announcements and waited at the entrance of his yamen. To say that this Pingxia Yamen also looks a little shabby, not like Weizhou.

After the greetings, the troops entered the empty camp and stationed, and Zheng Zhi took a few people and Tong Guan into the yamen of the Huaide Military Mansion. Everything is arranged in an orderly manner, without the slightest panic, it can be seen that Liu Fa has guarded Pingxia for many years, and he has quite a lot of regulations, even his subordinates are very effective.

"Old General Liu, this time I have come here after a brief patrol, and I am disturbed." Tong Guan sat with the main seat, not big, but polite and courteous.

"Where is Tong Jingluo, can patrol the border so far, the veteran is really moved, guarding Pingxia for many years, but I don't see a few Jingluo ministers come here to inspect, Tong Jingluo is different from mortals." Liu Fa's tone is solemn, and his words are neither humble nor arrogant, but he really praised Tong Guan, only people who are old have this talent.

"Haha... General Liu has won the award, this time he is here, but he is entrusted with a heavy responsibility by the saint, and he does not dare to slack off. "Tong Guan, this is to ask for advice.

"Tong Jingluo asked, the veteran naturally knows everything, the Hengshan defense line spans the entire Song and Xia borders, after the battle of Pingxia City, our western army is a battalion step by step, slowly approaching, every place, must build a fortress to garrison, now the party Xiang Qiang people are also forced to the point of no way back, even if we don't afford to fight, this Qiang people are only afraid of a big war, and now the border is not very peaceful." Liu Fa's eyebrows were tightly locked, a veteran in his fifties, and he was used to seeing the beacon fire at the border pass, but he was also worried at this time.

Fifteen years ago, a great war broke out in this Pingxia City, Liu Fa was in the prime of life, the battle situation was anxious, the Song army occupied a great advantage in the situation, and after several repetitions, the Western Xia proposed a truce. The Khitan Liao State intervened to make peace, and finally stopped the war. Overall, Da Song took a big advantage.

Although the two countries naturally signed a contract to cease fighting and repair the army, the Western Army is still slowly encroaching, and the means used are to continue to build fortresses, and now more than ten years have passed, and Western Xia has also been forced into a corner. It doesn't matter whether the Western Xia has the ability to restart the war, but Liu Fa thinks that the Western Xia will fight again.

"How did General Liu know that the Qiang people also remembered the war?" Tong Guan attaches great importance to this news, if Western Xia also has this plan, then it is obvious that he has made a lot of preparations for war, and it is obvious that Tong Guan wants to make great contributions, it must be more difficult.

"Now that Pingxia has passed, although there are many fortresses in our army, it is this brigade of Qiang people who appear more and more, this is one of them. Now that the fortress of our western army has been built faster and faster, if the Qiang people move again, Hengshan will also be lost, and the Qiang people will no longer have a barrier, where can the Qiang people tolerate us so smoothly. Liu Fa said the basis for his inference that Western Xia was also preparing for war. His brow furrowed, his fingers still tapping on the armrest of his chair.

"In this way, the war will be advanced, and the Qiang people must not be properly prepared, it must be urgent, and this border patrol must also end early. Tong Guan's heart became anxious, his face full of wind and sand had a lot of wrinkles, and his brows were locked in one place. It seemed that all this was more difficult than he had imagined.

Zheng Zhi was also listening from the sidelines, and of course he listened carefully about the conversation between the two, and he was also thinking in his heart. For the battle of Hengshan that was about to break out, Zheng Zhi had no memory in his heart, but he knew that he had won in the end. I didn't take it seriously before, but I was also elated when I joined the Dao account of the seed master as a soldier.

I thought that I could make meritorious contributions just by following the path of the planter, but now I know that the situation is not as easy as I imagined. Both the Song and Xia countries were preparing for war, and the party members were not muddy.

It has only been seventy or eighty years since Li Yuanhao established the Western Xia, and now the people in power in the Western Xia are only the second and third generations of the party members, and the bravery of the party members is still flowing in the blood, and it is really not so simple to defeat such a nomadic people.

Tong Guan and Liu Fa exchanged some details, how many forbidden troops to move, how many people to logistics, and how much food. And so on and so forth.

The more Tong Guan talked, the more anxious he became, and in the end, Liu Fa said, Tong Guan listened, and the more he listened, the heavier his mind became. If this battle is won, the scenery will return to Tokyo, and the official will be promoted to the knighthood, and the holy grace will be more prosperous.

If defeated? The Western Army's century-old strategy was destroyed in one fell swoop, and the Song-Xia border was just like the Song-Liao border a hundred years ago.

Tong Guan himself didn't dare to think about it, the head fell to the ground? Or do you scatter all your wealth and move around to save a broken life?

A eunuch who castrated himself at the age of 20, a eunuch who has risen for 20 years, and a eunuch who has power in his hands at the age of 40, at this time he encountered the biggest crisis in his life, and of course it was also an opportunity.

Zheng Zhi looked at Tong Guan's solemn face, looked at the brothers beside him, and also remembered himself, and remembered his subordinates, I don't know how many people can live, and how many people will be shrouded in horse leather. At this time, it's really time to fight with your life, and I don't know what future to fight.

There is only one thing that can be firm, Zheng Zhi is not afraid of his life, he was not afraid in his previous life, and he will not be afraid in this life. It's just that there are more fetters in this life, family brothers.

Tong Guan, who was going to repair for the day, set off again in the afternoon, and he really wanted to see what Yokoyama looked like. At this time, it is no longer about safety, but only about the hope in Tong Guan's heart.

Out of Pingxia City, along the Weiru River dozens of steps wide, one afternoon to Tongxia Village, this kind of fortress has been so small that it can no longer be small, it is crowded with five hundred soldiers, and then Zheng Zhi seven hundred people, there is no place to stay.

This kind of military village has only one use, that is, to fight, to store grain and grass, to store arrows and rolling stones, and to squeeze 500 forbidden troops, just to fight.

Stayed overnight, and then traveled for another day, Tongyuan Village, no different from Tongxia Village, the east is still the Weiru River, the Weiru River to the east, a large area of no man's land, and then to the north, is the Jingsai Military Division of Western Xia.

Starting from Tongyuan Village, it is to go to Shengqiang Village, and when you arrive at Shengqiang Village, it is also the end of this experience. Originally, Tong Guan planned to go west to inspect many forts after arriving at Shengqiang Village, which took two months. At this time, he changed his mind, and when he arrived at Shengqiang Village, he was about to return the same way. Go back and prepare for the war, so that you can prepare for the war with Western Xia as soon as possible.

"Zheng Zhi, look at this Weiru River, which flows from Western Xia into the Great Song Dynasty... Tong Guan just finished asking Zheng Zhi about the previous itinerary, and said another sentence. There was a lot of silence in his face.

"What did Xianggong say?" Of course, Zheng Zhi didn't understand.

"How do you think this Qiang can build a country here?" Tong Guan asked this, but he couldn't figure out some things, this land of Hengshan has always been the land of China, and the Yellow Emperor was buried near here. The old Qin also started from here, and the Tang Dynasty controlled it to the death, but now it is for foreign races to build a country here.

"I really don't know this lowly position." Zheng Zhi can only answer like this, if he really wants him to tell Li Yuanhao and the party members, Zheng Zhi really doesn't have this knowledge reserve, but he also thinks in his heart that the cloud is also in the hands of the Khitan Liao.

Suddenly, two healthy horses came running in the distance, coming straight to the team, Zheng Zhi heard the sound of horses' hooves, and hurriedly looked ahead.

It was the scouts he sent out who were running back, running so wildly, Zheng Zhi didn't know that something was wrong.

"Report!" A scout in front of the head approached and shouted.

"Tell me!" Zheng Zhi took a few steps forward, looking at the two scouts who were sweating profusely and had anxious faces, Zheng Zhi's heart was even more anxious. Even Tong Guan in the back also hit the horse forward.

"By the river, there is a large group of Qiang people by the river, it seems that they have just crossed the river, five miles away from here." The scout gasped out and hurriedly prayed.

"How many?" Zheng Zhi asked again.

"There are about 1,000 people, all of whom are healthy vest soldiers!" The scout replied.

As Liu Fa said, there are more and more Dangxiang Qiang people now, at least 1,000 people appearing each time, which is twice as much as the strength of a fortress in the Western Army, and it is also to ensure safety. Most of them were also for looting, and they robbed the supplies that the Western Army transported to the fortress, and they were often successful.

"Let's go again." Zheng Zhi dismissed the scout and turned around to look at Tong Guan.