Throughout October, the aftershocks of Xixia did not stop, and the tremors were clearly felt in various parts of Shaanxi. In this case, Ma Zichong arrived at Yan'an Mansion on behalf of the "Sichuan-Shaanxi Xuanfu Disposal Division" and Xu Weiben. Yan'an was hit hard by the earthquake, especially in some areas in the northwest of the jurisdiction, where residents' houses were cracked, and even collapsed and buried no people.

The news brought back confirmed that the disaster in Western Xia was very serious, and even some Dang Xiangqiang crossed the border and entered the northern part of Yan'an. Judging from this, it may be more than just earthquakes that the Dangxiang Qiang people have avoided.

"Counselor Ma, please." In the Jingluo Pacification Division, Xu Hong was receiving Ma Kuo, who had just entered the city.

After the latter sat down, he didn't have time to take a sip of tea, and said directly: "Xu Jingluo, long story short." This time, Ma came to Yan'an on the order of Taiwei Jun, just for one thing. ”

Xu Hongjing listened, Ma Kuo seemed to be very thirsty, and finally took a breath from the teacup, and then said: "Taiwei ordered, take advantage of Xiao Heda as a luàn, Linfu Lu Xia army is in a dilemma, to recover this area!" ”

Xu Hong listened, but did not speak, and Ma Kuo had already asked, "What is the situation of Xiao Heda now?" ”

"According to investigation, Xiping Mansion is being attacked, and the defenders are defeated by him in the battle, and in addition, it is rumored that the city of Xiping Mansion collapsed in the earthquake." Xu Hong replied.

Ma Kuo said unexpectedly: "In this way, is it really possible for Xiao Heda to capture Xiping Mansion?" "Xiping Mansion is only more than a hundred miles away from Xingqing Mansion, the summer capital, if you take this place, Xiao Heda can directly threaten the center of Western Xia!

"Not necessarily, the three prefectures of Shun, Jing and Huai in the south of Xingqing Mansion are all stationed with strong troops, and Xiao Heda is far away from the Xiazhou base, I think he will be defeated sooner or later." Xu Hong said.

"Well, I think so too. Taiwei has ordered Liu Guangshi to go north from Baoan and take Honglong Erzhou.

Xiao Heda got this news, "I will definitely turn back." If you take Linfu Feng Sanzhou and Jinning Army, Xiao Heda will be controlled by us! Only then did Ma Kuo express his true intentions.

"The Xia army on the Linfu Road was originally a soldier of Shiyin Erzhou, and as soon as Shiyin fell, the Xia army of Linfu had closed the city gate passage" I am worried that the Jin army may also react, if it really wants to recover this place, then the action must be fast! Xu Hong analyzed.

This coincided with Ma Kuo, and he high-fived and said, "That's exactly how it should be!" According to the public opinion, how to take this Linfu Road? ”

Xu Hong was speechless for a while, the three prefectures of Linfu and Feng are all west of the Yellow River, where the terrain is extremely dangerous, "the family can be based on Fuzhou for hundreds of years, and the party is-for-tat, in addition to relying on their own brave and brave force, geographical advantage is a crucial reason." Now that the army is in danger of this, if it is attacked, even if it can be taken, I am afraid that it will take time and time, and the cost will be great. As soon as I thought of this," he said, "I think that if you can outwit, you should not use force." ”

"Well, in my case, Linfu Feng Sandi" used to be the three towns of Yang, Zhe, and Wang, all of which were Gancheng in the northwest, although time has passed, but Yu Ze is still there. The Jurchens got this place and acted perversely, causing the people's resentment to boil. The Xia military has only just settled in, and the foundation is unstable, so if possible, we will try to appease the people. If you don't get it, you don't move the sword. However, "it is also necessary to prepare for the worst, and the Lieutenant has brought you firearms in case you need them!" Ma Kuo said.

"Well, after the Jurchens fell into Linfu Road", many people from the area were relocated to Yan'an Mansion. Here, there is no shortage of descendants of Wang, Yang, and Zhe, or they can be used. Xu Hong suggested.

Hearing him talk about this, Ma Kuo smiled suddenly, and shouted to the outside: "Let Yang Rong come in." ”

After a while, I saw two generals enter. One of them was extremely strong, about thirty years old, eight feet long, with wide shoulders and a thin waist, and was very powerful. Especially a pair of hanging horn eyes, fierce lù. After coming in, he saluted Ma Kuo and Xu Hong respectively.

"Xu Jingluo, his surname is Yang Mingrong, a descendant of the Yang family in Linzhou, a family of Yang Wenguang, and the current Zhenrong Zhijun. The captain knows his identity, and he is called to Duyan to listen to your moderation. Ma Kuo introduced.

When Xu Hong heard this, he looked Yang Rong up and down, and saw that he was a descendant of the Yang family and the heir of a famous general, so he glanced at him and said, "Since you are a loyal martyr, you can sit down and talk." ”

"This is Li Chengwei, the commander of Qin Fengshuai's Division, the marshal should know him, right?" Ma Ku laughed. Li Chengwei is a party member, when he said goodbye to Tongguan that year, he personally selected a few horse soldiers and sent them to Xu Wei's command to listen to them, so that the horse army of the Purple Gold Tiger made rapid progress, among them, Li Chengwei contributed a lot.

After Yang Rong sat down, he listened to Xu Hong ask: "The Yang family is a local tyrant in Linzhou, and he has established his own history of assassination, according to Linzhou for many years. Your ancestor Yang Taiwei made meritorious contributions to resisting Liao, died of hunger strike, and was admired by the world, and his successors Yan Zhao Wenguang and others were all famous generals for a while. Do you have any relatives in Linzhou? ”

"Back to Dashuai, the Yang family has a lot of branches in Linzhou, and they are all related. I grew up in Linzhou when I was young, and my family was eight, and the people of Linzhou called me Yang Ba, and later in order to seek my birth, I joined the Jingyuan Army. Yang Rong said.

Xu Hong nodded again and again, and said solemnly: "If you go to Zhaofu Lin Mansion here, there will be a place for you to use it, so that it can be effective." Yang Rong should go down.

On the same day, Xu Hong summoned the generals of Duyan and agreed to send troops. Soon, he personally led more than 13,000 Mabu troops, with only one month's rations, set out from Yan'an, entered Suide, and recruited 5,000 elite soldiers to press the Jinning army.

The Jinning army is the later generation of Shaanxi Jia County, not long ago, the Qiang people here as luàn, plundered the border, and was defeated by Xu Hong. Now, seeing the comeback of Langyan's army, they fled for fear of being killed. Several military villages adjacent to Suide were only stationed with a few hundred soldiers, and it was difficult to resist the surrender of the Langyan army. Xu Hong did not spend a single soldier and arrived at the city of Jinning.

The Jinning army was divided into two by the Yellow River, and its military city was west of the Yellow River, and the terrain was extremely dangerous. Xu Hongbing came to the city and sent people to shout to the city to recruit him to surrender. At that time, there were more than 4,000 Xia troops in Jinning City, which was fully capable of defense. But the materials in the city were insufficient, and they came from Shizhou Yinzhou, the original intention was to respond to the call of the Jurchens and contain the Western Army, so the reserves were insufficient, because Xiao Heda was luàn and occupied Shiyin Erzhou, and their parents and wives were in the hands of thieves, and they could not be replenished, so it can be said that people have no solid ambition and are in a desperate situation.

In addition, Xu Hong promised to treat him well, as long as he returned to obedience, civil and military officials would retain their original official titles. As soon as the Jinning guards discussed, they opened the city and surrendered, allowing the * Yan army to take the important town of Jinning without blood.

As soon as Jinning was stunned, Xu Hong drove the surrendered Xia army as the vanguard and went north to Linzhou. Yang Rong played a huge role at this time, "he was originally a party member, with these thousands of party items to surrender the army first, as soon as Yang Ba came back with the troops, the Qiang people in Linzhou who were oppressed by the Jurchens rose up one after another, and when Yang Ba led his troops to the ancient city of Linzhou, the number of Qiang who came unexpectedly was tens of thousands! The Xia general of Linzhou saw that the Song army was overwhelming, and after agreeing on the conditions, he also opened the city and returned to Shun.

At the end of October, the Duyan army came to Fuzhou, the hometown of the king of Zhejun.

The Zhenjia town guards Fuzhou, which can be traced back to the early Tang Dynasty, and the operation of "the inner screen of the Chinese country, and the outer Diyi" for hundreds of years has made the whole people of Fuzhou a soldier. As early as when the Langyan army entered Linzhou to recruit Fu, the party Xiang Qiang in Fuzhou had already received the news and was stupid. They miss the Jurchens and their fellow party members. Therefore, before the Lang Yanjun arrived, Fuzhou had already become a pot of porridge. The party members who were loyal to the folded family raised their righteousness and occupied the castle military village to "expel the Xia army."

The reason for saying "loyal to the Zhe family" is that the Zhe family guarded the prefecture and obtained the permission of the imperial court. Its official position is hereditary, and it trains its own troops and collects its own taxes in the administrative office" can be said to be an independent small state.

Xu Hong sent Li Chengwei, the old general of the folded family, to contact the righteous people from all walks of life to assemble in Fuzhou City. When they came to the city, "Xu Hong and Ma Kuo, who went to Fuzhou for the first time, finally saw what it means to be "dangerous".

Xu Hong and Ma Kuo, both of them are martial artists, and they have fought in many places in the south and north of the world, what danger have you not seen? But when they looked up at Fuzhou City, they couldn't help but be shocked!

The city was built on a mountain, and its south face was a cliff, "and below it was the surging Yellow River!" east and west, sandwiched by Ganquangou and Majiagou; The north is in the same vein as the mountains! It may not be accurate to say that it is a city, because it is completely out of a castle built for military purposes!

In the past, "Li Yuanhao, under the leadership of a traitor, led an army of 100,000 to attack Fuzhou along the Yellow River. At that time, the leader of the Zhe family was Zhe Jiyue, the great-grandfather of the king of Zhejun. How many soldiers and horses did Zhi Jiyue have in his hands at that time? Count the military and civilians together, six thousand! 6,000 soldiers and civilians, facing 100,000 troops, what a huge disparity?

But Zhe Jishan relied on these 6,000 soldiers and civilians to fight bloodily for seven days, and he was stunned to let the 100,000 Western Xia army return. In addition to the loyalty and courage of the family, this extremely dangerous castle is also the key to victory!

Not only in the Song Dynasty, but also in the ancient city of Fuzhou played an important role in the conquests of later dynasties. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese army also gave up the idea of occupying Fugu County because of the obstruction of the Yellow River and the steepness of the ancient city. Until the era when Xu Wei lived, the ancient city of Fuzhou still looked at the Yellow River and became the essence of the Chinese castle!

In the face of such a fortress, Xu Hong and Ma Kuo both realized that it might be difficult to capture Fuzhou without bloodshed. The consequences were unexpected, and when the envoy of the Song army went to deliver a message to persuade the Xia army to surrender, he was sternly refused. The Xia army stationed in the castle was actually less than 3,000, compared with the tens of thousands of horses under the city, the disparity was greater than when the town was guarded. But this treacherous castle gave them confidence! This was once a place beyond the reach of the Xia army.

Xia Jun refuses to surrender, what should I do? Ma Kuo wants to fight, and Xu Hong wants to be sleepy. Ma Kuo represents the Xuanfu Disposal Division, and Xu Wei represents Xu Wei, although Xu Hong is already a temperance envoy, but according to the system, he has to be controlled by Ma Zichong. The argument between the two ended with a compromise on the part of Ma Kuo. Although Ma Kuo was arrogant, he had to think about something else, Xu Hong was the cousin of Xu Taiwei. Although he has been friends with Xu Taiwei for many years, he is his own brother.

Xu Hong left thousands of soldiers behind and led the rebellious party to besiege Fuzhou Castle, cut off its water source, cut off its transportation, and planned to kill the Xia army in the city. Moreover, it will soon be winter, and without charcoal, the Xia army will not die of thirst, but will also freeze to death. Subsequently, he led the main force, and the 6,000 surrendered Xia army, to Fengzhou.

Fengzhou, in the northwest of Fugu County, was once the northernmost bridgehead of the Great Song Dynasty. Linfu Road is a sharp knife of the Great Song Dynasty into Western Xia, and Fengzhou is the tip of the knife! Linfu Feng, three towns in three states, hereditary military position, Fengzhou is the territory of the Wang family. But the Wang family declined very early, Li Yuanhao conquered Linfu that year, and ate deflated in Linzhou and Fuzhou one after another, and finally withdrew all his qi on Fengzhou, broke through the city, and killed the civil and military officials of the Great Song Dynasty, including Yuqing, the king of Zhizhou. Later, the Song army recovered Fengzhou, but did not use the descendants of the Wang family.

After Xiao Heda's rebellion, Fengzhou's days were the saddest, it bordered the sixteen states of Yanyun and was far away from Shiyin and Yin. Coupled with the narrow terrain of Fengzhou and the fact that there was no supplement, the Jinning Army and Linzhou surrendered, and Fuzhou was besieged, it was in a desperate situation. But what is surprising is that the Fengzhou Xia army also rejected the Song army's surrender.

This time, Xu Hong and Ma Kuo have no objections, fight!

Just when Xu Hongma expanded to attack Fengzhou and besiege Fuzhou, Liu Guangshi, the commander of Huanqing, also led his army north to attack Honglong Erzhou. Hongzhou and Longzhou are probably located in the area of Jingbian, Shaanxi Province in later generations. All of them are close to the border, and the Western Army has already captured these places in the past, and the party people took advantage of the Song and Jin exchanges to gradually recapture them.

Liu Guangshi held his breath this time, and he had to fight a few battles. When Huanqing Shuai Si was in charge of the Shuai Yin in Quduan, he was briefly brilliant, with more than 50,000 troops at most. Later, after several changes, Huanqing became the weakest road in Shaanxi. So much so that the Western Army launched a large-scale counteroffensive, but nothing happened to the Huanqing Army. The marshals from all walks of life have built festivals, and even Xu Wei's subordinate Yang Yan has paid homage to the festival envoys, but he does not have Liu Guangshi's share, which makes him deeply resentful. At this time, Xu Wei gave him a chance, how could he not grasp it tightly?

Therefore, as soon as the military order was issued, Liu Guangshi actively dispatched troops, and the Zhang brothers, Liu Qi, and Li Yanxian were all among the hundreds, sending 30,000 horses and infantry troops to take Hongzhou directly, which was almost the family of the Huanqing army!

However, Liu Guangshi was lucky because there were two soft persimmons in front of him. As soon as Xiao Heda rebelled, the garrisons of Hongzhou and Longzhou hurried to protect King Qin to guard against emptiness. Therefore, when the Huanqing army arrived in Hongzhou, the defenders could only close the city gate, and even had no way to ask for help, and Xiao Heda was attacking Xiping Mansion.

In the blink of an eye, by November, Xu Wei continued to receive good news in Xingyuan Mansion. The Jinning army and Linzhou have been successfully recovered, and without spending troops, Fuzhou has also been besieged, and Fengzhou is under attack. As for the Huanqing Army, Liu Guangshi took Hongzhou lightly and is currently fighting Longzhou. The Western army tore many places in the defense line of Western Xia, and even put the flag at the door of the Jurchens' house. There are the sixteen states of Yanyun, since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, who doesn't want to recapture this strategic place? Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin even planned to set up a special fund to redeem the land in the sixteen states at a current price through the savings of generation after generation; Zhao Guangyi, Taizong of the Song Dynasty, also launched a huge Northern Expedition, but it ended in failure. Now, I, Xu Wei, want to chā a flag to Yanyun!! ~！