After Li Kui left, Chao Yong took Sun Li and the four of them to visit Zhang Shun, Zhang Shun woke up last night, but his internal organs were injured and he needed to be recuperated for a few days.

When Chao Yong and the four of them came to the south gate, some bald heads had already appeared on the street.

Fortunately, it is June at this time, otherwise I am afraid that many people will have a headache and brain fever.

Most people are not self-sufficient, and many things need to be purchased daily, so some restrictions have been lifted in the city, and you can move freely as long as you are not close to the city gates.

The city wall of the south gate did not collapse completely, but there was a gap of more than one zhang, and there were more than ten zhang of the city wall on both sides twisted and crooked. If the party attacked, there was no doubt that the south was the easiest point of breakthrough.

There were still a hundred zhang from the south gate, and there was a wooden fence on the street, and a team of soldiers guarded it to prevent anyone from storming the city gate from the city.

Seeing the prince from afar, the guards moved the wooden fence away.

Chao Yong also had some impression of these old men in Liangshan, and Le Ma stopped and smiled: "Are you used to the climate here?" ”

The soldiers looked at the prince and asked, and said gossipingly: "Get used to it." ”

Chao Yong asked a few more questions, and then he rode to the city gate.

Zhang Qing saw the prince coming to inspect the city, and he also hit the head of the city.

There are many cavalry in Xixia, and the city wall and road are also built to allow war horses to go up directly.

After a while, Zhang Qing arched his hand and said, "I've seen the prince." ”

Chao Yong smiled: "No need to be polite, is there any movement from the party members?" ”

Zhang Qingyu said: "There have been cavalry sentries outside the city this morning, and it seems that there will be party members to attack the city today." ”

"I'm just here to send more military exploits to everyone, let's go, go to the city and have a look."

Everyone rode at the head of the city, and sure enough, they could see that there were several Xixia horse soldiers watching the rest of the city.

Zhang Qing's 1,000 people were divided into two shifts and guarded by 500 people. Five hundred people rested. There are also some of them in the streets and gaps below the city, and the guards on the walls are very sparse.

However, everyone was not worried about being attacked by the Tanguts, and the ten-zhang wide moat built by the Tanguts themselves was now an insurmountable chasm for them. If the Tangut wanted to attack the city, they had to fill in the moat, and the ten-zhang wide moat would take at least a day to fill it. The defenders had plenty of time to redeploy their troops.

Chao Yong and the five looked at the south gate, and then turned from the city to the east gate.

After chatting with Tao Zongwang at the east gate, and walking towards the north gate, he heard the sound of warning drums at the south gate.

"Go"

Chao Yong turned the horse's head and galloped towards the south gate first.

Horses run on the three-zhang high city wall. Once the war horse is frightened, it may jump off the city, which is quite a bit of a cliff tightrope walk.

It was just a simple warning, and the soldiers along the way were still guarding their own city and did not move.

to the south of the city wall. I saw a lot of dust rising from miles away, just like the army was coming.

Chao Yong slowed down his horse, and when he arrived at the south gate, the horizon in the distance was already densely packed with soldiers and horses.

Chao Yong said to Zhang Qing, who came up: "Open the city gate"

Zhang Qing didn't ask much, and shouted to the soldiers at the head of the city: "Open the city gate." ”

When the soldiers at the head of the city heard this, they immediately began to turn the winch and slowly lowered the drawbridge.

Chao Yong said with a smile: "The five of us are going to challenge the Western Xia generals. If the Western Xia army covers up and grabs the gate, General Zhang will wait for us to enter the city and block the city gate with fire and thunder and a divine arm crossbow. ”

When Zhang Qing heard this, he hurriedly said: "I didn't enjoy it yesterday." The matter of blocking the city gate would be left to Gong Wang and Ding Desun. ”

Chao Yong smiled: "It's okay, then you can arrange it, and we will go out of the city." ”

Zhang Qing thought for a while, and said to Gong Wangding on the side: "Gong Wang." If you take some people to defend the city, the Western Xia army will capture the city. When we return to the city, we will seal the gate with the crossbow. Ding Desun, you take some people at the head of the city, and after we return to the city, you can use fire and thunder to blow up the Tangut people outside the moat. Don't blow up the suspension bridge as a last resort. ”

"Order"

"Order"

Chao Yong, Sun Li, Zhang Qing, Han Shizhong, Liu Qi, and Yao Pingzhong went out of the city and lined up.

Sun Li said: "Or yesterday's order?" ”

Chao Yong smiled: "Today I will be the first to fight, yesterday I saw your fighting generals, I also have some itchy hands." ”

Yesterday's fighting generals, the generals of the Liang Dynasty fought three rounds, none of them were defeated, and dozens of Western Xia generals were killed.

Chao Yong was also very itchy, but he didn't go to war because he didn't have too strong generals under Xiao Heda.

When Zhang Qing heard this, he smiled and said: "How can the Western Xia general be able to dare to go into battle." Besides, the prince should not compete with us. ”

Sun Li also smiled: "Exactly, the prince will see that we have made contributions." ”

Chao Yong saw that both of them said this, and smiled helplessly: "Then I will give you credit." ”

The soldiers and horses of the Western Xia who came were Huaizhou, Jingzhou, and Shunzhou, and the leader was Shu Wang Renli, who fled yesterday.

Yesterday, Liang attacked the city, and Renli quickly got the news, and after hearing the earth-shattering sound, Renli immediately fled from the east gate and went straight to Huaizhou.

The cities on the Yinchuan Plain are very concentrated, Huaizhou is only twenty miles away from Xingqing Mansion, and Jingzhou is only thirty or forty miles.

After Renli fled to Huaizhou, he immediately had people notify Jingzhou and the Shunzhou soldiers and horses who were chasing the soldiers and horses of Daliang all the way.

The fast horses of Shunzhou could outrun the fleet, but the army could not overtake the fleet. Moreover, the general of Shunzhou was not worried that Xingqing Mansion would fall within a day, he led his troops to pursue, but he wanted to show loyalty to the new lord and at the same time gain some military achievements. In his opinion, the lone division of the Great Liang soldiers and horses went deep, but he only brought about his own destruction, and he would definitely be surrounded and suppressed by the Western Xia soldiers and horses, and what he had to do was to share some military exploits from it.

If you pursue it with all your might, the 100-mile road from Shunzhou to Xingqing Mansion will exhaust the physical strength of the soldiers, and even if they rush to the city, they will lose their combat effectiveness. At that time, he might still be defeated by the Great Liang army, so he did not rush to march.

At the same time, he also beware of the Liang soldiers and horses attacking the east and the west, after all, the city of Xingqing Mansion is high and the river is deep, and it is difficult to attack without a large army besieging the city. He was also afraid that the Liang army wanted to lure the soldiers and horses away from Shunzhou and then return to the division to attack Shunzhou. Therefore, he left all the foot soldiers in Shunzhou to defend the city, and only brought 2,000 cavalry to pursue.

Although they were all cavalry, when they camped that night, the soldiers and horses of Shunzhou were still twenty miles away from the city, and they did not hear the earth-shattering loud noise.

It was only after camping that the people outside Xingqing Mansion kept fleeing, and they knew that Xingqing Mansion had fallen. Later, I received a letter from Renli, and today the soldiers and horses of the three states gathered together to attack the city.

The soldiers and horses of Huaizhou and Jingzhou poured out of the city, each dispatching 10,000 defenders, plus 2,000 cavalry from Shunzhou, a total of 22,000 people.

The defeated armies of Li Qianshun and Chage were scattered to the Western Xia prefectures, with 20,000 men deployed on the border, 30,000 in Lingzhou, and 10,000 in Shunzhou, Xingqingfu, Huaizhou, Jingzhou, and Dingzhou.

Lingzhou is the gateway to the south of the Yinchuan Plain, when the Song Dynasty army attacked the Western Xia, it was also the army that gathered under the city of Lingzhou, and then attacked the city behind Lingzhou. Of course, the Song Dynasty only fought under the city of Lingzhou, and then it was defeated. Therefore, they put their heavy troops in Lilingzhou, but they did not expect that Daliang would jump into their encirclement through the waterway and directly attack Xingqing Mansion.

Renli also sent people to transfer the soldiers and horses of Lingzhou and Dingzhou, but the two states were more than 100 miles away from Xingqing Mansion, but they could not arrive today.

Renli also did not find out the news of Li Renai, afraid that the soldiers and horses of the Great Liang would capture Li Renai, and then break through from the waterway, so Renli brought the soldiers and horses to contain the soldiers and horses of the Great Liang. He didn't dare to use 22,000 soldiers and horses to defeat Xingqing Mansion, which was high and deep in the city, but 22,000 soldiers and horses were enough to blockade Tang Laiqu and make it impossible for the soldiers and horses of Daliang to retreat. If he takes the land route, he can hang all the way and wait for the army to surround the Liang soldiers and horses.

Renli's plan was very good, but he didn't expect that the soldiers and horses of the Great Liang would actually open the city to meet the battle, looking at the six Great Liang generals in front of the city gate. Renli couldn't help but consider the possibility of sending a cavalry to rush over and seize the city gate.

Sun Li saw that the Western Xia soldiers and horses were approaching, but they had already fought their horses out of the battle, and shouted: "Great Liang Sun Li is here, who dares to fight me?" ”

Renli also knew about yesterday's Daliang generals who provoked dozens of generals under Xiao Heda's command, but in order to avoid demoralization, he didn't make the matter public. On the other hand, there are not many Western Xia generals under Xiao Heda. There were many generals in Western Xia, but Li Qianshun and Brother Cha suffered a lot of losses, and the generals who fled back were stationed separately in various places, and there were not many generals in Xingqing Mansion, and there were even fewer under Xiao Heda.