Yan Qing's words made Yue Chuan care very much, that's right, the bandits and others generally choose to attack the countryside with weak defenses, and a very small number of powerful giants dare to attack small cities only when they have the courage to eat and eat, and there are three thousand Western Army guards in a state like Shaanzhou City, even if the Great Song Dynasty has just suffered a big defeat and its prestige has plummeted, it is not an ordinary giant who dares to attack, there must be something strange in this.

Yue Chuan also felt that he ignored the combat effectiveness of the Western Army and the contempt of these officials for the thieves, it stands to reason that the officials and the officials and the army will have a kind of contempt in their bones for the treatment of the thieves, especially the Western Army and local officials in the land of good war, there is no reason to be scared away by tens of thousands of thieves, and it is even more impossible that Shaanzhou City itself is a typical northwest city, a city prepared for war, with high walls and deep moats, which cannot be captured by thieves who have no tactics at all.

The enemy of the national army is always the enemy army, not the thief of the country.

Yue Tuo ignored these, and in the past few days, he had a cowardly view of the Song army and the Song general, so that Yue Tuo involuntarily brought in the extremely weak concept of "Song army and Song general", which made him ignore the good fighting of the Western Army and the ability of the officials and officers in the northwest.

After figuring out this joint, Yue Flip ordered the army to slow down the march, and sent a large number of scouts to probe the terrain in front and around and even traps, if there is someone behind this group of thieves to command, then this guy must be unusual, and he will definitely guard against the officers and troops who appear from the direction of Tongguan, then it is very likely that he will set up an ambush halfway, but if this is the case, then Yue Flip can basically be sure. This time the thieves attacked Shaanzhou, which was definitely not accidental.

Yue turned his eyes around, called Wang De to his side, asked him to come over with his ear, and whispered a few words, Wang De's face changed. Showing a look of bitterness, looking at Yue Tuo's unquestionable eyes, he could only sigh secretly, he had angered Yue Fei and offended Yue Tuo, it seemed that the good days were gone, but the matter had come to this, he could only take five hundred cavalry and quickly advance towards Shaanzhou. And Yue Tuo disappeared into the long night with a large army.

In fact, as Yan Qing expected, on the planned march route of the large army, a large number of ambush troops really appeared, and Wang De and the five hundred cavalry were brutally killed, but fortunately, Yue Tuo suddenly killed out of nowhere, and the three thousand cavalry worked together to kill the ambush troops, and chased them all the way to the city of Shaanzhou. was repelled by the crossbow shot down from the city wall by the bandits occupying Shaanzhou City, and Wang De was at the forefront with full grief and indignation. Hit three arrows, he retreated in disgrace.

Retreating to the temporary station outside Shaanzhou City, Wang De saw Yue Tuo's face full of smiles, and helplessly covered his wound and stepped forward to ask for guilt, but before he could speak, Yue Tuo spoke first: "Okay!" It's quite capable of fighting! I thought you were a straw bale. I didn't expect to be able to fight so well, and sure enough, I deserved to be the person who came out of Tangyin with my brother, so I guess you should also be my fellow countryman, why haven't I seen you before? ”

Wang De was stunned. He didn't hear the expected reprimand, but was homely, which made him look at Yue Flip suspiciously, Yue Flip just smiled, patted him on the shoulder, and said: "Not bad, with this credit, plus these three arrows, you can be forgiven by my brother, but you are so unkind, you locked me up without saying a word when we met, so I can get me something to eat!" ”

Wang De still didn't figure out what the whole thing was going on, but it seemed that he didn't have to die, Yue Fu didn't pay much attention to this guy, waved his hand and asked him to go down to deal with the wound, and then called Lu Junyi and Yan Qing over, held a military meeting, and gave Yan Qing a high evaluation of his predictions and reminders.

"Xiao Yi is right, this gang of thieves is really not a normal thief, this attack on Shaanzhou City is not an ordinary robbery, but a premeditated conspiracy commanded by someone behind the scenes, I don't know who is so bold and dares to attack the city of the Great Song Dynasty, but we have already killed a group of thieves, and the remaining people are not so many and the combat effectiveness is also weak, so, let's find a way to break the city, and then arrest people and ask how it is?" Yue Flip proposed.

Lu Junyi and Yan Qing had no opinion, and then Yue Chuan put forward his own ideas: "We are all cavalry, very important combat power, and there can be too much attrition, so we have to find reinforcements, and we can't attack the city head-on, first, the number of people is too small, and second, the casualties are too large, so we have to think of some other ways to recover Shaanzhou City." ”

Lu Junyi nodded and said, "Okay!" Peng Zhan, I listen to you! ”

Yan Qing spoke: "But where are our reinforcements here?" With reinforcements, how can we recover Shaanzhou? ”

Yue smiled and said, "Have you forgotten that Li Yanxian?" ”

Yan Qing suddenly realized, and then said disdainfully: "Brother Fan, then Li Yanxian is just a stone trench lieutenant, a petty official with bigger beans, what use can it be, it is worth Brother Fan to value him so much?" ”

Yue opened his mouth and said, "Do you believe it or not, we will go to him now, and he will be able to provide us with a way to recover Shaanzhou City?" Believe it or not, I believe it anyway! ”

Lu Junyi and Yan Qing looked at each other and expressed their disbelief: "What is the big plan for a small official?" ”

Yue shook his head and said, "There is a difference between the big and the small, so there is no difference between respect and inferiority. ”

Yue Flip believed that since Li Yanxian dared to gather people to prepare to recover Shaanzhou City, and he dared to resist his own warning, then he must have a certain degree of certainty, otherwise he would not rashly joke with human life, of course, he also believed that Li Yanxian had not taken action yet, but stayed according to his warning, waiting for him to rush back, so as to judge whether he was Yue Flip or not, those words still have a lot of lethality for Li Yanxian.

Before that, Li Yanxian got a report from the sentry, saying that there was a cavalry under the banner of "Yue" to kill a lot of thieves, and then came to the vicinity of Sanzui Mountain, and the first general named to see Li Yanxian, Li Yanxian's heart was shocked, and a thousand thoughts flashed in his heart, and finally confirmed that the guy who rushed back in eight days, the guy who pretended to be Yue Tuo, was the real Yue Tuo, the real national hero Yue Tuo.

When he came to the front of the army, he couldn't help but be impressed when he saw the majestic and neatly arranged three thousand cavalry, and when he saw Yue turn over his horse and walk slowly towards him, he immediately knelt down on one knee and said: "The last general, Li Yanxian, has offended a lot before, and please don't blame General Yue!" ”

Yue Fu smiled and helped Li Yanxian up, and said, "Why, now that I know that I am Yue Fan, don't suspect that I am impersonating?" ”

Li Yanxian's face turned red, but he still said: "I can bring so many soldiers and horses here, how can it be fake, the last general is just cautious, and I ask General Yue not to blame." ”

Yue laughed and said, "Am I such a calculating person? Don't care, I won't care, on the contrary, I still appreciate you, all the officials in Shaanzhou City have run out, you are the only one left, and you can still stick here, you are indeed a man, then I ask you, this time the thieves are coming, don't you have any suspicions? ”

Li Yanxian looked at Yue Chuan and nodded: "There are a lot of doubts, and after thinking about it for a long time, I guessed some answers, so I made some preparations." ”

Yue Pan asked, "What doubts, what answers, what preparations?" ”

Li Yanxian opened his mouth and said: "The suspicion is that there are just bandits, rabble, no rules, no strategy and tactics, but they dare to attack Shaanzhou City with high walls, don't they know how strong Shaanzhou City is?" Even so, they still attacked, and abandoned the surrounding towns and villages, so that a large number of people were able to gather here unscathed, this is not normal, the thieves in the past, will first plague the towns and villages, and then run, very few dare to attack the city, as soon as they come up, there are even fewer who attack the city. ”

Yue rolled his head and said, "So what is your guess?" ”

Li Yanxian opened his mouth and said: "The last general thinks that this matter must not be done by ordinary thieves, someone has always achieved their goal with the help of the power of thieves, Zhizhou and the guards are not cowards, and three thousand soldiers are not so easy to deal with, but the city of Shaanzhou is down in one day, so fast, the official army can't even fight back, then it is not just a thief can do it, you have to have a strong and strong army in it to do it." ”

Yue Chuan was shocked by Li Yanxian's analytical ability, and at this time, he was just a stone trench lieutenant, a small official, not a general, compared to him, Wang De was really too bad, but he got the status of Tongguan guard, if Li Yanxian was allowed to be the Tongguan guard, even if Chang'an lost Tongguan, he would not be lost, maybe Li Yanxian could still free up his hands to organize a counterattack and try to recover Chang'an City.

Because his analysis is not much different from the answer that Yue Tuo thinks about himself, and even he thinks in more detail, Yue Tuo's analysis is that this is the prelude to the Jin soldiers about to go south to attack Guanzhong, or a concerto, the Jin soldiers attacked Yanyun on the surface, and then licked their wounds, in fact, they were secretly preparing to attack Guanzhong, and first sent people to sneak into the Guanzhong to provoke some incidents, so that Guanzhong could not make perfect preparations for the Jin soldiers to go south, so that they could fight a good outpost battle for the Jin soldiers to go south.

Therefore, behind these guys, it should be the Jurchens who are doing the trouble, the arrows that have just been shot down from the city wall, and the skillful archery skills, are definitely not something that the thieves can have, and the Jurchen soldiers have also dispatched a lot, all dressed as Han people and hidden in the thieves' army, in fact, this is an attack battle led by the Jurchens.

The most hateful thing is not the Jurchens, but the traitors who help the abuse! Those damn thieves! (To be continued.) )