Li Yuanhao saw that the garrison he had high hopes for was so unbearable in front of the Song army, although he couldn't understand why for a short time, but he was experienced in a hundred battles, and he keenly noticed that the battle situation had changed. Forget it!

So, Li Yuanhao immediately issued an order to let the cavalry of the three cottages closest to him, a total of 5,000 cavalry, quickly return to help and eliminate the Song infantry behind him.

Although Li Yuanhao is highly sensitive to the battlefield and reacts quickly enough, no one can see clearly in the sky. He just made a move here, and the thing floating in the sky also made a burst of flags, Wang Chao looked at the content of the flag, and gave the order to attack again, he didn't want Li Yuanhao to slip away in front of him.

At the same time, in a valley a few miles away, the commander of the Green Dragoon Army made Xia Hou put down his clairvoyance, removed the camouflage on his body, and shouted to the silent "empty field" behind him: "All get on your horse, get ready to go, live Li Yuanhao!" ”

"Yes!" With a loud response, the "empty" canyon instantly churned, and 20,000 soldiers took off their disguises and turned on their horses.

"Shock formation preparation...... Let's go! Xia Hou waved his arms, shouted, and galloped away first.

When the cavalry of the Capture Army mobilized by Li Yuanhao turned around to help, they were just halfway when they were blocked by the Blue Dragoon Army that suddenly rushed over. Xiahou did not resist them hard, and led the troops to swing the tail of a divine dragon, and threw a large number of arrows at the heads of the cavalry of the Capture Army......

This sudden cavalry finally broke the last trace of Li Yuanhao's expectations, and after staring at the Song army hatefully for a while, he decisively gave the order to retreat. However, this timing is not very good, the Xia army attacking the village is fighting with Li Shibin's men and horses, how can it be said that it can be withdrawn!

With Li Yuanhao's withdrawal of troops, he also sounded the clarion call for the all-out attack of the Song army, and the generals of the Qiang soldiers of the Eighteen Villages were not fools, and they opened the gates of the village and beat the water dogs. Soon, the retreating formation of the Xia army gradually became mixed. This is also due to the fact that the captive army has been fighting in the south and the north, and if it is put into other troops, it is estimated that it will collapse long ago in the face of this situation of attacking from all sides.

But. This unstable situation did not last long, and when the original border troops of the Song army hurried to the battlefield under the leadership of their respective generals, the soldiers of the Xia army could no longer suppress the fear in their hearts, and the rout was about to break out. In this kind of mixed battlefield, the advantage of having an air "eye" is even more obvious. Under the dispatch of the "eye" in the air, the Song army rushed left and right on the battlefield, killing all sides, and the Xia army was reduced to a rat generation who fled with his head in his arms.

Seeing that the matter had come to this, Shanyu Changliang hurriedly gathered the army that he could still pull in, rushed to Li Yuanhao desperately, and escorted him to break through to the north. Zhi Weizheng, who has been silently "watching" the battlefield, how can he allow Li Yuanhao to easily slip away from under his nose and immediately mobilize troops to surround and intercept him.

Li Yuanhao, under the protection of the remaining proton army and Shanyu Changliang, broke through many obstacles. Seeing that he was about to reach the edge of the battlefield, he was blocked by Wang Chao with his direct team. The two parties met and started without saying a word, and at this time, the advantage of the hand commander was reflected, Wang Chao relied on the advantage of his crossbow to beat Li Yuanhao and other remnants to retreat again and again, and it didn't take long to explain all the proton army. Although Li Yuanhao's troops were also fighting back bravely during this period, they had no morale, no military spirit, and even no effective command, and their few cold arrows did not cause much trouble to Wang Chao.

To this point. Li Yuanhao's confidence was basically exhausted, he grabbed Shan Yu Changliang and said: "Uncle Huang, I can't leave after seeing me today, it's all because I am too light on the enemy." Let so many warriors die here, I have no shame to see my hometown fathers, you can leave quickly with those who can go! ”

"Your Majesty, what are you talking about? The minister is desperate to save you! After Shanyu Changliang finished speaking, he grabbed a deputy general next to him and said to him: "You will take the emperor first." I'm here to stop this group of Song troops! ”

The suicidal charge of the mountain met Changliang had no practical effect other than to add a little morale, and they soon fell in the middle of the charge. Although Li Yuanhao took advantage of this time to run out for a distance, more and more Song troops surrounded him under the dispatch of Zhi Weizheng, and finally did not jump out of the encirclement......

Seeing the guards around him turn into hedgehogs one by one, and the blood stained the ground under his feet, Li Yuanhao closed his eyes in pain, and after quickly recalling his short life in his mind, he slowly pulled out his sword and gently put it on his neck. Just when Li Yuanhao was about to understand his own life, he felt a trembling sound suddenly from the earth, he opened his eyes, and a group of familiar figures appeared in front of him not far away, not only making his sword-wielding hand loose, but also the sword fell to the ground, making a crisp sound.

Wang Chao turned his head when he heard the sound, his face changed greatly, and he immediately shouted: "A large team, all of them, turn back and set up a gun formation!" ”

This unit that shocked Wang Chao and Li Yuanhao was pleased with was Li Yuanhao's last reliance - the Iron Harrier. However, judging from the current situation, Li Yuanhao's three thousand iron harriers have not all arrived, and they are probably only half of them.

The Iron Harriers are divided into units of 300 people, each connected by iron buckles, to form a mobile steel fortress. These iron harriers who arrived quickly divided into three waves, and one wave rushed straight towards Wang Chao's Qilin Guard infantry brigade, trying their best to attract this massive number of arrows. The other wave rushed towards the Song border army on the other side, which also attracted a lot of attention.

At this time, the captain of the first team of the Iron Harrier, Meile, and the captain of the second team, Lang Yuyi, took the remaining six hundred people and went straight to Li Yuanhao, under the cover of the two iron harriers, the two finally arrived at Li Yuanhao's side smoothly, and they didn't even have time to say a polite word before they fled away with Li Yuanhao.

And Wang Chao had already started a melee battle with the Iron Harrier at this time, and under the interception of the spear formation, the prestigious Iron Harrier heavy cavalry could not violate the laws of nature, and once it lost its mobility, it would face a one-sided slaughter. Of course, Wang Chao also lost the opportunity to pursue Li Yuanhao, so he could only order the crossbowmen to shoot desperately at Li Yuanhao's position.

It was getting late, and Li Yuanhao, who was fatal, finally escaped from the encirclement and ran into the endless Hengshan. Even now, I don't know whether to say whether the time he chose is good or bad, although he lost the battle, but if he hadn't chosen to attack at dusk, it would be impossible to escape the pursuit of the Great Song Dynasty at this moment by taking advantage of the coming night, it is really unpredictable!

Next, Li Yuanhao gathered with the rest of the Iron Harriers who dared to come behind, a total of more than 1,000 people. Began a half-month escape from Yokoyama. In order to attract the endless pursuit of the Song army, Li Yuanhao had to reluctantly cut his love and let the iron harriers lead the Song army away.

Half a month later, Li Yuanhao relied on his familiarity with Hengshan. After all, he fled back to the territory of Western Xia. However, under the encirclement and interception of the Song army and the elusive assassination of the special combat team, when Li Yuanhao returned to the territory of Western Xia, there were less than 500 iron harriers around him. And he himself did not completely dodge the cold arrows of the special combat team, and was hit by two arrows in his body. None of them hurt the fatal place, but one of the arrows just happened to scratch his brother below.

I don't know if this is God's irony for him, a guy who used to be murderous and lustful, when he woke up from his slumber, he heard the bad news and immediately spurted blood to death.

A generation of male masters, who once killed the Quartet, died like this!

Soon after Li Yuanhao's death, his younger brother Li Chengwei announced that he would ascend the throne and claim the title of emperor to inherit the throne, but unfortunately he had no prestige. And there is no army to drive at hand. The forces that had been gathered under Li Yuanhao's deterrence also played their own roles, and this Xixia II had no one to play with him after he became emperor for a few days, and the Xixia regime became history, and the Xixia region fell into chaos again.

At the beginning, the more than 200,000 Xia soldiers who participated in the attack on Jinmingzhai, in addition to nearly 100,000 surrendered on the spot, more than 50,000 people were killed, and the remaining part fled into Hengshan, and in the end I don't know how many can really survive.

It can be said that this war, which was not in Zhao Zhen's plan, ended in such a hurry. So much so that Zhao Zhen himself hadn't reacted yet. And this Western Xia regime, which once dominated one side, has since collapsed, and none of the forces of all parties will obey anyone, and they will be in a mess.

In the end, after statistics, the Song army lost less than 10,000 Xia troops with its own losses of less than 10,000 people. Moreover, most of the soldiers who lost were the soldiers of the former border army and the Qiang soldiers of Jinmingzhai. It is said that after such a big victory, Zhe Weizheng should be very happy.

However, he did not send a good news to the imperial court at the first time, as everyone imagined, but after counting the results of the battle, he did something that no one expected. He came up with a very lame excuse. It was said that some of the Xia soldiers who surrendered intended to riot, so as to kill thousands of people, and tied up the remaining "rioting" Xia troops and sent them to the interior to serve in labor. If anyone pays attention, they will find that those who were beheaded were all generals at all levels of the captive army, and the elite of them were also distributed.

On this day, Zhi Weizheng also invited the leaders of the eighteen villages, including Li Shibin, to watch his beheading performance, as if he was afraid that others would not know about his killing of prisoners. Originally, Li Shibin and the owners of the village were still very happy, looking forward to the reward of the imperial court, but they were frightened by the flying heads, no one thought that a guy who usually looked gentle and elegant would have such a bloody side.

The next day, a group of panda-eyed village owners, really rushed to Zhe Weizheng to complain, and said that this Xinjiang area is too hard, we don't want to be the owner of the village here at all, you see if your old man can say a good word to the saint, just for the sake of this victory, give us a certain position in the capital, as for the territory and clansmen of this Jinming Village, you have to count on your old man to take care of it!

Seeing that they were so "sad", it was not easy to hit others, and he patted his chest and said that he would definitely treat all Qiang compatriots equally, and he would share the blessings and hardships. As for everyone's desire to go to Beijing to live a good life, they also expressed their understanding very much, everyone has been guarding the territory for the country for many years in this poor and remote country, and they must have a lot of good words for everyone in front of the saints, which is not a thing!

Soon after, Zhi Weizheng handed over the border defense, the reorganization of the border army, and the integration of the Qiang soldiers to Di Qing, while he himself led the Qinglong 2nd Army to suppress those surrendered troops who "intended to riot" and went to the interior. He was accompanied by the owners of Jinming Zhai and their families who were ready to "enter Beijing to enjoy happiness", Li Shibin and a pair of children were also among them, and they were accompanied by Zhi Weizheng all the way, especially Li Huaibao was also courteous all day long before and after the saddle.

The Qinglong 2nd Army, which escorted the surrendered troops, sent the surrendered troops to the construction corps in Luoyang to build roads, and immediately went back to Yanzhou. And Zhi Weizheng and Li Shibin and others under the protection of a small number of guards, embarked on the road back to Beijing, the first time walking on the cement paved avenue, Li Shibin and others behaved no different from the soil bun Beijing, after seeing the prosperity along the way, but also for their wise decision to feel lucky.

The war report of the great victory in the northwest returned to the imperial court, once again igniting the passion of the people of Beijing, and Zhao Zhen also ordered the Ministry of Rites to arrange a heavy welcome ceremony, and the ministers of the imperial court all went out of the city to greet Zhi Weizheng and his party, which made Li Shibin and others proud.

But Zhi Weizheng, who should have received the highest worship, knelt heavily in front of Prime Minister Li Di, held a letter of recital in both hands, and shouted loudly: "Lord Zaifu, the lower officials are incompetent, go against the will of the Holy Lord, and fail to achieve the predetermined strategic goals. Moreover, the subordinate officials also lost their morality after drinking, and killed prisoners, which humiliated the national prestige. I know that my sin is too serious, and I have no shame to accept such a big gift to welcome him, so I specially ask for a letter of guilt, and I am tired of Lord Zaifu to forward it to the saint! (To be continued.) )