It has been cloudy for several days, and it seems that it may snow in the sky at any time, Li Liangzuo, who is riding on a horse, looks up at the sky from time to time, and his face also shows an anxious expression, now they are still quite a long way away from the Yan Military Division of Heishui Town, if they encounter heavy snow blocking the road, I am afraid that not only will they not be able to hurry, but they may even be trapped and die on the road due to lack of provisions.

This is already the tenth day of Li Liangzuo's escape from the Vulture Child City, he took his broken 2,000 men and horses to the west all the way to the west, that is, he was afraid of being caught up by the Liao people, and he was afraid of being caught up by the Song army, so they had little rest along the way, but fortunately he and his soldiers were used to riding horses, and some of them could even sleep on horses, so the speed of the road was extremely fast, Li Liangzuo estimated that even if there were chasing soldiers behind him, I am afraid he would not be able to catch up.

"Your Majesty, we've been running for so many days, why don't we take a break?" At this moment, a thin knight next to Li Liangzuo spoke, but it was a woman's voice, this knight was the Empress Liang who fled with Li Liangzuo, and now she is also wearing a suit of armor, if you don't look carefully, you really can't see that she is a woman.

Although this Empress Liang is a Han Chinese, their family has lived in Western Xia for many years, and they have long been assimilated into the party, both men and women are accustomed to cavalry archery, so don't look at her as a woman, but she is no worse than anyone else in horsemanship, which is also the main reason why she was able to escape from the encirclement of the Liao army with Li Liangzuo.

"No, look at the good weather @ like it's about to snow, and the dry food we brought is almost gone, if we are trapped on the road by heavy snow, I'm afraid there is only a dead end, so we must find a village and town before the snow, so that we can take shelter from the wind and snow, and replenish food!" Li Liangzuo refused without thinking about it.

"Yes...... But there don't seem to be any villages and towns around here, right? Empress Liang spoke again. After all, she is a woman, she has been riding a horse for ten days in a row, and she can't eat or sleep well, and now her body has reached the extreme, and if she doesn't take a break, she is worried that she will be exhausted to death.

They passed through this section of the northwest region of Western Xia. It is already far away from Xingqing Mansion, and most of the population of Western Xia is concentrated near Xingqing Mansion, and the northwest has always been sparsely populated, and they have not seen a few villages and towns along the way, so Queen Liang asked.

"Don't worry, although the northwest is sparsely populated, every winter, the nomadic tribes in the north come south to our northwest to spend the winter, after all. The north where they graze is even colder, I have planned before, at our speed, we should have entered the wintering camp of those tribes, as long as we meet a tribe, we are safe! Li Liangzuo said very confidently, as the emperor of Western Xia, no one knew the internal situation of Western Xia better than him.

Li Liangzuo after saying the above words to Empress Liang. Immediately informed the whole army that there might be a tribal camp in front of him, which shocked the already exhausted remnants of the Western Xia army. In addition to their physical fatigue, they have also been mentally tense during this time, and if they can find a tribal camp in front of them, then they can have a good rest and relaxation.

I have to admire Li Liangzuo's familiarity with the situation in various parts of Western Xia, just when small snowflakes floated in the sky, the cavalry exploring the road in front of him quickly came back to report. They found a tribal camp in the northwest direction in front of them, only about two miles away from them, and the size of the camp was not very large, it was estimated that it was only a small tribe of more than a thousand people.

This discovery once again shocked Li Liangzuo and the others, and then Pegasus killed that tribe. For their Western Xia, these tribes do not belong to their own people, and even sometimes these tribes will go around robbing the Western Xia people, so Li Liangzuo does not need to be soft, and it can be regarded as the tribe's bad luck when he meets them.

The distance of two miles was almost a flash for the cavalry, and soon Li Liangzuo and they saw a tribal camp surrounded by a fence, and now it was almost dark, and the tents in the camp were flashing with fire, and they could even smell the smell of roasted meat coming from the camp, which made the tired and hungry Xixia people even more excited.

"Kill!" With Li Liangzuo's order, the two thousand cavalry behind him flew out, and they had already killed the unprepared tribe in a sleepy eye, and then the tribe found this Xixia cavalry that suddenly appeared, and when the men in the tribe wanted to resist again, it was too late, and the horses galloped in the camp, and the shepherds in sheepskin jackets were killed, including men, old people and children, only the young women were left behind, and what awaited them would be a more tragic fate.

The fate of the grassland tribe was originally like duckweed, maybe one day it would disappear from this world without a trace, Li Liangzuo's 2,000 cavalry quickly wiped out this small tribe of less than 1,000 people, the whole camp was full of corpses, and the women who survived were driven to a sheepfold, then Li Liangzuo and Queen Liang entered the camp together, and then lived in the largest and cleanest tent.

After a while, some attendants brought them hot water, Li Liangzuo and Empress Liang took a simple bath, and when they came out, the whole camp had been cleaned, but from time to time they could still smell a smell of blood, and a bonfire was also raised in front of their tent, and a fat sheep that had just been washed and peeled was set up on the fire and was roasting, and soon it exuded an attractive smell, and as for the other soldiers, they also began to roast mutton in front of their respective tents.

After the mutton was roasted, the attendant cut off the fattest part of it and sent it to Li Liangzuo and his wife, and after they ate the first bite, the other soldiers began to eat, during this time they fled all the way, and they could only gnaw dry food when they were hungry, and even in the end they were hungry to death, so as soon as they started eating, they all tore the mutton like a starving ghost and chewed it.

Li Liangzuo and Queen Liang were also very hungry, originally they wanted to maintain their dignity in front of the soldiers, but after eating the first bite of mutton, they couldn't care about anything else, first Li Liangzuo reached out and grabbed the mutton and chewed it, and then Queen Liang did the same, poor pair of emperors and queens at this time as if they hadn't seen meat for several months, and their faces were greasy.

Finally finished this rare dinner, Li Liangzuo summoned the soldiers again and cheered them up, it was nothing more than that after the Song army was driven away, all of them would be rewarded and so on, but the soldiers below were not stupid, and they also had great doubts about whether they could drive away the Song army, so they were not particularly excited to hear Li Liangzuo's words, and it was not until Li Liangzuo announced that he would reward these young women caught in the tribe to these soldiers, and the atmosphere became warmer.

Watching those soldiers run to rob those women, Li Liangzuo returned to the tent with Empress Liang, but as soon as he entered the tent, his face suddenly became gloomy, Empress Liang knew his intentions, and immediately opened her mouth to comfort: "Your Majesty, the soldiers outside escaped from Xingqing Mansion with us, and then they were defeated by the Liao army, and their sharp qi has long been polished, so their previous reaction is also normal, so Your Majesty doesn't have to take it to heart." ”

Hearing Queen Liang's words, Li Liangzuo's face finally looked better, and he also said at the moment: "I know that the soldiers outside can still follow me closely at this time, which means that they are all loyal people, and I will not blame them for these little things, as long as we get to the Yan Military Division in Heishui Town, we can take over the tens of thousands of horses there, and then with this group of people, we will have the capital to turn over!" ”

"Your Majesty, although some words are not good, but I still think we should be careful of Yelu Chongyuan, before he promised to send troops to help, but before his reinforcements arrived, the Song army broke through Xingqing Mansion, in case he also took advantage of the fire to rob like Yelu Jun, it would be bad!" Empress Liang hesitated for a moment at this time and finally reminded that since she escaped from the hands of the Liao army, she has been thinking about this problem, after all, don't look at the fact that they had helped Yelu Chongyuan before, but people like them don't have any real feelings, as long as the interests are enough, it is normal for Yelu Chongyuan to take revenge.

Li Liangzuo was also silent for a moment after hearing Empress Liang's words, and finally frowned and said: "I have also considered what you said, Queen, Yelu Chongyuan is an old fox, absolutely unbelievable, but don't look at him now It seems that he is living a very leisurely life on the northwest road of Liaoguo, in fact, it is Yelujun's strength has not recovered, so he didn't pay attention to him, but as long as Yelujun frees his hand, he will definitely be the first to destroy him." ”

When he said this, he saw Li Liangzuo pause for a moment and then said: "Yelu Chongyuan must know his own situation better than anyone else, and he will definitely not be able to resist the entire Liao State on his own, so he urgently needs an ally, and we happen to be his best choice, so I think Yelu Chongyuan should not dare to attack us!" ”

Li Liangzuo's analysis sounded very reasonable, but Queen Liang couldn't help frowning when she heard this, because she always felt that there seemed to be something wrong with Li Liangzuo's analysis, but she couldn't think of anything wrong for a while.

Seeing Empress Liang's distressed appearance, Li Liangzuo couldn't help but step forward and take her in his arms and smiled: "Okay, it's a little too early to think about this, let's rest early, and rush to the Yan Military Division of Heishui Town, as long as we take over the army there, we will have the capital to protect ourselves, and even if Yelu Chongyuan has any ideas, I'm afraid he won't dare to do it!" ”

Empress Liang really couldn't think of anything wrong at this time, and she had to nod when she heard Li Liangzuo's words, but they didn't know that some changes had indeed happened on Yelu Chongyuan's side. (To be continued......) R1292