didn't want to be it, the loyal liver and righteous courage Hao followed Hao Jianjun, and he turned out to be such a greedy person who was afraid of death.

Tong Guan despised this unenterprising guy from the bottom of his bones, and didn't give any reason. This product is greedy for life and afraid of death, and it can't compare to itself at all.

thought that he was dedicated to serving the country, but was hindered by Li Kui.

After thinking about it, he was still dragged down by Hao Sui's goods. At the same time, Tong Guan also understood a truth, Li Kui doesn't like people around him who are pointing fingers, even if this person is sent by the emperor.

Li Kui has this confidence, not to mention that he is a scholar and the first, except for the Yamen of the Criminal Department and Dali Temple, he may not be able to mix with such a yamen. He was able to do constructive work in the other yamen. He was not afraid that the army would not be able to get along, and that he would be caught blind when he turned into an archon. Anyway, there is a road, and it is not bad.

But Tong Guan is different, his roads are blocked, and the rest of the road may not be able to go.

Thinking of this, Tong Guan felt that he was wronged.

What's even more unjust is that Li Kui doesn't want him to follow him in the army, you say! He didn't say anything, and when he came up, he hit him so hard that he almost broke people. This made Tong Guan bitter and unspeakable, and what made him even more aggrieved was that this beating was in vain. Thinking of this, Tong Guan couldn't help but cry out for himself: "Isn't my beating in vain?" ”

Mixed with Luda's immoral things all day long, even if Hu Yanzhuo had the heart to join Tong Guan, the problem of mouth arrears also fell. He didn't think about it, and said straightly: "It's not a vain fight, at least it's a lesson." ”

Tong Guan angrily doesn't want to deal with people, what is a lesson. He wants to teach a lesson, who is not good to find, he has to find Li Kui?

In the middle of anger, the pain in his back hit like a tide, and it broke his will one after another. said before, he was not a human-raised Tong Guan, but at this time he inhaled the cold air and trembled: "Oh, it hurts our family to death, but I want my own life!" ”

"Father-in-law, bear with it any longer, it won't hurt in three or five days."

Tong Guan doesn't want to speak, is this human talk? He was beaten to the point of insipidus before, and he was almost no longer qualified to look up at people.

Let's talk about Li Kui.

After the departure of the army, the march was made again.

Without Tong Guan, the army seems to be marching a little faster. And Li Kui was also fully prepared for the raid. Don't look at him, he seems to be in a hurry to give orders, but for Li Kui, speed is not the key. Surprise is the key. Since Lanzhou was occupied by the Qingtang people, it has been stationed with heavy troops from Tibet.

Judging by intelligence, at least 10,000 horses.

There are very few regular troops in Qingtang, and they are only 10,000 or 20,000, which can be regarded as the elite of Qingtang people.

These 10,000 people are definitely not all the elites of Qingtang. But four or five thousand elites at least. As long as the elite of this Qingtang people is dragged and pressed, even if Qingtang is forced to fight, the conscripted army will be inferior to one water. This is the same as the Western Xia Dangxiang, the regular army of the Dangxiang only accounted for one-tenth of the combat period, and even this number is less than that.

But these regular armies, once conscripted, are the most basic low-level command structure of the party.

One slip is a team of 1,000 people, one copy is 100 people, and 100 people are copying, even if it is the most basic regular soldier of the party members, it can also correspond to the chief of the Song army in wartime. The party's regular soldiers have lost too much at all, and the party's military strength will fall like an avalanche.

Qingtang Tubo is also such a system, but after all, the strength of Qingtang Tubo is weaker, and the area controlled by the king of Qingtang is not only Tubo, but also Qiang. Dangxiang is the Qiang people, but Dangxiang is just a big tribe of the Qiang people. Before the Song Dynasty, the representatives of the Qiang people were not party items, but burned Dangqiang.

In Qinfeng Road, there are many scattered Qiang tribes.

Qingtang City also controls a large number of Qiang tribes. The Qiang people's unruly character also gave Qingtang City a headache.

As a result, the actual regular army that King Qingtang was able to control was much less than expected.

20,000 elites is already the limit of Qingtang King Aligu.

But even though there was only such an elite under the command of King Ali Gu of Qingtang, he still sent heavy troops to Lanzhou. He may also have hoped that Western Xia would take over Lanzhou. As a result, Western Xia and Qingtang formed a containment of the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty. Relying on one Qingtang alone, it is impossible to compete with the Great Song Dynasty at all. It's a pity that he waited for the Tangut people to come to Jin to take over. But the Xixia people were stunned and didn't come.

At first, Ali Gu thought that the rebellion in Western Xia had not been cleared, so he did not send troops over.

It wasn't until he withdrew from the Qinzhou front that he figured out that the situation seemed to be much worse than he expected. The Tangut people seemed to be afraid, afraid of the Great Song Dynasty.

This result is simply unacceptable to King Qingtang.

Ali Gu sat in the king's tent and asked his subordinates: "Although my army has given the Song State a color now, let the Song people know that my Qingtang is not easy to mess with, but now the Western Xia has refused to join forces with my Qingtang against the Song Dynasty several times, I don't know if you have a good strategy?" ”

"King, the Song people are already frightened and don't dare to underestimate us."

Ali Gu laughed heartily: "Gesang said well, what do you think will happen next?" ”

Gesang is a martial artist and doesn't know what to do at all? After pondering for a while, he asked tentatively, "King, why don't we go and grab it again in winter?" ”

Ali Gu's brain hurt when he heard this, does this thing really think that the Song people are muddy? also went to trouble the Song people, before they went, the Song people should come, he also knew that he had asked the wrong object, and scolded angrily: "Get out, donkey-like bastard, is your head blocked by meat?" Defense, defense, let's fight the Song people, what should the Song people do? ”

Gesang blew his beard angrily and stared at him, it was useless, his head was ethereal, as if pure as Gesang flowers on the snowy mountains.

Ali Gu was helpless, so he had to bow his head and ask the wise man beside him, Minister Mu Chi: "What is the best plan for the Prime Minister?" ”

The prime minister Mu Chi is not young, with a white beard, sitting next to Ali Gu, occupying a good position second only to the king of Qingtang in the royal tent, but unfortunately the old man is frowning now, and it seems that he has encountered a difficult situation. King Qingtang's words are just to be heard, and they are not taken seriously at all.

What gave the Song people also color.

That was to beat Qinzhou but not to take it down, and a fire burned all the villages around Qinzhou.

Speaking of which, Ali Gu's nickname must have a 'village destroying king'. The army of the king of Qingtang attacked all the way, and everywhere they went, the Han villages were wiped out by them. Except for a few old people who couldn't leave their homeland, they didn't catch anything. Only by attacking Longyou County did Ali Gu not have the embarrassment of returning empty-handed.

Now that the attack of King Qingtang has ended, he will soon bear the attack of the Song people. How to defend has become Qingtang's biggest trouble.

Although Qingtang City is easy to defend and difficult to attack, what about other places?

Especially what about the 15,000 troops in Lanzhou?

Thinking of this, Mu Chi was embarrassed for a while, and his method was very simple, admit it. But would the generals who had just won the battle agree like that? But since King Qingtang asked, he couldn't help but say, "Great King, leaders, our situation is very dangerous now. Remember that catastrophe twenty years ago? ”

Who can forget that the Great Song Dynasty at that time only used 80,000 horses to destroy Qingtang.

Even the king of Qingtang was captured and sent to the capital of the Great Song Dynasty.

This is an eternal pain in the hearts of Qingtang people, and they can't even mention it. Mu Chi opened his mouth, and immediately provoked the anger of the public.

"The Song people deceived us first, were we deceived in vain?"

"No, you can't bow your head to the Song people. Isn't there still Western Xia, let's attack with Western Xia, I'm afraid that the Song people won't be able to take care of it. ”

"We iron-blooded warriors will never promise to make peace without a fight, and we will never admit defeat. Even if we can't beat it, we can still escape to the mountains. ”

……

Mu Chi knew that this would be the case, Qingtang people were very simple and admitted death. At the same time, they can't recognize the situation, especially with the blessing of a bowl of barley wine, they are full of pride, and the world is theirs.

In the royal tent, barley wine is a must-have drink.

But even so, as a responsible state minister, he must pour a basin of cold water on everyone's heads: "Do you think that the Xixia people really didn't cooperate with me Qingtang because the new emperor ascended the throne?" ”

The aura of a wise man, when he is not drunk, still has a bit of a deterrent effect.

Mu Chi's words caused concern among many leaders, and he continued: "Qingtang and the Song State have only been at odds for twenty years, and there is only one real war. But Western Xia and Song were at war for fifty years. After the succession to the throne of Western Xia, even without us, the party members would be at war with the Song state. This is true even if there is a covenant of brotherhood. ”

"Party members are the least righteous."

The Qingtang people hated the party for a longer time than they hated the Song Kingdom. If it weren't for the Great Song Dynasty wanting to subdue the land of Hehuang, the Qingtang people would not have made enemies with the Great Song Dynasty. Therefore, the leaders of Qingtang, who were drunk in the past, scolded the party, but now they are scolding the party, and then scolding the Song country. There is a sense of powerlessness of honest people being bullied.

The green tendons on Mu Chi's head are about to explode, and at this time, pointing at people to talk about righteousness, is it possible? He rubbed his head worriedly, and said bitterly: "Now that Western Xia does not attack the Great Song Dynasty, there is only one possibility, and the party members have no confidence in the war of the Song State." ”

"And what about us?"

In Mu Chi's view, nothing can be changed. Qingtang is allied with the Western Xia, but for more than ten years, the Western Xia united with Qingtang to attack the Great Song Dynasty, what did they get?

Just like the Great Song Dynasty and Qingtang to attack Western Xia, there was no substantial victory. It can be said that Qingtang is a dispensable addition. Speaking out of this fact will break the hearts of more than a dozen tribal leaders in Qingtang. Mu Chi could only endure and not say anything, but he didn't believe it, couldn't the king of Qingtang, Ali Gu, see it?

Mu Chi stared, and when he spoke, it was the leader of Gesang who was already a little dazed, and he snorted coldly: "Why haven't you left yet?" ”

"The wine of the king's house is sweeter than mine, wait for me to take a few more sips."

"Come on! Get people out! ”

"Don't! Just one bowl, another bowl and I'll go. ”

Mu Chi smiled bitterly at Ali Gu, who also looked helpless. The tribesmen are like this, they are used to being casual, and they don't know how to hide their hearts at all: "King, you have also seen the current situation, the party members have been delayed in attacking the Song Kingdom. Maybe the party members have begun to fear the Song State. If it really becomes the speculation of the old minister, my Qingtang will be in danger. Now there are more than 10,000 troops in Lanzhou, whether to let the ghost pupil bring it back. ”

This proposal made Ali Gu a little embarrassed, and the elder brother of the Ghost Pupil, the general Ghost Zhang, died at the hands of the Song army.

Ghost Hitomi has hated the Song people for a long time, and if he wants to rely on a guess to let him withdraw from the army, I am afraid it will be difficult to achieve results.

Ali Gu hesitated: "Could it be that we really have no chance of winning in Qingtang?" ”

"The Blind Expedition King was captured by the Song Thief King Shao, and now he is still in the Song Kingdom, how does the King of the Blind Expedition think he lost the war at that time?" Mu Chi persuaded bitterly.

Ali Gu was a smart man, at least more conspicuous than the other leaders, and he immediately patted his head and said, "I know, it's to defend the city." Defending the city has harmed us, and now we shouldn't defend the city, and the more than 10,000 troops of the ghost pupil may be besieged in Lanzhou. I understand, let him go to the field, and he must not be trapped in the city. The Song people are good at building cities, and the cities are the traps set by the Song people. ”

Mu Chi was stunned and watched his own king play abnormally intermittently, he tilted his head and was confused, was he talking about defending the city?

Fortunately, his goal was achieved, and Ali Gu agreed to withdraw from the army, which should also be a good thing for Qingtang.

It's a pity that they couldn't imagine that Li Kui had already arrived near Lanzhou with three thousand pioneers.

"My lord, it's already thirty miles from the city."

"After crossing the dirt slope, you can see Lanzhou City."

Li Kui urged the war horse to go up the dirt slope, looked at Lanzhou City condescendingly, and then said to Ruan Xiaoer: "Let the guide come over." ”

"Honorable Lord, Servant Sima is at your service."

Li Kui didn't look down at him, but all this was taken for granted in Sima Xima's eyes. Qingtang, that is, the country of the country or the slave country. Isn't it right for slaves to kneel in the service of the nobility?

"Let me ask you, who are the guards in Lanzhou City, and what are the troops?"

"General Ghost Pupil is the commander, and there are probably more than 10,000 troops."

"And my Da Song people?"

"Lord Ghost Pupil hates the Song people, there should be no more. Moreover, Lanzhou is a military town, with only defenders and a small number of people, and there are not many Song people at all. ”

"What's his personality?"

"Who?"

"Oni Hitomi."

"The brave champion is the best in the country, and once he goes out, he is invincible. Xiguan Fort and Aganbao were all ...... that he conquered"

Li Kui is also a person who has lived in the northwest for more than a year, and he doesn't dare to say that a random place name can make him as clear as a few treasures, but he can also guess some of the place names.

It's better to say a fort, it's a fortress, but it's actually a farm village.

The invincible general of the Ghost Hitomi, who specializes in attacking the village, has repeatedly succeeded. Such a record, Li Kui will take it seriously?

It's not that they underestimate the strength of the other party, but the people of Qingtang don't know how powerful Li Kui is. He immediately ordered: "The whole army will rest, tomorrow the third watch will make food, the fifth watch will pull out the camp, and the army will march until Lanzhou City."

"March?"

Even Sima, who was already a prisoner, couldn't understand, were the generals of the Song Kingdom so casual?

Didn't you say that there would be a big battle, preparations such as arranging troops?

But no matter how doubtful a captive is, he has no right to decide.

Following.

The Song army really did as Li Kui ordered, and after the fifth watch prepared dry food, the army set out.

As early as more than ten miles away, the Tubo defenders in Lanzhou City discovered the Song army. The scouts sent out came back, and they all said that the Song army was arrogant, only on the march, but ignoring their existence.

A dignified and famous general of the country, Ghost Hitomi has never seen such an arrogant opponent in his life. When I heard the scout's report, I couldn't believe it.

Ten miles away from Lanzhou City, the ghost pupil standing on the head of the city couldn't hold back anymore, and roared angrily: "The whole army went out of the city and slaughtered Song Dog!" ”