There is no permanent prison in the gorge pass, and the Shura field under the Oolong Ridge.

The fire was burning, the battle was going on, and it was already dawn.

The pass is not so majestic, not a big city, and it is very different from Huizhou, Zhuoluo, Liangzhou and other places, and cannot be compared.

Those big cities can accommodate tens of thousands of people, even millions, and are not crowded, but Xiakou Pass is not.

Xiakou Pass is a military pass sandwiched between the mountain walls and built according to the place, even if there are no ordinary people, at most 100,000 people can be stationed.

And at this moment, there are nearly 100,000 people in this pass, Zhao Ta has more than 50,000 horses, and more than 30,000 Xixia soldiers over there, and the city is a little bloated.

But if it's just a street fight, it's okay, it won't be rubbing shoulders, crowded and invisible, but as soon as the fire burns, it's different.

That fire and water are the most ruthless things, taking people's lives is not a problem, no matter how many soldiers you have, how can you cover it?

The soldiers ran and dodged, and when they got close to each other, some of them bumped into each other and began to panic.

At this time, the wind helped the fire, and the fire borrowed the power of the wind and burned away very quickly, and the "whirring" ground burned most of the pass, and went straight to the north.

Where could the Western Xia soldiers resist this natural and ruthless thing, they had to retreat, those who walked slowly were directly engulfed by the fire, and those who walked fast arrived in Guanbei, where did they listen to any orders, hurriedly opened the city gate, and fled outside.

Brother Richard was stunned for a long time, this is already the second fire, the first one burned thousands of his soldiers and horses in Mingsha City, and he was trapped in the city, miserable, this second fire actually burned directly to the gorge.

The pattern of the gorge pass is most suitable for arson, everything has pros and cons, since the cascading street battle buildings are created, and they can fight and ambush in the pass, then the disadvantage is that it is easy to burn.

Kannai is not the kind of ordinary city with orderly streets and houses, and the kind of flames are difficult to hook, and there is probably only one area, and the buildings of this street battle are easy to burn.

Especially, the south wind is still blowing!

Brother Richard only felt that there was a "boom" in his head, as if the sky was thundering and exploding, he hadn't thought about the other party setting fire before, but where is it easy to set fire, even if the above conditions are met, the pattern is suitable for arson, and the wind direction is right, but there must be a large amount of fire oil.

This fire oil is not so easy to find, the other party set fire to Mingsha City and set fire to Wulong Ridge, both used a lot, how can there be so much oil?

Set fire to the guanli, the fire oil is less, why is the other party bringing so much fire oil for no reason? Why do you attack with fire everywhere, won't this Zhao Ta fight without fire!

Brother Richard was so angry that his face turned pale, and all the generals next to him came to persuade him to get out of the city quickly, the fire was quite urgent, and if he didn't leave, he would be drowned in the raging sea of fire.

When Brother Richard opened his mouth, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and he was directly taken out of the military palace by the generals, and then helped him to the horse, and a group of people hurried towards the outside of Beicheng.

At this time, there are horses are okay, there are no horses and the Song army in the pass, but it is miserable, when I saw the fire, I was stunned, and I ran back when I reacted, the fire had started, if I could escape in a straight line, it was just that, but there were stacked buildings everywhere, and I was smoked and burned to death in it without waiting to go out.

The fire burned for half the night, and after dawn it burned for most of the day, until it was gradually extinguished in the afternoon.

At this time, there was no longer a living Xixia soldier in the pass, Richard brother took more than 10,000 people out of the pass to Shunzhou in the north, this time the loss of the army was halved again, more than 30,000 people only left more than 10,000, 80,000 soldiers out of Xingqing, before and after a month, it was almost the whole army annihilated.

After occupying the Xiakou Pass, Zhao Ta immediately ordered the repair of the buildings in the pass, changed the layout pattern, and then began to recruit troops.

Naturally, Brother Richard brought scattered soldiers, 80,000 troops, about half of them died, Brother Richard defeated Shunzhou, bringing more than 10,000 people, then at least more than 20,000 were scattered outside, these are what Zhao Ta wants to recruit.

More than 20,000 people are not a few, so many people are scattered outside to eat and drink is a problem, the north and south line from Zhuo Luo's side, Fuchuan, Huizhou, and Mingsha are all in the hands of Zhao Ta, these soldiers only have two places to go, one is to the east to the city of Jingsai Military Division, and the other is to the northwest to Yingli City, as well as Shatuo Town.

Yingli City is a small county, and it is categorically unable to feed so many people, and the town of Shatuo has to be rested, and the Jingsai Military Division is too far away, and these people have no food or drink, so it is difficult to run over there.

Zhao Ta first sent troops to take down Yingli City and Shatuo Town, occupied the main road, and then released the news that he recruited troops on a large scale with silver money that was fifty or sixty percent higher than the salary of the Western Xia army.

As soon as the news came out, nearly 1,000 people came to defect on the same day, and in the following days, many people who wanted to join the army went to various cities to sign up, and in a short time, nearly 10,000 people were recruited, all of whom were the remnants of Brother Richard's scattered soldiers.

Even if the country was founded for many years, many people do not have much land, still nomadic or grazing for the nobles for a living, the concept of family and country is not strong, not to mention the war with the Song Dynasty for hundreds of years, you have me, I have you, I have voted, I don't care much.

Zhao Ta naturally didn't care even more, the war was like this, it was just a snowball, it was already a good result to be able to recruit more than 10,000 people, as for those who were not recruited, it was estimated that they were the elite of the Xingqing Janissaries, and they had a home in Xingzhou, so they were more worried, so they hesitated to come.

With more than 10,000 more soldiers, Zhao Ta was satisfied in his heart, so that the army that could be mobilized under his command was close to 70,000, and 70,000 people were enough to divide the troops to fight, and if he wanted to completely destroy the Western Xia, it was inevitable to divide the troops.

On this day, Zhao Ta was watching the secret report sent by the scouts in Shunzhou, and suddenly Bai Zhan entered: "Childe, Wu Erlang is here!" ”

Zhao Ta was immediately overjoyed when he heard this: "Call over quickly!" ”

After a while, Wu Song took Li Zhong, Fan Rui and other four people into the door and bowed to the ground: "Son, my subordinates have been delayed for many years, and it is too late at this moment, so I hope that Sone is not strange!" ”

Zhao Ta looked at him and said, "Why did Erlang say this, by the way, Brother Ling ......"

"Childe, my eldest brother has passed away, and after burying my eldest brother, I will come to join Childe." Wu Song said in a sad voice.

Zhao Ta nodded and sighed: "Erlang Festival mourns!" ”

Wu Song said: "The eldest brother can live to this day, all thanks to the kindness of the son, and when the eldest brother is dying, let his subordinates repay this kindness......"

"Eh......" Zhao Ta waved his hand: "Erlang, where is this, don't you see outside, hurry up!" ”

With that, he swept over the other four kneeling on the ground, his eyes narrowing slightly.

These four people Zhao Ta have all seen, he is unforgettable, that day Liangshan people recruited An, once in front of the Xuande Building exercise, Zhao Ta is upstairs, recognize these four people are the tiger general Li Zhong, the demon king of the mixed world Fan Rui, the eight-armed Nezha Xiang Chong, the flying sage Li Gon.

He couldn't help but wonder in his heart, Song Jiang led people to fight against Tian Hu in Hebei, shouldn't these all be in Song Jiang's army? Why did he follow Wu Song to Western Xia?

Wu Song stood up at this time, watched the four of them introduce their origins, and explained the reasons why they came, Zhao Ta nodded, and his eyes fell on Li Zhong first.

Li Zhong immediately took out the letter, and offered the jewelry in the baggage, and Zhao Ta took the letter without saying a word and read it.

The letter was naturally written by Song Jiang, and the content was mournful, and the words were like a cuckoo crying blood, saying that it was unfortunate, and shouting injustice for his subordinates.

After reading the letter, Zhao Tan thought about it and said to Li Zhong: "I see that Song Gongming said in the letter that there are only about 20 people left in Liangshan, how can there be such a small number left?" ”

Li Zhong didn't dare to raise his head, and said prostrately: "Tell His Royal Highness the King of Qin, it is true that the Tianhu soldiers are strong and strong, and there are many high-ranking people in the army, fighting each other, and consuming in twos and twos, only these brothers are left." ”

Zhao Ta secretly pondered to himself, at the beginning he intercepted a few people who were supposed to go to Liangshan, and later Liangshan recruited An, Lin Chong fled south, and killed more than ten or twenty, but the rest should have seventy or eighty, there were only more than twenty left, it seems that Tian Hu's strength is not weak, but this time, it is estimated that Tian Hu's side is also losing troops and losing generals, and his strength has been greatly reduced.

He called the four of them to get up, and then set up a banquet to entertain them, naturally accepting the three of Fan Rui, and Li Zhong wrote a personal letter, asking him to go back to Song Jiang, and asked Song Jiang to bring someone to vote immediately after seeing the letter.

Two days passed in a blink of an eye, the sky was clear and cloudless, Zhao Ta ordered his troops out of the city and went straight to the north, inspecting the first line of the Mingsha River.

(End of chapter)