The war horses on both sides roared and charged, holding guns and knives, murderous. In the blink of an eye, the rumbling sound of horses' hooves was mixed together, the horses' hooves were chaotic, the cold light was flying, and the horsemen on both sides turned over on their backs. A good kill, the Yan Yun Army was actually at a disadvantage, and the combat power of the Western Xia Snow Mountain Army was really unexpected.

Li Tian wielded a spear and clashed hard, killing the enemy riders on their backs and turning over without a single general, but then they were surrounded and killed by the opponent's three fierce generals, and the danger was full of dangers.

The Snow Mountain Army is strong, and it is two to one, and the situation of the Yanyun Army is getting worse and worse, and the soldiers of the Yanyun Army are stained with blood on the battlefield. However, the Yanyun army did not have the slightest intention of retreating, still roaring and fighting desperately, a Yanyun cavalry was cut off by the snow mountain cavalry with a knife cut off the right arm, and the spear in the right hand flew up violently along with the right arm, but the red-eyed Yanyun cavalry actually roared and pounced on the snow mountain cavalry to the ground, the two of them rolled on the ground a few times, and the Yanyun cavalry rode on the body of the snow mountain cavalry. The Snow Mountain Cavalry stretched out his hands to pick the eyes of the Yanyun Cavalry, and the Yanyun Cavalry pulled out the long knife at his waist with his left hand and stabbed it into the chest of the Snow Mountain Cavalry. And almost at the same time, a snow-capped cavalryman rushed behind him, and with a wave of his scimitar, the head of the Yanyun cavalry flew out.

Yan Yun's army was surrounded by the Snow Mountain Army, and he was about to be annihilated. At this moment, several arrows flew one after another, and the Snow Mountain Army, which was stepping up the siege of Yan Yunjun, had arrows in the necks one after another, and they couldn't shout out the screams, and they fell off their horses. Immediately the sound of horses' hooves sounded, and a Yanyun war cavalry of more than 1,000 people rushed over the hills on the south side, and the leading general was Li Tian's deputy general, Wan Chun, he was the one who put the arrows just now.

Wan Chun led more than 1,000 war cavalry to smash into the enemy's thicket, and the enemy army suffered a lot of losses under surprise, which seemed a little chaotic. However, after a short period of confusion, the Snow Mountain Army immediately stabilized and continued to fight with the Yan Yun Army.

Just when the two sides were fighting inextricably, the brigades of soldiers and horses on both sides appeared on the battlefield one after another, and the commanders of both sides appeared among the surging soldiers and horses. The Yan Yun army relied on the hills to the south to arrange the military formation, while the Snow Mountain Army relied on the hills to the north to arrange the military formation. Immediately, the trumpets of both sides sounded in unison, and the horses of both sides that were engaged in a fierce battle immediately broke away from the battle and returned to their respective armies.

Li Tian and Wan Chun rushed back to Yang Yanzhao's side, Wan Chun was fine, Li Tian was covered in blood as if he had just been fished out of the blood tank, which was shocking. Yang Yanzhao asked with concern, "General Li, are you injured?" Li Tian shook his head, glanced at the Snow Mountain Army war cavalry that had retreated into the military formation in the distance, and frowned: "The Snow Mountain Army, worthy of its name, is not under the most elite troops of the Liao State!" Yang Yanzhao nodded, looked into the distance, and saw a figure under the other party's handsome, although it was not real from a distance, but it was definitely a young man, and he couldn't help muttering: "I didn't expect that the commander of the famous Snow Mountain Army in Western Xia was actually such a young man!" ”

Woowoo...... There was a long sound of horns from the opposite side, and then the infantry of the Snow Mountain Army slowly retreated, but the cavalry did not move in place.

Qiu Xia said: "The enemy army has retreated? Wan Chun immediately asked Yang Yanzhao: "General, are you chasing?" Yang Yanzhao shook his head, frowned at the retreating enemy army, and said: "The infantry army retreats, and the cavalry army is behind, and there is no chance to take advantage of it." Turning his head to look at the soldiers who were already very tired, he ordered: "Order all armies to retreat!" ”

Yan Yunjun's horn also sounded, and the infantry retreated first, and the cavalry army retreated.

Soon after, the tumultuous wilderness returned to peace. Yan Yun's army retreated to the Great Wall Ridge, and then Yang Yanzhao ordered people to report victory to Hedong, and then sent an army to carry all the baggage and materials in the camp under the mountain ridge up the mountain.

The news of the loss of the Great Wall Ridge reached the Western Xia court, and although the Western Xia people were a little numb by the continuous bad news, the news still greatly shook the Western Xia court. You must know that the Great Wall Ridge is the barrier of the southeast border of Western Xia, and the loss of the Great Wall Ridge means that the most important defensive barrier in the southeast is lost, and the defense posture of Western Xia has deteriorated even more.

There was chaos in the court, some ministers proposed peace, some ministers shouted to fight to the end, and the emperor sitting on the dragon chair was flustered and irritable, but he didn't know what to do. At this moment, the palace gate officer rushed into the main hall and reported: "Your Majesty, the envoy of Yanyun is here!" ”

The hustle and bustle of the hall was silent for a moment, and the speed of change was very strange. The emperor hesitated for a moment and asked the two prime ministers: "Yanyun envoy came at this time, I don't know what his intentions are?" The right prime minister said coldly: "What else can you do, it's not that you're here to demonstrate to us!" He bowed to the emperor, "Your Majesty, we should kill Yan Yun's envoy to show our determination to fight Yan Yun to the end!" Several ministers immediately chimed in, all looking very emotional.

Prime Minister Zuo immediately objected: "No! As the saying goes, if the two countries do not kill each other's envoys, if they kill each other's envoys, first, they will be useless to us, and secondly, they will be justified, so why bother! ”

The emperor felt that what Prime Minister Zuo said was reasonable, and nodded: "Prime Minister Zuo is right. Then he hesitated and asked, "Then should I see him or not?" Prime Minister Zuo said: "You might as well meet them, and see what they have intentions, so that you can formulate countermeasures!" The emperor nodded and said to the palace officer: "Xuan Yanyun envoy!" The palace gate officer said yes and ran down, and soon after, he led Yanyun's envoy Fan Yong in.

Fan Yong walked into the main hall and bowed slightly towards the emperor who was sitting at the top, "Your Majesty the Emperor!" The emperor narrowed his eyes and asked in a cold voice, "What is the matter with your envoy's request to see?" Fan Yong said: "For the peace between you and us!" ”

The right prime minister was furious and shouted: "What a peace, you Yan Yun is simply treacherous and shameless, on the surface to negotiate peace, but secretly dangerous and scheming!" Do you want to deceive us now? Several ministers scolded Fan Yong.

Fan Yong was unmoved, and asked the emperor a little mockingly: "Your Majesty, I don't know if it is Your Majesty who is in charge of your country, or is it the Prime Minister?" Your Majesty didn't speak, why did the Prime Minister shout in the main hall, this is clearly a great rebellion without a monarch in our place! ”

The right prime minister was shocked and angry, and wanted to scold, but when the words came to his mouth, he swallowed them back; The emperor glanced at the right prime minister with some displeasure, and said to Fan Yong: "Right prime minister, he is just a little excited!" What does it mean that the envoy is here for peace? ”

Fan Yong said: "Our Yanyun has never dared to offend the Western Xia, just want to recover the homeland, and now that everything north of the Wei River has been recovered, our Yanyun has made a wish, hoping to make peace with the Western Xia!" The right prime minister was so excited that he almost scolded. The emperor smiled coldly, "Yan Yun took advantage of such a boss, so he wanted to get out?" Is there such a cheap thing in the world? The right prime minister immediately agreed, "Your Majesty is right! Yan Yun tore up the peace agreement first, but now he wants to settle the matter, where is there such a good thing! All the ministers shouted one after another, all of them looked emotional, if their eyes were knives, Fan Yong would probably have been cut by a thousand knives at this moment.

Fan Yong looked at the prime minister on the right, "Speaking of tearing up the peace treaty, I'm afraid it's you!" His gaze turned to the emperor's face, "Your right general has been captured by us, and he has already explained everything, that is, he has been ordered by the right prime minister to lead his 100,000 troops south to Yan'an Mansion, and together with the army of Yan'an Mansion, he will attack our army in the name of releasing the exiled people!" It's just that in the end, we will be defeated, but we will be defeated! This was the beginning of the whole war! ”

The right prime minister shouted angrily: "You are spewing blood!" Fan Yong took out a confession, held it up with both hands, and said, "This is Li Yuanzhong's confession, please look at it." The right prime minister hurriedly said: "This, this must be fake!" The emperor ignored the right prime minister and glanced at the eunuch beside him, who immediately went down, took the confession, and forwarded it to the emperor. The emperor picked up the confession, read it, his face became very gloomy, and he turned his head and glanced at the right prime minister fiercely. The right prime minister panicked.

The emperor put down his confession and said to Fan Yong: "The cause of the war is that both sides insist on their own words, and it is difficult to understand who is who is right and ......who is wrong" Fan Yong smiled slightly. The Emperor continued: "The matter of peace is a matter of state, and I cannot make a hasty decision. Please go back, and I will consult with your subordinates. ”

Fan Yong didn't say much, hugged his fists and said, "Farewell." Then he left the main hall. As soon as Fan Yong left, the emperor immediately said to the ministers: "Since Yan Yunjun has taken the initiative to sue for peace, I think I can take the opportunity to stop the war." "The right prime minister is not in his soul, as if he did not hear the words of the emperor; Prime Minister Zuo said: "Your Majesty, now I'm afraid that I can't make peace with Yan Yunjun in a hurry!" ”

The Emperor was puzzled and asked, "Why is that?" Hasn't Prime Minister Zuo always advocated peace, why is it so abnormal today? ”

Prime Minister Zuo said: "Your Majesty forgot about Tibet? The emperor was stunned for a moment, and then frowned, "This, this ......" Prime Minister Zuo said: "At this moment, we are just afraid that it is difficult to quit!" If you quit, you will definitely offend Tubo, and it will be difficult to do it in the future! Now that we can fight against each other, we will do our best, not to mention that we can defeat Yan Yun, at least we can stabilize the current front, which can be regarded as an explanation for Tubo, and maybe there will be a chance for us to seize the opportunity to defeat Yan Yun, and then go south to recover Weibei. ”

Several ministers chimed in. The Emperor nodded thoughtfully. Fan Yong waited in the inn for a day without waiting for any information, feeling that things might not go as he wished, so he sent his men to contact the palace maid who had bought it. That night, Fan Yong got the news that the Western Xia Emperor did not plan to negotiate peace, but planned to continue fighting, which made Fan Yong very shocked and puzzled, and then Fan Yong immediately asked his subordinates to leave the Western Xia capital in disguise and go to Hedong to report the news.

At about the same time, Yang Peng, who was on the east bank of the Yellow River, received an urgent report from Shi Jin, the Tubo army suddenly appeared, attacked Qinfeng Road, Xining Prefecture was lost, Jishi and Kuozhou surrendered, and Huangzhou was in danger. Xining Prefecture is now Xining City, the stone is in the south of Xining, Kuozhou, Huangzhou is in the east of Xining, these four military states are the four westernmost military states of the Qingfeng Road in the original Northern Song Dynasty, the Northern Song Dynasty had been stationed with heavy troops, after the construction of Yan Nandu, this piece and the Shaanxi and Gansu regions fell into the hands of the Khitans, and then handed over to the Western Xia by the Khitans, not long ago, Yanyun swept across Hexi, these four military states were the same as all the states and counties in Weibei, all of them were subordinated to Yanyun.

Although these military states in Weibei have changed hands several times, almost all the county officials and governors in various places are the original team of the Northern Song Dynasty before, they just watch the changes in the wind and clouds, and keep changing the flag on the head of the city.

Yang Peng was a little surprised when he received the news from Shi Jin, he didn't expect the Tubo people to suddenly stick a pole before the war. Han Bing frowned and said, "Qingfeng Road only has Chen Jie's legion of less than 60,000 horses, I'm afraid that I won't be able to resist the Tubo people!" Yang Peng smiled: "What you said is too polite, what 'I'm afraid I can't resist', I think I can't resist it at all!" According to Chen Jie, Tubo sent 300,000 troops this time, which is menacing! ”

Han Bing nodded and said to Yang Peng: "Big brother, you should immediately transfer all the troops allocated to General Yang Yanzhao to the west, and then defeat the breakthrough people first!" ”

Yang Peng thought for a moment, "The 150,000 troops transferred from Yanmen Pass and the First Army transferred from Henan, plus Chen Jie's Ninth Army Corps, should be enough. I'm just worried about Yang Yanzhao, will there be something wrong with them? ”

Han Bing: "Relying on the Great Wall Ridge and Yinzhou, I believe that we can resist the Western Xia people." Han Bing's tone was not very sure, because he had just received a report not long ago, saying that the Western Xia had exhausted the strength of the whole country to go south for a decisive battle, and it was estimated that the total strength of the Western Xia army in the Great Wall Ridge and Yinzhou would reach 800,000 at that time, and in the face of such a huge force, Han Bing and they were too thin, and no one was sure whether they could hold it.

Han Bing pondered: "Maybe Xixia will agree to negotiate peace with us, in that case, the northern front will not have to worry!" ”

Han Bing shook his head, "I'm afraid it won't be like this!" Glancing at Yang Peng, "Even if the Western Xia people are willing to negotiate peace, once they know that the Tubo people have invaded Qinfeng Road, their attitude will definitely change immediately!" Whether we can win the final victory or not depends on our own army! ”

Yang Peng nodded, "You're right! After a pause, "I'm going to Qinfeng Road in person!" Han Bing smiled: "I expected it a long time ago!" Yang Peng held Han Bing's slender hand and smiled: "That's why we will become husband and wife!" Han Bingyan smiled, and her beautiful eyes revealed a gentle taste.

Yang Peng thought for a while, "At present, there are several directions of war, and someone needs to sit in the Chinese army to coordinate. Looking at Han Bing and smiling, "No one is more suitable than Han Bing!" When Han Bing heard this, he couldn't help but be very happy, "As long as you trust me, I will take this burden, you can rest assured!" Yang Peng smiled and said: "You can send an order to Shanxi and Henan Xuanwei envoys, so that they can immediately assemble the military government army and use it as a strategic reserve to reinforce all directions at any time." Han Bing nodded.

Later that day, Yang Peng left the Hedong Ferry and rushed to Fengxiang Mansion, while at the same time, more than a dozen heralds rushed to all sides with Yang Peng's latest orders.

The 150,000 regiments directly under the Yellow River, which had crossed the Yellow River half a day earlier, immediately turned around and marched west to Qinfeng Road, and about a day later, the First Army Corps, which was heading north, also received an order, so it turned around and headed for Qinfeng Road.

Yang Peng and his entourage traveled day and night, and arrived in Qishan two days later, where they received an urgent military information from the front. Chen Jie led 30,000 soldiers and horses to aid Huangzhou, but was intercepted and killed by the 100,000 Tubo army, and the two sides fought five fierce battles, and the Yanyun army suffered heavy losses in two wins and three defeats, and was forced to retreat. Huangzhou, on the other hand, was broken by the Tibetan army that night. Now the Tubo army is swarming towards the east, divided into two roads, respectively attacking Hezhou and Lanzhou, Chen Jie has led the remnants of the army to retreat into Lanzhou, and Hezhou only has 5,000 Yanyun troops and 5,000 local soldiers to garrison, whether it is Hezhou or Lanzhou, in the face of 300,000 Tubo army, I am afraid that it will be difficult to hold.

Yang Peng felt that the situation was urgent and hurried to the road. In the middle of the night, he entered Fengxiang Mansion, and Deng Jia, who stayed in Fengxiang Mansion, was pleasantly surprised when he heard that King Yan was coming, and hurriedly greeted him, and when he saw Yang Peng, he hurriedly greeted: "My subordinates meet the sect leader!" "Yuan Jue is also in the Mingjiao system, so he calls Yang Peng the sect leader, and those generals in the Ming religion system call Yang Peng the sect leader, which is also one of their characteristics.

Yang Peng hurriedly walked into the hall, followed by Yuan Jue and the others. Yang Peng walked straight to the map, his eyes fell on Fengxiang Mansion, Fengxiang Mansion is now Fengxiang, Shaanxi, called Yong in Qin, is the birthplace of Zhou Qin, with a very rich historical and cultural heritage, and it is also an important town in Weibei, a place where soldiers must fight; Fengxiang Mansion belonged to Qinfeng Road during the Northern Song Dynasty, close to Yongxing Military Road and Henan area.

"What is the defensive arrangement of your Ninth Legion?" Yang Peng asked.

Yuan Jue hurriedly stepped forward and pointed to Huangzhou, "Before, General Chen Jiejin led 30,000 soldiers and horses to aid Huangzhou, but he failed to succeed and lost 10,000 people, and now the remnants of the army have retreated into Lanzhou." Lanzhou originally consisted of 5,000 soldiers of our Ninth Army Corps, plus the army retreated from General Chen Jiejin, with a total strength of 25,000 people, and 6,000 local soldiers, but these native soldiers were afraid that they would not be of much use. The finger then moved down and landed on Hezhou, "There are 5,000 soldiers of our army and 5,000 native soldiers in Hezhou. "The finger then moved to Xizhou, which is now Lintao, "There are 20,000 soldiers and 3,000 soldiers of our army in Xizhou, and the remaining thousands of soldiers and horses are all in this Fengxiang Mansion." ”

Yang Peng looked at the map and thought for a moment, and ordered: "Immediately order the defenders of Lanzhou and Hezhou to abandon the two places and retreat into Xizhou, and order the defenders of Xizhou not to act rashly!" Yuan Jue said with some concern: "In this way, if the Tubo army advances east from the north, wouldn't it be like entering a no-man's land?" Yang Peng's eyes looked at the vast land east of Lanzhou, and said: "Hundreds of miles east of Lanzhou are full of wasteland, and it is inconvenient to march, and logistics and supply are even more difficult, and there is no oil and water. The Tibetan people are determined to be rich, how can they wave their army into the wasteland? If they do enter the wasteland, it will be even better, when our reinforcements come up, they will cut off their retreat in one fell swoop, and then use cavalry to intercept and harass, I want to see if they can go to the sky or the earth! Yuan Jue felt that his eyes suddenly opened up, and his eyes lit up.

Yang Peng turned his head and glanced at Yuan Jue, "Give the order to go!" Yuan Jue hurriedly promised, and then called the herald, and conveyed the order according to Yang Peng's instructions, and the herald promised and hurried down.

When Lanzhou and Hezhou received Yang Peng's order, the Tubo army was already besieging the city and attacking, although the Yanyun army was brave and good at fighting and defending to the death, but in the face of the Tubo army with an absolute advantage in strength, the situation was very bad. The defenders of Lanzhou received Yang Peng's order to retreat to Xizhou, and immediately took advantage of the night to organize a breakthrough, but the Tubo people did not expect that the Yanyun army, which had always been tough, would break through after such a while, and was broken out by the Yanyun army without precautions. When the Tibetans reacted, they became angry and immediately dispatched cavalry to chase after them. In order to get rid of the Tibetans, Chen Jie had no choice but to order a thousand soldiers to break off the rear to buy time for the retreat of the large army.

The soldiers relied on the woods to fight the Tibetan cavalry for a whole day until they were all killed. Their sacrifice bought time for the retreat of the large army, which successfully retreated into Xizhou two days later, and at the same time, the soldiers and horses who had retreated from Hezhou also arrived, but they lost most of them in the process of breaking through.

Half a day later, the Tubo vanguard arrived in Xizhou, with more than 20,000 war horses, laughing and scolding loudly under the city, and the formation was loose and sparse, obviously not taking the Yanyun army in the city seriously.

At this moment, the gate of Xizhou suddenly opened, and Chen Jie's six thousand war horses poured out of the city and rushed towards the Tubo war horses, with a momentum like a rainbow and murderous spirit! The Tubo people didn't expect that Yan Yunjun would dare to take the initiative to fight, and they were stunned for a while. It wasn't until Yanyun's war cavalry slammed into the army that he came to his senses, and he ran around in a panic. Yanyun cavalry rushed forward, struggling to pick up the blade in his hand, in the cold light flying, I saw the flesh and blood flying on his back, and in an instant, more than 20,000 Tubo cavalry were actually rushed by Shi Jin's 6,000 Yanyun cavalry and collapsed; Seeing such a scene, the Tubo general who led the way didn't know what to do, and when he saw Shi Jinhu roaring and killing, he immediately rushed forward.

Chen Jie rushed to the Tubo general, roared angrily, and the spear in his hand thundered like lightning and stabbed past, the Tubo general was actually photographed by Shi Jin, startled, only to hear a click, the spear actually pierced his chest head-on! Shi Jin struggled to pick it up, and the huge corpse of the Tubo general flew up and fell down heavily. Seeing this situation, the Tibetan army became even more chaotic, and all their fighting spirit no longer existed, and they only wanted to flee for their lives.

Chen Jie led the army to chase and kill for a while, and when he saw that the opponent's cavalry was running farther and farther away, it was difficult to catch up, so he immediately led the war cavalry back into the city. The soldiers in the city shouted one after another, and their morale was like a rainbow.

When the Tubo general Zanbutai learned that the striker had lost and the striker general was beheaded, he was furious and roared angrily: "What a Chen Jie, I don't know what to do!" When I break through Xizhou, I will definitely kill Xizhou's men, women, children, pigs, horses, cattle and dogs! He then ordered the army to speed up.

Before sunset that day, the Tibetan army appeared under the city of Xizhou, and when they looked from the city wall, they saw that the endless tide was approaching the city! The mountain rain is coming, and the city is about to be destroyed!

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time