When Brother Wei heard the news, he couldn't help but be shocked, and Li Qiyun, the general next to him, said in panic: "They want to cut off our retreat!" Brother Hugh hurriedly said: "Quick, give the order to go down and retreat immediately!" The generals hurriedly agreed and ran down. Then there was a commotion in the fortress.

Yang Peng found signs of commotion on the Hue fortress from a distance, and immediately ordered the army to leave the camp and attack the Hue fortress. The war drums rumbled, the gates on the south side of the camp were opened, and a torrent of soldiers poured out, horses' hooves roared, and iron armor poured towards the Hue fortress.

The Western Xia army in the fortress was retreating in a hurry, and at this time, when they saw the Yanyun army pouring out of the nest and surging, they were so frightened that they couldn't care about the orders of the generals, and they rushed out of the city, and the scene was chaotic. Brother Wei Ming Xiu looked at the scene in front of him like chickens flying and dogs jumping, he could only shake his head and smile bitterly, he couldn't care about these things now.

Seeing that there was no one on the majestic and steep fortress next to the dangerous peak, Yan Yun's army immediately launched an attack. The tide of soldiers poured under the city wall, and then it overflowed the city wall, and then the city gate was opened by Yan Yunjun, who entered the fortress, and there was no resistance from beginning to end. Immediately, Chen Xiao led a large army into the Hue fortress.

Yanyun's army captured Hue Fort without blood, and the troops were divided into two routes, one was the main force led by Yang Peng, and the other was led by Yelu Hanyu, with only 20,000 soldiers and horses, marching to the southwest and attacking the location of the military division of Baimaqiang Town, Lou Bobei.

Let's put aside here for a while, let's turn our attention to Xiping Mansion. Li Qingxia, dressed in military uniform, stood on the gate tower of Xiping Mansion, looking at the vast wilderness in the south, her brows furrowed. All the civil and military officers stood behind him, and their expressions were very solemn. At this time, I am afraid that even the most free and easy people will not be able to relax, after all, a big war that is related to the entire Western Xia and the fate of the entire party is coming, and the battlefield is here.

Li Qingxia turned her head and asked the generalissimo Li Zongdao beside her: "Generalissimo, is there any news from Li Cunxiao's side?" Li Zongdao replied: "I was about to report to Your Majesty." I just received news that Li Cunxiao's Snow Mountain Army is still storming Youzhou. Yan Yunjun fought to the death and did not retreat, and the battle was extremely fierce! Li Cunxiao's Snow Mountain Army has already killed and wounded nearly 10,000 people! Of course, Yan Yunjun's casualties were also very heavy! ”

Li Qingxia frowned and said: "If Li Cunxiao can't break through Youzhou, it's better to transfer the main force of the Snow Mountain Army, and you can be a little more sure here." "Li Qingxia currently has a total of 400,000 troops gathered in Xiping Mansion, isn't it enough? It may not be enough, because of the 400,000 troops, less than 200,000 are regular troops, and the rest are improvised people; However, Yang Yanzhao's volcanic army is different, although the number is only 100,000, they are all elites in a hundred battles, and they are all brave and good at fighting, so although the Western Xia army has 400,000, it is really difficult to say whether the victory or defeat of this battle will be said.

Li Zongdao listened to Li Qingxia's words, was silent for a moment, and said: "Our army can at least reach a tie in the face of Yang Yanzhao's department, so don't worry too much!" And if the main force of the Snow Mountain Army is transferred, our advantage will not increase too much, and if the Yanyun Army retreats to Yanzhou, we can't do anything about them, so it will become an embarrassing situation of being invincible and undefeated. However, if the main force of the Snow Mountain Army continues to storm Youzhou, our army is very likely to win, after all, there are only 10,000 Yanyun troops in Youzhou, and no matter how brave they are, they will not be able to resist the repeated onslaught of our Snow Mountain elite! As long as Youzhou is broken and the Snow Mountain Army is driven straight in, he can take the Great Wall Ridge in one go! As soon as the Great Wall Ridge is taken, our army can be said to have won the battle, at least the 100,000 troops under Yang Yanzhao can be completely annihilated! ”

Li Qingxia nodded thoughtfully, "The generalissimo is right!" He looked up into the distance and muttered, "I hope Li Cunxiao can live up to the trust!" Li Zongdao said categorically: "He must be able to!" If he can't do it, no one in our Great Xia Army will be able to do it! ”

In the distance, a fast horse suddenly appeared in the sky, galloping towards this direction. The eyes of everyone on the tower of the city gate couldn't help but fall on him, and Li Tongren, the prime minister of the left, said: "It is the scout of our army!" After a while, the scout galloped to the bottom of the city, reined in his horse, and shouted, "Urgent military situation, open the gates quickly!" ”

The gates were opened, the scouts galloped in, and the gates were shut. A moment later, the scout appeared behind Li Qingxia and knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, Yang Yanzhao's Yanyun army has arrived thirty miles away!" ”

Everyone was shocked, and Li Zongdao couldn't help but say: "It's so fast!" There were still sixty miles in the morning, but now it is only thirty miles!! Li Qingxia's expression was cold, and she raised her voice: "Explore again!" The scout answered and ran down the wall, and then the gate opened and closed, and the scout sped out and into the distance.

At sunset that day, the Yanyun army suddenly appeared in the field of vision, facing the sunset, only to see a blood-red hue, the Yanyun army rolled in, an invisible huge pressure rushed to the face, all the Xixia people felt breathless, and there was a dull rumbling sound in their ears, as if the thunder that was brewing was coming from far and near. Li Qingxia couldn't help muttering, "It's here!" It's finally here! ”

The tide of 100,000 Yan Yun troops slowly approached the city wall and stopped four hundred steps away from the city wall. The sound of thunder gradually stopped, and then there was a solemn atmosphere.

A heroic general with a double hammer in his hand rushed out of the Yanyun army, ran between the two armies, and shouted: "I am Yang Gui, the general of Yanyun, who dares to fight with me!" "A great and mighty sound was louder than thunder, rolling and echoing in the sky. The Tangut people on the city wall were stunned and stunned.

Li Qingxia couldn't help but be surprised and admired when she saw that Yang Gui's momentum alone actually covered hundreds of thousands of horses on her side, her eyes radiated with brilliance, and she couldn't help muttering: "With such a spirit, he really deserves to be a tiger general who is mighty in the world!" ”

The fierce general Ye hurriedly listened to Li Qingxia's words, and was very unconvinced, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, the last general will go and take his head!" With that, he ran down the wall. Immediately, the city gate opened and closed, and Ye Hurried ran out of the city gate with a mace in his hand. Everyone on the city wall saw him galloping towards Yue Yun, and they couldn't help but get excited, and the shouts sounded wave after wave on the city wall.

Ye Hurried rode his horse to Yang Gui more than ten steps away and restrained the war horse, pointed at Yang Gui and shouted in the party language: "I am the general Ye Hurri, I want to take your head!" ”

Yang Gui couldn't understand the party's language, knew that it was not a good word, and didn't talk nonsense with him at the moment, so he rode his horse and rushed towards him. Seeing this, Ye Hurry shouted and urged the war horse, raised his mace high to meet it, and screamed strangely in his mouth, like a wild beast that has gone berserk. At this time, on the battlefield, the shouts of the soldiers on both sides were like the tide of the sea, deafening!

In the blink of an eye, the two sides met, and Ye hurriedly swung his mace and smashed it towards Yang Gui's head, which was really overwhelming, very amazing. Yang Gui's expression did not move, he raised the copper hammer in his hand with his left hand, and with a bang, he smashed the mace from the bottom up and flew high up, Ye Jian felt that the opponent's strength was incomparably strong, and he was taken aback. At this moment, I only heard a loud sound on the ground, and saw the copper hammer in the opponent's right hand smashing it down! Ye was startled and wanted to dodge, but before he could do so, the copper hammer smashed heavily on his head, only to see that the helmet was shattered, and his brains were scattered, and he couldn't live! When the Xixia people on the city wall saw such a scene, their hearts were shocked, and the shouting and cheering stopped abruptly, and there was a dead silence on the city wall!

The two horses staggered past and ran out a dozen steps. Yang Gui grabbed the reins of the horse, turned around, and looked at Ye Hurry, who leaned to the side and dismounted the horse at this time. Yang Gui turned to look at the city wall and shouted, "Is there anyone else who is here to send him to death?" Although the Western Xia soldiers couldn't understand Yang Gui's words, they were shocked by his momentum, and their hearts were terrified.

Ye Yu's younger brother, Ye He Li said sadly: "Your Majesty, I want to avenge my brother!" Then he ran down the wall. Li Qingxia turned her head and said to the fierce generals around her: "You go together, be sure to take off Yang Gui's head!" The generals agreed in unison and ran down the city wall together.

The city gate was wide open, the sound of horses' hooves rumbled, Yue Yun looked towards the city gate, and saw six enemy generals pouring out together, and his face couldn't help but show excitement. The six enemy generals poured out of the city gate, and without speaking, they roared and rushed towards Yang Gui. Yang Gui held a pair of copper hammers in his hand, standing tall, like a majestic mountain peak. The Xixia people on the city wall couldn't help but break their hearts when they saw Yang Gui so arrogant, and Li Qingxia was even more heartbroken, and she couldn't help herself.

The six Western Xia warriors rushed to Yang Gui at once, and then attacked with swords and guns, Yang Gui waved his double hammer, only to hear the loud sound of the blades colliding. In the blink of an eye, six Western Xia warriors surrounded Yang Gui, fighting around him like a marquee, all kinds of blades continued to greet Yang Gui, but Yang Gui danced a team of copper hammers into a flowery whirring, and all the weapons attacked were swept away by him, and the water was really impenetrable!

In the blink of an eye, the two sides fought for more than 30 rounds, still regardless of victory or defeat, Yang Gui became more and more courageous, the copper hammer in his hand made a louder and louder whistling sound, swinging away the enemy's attacking weapons, and at the same time counterattacking, he actually gained the upper hand with one enemy and six enemies; And the six Xixia warriors are becoming more and more stretched, seeing that Yang Gui is brave like a god, they can't help but feel cowardly, the Xixia people on the city wall are staring wide-eyed, pursing their lips, clenching their palms, and sweating a lot for the generals on their side, Yang Gui's bravery deeply shocked them!

In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen moves passed, and Yang Gui's momentum had already covered the six Western Xia warriors. I only heard Yang Gui's roar, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and the movements of the six Western Xia warriors couldn't help but stagnate under the huge physical and mental shock. At this moment, I saw Yue Yun's pair of hammers flying up and down, banging twice, and smashing into the chests of the two enemy generals.

The two enemy generals screamed and fell off their horses on all fours. The other four were shocked to see that their two companions were killed in an instant. Before he could react, Yang Gui had already found a third person. Seeing Yang Gui coming, the Western Xia warrior was shocked, and hurriedly swung his knife towards Yang Gui, the sword flashed. Yang Gui shouted, and the double hammer in his hand swung upwards at the same time to pinch the opponent's big knife, with a loud bang, the big knife was instantly broken by the double hammer slammed! The Western Xia warrior was shocked to see that the battle was broken by the opponent in one fell swoop with a rampant broadsword! Immediately saw the opponent's copper hammer roaring and smashing, like a landslide, the Xixia warrior was so frightened that his soul was scattered, and he subconsciously raised the knife shaft to resist without avoidance, only to hear a loud bang, the copper hammer smashed the knife shaft like a withering and decaying, and the castration was unabated, followed by a muffled sound and smashed heavily on the chest of the Xixia warrior, seeing that his chest was sunken, blood was spurting from his mouth and nose, and he fell off the horse with his feet facing the sky.

At this moment, the Western Xia warrior Ye He Li attacked Yang Gui from the rear, and the Yanyun soldiers shouted one after another when they saw this, some reminded Yang Gui to be careful of the enemy behind him, and some scolded the enemy for being despicable. In fact, Yang Gui had already heard the sound of the horse's hooves behind him, but he deliberately did not turn around, and when he heard the sound of the horse's hooves coming closer, he turned around suddenly, and at the same time swept over with his right hand with a copper hammer. Ye He Li ran behind Yang Gui, full of thought that he could succeed, but he knew that the mace had just been raised, and he saw the opponent's copper hammer suddenly swept over, and he was shocked, so he didn't care about the attack, and hurriedly leaned his body back, almost at the same time, the copper hammer whistled less than half a foot in front of him with a strong wind, and Ye He Li was so shocked that he was drenched in cold sweat. However, before he could sit up, he heard the terrible sound of the copper hammer, and almost at the same time, he saw Yang Gui's other copper hammer smashing down from top to bottom. At this time, Ye He Li was lying on his back on horseback, seeing the copper hammer falling like Mount Tai pressing down, he wanted to dodge, but his body didn't have time to react at all.

The others only saw Yang Gui's copper hammer slamming into Ye He Li's front door, and flesh and blood flew sideways. The remaining two Western Xia warriors were terrified to the extreme, only to feel that the Yanyun warrior in front of them was simply not a human, and it was clearly a terrifying monster from hell. They all turned their horses' heads and fled towards the city gates.

Yang Gui rose up and rode his horse to catch up. When the Xixia people on the city wall saw this, they couldn't help but raise their hearts to their throats. The speed of the two sides is comparable, and the distance has not been shortened, and the Xixia warrior who ran at the end has always been about two horses away from Yang Gui.

Seeing that the two Western Xia warriors were about to escape, Yue Yun suddenly roared on the battlefield, and at the same time, he saw that with a wave of his right hand, he actually threw out the heavy copper hammer in his right hand according to the back of the heart of the Western Xia warriors! The copper hammer flew over the distance between the two horses, and hit the back of the heart of the Western Xia general, only to hear the Western Xia general scream, and then fell off the horse. The Xixia people on the city wall were stunned and couldn't help swallowing their saliva.

The last Western Xia warrior entered the city gate, and the gate was immediately closed. Yang Gui ran to the corpse of the Western Xia warrior, and when he saw the corpse bleeding and his face was full of horror, he smiled coldly. Bent down, picked up his copper hammer, looked up at the large group of Western Xia nobles on the city gate, and shouted: "Is there anyone else who has come to die?" ”

The Western Xia civil and military forces seemed to be standing in the cold wind, and they couldn't stop shivering. Li Tongren couldn't help but say: "I've heard of Yang Gui for a long time, but I didn't expect him to be even more terrifying than the legend!" "All the civil and military people feel the same way.

Li Qingxia shouted: "What's so scary! Isn't he just a guy with a bit of brute strength? The courage of the horseman, what a foot! Zhong Wenwu couldn't help but feel ashamed. The footsteps behind him sounded, and Li Yuantong, the only remaining fierce general among the six Western Xia warriors who fought in the battle, rushed behind Li Qingxia, bowed down with shame on his face and said, "The last general is incompetent, please punish Your Majesty!" ”

Li Qingxia turned around and looked at Li Yuantong with a very complicated expression, only to hear her say: "You are not guilty, you have done your best, but that Yang Gui is too powerful!" It is not a shame for you to fall at his hands! Li Yuantong said with palpitations: "The last general has gone through countless battles, and the fierce generals of Liao, Mongolia, Tubo, and Song have also passed countless times, but they have never encountered such a terrible tiger general!" It is already a very incredible thing that the last general and other six people besieged him, and he actually took less than half a advantage, but he could still kill the five generals of our army one after another in this situation, this, this, this is simply not something that people can do! ”

Li Qingxia frowned, although she was also very shocked by Yang Gui's performance, but she didn't like her subordinates to say such words, saying these words, except for the ambition of others to destroy their own prestige, it would not be of any use, I saw Li Qingxia said unhappily: "Yang Gui is just a little brave, and it doesn't have much effect on the victory or defeat of the war!" On the battlefield of a million-strong army, an arrow can kill his dog! Everyone only felt that what His Majesty said was very reasonable, and the fear of Yang Gui in their hearts subsided a lot.

Yang Gui continued to challenge loudly under the city, but where did the Western Xia army, which had already lost six fierce generals, dare to fight. Yang Gui saw that the enemy army was shrinking into the city and did not dare to fight, so he turned his horse's head and returned to his own position. Came to the father, crossed the hammer in front of the saddle, hugged his fists and said: "Father, the enemy can't shrink, the child is back to life!" ”

Yang Yanzhao looked at Yang Gui, his eyes were full of approving expressions, but these expressions were quickly replaced by serious expressions, and he bowed slightly, "You did okay, you finally didn't lose our Yan Yunjun's face!" Yang Gui replied and returned to his father's side. Yang Yanzhao looked up at the city and said, "The enemy army will not fight. The army retreated fifteen miles and went down to the mountain! The generals agreed in unison, and then rode down to greet their respective troops. The front team of the 100,000 army changed to the rear team, and the rear team became the front team, and slowly retreated to the southeast.

Li Qingxia saw that the Yanyun army had retreated, so she said to Li Zongdao: "Order all armies to strictly guard and not be negligent. Li Zongdao promised, and then gave instructions to several heralds around him, and several heralds promised and immediately ran down.

Li Qingxia led the civil and military forces back to the camp hall, Li Qingxia walked to the top and sat down, and the civil and military forces were separated. Li Qingxia glanced at everyone and asked, "Do you have any way to defeat the Yan Yunjun in front of you?" ”

Everyone whispered, all of them looked dejected, Li Qingxia couldn't help but feel angry when she saw everyone like this, but she endured it and didn't have a seizure, now the situation is critical, and she can't make any internal suspicions because of her emotions. Li Tongren saluted Li Qingxia and said, "Your Majesty, that Yanyun Army is brave and good at fighting, I am afraid it will be difficult to break it!" I think we should stick to the wall, not fight! Many Wenchen nodded in agreement, saying that fighting with Yanyun was simply self-defeating, and the only way to defend this road was to defend the wall.

Li Qingxia frowned and didn't make a sound. Li Zongdao saluted Li Qingxia and said, "Your Majesty, the last general's opinion is different from that of the prime minister!" As the saying goes, if you defend for a long time, you will lose, and offense is the best defense! After a pause, "Then the Yanyun army must also think that we don't dare to fight, and today they have won another big victory, so they must despise us even more!" We will take it by surprise and do the opposite, and we will be able to succeed in a war by sending troops to rob the camp tonight! ”

Li Qingxia was very moved, but she was still a little hesitant. Li Tongren said: "What the generalissimo said cannot be said to be unreasonable, but this is a very risky thing. If Yan Yunjun is on guard, won't we steal chickens and rice? ”

Li Zongdao said angrily: "The way of war, how can there be no risk!" If you are always afraid of failure, where will victory come from? Then he said to Li Qingxia: "Your Majesty, this matter should be successful, please make a decision!" ”

Li Tongren hurriedly said: "Your Majesty must not be impulsive, think twice!" Li Qingxia glanced at the two humerus ministers, stood up, walked to the middle of the hall, and thought, "What you two said makes sense!" But I'm more inclined to Prime Minister Zuo's statement! Li Tongren was overjoyed and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty is wise!" Li Zongdao was taken aback, and said urgently: "Your Majesty ......"

Li Qingxia raised her right hand and interrupted Li Zongdao's words, "The strategy considered by the generalissimo is naturally very clever!" But Generalissimo, our opponent is Yang Gui, who is a famous general on the same level as Yang Peng! For such a person, we must not have any opportunistic thoughts, because what we can think of, he must be able to think of, and the plan we carefully planned to attract the king into the urn was seen through by him! Li Zongdao frowned tightly and didn't say anything more.

Li Qingxia suddenly raised her voice and said loudly: "Our army of 400,000 can't defeat him with 100,000 horses!" Tomorrow, I'm going to set up a battle outside the city and fight it! ”

The civil officials were startled, but the generals were greatly encouraged and shouted in unison: "Long live!" Banzai!! After the meeting was dismissed, Li Zongdao stayed alone, the other civil and military officers left the hall, the military generals returned to their respective military camps, and the civilian officials returned to their temporary stations. Several civil officials caught up with Li Tongren and said, "My lord, please stay!" Li Tongren stopped, glanced at his colleagues, and asked with a smile: "Colleagues, is there anything wrong?" Several people looked worried, and one of them said: "Your Majesty is going out of the city tomorrow to fight a decisive battle with Yan Yunjun, and we all feel that this matter is very inappropriate!" ......" The others nodded in agreement.

Li Tongren said: "In this case, why didn't you say anything to advise just now?" The civil official who spoke just now said: "We were originally going to admonish, but when we saw that the prime minister did not speak, it was difficult to say anything!" Prime Minister, why don't you advise Your Majesty? Isn't it good to hold on to the city? ”

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