Han Bing looked at Chai Yonghui and said, "Recently, rumors have been circulating in various places, and it seems that someone is deliberately spreading rumors that are unfavorable to our Yan Yun. ”

When Chai Yonghui heard that this was such a thing, he couldn't help but be upset, and said, "I don't understand these things, and my sister doesn't have to tell me." Only then did she notice the other people around her, and couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, and said apologetically: "I'm disturbing your deliberations!" Everyone hurriedly bowed down and said, "Niangniang's words are serious!" Chai Yonghui smiled slightly and said to Han Bing: "Sister Han Bing, I won't disturb your deliberations!" Immediately turned around and walked outside, Han Bing hurriedly sent Chai Yonghui out of the hall, bowed down and said, "Sister, let's go." Chai Yonghui nodded and walked towards the backyard. Han Bing looked at Chai Yonghui walking away, then turned around and returned to the hall, looking down in contemplation, and suddenly sighed faintly.

Zhang Xiang said: "The chief manager doesn't have to worry, it's just that some scoundrels and scholars are spreading rumors, nothing will happen!" Zhang Jimeng smiled and said to Zhang Xiang: "Han Bing is not worried about this matter!" Zhang Xiang showed puzzlement. Han Bingjiao's face flushed slightly, glared at Zhang Jimeng, and said angrily: "You know again!" Zhang Xiang and the other men glanced at each other, then understood, and laughed.

Han Bing said angrily: "Don't talk nonsense, let's get down to business!" He turned and walked over to the top and sat down. He glanced up at everyone and said, "Recently, these rumors have become more and more serious, although I don't believe that these people can make any trouble, but the impact is very bad, and it must be dealt with severely!" I mean, arrest those Confucian scholars and hooligans who dare to openly talk and spread rumors in taverns, teahouses, etc.! Zhang Xiang said with some concern: "Such a big move, I'm afraid it will cause social turmoil!" Han Bing said categorically: "Let the rumors spread, the social turmoil will be even greater, and we must take decisive action to stop the spread of rumors!" ”

Zhang Jimeng said: "We can also publicize the battle situation ahead at the same time, I believe that it won't be long before the rumors can be suppressed!" Han Bing said: "That's it!" Looking at Zhang Xiang and Huang Guang, he said: "The arrest is carried out by the local government, if necessary, you can ask the nearby army for help!" Zhang Xiang and Huang Guang hugged their fists and promised, and Zuo Mou said: "The lower official immediately ordered all localities to follow it!" Han Bing said: "That's it, you guys go!" Everyone bowed to Liang Han Bing and left the hall.

Eyes turned to Xiping Province. Li Qingxia, who had just fallen asleep, was woken up by the maid. Li Qingxia only felt dizzy in her head, and she was very unhappy, and asked in a deep voice, "What's the matter?" He sat up from the bed. Seeing Li Qingxia's expression and tone, the maid was terrified, and hurriedly said: "The generalissimo said that there is an urgent matter to report to Your Majesty!" Li Qingxia's heart moved, and she immediately said: "Call him in!" The maid was stunned on the spot, looking at a loss. Seeing this, Li Qingxia was annoyed, but then she was relieved, she understood the reason why the maid looked like this, she was only wearing light clothes, although it was indecent, and it was also a spring leak, how could she receive the minister, not to mention that she was still a man.

Li Qingxia got down from the bed, and the maid immediately took the dress and served Li Qingxia to put it on, and when it was over, the maid was ready to dress up for Li Qingxia again. Li Qingxia raised her hand and said, "No need, you go and ask the generalissimo to wait in the study, and I will arrive later." The maid bowed and retreated.

A moment later, Li Qingxia, who was neatly dressed but had not made up, walked into the study. Seeing this, Li Zongdao hurriedly bowed and saluted: "I've seen Your Majesty!" ”

Li Qingxia walked quickly in front of Li Zongdao and asked urgently, "Is there any news of Li Cunxiao?" Li Zongdao said: "It's not Li Cunxiao's news, it's an urgent report sent by Prime Minister Zuo from the capital!" As he spoke, he handed over the letter with both hands. Li Qingxia took the letter, unfolded it, read it again, and frowned slightly. Turning his back to his hands, he paced to the desk, pondered for a moment, smiled coldly, and muttered: "A group of clowns jumping off the beam, it's just wishful thinking!" Turning around, he looked at Li Zongdao and said lightly: "What I care about now is not the situation of these jumping clowns, but the situation on Li Cunxiao's side!" ”

Li Zongdao said: "Your Majesty, rest assured, there should not be any unexpected situation!" At this moment, Li Cunxiao and the others may have climbed the Great Wall Ridge! Li Qingxia frowned and nodded, "I hope so!" ”

Turning his attention to Youzhou, Li Cunxiao led the Snow Mountain Army to storm Youzhou for many days, but he was still blocked under the city of Youzhou. The sound of the fierce battle gradually fell silent, and the attacking troops retreated like a tidal wave of retreat. Li Cunren, a bloodied general, knelt down in front of Li Cunxiao's horse with a plop, and said with a look of shame: "General, the last general is incompetent and has not been able to capture the city!" Li Cunxiao looked up at the soldiers behind him, the five thousand warriors who went up an hour ago actually only retreated so many people, but I am afraid that there are less than two thousand people. Li Cunxiao frowned, and said to Li Cunren: "You have done your best, go down to heal!" Li Cunren responded. struggled to stand up, but just half stood up, his body stumbled suddenly, and he was about to fall to the ground, but fortunately, the soldier next to him quickly helped him. Li Cunren and the others retreated.

Li Cunxiao raised his eyes to look at the ruined city in the distance, and saw that Yan Yun's battle flag was still fluttering on the city gate tower. The city in front of him was very dilapidated, the city gate was demolished, and the city wall was demolished in many places. After the Yanyun army retreated to Youzhou, in view of the possible counterattack of the enemy, after the Yanyun army retreated to Youzhou, immediately repaired the demolished city gate and city wall, but after all, the time was limited, and the Yanyun army could only use stones, wood, soil, etc. to plug the gap, and after a few days of fierce battles, many places collapsed again. Li Cunxiao was angry and puzzled, he really didn't understand how the Yanyun army in front of him blocked his continuous onslaught!? Suddenly, his heart moved, and he couldn't help muttering: "Could it be that the Yan Yun Army in this city is not the 10,000 people reported by the spies before?" After a long attack and heavy losses, Li Cunxiao couldn't help but doubt the information he had obtained before.

However, Li Cunxiao may not know at this moment that in fact, there is not much left of the Yanyun army in Youzhou City, there is only one general, Wang De, and two or three hundred scarred soldiers. The battle is fought to this extent, in fact, they can retreat, retreat at this time, no one will blame them, no one will think that they are doing something wrong, but none of these scarred soldiers want to retreat, because they received the order to defend Youzhou, since they are defending, then they must live and die with the city, as long as they are alive, they must not allow the city to fall into the hands of the enemy, otherwise it will not complete the task.

Wang De wrote a suicide note to his wife and children, handed it to a personal soldier beside him, and instructed: "Take it out and give it to my wife!" The pro-soldier did not reach out to receive the suicide note, and suddenly knelt down and cried: "The subordinates don't leave, the subordinates and the general live and die together!" ”

Wang De said angrily: "Nonsense! General Ben's order to you is to take this letter out and talk less nonsense with me! Then he stuffed the letter into the hands of his own soldiers, and shouted: "Go quickly! "The soldiers were reluctant to go, and they did not dare to disobey the order, and they were in a dilemma for a while, not knowing what to do. Wang De's eyes widened, and he shouted: "Go!" The soldiers were shocked, subconsciously stood up, bowed to Wang De, turned on their horses, and galloped towards the south.

Wang De stood up with a broadsword, limped up to a collapsed wall, and looked out. I saw that the Western Xia army was moving the corpses of its own soldiers away from the battlefield. Wang De muttered, "Fuck, it's going to attack again!" As if he had spoken to him, before he could finish speaking, an earth-shattering trumpet sound came from outside the city, whining, tearing his heart and lungs, and cutting through the sky. Immediately, I saw thousands of Western Xia troops rushing like a tide.

Wang De turned his head and shouted at the scarred soldiers under him: "Prepare for battle!" Hundreds of soldiers shouted in unison, and the majestic battle spirit soared into the sky, startling Li Cunxiao, who was watching the battle from a distance outside the city, was shocked.

The tide of the Western Xia army roared and poured into the gap, Wang De shouted, brandished the broadsword, and killed the enemy group first, the broadsword flew up and down, raising the sky full of blood; The soldiers also roared into the enemy group, fighting desperately, all like mad beasts, forgetting to die, completely ignoring the enemy's blades, just slashing and killing the enemy, their own blood and the enemy's blood fluttered in the sky! In the face of Yan Yunjun's frantic counterattack, the Western Xia Army was unable to move forward for a while.

The vicious battle continued, the soldiers of the Yanyun Army fell in a pool of blood one by one after doing their best, and in the end, only Wang De was left, he was still standing at the top of the gap and desperately wielding the big knife, and the soldiers of the Western Xia Army who rushed up were cut down one by one, rolling down one by one, Wang De's body had more and more wounds, but he didn't fall, he seemed to be invincible! The battlefield under the sunset is a tragic scene!

The Western Xia warrior Li Chongshan rushed out of the army, brandished a mace and smashed it down on Wang De's head! Wang De almost ran out of oil, and in the face of the mace that was enough to take his life, he turned a blind eye, and with a big knife in his hand, he went towards Li Chongshan! Li Chongshan didn't expect the other party to die with him, he was taken aback, and hurriedly dodged sideways, and the big knife flew past his chest, almost unloading half of his shoulder, at the same time, Li Chongshan's mace also shifted due to his own dodge action, and failed to hit Wang De's head, but smashed heavily on his left shoulder, with a muffled bang, the armor shattered, and blood overflowed.

Li Chongshan was shocked, glanced at Wang De with a complicated expression, and found that he was actually smiling!

I don't know why, when Li Chongshan saw this smile, his heart involuntarily swelled with boundless anger, screamed, raised his mace and slammed it down on Wang De's chest, at this time Wang De couldn't dodge at all, only to see the mace smash heavily on Wang De's chest, with a loud bang, the whole person flew out like a kite with a broken string, and fell heavily in the city wall. At this point, 10,000 soldiers were all killed, except for one of the personal soldiers who delivered the letter, and there was a sea of corpses inside and outside the city. In six days of bloody battles, 60,000 Western Xia troops could not advance an inch, this is definitely an unimaginable miracle!

Wang De looked at the blue sky and flowing clouds, his consciousness gradually blurred, and he vaguely felt that the enemy army was swarming in. Wang De was a little unwilling, and a little guilty, Yan Yun Xiaorui was invincible in the world, except for taking the initiative to retreat, he never lost an inch of land, but he failed to hold Youzhou! I'm sorry General, I'm sorry King Yan, I'm sorry, my brothers! ……

Li Cunxiao climbed the city wall, looked at the tragic scene in front of him, and there was no joy of victory in his heart. Although the 10,000 Yanyun army was completely annihilated, it also paid a huge price of 20,000 casualties!

Li Cunxiao couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "A miserable victory is like defeat!" Li Chongshan on the side couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "The last general has fought with the Liao, and has fought with the Tubo and Song people, but he has never met an opponent like Yan Yunjun!" Completely fearless of life and death, stubborn and stubborn! If Yan Yunjun is like this, we, we ......" He didn't say what he said later, but everyone understood what he meant, he wanted to say that if Yan Yunjun was like this, it would be impossible for Great Xia to compete with Yan Yun!!

Li Cunxiao suppressed the chaotic thoughts, stared at each other, and said: "Now that Youzhou has been captured, it is time to drive straight into and seize the Great Wall Ridge!" Time is pressing, we must seize the Great Wall Ridge before the enemy's Sixth Army arrives at the Great Wall Ridge, and lock this lock! He turned his head and said to the generals: "Don't rest the army, leave the wounded soldiers, and the rest of the soldiers and horses will set off immediately!" We don't have much time left! The generals agreed in unison.

As mentioned earlier, the Sixth and Seventh Army Corps of Yanyun, as follow-up troops, will join the two battlefields in the north and south respectively, but because these two legions only set off after the start of the war, they are mainly infantry troops, and they also carry a lot of baggage, so they have not yet entered the battlefield. The Seventh Army has not yet arrived at Yanmen Pass, and the Sixth Army has already entered the northern Shaanxi territory, so Li Cunxiao is so anxious.

The Western Xia army only stopped in the city of Youzhou for a short time, and then marched towards the Great Wall Ridge in the south, with cavalry in front and infantry behind, and all the heavy baggage and materials were lost, and the officers and men of the three armies hurried on the way.

This morning, Li Qingxia was discussing with Li Zongdao, when suddenly a personal soldier officer led a dusty messenger rushed in, and said urgently: "Your Majesty, General Li Cunxiao has sent someone!" ”

Li Qingxia and Li Zongdao immediately looked at the envoy, and Li Qingxia asked urgently, "Has General Li broken through Youzhou?" The messenger knelt down and said, "Back to Your Majesty, our army has broken through Youzhou, and now the army is on its way to attack the Great Wall Ridge!" ”

When Li Qingxia and Li Zongdao heard this, a big stone that had been pressing on their hearts for a long time finally fell. Li Qingxia couldn't help but thank God: "God bless the Great Xia!" God bless the Great Summer!! Under the emotion, I couldn't help but burst into tears. Suddenly realizing that he had lost his temper, he quickly turned around and wiped away the tears on his face. When he came back to his senses, he said to Li Zongdao excitedly: "Generalissimo, the current situation is very favorable to us!" Li Zongdao nodded and said, "Presumably, Yang Yanzhao has also received relevant news, and we have to prevent them from retreating!" Li Qingxia thought so, and then ordered: "Send scouts, don't let Yang Yanzhao slip away under our noses!" Li Zongdao answered and ran down.

Later that day, Li Qingxia summoned all the generals to discuss the matter of a major counteroffensive. Li Qingxia planned to lock the key lock of the Great Wall Ridge and then trapped Yang Yanzhao's department. After destroying the main force of the Southern Yanyun Army, he left one to guard Yinzhou and the Great Wall Ridge, and the main force went north to deal with Yang Peng! Thinking that there were more vicious battles waiting for them in the north, the people who had just been excited by the good news couldn't help but become worried.

The scouts who were monitoring Yang Yanzhao's department outside the city kept coming in news, but Yang Yanzhao's department never moved. In this regard, Li Qingxia and the others were not surprised, after all, the Yanyun army outside the city was all infantry troops, and if they rashly left the camp and retreated, they would definitely give their own war cavalry a chance to destroy them. The people of Western Xia are not in a hurry, the situation in front of them is beneficial to their own side, it is best that Yue Fei's subordinates will never move like this, so they will starve to death if they are hungry!

Two days later, Li Cunxiao sent another messenger. When Li Qingxia heard the news, she hurriedly came out from behind and walked into the hall, only to see a dusty officer standing under the hall. As soon as the officer saw Li Qingxia coming out from behind the screen, he hurriedly bowed: "The villain greets Your Majesty!" ”

Li Qingxia stepped forward quickly and asked, "Has Li Cunxiao occupied the Great Wall Ridge?" "In the past two days, Li Qingxia didn't think about eating, she only thought about one thing, that is, the Great Wall Ridge, as long as Li Cunxiao can occupy the Great Wall Ridge before the Yanyun Sixth Army, then Great Xia will still have a chance to turn defeat into victory!

The officer looked sad and indignant. When Li Qingxia saw his expression, she couldn't help but chuckle in her heart. I only heard him say sadly: "Our army was ambushed by Yang Dezheng's headquarters in Helan Yuan and suffered heavy losses!" ”

Li Qingxia only felt that the sky was spinning, and her body staggered. Calming down, he looked at the officer and asked in a deep voice, "Didn't I remind Li Cunxiao?" Why was he ambushed by them? The officer said: "It took our army a full six days to break through Youzhou, and the general was worried that the enemy's Sixth Army Corps would enter the Great Wall Ridge first, so he ordered the three armies to rush to the road, and the matter of vigilance was omitted." As a result, Helan Yuan was suddenly ambushed by the enemy, and their 20,000 cavalry rushed our army to pieces in a blink of an eye. ”

Li Qingxia was annoyed, closed her eyes, then opened them, and muttered: "It's just a little bit, it's just a little bit close!" Is this providential? "This is actually not providential, but in Yang Yanzhao's calculations. Before sending Yang Dezheng, Yang Yanzhao specially instructed: If Youzhou is still in our hands, we will immediately attack Tiemen Pass, seize Tiemen Pass, and cut off the back road of the Snow Mountain Army, and the crisis in Youzhou will be solved without a fight; If Youzhou has been lost, he will ambush the enemy in Helan Yuan. Yang Yanzhao has already calculated, after Li Cunxiao broke through Youzhou, he will definitely attack the Great Wall Ridge, Helan was originally more than 20 miles north of the Great Wall Ridge, and it is the only way to go south to the Great Wall Ridge, which is not conducive to ambush but is conducive to cavalry charging and killing, and Li Cunxiao's army came all the way from Youzhou, and when he arrived here, it should be the most tired and defenseless time, so Yang Yanzhao concluded that the cavalry had a great chance of succeeding in this ambush, and the result was indeed as Yang Yanzhao expected.

However, there is a very important premise for all this, that is, Wang De's department must hold on for more than four days, which is unimaginable in Yang Yanzhao's view, if he can't hold on, Yang Dezheng has no time to set up an ambush, and Wang De They held Youzhou for six days, far exceeding expectations, and bought enough time for Yang Dezheng to set up an ambush before there would be a big victory after that, completely crushing Li Qingxia's attempt. Wang De and 10,000 soldiers can be blinded, their sacrifice was not in vain.

Li Qingxia slowly turned around, walked to the main seat and sat down. Said to the pro-soldiers: "Summons the generalissimo to come to discuss the matter!" The soldiers answered and ran down. Li Qingxia looked at the officer and asked, "Li Cunxiao and the remnants of the Snow Mountain Army, where are they now?" The officer said: "After the defeat of the army, it has retreated to Youzhou. ”

"How many people are left?" "There are about twenty-five or six thousand!"

Li Qingxia was annoyed and heartbroken. At this time, there was a sound of hurried footsteps at the door, but it was Li Zongdao who came quickly. As soon as Li Zongdao entered the door, he saw the officer kneeling on the ground, and then bowed to Li Qingxia and asked, "Your Majesty, I don't know what to call the last general?" ”

Li Qingxia said lightly: "Li Cunxiao failed to capture the Great Wall Ridge...... Li Zongdao was surprised, "Could it be that the enemy's Sixth Army entered the Great Wall Ridge first?" It shouldn't be! Li Qingxia said: "Then Yang Dezheng's 20,000 war cavalry set up an ambush in Helan Yuan, Li Cunxiao was caught off guard, and was killed and lost, and now the remnants of the defeated army have returned to Youzhou!" ”

Li Zongdao frowned and said, "Helan Yuan? It was really an unexpected place, no wonder Li Cunxiao was defenseless! Then he became worried and glanced at Li Qingxia, "Now that the situation has taken a turn for the worse, I am afraid that the previous strategic goal will not be realized!" Li Qingxia frowned and looked out the window on one side, and muttered, "What else can I do now?" What else can I do? ”

At this moment, Gao Feng, the captain of the personal guard, hurried in and reported: "Your Majesty, the Keyi Gate is lost!" Li Qingxia only felt her head explode suddenly, and then she rolled her eyes and fainted, and the scene immediately jumped up. ……

When Li Qingxia opened her eyes, she found that she had returned to the bedroom. I felt a splitting headache and couldn't help frowning. "Your Majesty, take care of the dragon's body!" Li Zongdao's anxious voice came from the side. Li Qingxia waved her hand, signaling that it was okay, and then sat up with her body propped up, and the maid on the side saw this and quickly stuffed a pillow behind Li Qingxia.

Li Qingxia leaned on the pillow, and was about to speak, when she suddenly heard waves of shouts outside, clearly thousands of people shouting together, shouting: "Li Cunxiao has been wiped out, the defeat of Western Xia is imminent, if you want to live, run away quickly!" Just like that, repeating it over and over again.

Li Qingxia frowned, and said angrily: "Is it Yan Yunjun? Li Zongdao nodded, "Soon after Your Majesty fell unconscious, Yan Yunjun drove out of the camp and approached the city, shouting constantly!" Now the hearts of the army in the city are in turmoil, and the people are panicking! ”

Li Qingxia shouted angrily: "It's too much to deceive people! Then he calmed down, remembered the loss of the Keyi Gate, looked at the high peak, and asked angrily: "How could the Keyi Gate suddenly be lost?" Didn't there be good news before, saying that Yan Yunjun's army suffered heavy casualties and the attack was frustrated? How could it suddenly be lost? ”

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