After Li Tongren finished speaking, he stood up. Yu Daochong hurriedly stood up, and the nobles naturally stood up as well. Said apologetically: "It's really a snub to your envoy!" Li Tongren bowed his head and said: "The prime minister doesn't have to be polite. Leave. Dao Chong hurriedly said: "I'll send your envoy!" Then he led the nobles to send Li Tongren out of the gate, and it was not until Li Tongren got on the car and left far away that he led the nobles back to the main hall.

A young nobleman couldn't help but say; "King, we can't surrender to Yan Yun, otherwise we will all be on an equal footing with the untouchables, which is really an insult to our ancestors, what kind of system!" Most of the nobles echoed it, saying that they couldn't surrender to Yan Yun, and their reasons were naturally very high-sounding, but to put it bluntly, they were actually unwilling to give up the privileges they currently enjoyed, and in their imagination, it was really unbearable to be a common man who lost all their privileges.

An old man frowned and said, "We just don't surrender to Yan Yun, and we can't refuse so bluntly." Wouldn't that directly refute King Yan's face, and it will inevitably make King Yan angry! Let's put this matter on the people, just say that the people are unwilling to surrender to their homeland, so we have no choice, and please forgive King Yan! Then he declared himself a vassal to Yan Yun and sent an envoy to pay tribute to Yan Yun! In this way, as long as Yan Yun accepts our vassal, then we will be safe, after all, even if we are as strong as Yan Yun, it is not easy to attack our own subjects! ”

Everyone nodded their heads and said, "What the prime minister said is very true, let's do it!" "It turns out that this old man is the prime minister he canonized not long ago, named Shanli, who has not entered the Xixia court before, and is the largest aristocratic landlord in Xiliang, a party member, and he was canonized as the prime minister by Daochong, so naturally there are also considerations to win over the local forces in Xiliang.

Brother Hugh rushed in from outside, and everyone's eyes fell on him. Brother Wei Mingxiu hurriedly rushed towards the road and said, "King, it seems that the one who came to attack was not the Tubo people, but the Yanyun army!" ”

When everyone heard the words 'Yan Yunjun', they were all shocked, and the scene suddenly became silent. Dao Chong said in disbelief: "How can it be Yan Yunjun?" How did Yan Yunjun end up there? They don't have wings, so can't they fly? ”

Brother Wei Ming Hugh shook his head and said, "The news is a little confusing, and the situation is not very clear!" He hurriedly said, "You go to the city wall to take care of it, send scouts, and make sure to find out what is going on!" Brother Hugh answered and ran down.

Dao Chong frowned, and the nobles whispered, everyone looked frightened and uneasy. Li Tongren returned to the hotel. Li Qian, a close confidant and deputy, said with some annoyance: "These Western Xia people really don't know how to lift, King Yan has sent down grace, and they are still pushing back!" If Yanyun's army comes to the city, hmph, if you want to surrender again, I'm afraid it will be too late! "This Li Qian is an ordinary-looking young man, who has been following Li Tongren for many years, and the tone of his speech at this time is full of Yanyun's officials, where is there still a little bit of party flavor.

Li Tongren smiled on his chubby face, walked to the side and sat down, and said, "They are unwilling to give up their privileges and honors as nobles, and that is human nature." In fact, I had expected this situation for a long time. Li Qian said worriedly: "If you can't persuade Western Xia to surrender, how can your lord return to King Yan!" Li Tongren waved his hand and said with a smile: "It's okay, it's okay, it's not important." "Li Qian is not Li Tongren after all, he is very puzzled by Li Tongren's words, and he doesn't understand why it doesn't matter if he can't complete the task of King Yan? Although I had this question in my heart, I didn't ask it.

At this moment, the captain of the secret guard squad who was ordered to escort Li Tongren rushed in, hugged his fist at Li Tongren and said: "My lord, we have just learned an uncertain news, saying that it seems that it is not the Tubo army that appears in the southeast Jisang direction, but our army!" ”

Li Tongren and Li Qian were taken aback when they heard the news, they glanced at each other, and they both saw an unbelievable look in each other's eyes, they naturally knew how powerful Yan Yunjun was, but in any case, they couldn't believe that Yan Yunjun would appear so close to Xiliang Mansion, although Yan Yunjun was strong, but after all, he was a human being and not an immortal, how could he fly over the Xishou Baotai Military Division and Zhuo Luo and Nanjun Divisions controlled by the Tubo people to appear here?! Li Qian said excitedly: "No matter what, when our army comes, the Western Xia people must be frightened, and maybe it won't be long before they will come to surrender to us!" ”

Li Tongren's chubby face was wrinkled, and he said in a deep voice: "I'm afraid that the people who will come later will not surrender to us, but arrest us!" Li Qian was taken aback: "How come?" ”

Li Tongren said in a deep voice: "Annoyed and angry, dogs jump off the wall in a hurry, these are human nature!" Li Qian suddenly realized the danger, and couldn't help but change his complexion. Li Tongren said anxiously: "It's not good, it's not good!" If it's really Yan Yunjun, we'll be in danger! Don't let that Dao Chong go crazy under fear, and take us to open the knife and sacrifice the flag! We've got to get out of here! Then he hugged his fist at the captain of the secret guard team and said, "General Youlao hurry down and prepare, we have to leave here immediately!" The captain of the secret guard team answered and ran down.

After a few moments, the captain of the secret guard team came back and said, "It's all ready!" Li Tongren couldn't wait to leave the room. Immediately, the group left the hotel and ran towards the north city gate. At this time, the entire Xiliang Mansion was already under martial law, and there was not a single pedestrian on the street, only a team of patrol soldiers, and when they saw Li Tongren's team dressed in Yanyun, they all looked sideways with strange expressions.

Li Tongren and the others came to the North City Gate, and the captain of the City Gate stopped them, recognized it as Yanyun Envoy and his party, and stepped forward to ask, "Where are you going?" Li Tongren rode on the horse and said angrily: "Naturally, I want to go back!" The captain frowned and said, "The whole city is under martial law, and no one is allowed to leave!" Li Tongren glared at the goldfish and shouted: "Bold! I want to convey your king's attitude and intentions to King Yan, but you are a little lieutenant who dares to obstruct it, what is your intention! When the lieutenant heard this, he panicked and hurriedly said: "There is no intention to deliberately obstruct it, but the military order is like this!" ”

Li Tongren asked: "Is it your general who is in charge here, or is your king in charge?" ”

The officer thought to himself, 'These Yanyun envoys want to bring the king's words to the king of Yan, how can I stop them?' What's more, even if the two countries exchange troops, the envoys of both sides should be unimpeded! As soon as he thought of this, he shouted at his subordinates, "Open the city gates!" When the sergeants heard the command, they rushed up and took up the huge latches and opened the gates. Li Tongren did not dare to delay in the slightest, and hurriedly led the team out of the city gate, and as soon as he got out of the city gate, he quickly galloped towards the east, intending to return to Xingqing Mansion along the road to the southern edge of the Tengger Desert.

The lieutenant let go of Li Tongren and his party, and he was always uneasy, so he sent someone to report the news to Daochong. When he heard that Li Tongren and his entourage had left in a hurry, he couldn't help but be suspicious. At this moment, Brother Xiu rushed over and reported urgently: "Wang, it's not good, it's indeed Yan Yunjun!" ”

Hu Dao Chong was startled, he was very panicked, Hu Dao Chong had already been beaten by Yan Yunjun and lost his courage, and when he heard that it was indeed Yan Yunjun who came, the first thought in his mind was to run for his life.

After settling down, he hurriedly asked, "Are you sure?" Why are you so sure that the Yan Yun Army and not the Tubo Army? ”

Brother Wei said: "A number of scouts have confirmed that they have seen the incomparably fierce Yanyun war horse wearing a black cloak, wearing a black Pixiu battle armor, and riding a huge war horse!" With this kind of cavalry, who else in the world is there besides Yan Yun's Xuanjia Army? In addition, there are Tubo defeated soldiers fled to us, it turned out that Yanyun War Cavalry raided Rouwolf Mountain a few days ago, and then rushed forward, successively defeated the Tubo Army, and now the Tubo people have lost all the Xishou Baotai Military Division and Zhuo Luo and Southern Military Division, so it is not surprising that Yanyun War Cavalry appeared here! It's just that Yanyun's war cavalry is rushing forward, spanning eight hundred miles, which is really unbelievable! ”

Dao Chong's face changed several times, he was shocked, and muttered: "The Tubo people are really waste! Then he quickly raised his head and asked, "Do you have any countermeasures?" Brother Wei Mingxiu said a little at a loss: "When the soldiers heard that it was Yan Yunjun coming, they were all very frightened, and the last general, the last general didn't know what to do!" The implication is that he wants to escape.

Dao Chong muttered, "Do you want to give up Xiliang Mansion?" After a pause, he tried his best to calm himself down, and said: "It's not clear what the situation is at present, let's not mess with ourselves!" He turned his head and asked Brother Hugh, "How many soldiers and horses are there from Yan Yunjun?" Brother Hugh said: "At present, only more than 10,000 war horses have been found, and it is only less than thirty miles away from our Xiliang Mansion, as for how many troops there are behind, it is unknown!" Dao Chong hurriedly said, "Didn't you say that there were defeated soldiers from Tibet who fled to us?" What do they say? ”

Brother Wei Ming Xiu swallowed his saliva and said, "According to them, the Yanyun Army has dispatched more than ten or two hundred thousand troops!" As soon as he heard this, his head exploded, and he almost fainted on the spot, and then he wanted to run for his life immediately. I barely calmed down, and felt that if I ran away without a fight, I was afraid that Xuanhua Mansion would not be able to hold it, and in that case, I would really become a lost dog! I decided in my heart that I couldn't give up Xiliang Mansion easily, if the army of Yanyun Army pressed the border, I really couldn't resist it, then I had no choice but to abandon the city and flee! Thinking of this, he hurriedly said to Brother Xiu: "Be sure to guard against it, we have no way to retreat, we have to defend Xiliang Mansion no matter what!" Otherwise, even if you and I save our lives, we will become extremely lowly slaves! ”

Brother Wei Mingxiu's heart sank, and he hurriedly agreed and ran down. "Wait a minute! Brother Hugh stopped, turned around, bowed and asked, "What else does the king command?" He rushed forward and said, "I'll go with you!" ”

The two of them left the mansion together and hurried to the castle tower. I saw that under the city gate, many defeated Tibetan soldiers had gathered, and they were screaming at the top, although they couldn't understand what they were shouting, but they obviously wanted to enter the city. Dao Chong looked away, looking into the distance, only to see the whistling west wind, the world is vast, and Dao Chong's heart can't help but rise with fear.

Soon after, the scene that had been in his nightmare for all this time suddenly appeared in his field of vision, only to see countless black war horses appear in the yellow sand, and the scene was as if the cavalry of hell had suddenly appeared in the world! He couldn't help but breathe, his whole body trembled uncontrollably, and he couldn't figure out for a moment whether this was a real scene or another nightmare.

"The king, the king......" Dao Chong heard the call of Brother Hugh, suddenly came back to his senses, and asked, "What?" Brother Wei Mingxiu had already seen the look of fear on Dao Chong's face, and he didn't feel strange, because even he himself was panicked and frightened, and when he heard Dao Chong's question, he hurriedly said: "The enemy cavalry will attack soon, the body of the king Wanjin, it's too dangerous to stay here, let's go back first!" ”

He wanted to escape, but he knew that once he left, he was afraid that the army's heart would be shaken immediately, so how could he resist Yan Yunjun's attack? If Xiliang Mansion is breached, the consequences will be unimaginable! As soon as he thought of this, he slowly shook his head and said categorically: "I will stay and fight the enemy with the soldiers!" When the soldiers around heard this, they were very moved, and their morale could not help but be greatly boosted. Brother Huge turned his head and shouted at the soldiers on the city wall: "The king is on the city wall, and he will fight the enemy with the soldiers, and live and die together!" When the officers and men of the army heard this, their morale was greatly boosted, and they could not help shouting: "Long live! Banzai!! ”

In fact, at this moment, Dao Chong's heart was terrified to the extreme, and there were words in his mouth, he was praying to the Mantian God and Buddha, he didn't dare to think that his army could defeat the Yan Yun army, he only hoped that the heavenly generals would help Daxia through this catastrophe by miracle.

At this time, the wind was stronger, and the strong west wind howled and roared, rolling up the dust, and the sky and the earth were dark and confused. Yan Yunjun's figure was hazy and unreal, but he could really feel that they were approaching, and in such a situation, it was even more terrifying.

Not long after, Yan Yunjun came to a short distance outside the city, and the wind and sand flying in the sky wrapped around them, and they couldn't see it really. In the feeling of the Tangut people, they are like the demons and monsters that came to the world with the wind and sand in myths and legends, and everyone is extremely nervous.

Suddenly, there was an amazing shout from the whistling wind and sand, and the Western Xia soldiers were all startled, and then they saw hundreds of black-clothed and black-armored majestic war horses rushing out of the wind and sand and rushing towards them! The Western Xia soldiers were shocked, and Brother Xiu, who was the first to react, shouted at the top of his voice: "Crossbowmen prepare!" The archer hurriedly bent his bow and arrows, and the crossbowman hurriedly raised his crossbow. At this moment, the black war horses that rushed together raised the cavalry steel crossbow together, and there was an arrow on the city wall, and a black shadow flew straight towards the city wall through the wind and sand, and dozens of Western Xia soldiers were caught off guard, and the arrows fell, and the crossbowmen were startled, and they fired arrows one after another without waiting for orders! At this moment, those terrible black war horses had already turned their horses and ran back, and the arrows flying from the city wall shot at their backs, but did not cause any harm to them. In fact, it was not the demons and demons that blocked their arrows, but the cloak on their backs.

The cloak that flutters in the wind during the gallop is not just for the sake of showing off its momentum, but more importantly, it is actually for defending against the enemy's arrows. The long, thick cloak is not easy to be pierced by arrows even when it is stationary, and when it gallops away, the cloak shakes violently with the wind, and if the arrows shoot up, they will be swept away by the force of the flying and shaking, so most of the arrows that were shot from the city wall just now have no time to penetrate the cloak, and they swing away from the cloak.

The Xuanjia Army returned to the middle of the wind and sand, as if the demon had retreated into the wind and sand after a blow. The Tanguts' eyes widened, and their blades clenched, waiting for their opponents to attack more fiercely. After a while, I saw those dark shadows in the wind and sand gradually fade, and they seemed to be moving away? The Western Xia soldiers were puzzled, but they didn't dare to be careless, and their eyes were round, for fear that those terrible enemies would suddenly rush out from somewhere.

Time passed slowly, half an hour, an hour, two hours, it was already dusk, but because of the wind and sand, the sky was as dark as night, and the lights in the city could not be seen clearly, the light and darkness were hazy, just like a ghost fire. Outside the city, except for the roaring sound of wind and sand, there was no sound, and the Yan Yun army seemed to have disappeared, but the Western Xia people did not dare to be careless at all, and the famous Xiu Ge was afraid that the Yan Yun army would take advantage of such weather to sneak attack the city, so he increased the garrison force everywhere, and at the same time ordered all the troops who did not go up to the city wall to gather and stand by, ready to fight at any time. The tense atmosphere of the army also infected the residents of the city, everyone did not know the taste of food, could not sleep, and was afraid that Yan Yunjun would suddenly attack the city, and the sudden loud noise outside the door would always make people startled, and their faces changed greatly!

The soldiers and civilians of the city were terrified and suffered, and one night finally passed, as if a year was as long as a year in everyone's mind.

The wind and sand that had been blowing for a night finally stopped, the sun rose from the eastern horizon, and the soldiers and civilians in the city couldn't help but feel like they were reincarnated when they saw the sun. Immediately, the scout galloped in, and shouted in a voice of great surprise as he rode his horse and galloped: "Yan Yunjun has withdrawn!" Yan Yunjun withdrew! ...... "The soldiers and the common people, the nobles and the commoners in the city, were overjoyed when they heard the news, and many of them could not help but fall to their knees and sincerely thank the gods. They think that the reason why Yan Yunjun retreated was because of the strong wind and sand that blew all night yesterday, and the strong wind and sand did not come sooner or later, and it came at the most critical time for them, so it was not the divine spirit to save them, what else could it be? All of a sudden, the city was filled with pious chants of thanks to the gods.

After breathing a sigh of relief, Dao Chong still didn't dare to slack off, and immediately ordered Brother Wei to send scouts to investigate Yan Yunjun's movements.

At noon, the scouts came with the news that the Yanyun army did not stop in Jisang, and after Jisang, they had been retreating towards Zhuoluo City, and the report also said that the Yanyun army only had more than 10,000 cavalry and no large number of follow-up troops. It was only at this point that Dao Chong and the others were completely relieved. After this crisis, he immediately appointed General Er Da as an envoy and ordered him to carry rich gifts to Xingqing Mansion.

Just after doing this, the messenger who went to the Great Snow Mountain came back and reported, "King Qiyu, the Great Snow Mountain is unharmed. The Tibetan side sent an envoy and returned with Weichen. He was anxious to find out about the situation in Tibet, and when he heard that an envoy from Tibet had arrived, he hurriedly said, "Call him in!" The general named Brother Xiu immediately shouted outside: "Summon, the Tibetan envoy will come to the palace to meet you!" The guards outside spread this all the way, and the Tibetan envoy who was waiting outside the gate to be summoned heard this, immediately straightened his clothes, and then walked quickly into the gate, all the way to the main hall unimpeded.

He looked up and saw the head of the high seat, he knew that although there was still an emperor in Western Xia, in fact, everything was decided by Dao Chong, so he bowed to see Dao Chong: "General Zanbu Tai's envoy to meet the king!" ”

Hearing that the other party claimed to be the envoy of Zanbu, not the envoy of Tubo, he couldn't help frowning slightly, and asked, "Isn't the envoy sent by His Majesty the Emperor of your country?" ”

As soon as the envoy struck, he immediately understood what the other party meant, bowed down and said, "The general of my family has already sent someone to report the situation here to His Majesty the Emperor, and the envoy will be here soon." But what my general means is that before that, it is necessary to coordinate with the king about some things! ”

What does this mean? Could it be that Zambu wanted to do something behind their backs? Or what tricks do they want to play? Now that our Great Xia is not as good as before, I am afraid that the Tubo will fall into the ground, but fortunately, the Tubo army was hit hard by our army before, they really want to do it, and we are not completely defenseless! Listen to what they have to say!

As soon as he thought of this, he asked, "I wonder what General Zambu wants to coordinate with me?" That's a bit confusing! When the envoy saw that there were many people in the hall, he bowed down and said, "My lord, please stand back and go!" ”

Dao Chong muttered more in his heart, and became more curious, thinking about it, he felt that even if this guy had any bad intentions, he didn't have to worry, a few steps away there was a guard with a helmet and armor holding a sharp soldier, as long as he called out, the guard could come as soon as possible and capture him. As soon as he thought of this, he said to the civil and military forces on both sides: "You all retreat!" The crowd answered and withdrew.

After everyone left, the envoy hurriedly took a few steps forward and said in a low voice: "Great King, for the sake of Western Xia, our great general has some things that we want to coordinate with the king. Regarding the matter of the previous peace treaty, I hope that the king will not mention it to our Majesty's envoy, only that it is said that the general of our family has seized the Xishou Baotai Military Division and Zhuoluo and the Southern Military Division from your country, and it is the Yanyun Army that has disregarded the agreement with our country and brazenly sent troops, and our army will be defeated after being caught off guard, and they will take away the Xishou Baotai Military Division and Zhuoluo and the Southern Military Division! ”

When he heard this, he was really confused, and he couldn't figure out what that Zanbuta wanted to do. But after a little thought, I understood.

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