In early summer, the capital of Western Xia, Zhongxing Mansion.

The bloody battles in Lingzhou City are repeated, with many casualties, and every siege battle is tragic and abnormal, and you live or die. The Mongol army divided its troops to besiege Zhongxingfu, and they also wanted to test it to see if they could bypass Lingzhou City and directly conquer Zhongxingfu.

On the city wall, a not fierce siege battle had just ended, and more than 100 people were killed and wounded on the city wall, and the Mongol army retreated.

"General, you said that His Majesty sent us to Zhongxing Mansion to do these things?"

An officer's face flushed, he looked at the retreating Mongolian troops outside the city, and whispered a grumble.

I have been in the capital of Western Xia for more than half a year, and since the beginning of the year, there have been dozens of battles of all sizes, except for the fierce and fierce at the beginning, but the battles behind are not very intense.

The city wall of Zhongxing Mansion is tall, with 30,000 elite defenders, 20,000 other defenders, tens of thousands of people, and the danger of the Yellow River. The Mongol army was only 20,000 or 30,000 people, and after the siege suffered heavy casualties, the offensive became thunderous and rainy, and it did not seem to be as scary as the legend.

"Don't talk nonsense! According to the news from Lingzhou, the fighting over there was very bad, more than half of the brothers were killed and wounded, there was not much gunpowder left, and the firearms were basically useless. The main attack of the Tatar army was in Lingzhou, and these were just harassment. As long as Lingzhou City is not lost, there is no way for Tatar to take Zhongxing Mansion! ”

Yu Jue said softly, his dark face full of helplessness.

Knowing that he was so idle in Zhongxing Mansion, he sent Cao Youwan to Zhongxing Mansion, stayed in Lingzhou by himself, and fought with the army.

Since the Mongol army came to the land of Xingling, the attack on Zhongxingfu was repelled by the Xia army in the city, and his 2,000 Song army subordinates seemed to have little to do with it.

"General, I heard that Zhongxing Mansion has run out of food, and people are starving to death in the city every day! I'm afraid we won't be able to hold it out for long. You say, will Your Majesty send troops to save us? He's not going to let us die here, is he? ”

An officer asked cautiously.

"Fang Datou, shut your dog's mouth! If you disturb the morale of the army again, I will cut off your big head and throw it out of the city to feed the dogs! ”

Yu Jue suddenly changed color, pointed at the officer, and scolded angrily in a low voice.

"General, damn the villain! Damn the villain! ”

Fang Datou's face changed drastically, and he quickly knelt down and kowtowed.

Discipline in the army is strict, and anyone who dares to shake the morale of the army will be killed. If Yu Jue kills him, he won't have a chance to cry.

"Hurry up! Let the Western Xia people see it, and lose the face of my Great Song Dynasty soldiers! ”

Yu Jue waved his hand impatiently, and Fang Datou quickly got up.

"It's May now, and Your Majesty has made a point in holding out until the end of June! This is His Majesty's military order, who dares to talk more, military law will deal with it! ”

Yu Jue scolded with a dark face, and the generals nodded again and again.

Military orders are like mountains, and the army only stresses discipline and obedience, and no one can be an exception, and no one can disobey it.

"When the grain is gone, the horses are killed, the horse meat is boiled and the leather armor is boiled, and if it is not enough, the grass and the bark of trees are eaten, and everything that can be eaten is brought and eaten. Hold on for another month, and Your Majesty will definitely wave your troops to come! ”

Yu Jue stared at several officers with a cold gaze.

"A few of you are all officers from Jinling Martial Arts Hall, and you are the proud protégés of the principal, if anyone retreats from the battle, or escapes from the battle, he will not be spared!"

"The general can rest assured, kill himself, and serve the country loyally. We will not embarrass Jinling Lecture Hall, nor will we embarrass the principal! ”

"For the country and the people, kill yourself! The general can rest assured! ”

The officers generously stated, making Yu Jue nod lightly and put his mind at ease.

"Brothers, rest assured. You and I are both students of Your Majesty, 10,000 brothers are in Western Xia, how can Your Majesty abandon everyone! ”

Yu Jue's eyes swept to the south, he didn't know what the situation was in Lingzhou, and he didn't know when Zhao Hong would lead the army to the rescue?

In fact, he also doubted in his heart that they, the soldiers who rescued Western Xia, would not really be abandoned by His Majesty, right?

Even if he thought so, he would never say it. He is the chief general of the first army, and he volunteered to come to Western Xia, but he can't lose the face of the Great Song Dynasty and the emperor.

"General Yu, the battle in Lingzhou City, you can tell your brothers about it. In the end, it also opened the eyes of the brothers. ”

Fang Datou, in fact, his real name is Fang Datong, but because his head is bigger than others, he is called Fang Datou.

"The battle in Lingzhou City is fierce, much more tragic than ours here!"

Yu Jue sighed and said it seriously.

"General Cao Youwan Cao took his brothers to assist the Xia army in defending the city. Outside the city, the Mongolian army is more than 100,000 troops, and the leader is His Majesty's "Qinyuan Spring. In "Snow", Genghis Khan, the "generation of Tianjiao" who can only bend the bow and shoot the eagle. In more than two months of bloody battles, the defenders of Lingzhou suffered more than 20,000 casualties, and nearly half of our 8,000 brothers were also killed or wounded. ”

Yu Jue looked at the generals of the Song Army who could hear it, and they were serious.

"Do you know how many dead and wounded Genghis Khan's Tatar army was?"

The Mongolian rangers in the land of Xingling were rampant, and they were able to bring back the military intelligence of Lingzhou, and the Western Xia scouts suffered countless casualties.

"How many dead and wounded?"

Fang Datou immediately asked.

The soldiers of the Song army were also together, staring directly at Yu Jue.

"The invincible Tatar army in the world has at least more than 30,000 dead and wounded! Among them, the Tatar stone throwers and ballistae were crushed by the artillery of our army. Artillery and earth-shattering thunder bombarded indiscriminately, and the Tatar soldiers killed and wounded by the brothers were seven or eight thousand people! You say, Cao Youwan, what are they doing? ”

Yu Jue asked out loud.

"Well done!"

Fang Datou's face was full of excitement and he shouted loudly.

The soldiers of the Song army were all smiling, and everyone was full of red light.

"Cao Youwan and his brothers did a good job, they gave the brothers a long face, and we can all go back to see Your Majesty with dignity. Therefore, those words that disturb the morale of the army, don't spread them randomly. We are all protégés of the Son of Heaven, do you think Your Majesty will leave us alone? Does he still want to be the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty decently? ”

Yu Yu solemnly explained to his subordinates. The Song army is in Western Xia, and there can be no chaos.

"General, then you say, has Your Majesty arrived at the northwest frontier?"

"General, between Song and Xia, but across the Jin Kingdom. How did Your Majesty come to our rescue? ”

The other two Song Army officers followed up and asked one after another.

"There are as many as 100,000 Tatar troops, and Your Majesty wants to bring troops to save us, but you can't bring 70,000 or 80,000 troops? The Sichuan system made Cui and he train 50,000 new troops in Chengdu, and the Lizhou battalion also had 30,000 or 40,000, adding up to 890,000. It always takes time to train troops, and it takes a year or two to prepare for the heavy grain and grass, and the artillery ammunition alone is earth-shattering. Brothers can't play with the Tatar army with their bare hands, right? ”

Yu Jue talked eloquently, and saliva flew sideways.

"Your Majesty has asked us to stay until the end of June, and there are still nearly two months left. If my expectation is correct, Your Majesty has arrived at Shukou and is engaged in battle with the Tatar army. This time, there are Tatars who feel better! ”

After Yu Jue finished speaking, he laughed out loud.

In fact, whether Zhao Hong came to the northwest or not, he couldn't be sure. But he believed that the emperor would wave his troops to save him, because the emperor himself said it.

The words of the emperor's principal, he still believed it.

Yu Jue's analysis was the head of the road, and the soldiers of the Song army were all smiling, and they all nodded yes.

The emperor is wise and martial, fierce and fearless, and he said that he would come to help the Xia and Song troops back, and there is no reason not to come.

"That's what the general said. Your Majesty loves soldiers like sons, how can he ignore his brothers? Hold on for another month, and we'll be heroes. Whoever escapes is a bear. Military law engaged! ”

Fang Datou looked excited and shouted loudly.

Anticlimactic, with a beginning and no end, this is not the style of the wise and martial Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty.

"In the war with the Tatar army, Your Majesty must be careful. Otherwise, we won't be able to save us, but we may put ourselves in it. Let's patiently guard the city and wait for Your Majesty's good news! ”

The other officer's face was also red, which boosted morale.

This is a national war, and in the face of a 100,000-strong Mongol army, it is necessary to make a careful arrangement and not act in a hurry.

"Your Majesty is wise and martial, and there is no last resort. When the time comes, the artillery will open the way, and the earth-shattering thunder will bombard indiscriminately, I don't believe it, and I can't deal with the Tatar cavalry who shoot arrows on horseback? If you want to defeat my Great Song Dynasty, you have to see how much blood they have! ”

"That's it! The artillery thunder is endless, and it is not a blur of flesh and blood. Let's be patient and defend the city! ”

The officers were enthusiastic and spoke urgently.

"Well said! My Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty drove his own expedition, tens of thousands of elite divisions, see the real moves on the battlefield, and see who is the real hero? ”

Yu Jue followed the words of the officers and said loudly.

Your Majesty, Emperor, Your Majesty, you have to come early!

After saying so much, Yu Jue's little heart couldn't help but beat sharply.

"Brothers, disperse. Defend the city well, and don't let the Tartars take advantage of it! ”

Yu Jue shouted loudly and handed down the military order.

"General, why do I think, this city wall is a little shaky!"

Fang Datou said suspiciously.

"It's ground moving! Brothers, get down! ”

Yu Jue shouted loudly, beckoning the soldiers on the city wall to lie down.

Everyone on the city wall lay down and felt the slight shaking of the wall. Fortunately, the southern wall was not in the epicenter, it did not collapse or crack, but screams and shouts kept coming from inside the city.

Yu Jue struggled to stand up, lying on the city wall and looking into the city, only to see that in the city of Zhongxingfu, the houses and palaces had collapsed, the soldiers and civilians panicked, running around, and many people were buried under the collapsed buildings.

As the eyes watched, the tall royal temple slowly tilted, and the temple body split, turning into countless scattered wooden beams, tiles, and bricks, mixed with tables and chairs, and Buddha statues fell to the ground, and huge dust covered the ground and floated into the air.

His gaze turned to the Imperial City of Western Xia, which was already in ruins, covered with rubble, and full of dusty, screaming and fleeing forbidden soldiers and palace maids. I don't know if there is any hall that will survive.

The calamitous Western Xia, the suffering Western Xia people. They will starve to death, and they will suffer such calamities.

This is the day to die, Xixia!

Yu Jue sat down against the city wall, shook his head dejectedly, and let out a long helpless sound in his mouth.

I don't know how long it took for the earthquake to subside, and there were a few aftershocks in between, but they weren't intense.

"General Yu, what kind of evil did Xixia create, God has to destroy her?"

Sure enough, Fang Datou spit out a sentence stupidly.

"You all go and see if the walls are broken?"

Yu Jue stood up, ignored Fang Datou's complaints, and immediately ordered.

He opened the clairvoyant mirror and saw that the four walls seemed to be unharmed. The Mongolian army outside the city, many kneeling on the ground and praying and kowtowing, the camp was in a mess, and the Mongolian army did not have any posture to take the opportunity to attack the city.

It seems that this earthquake came with ferocity, and the Mongolian army outside the city was also frightened.

I, Cao, God bless, gave Xixia a last glimmer of hope.

God, what the hell are you playing with?

The sergeants took a turn and reported that the walls were unharmed, and the defenses on the walls were in good order, so there was no need to worry.

"Continue to defend the city against a sneak attack by the Tatar army. I'll take a look in the city. ”

Yu Jue looked at the ruins of the city and walked towards the city.

The house leak happened to rain overnight, this earthquake really came at a bad time, and I don't know, can the Xixia monarchs and ministers hold on?

However, this earthquake finally came.

The emperor's mysterious prediction has come true again.