It's just that Yang Zhi is also at a loss for the matter of Fuqi Road, some things are easier said than done, Yuan Chun wrote a letter to Fuqi Road, it is said that they are more familiar with a few officers, but now there has been no response, and there seems to be no action at all on the Xixia side, whether it is Yinzhou or Jingzhou, the news that comes back is relatively calm.

Yang Yizhong and Yang Zhen, the father of Jianning Zhai, communicated several times, and said everything that should be said, but Yang Zhen's attitude was not positive, most of the people in the Yang family who stayed in Qizhou were in Zhenchuan Fort and Shenmu Fort in Qizhou, and after seeing that Yang Zhi was interested in Qizhou, there was still no action, indicating that the confidence in the Dingbei Army was still insufficient, after all, Chong Ge and others had recovered Yinzhou many times, and finally failed, leaving a big shadow in the Western Army.

There is good news from Xiping Mansion, Xiao Heda has been preparing for a month, using the fire ox array to break the difficult army, and kill the five thousand cavalry of Western Xia at once, no matter what the final result is, at least there is no problem with the salt road for the time being, and the endless stream of green salt is still being transported to the clouds, and those salt merchants don't care about the cold and the cold, and the Central Plains is in full swing. Perhaps it is only when there is a war that it is easier to get rich.

Yang Zhi was not sure what the contract between the Jin State and the Western Xia was negotiating, whether it was like in history, the Jin State promised to return the places originally captured by the Great Song Dynasty to the Western Xia in exchange for the Western Xia troops;

Just in Yang Zhi's anxious waiting, the army of Western Xia finally moved, Wu'er Siqi, who was sitting in Suizhou, led 50,000 Anbei Road Western Xia troops to attack Yinzhou and Qizhou, Zhengxian Wang Weiming Anhui led 50,000 Xixia troops on Yanzhou Road to attack Jingyuan Road, and Li Chage, King of Western Xia Jin, led 50,000 troops on Yanzhou Road to attack Huanqing Road. The captured army did not move, which surprised Yang Zhi a lot.

Yang Zhi could only guess at the worst-case scenario that the Western Xia army was likely to choose Qizhou as the first breakthrough, after all, the war in Xiping Mansion could not end, and if the Western Xia army entered Guanzhong, it would have to worry about the safety of Lingzhou. After all, the Dingbei Army did not obey Bianliang's arrangement, and would not go south to reinforce Guanzhong, but would take advantage of the convenience of Yinzhou to conquer Xiazhou and other places all the way to Lingzhou. The Western Xia first conquered Qizhou and Yinzhou to help stabilize the northern front, and the southern line could decide the strength of the troops according to the results of the decisive battle between Wanyan Gao and the Song army.

But Yang Zhi had to go to reinforce Qizhou, this was an opportunity to toss a coin, and he had to go to Bo to take a hand; Yang Zhi's focus was on Zhenwu City, which was under the control of Fuzhou, and was actually the connection point of Fuzhou. If Zhenwu City is lost, not only Yinzhou and Qizhou will be outflanked, but the Western Xia army can even directly attack Jinning Road; once it falls into such a melee, the two sides will compete with each other as to whose army has more and who can afford to consume it.

Yang Zhi ordered the mobilization of all the troops to gather in Huozhou, and he first went to Shuozhou to lead 3,000 cavalry to set off, and asked Zhang San to lead the 2,000 cavalry of Jincheng to follow up with Wei Dingguo and Ling Zhen's men and horses; left Zhu Wu, Han Tao and others to stay in Jincheng, ordered Han Shizhong and Li Yanxian to be the chief and deputy commanders, mobilized 2,000 veterans of the Canglang battalion and 4,000 Tuntian soldiers to live in Huairen County, and secretly asked Zhu Wu to hand over the contact information of Datong to Han Shizhong. After all, the situation on the front line is ever-changing, and if you come to Jincheng and then send it back to Huairen County, it is easy to delay the fighter, Yang Zhi believes that the people in Datong will directly contact the generals in the army when they are in danger.

Zhu Zhao, the commander of the soldiers and horses of Qizhou Zhenwu City, did not expect that he would become the first target of the Western Xia Army, Zhenwu City is the fortified city named after Fuqi Road and Shenmu Fort, and there are at least five walled forts on the left and right wings in front, no matter from which point of view, it should not be the direction of the Western Xia Army's first attack;

At the beginning of the siege of the Western Xia army, Zhu Zhao knew that something was wrong, and almost every step of the Western Xia army was aimed at the weak point of Zhenwu City, as if the city defense drawings of Zhenwu City were in the hands of the other party. This made Zhu Zhaoming know the crisis, but he couldn't find a solution, so he could only fight with the other party. Zhenwu City was less than 2,000 defenders, and all the people were added to less than 10,000 people, and under the desperate attack of 50,000 Western Xia troops, they struggled to support for four days, but they were still captured by the Western Xia army, Zhu Zhao himself was killed in battle, and none of the soldiers and civilians escaped.

Hearing the news of Zhenwu City, Yang Zhen in Jianning Village faced Li Zhong, a tiger general, his face was so gloomy that he could drip water, the 50,000 Western Xia army actually did not have an absolute advantage, but Fuqi Lu did not react as usual, and the nearby walled fort seemed to be afraid of the strength of the other party, and watched Zhenwu City fall.

After the capture of Zhenwu City, the Western Xia lord Wu'er Siqi left Cao Price 20,000 people to garrison Zhenwu City, and had led 30,000 cavalry, with Xiao Julu as the vanguard to come to Qizhou. Yang Zhen knew that Xiao Julu, who was originally a Liao general, attacked Qizhou ten years ago and was defeated by Yang Zhen's father, Yang Zongmin;

Li Zhong's face did not change, he knew the current situation, and also brought a letter from Yang Yizhong, Yang Yizhong thought that now was the time for the Yang family to regain control of Qizhou, Yang Yizhong told his father that Yang Zhi had already agreed with Zhao Kai, as long as Yang Zhen was attached, he would be the governor of Qizhou. Yang Yizhong also said Yue Fei and Yang Yue's guarantee that as long as Jianning Village is attached, even if Yang Zhi does not come, they will send troops to reinforce them.

Yang Zhen knew that the Fuqi Road pacification envoy and the prefect of Qizhou had returned to Fuzhou one step in advance, and now the opportunity for each village and fort is to fight for itself, and sooner or later it will be the situation of Zhenwu City, and the army of Volcano Prefecture just wants to reinforce, if you don't take the lead in the battlefield, you can be sure that each village and fort will not stab you in the back, and there is no way to talk about reinforcements. But attaching to the Dingbei Army meant that there was no turning back, and Yang Zhen asked Li Zhong: "How many troops can Yang Zhi mobilize to help?"

Yang Zhen's question was full of uncertainty and hesitation, because there was a road ahead, and once he walked up, there was no chance of turning back. Li Zhong, the tiger general, confessed: "I don't know, but since Chief Yang set out on the expedition, he has never been defeated, and Wu'er Siqi is a defeated general under General Manager Yang, and there will be no problem." ”

Yang Zhen shook his head in his heart, since Yang Zhi's eight thousand horsemen took the Hetao, Yang Zhi's subordinates have all become arrogant soldiers, Yang Yizhong and Jia Qiong are all in this tone in their correspondence to their families, as if the opponent is a mud bodhisattva, and he can be smashed with a stick.