The city of Shuozhou immediately entered a state of martial law, requiring the people to go home, travel and stay in hotels, and the city gate was closed, and no entry or exit was allowed; two hours later, the west gate was opened, and a large number of Song cavalry galloped out of the city and went straight to the northwest. Another hour passed, it was getting late, and the Song army of 5,000 horses and infantry went out of the city, with a convoy of as many as 1780 carts, more than 1,000 people, and 2,000 cavalry in front and rear. Yue Fei and Wei Dingguo walked in the big convoy, the former looked back and said with a smile: "Are we exaggerating, will the Xixia people be suspicious because of this?"

  Under the reflection of the torches, Wei Dingguo said excitedly: "There are so many carts that will arouse the interest of the enemy, there is still a day's journey on the side of the Wettou Mountain, if the Xia army in the Black Camel Valley, if they do not attack the city and come to chase us, wouldn't it be more complete." Pengju, to be honest, I admire General Yang's vision very much, whether it is you or Han Shizhong, they will be handsome talents in the future, and General Yang and Mr. Zhu are not as good as you. ”

  Yue Fei was not modest, but said honestly: "So I can only repay my senior brother and the court with all my strength, whether it is the Liao people or the Western Xia, I must defeat them." ”

  The destination of this team is Nanwagou, so Yue Fei is not in a hurry, the cavalry is led by Chong Bin, Wang Gui, and Guo Sheng, the infantry army is led by Lu Zhishen and Zhang Heng, and the 1,000 people are the water and fire army trained by Wei Dingguo and Shan Tinggui, with 700 Shenjian crossbows and 300 javelinmen. The task is to delay time for the main force led by Yang Zhi and appoint Yue Fei to take charge of the army because only Yue Fei has been to Nanwagou and is familiar with the terrain.

  Lu Zhishen is an open-minded person, he has no objection as Yue Fei's boss, and the rest of the people have no opinion; Nanwagou is the last hilly area where the Sanggan River flows southwest, if you don't cross the river from here to Hongtao Spring, you will have to go around for a day whether you go east or west, and if the Xixia Army is like that, the daylily on the side of Hongtao Spring will be cold. Yue Fei wanted to take advantage of the special terrain of Yuenanwagou to guard the northern aid road of the Western Xia army.

  Rushing to Nanwagou overnight, Yue Fei divided the army into two teams, took turns to arrange camps and positions, and always kept half of the people resting and maintaining their state; seeing that the morning star in the sky was getting brighter and brighter, Yue Fei's mood was very calm, and he did not have the slightest tension before the war. The morale of the soldiers of the Canglang battalion is strong and the fighting spirit is high, and everyone knows clearly that the opponent is the Western Xia army, and this battle will determine the fate of the Yunzhong region, and they also know that Yang Zhi and others are in the chest.

  On the mountain behind Hongtao Spring, Yang Zhi, Gongsun Sheng, Shi Qian, Bo Deng, and Sha Jing hid behind a boulder and looked at it, the mountains in this area are extended, most of them are rocks eroded by wind and sand, which can be described as dangerous and steep; only the leeward deep valley of Hongtao Spring is the main source of the Sanggan River, and the trees are dense and forested under the moisture of the water flow, and the canopy covers the sky, extending to the dangerous place of the mountain and the bottom of the mountain stream, and it is boundless.

  Yang Zhi frowned and said, "With such a large forest, it's not very convenient to burn it. “

  Gongsun Sheng said solemnly: "Yang Zhi, you don't know, Hong Taoquan fell from the sky, and the drop was twenty zhang, so there was no road to go up, the Western Xia army was all cavalry, if you want to get out of the valley, there is only a flat hillside in front and a small road on the side." As long as the fire is burned, there is no need to see the result immediately, as long as the Tangut people can't extinguish the fire, they will have to flee for their lives sooner or later. “

  Shi Qian said: "It takes more than two hours for the mountain road to go out of the mountain, and the crossing is only ten horses in parallel, and the narrowest part of the road can only be accompanied by three or four horses. The hillside connects seven or eight miles of plains and meadows, and if the opponent is fast on horseback, he can escape in less than an hour and enter the open area outside the valley; “

  Yang Zhi's confidence increased greatly and said: "If this is the case, it is just right to break the enemy with a chain of armored horses." “

  Now that there are enough cavalry, the local army in the Liao army is mostly leather armor, and in the past half a month, Bei Songlin has taken the blacksmith to continuously build iron chains, and even requisitioned more than a dozen local blacksmith shops in Shuozhou, and finally helped Han Tao and Kong Yanwei build a chain of armor horses of 2,000 people. Bo Deng looked at the dense forest and said: "Looking at the color of the mountain, it seems that there is a mountain forest outside the valley, although it is not big, but there are two hills in the connection, and it is also a place where soldiers can be hidden. “

  Yang Zhi nodded and said: "If you want to find it, if you want to find it, leave two thousand men and horses to ambush there when the time comes, and see how many people are killed before making a decision." As long as the timing is so accurate, the fire in the valley is enough to make the Western Xia army's position chaotic and lose ground. ”

  Yang Zhi returned to the bottom of the mountain, and when he saw that the army and horses had all rested, he ordered Gongsun Sheng, Shi Qian, Bo Deng, and Sha Jing to carry the fire gourd designed by Wei Dingguo and be responsible for lighting 20 fires at the upwind outlet; Shan Tinggui was responsible for releasing poisonous smoke on the grassland that day; Han Tao and Kong Yanwei led a chain of armored horses to prepare for a fight in the firing area; Zhang San and Han Shizhong led an army of 2,000 to prepare to intercept the Western Xia army that might appear outside the valley; Yang Zhi himself led 3,000 horsemen from Yelu Yue, Chong Bin, and Zong Ying to prepare to respond.

  Wei Dingguo designed two kinds of fire gourd are very easy to use, one is a special phosphorus fire, as long as the fire gourd is opened, the phosphorus fire will float into the woods and meet the trees will be lit; The four of them divided the range in advance, and in a short time, they lit twenty fires in about half a burn of incense, and Gongsun Sheng had a little more thought, and when he lit the trees leading to the path, he threw in two packets of poisonous smoke configured by Shan Tinggui.

  The wind in the valley is violent, the wind is tight, the trees are all on fire, shining like daytime, even if there is no enemy sneak attack, the Western Xia army is also a military horse in unison, when they run out of the valley, they trample on each other I don't know how much; Bo Deng guessed correctly, there was indeed a Western Xia army in that green forest, and the iron cavalry of the 1,000-life captured army saw the fire in the valley rising in the sky, and quickly galloped over, and only when they reached the flat land, they were attacked by the rain of arrows of the Song army, and hundreds of people were shot down in a blink of an eye.

  Zhang San ordered the drumming and shouting to attack, Han Shizhong led two hundred cavalry to rush straight into the Western Xia army, specifically slashing and killing the Western Xia army that shot the flag, after killing more than a dozen in a row, the rest of the Western Xia army raising the flag put down the flag one after another, and the Song soldiers who beat the drum shouted: "The Xia army is defeated! The Xia army is defeated!"

  The two sides were fighting fiercely, a fireworks of the Western Xia army suddenly flew out of the valley, and the Xixia army that was fighting with Zhang San's two thousand horsemen immediately fled northward, but the two sides were fighting too tightly, and the Western Xia army paid the price of more than 300 horsemen to get out of the battlefield, Zhang San and Han Shizhong chased after it again, shot and killed more than 200 horsemen, and then collected the war horse and went back with more than 600 heads to restore their lives.