In the past, there were few people in Shangshu Province, and now there are few people, and it has become the place where Lingzhou officials avoid the most, for fear that they will be pulled by Ren Decong to do the backing; the trade route has been cut off, the Dingbei Army is about to send troops, Yang Zhi has arrived in Youzhou, and the military news has made the hearts of Lingzhou officials heavy. Although the official office is calm on the surface, but under the calm water, the waves and undercurrents can be felt by anyone, and the post house in charge of contacting Xingzhou is overcrowded, and there are only a few officials who are really short of officials who are doing things with their heads in order to cooperate with Ren Dejing to fight.

Ren Dejing is not Brother Richard of Jin, Brother Richard has been named a prince since birth, and over the past few decades, he has accumulated countless henchmen in the government and the opposition. Ren Dejing didn't believe that Yang Zhi would dare to attack Lingzhou with 50,000 or 60,000 horses in Youzhou, and the Western Xia army was deployed along the Yellow River, and if the Dingbei army wanted to sneak attack, it would be a complete joke.

Ren Dejing believes that the panic of the army now is entirely because of Yang Zhi's devilish image in the Western Xia army, and in less than half a year, hundreds of thousands of Western Xia troops were wiped out in the battle with Yang Zhi's Shaanxi army, and everyone has a shadow in their hearts. However, there is not much time left before the Dingbei Army sends troops, and if you don't change this mentality, there is no way to fight the battle in the future.

Ren Dejing's carriage stopped outside the gate of Shangshu Province, but in a short time, the crowding at the gate disappeared, making Ren Decong sigh who is with me; Ren Dejing's subordinates have now blocked all contact between Lingzhou and the outside world, and now even if a fly wants to fly out of Lingzhou, he is afraid that he will be chased by birds. Ren De Jingzhi stepped on the steps proudly, as the master of Lingzhou, he now had a chance to defeat Yang Zhi.

Ren Decong hurriedly greeted him from Shangshu Province, and was about to ask, but was swept away by Ren Dejing's eyes, closed his mouth very consciously, and silently followed Ren Dejing to the square where there was no one; Ren Dejing looked up at the roof of the palace and said: "The palace of Great Xia is different from the Central Plains, and there is news from there that Yang Zhi will take Wu Jue and Liu Ziyu as the vanguard, and he will then respond, and Qu Duan will be responsible for guarding Youzhou City." ”

Ren Decong said happily: "I heard that Wu Jue and they only have more than 10,000 people, and the army brought by Yang Zhi from Weizhou is only more than 10,000 people, but we have 80,000 troops in Lingzhou, and we eat them one by one, no matter how big Yang Zhi is, it is difficult to escape." ”

Ren Dejing nodded and said: "Over there and I both think that this is a good opportunity to defeat Yang Zhi, Li Xian also planted a heel in Lingzhou back then, and we have a chance to repeat this scene." If it can be like the four years of Yuanfeng, at least within two or three years, the Northern Army will not dare to face up to Great Xia. ”

In the fourth year of Yuanfeng, Xia Huizong Li Bingchang adopted the suggestion of the Han general Li Qing and wanted to return the land south of the Yellow River to the Great Song Dynasty in exchange for the division of the territory and rule; Liang Yihui and others staged a coup d'état, killed Li Qing, and imprisoned Li Bingchang. Song Shenzong adopted the suggestions of Chong Ge, Yu Chong and others, and used the Xihe Road to pacify the eunuch Li Xian as the commander, and mobilized 300,000 troops in the border areas. Li Xian ordered Wang Zhongzheng, the secretary of the Jinglu Strategy, to lead 60,000 troops out of Linzhou to the west, Yan Yan Jinglu to appease the deputy envoy Chong Ge and lead 90,000 troops from Dunyan and Jinnei to the north of Suide, Gao Zunyu and Han Bu to ride 90,000 out of Huanzhou on the Huanqing Road, and Liu Changzuo to lead 50,000 troops out of Jingyuan Road, Li Xian personally led Xihe and Qin Feng's troops out of Xihe to march eastward; and Dong Yu, the leader of Tubo, led 30,000 troops to attack Liangzhou and contain the right wing army of Western Xia.

As a result, after several months of hard fighting, the Song army fought with each other for merit and delayed the fighters under the condition of successive victories, and the Western Xia successively sent light cavalry to raid and plunder the grain transportation of the Song army, and the Song army retreated with all the grain on both routes, losing 50,000 soldiers; on 19 November, the Western Xia army in Lingzhou decided that the seventh-level canal of the Yellow River flooded the Jingyuan and Huanqing barracks, and the 100,000 Song troops froze and drowned, and many of them died, and only Gao Zunyu and others led more than 10,000 people to escape; Li Xian led the army to Tiandu Mountain, but when he heard that the army had retreated, he had to retreat to Lanzhou. Beanie boxes

The 300,000 Song army is still like this, and Yang Zhi is attacking with more than 20,000 people, which is almost a joke; Ren Decong suddenly said: "Big brother, will there be fraud among them, Yang Zhi is a good general, and his subordinates are even more famous generals, will there be a large army from the south to respond, or the real main force is in the south." ”

"It's entirely possible. Ren Dejing nodded and said: "I plan to inevitably hold on to the walled cities, delay the speed of dealing with the attack, and the main force of Lingzhou will go all out to deal with Yang Zhi, and give you 20,000 people to defend the city, and I will personally lead 60,000 cavalry to meet the battle." ”

Since there are such conditions, it is not surprising that Ren Dejing wants to take Yang Zhi under the knife, and the only risk is that if Ren Decong is defeated by Yang Zhi, it will push Lingzhou to the abyss of death. But this battle is going to be fought sooner or later, Ren Dejing's battle has only advantages and no harm, Ren Decong realized that Ren Dejing must have considered the position, so he no longer thinks about it, and he doesn't want to persuade him, the eldest brother Ren Dejing has been a person with a good idea since he was a child, and outsiders will not listen to it at all.

It's just that considering the future of himself and his family, Ren Decong is still not at ease, and asks again: "Big brother, there won't be an accident, right?"

"No, it won't. Ren De said respectfully: "In the face of absolute strength, any accident can be avoided." ”

Ren Decong's heart pounded suddenly, and a strong feeling of suffocation rushed straight to his head, making him dizzy and having a feeling of difficulty breathing; Absolute strength? After the defeat of Gyeongju, Ren Decong never thought that Western Xia still had any absolute strength; Could it be that the ultimate goal of the eldest brother was to force Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty to fight, and what good would this do to the Ren family? Ren Decong couldn't figure it out and couldn't figure it out.

But what no one expected was that just as Ren Decong commanded 60,000 Western Xia troops to attack Wu Jue and others, who had just crossed the Yellow River, a huge explosion sounded for dozens of miles, and thick smoke instantly rushed into the sky. The water of the Yellow River poured into the plain outside Lingzhou from the gap in the embankment, and it was a mess everywhere, and the armies of the Song and Xia countries that were fighting were all struggling and howling in the flood, Wu Jue boarded the fishing boat brought by Liu Ziyu, looked at his subordinates who were still in the water and burst into tears, and asked Liu Ziyu: "Who did it?"

"Yang Shuai, the enemy killed 1,000 and I wounded 800, and the 60,000 Western Xia cavalry were flooded, even if 20,000 or 30,000 died, it would be a big victory for us. Liu Ziyu said with a cold expression: "Since the assassination incident, Yang Shuai has changed in many places, and for our subordinates, it is not a good thing, nor a bad thing. Wu Jue, don't promise Taiyuan anything, you must know that there is no impermeable wall in the world, and there is no person who can be 100% believed. ”

The Song army left more than 5,000 corpses and retreated to the south bank, but Ren Dejing couldn't laugh at all, and a full 28,000 horsemen were swept into the Yellow River, and the losses of Western Xia were four times that of the Dingbei army.