The Song army dropped more than 5,000 corpses and retreated to the south bank, Lingzhou stood tall, but Ren Dejing couldn't laugh at all, a full 28,000 horsemen were swept into the Yellow River, and there were 20,000 wounded soldiers, the losses of the Western Xia army were several times that of the Dingbei army, and now the city was full of cries of wounded. Who would have thought that Yang Zhi was so cunning and vicious that he would send people to the north bank and blow up the embankment in one fell swoop, turning the victory of the Western Xia army into a defeat for both sides.

The most important thing is that Yue Fei launched an attack in the south, and the momentum was like a bamboo, Yue Fei and Li Heng's army successively conquered Mingfu Mountain and Zhenbian City, and the 10,000 cavalry of the Niu Gao army captured Anle Chuan, and the Western Xia army was caught off guard, and tens of thousands of troops stationed in the three places were annihilated; Yue Fei and Niu Gao attacked from two sides, and the troops forced Lingzhou, Ren Dejing learned that Yue Fei used firearms to attack the city, so he knew that it was the main force of the Song army this time, and sent 25,000 cavalry to intercept it.

In the first battle, Yue Fei took Wang Gang's 3,000 heavy cavalry as the vanguard, defeated 6,000 Western Xia vanguard cavalry, and then the two sides fought a decisive battle in Anlechuan, the Western Xia army suffered heavy losses, killed more than 9,000 people, captured 5,000 people, and Lingzhou completely lost the ability to counterattack and defend. Ren Dejing recruited all the adult men to participate in the defense, and asked for help from Helan Mountain and Xingzhou on the other, but the reinforcements from Xingzhou had not yet arrived, and the reprimands of his daughter Empress Dowager Ren, Xia Renzong Li Renxiao and Jin King Li Chago arrived first, and the tone was quite unkind.

No wonder the three of them were angry, now the Western Xia only had 300,000 troops, and the Lingzhou 80,000 elites had lost nearly 60,000 in less than ten days, leaving only 20,000 wounded soldiers, while Yue Fei and Wu Jue's two armies had only dispatched more than 50,000 people, less than a quarter of Yang Zhi's command. If this is the case, there will be no need to fight this battle, even if Yue Fei's attack is repelled this time, Western Xia will not be able to withstand Yang Zhi's repeated wars of attrition;

News came from Helan Mountain, 20,000 cavalry just out of Helan Mountain, they met Yang Yizhong and Wang De's army to meet the attack, Yang Yizhong's subordinate Wu Xi led 5,000 cavalry to break into the enemy formation, with the help of 1,000 heavy cavalry and 3,000 long axe soldiers, the Western Xia army was cut into several sections. Taking advantage of the confusion of the enemy formation, Yang Yizhong and Wang De instigated the army to take advantage of the victory to attack, and killed the 10,000 cavalry of the Western Xia army in a battle, and their own losses were no more than 2,000 people;

However, in the face of the threat of Yang Yizhong and Wang De, Helan Jun did not dare to leave easily, so he could only send a message to Lingzhou as soon as possible; Ren Decong received the news and did not dare to let the people below know at all; Lingzhou City claimed that all the people were soldiers, but there were not many people who really had combat effectiveness, and the most important thing was whether the Han people and small tribes, who currently account for the majority of the population, would they be in unison with the party members and whether they would make small moves.

The more Ren Dejing thought about it, the more frightened he became, and he was terrified in the office room, Yang Zhi, what kind of person are you? Why do you have to be scorching, don't you know that throughout the ages, people who have made high achievements have not ended well? At this moment, it is the time to employ people, and there may be no objections, but once the world is peaceful, who knows what the consequences will be.

But Yang Zhi couldn't hear these words, and Ren Decong couldn't say them, his position in Western Xia was actually very similar to Yang Zhi, and it was inevitable that he would be considered to be speaking for himself. In officialdom, what you say in your mouth and what you think in your heart are completely different things, and those who are unable to control their own future can only live by blaming others. Ren Dejingxiao got the key moment, if he didn't make any plan, it would be tantamount to putting Lingzhou to death, and his results could be imagined.

The Xingzhou side was in chaos, the 60,000 troops in the west and north could not be mobilized, the 50,000 troops in Helan Mountain could not get out, and the only ones who could reinforce Lingzhou were the 60,000 captive troops on the Xingzhou side and the 50,000 Dingyan army on the Xiazhou side. Brother Richard meant that the strong man broke his wrist and directly abandoned Xiazhou, allowing the 50,000 Dingyan army to withdraw across the Yellow River to reinforce Lingzhou, and by the way, tens of thousands of people in Xiazhou were moved to Xingzhou to strengthen the thickness of the defense north of the Yellow River.

However, Li Renxiao rejected this plan, and only Xiazhou remained in the hands of Western Xia, which had an unusual symbolic meaning; besides, Li Renxiao was worried that without Xiazhou, the Jin State would think that Western Xia was no longer worth rescuing, and even if he asked for the Jin State, the Jin State would not send troops. Li Renxiao finally decided that Brother Li led 50,000 captive troops to reinforce Lingzhou, sent envoys to ask Jin for help, and asked Wu'er Siqi in Xiazhou to cooperate with Jin Guo's actions, besiege Wei to rescue Zhao, and force Yang Zhi to withdraw his army.

It is a matter of the survival of the whole people, Xixia did not hide the news this time, but publicized it in the country, saying that the reinforcements of the Jin State would be killed within a few days; this news was quickly spread to Taiyuan by the detailed work of the Dingbei Army, so that Zhao Kai, the king of Yun, was under pressure, after all, Xu Huiyan was not Yang Zhi, and it was still unknown whether he could withstand the Jin army. Zhao Kai summoned the seed master Min, Zhang Xiaochun, Lu Yihao, Ye Mengde, Zhang Shen, Cao Qianli and others to ask for their views on the battle situation.

Seed master Min really had nothing to say, Yang Zhi's original plan was thrown aside by Zhao Kai, following the advice of Zhang Xiaochun and others, and he had to take advantage of the opportunity of Ma Shen to announce the decree to force Yang Zhi to send troops;

Zhang Shen didn't want to speak, originally Yang Zhi suggested that he was the main general of Xiazhou, but it was not appropriate to say anything at this time, if he said it wrong, he would be thought by Zhao Kai that he was resentful. Zhao Kai was silent when he saw them all, and named Lu Yihao and said, "Lord Lu, how sure do you think Yang Zhi is to conquer Lingzhou?"

"One hundred percent. Lu Yihao learned Arabic numerals from Guanzhong Academy, and already likes to say that he is 100% sure: "If it weren't for Brother Richard to reinforce Lingzhou, Yang Zhixing might not be able to realize this idea, as soon as Brother Richard came out, Xingzhou was only 10,000 cavalry, if Yang Zhi arranged for a few troops to go to Xingzhou to harass, it would not be long before Brother Richard had to retreat." The key is Xiazhou, if Xiazhou is occupied by our army, Xingzhou will lose the barrier to the west, and the only way to give up Lingzhou is to give way. ”

"But where did the army attacking Xiazhou come from?" Zhao Kai knew the key to it, and his heart was full of regret, if he had mobilized a large army when Yang Zhi was in the book, now tens of thousands of horses were already around Xiazhou; Lu Yihao groaned and said: "Now we can only mobilize the troops of Yinzhou and Suizhou, and there are also the men and horses of the north road of Yanyan Road, there are more than 20,000 people in total, if it is handed over to Yang Zhi to command, it may be able to fight." ”