Under the morning sun, it can be seen that the armor of the sentry is extremely broken, covered with blood, obviously has experienced a fierce battle, when he came to Liu Fa, this heroic man is in tears. "General, the soldiers and horses on the left side of Wuwei were surrounded by the main force of Western Xia last night, General Zhu Dingguo was killed in battle, and the soldiers and horses on the left were all wiped out, Brother Richard ordered to kill all the prisoners, and the heads were piled up, brothers...... Brothers, rivers of blood!!"

In an instant, it was terrifyingly quiet within a few feet!

Liu Fa seemed to have expected this ending, gritted his teeth and closed his eyes.

"We're still slow, Brother Richard is still Brother Richard after all!"

"General Liu, what should we do now?" A general next to him spoke urgently, he had a leopard's head and tiger eyes, his face was full of beards, and he was also carrying a phoenix-beaked knife in his hand, it was Zhai Jin, a well-known fierce general in the Western Army.

Liu Fa was not flustered at this moment, in fact, he was a little mentally prepared as early as before he set out for the expedition, but he had no choice, Tong Guan forced him to send troops, he could only do so, and he wanted to do his best, hoping to win by luck, but unfortunately there was no luck on the battlefield this time.

After a moment of silence, he opened his eyes suddenly, and shouted: "Immediately send people and horses to Weizhou, so that Yang Weizhong can retreat quickly, the sooner the better, the rear of Jiao'an Festival will be responsible for responding, and we will rush to Tong'an City, be sure to enter before Brother Richard, if Tong'an City is lost, we will all be locked up and annihilated by Western Xia, and the consequences will be unimaginable!"

"Yes!" everyone responded in unison and quickly split up.

At present, Liu Fa has no choice, he can only take the Chinese soldiers and horses to rush to Tong'an City, he knows very well in his heart that only if he arrives in Tong'an City before the Xixia soldiers and horses and guards the way back, then the remaining three-way army will have a chance to survive!

Two days later, Liu Fa rushed to the east of Tong'an City with his foot soldiers a hundred miles away, and the sentinel rode Pegasus to report that Yan Zhai Jin led the leading cavalry to enter Tong'an City.

After receiving this news, Liu Fa breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, thinking that the soldiers were already extremely tired, and immediately ordered to rest on the spot for half a day, drink water and eat.

"General Liu, let's eat some too!" The accompanying guards walked under the tree with a few pieces of dry biscuits and looked at him with concern.

Liu Fa smiled and nodded, took the dry cake and nibbled it, because his lips were so chapped that blood oozed unconsciously, but he didn't seem to be aware of it, but observed the surrounding terrain.

Seeing this, the guard couldn't help but hand over his water bag as well.

"General, drink your saliva first, your lips are cracked!"

"Hmm!" Liu Fa responded, took the kettle with his hand, and just put the spout of the kettle to his mouth, but he was suddenly stunned, just froze there.

The guards looked strange at him and couldn't help laughing: "What's wrong with the general?

"Poof!" Liu Fa's hand suddenly bulged with green tendons, crushed the kettle, and before the guard could come back to his senses, he stood up suddenly, running and shouting hoarsely: "Formation, formation! Quickly formation!!"

The soldiers scattered in the wilderness were stunned, and it took several breaths before they reacted and got up one after another.

"Hahahaha......"

Hearty laughter was heard, and a sturdy man in Tsing Yi appeared on a distant dirt slope on a war horse. "General Liu is worthy of being called the god general of heaven by my Western Xia warriors, and he really expected things to be like a god, and he even calculated that I chose to intercept and kill you instead of going to Tong'an City!"

The moment Liu Fa saw this person, he closed his eyes in despair.

"Brother Richard!"

"It's my honor to be remembered by Your Excellency!" Brother Richard on the war horse was quite elegant, and as he spoke, he also put one hand on his chest and saluted.

As he spoke, rows of archers climbed the dirt slope in the distance, densely packed and uncountable.

Song Bing immediately became confused!

In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Liu Fa personally snatched the banner of the Chinese army, ran to a high place and danced constantly, roaring and commanding everyone to form a formation, and the generals at all levels also acted in accordance with the instructions of the banner, running and shouting, so that the Song soldiers quickly formed an orderly array, and then gradually transformed into a fine military formation.

Soon, a large number of Western Xia infantry appeared in the field of vision, and the cold armor, mighty military momentum, and neat pace all showed their strength.

Richard smiled gently from beginning to end, and only then did he wave his hand lightly until the arrays of the two armies gradually drew closer!

The sound of the desolate trumpet sounded, long and magnificent!

"Huh!

The Western Xia warriors let out a strange and majestic shout, which was breathtaking!

The fierce fight soon began on this empty and undulating land......

Liu Fa, who has been fighting for many years, has long been accustomed to this kind of fighting, his face looks very calm, his eyes as sharp as a goshawk do not leave the battlefield for a moment, and from time to time he will pass orders to the flag officer around him, so that the Song soldiers' formation is constantly changing, ready to seize the opponent's flaws and give a fatal blow at any time.

As a famous general of Megatron and the first general of the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty, he has rich combat experience and means.

After three hours of fierce fighting between the two armies, even Brother Richard, as an opponent, couldn't help but sigh!

It's a pity that today you are doomed to fail, doomed to defeat in the hands of my brother Richard, you are already short of cavalry in the Great Song Dynasty, how dare you give all the cavalry to Yang Weizhong, I really don't understand why you want to run thousands of miles to carry out blitzkrieg, with your ability, why do you choose to bring about your own destruction, is it really to deceive me Xixia no one?"

Of course, Liu Fa, who was far on the other side, didn't know Brother Richard's feelings, the only thing he wanted now was to break the Western Xia soldiers and horses as soon as possible, because the current battle situation no longer gave him more leeway, only by breaking Brother Richard and holding Tong'an City, then the soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty who were alone in the depths could retreat safely.

As the sun set, the sky gradually darkened, and the fierce battle lasted for seven full hours, the physical strength of the officers and men of the two armies dropped significantly, the casualties increased rapidly, and the loess under their feet had been stained dark red with blood. Although the warriors of Western Xia were brave, they could not resist Liu Fa's exquisite command and clever battle formation, they fought and retreated, the formation was loose, and it seemed that they were about to be defeated.

Suddenly, the earth began to tremble, and everyone felt that the ground seemed to tremble, and the dull sound of iron hooves came from the rear of the Song army.

Liu Fa, who was giving the order to change the formation, didn't look at it, and closed his eyes in despair!

He knew that it was all over!

A moment later, the frightened screams of the Song soldiers resounded across the battlefield.

"Iron Harrier, the Iron Harrier of Western Xia is here!"

The Western Xia Iron Harrier, the most elite ironclad heavy cavalry in the world, invincible in the field, and famous all over the world!

The Great Song Dynasty was mainly infantry, and even in its heyday, it was very afraid of fighting head-on with the Western Xia Iron Harrier, not to mention the current situation of not only exhaustion, but also being flanked from front and back, everything was a foregone conclusion.

In just two quarters of an hour, the Song army, which had the advantage, was severely attacked by the Iron Harrier, and in an instant, the army was defeated like a mountain and completely dispersed.

The desperate Liu Fa no longer had any hope of survival, and fought hard with his personal guards, and was gradually forced to the edge of the deep ditch cliff by the Western Xia warriors, and the accompanying personal guards gradually died, leaving him alone as a veteran.

The soft moonlight sprinkled in wisps, shining on this bloody battlefield and also on the aging Liu Fa.

Richard walked as he walked around, still with a gentle smile on his face.

"General Liu, as long as you are willing to surrender sincerely, you can enjoy the glory and wealth, and the elite soldiers and strong generals are at your disposal!"

"Descend?" Liu Fa, who was covered in blood, chattered the word, and his eyes gradually looked at the starry sky in the south, looking at the dazzling star.

Suddenly, he laughed, and the laughter grew louder and louder, shaking Shino!

"Tong Guan, you harm others and the country for your own selfish interests, and one day you will not die well!!!"

A line of tears slipped from the corners of his eyes, and he laughed wildly and shouted to the sky.

"Liu Fasheng is a native of the Great Song Dynasty, and he is a ghost of the Great Song Dynasty when he dies, and he would rather die than surrender !!"

When the words fell, he finally glanced in the direction of his hometown, jumped into a deep ditch!

............

In the late spring and early summer of the first year of Xuanhe, Liu Fa, a generation of famous generals, was coerced by Tong Guan to go to Western Xia!

On the left side, Zhu Dingguo was surrounded by the army led by Li Chage, the king of the Western Xia and Jin Dynasty, in Wuwei, and the whole army was annihilated and died in battle!

The rear army Jiao'an Festival was attacked by the Western Xia Iron Harrier, and the whole army was annihilated, and Jiao'an Festival abandoned the soldiers and fled!

Yang Weizhong, the former army, broke through and retreated, and fled back to the Great Song Dynasty with more than 1,000 people under the response of the fierce general Zhai Jin!

Liu Fa, a famous general of the Chinese army, was defeated in the Battle of Tong'an City, fell into a deep ditch, and was cut off by a Western Xia pawn after his death, and donated his body to the battlefield!

100,000 people went on the expedition, and more than 1,000 people survived, shocking the government and the opposition!

Tong Guan received a secret report from the front, panicked, and in order to escape responsibility, he used his power to suppress the civil and military officials, concealed the truth, and only reported the good news of Yang Weizhong's attack on Weizhou to the emperor Zhao Jiyu.

A few days later, the concealment was angrily exposed by Cai Jing, Liang Shicheng and others, and Tong Guan preemptively fabricated criminal evidence to frame Liu Fa for not listening to his moderation, improper command, and losing the army.

Yang Weizhong, the former commander of the army, was honest by nature, and played according to the facts, bluntly saying that he didn't know the situation of the other soldiers and horses at that time, which was equivalent to keeping silent!

Although the fierce general Zhai Jin knew the cause and effect, he was listed by Tong Guan as one of the responsible persons for the defeat and was suspended for investigation.

In the end, Tong Guan successfully fabricated a large number of human and material evidence, and put all the blame for the defeat on Liu Fa.

Emperor Zhao Ji failed to hold Tong Guan responsible, but he was not completely unaware of it, and immediately issued a death order to Tong Guan, asking him to go to the Western Xinjiang in person to raise troops to crusade against the Western Xia again, and be sure to avenge 100,000 soldiers and wash away the shame of this battle.

Tong Guan knew that if he was defeated again, he would definitely be punished by Emperor Zhao Ji, so he did not dare to slack off in the slightest, and hurried to the western frontier. Having learned the lessons of his earlier life, he also became cautious, and after thorough preparations, he sent his troops to the summer in mid-June.

One route was to break the army to the west, in order to contain the Western Xia soldiers and horses.

The second route is the commander of the Seed Master Dao, and the third route is the commander of Yao Gu, and they jointly launched a fierce attack on the dangerous checkpoints on the Western Xia border, forcing Richard to lose his skills.

The fourth road is from Yang Weizhong to go out of the Ancient Bone Dragon City again, and follow the route of the last expedition to conquer for the second time.

The fifth route was personally led by himself with 100,000 elite forbidden troops in the rear.

In this expedition, Tong Guan completely learned the lesson of Liu Fa's defeat, improved Liu Fa's advance strategy, and at the same time perfected the main reason for the insufficient preparation at that time.

In addition, Tong Guan knew that his earlier attitude towards Liu Fa had aroused dissatisfaction among the officers and men of the Western Army, and not only held high the slogan of avenging the fallen soldiers, but also paid out of his own pocket to lavishly compensate the families of the fallen soldiers, even the families of Liu Fa and others were no exception, and used his high position and many helplessness as an excuse to deceive his subordinates.

As a result, the officers and men of the Western Army were appeased, and in addition, he loved the soldiers very much during the expedition, respected the opinions of all parties, and promoted them exceptionally when he saw capable people, and rewarded them continuously, so he quickly firmly grasped the hearts of the officers and men of the Western Army, and their morale was quickly boosted.

Half a month later, Yang Weizhong, with the full support of Tong Guan, broke through Weizhou again, and the army of the family army and Yao Gu also broke through the Xixia border pass, and successfully joined Yang Weizhong in Weizhou.

Brother Richard, the king of Jin, knew that the Great Song Dynasty came with all his strength this time, and its strength was strong and difficult to match, so he did not choose to face it head-on, but saved the main force and retreated to Xiping Mansion. Li Qianshun, the lord of Western Xia, then wrote to Emperor Zhao Ji, expressing his willingness to pay a small amount of annual tribute to the Great Song Dynasty, and at the same time asking his empress to send someone to the Liao State to ask the Liao State to put pressure on the Great Song Dynasty. The Western Xia and the Liao State were originally allies, and the Empress of the Western Xia Dynasty was originally also the princess of the Liao State, so this matter naturally came to fruition soon.

On the one hand, the Liao people quickly put pressure on the Great Song Dynasty, and on the other hand, the Western Xia was willing to be a minister, and the attitude of Emperor Zhao Ji was a little uncertain, and he failed to issue a clear edict for several days.

At this time, Tong Guan's recital was also sent to him, bluntly saying that the main force of Western Xia still existed, and if the war of annihilation was launched, it would be difficult to determine the victory or defeat, and he was also more afraid that the Liao State would join forces with Western Xia to attack the Song Dynasty in anger, so he suggested that the conditions for the Western Xia to be a vassal were allowed.

Zhao Ji did not have the courage and determination to start a war to destroy the country, and there was no support from ministers in the DPRK and China, so he quickly ordered a truce.

In fact, the Great Song Dynasty was indeed not ready for the war of destroying the country, the Western Xia had been established for many years, and the people had a deep sense of belonging. In addition, the attitude of the Liao State is also very important, if the Liao State takes the opportunity to invade the Song Dynasty with the Western Xia, it will indeed be difficult to resist the current situation of the Great Song Dynasty.

The reason why no one in the court supports it is precisely because of the clear situation of the Great Song Dynasty, speaking of the 800,000 forbidden soldiers who are strong and strong, in fact, most of them are empty camps, and the army that went out to Western Xia this time is almost half of all the main forces of the Great Song Dynasty, not to mention how miserable it will be if this group of people is exhausted, even if they fall into the quagmire of the war of annihilation, then once the Liao State is fully invaded, there is no way to resist it.

In August, Tong Guan returned triumphantly with the submission documents of Li Qianshun, the lord of the Western Xia, and rewarded the soldiers of the Western Army, but all those who had meritorious service were promoted, and the hearts of the soldiers of the Western Army were once again tightly held in his hands.

At this time, Zhao Bufan, who couldn't move, also lived at home in Kaifeng, Tokyo for several months, and was trying his best to learn the healing chapter of the Nine Yin True Scripture from Huang Shang......