Western Xia, the imperial palace, in Li Qiushui's dormitory.

Li Qiushui sat in front of the bronze mirror, looking at his delicate face and graceful figure in the bronze mirror, remembering the bits and pieces of some time ago, he had some indescribable feelings in his heart, frowned slightly, and sighed.

At this time, there was an additional figure in the bronze mirror, accompanied by an abrupt sentence: "Who is so bold and dares to make Sister Li angry?"

Li Qiushui said with a smile: "Little Brother Wang, apart from you, who dares to mess with my sister?"

Wang Jing also smiled and said, "So, it's still mine! How can Sister Li be willing to dissipate her anger?"

Li Qiushui got up, walked towards Wang Jing, stretched out his hand to stroke Wang Jing's face, and said with a smile: "Little brother Wang, you don't accompany your little wife and come to find your sister, you won't come to catch up with your sister, right?"

Wang Jing smiled and said: "Sister Li is really ice and snow smart! The Khitan is going south, if the Great Song Dynasty can't resist, the Western Xia will be unable to support it alone." ”

Li Qiushui said with a smile: "Little Brother Wang wants his sister to send troops to help?"

"Of course, in public and private, Sister Li has no reason to refuse!"

"Since Little Brother Wang has spoken, my sister will naturally not disappoint you! Since you are here, let's have a few drinks with my sister!"

"It's an honor!"

Dali, Duan Zhengming and Duan Zhengchun heard that Mu Wanqing reported the news, the matter was very important, and the two discussed it and felt that it was impossible to send a large team of people, so they sent Sima Fan Hua and Zhu Gu Fu Chu four guards, together with dozens of elite guards to help.

Shaolin, the abbot of Xuanci received the news, did not dare to slack off, convened the Xuanzi generation of senior monks to discuss, and decided to send Xuandu, Xuansheng, Xuanshi three masters to lead the team, together with the elite monks, to support.

The rest of the small and medium-sized sects received Wang Jing's order, and they were all indignant at the Khitan's actions, and each said that they would do their best to help.

In this way, half a month later, the heroes gathered at Yanmen Pass. Unlike the original book, because the beggars reported to the government in advance, the government greatly rewarded them. In addition, Zhao Xu was pro-government, determined to raise the prestige of the country, so he vigorously reinforced Yanmen Pass.

The commander of the pass made General Zhang originally a weak person, Wang Jing showed a hand, and tempted him with the credit of guarding the pass, General Zhang had a very kind attitude, and only hoped that everyone would help him, and with this merit he would be able to increase the official and enter the knighthood.

Quan Guanqing is a good hand at conspiracies and intelligence gathering. However, after half a month's reminder, after Bai Shijing's reminder, it was finally found out that it was indeed Murong Fu who helped the Liao lord Yelu Hongji quickly quell the rebellion of the King of Chu, but Murong Fu was not a Khitan and could not get a high position, but only obtained a staff position. Murong Fu instigated the Liao lord Yelu Hongji to march south, so as to take advantage of the chaos. It happened that Yelu Hongji also had this intention, so he invaded the south on a large scale. While spreading rumors, Quan Guanqing divided Murong Fu and Yelu Hongji, so that Yelu Hongji had to temporarily transfer troops and change generals, and secretly beware of Murong Fu. As a result, it dragged on for half a month.

During this period, Sima Fanhua trained the beggars and the Central Plains heroes according to the army's combat methods, and fought together in the form of various squads. On the way to Yanziwu, Duan Yu heard that the beggar helped Wang Jing to gather the heroes of the rivers and lakes to fight against Liao, so he also came to help.

On this day, the spies of Yanmen Pass came to report, and the Liao lord Yelu Hongji led a large army and pressed the border from the front of the road.

The Liao army is very elite, with neat formations and banners, and there are at least 200,000 of them. During the march, except for the sound of iron armor, horses' hooves, footsteps, and the wind, there was no noise or noise, and it was obvious that the military discipline was strict.

After a short time, a group of Liao troops approached Yanmen Pass, and when they galloped to the crossbow general, they stopped and formed a formation on the spot.

The Liao lord Yelu Hongji was in the middle army, and he was not in a hurry to attack for a while, so he gathered everyone and asked: "Yanmen Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack, what are your good plans?"

At that moment, someone replied: "The southerners are weak and vulnerable, and the strong attack is to be the vanguard!"

Yelu Hongji said: "Aiqing is loyal and brave, so he will take you as the vanguard." Staff Officer Murong is familiar with the situation in the Southern Dynasty, and he will listen to Staff Officer Murong's opinion first, and then it will not be too late to attack!"

Murong replied: "When the army set off, there were all kinds of rumors and generals were assassinated, which shows that the Song people have already taken precautions, we don't know the truth and the truth, so we will attack tentatively first." ”

The pioneer replied: "You are also a warrior, why are you so cowardly, you dare not attack, but I am not afraid!"

Yelu Hongji said: "Don't be careless! You go and test it, and explore the reality of the Song people!"

The pioneer said, "Obey the order!"

In his heart, he said: "I will conquer the pass in one fell swoop, and let that Murong kid see it!"

The pioneer first sent people to the front of the pass to surrender, shouting: "Listen to the people guarding the pass in front, quickly switch and surrender, otherwise you will break through the pass, and the chickens and dogs will not be left!"

Guan Shangtong translated this sentence to General Zhang, although General Zhang is weak, but he is also a virtuous person, not to mention that the family is in the Guan, he is furious, and he is anxious to let people release arrows to show his determination.

When the vanguard saw that the guard was so faceless, and released the arrow without saying a word, he was also furious, and urged his headquarters to rush towards the pass. The pioneer wasn't completely brainless. The soldiers attacked head-on with key equipment, and sent some agile people to try in vain to climb over the mountains and mountains and sneak into the pass.

The topography of Yanmen Pass is the sandwich of the twin peaks, towering into the clouds, the reason why the name of the pass is called "Yanmen", which means that when the wild goose flies south, it must also pass between the twin peaks, in order to metaphorically the terrain is dangerous. But people who are strong and flexible can also go over mountains and mountains, but it is not easy.

The vanguard attacked like this, thinking that he had done a lot of investigation and preparation, but unfortunately he underestimated the southerners too much, and overestimated them, thinking that even if the southerners defended, he could do his best to attack them.

The infantry soldiers who attacked the Liao army head-on, before they were close to the gate, the archers on the closed door released arrows one after another, and for a while the arrows rained down, even if they raised their shields to resist, they could not withstand the dense rain of arrows, and a large number of people were killed.

As for those warriors who relied on their agility and climbed the mountain, before they had reached a few steps, huge boulders fell down on the mountain, and they couldn't dodge for a while, and they were smashed by the boulders and fell down.

Seeing that the first wave of attacks was blocked, the vanguard was not discouraged, and continued to organize follow-up troops to attack, so that after three rounds of strong attacks, more and more casualties, but there was not much progress.

Liao Lord Yelu Hongji looked at it carefully and frowned, obviously the other party had already taken precautions, so he Mingjin withdrew his troops.

Although the vanguard was reluctant, it was difficult to disobey the order, and he had no choice but to retreat.

Guan Shang's generals saw that they repelled the Khitan pioneers, and their morale was greatly boosted, although the Khitans were brave, but they were not irresistible.

General Zhang praised: "The leader of the Wang Alliance is really prescient, and the Khitans will actually do both!"

(To be continued.) )