Yang Kang originally wanted to leave Lou Shidao behind, but the future of going to Zhongxing Mansion this time is uncertain, there is no need to trap this newly accepted staff, not to mention that Mei Chaofeng can escape with him at that time, and one more staff member will become a burden, but this staff member who has just joined the army actually showed his unexpectedly loyal loyalty.

Lou Shidao used the lord to fall into danger, as a subordinate how to escape alone as a reason to earnestly ask to follow Yang Kang to Zhongxing Mansion, to see that posture If Yang Kang does not allow him, he will have to die, which makes His Royal Highness a little moved, this ancient man is really sincere, once he recognizes the lord, he will follow with all his heart.

It seems that his traverser aura is starting to play a role, and he can collect his little brother everywhere.

His Royal Highness walked towards Zhongxing Mansion with a sense of superiority of the traverser, anyway, once he encountered danger, Mei Chaofeng would take him to escape, as for Lou Shidao, it could only depend on the will of heaven. Lou Shidao also thinks so, once he encounters danger, he has a way to protect himself, as for His Royal Highness, he can't care about where he should die.

The reason why Lou Shidao was willing to follow Yang Kang to Zhongxing Mansion was not that he was stupid and bold, but that he wanted to see with his own eyes whether the Mongolian army was as brave as the legend, and only when he really saw it could he make a correct judgment.

He is different from Yelu Chucai, Yelu Chucai is a descendant of the royal family of Liao, a Khitan, Khitan originates from the descendants of Donghu Xianbei, and the Jurchens of the Jin State, and the Mongols in Mobei are similar in ethnicity, after the fall of the Liao State, Yelu Chucai became a countryless person, whether it is to take refuge in the Jin State or Mongolia, there is no psychological burden on him, as long as he can display his ambitions.

And Lou Shidao is a descendant of Fang La's regime, although Fang La established a regime and wanted to overthrow the Song Dynasty, but that was the internal contradiction of the Han people, so Lou Shidao never thought of taking refuge in Mongolia or other foreign races, because he was a Han Chinese, so he took it for granted that the Han people should rule the world.

Lou Shidao followed Yang Kang is just an expedient measure, he also has no good impression of the Jin country, his target is those civil rebels in the territory of the Jin country, the troubled times are coming, he feels that these rebels are promising, anyway, as long as he can give full play to his talents, as for the final success or failure, he doesn't care.

Zhongxingfu is the capital of Xixia, in 1020 A.D. by Xia Taizong Li Deming moved the capital from Xiping Mansion to here, originally called Xingqing Mansion, renamed Zhongxingfu in 1205 A.D., is the center of the economy and politics of the Western Xia Kingdom, if Zhongxing Mansion is broken, it represents the destruction of the Western Xia Kingdom.

When Yang Kang entered Zhongxing Mansion, he was warmly welcomed, and both the crown prince Li Deren and the residents of the city were eagerly looking forward to the reinforcements of the Jin Kingdom, and the arrival of His Royal Highness played a positive role in calming the hearts of the people.

Li Deren, the crown prince of Western Xia, was in his thirties, looked very easy to get along with, and was very enthusiastic about Yang Kang, which made His Royal Highness feel the warmth of chūn heaven.

The ceremony of the alliance was simple and solemn, the solemnity was the ceremony, and the process of negotiation was simply the process of negotiation, and the Western Xia accepted all the harsh conditions put forward by the Jin state, including the submission of vassals to the Jin state, the restoration of the old coins that had been interrupted for several years, and even the cession of part of the territory located around the Jingzhao Mansion of the Jin state.

The only request of Li Deren, the crown prince of Western Xia, was to let the Jin State send troops to help, which was an imminent problem, and if the Western Xia Kingdom was destroyed, every Qiē Covenant would become a piece of waste paper.

Yang Kang didn't dare to respond rashly to this question, he sent someone to send the alliance back to the central capital, this alliance can only take effect after the emperors of both sides use the seal, Wanyan Honglie will not send troops if he doesn't see this alliance, His Royal Highness is waiting for Wanyan Honglie's news, he can't guess what the emperor's majesty has planned.

Time passed day by day, and the Mongol army was like a bamboo, approaching Zhongxingfu.

Since Yang Kang entered Zhongxing Mansion, he was surrounded by a large number of Western Xia soldiers, nominally to protect the safety of His Royal Highness the British King, but in fact, he was afraid that Yang Kang would escape, Li Chengzhen knew that His Royal Highness the British King was guarded by a master, so he sent hundreds of soldiers, which made Yang Kang very inconvenient to enter and exit, and felt like the emperor traveling, so His Royal Highness simply hid in his residence and closed the door to thank the guests.

Wanyan Honglie, the emperor of the Jin State who was far away in the central capital, was thinking about the situation in Western Xia, thinking about the question of whether to send troops, and the strategy given by the Ministry of War was not to build yì to send troops, but to stick to Jingzhao Mansion.

Once the Western Xia was lost, the Mongolian army was driven into Shaanxi, and Jingzhaofu became the forward position of the Jin State to resist the Mongolian army, as long as the Jingzhao Mansion was not lost, the Jin State would not be in danger, if the troops were sent into the Western Xia, not only could not keep the Western Xia, but also lost the limited strength of the Jin State, and the gains outweighed the losses.

The plan proposed by the Ministry of War was undoubtedly a conservative plan, but there was also a plan in case that if the Mongol army could be defeated in Zhongxingfu in Western Xia, the war would not advance to the territory of the Jin State, and no emperor wanted to have a war in his own country, as long as the Western Xia State was kept, it would be possible for the Western Xia to continue to fight against the Mongols.

This is a dilemma, and Wanyan Honglie has a headache.

In the past, when he encountered this kind of difficult decision, he would go to Bao Xiweak to talk to him, talk, looking at the light and breezy woman, his heart would involuntarily calm down, but now that the two are thousands of miles apart, it is not easy to meet.

Wanyan Honglie picked up a piece of music, which was written by Tang Zude, who was in Chang'an City, which described in detail the life of Bao Xiweak in the British Palace, Tang Zude was a martial artist, and the things he wrote were simple and straightforward, without a trace of interest, but the Emperor of Jin still saw Bao Xiweak's regular life, and he fantasized about those pictures in his mind, and unconsciously started to be stunned.

The woman was as idle as ever, living a simple life, and her heart never seemed to be stirred, or the man who could stir her heart was not herself.

This thought made the Emperor of the Jin Kingdom a little disappointed, the imperial doctor diagnosed that Concubine Rong was pregnant with a baby boy, and she was going to give birth in a few months, and there will be a second prince born in the Dajin Kingdom, no, it should be the first prince, Wan Yan Honglie thought so.

So he ordered to send troops to defend Jingzhao Mansion, and as for the Western Xia Kingdom, let it disappear into history!

However, in order to let the Western Xia consume the strength of the Mongol army as much as possible, Wanyan Honglie sent Yang Kang a message that the reinforcements were being prepared, and they could set off without rì, so that the Western Xia would do their best to fight the Mongols, and the Mongol army would pay a heavy price even if it conquered the Western Xia, and then it would not have the strength to fight with the Jin State.

As for the renegade of the covenant, at that time, even the Western Xia Kingdom did not exist, how to renounce it, not to mention that the reinforcements of the Jin State did go, but they went a little late, and the Western Xia destroyed the country when they first arrived in Jingzhao Mansion, so it was not considered a renegment of the covenant.

Yang Kang didn't know Yan Honglie's plan, he received the news from the central capital and informed Li Deren, the prince of Western Xia, that the reinforcements of the Jin State would arrive soon, which gave Li Deren great confidence, as long as there were reinforcements from the Jin State, he was confident that he would fight a decisive battle with the Mongolian army under the Zhongxing Mansion.

With this mentality, Li Deren ordered the troops around Zhongxingfu to move closer to Zhongxingfu, and he wanted to concentrate his forces for a decisive battle, and those small forces could not stop the Mongol army at all, and would only cause unnecessary casualties.

In this way, the Mongol army came to Zhongxing Mansion with almost no resistance, and the capital of Western Xia was blocked.

Yang Tiexin rode on a horse in armor, looking up at the Xiongcheng in front of him, after hundreds of years of construction, Zhongxing Mansion can be said to be an iron wall, impregnable, it is not easy to break through, he took 10,000 Mongolian soldiers to Zhongxing Mansion first, and there are 100,000 Mongolian troops led by Mu Huali behind.

At this time, Yang Kang was standing at the head of the city and looking down, looking at the tens of thousands of Mongolian soldiers below, His Royal Highness couldn't help frowning, the reinforcements of the Jin State had not yet come, Li Deren had urged it several times, but the Jin army stopped at Jingzhao Mansion, and there was no intention of pulling out to Western Xia at all.

"How?" asked Yang Kang quietly.

"The Mongolian army is really strong!" Lou Shidao exclaimed, "It's just that the supply of troops and food in Zhongxing Mansion is sufficient, and it is difficult to lose it within three months, as long as the reinforcements arrive in time, success or failure is still unknown." ”

This is what Yang Kang is worried about, others may think that His Royal Highness is the eldest son of the Emperor of Jin, and Wanyan Honglie will definitely send troops to rescue this Highness, but Yang Kang knows what is going on, he and Wanyan Honglie are already inseparable, and he is likely to become a pawn to be abandoned.

Yang Kang turned around and left the city, he didn't see Yang Tiexin below, Yang Tiexin was wearing armor, even if he saw it, he couldn't recognize it, he returned to his residence and began to think about escaping from Zhongxing Mansion.

The siege of the Mongol army began on the second day, and the deafening sound of fighting resounded throughout the city, which was a battle related to the life and death of the Western Xia Kingdom.

Ten years later, with the arrival of the Mongol army led by Mu Huali, there were black oppressive troops everywhere outside Zhongxing Mansion, and the siege entered the white-hot Cheng dù, at this time the reinforcements of the Jin State still did not arrive, and rumors began to appear in Zhongxing Mansion that the Jin State reneged on the covenant, thinking that the reinforcements of the Jin State would not come.

The forces that surrendered to the Mongol family in the Western Xia began to become active, and they felt that handing over His Royal Highness to the King of Jin might be able to obtain Gou An of the Western Xia Kingdom, after all, everyone in the world knew about Wanyan Honglie's killing of the Yelu clan, and this group of people was the civil official family in the Western Xia court.

The Western Xia established the country by force, but later, with the continuous sinicization, the imperial court used the imperial examination to select talents, resulting in the widespread appointment of literati to govern in the imperial court, leading the Western Xia to a weak situation, once faced with this kind of life and death pass, the surrender faction will have the upper hand.

These people wanted to support Li Zunxuan's second son Li Dewang as the new emperor of Western Xia to surrender to Mongolia and make Western Xia a vassal state of Mongolia, so that at least nominally, the Western Xia State still existed, so at the critical moment when the Mongol army attacked the city, a coup d'état quietly unfolded in Zhongxingfu. (To be continued.) )