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At noon on the 24th, Li Yanyu hid in a valley 30 miles away from Yingya Fort. The Xihe Army surrounded and killed more than 800 people on all sides, and all the rest surrendered.

Li Yanyu was captured. Yao Pingzhong personally interrogated and learned that Renduobaoguo was in Xiliang Prefecture, with only three thousand defenders in the city. Moreover, Renduobaoguo was organizing the evacuation of the people in the city. He immediately ordered Qu Jin to lead two thousand horse troops, and Gao Xun led a thousand brave soldiers to ride the captured war horses and rushed to Xiliang Prefecture to seize the city.

Yao Pingzhong rectified the team and followed. After walking less than ten miles, Liu Zhengyan, who was staying in Yingya Fort, suddenly came over and shouted to Yao Pingzhong panting: "Yao Shuai, Xiliang Prefecture may be a trap."

Yao Pingzhong was shocked and stopped quickly. He also felt something was wrong. Renduobaoguo was an old commander of Xixia. Even if there were only 3,000 troops in his hand, he could defend Xiliang Prefecture. Xihe Army came over the snow-capped mountains, and the food and weapons were not replenished for the time being, and the siege equipment was even more serious. It was impossible to conquer Xiliang Prefecture in the short term. The Gansu Army in Xixia was only six hundred miles away and could support it within three days. Renduobaoguo had no need to evacuate the people in the city. Haunted evacuation of the people in the city will not only cause panic, but also not conducive to defending the city. You must know that during the process of defending the city, the people in the city are an important auxiliary force. Renduobaoguo did not investigate the eagle clearly.

It is indeed abnormal to order the people in the city to be evacuated if the Yabao is in a situation of falling.

"Where did you find out what new news from the prisoners?" Yao Pingzhong asked hurriedly.

Liu Zhengyan had just participated in the ambush. After the battle, he took the prisoners back to the fortress. At this time, he hurriedly caught up with him, obviously because he had found something from the prisoners.

"I asked Li Yanyu some more things on the way... According to him, before dawn, reinforcements were assembled, but Renduo Baoguo was not in a hurry at all. He left them in the government office for breakfast, which delayed at least one hour. During this hour, Renduo Baoguo was considering countermeasures alone, and it was not until dawn that he issued an order to divide his troops to rescue and evacuate the people." Liu Zhengyan wiped his sweat and said solemnly, "Eagle Ai Fort was attacked, so he naturally had to rescue quickly. There is no need to delay it. How could an old general like Renduo Baoguo, who has been in the battlefield for a long time, make such a mistake? Thinking of the order to evacuate the people, it is obvious that Renduo Baoguo has the intention to abandon Xiliang Prefecture. The importance of Xiliang Prefecture is self-evident. Renduo Baoguo actually wants to abandon Xiliang Prefecture. Why?"

"This is definitely a trap." Yao Pingzhong said without hesitation, "I'll attack the West now

Liangfu, if Renduo Baoguo abandoned the city and left, it would confirm our speculation.”

"But why did Renduo Baoguo set up this trap?" Liu Zhengyan asked in confusion, "Although his purpose was to use Xiliang Prefecture as bait to surround us and kill us in the city, this may not be too risky, right?"

Yao Pingzhong thoughtlessly. He knew Li Hu's entire northwest strategy and knew what it meant to capture Xiliang Prefecture, but the problem was that if Xiliang Prefecture was given to the Dangxiang people, it would be a big trouble.

In the strategy of attacking Karochuan from north to south, the eastern front was needed to launch an attack in order to attract the Xia army in Hexi to Helan Mountain. Then, when the troops in Hexi were empty, the Xihe army launched a sneak attack from Renduoquan. The reason why Yao Pingzhong decided to change the attack strategy and first attack into Hexi and seize the opportunity was to lead the Hexi army to Xiliang Prefecture as soon as possible, and then pretended to be defeated and retreated hastily, creating the illusion that the attack was only to restrain the Xia army in Hexi to cooperate with the Tiger Lie Army to attack in the direction of Helan Mountain. Another purpose was to attack the morale of the Hexi British Army, so that the Hexi British Army realized that the Dangxiang people were no longer able to do it, and the Kingdom of Daxia was shaky, which allowed those British tribes who were ready to rebel. Once Hexi was in chaos, the Xihe Army would have great confidence in attacking Xiliang Prefecture.

Yao Pingzhong also has another selfish intention, that is, to get the credit for the capture of Hexi. If he wants to get this credit, he not only needs to capture Xiliang Prefecture, but also successfully achieve the strategy of attacking the north and the south to seize Shuofang. To achieve these two goals, it is far from enough to occupy Renduoquan. It is necessary to control the key pass of the snow mountain first. This is a crucial point. Because of this selfish intention, he neither surrendered his intentions to Li Hu nor his subordinates.

Yao Pingzhong's real purpose of crossing the snow mountain this time was to control the key pass of the snow mountain. Attacking Xiliang Prefecture was just to force the main force of the Hexi Xia army to arrive in Liangzhou as soon as possible. But now Renduo Baoguo wants to hand over the Xiliang Prefecture, so the question arises. Will he jump this trap? If he doesn't jump, the great opportunity will be lost in vain. A huge contribution will slip out of his palm, but if he jumps in, it will inevitably destroy the entire northwest strategy. When the rear road is cut off, Helan Mountain will definitely send all the main force to retake Liangzhou. In this way, the entire battle situation will be out of control.

Yao Pingzhong turned over and dismounted and motioned his entourage to take out the map.

About 600 miles from Xuanhua Prefecture to Xiliang Prefecture, the Gansu Military Office can reach it within three or four days; Guazhou is about 1,000 miles from Xiliang Prefecture, and the Xiping Military Office's army is

In seven or eight days, you can reach Liangzhou. In addition, Renduobaoguo can convene thousands of foreign troops in the Liangzhou area. There are many foreign troops in the Hexi Corridor, and they can fight when they are grazed peacefully. Now there are fewer troops in Liangzhou because the Emperor of Xixia has not issued an order to mobilize all the foreign tribes to fight. In this way, within ten days, Renduobaoguo can gather at least 60,000 or 70,000 troops outside Xiliang Prefecture, or even more.

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Yao Pingzhong frowned and stared at the map with his eyes tightly, and hesitated.

Seizing Xiliang Prefecture is equivalent to exposing the army's attack intention in advance. However, if the Xihe Army defended Xiliang Prefecture and dragged all the enemy troops in Hexi, Li Hu could attack Zhe Shuai and make a breakthrough on the western front of Karochuan. Yelu Mage and Luo Enzong on the eastern front would attack from north to south, firmly restraining the enemy troops on the Helan Mountain. As long as Li Hu broke through the Karochuan defense line and captured Shuofang, he could attack from west to west with Xihe Army.

To attack the enemy troops in Hexi, go east, you can join forces with Yelu Mage and Luo envoys to encircle Helan Mountain.

The benefits are very attractive, but the danger is even greater. Yao Pingzhong's heartbeats violently and his breathing is gradually rapid. Thirty days are too long. When the Xihe Army lacks food, grass and weapons inside and no reinforcements outside, this is basically equivalent to death. Once the city is broken and the entire army is wiped out, the Hexi Army will first give Karochuan support. Once the Tiger Lieutenant Army is defeated in Karochuan, the defeat of this battle has been decided.

Yao Pingzhong thought for a long time and completely abandoned this temptation. Since Renduobaoguo dared to use Xiliang Prefecture as a trap, his purpose was obviously to lure all the sneak attacks on the Song army and then surround and kill them. He cut off the Song army's passage from the snow-capped line to attack Hexi from the snow-capped mountain line, and then lead the army to regain Renduoquan City and launch an attack on the hinterland of Hehuang in order to contain the Song army in the Hehuang area. If Renduobaoguo successfully surrounded and killed Xihe Army, Li Hu's western expedition would be over, and Yao Pingzhong and Xihe Army could not afford this responsibility.

"Transmission of all departments and stop advancing." Yao Pingzhong stood up, turned around and said to the messenger, "I hurriedly report to General Qu Zheng, General Gao Zheng, to plunder the city near the city, and do not enter the city."

"Order the generals and coaches to come and discuss matters quickly."

At less than 10 o'clock on the afternoon of the 24th, Yao Pingzhong, Liu Zhengyan and several generals discussed carefully and decided to break the whole into pieces and attack in three ways. They plundered the northwest of Xiliang Prefecture. If reinforcements from the Gansu Army of Xixia were found, they would return immediately; they plundered the enemy near Xiliang Prefecture. If Renduobaoguo took the lead in evacuating, they would go north along the Macheng River (now Shiyang River) to find his main force; they would attack and kill the southeast of Xiliang Prefecture, burn and kill along the way, creating momentum, causing fear of the Hexi Fans.

"Since we have entered Hexi, we must persevere in Hexi, do our best to attract the main force of the Dangxiang people and create opportunities for the general to attack Karochuan." Yao Pingzhong's face was cold and arrogant, and a strong murderous aura appeared in his eyes. "We must persist in Hexi for at least 30 days. For this reason, you must take advantage of the current opportunity to plunder, war horses, livestock, tents, weapons... in three to four days, snatch all the things you can get, and no chickens or dogs will be left wherever you pass."

The generals bowed and took the order and left one after another.

Yao Pingzhong immediately wrote to Li Hu and Yang Keshi, Lanzhou. This time, the Xihe Army successfully crossed the snow-capped mountains and entered Hexi, which was entirely because the Xia army in Hexi was not prepared enough, and the Xihe Army was very lucky, and this kind of luck was

There is only one qi, and it is impossible to have another second. Therefore, since the battle situation has developed to this point, the Xihe Army must persist in Hexi. One is to restrain the Xia Army in Hexi, the second is to disrupt the situation in Hexi, and the third is to shock Helan Mountain. Hexi is the backyard of the Dangxiang people. When the backyard is fire, the Dangxiang people lose their attention and are in chaos. The Tiger and Lieutenant Army seizes the initiative and can attack and kill calmly.

Yao Pingzhong begged Li Hu to find ways to transport food and grass weapons to the Xihe Army. This is the primary condition for Xihe Army to persist in Hexi. In addition, he suggested that Li Hu do not increase troops in Hexi. If the troops are increased, the supplement of food and grass weapons will become the biggest problem when transportation conditions are extremely difficult. Secondly, it may force Helan Mountain to mobilize the main force to rescue Hexi, which will affect the entire western expedition strategy. Hexi is the retreat route of the Dangxiang people. If this retreat route is lost, the Dangxiang people will naturally take it back at all costs. Therefore, how much troops are invested in the Hexi battlefield is very important. The best force is to ensure that you can persevere, and not make the Dangxiang people feel that the retreat route is insecurity, and it will sway between whether to reinforce. Yao Pingzhong therefore believes that 20,000 Xihe troops are enough.
Chapter completed!