Li Yanqing was in charge of the cavalry department. He knew that the total of all the Song army's horses west of the Yellow River was only two or three hundred, so there were no hundreds of cavalrymen. Needless to say, this must be the Western Xia cavalry that cut off their retreat. He felt like he was falling into a trap.

But now he had no time to think about it, and rode his horse to the northeast. He only ran three miles away and met a subordinate of Wang Gui. The soldier shouted: "Come here in Li Zongjun!"

Li Yanqing grabbed him, "Get on his horse!"

The soldier was pulled on the war horse, and he pointed forward, "We are on the hill ahead, and the escort asked me to go to Wulong Village for help!"

"Do you know other ways except where we come from?"

"I know, there are two paths."

"Then let's take the small path, our origin was cut off by the Xixia cavalry."

Li Yanqing brought the soldiers to a ravine, and the soldiers said, "There is also a small road below the ravine to Wulong Village. Let Li Zhanjun go with me!"

Li Yanqing shook his head. If the war horses lead two people, they will not be able to escape from the Western Xia cavalry. Sooner or later, they will be caught. "Go and report the message quickly and be careful."

The soldier jumped off his horse and ran down the ravines. Li Yanqing rode his horse everywhere and continued to run forward, but the pursuers behind did not accelerate their pursuit, but stared at him slowly. This was a typical example of becoming prey. As long as night fell, his prey would be difficult for him to escape the pursuit of wolves.

At this time, he saw a flag waving on the top of a hill ahead, and he immediately urged his horse to run towards the hill.

This hill is the hill they were ambushed just now, but when they were ambushed, they were at the westmost point, and now they were at the eastmost point. Li Yanqing led his horse along a winding path toward the top of the mountain.

Before the top of the mountain, Wang Gui came up and said, "I sent a brother just now. Have you met him?"

Li Yanqing nodded, "He has walked a small path to report the news."

After pausing, Li Yanqing asked again: "Why are you here?"

Wang Gui gritted his teeth and said, "Damn, there were archers ambushing the east, and two more brothers died. If we really couldn't get through, we had to go up the mountain."

Li Yanqing frowned, "It's really strange. At least a hundred cavalrymen intercepted us on the way back. I feel like we have entered an ambush circle. Are all the spies in Xixia ambushed like this?"

"Bad, Xixia spies never have more than ten. I don't know what happened, how could there be hundreds of cavalry?"

"They are here!" a soldier shouted.

Li Yanqing hurriedly walked forward and handed the horse to a subordinate to settle. He walked behind a big rock and looked at the foot of the mountain.

Two Western Xia cavalry converged from the east and west, with 150 or 60 people. Wang Gui's face changed. How could there be so many Western Xia enemies?

Li Yanqing looked back at their troops. Three of Wang Gui's subordinates died. One person was left after one person was reported, and only six were left. His subordinates were seriously injured and one person died, and only four were left. In addition to him and Wang Gui, there were only twelve people in total.

"When will reinforcements arrive?"

"It depends on whether Qin Er can escape the interception of the Xixia people."

"He is walking the path and should be able to escape!"

Wang Gui thought for a while and said, "This place is about forty miles away from Wulong Village, and reinforcements will not arrive at the earliest tomorrow at noon."

Li Yanqing was so angry that he waved to everyone, "Come here!"

Ten soldiers surrounded him, and Li Yanqing said to everyone: "The person they want to capture may be me, but once I am arrested, the people of Xixia will not leave any living. If you don't want to die, everyone will fight. As long as we hold on until the reinforcements arrive, we will have hope of survival."

Wang Gui quickly added: "You may not know yet that Li Zhanjun was the first in the bow and horse competition two years ago. Even the number one archer in the Western Xia was defeated by his bow. With Li Zhanjun here, we will definitely be able to hold on until reinforcements arrive."

I heard that Li Zhanjun was actually the number one in the bow and horse competition, and everyone's eyes showed a glimmer of hope and they clenched their fists.

Li Yanqing counted the weapons again, and each of them had a pair of bows and arrows and a knife. However, Wang Gui also collected the bows and arrows and weapons of the two dead soldiers. There were a total of fifteen pots of arrows, twenty pots of arrows, and nearly three hundred arrows.

Li Yanqing looked around and looked at the terrain. There were only two roads. They either came from the ridge or went up the mountain from the path he walked, which was very beneficial to them.

Li Yanqing said to Wang Gui: "There are not many arrows, and it will be a waste for everyone to shoot arrows together. It is better to pick a few brothers with accurate archery skills to shoot arrows, and the others will use stones to hit them."

Speaking of stones, Wang Gui suddenly remembered something, "Old Li, don't you know how to hit stones?"

Li Yanqing nodded, "I still have a pair of stone chess in my horse bag, thirty-two pieces. I was originally bored on the road and everyone played chess, but now I plan to use it at the most critical moment."

Wang Gui was injected with a heart-boosting injection. He knew very well that Li Yanqing was so powerful that he suddenly became excited. "I heard that I have a plan that can add a lot of archery weapons."

He whispered a few words in Li Yanqing's ear. Li Yanqing was both angry and funny, and slapped him on the head, "You are using me as bait again!"

Wang Gui smiled and said, "They are obviously here to catch you!"

Li Yanqing's face suddenly became solemn. Wang Gui's words hit the nail on the head. Nearly two hundred Xixia spies came to capture him. How did they know who they were? How did they know their route? Also, the Xixia people must have received the news in advance and sent two hundred people to lurk over. Who told them?

Li Yanqing remembered the two people who were making excuses to stay in Wulong Village. His face became extremely ugly. From the beginning, he fell into a trap. Some people wanted to use the hands of the Xixia people to eradicate themselves.

"How is it?" Wang Gui asked: "Is my solution feasible?"

Li Yanqing gritted his teeth and nodded slowly and said, "Since he wants to play, let's play with him!"

Half an hour later, twenty Xixia soldiers slowly climbed to the top of the mountain along the sheep path. Each soldier held a shield in one hand and a spear in the other, and was extremely careful.

On the top of the mountain, Li Yanqing smiled at Wang Gui and said, "They are going up the mountain with shields. Do you think they will make me succeed?"

Wang Gui was a little stunned. He wanted Li Yanqing to use a stone to attack Xixia soldiers who were tempting attacks at close range, but he was not stupid. He held a shield and went up the mountain. What should I do?

Li Yanqing smiled and said, "It's better to act according to the original plan, and at least a few sets of armor and shields can be obtained."

Wang Gui nodded and waved to several subordinates, "Come with me!"

They lurked from the other direction of the top of the mountain and were ambushed halfway up the mountain. The hill was not high, about thirty feet, or about a hundred meters. There was a flat land sixty meters away from the mountain, covered with shrubs.

This Western Xia cavalry is a life-capturing army under the Xixia Left Fang Shenwang Army Division. The life-capturing army is notorious because the Dangxiang people have always had the tradition of plundering Han people as slaves.

In the era of Li Yuanhao, it became even more intense. With the implementation of various reforms by Li Yuanhao, the demand for slaves in the Dangxiang society has increased day by day. In order to meet the large demand of Dangxiang society, Li Yuanhao specially set up an army of 100,000 with the direct goal of plundering slaves, which is the Capture Army.

Li Shishi's grandfather was plundered by the Captured Life Army to become a salt slave in Xixia.

The lowest level officer of the Western Xia army is called the Little Chief, and the hundred people have the Chief and Deputy Chief and General above are the Chief and Deputy Chief and General. Today, the two hundred Capture Army are the elite among the elites, and they are also the team with the most slaves captured, and have made many contributions.

The leader who commanded the elite cavalry of the Western Xia was a deputy general named Yelian, who was a Dangxiang person. He was ordered to capture the important civil servants in the Northwest Army to join the army. The order he received was that the civil servant was worth 5,000 slaves, so that he must capture the Xixia.

Most Dangxiang people were illiterate, especially Dangxiang people in various tribes. Their concept of wealth was camels, cattle, sheep, and slaves. How could Yelian, a civil servant in the Song Dynasty worth 5,000 slaves, not pay attention to it? He set up an ambush based on the information he received in advance and indeed surrounded the civil servant.

Yelian had extremely rich experience in capturing Han slaves. Over the years, he led his army into the Song territory dozens of times, but never lost it. Even many Song hunters were captured by him.

His experience is not to rush to start. Just keep a stare at the prey and wait until the prey is tired of running away, so it is naturally when they start. However, this time Yelian did not expect that the prey would actually run to the top of the mountain, which made their cavalry lose its advantage.

"General, go up the mountain from the west and you can directly kill them to their hiding place!" a chief leader whispered.

Yelian looked at the hill and shook his head. "Don't worry, test their force first. The Han people said that we know ourselves and our enemy, and we will win every battle, so we will be the same!"

"I'm afraid they will run west."

"No, there are twenty secret whistles I ambushing over there, and they can't get through."

"I'm afraid these twenty brothers will be in trouble!"

Yelian smiled coldly, "This is exactly what I hope."

Each Xixia army will carry some foreign soldiers, that is, soldiers of the non-Dangxiang tribe. They are also called Chaolinglang, mainly Han slaves and slaves from other ethnic groups. They are used in the army to charge and kill a certain number of enemy troops, and they can gain freedom, which is of great temptation to these slave soldiers.

Twenty soldiers were just tying the men. They were wearing heavy leather armor, and arrows could not penetrate the double leather armor on their bodies, not to mention the shield protection.
Chapter completed!