The wildfire ignited by the Song army's gunpowder arrow did not burn for days or nights like the dam fire. It gradually went out at noon, and only one mountain was burned down.

The Song soldiers had already dug a large pit on the hillside and kept throwing the charred corpses found in the pine forest into the pit. Several soldiers recorded next to them, "Four,377,4,378"

Li Yanqing sat on a big rock, holding his map in his hand and looked carefully. He knew that there were still many Western Xia soldiers who escaped. They did not block the hill completely. There were few soldiers defending the east and west, and at least two or three thousand soldiers broke through and fled.

At this time, Zong Ze slowly walked to him, "Since our Song army began to use gunpowder in large quantities, using fire attack has become the norm on the battlefield. Today, the result is also the stupidity of this Xixia army leader."

Li Yanqing pointed to a road on the map and smiled: "This road leads directly to Xiazhou, only about 80 miles away from us. The old general said, should we take the opportunity to capture Xiazhou in one fell swoop?"

Zong Ze shook his head, "Without the commander's order, we must not act rashly. If it weren't for the enemy coming from Maitreya Cave, the Linzhou army shouldn't have attacked Maitreya Cave. This is already a bit of a violation. How could we make mistakes again and again?"

Li Yanqing was a little dissatisfied. Xiazhou, Shizhou and Maitreya Cave themselves are one. They can send troops to Xiazhou and may not necessarily get the consent of the head coach. However, since Zong Ze refused, he no longer forced him.

At this time, a general rushed forward to report: "General Qi Bi Zong, Qi Bi Zong joined the army, the results of the battle have been counted, killing a total of 5,889 enemies, capturing 1,744 people, and the whereabouts of other enemy soldiers are unknown."

"How many casualties do we suffer?" Li Yanqing asked.

"We were killed 183 people and injured 374 people. Because there was a fierce battle between the enemy troops broke through on both sides of the east and west, our army suffered heavy casualties, and there were basically no casualties on both sides of the north and south."

Li Yanqing stood up and said to Zong Ze: "The old general will lead the army back first! I will take three thousand cavalry to Maitreya Cave to pick him up."

Zong Ze nodded, "Okay! I will lead the army back first, be careful."

The two immediately divided into two groups. Zong Ze led the main army to escort the prisoners back to the camp, while Li Yanqing led three thousand cavalry to quickly reach Maitreya Cave.

Maitreya Cave is a place name. It is located about 150 miles west of Yinchuan City, 70 miles east from the Jinning Army of the Song Dynasty and 60 miles south from the Suide Army. It is at the strategic juncture of the Song and Xia countries. The terrain here is dangerous. Like the Jinning Army's camp, the Xixia Army also built a military camp that can accommodate tens of thousands of people on the mountain. This is the Maitreya Cave Military Camp and the military garrison of the Left-Celebration Shenwang Army. At the beginning of the year, Li Yanqing was ambushed by the Western Xia army during the Jinning Army. Two hundred Western Xia cavalry came from this military camp.

Li Yanqing led three thousand cavalrymen to gallop on the trail quickly, and saw the armor discarded by deserters along the way. Most of the escaped soldiers did not rush back to the barracks, but directly became deserters and fled back to their hometown.

The reason why he took the initiative to ask for orders to go to the Maitredong Military Camp was mainly because he wanted to find some important information from the yamen of the Western Xia army. In order to murder himself and achieve the purpose of dismissing Zhong Shidao, the senior official in the Western Xia Dynasty he colluded with was undoubtedly Li Liangfu. Li Liangfu died in Yinchuan City. Will his yamen still have letters from Gao Qiu?

At dusk, they rushed to a hillside, and looked down from a high place, and saw the Xixia Army camp ten miles away, built on the mountain. There was blue smoke floating above the camp, and the war seemed to be over.

Wang Gui pointed at Qingyan, "Old Li, it's not that the military yamen was burned!"

"Let's go!"

Li Yanqing was anxious and ran down the hillside and headed towards the camp in the distance.

Zhong Shizhong led an army of 20,000 to the Maitredong military camp only one hour earlier than Li Yanqing. There was no suspense in the war. Although there were still 3,000 Xixia soldiers in the military camp, these 3,000 soldiers were all frightened birds who escaped from Yinchuan City. The morale was distorted and the morale was very sluggish. When the 20,000 Song troops arrived at the foot of the military camp, a group of soldiers killed the guards and opened the camp gate to surrender.

There were not only military camps, but also more than a thousand houses in the mountain village, basically all of which were military families. After the Song army entered the village, they began to search the hiding enemy troops from house to house. The village was in chaos, and the silver treasury on the top of the mountain was also looted by a group of Xixia rioters. They also ignited the silver treasury to cover up their crimes. However, when they escaped with silver ingots, they were intercepted by the Song army. Hundreds of vicious soldiers were killed on the spot. The Song army seized a large amount of gold and silver.

At this moment, Li Yanqing led the cavalry to the gate of the mountain village.

"Who are you?" The Song army defenders in the gate asked loudly when they saw that the cavalry was also a Song army.

Li Yanqing urged him to step forward and said, "I am the head of the Intelligence Department, Li Yanqing, please inform General Zhong Er immediately!"

‘General Zhong Er’ is the name of Zong Shizhong within the Song army. It is a semi-formal title. Soldiers immediately ran to report. Soon, the gate of the military camp opened, and Zong Shizhong walked out quickly and smiled from a distance: “Is it Li Zongjun here?”

Li Yanqing didn't deal with Zhong Shizhong much, and only saw him twice. He quickly turned over and dismounted, stepped forward and bowed, "Yanqing met General Zhong Er!"

Zhong Shizhong smiled and patted his shoulder, "This time, thanks to you leading the snake out of the hole, we have the opportunity to occupy the Maitreya Cave military camp and solve the urgent problem. Speaking of which, I must thank you very much."

Li Yanqing was anxious. He didn't want to delay this kind of polite conspiracy, so he asked, "I just saw the green smoke above the military camp. Where did it burn?"

"It was a group of bastards who snatched the silver treasury and wanted to fire the silver treasury to escape, but we intercepted it, and none of them could escape."

When Li Yanqing heard that the silver treasury was burned, he breathed a little relieved and asked again: "What's the situation in the military yamen?"

Mr. Zhong smiled and said, "Since the head of the Intelligence Department is here, of course the military yamen will hand it over to you, please!"

Li Yanqing asked the cavalry to enter the camp to rest, and he led the 300 intelligence battalion soldiers to the military yamen. The military yamen was built at the highest point. It was an official yamen made of stones covering an area of ​​about seven or eight acres. There were more than a dozen civilian officials of Xixia inside, but they had been taken elsewhere to be detained. The gate of the military yamen was closed with seals on it.

Li Yanqing led his soldiers into the military yamen through the side door and ordered: "Search carefully, no place is allowed to be spared, and all documents are collected!"

The soldiers were dispersed. At this time, Wang Gui stepped forward and whispered: "Or, I will take a few brothers to interrogate the civil servants to see if there are any secret rooms or something."

Li Yanqing nodded, "You go!"

Wang Gui waved his hand excitedly, "Follow me!"

He led a dozen soldiers to the backyard to interrogate the prisoners in detention, while Li Yanqing walked into Li Liangfu's official room. The official room was large and tidy, and it seemed a little empty. Several soldiers were squatting by the wall and knocking on the wall carefully, looking for a dark room that might be hidden somewhere.

Li Yanqing walked to a bookcase, opened the bookcase, and filled it with various books. On the edge of the second-layer shelf, there was a thick stack of letters tied with thread. It was so coincidental that Li Yanqing took it over casually.

Judging from the various books on the bookshelf, Li Liangfu was a Western Xia royal family who was proficient in Chinese. Therefore, his correspondence with the Song Dynasty did not use Western Xia, but must use Chinese.

Li Yanqing quickly searched the letters in his hand. These letters were relatively letters, at least they were all from this year. Soon, Li Yanqing found three letters written in Chinese from more than 30 letters. The first letter surprised him a little. It turned out to be a letter written by Li Kui, the transferor of Jinghu North Road, to Li Liangfu.

Li Yanqing quickly opened the letter and looked at it carefully, but the content made him feel a little relieved. It seemed that Li Liangfu wrote a letter to ask Li Kui how to identify beautiful jade. Li Kui replied to him that ancient jade is the best, current jade is the bottom; white jade is the top, color jade is the bottom; stone jade is the bottom, marrow jade is the top, and a page of paper was written in a very smooth manner, and the signature time was January this year.

Li Yanqing put the letter in his arms. The second letter was a correspondence between Li Liangfu and the famous Western Xia prostitute Mei Liangji. It was actually in Chinese. Li Yanqing put the letter aside.

The third letter made Li Yanqing's eyes solidify. This letter was exactly the letter he was looking for, "The commander Gao of the Great Song Palace in front of the Great Song Palace sent His Highness to the Prince of the Central Guard of Xixia."

Li Yanqing quickly pulled out the letter from it and looked carefully. Gao Qiu was still cautious and did not mention specific matters. He only mentioned the last time Manager Zhang said that he would speed up the implementation. However, Gao Qiu suggested in his heart that he should start with the new Jinshi of the Northwest Army, put pressure on the government and the opposition, forcing their common goals to resign...
Chapter completed!