The situation in Xingqing Mansion suddenly became tense. Teams of soldiers were running on the street. Wei Ying opened the door and looked out for a moment, and his face gradually became solemn. These soldiers were actually running towards the direction of the Liang Palace. He suddenly felt something was wrong.

He hurriedly ran back and said to the old servant and a few friends: "You go quickly, the army may be coming to seal our store."

Everyone was panicked, "What should I do if the shopkeeper?"

"I'm leaving too!"

Wei Ying ran back to the room to get a few silver letters and stuffed one for each person, "Leave through the back door!"

The man and the old servant were both Han people from Xingqing Mansion. It was not a big problem to have a home here. After packing up their own things, they hurriedly left through the back door.

Wei Ying burned several letters in the room, put more than a hundred taels of silver from the cabinet into his arms, took a knife and left through the back door, but he did not walk away, but sat in a restaurant shop diagonally opposite him and watched the movements of the Qi business from afar.

There are only some samples in the Qi family's trading house, and the money and goods are delivered elsewhere. Wei Ying is in charge of the business and accepting orders. The reason why he is worried is that the business has been searched several times, and it is Liang Wang who protects them. Liang Wang has 30% of the company's trading house. He has deep interest exchanges with the Song Dynasty through the Qi family's trading house. Of course, he does not want any accidents in the business.

But on the other hand, if something happened to King Liang, the Qi family's trading company would definitely not be able to escape this disaster.

Wei Ying was thinking, and suddenly saw a large group of soldiers running from afar and heading straight for the Qi trading company. He was shocked and quickly lowered his head, covering his face with a big bowl of erectile silence, but his eyes were staring at the soldiers.

The soldiers broke open the gate of the Qi clan business and rushed in. Wei Ying sighed softly. There must be something wrong with King Liang. He put a handful of money on the table, turned around and left quickly.

In fact, Wei Ying was a little worried. Brother Richard did not have any evidence that King Liang was a spy of the Song army. He just started to make a big deal because of the financial difficulties in Xixia and the military expenditure was difficult. King Liang was the richest man in Xixia and an outdated relative. If he didn't kill him at this time, the Qi trading company was investigated because King Liang invested in it, and more than one Qi trading company was affected. All the shops and stores related to King Liang were investigated.

While Xingqing Prefecture was in chaos, Richard led a 40,000 army to quickly move south to support Weizhou and Xiazhou.

Currently, the troops guarding Weizhou and Xiazhou are slave soldiers in Xixia. The so-called slave soldiers are army composed of slaves, as the name suggests, and there are a large number of slaves in Xixia, including salt slaves, mining slaves and lowly servant slaves. Most of them are Han people, as well as Qiang people and other ethnic minorities.

These Han people were captured by their fathers and grandparents and became slaves in Xixia. The children of slaves were also slaves. However, they were born in Xixia and grew up in Xixia. They had a sense of national identity with Xixia and were extremely unfamiliar with their hometown Song Dynasty. Xixia gave them household registration and became slaves, mainly engaged in dirty and tiring labor. Although they would not be killed at will, their social status was extremely low. They were only allowed to wear black clothes, not be allowed to be officials, not business, not intermarry with other civilians, and there was no social rights.

However, these slave households also have the opportunity to become normal civilians, that is, to join the army. As long as they can make military achievements or sacrifice their lives for the country, their families can become civilians in the Western Xia.

Therefore, there is such an invisible slave army in the Xixia army, with a population of about 12,000. It is said that they are invisible because they are not in the organization of the Xixia army, have no names, and each person has only one military number. They use the worst equipment, eat the worst military rations, and garrison the most difficult places.

Although they had a low status, this army was very loyal to Xixia, and was eager to make contributions, and even wanted to sacrifice their lives for the country. They had high morale, so Brother Richard deployed them among the mountains and ridges on the border of Songxia.

At present, this 2,000 people are mainly distributed in the front lines of Weizhou and Xiazhou. Weizhou is the western passage of Hengshan. It has deployed 6,000 troops, and the other is deployed on the front lines of Xiazhou, including two important military strongholds, Xiazhou City and Bole City.

It turned out that there was a Yinzhou City at the northeast of Hu Xiao Gorge, but this city was destroyed in the war and had been abandoned. The Western Xia army strengthened and expanded Bole City, making Bole City the first strong city in the eastern part of Hengshan.

At this time, the Xixia army was launching an attack on the Qinggangxia military camp. This was the emergency response measure of the Xixia army. Capturing Qinggangxia could prevent the Song army from heading north to a certain extent and gain time for the deployment of Xixia troops.

Qinggang Gorge is part of the Hengshan Grand Canyon and the northernmost section. It is about ten miles long. Half of the valley is river water. The river bank is relatively narrow, but the terrain is very flat, which is conducive to the rapid passage of cavalry. When the Xixia cut off the river water, Qinggang Gorge was flooded by river water. The Song army came out of another Tiger Roar Gorge. However, Tiger Roar Gorge was blocked by rocks in an earthquake three years ago and could no longer pass. Now there is only one channel in Qinggang Gorge.

The Qinggang Gorge Military Village is an important stronghold guarding Qinggang Gorge. It was originally a platform on the hillside, covering an area of ​​dozens of acres. It was converted into a military village. It is located high from the mountain dozens of feet high, posing a great threat to the passage of Qinggang Gorge, both the same from north to south.

In the morning, there was a shout of killing behind Qinggangxia military camp, and a Xixia army of about 5,000 people was attacking Qinggangzhai. There was a cliff on the front of Qinggangzhai, and a mountain road led to the foot of the mountain. Although the Song army built many fortifications on the mountain road, it still could not stop the crazy attack of the Xixia army.

Hundreds of Western Xia soldiers raised their shields and crawled along the mountain road. Dozens of steps above them, the Song army built a defensive wall with sandbags. However, the mountain road was narrow and could not accommodate too many people. Only more than thirty Song soldiers raised crossbows behind the defensive wall to shoot. This was the last defensive wall. Take it off and the entrance to the military camp was right in front of them.

The Song soldiers raised their divine arms crossbow and shot at the Xixia soldiers on the hillside. The arrows were very strong. Each arrow shot through the shield. The soldiers behind the shield screamed and were shot to death immediately.

But the number of soldiers in Xixia was too large and it was impossible to kill. Soon, less than thirty steps away from the defensive wall. The Xiazhou governor Sa Jin, who was supervising the battle behind, shouted: "Kill me!"

The horn of the charge sounded.

Hundreds of soldiers got up and rushed towards the sandbag wall shouting.

At this time, Wu Lin shouted: "Retreat all!"

The bell rang, and the Song soldiers retreated one after another. The Xixia soldiers rushed into the sandbag wall, and the last defense was broken by the Xixia soldiers.

Wu Lin brought three thousand reinforcements, and with the original one thousand, there were four thousand soldiers in the military camp, and he was not afraid of the five thousand Xixia soldiers who were behind in equipment.

But he wanted to use the thunder of the sky, but the soldiers of the Xixia were very dispersed and had poor lethality. Wu Lin gradually lured the Xixia soldiers up the mountain.

Seeing that the last defense had been seized, Sa Jin, the governor of the Western Xia army, was overjoyed and shouted loudly: "Go up the mountain and fight to the death with the Song army!"

Thousands of Xixia soldiers at the foot of the mountain immediately lined up and ran up the mountain.

Turning from the back mountain to the front mountain where the military camp is, you need to dig out the passage from a rock on the side. The passage is only six feet wide and about ten feet long. Dozens of Song soldiers were blocking the other end and kept firing arrows to the passage.

Thousands of Xixia soldiers gathered on the side of the passage near the back mountain. They squeezed together and waited for the final impact. On the cliff passage, dozens of Xixia were carrying large shields and advanced step by step.

At this moment, seven or eight giant thunders that exploded the city suddenly rolled down from the heads of the Xixia soldiers. With hissing white smoke, he rushed directly into the crowd in the back mountain. Before the Xixia soldiers could react, the thunders exploded violently in the crowd.

The mountains were shaking, gravels flew around, blood and flesh were splattering, and black smoke covered the sky and the sun. Song Jun, who had been prepared, was lying on the ground with his ears covered.

After a long time, the smoke gradually dissipated. More than 30 Xixia soldiers in the corridor had disappeared. They probably fell from a cliff. Thousands of soldiers were blown to pieces with blood and flesh. There were broken limbs and flesh everywhere. The plasma dyed the entire mountain red. Many injured and undead soldiers were moaning in pain. The scene was extremely tragic.

Only more than a thousand soldiers outside were not affected by the explosion of the thunder. They were already scared to death. After a moment of coming back to their senses, they were so scared that they shouted in fear and ran down the mountain.

The governor Sa Jin, who had not yet climbed the mountain, was frightened and fled to Bole City with his horse.
Chapter completed!