The governor of the Gansu Military Office is named Yingting. He is the eldest son of Yinggui, the Minister of War. He was about thirty years old. He has been in the army for more than ten years and fought countless fiercely with the Song army. He is also an experienced veteran. He originally followed Richard Brother to suppress the rebellion of all ethnic groups in Hexi, and at the same time forced them to pay taxes that had increased sharply several times. After Richard Brother returned to Xingqing Prefecture, he was commanding the 20,000 Xixia army in Hexi.

Yingting had received a new order, which ordered him to immediately lead his army to Huizhou and block the Song army's Western Route Army from the north. The emperor issued this order himself, and he did not dare to neglect it and led 20,000 people to go south from Ganzhou.

That morning, Yingting led 20,000 cavalry to Lingbo Town, which is the only way to go north to Huizhou. Lingbo Town is a small town at the foot of Lingbo Mountain. It appears because of its special traffic location. This is a three-fork intersection. When the caravans heading north arrive here, they will face a choice, either go west to the Hexi Corridor or go north to Xingqing Prefecture.

Yingting did not meet the Song army along the way. If you walk a hundred miles forward, the Yellow River will be the other side of the Song Dynasty. How could the Song army not only walk a hundred miles these days? Could it be that they will go to Xingqing Prefecture?

This possibility is the greatest, but the emperor's order was to annihilate the Song army by himself and protect the five prefectures of Hexi. If he left Hexi himself, the emperor would probably not spare him.

But he clearly came from the Hexi Corridor and the Song army did not go to Hexi. Where would they go?

Just when Yingting was worried and didn't know what to do, news came from the Gansu Military Office that a Song army of tens of thousands of people appeared in Ganzhou.

This news made Yingting stunned for a moment. After a while, he realized that the Song army must have gone to the big fight. Only in this way can the Song army pass by him.

Yingting was extremely angry. The Gansu Military Office still had a large number of tax sheep that had not been sent to Xingqing Prefecture, and now all of them became the items in the Song army's pocket.

Even though he was angry, Yingting still had no choice but to order a retreat. He led another 20,000 troops to rush back to Ganzhou on a starry night.

That night, 20,000 Western Xia cavalry passed Pingliang Mountain. This was already the northern part of Liangzhou. There was an endless grassland in front of me. The army had been running for two days and one night. The soldiers were exhausted and the war horses could no longer support them.

Yingting knew that he could not save the military command even when he returned, so he ordered the entire army to rest on the spot and set off again after dawn.

The soldiers dismounted and fell to the ground to rest, allowing the war horses to eat grass around them, and there was no place to tie the horses on the grassland. They usually let them go freely and the war horses would not go far away. They would find the war horses to continue the march when dawn.

The night became darker and deeper, and the soldiers also entered deep sleep. At this time, a team of Xixia cavalry came to the west, with about twenty people. The war horses were carrying large bags, and the outer guard post asked from a distance: "Who is it?"

"We come from Xingqing Mansion, and the emperor has important orders to Governor Ying!"

The soldier spoke fluent Xixia language and held up a gold medal.

After a moment, two posts stepped forward and asked, "Where is the order? Let's hand it over to the governor!"

The soldier took out a leather tube and handed it to the post and said, "There is also an oral order, and we need to tell the governor in person, and we are twenty of us, each of us will remember a sentence."

This is a way for the Xixia people to convey important information. They will separate the information and tell different people. After arriving at the destination, each person will repeat it again and combine the information. In this way, even if one or two people are caught on the way, the information will not be leaked.

The guard took the tiger's scalp tube and nodded, "You follow me!"

The sentry led the way in front, and twenty soldiers who delivered letters looked at each other and accelerated their horses to follow the sentry.

They passed three guard posts in a row and came to the rest of the soldiers. They saw sleeping soldiers on the ground, and the war horses were eating grass quietly around them.

"The governor is in the big tent ahead, you can get off the horse! You can only go over after searching."

Twenty soldiers who sent letters looked at each other and nodded at the same time. They suddenly turned around and ran to both sides.

The sentry was shocked, "What are you doing?"

He shouted, "Stop the person in front!"

At this time, twenty soldiers took out the fire note and lit the big bag behind the horse. A piece of fuse was exposed inside the big bag. In order to facilitate the fire, they immediately threw the big bag off the horse's back, turned around and ran to the outside.

They ran only two hundred steps away, and there were earth-shaking explosions behind them, and twenty explosions were heard. This was an 80-pound city-type thunder that became the king of thunder with its powerful lethality and explosion sound. The whole earth trembled, and tens of thousands of war horses were frightened, and with a splash of screams, they began to run wildly towards the grasslands in the distance.

The explosion was also the sound of soldiers awakened from their sleep. Countless people covered their ears in pain. They were hit by the strong explosion and their ears became deaf.

At this time, the governor An Ting rushed out of the tent and shouted: "What's going on?"

"I don't know why, but it seems that someone came to send information and something happened."

At this moment, the earth trembled again, and a black line appeared several miles away, and the overwhelming cavalry came here.

An Ting was shocked and shouted anxiously: "Go on the horse and fight!"

Soon, the soldiers shouted, "The horse was frightened, I don't know where he ran?"

An Ting then realized that the explosion just now was to scare away the war horses. The Song army's strategy was simply incredible, but it hit their key points. Without war horses, these cavalry might not even be able to fight.

Helplessly, he had to shout: "Retreat quickly and gather in the woods!"

There were large woods several miles behind them, but as soon as he finished speaking, a low horn sound suddenly came from behind, "Woo"

I saw countless Qiang cavalrymen fighting out of the woods not far away, and they roared at them.

At this time, 20,000 Song cavalry also arrived. The Xixia soldiers without war horses were in chaos and quickly collapsed. They fled around with no life. Song cavalry, Qiang cavalry and black party Xiang cavalry were behind them, and the entire grassland became a place for massacre.

At dawn, the war finally ended. Almost all the frightened horses of the Xixia army were intercepted by the Song army on the periphery. The grassland was full of killed Xixia soldiers, and the blood stained the grassland red. The wild wolf smelled the bloody smell and screamed in the distance. A large number of crows and eagles appeared in the sky, hovering in the air.

In this battle, more than 18,000 soldiers of Xixia were killed, and the commander Yingting also died in the chaos. The Song army and Qiang people suffered less than a thousand casualties, most of which were mainly injured and very few were killed in battle.

The 20,000 Xixia army in the Hexi Corridor was completely wiped out, which means that the Hexi Corridor fell into the hands of the Song army. Liu Wei left 10,000 troops to defend Liangzhou. He led 20,000 troops to continue heading towards Suzhou. His mission was to take all the Hexi Corridors, including Dunhuang.

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After several days of rushing marching, Li Yanqing's 100,000 troops had arrived in Lingzhou, which was Xiping Prefecture. The last time Li Yanqing captured Xiping Prefecture, Xixia began to seek peace.

Xiping Prefecture can be said to be the entrance to Xingqing Prefecture. If you seize Xiping Prefecture, you can see Jingzhou below. If you capture Jingzhou again, you will directly reach the city and arrive at Xingqing Prefecture, the heart of Xixia.

The news about Brother Richard in Xiazhou had reached Xingqing Prefecture. At this time, the armies of all ethnic groups of Dangxiang were still gathering. In order to protect Xiping Prefecture, Li Gan ordered the 30,000 troops of Weizhou to retreat to Xiping Prefecture, abandon Weizhou, and reward the relocation and cemetery.

After discovering that the 40,000 troops who were feinting attacking the Hulushui Grand Canyon discovered that the Western Xia army was retreating north, they rushed north under Liu Tie, seized the reward and movement gates in succession, cut off the village and Weizhou, and joined forces with Li Yanqing's army at Lingzhou City, making the total number of Song troops under Lingzhou City reach as many as 140,000.

Li Yanqing ordered a camp to be set up under Lingzhou City, waiting for the order to attack the city.

The Song army camp lasted for more than 20 miles and was very powerful. Early in the morning, Liu Qi hurried to the central army tent. He said to his personal soldiers outside: "Please report to the governor, and he said that the person was found."

"Please wait for the general!"

The personal soldiers quickly entered the tent and came out for a moment and said, "The Chief General, please come in!"

Liu Qi asked the man to wait for a moment, and he entered the tent first. He saw Li Yanqing standing on a huge map of Xixia, planting a red flag on it with great enthusiasm.

"Are the governor happy for the war in Hexi?"

"Of course!"

Li Yanqing smiled and said, "Hexi was captured and Liu Jingluo was of great achievements. I want to report to the official family and ask the official family to re-establish Liu Jingluo."

"But the Dutong has made even greater contributions!"

"I haven't finished it yet! Maybe Xixia will reverse. There are information that Xixia has gathered more than 100,000 troops, plus the original garrisons of Xiping Prefecture and Xingqing Prefecture, it is almost 200,000, and our fierce battle has just begun."

"I believe we will win the final victory!"

Liu Qi smiled at Li Yanqing again and said, "I have found the person the governor is looking for in Shunzhou, and now it's outside the tent."

"Please invite him in!"
Chapter completed!