Wei Ying grabbed a horse on the road. When he arrived at Lingzhou a hundred miles away, it was already two o'clock in the middle of the night.

He headed straight to the Song army camp in Nancheng, hundreds of steps away from the camp. A whistle flew over his head, scaring Wei Ying quickly stopped the war horse.

"Who are you?" A patrolman rushed forward and shouted.

He was just alone, otherwise the patrol would have called the police long ago.

Wei Ying hurriedly said: "I am a spy from the Song army in Xingqing Prefecture. I have extremely important information to report to Li Dutong."

Several soldiers asked again: "Can there be a token?"

Wei Ying shook her head, "No token!"

"That won't work, you can't enter the barracks without a token."

Wei Ying was anxious and shouted, "I was a spy who personally sent to Xixia eight years ago. At that time, I was still an old leader. The head of the army just now, and there was no shadow of the Jingzhao army. How could I have any tokens?"

More than a dozen patrolmen looked at each other, and after a while, the leader of the patrol team clasped their fists and said, "I'm really sorry, then go to the camp with us, but we can only enter the camp after reporting to the governor."

Wei Ying also realized that his attitude was not good, and everyone followed the rules, so there was no need to yell like this. He nodded and said, "Military information is urgent, I want to report to the governor immediately."

"Then please!" Everyone led him to the camp.

At this time, Li Yanqing had already fallen asleep, but was not asleep. A personal soldier reported outside the tent: "Report to the governor, the patrol came outside to report, saying that a spy from Xingqing Mansion came to report to you with important military information."

Li Yanqing was a little stunned. He did not arrange a spy in Xingqing Mansion! Could it be that

Li Yanqing suddenly sat up and asked, "Is it Wei Ying?"

"It seems that his surname is Wei."

"Take him to see me immediately, go!"

The personal soldiers turned around and ran away. Li Yanqing also put on his coat. The person he was most guilty of over the years was Wei Ying. He sent him to Xixia as an undercover spy. This time, it took eight years for the trip. The intelligence camp had long been disbanded. His career had gone through many difficulties. Wei Ying was like a kite with a broken string and disappeared. It was not until the Qiao brothers found him last year that he realized that Wei Ying was still in Xingqing Mansion and had been silently collecting intelligence for eight years.

Thinking of this, Li Yanqing's nose felt sour. He had long forgotten him, but he was always loyal to Song Jun and never forgot the task he shouldered. I'm really sorry for him.

Not long after, Wei Ying was taken into the tent. He lay on the ground and cried loudly. Many years of grievances poured out at this moment.

Li Yanqing also quickly helped him up and comforted him very much. Wei Ying also felt that he had passed a little, so he quickly wiped away his tears and said, "I have important military information reports on my humble position!"

Li Yanqing asked him to sit down and have a cup of hot tea, and asked him to find Wang Gui and Liu Ya. Soon, Wang Gui and Liu Ya rushed over, and Li Yanqing introduced Wei Ying to them, and both of them were very moved.

"There is extremely lively over He Nanshan. Xingqing Mansion should have action, right?" Wang Gui asked with interest.

Wei Ying hurriedly said, "I am here to report this matter."

He then explained in detail the Xixia decision to replace Tie Yaozi with the Tuoba army to defend the city. Liu Qi smiled and said, "It is really difficult for the Xixia people to think of such a solution."

Li Yanqing pondered for a moment and asked, "Is the source of information reliable?"

Wei Ying nodded, "It is the doctor of the Ministry of War in Xixia who revealed that his name is Wang Yanzhao, he is a Han Chinese and was excluded in the officialdom of Xixia. He has been providing information to me over the years."

"Is it that he provided the last time the deployment map of the pass troops in various places in Xixia?" Li Yanqing asked.

"It's him!"

Li Yanqing believed it. Wei Ying asked Zhang Jiu to send a map of the deployment of the pass army last time, which was very meaningful. It contained the garrisons and grain storage of the Western Xia army among hundreds of passes, so that the Song army would not have to search one pass or one pass, and concentratedly wiped out more than 30 passes with a small number of garrisons, and found nearly 100,000 stones of grain storage. It also allowed the Song army to quickly station these supply passes, which had extremely high strategic value.

"What else is there?"

"Also, Xixia began to strictly control the city gates, only allowed entry but not exit, and began to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the Han people in the city."

"What does it mean to check the Han people in the city?" Li Yanqing asked in confusion.

"You have been arguing for a long time. There are more than 100,000 Han people living in Xingzhong City. They are indigenous people, not the captured Song slaves. The Western Xia court has always been polite to them since Li Yuanhao. They are also relatively wealthy in Xixia and have a lot of good land. However, in recent years, the national strength of Xixia has declined, and the Dangxiang nobles began to accuse these Han people of exploiting Dangxiang people and demanding the court to take action against them. However, they were also strongly opposed by Han ministers like Jiao Yanting. Now that Xixia is facing life and death, and its financial resources are exhausted, they began to attack the Han people. The so-called investigation is to plunder their property and supplement military expenditure. If they resist, they will definitely be massacred."

Li Yanqing was a little unbelievable. The Han people were the most important financial source of the Western Xia court. Isn’t looting the Han people just killing chickens to get eggs?

"The financial resources of Xixia are so embarrassing?"

Wei Ying smiled bitterly, "I have been in Xixia for eight years. I really understand Xixia thoroughly. This small country has a population of less than three million at the highest, and now it is only 2.5 million. In the past ten years, wars have been fought almost every year. How can they afford to support their national strength? Especially after being exploited by the Jin Dynasty, they failed to compete for Datong Prefecture, surrendered to the Jin Dynasty, paid a lot of money and paid a lot of money and military expenses for the 20,000 Jin soldiers in Datong Prefecture. They were already overwhelmed. Last year, they were blackmailed one million sheep by the Jin Dynasty due to a snow disaster. This incident completely intensified the internal conflicts in Xixia. The Western Xia court was in internal and external difficulties and was in storm. Even if the Song army did not fight north, we suspect that they would have to break out in civil war."

Wang Gui next to him smiled and said, "I'm afraid it's related to the failure of invasion of Xihe Road the previous year!"

"It does matter. Wang Yanzhao told me that after the failure of the troops, the Xixia armament warehouse was completely empty. The financial resources could not afford so much military expenditure, so they began to lay off their troops."

Wei Ying paused for a moment and said, "But I personally think that the reason for the decline of Western Xia was not only the military and military force, but also the extravagance of their nobles. They were typical poor temples and rich abbots, the treasury was empty, but the nobles accumulated a lot of wealth. Last time Li Qianshun searched the Liang Palace, and heard that silver alone was found to be several million taels and hundreds of thousands of taels of gold, which supported the military expenses of the Party and Xiang Alliance. However, the King of Liang was still one of them. The royal family of the Li family, the prime minister, and the Shangshu, were not full of silk houses and gold and silver. The Minister of War, Yinggui, even the maids in his mansion used Baoyanzhai red boxes, which shows the luxury of their lives."

Li Yanqing smiled and said, "In this way, I have to send a cavalry to patrol the north of Xingqing Prefecture to prevent them from escaping with their wealth."

"It is very necessary, and not only do we need to send cavalry but also ships to prevent them from escaping to Datong Mansion by water, and the Jin Kingdom will be cheap."

Li Yanqing nodded and turned around to ask the chief clerk Cao Ye, "Have Zhang Shun and the three Ruan Heroes of the Ruan family come here?"

Cao Ye hurriedly said: "Report to the governor, the fleet has arrived in Mingsha County."

The fleet was a surprise soldier arranged by Li Yanqing. It was led by Zhang Shun and the Ruan tribe, with a total of 500 ships of all sizes and 6,000 naval troops. It set off from the Wei River, entered the Yellow River and then turned north. The Yellow River is the major transportation artery of Xixia. If you want to destroy Xixia, you must first control the Yellow River.

Li Yanqing asked his personal soldiers to take Wei Ying to rest, but he and Wang Gui and Liu Qi continued to discuss the deployment of troops to deal with the new changes in Western Xia, especially the Iron Harrier Cavalry was about to go out of the city, which gave Li Yanqing the hope of annihilation of them.

Just as the Western Xia court decided to replace the Iron Harrier with the Tuoba army, the news that the Song army had bloody baptized the various troops in Nanshan also spread to the Jingzhou coalition camp. This news made the coalition camp suddenly feel like it was blown up, and the crowd was full of enthusiasm.

At this time, Li Zhizong also received a news report from the court. He urgently summoned the leaders of various armies to appease their emotions.

"Please rest assured, the emperor will never allow the Song army to rage Henanshan. I just received a news report from the court that the emperor has sent 10,000 Iron Harrier cavalry to Henanshan, and will definitely stop the Song army's atrocities in Henanshan. Please be sure to be at ease and never shake the morale of the army."

At this time, Xi Fengbei also asked: "After ten thousand troops in the capital go to Henanshan, will the capital be empty? What if the Song army takes the opportunity to attack the capital?"

"This court has made arrangements. The court has asked the Tuoba troops to send 30,000 troops to guard the capital. In short, everyone must calm the morale of the army. Never fall into the tricks of the Song army and lose their own way."

Li Zhizong explained repeatedly, and finally calmed everyone's emotions. He breathed a sigh of relief.

In the big tent, Xifengbe was also paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, and he was really anxious. The letter of Niujiao that the chief Xifengheita asked him to return to the rescue immediately was placed on the table, so Xifengbe was undecided. At this time, the voices of two other leaders of the tent came from outside the tent, "Let's look for the marshal!"

"Let them in!"

As soon as the curtain was lifted, the head general of the Yeli tribe and the Mi Qin tribe walked in quickly, "Brother, what do you think about this?"

Li Zhizong tried his best to appease everyone, but everyone did not buy his account. They believed more about Xifengbiya. Xifengbi also let the two sit down, and said coldly: "If I was not wrong, the Iron Harrier Scouts did not go to rescue He Nanshan tribes."

The two were shocked, "Will the court also lie to us?"

"The court will not lie to us. Since we agreed, Iron Harrier should send troops. I just said that things are not as simple as the handsome man. Iron Harrier should still be in Xingqing Mansion and did not set out. They are still waiting!"

"What are they waiting for?"

"They are waiting for the arrival of Tuoba's army. The court will never turn the capital into an empty city. The two armies must hand over the defense before the Iron Harrier will go west."

Both the main generals were anxious, "When will we go?"

"The problem is here. It takes as long as three days to go from Xingqing Mansion to the Tuoba tribe. It takes as long as six days. It is still the same whether Tuoba Jun is willing to come. Even if he comes, he has to bargain. It takes at least two or three days. So even if Iron Yaozi sends troops, it will take as fast as eight days. When he arrives at the ranch, ten days have passed. Our tribe members have long died. What is the point of sending troops?"

“It makes sense!”

Nori, the head of the Nori tribe, said coldly: "We can continue to deceive us here to work hard, and this is their only purpose."

Xifengbe sighed, "I don't understand why they didn't let us retreat to Xingqing Mansion, and then everyone sent troops to rescue He Nanshan, why we must confront the Song army in Jingzhou."

"They are probably buying time!"

Mi Qindeli suddenly said a shocking sentence, "Give them time to transfer wealth."
Chapter completed!