Chapter 1086 Who said the Queen must die?

Under Lingzhou City, the military camp on Xihe Road.

Dawn, it dawns very early.

You can see the roaring Yellow River below Lingzhou City, and unseen in the distance is Xingqing Mansion at the foot of the towering Helan Mountain.

The sound of horses roared, and the 20,000 troops below stood in formation. However, they saw the crimson battle flags blowing wildly in the wind, which was particularly eye-catching under the tall city wall of Lingzhou City.

"Everyone who has an only son in the family will stand out!"

"Anyone whose father or brother dies in the king's affairs will also come out!"

"Anyone who is injured and has difficulty moving!"

After speaking twice in the Ban-Han language, and with an order, nearly half of the people in the array stood out sparsely.

The respective teams will come forward to confirm identity.

"You will follow the soldiers and horses along the Jingyuan Road and go home!"

Following Zhang Zhi's order, the soldiers who came out were surprised at first, and then their faces turned happy, as if they were waiting for the end of the disaster. The soldiers who were left behind looked at each other in bewilderment.

No more fighting? No, is Lingzhou City about to be captured?

If the troops were withdrawn in this way, then would the death of Paoze, who had been attacking the city for more than 20 days and died under the city, be in vain?

Is this a withdrawal of troops? Are we the rear? Or are we going to die?

Zhang Zhi looked at these bewildered soldiers with a heavy heart. Although he was still chatting with the generals as if nothing had happened, he knew that since last night, the sound of horns had sounded on the north bank of the Yellow River. It seemed that Xixia had won the victory. Otherwise,

The central army of Xingqing Prefecture will not go south.

This means that the Song army must retreat immediately, otherwise it will be left here.

Of course, the sacrifices made in these days of attacking the city were in vain.

After hearing the news of the retreat, several generals trembled in front of their horses. They were originally hostages of the Xihe Fan tribe. Although they were serving in front of the Song army, they actually did not want to join in this narrow escape mission.

Zhang Zhi said to several people: "Your father has made great contributions to the imperial court, so please go back together this time! Remember to appease the tribe!"

Several people were overjoyed when they heard this, thanked him profusely and left.

After seeing several people leaving, Zhang Zhi said: "If our army is defeated in the two-pronged attack on Xia, there will be unrest in Xihe. If these people die, there is no guarantee that they will not be able to suppress it."

Only then did the generals suddenly realize.

Zhang Zhi looked calm. He turned his horse's head towards Lingzhou City, pointed it with his whip and said to the generals: "It is right to send troops from Jingyuan Road to attack Xia! If you go along this road, you will be able to defeat Lingzhou and defeat Xing."

If the state... is to destroy its country, I will die without regrets."

The generals lost their voices and said, "Why did Commander Ji say this?"

Zhang Zhi said: "As the art of war goes, you must put someone to death and then survive!"

"All the three armies thought that the latter would die, but I insist on returning with the whole army!"

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As the morning light faded, the Song army retreated under Lingzhou City with great fanfare. Renduo Yashan and Renduo Baozhong immediately climbed up the city tower to watch.

"Did the Song army really retreat? Or was it a strategy to lure the enemy?"

Renduo Yashan looked at it for a long time and said, "You can't tell it by looking at it. You'll know after you try it."

"You hold the city, and I will lead three hundred horses to charge down the city!"

"Dad, I'd better go!"

Renduo Yashan stretched out his calloused hand and pressed it on Renduo Baozhong's shoulder: "I'll go!"

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Hearing the sound of war drums at the top of Lingzhou City, Song Jun was surprised that Xia Jun actually dared to leave the city.

"Yes, Iron Harrier!"

"The Western Bandit General Ren Duoyading!"

Watching the Song troops upstairs, they immediately reported to Zhang Zhi.

Hearing the name Ren Duoyading, Song Jun couldn't help but feel itchy with hatred.

Zhang Zhi immediately led his own cavalry to meet him, and the cavalry of the two armies immediately shook each other.

Speaking of Zhang Yue, both Zhang Yue and Zhang Kai were good at martial arts, but Zhang Zhi was even more proficient with bows and horses. When he came to know Daizhou, Zhang Zhi recruited a lot of cavalry from the two territories, both Fan and Khitan, who were highly skilled in martial arts.

Zhang Zhi learned martial arts from him and developed an extraordinary skill in riding and archery.

After Zhang arrived at Xihe Road, most of these people followed him and served as personal soldiers. Zhang Yue was worried about Zhang Zhi, and asked Tang Jiu, the most powerful martial artist around him, to take his own veterans from Xihe Road to protect Zhang Zhi.

On the basis of these people, Zhang Zhi selected those who were good at fighting and shooting from among the Tibetan and Han people, selected the best weapons, and formed a personal cavalry of nearly a thousand people.

All these cavalrymen stayed with Zhang Zhi.

But Ren Duoyading's Iron Kites are also elites in Xixia.

The two cavalrymen clashed head-on, staggered and rolled back together.

Zhang Zhi led his soldiers and horses straight towards Ren Duoyading's commanding flag, and his own cavalry on the left and right tried their best to clear the way for him and block arrows.

"Jie Shuai, that red helmet is Ren Duoyading!" Tang Jiu shouted.

Zhang Zhi personally bent his bow and shot three arrows at Renduoyading, but they were all avoided by the opponent's horse. Renduoyading turned around very powerfully and shot Tang Jiu, who had been closely guarding Zhang Zhi, off his horse with an arrow.

Afterwards, Renduoyading left in a hurry.

They snatched Tang Jiu back to the camp. Tang Jiu remained unconscious. Zhang Zhi wiped Tang Jiu's wounds with wine while shouting Uncle Jiu, Uncle Jiu.

Finally, Tang Jiu glanced at Zhang Zhi, nodded, then passed out, and passed away in the army in the middle of the night.

Seeing this, Zhang Zhi burst into tears and had to bury Tang Jiu overnight. He was afraid that Xia Jun would identify and destroy the body and did not dare to erect a monument, so he had to mark it so that he could come back in the future.

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Ren Duoyading escaped back to the city with a narrow escape, and more than half of his bodyguards on his left and right were also killed or injured. Three hundred iron kites were killed and less than a hundred riders were left.

Ren Duo Baozhong came up to him and personally took off Ren Duoyading's armor, but saw that his father's whole body was soaked with heavy sweat. Ren Duo Baozhong was afraid that his father would get the "armor-removing wind", so he immediately helped him wipe it and offered it to him.

Hot soup.

Ren Duoyading drank the hot soup while his hands were trembling and said: "I can hardly come back to life!"

Renduobao Zhong said: "I saw you at the city gate today, but the soldiers and horses on Xihe Road are so difficult to defeat!"

Ren Duoyading said: "It's not that Xihe Road soldiers and horses are difficult to defeat, it's the general from the Zhang family who is difficult to defeat!"

"It turns out that Dao Zhang Yue left, and there was no one on Xihe Road; but unexpectedly, Zhang Kai came again. Thanks to the Emperor of Song Dynasty's care, Zhang Kai was transferred away, but Zhang Zhi came again!"

"This man's military skills are extraordinary, but he is able to unite soldiers and make his superiors and subordinates die for him! He is truly a formidable enemy!"

After saying this, Ren Duoyading said with a calm and terrifying look: "If this person returns to the Song Dynasty, he will definitely be a nuisance to our Ren family!"

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July is on fire.

It has been more than two months since Xia Zhi, and the Song army retreated from Lingzhou City to the Song Dynasty.

It was a total of 560 miles from Lingzhou City via Mingsha and Xiaoguan to Zhenrongjun. It took more than a month to go through major battles and minor battles.

It's not that easy to go back.

The day after the Song army withdrew from Lingzhou City, Xixia dug a seven-level canal of the Yellow River in the middle of the night to flood the Song army with water. The Xixia people would rather flood the country's most fertile Lingxing land into Zeguo than destroy the Song army.

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Although Zhang Zhi and Zhongshi Dao were well prepared, some of their troops were still defeated.

Some Fan soldiers were in an uproar that night and even led the Han army to surrender to the Xia people overnight.

Fortunately, Zhang Zhizhi was behind the army. The Xixia troops in Lingzhou City did not dare to pursue them when they saw that Zhang Zhizhi was behind the army. This allowed most of the Song army to retreat from Lingzhou City.

Having decided to retreat without delay, the army on the Jingyuan Road destroyed the excess armor and baggage along the way. Some soldiers even lost their weapons, just for the sake of speed.

Fortunately, Zhang Zhi had already cleared the Xia army in the direction of Tiandu Mountain before he came, otherwise the Xixia army would have ambushed all the soldiers and horses here, and the soldiers and horses rushing to Jingyuan Road would have been defeated.

The military's morale was so high that most people had no intention of accompanying the soldiers and horses on Xihe Road to the rear.

Except for a few, the rest just wanted to go home, and even went home in a panic.

Who would have thought that this embarrassment of soldiers and horses was actually the Song army that attacked Lingzhou with great momentum a month ago?

Li Bingchang, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, personally led the 50,000 palace guards of Xingqing Prefecture and the Su guards went south to pursue the Song army that had retreated from Lingzhou City.

When the Jinluo umbrella and imperial tent of Li Bingchang, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, arrived at the foot of Lingzhou City, which was mostly flooded, Renduo Yading, Renduo Baozhong and his son personally went out of the city to the high ground where the leader was to greet them.

Although Li Bingchang was young, all the kings of the Western Xia Dynasty had the tradition of leading troops to conquer personally.

Li Bingchang said to Ren Duo and his son: "This time when the Song people invaded Lingzhou, the Xingqing Mansion across the river was shaken up and down. The Queen Mother was also horrified and said that this should never happen again."

"So this time I brought the six squadrons from the imperial garden. Unfortunately, the captured troops were taken away by Liang Yi to attack the soldiers and horses on Yanyan Road... I ordered the old general Renduo to be the vanguard and lead the entire army for me in pursuit.

Song Jun!"
To be continued...