Xiao Youdan sat in the study, and the injured Xiao Hugu was lying on the bed next to him, who was usually used for rest. He had just returned to the embassy, ​​but after a moment someone placed the unconscious Xiao Hugu at the gate. The person who came to knocked on the door with confidence and told the doorman that he was from the Prince Consort's Mansion, and then left quietly.

Xiao Youdan couldn't believe his eyes. When he was in Liao Kingdom, he saw Xiao Hugu attacking others. At that time, although he didn't believe that Xiao Hugu was the best master in the world, there were only a handful of people who could surpass this powerful general. He didn't expect that Xiao Hugu was defeated so miserably on a small street in Biandu, with more than a dozen wounds on his body. The most terrifying thing was the chilling finger hole on the back and spine. I don't know what technique the other party used. Such a gloomy finger hole actually shed a little blood. However, anyone who saw Xiao Hugu's back would gasp in his heart.

The most infuriating thing is that Xiao Wang’s prince consort actually threw Xiao Hugu at his door so swaying. This is a demonstration and a warning! Xiao Youdan sat next to the desk, clenching his fists with both hands, and his knuckles turned white because of his force. However, his heart was not only angry, but more... fear!

Tonight, his wife Zhao Qianyu was invited by the Empress Dowager to spend the night. Wang Jinghui knew that once he used the royal family, he would definitely have some actions. Among all the royal members, he admired the most, or was he worried?! It was the old lady Cao who always sat behind the pearl curtain. But now it seems that Mrs. Cao invited the princess of Shu to the Cishou Palace today to see her behavior. Wang Jinghui felt that Mrs. Cao should be his own, and his reason was also very simple - this group of Khitan warriors did not come to Bian to visit.

In addition to himself, if he could kill Wang Anshi or Sima Guang quietly, the fun would be great. Death of a son-in-law would not have any impact on the stability of the court. But if one of these two people died, the Song Dynasty would face the danger of reshuffle. For this, Mrs. Cao also wanted to do so. In fact, Mrs. Cao knew very well in her heart that if Wang Jinghui died now, the impact would not be much smaller than that of Sima Guang and Wang Anshi's death, or even worse than that!

Zhao Qianyu didn't know that her husband had set up a plan to risk his life to lure Xiao Youdan to assassinate him. In the afternoon, he received an inexplicable instructor that the Empress Dowager and the Emperor missed her and ordered her to bring her children to the palace. At this time, Zhao Qianyu had been pregnant for nearly six months. This could be considered as a silent solution to Wang Jinghui's worries. With Hongyue protecting her by the princess, Wang Jinghui was relieved.

Wang Jinghui sat alone in the study, facing the detailed topography of the Song, Xia and Liao Kingdoms for a long time, and was considering the grievances and entanglements between the domestic forces and the Three Kingdoms. This was not his strength. However, facing the increasingly complex and sharp domestic and foreign situations, in his opinion, the only thing he could do was to calculate the future vision of the future combined with the current situation of the era. It was not easy for the Song Dynasty to reach this point today, and he did not allow anyone to destroy the current hard-won status quo.

The current resistance between the Liao Kingdom was basically completed. Xiao Hugu failed to extricate the threat of life for the Song Dynasty, and the person who brought a letter to the Liao Emperor was also conveying the Song Dynasty's dissatisfaction and attitude towards the frequent mobilization of troops in the Liao Kingdom at this stage. The next step was that Han Qi, Hebei, used the wing refugees recruited on the spot to repair Hebei's cities and plant elm willows everywhere. This was a traditional way to prevent Liao cavalry. When the general of the Song Dynasty was guarding Hebei, it was because of this that local residents were forbidden to cut down trees. These actions further deterred Yelu Hongji and asked him to give up the idea of ​​taking advantage of the opportunity.

King Jinghui of Liao was not worried about the Liao Dynasty, but was more about calculating time. He had a move. If he used it well, the soldiers would be a major blow to Xiao Youdan, a capable man who was loyal to the royal family of the Liao Dynasty. The Liao Dynasty was old. Although it still had hundreds of thousands of elite cavalry, there was no strong and aggressive emperor to lead it. This was frightening. The huge military power was just a dish in Wang Jinghui's eyes. In comparison, the Queen Mother of Liang of the Western Xia was much more promising than Yelu Hongji, and he would come to trouble the Song Dynasty as long as he had the opportunity. The population of the Western Xia country was not as large as that of the Fourth Road in Shaanxi, and the economic power was even more incomparable.

Wang Jinghui was very glad that Yelu Hongji did not have the political ambitions of Empress Dowager Liang, otherwise the Song Dynasty would be in trouble. If the Liao Kingdom had given all its strength to attack the Song Dynasty, although the results of the battle would not be greater than the Alliance of Nayuan, it would definitely be severely damaged. It would be no problem to repel the Song Dynasty for twenty or thirty years.

Now Wang Jinghui is paying more attention to Xixia - not because of the military situation there, but because seven of his twelve disciples were on the northwest battlefield, and the most dangerous thing was Frozen. Since he entered Xixia, no news has come. Fortunately, the other disciples were staying in a safer place and it is impossible to be in danger of their lives. Although Wuxin was charging on the battlefield, he was with his special forces. Although the danger was very limited, Frozen... He was alone in the Xixia battlefield where he was making a pot of porridge. The target of his assassination was Li Qing, the leader of the Poxi Army Group, who is now important in the Song and Xia relationship!

"Bingfeng, where are you now?" Wang Jinghui whispered to the map.

"Oh..." A weak moan rang out in the room, a thin body in the room lying on the bed. When he opened his eyes, he saw that the small room was full of people - a group of people wearing armor, each of whom exuded a strong smell of blood, and many of them were wounded.

"General, are you awake?!"

"Has the enemy attacked the city?!" The thin young man asked sternly withstood the severe pain in his chest.

"The enemy has retreated, and all the enemies who attacked invaded have not returned alive. The general cannot come in person when he is busy with military affairs. He is specially sent to visit the general. The general only needs to rest with peace of mind. The general is in charge of the battlefield. These barbarian troops are not the opponents of the general!"

"Yes!" The young man closed his eyes weakly, blocking his deep and lonely eyes.

The general next to the young man on the hospital bed raised his hand to the local people in the room and said, "General Wang is seriously injured and needs rest. Everyone should go back!" After that, everyone in the room walked out one after another and there was no one.

The young man knew that everyone in the house had walked out, so he slowly opened his eyes. The candles in the house were unstable. The faint candlelight shone on his face, making his pale face reflect a hint of blush, and he seemed to be a little more energetic. He was the Bingfeng that made Wang Jinghui worry thousands of miles away, and Wang Shun, the famous general under Li Qing, the leader of the Tielin Army in the Poxi Army, now!

Wang Shun has now become a legend in the Poxi Army. He performed outstandingly in the war against Li Qing to fight the Dangxiang nobles and entered the elite cavalry camp of elites. Later, because of the intense battlefield situation, Li Qing frequently used the Iron Cavalry camp that he never used easily. Every time a person attacked the city was Wang Shun. As long as he stood on the other party's city, the enemies on the city were always messed up, and the comrades under the city were encouraged, as if Wang Shun was their lucky star. As long as he was there, there would be no city that could not be conquered!

Wang Shun's outstanding performance was seen by Li Qing and gradually gained attention from Li Qing. In a short time, he became the leader of the Iron Cavalry Battalion due to his military merits. Although Wang Shun was a relatively high-ranking general in the Poxi Army, he still participated in the siege battle every time, and generously dispersed all the bounties he received to buy wine and meat for his comrades to share. The soldiers in the Iron Cavalry Battalion were originally very arrogant. But he was naturally very happy when facing such comrades, not to mention that Wang Shun was originally very strong.

Wang Shun was not just a good man, in the battle. He had cut off three generals under the battlefield without hesitation, and then rode his horse toward the enemy with a calm expression. Wang Shun's iron-blooded and hard hand on the battlefield was simply two people compared to his tolerance on the battlefield. However, no matter where he was, the young "Puxi Jun Tomorrow Star" was lonely, rarely talked to people, and after sharing wine and meat with the soldiers, he returned to his tent. Of course, there was another place where Wang Shun could often be seen - that was in the injury camp, where Wang Shun was also the savior of all injuries. His medical skills were much better than that of the doctors in the army, and I don't know how many soldiers survived in his hands.

Li Qing has always been paying attention to Wang Shun's actions. Although Wang Shun joined the Poxi Army because of an unexpected war, he was brave in fighting and treated his subordinates like brothers, which made him very appreciate it. I remember that he had come step by step at the beginning, and of course, unexpectedly gaining the attention of Emperor Liangzuo at that time was an important turning point in his life.

Wang Shun was very good at fighting. Under his command, the Iron Cavalry Battalion could always give the enemy a fatal blow at the right time like a poisonous snake hunting in the dark, which accurately gave the enemy a fatal blow at the right time, which made Li Qing highly appreciated - iron-blooded means and cunning style. After working hard for so many years on the Thunder Hei Army, Li Qing understood more than anyone else about the most precious thing in this land with blood-soaked every inch of the land - only talents, the most powerful! So he promoted Wang Shun many times in a short period of time. Although the Dangxiang nobles were beaten by him, he was about to completely collapse, on the Western battlefield, the increasing pressure from Empress Dowager Liang forced Li Qing to temporarily give up the tempting idea of ​​completely defeating the Dangxiang nobles, leaving only 20,000 troops to defend the city and wait for an opportunity to harass the Dangxiang nobles and rushing the army westward. Wang Shun became the new general of the Iron Lin Army with tens of five thousand people at this time.

Li Qing swept away the power of the Dangxiang nobles in the eastern region like a wind storm, but the price he paid was also very high. The Tie Lin Army was also the elite of the Poxi Army, but the combat reduction was very large. The original Tie Lin Army was generally maintained at around 20,000, and the remaining 15,000 units were temporarily replenished by five or six thousand people. The situation is so tense, and Li Qing has already shown signs of drinking to quench his thirst. The Tie Lin Army is still dissatisfied with the previous organization, but its combat effectiveness is not as good as the soldiers trained before, but he does not have the opportunity to retrain the army.

, In his opinion, among the three surrounding forces, the Dangxiang nobles were already in danger of surviving. Although there were many people in Queen Mother Liang, he did not take it seriously. Besides, Queen Mother Liang's disturbances were so big that he could only scare others - only 40,000 to 50,000 of these 200,000 troops were real elites. In his eyes, the so-called "elite" of Xixia was just a new recruit in his eyes. The elites were starved to death or trapped by the Song army, and they would not have gone to the Song Dynasty to dig rivers and build roads. Now, there are no other troops in Xixia that can be called "elite", but they are just a group of mobs.

What Li Qing was most worried about was the Song Dynasty - the Southern Dynasty, which could eat hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers in five or six years in one breath! The combat weapons in their hands were advanced and sophisticated. The most serious thing was that with the collapse of the political situation in the Western Xia Dynasty, a large number of horses and animals flowed into the Song Dynasty. He had just obtained the news - among the latest cities in the Song Dynasty, a large number of cavalry appeared in the Song Dynasty - not the two or three thousand, four or five thousand, but the cavalry of as many as 40,000 to 50,000 at a time!

Li Qing didn't know how the Song Dynasty did this. He also wanted to build a relatively powerful intelligence network, and he had done this a long time ago, but it made him a little laugh and cry. Although he was a Han Chinese, he did not expect that it would be so difficult to establish an intelligence network on the land of the Song Dynasty. However, the network he had been operating in Xixia for many years was only a little transformation to make it a good intelligence network. Li Qing did not gain anything without gains in trying to establish an intelligence network - the reason why he could not establish an effective intelligence network in the Song Dynasty was because of the Song Dynasty.

His peers were also trying to make up Li Qing's ideas, but Li Qing didn't know that his opponent had started doing this for several years. Wang Jinghui's land resources were much better than Li Qing's - who in this world could do more business than him? While opening a shop in a foreign country, he conducted necessary intelligence training in advance. A shop is an intelligence outlet. In Wang Jinghui's eyes, Li Qing's approach was just a child playing house. However, Li Qing still knew that he had an opponent in this area, but he just didn't know who started so quickly.

Wang Shun led the Tielin Army to travel day and night, and stationed in Yanzhou in advance in accordance with Li Qing's request. Since there was no danger to defend, Queen Mother Liang's army easily obtained Yanzhou less than 200 miles from this. Although Yanzhou City is not big, it is much more perfect than Yanzhou. However, after Wang Shun came here, he ordered all the soldiers in the city to divide into two shifts, build fortifications at the top of the city, prepare more oil, large wood, stone and other materials to defend the city, and demolish all the houses near the city wall, whether it is private houses or official residences, and the materials obtained are neatly arranged. You can use them at any time.

Wang Shun actually had a better plan to defend the city, but he was very sensible and did not say it out. When he was learning or communicating with his senior brothers, he also heard a little about how to defend the city, and had seen many special machinery for defending the city. But if it was leaked, who would know if the Dangxiang people learned to use these methods to resist the siege of the Song army? However, he still tried his best to borrow the resources at hand to organize the defense, and even brought the small horse-pulling trencher that was only found in the Xi army to the city wall.

Wang Shun's preparations were not in vain. Although the Yanzhou City he guarded was also a strong city in Xixia, compared with Baichi City and Qin Tuo's dangerous passes, it would be nothing. This would be the main attack direction of Queen Mother Liang's army, and there was no less than 100,000 Dangxiang Army opposite Wang Shun!

Wang Shun and his Tielin Army faced the most severe test. Fortunately, this was not the siege force of the Song Dynasty. Otherwise, he really didn't know if he could see Li Qing's reinforcements-Li Qing also took a look this time. If he was waiting for reinforcements, at least Wang Shun had to persist in Yanzhou for five days.

Although the Dangxiang soldiers lacked a variety of siege machinery like the Song Dynasty, their tactics of riding on horseback and shooting arrows towards the city wall to cover the siege troops were really effective. It has to be admitted that the archery techniques of the nomadic peoples are really amazing and cannot be compared with the soldiers of the Song Dynasty. Similarly, Wang Shun did not have the city defense machinery of the Song Dynasty. Facing the Dangxiang soldiers who rushed towards the city like a tide, Wang Shun and his soldiers' scalps were numb, and the city defense materials piled up on the city were quickly consumed quietly. Wang Shun led the way at the city entrance.

In addition, he ordered the old and young people in the city to mobilize the city to transport the materials to defend the city, and withstand the opponent's attack for four days and nights. Wang Shunshu did not leave the city head at all. When he was tired, he leaned on the corpse and fell asleep. However, he was still very excited. The dead bodies under the city head at the city head were the last breath of vitality of Xixia. After this battle, Xixia would no longer be qualified to be on par with the Song Dynasty. With the strength of the Song Dynasty gathering in the Fourth Road in Shaanxi, it is not impossible to defend, even if he went out to attack Xixia in full force, it may not be impossible.

On the sixth day, Wang Shun still did not see Li Qing's reinforcements, but he was finally seriously injured in the afternoon's battle to defend the city. Wang Shun's chest was stabbed by an iron spear under the siege of the enemy on the city. He was injured in every battle in the past few months, and he was safe and sound, but this time he was stabbed in his chest. If he hadn't embedded a heart protection mirror on his armor, he would have been pierced on the spot. Even so, he was fighting hard and fell into a coma after seeing his subordinates rescue.

Wang Shun was injured and unconscious and almost defeated the pillars of the Tielin Army defending the city. The Tielin Army has consumed a lot in the past few days. Under the attack of the Dangxiang Army, the 15,000 Tielin Army has only six or seven thousand left. Even if it is a living person, it is still wounded.
Chapter completed!