Tie Linjun, who lacked command of the commander, quickly collapsed from the city. Wang Shun's subordinates tried their best to snatch his body back from the enemy's knife and retreated to the city. If Wang Shun hadn't demolished all the houses around the city walls to form a blank area, and had the arrow towers densely spread in the city, and resisted the city's construction fortifications for one night, Yanzhou City would have long been the world of the Dangxiang Bing.

Originally, the Tielin Army surrendered immediately, but in fact, there is no difference between whether they surrender or not now--but they heard the shouts of killing outside in the second half of the night, and they could even feel the vibration of horse hooves outside the city. Li Qing's reinforcements saved their collapse at the last moment.

Li Qing's reinforcements arrived at noon, but he came a little late. The Yanzhou city wall had been broken. It can be imagined that the Tielin Army in the city was no different from the entire system after five days of resistance. Li Qing ordered all troops to hide and rest, and launched an attack on the Dangxiang Army in the middle of the night. At this time, he had decided to cut off his arm and sacrifice the Tielin Army. He had six or seven military institutions like the Tielin Army, but defeating the more than 100,000 Dangxiang Army surrounded outside Yanzhou City was more valuable than a Tielin Army.

Based on the spies' reward, Li Qing saw the Yanzhou city with smoke everywhere from afar, and knew that the Dangxiang army had consumed a lot of troops in this siege. The Tielin Army in the city was undoubtedly destroyed. Even if he rushed to lift the siege of Yanzhou, the Tielin Army in the city was unable to cooperate with him inside and outside. Besides, although the Dangxiang army suffered a great loss, there were still 70,000 or 80,000 people outside the city, and he only brought 40,000 reinforcements. He would not do such a thing as killing one thousand enemies and destroying himself 800. He also had to maintain his strength to the greatest extent so as to deal with the Song army, which had already sharpened his butcher knives in the south, he would not suffer too much damage under the Yanzhou city.

Li Qing's calmness was the greatest sorrow of Liang Yipu, who led his army to the east. After this Eastern Expedition easily captured Yanchi, he did not expect that he had suffered such tenacious resistance under the city of Yanzhou and lost 30,000 to 40,000 people in five days. Fortunately, these were all soldiers recruited by various Dangxiang tribes, not the wings of the Liang family. He did not feel sorry for these troops. In Xingqing Prefecture, the Liang family did not dare to act rashly because these Dangxiang tribes still held heavy troops in their hands. This time, the Queen Mother Liang recruited a large number of young and middle-aged people from various tribes in the Dangxiang tribe, in order to minimize these opposition or fence-headed forces.

The capture of the city marks the fall of the city, but Liang Yipu still had time to celebrate his success. He had just joined the five thousand elite soldiers controlled by the Liang clan in Yanzhou City. He was wiped out by the dense arrow towers, small crossbows and catapults in the city on the open space behind the city gate. This made him very furious and threw the tribal army that had just been retired into the evening. From the busy afternoon to the evening, the resistance of Li Qing's troops in the city was still underway, and the Dangxiang people had never experienced such cruel street fighting. Judging from the degree of enemy resistance, Liang Yipu even suspected whether Li Qing himself was trapped in Yanzhou.

After working for several days, Liang Yipu was exhausted after attacking the city. He was the younger brother buried by Liang Yi, the prime minister of Xixia, and he is not young today. So after the deployment, the tribe army continued to attack the resistance forces in the city at night, he went to rest in the big tent outside the city.

When Li Qing was approaching his son, he led his army to the horse. He pulled out his sword and roared and rushed to Liang Yipu's camp ten miles away. Liang Yipu's army took turns to attack the city for five days and nights, and the signs of fatigue in the whole army were already very obvious. Liang Yipu and his brother Liang Yibu were different, and he knew very little about the military. This time he came to represent the Liang family to compete for military merits.

The 40,000 cavalry and the leader was Li Qing, who was famous in the Western Xia, had a stronger fighting spirit and the sound of horse hooves could be heard even in Yanzhou City. Although the Dangxiang soldiers were aware of it, except for the Dangxiang tribe soldiers who were in a tough battle in Yanzhou City. The soldiers in Liangyipu camp basically fell asleep and responded in a hurry. Although the military strength was twice as strong as Li Qing, this was a long-planned attack by the opponent. When Li Qing's army invaded the camp and lit the first tent, the Dangxiang soldiers were already in a defeat.

Liang Yipu ran out of the camp in thin clothes. Seeing that the front military camp had fallen into a sea of ​​fire. He knew that he was finished, he hurriedly put on plain clothes and took dozens of personal guards on his horse and fled. When he was attacked by the enemy at night, Liang Yipu, as the head coach, did not stay and plan to fight the enemy with the generals, but fled in panic. When all the generals of all sizes and big and small, cursed Liang Yipu in anger, and then stomped his feet and quickly returned to his camp, ready to go his separate ways.

Li Qing did not expect that his opponent would flee, nor did he expect that he would win so easily. He immediately ordered all the generals to continue to pursue the enemy westward - to consume the strength of Queen Mother Liang to the greatest extent. Even if he could not threaten Queen Mother Liang's rule, the Dangxiang nobles of Xingqing Prefecture would not let her go - the most important thing is that Li Qing no longer intends to fight against Xixia to the death, he... deeper in his heart is that he hopes to conquer the world for himself!

No matter what purpose it was, Li Qing would not let the fat in front of him run away. Unlike ordinary generals who took advantage of the victory - in the war for several months, although Li Qing had the upper hand, whether it was the sneak attack of the Dangxiang nobles in the eastern part or the robbery of the Song Dynasty, Li Qing's foundation was extremely weak and his economic loss was severe. The most fatal thing was the sharp decline in population. If there was not enough population, there was no need to mention any post-war recovery, especially the destruction of the Song Dynasty and the Dangxiang nobles. The Song Dynasty could plunder the population and would not kill it. Try to transport the population back to the Song Dynasty and sell it to the largest human trafficker in the Song Dynasty - the Xiao Wang Prince Consort, while the Dangxiang nobles killed enough and then plundered it. No matter which method, it was a disaster for Li Qing. He needed more people. These are all in front of him. These Dangxiang soldiers were the best herders after they put down their weapons!

The attack achieved a sudden effect, and Li Qing's results were very abundant - a large number of food, supplies and prisoners of war were captured. He was even more overjoyed that Liang Yipu was also among the prisoners in the other place. With this trump card, the pressure on him by Queen Mother Liang would come to an end for the time being - even if Liang Yipu was a waste, he was the younger brother of Queen Mother Liang. The Liang family has been in a state of dimple, and Queen Mother Liang needs Liang Yipu to return to Xingqing Mansion. Li Qing was completely confident that Liang Yipu and Queen Mother Liang would reach a political deal.

When Bingfeng, who was named Wang Shun, woke up in bed, Li Qing had led his army to regain Yancheng and continued to harass the invading Dangxiang troops along the way. Wang Shun already knew that because he had been in Yanzhou for five days and nights, he had greatly consumed the invading Dangxiang's enemy and was commended by Li Qing. Although he had no way to be promoted in the Poxi Army system - other troops already had their own territory, and he was able to take up the Tielin Army general because his former general died in battle. Li Qing had instructed his confidants to tell Wang Shun that he would gather the remaining Tielin Army, and then draw 10,000 people from other troops to join them. On this basis, he would rebuild the Tielin Army and train it into an army. In the future, the garrison mission of the Jianing Army will be handed over to him!

Wang Shun even heard from the tone of the originator that Li Qing really wanted to establish the capital of the Jianing Military Office after pacifying the surrounding situation! Wang Shun had long heard of Li Qing's claim to be emperor, and his idea of ​​calling for Li Qing to become emperor was very powerful in the Poxi Army. Although the Poxi Army was a Han Chinese, it was formed in Xixia and became one of the most elite military groups in Xixia. However, the Poxi Army had no good feelings for the Xixia ruled by the Khitans, and there was no official to the Han people. They even attacked the Song Dynasty and other Song territories several times, and they would not leave any backup plans when fighting with the Song Dynasty.

"Acclaiming emperor?!" Wang Shun smiled coldly in his heart: "It seems that there is no big difference that the gentleman expected. It is basically impossible to let Li Qing return to Song. Even if Li Qing has his status as the leader in the Poxi Army, it will be difficult to do anything to him, and it is even more impossible to transfer back to Biandu. Li Qing will sooner or later stay in the northwest and become the second Li Yuanhao!"

Wang Shun has been fighting with Li Qing for several months. From his observation, Li Qing can be regarded as a brave and resourceful general, and his Paoxi Army is a famous lion in the world. After experiencing such frequent wars, Paoxi Army still has strong combat power, but these are based on the charm of Li Qing's personal generals. Now this person wants to be emperor, no matter whether Li Qing really will do this, Bingfeng has always been an assassin in his heart taught by Wang Jinghui himself. He is deeply disgusted with Li Qing's idea - this person must never be left!

"On the fourth day of the sixth month, the reward is the rushing mouth and slashing the village, the ginger is the rushing meeting, the tenth day of the day is the Qingyuan Military City. The fifteenth day of the day is the cute well!" Guo Kui said in a somewhat excited voice. Every time he said a place name, Wang Jinghui personally took a small red flag and inserted it into the corresponding position on the sand table.

What Guo Kui was thinking about was the latest report on Wang Shao's war delivered by carrier pigeons. It was difficult for Li Qing to know a series of military movements in the northwest of the Song Dynasty, but the intelligence network in Xixia was not paralyzed. The only way for this intelligence line was Wang Shao's Xihe area. He had the right to prioritize this information about the military movements of Xixia. When he knew that Liang Yipu was defeated by Li Qingpoxi's army half a month ago, he immediately threw out the 20,000 soldiers who were secretly deployed in Xi'an Prefecture and ordered his soldiers to cross the Kniuling and sweep across various military cities occupied by Xixia before the Songxia border.

Under the sudden attack, although Wang Shao's victory was not as dazzling as Zhong Yan's big city, judging from the location on the sand table, Wang Shao's attack could shock the high-level Xixia. The farthest occupying the city was Mengjing, which was less than two hundred miles ahead of him. The Bole City on the banks of Lingzhou River, and then forward was the 800 miles of the vast sea!

Wang Shao's victory was the closest military operation in the Song Dynasty to Xingqing Prefecture since Di Wuxiang's conquest of Lingxia twenty years ago. However, at this time, Di Wuxiang's conquest of Lingxia was mobilized by the whole country. Wang Shao's conquering Mengjing was only based on the economic foundation of Xihe. His momentum was not as fierce as Di Wuxiang, but he was steady and immediately constructed fortifications after taking down Mengjingjing.

Wang Shao's military operations naturally required Fu Bi's cooperation. In a very short time, Fu Bi mobilized the military forces of the Northwest Song Dynasty and mobilized 40,000 soldiers from Huaide Army, Zhenrong Army, Huanzhou, Qingzhou, Yuanzhou, Anhua, Tongyuan and other places to rush to the newly occupied territory day and night.

Wang Shao represents Wang Anshi's new party. Although Fu Bi does not like the new party, it is more because Wang Anshi proposed that "the change of heaven is not worthy of fear". Because Fu Bi believes that "the sky" is the only means to limit the imperial power. Losing the restricted imperial power may make the country prosperous, but it is only a moment in history, and more so it causes the demise of the country. There are many similar cases seen in history, such as Qin Emperor, Han Wu, Tang Emperor, etc., entering such a vicious cycle again and again.

If Wang Anshi's reforms violated the interests of power, it could arouse Fu Bi and Han Qi's opposition to Wang Anshi. For Fu Bi, Wang Anshi's "change of heaven is not worth fearing" made him feel that Wang Anshi is a huge destroyer of the old rules. Once the balance is broken, there is nothing to limit the imperial power. Then, for this country, especially in the political environment of Xixia and Liao, the Song Dynasty would definitely not last long. Even if the current emperor Zhao Xu is a diligent and wise monarch, who can guarantee that his son and grandson can still be like Zhao Xu? This is born from suffering and died from happiness, at least Sima Guang himself also thinks so.

However, even so, Fu Bi still made the trade-offs very calmly - he was not afraid of war, but was afraid of meaningless and fruitless wars. The recent situation in the northwest has not used the finances of the court at all. They all operate in a new way - Xiao Wang's son-in-law added the financial resources of merchants, thinking that the continued motivation of the war was only to participate in post-war dividends. Although this made people who read the "Sage Books" feel a little uncomfortable, it was much better than hurting the country's vitality!

Wang Shao is not big in the city. Except for the Qingyuan Military City, which can be barely considered an administrative unit of the same level as Longzhou, the others are just some small towns and villages - but the locations of these small towns and villages are all extremely dangerous strategic places, just like Qinggang Gorge and Xiapu Village, which have great military value. As long as you defend these places and the newly recovered Xihe River can be considered as solid. Fu Bi will never give up such a good opportunity, and

With these places, he would be much easier when he was managing the northwest. More importantly, Wang Jinghui promised him that if the security situation in Shaanxi could be more reassuring, he would secretly double the scale of the northwest settlement on the basis of 50,000 people a year, so as to reduce the tax rate in the northwest region, and give the people a chance to breathe and recuperate. The annual food earned is enough to supply the regular combat needs of 200,000 troops in the northwest. The court exempted the annual transportation costs of up to 70,000 RMB per year!

Fu Bi could not refuse Wang Jinghui's promise. Judging from the current situation in the northwest, whether it was the Queen Mother Liang in the northwest or the Li Qing in the Xi army, he had no capital to challenge himself within four or five years. In the past, he followed Fan Zhongyan to carry out the Qingli New Policy. Fan Zhongyan started his home conveniently in the northwest. Using Fan Zhongyan's civil and military talents to govern the mess in the northwest was just to maintain a balanced confrontation with the situation in the Xixia. Even so, Fan Zhongyan still enjoyed such a high reputation. Now there is a chance to make Fu Bi's achievements far higher than Fan Zhongyan. How could Fu Bi refuse?!

"My dear friends, is the time to attack Xixia now ripe?!" Emperor Zhao Xu's eyes flashed in his indescribable light and looked at the ministers around him, especially Sima Guang, Wang Anshi and... the son-in-law Wang Jinghui! These are the three people who speak the most importantly in the court, representing the three mainstream players in the future of the Song Dynasty. No one can underestimate these three mainstream players who can be flag bearers.

Since the third year of Zizhiping, these three people are indispensable in every move of the Song Dynasty. Although Wang Anshi and Sima Guang are shining, the prince-consor Wang Jinghui is more dull, those who understand the trends of the Song Dynasty will definitely not ignore the movements of such a person--because what he has done so far seems like a joke, but there is no doubt about the transformation of the Song Dynasty. More importantly, the prince-consort's advice to the ruling top leaders miraculously without any mistakes! This is really unbelievable, but in the eyes of Emperor Zhao Xu, this prince-consort is simply a treasure that fell from the sky. Although the political system of the Song Dynasty had restrictions on the prince-consort, the two generations of emperors have broken the regular responsibilities again and again for the important tasks of the prince-consort in seven years.

"You dare to ask Your Majesty that the country's savings can be fully prepared? Can the soldier's armor blade be memorized?!" Sima Guang asked with a bow.

After hearing this, Wang Anshi frowned from the side and couldn't help but want to say something, but he finally held it back. He looked at the prince-consort Wang Jinghui next to him, but seeing that the prince-consort had neither joy nor worry, and an attitude that was not related to his own affairs, the frown that had just calmed down became furious. However, when he saw the prince-consort's mouth slightly showing a cold smile, he couldn't help but feel tight, and he didn't say anything in the end!

After hearing Sima Guang's question, Emperor Zhao Xu couldn't help but be stunned and said, "Mr. Junshi, the country's reserves are relatively abundant now. Although there are still some gaps, it is enough to make up for it slightly. Now it's time to prepare!"
Chapter completed!