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    After Li Kui left, Chao Yong took Sun Li and four others to visit Zhang Shun. Zhang Shun woke up last night, but his internal organs were injured and he needed to be nursed for a few days.

    When Chao Yong led Sun Li and the others to the south gate, some bald heads appeared on the street.

    Fortunately, it is June, otherwise many people would have headaches and fever.

    Most families are not self-sufficient and need to buy many things every day. Therefore, some restrictions in the city have been relaxed, and anyone can move around freely as long as they are not close to the city gate.

    Not all the walls of the south gate collapsed, but there was a gap of more than ten feet, and the walls of more than ten feet on both sides were twisted and crooked.  If the party members attack, there is no doubt that the south is the easiest breakthrough.

    There was still a hundred feet away from the south gate, and a wooden fence was placed across the street. A group of soldiers guarded it to prevent anyone from attacking the city gate from inside the city.

    Seeing the prince from a distance, the guarding soldiers moved the wooden fence away.

    Chao Yong also had some impression of these Liangshan old men. He stopped and smiled and said, "Are you used to the climate here?"

    When a group of soldiers asked the prince, the seven -mouth said: "Habits."

    Chao Yong asked a few more questions before riding towards the city gate.

    Zhang Qing saw the prince coming to inspect the city at the top of the city, and also attacked the city head under his horse.

    Xixia has many cavalry, and the city wall corridors are also built so that war horses can go directly up.

    Zhang Qing cupped his hands and said, "I've seen the prince before."

    Chao Yong smiled and said: "No need to be polite, is there any news from the party members?"

    Zhang Qing reported: "There have been cavalry sentries outside the city this morning. It seems that party members will attack the city today."

    "I'm just here to show you some more military exploits. Let's go up to the city and have a look."

    When everyone rode up to the top of the city, they could indeed see several Xixia horse troops watching outside and inside the city.

    Zhang Qing¡¯s 1,000 men were divided into two squads, with 500 men guarding them.  Five hundred people rested.  There are also some parts on the streets and gaps under the city, and the guards on the city wall appear to be very sparse.

    But everyone is not worried about being attacked by the Xixia people. The ten-foot-wide moat built by the Xixia people themselves is now an insurmountable gap for them.  If the Xixia people wanted to attack the city, they had to fill up the moat. It would take at least a day to fill up the ten-foot-wide moat.  The defenders had enough time to mobilize their troops.

    Chao Yong and the others looked at the south gate, then turned from the top of the city to the east gate.

    I chatted with Tao Zongwang for a few words at the east gate, and when I walked to the north gate, I heard a warning drum sounding from the south gate.

    "Walk"

    Chao Yong turned the horse's head and galloped towards the south gate first.

    Horse racing on the three-foot-high city wall.  Once the war horses are frightened, they may jump off the city wall, which is quite as thrilling as walking on a tightrope over a cliff.

    It was just a simple warning. The soldiers along the way were still guarding their city walls and had not been mobilized.

    Arrive at the southern city wall.  Then he saw the dust rising a few miles away, as if a large army was coming to attack.

    Chao Yong slowed down his horse speed. When he arrived at the south gate, densely packed soldiers and horses appeared on the horizon in the distance.

    Chao Yong said to Zhang Qing who came up: "Open the city gate."

    Zhang Qing didn¡¯t ask any more questions and shouted to the soldiers at the top of the city: ¡°Open the city gate.¡±

    Hearing this, the soldiers at the top of the city immediately began to turn the winch and slowly lowered the suspension bridge.

    Chao Yong smiled and said: "The five of us are going to challenge the Xixia generals. If the Xixia army covers up and seizes the door, General Zhang will wait for us to enter the city and block the city gate with fire thunder and divine arm crossbows."

    Hearing this, Zhang Qing hurriedly said: "I didn't enjoy myself yesterday. Just leave the matter of sealing the city gate to Gong Wang and Ding Desun."

    Chao Yong smiled and said: "Okay, then you can arrange it and we will leave the city."

    Zhang Qing thought for a while and said to Gong Wang and Ding Desun: "Gong Wang, please lead some people to set up defenses under the city. If the Xixia army seizes the city, when we return to the city, we will use the divine arm crossbow to block the city gate. Ding Desun, you  Bring some people at the top of the city. After we return to the city, you can use fire and thunder to blow up the Xixia people outside the moat. Don't blow up the suspension bridge unless it is absolutely necessary."

    "Get the order"

    "Get the order"

    Chao Yong, Sun Li, Zhang Qing, Han Shizhong, Liu Qi and Yao Pingzhong came out of the city and lined up.

    Sun Lidao: "Still in the same order as yesterday?"

    Chao Yong smiled and said: "I will be the first to fight today. I also felt a little itchy when I saw you fighting generals yesterday."

    Yesterday, the generals of Daliang fought for three rounds without losing any of them. They killed dozens of Xixia generals.

    Chao Yong was also very itchy, but seeing that Xiao Heda did not have any strong generals under his command, he did not go to battle.

    Hearing this, Zhang Qing smiled and said: "What kind of virtue is the general of Xixia?"If you are capable, you dare to trouble the prince into battle.  Besides, the prince shouldn¡¯t take credit from us.  "

    Sun Li also smiled and said: "Exactly, the prince will see whether we have made great achievements."

    Chao Yong saw both of them saying this, and smiled helplessly: "Then I will record the merit for you."

    The Xixia soldiers and horses that came were actually soldiers and horses from Huaizhou, Jingzhou, and Shunzhou, and the leader was King Shu Renli who escaped yesterday.

    Yesterday, Daliang attacked the city, and Renli quickly got the news. After hearing the earth-shattering sound, Renli immediately escaped from the east gate and went straight to Huaizhou.

    The cities on the Yinchuan Plain are very concentrated. Huaizhou is only twenty miles away from Xingqing Mansion, and Jingzhou is only thirty or forty miles away.

    After Renli fled to Huaizhou, he immediately notified Jingzhou and Shunzhou soldiers who were chasing the Daliang soldiers and horses.

    Shunzhou's fast horses can outrun the fleet, but the army cannot surpass the fleet.  Moreover, General Shunzhou was not worried that Xingqing Mansion would fall within a day. He led his troops in pursuit, but he just wanted to show his loyalty to the new king and gain some military exploits at the same time.  In his opinion, if Daliang soldiers and horses go deep into the army alone, they will only bring about their own destruction. They will definitely be surrounded and suppressed by Xixia soldiers and horses, and what he has to do is to share some military merits.

    If we pursue them with all our strength, the one hundred miles from Shunzhou to Xingqing Mansion will exhaust the soldiers to a great extent. Even if they get to the city, they will lose their fighting power.  At that time, he might be defeated by the Liang army, so he did not march in a hurry.

    At the same time, he was also wary of Daliang soldiers and horses attacking in the east and west. After all, Xingqingfu city was high and the river was deep, so it would be difficult to attack without a large army to surround the city.  He was also afraid that the Daliang army wanted to divert Shunzhou soldiers and horses, and then return to attack Shunzhou.  Therefore, he left Bubazi in Shunzhou to defend the city, and only brought two thousand cavalry to pursue him.

    Although they were all cavalry, when they set up camp that night, Shunzhou soldiers and horses were still twenty miles away from the city, and they did not hear the earth-shattering noise.

    It was only after they set up camp that the people outside Xingqing Mansion kept fleeing that they knew Xingqing Mansion had fallen.  Later, I received a letter from Renli, and today the soldiers and horses from the three states gathered together to attack the city.

    The soldiers and horses of Huaizhou and Jingzhou came out in full force, each dispatching 10,000 defenders, plus Shunzhou's 2,000 cavalry, for a total of 22,000 people.

    The defeated armies of Li Qianshun and Cha Ge were dispersed to the Xixia states, with 20,000 troops deployed on the border, 30,000 troops deployed in Lingzhou, and 30,000 troops deployed in Shunzhou, Xingqingfu, Huaizhou, Jingzhou, and Dingzhou.  Ten thousand people.

    Lingzhou is the gateway to the south of the Yinchuan Plain. When the Song Dynasty army attacked Xixia, the army gathered under Lingzhou City and captured Lingzhou before they could attack the cities behind it.  Of course, the Song Dynasty only fought as far as Lingzhou City and then was defeated.  Therefore, they put heavy troops in Lilingzhou, but they did not expect that Daliang would jump into their encirclement through the waterway and directly attack Xingqing Mansion.

    Renli also sent people to mobilize troops from Lingzhou and Dingzhou, but the two states were more than a hundred miles away from Xingqing Mansion, and they couldn't get there today.

    Renli also did not find out the news about Li Renai, fearing that the Daliang soldiers and horses would capture Li Renai and then break through the encirclement by water, so Renli brought troops and horses to contain the Daliang soldiers and horses.  He did not dare to use 22,000 soldiers and horses to attack Xingqing Mansion, which was high in the city and deep in the river. However, 22,000 soldiers and horses were enough to block the Tanglai Canal, making it impossible for the Liang soldiers and horses to retreat.  If he takes the land route, he can even hang there all the way, waiting for the army to encircle Daliang soldiers and horses.

    Renli¡¯s plan was very good, but he didn¡¯t expect that Daliang soldiers and horses would actually open the city to fight. He looked at the six Daliang generals in front of the city gate.  Renli couldn't help but consider the possibility of sending a cavalry to rush over and seize the city gate.

    Sun Li saw the Xixia soldiers and horses approaching, but they had already marched out of the battle, and shouted: "Liang Sun is here, who dares to fight me?"

    Renli also knew about the incident yesterday when General Daliang singled out dozens of generals under Xiao Heda, but he did not make the matter public just to avoid damaging morale.  On the other hand, Xiao Heda did not have many Xixia generals under his command.  There were many brave generals in Xixia, but Li Qianshun and Cha Ge suffered a lot, and the generals who escaped were stationed in various places. There were not many brave generals in Xingqing Mansion, and even less under Xiao Heda's command.
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