Linxia City as a military fortress of the frontier of the Great Song Dynasty, the residents in the castle are mostly local servants and military families, although the garrison and the scale are not as good as the ordinary state capital in the hinterland of the Song Kingdom, but at this time the city is full of busy soldiers and people to settle down, the officers of each department go back and forth to find and inspect the soldiers and soldiers to move more quickly, the fences and moats inside and outside the city have long been rested and complete, although the city weather can also be called grand and strict.

And here under the rule of Suide Prefecture, it is 30 miles away from Kerong Village, 40 miles to Weirong City in the west, 60 miles to Suiping Village in the south, and 80 miles to Jiewei in the north. In the following nearly half a month, the soldiers and horses who were rushed to the local area along with Xiao Tang and Cai Yan from the five military divisions of the North Beijing Road also went to other military villages to supplement the troops of Rongwei and other jurisdictions according to the orders sent by the military divisions of the Yanyan Road. At present, the regular forbidden army stationed in Linxia City is still the 4,000 Bianjing forbidden army under the command of Xiao Tang, but nominally it is still under the command of Cai Ying, the main supervision army, and the three battalions of the Western Army led by Pei Zhong under the Jingyuan Road Shuai.

And in addition to often summoning Wu Jue to the past for him to send, Cai Yan also lived alone in the only well-repaired and well-built official residence in the city. It was to go out of the mansion to inspect it, and when he looked at the city, it was not full of foul language, stinky sweat and mud, but some military servants who were born as prisoners, Cai Yan felt that his eyes were dirty when he saw it once, how could he be willing to have more contact with that vulgar person?

Since Cai Yan, the official supervisor, only wants to be a hands-off shopkeeper, then only Xiao Tang, the deputy supervisor, will come to the abbot to supervise the patrol of the Xia City fortifications, as well as dispatch troops and horses according to the orders of the various military divisions of the Western Army, and go to various military fortresses with baggage.

After getting along for a while, Xiao Tang has also become more familiar with the rough Pei Zhong Pei Commander, but the reason why the two began to get close was because once Pei Zhong lifted the strands of hair on his sideburns after drinking smoke, revealing the golden seal on his forehead, saying that he should have been sentenced to behead for killing a bully by mistake, but Jingyuan Road is also the adjacent boundary of Song and Xia, and the side court is the time to employ people, so the county government pardoned his capital crime. also said that a mud leg like him naturally can't pee in the same pot as the court officials and magnates from Bianjing.

Because Jingyuan was the northwest boundary of the Great Song Dynasty, Pei Zhong didn't know much about Xiao Tang's experience before he was reused by the imperial court, but when he learned that the upstart in front of him, who was praised by many high-ranking generals in the Western army, had also been sentenced to be punished for being a bully with a blade, Pei Zhong felt a sense of closeness to Xiao Tang who was worried about helping each other. Later, Xiao Tang also intentionally or unintentionally said that Sun An and Qiao Daoqing among the Green Forest Brothers under his command (only mentioning his common name Qiao Yan to Pei Zhong) had also had a few encounters with him, and Pei Zhong had also heard of the name of the dragon slayer and the phantom demon lord who were also born in Jingyuan Road, and also bluntly said that he was like a good man in the rivers and lakes who was a bully with a blade and killed a murderer, but unfortunately he could not be used by the country.

There are a lot of common topics between the two, and the relationship is naturally much closer.

Xiao Tang also saw that Pei Zhong was a very typical reckless man, he despised the powerful, was straightforward, and was desperate in battle, never afraid of death, but he also followed the temper of a donkey, and if he really admitted death, he would not be able to turn back if he admitted death. And when the words between the two came to Wu Jue, who was obedient under his account, he saw Pei Zhong sneering, and said: "Xiao Jieshuai, the Sprinkle family is a good man, they all say that it is difficult to draw the skin and bones of the tiger, and it is difficult to know the face but not the heart, but I don't know that the guy is a sycophant, after he was promoted to the Sprinkle family's account, I knew that I couldn't get along with that guy." Although I Lao Pei is a muddy person, a pair of tricks have always been very accurate.

Now everyone knows that this Wu Jue wants to infiltrate the powerful and visit the powerful, and now the guy deliberately pleases the gentleman surnamed Cai, you can also see it in your eyes, although he used to fight and kill very bravely, but the Sprinkle family is a straight person, a straight thief, and I have always looked down on such a small pickled person who does things behind his back! ”

Pei Zhong's words to Wu Jue's family, Xiao Tang naturally only heard it. The evil is too great, who is worthy of it? Perhaps Wu Jue's ambition for fame and power is indeed very heavy, and his habits of dealing with the world are indeed very wrong with many frank and reckless men in the Western Army, but Xiao Tang will not look down on someone for a while like Pei Zhong because of this, and he will not look down on him for a while.

At this time, it was probably dinner time, and there were soldiers in the mountains and forests by the river outside Linxia City who were drawing water and chopping wood, and there were already several cooking smoke rising in the city. Although the conditions in the fortress are relatively simple now, there are still soldiers who beat the fat sheep, and roasted them for a long time. This roast lamb is golden in color, crispy in skin and fresh in meat, and there is a strong smell of meat in the tent, Pei Zhong called a soldier from a butcher to take out a meat cutting knife, skillfully cut the meat along the shoulder blades of the sheep, and put a piece of fresh and tender mutton on the plate.

"It just so happened that Wu Jue's bird was summoned by the guy surnamed Cai, otherwise he would have lost the appetite of the Sprinkle family."

Pei Zhong saw Hua Rong, Xiao Jiasui, Xu Guanzhong and others who came with Xiao Tang pacing into the tent, he grinned and said, "Xiao Jieshuai, there must be good meat and good wine." Now we are not marching on the march, but waiting in the rear fort, even if we eat some wine, it is not a violation of military law. ”

Look at Pei Zhong didn't wait for Xiao Tang's approval, that posture seemed to be a drunken addiction for a long time, but before Xiao Tang could speak, he suddenly heard a loud noise outside the account. Xiao Tang was stunned, and immediately rushed to the outside of the tent to find out, and Hua Rong, Xiao Jiasui, and the generals in the Bianjing Forbidden Army were each in their armor, and they all stood up and rushed out with Xiao Tang.

When a group of generals ran out of the tent and came to the head of the wall of Linxia City, they saw bursts of smoke coming from the direction of Hengshan not far to the west, and when the soldiers who were originally fetching water outside the river just started to stir, they saw dozens of soldiers rushing out of the mountains to collect firewood and running out of the woods, and desperately running in the direction of Linxia City.

Just when Xiao Tang just realized that the Xia army really dared to take a dangerous risk and crossed the barrier of the lofty mountains and mountains to sneak attack the rear military village of the Song army, he suddenly felt that the surface of the city wall seemed to tremble, and suddenly a large number of Xia soldiers and horses rushed out of the mountains and forests, and after a while, the enemy army that was all over the mountains and fields in the west and was like wolves and tigers as far as the eye could see also rushed towards the city!

Song Junjian, who was originally fetching water and chopping wood outside the city, saw that the situation was not good, and they all immediately turned around and fled, but the arrows that covered the sky and the sun behind him had suddenly attacked, and the Song soldiers who had fled slower were all shot like hedgehogs!

"It's a summer thief attack! Collect the drawbridge! Close the gates! ”

A shout suddenly sounded in Linxia City, and Xiao Tang couldn't help but gasp when he saw this, although he had also expected the possibility of the Xia army sneaking up on this place in a roundabout way, but the enemy army came so coincidentally, but he sent several troops and horses to other military villages in the city, and Xiao Tang had not yet joined the main force of any army before he came to the door!

Seeing that the black pressure of the Xia army's troops continued to emerge from the deep valley of the Hengshan Mountain, they were surging like a tide, and their momentum really seemed to be stepping on all the obstacles in front of them! Not only were the few generals transferred from the Bianjing Forbidden Army stunned, but even Pei Zhong, the commander of the Jingyuan Road Soldiers and Horses, who had always boasted of daring to fight and kill, was dumbfounded, and stood above the city for a while.

At this moment, everyone on the wall heard Xiao Tang shouting immediately: "The summer thieves are raiding over the mountain, and most of the soldiers and horses in the department should be foot soldiers." Pei commanded, immediately transferred the troops to defend the city, and the rest of the generals also quickly went to order troops and horses, and they all obeyed my orders. If you neglect it slightly, you will not be forgiven! ”