The red sun gradually rose, shining down obliquely through the top of the mountain beam, and the gloomy scenery in the forest gradually became clearer, and the war horses around him seemed to smell something, and began to be restless.

Li Ningming ordered softly: "Pacify the horses, the Song army is coming, if anyone leaks his whereabouts, I will cut down his entire clan." ”

The cavalry of the Xia army hurriedly patted the horse's head to appease the war horse, these are all battle-hardened war horses, they can sense the impending battle, so their restlessness stems from the impulse to rush to kill, and the appeasement of the master makes them temporarily calm down.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, the scouts have come to report that the Song army has come out of the Eagle's Beak Cliff, and it is still eight miles away from here." The deputy general, Yeli Xianzong, quietly came to Li Ningming's side and replied.

Li Ningming nodded, staring at the official road without blinking, and said quietly: "Tell General Wuzang, calm down, wait for the Song army to cross the bottom line of my ambush before attacking, to cut their back roads, and never let them escape back to the valley." ”

Yeli Xianzong promised and went to pass the order.

Half an hour later, the smoke and dust on the official road swarmed, and a group of Song troops could be seen slowly coming from the south in the distance, with more than 100 horsemen at the head, and a long convoy of carriages and horses behind them, seven or eight hundred infantry lined up in two columns along both sides of the convoy to protect, and at the end there were two or three hundred horsemen guarding several luxurious carts, presumably sitting in the car was the escort officer of the materials.

As the convoy approached little by little, Li Ningming's heart became more and more excited, as long as the convoy crossed his ambushed army, the two lieutenant generals Yeli Xianzong and Wu Zangming would lead 1,500 cavalry to intercept the rear road immediately, and he would lead 1,500 iron cavalry to rush straight to the center of the opponent's convoy, cut it into two sections, and first capture or slaughter the officials behind him, and then say, once the enemy will die, the rest is to simply hunt and kill the enemy soldiers; In such a plain area, these Song infantry were easier to shoot than rabbits hunting, and there was no difficulty at all.

The more than 100 cavalry at the head of the Song army were only a mile away from the ambush place, Li Ningming waved his hand lightly, gave an order, and he first slowly drew out the snow bright scimitar, this knife that sharpened iron like clay has been hanging on his waist as an accessory, and he will eventually use him to drink the blood of the Song army today; The soldiers also mounted their horses one after another, and each drew their swords, and when the commander waved his sword, he immediately slapped his horse and killed.

Suddenly, Li Ningming froze his movements, he didn't seem to believe his eyes, because he seemed to see a horse soldier of the Song army raised his right hand and clenched his fist, which was a common gesture in the army to stop advancing, and sure enough, the Song army team slowly stopped a mile away, Li Ningming held his breath and looked closely, only to see the leader of the horse army pointing at the people around him and saying something, and from time to time pointed at the dense forest on both sides with a knife.

Li Ningming was shocked in his heart, could it be that the soldiers of the Song Army were so careful? Suspect that there is an ambush in the woods? Or is Yeli Xianzong and Wuzang Ming hiding not good enough to be detected by the enemy?

Li Ningming's mind was blank, and he watched as the soldiers of the Ma Army sent two cavalrymen to slowly descend the official road, slowly approaching the woods three hundred steps away, where the army was hidden, and the traces of the ambushed cavalry would definitely be found this time.

Li Ningming knew that his wishful thinking of intercepting his back road was about to fail, so he immediately made a decision and shouted: "Kill!" "A horse rushed out of the forest first, and the green horse under the crotch galloped up and went straight to the official road; Fifteen hundred cavalry around him also swarmed out and rushed straight towards the Song army.

Li Ningming understands that while he is unprepared and rushes over, the enemy general may escape, but the materials can't run, if he is lucky, he can bring back hundreds of heads back, if he is lucky enough to chase and kill, he can bring back hundreds of heads, if he waits for the enemy to find out, immediately form a formation or immediately turn around and flee, the materials can be grabbed, but the heads may not be able to be collected, Li Ningming's heart is very big, he not only wants supplies and grain and grass this time, but also kills all the more than 1,000 soldiers escorted, so as to cover up Li Ningling's merits.

At this moment, there is no choice, Li Ningming's decision is correct, as soon as his side attacked, the two deputy generals who were ambushed in the forest in front of him also immediately led their troops to rush out, the Song soldiers were in chaos, and the loud scolding and scolding of the leader of the opposing horse army could be heard from afar, the Western Xia army was fierce, and any reprimand did not work, the Song soldiers turned their heads and ran back directly, and the vehicles full of supplies also quickly turned around, as if they had rehearsed many times, and the speed of the Song army's escape was not slow.

The footsteps of the infantry could not keep up with the horses, nor could they keep up with the carts drawn by mules and horses. This move immediately caused others to follow suit, and they immediately climbed on the cart one by one, and more than 100 carts were crowded for a while.

Li Ningming scolded with a smile while charging: "This group of Song pigs, can the mules and horses carry so many people?" Isn't this waiting for us to slaughter? ”

Just as Li Ningming expected, the cart full of soldiers and supplies suddenly struggled, each cart was as little as one horse, at most two animals to drag, how could it pull thousands of catties of materials plus the weight of five or six soldiers, no matter how the driver whipped it, the speed of the cart was not much faster than walking.

The strange roaring sound of the Western Xia army frightened the soldiers of the Song army, and some people hurriedly threw the materials in the cart down, sacks of grain and soybeans, bundles of guns and armor, and a large locked iron box, which were suddenly thrown all over the ground.

The weight of these things accounted for the lion, and the cart that emptied the supplies suddenly became lighter, and the speed gradually increased, although the distance between the two sides became smaller and smaller, but after all, they began to charge more than a mile apart, and it was difficult to catch up for a while.

In addition, the materials discarded everywhere on the official road seriously hindered the speed of the cavalry's pursuit, and even more, when the cavalry rode over these materials, their eyes were stung by the dazzling things scattered on the ground, and a few large boxes were thrown down and cracked, and a hanging copper coin and a silver ingot were spilled on the ground.

Someone hurriedly reined in the horse's head, jumped off the horse and began to stuff silver into the clothes, the other soldiers saw this and had no heart to chase, one by one they got off their horses and began to rob, seeing that the Song army brigade was gradually moving away, and finally did not even touch a single hair of the Song soldiers.

Li Ningming scolded loudly, but where could the elated soldiers who were looting listen to it, and a few of them were about to fight each other for the silver on the ground; Li Ningming was furious and ordered the arrest of all the hundreds of soldiers who participated in the robbery, hundreds of soldiers with crooked armor, swords thrown aside, and money in their arms.

A good opportunity to pursue was lost, the materials on this ground were at most two or three percent of the materials escorted by the Song army, and the rest actually let the Song army retreat with his whole body, how could Li Ningming not be annoyed? The first time he led the troops, there was a situation of disrespecting orders, although these soldiers were used to looting on weekdays, every time they went deep into the Song Realm to sweep, the generals acquiesced to the soldiers to burn and loot, as long as the big head was handed in, leaving some benefits for them, it was also to improve the enthusiasm of the soldiers.

But how could Li Ningming tolerate it, the Great Xia soldiers in his mind must be strictly disciplined and forbidden, and looting property like this was far beyond the scope of his patience.

Yeli Xianzong and Wu Zangming led people to whip all these hundreds of people, and then they came to Li Ningming, who was pale.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, the last general has punished this group of wild dogs, please calm your anger."

"Is this punishment? Is it impossible for my Great Xia Iron Cavalry military order to make this group of dogs so contemptuous? ”

"This ...... Your Highness is angry, they are really not talking, but ...... There is no need to make a big move, even if it is the leader of the family, it is just a small punishment, after all, they are all sons and daughters who are born and died......"

"Shut up! Military law is for the sake of viewing, right? Obviously, it can be done with all the work, and now it has become such an ending, who will bear this responsibility? Are you two responsible? Look at these materials, the food is only 10,000 stones, the weapons and armor are less than 100 sets, and the poor boxes of property are less than tens of thousands. ”

Yeli Xianzong and Wu Zangming scratched their heads and said in their hearts: What can I do? How can there be a reason to succeed again and again.

Li Ningming slowly stepped forward with a treasure knife, slowly walked along the queue of hundreds of soldiers who robbed money and goods, his face was clouded, and he said coldly: "You are used to being casual, you actually ignore military orders, you must accept a more severe punishment, whoever is the first to grab money, stand up yourself." ”

The soldiers were speechless.

"Okay, don't you want to say yes? Then they all sat together, and people came, and all these dogs were dug and buried alive, and none of them were allowed to stay. ”

Everyone was shocked, some people were so frightened that they fainted on the spot, Yeli Xianzong and Wu Zangming hurriedly stepped forward to intercede, saying that they were in the enemy territory, and they needed to quickly lead the troops to evacuate the Song realm, and what punishment would be paid back to talk about Yunyun.

Li Ningming didn't listen to anything, shook his head and said, "Then I'll give you one last chance, you can point out the top ten robbers, and you can be temporarily exempted from the death penalty." Give you ten breaths of time, and if there is no result after ten breaths, bury them alive on the spot. ”

Only then did everyone understand that Li Ningming was serious, once it came to the moment of life and death, the brothers on weekdays would also turn against each other, and the ten breaths time was still too long for them, and in less than five breaths, ten Xia soldiers were pointed out, these ten people were like ashes, they didn't expect that they would be so stunned today, and the things that are commonplace on weekdays are actually such a fuss in the hands of this prince.

"Go on the road in peace, your families will be beneficial, and ten of you will die as if they were fighting the enemy." Li Ningming said coldly.

"Your Highness spares your life, I won't dare to wait any longer." Ten summer soldiers knelt on the ground and kowtowed and begged for mercy, crying endlessly.

Li Ningming shouted to Yeli Xianzong and Wu Zangming: "Why don't you pull it down for execution? If you want me to do it myself, can't I do it myself? ”

Yeli Xianzong and Wuzang looked at each other, and no one wanted to take a step forward; Li Ning jumped to his feet angrily, gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I'll come by myself, you two openly disobey the order, go back and wait for me." ”

In desperation, Yeli Xianzong and Wu Zangming hurriedly ordered the guards to see the ten people dragged to the grass on the side of the official road, and they heard the screams one after another, and ten bloody human heads were thrown in front of everyone.

Everyone was silent, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was ruthless, but it was unexpected, it was an ordinary raid, but I don't know why His Royal Highness the Crown Prince values it so much.

"You people, although you can be exempted from capital crimes, but you will also be punished, if you want to wash away the shame on your body, then you need to fight bravely to kill the enemy to make up for your merits, and later attack the Song army in the eagle's beak cliff, you need to be the first echelon to charge, if you can survive, I will exempt you from all punishment, and will also give you a heavy reward, can you understand?"

Li Ningming's words stunned Yeli Xianzong and Wuzangming, is this crazy? actually led the cavalry deep into the valley to pursue, which is a big taboo.

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, forgive the last general, you can't enter the valley, once my iron cavalry enters the valley, there will be no room for maneuver, and the advantage will be lost." Didn't hide Ming and hurriedly stepped forward.

Li Ningming said: "Don't you know that this is a taboo? Do you know what is going on at the bottom of the valley under the eagle's beak? It was a wide valley, and thousands of cavalry could cross and cross the valley, what were you worried about? Besides, look at this batch of materials, obviously in addition to grain, grass, weapons and ordinary materials, there are also a large number of copper coins, gold and silver, this is a huge harvest, robbed these, at least to ensure that my left wing Jianing Army does not need to reach out to the emperor for a year to ask for military salaries and materials, this is a great achievement, don't you want to make this great contribution to Daxia? ”

"But...... In case ......"

"There is nothing in case, the Song people have a saying called 'wealth and danger in seeking', if you don't enter the tiger's den, you will get the tiger, at this moment the morale of the Song army is low, and the infantry is the mainstay, as long as they are not allowed to retreat to the narrow section deep in the cliff valley, we can win the battle."

"But what if the enemy comes to help and blocks the back road?"

"Fight quickly, settle the battle before the enemy gets the news of reinforcements, I have thought about the way back, we will not go north from the official road, but directly enter the Qinfeng Road of the Song State to the west, and then turn to the north, from the Song army defense handover between Gyeongju and Jingzhou to the north, let them pounce, this battle is destined to become famous all over the world."

"But ......"

"Don't do it anymore, quickly reorganize the army and march to the eagle's beak cliff, delaying the fighters, if you let the Song army retreat back to the mountain road, I will ask you."

Yeli Xianzong and Wu Zangming didn't dare to say it anymore, although before coming, Li Jiqian, the commander of the Jianing Army, told them not to let Li Ningming come, but in this situation, the two of them were also powerless; Of course, the two of them still have some admiration for Li Ningming's depiction of the strategic prospects and the route of retreat, but now that the arrow is on the bow, they can only gamble with luck.