An army is marching through the Hanhai Desert.

Standing in the middle of the line, you can't see the head forward, and you can't see the tail backward. There are tens of thousands of people and horses. The front army had already approached the city of Yanzhou, while the rear army was still marching on the Gobi Desert in the bitter cold wind.

The Great White High Kingdom commanded the army, and the King of Jin, Chage, was in this team at this time. He rode a dragon stallion horse, wore a felt hat to protect him from the wind and cold, put on a thick leather robe, and tied a gold belt around his waist, showing his noble status.

Cha Ge, who originally planned to wait until Layue to send troops, could no longer sit still after receiving the news that the robbers of the Song Dynasty had once again sacked the Wuding River Valley, and had to gather troops and horses in advance to leave Xingqing Mansion.

The bad effects of robbers being robbed are quite serious! Because the Western Xia was founded in a barren land, and the land Silk Road was cut off after the war with the Song State, the country's finances have been extremely tight. For a long time, it had to rely on the gifts of the Song Dynasty and the looted property from the Song Dynasty. It is not wrong to say that Western Xia is a robber country!

But since the Battle of Hengshan, the difficulty of looting the counties of the Song Dynasty has greatly increased. And this year, he lost Tsongkha Tubo, a little brother who can scrape a little...... Of course, it's just a sad day, and everyone's hope is still there.

As long as there is hope for robbery, the country will have cohesion, cohesion, and everyone will be able to unite to tide over the difficulties.

But what happened this time? The dignified bandit country was robbed by the fat sheep of the Song Dynasty...... And it was ransacked by a small number of cavalry, it was not enough to loot once, it was a second time, and what was even more hateful was that both times were fully loaded!

This incident is too damaging to the prestige of the two brothers, Qianshun and Chage. It doesn't matter if you two are not as good as Zhao Guan's family in painting and writing, and your ability to be a robber is not as good as Zhao Ji? You famous families have been robber leaders for generations!

This face is too painful - it is difficult for the people of the Song Dynasty and later generations to understand the thinking of these bandit gangs, and it is the real ability to rob them! If you can grab it, someone will follow! If Zhao Ji's ability to grab things is better than that of Qianshun and Brother Cha, then of course the little robbers below will abandon Qianshun and Brother Cha to vote for Zhao Ji.

Isn't Li Shimin's Heavenly Khan in history how he became a god?

As for the little robbers being bullied by the big robbers, it's all a small matter, and national unity is as big as the sky! As long as the bandit leader Tian Khan can take them to rob others, everyone will support Tian Khan's policy of national unity.

So Qianshun and Brother Cha must now prove that they are even more powerful bandit leaders than Zhao Ji...... Considering that the robber of the party was actually the Jurchen and Obstruction bandit group commanded by Wan Yan Xianye, the two party robbers of Qianshun and Cha Ge are really overwhelming!

However, Cha Ge did not know that he had encountered the bandit ancestor now, and he thought that it was thousands (in fact, only a few hundred) of Han Chinese bandits who killed people without blinking an eye burned and looted the land of the Dangxiang people.

If the lost face is not recovered quickly, the hearts of the gang will be scattered.

"Where can I rob it......" Brother Cha muttered in a low voice. In fact, he has no experience in robbing things, he is not yet twenty years old this year, and he has only been in power for a few months. And even when he was "interning" under Renduo Baozhong before, he didn't have much chance to rob, after all, the Song army had too much advantage at that time.

Now, with the Song army quelling the rebellion of the Huang, Shan, Kuo and Renduo families, the Song army's advantage has become greater than ever before.

In this case, Brother Wei Mingcha had to personally lead elites like Iron Harrier and the garrison to leave Xingqing Mansion and go to the Hengshan-Wuding River front line to find a place.

In order to ensure the success of the robbery, he really took out his old book and fought hard! Iron Harriers alone dispatched 1500! The garrison dispatched 8,500 in one fell swoop, for a total of 10,000 elite soldiers. Together with three times the number of negative soldiers, a total of 40,000 troops were dispatched. Moreover, all the regular soldiers were one man and two horses, and the bearers led the camels and pack horses. As long as these more than 30,000 camels and pack horses can return with full loads, the prestige of Qianshun and Cha Ge in the army can be truly established.

However, the greater the capital, the greater the concern of Brother Weimingcha. Because at present, what the Western Xia court has in its hands is 30,000 or thousands of truly elite soldiers - those who play soy sauce and serve as meat shields, there are still many in Western Xia. However, the pillar of the Great White High Kingdom's armed forces has always been 30,000 to 40,000 elites.

To put it mildly, as long as there are these 30,000 or 40,000 elites in hand, no matter how bad the Qianshun and Chage brothers are, they can still abandon the country and go west. These elite soldiers of Western Xia are iron troops that have been tested by war for a long time! In the east, the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty, which had also fought for decades, had no advantage over itself.

But if you go to the Western Regions, hum! Cha Ge had already inquired with Cao Mian that the Qarakhanid Kingdom and the Uighurs of Gaochang in the Western Regions had been in peace for nearly a hundred years, and the army had long since decayed.

Maybe it's time to change the direction of the use of troops!

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves was heard from far and near. When Chago looked up, he saw a few knights galloping towards him. The first was the commander of a Jianing Military Division, and he was also a confidant sent to the Jianing Military Division by Chage, named Liang Duo, who was a member of the Liang clan. For some reason, he didn't run away with Empress Dowager Xiaoliang, but was used by Brother Cha.

Behind Liang Duo were several men with Han hair buns. Brother Cha knew that these people who were dressed like Han people were all children of the Hengshan Fan tribe who had a heart for the Great White High Country - that is, they were in the Song camp and their hearts were in the summer! After the Song Dynasty occupied Hengshan, there were many such Fan Erlang!

And even those leaders who are in charge of the fate of a clan are mostly in secret with Western Xia...... It's not necessarily patriotic, but no one knows when Western Xia will fight back!

Brother Cha hurriedly waved at Liang Duo, and the black and thin man, who was only a few years older than Brother Cha, immediately took a somewhat short and fat young man to ride a horse to Brother Cha, and then the two dismounted and saluted together.

Liang Duo finished saluting, pointed to the short and fat man beside him, and said to Brother Cha: "King, this is Li Yan of Huanzhou, and he is a loyal and righteous person who has a heart for the Great White High Country!" ”

Li Zhen bowed again, and said earnestly: "The king, Li Zhen, is willing to break his bones for the Great White High Kingdom!" ”

Of course he is not a Han anymore, his family was originally a leader of the Hengshan Fan Division, and the surname Li is also a surname - the Western Xia Emperor was very interesting when he gave the surname to the people below, and he never gave the surname Wei Ming, nor did he give Tuoba, but gave the surname Li from Li Tang. Therefore, the heads of the Hengshan Fan Department are basically the Li family.

"Good!" Brother Cha nodded and said, "If you are a loyal person!" ”

Liang Duo said on the side: "According to Li Zhen's report, the cavalry of the Song army that entered our country a few days ago to burn and loot is the Imperial Horse Zhisu Department in front of the palace, and it was dispatched on the order of the new Yuhou Wu Haogu, the new imperial capital of the three direct capitals. ”

"Wu Haogu?" "Isn't he a businessman?" ”

Li Yan said: "Back to the king, the warrior thief is indeed a profiteer!" I don't know what means I used, but I actually became the general of the unified army. It seems that the Song Kingdom's qi is almost over, and he actually uses merchants as generals. ”

But this profiteer still robbed the big white country! Brother Cha was a little depressed.

He asked again: "Is there any sign of a large-scale movement of the Song army?" ”

"There is no sign of a major move." Li said, "Most of the people and archers of the states and armies along the border have not been assembled, and without their assistance, the Song army cannot fight." ”

So Wu Haogu, a profiteer, sent cavalry to rob him?

Brother Cha frowned and asked, "Where can I cross Hengshan?" ”

This question was asked to Liang Duo, and Liang Duo immediately replied: "Yan'an Mansion and the Suide army are relatively empty along the border, and not long ago, the Song people's Yan Yanfu Division sent some edge archers to Yan'an to listen to it. ”

"Drawn archers?" Cha Ge asked, "Only Yan'an Mansion and the Suide Army have transferred archers?" ”

"There are only these two."

"Know what to do?"

"I don't know." Liang Duo replied, "But the number of transfers is not much, and it shouldn't be for a big attack." ”

Brother Cha thought for a while, his eyes suddenly became cold, and he said to himself: "Let's go to Yan'an Mansion for a while!" ”

……

Almost at the same time, Wu Haogu also led an army of more than 30,000 people to the north.

Although his army has a large number of infantry, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't have the sharpness that Gao Yu had when he led the warriors in front of him.

First of all, the marching speed of the troops has decreased, and almost everyone rushed to the battlefield before! And the physical strength of the dragon warrior is also surprisingly good, even if he is fully armed, and then put on armor, he can be in the middle of the day for a hundred miles!

However, after the expansion, two of the three straights in front of the emperor are obviously not good, although it is now a no-armor march, and there is not much luggage, but the speed is still not fast, and it is about the same for fifty or sixty miles a day.

Secondly, the morale of the troops has also dropped significantly! This is not obvious to others, but Gao Yu, who walks side by side with Wu Haogu, can be clearly perceived. The two royal fronts he was in charge of really had the momentum of killing the vultures (emperors) of the western thieves in one breath to go to Xingqing Mansion to change houses.

But now, an air of palpable dread pervades the army—and it's no wonder that after the expansion of the force, the number of recruits is overwhelming. Moreover, these recruits did not receive enough training, so they were taken to the battlefield by Wu Haogu.

Such a troop may not be much to defend the city, it is used for field warfare, and it is really worrying that it will be defeated!

However, there are still things that make Gao Yu feel gratified, that is, after the adjustment, the royal horse in front of the palace seems to have become sharper, although a large number of knights have been transferred from it to serve as officers and military opportunities, but the knights transferred in seem to be even more powerful! Now the knights in their early 1,000s walked in front of the team to open the way, not only the formation was extremely tight, but also exuded a terrifying murderous aura everywhere...... Even Gao Yu and Yang Kebi are a little incomprehensible, why has the temperament of the royal horse in front of the palace changed so much?