Xiao Wuna's injuries were really not light, he was hit by three crossbow arrows, but fortunately, they were all on his thighs and buttocks, and he suffered a lot of crimes and bled a lot, but his life was worry-free. In the words of the military doctor, if you are not infected, you can recover from lying in bed for two months, and nothing will be delayed. No, it's not bedridden, you have to lie on your stomach.

"Brother Xiao, didn't you think I saved your life before, even if this account is cleared from now on, I still have to owe you a big favor in turn. Not to mention this time, you have saved at least the lives of more than 2,000 new troops, and your merits are immeasurable! ”

At the moment when Xiao Wuna was carried away for surgery, Hong Tao came to the stretcher, like an old landlord who was holding an account book to collect rent, babbling and pulling the abacus beads, and took money from his pocket to find it again.

There are really not many people who can make Hong Tao say that he owes, and even his family rarely gives this kind of promise. Xiao Wuna deserved it, the three arrows in him were all behind, not because he ran away, but because he threw himself on the ground and crushed the fuse with his body.

It is also to blame that the Tangut people were timid, for fear that it would affect themselves after the break, so they only arranged for 200 dead soldiers to be stationed in the place where the powder keg was buried, and the large army all hid on the hillside two miles away.

The 200 dead men were not blind, and before they could get ashore, they found a large raft floating on the river, but they could not withstand the dense musket fire and could not prevent the landing of the marines.

By the time the Western Xia generals heard the sound of gunfire and rushed to support with their troops, most of Xiao Wuna's marines had already landed. Perhaps they were stunned by the sudden bullets, or they thought that the terrain here on the shore was not suitable for the cavalry to fight, so the Tanguts decided to light the fuse.

Now the Marines could not defend purely and had to find a way to drive the enemy away from the embankment. However, in close combat, the musket is not so sharp, and the crossbow is as powerful, and both sides suffer casualties. It wasn't until Jiang Erlang's reinforcements arrived that the dug ditch was snatched down.

"Can you wait until the last general is healed before settling the account, it really hurts!" Xiao Wuna was lying on the stretcher, and the steel crossbow inserted in her aching buttocks was trembling, but she was not as rude as Jiang Erlang, and her words were quite polite.

"It's a small thing to lose your life, but it's a big thing to lose your temper...... Okay, carry it away, don't anesthetize it when you pull out the crossbow arrows, I'm afraid that your craftsmanship is not perfect, General Xiao was not shot by the enemy but was killed by medicine! ”

Whoever dares to stop himself from speaking is his enemy. Hong Tao has never been soft on the enemy, and he gave an order to the military doctor and walked to the river with his hands behind his back.

There were already several people surrounded by the artificial ditch by the river, Wang Hou, Zhao Maid, Shi Tong, and Wang Da were all there, only Jiang Erlang didn't feel fresh, and was busy collecting the wounded soldiers and dead soldiers.

"It's a shame that the adults are like gods, if they rush into the ancient river channel, our army will be in danger!" Seeing Hong Tao coming, Wang Houxuan wiped his forehead, very afraid.

"Good guy, this must be a thousand pounds, it's really a book!" Hong Tao looked down at the end of the ditch, and also gasped. It's not pretending, it's really scary.

This ditch has not been dug with the Yellow River, and it is still about 30 meters. But at least three deep wells were drilled on the banks of the river more than thirty meters, which were filled with jars of gunpowder.

Several canisters have already been pulled up, and although they are filled with black powder, if they are blown up, this section of the river bank will definitely have to become a big pit, and if it is washed by the river, it is really no different from a burst of the embankment, and it cannot be blocked.

"Don't worry, my lord, I've already asked people to fetch water, and it will become dirt after filling it up for an hour." Shi Tong also knew the power of so much gunpowder, and he made his own decisions without asking for instructions.

"Well, that's a good job, but even if there is no gunpowder, this section of the river is not safe. Just in time, let the militia bring the herdsmen over, tell them what is happening here, and then take matters into their own hands to repair the embankment. ”

Having injured nearly a thousand new troops, Hong Tao really couldn't swallow this breath. Attacking Xingqing Mansion to capture the culprit is a later story, and now he is using this scene to continue his plan to attack the heart.

Let the sixty or seventy thousand Western Xia people who were coerced by the new army also see the good things their court has done, this black cauldron must be detained, no matter how serious it is, how to say it, I don't think it will be indifferent.

"By the way, bring the two Western Xia officers from Xiping Mansion, the Western Xia soldiers that Erlang and General Xiao met are a bit evil, and we must find out where they came from."

When it comes to attacking the heart, Hong Tao still wonders about something. The Western Xia army that I encountered just now was obviously not too afraid of muskets, which was not logical. If it is said that it is the descendant of the Western Xia Emperor, it is not like it, and the dress is too rough, which does not conform to the trend of Sinicization of the Western Xia.

"What? The Yan Military Division of Heishui Town and the Weifu Military Division of Montenegro ...... "The two captives followed Wang Qi's baggage troops through the ancient river channel, and they didn't study much, and they only looked at the corpses on the ground a few times and gave a very definite answer. Not only do I know their detailed origins, but I also know why they appeared near Xingqing Mansion.

One of these two military divisions is in the northwest and the other is in the northeast, and the closest to Xingqing Mansion is nearly a thousand miles, and there are desert mountains in between. On weekdays, these two garrisons will not go south, they are used to defend the border army of Liao, compared to the Great Song Dynasty, there are more temptations and frictions between Xia and Liao, and the task is heavier.

However, this time the exception, the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang and the Western Xia Emperor Li Qianshun died too suddenly, and the party nobles had an important job to choose the new emperor in addition to pondering how to resist the new army and negotiate peace with the Great Song Dynasty.

Li Qianshun has no brothers, let alone sons, who will inherit Dabao? As a result, I counted them on my fingers, and no one could see what everyone wanted.

Now it's lively, everyone wants to be the emperor, but no one has such a great ability, and the quarrel has not come out of the result. Seeing that the new army was coming to the door again, they simply didn't recommend it in a hurry, and whoever could keep the ancestral foundation would be the next emperor.

As long as the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty can issue an order to hold down the new army, it is not equivalent to keeping the Western Xia.

There are also those who are ready to use force to fight, and the Yan Military Division of Heishui Town and the Weifu Military Division of Montenegro are the main forces. They had never fought against the New Army, and as the saying goes, the ignorant are fearless. Guangdao hearsay must be lucky, and feels that as long as he can make full use of the right time, place and people, he will inevitably not be able to fight with it.

Isn't this coming, and I have come up with an unsolvable strategy for lacking morality. To be honest, if it weren't for Hong Tao's chicken thief to the extreme, Xiao Wuna and Jiang Erlang dared to work hard, their strategy would have really succeeded.

"Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, the foreign enemy has already hit the door of the house, but the family is still staring at the throne, but they don't know where there is no country where there is a throne to ......sit on."

With such an explanation, Hong Tao finally figured it out, not that the firepower of the new army was not fierce enough, nor that the Xixia people were not afraid of death, but that the party nobles pretended not to know that they were here to send them to death in order to compete for power and profit. Maybe I hope that they will die as soon as possible, and use the hands of the new army to get rid of a very combat-ready competitor.

Moreover, the people who came up with the idea of digging the Yellow River to block the enemy army were not all for the sake of retreating from the enemy, they were counting on the Yellow Flood Area to help delay time, and when the armistice agreement with the Great Song Dynasty was negotiated, they could sit on the emperor's throne in a grand manner. His heart can be punished!

"This king will never do such a crazy thing, if my uncle can make the Great Song Dynasty prosperous, this king will be willing to go to sea to find Chen Niang!" As the saying goes, the speaker has no intention of listening, Hong Tao just felt it, but Zhao Maid heard another layer of deep warning.

Perhaps out of the protection of his own reputation, or perhaps there was still the impulse of a young man, he swore in front of everyone that he would not be such an emperor who only disregarded the people and the country for the sake of power.

“…… Break this thought, even if His Royal Highness goes to Chenniang, he will no longer be the Chenniang of the year. If you don't believe it, when this matter is understood, Chen Niang will join the court and become a minister, and His Royal Highness will understand it with his own eyes. ”

Hong Tao knew that he was a little speechless, and he also understood that Zhao Maid still remembered his childhood partner. A man's first love is difficult to erase from his heart, even if he is dozens of years old.

This is not a bad thing, on the contrary, it can accelerate the transformation of a man from a boy to maturity. Hong Tao was just worried that Zhao Maid couldn't stand the cruelty of reality, so he had to warn him first, pour a basin of cold water on it to cool down first, so as not to be too disappointed in the future.

“…… I want to see it...... "Zhao Maid still didn't give up, he didn't say it, but his eyes betrayed him.