The fifth watch has passed, the sky has been hazy and blue, the woods on both sides of the Tiger Roaring Gorge are still very quiet, many soldiers seize the time to take a nap, Li Yanqing has no sleep, from time to time to pay attention to the movement in the woods, this is the first time he led the army to fight, so that he is extremely cautious, lest the dam that he took at a huge price will be recaptured by the enemy. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

At this time, Wang Gui smiled and dragged a big bag over, and the pocket jingled.

"What is it?" Li Yanqing looked at this strange big pocket.

"There are more than a hundred daggers I collected for you!"

'Wow! Wang Gui piled the big bag in front of Li Yanqing.

Li Yanqing glared at him, "You guy, are you okay to find me trouble?" ”

Having said that, Li Yanqing still spread out his pocket, took out a few sharp daggers from it, and checked them in his hand, the daggers of the Western Xia people are slender in shape, not light or heavy, and they are very suitable for flying knives.

If you fight in close quarters, these throwing knives can come in handy.

"Lao Li, the sky is about to dawn, I'm afraid the Western Xia Army won't come again." Wang Gui whispered to Li Yanqing.

"You can't be careless, it's not the style of the Western Xia army to give up the withdrawal so easily, unless they deliberately give up the dam."

"Do you think they deliberately abandoned the dam?"

Li Yanqing pondered for a moment and said: "It's hard to say, it may also be that we gave up on purpose, after our army passed from the Guyuan Road, and the Western Xia army recaptured the dam, we would have no way to retreat." ”

Li Yanqing was very hesitant, he felt that it was indeed easier to seize the dam this time, and when their reinforcements arrived, the Western Xia army retreated with almost no resistance, which was not in line with the style of the Western Xia army fighting to the death, and he had all kinds of doubts in his heart.

"There is another possibility!"

Wang Gui whispered: "They let us seize the dam first, and after we send a signal, they will recapture the dam, and then dig the dam to release water, and I am afraid that none of the Song troops who rushed to meet will be able to escape!" ”

Li Yanqing looked up at the fire that was gradually extinguishing on the top of the mountain, and he realized that Wang Gui was probably right, the Tangut people were using a strategy to capture the old people, at this time their reinforcements had already entered the canyon, at least nearly 10,000 people, once the Tangut people recaptured the dam, dug the dam and released the water, these more than 10,000 people will face the catastrophe.

If they want to avoid this consequence, they can only hold on to it at any cost.

At this moment, there was a sharp whistling sound in the woods, and this scout in front shot out a Ming Di, and something happened, Li Yanqing immediately shouted: "Everyone get up!" ”

The soldiers got up one after another, stretched out their bows and arrows, and waited for the battle, although the bows and arrows of the Song army had little effect on the heavy armored soldiers of the Western Xia, but they still had a great killing effect on ordinary soldiers, using sharp armor-piercing arrows, they could shoot through the enemy's leather armor within ninety steps, and ordinary bows and arrows could also shoot the enemy within fifty steps.

More than 100 other soldiers held captured spears in their hands, ready to meet the onslaught of the Western Xia army.

But after a long time, there was still no movement in the woods,

Suddenly, there was a rustle in the woods, and the scouts hiding in the woods rushed out and shouted, "There are three thousand enemy ......"

Before he finished shouting, a burst of arrows came indiscriminately, and the scout was hit by seven or eight arrows in the back, and fell to the ground, Wang Gui was furious and wanted to rush out with a knife, but he was held down by Li Yanqing and scolded him angrily: "Are you crazy? Go up and die! ”

Wang Gui was so hateful that his teeth rattled, he smashed his fist on the dirt, and shouted: "Prepare to shoot arrows!" ”

Five hundred soldiers brushed the ground and raised their crossbows and aimed at the dark woods, and a hundred spearmen were half-crouched on the ground, ready to strike at any moment.

At this time, Li Yanqing clearly heard a low shouting sound from the woods, followed by a loud shout of killing, and countless black shadows rushed out of the woods.

Li Yanqing shouted in a low voice: "Listen to my orders, don't be in a hurry to release arrows!" ”

He watched the Western Xia soldiers run with sharp eyes, entering the killing range within eighty paces from the woods a hundred paces away, and soon entered within sixty paces, Li Yanqing shouted: "Shoot!" ”

Five hundred arrows of the Song army were shot at the same time, although the Western Xia soldiers were wearing thick leather armor, but within a distance of fifty paces, the leather armor could not resist the sharp armor-piercing arrows, and the Western Xia soldiers who ran to the front fell to the ground one after another, screaming.

Li Yanqing was looking for the enemy general who had just given the order, but it was too dark in the woods for him to see clearly, so he had to fire more than ten arrows in a row, and each arrow fell a person, winning the applause of the surrounding soldiers.

The Song army's arrow rain shot more than 100 Western Xia soldiers, but did not frighten the enemy back, the Western Xia soldiers stopped for a moment, but still charged forward one after another, at the same time, more than 1,000 archers appeared next to the woods, and fired arrows at the Song army together.

The soldiers of the Song army crouched behind the sandbags one after another, but more than a dozen soldiers were unfortunately hit by arrows, and the enemy's arrows slowed down a little, seizing this gap, Li Yanqing yelled, "Shoot again!" ”

The soldiers of the Song army got up at the same time and released their arrows, and the dense arrows shot at the Western Xia soldiers who had rushed to more than thirty steps away, and the soldiers fell one by one.

After two rounds of arrows, there were only more than two hundred Xixia soldiers left in charge of the five hundred Western Xia soldiers, they roared loudly and rushed up directly, it was too late for the bow and arrow to strike, Li Yanqing turned around and shouted, "Spear soldiers!" ”

Wang Gui's eyes were red, he roared, and led more than a hundred Song army spearmen to kill.

At this time, a soldier rushed to Li Yanqingyu and reported: "There are no enemy troops on the other side of the dam, General Liu is willing to lead the army to help in the battle!" ”

"No way!"

Li Yanqing immediately refused, "Tell General Liu that the key is to hold the dam, and don't fall for the enemy's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain." ”

Although the current situation is tight, Li Yanqing is very sober-minded, once Liu Jian leads the army to help, there will be a loophole on the west bank of the dam, and once the Western Xia army recaptures the dam, the consequences will be unimaginable.

The soldiers galloped back to the east bank, when the spearmen of the Song army attacked.

The one hundred and twenty spearmen were improvised by the soldiers of the intelligence battalion, and they wore the heavy armor of the Tangut soldiers and held bronze spears, which at first glance looked exactly like the Tangut soldiers, but they still made a difference from the Tangut soldiers, that is, the left arm was wrapped with a white cloth, so that the soldiers could recognize it at a glance.

Thirty of them lined up in a row of four, intercepting the onslaught of the Western Xia soldiers, and the two sides collided violently, spears pierced, blood gushed out, and hundreds fought fiercely on the narrow slopes.

At this time, a thousand Xixia soldiers appeared from the woods, holding spears, shouting and rushing to kill, and the five hundred Song soldiers behind them fired arrows together, and the arrows were fired at the running enemy, and the enemy soldiers kept falling to the ground.

Wang Gui was surrounded by seven or eight Western Xia soldiers, he brandished a big knife and slashed three people in a row, but the Western Xia soldiers saw that he was the leader, greedy for merit, and wanted to cut off other people's heads for merit, seven or eight spears stabbed at him together, Wang Gui blocked left and right, and it was gradually gone.

At this time, a Western Xia soldier went around behind Wang Gui, raised a spear and stabbed Wang Gui's vest, seeing that Wang Gui was about to be assassinated by a spear, suddenly a cold light flashed, and a snowy dagger pierced the forehead of the sneak attack enemy, the Western Xia soldier screamed miserably, fell to the ground on his back, and the tip of the spear was less than an inch away from Wang Gui's back.

This is Li Yanqing found out that Wang Gui was in danger, and came to the rescue in time, he saw that Wang Gui's crisis was not solved, and shot five flying knives in a row, five Western Xia soldiers fell to the ground in response, Wang Gui was suddenly relieved, he roared, swung his knife and slashed three people in a row, and rushed out of the encirclement.

Li Yanqing killed more than 30 people with a flying knife, but more and more enemy troops were killed, Li Yanqing saw that the spearmen were very difficult and gradually couldn't resist, so he shouted: "Put down the bow and arrows and go up to fight!" ”

Five hundred crossbow soldiers put down their bows and arrows, drew their swords and raised their shields to meet them, and on the hillside, more than 2,000 people were fighting together.

At this time, a fierce battle also broke out on the other side, thousands of Xixia soldiers who were ambushed on the east bank saw that the Song army was not fooled, so they simply killed from the woods, several rounds of bows and arrows were shot, shooting hundreds of people, but still could not stop the surging Western Xia soldiers, Liu Jian was in a hurry, led more than 600 people to meet and kill, and there was also a fierce battle on the east bank of the dam.

"Join the army, look!"

A soldier suddenly pointed to the water and shouted: "There is a boat!" ”

Li Yanqing also saw that dozens of rafts appeared on the water, and they were full of black-pressed Western Xia soldiers, which were enemy troops who were preparing to directly attack the dam.

Cold sweat began to appear on Li Yanqing's forehead, and at this time, he suddenly found that a Western Xia general appeared on the edge of the woods, with a bronze helmet and iron armor, holding a war sword, and behind him were densely lined up with Western Xia soldiers, ready to increase the force again.

Li Yanqing turned around and drew a bronze bow and an iron arrow from the leather bag behind him, he half-knelt behind a big rock, stretched his bow and arrows, but the main general was extremely cunning, and the figure disappeared into the woods again, only to see five hundred Xixia soldiers rushing out of the woods and rushing towards the edge of the lake, they obviously wanted to meet the raft army on the water.

At this time, the horse's head flashed, Li Yanqing saw a blurred figure in the forest, he did not hesitate to pull the bowstring, the iron arrow was about to be fired, he shot an arrow by feeling, and the iron arrow shot into the forest like lightning.