Chapter 124: Knocking on the Mountain and Shaking the Tiger

Everyone dispersed, Zhao Ta went out of the forest under the guidance of Erwa, and turned into a small valley, where there were already a few people wandering there, all dressed as bald and bearded Xixia people, and saw Erwa leading the two of them to walk a hundred steps deep into the valley, where there was a fire for the living, and there were only two people, an old man and a young man.

"See the prince, Hedong Intelligence Division Lei Mai to meet the prince!" The old man pulled down the young man and knelt down on one knee and said, but it was a Han ceremony.

"Boss Leimai, thank you for your hard work, no courtesy!" Zhao Ta hurriedly stepped forward to help the two of them.

"Lord Wang, more than 800 accounts in my department have all been prepared, and you can follow Lord Wang to return to Song at any time anyway!" Lei Mai invited Zhao Ta to sit down and said respectfully, while the young man looked up and down curiously at the prince who was the same age as him.

"Don't be rude!" Lei Maichong reprimanded the young man, "Lord Wang, this is the eldest grandson of his subordinates, Qingyang, who doesn't understand the rules, which makes the prince laugh!" ”

"It's okay, it's just that this king came out in a hurry and didn't bring anything with him, so this dagger can be regarded as a greeting gift!" Zhao Ta took off the handle ruler from his waist and handed the long dagger to Qing Yang.

"Don't thank you yet!" Lei Mai looked at the dagger green shark skin sheath, the bronze gauntlet, and the handle of the mutton fat jade, which was not ordinary at a glance.

"Thank you, Lord Wang, for the reward!" There are a few men who don't like knives, and Qingyang took it and fiddled with it, smiling and thanking him, but their Chinese language was a little stiff, obviously growing up in Western Xia.

"Not necessarily!" Zhao Ta waved his hand and said, "The leader of Leimai has been lurking in Western Xia for more than 30 years, and he still has the heart of the Song Dynasty, which is really impressive!" He saluted.

"Lord Wang..."Lei Mai wanted to avoid it, but Zhao Ta held him down and received a salute, and the old man was moved to tears.

"Boss Leimai, because time is pressing, let's make a long story short!" Zhao Ta comforted the old man, and when he saw that he had calmed down, he said, "Now that the situation has changed, I'm afraid that the matter of your return to the Song Dynasty will be delayed!" ”

"Lord Wang, this..."

"Alas, this king understands your feelings, but now that the 30,000 troops of the Shizhou Supervisory Army Division have all crossed the river, and the reinforcements have not arrived, we must return, and it may be difficult for your whole clan to return to the Song Dynasty!" Zhao Ta knew what kind of blow his words were to an old man who had been away for decades, so he tried to slow down his speech and speak in a calmer tone, "But don't worry, three more years, less than one year, this king will come back, and your wish to return to the Song Dynasty will be fulfilled at that time!" ”

"Lord Wang, my subordinates understand, and I will strictly obey the orders of the prince!" In order to wait for the day of returning to Song, Lei Mai can be said to have been planning for many years, and this time is the closest to success, but there has been an accident again, and the disappointment can be imagined, but after all, he has been through ups and downs for a long time, and he quickly stabilized his mind.

"This time, the king has not considered it properly, and the plan is not well planned, I am really sorry!" Zhao Ta once again expressed his apology, "Now your identity has not been exposed, and you can still use it, this time we sent troops, the entire Yulin County tribe was almost completely swept away by us, the fertile land was destroyed, and this year's grain harvest is sure to fail." Li Jifeng has been captured by me, Yeli has been hit hard, and the prestige of the Jie Ji is insufficient, I am afraid that it will be difficult to command the entire military supervision department, and a new one will definitely be sent here, and they still have to rely on the local heroes. I mean, you can use this time of turmoil to win hearts and minds, take the opportunity to swallow up small tribes, and grow your power! ”

"The prince's plan is very good, but although I have worked hard in Xixia for many years, I don't have much money and food, and the clansmen can only barely make ends meet. The old man looked at Zhao Ta and said with a wry smile.

"Ha Luha, I ignored this!" Zhao Ta thought about it, the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes of Western Xia, as well as heavy military service, it was not easy for Lei Mai to develop the tribe to more than 800 accounts, "Let's do it, we will evacuate this place tonight, there are still 10,000 stone of grain and more than a dozen carts of property we got in the forest, when I leave, I will send someone to feint against your tribe, you can take the opportunity to send troops to fight with us..."...,

"Ha Luha, the prince was killed by his subordinates, and he abandoned all the grain and grass, and was all captured by his subordinates!" Lei Mai understood after listening to half of it, and Da Lu said with a smile.

"Yes, yes, Lei Mai is the leader of the army and the horse is strong, where am I the opponent, I can only flee in the wilderness!" Zhao Ta took the old man's hand and said, "This king's Xiangyi army has taken over as the Xia army, but it has not yet tasted defeat, and the leader of Leimai will definitely be able to gain a great reputation, and all the clans will come to vote!" ”

"My subordinates will thank the prince!" Lei Mai and the prince looked at each other and smiled, although he and the prince saw each other for the first time, they felt very close to each other.

"This year's days must be difficult, and this little thing can't last, and the leader can also organize a caravan to do some business on the border to supplement the cost!" Zhao Ta thought about it and said.

"Lord Wang, although the Xia Kingdom can't help but trade with the Song Dynasty now, the Song Realm is very strict in its investigation, and it is difficult to get hold of the grain, cloth, and iron tools!" Lei Mai said in embarrassment.

"The leader is really an honest man, don't you forget that this king is still appeased by Hedong Jingluo, and it is not normal to do some business with foreign clans, smuggle some in-demand items, and make a small fortune!" Zhao Ta said with a smile.

"I'm old, I'm really old, what is the identity of the prince, how can I not do this thing!" Lei bought it happily, shook his head and said self-deprecatingly, smuggling is almost an open secret, who dares to stop the business that the head of the way wants to do, if he has this way, it is difficult to make a fortune.

"That's it, if there is any need, you can inform the organization, I will try my best to meet it, the leader's contribution to the organization in the summer is huge, everyone will not forget, all we can do is a little thing!" Zhao Ta said that their intelligence support in this area mostly came from Lei Mai's line, and this time they were able to grab one accurate and avoid the search of the Xia Army, and Lei Mai contributed a lot.

"Thank you Lord Wang, with the support of the Lord Wang, my clan will be able to prosper, and my subordinates are waiting for the day when Lord Wang Ye will lead the troops again!" Lei Mai said excitedly, "My subordinates still have something to ask for, I hope the prince agrees!" ”

"Chief, please speak, as long as this king can do it, he will not refuse!" Zhao said.

"Qingyang, kneel!" Lei Mai pulled his grandson over and asked him to kneel, although Qingyang didn't understand what his grandfather meant, he still complied, "Lord Wang, his subordinates have been in Xia for many years, and thanks to the care of the organization, they can ensure that the tribe is immortal. The subordinate grandson is now an adult, and he has learned to practice martial arts since he was a child, and he has also learned his own skills. After Lei Mai finished speaking, he also picked up his clothes and knelt down, and his head fell to the ground!

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Just after the hour, all the soldiers and horses of the Xiangyi army were well fed and ready to stop. The ugly hour had just arrived, the moon had turned west, the stars were hazy, and the whole army had crept out of the woods, into the valley, and bypassed the nearby Leimaibu, when suddenly torches flashed on the top of the mountain, and a troop of horsemen galloped to and fro nearby, roaring loudly, and then galloping away in the way from which they came.

Shen Yong supervised the army of Tie Ye in Yulin Saidong 70 miles, only 5 miles away from its place of governance, Xiangyi army dismounted 10 miles away from the Mituo Cave, led the horse, recovered the horsepower. When the line to the outside of the city two miles on the horse again, approaching the city, the sky is still dark, the whole army lit torches, two people, open the distance and ride a horse whistling around the city, while running and can't stop putting guns, the defenders in the city will not see it and have already heard it, immediately go to the city to guard, three stay in the city to see, it is estimated that there are enough 10,000 horsemen.

After a week around the city, the Xiangyi army divided the troops into two roads according to the plan, Zhao Ren continued to the north with four battalions, Zhao Ta ordered to set up artillery, fired three cannons at the city tower, and blew up the city gate building, Xia Bing was shocked, and immediately shot out with ten thousand arrows, but he did not dare to go out of the city to face the battle. After about a quarter of an hour, there was also movement from the north side of the city, and the sound of the machine guns was mixed with the rumbling sound of cannons, and Zhao Ren also started fighting there. …,

The sky gradually brightened, but the sun showed a small face and shrank behind the thick clouds, Zhao Ta looked up and down the small city in front of him, in fact, it was a bit too much to call it a city, it was not much bigger than his palace in Xiangyi, only two or three hundred acres of land. The city wall is rammed earth plate building, less than two zhang high, there is a city tower in the city, an arrow tower, there is a female wall in the building, the city is surrounded by a moat that is more than two zhang wide and two zhang deep, but there is no water, it is a dry moat, there is a suspension bridge on it, of course, it has been pulled up now.

But it is such a small city, Zhao Ta has no way in front of him, his subordinates are all cavalry, and there is no siege equipment, even if Zhao Ta is reluctant to let his cavalry get off the horse and attack the city, because they have not been trained in this area, this is the same as Audi and Alto Yes, although they have the same surname, it sounds like two brothers, but those are two different things, Yeli lost his troops in front of Yamato Fort and failed to take the small city, which has a lot to do with unprofessionalism.

The sound of guns and cannons on Zhao Ren's side gradually fell, you think about it, the military division of Western Xia is equivalent to the first-level administrative agency of the Song Dynasty, just living in such a broken city, the place where the work lives is a dirt enclosure, and the rapid-fire cannon that can block the Xiangyi army, it is estimated that it has been successful now, and it is arresting people and grabbing things, and it will take a while to finish the work!

Idle is also idle, now it is inside to put on a fight to kill and not come out to fight, these days they can make people miserable, it is estimated that they will be cowardly when they see the banner of the Xiangyi army, Zhao Ta's heart is alive again, this city wall is more than a zhang thick, his own cannon caliber is too small, to blow him up is not a moment and a half can be done, with explosives at least a large car, Xia Jun ten thousand arrows are estimated to not be able to send it.

"Zhao Xiao, set up cannons, bombard the city with mortars, knock on the mountain and shake the tiger to drive them out of the city!" While letting all the artillery teams be deployed, Zhao Ta concentrated his forces at the south gate, and the remaining three only left the rangers to monitor, making a strong attack on the south gate.

"Lord Wang, didn't we make a feint to attract the Xia army's troops and prevent them from going out of the city to rescue, why do we have to set up artillery to attack the city!" Zhao Xin saw that the prince was on a skewful posture and asked suspiciously.

"Hehe, I heard that Li Jifeng's daughters are five or six, all of them are as beautiful as flowers, think about it, although they are not princesses, but they are also county lords, I want to arrest them back and serve me as maids, what a face, I will reward you two as concubines when the time comes!" Zhao Tan looked at Zhao Xin and said with a smile.

"Phew, it's better for the prince to keep it for himself, I don't have that blessing!" Zhao Xin took a sip and said, he knew in his heart that the prince of Lu Dao was joking with himself, but he was uncomfortable in his heart.

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