Wu Jue was most familiar with the terrain of Western Xia, and immediately understood what Yang Zhi meant, and asked, "The purpose of the Lord is actually Wuyuan County?"

Yang Zhi nodded and said: "The Mubo Department still does what they are familiar with, crosses the Rouwolf Mountain, operates between Xining Prefecture, Wuyuan County, and Xi'an Prefecture in Western Xia, and restrains the Jingsai Army and Baotai Army in the West to Wuyuan County, waiting for an opportunity to sneak attack Wuyuan County, once our army captures Xi'an Prefecture, the Mubo Department will retreat from Jingyuan Road." What we need now is to find a place around the Dingbian army to attract the attention of the Tanguts. ”

"Kui Xing Pass, the east peak of Xinglong Mountain, surrounded by beams and valleys, ravines and ravines, there is the residence of the Qiang people, has always been a supporter of the Xixia people; the Han people of the West Peak Yuhuang Mountain have been driven away, if the Xixia army wants to give us a quiet look, Kui Xing Pass is a good choice, the most suitable for the Qiang infantry army ambush. Wu Jue pointed out the location of Kui Xing Pass on the map, Yang Zhi thought about the plan for half an hour, and said: "Just bet on it, see how powerful the infantry army of Western Xia is, and formulate a plan to attract Ren Dejing to use soldiers." ”

The tenacious survival of the Western Xia between the Song, Liao, Uighur, Tubo, and Jin states was due to the fierce folk customs in the country, and the most famous of the hundreds of thousands of Western Xia troops were the Poxi Army, the Bubazi Army, and the Iron Harrier, which were far from being comparable to the teams of the Capture Army. The Poxi army is a strong force on the back of camels, and the two hundred camels are equipped with small stone throwers on their backs, known as the whirlwind cannon; the iron harrier is a heavy cavalry, and the foot is a heavy armored infantry army that is good at mountain warfare, and is composed of Ding Zhuang, a mountain tribe dominated by Hengshan Qiang.

In fact, the Western Xia Army and Yang Zhi's Dingbei Army were almost the same, taking the route of elite soldiers, and those arranged in the Hengshan Mountains were the Bubazi Army, most of which were Qiang people; Wu Jue and others finally negotiated a plan, that is, the army on the Huanqing Road would not move for the time being, and the four battalions of Qinzhou would move forward and take turns to move in the Huaide Army and the Huanzhou area, which was to give Ren Dejing a nervous illusion that the Dingbei Army would move sooner or later, and now they were familiar with the terrain and lured Ren Dejing into the idea of striking first.

Liu Qi recommended a relatively large tribe at this time, and asked his deputy Li Qiong to accompany him; the Mubo tribe was not a simple group, after Li Yuanhao occupied the Hexi Corridor and captured a series of cities such as Dunhuang, because he forced a Uighur princess to death, a part of the Uighurs, Han Chinese, and Tuyuhun armies united to launch a mutiny, although the mutiny failed, and the main three leaders were all killed.

However, under the leadership of Zuo Chang, a good Han of Tuyuhun, and He Liao, a Han man, the remaining more than 2,000 horsemen fled into the plateau, and developed to more than 30,000 today, a multi-ethnic mixture. Mu Bobu is the most opposed to the Western Xia tribe in Hexi, never considered bowing to the Western Xia, has been checking and plundering the Western Xia tribes; Mu Bobu also did not have a good impression of the Great Song Dynasty, when the mutiny had contacted the Great Song side, but the Great Song did not cooperate, but held the mentality of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, which led to the failure of the mutiny.

It's just that the situation is stronger than people, and if they want to survive in the Hehuang region, the Mu Bo Department still recognizes the situation clearly, and once attached to the Xibawen of the Shu tribe; after the disintegration of the Na Bo Luo regime, the Mu Bo Department chose to fight to the death with the Western Xia. This time, Zhao Huaien defected to the Great Song Dynasty, and Qiao Ting and other leaders of the four tribes were ready to set up another fifth grandson Jieshijiao as the patriarch and claim the throne with the support of the Western Xia people;

Liu Qi was familiar with the situation in Qingtang and knew that this was a rare opportunity, most of the tribes in the Hehuang area were mixed with several ethnic groups, so he didn't have much reverence for Zhao Huaien, and only believed in force and benefits, as long as the affairs of the Mubo Department were dealt with, more tribes would be attracted to come and defect; Liu Qi wrote a letter to Yang Zhi and specially let Li Qiong run away, along with Jiang Feibiao, the third master of the Mubo Ministry, in order to hide people's eyes, Jiang Feibiao pretended to be a personal soldier of Li Qiong.

Yang Zhi was very happy, he heard Ao De, Liu Qi, and Chong Bin all say that the Mubo Ministry, regardless of whether the Mubo Department really wanted to attach itself to the Great Song Dynasty, for the Dingbei Army, maintaining friendly relations with the Mubo Department could stabilize the western border, and it would also be able to obtain high-quality war horses produced by the Mubo Department for a long time. And the Mubo Department and the Western Xia formed a feud, and the Mubo Department became an important pillar to compete with the Western Xia, and joined forces with the Great Song Dynasty to conquer the Western Xia, such a motivation was not possessed by Zhao Huaien.

Jiang Feibiao is a thin man, the perennial hard style makes Jiang Feibiao look more like a Tubo person, but the face and accent of the Han people have not changed; Jiang Feibiao saw that Yang Zhi had no stage fright, and he spoke neither humbly nor arrogantly, which made Li Qiong who came very anxious, and secretly scolded Jiang Feibiao in his heart that he didn't know whether he was alive or dead, and he said it well in front of Liu Qi, Jiang Feibiao still wanted to play by himself and ask for more benefits, but Yang Zhi performed kung fu and suppressed Jiang Feibiao. Yang Zhi asked Jiang Feibiao a question: "What kind of result does Mu Bobu want to get?"

Jiang Feibiao said excitedly: "The big boss said, if the adults ask like this, they really want to solve the problem of Hehuang." My lord, we have no extravagant hopes, just hope to find a place to live on the plains. ”

Yang Zhi nodded and said: "You are no longer suitable for farming, so let's defeat the Western Xia, I will arrange an area for you on the Xihe Road, but the premise must be to defeat the Western Xia; otherwise, even if I assign it to you now, I will quench my thirst." ”

Jiang Feibiao asked curiously, "Your Excellency is so confident?"

Jiang Feibiao's curiosity, Li Qiong also had it; Li Qiong originally had a stomach of complaints about going to Shaanxi, he thought that instead of compromising and seeking perfection, it was better to let go of his hands and do a vigorous job, on the way to Qinzhou in the west, Li Qiong complained a few words, but was stopped by his boss Liu Qi in a word, what are you for? Yes, it is naturally a good thing to expand the territory, but if your boss does not need it, you will not only have no merit in doing so, but it will be a disaster, and no one who is unruly in the eyes of his boss will have a good end.

Yang Zhi also advised Li Qiong to take a long-term view. Yang Zhi smiled: "Lord Jiang, I just want to defeat Western Xia, not to destroy Western Xia, the difficulty is not as high as you think." ”

So that's the case, Jiang Feibiao has been trying to survive in the cracks, and naturally knows the difference, fighting is nothing more than winning or losing, with the strength of the Great Song Dynasty and the Western Xia, victory and defeat are normal; Yang Zhi's army claims to have never been defeated, and it should not be particularly difficult to defeat the Western Xia army; but if you want to destroy the Western Xia, it is not the same thing at all, the Xixia people will definitely burn all the jade, and the manpower and material resources consumed cannot be compared.