On the battlefield, it was originally a deception, Li Renxiao turned to Brother Richard, Brother Richard shook his head and said: "No, I am Yang Zhi, as long as Hot Gongji and Li Xiaoyou put it forward, it will be made to spread to all parts of Hexi immediately, in case there is a guy with evil intentions and dedicates the city to the Song army, we will be self-defeating." ”

The most exciting thing in the world is interests, huge interests often cause people's ambitions, and it is not the party that has the upper hand in all parts of Hexi, and Richard's worries cannot be said to be unreasonable, and he can only withdraw his opinions. Fortunately, the monarchs and ministers of Western Xia all thought that the Jin Kingdom would not be saved from death, so they could wait and talk.

Wanyan Zongwang was stationed in the Daimyo's Mansion, after learning that the tripartite Qinzhou alliance failed, he estimated that the situation with the Dingbei Army would deteriorate, and learned that Song Huizong ordered the Dingbei Army to continue to attack the Western Xia, Wanyan Zongwang did not wait for the news of the Western Xia at all, and at the same time of informing Youzhou, he immediately sent an envoy to Bianliang to question Xie Liang, accusing the Great Song Dynasty that since it could tear up the Song-Xia agreement, it would inevitably tear up the Song-Jin agreement in the future, indicating that the day when the Dingbei Army sent troops was the time when the Jin army attacked the Song Dynasty.

Xie Liang had no choice but to report the meaning of the Jin State to Hangzhou, and the meaning of Wu Qimai, the lord of the Jin State, was the same as that of Wanyan Zongwang, so the journey was delayed, and the envoy with the letter of the Jin State was only four days late, and then rushed to Hangzhou.

Originally, King Kang had the intention of using the Heavenly Master's Mansion to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, but seeing that the internal contradictions of the Northern Army were resolved, and the front line of the Jin State's attack was his sphere of influence, Bianliang and other places, King Kang began to lobby Song Huizong to give up the plan to destroy Xia and take back the Yongxing military route. Song Huizong was still a little worried about the Jin State, so he sent someone to announce the suspension under the dilemma, and the Yongxing military route would not be withdrawn.

Zhao Kai felt that he had made a big bargain, but Yue Fei's army had already gone to the front line, and the teams transporting food were on the way, Yang Zhi said that the arrow was ready at the moment, if it was like this, not to mention the empty consumption of materials, it would also be a blow to the morale of the three armies. Only then did Fan Zhixu and others understand why Yang Zhi did not go on the expedition this time, I am afraid that the people who stayed at home would not be able to withstand the pressure and affect the front line at that time.

Zhao Kai really can't do anything at the moment, Yang Zhi's military order is not available, and Yue Fei and others will not withdraw the army halfway; fortunately, Yang Zhi proposed a compromise method, and now the regional boundaries of Helan Mountain, Xining Prefecture, and Lingzhou cannot be determined, and Yue Fei can flexibly control whether to fight on the front line, but inform Yue Fei that without a military order, he must not attack Xingzhou. Zhao Kai accepted this suggestion, and it was impossible to decide whether there would be a local battle on the border, and the amount of Western Xia and Jin could not say anything.

No one expected that the contest between Yue Fei and Ren Dejing would be decided in half a day, and it was completely a copy of the decisive battle in Gyeongju, just because Ren Dejing's 50,000 horses were no longer the elite of the party, and it was almost the combined army of the Tubo, Uighur, Dangxiang, and Han people. Small composition

As a result, under the pursuit of 20,000 cavalry of the Dingbei Army, the Western Xia Army lost more than half; fortunately, there were six or seven thousand veterans who participated in the Battle of Gyeongju in the army, and they maintained their formation and withdrew from the battlefield, which not only played a certain role in the defeat of the army, but also gave Ren Dejing a trace of luck in defending Helan Division.

Under such circumstances, Ren Dejing could only arrange 5,000 cavalry to go to Helan Mountain Dazhai and lead the rest of the people to hold the military city. It's just that Ren Dejing thought too much, Yue Fei had no intention of attacking Helan Mountain at all, and this arrangement completely complied with Yue Fei's thoughts; Yue Fei made up his mind to attack the military city despite the lack of food supply, and in two days, Yue Fei blew up the city wall and attacked the city, Ren Dejing was captured, Ren Decong led 2,000 horsemen to escape, and Yue Fei captured more than 15,000 Xixia troops and 20,000 people.

Yue Fei simply demolished the military city and escorted the prisoners and civilians back to Xining Prefecture. Everything was expected by Yue Fei and Yang Zhi, although the purpose of the Dingbei Army was Helan Mountain, Yue Fei did not plan to crash into Helan Mountain, like a fly without direction, playing hide and seek with the Western Xia people. The idea of the Zhifu Division is to drain the blood of the Western Xia step by step, this time reducing the population of the Western Xia by sixty or seventy thousand, basically meeting the predetermined requirements, and the rest is to wait, waiting for the next opportunity.

Xingzhou became an ant on a hot pot, Ren Dejing was captured, and tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians of the Helan Supervision Army Division were taken away by the Song army, which made the Western Xia have an unbearable pain. Yue Fei's army returned to Xining Prefecture, but the Western Xia army had no choice, Xia Renzong Li Renxiao patted the handrail and said: "Even if it is 50,000 pigs, it should not be captured in half a day! A city, with as many people defending the city as there are besieging the city, only defended for two days." ”

No wonder Li Renxiao was dissatisfied, all the people in Western Xia were soldiers, and women and old people could go to the battlefield when defending the city; Wu Er Siqi stepped forward and said calmly: "Your Majesty, Lord Ren has done his best, but fortunately, at this point, we don't need to think too much, we just need to send a high-ranking official to Hexi to replace Lord Ren." Right now, it depends on when the reinforcements from the Jin Kingdom will arrive. ”

Wu Er Siqi returned to Xingzhou with 15,000 cavalry three days ago, and after receiving the news of Ren Dejing's defeat, Wu Er Siqi knew that it was not good, and the ability of the Dingbei Army to attack the city was unparalleled in the world, and Wu Er Siqi did not think that Ren Dejing could hold the military city. Today's news is not unexpected, but Wu Er Siqi is afraid that at this time, Li Renxiao's mind will be blind, and if he wants to fight a decisive battle with the Song army, it will completely destroy the foundation of Western Xia. Yang Zhi's use of troops is strange, Wu Er Siqi doesn't think that Western Xia can't win a battle, but what he is most worried about is that Yang Zhi will suddenly be pulled into a decisive battle and lose the army again.

Wu Er Siqi couldn't help but look at Brother Richard, what puzzled Wu Er Siqi was that Brother Richard, who was the king of Jin, was so powerful that he didn't say a word, which was a bit of a taste of sitting and watching the situation. Brother Richard completely gave up on the letter, and at such a moment, except for the 30,000 mobile troops that had just been gathered on the side of Dingyan Mansion, the rest of the troops scattered in Shazhou and other places were useless at all. This was the reason why Brother Richard wanted to fight in person, but after a moment of hesitation, Ren Dejing went, but Yang Zhi had not yet been pressed by the whole army, and Xixia already had the feeling of being put on his neck by a rope.

The general of the Jin State, Nie Erjin, arrived at the same time with 20,000 horses and Wu'er Siqi, and immediately decided to send troops to attack Lingzhou, but Richard had no choice, so he transferred 40,000 people from the Western Xia army of less than 80,000 to follow Nie Erjin on the expedition. Yue Fei and Yang Yizhong took 50,000 cavalry to reinforce Lingzhou, and Nie Erjin used the cavalry's raid tactics to limit the play of the balloon, but was defeated by the trebuchet of 400 camels in Yue Fei's army, and 8,000 Jin troops and 20,000 Western Xia troops died on the battlefield, and as many as 12,000 surrendered.