With Quduan's attack, the Jinxia coalition army was defeated under the attack of the 80,000 Dingbei army, Nie Erjin and Wu'er Siqi fled from the battlefield, and the torches pursued by the Dingbei army stretched for hundreds of miles; the 8,000 Jin army and the 20,000 Xixia army died on the battlefield, and the surrendered army and people were as many as 30,000.

However, Nie Erjin did not cross the Yellow River and escaped, but soon after withdrawing from the battlefield, he killed Wu Ersiqi and other Western Xia generals on a hillside, controlled the entire army, and chose the route of following the Yellow River, crossing the desert, bypassing Xiazhou and returning to Jin, he came out with 20,000 people, and then returned with 20,000 people, even if half of them were Western Xia troops, they could be explained. But for the Western Xia, the situation became extremely bad, and the entire Western Xia front could no longer organize any sniper force in a short period of time.

This news made Xingzhou very alarmed, it is said that those tribes in the north of Lingzhou and south of Xingzhou drove their cattle and sheep to flee overnight; when Niu Gao sent people to send the heads of Wu'er Siqi and others to Lingzhou, Yue Fei and others were incredulous, no wonder Yang Zhi always said that there are only interests between countries, and the so-called morality is just a fig leaf. Jin Ren is the suzerainty of Western Xia, and he talks about the survival of Western Xia all day long, but when it comes to the critical moment, he still depends on his own plans.

Yue Fei asked Niu Gao to continue to chase Nie Erjin and Qu Duan also informed Liu Ziyu to intercept him, but neither of them had much hope, and there was another reason why Nie Erjin wanted the Xixia soldiers, that is, the desert; Niu Gao can only chase near the desert at most, and Liu Ziyu can only wait outside the Xiazhou desert, if Nie Erjin directly passes through the killing to the north, the two people have no chance, so Yue Fei discussed with Qu Duan, leaving Li Yanxian to collect Lingzhou, and the two of them still entangled half of the new force to cross the river north.

When Yue Fei and Quduan's army crossed the Yellow River, there was no Western Xia soldier in sight on the other side, and the Song army was like a no-man's land, successively capturing the Red Peach Salt Pond, Wuping Salt Pond, Hechi Salt Pond, Surrendered City, Dingyuan East City, Dingyuan West City, Huaiyuan County, Surrendered City, Dingyuan East City, and Dingyuan West City were just military cities, but the three salt pools and Huaiyuan County were inhabited by tens of thousands of people, so that the Dingbei Army established a new defense line in the south of Xingzhou.

In just a few days, Wu Er Siqi and Ren Dejing's old troops surrendered as many as 5,000 people, and these surrendered Western Xia troops had no choice, one of the two bigwigs behind him was killed by the Jin people, and the other was captured alive by the Dingbei Army.

Yue Fei and Qu Duan both knew that their strength was tired after a long battle, and they didn't want to continue to attack Xingzhou, but just sent a fast horse to Weizhou to communicate with Yang Zhi; Yang Zhi was not particularly excited when he heard the news, but he was just curious about why Nie Erjin did this, Nie Erjin was an old man who followed Wanyan Agu to fight the army, at the beginning he was a chief, and with the occupation of the northeast by Wanyan, Nie Erjian's contribution became greater and greater, and finally it was the envoy of the Tiande Army, and he was the right-hand man of Jin Wushu.

To say that such a person has no overall view, Yang Zhi said that he would not believe anything, a person who is so shrewd in Jin Wushu is not a fool, and he must pay attention to the selection of people. Nie Er's behavior seemed to tell everyone that the Jin Kingdom had abandoned the Western Xia, and if it was just to escape, Nie Erjin didn't need to kill a group of Western Xia generals such as Wu'er Siqi, and left the body to Qu Duan, who was pursuing.

This kind of move is not a trick that Nie Erjin can play with a knot, it must be a plan before the Jin State sends troops. But Jin Guo will not do this for no reason, and give up a dog that follows him to the Great Song and grinning, unless Jin Guo has greater intentions. What Yang Zhi thought of was that the Song and Jin wars began, and the local war in Western Xia was already irreparable, and the Jin State put on such a posture in the hope that the Dingbei Army would go all out to attack Western Xia.

In this way, once the Jin army makes a move, whether it is Yunzhong or Henan, it will put enough pressure on the Great Song Dynasty, and the army of Shaanxi is trapped in Hexi, and the discerning people know that Yang Zhi will recover one city after another, and it will not be possible to end the battle in a year and a half. It's just that Yue Fei wiped out 90,000 Western Xia troops in Helansi and Lingzhou this time, Xingzhou is in front of him, and the defenders of Xingzhou have dropped to 40,000, while Hexi and other places only have 30,000 motorized cavalry from Dingnan Prefecture, and the rest of the states have been exhausted, and there are less than 10,000 people.

Cai Qing ran in and interrupted Yang Zhi's train of thought, Zhao Kai, the king of Yun, and the ministers in the camp were already on the way to Weizhou, only eighty miles away from Weizhou; Yang Zhi was stunned for a moment, and then came to his senses, Zhao Kai's attitude has changed, I am afraid that he no longer wants to be limited to the original tentative plan, he is going to take Xingzhou, and he does not notify himself in advance, because he is afraid that he will block it.

Since Zhao Kai came in person, of course Yang Zhi couldn't lose his sense of proportion, and personally took the big and small officials out of Weizhou thirty miles to greet him, Zhao Kai was full of spring breeze, got off the carriage as soon as he met, held Yang Zhi's hand and said: "Brother-in-law still has the wisdom to know people, Pengju has won a lot of battles this time, which is really good." ”

The strange results of the front line made the Dingbei army overjoyed, so that the Xixia almost lost the strength of the decisive battle, now the Xixia is like a ripe apple, it is about to fall automatically, whoever reaches out to catch it can taste the delicious apple, the Dingbei army is stimulated, and even Zhao Kai has a mind, so after receiving the news of the victory in Lingzhou, Zhao Kai hurriedly set off. Yang Zhi said with a smile: "The three armies are life-threatening, and my Great Song Dynasty is prosperous, so it has such an effect." ”

The two of them laughed, and the mood of the officials around them was also a rare relaxation, everyone laughed and entered Weizhou City, and sat down in the conference hall, Yang Zhi had just finished reporting the battle in Beilingzhou, Liu Yi asked first: "What is Yang Shuai's next step?"

Yang Zhi said calmly: "I plan to order the Flying Division to attack Luocheng, rotate the 20,000 troops among them, and then order Li Heng to lead 10,000 troops to assist Quduan in stabilizing the defense line of Beilingzhou. ”

Zhao Kai and others secretly shouted that it was dangerous, and Yang Zhi's cautious use of troops was indeed worthy of his reputation, and in such a situation, he never thought of pressing all the tens of thousands of troops in Weizhou and taking Xingzhou in one fell swoop. Zhao Kai immediately came in person, because he was afraid that Yang Zhi would do this, but fortunately, Zhao Kai rushed to Weizhou as quickly as possible, and he had time to stop this matter. Zhao Kai said with a smile: "Can you not withdraw the army for the time being, Yue Fei, Yang Yizhong, and Qu Duan have reached this point, at least let them occupy a few more pieces of territory to make contributions." ”

Liu Tao also said: "Yang Shuai, the opportunity is rare, if we can capture Xingzhou in one go, even if Hexi will talk about it later, it will be acceptable to us." ”