On the city tower of Beiyouzhou, Dingnan Mansion, Cao Zimu also received the news of the loss of Ganzhou, and asked Tanma to rest with a cold face, Cao Zimu was worried about the direction of the Dingyan army, and reinforcing Xingzhou was a death, but if he wanted to go to Liangzhou and Yang Yizhong, Cao Zimu was also a little lacking in confidence; Yang Yizhong was Yang Zhi's most trusted general, and that trust even exceeded Yue Fei, Yang Yizhong's army was basically cavalry, and its strength was on par with the Dingyan army, and there was Yue Fei's army on the side.

Cao Zimu was a little afraid of wolves and tigers, lest he be careless and bury the last bit of vitality in Western Xia. As a result, Cao Zimu watched Liangzhou Mansion and Ganzhou fall into the hands of the Dingbei Army, and now even the passes to Ganzhou in the south have fallen into the hands of the Dingbei Army. The current situation can be said to be unprecedentedly severe, if the Dingbei army is allowed to enter the Hexi Basin and capture Shazhou, Dunhuang and other cities, then the Western Xia will completely lose Hexi, and only Xingzhou and Dingnanfu are left, which is absolutely unacceptable to Cao Zimu and the party members in Dingnanfu.

As a military general, Wu Zang Gu Duo did not think about it as carefully as Cao Zimu, but on a large level, Wu Zang Gu Duo saw more far-reaching, Zhao Kai's army of more than 100,000 troops attacked Xingzhou, although it was a reluctant move, but it was a mistake to fight, a tactical failure, and a strategic success, so that Western Xia was unable to reinforce Hexi. Standing on the city wall, looking at the ever-changing white clouds in the distance, he said to Cao Zimu: "Lord Cao, if we lose the Hexi Basin, we don't even have a little room for depth, in case Xingzhou is conquered by the Dingbei Army, we have nowhere to go except the desert, we have to change this situation, learn from Yelu Dashi, and if Mengxun can establish Beiliang in Dunhuang, we may not have this opportunity." ”

When Yelu Yanxi was not completely defeated, Yelu Dashi went to Heishui City to control the soldiers and horses of the Northwest Recruitment Division of the Liao State, and immediately established himself as the king after Yelu Yanxi was captured; didn't hide Guduo to imply that Cao Zimu could take this path, and at the moment he was still encouraging Cao Zimu to be a traitor.

This is the habit of thinking that Wuzang Guduo has always developed by standing above the court, which is completely different from the values that Cao Zimu produced in business, in the eyes of Wuzang Guduo, everything is for Daxia. Cao Zimu smiled bitterly: "If the emperor has such a determination, from the beginning he should let the king of Jin stay in Xingzhou, and the hundred officials retreat to Dunhuang; the emperor still wants to rely on the support of the Jin people, but at this point, I have the same view as the emperor, the Jin people will not sit back and watch the destruction of Great Xia and ignore it, once the Jin army comes to help, Xingzhou is still the battlefield of the decisive battle." ”

Wu Zang Guduo shook his head and said: "Even if the Jin army can relieve the siege of Xingzhou, whether we are allowed to become independent in the future is a problem, the reason why the emperor is reluctant to come west is not afraid of hardship, but is worried that after the Jin army lifts the siege, he will support someone to be the king in charge of Xingzhou, so the emperor will not be able to come back when he arrives in Dunhuang." As long as we deploy the army on the front line of Shazhou and block the Song army in Ganzhou, then we can win the stability of the Hexi Basin. ”

Cao Zimu was taken aback, he didn't expect that a big old man without hiding the bones could see this step, which also shows that the relationship between Xia Renzong Li Renxiao and the Wuzang bones is indeed not ordinary; Cao Zimu said bitterly: "Originally, we had the advantage, but now we are being chased behind and beaten, the emperor's heart can be imagined, but there is no way, the defeat is like a mountain, even if the king of Jin is brave, in the face of absolute strength, he can only be trapped in the lonely city."

Once we decide to go west, we will not only be prepared to suffer the reproach of the imperial court, but we will also have to worry that reinforcements will not be able to be reinforced, and we will lose the possibility of losing the Dingnan Mansion; if we really reach that point, the matter will become a big problem, and the imperial court will not let us go so easily, and the emperor will not be willing to give up? The emperor has high hopes for our Dingnan Mansion, and who would have thought that the situation would become more and more chaotic if things go against people's wishes. ”

Wu Gu Duo said indifferently: "When that day really comes, do you think the imperial court will still have a chance to blame us?"

A gust of wind blew, the flag behind Cao Zimu fluttered, and Cao Zimu's thoughts danced with it, yes, if Hexi and Dingyan Mansion were lost, Daxia would be finished, would Li Renxiao still have time to blame himself? I'm afraid that in Xingzhou all day long, he was worried about the fate of the city being destroyed and killed. Reinforcing Hexi is the only chance for the existence of Great Xia, and Cao Zimu's eyes gradually cleared: "General Wuzang, what do you say?"

"The military horses go first, and the people go later. Wu Gu Duo said confidently: "Fortunately, it is Yue Fei who is watching us, his army is the same as Yang Zhi, he is fierce enough to fight, but he is disciplined, and he never violates the people, even if the people are arrested, Yue Fei will treat them well." ”

Cao Zimu and Wuzang Guduo made up their minds, and the first thing they did when they got out of the city tower was to give an order, immediately requisitioning 25,000 cavalry to Dunhuang, and the people voluntarily moved westward, striving to leave Dingyan Mansion in the shortest possible time; Cao Zimu explained to the 3,000 Dingyan troops who stayed in the five cities of Dingnan Mansion that after the army left, if Yue Fei came to attack the city, he could surrender on his own after delaying for 10 days. For the sake of the future, Cao Zimu still sent his cronies and subordinates to Xingzhou day and night to report his plan to Li Renxiao.

The Dingbei army was not capable of encircling Xingzhou, and Cao Zimu's cronies entered Xingzhou City very smoothly, but Cao Zimu did not expect that his letter would cause a brazen wave in the court of Western Xia; due to the death of Wu Er Siqi and more than 10,000 Western Xia troops were coerced by the Jin people to go to the clouds, the national sentiment in Xingzhou had already been ignited, and the court was divided into two factions, one faction was ready to be martyred for the Western Xia, and the other faction clearly proposed to negotiate peace with the Great Song Dynasty.

Although Brother Richard and others thought that the Jin army would still wait for reinforcements, even Li Renxiao himself did not report much hope, and Cao Zimu's plan was tantamount to lighting the fuse of the powder keg; jealousy, envy and hatred, most of the hundred officials opposed Cao Zimu and the plan of the Hidden Guduo, and some of the imperial histories were impassioned, if it wasn't for Brother Richard to suppress it, he would almost say that Cao Zimu was a traitor who wanted to usurp the throne.

Li Renxiao was very calm, and there was only a faint melancholy on his face: "I got the news a while ago that Li was dead, and even if our hidden piles in Guanzhong and Henan were not caught by the Song people, they were still kites with broken strings, and they were useless; now that Liangzhou and Ganzhou have been lost, it would not be a bad thing for Cao Zimu to be able to hold the Hexi Basin, at least the eggs were put in two baskets, and it was not easy to break them all." Besides, Jile Tang followed Cao Zimu to the west, and with Zhang Yanyi here, those worries would not happen. ”