On the official road south of Jinming Village, Li Shibin was thrown to the ground like cargo. The severe pain in his ears made him cry out, but there was no steel knife falling as expected, and he could only hear the sound of horse hooves disappearing in the distance.
Struggling to get up, Li Shibin realized that he was on the official road leading from Jinmingzhai to Yanzhou. He had planned to pledge his life to the country, but he did not expect that he would survive the disaster. He reached out and touched his arms, but the letter was still there.
, but it made him feel so unreal.
He did not believe what Li Yuanhao said. The war would not end easily. Now the Dangxiang people had an absolute advantage. Jinming Village was captured. Although the army did not hold Jinming Village, not all of them died in the battle. As long as a large number of deserters could survive in Yan
When the state is gathered together, it is still a very powerful fighting force.
Although he lost the battle at Jinming Village with all his body injured, he discovered that the Dangxiang people used a large number of soldiers from the Jieshan tribe. These soldiers had lived in Jieshan for a long time, were familiar with the Han family or Xixia, and were brave and good at fighting.
In the words of the Song Dynasty, these people are mountain people. They are evaders who did not register in order to avoid taxes. But in fact, they have lived in the mountains all their lives and relied on the mountains for everything they need. Why should they pay taxes to the Song Dynasty?
At this time, Li Shibin lamented that Li Yuanhao's methods, adapting to local conditions and using Jieshan soldiers to attack the Song Dynasty, were the most appropriate choice. But now that the Jinming stronghold was broken and Yanzhou's door was wide open, he wanted to negotiate peace with Fan Yong.
This cannot be said to be absurd, but absolutely impossible!
When Li Shibin returned to Fushi City again, Fan Yong's attitude changed greatly. "How can a defeated general speak bravely after his ears were cut off?"
No matter what he had done, in Fan Yong's view, as long as Li Shibin lost Jinmingzhai, it was his problem and the fault of him, a frontline general.
Xia Sui was very caring about Li Shibin, sending people to treat his injuries and saying some words of comfort, but all these made Li Shibin realize the fact that he was going to become everyone's scapegoat...
The failure of Jinmingzhai caused heavy losses to Yanzhou and completely exposed Yanzhou to the iron heel of the Xixia army.
Lying on the hospital bed, Li Shibin looked at the high beams and felt sad. Only death could allow the Li family to survive this disaster...
"Why is Li Yuanhao like this?" Fan Yong shook the letter in his hand and looked at Xia Shui beside him in surprise.
"Is it another treacherous plot?"
Xia Sui disagreed. He was wary of anything Li Yuanhao said. This man is a tycoon. What is a tycoon? He does things by any means!
"Yuan Hao's excuse for going south this time was the conflict in the border states, and he claimed that as long as the Song Dynasty stopped tempting the people in Daxia and recognized that the two countries were bounded by the long mountain range of Hengshan, he would withdraw his troops. Is this possible?"
Fan Yong shook his head and looked at the backyard where Li Shibin was: "I don't believe Li Yuanhao, but I don't believe he dares to start a war with me, the Song Dynasty! Jinming Village is just a way for him to spread his majesty, in order to tell us about his Daxia and Song Dynasty
The same is true of the Zhengshuo Dynasty, while the Liao Dynasty is just a fisherman waiting by the side, always ready to make a profit!"
Xia Sui agreed very much with Fan Yong's words and nodded in agreement: "Fan Gong is wise, in this case we should strengthen the city defense, have all the troops in Yanzhou stay on guard, and at the same time send envoys to Jinmingzhai to find out the truth!"
"Report! Xixia sent an envoy named He Zhen!"
Fan Yong was about to speak, but was interrupted by the words of the messenger. He looked at Xia Sui in surprise, and Xia Sui looked at him in surprise as well. This Xixia messenger came too quickly.
"Now that Li Yuanhao has fallen, we will have a good fight with him!"
Fan Yong smiled slightly and stood up and said to the messenger: "Please send the envoy to my official hall! I want to see what he can do!" After speaking, he turned to Xia Sui beside him and said: "I infer that he must be fierce in both voice and appearance, and even
Threat! But the more this happens, the more cowardly Li Yuanhao is seen! Although this beast is trying to capture Jinming Village, it is at the end of its powerful crossbow and does not dare to fight for a long time!"
Xia Sui thought the same and nodded and followed Fan Yong to the Festival Hall, but before going out he still whispered: "At this time, Shi Yuansun should be sent to lead troops to rescue Tumen Village to cut off Xixia's retreat!"
Fan Yong paused for a moment, frowned slightly and said: "Well, what I said makes sense, so you need to clean up the defeated army in Jinming Village and eliminate the party details among them, so that the incident in Jinming Village must not happen again!"
Xia Sui nodded in agreement, but then asked: "How many troops and horses are appropriate?"
Fan Yong laughed and said: "Of course, the more the better, the army must capture Tumen Village! As for Yanzhou, since Li Yuanhao sent an envoy to negotiate peace, he dare not attack the city again, otherwise he will break his trust and the world will not tell him.
It is even more provocative to the Song Dynasty! The imperial court will definitely dispatch troops and generals and order other border states to attack the Xixia border! He, Li Yuanhao, dares to touch Fushi City in Yanzhou?!"
At this time, Fan Yong and Xia Sui were confident that it was imperative to regain Tumen Village, and their biggest trump card was not Shi Yuansun's army, but Liu Ping, deputy general manager of Huanqing Deputy Capital Deployment, and his troops from Qingzhou
An army of tens of thousands.
This is an elite frontier army, rushing towards Yanzhou day and night, including more than 3,000 cavalry!
Although there are not many defenders in Fushi City, Fan Yong is confident. He believes that it is impossible for Li Yuanhao to attack Fushi City, just like it is impossible for earthworms to shake a big tree. Even if the big tree has dried up and broken down,
Fragile……
The Festival Hall is located on the left side of the government office, so it is also called the White Tiger Festival Hall. Only the pacification envoys have the authority to set up the temple and take charge of a state, a government, and even military administration.
He Zhenai is the Xixia envoy. After entering the city, everything he saw was so relaxed, and there was no sense of tension. Even Fan Yong and all the officials in Yanzhou were extremely calm, but under this calmness
However, he saw that the defense of Fushi City was lax, and there were only a few hundred soldiers in the city.
This is simply fat on the tiger's lips. He Zhen doesn't understand why the Song people are so confident. No, this is not confidence, but a kind of arrogance, a ridiculous arrogance!
The Jinming stronghold could not accommodate the Xixia army. The Song army of tens of thousands had been defeated. How dare he, Fan Yong, do this? Could it be the ancient story of the Han family... the empty city strategy?
But what he imagined was completely overturned after meeting Fan Yong. Fan Yong was a fool, and the officials in Yanzhou, including the Yongxing Army soldier named Lu Shouqin, were all fools!
In He Zhen's eyes, the wisdom born of the Han civilization was as ridiculous as the Xixia sheep. They only knew how to eat grass and move forward at the pace of the leader. All sheep followed the most primitive wisdom...
Fan Yong is the leader now, but he doesn't know that he is about to lead the entire Yanzhou into the abyss.
Li Yuanhao's sincerity was expressed in his letter to Li Shibin. What surprised He Zhen was that Fan Yong and other officials actually believed that His Majesty would give up his title and return to the Kingdom of Daxia again.
status and became a vassal of the Song Dynasty.
Until he left, He Zhen kept repeating one sentence in his head: "He believed it, he really believed it..."