Volume 4 Chapter 68: Leaning on the River (Part 1)
From the moment they crossed the gorge, all the officers in the Song Dynasty Imperial Camp who had a little common sense knew that the next 180 miles would be the march that would decide everything.
The reason is simple.
If the Song army could rely on the strategic misjudgments and mistakes of the Xixia people to easily avoid the enemy's elite field troops, dodge the accumulation of lives and the loss of time at the key pass, and then raid here at high speed, then after stepping into the Xingling land, the so-called Yinchuan Plain in later generations, they would have to face the final stress response of a theocratic country that had been established for a hundred years.
And it is an unavoidable stress response.
Because the former is a purely military arrangement, and although the latter will eventually be reflected in the military, the root power comes from the cohesion of politics, nation, and culture, which is an invisible but tangible existence... Yue Fei, Qu Duan, Hu Hongxiu, and Liu Qi may have vaguely realized this concept from a fundamental perspective, and people like Li Shifu may not understand it, but they also know that it exists.
It’s not that no one had fought to the gorge before. After Pingxia City was built, because it controlled the upper reaches of Hulu River , Hulu River, the correct channel for attacking Xia, became the biggest weakness of the Western Xia people. Many people at that time said that Western Xia was going to perish, and the Western Xia people indeed suffered from sleepless nights for decades... Even during the Huizong period, there was the story of Liu Fa invading this place.
But even the most in-depth attempt failed.
This is called speaking from experience.
"Jiedu."
In the afternoon, the army was opposite the majestic Helan Mountain, and went down the Yellow River. After traveling for more than ten miles, they saw a gathering place of foreign cavalry in the distance. There were already more than a thousand foreign cavalry here. Hu Hongxiu immediately stopped his horse at the river bank, but ignored these foreign cavalry. Instead, he pointed to the river fork behind the foreign cavalry and reminded them. "The front is the Tangqukou."
Yue Fei stopped his horse and faced him, and nodded slightly. Most of the generals around him, including Qu Duan and his subordinates, also stopped their horses and marveled at the magnificent scene.
Firstly, the Tang Canal is extremely well-known in this era, perhaps even more famous than the Gorge. It has been introduced in the official gazette a long time ago, and many people know that this water conservancy project was built during the Tang Dynasty during the reign of Wu Zetian. Later, the Xixia people maintained and expanded it like a treasure. Up to now, the irrigation area of this canal has reached 900,000 acres!
It can be said that 30% of the foundation of Western Xia’s hegemony lies here.
Secondly, after Tangqukou, the surface of the Yellow River expanded again, becoming hundreds of steps wide. Even many Hebei soldiers in Yue Fei's army felt that this was the widest part of the Yellow River they had ever seen in their lives, not the downstream.
In fact, looking out from the small slope, you can see a vast river in front of you, all the way to the north, with majestic momentum and spectacular. In addition, under the sunny day, the Helan Mountains a hundred miles away are like a group of galloping horses, and there is a smooth road between the mountains and rivers. Several rivers and canals extend straight, and dotted villages, towns and castles are faintly visible... Seeing this magnificent scene, apart from the words "beautiful rivers and mountains", it is really speechless!
"This place has been a land of abundance since ancient times. There were canals for irrigation in the Han Dynasty, but none of them could compare to the Tang Canal." Hu Hongxiu's words interrupted the sighs of many people. "This canal is the largest and widest of all the canals in Xingling. It is 600 miles long and has hundreds of branches. It can reach all the cities in Xingling. If you follow this canal, you will reach Shunzhou in another 50 miles. Xingqing Prefecture is also downstream of this canal... The rafts we seized in the gorge area came from this canal."
The generals around nodded when they heard this, because Minister Hu's meaning was very clear. He suggested that Yue Fei leave the Yellow River from here, turn to Tangqu from the canal mouth, and march along Tangqu.
This is a very reasonable route, even reasonable enough to be taken for granted.
It should be noted that the Tangqu Canal must have been well maintained by the Xixia people on a daily basis , with neat edges, straight paths, deep water and no siltation inside, so once the rafts carrying supplies entered the canal, the march would be extremely easy. Not to mention, according to Hu Hongxiu's intelligence, there was a complete prefecture fifty miles ahead of the canal, which could be taken down as a forward base, and Xingqing Prefecture further ahead was also next to the canal.
In fact, just by looking at the foreign cavalry gathering at the mouth of the canal, one could guess that even the foreign cavalry believed that the Song army would enter the Tang canal and march towards their capital along the canal.
However, it was also because of this that when Commander Yue Fei reined in his horse for a moment but did not give orders, everyone realized that the Commander might have other ideas.
"Is Xingqing Prefecture located between Tangqu and the Yellow River?" After a moment, Yue Fei regained his focus from the mountains and rivers ahead, and then asked seriously. "East of Tangqu, west of the Yellow River?"
"Yes." Hu Hongxiu immediately explained. "Xingqing Prefecture is quite large. The west side is adjacent to the Tang Canal, which directly leads into the city through the water gate and also serves as a transportation channel for goods. The east side of the city wall is 20 to 30 miles away from the Yellow River. Even the palace outside the city is more than 10 miles away from the Yellow River."
"Has this canal always been this wide?" Yue Fei nodded slightly and continued to ask.
"Of course not..." Hu Hongxiu shook his head. "On average, it's probably about 30 to 40 steps wide, but there are also narrow places. I remember there was an area in Shunzhou that was about 10 steps wide. But even so, it definitely wouldn't delay the rafts' march, because these rafts originally came out of the Tang Canal."
Yue Fei still nodded, and still did not make any comment, but asked the third question: "Do the Xixia people have navy in the Yellow River? I recently looked up the records of Xixia wars, and it seems that there is mention of Xixia navy?"
Hu Hongxiu immediately shook his head: "I didn't see it, it must be a misunderstanding."
"It is indeed a misunderstanding. Where did the Xixia people get so many troops?" Liu Qi suddenly interrupted, then raised his whip and pointed at the wide river ahead. "Jiedu, please look, from here on, the Yellow River becomes wider and wider, wider than Jingdong, but such a wide and flat river also makes the river level gentle, which is convenient for crossing... The only difference is that the river is wide, so a lot of rafts and sheepskin rafts are needed for crossing the river, so it is natural for the Xixia people to arrange troops at the ferry to keep the rafts and sheepskin rafts, have weapons, and serve as guards. It has become a matter of course, and it has naturally been spread as a navy."
"That's right." Qu Duan suddenly interrupted. "When I was young, I saw the so-called Xixia navy once... Those Xixia people on the river had neither decent boats nor other proper water equipment. They were dressed in tattered sheepskin coats and carried some horse bows. In fact, they were just civilians following the army to transport goods. They were despised by everyone."
Yue Fei got the answer he wanted, and then nodded heavily. After a moment, he turned his head to Qu Duan, with no expression on his face: "General Qu, can you quickly disperse the foreign cavalry in front of us?"
"Jiedu, don't joke." Qu Duan's expression remained unchanged. "Even if there are 10,000 of us, we can drive away this kind of foreign cavalry, but they have few equipments, good horsemanship, and are very fast, so it's hard to catch up. If they scatter, we still need to gather them together again."
"I know." Yue Fei immediately wanted to say something else. "Please ask Commander Qu to clean it up first, so that we can cross the canal later."
Qu Duan nodded, but did not move immediately. He asked back on the spot: "The governor asked so carefully, obviously he wants to abandon Tangqu and go to the Yellow River?"
"Yes." Yue Fei still had some respect for Qu Duan, but it was just some respect.
"But what's the point of crossing the Yellow River? Do you think we can't handle the increasing number of foreign cavalry and are going to turn around and cross the river from the lower reaches to attack the empty Lingzhou on the other side of the river?" Qu Da finally frowned and looked at him seriously. "If we want to attack Lingzhou, what's the point of letting the whole army cross the gorge together before? How can we appease the morale of the army with such back and forth? Jiedu, I have something to say to you. Everyone has come here because of their great achievements and want to accomplish great things; secondly, they are also worried that something might go wrong... Changing the route at this time, abandoning Xingqing Prefecture and taking Lingzhou is certainly a merit, but please forgive me for speaking frankly, it will only make the morale of the army loose."
Having said that, at this point in the situation, there are actually very few choices, and the surrounding military generals have already thought of some things.
However, Yue Fei was a favorite general of Emperor Zhao and had a high rank. He was one of the three great generals and was always strict in managing the army. When the three armies joined forces this time, there was no need to say much about his headquarters in the imperial camp. As for the cavalry and central army of the imperial camp, although most of them were from Kansai, they were all deployed around Tokyo and had long known the temperament, qualifications and abilities of General Yue.
Therefore, there was not much dissatisfaction among the people, but rather more fear.
But even so, it still depends on what Qu Duan said. Now that everyone has come this far, how could they give up Xingqing Prefecture and go to attack Lingzhou because of possible military obstacles?
If we attack Lingzhou, the army will certainly be dissatisfied.
Therefore, since Qu Duan had spoken, the surrounding officers had no more scruples and came forward to persuade him.
This person said that if they went to Lingzhou, they would be easily taken advantage of by the Khitans. The Khitans were equipped with cavalry and camels, so they might even march directly from behind the Helan Mountains!
It was said that Weiming Chago in the direction of Hengshan would definitely return to provide support after receiving the message. If he really went to Lingzhou, the Xixia reinforcements from the direction of Hengshan might come back and be trapped there instead.
Everyone tried to persuade him, but Yue Fei just reined in his horse and said nothing.
After a while, when the people around him gradually quieted down, Yue Fei spoke calmly: "Do you all think we should go to Tangqu?"
The generals knew that it was a crucial moment and nodded in agreement.
"And if I take the Yellow River, do you think I will have to walk a few dozen miles to cross the river downstream to Lingzhou on the other side of the river?"
The crowd will continue to nod, but the smart ones have already tasted the flavor.
Qu Duan narrowed his eyes slightly, and Liu Qi and Hu Hongxiu looked at each other directly.
"Since we have come this far, we must move forward without hesitation and take Xingqing Prefecture alone." Yue Pengju finally said sternly. "How can we take Lingzhou? Listen to my orders. The cavalry will drive away the foreign cavalry, build a floating bridge on the canal, and the whole army will cross the canal and set up camp there! Don't ask any more questions, and don't be suspicious!"
The generals were all excited, and General Qu Liu and others did not dare to hesitate any longer. However, although these people were excited about Yue Fei's statement, they still had some doubts in their hearts, because Yue Fei still did not say whether he wanted to go through Tangqu or the Yellow River. From his appearance, it was obvious that he acquiesced to let the baggage and troops go through the Yellow River.
But since the goal was to take Xingqing Prefecture, why not march along the Tang Canal instead of the Yellow River?
But the coach's authority is here, if he says more, there will be no hope. Even Qu Duan does not want to cause any trouble at this time and place.
Let's not talk about others. Only Hu Hongxiu, the Minister of the Song Dynasty, who was wearing a turban, followed Yue Fei and watched the battle from a high place. Under the afternoon sun, the water of Tangqu was rippled. Zhang Zhongfu led thousands of cavalry to the mouth of the canal. Liu Qi led thousands of cavalry to try to bypass and encircle them from the west, but they were still discovered by the foreign cavalry and fled along the Tangqu. On the other side of the canal, there were more than a hundred newly arrived foreign cavalry shooting across the river, forcing the Song army to send out a group of archers to scare away the foreign cavalry... At this time, Minister Hu couldn't help but take another look at the Yellow River, which was hundreds of steps wide, and he suddenly realized something.
Just like that, on the first day after entering the heartland of Xingling, the Xixia people hurriedly gathered more than a thousand foreign cavalry. Not to mention killing or wounding them, they were unable to cause any effective delay to the Song army.
The Song army also successfully crossed the canal mouth before dark, entered between Tangqu and the Yellow River, and then camped directly... If the Hulu River is the outer shell and the gorge is the skeleton, then this place is the real inner core of the Xixia people.
And the entire Xingling land, up to this point, was like a beast with a knife stabbed in the abdomen, and it was completely spasming and struggling.
That night, the Song army, with their backs against the river and their front against the Tang Canal, carefully set up camp and rested early. Under the night sky, countless torches kept coming and going, howling mixed with the sound of the Yellow River, and cold arrows were shot from time to time, all of which indicated that the Xixia people were mobilizing and joining quickly.
"Is this your Majesty's order?"
That night, in the brightly lit Shunzhou prefecture in Western Xia, the prefect Weiming Zhangli looked up in surprise, as if he couldn't believe it.
"What do you think?" The person who came to deliver the decree was Liang Wang's Grand Tutor and former Privy Councilor, whose name was An Hui. The fact that he came at night in this capacity was enough to show the seriousness of the matter. "Hurry and do it!"
Weiming Zhangli sighed, as if he still couldn't bear it, and obviously wanted to say something... But at this moment, another burst of hurried horse hooves broke the night, and then there were continuous shouting outside the door. The two of them could hear it clearly, and it meant that the gold medal guards were escorting some important person here again.
An Hui and Zhang Li each stood up solemnly to greet the visitor, and a moment later, under the lights, a golden-armored warrior came in holding a child of seven or eight years old. An Hui and Zhang Li were stunned for a moment, then they both stood up in shock, then knelt on the spot and kowtowed heavily to the visitor.
"Your Majesty has an order." The golden-armored warrior put the panic-stricken child on the ground. Unexpectedly, the child could not stand steadily, so he had to hold him with one hand. With the other hand, he took out a gold medal from his waist and threw it to the ground. Then he kept talking. "Tell the two nobles that since the founding of the Great Baigao Kingdom, there has never been such a crisis... At this time, we can't rely on anyone but ourselves! Tell King Liang not to delay, gather as many troops as possible, and quickly harass the Song army. Delay for a while! Tell Zhang Li that I have no reinforcements for him, and Anhui's troops cannot be dispersed. Instead, I have to entrust the prince to him..."
At this point, the golden-armored warrior, whose face was covered in dust and who had not even had time to take off his helmet, swallowed his saliva and then tried to continue to convey his order: "Also tell Zhang Li that if he can delay a little time, the better... and if the Song army really comes along the Tang Canal and Shunzhou cannot be defended, then he should kill the prince for me to compensate the people of Shunzhou! In any case, he cannot fall into the hands of the Song people!"
Prince of Liang Anhui kowtowed heavily, without even looking at the ignorant child, and rushed out of the door. Zhang Li, who had nowhere to hide, also kowtowed heavily, and when he raised his head, he was in tears. He walked forward and took the eight-year-old Crown Prince Li Renxiao into his arms, and then he said that he had received the order.
The golden-armored warrior shook his head and whispered, "Not only is the crown prince here, but the King of Yue (Li Qianshun's youngest son) was also sent to Lingzhou on the other side of the river overnight."
After saying this, the man was about to turn back.
Zhang Li hugged his own prince and nodded with tears in his eyes, but suddenly reached out and grabbed the other party: "There is something that is really difficult for the locals to do, and I need your help."
The warrior looked back in confusion.
"The narrowest part of the Tang Canal is right next to Shunzhou..." Zhang Li said with difficulty. "It's only about ten steps wide... Even if it's just for the sake of precaution, please take people to block that place! And not just this place... After this place is blocked, the water downstream will slow down. On your way back, take the opportunity to have people block a few more places... This way, if the Song army really comes from here, it will be enough to delay them for a while."
This time, even the golden-armored warriors were stunned for a moment, but they nodded heavily and hurried away.
Without mentioning how the Xixia people fought bravely and struggled that night, let's just say that on the other side, when morning came, the Song army saw the surrounding foreign cavalry disappearing, and they were not only unhappy, but became more serious, because everyone knew that it was very likely that the Xixia people had sent an authoritative general to the vicinity overnight to organize these foreign cavalry.
In fact, Li Shifu sent the foreign cavalry forward and soon brought back the correct answer. The flags of Western Xia Liang Wang and Li Qianshun's former ruler Wei Ming Anhui had appeared along the Tangqu line ahead.
Over there, countless foreign cavalry were gathering.
On the other hand, when it was daybreak, Yue Fei did something that puzzled many people... You know, this was the golden time to save distance and time, but General Yue began to arrange the marching formation at daybreak.
All troops are divided into small groups according to their arms.
For example, the cavalry was divided into the foreign cavalry led by Li Shifu and the armored cavalry led by Liu Qi, Zhang Xian and others. Both the foreign cavalry and the armored cavalry were divided into twelve teams, with each team of foreign cavalry having less than 300 men, while each team of armored cavalry had 500 men.
At the same time, the infantry was divided into three types: spearmen, archers, and sword and shield soldiers. There were twelve teams in each type, a total of thirty-six teams, and each team had less than three hundred to five hundred men.
These troops, with sword and shield soldiers and spearmen forming a square formation on the outermost side, and archers slightly offset and marching in an array on the inner side. At the same time, the foreign cavalry scout and roam outside the infantry, and the armored cavalry stand in formation behind the archers. The whole army is well organized.
Finally, Qu Duan led the last two thousand cavalry and infantry in the center, serving as the central army and the general reserve.
At this point, of the 30,000 soldiers who came to attack, except for the 6,000 troops of Wang De's army and a small number of troops left in Pingxia City and Xi'an Prefecture as garrison troops and decoys, the 21,000 cavalry and infantry here were all dispersed and formed a battle formation.
Twelve generals from each department, starting with Liu Qi, including the commander-in-chief and deputy commander-in-chief, were also selected and divided roughly according to their own troops. They were assigned in order, with each commander in charge of a team of spearmen, a team of sword and shield soldiers, a team of archers, a team of armored cavalry... and when the foreign cavalry were not acting as scouts but instead meeting the enemy, they were also divided into teams and served under these temporary commanders.
As for the 6,000 civilian laborers who followed the army, only a few of them were on the rafts to steer the boats, but most of them were marching along the river under the cover of the large formation, pushing wheelbarrows or helping to pull the rafts.
It was not until the morning that the army maintained this strange formation, gave up Tangqu, and then slowly advanced along the river.
However, at this point, Qu Duan and the others vaguely realized something, and they all stopped arguing and doubting.
The army marched forward. In the afternoon, when the weather was already somewhat hot, smoke and dust suddenly rolled up from the front and side. Without Li Shifu's cavalry squad delivering the news, Yue Fei and others already knew that it must be that the King of Liang had hastily gathered some troops and rushed over to harass.
"Don't worry about them, keep the formation and keep moving forward." Yue Fei ordered immediately. "Follow the previous arrangement and wait for him to attack!"
"Let's try!" After a night of hard work, Weiming Anhui wore a golden crown and looked exhausted. Under the daylight, his face was full of wrinkles. "Remember, all tribes should be ready. Use bows and arrows, and leave after shooting. All families and tribes have not yet arrived. We only have four or five thousand people. Don't fight!"
"All cavalry units must not attack without orders!" Seeing the foreign cavalry trampling on the green seedlings to adjust their formation, the messenger from the central army also set out at the right time to convey the most important military order on behalf of the commander-in-chief. "Follow your own sequence and follow the command of your own marching commander-in-chief. All commanders-in-chief should deal with it according to the original plan!"
The Song army's order had just been passed down, and on the other side, the poorly trained Xixia tribal cavalry, seeing the Song army's continuous marching sequence, rushed out one after another without waiting for their friendly forces to be in position... Of course, they saw the outermost mixed formation of spearmen, swords and shield soldiers, and also saw the armor on those outer soldiers, so of course they would not be stupid enough to crash into those formations, but just ran towards the gaps in the formation, ready to harass with arrows, or look for the Song army cavalry circling around the formation.
However, when the first group of foreign cavalry wearing tattered green cloth robes and shaved heads rushed to the effective range and prepared to draw their bows, suddenly, the Song army foreign cavalry on the opposite side turned around and withdrew from the side gap of the Song army infantry formation in the same sequence as themselves and entered the army formation. The undisciplined Xixia foreign cavalry could not stop their horses at all and took advantage of the situation to catch up, preparing to shoot arrows at the Song army infantry formation.
However, at this moment, when the Song army's foreign cavalry turned into infantry formation, a volley of arrows shot towards them from the gaps between the Song army's marching swords and spears .
To be fair, this round of reflections is still a bit less powerful than the Xixia people's bows and arrows.
But the problem is that infantry bows have a longer range than cavalry bows, and the Song army's traditional crossbows such as the Shenbi bow and the Kedi bow are far superior to the opposing foreign cavalry... More importantly, unlike the Song army's foreign cavalry who basically all have leather armor, officers are basically fully armored, and armored cavalry and outer infantry all wear iron armor, these temporarily recruited Western Xia foreign cavalry basically have no armor.
Therefore, arrows shot from the slightly slowed-down army formation, and immediately knocked the foreign cavalry who had advanced too far off their horses, with blood all over the ground.
Without any command, the Western Xia foreign cavalry scattered backwards, while the Song army's foreign cavalry wearing leather armor poured out from another gap in the army formation and chased the Western Xia foreign cavalry who were out of formation. Many of the foreign cavalry were caught off guard and many were shot down by the Song army's light cavalry in the process of gathering their formation.
Moreover, unlike the Western Xia foreign cavalry, most of the Song army's foreign cavalry did not linger in a fight amid the shouts behind them. Instead, they quickly cleaned up the battlefield next to the marching column, gathered the usable war horses, slaughtered the injured war horses and Western Xia people, and then carried the arrows and dead horses on the ground back to the marching column... It was roughly the same throughout the army, with only one exception, that is, the armored cavalry stood out and blocked the foreign cavalry from going out to fight, and they did not gain much.
In the distance, Western Xia Liang Wang Weiming Anhui, who had found a small hill to watch the battle, stared for a long time, but was horrified... He was not shaken by this loss. In fact, this was just a test. He did not expect this hastily gathered tribal light cavalry to gain anything. But the problem was that during the battle just now, the Song army did not stop at all!
That’s right, although the Song army slowed down, it was advancing forward calmly throughout the entire battle!
This is the most terrible thing!
"Every ten miles, have the soldiers put on their armor and rotate to the outer layer. The whole army will keep moving. We will march forty miles today." Under the banner of serving the country with loyalty, Yue Fei rode his horse slowly, looked at the sun, then looked at the smoke and dust rising around Weiming Anhui in the distance, and calmly turned back to look at Qu Duan. "Tomorrow we will march fifty miles."
Qu Duan, who was riding side by side with Yue Fei, did not respond directly. Instead, he looked incredulous: "It actually works?"
"These are the soldiers of the imperial camp, and they have excellent military discipline." Hu Hongxiu's face flushed, and he looked at them from the side. "With such military discipline and proper military formation, how can it not work? Moreover, the key is that the governor had foresight and abandoned the Tangqu Canal, allowing the army to march along the river. The river not only protected the baggage and the laborers, but more importantly, it also covered half of the military formation, preventing the Xixia people from going around to find flaws, and allowing us to only take care of one side of the defense. Otherwise, how could we use that emergency military formation to cover the entire army? In my opinion, the biggest advantage of this battle is the march. Yue Jiedu made an antelope hanging on the corner and advanced along the river, but he inadvertently smoothed over this biggest difficulty... He really has the style of Li Yaoshi!"
Qu Duan nodded again... Let's talk about who Qu Da is? Given his temper, he must be dissatisfied with Yue Fei, so he may not agree with Hu Hongxiu's words about "Li Yaoshi". But he also saw that the biggest feature of Yue Fei's marching emergency formation is that it relies on the river. Although it seems simple, it is really a great trick. After all, everyone can set up this kind of marching formation to deal with the harassment of light cavalry, but relying on the river can save half of the protective troops and cover half of the attacked parts, which can reduce the burden of the troops to the greatest extent, making it light and simple, so as to continue to march. But if we take the Tangqu Canal, there will be no such advantage, but it will become a flaw... The Western bandits will harass across the canal that is only a few dozen steps wide, and may even force the Song army to split up, which will reveal more flaws.
However, after he nodded for a moment, he saw that Yue Fei was still looking at him, including Hu Hongxiu, and he finally came to his senses, and then shook his head directly: "I know, the armored cavalry commander who pursued without authorization is my subordinate, I will personally kill him to restore military discipline!"
After saying this, Qu Da rode out on his horse and headed straight ahead with his personal guards.
A moment later, the commander of the imperial cavalry, who violated military discipline and rode out on horseback without authorization, was hung up for public display. During this process, the more than 20,000 soldiers of the Song imperial camp continued to march forward in fear, with Weiming Anhui in the distance almost numbing their scalps.
That day was the seventh day of April. Although they set out very late, the Song army actually advanced more than 40 miles before stopping in the cover of night. Then they arranged their battle formations and camped on the spot.
It can be imagined that if the Song army sets out in this formation tomorrow morning, they can cover a longer distance, for example, fifty miles should be no problem. But the problem is... of course, it is a problem for the Xixia people... So far, the Song imperial camp army is only about a hundred miles away from Xingqing Prefecture .
At the same time, they only had temporarily recruited tribal light cavalry, but even with this kind of cavalry, the sooner the Song army arrived at Xingqing Prefecture, the fewer number they could deploy.
"Send the King of Yue back." On the eighth day of April, the sky was already bright. Weiming Anhui, wearing a golden crown, had not slept all night, but was in a private house facing a golden-armored warrior. "Tell your majesty that Yue Fei did not go through Tangqu, but came by the river, and the King of Yue did not have time to send him to the other side... Then tell your majesty about the predicament here... Just say that a good warrior does not have great achievements. This Yue Fei used a marching formation to force me to be unable to fight and dare not fight. It's really amazing! Tell him that although I am incompetent, I am not afraid to fight desperately. It's just that once I take action, I may not have a chance of winning, but I will have to sacrifice my precious troops. If something unexpected happens under the city of Xingqing Prefecture, I will be the eternal sinner of the Great Baigao Kingdom, so I have to wait for his order before I dare to go all out."
The golden-armored warrior said nothing, and walked out holding a child of only three or four years old. After he walked out of the door, he turned around and mounted his horse, heading straight for Xingqing Mansion... It was not a large army march, so if he kept changing horses, he would arrive in the afternoon.
