MTL - Poor Family-v2 Chapter 963 The War of Extermination (Seventeen)
Chapter 963 The Battle to Destroy the Nation (Seventeen)
Wei Ying snatched a horse on the road, and when he arrived in Lingzhou, a hundred miles away, it was already midnight.
He went straight to the Song army camp in Nancheng, hundreds of steps away from the camp. ’ flew by, so frightened that Wei Ying quickly reined in his horse.
"Who are you?" A sentry rushed forward and asked.
He is only one person, otherwise the patrol would have called the police.
Wei Ying hurriedly said: "I am a spy of the Song Army in Xingqing Mansion, and I have very important information to report to Li Dutong."
A few soldiers asked again: "Do you have a token?"
Wei Ying shook her head, "No token!"
"That won't work, you can't enter the barracks without a token."
Wei Ying became anxious and yelled, "I am a spy who was personally placed by Dutong to come to Xixia eight years ago. At that time, I was still an old-fashioned strategist. Dutong just joined the army. There is no shadow of Jing Zhaojun. How can I have anything?" Token?"
More than a dozen patrols looked at each other, and after a long while, the leader of the patrol guard clasped his fists and said, "I'm really sorry, then go to the camp with us, but we can only enter the camp after reporting to Dutong."
Wei Ying also realized that his attitude was not good. Everyone was acting according to the rules. There was no need for him to yell like this. He nodded and said, "The military situation is urgent. I will report it to Dutong immediately."
"Then please!" The crowd led him to the camp.
At this time, Li Yanqing had already fallen asleep, but hadn't fallen asleep yet. A soldier reported outside the dormitory: "Report to Dutong, who is patrolling outside to report. It is said that a spy from Xingqing Mansion has arrived. There is an important matter." The military situation is reported to you."
Li Yanqing was a little stunned, he didn't arrange spies in Xingqing Mansion! Could it be.
Li Yanqing suddenly sat up and asked, "Is that Wei Ying?"
"It seems that the surname is Wei."
"Bring him to me immediately, go!"
The soldiers turned around and ran away, Li Yanqing also put on his coat. The person he felt the most guilty these years was Wei Ying. Back then, he sent him to Xixia as an undercover agent. He has been there for eight years. The intelligence battalion has been disbanded long ago. After several ups and downs, Wei Ying was like a kite with a broken string, and he disappeared. It was not until the Qiao brothers found him last year that he knew that Wei Ying was still in Xingqing Mansion and had been silently collecting information for eight years.
Thinking of this, Li Yanqing's nose became sore. He had long forgotten about him, but he was always loyal to Song Jun and never forgot the mission he shouldered. I am really sorry for him.
Not long after, Wei Ying was brought into the big tent, and he fell on the ground and burst into tears. Years of grievances poured out at this moment.
Li Yanqing also quickly helped him up to comfort him, Wei Ying also felt that he had gone a little too far, and quickly wiped away his tears and said, "I have an important military report for my humble post!"
Li Yanqing asked him to sit down and have a cup of hot tea, and ordered Wang Gui and Liu Qi to be brought over. Not long after, Wang Gui and Liu Qi hurried over, and Li Yanqing introduced Wei Ying to them, and both of them were very happy. I am very moved.
"He Nanshan is extremely lively, Xingqing Mansion should take action?" Wang Gui asked with interest.
Wei Ying hurriedly said: "The purpose of this humble job is to report this matter."
He then explained in detail the Xixia decision to use the Tuoba army to replace the iron kite to defend the city. Liu Kai laughed and said: "It is really difficult for the Xixia people to think of such a method."
Li Yanqing pondered for a moment and asked, "Is the source reliable?"
Wei Ying nodded, "It was Xixia's military officer who revealed that his name is Wang Yanzhao, and he is a Han Chinese. He was excluded in Xixia official circles. He has been providing information to me all these years."
"Did he provide the deployment map of the troops at various passes in Xixia last time?" Li Yanqing asked.
"It's him!"
Li Yanqing believed it. The last time Wei Ying asked Zhang Jiu to send a pass army deployment map, it was very meaningful. It included the garrison and grain storage of the Xixia army in hundreds of passes, so that the Song army did not have to pass each pass. They searched and wiped out more than 30 passes with a small number of garrisons, and found nearly 100,000 stone cellars for food, which also allowed the Song army to quickly station in these pass with supplies, which has extremely high strategic value.
"What else is going on?"
"In addition, Xixia began to strictly control the gates of the city, only allowed to enter but not to exit, and began to comprehensively investigate the Han people in the city."
"What does it mean to investigate the Han people in the city?" Li Yanqing asked in confusion.
"Qi Dutong, this saying has a long history. There are hundreds of thousands of Han people living in Xingzhong City. They are aborigines, not captured Song slaves. The Xixia court has always been more polite to them since Li Yuanhao. They are also in Xixia. They are relatively wealthy and have a lot of good farmland. However, the national strength of Xixia has declined in recent years. Some party aristocrats began to accuse these Han people of exploiting party members and asked the court to take them out. However, they were also strongly opposed by Han ministers like Jiao Yanting. Now Xixia is facing Life and death are at stake, and financial resources are exhausted, so they began to attack the Han people. The so-called investigation is to plunder their property to supplement military expenses. If they resist, they will definitely be massacred."
Li Yanqing couldn't believe it. The Han people were the most important source of finance for the Xixia court. Isn't robbing the Han people just killing chickens to get eggs?
"Xixia's financial resources are actually so embarrassing?"
Wei Ying smiled wryly, "I have worked in Xixia for eight years, and I really understand Xixia thoroughly. The population of this small country was less than 3 million at the time, and now it is only 2.5 million. In the past ten years, there have been wars almost every year. How can their national power support them, especially when they are squeezed by the Jin Kingdom, they failed to compete for the Datong Mansion, surrendered to the Jin Kingdom, lost a lot of property, and had to pay for the food, grass and military expenses of the 20,000 Jin soldiers in the Datong Mansion. Come on, because of the snowstorm last year, Jin Guo extorted a million sheep. This incident has completely intensified the internal conflicts in Xixia. The Xixia court can be described as internally and externally trapped. gone."
Beside Wang Gui smiled and said: "I'm afraid it has something to do with the failure to invade Xihe Road the year before last!"
"It is indeed related. Wang Yanzhao told me that after the failure of sending troops that time, Xixia's arsenal was completely empty, and the financial resources could not afford so much military expenditure, so they began to reduce the number of troops."
After a pause, Wei Ying continued: "However, I personally think that the reason for Xixia's decline is not only militarism, but also the extravagance of their aristocrats. They are typical abbots with poor temples and riches, and the treasury is empty, but the aristocrats have accumulated a lot of wealth. The last time Li Qianshun raided Prince Liang’s mansion, he heard that he confiscated millions of taels of silver alone and hundreds of thousands of taels of gold, which supported the military expenditure of the party’s coalition forces this time, but King Liang was still only one of them. The royal family, prime ministers, ministers and other important officials, which house is not full of silk and gold and silver, like the Minister of the Ministry of War Yinggui, even the maids in his house use Baoyanzhai red boxes, which shows the degree of luxury they live in."
Li Yanqing said with a smile: "In this case, I have to send a cavalry to patrol the north of Xingqing Mansion to prevent them from escaping with wealth."
"It is very necessary, and not only cavalry, but also ships are needed to prevent them from escaping to Datong Mansion by water, which will benefit the Kingdom of Jin in vain."
Li Yanqing nodded, turned around and asked Cao Ye, "Has the fleet of Zhang Shun and Sanxiong Ruan come?"
Cao Ye hurriedly said: "Report to Dutong, the fleet has arrived in Mingsha County."
The fleet is a surprise army arranged by Li Yanqing, led by Zhang Shun and Ruan Sanxiong, with a total of 500 large and small ships and 6,000 water troops. They set off from the Weihe River, enter the Yellow River, and then turn north. The Yellow River is the main transportation artery of Xixia , if you want to destroy Xixia, you must first control the Yellow River.
Li Yanqing asked his soldiers to take Wei Ying to rest, while he, Wang Gui and Liu Qi continued to discuss the deployment of troops to deal with the new changes in Xixia, especially the iron kite cavalry going out to the west of the city, which made Li Yanqing see the hope of annihilating them .
At the same time that the Xixia court decided to replace the iron kite with the Tuoba army, the news of the Song army's bloodbath of He Nanshan's various tribes also spread to the Jingzhou coalition camp.
At this time, Li Zhizong also received a letter from the court. He urgently summoned the leaders of the various armies to appease their emotions.
"Please rest assured that the Son of Heaven will never allow the Song army to ravage He Nanshan. I just received a report from the imperial court that the Emperor has sent 10,000 iron kite cavalry to He Nanshan. He will definitely stop the Song army from atrocities in He Nanshan. Please rest assured , don’t shake the morale of the army.”
At this time, Xifeng Bie also asked: "The 10,000 troops in the capital have gone to Mount Henan, and the capital is empty. What if the Song army takes the opportunity to attack the capital?"
"This. The imperial court has made arrangements. The imperial court has asked the Tuoba tribe to send 30,000 troops to guard the capital. In short, everyone must appease the soldiers, and must not fall into the tricks of the Song army and mess up their own positions."
Li Zhizong repeatedly explained, and finally calmed down everyone's emotions. He was relieved for a long time.
In the big tent, Bie Bie was pacing back and forth with his hands behind his back, feeling really anxious, the horn letter from the great chief, Bie Heita, requesting him to return to the army immediately for rescue was placed on the table, Bie Bie couldn't make up his mind for a while, at this moment , the voices of the other two department chiefs came from outside the tent, "We are looking for the marshal!"
"Let them in!"
The curtain was lifted, and the chief generals of Noribu and Mizubu walked in quickly, "Brother, what do you think of this matter?"
Li Zhizong tried his best to appease everyone, but everyone didn't buy his account. They believed Xifeng Bieye's words more. They did not go to rescue the tribes of He Nanshan."
The two were surprised, "Could it be that the imperial court will lie to us?"
"The imperial court will not lie to us. Since it has agreed, the Iron Harrier should send troops. I just said that the matter is not as simple as what Du Shuai said. The Iron Harrier should still be in Xingqing Mansion and have not set off. They are still waiting!"
"What are they waiting for?"
"They are waiting for the Tuoba army to arrive. The imperial court will never let the capital become an empty city. The two armies must hand over their defenses before the iron kite will go west."
The two chief generals were anxious, "When will we go then?"
"That's the problem. It takes three days at the fastest to go from Xingqing Mansion to Tuoba's ranch, and it takes six days to come and go. It's still the same thing if Tuoba Jun is willing to come. Even if he comes, he has to bargain. It will take at least two or three days, so even if the iron kite sends troops, it will take eight days at the earliest, and by the time they reach the pasture, ten days have passed, and our tribe has long since died, so what's the point of them sending troops?"
"Significant!"
The leader of the Nori Department, Nori, said coldly: "You can continue to lie to us and work for them here. This is their only purpose."
Xi Fengbie also sighed, "I don't understand why they didn't let us go back to Xingqing Mansion, and then everyone sent troops to rescue He Nanshan. Why must we confront the Song Army in Jingzhou?"
"I'm afraid they are buying time!"
Mi Qin Deli suddenly said a shocking sentence, "Give them time to transfer their wealth."
Xi Fengbie's expression changed drastically, perhaps this sentence is the truth.
(end of this chapter)
