Chapter 305 Surrounding and Annihilating the Enemy Army
"Old Li, do you think the Xixia people will let us go?" Wang Gui asked, looking back.
"I've counted their numbers, and they still have about a hundred of them. We only took fifty horses, so they still have one hundred and fifty war horses. I think they will continue to chase, unless we get into an own goal Fortress, otherwise they will never let it go."
Wang Gui sighed, "You are right, Xixia people are notoriously unwilling to admit defeat, we have to speed up, they will catch up soon."
The crowd sped up their horses and ran about 20 miles away. Suddenly, a soldier pointed ahead and shouted, "Is that our army?"
Both Li Yanqing and Wang Gui saw that an army of about 2,000 people was marching in line, only a few hundred steps away from them. Wang Gui was overjoyed: "Reinforcements must have arrived!"
He urged the horse to gallop up, waved his hands and shouted: "I am the magic arrow, Agui!"
Li Yanqing looked back suddenly, he faintly felt a slight vibration on the ground, although it was very slight, it was an out-and-out signal that the Xixia army was coming.
Li Yanqing urged his horse to gallop almost without thinking, and he rushed to Sun Qing in a short while. Before he had time to say more, he said anxiously: "Quickly order the troops to lie in ambush on both sides, the Xixia cavalry is coming after us."
Sun Qing reacted very quickly, turned around and shouted: "Ambush on both sides immediately!"
The soldiers of the Song army were well-trained, and they ran to the two sides separately, and lay down on the land on both sides. Li Yanqing said to Sun Qing: "Please go to the ambush in Zhizhai, and we will continue to run forward to lure the enemy."
"How many people are there?" Sun Qing asked anxiously.
"About a hundred people, all cavalry."
There were only a hundred cavalry, Sun Qing breathed a sigh of relief, turned his horse's head and ran eastward, and soon hid behind a mound, Li Yanqing led the crowd and continued to gallop forward, only a moment later, hundreds of paces behind them Numerous small black spots appeared outside, and a hundred Xixia cavalry were chasing after them, stirring up billowing yellow dust.
Zuo Jiangye Li'an was killed in battle, and the two leaders felt that they could not go back and explain. They had nowhere to go except to continue chasing. A hundred Xixia cavalry galloped on the Loess Plateau, and soon the soldiers were all riding on two horses. quick.
At this time, a leader finally saw a group of horses fleeing ahead. He was overjoyed and shouted: "They are ahead, catch up with them!"
The Xixia soldiers were all skilled in equestrian skills. They were severely injured when they attacked the mountain and their horses were taken away.
Seeing that the time has come, Sun Qing ordered: "Shoot!"
The sound of archery clappers suddenly sounded, and the soldiers of the Song Army ambushing on both sides opened their bows and released arrows together. The arrows were as dense as rain and shot at a hundred Xixia cavalry. The ambush came so suddenly that the Xixia cavalry was caught off guard. Cheng hit the arrow, and more than forty people fell off the horse.
One of the leaders saw that the situation was not good, and shouted: "Retreat!"
The surviving more than fifty Xixia cavalry turned around and fled. The Song army drummed loudly, and two thousand soldiers surrounded and killed more than fifty Xixia cavalry.
In less than a quarter of an hour, the ambush was over, all the hundreds of cavalrymen were killed, and no one survived. The Song army captured more than one hundred horses. Including the horses captured by Li Yanqing and the others, there were actually one hundred and seventy horses. Qing was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth. He wiped out two hundred capture troops. This may be the biggest achievement of the Song Army in the past two years.
At this time, Li Yanqing stepped forward and cupped his fists and said, "Thank you Sun Zhizhai for arriving in time, otherwise I will not escape this time!"
"Where! Where! It's our job to protect Li Canjun. It's our lack of security that frightened Li Canjun."
Li Yanqing sighed, "If it wasn't for Wang Gui, the officer in charge, who defended himself to the death, how could I, a civil servant, have escaped the arrest of two hundred cavalrymen? The officer in charge Wang is both wise and brave. I hope Sun Zhizhai will promote and reward him."
Sun Zhizhai didn't know that Li Yanqing knew martial arts, so he was also surprised. Wang Gui killed more than a hundred people with only a dozen of them. This is a great talent! As expected of someone who came out of martial arts, it's a pity to be relegated to the guard, and he immediately had the intention to win over Wang Gui in his heart.
Then he said to Wang Gui: "From now on, I will promote you to be the leader of the team! You will be rewarded with three hundred taels of silver."
Wang Gui listened to Li Yanqing asking for credit for himself, his face turned red early, he was moved and embarrassed, at this moment, Li Yanqing gave him a wink, helpless, he had no choice but to bow and say: " The young general thanked Zhizhai for the reward, but whether the young general can be allowed to distribute the reward to the brothers who fought together."
Seeing that he treated his subordinates generously, Sun Qing admired him even more, nodded and said: "Then reward another two hundred taels of silver, and you can share it with them."
"Thank you Zhizhai for your understanding!"
Wang Gui saluted Li Yanqing again, "Thank you Li Canjun for your kindness!"
Li Yanqing smiled slightly, "You have earned so many war horses for Wulongzhai, Zhizhai is still grateful to you!"
Sun Qing was overjoyed, "Did Li Canjun promise to give us all these horses?"
Li Yanqing smiled and said: "I only need 20 horses to serve as my subordinates' inspection legs, and the rest will be allocated to Wulongzhai."
It is Li Yanqing's power to allocate military funds. For the sake of his brother's future, how could he not give Sun Qing's favor and face?
Although the Western Xia ambush was wiped out, Li Yanqing also suffered heavy losses. The guide died and half of the followers died. He could only temporarily give up his plan to go to Shenquan Village and return to Wulong Village.
Li Yanqing calmly considered the cause and effect of this matter along the way. He was almost sure that it was Zhao Yuan's plan to join the army, and two of his subordinates were also involved. From the very beginning, Zhao Yuan was extremely indifferent to him. The reason was that I snatched the position that he had almost agreed to. Although they have lived peacefully in the past few months, it does not mean that Zhao Yuan let him go. At least Li Yanqing knows that Zhao Yuan has accused himself of being incompetent twice in front of the teacher. .
But he didn't have any evidence to accuse Zhao Yuan of this. There is a key link missing, which is how Zhao Yuan colluded with Xixia. Without this key evidence, Zhong Shidao would not believe his accusation. After all, Zhao Yuan followed Zhong Shi It has been more than ten years, but Li Yanqing has only been in office for a few months.
He must not be arrogant about this matter, he needs to let Shidao Zhong make his own choice.
At noon, Li Yanqing arrived at Wulongzhai. Yang Huai and Yan Jiuling rushed out to greet him, "I heard that the army was ambushed. We were so worried that we stayed up all night!"
Li Yanqing smiled lightly: "Thank you for your concern. I was lucky. Thanks to Sun Zhizhai's timely rescue, I was lucky enough to escape this catastrophe."
Yang Huai repeatedly patted himself on the chest, as if he had lingering fears in his heart, "It's a blessing! If there is something wrong with joining the army, how can we go back and explain it?"
Yan Jiuling couldn't hide the guilt in his heart, and lowered his head. Li Yanqing's eyes were bright and he could see clearly. He suddenly realized that this Yan Jiuling might be a breakthrough.
But this time is not an opportunity, Li Yanqing said to the two without showing any emotion: "Let's clean up! Let's go back to Taiyuan tomorrow."
"Aren't you going to Shenquan Village and Tongqin Village?" The two asked in unison.
Li Yanqing shook his head, "The official documents are all lost, how do I get there? Let's talk about it later! Besides, this area is too unsafe, there are Xixia spies everywhere, I almost died once, and I don't want to encounter it again. "
"Joining the army makes sense. We also hope to return to Taiyuan as soon as possible. It's too frightening here."
At night, in the small tavern in Wulongzhai, Wang Gui bought wine to see Li Yanqing off. Li Yanqing stared at the cloudy liquid in the glass, which swirled and formed a layer of white foam.
Wang Gui was a little embarrassed and said: "There is really no good wine in the mountain village, and their sheep wine is already the best."
Li Yanqing smiled and said: "It's pretty good if you have wine here. In Taiyuan Daying, you can stick one hundred for one drink, and you will be executed three times for drinking. You should feel lucky."
"That's true. Everyone says that the frontier village is very difficult. In fact, we think it's good. If we have wine, we can find women. If we want to eat meat, we can go hunting outside by ourselves. It's just a little bit dangerous, but if there is a big war, who is not dangerous? Damn it, live one day to enjoy it, and think about what will happen tomorrow!"
Li Yanqing suddenly remembered that he teased Wang Gui for going to a brothel secretly. At that time, he blushed and tried to explain, but now, looking for a woman has come out casually. This is the environment that changes people. Li Yanqing feels that Wang Gui has already gone to his own. In the road of life, there is no need to deliberately change anything. In fact, Yue Fei and Tang Huai are not like this.
Thinking of this, Li Yanqing drank the wine in his glass, and said to Wang Gui: "I won't go to Shenquan Village, if you see Niu Gao, tell him for me, and I will visit him next time."
Wang Gui nodded, "I will."
After a moment of silence, Wang Gui said again: "Your risk is much greater than ours. Be careful yourself. The officialdom of the Song Dynasty is very dark. In fact, the Northwest Army is the same. In name, Zhong Dao is the commander, but in fact he only controls part of the power."
"How do you say that?" Li Yanqing asked.
"I also heard what Zhizhai said when he was drunk. The Northwest Army has the forces of Tong Guan and Gao Qiu. In comparison, Zhongshuai is actually the least powerful. Just look at the Xixia people who ambushed you this time. Sun Zhizhai told me today that Ye Lian, who was shot and killed by you, was the number one general of the Xixia Army, and he was very famous in Xixia. He came from Xingqing Mansion, not a frontier general. Sun Zhizhai was also very surprised , you actually alarmed Xingqing Mansion, Yanqing, do you feel that the water here is very deep?"
Li Yanqing nodded silently, maybe things are really not as simple as he thought.
(end of this chapter)
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