"Because when I went to Xingqing Prefecture with the Khitans, I persuaded them to bribe the witch in the city with the treasures from the Western Regions, and then I got a piece of news... The Xixia people happened to have 20,000 field troops, but they were stationed in Lingzhou!" Hu Hongxiu, who smelled like sheep oil, said earnestly. "I watched the troops passing through the gorge for an entire afternoon, and there were exactly 20,000 of them. It can't be such a coincidence."
Qu Duan and Yue Fei both changed color. They had been studying the military situation of Western Xia all day long in the past few months and were already familiar with the geography of Western Xia. When they heard Hu Hongxiu's words, they obviously understood what he meant immediately.
"Since the troops of Lingzhou have been dispatched, whether they are dispatched from Yinshan in the north, recalled from Hengshan, or temporarily recruited locally... there is a huge flaw!" Hu Hongxiu urged. "Yue Jiedu, Qu Dutong, while the Xixia people haven't discovered us yet, turn east immediately! Go back to Quwu Mountain, return to Pingxia City, and then go all the way north. While Lingzhou is empty, go directly to Xingqing Prefecture along the Hulu River! I will be your guide!"
Qu Duan opened his mouth to speak, but he felt his chest pounding and was unable to make a decision.
Yue Fei thought for a moment, then narrowed his eyes and ordered his generals to gather.
That night, the central army gathered hastily and argued for only two quarters of an hour before Yue and Qu made up their minds. Then, the Song army turned back from Quwu Mountain and passed Xi'an Prefecture the next day without entering it, and headed straight for Hulu River... On the last day of March, the army gathered again on the banks of Hulu River and turned north.
On the second day of April, Li Shifu, deputy commander-in-chief of the Imperial Cavalry, personally led 300 foreign cavalrymen to seize Douling Shangyikou and officially entered the territory of Western Xia... So far, Yue Fei, the man who had the most influence on the direction of the war, finally rolled the dice!
"What's the matter?" On the same day, Emperor Zhao continued to dig the pit as usual, but that night, he received military intelligence again. However, this time, it was Liu Yan who finally woke him up.
"General Wu sent a fast horse from Hengshan... saying that the General of Xiazhou in Western Xia, Weiming Heda, took the initiative to contact him and offered to be an insider." Liu Yan half-knelt in front of the couch and bowed his head to hand over the secret letter.
"Weiming Heda asked for it?" Zhao Jiu frowned and turned over. He took the secret letter and asked directly without reading it. "Is Yelu Dashi so quick? Isn't it easy for Xingqing Prefecture to block the news of the war in Hexi? Could it be that Wu Jie took the initiative and came to scare me again?"
"It's not Hexi, it's Yinshan." Liu Yan said solemnly. "According to Wu Jiedu's retelling of Weiming Heda, the Mongols had long been harassing the north of Xixia. We originally thought they were just taking advantage of the situation, but ten days ago, they suddenly raised the banner of Yelu Dashi and spread the news that Yelu Dashi had formed an alliance with us and was marching from Hexi. He was in Xiazhou, so he naturally knew about it quickly."
Zhao Jiu was stunned on the spot, for a moment astonished at Yelu Dashi's methods, but only a moment later, his heart began to beat wildly... Besides, although the Zhao Song official was a waste, he had fought for several years after all, so how could he not know? With Yelu Dashi's feint to the east and attack in the west, coupled with the special geographical conditions of Western Xia, at this moment, everyone was caught in an information gap.
From the Song Dynasty to the Jin Dynasty, from Western Xia to Western Liao, from within Western Xia to within the Song army and then to within the Jin Dynasty, and even the two armies of Western Liao, the information obtained was completely different.
The so-called overall chaos is happening right now, and it is also the right time to take advantage of the chaos.
"Write back to Wu Jinqing immediately, and take it to him personally!" After reading the secret letter, Zhao Jiu, who was still sitting on the couch, thought for about an incense stick of time and finally made up his mind. "Tell him that I still don't know how to fight, so today I can only imitate the story of Yaoshan again and give him the power to make decisions...Here on the eastern front, he still gives orders, and I still listen to him, so please let him do it!"
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