Because by this time tomorrow, everyone will know all the news, and by then will the overall situation of Western Xia be able to hold on?
Now the news of Xingqing Prefecture has not spread, and the king's majesty still covers everyone. Xiao Heda's son dared to rebel. Then when the news spreads, will the leaders of the Hengshan tribe and the commander in front of him still hesitate?
So, as if by magic, when Wei Ming Renli turned around, Ahua did not return the token. Instead, he bowed and retreated with the coach and left the hall.
And just as Ah Hua thought, Wei Ming Renli, who usually seldom participated in military affairs, was already confused. Moreover, the government office was in chaos at the time, and he did not pay any attention to this matter when he was hastily summoned.
After leaving the hall, Ah Hua bowed and said goodbye to the commander calmly, then hurried out of the office. When he saw the soldiers waiting for him to leave, he actually took out the general's command card from his pocket again, and said to them sternly: "The king has ordered that you still follow my guard orders."
Of course, the soldiers had nothing to say.
Then, Ahua mounted his horse and led several soldiers to gallop directly to a temple in the city, and arrived at the place where Xiao Heda was imprisoned before the commander.
He showed the silver token representing the identity of King Shu. Moreover, Ah Hua was the manager of Feilongyuan directly under the Military Department, and he was well-known in the local area. Therefore, after a brief confirmation, the guards lifted the ban. Ah Hua entered the temple openly, but he pretended to be calm. He simply called Xiao Heda in front of the guards, and then showed Xiao Heda the silver medal of the Military Department and the military document that served as proof of his identity as an envoy in public, and said seriously:
"Commander Heda, King Shu knows that you asked the on-duty coach to pass on a message last night, and he is going to summon you in person for questioning."
Xiao Heda is over 40 years old this year, in the prime of his life. He first served as the commander-in-chief of Xiazhou (equivalent to the commander-in-chief), and served as the commander-in-chief of the Hengshan front several times. Unlike Wei Mingrenli, he was under house arrest and even asked for a pair of leather armor. However, he could see a little problem from the document... But the more problems there were, the happier he was.
As for the soldiers guarding nearby, they actually had no doubts because they knew about this matter.
Just like this, in the midst of chaos and war in the city, a leader of Feilongyuan who had a sudden impulse actually took control of a key figure who was related to the safety of the entire Hengshan.
After going out, Ah Hua mustered up his courage and made the final arrangements... First, he borrowed a leather helmet with a cowhide mask from the garrison on the grounds that Xiao Heda was not convenient to show up on the street, and then he set off and actually went to the government office.
To be honest, at this moment Xiao Heda almost thought he had misunderstood.
But soon, the group returned to the government office. Several guards stayed outside, but Ah Hua took Xiao Heda, who was dressed as an ordinary soldier, directly into his public room, then bowed his head and kowtowed... and then stood up and whispered to each other. With just a few simple words, the other party, a Khitan general who had commanded the army for twenty years, was stunned on the spot:
"General, Xingqing Prefecture has been lost, the king and his son have lost their traces, Jin Wang Cha Ge led the army back to Lingzhou, Shu Wang Renli has lost his composure, Song Army General Wu Jie is at the gate of Hongzhou, Commander Guo Hao is at the gate of Longzhou, and your two sons have already raised an army... Don't say a word now, follow me out of the side door, go directly to my Feilong Court to get a horse, and I will take you out of the city!"
After a few words, Ah Hua was already sweating all over, and wasn't Xiao Heda the same?
The two men almost forced their bodies to turn around and go out. As expected, they went out from the side door, entered Feilongyuan to get their horses, and then easily passed through the city gate with the silver medal, but went straight to Xiazhou in the northeast. When they reached the fork in the road, they encountered the chaotic army of Xiazhou.
At this point, Xiao Heda took off his helmet and threw it on the ground, then proudly joined the army. He first rewarded Ahua with all the army's wealth, and then ordered his troops to return to Xiazhou!
It's not that he didn't want to attack Youzhou, but with the thousands of troops mobilized by his sons, they could not conquer Youzhou, which was already prepared. But if he, Xiao Heda, personally went back to Xiazhou to summon all the troops, he could gather an army of over ten thousand people in a short time, which could be considered a real army.
At that time, he still will not attack Youzhou, he will attack Longzhou and Hongzhou!
The day was April 17th.
On that day, the Song army still had a difficult time making progress.
On April 18th, the Song army was still defeated in the heartland of Western Xia... The Yanzhou direction even encountered a large-scale counterattack, forcing Huanzhou governor Yang Zheng to retreat hastily. The Hongzhou area, which was originally supervised by Wu Jie and had made the fastest progress, also became less smooth due to the return of the defending general Weiming Yun Ge.
But on April 19, the Song army suddenly received strong support from many Hengshan barbarian tribes. The support that had been perfunctory was no longer perfunctory. Many tribes that had originally followed the Western Xia also intended to withdraw back to the mountains. The resistance faced by the Song army suddenly loosened.
Of course Wu Jie knew what was going on. The day before, he had verified his thoughts from the accurate military reports behind him, and then he slept more soundly.
On the 20th, more foreign tribes chose to follow the Song army. As soon as these people returned to the mountains, they wiped the blood off their weapons, took their stored food, war horses, and equipment, and went to the Song army camp, as if they were not the ones who had fought bravely with the Song army in the past few days.
In this regard, Wu Jie accepted all offers.
And that evening, Longzhou suddenly fell... The insider arranged by Xiao Heda several months ago opened the city gate, and then Guo Hao and Xiao Heda joined forces in the city, and then without stopping, they headed towards Hongzhou in the southwest.
Brother Wei Mingyun, who had just returned two days ago, was in a state of disgrace and had no choice but to abandon the city and leave.
So far, of the seven prefectures in Hengshan, the central ones of Hongzhou, Longzhou and Xiazhou were completely lost, as if their hearts were cut open and their abdomens were ripped out, and the Hengshan defense line, which the Western Xia people had managed for more than a hundred years, fell into a state of collapse at an increasingly rapid speed with the loss of Xingqing Prefecture.
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