Chapter 321: Salute
In this battle, although the main force of Western Xia put up a fierce resistance for a while, it eventually collapsed due to lack of strength and various subjective and objective conditions, and the battle ended very quickly.
Among them, the Xixia commander Weiming Chago was killed in the battle, and the Black Bull Banner was seized. When his body was found, he had been hit by at least seven or eight arrows from the Shenbi bow and his blood was almost drained.
The leader of the Poxi army, Wei Mingji, was killed in battle, the general of the Zhuosheng army, Wei Mingyu, surrendered, and the leader of the Tieyaozi, Wei Mingyie, led a small number of Tieyaozi to break out to the south.
In response, Yue Fei only sent several thousand light cavalry to pursue, and ordered the entire army to clean up the battlefield and prepare to rest for a day, and then cross the river to take Lingzhou when they were ready.
Unexpectedly, on that afternoon, before the battlefield was cleaned up, someone from the other side suddenly crossed the river here. They represented several large foreign tribes and were willing to serve as an insider and offer Lingzhou... Qu Duan personally interrogated them, but found the reason why the other side was so eager to surrender extremely funny.
It turned out that there was a large tribe in the city on the opposite bank who came to support from Hengshan Yanzhou. They were not from Xingling at all, so they had been uneasy about the movements in Hengshan early on. Today, this army took advantage of the opportunity when Cha Ge crossed the river and the large number of Song troops pressed forward, and suddenly took control of the defense of Lingzhou City in a semi-mutiny way.
Weiming Renli and Weiming Yunge who stayed on the other side of the river were caught off guard and immediately fell into chaos. Seeing this, many other tribes also took the opportunity to give up crossing the river. This was the incredible scene that Chage saw this morning. At this moment, as the other tribes outside that tribe watched Chage's army being annihilated on the west bank of the river with mixed emotions, they finally realized that the situation was difficult to change, so they simply surrendered.
"Let me ask you." In the afternoon sun, Qu Duan sat on the ridge in front of the iron elephant and continued to face him coldly. "Since you don't control Lingzhou City and are blocked outside the city, how dare you tell me that you want to surrender the city? If you want to surrender the city, it should be the one who controls the city, right? Besides, since they control the city, they will naturally want to surrender. Tomorrow when our army crosses the river and arrives at the city, they will naturally open the gates. Why do you want to take advantage of me here?"
"So that we can let Commander Qu know," the foreign general answered hurriedly in panic. "That being said, there is another theory... The family in the city was originally the garrison commander of Yanzhou, and at this time, Yang Zheng, the governor of Huanzhou opposite Yanzhou, has already led the light troops to chase from the old Great Wall road north of Hanhai. If they travel day and night, they may arrive early tomorrow morning... If you say that these two families have no connection, do you believe it, Commander?"
Qu Duan finally narrowed his eyes slightly.
The foreign general who was fluent in Chinese and good at speaking was overjoyed when he saw this, and he didn't care about his face at all: "General, the current situation is that Chago's main force is gone. Although there are 20,000 soldiers on the other side, they are divided into three groups, and they are all frightened birds... At this time, as long as the Song Dynasty's royal army arrives, no matter who arrives first, it will be a situation of taking everything! When Yang Zheng arrives, all the credit for the other side of the river will go to the imperial camp's rear army!"
Qu Duan sneered but did not answer. He just jumped on his horse and rode towards Yue Fei's banner.
Upon hearing about the situation on the other side of the river, although Yue Fei didn't care much about such things, since the situation was like this, there was no reason for him to reject Qu Duan, with whom he might have closer cooperation in the future, especially when Qu Duan suggested that Wang De's troops, which had the least merit in this battle, could take the lead in this matter... So he agreed immediately, but asked the other party to be careful and not to be greedy for merit and fall into an ambush.
Since Yue Fei had given him face, Qu Duan of course returned the favor and took the initiative to promise to cross the river and launch a surprise attack at night.
Without further ado, let's not talk about the fact that the war here was over and Qu Duan and others couldn't wait to go and fight for the merit of Lingzhou at night. Let's just say that on the afternoon of that day in late April, the Zhao Song official, who didn't even know that a war had just broken out, finally arrived at his loyal Youzhou City after two days of travel.
It can only be said that although Hu Yin was not with them to arrange everything properly, the proactive Lü Benzhong, with some eunuchs, was able to take care of some miscellaneous affairs. In addition, Jie Yuan and Yue Chao who were accompanying them were both veteran generals, and Dong Xian and Zhai Cong had already isolated themselves from the danger in the east, so there were no emergencies on the trip to Youzhou.
The Tangut leaders still flocked to the city, and Emperor Zhao still came out to put on an act to calm people's hearts.
"Your Majesty, most of the people who came today are the tribal leaders of Yinzhou, Shizhou, and Zuoxiang Junsi..." After the general meeting outside the city was over and the king and his ministers entered the city, before the dinner began, Lu Benzhong reported in a serious tone. "But the people who came are only the second sons of the tribes and the old patriarchs who are no longer in charge. It seems that the people who are in power in the year of the year have not come."
"Why is it so?" Zhao Jiu, who had just changed out of his armor and put on a red robe, frowned slightly.
"I think it's because the three places in the east are adjacent to Suide and Jinning, and the Jin army still has tens of thousands of people there." Lu Benzhong quickly offered his answer. "They are cowardly and have no vision, so even though they submitted a surrender letter and allowed Generals Dong and Zhai to enter their city, they still dare not bring their clans to make a decision."
Zhao Jiu took the hard-winged futou from the flustered Liu Yan, put it on himself, and then asked, "So, today seems to be lively, but there are actually no important people?"
"That's not the case..." Lu Benzhong immediately mentioned a name. "Rendo Baozhong is here. He is the old man with a white beard who was the first to take the lead in bowing to the emperor and offering a camel ten miles outside the city today."
After putting on the hard-winged futou, Zhao Jiu was reluctant to move, but he was still a little surprised: "Is there anything special about this person? I thought he was in the front just because he was older... But the white camel is good, docile and majestic."
"Your Majesty." Lu Benzhong laughed immediately. "It's normal that your Majesty doesn't know this person. This is a poor and remote place. Even the most outstanding hero in the seven states is nothing in front of the world. Besides, even if this person has some ability, it's a thing of the past."
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