Prime Minister

After Zhang Yu left, Wang Zhongzheng arrived in Zhang Yue's tent.

Zhang Yue looked at Wang Zhongzheng with a bad look and asked, "What's the important thing for the envoy?"

Wang Zhongzheng said: "Zhang Jinglue, our family has been in Xihe for several months, and we didn't feel sorry for you at all, did we?"

Zhang Yue said: "Where is the envoy Fang, isn't Zhang and you always on good terms?"

"Then dare to ask Jinglue, why did you retreat from Yigong City without authorization and negotiate peace with Dong Zhan?" Wang Zhongzheng looked very ugly.

Zhang Yue said with a smile: "Please sit down, envoy Fang, what else do I have to say?"

Wang Zhongzheng refused to sit down but said: "Zhang Jinglue, our family has always been respectful and polite to you, always thinking that you are a person who can always share your worries, but why don't you know your Majesty?" Mind."

"This city was taken by our army with hundreds of talents, and it was abandoned so easily. How can this be worthy of the dead soldiers? And now that Mu Zheng has surrendered, our army took advantage of the victory to break through Qingtang in one fell swoop. When you made an emergency landing on Dong Zhan, why did you give up halfway here?"

"Do you know what the official wants most urgently now? What he wants is to expand the territory. He is responsive to our Xihe, how do we repay him? Does the strategy have the intention of supporting the bandits?"

"Bastard!"

Zhang Yue angrily reprimanded him.

He immediately threw an official document to Wang Zhongzheng and said: "This is yesterday's spy report. Xia Guoguo Prime Minister Liang Yibu has led an army to Lanzhou. If we go deeper, what should we do if Xixia cut off our food supply?"

Wang Zhongzheng was surprised when he heard the words. After reading the spy report, he finally understood why Zhang Yue wanted to make peace with Dong Xing.

Wang Zhongzheng secretly blamed himself for being reckless, but he still said: "But you shouldn't abandon a whole city!"

Zhang Yue said: "It is too difficult to supply food and grass in Yigong City..."

Wang Zhongzheng said: "Our family doesn't think so. Once our army occupies a city, we can control the Shannan Fan tribe, and Taozhou can also enter our territory. What is a mere supply of food and grass?"

Zhang Yue said: "Did the Fang envoy write in his report to the officials again that our army's capture of a city means that it has taken all of Taozhou?"

Wang Zhongzheng was being talked about by Zhang Yue, and he didn't know how to speak for a while.

Zhang Yue nodded and said: "Before I killed Gui Zhang, you were going to play the emperor to escort him to Beijing. Now, in order to make the officials happy, you dare to say that our army has taken all of Taozhou?"

Wang Zhongzheng said: "Zhang Jinglue, I am also doing this for the overall situation of Xihe River! Once Taozhou is captured, it can be joined with Minzhou. Now if you play it, your achievements are comparable..."

Zhang Yue interrupted Wang Zhongzheng's words and said, "Fang Shi, Zhang appreciates your kindness, but when you write the memorial next time, some of them still need to be discussed with Zhang."

"Don't lose your life just to make the officials happy!"

"You!" Wang Zhongzheng stomped his feet when he heard the words, and left angrily.

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Lanzhou city.

Liang Yi, Prime Minister of the Xixia Kingdom, led [-] soldiers and horses to station in the city.

Seeing the water of the Yellow River flowing eastward, Liang Yibu felt restless. He thought that as a foreign relative, he was now the most powerful person in Xixia. he.

Wang Meng mistakenly said that the cronies of the Empress Dowager Liang and Liang Yibu were acting in the middle together. The Liang brothers and sisters now completely control the state affairs. They were not only excluded from the center, but also dismissed from office.

Now the political situation in Xixia is also in turmoil.

Although the Liang brothers were busy eliminating dissidents, they had been paying close attention to the Song Dynasty's attack on Xihe. Since Mu Zheng was defeated and left Hezhou, Dun also had the heart to seek Xihe.

When the Song army attacked Hezhou for the first time, Liang Yibu led his army across the Yellow River, just to prepare to attack the Song Dynasty. After knowing that Mu Zheng was defeated, forget it.

This time Zhang Yue attacked Hezhou again.

Liang Yibu and the capital Rome led the troops southward, and Wang Mengye sat in the center, and sent troops to attack the Song army's abdomen and back.

Xixia sent troops to attack Dingqiang City, which was also the Ana City that Zhang Yue proposed to build.

Dingqiang City is located between Hezhou City and Xizhou City, where the Song Army's grain road is located. Liang Yibu and Du Luowei sent troops to attack here to cut off the retreat of the Song Army's tens of thousands of troops.

As long as the food road is cut off, the tens of thousands of Song troops under Tabai City will be defeated without a fight.

However, Song General Wang Junwan defeated Xia Jun several times in Jiechuan, Gao Zunyu was invincible under the city of Huizhou, Xixia wanted to bypass Huizhou and attack Qinzhou, but was also defeated by inspector Liu Weiji.

And when Liang Yibu and the others led the main force of Xixia to arrive, the Song army had already defeated Guizhang.

The capital Rome returned without success.

Du Luowei led the army back from the front line, and when they got to the top of the city, they saw Liang Yibu looking melancholy at the water of the Yellow River.

Du Luowei is a little angry with Liang Yibu. The Liang brothers and sisters have been trying to eliminate dissidents in the past few years. They can't even tolerate a famous general like Wei Minglangyu. , the result is that the Song Dynasty almost annexed Hehuang instead.

Du Luowei sat beside Liang Yibu and said: "Master, I came back from the south. I heard that after the Song army won a great victory in Tabai City, Mu Zheng had surrendered, Gui Zhang was killed, and Gui Zhang's grandson, Ce, was standing by the sidelines. Jie was registered as a Song official, are these true?"

Liang Yibu nodded and said: "It's true, the main force of the Song Army has returned to Hezhou, and it seems that they intend to go to Dingqiang City to fight our army?"

"Decisive battle?" Du Romeo said, "How do you fight like this now? The Song army has won a new victory, and its morale is high. Don't forget, there are [-] soldiers from Gao Zunyu and Yuzang Huama to the east."

Liang Yi said: "But I managed to gather the soldiers and horses here, and left without a fight. Song people thought we knew that there was no one in Gaoguo."

Du Romeo said: "Then you have to win the fight."

Liang Yi said: "Song people now have half of Hehuang, and their morale is booming. If we don't fight here, how can Dong Zhan support himself?"

"To the south of the Yellow River, and even to the north of the Yellow River, the tribes attached to us will surrender. If Dong Zhan can't resist the Song army, I'm afraid even Liangzhou City will be lost."

Du Luowei said: "Didn't your Liang family compare themselves to Lin Bu, the son of his wife Dong Zhan? Besides, didn't we defeat the Song army in Yanyan Mansion last year? Did we take away tens of thousands of livestock?"

Liang Yi said: "The gains outweigh the losses. Over the years, many aboriginal households have fled to the Song people. We have not recovered from the battle in Luowu City."

"What's more, the harvest this year may not be good. In the past, we could live by looting, but how many people will starve to death this year."

Du Luo said at the end: "Why are you fighting with the people of Song Dynasty like this? Why don't you just make peace with the city?"

Liang Yibu looked at the Roman tail and said, "It seems that we can only ask the people of Song Dynasty for peace."

Du Rome cursed from the bottom of his heart, you Han people are just going around in circles, wanting to ask and not to be straightforward, so you have to go around in such a big circle.

In Xixia, the Liang brothers and sisters who are Han people have always advocated attacking the Song Dynasty. However, touched by the Song army's capture of Hehuang, Xia Guo, who felt that he was invincible, took the initiative to seek peace.

When Xixia sent the letter of peace to Bianjing in a low voice, the court was shocked again.