The Xixia envoy originally used the Huizhou incident to investigate the case. After all, he had the evidence that "the Song Dynasty took action first" and thought he was justified.

Unexpectedly, the attitude of the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty was so tough.

The envoy said angrily: "I have heard for a long time that China is a country of etiquette. They intercepted and killed our merchants. Instead of apologizing, they humiliated me, the envoy of Daxia. Is this not the etiquette of China?"

"Messenger, you talk too much." Zhao Ning was a little impatient, "I have already said that you should go back and tell Li Qianshun to prepare an army. Song Xia will not stop until death!"

"Your Majesty, the envoy is here to ask His Majesty to give me Daxia an explanation, not to declare war."

The messenger pretended to be tough on the outside, but he was very scared in his heart.

Before he went on his mission, Li Qianshun repeatedly told him that when negotiating with the Song Dynasty, he must maintain a certain degree of control, not to anger the Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers, but to ensure that everyone still has face at the table in preparation for Xixia's extortion from the Song Dynasty after the war.

From this point, it is more certain that Li Qianshun was using psychological tactics: I took the initiative to send troops because you killed my people, but I do not intend to anger you and let you and I fight to the death. When we are done, we will sit down and talk.

But Zhao Ning did not accept this. He smiled at Gao Qiu and said, "He said he was not here to declare war? Their army has crossed the Yellow River and entered the Song Dynasty! But he said he was not here to declare war?"

"Come here, take this person out!"

Panzhi, the commander in front of the outer hall, immediately walked in and beat the Xixia envoys to a standstill.

The envoy shouted: "Your Majesty, it was your people who made the move first. We need an explanation!"

"I have already given you an explanation!" Zhao Ning's face suddenly darkened and he said angrily, "Isn't Li Qianshun going to beat him? Then let him beat him to the end! I will accompany him to the end!"

None of the courtiers dared to speak.

The envoy was thrown outside the palace.

At this time, some ministers also came out to advise the emperor not to completely break up the situation with Xixia. It would not be good for anyone, and in the end it might be advantageous to the Jin Kingdom.

But the Zhao Guan family obviously did not intend to listen to their cliche, stinky and lengthy suggestions, so they turned around and threw up their sleeves and left the hall.

Even after the Xixia envoys were violently reviled in Tokyo, the situation in the northwest also changed greatly.

On the evening of the fifth day of March, Dang Song was having dinner with everyone in Xi'an Prefecture. The man on duty suddenly came in a hurry: "We are waiting in the capital of Dang, there seems to be a group of Xixia people coming outside!"

"A Xixia person?" Dang Song immediately became energetic.

“Looks like he’s from Xixia!”

Without saying a word, Dang Song led the people and ran towards the city.

He suddenly realized and shouted back: "Who can speak Dangxiang?"

Several Party Xiangfan soldiers came out and said, "I will tell you."

This kind of Tibetan soldiers are very common in the northwest. Some of them are Tubo people and some are Dangxiang people.

For example, Zhejia, one of the three great generals of the Song Dynasty, was actually a member of the Party.

When Dang Song arrived at the top of the city, he found that the Xixia people had already fled.

Apparently Li Liangfu also discovered that something was wrong with Xi'an Prefecture. The people defending the city were not Xixia soldiers, but Song troops.

Although he couldn't figure out what happened, he still ran away.

From the way the Xixia army fled in embarrassment, Dang Song immediately realized that this was a defeated army. He decisively said: "Gather the men and follow me to pursue the enemy!"

Xi'an Prefecture immediately mobilized two thousand people and chased them all the way.

Li Liangfu hurried to the Yellow River. If Xi'an Prefecture was still there, he could enter Xi'an Prefecture and immediately mobilize manpower to build boats to cross the Yellow River.

But now that this buffer was gone, he was forced to go to the Yellow River and rely on the time gained by his war horses to build wooden boats by the Yellow River.

However, Dang Song chased him too close, and everyone came after him late at night.

When he saw Li Liangfu building ships by the Yellow River, Dang Song became even more sure that this group of people had lost the battle and were preparing to cross the river.

The two sides immediately started fighting in the dark night by the Yellow River.

The morale of Li Liangfu's defeated army was low, and the terrain near the Yellow River was unfavorable to the cavalry. After only a few rounds, they were defeated by the Song army.

At this time, a leaky boat was finally obtained. Li Liangfu hurriedly got on the boat and crossed the river with a few people.

"Quickly put out the torch!" Li Liangfu shouted.

The torches on the ship were out, and the Song army's crossbows could not aim their arrows. They could only shoot randomly, but it was not known whether they hit the target.

The next day, Dang Song asked people to check the bodies of Xixia soldiers at the ferry. Last night, they killed more than 500 people and captured 700 horses!

That Wei Mingli was also beheaded last night.

When Li Liangfu went south, the 50,000-strong army was fierce, but now only three people escaped across the Yellow River, which was even worse than Wanyan Zongfu who escaped in the first place.

Li Liangfu had no choice but to bite the bullet and return to Xingqing Mansion.

But he said that the crisis on Xihe Road had been resolved, and Li Yanxian's 10,000-strong army crossed the Yellow River.

Zhuoluo City, which is only separated by a river from Lanzhou City, is where Xixia Zhuoluo and Nanjunsi are located.

Wei Ming was also killed by the Yellow River. At this time, the defenses of Zhuoluo City were empty.

At noon on the sixth day of March, Zhuoluo City was surrounded by the Song army.

The Xixia people have two advantages worthy of recognition:

First, few Xixia people surrender.

They fought bravely and rarely surrendered, which was related to their difficult environment.

Second, the Xixia people will run away if they can't win. They don't think running is a shame, especially the cavalry. If they can't win, they will disperse immediately.

However, after their cavalry dispersed, they would not run far away, but would wander around and quickly find organizations to regroup.

This is because the population of Xixia is very small. In order to maintain its vitality, it adopts the most flexible strategy when it cannot win.

In fact, this is one of the important reasons why Xixia can survive between the two superpowers in the world.

At this time, when the Xixia people in Zhuolu City discovered that a large number of Song troops were coming, they first shook the city, and then began to prepare to defend the city.

Li Yanxian ordered to surround the three and empty one.

The Xixia people first went out of the city to fight with the Song army, but were shot back by the Song army's crossbow arrows, resulting in more than 300 casualties.

This made the Xixia people in Zhuolu City dare not act rashly.

On the night of the eighth day of March, all the ten thousand Xixia people in Zhuolu City left the city and fled to the north under the cover of darkness.

Liu He rushed over: "Li Zhizhou, the Xixia people left the city from the north."

"How did you find out?"

"The scouts heard noise near Beicheng."

"How many people can be sure?"

"unconfirmed."

Li Yanxian began to think deeply.

Liu He said: "Do you want to attack by force?"

"No, if Xixia people dare to leave the city, they must be prepared. If they attack at night without knowing the enemy's true strength, they may be ambushed."

"That……"

"Send someone to pass the message to the northern crossing, hide it well so as not to be discovered, and be ready to intercept and kill at any time!"

"Yes, I will send someone right now!"

Li Yanxian stood up, picked up the knife and walked out.

He ordered everyone to start gathering.

Prepare to pursue!
Chapter completed!