To the situation in the entire northwest, the battle at the Xixia Palace was just a cry of wild geese in the sky. Although it was sad and sad, the sky was still the same sky as the geese passed by silently.
Helian Tieshu had not slept for two days in a row. His bloodshot eyes were fixed on a place on the map, Yingchou Gorge.
In a great battle eight years ago, Xixia's elite troops went all the way south and made quite a few gains. However, just when the situation was looking good, the West Route Army among the two armies of the East and West suffered a massive defeat at Yingchou Gorge.
Song's strong resistance.
In the end, the West Route Army fought fiercely at Yingchou Gorge for three days, but failed to arrive at the predetermined location as scheduled to form a joint attack with the East Route Army. As a result, the East Route Army could not stand alone and returned without success.
After that battle, the Song army fully realized the important role of Yingchou Gorge and built a large number of forts near the canyon, forming a criss-crossing pattern, making Yingchou Gorge a tightrope to curb the Xixia army's eastward advance.
Just as Helian Tieshu was meditating, a figure walked into the camp, and he was Helian Tieshu's personal soldier.
The man came to Helian Tieshu, bowed first, and then presented a tightly packed cowhide bag to Helian Tieshu.
Helian Tieshu's eyes narrowed, and his heart that was about to get angry instantly calmed down. He immediately put back his unspoken shouts and curses, and stared fixedly at the cowhide bag in front of him.
Because the information contained in this kind of bag means top secret.
Helian Tieshu took the bag and motioned to the soldiers to go down first.
When he was alone, Helian Tieshu carefully opened the bag and read the contents of the letter carefully.
The letter was written in both Chinese characters and Xixia.
Helian Tieshu read the contents of the letter with a serious face, his expression gradually relaxed, and finally, he couldn't help laughing loudly.
He strode out of the commander's tent, waved his hand, and shouted: "Pass the order, Huwei Camp's five hundred fine armored cavalry are on standby at any time. We will set out at the third watch tonight. We must arrive at Yingchou Gorge at the fifth watch!"
After saying this order, Helian Tieshu called his own soldiers, and with the help of the two men, he put on his heavy armor.
This is a heavily protected heavy armor. It was improved on the Song Army's infantry armor by replacing the helmet with a round helmet and lengthening the collar. In addition to the outer layer of fish scale armor, there is an inner layer.
Plate armor, a layer of soft armor, protects the whole body from air to air. Although the beauty is greatly reduced, the protective ability has been improved by more than one level. Even if the area below the neck is hit by an archer head-on within fifty steps, it will be completely protected.
Don't worry.
To penetrate such a pair of tightly protected armor, I am afraid that only the Song Army's bed crossbow with an effective range of 500 steps can do it.
This was not because he was afraid of cold arrows from the Song Army's archers. Although there was a precedent from the Khitan general Xiao Taolin in the past, Helian Tieshu was not worried about this.
It was an assassination by a master of martial arts in the Song Dynasty.
These masters of martial arts would be nothing if they faced off against a military formation. An army of a thousand people forming a formation could easily kill the same number of ordinary martial artists.
The key is that these people are unable to prevent the assassination.
At that time, the Liao State invaded the Song Dynasty on a large scale, but returned without success before fighting. Later, news came out that the reason why the Liao Army retreated was due to the assassination of Yelu Bulu, the deputy marshal of the Liao Army led by the West Route Army.
Helian Tieshu put on his clothes and armor, stood up and prepared to leave the tent.
At this moment, Helian Tieshu suddenly felt an unprecedented sense of crisis in his heart.
He is not from the Xixia royal family, nor is he a member of the Dangxiang clan. He has been able to reach this stage by fighting to the death with swords and spears. In terms of pure martial arts, when it comes to martial arts, Helian Tieshu is at best a second-rate player.
In terms of combat experience, his ability to perceive crises is absolutely top-notch.
Just feeling the crisis, Helian Tieshu drew out the sword from his waist and shouted: "Be careful!"
These two soldiers of his were no ordinary people. After Helian Tieshu reminded them, they quickly drew their swords and stood in front of the commander.
As soon as he finished speaking, two black figures rushed into the handsome tent one after another, like two scorpions hiding under the desert Gobi, and launched an attack on the opponent in coordination.
Although the reaction of the two soldiers was not slow, their martial arts skills were far behind their opponents. Although they were wearing armor, they were hit on the shoulder by the weapons of one of the assassins just after they met.
The fierce force caused the two soldiers' shoulder bones to crack in an instant, and half of their bodies were completely crippled.
However, this block also gave Helian Tieshu a chance to react. At this time, Helian Tieshu's shout of "there are assassins" had already attracted a large number of soldiers to rush here.
The weapon in the hand of another assassin was quite strange. It was not a sword, but a sack.
With a sack in hand, he immediately threw the cover towards Helian Tieshu. Helian Tieshu was caught off guard and his head was covered.
Immediately, the two assassins took action at the same time, hitting the Helian Iron Tree with one sword and one mace at the same time.
Helian Tieshu was knocked backwards by this heavy blow, but protected by heavy armor, the two blows did not cause serious injuries.
Quickly removing the sack covering his head, Helian Tieshu brandished his sword and slashed at the two opponents in front of him.
With one against two, he was no match, but due to the protection of his armor, even though he was attacked many times, he was not seriously injured.
Seeing that the other party could not hurt him, Helian Tieshu felt relieved.
At this time, more than a dozen guards had already rushed into the tent. In the small space, they were armed with swords and guns. Although the two assassins were very skilled in martial arts, the space was small and it was difficult to use them.
Seeing that the assassin was in trouble, Helian Tieshu moved his hand and shouted: "Capture them alive!"
His whole body was wrapped in heavy armor, and even his face was protected by a visor. However, with just a wave of his hand, a black object quickly shot out of an assassin's hand and hit Helian Tieshu's palm.
Helian Tieshu was shocked and subconsciously grabbed it, only to feel that the touch was very strange. Just as he was wondering, his palm hurt, as if he had been pricked by an awl, and then the whole palm became numb.
The two assassins succeeded with one blow and no longer struggled. The two men quickly opened a way out with three weapons and ran towards the outside of the camp.
There was chaos in the commander's tent. Helian Tieshu took a closer look and found that the person who hurt him was a colorful scorpion. In a moment, his entire palm was black and the poison was still spreading.
Helian Tieshu made an immediate decision and cut a large gash in his palm with a knife. He quickly pulled a strip of cloth and wrapped it around his wrist. A large amount of black blood poured out of the mouth with a pungent stench.
Outside the tent, the two assassins were pursued by a large number of infantry.
At the critical moment, an old man in yellow shirt and dozens of Beggar Clan disciples dressed in rags formed a formation to block the pursuing infantry and fought together with the pursuers.
The two groups of people joined forces, fought and retreated, and headed out of the city. By the time they left the city, only six of the dozens of people were left, and all of them were injured.
The old man in yellow shirt yelled: "You two, have you succeeded?"
One of the men in black sneered: "Although I couldn't kill the Xixia coach, he was poisoned by my scorpion poison. Even if he was lucky enough to survive, half of his life would have been lost!"
Hearing this, the old man in yellow felt a little comforted, and then shouted: "Retreat toward Yingchou Gorge! There are Quan Xiucai and Lao Songtou leading people guarding there! The gang leader personally led people to burn the food and grass of the Xixia people.
We must help the brothers there to guard the gang leader’s retreat!”