1155. Pre-Festival Celebration

Only two days later.

In Heliancheng, Qu Rujian and the others led their troops out of Xingyuan Mansion and headed towards Tongchuan Mansion.

Although they were actually less than 20,000 soldiers under their command, they could still express the position of Xixia. They finally made it happen.

Yue Peng, Wen Qi, Xiao Yulin, Du Hu, and Zheng Yihang met and set up a military camp in the north of Tongchuan Prefecture.

This made the Song army camp dozens of miles north of Tongchuan Prefecture even more full of mountains and fields.

The military camps built up by tens of thousands of soldiers occupy a much larger area than some county towns.

The new Song army in Tongchuan Prefecture was like a great enemy, and sent scouts day and night to investigate.

I never saw any movement in the Great Song Dynasty military camp.

Many Great Song scouts patrolled around the military camp. These New Song scouts did not dare to get too close, so they did not know that the Song army actually quietly came out of the camp every night.

After a few days, the military camp still seemed to have not changed from the surface.

But in fact, Xiao Yulin's Tianjie army had already left the barracks.

This is Zhao Dongting’s layout.

After learning that Chongqing Prefecture was in trouble, he expected that Xinsong would not give up Chongqing Prefecture so easily. The Flying Dragon Army alone would be hard to be sure of breaking the city.

The only ones he could mobilize were the Tiankui and Tianjie armies led by Yue Peng.

After Xiao Yulin led his army to leave the military camp one after another, he never passed by any county town. He just searched for a small path and headed straight to Chongqing Prefecture.

Such field marches are nothing to the Song Dynasty imperial guards who often pull soldiers to train in the mountains and fields.

Survival in the wild is also a compulsory course for them.

The Lord of Guigu Palace and Du Xiuwei led less than 20,000 New Song Army to Chongqing Prefecture.

There are less than 2,000 new Song troops left in Chongqing Prefecture, and they are still entrenched in the government office. They have no control over Chongqing Prefecture.

However, the Lord of Guigu Palace led a large army to change this situation.

Nearly 20,000 new Song troops were enough to shock the people in the city.

When the people in the city saw the New Song army entering the city, they did not dare to stop it.

On this day, the New Song Army finally appeared on the city of Chongqing Prefecture.

The main general of Guigu Palace focused on the deployment of troops at the East City Gate, with gunfire cars standing on the top of the city. The New Song army flag fluttered in the wind.

There are many arrangements in the city.

Another four days passed.

In the north of Tongchuan Prefecture, in Helian City, Qu Rujian and the others finally led the Xixia Imperial Guards and Zheng Yihang and others to join the Song Imperial Guards.

This made the number of soldiers from the Song Dynasty and Xixia in the north of Tongchuan Prefecture reach 60,000.

The atmosphere in Tongchuan Prefecture is solemn.

In the bleak autumn wind, it seems that a war will begin at any time.

Deputy Palace Master Guigu and Chi Fenggu guarded Tongchuan Mansion, and did not dare to neglect the slightest.

Although there are more than 80,000 soldiers in the city, both of them know that the Song army is difficult to deal with. After all, both of them have suffered losses at the hands of the Song army, especially Chi Fenggu.

The army he led to Yongzhou was defeated by the Song Dynasty imperial guards. If he hadn't seen the opportunity early, he might have lived to this day.

At this time, Zhao Dongting led the Flying Dragon Army and was still a distance from Chongqing Prefecture.

Early September.

The Northern Song Dynasty Imperial Guards and the Western Xia Imperial Guards finally set off their camp and continued to approach Tongchuan Prefecture.

This naturally made the atmosphere in Tongchuan Mansion even more solemn.

The officials in the New Song Dynasty were also watching the movements in Tongchuan Prefecture at all times.

If Tongchuan Prefecture is broken, it will be like the North Gate of the New Song Dynasty. It will be difficult for them to have any support.

At sunset, Yue Peng led the Song Dynasty and the Western Xia armies set up camp only twenty miles away from Tongchuan Prefecture.

That night, a scout of the Song Dynasty even broke through to the city of Tongchuan Prefecture to check.

This seems to be a sign that Yue Peng is about to attack Tongchuan Prefecture.

That night, there were a few more soldiers patrolling the north gate of Tongchuan Prefecture.

But the Lord of Guigu Palace didn't know that when they were nervous, the Song Dynasty military camp was quite lively.

This night is the eighth day of the September 2019.

Wait until dawn again, it will be Double Ninth Festival.

I miss my family more during the holidays.

Yue Peng rewarded the army in the military camp.

The imperial guards of the Song Dynasty had already purchased it in Dazhou City, the closest to here.

The smell of refrigerated meat is floating in the military camp in the night.

Although drinking was prohibited, the soldiers were still quite happy.

The major Song imperial guards in the military camp celebrated the coming of the festival with the regiment as the establishment, and the soldiers of the art troupe performed the show.

And this art troupe was originally written by Zhao Dongting.

The most popular ones are those female soldiers who are good at dancing.

They had just appeared on stage, and there were tides of applause and cheers coming from the audience.

They are considered to be a beautiful color that is rare in the military camp.

In the eyes of the soldiers in the audience, they were much more fragrant than the refried meat in front of them.

Everyone thinks that the Song army is good.

In fact, it is indeed good.

After a while, even the Western Xia imperial guards were alarmed by the movements here.

A general came to watch.

Then he was stunned.

Although the empress's policies mostly followed the Song emperor, there was no such habit of rewarding even the Double Ninth Festival in their Xixia army.

Looking at the graceful female soldiers on the stage and the dishes swallowed by the soldiers of the Song Dynasty, these Xixia generals were so envious.

Some people are even reluctant to go back.

Yue Peng was not stingy. After seeing this scene, he specially invited Heliancheng and Qu Rujian to come.

Heliancheng, Qu Rujian and the others arrived with many generals. When they saw the happy appearance of the Song army, they both smiled bitterly.

If they had known this was the case in the Song army camp, they would have been better off coming!

How can I explain to the soldiers when I go back like this?

As soon as they sat down, Qu Rujian and the others felt the resentful eyes of the generals next to them.

This made them feel very resentful towards Yue Peng, but they could not say such words.

In this case, Yue Peng showed the magnanimity of Heliancheng and Qu Rujian and the other two smacking their tongues.

He actually asked Qu Rujian and Heliancheng to call the Western Xia imperial guards over. The Song Dynasty military camp had enough vegetables and meat.

Qu Rujian, Heliancheng looked at each other and smiled bitterly.

They knew Yue Peng’s intention.

If all the generals called over, the soldiers would inevitably yearn for the Song army. In the future, they would probably have to create such a formation in the army during the holidays.

More importantly, after the soldiers had fun with the Song army, they would definitely get closer to the Song army.

They were all worried whether Yue Peng had ulterior motives and was planning for the situation after the Song Dynasty and the Western Xia Dynasty.

Dominance is not only limited to siege cities and territories. It is like a flame with light fire and a martial fire.

The fierce martial arts fire, like a large army invincible, was also a policy used by the Song Dynasty against the Yuan, the New Song and Dali.

The fire is gentle and soft, like moistening things silently. This may also be the Song Dynasty's policy towards the Western Xia.

In the past two years, the Song Dynasty has provided great support to the Western Xia Dynasty, which has made the Western Xia Dynasty and the people have praised the Song Dynasty very well, as if they thought the Song Dynasty was the big brother.

It is hard to imagine that Qu Rujian will face the Song State if even the army no longer has any distance from the Song army in the future.

Perhaps in decades, Xixia will become a vassal state of the Song Dynasty without realizing it?

As generals at the rank of the court, of course they didn't want something like that to happen.

Only now, looking at the eager appearance of the generals around them made the two of them feel embarrassed.

"hehe."
To be continued...