At such a tense moment, an army suddenly appeared, which really challenged everyone's nerves! Li Qi and Zhe Yanzhi quickly ordered the entire army to be on alert and prepare to meet the enemy.

However, at this moment, the army began to slow down, and when they were still one mile away from Li Qi and the others, they suddenly stopped.

Yue Fei whispered: "Bu Shuai, the situation is not good!"

Li Qi nodded, looking extremely nervous.

Suddenly, the other party seemed to send one or two sentinels heading this way.

Swish, swish, swish!

All the archers on Li Qi's side have entered combat mode.

The two sentry detectives seemed to be very cautious. When they were still a hundred meters away from Li Qi, they stopped and shouted, "Who is that on the other side?"

Speaking Chinese? Li Qi glanced at Zhe Yanzhi and asked him to answer.

Zhe Yanzhi shouted: "I am the Zhe family army in Weizhou, who are you?"

"As expected, it's the Major General. Major General, we are the subordinates of General Zhe Kecun."

Zhe Yanzhi was overjoyed and said: "Bu Shuai, it's my uncle who's here."

Li Qi frowned, not daring to be careless, and said, "Just believe what he says. Just ask him to call your uncle over."

Zhe Yanzhi nodded, secretly blaming himself for being too insensitive, and shouted: "Then please invite my uncle to come over."

"As commanded."

One of the sentinels immediately turned back.

After a while, a group of hundreds of cavalry came rushing towards this side, but they seemed to be quite quiet and did not get close. Another person heard someone say: "Yanzhi, is that you?"

When Zhe Yanzhi heard this voice, he hurriedly said: "Uncle, my nephew is here." Then he turned to Li Qi and said: "Bu Shuai, you are really my uncle."

Zhe Kecun naturally heard Zhe Yanzhi's voice, and hurriedly rode up to him. He saw a man of about thirty years old, wearing black leather armor, with broad eyebrows, a pair of piercing leopard eyes, and a majestic look.

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When Zhe Yanzhi saw his uncle coming, he quickly saluted.

There seemed to be a hint of anxiety in Zhe Kecun's eyebrows. Without saying anything, he asked, "Yanzhi, why did you go to Fengxiang?"

"I---?"

Orihiko had just said one word, but he couldn't say the following words, and he looked extremely ashamed.

Zhe Kecun was a soldier and acted neatly. He was most annoyed by these hesitant people. He frowned and said, "I am who I am. If you have anything to say, just say it."

"Hey, General Zhe, it's hard to explain this matter. We'll talk about it later."

Li Qi suddenly rode up to him, raised his hand and said, he had already noticed that Chu Zhe Kecun's expression was different.

Zhe Kecun didn't know Li Qi, so he glanced at him in surprise and asked, "Who are you?"

Zheyanzhi said hurriedly: "Uncle, this is the commander of Budu, the bodyguard."

"Bu Shuai?"

Zhe Kecun was surprised and called out: "King of Kitchens with Golden Knife?"

Li Qi nodded and said, "That's right."

Zhe Kecun hurriedly dismounted from his horse and clasped his fists, saying: "Zhe Kecun, a martial arts master from Fuzhou, has met Bu Shuai."

Li Qi hurriedly said: "General Zhe, hurry up and forgive me."

Zhe Kecun straightened up, glanced around, and saw the flags of the Forbidden Army in the capital, and saw many people wearing the uniforms of the Forbidden Army. He couldn't help but asked curiously: "May I ask Commander Bu, why are you here?" As he said this, he moved his hands to those people.

Pointing to the corpse, he asked again: "Who are these people?"

"Xixia people."

"What?" Zhe Kecun exclaimed.

Li Qi waved his hand and said: "We will discuss this later. I don't know why General Zhe is here."

Zhe Kecun was slightly startled and said hurriedly: "Report to Commander Bu, we have received news that Xixia has stationed a large number of elites at the border of Lanzhou, and it seems that they are going to use troops against us, the Song Dynasty, so I have been sent to rescue them."

It came so fast. Li Qi secretly exclaimed and frowned: "In this case, there is no need to delay, we immediately rushed to Lanzhou for rescue, and we will talk about this on the road. Oh, Niu Gao, you give me the order immediately to block everything.

The road to Xixia."

"As commanded."

Zhe Kecun also knew that this was the top priority, so he had no objection. He just glanced at Zhe Yanzhi, feeling extremely confused.

The three armies combined totaled 15,000 people. The army could not rest for a moment and rushed to Lanzhou overnight. As for the Xixia soldiers, they were all killed and no one was left alive.

Lanzhou has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times. The Song Dynasty also spent a lot of energy for Lanzhou. Countless good men of the Song Dynasty buried their bodies here. Although the Song Dynasty later captured Lanzhou, there have been no wars in this area.

It was not until Zhang Shuye took office as the governor of Lanzhou that he relied on the Yellow River as a barrier and ordered the soldiers of the three armies to be on strict guard. They were still in uniform for months and years, and built Xi'an Prefecture, which was lower than the Qiang people. Then Lanzhou was handed over to the Qiang people.

It was consolidated.

Therefore, this Lanzhou must not be missed!

In two days, the army arrived at the border of Lanzhou. According to the reports from the sentry, the surrounding area of ​​Lanzhou was still safe, so Li Qi and others did not rush to enter the city. Instead, they set up camp twenty or thirty miles away from Lanzhou City to discuss countermeasures.

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"Beast, please kneel down for me."

Before Zhe Kecun could take off his armor, he shouted angrily at Zhe Yanzhi. On the way here, he had already learned everything that happened to Feng Xiang, and he almost fell off his horse in anger.

If it weren't for the fact that he was in a hurry, he really wanted to have Orihiko executed on the spot immediately.

Zhe Yanzhi knew the temper of this uncle, so he quickly knelt on the ground and lowered his head.

Zhe Kecun said angrily: "You beast, how dare you do such a heinous and unethical thing. My Zhe family has been loyal for generations, and the reputation gained by countless people with their lives will be destroyed by your hands. If my second brother is still alive,

, I’m afraid I’ll be pissed off to death by you too.”

The more he talked, the angrier he became, and he suddenly shouted: "Here comes someone!"

Immediately two soldiers walked in outside the tent.

Zhe Kecun waved his hand and said, "Drag this beast out and kill it."

"ah?"

The two soldiers looked at Zhe Kecun in surprise, obviously they were also frightened.

Zheyan, on the other hand, remained silent, without any explanation or begging for mercy, because he also felt that he had caused a catastrophe and death would not be a pity.

It seems that what Ji Minren said is indeed true. This Zhe family army is really habitually arrogant. Old Ji, you have also seen that this commander is useless in their eyes. Now you can rest in peace. Li Qi gently

Shaked his head.

Seeing that the two soldiers were indifferent, Zhe Kecun became even more furious and said, "Why are you two still standing there in a daze? Why don't you pull them down quickly?"

The two soldiers were slightly startled when they saw that the boss was not joking. They hurried forward and were about to pull Zheyan away when Li Qi suddenly raised his hand and said, "Wait a minute."

Only then did Zhe Kecun remember that there was a commander of the capital sitting above him, and he hurriedly raised his hands and said: "Commander Bu, Zhe Yanzhi has committed such a big mistake, and he should be punished for his crime."

Li Qi first waved his hand and told the two soldiers to retreat. The two soldiers quickly retreated, and then said: "General Zhe said well, but now that the enemy is facing us, killing the general in front of the battle line will hurt morale.

Let’s wait until later. The most urgent task is to think about how to retreat from the enemy.”

"But---."

"It's nothing." Li Qi interrupted him mercilessly and said: "Zhe Yanzhi, please step aside first. General Zhe, please sit down."

Zhe Kecun saw that Li Qi looked unhappy, so he didn't dare to say anything more. He glared at Zhe Yanzhi fiercely, and then sat aside.

"Report---!"

At this time, a soldier came in and reported: "Commander Qi, according to the report from the sentry, Xixia has gathered about 100,000 horses two hundred miles northwest of Lanzhou."

"so much?"

Li Qi suddenly stood up, turned to Zhe Kecun and said, "How many soldiers do we have?"

Zhe Kecun didn't seem to expect that Xixia had gathered a hundred thousand troops. It was obviously premeditated, and he hurriedly said: "The incident happened suddenly, plus the Zhong family army who came to rescue and the original army in Lanzhou, the most we can do is

There are only 40,000 troops."

"Forty thousand?" Li Qi broke into a cold sweat and thought to himself, this gap is too big, and the opponent is already prepared. How should we fight this battle? But as the coach, he knew that he must not show any timidity, so

He sat down again and pretended to be calm: "Generals, do you have any strategies to retreat from the enemy?"

Zhe Kecun said: "Commander Bu, I think our army should immediately garrison Lanzhou City and set up defenses. Although we only have 40,000 troops, it will be no problem if it takes a month or two. Once the reinforcements arrive, the enemy will naturally attack

retreat."

Li Qi nodded slightly.

Yue Fei suddenly stood up and said: "Commander Bu, the last general does not agree with the general's plan."

Zhe Kecun subconsciously turned around and looked around, and couldn't help but be stunned when he saw a young general who was about the same size as Zhe Yanzhi.

Li Qi thought highly of Yue Fei and asked, "What do you think?"

Yue Fei said: "There are clouds in the art of war, and soldiers are also crafty. The enemy has obviously planned it for a long time. If our army blindly defends, the enemy will probably understand our weakness and reality, and will definitely attack without leaving any room. And our army is imminent
To be continued...