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Brother Richard was dumbfounded when he heard this. Then he looked at the general in front of him and the cavalry under his command. They totaled only more than 100 people. That's all the three thousand defenders in the castle were left with?
"How many enemies are entering the city?"

"There are more than 2000 people chasing us on horseback all over the mountains and plains. There are also many Han infantry in the castle."

The Supervisory Committee had already planted hidden clues among the businessmen traveling between the Song Dynasty and Xixia. This matter had been planned for several months.

Brother Richard had no idea that when his soldiers arrived at Xiangqing Army, the insiders of the Supervisory Committee had already infiltrated into the Xixia Kingdom.

The Han merchants in Xixia Middle School all support the Supervisory Committee, but at least they understand the Supervisory Committee's policies and know that surrendering to the Supervisory Committee as a last resort will not bring much loss to themselves.

But when Brother Richard heard these words, he found it difficult to accept them.

Brother Richard gasped and said angrily: "How could these Han people become thieves? They have received the favor of the country in their lives, and our Party people were very polite to them before..."

That's right, in the eyes of party members like them, Han merchants were all partners in the past.

The Han merchants on the border between the Song Dynasty and Xixia had a good attitude towards Xixia before, and even quietly smuggled goods to Xixia when the Song Dynasty and Xixia were at war.

This is only because the Song Dynasty’s common method of dealing with Xixia is to close the market and prohibit trade. As long as the Song Dynasty does not allow people to go out to do business through the Hexi Corridor, Xixia’s tolls will not be collected. Every time this happens, it will bring consequences to the Xixia Kingdom. Quite a threat.

Han merchants originally made their fortune through border trade. While the Song Dynasty restricted Xixia, it also cut off the financial paths of these merchants. Therefore, every time the Song Dynasty and Xixia went to war, these merchants naturally tended to support Xixia. On the other hand, they are even willing to take risks to smuggle.

But this idea does not work for the Supervisory Committee.

The Protective Army and the Supervisory Committee are not only armed forces, they are also the largest business group in the world. Ninety percent of the cotton shipped from the Xixia Kingdom's Silk Road comes from the Supervisory Committee.

The Supervisory Committee is different from the Song Dynasty. The Supervisory Committee does not prohibit merchants from trading at all. Instead, it encourages them to export the Supervisory Committee's goods to the Western Regions. This is a great thing. If they sell more, they can be called the Supervisory Committee. Hero.

The Supervisory Committee's method of persuading these border Han merchants was very simple: those who cooperated with the Supervisory Committee could buy more cotton in the future, and those who did not cooperate would have their cotton trade unilaterally cut off.

This is no joke. Their business system is much more detailed than the extensive management of the Song Dynasty. It can give you clear statistics on who bought the goods from the Supervision Committee and the direction in which the goods flowed.

Border merchants may not necessarily know that the Supervisory Committee has such a strong ability, but as long as they know that the Supervisory Committee will not ban their trade, they can be grateful to the Supervisory Committee on the spot.

The Xixia people felt that they were supported by Han merchants, but in comparison they were still willing to let these Han people do business.

In fact, they were not necessarily very kind to Han merchants. After the Han people entered Xixia, they were also discriminated against and had to withhold very heavy taxes. Some profitable businesses were also snatched away by party members.

The supervisory board does not need to make any other promises. As long as they say that they will not pay too much attention to Han people's business in the future, they will win the hearts of these merchants even more than the party members.

The political cadres of the Supervisory Committee behind Luan Tingyu were not freeloaders. After discovering that the Han people here were so easy to win over, they immediately took action.

In the past few days when Luan Tingyu and Brother Richard were engaged in a decisive battle on the frontal battlefield, these political cadres had already attacked the border between the Song Dynasty and Xixia.Now that they have captured three castles in Xixia, Brother Richard feels that it is bad luck that the castle in front of him was captured by the Supervisory Committee. As long as he can hold on for one more day, he can escape from the siege.

In fact, what he didn't know was that even if he could successfully enter the castle ahead, he would be surrounded by a sea of ​​birth guards and protection troops in the blink of an eye.

At this time, it was too late for Brother Richard to say anything. Seeing that his army could no longer be maintained, and a large number of Supervisory Committee teams were rushing behind him and in front of him, he could only turn the team's direction to the north, fight and escape, and under the cover of his cronies, He took off his armor and fled madly into the depths of the desert.

Three days later, Brother Richard was biting horse meat in a reed swamp, while Wanyan Zonghan beside him was observing the distance with a telescope.

It was rare that these two royal family members of Jin Kingdom and Xixia Kingdom could still be alive and well after escaping so far.

In the past few days, both of them have given full play to their ability to command the army. Unfortunately, although they command well, their equipment, physical strength, and numbers are not as good as those of the enemy. The so-called commanding of operations is only a side effect of respectability. Just retreat while fighting.By now, the two of them had only more than 100 soldiers left.

There is no need to distinguish between you and me, we are all grasshoppers on the same line.

At this time, there were a large number of maternity care teams catching up. Wanyan Zonghan thought for a while and said to Brother Richard: "This group of maternity care teams has not gone through any war yet. They rushed up sparsely. They don't look like veterans of the protection army at all." They probably look like refugees they just recruited at the border. If we can attack together, we will definitely cause the enemy to be defeated."

Brother Richard was already at his wits' end, and he even envied Wanyan Zonghan for being able to continue preparing for war to this extent.

This is actually due to the environment in which the two grew up. Although both of them were born into nobles and grew up in the military, Brother Richard was born as a prince after all, while Wanyan Zonghan was born as a tribesman. He even had to go up the mountain when he was a child. Hunting to survive is truly fought from a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood.

Even in the most extreme circumstances, he would not give up easily.

But even Wanyan Zonghan felt that this battle was very strange at this time. The number of people was getting smaller and smaller, but why didn't the enemy use elite troops to encircle it?

This is really because he overestimated the protection army. Neither of them knew how far they had escaped. A group of Xixia soldiers went deep into the desert, and the several regiments of the protection army behind them were like sprinkling pepper noodles. They were spread out. If not for the urgent deployment of a large number of newly formed maternity care teams from the border to participate in the search, they might have been able to escape successfully by now.

Brother Richard and Wanyan Zonghan personally commanded the cavalry to suddenly rush out from the reed swamp, and in an instant they rushed into chaos with the delivery team in front of them.

When the commander of the convoy following them saw the figure of Richard on horseback in the telescope from a distance, he woke up from the exhaustion after the long pursuit.

The head of the protection regiment roared: "Brothers, we finally caught up, follow me and charge to kill!"

They were too lazy to take care of the retreating maternity care team, nor did they care about the Xixia Iron Duck who rushed into the maternity care team and started killing. In the eyes of the head of the protection corps and a battalion of soldiers under him, only Brother Richard and Wanyan Zonghan and two others.

Luan Tingyu's order when he divided his troops is still in his ears: "Capture the two thieves, and this battle will be a complete victory!"

(End of this chapter)