Most of the Qingtang people in Kuozhou City are still sleeping.

In their confusion, they heard the sound of shouting and killing outside.

Immediately after, they got up and looked out, and saw the Song army walking along the entire road in the city to the city lord's mansion.

The Qingtang people who can live in the city of Kuozhou are all people who have some net worth and think that they have gotten rid of low-level interests. So when disaster strikes, they don't think about resistance, they think about obedience.

Under the shouts of the Song army, both sides of the main road of Kuozhou City were full of people. On the road leading straight to the City Lord's Mansion, the Song army that was fighting fiercely at the gate of the City Lord's Mansion was clearly visible.

There are still sporadic battles breaking out on the four walls, but this is like one or two stars in the night, which can only be used as an embellishment, and cannot bring light to the people of Qingtang.

The moment the 8,000 Song troops poured into the city of Kuzhou, it was doomed that the city of Kuzhou had been lost, perhaps this time would be earlier, and when the soldiers defending the city began to yawn, the outcome of the battle had already been decided.

The guards in the City Lord's Mansion were finally unable to support themselves anymore after the resistance of Half Pillar Incense. Song Jun smashed all four walls of the City Lord's Mansion with a big hammer, and after rushing in, he found that the City Lord was dead.

Not only the city lord, but also his wife, concubine, and daughter were also dead, their corpses had black blue lips, nosebleeds, and the blood spilling from the corners of their mouths were slightly blackened red, and it seemed that the city lord fed them poison before he died.

Looking up at the city lord hanging from the tree in the backyard, Tang Ning sighed.

Perhaps this is the most brutal part of war.

After ordering someone to clean the city lord's mansion, Tang Ning ordered martial law in the city for five days, and after the unitary hour, the residents of the city were not allowed to leave their homes without incident.

At the same time, he also ordered the Song army not to have anything like rape ~ adultery and plunder, and once it happened, he would be killed directly to set an example.

Whether it is Chen Qing, You Shixiong or any of the leading senior generals, these words have been said countless times.

This time I came not to plant the seeds of hatred in the hearts of the people of Qingtang, but to overthrow Ali Gu and buy the hearts of most of the people in Qingtang.

Next, if the Great Song Dynasty wants to recover Qingtang, it will inevitably need the support of the people. Otherwise, a Qingtang that rebelled at two ends in three days was not a help to the Great Song Dynasty, but a burden.

Therefore, even before Kuozhou City, even in Bajin City, You Shixiong did not anger the people of Qingtang when he was stabbed in the ass. As for the culprit, the eight-year-old kid stabbed himself into the Great Song Dynasty's Guozijian instead of stabbing him.

You Shixiong is a guarantor, and he wants to send this kid to study in the Guozi Prison of the Great Song Dynasty.

The people of Qingtang were full of praise for You Shixiong's behavior, if Tang Ning went somewhere, the bandits would be very nervous, thinking that Tang Killing Star would not bring any good news.

Then You Shixiong is a living Bodhisattva in the eyes of Qingtang people, not only Ba Jincheng this time, the previous You Shixiong was also hypocritical and outrageous in dealing with the Qingtang issue.

It's just that hypocrisy in the eyes of Tang Ning is benevolence in the eyes of Qingtang people.

After capturing the city of Kuozhou, Tang Ning also deliberately let a few prisoners escape, and passed the news to the Qingtang army, which was fighting with the Song army forty-five miles away.

When the Qingtang people learned that Kuozhou City had been taken down, they were angry and annoyed. Withdraw the army at night and return to the city of Kuozhou, where he wants to fight to the death with the Song army.

They did not expect that the exhausted Song army, which had been exhausted during the day, was still paying attention to their movements, and after they left, You Shixiong ordered the whole army to be dispatched.

So this Qingtang army launched a tragic battle with the Song army under the city of Kuozhou.

Tang Ning didn't know why they didn't surrender, until the last Qingtang soldier fell, they also stubbornly didn't say a soft word to the Song army.

Perhaps it was their integrity, or perhaps for some other reason, but in short, the forty-five thousand men fought from night to dusk.

The Song people's defensive line faced collapse several times, if it weren't for the fact that You Shixiong was in danger and commanded properly, he would really be desperately turned over by these Qingtang people who fought against the water.

Cremating the bodies of the Qingtang people and letting Gale take them to the grasslands where they depended, these Qingtang soldiers were respected by the Song army. And their integrity has also touched many Qingtang people.

For example, the Qingtang people who were defeated and captured on the city wall before, they didn't know where to get their weapons, broke free from the ropes, and killed more than a dozen Song soldiers at night.

If it weren't for Wu Jin to change the guard, maybe more Song troops would have died in their hands.

At such a time, it is not a matter of morality to resist meaninglessly, but to be stupid or not.

A platform was set up again in the city of Kuozhou, and the seven Qingtang captives were escorted by the Song army and knelt on the platform to be beheaded.

You Shixiong sat on the top, looking unbearable to look at directly. Tang Ning didn't care much, the dead brother couldn't die in vain, someone had to pay for their lives.

And these seven people also need to pay for their stupidity, and it is already the mercy of the Song army that they did not randomly pick seventy Qingtang people to bury them.

At the sound of an order, seven heads fell to the ground. Judging by their round eyes, they must have had a lot to say before they died.

Fortunately, Tang Ning blocked their mouths, he was really afraid that one or two words would come out of the mouths of these people to make the rest of the Qingtang people beat chicken blood.

After You Shixiong finished the beheading, he sent people to go door to door and distribute something, as a way to appease the people of Qingtang.

Most of these things were scavenged from the City Lord's Mansion, and those were left

It was all added by the Zhenjiang Army.

There is still not much real money and silver in the city lord's mansion, this time let Zhenjiang Jun pick up a big bargain, a lot of porcelain, jewelry, You Shixiong used a very low price in Tang Ning's hands to exchange for gold and silver.

The fact that these treasures could not be realized for a while made Tang Ning very depressed, whether it was silver that turned into white flowers or yellow gold, it could always be distributed to the soldiers.

Otherwise, it can be turned into food, and the supplies on the southern front are only constantly transported by Hezhou, and only a batch arrives every 15 days, and with the advance of the front, this time needs to be extended.

Before that, the army on the southern front was fighting to feed the war, and if it was longer, sooner or later someone would starve and have an accident.

After supplying the city of Kuozhou, the Song army left 2,000 men here, and the rest began to advance towards Tongbo Fort.

Tongbo Fort is located at the junction of the Jishi Army and Kuozhou, and according to the intelligence of Wu Desi, the Qingtang people have hoarded a lot of grain here.

With the increase in personnel and the shortage of food, the current Song army on the southern front is like a group of starving ghosts reincarnated, hearing where there is food, they will rob it without saying a word.

After the Qingtang people broke the city of Kuozhou, they finally learned that the Song army had also deployed troops on the southern front. When the army was dispatched back to deal with the Song army on the southern front, it was already a little late.

On 9 May, the Song army won a complete victory at Tongbo Fort and captured a large amount of grain in Tongbo Fort.

The defenders of Tongbobao were still quite courageous, and when they saw that they were about to be defeated, they prepared to burn down the granary, not wanting to leave a grain of rice for the Song army.

However, under the deployment of You Shixiong, the Pingxia camp made a detour and infiltrated Tongbo Fort. The fire was not set off, and the leader of the defenders was captured.

On 18 May, the Song army fought fiercely for a whole day with reinforcements from Tongbobao and Qingtang, and won and lost each other. At this moment, a piece of good news came from the north that made the Song army excited.

After a month-long stalemate in the war, Miaochuan City was broken, and the Song army had occupied half of the entire Qingtang.

Ali Gu was very anxious and sent Ghost Zhang with 20,000 elite cavalry to support Miaochuan City, but he was ambushed by Chen Qing on the way, leaving 6,000 corpses and fleeing in a hurry.

The above news doubled the confidence of the Song army in victory, and the Qingtang army, which came to Tongbo Fort to intercept the Song army, also withdrew under the order of Ali Gu, contracted the defense, and used the three places of Sajinping, Baodun Valley, and Huaihe Village as defensive fronts to resist the Song army.

It's just that the defensive line is really a bit small, although it is a semicircle, but as long as the Song army concentrates its forces to attack a little, this fragile barrier will be broken.

After the strategists of Ali Gu listed all the possibilities, there were only two paths in front of Ali Gu.

Either surrender or go to the Tanguts for reinforcements.

After weighing the pros and cons, Ali Gu finally sent an envoy to Western Xia. On the condition of ceding Huangzhou, he requested military assistance from the Tanguts......