The new army did not immediately march to Xingqing Province, but camped and rested by the Yellow River. There are still some things that need to be dealt with, such as directing the herdsmen to fill in the river embankment, and cremating the bodies of the fallen soldiers of the New Army, so that they cannot be left without bones in their homeland.

In addition, the dead men and dead horses thrown by the Western Xia army also had to be disposed of, and it was not appropriate to throw them into the river, Hong Tao had already regarded the Yinchuan Plain as another sweet and cool road for himself, since it was his own territory, it could not be wasted, or pile it up and pour oil on it for cremation.

They are also sons of this land, and scattering their ashes here will also be regarded as falling leaves. It is impossible for everyone to erect a monument, so come to a joint burial tomb, first get a wooden sign to write the general passage, and the specific who is who can only be ignored.

This unintentional move attracted the approval of the Western Xia herdsmen, who had just seen that their court was going to blow up the river embankment to displace all the people, and saw the enemy building tombs for their children, the contrast was a bit big, and they instantly felt that this army was not as terrible and ruthless as the legend said.

Some of the clan elders still had the courage to ask them to give these fallen soldiers, whether they were from the New Army or the Western Xia Army, to make a transcendent ritual so as not to become lonely ghosts.

"Let them go, but don't let your guard down, and never forget that this is a battlefield, and we can't afford to lose." For Shi Tong, who came to ask for instructions, Hong Tao also had to remind him. Humanitarianism is humanitarianism and war is war, and the two things must be clearly distinguished.

"Your Excellency is wise! The villain has ordered all the militia not to eat a mouthful of their meat or drink a sip of wine, and those who violate it will be punished as collaborators. ”

Shi Tong showed a terrible smile when he heard this, he felt that this colt was really very suitable, if the commanders were so careful, where would the forbidden army back then be defeated again and again.

At night, hundreds of bonfires were lit on the banks of the Yellow River, and the Western Xia herdsmen played their folk musical instruments, with a long and mournful voice, a bit like a wolf howling, or a bit like a winter wind howling, with a strange dance and a splashing background, which made people want to cry.

Hong Tao didn't wake up crying, he was woken up by Jiang Erlang. According to Tanma's return, the city of Xingqing Mansion is also on fire, which must be bigger than the bonfire, and there is more than one fire.

"Don't probe, let your men come back, it's useless to probe, they'd rather burn it than leave it to us." From this point of view, the party members are still a little backbone. ”

There was no need for Jiang Erlang to describe it in detail, Hong Tao could see that the sky in the north was a little red when he came out of the tent, and he thought that the fire in the city must have been much bigger at this time.

It has been a day since the two armies of Heishui and Montenegro were repulsed, and their defeat made the party nobles lose the last bit of hope, and even the peace envoys sent by the Great Song Dynasty with the holy decree of the Great Song Emperor did not stop the advance of the new army, if the city was breached, it was far from slaughtering the city?

Nomads have a talent that no one can match, that is, they can run, and their escape skills must be MAX. As long as they want to run, no one can stop them. Can't bear the prosperous and stable Xingqing Mansion? But compared with a small life, it is better to die than to live.

In 1095, the eighth year of the Great Song Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, in the early winter, Zhao Fu, the king of Qi, Wang Xu, the king of Liang, and the Ganliang road were slightly pacified by Wang Hou, and led 15,000 seven-star troops and 5,000 forbidden troops to besiege Xingqing Mansion, the capital of Xia. The party nobles killed each other in the city, and countless people died, which caused a fire, and the city was destroyed three days later.

Of the more than 100,000 people in Xingqing Mansion, less than half died in the civil strife, and less than half fled from the city, and less than 7,000 actually fled north, all of them were party nobles and their families.

Two days later, the defenders of Dingzhou, Huaizhou, Jingzhou, and Shunzhou surrendered one after another, and three days later the new army conquered Xiping Mansion, and the defender Liang Zidao led 1,700 people out of the city to meet the battle, and no one survived.

In less than a month after that, dozens of large and small military towns and cities on the Song-Xia border surrendered to the nearby forbidden army.

Great Xia, fifty-seven years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, died!

The history books can be so simple to narrate, but the actual process is much more exciting. It was not the imperial court that first knew about the war situation in Xingqing Mansion, but the Sichuan Daily, and published it at length.

But it's not a big headline like conquering Xingqing Mansion, there is only one line of black words on the front page: Liao State, war or surrender

King Qi was in Xingqing Mansion, but he made such a voice, which sounded like he was asking the court of Liao, if it could still operate normally, but how to figure out how there was still a sound outside the strings.

What's the sound? To say that King Qi is the benevolence and righteousness of King Biliang, he didn't let the big guys guess and play, and they gave an accurate answer in the last edition, a copy of the chapter to the imperial court.

There are two main contents of the recital, one is that the new army will continue to attack Liao, but the strength is slightly weak. The king of Qi implored the imperial court to divide Lingbo Mountain, north of Weizhou, and west of Lingzhou River into special zones and handed over to King Liang to govern, and after a year of recuperation, if the Liao State did not surrender, he would march eastward.

Second, the King of Qi sat in Lanzhou, and like the King of Liang, he implemented a new policy in the area north of Lanzhou that originally belonged to Qinfeng Road, preparing for the new army's eastward crusade.

Why did you do this, King Qi also fully explained the reason in the recital. Because of the high combat effectiveness of the new army, Pingxia basically did not use the imperial court to supply this time, and all the weapons and supplies came from Ganliang Road.

The two largest workshops in Weiqiao Town and Daimyofu were useless after losing the environment of the New Deal, and they couldn't help at all, and they were suspected of being enemies. Therefore, if you want to stabilize Western Xia and continue to defeat the Liao State, you can only rely on the new army and the new policy, and you can no longer hand it over to the blind command of the imperial court.

As soon as this article came out, there was an uproar in the government and the opposition, which was more lively than discussing the fall of the Western Xia Kingdom. The topic of discussion mainly focused on one point, did the king of Qi sitting in Lanzhou and the king of Liang governing Xingqing Mansion count as coercing the imperial court to engage in local secession?

If you don't say why, it's really very suspicious. However, as soon as the words of Weiqiao Town and the Daimyo's Mansion Workshop came out, the issue of King Qi and King Liang became a side matter. Who? Whoever is so bold and dares to use the sharp weapon of the country to fund the enemy, he must find out the person and cut it with a thousand cuts!

For a time, people from all over the country went to the gate of the government to write a letter, demanding that the imperial court severely punish those who betrayed the country and sought glory. What? King Qi is talking nonsense! That's impossible.

King Qi and King Liang disregarded their safety, and took more than 20,000 people to level Xixia, why should people talk nonsense? The king of Qi must hate these people so much that he may have almost been killed before he made the matter public.

The gentry and scholars can open their mouths and say it, but the court can't do it, and they really can't stand this kind of groundless accusation. Of course, he couldn't accept King Qi's suggestion. also connected Ganliang Road, Lanzhou, and the essence of Xixia into a special area, and simply said that it would save more trouble to divide one side!

Originally, it was not very easy to object, Weiqiao Town and the Daimyo's Mansion Workshop were indeed not very good, and the credit of King Qi and King Liang was too great, and they directly destroyed the Western Xia, which can be regarded as a merit in the present and a benefit in the future. People say that they want to level the old enemy of Liao, and the reason is very strong.

But...... It would be too much to frame the imperial court for colluding with the enemy. It is worth it that you have made meritorious contributions to the court and have beaten the court backwards, and you have smeared the court with your life, and your heart can be punished.

What is this for? Not only do you want to support the army and self-respect, but also make the court and the emperor unkind and unjust, and become sinners for the ages? There is only one idea for this, that is, to find an opportunity to usurp power, and not to make the opponent stink!

This time, the holy decree was issued so quickly, not only reprimanded the sinister intentions of King Qi and King Liang, sternly rejected the idea of separating one party, but also treated others in his own way, and also sent a copy of the truth to be published and sold, so that the people of the world could also see the true faces of some people!

This trick is very clever, mixing the two things together and saying that as long as the king of Qi can't produce evidence, it will be framing the court and bullying the king. Don't talk about anything else, the crime of great disrespect is basically confirmed.

If you are disrespectful, you can talk about defending one side, and honestly go back to Beijing to ask for guilt. Of course, the court will not punish crimes, so they will offset their merits and demerits, keep useful people to serve the court, and then put them in Kaifeng to raise them.

King Qi is very disrespectful, can King Liang, who is signed together, run? The emperor has already planned, this time he can't let Wang Shu leave the controllable range, and when he arrives in Kaifeng, he has to be locked up in the Horse Mansion and think about it behind closed doors, and he can't go out of the city for half a step for life!