Yinzhou supported for nearly twenty days, and was finally breached, and the purpose of the city was achieved, he attracted a total of nearly 50,000 Xia troops, which almost drained all the troops of the five states; As soon as the city of Yinzhou was broken, more than 10,000 of the 50,000 horses were killed and wounded, including the main general A Burying, all of them became prisoners of the Song army.

Immediately after the defeat of He Langluo, the news that Lingzhou was broken by Yang Yi came, and the extremely empty Dingyan Wuzhou suddenly avalancheed, and the Song army could be said to be decided, and there was no need to bother to attack the city at all. Just send two or three thousand men to take over the city defenses.

The 20,000 horses that Liang Gefang brought to Yanzhou were all cavalry, and he was fighting on the inner line of Western Xia. At this time, Lingzhou was suddenly lost, when Liang Gefang also knew that the big thing was not good, he hurriedly retreated to Tiandu Mountain with 20,000 horses, but was pursued all the way by Lei Xiu from the east, and the Xia army, who had no fighting spirit, did not even dare to turn back and fight with Lei Xiu's 5,000 men and horses.

Chong Pu was ordered to attack Weizhou, and joined forces with Lei Xiu to seize Tiandu Mountain, and annihilated Liang Gefang's Xia army as soon as possible.

Zhang Kai led 10,000 "cavalry infantry" to Lingzhou to join Yang Yi, Yang Yihe was very interesting, automatically let Xian, gave the command to Zhang Kai, and was willing to be his deputy to cooperate with the battle.

You can't take all the good things by yourself, especially in the face of this kind of great achievement, let some out appropriately, and you may get more.

Yang Yi had already prepared a bamboo raft for the boat, in order to avoid a long night dream, Zhang Qi immediately ordered to cross the river, and 20,000 Song troops sat on a bamboo raft boat to kill the west bank...... If you don't want to go to the conquest, you can't do it, this ghost will hand over tens of thousands of troops (although most of them are old and weak) to anyone, and the Empress Dowager Liang is not at ease, for fear that the lord will sell herself directly in exchange for wealth and nobility to the Great Song Dynasty.

The Empress Dowager Liang has also personally conquered a few times, the defense on the west bank is in shape, the Song army has not yet docked the river, tens of thousands of Xia troops under the command of the Empress Dowager Liang, thousands of arrows are fired, locusts are like rain, forcing the Song army to cross the river does not dare to rely on it.

Just when Empress Dowager Liang was secretly relieved, a scout suddenly came to report that Yang Yi's 10,000 cavalry were crossing the river on a sheepskin raft downstream hundreds of miles away, and this news made Empress Dowager Liang stupid.

What to do? A hundred miles! Now send troops over, I'm afraid that Yang Yi would have already crossed the river.

The panicked Empress Dowager Liang was afraid that Yang Yi would take the back road, so she hurriedly ordered the withdrawal of troops, of course, she did not forget to leave thousands of people to stop Zhang Qi.

But the Xia army was already panicked, and the Empress Dowager Liang retreated in a hurry, and the thousands of men and horses left behind were even more frightened; Zhang Qi sent a grand lineup to persuade him to surrender, including Renduo Baozhong, He Langluo, A Burying, and Lingzhou Zhizhou Liang Keqin, a large group of Western Xia generals came to the river, you and I persuaded you to take up and land, so lively.

Before the Empress Dowager Liang returned to Xingzhou City, the thousands of men and horses left behind obediently laid down their weapons and competed to abandon the darkness and turn to the light.

Things have come to this point, there is no suspense, Zhang Qi's army crossed the river, Xingqing Mansion went down in one day, and Empress Dowager Liang, Li Qianshun and others became glorious prisoners.

The news of the fall of the capital Xingqing Mansion reached Tiandu Mountain, even though Liang Gefang was unwilling, but his soldiers had already lost their morale, in addition to taking the initiative to surrender and strive for preferential treatment from the Song army, what could he do?

In fact, the battle of Vaxia began to be fought in the first year of Shaosheng, and it took four or five years to completely destroy Western Xia this time, which is not surprising at all.

When the Western Xia was in its heyday, the total number of troops was only more than 400,000, and in a series of defeats in Mengyun Valley and Huanzhou, the loss of troops had exceeded 200,000, and the Western Xia had already been hollowed out, and the Western Xia had actually been beaten into semi-crippled at that time.

This is still secondary, mainly because after the backbone of the army was uprooted, the Western Xia did not even have any available generals, and the combat power of the army put together was already low, and there was a lack of generals who were good at fighting, and how many troops they put together was just a dish in the mouth of the Song army.

And the Liao State was too busy to take care of itself and was unable to support the Western Xia, so it is not surprising that the Western Xia destroyed the country.

When the news of the capture of Xingqing Province and the occupation of the entire Hetao by the Song army reached the city of Tokyo, most people could not believe it at first; The Western Xia has been in trouble for nearly a hundred years, and it has always affected the nerves of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Great Song Dynasty does not know how much money and energy has been spent on the Western Xia; Shenzong attacked Xia on five routes, dispatched more than 500,000 soldiers and civilians, and failed to destroy Western Xia, and now Tokyo still can't feel the breath of war, Western Xia was destroyed like this, who dares to believe it?

It wasn't until the emperor issued an amnesty to the world, exempted the people of the whole country from their annual errand money, and held a series of grand celebrations with the money of the inner treasury, that people dared to believe that the Western Xia was really destroyed!

Western Xia is really gone!

Western Xia is really gone!

Countless people rushed to the streets, running to tell each other, playing the crown to celebrate, those folk artists, even if the government did not invite, also rushed to the streets to perform, the whole Tokyo city gongs and drums are noisy, firecrackers are endless, everywhere is the color mountain viaduct, the big drama is continuous, everywhere is the crowd of celebrations; The voices of the people in the Goolan tile are like a tide, vying to preach, as if they have experienced the Pingxia War; The students of Taixue and Guozijian poured into the streets, grabbed wine and drank freely, and sang loudly.

The children learned the appearance of the forbidden army and played the game of conquering the Western Xia in the streets and alleys.

Various temples and Taoist temples also came to join in the excitement and organized various temple fairs to attract people; Even the girls in the Qinglou dressed up, sang and danced, and celebrated together.

And the prestige of Empress Dowager Liu and Zhao Jie was suddenly pushed to the peak, and countless concerts flew in, and the whole country was full of praises of virtue; Who would dare to doubt now that Zhao Jie is not the true dragon emperor? Not destiny?

The Western Xia, which the emperors of the past dynasties couldn't help with all their efforts, was easily destroyed in the hands of Zhao Jie! The Great Song Dynasty suddenly expanded the land for thousands of miles, and all the countries came to the court, isn't this enough to explain everything?

The officials of the New Party raised their eyebrows one by one, walked with their waists straight, and the wind under their feet, it turned out that the Great Song Dynasty still had to rely on our innovation!

Look at what the Great Song Dynasty looked like when the old party was in power!

It was not enough for Sima Guang to cede the four cities of Mizhi, and the old man was dizzy and looked for a long time on the map, and even wanted to return the land of Xihe to Western Xia, in order to get Western Xia to strike down.

Fortunately, someone reminded him that Sima Xianggong, the Xihe area was taken by Wang Shao from Qingtang Qiang, and it turned out to be not the territory of Western Xia. What is the virtue of the old party?

What is the Shuo Party, the Shu Party, and the Luo Party, they are insiders and outsiders, and they were beaten on the left side by Xixia and had to meet the right side of the face so that the family could fight enough, and they also ordered the generals not to fight back!

Gee! These people are extremely ruthless internally, putting people to death, but externally they will only be tactful and happy, for fear that the "friends" will be surprised, let's see, what kind of virtue are they?

Fortunately, these people have all gone to Lingnan to wander, otherwise the Great Song Dynasty would not know what they would have been ruined by!

Let's take a look at the few years after our new party was in power, unified taxation, reduced the burden on the people, and increased the revenue of the national treasury; Abolish redundant officials and redundant soldiers, save court expenses, fight the Khitan in the north, destroy the party in the west, and relocate the people by governing the river, which one is not done beautifully?

Anyone can boast and get carried away, but Zhang Dian can't, because he is the prime minister of the empire, and he must have the mind that the whole country is drunk and I am alone.

The Western Xia was defeated, but then there was a series of work to be done, a large number of party people needed to move inward, and those people who lost their land in the country also needed to speed up the relocation to Hexi and Hetao; With more than 100,000 or 200,000 young and strong party members doing labor, the work of controlling the river has suddenly become heavy, and these people cannot let them be idle when they come, and the tools must be prepared for them as soon as possible, and the materials for river control such as stones and pegs need to be raised at a faster pace.

At the same time, 200,000 or 300,000 party members gathered in the vicinity of Gyeonggi, and they needed to mobilize troops to take precautions, and they also had to help solve the daily necessities such as rice, food, clothing, and quilts.

In addition, the newly expanded land should send officials to govern as soon as possible, implement the Han rites, build school houses, prepare for the herd pastorals, and open a field.

After the war, troops were sent to garrison, rewards for meritorious soldiers, pensions for the dead and wounded, and those Qiang people and tribes who belonged to them should also be pacified and reorganized.

Yang Yi and they fought happily in the front, but Zhang Dian had to try to clean up such a big mess in the back, although he did not go to the battlefield, but after calculating the merits and hard work, he definitely had to rank first; If a country is bigger, the prime minister is not so easy to be, usually looking at the scenery, but how many people know the hard work behind Zhang Dun.

Whether it is Hexi or Hetao, in order to prevent recurrence, it is necessary to station elite soldiers and strong generals, but in this way, the 150,000 forbidden troops in the northwest will basically be evacuated, and what should be done about the defense of Shaanxi?

In view of this, Zhang Dian decided to take advantage of the great victory, and the young people's desire to make meritorious contributions was puffed up, and 60,000 troops were recruited in Hebei, Hedong, and Shaanxi to garrison various roads in Shaanxi, filling the gap left by the Western Army stationed in Hexi and Hetao.

Note that this time it is a conscription, no longer a conscription.

That is to say, the conscription system of the Great Song Dynasty will be implemented in advance, and the conscription system has actually been publicized by the imperial court for more than a year, plus this great victory in the summer, the morale of the army and the people have been greatly encouraged, and it should still be possible to complete the recruitment of 60,000 soldiers in the western and northern roads.

In addition to discussing this matter with the important ministers of the court and China, Zhang Dian also solemnly consulted the opinions of Yang Yi and Zhang Qi, the two commanders of the war, and after obtaining the support of the two, the conscription system of the Great Song Dynasty was officially implemented.

The 60,000 yuan conscription this time was mainly levied from the Bao Ding who had achieved good training results in the past few years, but the only son should be eliminated, that is to say, there must be more than two brothers in the family to be recruited, and those who were conscripted into the army could be exempted from the corresponding taxes in the family.

The soldiers recruited in this way can become an army with a little integration, and there is no problem in garrisoning the localities. There are more than 3 million Baoding in the West and North Five Roads, from which 60,000 people are not collected; A series of military reforms in the imperial court have significantly improved the status of soldiers, and now the great victory in the summer has made many brave young people see the hope of making meritorious contributions.

Sure enough, as Zhang Dian expected, as soon as the imperial court edict was issued, many Baoding, who were eager to make meritorious contributions, took the initiative to apply.

(To be continued)