There was a snowfall, the snow was not big, not like the snow in the south of the Yangtze River, with goose yellow and crystalline, like a cloud of dust floating down, falling on the ground for a long time.

The snow was not heavy, but in the blink of an eye, the rivers and mountains were covered with a layer of white.

Liu Xuanrui and Chang Mingde came to Tiandu Village.

It was forced by the imperial court.

Zheng Lang was in pain and happy at this time, a great victory, very happy, but the court had not replied, Zheng Lang was really anxious. The more this was the case with the imperial court, the more worried he became. wrote a memo, handed it to the capital on a fast horse, and directly said that the big guys don't hurt me, you don't want to let go of the prince of Western Xia, please transfer the army immediately. Give me a reply soon. Otherwise, when this battle is over, I will immediately go home and pay homage to my mothers, so that you will not be killed.

Sort of a threat.

It's definitely not a joke, the defeat on both sides of the battle in Western Xia, coupled with the exile of the crown prince, Yuan Hao had to fight hard in order to establish his authority.

On the other side, Liu Chang and the others were sent to Tiandu Village to negotiate with Yeli Yuqi, they couldn't wait, as long as the city of Weizhou was broken, Yuan Hao Zhun had to lead the army back from Fulin Road.

At the same time, he slowed down and wrote a letter to Fan Zhongyan, you have to send troops, you have to hurry, otherwise Yuan Hao will come back.

It is not important for Fan Zhongyan to send troops in the front, the important thing is that in the back, out of the Song Realm, the so-called Lingwu Avenue is only three hundred and dozens of miles from the territory of Western Xia to Lingzhou City. Lingzhou City and Xingqing Mansion also have a large army stationed. As long as Fan Zhongyan sent troops, the Lingzhou City army was afraid that Fan Zhongyan's army would go straight to Lingzhou City, so they would not dare to send troops to rescue Weizhou, and Weizhou and Mingsha City would be easy to take, otherwise Yuan Hao's army would come back, and Weizhou might not be able to take it.

There is another reason to slow down, waiting for food and grass.

In this battle, Zheng Lang mobilized almost 80,000 troops and sacrificed thousands of people, and sent 20,000 Song troops to Tiandu Mountain, so that Lao Chong and Yang Wenguang could command them to block Yeli Yuqi's army in Tiandu Mountain. There are also more than 50,000 troops, so many troops to eat and drink. A few days ago, Cheng Kexun said that the Song Dynasty brought a large amount of supplies, which was not fake news, it was a lot of supplies, but it was not prepared for the army of Jing and Zhao, it was for the sake of the grain, grass and materials for the Northern Expedition, which by the way played a somewhat confusing role.

The two were soon pushed into Tiandu Village by the Western Xia soldiers, and when they came to Yeli Yuqi, the soldiers wanted to push the two to kneel, Liu Xuanrui shouted: "King Yeli, it's not my father-in-law chatting with you in Shimen Village, where are you now!" ”

It was Zheng Lang who asked them to say it intentionally, and this would be kept as a later hand.

As Zheng Lang expected, Yeli Yuqi didn't seem to react. There was some surprise on his face, and he suddenly laughed and asked, "Why?" ”

"In this battle, how many soldiers and people died in your Western Xia, and how many soldiers and people died in our Song Dynasty? Could this be the result that King Yeli wants to see? ”

"Say whatever you want." Yeli Yuqi was not fooled, and said directly.

"I'm here to exchange your prince of Western Xia with King Yeli on behalf of my family."

"I don't have the right to call the shots."

"But the queen is your sister. I came, there are still some conditions, my family hopes that the two countries will not fight again in the future, and peace is precious. He also asked King Yeli, like Zhao Deming, isn't everyone very good, why do you want to be called the emperor? ”

Ye Liyu was silent.

Li Deming's idea is different from Li Yuanhao's, he is only an emperor, and the others are no different from the king, even if he wants to expand, there are Uighurs in the west and Tubo in the south, so he can expand to his heart's content, and there is no need to provoke the huge Song Dynasty. As long as he is not called the emperor, a nominal courtier, just one year of benefits from the Song Dynasty in all aspects, there will be nearly 100,000 yuan of money, why not.

There were many nobles who had this idea, including the Yamayu brothers.

Li Yuanhao was a little ambitious, and at first he also made a move against the Tubo and Uighurs, and was not very hostile to the Song Dynasty, but thanks to the two Han Chinese, Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao, they bewitched Yuan Hao.

It can't be said that they are stupid, and if they are called emperors, they will have fame, righteousness, and backbone, so that they can save the original monarch and not the king, and once everyone surrenders to this fact, the top and bottom can be twisted into a rope. In the words of the Han Chinese, this is called justifiable. It turns out that if the name is not right, the word will not be good.

They thought that the Song Dynasty was weak, and even if it was called emperor, the Song Dynasty would not be able to destroy the Western Xia, and there were some people who held this idea, including the Yeli brothers.

It has nothing to do with national reading, Yuan Hao's invasion of the Song Dynasty killed most of the Qiang and Tibetan people, such as the people in Yanzhou, the Fengzhou royal family, and the Han people accounted for a small proportion of it, but the proportion of party members was the heaviest, and Yuan Hao also raised a butcher's knife.

This is a small group of people who want to satisfy their personal ambitions, including wild beggars.

Liu Xuanrui continued: "My father-in-law will give you another chance in Xixia, and if you don't repent in the future, I will never give you a chance again." But I know that you are also embarrassed this time, as long as you hand over the prisoners of war from our court, my father-in-law will also send you 3,000 prisoners of war. You can say in front of the king of your family that it was to rescue the prince that he sacrificed a lot, or you can say that the prince was rescued by you. Prisoners of war for prisoners of war have nothing to do with the crown prince. ”

not only spared Yeli Yu's life, but also sent him a big step down.

Yeli Yuqi was very puzzled, thought for a while and laughed, and said, "Your father-in-law is afraid of our Majesty's revenge?" ”

"Revenge? If I divide the army in the DPRK, Hedong Linfu Yanyun attacks your five states of Yinxia Suihongyou, and Huanqingjing Yuan Qinfeng attacks your Yanlingwei three prefectures, unites Tubo, and attacks your Hexi corridor, I don't know how many soldiers and how many financial resources you use in Xixia to resist? ”

"Hahaha......" Ye Li Yu laughed, and after laughing, he asked: "Envoy Liu, may I ask your majesty who has besieged your Fulin Road for several months, where are the reinforcements from your country?" ”

Liu Xuanrui was speechless.

Chang Mingde took a step forward and said, "King Yeli, now you are fish and meat, and I am a sword." ”

What about seeing it?

The initiative is in my hands, if you don't agree, you will definitely not be able to step down in this big defeat.

It's that Yuan Hao came back and went crazy, rushing Zheng Lang and Jingyuan Road, after the fight, what else is there in Xixia?

Speaking of which, this sentence is just on point, and the front is all, even if the Song Dynasty agrees, does Zheng Lang dare to make this suggestion? Attacking in six ways, you have to get a big deal!

Yeli Yu begged for a blank look in his eyes.

This time, Jingyuan Road was under a lot of pressure, and after relieving his breath, it was not easy to attack Jingyuan Road again. However, the pressure in Western Xia is even greater, as long as according to Zheng Lang, everyone can have a decent step, and it is estimated that His Majesty will not easily move troops.

Is that the end of it?

After pondering for a while, he said, "Yes, but your Song Dynasty must withdraw its troops." ”

"King Yeli, don't you think your requirements are too high? It's okay to withdraw troops, you bring the people we want, and after everyone exchanges, our Song Dynasty will immediately withdraw troops from your Western Xia territory. ”

Yeli was helpless, so he let Liu Xuanrui go back to restore his life, took Chang Mingde as a hostage, and wrote a letter to Empress Yeli, asking her to send some Song Dynasty prisoners of war from Xingqing Mansion and Lingzhou, including Liu Ping, Shi Yuansun and Li Shibin, to Tiandu Mountain.

As soon as the envoy left, Yeli Yuqi received a message, summoned Chang Mingde again, and asked, "Why did you invade our reward port?" ”

"It's strange, you Western Xia people can invade our Fulin Road, Yanzhou and Jingyuan Road, why can't our Song Dynasty attack your Xiangyikou?"

"Didn't you say you wanted to reconcile?"

"Yes, people are changed back, and everyone is reconciled, but what about the people we want?"

"You!" Ye Li was almost angry and killed Chang Mingde on the spot.

Endure it, now he is a fish and meat, and the Song Dynasty is a knife, can he not cut or cut?

Then one bad news came.

Zheng Lang's army meandered north, waiting for the imperial decree, but could not be delayed, when approaching Xiao Pass, speed up, Zheng Lang lost Xiao Pass, Xixia sent people to guard this pass, Zheng Lang ordered the soldiers to cover with shields, came to the city, first shot with arrows and the city, and then launched some large stone throwers, all kinds of siege ladders, including the clumsy ladders, stone throwers and ladders are all the kind of combination folding, no "original" good. However, in order to avoid some jokes of the Song army later, many siege equipment were prepared in advance. It is not the best siege equipment of the Song Dynasty, and some of them are mostly built by Jingyuan Road itself. But it's better than the quantity, and the gunpowder.

Some large stone throwers, under the cover of the soldiers in front, ignited one by one gunpowder packets and threw them at the head of the city.

The lethality may not be very great, but this thing is full of momentum, after each explosion, a few soldiers are thrown into the sky, and they are blown up all of a sudden, and the Song army takes advantage of the situation to climb various ladders, but it is not the kind of strange ladder that Ye Li Yu brings, this is a very standard siege ladder.

Seeing that the Song army was constantly climbing up, the front was defeated and the morale was insufficient, and the Xixia soldiers in Xiao Guan left Xiao Guan on their horses and fled. The Song army continued to pursue, and at this time the three roads were combined, and there were more than 20,000 cavalry alone. This number will also increase, and as the number of war horses increases, some cavalry will be added to each side one after another.

Zheng Lang attached great importance to the cavalry, the Yuejia army defeated the Jin soldiers, the cavalry played an important role in it, where did the horses come from, they were taken from the hands of the Jin people, so that the soldiers trained their riding skills, and gradually formed a strong cavalry. But the time is short, there are only more than 10,000 cavalry at the moment, and next year there will be even more, and there is a possibility that the number will double.

It was enough to deal with the Western Xia enemy at Xiaoguan and Xiangyikou, and most of the cavalry chased them all the way, and with the defeated army crossing Douling, they killed all the way to Xiangyikou. There were not many garrisons at the Reward Transfer, and they were quickly defeated, and they did not chase again, Di Qing stayed at the Reward Transfer, waiting for the arrival of the army.

Zheng Lang was also very fast in the back, and quickly arrived at the Xiangyikou, and sent Di Qing to continue north, breaking the village, and Jingtai going east to break the Qiang Society. Then the two armies marched towards Weizhou.

Fan Zhongyan also moved there, but the action was a little unexpected Zheng Lang.

Zheng Lang asked him to attack in the direction of Yanzhou to disperse the enemy's forces, but Fan Zhongyan troops came out of Qinggang Gorge, suddenly turned back and killed Qingyuan Military City on the west road, and attacked Mengjing again.

The two armies are gradually coming together all the way.

In desperation, Zheng Lang had no choice but to write a letter to Fan Zhongyan, you will knock down the Meng Well, let's attack Weizhou City together.

It is estimated that Fan Zhongyan is a little weak when he really goes out to fight for the first time, and he can rest assured that the two armies are close together, and if he really encounters the enemy's main army, he can retreat to Huanzhou from the trail.

The letter was sent away, but Di Qing was asked not to attack Weizhou City, and he divided his troops all the way, led by Zhao Xun, and merged with Di Qing's two armies to directly capture Mingsha City.

Theoretically, the troops in this area are empty, and the Song army has a total of 100,000 people, so it can be said that it is necessary to fight wherever it is, but it must be done quickly to end this battle.

……

Zheng Lang and Han Qi entered Weizhou City.

The city of Weizhou is not big, and there are a total of fourteen states that Western Xia really owns, and Xia Yinsui Jingyou Lingyan will win Ganliang Gua Shasu. In order to exaggerate the psychology, some important towns were upgraded to states, such as Hongding, Wei Huailong, etc., all of which were the old castles of the original Tang and Song dynasties. Among them is the city of Weizhou.

But it has a military-strategic position. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Yuan Hao set up a total of Yinzhou Zuoxiang, Shizhou Xiangyou, Youzhou Jianing, Weizhou Jingsai, Xishou Baotai, Zhuo Luo and South, Right Chamber, Chaoshun, Ganzhou Gansu, Guazhou Xiping, Heishui Zhenyan, Baimaqiang Town, and Montenegro Weifu Twelve Military Divisions. Among them is Weizhou Jingsai. In addition, there are Tiandu South Courtyard, Shazhou Supervision and Military Division, North and South.

Originally, there were a large number of Western Xia troops stationed here, which was relatively difficult to attack, but Li Yuanhao transferred a group of elite troops, and Yeli Yuqi was transferred twice, and there were few troops left. In addition, the city was originally not large, and the city wall was not as tall and strong as Lingzhou City, which was quickly taken by the Song army.

As for the other city, Mingsha is even smaller.

But the battle has a strong symbolic meaning, and the harvest is not useless.

The two came to the gate of the city, and Fan Zhongyan greeted them.

Zheng Lang was a little speechless.

Fan Zhongyan was full of interest and asked, "Xingzhi, do you want to make a small order?" ”

Hitting the territory of Western Xia, Fan Zhongyan felt very novel.

Zheng Lang smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Xiwen, let's divide the loot." ”

Don't do it, you have to get out of here quickly.

There are three aspects of the spoils of war, the first side is the captured or captured weapons and armor, don't count on the grain and grass, the Western Xia is poor and white, and then let Yuan Hao and Yeli meet the beggar and toss several times, and the city is almost empty outside the city. Needless to say, Zheng Lang took the initiative to say that he would divide the captured war horses into a batch to Huanqing Road and Qinfeng Road, and the horses would not worry, but they would be worried about where to find a horse grazing place in the future. This one is easier to distribute.

The second one is a bit more difficult.

People and livestock.

Following Zheng Lang's previous policy, as long as the people in the villages do not resist, they will never kill the people, but there is one thing, if you don't leave, you can take away the livestock and burn down the houses, so as not to leave Yuan Hao with the capital to turn over. There are some tribes who take the initiative to take refuge, most of these tribes are biased towards the Song Dynasty, even in the territory of Western Xia, there are many, and even in the era of Li Jiqian, more than half of them are biased towards the Song Dynasty, but the Song Dynasty's ethnic policy was not done well, and gradually lost the support of the people.

Although these tribes settled in the rear, they would not be dispersed, and as for those who were forced to leave the territory of Western Xia by coercion, they would be dispersed one by one in the rear, otherwise it was very likely that they would make trouble in the rear.

Therefore, the people and livestock are distributed together, anyway, Zheng Lang didn't move, how Han Qi and Fan Zhongyan arranged, Zheng Lang didn't care, just made a suggestion, these small profits don't need to be greedy.

Including the common people, it will be very troublesome to settle in the rear, the Song Dynasty did not lack people, these people settled down, more or less robbed the local people's resources. Some tribes did not dare to recruit soldiers because of their unpredictable hearts.

The people and livestock do not matter, the key is to weaken Li Yuanhao's strength. The Song Dynasty did not lack population, but Western Xia lacked population. As long as any of them are strong men, they are soldiers, and even some women are soldiers.

The third is nobility and wealth.

The Song Dynasty's finances were very hard, but it did not mean that the people did not have wealth, if the wealth of all the large households was concentrated, it would be calculated in one billion guan, that is, the cloth and gold, silver and copper coins of the activity, at least one billion guan.

Compared with the Western Xia, the folk wealth of the Song Dynasty was a hulk, but since Li Deming, the Western Xia had good relations with the Song Dynasty, developed commerce and trade, and the people also accumulated some wealth. Especially in Yanzhou and Weizhou, through private salt, some nobles have considerable property in their hands.

When the Song army arrived, some nobles Cangzhong fled with their property, and some nobles played clever tricks and buried their property in the ground, and then left Weizhou City. But let Di Qing send people to take a back road and intercept these nobles together, and Weizhou City only lasted one day before it was broken by the Song army.

This is not necessarily a good thing, why was the Song army able to quickly break through the walled city, but the Tangut people couldn't? It will cause Yuan Hao to reflect in the future.

With some of Yuan Hao's skills, Zheng Lang is very worried, maybe Yuan Hao can get his hands on the gunpowder formula.

Get out these riches one by one, mainly gold and silver, as well as some copper coins from the Song Dynasty, pearls and jades from the Western Regions, **, rest, tuqiu, bin iron knife, Wujin, some fabrics from the Western Regions, cloth Song Dynasty is not rare. As well as the tea leaves, silk, porcelain, and cane sugar produced by the Song Dynasty itself, these are all treasures of the Tangut people.

That's all I want.

The generals were captured, and these generals walked in the various military villages, which was a living map of the Tangut people.

The nobles were all released.

Han Qi and Fan Zhongyan were puzzled, and Zheng Lang explained. What are these people going to do? Since the people don't kill, the nobles can't kill them. After arriving in the Song Dynasty, they couldn't work or farm, so should they be allowed to be officials? Were Song Dynasty officials not redundant enough? If they are placed in the rear, these people have some influence, and if they can't call for it, they will gather all the subordinates and come to an uprising to return home, and it will become a big joke at that time. It is better to stay and let them become the scourge of Western Xia.

But the speed was very fast, Di Qing had already returned from Mingsha City, and he had to leave the territory of Western Xia immediately.

Han Qi was a little dissatisfied, it was rare to hit the territory of Western Xia, and he broke two cities in a row, why did he act like a thief?

Zheng Lang said a vulgar word and made a fortune in a muffled voice.

Face matters, national affairs matter? Isn't the benefit of this war enough? Why do you have to make yourself to the end, in a desperate situation?

Start dividing the spoils.

The three of them smiled, including Fan Zhongyan, and their expressions were a little obscene at this moment. Helplessly, tens of thousands of troops are fed under his hands, and the finances of the imperial court are becoming more and more difficult, and they are all short of money.

But after a while, the three of them quarreled.

I want it all, Zheng Lang looked at Han Qi very innocently, you are in Qinfeng Road, relatively speaking, it is equivalent to being in the rear, what do you want so many materials for?

But at this time, Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi joined forces, glared and said: "Xingzhi, you have a market change, you are a privy deputy envoy, and you also have to take care of other ways." ”

Among the three, Zheng Lang is the largest, Fan Han is the governor, and Zheng Lang is the judge, with the post of envoy. But this official did not calm the scene, but instead became the handle of the two. Zheng Lang was gorgeously defeated, and said, "Leave me a third, and you will distribute the rest." ”

There should be nothing to say about this.

Then ran out and rolled his eyes, but after a while, Fan Zhongyan also ran out angrily, probably not winning against Han Qi, Zheng Lang guessed, Han Qi will definitely say, you are the leading brother, you want me to be the younger brother.

After the distribution was completed, a few fires were set off, Mingsha City and Weizhou were burned to the ground, and the troops were quickly withdrawn.

Fan Zhongyan went back with his army, Yang Wenguang and Fan Chunyou were in Tiandu Mountain, with some men and horses in their hands, and they could not return to Huanzhou until the prisoners were exchanged. Zheng Lang was a relative in his heart, and Fan Zhongyan was also a relative, afraid that Yuan Hao would come to retaliate, so he had to go back to make arrangements.

Zheng Lang and Han Qi escorted the people and captured the livestock, and turned towards Xiao Guan.

When he arrived at Xiao Guan, the imperial court came down, adopted Zheng Lang's plan, and rewrote the list of meritorious contributions with Zheng Lang. When the last piece of music arrived in the capital, everyone was very happy, and Zhao Zhen jumped up like a child.

But looking at the part of his request, everyone laughed.

Lu Yijian, Zhang Dexiang, Yan Shu and other bigwigs are red-faced, I'm not Xiao He, don't kill me.

But for the prince's affairs, it took three or four days to decide it.

Zheng Lang was already shouting thank God in his heart, and he thought that he had dragged the army to Wuyan Qianxia and had not yet replied, and it would be bad at that time, although it was late, but the time had caught up.

Yeli Yu begged to die, and brought the prisoners of war in the front, and immediately passed on Chang Mingde in the back, shouting for a change, and the Song army could no longer be tossed, and immediately all the people's materials from Qinggang Gorge to Rouwolf Mountain were all looted by the Song Dynasty.

But he didn't think about what Yuan Hao would do after invading the Song Dynasty.

The two countries exchanged in front of Tiandu Mountain, and they were not afraid of the Western Xia people's tricks, and before Yuan Hao came back, the line south of Weizhou and Mingsha City was almost completely controlled by the Song Dynasty.

Song Dynasty prisoners of war included Liu Ping, Shi Yuansun and Li Shibin, as well as more than 200 other soldiers.

In fact, there are still them, but they can't be checked anymore, and Yeli doesn't want to pay more.

Pushing them out, the old breed also pushed Li Ningming and the three thousand captives out, and also sent a few small nobles who were captured in the Tiandu Mountain Palace, which was sent as a fraction.

But when Yeli Yuqi saw the captive, his body shook, and he was almost so angry that a mouthful of blood spurted out.