After all, the northwest is a bitter cold land, and the food grown is simply not enough for the army, so Chen Yan can only choose to buy it from the outside world.

However, in order to permanently solve the food problem, after the Dangyu army captured Western Xia, Chen Yan chose the next direction of expansion - Shudi.

Shudi, known as the country of abundance.

The hegemony of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, rose from the Hanzhong Plain and swept the world!

Shuzhong, Hanzhong, Chengdu......

The climate and hydrology of these basins are very suitable for the development of agriculture, and the minerals and economy are also quite developed.

And the terrain into Shu is still very steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

If you can occupy Shuzhong, and then guard the Sword Gate, Tiange and other Xiongguan, you will not be able to enter without hundreds of thousands of troops.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Deng Ai led the world to destroy Shu, and had the support of the entire Central Plains Essence Region, but even so, his losses were very huge!

I almost failed to attack Shuzhong!

But Chen Yan is not in a hurry to enter Shu, because it is easy to enter Shu, and it is not so easy to lead the army to fight out.

Before defeating Western Xia and obtaining the Hetao horse breeding land, Chen Yan would not enter Shu with a large army.

Chen Yan's eyes gathered on the capital of the Western Xia Dynasty, Xingqing Mansion!

……

At this time, Xingqing Mansion can be said to be heavily gathered, and most of the remaining armies in the entire Western Xia have gathered in Xingqing Mansion.

The security of Xingqing Mansion became a little unbearable.

When these troops entered Xingqing Mansion, they began to burn and loot wantonly, and the army of the royal capital could not maintain order at all, and even a large number of royal army troops joined the burning and looting operation.

And Li Qianshun, the king of Western Xia, took a disregard for the behavior of these soldiers, and he also needed these soldiers to help him guard the capital of the Western Xia Dynasty, but he would not treat the crimes of these soldiers.

Just let them kill some people, get bloody, and have a little more wildness on their bodies, and maybe they can perform better on the battlefield.

In fact, at this time, even if Li Qianshun wanted to manage it, he couldn't control it!

The essence of the Western Xia is actually the area from Xingqing Mansion to the border of the Song and Xia Dynasty, where a river flows, which is considered a land of abundant water and grass, suitable for the development of agriculture and animal husbandry.

Even the salt mines, the financial pillars of Western Xia, are mostly distributed in this area!

Now, don't look at the territory of Western Xia, there is not much loss, but the essence of Western Xia has lost most of it and has been captured by the Dang army.

Where does Li Qianshun still have the money to pay the Western Xia soldiers?

If you don't have the money to pay the money, and you don't want the army to riot, then you have to condone the army to loot the place!

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The army slowly advanced towards Xingqing Mansion, but it was only a small fight, pulling out two forts today and breaking three small tribes tomorrow......

Anyway, it is a military training, and there is no intention of a decisive battle with the main force of Western Xia.

It's just that the border between the Danglu Army and the Western Xia is heavily crowded, and three of the five battalions of the Danglu Army are stationed on the border with the Western Xia.

At any time, he was in a state of combat readiness, waiting for Chen Yan to arrive with enough grain and grass materials, and then marched west to eliminate Western Xia in one fell swoop.

In the entire area under the jurisdiction of the Dangyu Army, countless supplies are converging towards Anping City, one by one with new artillery, one by one with muskets, and one by one boxes of earth-shattering thunder.

Truckloads of artillery, muskets, lead, a large amount of gunpowder, brand-new plate armor and ring-headed knives, escorted by a large number of people, headed in the direction of Western Xia.

Chen Yan was ready to set off at any time, and when the grain and grass materials arrived at the garrison of the Xiangqing Army, Chen Yan was ready to lead the troops to set off.

On this day, Chen Yan received news that the grain and grass materials arrived at the garrison of the Xiangqing Army, Chen Yan went to inspect the barracks, and then was ready to lead the army to the west at any time.

If his plan hadn't changed, it would have been two days' work!

It's just that Chen Yan had just returned from the barracks and returned to the Dadu Governor's Mansion when someone came to report that the envoy of the Song Dynasty asked to see him.

Chen Yan was stunned for a moment, then nodded.

"Take someone to the living room."

As he spoke, Chen Yan took off the armor on his body and replaced it with a white robe.

The white robe is embroidered with a five-clawed golden dragon with gold thread, which looks fairy and majestic.

With long black hair tied with a strap very casually, Chen Yan had a light smile on his face, looking as if he had come to the world.

Surrounded by a group of elite guards, Chen Yan walked towards the living room.

……

In the living room, Li Gang sat on a chair, his face was full of calmness and calmness, wearing the official uniform of the Great Song Dynasty, full of aura.

The maids who served tea and water were all a little timid, and they didn't dare to look at this majestic official.

Li Gang's face was calm, thinking back to everything he had seen along the way.

From Tokyo, he went all the way to the west, passing through many cities and villages on the way, and the people he saw were all thin and weak, with numb eyes, and there was no trace of a smile in sight.

It was like a walking corpse, living only to live, and there was not the slightest spirit in them, and their clothes were ragged, and their faces were full of stains, like outcasts.

He only thought that the people of the world were like this, and guessed that it was because he had not read a book or received the teachings of a saint that his eyes would look numb and empty, and he could not find the meaning of life.

It's just that when he entered Qin Feng Road, especially after entering the control area of the anti-thief, he found that everything was different.

There are farmers working in the fields by the roadside, but there is a satisfied smile on their faces, even if they are tired and sweaty, they can't straighten their waists, and their eyes are full of hope.

Although the pedestrians on the side of the road were also thin and ragged, they were full of energy.

The market town and the city are extremely prosperous, although there are short quarrels among the parents, but everywhere is the sound of reading, children gather together to endorse books, and write on the ground with branches......

Classrooms and workshops are distributed everywhere, and there is an endless stream of pedestrians and businessmen coming and going, a prosperous scene.

Although it is far less prosperous than Kaifeng City in Tokyo, it gives Li Gang the feeling that it is full of vigorous development.

It's like the city of Tokyo is an old man who is dying, but here it is a newborn baby, far less powerful than the old man, but full of the future.

Li Gang was very curious, why are the people here completely different from the people in other parts of the Great Song Dynasty?!

It feels like two different people.

Li Gang shook his head, throwing these messy thoughts out of his head, he had to think carefully about how to persuade him to accept the imperial court's recruitment after meeting this anti-thief leader.

I don't know who this thief is, I heard that he is very good at fighting, I am afraid that he is also a reckless man who only knows how to dance with guns and sticks!

Li Gang thought of this, he already had a general image of Chen Yan in his mind, with a big beard, a rough voice, a strong body, and a hot temper......

Doesn't look like a good guy anyway!

In his eyes, those who dare to rebel are not good people!

Stampede Tread......

A series of footsteps sounded, Li Gang looked up at the door of the living room, and it was not Chen Yan who came first, but a team of ten guards.