After coming to the hinterland of the empire, not a single grain was grabbed, and his side lost more than 15,000 soldiers one after another.

Now there are more than 30,000 people under Tuoba Ning's command, of course, if he doesn't rush to let all the horses attack the imperial army in front of him, maybe there is still hope for victory, but he doesn't want to do it now.

With the exception of the Han army, all the soldiers in this army came from various tribes of the party, and as the commander of the army, Tuoba Ning was also a patriarch.

There was no harmony between the many tribes of Western Xia, and the relationship between them was like a river, following the law of survival of the fittest in which the big fish eat the small fish.

These soldiers are all young and strong men in the Tuoba Ning tribe, if too many soldiers come to the empire to loot and die this time, then this tribe will usher in a catastrophe.

The current situation is very clear, even if Tuoba Ning completely annihilates the second division of the empire, he will not get anything, and depending on the strength of the opponent's defense, it is still unknown how many soldiers will be killed.

The attack will lose a large number of clan soldiers, and the most important thing is that what is gained is not proportional to what is lost, according to the businessman, that is, the deal is not worth it.

Since the attack is not possible, then the Tanguts still have the option of using the mobility of the cavalry to attack other cities in the empire after retreating.

In fact, Tuoba Ning didn't have much hope for this, after all, this small Fengxiang Mansion City had already made the Xixia people suffer enough.

Judging from this battle in Fengxiang Mansion, Tuoba Ning and the Western Xia soldiers had already thought that even if they attacked other cities in the empire, they would still face the defenders who resisted stubbornly, and it would still be a tough battle.

Now, the mood of the Tangut people, who originally came to the empire to plunder, has completely changed, and they have unknowingly lost all their will to fight.

Just as Tuoba Ning and the rest of the Western Xia people were pondering and contemplating their next plan of action, the surviving security forces on the walls of Fengxiang Mansion suddenly let out cheers.

Tuoba Ning, who was standing on a high slope, hurriedly looked around and found that another imperial army had arrived from the main road in the southeast.

The soldiers of this army did not wear black uniforms, but the same blue clothing as Fengxiang's security army, which means that they are not the regular army of the empire, but should also be local troops to maintain law and order.

The southeast is where Jingzhao Mansion is located, which belongs to the larger cities within the province of Shaanxi, and the people of Fengxiang who fled to escape the military disaster have fled there.

After the imperial officials of Jingzhao Mansion learned of Fengxiang's battle, they immediately assembled the nearby security forces and sent them to the direction of Fengxiang.

Fengxiang belonged to the county in the administrative division of the empire, while Jingzhao Mansion belonged to a higher level of city, so the number of security forces was relatively large, and this time there were enough 8,000 security troops to support.

In addition, after leaving the men to defend the city in Lintao, Pingliang, Hezhong and Qingyang around Fengxiang, they immediately gathered the remaining security forces to reinforce in the direction of Fengxiang Mansion.

In a day and a night, relying on the developed highways of the empire, these security forces from all over the country quickly came to the vicinity of Fengxiang.

As the 8,000 security troops of Jingzhao Mansion arrived at the battlefield, it was not long before other small imperial armies appeared around this Western Xia army.

The defenders of Fengxiang with more than 1,000 people and the second division of the empire with 10,000 people had already made this Western Xia army lose its troops, so after seeing more and more imperial troops around him, Tuoba Ning finally made a decision.

"We are surrounded, the whole army retreats!"

The Western Xia soldiers, who had long been retiring, finally waited for Tuoba Ning's order, and the whole army immediately regained its vitality and began to withdraw to the northwest.

Compared with Li Zhizhong's troops, who had been wiped out by the entire army, Silver Fox Tuoba Ning was quite rational and knew the truth of stop loss, so the 50,000 people he brought were finally saved from Fengxiang.

Of course, it is impossible to bring all these horses back from the territory of the empire at this time, because this invasion of the Tangut people has already angered the imperial people.

The flying eagle controlled by the female fox Mary pointed out the movement of the Tuoba Ning tribe, so all the cities and counties of the empire along the way sent troops to block the snipers on the return of the Tanguts.

Although these security forces were not very well equipped and had very few troops, Tuoba Ning lost many men by relying on muskets and grenades, as well as the mines that most annoyed and frightened the Tangut people.

After several days of siege and interception, the empire annihilated the two plundering forces of Western Xia and forced them back without using the two main forces of Lanzhou and Taiyuan.

When Tuoba Ning and the remaining 20,000 tribesmen returned to the territory of Western Xia, their feelings were really complicated, and they really knew what it meant to steal chickens and rice.

After dealing with the two armies of Li Zhizhong and Tuoba Ning, the main forces of the two major armies of the empire at Lanzhou and Taiyuan were also prepared, and they quickly moved and began to march towards Western Xia.

The empire's northern and southern armies, composed of several legions, left Taiyuan and Lanzhou, and advanced slowly but firmly, aiming directly at the Xia and Xining states of Western Xia.

The capital of Western Xia is Xingqing Mansion, and compared with the prosperous Xiping Mansion, Xia Prefecture and Xining Prefecture, which are not particularly important towns in the west and east.

The two major armies of the imperial army attacked Western Xia from east and west respectively, and when they first learned of this disappearance, Li Qianshun, the lord of Western Xia, and his ministers were a little puzzled, but they soon figured out the relationship.

Because of the cannibalism incident on the border, the empire raised troops to come to the Western Xia to retaliate this time, but in fact, what the empire wanted was not just a temporary victory, but planned to use this opportunity to destroy the Western Xia Kingdom in one fell swoop.

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When the Western Xia was founded, its territory included Ningxia, northwestern Gansu, northeastern Qinghai, Inner Mongolia and northern Shaanxi. The Yellow River in the east, Yumen in the west, Xiaoguan in the south, and the desert in the north, covering an area of more than 20,000 miles.

At the beginning of the northeast, the northeast of Western Xia was adjacent to the Xijing Road of the Liao Dynasty, and the east and southeast were adjacent to the Song Dynasty. Later, after the Jin people rose up and destroyed the Liao State and conquered the Song State in the south, the northeast, east and south of Western Xia were adjacent to the Jin Dynasty.

To the south and west of Western Xia were the Tibetan tribes, and the Ganzhou Uighurs were adjacent to the Western Uighurs. More than two-thirds of the country is desert terrain, and the water source is mainly groundwater formed by the Yellow River and snowwater from the mountains. The Yinchuan Plain, where the capital Xingqing Mansion is located, has Helan Mountain as a barrier in the west and the Yellow River in the east.

It stands to reason that the Western Xia had a variety of terrain, as well as the fertile Yinchuan Plain, and the people should be considered self-sufficient, but the successive wars left the Western Xia without any material reserves, and the drought in recent years forced all the Western Xia people to migrate to the vicinity of the Yellow River and the Datong River.