Although the people of the tribes will not die of thirst in this way, it is delusional to want a good harvest of grain and fat livestock.

After the grain was not harvested and the grass was killed by drought, the cattle and sheep naturally had no food, and the herdsmen could only slaughter the emaciated livestock with tears in their eyes.

If the drought had only lasted for a year or two, the Tangut people would have survived if they tightened their belts, but three consecutive years of drought completely crushed the country.

The entire people of Western Xia were forced by hunger into a pack of hungry wolves, and they plundered everywhere for food, which caused all the surrounding countries and forces to be deeply disturbed.

Now that the two armies of the empire have entered the territory of Western Xia in a big way, they soon know the suffering of the Western Xia people with empathy.

Water!

This is something that all living beings on Earth must have if they want to survive, but it is difficult for Western Xia to find this most ordinary water source elsewhere now.

In the first few days, the imperial army still relied on the clean water they carried with them to survive, but then they had to find a water source, after all, hundreds of thousands of people needed water is not a small amount.

The engineer battalion had special personnel in charge of this, but even when they looked around, they could not find any water source in this desolate place.

There was no way, so the sappers had to find a slightly moist place and dig down.

It took me a lot to dig a pit seven or eight meters deep before I finally saw the water.

Although the water in this pit is turbid and can be said to be muddy soup, it is also water after all, and it can still be drunk after filtering and precipitating and then adding medicine to boil.

Because the shapeshifter Waer and the female fox Mary were assigned to the defenders of Hohhot and Yan'an Mansion, the two imperial armies did not have very good reconnaissance methods for the time being, and could only rely on the most primitive scout horses to patrol around.

Several groups of scout cavalry, who were covered in sweat with men and horses, returned to this temporary rest camp, and when they saw them coming, the other soldiers hurriedly dismounted the scouts from their horses, and handed over a bowl of boiling water.

After raising their heads and drinking the bowl of water, the scouts hurried to the tent to report the enemy's situation:

"When we came to the hillside outside Xining City, we did see that there were many camps guarded by Buchengchi, but because the Xixia army was moving, the momentum was extremely huge, but the dust blocked our vision, and we really couldn't see how many men and horses the enemy had."

"Strange." Yue Fei said to himself: "Now that our army is pressing, the Western Xia people are not well prepared for defense, why should they be mobilized and waste the physical strength of the soldiers?" ”

"It's a deceit." Zhang Shuye said indifferently: "The Western Xia soldiers are divided into four ways, and now the two armies that have invaded the territory of the empire, one has been completely annihilated, and the other has fled back to the Western Xia in embarrassment, so what we are facing is one of the remaining two Western Xia armies." ”

Zhang Shuye pointed to the military map placed on the stone and said, "Because the Tanguts have restricted the sources of the military and the Imperial Intelligence Bureau, we don't know which Tangut army is the main force now, so the other party is doing this just to make us not see the truth clearly." ”

"Hahaha, virtual reality?" Sienna, the commander of the Fifth Legion, said disdainfully: "It seems that the Xixia people still underestimate us, and we didn't plan to use any tricks with them this time, just a dignified hard push, so no matter what conspiracy they play, it will be useless!" ”

"Hmm!" The other legion commanders also nodded in agreement when they heard Sienna's arrogant words.

It's no wonder that these generals are so confident, the key is that in the empire's North Route Army, 200,000 people from the four major armies of the empire have been gathered.

Moreover, these legions were all fought in the war, even if Yue Fei's Seventh Army and Zhang Shuye's Eighth Army were established at the latest, they had been fighting from southern Xinjiang for a long time, which was enough to be called a division of a hundred battles.

The imperial army drank and ate here, and after a short rest, they quickly marched to the front of Xining City.

Now that the two armies are facing each other, the soldiers of the Imperial North Road Group Army are approaching the city, and the commander of the Western Xia Army on this road has also completed his mission, and immediately ordered the seven or eight thousand soldiers and horses under his command to stop galloping around the city.

A gust of wind blew, blowing away the yellow dust, and Sienna and other commanders of the Imperial Legion also saw the true appearance and number of enemies at this time.

The horses of the seven or eight thousand Western Xia cavalry dragged a large number of branches, and they galloped back and forth like sweeping the ground to kick up the dust, resulting in the appearance of thousands of troops and horses galloping here.

With less than 10,000 troops, the South Route Army, composed of the four major army corps of the empire, was attracted to Xining Prefecture, so it seems that the strategy of the Western Xia people to attack the east and the west was completed very smoothly.

Since there are only seven or eight thousand Western Xia troops here, then excluding the two armies that entered the hinterland of the empire to plunder, all the remaining Western Xia troops will naturally gather in Xiazhou, where the Southern Route Army of the empire wants to attack.

Seeing this little trick played by the Western Xia army, Yue Fei couldn't help laughing and said: "Sure enough, the Western Xia people still haven't grown, and they really came up with the old strategy of the Battle of Shuichuan." ”

In that year, Jingzong Yuanhao of the Western Xia Dynasty led an army of 100,000 troops to attack the Song Dynasty in a big way, ambushing the main force at the mouth of the Haoshui River, and the other part attacked Huaiyuan, claiming to attack Weizhou and luring the Song army to go deeper.

And this time, Li Qianshun, the lord of Western Xia, played this hand again, and still concentrated the troops of the whole country in the area of Xiazhou on the North Road, but only sent seven or eight thousand suspicious soldiers here.

At this time, the situation of the battle between the two countries was already clear, and from the perspective of the comparison of troops, the Western Xia army gathered all the soldiers and horses that could be used in Xiazhou, while the imperial northern route army only had three legions of Cress, Leonidas and Pang Wanchun and 150,000 patrols.

Relying on their trust in their own army, Sienna, Yue Fei, Zhang Shuye, Li Gang and others on the battlefield did not worry too much about the situation in the south, but waved their hands lightly, signaling the army under their command to move forward and cover the past.

When the Western Xia army invaded, the imperial officials resorted to the strategy of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness, and the Tangut people also made this choice in the face of the southern battlefield that had been completely abandoned.

These seven or eight thousand Western Xia cavalry, who were used as suspicious soldiers, had no intention of fighting the imperial army at all, and when they saw the enemy army attacking, they immediately turned their horses and retreated.

Without spending a single soldier or firing a shot, the Imperial Northern Route Army occupied the city of Xining, and then the four major armies dispersed and pushed sideways into the territory of Western Xia.

The army met no resistance wherever it passed, and the Western Xia monarchs had already evacuated all the people here, leaving the Imperial Army with only dilapidated villages and wilderness.

There was no disappointment in this 400,000 imperial army on the northern route, because this situation had been predicted when attacking Western Xia.

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