Chapter 640

It was also a great achievement to be able to safely escort important prisoners of war such as Empress Xiaoliang back to Tokyo and Bianliang. In addition, there is a big problem, Wang Yang and Wang Wushan's courage is really so big that Ma Shang's whole person is uncomfortable.

I'm afraid that if I stay in the northwest border, I will be dragged by Wang Yang's guy to play a game of dancing on the tip of a knife. Therefore, after hearing Wang Yang's invitation, Marchand resolutely expressed that he would take on the heavy responsibility of escorting the prisoners of war back to Bianliang, Tokyo.

Yan Ci rejected Wang Yang's kind invitation, and now it seems that there is always a sense of loss and frustration called missed opportunities.

"This credit is no less than the victory in the first battle of Hongdezhai......" Ma Shang couldn't help but sigh leisurely. In the first battle of Hongdezhai, he swept away the elite of Western Xia, killed more than 13,000 enemies, captured more than 42,000 enemies, and captured Xiaoliang Hou, Fei Tingsidie, Wei Mingdang and other Western Xia bigwigs.

This has already made the whole country of the Great Song Dynasty celebrate, from the court to the people, they are all excited. And now, it is said that Liang Yikui, the Xiangguo of Western Xia, led 100,000 Western Xia troops to surrender, and captured Yanzhou, an extremely important place of wealth in Western Xia, as well as Youzhou and Hongzhou.

This achievement is really not much smaller than the first victory. The important thing is that the battle of Hongdezhai caused the morale of the Western Xia to plummet and suffered heavy losses.

And after this battle, Liang Yikui led 100,000 troops to surrender to the Great Song Dynasty, and lost the Jianing Military Division and Yanzhou, for the Western Xia, it was definitely a nerve, especially that Yanzhou, Yanzhou is located in danger, and in its territory, there are more than 20 large and small salt lakes.

In the past, a country in the Western Xia Dynasty relied on the salt of Yanzhou, and even smuggled a large amount of salt to the northwest border of the Great Song Dynasty, and the salt of Yanzhou was of high quality and delicious, and the best salt of Yanzhou was blue and white, called green salt, and the price of smuggling even reached three times a catty.

If the green salt can be transported to a place like Bianliang, Tokyo, even Wuguan, there are rich businessmen and giants who buy it in large quantities, and they are also proud of using green salt.

The salt output of Yanzhou reaches at least 500,000 quintals a year, and the green salt alone accounts for thirty percent of its output, and the cost of one catty, I am afraid that it is not even five cents, but it is sold at such an outrageous price, which is why the Great Song Dynasty has always been very angry about the land of Yanzhou, which originally belonged to the Great Song Dynasty, was captured by the Western Xia, and sent troops to attack several times, but each time it could only be surrendered.

Even though the Great Song Dynasty cracked down on the illegal salt trade many times, it was repeatedly prohibited, so that some officials with interests secretly colluded with businessmen to smuggle. Now that Yanzhou is in hand, it not only solves the problem of no salt in the northwest border of the Great Song Dynasty, but also makes Naxi Xia lose the largest and best salt-producing area.

In addition, Liang Xiangguo led 100,000 troops to surrender to the Great Song Dynasty, which was more than the total number of Western Xia troops eliminated by Hongdezhai. The Western Xia was already a few major generals, and now there are 167,000 horses and horses all of a sudden, and even Ma Shang has a desire to rush back immediately and join the great cause of continuing to conquer the Western Xia.

Maybe with Wang Wushan, the great Song Fuxing, it is not a dream to pacify the Western Xia country.

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In Bianliang, Tokyo, in the imperial palace, Zhao Xu, who had been married for a while, was comfortably leaning on a soft couch at the moment, holding a book that was obviously a manuscript, and was reading it with relish.

Next to it, it was the Empress Meng, who had just married to the Son of Heaven, snuggling up to Zhao Xu's side, and the enthusiastic Son of Heaven, Empress Meng's delicate face was already tired, but she was still fighting her spirits, looking at the patterns and formulas that confused her and the text descriptions that seemed a little sketchy.

Empress Meng thinks that she is quite confident in literature, and even arithmetic is very clear, but. For example, this book "Basic Physics" specially written by Wang Wushan to His Royal Highness Duanwang, His Majesty's younger brother, she is really confused.

There are a lot of truths in it, or a lot of questions, which really makes Queen Meng a little confused, but it seems to feel very powerful, hmm...... At this moment, Her Royal Highness the Queen is in a state of unconsciousness.

At this moment, outside the closed door, there was a crisp sound of watching, and Zhao Xu was shocked to realize that the time had already been three watches.

Seeing the tired face of Empress Meng in her arms, she couldn't help but kiss her forehead distressedly. "Zitong is sleepy, blame me, I accidentally saw it so late."

"It's no wonder Your Majesty, it's to blame, you can only blame the book written by Mr. Wushan for being very much to your Majesty's appetite, so that Your Majesty is so wasteful about sleeping and forgetting to eat." Meng couldn't help but smile.

Hearing this, Zhao Xu couldn't help but be overjoyed and laughed out loud. "Zitong is reasonable, if I don't read Wang Wushan's book, I really don't know, it turns out that even the falling speed of objects will have its principle, as well as the principle of this lever......"

Just when Zhao Xu explained to his queen the contents of the book that Wang Wushan specially wrote to His Royal Highness King Duan, he heard a rush of footsteps outside, and then stopped outside the door, and then someone cautiously whispered. "Your Majesty?"

Zhao Xu couldn't help frowning, glanced at Empress Meng, who had already sat upright, and shouted in displeasure. "What's the matter?"

"Your Majesty, the eight-hundred-mile urgent news from the North Shaanxi Road has entered the palace......

"Eight hundred miles and a quick report?" Zhao Xu couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, the displeasure in Fang Cai's heart had already flown to 108,000 miles away, lifted his placket and got off the soft couch, and strode to the door.

And Meng Shi looked at the Son of Heaven who was so anxious, he couldn't help but smile gently, walked to the side, picked up the thick and warm fur and draped it on Zhao Xu's body.

Zhao Xu nodded towards the Meng family, and couldn't wait to accept the good news from the eunuch, and then walked into the room to take a closer look under the lamplight, and couldn't help but gasp. "This, that's unbelievable, isn't it?"

"Your Majesty, what's the matter?" Hearing Zhao Xu's somewhat exaggerated low voice, Meng Shi couldn't help but subconsciously step forward and ask.

"Liang Yi, the Xiangguo of Western Xia, led a division of 100,000 to surrender to my Great Song Dynasty, and dedicated the land of the two states of the Jianing Military Division, and led the army to attack Yanzhou at night, and Zhi Keshi fought with Wang Wushan and did his best, killing more than 6,000 enemies, capturing nearly 5,000 enemies, and taking the land of Yanzhou. Now, except for the 50,000 Western Xia soldiers and horses trapped in the ancient city of Wuyan, the rest of the territory belongs to my Great Song Dynasty......"

"The important thing is that the 100,000 troops of the Western Xia belong to our Great Song Dynasty, plus the more than 10,000 soldiers and horses lost in the previous offensive and defensive battles in Huanzhou, as well as the nearly 60,000 soldiers and horses in Hongdezhai, and the soldiers and horses lost in Yanzhou, plus the 100,000 troops who have now surrendered to our Great Song Dynasty with Liang Yi, as well as the men and horses killed by Liang Yikui when he held high the banner of righteousness and expelled the stubborn enemies of Western Xia......"

"The total number of troops lost by the Western Xia is already nearly 200,000, and you must know that the soldiers of the Western Xia are only more than 500,000. The current Western Xia is really painful, painful, really happy......"