The other two armies of Western Xia were not large in number, but they were all elite cavalry, and they did not intend to participate in the battles on the main battlefields of Xia and Xining.

The purpose of these two Western Xia armies is very clear, that is, to break into the territory of the empire and plunder everything that can be eaten as soon as possible, even the people of the empire!

Cannibalism is not an adjective in this day and age, but something that is really happening.

There have been many instances of cannibalism in history, and in addition to those who vent their anger and perverts, the main motive is hunger.

Human beings are also living creatures, whenever they encounter natural and man-made disasters, in order to survive, they will eat grass roots and tree bark, if these things are eaten up, then they can only eat people.

Relevant specific examples have appeared more than 70 times in Chinese history, and the closest to the present is the Northern Song Dynasty.

At that time, the Jin soldiers attacked to the south in a big way, and the people along the way suffered military disasters, and some of the defeated Song soldiers also became the second batch of rogues who plagued the people.

Compared with the Han people in the Central Plains, because of the poor agricultural foundation and poor storage of materials, whenever there is a natural disaster, the Tangut people will plunder everywhere, and they do not have much resistance to cannibalism.

As the lord of Western Xia, Li Qianshun didn't want to do this, but although he took out the gold and silver stored by the royal family for several generations and used it as military resources, it was difficult for Western Xia to buy food now.

The Jin State and the Western Xia were at war, the Mongols were fierce and brave, and although the people of the Western Regions were easy to fight, it was a pity that they did not have much food, and they were still the richest in the empire when they looked around.

The empire and the Western Xia had several farms, but in order to restrict the development of the Western Xia, the grain and other materials had long disappeared, and those profiteers who dared to sell grain to the Western Xia for the sake of profit naturally could not escape the eyes of the Imperial Supervision Agency such as the Intelligence Bureau.

In later generations, various major countries often used this trick, which is called economic blockade, so now the Western Xia Kingdom has gold and silver in its hands, but it can't buy anything, which is where the weak country is helpless.

Li Qianshun no longer wanted the soldiers and civilians of Western Xia to have any human nature or anything like that, he only hoped that these two armies could come back smoothly with food, and finally repel the imperial army.

Standing on the wall of Xiazhou City, Li Qianshun looked at the tribal troops stationed outside the city, and the expression on his face was very interesting.

Although the leaders of these Western Xia tribes complied with the summoning order to fight, they did not trust the lord Li Qianshun much.

After coming to Xiazhou, except for Li Qianshun's own army, these leaders did not enter the city, but stationed their own troops outside the city.

Compared with the countries of the Central Plains, these countries composed of multiple tribes of different races have such unstable factors.

When the country is prosperous, then whether it is the Western Xia or the Jin State, they will obey the will of the lord. However, if they encounter a catastrophe, these tribes will choose to protect their people first, and then consider the country.

He couldn't feed his own people, so Li Qianshun's prestige plummeted, and he couldn't hold these disheartened tribes.

Today's territory of the Great Xia Kingdom is thousands of miles in circumference, ending in the Yellow River in the east, Yumen in the west, Xiaoguan in the south, and controlling the desert in the north.

There are many specialties of Western Xia, such as salt, jade, licorice, honey, wax, musk, hairy brown, antelope horn, sand sand, bupleurum, cistanche, rhubarb, safflower, feather, etc.

Animal husbandry is also very well developed, with large quantities of sheep, horses, cattle, camels and felt blankets, fur products and woollen textiles.

The rich Hetao Plain was indeed the foundation of Western Xia's foothold, but this barbaric country was never settled.

Li Yuanhao of Western Xia was called the emperor, and after the founding of the country was called Great Xia, he went to war with the Song State, although he repeatedly defeated the Song army that attacked in a big way, but the Western Xia, which had low national strength, did not take any advantage.

Benefiting from the war at all, Li Yuanhao's rule in Western Xia was unstable, and he could only control the country with iron and blood.

Since then, Li Yuanhao has always been wary of the party and other tribes, so he also created a special army, the Proton Army.

The so-called Proton Army, as the name suggests, is an army composed entirely of protons.

These protons are the sons of the Western Xia nobles and the leaders of various tribes, and Li Yuanhao unified them into a forbidden army, firstly, these people have higher literacy and obey orders, and secondly, they are to control the chiefs of various tribes so that they dare not rebel, because their sons and nephews are equivalent to Li Yuanhao's hostages.

Although Li Qianshun was now firmly in control of the proton army, he knew that in the face of the rise and fall of the tribe, these clan leaders and nobles would show enough cruelty.

Li Qianshun, who was full of thoughts, looked in the direction of Montenegro and Xiping Mansion, and said to himself: "I hope you can succeed and bring back enough food!" ”

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What the Tangut people would think and do, the monarchs and ministers of the empire did not know, but in order to prevent the Tangut people from entering the territory of the empire to plunder grain, the empire did not have people living within a hundred miles of the border.

The merchants, who often did business in Lanzhou and other places, also obeyed the wartime announcements of the empire and temporarily withdrew to the interior.

In this way, if the two Western Xia iron cavalry starting from Montenegro and Xiping Province wanted to grab enough food, they had to cross the imperial defense line stationed by the patrol army and break through to within 200 miles to complete the grain rush task.

It stands to reason that although the Song State built a lot of fortresses on the border of Western Xia, and the imperial army also repaired all of them, but in such a vast border area, these two Western Xia armies could sneak through from any place.

The two robbing cavalry of the Tangut did indeed do this, but what they didn't expect was to enter the encirclement of the imperial army.

The fierce artillery gave the Western Xia army a head-on blow, and this time the artillery of the Imperial Army did not use solid shells, nor touch-detonation shells, but used grapeshotballs that bound together a large number of scattered shells and looked like a bunch of grapes.

Although the range of grape bullets is not as good as that of solid bullets, and the power of touch bombs is not as great, after firing at close range, a single shot can instantly knock down a large number of enemy soldiers in front of them.

Several artillery pieces that had been removed from the camouflage opened fire at once, instantly spilling countless fist-sized metal projectiles out, and those most elite cavalry of Western Xia immediately fell innumerable, and in the face of this rainstorm-like attack, the Western Xia people who were dazed in their heads didn't know whether to advance or retreat now!

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