With Cress, Leonida, and Pang Wanchun as the commanders, as well as the 300,000 Imperial Army, as well as the Empire's newly developed phosphorus bombs and steam tanks, Li Nan believed that this battle would be won, but it would be slightly damaged.

Li Nan thinks that the legion will be damaged, this is because Kress and Leonidas are both offensive generals, and unlike Yue Fei and others in the Southern Route Army, they are better at simple and direct attacks, rather than playing small tricks.

There are no immortals in war, and war is so cruel, so Li Nan can also accept normal battle losses, and it is precisely because of their habit of commanding troops that they may be the best candidate for the final battle with Li Qianshun.

Just when others were still concerned about the situation in Western Xia, Li Nan had already shifted his gaze to other places.

At present, the situation around the empire has become better and better, and there is no threat in the south, and there is only one island country in the east that has been colonized.

There are also Jin and Mongolia in the north, and only Western Xia is left in the west.

Both the Kingdom of Jin and the Mongols were countries that Li Nan vowed to destroy, especially the Mongols who had great potential and created an invincible empire in history.

Even before the end of the Western Xia War, Li Nan asked the intelligence bureau and the military to collect information about the Mongols.

After Li Nan planned to destroy the Western Xia, his next target was the internal strife of the imperial family, and now he had destroyed the Jin State, which was eighty percent of its strength, and then it was to return Mongolia to the empire.

Sons are only catty. Temujin was a dragon among men, and Li Nan didn't want him to be born out of thin air and become an enemy of the empire, so he would either become a citizen of the empire or disappear.

Just when Li Nan was looking at the map and was distracted, Lu Da on the side held a letter and said: "Your Majesty, the Southern Route Army has currently collected hundreds of thousands of people of all ethnic groups in Western Xia, so Zhang Shuye and others need the empire to increase the intensity of transporting grain and grass. ”

At this point, Ruda paused and moved on to the second thing.

"Now there are about 400,000 Han, Dangxiang, Huihe, Tuyuhun, Tatar, Tubo, Shatuo and other tribes who have returned to Western Xia, half of them are women and children, and how to arrange these people still needs to be decided by Your Majesty."

"So many aliens......" Li Nan sighed a little.

According to the Empire's usual practice, after the Western Xia was pacified, these ethnic groups would be moved to other provinces of the Empire, which would be easier to control and allow them to integrate into the country as soon as possible.

However, the Western Xia is a little different, first of all, the number of these alien races is large, and there is a very important point, that is, the Western Regions and Western Liao around the Western Xia.

If all the Western Xia tribes were moved, the empire would not be able to let other nationals live in this place where war was likely to occur for a while.

In this way, there will be a gap in this area, not only will the land here be wasted, but also a large number of the Empire's troops will be dragged here, defending the extremely long border.

"What do you think?" Li Nan, who could not make a decision on this matter, immediately threw the question out very irresponsibly as the emperor.

"Uh......" Ruda, Lin Chong, and Interior Secretary Tyrion and others were all stunned when they heard this answer.

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Tyrion, who was the shortest in each country, had no choice but to say: "The minister thinks that the situation in Western Xia is different, so he can't follow the previous method, but he should still let these people stay there, and recruit soldiers and horses from among them to prevent the Western Regions, Mongolia, Jin and Western Liao, which is the best of both worlds." ”

"Leave them there?" When Li Nan heard this suggestion, he couldn't help but think of the alien soldiers and horses used by various dynasties and generations.

The Han Dynasty, which Li Nan admired, once had such a precedent.

The recruitment of soldiers in the Han Dynasty was only widely implemented after the destruction of the conscription system in the Eastern Han Dynasty, but as early as the time of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, it was already used at that time.

At that time, foreign wars were frequent, and conscription was insufficient, so it was necessary to recruit in addition to conscription, and the non-commissioned officers of the eighth lieutenant were recruited.

In addition, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also used a large number of prisoners and evil teenagers to join the army. After Emperor Wu, the reason for recruiting troops was more common, and foreign races were recruited as soldiers at that time, such as the Qiang cavalry in the era of Emperor Xuan, which was a cavalry composed of Qiang people.

There are pros and cons to using alien troops, for example, if the empire recruits the various clans of Western Xia as soldiers now, it can naturally alleviate many problems, and it can also allow the major armies of the empire to withdraw from Western Xia.

However, the alien race always has a wild nature that is difficult to tame, and after giving them the standard equipment of the empire, Li Nan is worried that another Li Yuanhao will be cultivated.

As if aware of Li Nan's concerns, Tyrion continued: "We will recruit these aliens as soldiers, and when the time comes, we will slowly send their children to school in the hinterland of the empire, so that when the next generation grows up, they will become citizens of the empire completely." ”

"Two hundred thousand Western Xia cavalry... Well, that's a good fight. If they were equipped with the weapons of the Empire, it was estimated that the combat effectiveness would be higher than that of Han Shizhong's cavalry legion. ”

Li Nan and the imperial ministers were discussing the affairs of Western Xia, and the final battle of Xingqing Mansion finally came to an end.

Even if Kress, Leonidas, Pang Wanchun and others were all soldiers who had experienced a hundred battles and had seen the cruelty and ugliness of the battlefield, now after riding into the capital of Western Xia, they also felt a surge in their stomachs, and if they didn't endure it, they would probably spit out the food they ate.

The ground is full of Western Xia soldiers who were burned by phosphorus fire, smoked to death, killed by cannonballs, and killed by rifles.

Originally, after the imperial army entered the city, it would inevitably wield a butcher's knife and kill those Western Xia soldiers who still had the power to resist, but after this defeat, it had completely dispersed the last trace of courage in the chest of the Western Xia people.

In addition to hundreds of thousands of Western Xia defenders, there were more ordinary people, and the food of these people was looted by the army, so during the period when the imperial army was besieging the city, countless people were starved to death.

Seeing the people of Western Xia who were holding dying children or women on the street, begging for a bite of food to survive, even a tough guy like Kress was very helpless.

There is no need to kill people like this, it is estimated that if there is no rescue, all the soldiers and civilians in the city will soon starve to death, thinking that as many as seven or eight hundred thousand people in Xingqing Mansion have all died at this time, the three leading generals are a little chilled.

"Go and slaughter all the horses that died in front of the battle, and let them eat!"

Pang Wanchun thought about it, and then discussed with the other two: "Let's also take out some of the military rations, otherwise if so many people are starved to death, it will not look good!" ”

"Well, let's do it." Neither Kress nor Leonida had a problem with that.

After the capture of Xingqing Mansion, the former army pursued a small number of soldiers and horses led by Li Qianshun and Ren Dejing, the fleeing Western Xia lords, while other imperial soldiers gathered the corpses of the Western Xia soldiers who had died outside the city and burned them.