"I didn't expect this Xingqing Mansion to be so difficult to attack!" Zhao Chen said.

"Originally, we were able to take down Xingqing Mansion two days ago, but I didn't expect all the women in Xingqing Mansion to come out to defend the city! These women are so tenacious, more tenacious than the men! Therefore, Xingqing Mansion is now difficult to conquer! Li Xianzhong said.

"Your Majesty, the woman in the lead is called Ren Yuqin, and she is the imperial concubine of Western Xia! On that day, she was the first to come to the city wall! With her encouragement, the rest of the Western Xia women came to the city wall one after another to participate in the defense of the city! Yu Yunwen said.

These days, they have also captured a lot of Western Xia captives, and some people recognize the identity of Ren Yuqin above.

"Oh! This woman is not simple. Zhao Chen nodded.

"Your Majesty, she is Ren Dejing's daughter." Yu Yunwen said again.

"Is there such a thing? She is a Han woman, and she actually helped the Tangut people defend the city. Zhao Chen snorted coldly.

"Your Majesty, in addition to Ren Yuqin, there is another person in the city of Xixia, who is the prime minister named Anhui, and it is this person who suggests that all the people in the city participate in the defense of the city! Before we came, he had already set up the defenses. Yu Yunwen said.

Zhao Chen nodded.

"Your Majesty, these days, we have suffered unusually heavy casualties." Qu Duan Dao.

"How many fighters died?" Zhao Chen said.

"The dead and the seriously injured are afraid that there are more than 50,000 people." Qu Duan Dao.

After hearing this number, whether it was Zhao Chen, Yu Yunwen, or Li Xianzhong, Liu Qi, Zhao Zhe and others, their faces were very ugly. For the Song army, this was a huge casualty that had never been seen before.

Zhao Chen stood up and walked out of the barracks, his brows furrowed.

Qu Duan, Yu Yunwen and others also walked out.

"If you do whatever it takes, how long will it take to take down Xingqing Mansion!" For a long time, Zhao Chen said.

"I'm afraid it will take half a month!" Qu Duan Dao.

"Half a month? How much will we lose! Zhao Chen said again.

"We are afraid that our losses will only exceed 100,000, and may even exceed 150,000." Qu Duan Dao.

"That's so many!" Zhao Chen couldn't believe it.

"Your Majesty, we didn't expect this Xingqing Mansion to be so difficult to attack. We can't afford this amount of attrition right now. Qu Duan said.

Zhao Chen nodded.

Indeed, now the Song army cannot withstand much attrition. They used stratagems to contain the Jurchens and King Kang's armies in Hedong and Jiangnan, but the Jurchens and King Kang's armies would return sooner or later, and at that time, if Zhao Chen's army lost too much, it might not be able to block the attack of the two families. In this way, the plan to attack Western Xia was meaningless. Although the Western Xia was destroyed, more than half of the more than 200,000 troops were buried here, and the gains outweighed the losses.

"Your Majesty, we're going to think about other strategies." Qu Duan Dao.

"I am very unwilling in my heart." Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty think twice!" Qu Duan Dao.

Yu Yunwen, Li Xianzhong, Liu Qi and others next to them did not speak, they also knew that they could not continue to fight now, and the army could not tolerate too much attrition. But they were also very unwilling in their hearts, but they suppressed the unwillingness with reason.

"I understand! But even so, we can't let go of Western Xia! Let's implement the second set of plans formulated by the General Staff Headquarters! Zhao Chen thought for a long time and said very unwillingly.

Qu Duan nodded.

They are still discussing it together.

The next day, before dawn, the army began to move!

Qu Duan led 30,000 soldiers of the Northern Shaanxi Forbidden Army to the west, Liu Qi led the 30,000 Huanqing Army to the north, and Zhao Zhe led the 30,000 Jingyuan Army to the south.

Zhao Chen led the remaining 100,000 troops to sit in Xingqing Mansion, and the soldiers of the production and construction corps also came to Xingqing Mansion one after another to continue to encircle Xingqing Mansion.

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Hundreds of miles away from the capital of Western Xia, this is the richest place in Western Xia!

The ancients said that "the Yellow River is harmful, only one set of riches", and there is also a saying that "the Yellow River in the world is rich in Ningxia"!

From the beginning of the Qin Dynasty to the later Han and Tang dynasties, the Han people governed the frontier and irrigated the Yellow River here, turning this place into "plugging the south of the Yangtze River"! After the rise of Western Xia, they occupied this place, and more than half of the millions of party members lived here, so the population here was larger, and the place became richer!

At this moment, more than two hundred miles west of Xingqing Mansion, in a small town with a population of 5,000 people, Qu Duan led the army here!

The town has no defenses, and the number of men in the town is extremely limited! They practiced all the soldiers, most of the elite men had already joined the army, and in Wudaotan, the main force of Western Xia was wiped out, and many of them came from this town!

"Pass the order! Within an hour, all the party members will leave here! An hour later, the army burned the town! If anyone stays, life and death are at their own risk! Qu Duan said coldly.

At that moment, 30,000 troops rushed into this town, and they conveyed the order of Quduan, and they expelled the party members here!

Countless party members wept, they didn't want to leave here, but in front of the sword of the army, they could only leave!

There are also some party members who are hiding in their homes, hoping to escape!

An hour passed, and more than 3,000 people came to the outside of the town!

It was at this time that fires erupted throughout the town!

When the fire was burning, countless people ran out of it crying and screaming.

In the end, the number of Tangut people who came out reached more than 4,000 people, and Qu Duan gathered these more than 4,000 people together, put away their weapons, and then sent people to drive them towards the south!

At this moment, on the Yinchuan Plain, such things are happening in all directions in the southeast, northwest, and north.

Countless villages and towns were breached, and countless party members were driven south of the country. No one knows what their fate will be, and they rarely meet people who resist, and a situation like Xingqing Mansion can't happen anytime and anywhere after all.

In just ten days, Dingzhou, Huaizhou, Shunzhou and other places were conquered one after another, including all the people in the city were ordered to go south. Countless cities were caught in flames.

In less than half a month, more than 2 million party members on the Yinchuan Plain were broken south and left their hometowns.

This is the second set of plans formulated by the General Staff Headquarters, if the Western Xia cannot be successfully destroyed, or the loss is too great, then all the people on the Yinchuan Plain of the Western Xia will be expelled to Guanshan, just like the grass valley of foreign tribes, all the towns and villages on the Yinchuan Plain will be destroyed. Destroy the most populous and wealthiest places in Western Xia, and fundamentally deal a blow to the strength of Western Xia. Xingqing Mansion is very strong, but no other place can be as strong as Xingqing Mansion!

The population of Western Xia is limited, and all the Western Xia people on the Yinchuan Plain have been expelled to Guanshan, and although there are still populations in the northern, western and eastern parts of Western Xia, there are less than one million, and it is difficult to recover. And the lack of population will cause great disasters, such as the food shortage. The Yinchuan Plain has been turned into a ruin, the grain fields have been completely destroyed, and there are no people to grow grain, in this case, Western Xia will fall into a great disaster. There is only one lonely city left in Yinchuan to stay on the Yinchuan Plain, and that does not make the slightest sense.

The prestige of the Western Xia court will be greatly reduced, and independent party tribes will once again appear in the northern and western parts of the Western Xia. At that time, the party was no longer a threat to the Han Chinese.

On April 23, Qu Duan and Zhao Zhe came to Lingzhou City together!

This Lingzhou City is the northwest second only to Xingqing Mansion of the big city, the Han Dynasty, the Han Hui Emperor built a city here, has a history of thousands of years. At the time of the An Lushan Rebellion, Tang Suzong ascended the throne in Lingzhou, which was the largest military town of the Tang Dynasty and the political and military center of the Tang Dynasty during the counterinsurgency period. This is a big city in the northwest, but unfortunately it was stolen by the party.

Although Qu Duan and Zhao Zhe had 60,000 troops in their hands, they were still worried that they would not be able to take Lingzhou City.

However, less than an hour after the army surrounded Lingzhou City, Li Yuanshan, the defender of Lingzhou, actually went out of the city and surrendered! This Lingzhou city was taken down so easily!

"The order of the military department is to completely destroy the Yinchuan Plain, not to leave a village and town, a common people, and a grain for the Tangut people, so as to fundamentally hit the strength of the Tangut, so that even if the Tangut can continue, it will only be a small country that is not worth mentioning! This Lingzhou City is also on the Yinchuan Plain, and it stands to reason that it should also be destroyed. It's just that this is a big city that our Han people once built, and it has a history of more than 1,000 years. It would be a shame to destroy it. Zhao Zhe stood on the city wall of Lingzhou, the breeze was blowing, and he spoke.

"yes, it's a shame! I don't think it's better to drive out all the party members here first, and I'll write to Your Majesty to see how Your Majesty will deal with it. In fact, we can arrange a garrison here, or place the young people of the Production and Construction Corps here. After the Western Xia experienced this battle, even if they would not perish, their strength would be greatly damaged, and it would be difficult for them to defeat Lingzhou City. This Lingzhou City is also a barrier that can prevent the remnants of Western Xia from continuing to move south. In the future, after the Jurchens and King Kang are completely defeated by us, we will still have to recover Western Xia at that time. Lingzhou City is still our city. Qu Duan said.

"Not bad!" Zhao Zhe nodded.

At that moment, Qu Duan wrote a letter to Zhao Chen, and then Qu Duan and Zhao Zhe led the army to expel the party members of Lingzhou City, and then Qu Duan left a thousand people to guard here, and they continued to lead troops to all parts of the Yinchuan Plain to expel the party people from all over the country, destroy the cities and villages and towns in various places, and destroy the grain fields, not to mention.

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