100,000 forbidden troops in northern Shaanxi marched towards the north!

In the morning, the weather was just a little gloomy, and in the morning it snowed heavily!

There was a gray patch ahead, and it was impossible to see clearly at a little distance!

An army of 100,000 is trekking hard!

It wasn't until late at night that they came to an earthen city and rested in this earthen city! On the border of the Great Song Dynasty and Western Xia, because of the perennial war, such earthen cities abound! Many of the earthen castles were once forts where armies were stationed, but they were later abandoned during the war! There are also some earthen cities that are some buildings left over from the Tang Dynasty, and even locals can't tell their history!

The cold wind was howling outside, and the soldiers were huddled together and warmed by each other's body temperatures! But the soldiers did not have the slightest bitterness in their hearts, they just wanted to rush to Western Xia as soon as possible and plunge into the war as soon as possible! They are eager for war, they are yearning for war, this army is completely different from the original Great Song army! If it was the original Great Song army, the soldiers were just for their salaries, just to get by, they would never have braved such hardship to go to Western Xia, and they did not have the courage to enter Western Xia! And now, this army has the belief of invincibility, they believe that as long as they enter the Western Xia, they will be able to conquer that country, and they will be able to return all the shame they once had!

The next morning, the army continued to brave the snow!

Northern Shaanxi is so desolate that there are no roads in many places! In some places, it looks like flat snow, but as soon as the soldiers step on it, it immediately collapses! It turns out that these places turned out to be deep ditches! Once the soldiers collapsed, it was almost impossible to survive! Li Xianzhong has already ordered the First Army to start at the front!

By the end of the night, according to the data reported by the First Army, more than 300 of them had died in the pathfinder!

Li Xianzhong gritted his teeth and wrote down these data in his notebook! This is the first batch of sacrifices in the Northern Expedition!

On the third day, they came to the Dingbian Army! This is already the border area of Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty! There is a Song army of more than 1,000 people stationed here, and these Song troops are extremely excited when they see their army coming! At that moment, Li Xianzhong ordered this army to follow the Northern Shaanxi Forbidden Army to go on a northern expedition to conquer Western Xia!

On the fourth day, 100,000 people of the Northern Shaanxi Forbidden Army were stationed in the wilderness!

It wasn't until the fifth day, the sixteenth day of the first month, that they came to Helan Yuan on the border of Western Xia!

There were two fortresses on this Helan Plain, and Li Xianzhong's 100,000 troops rushed over like a flood, and in less than an hour, both fortresses were all captured, and none of the enemies could escape!

"Handsome! An army appeared in the back! At this time, Mo Biao, the commander of the Third Army, came to report.

"Oh?" Li Xianzhong was slightly stunned!

However, he was not very anxious in his heart, the army that appeared from behind must be the army of the Great Song Dynasty! Could it be that the Huanqing Army has already followed from behind?

He guessed right!

Less than half an hour later, an army of 50,000 men had already rushed over! Unlike Li Xianzhong's army, 30,000 of this army of 50,000 people were cavalry! They are none other than the Huanqing Army commanded by Liu Qi!

In addition to the Huanqing Army, there was an army closely following behind, which was the imperial camp led by Zhao Chen himself! Qu Duan and Yu Yunwen all went north with Zhao Chen and came here!

"Your Majesty is here! His Majesty himself came! ”

"Quick, meet Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty has come to Western Xia in person! He is an old man, and we must not retreat! ”

A moment later, the news spread throughout the entire Northern Shaanxi Forbidden Army!

All the soldiers of the Northern Shaanxi Forbidden Army were stunned for joy, and countless soldiers of the Northern Shaanxi Forbidden Army knelt on the ground to welcome Zhao Chen's arrival! It has been many years since kneeling was abolished in the army, and in Zhao Chen's opinion, this is a "bad habit", but such a "bad habit" has always been difficult to be completely corrected! Because many generals in the army are more or less conniving at such "bad habits", they allow soldiers to kneel when they see the emperor!

Zhao Chen rode forward on the night jade lion horse, he had already come to the front of the 100,000 people of the forbidden army in northern Shaanxi, he got off the horse, and said loudly: "Let's all be flat!" ”

"I'll see Your Majesty! Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live! "There are still countless soldiers shouting here!

"It's snowing so much, get up quickly! Kneeling there, my body was frozen and stiff! Get up! Zhao Chen said loudly.

Only then did the 100,000 soldiers of the Northern Shaanxi Forbidden Army stand up one after another!

"Your Majesty, can we win?" There was a soldier not far from Zhao Chen, he looked at Zhao Chen very excitedly and asked.

"We're going to win! In front of us, the Tanguts are vulnerable! They must submit to us, or destroy the country! Zhao Chen said loudly.

His voice came out, and the soldiers of the Northern Shaanxi Forbidden Army in the distance let out a burst of excited shouts!

"The last general, Li Xianzhong, see Your Majesty!" At this moment, Li Xianzhong had already come to Zhao Chen's side, he knelt down in front of Zhao Chen, and said.

"You don't have to kneel in the army! Why are you like this? Zhao Chen pulled Li Xianzhong up and said.

"Your Majesty, this is a thousand-year-old etiquette! It will be hard to change! Li Xianzhong said.

"That's it! The soldiers traveled day and night, and the journey was hard! Find a sheltered place and let the soldiers rest for half a day! After that, let's march our whole army and go to Hongzhou! I'll give you three days to take Hongzhou! Zhao Chen said.

"Yes! The last general commands! Li Xianzhong said excitedly.

Hongzhou City is a big city on the border of Western Xia, and its location is probably in the west of Jingbian County and the east of Dingbian County! Thousands of years later, this famous city of Western Xia has long been destroyed, but now it is still extremely prosperous and well-known all over the world! In the wars of the Northern Song Dynasty and Western Xia for more than 100 years, the Western Xia people often set out from Hongzhou to attack Guanshan, and although the Western Army was strong, no one dared to attack Hongzhou in the north!

Zhao Chen's order was conveyed, and the soldiers below were all excited! Everyone's going to fight! The morale of the army is beyond imagination!

"Although Hongzhou City is an important town in Western Xia, I will definitely be able to conquer it in one fell swoop with the arrival of 160,000 troops this time!" Zhao Chen got on the horse again, pointed to the north with his finger, and said.

"The total strength of Western Xia is only more than 400,000! Most of their more than 400,000 people are in the area of Xingqing Mansion, unless it is wartime, there are not many soldiers and horses in Hongzhou! There is no problem in conquering Hongzhou! Yu Yunwen nodded.

"I can't wait any longer, and now I want to stand on the walls of Hongzhou City!" Zhao Chen laughed.

The soldiers next to him laughed together! They wanted to hurry now, but the soldiers had not rested for five days, and they were indeed exhausted, and now even though they were in good spirits, their physical exertion was too great, and they had to rest!

On the afternoon of the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, the army continued to move forward, aiming until the Hongzhou Mansion of Western Xia!

The road ahead is unusually difficult, and the soldiers march even slower!

On the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, they were still more than 70 miles away from Hongzhou City!

In the early morning of the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, they continued to set off! On the afternoon of the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, they were not far from Hongzhou City!

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At this time, the north was desolate, and there was an empty area outside Hongzhou City, and there was hardly a single figure in sight!

It's too cold, and no one comes out at all at this time! There are no merchants coming and going at this time!

The sky is gradually getting dark, and at this time, in the government office of Hongzhou City, there are brilliant lights here!

Countless officials in Hongzhou City have entered the government!

The red candles in the government are bright, the seats are full of high-ranking friends, and in addition to the officials, there are countless gentry! And there are countless generals sitting there!

At this time, a civil servant dressed in the official mansion of the fourth grade walked up, he sat on the main seat, and the officials and gentry below stood up one after another!

"See the prefect!"

"See Lord Ren!"

"Why did the prefect summon us here today?"

The officials below spoke one after another.

This is the four-grade Wenchen is the prefect of the Hongzhou Mansion of Western Xia, Ren Dejing! It is also the general judgment of Xi'an Prefecture in the former Great Song Dynasty! On the same day, Kaifeng City was broken, and the news spread to the northwestern part of Guanshan, and Ren Dejing immediately took refuge in the Xixia people! It's just that his official position is not high, and it's still just a general sentence! But just half a year ago, Ren Dejing got through the relationship with Li Qianming, the king of Jin, and sent his daughter to the Xixia Palace! His daughter is unusually beautiful, and in just half a year, his daughter has become the imperial concubine of Western Xia from an ordinary concubine! Ren Dejing also followed the rising tide, and in a short period of time, he has become the prefect of Hongzhou Mansion in Western Xia!

Ren Dejing is now complacent, looking at the Western Xia officials below, he really wants to look up to the sky and laugh! He is a Han Chinese, and he has only been in Western Xia for five years, and now he is on the prefect's side! In time, if his daughter can become queen, his status will be even higher! If his daughter can give birth to the dragon son of Xixia, he is only afraid that he can enter the court as a prime minister! Naturally, he didn't know how "prominent" his reputation was in history, he came to Western Xia with a mere Han people, and almost split Western Xia without spending a single soldier, so that Western Xia collapsed! He was able to become the "King of Chu" of Western Xia in the end, and he left a heavy mark in history!

Of course, now he is only a prefect, and he is very satisfied!

"I invite you to come here today to introduce you to a general of the court!" Ren Dejing said with a smile.

"The general of the DPRK?"

"Recently, the DPRK and China have sent 30,000 troops to arrive! But the main general has never arrived, is it the main general of the 30,000 army? ”

"That's how it should be!"

The officials and gentry below were talking, and at this time, a general came behind them! This general is about thirty years old, extremely tall, with a beard on his face, and extremely ugly, but his eyes are shining, and he is not an ordinary person at first glance!

"It turned out to be General Li Siyi!" There are officials below who have already recognized the identity of this general, and they are now in the way.

"This one is Lord Li Siyi, the general of Zhenwei in the court, who came to Hongzhou on the order of His Majesty to guard Hongzhou!" Ren Dejing pointed to this general and said with a smile.

"I'll see General Li later!" The Western Xia officials and gentry below saluted one after another!

Many officials and gentry know that the identity of this Li Siyi is not simple! His surname is Li, and this Li is the national surname of Western Xia, so it can be seen that he is a son of the Western Xia royal family! Of course, this "Li" in Western Xia is different from the "Li" in the Central Plains! Xixia is the country composed of the original party members, and the party was called the party Xiang Qiang in the Tang Dynasty, which is a branch of the Qiang people! There are eight surnames in the party, and the largest surname is Tuoba! During the Tang Dynasty, the party member Tuoba Chi defected to the Tang Dynasty and was given the surname Li! At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Tuoba Sigongping, the leader of the party tribe at that time, was given the surname Li again and was named "Xia Guogong"! Therefore, the name of the country later established by the party members was "Xia", and their royal family also took "Li" as their surname! In fact, they are the standard Northwest Qiang people, real foreigners!

"You're welcome! In the future, I will be in Hongzhou, and I will depend on you! Li Siyi's gaze swept over these people's bodies, nodded and said!

"Someone, bring me all the wine and food!" Ren Dejing laughed.

With his order, countless servants and maids put them on the tables of these officials and gentry with wine and food! Today is Ren Dejing washing the dust for Li Siyi, which is naturally extremely lively!

"I'm a soldier, don't drink too much of this wine!" Ren had to toast, and after Li Siyi drank a glass, he said.

"Good! General Li strictly abides by military discipline, and Ren admires it! Ren has also been in the northwest for more than 30 years, and he has also seen the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty at the beginning, and none of those Western Army generals can compare to General Li! Ren Dejing said.

"Humph! Han Chinese, Western Army! Cowardly and incompetent things, how can they be compared with our party's men! Li Siyi said.

"That's what General Lee said! The Han people are lowly, and they are indeed far inferior to the party members! Ren Dejing seemed to have forgotten his Han identity, his face remained unchanged, and he said.

"Lord Ren, you offered a plan this time, saying that the little Han emperor of Guanshan was surrounded by the Dajin Kingdom and the Jianyan Emperor of Jiangnan, and it was in danger, so let's take the opportunity to go south to seize the lands of Guanshan! Your Majesty is very appreciative! If we can get enough benefits this time, Your Majesty will definitely not forget your merits! Li Siyi said.

"Ahh Seriously? Thank you, Your Majesty! Ren Dejing had already hurriedly knelt on the ground at this moment and kowtowed in the direction of Xingqing Mansion, the capital of Western Xia.

"The Han people are vulnerable! This time I am just a vanguard, supervising the battle in Hongzhou, and hundreds of thousands of our party's troops have already gathered in various places, and they will go south at any time! But we have to wait until King Jin and his old man return! Li Siyi said.

"The King of Jin went to Guanshan to submit his credentials, I don't know if the little emperor of the Han people can agree?" Ren De respectfully.

"He'll say yes! He's not a fool! If he is willing to take the initiative to cede most of Guanshan, we will spare his life for the time being! At that time, we don't need to use the army, we can get half of Guanshan! Li Siyi said excitedly.

"That's great!" A smile also appeared on Ren Dejing's face, and said.