Li Yanqing hit the Western Xia for a time difference, at this time the Western Xia capital may not have received the news of the fall of Xiping Mansion, from Li Qianshun to get the news, and then send the army south, it will take about two to three days, Li Yanqing needs to plunder the wealth and population of Xiping Mansion in two days, and release all Song slaves.

In order to achieve this goal, Li Yanqing had to do many things at the same time, for example, after the Song army captured Lingzhou City, Wang Gui immediately led 3,000 cavalry to the Baitongshan mine, caught the defenders by surprise, and at the same time seized the copper and silver warehouse under the mine.

Baitong Mountain is located in the northwest of Lingzhou City 30 miles, is a mountain that stretches for dozens of miles, the whole mountain is red copper, the earliest called Chiyan Mountain, about ten years ago, Xixia finally found that there are rich copper and silver deposits here, then renamed Chiyan Mountain Baitong Mountain, where white refers to the meaning of silver, and migrated 100,000 Song slaves and their families from all over Xixia as mining slaves, responsible for mining and smelting, brought a lot of wealth to Xixia.

By the time Li Yanqing arrived at Baitong Mountain, Wang Gui had annihilated the 1,000 Western Xia soldiers guarding the mine three hours earlier and seized the copper and silver warehouse.

The news of the Song army's killing made the copper mine boil, 100,000 mine slaves and their families wept bitterly, some old people were even more crying, living in a foreign country for more than ten years or even decades, they finally had the opportunity to return to their hometown, tens of thousands of Song slaves helped the old and the young, knelt at the foot of the white copper mountain, to welcome the arrival of the Song army.

When Li Yanqing led 5,000 troops to the foot of Baitong Mountain, the soldiers were immediately shocked by the situation in front of them, only to see tens of thousands of low and dilapidated small tents set up at the foot of the mountain, surrounded by high camp fences, although the number of tents is huge, but the area is not vast, on the one hand, the tents are too small, each small tent occupies an area of seven or eight square meters at most, on the other hand, the tents are too dense, between the two tents only allow people to walk sideways.

The cramped living space inevitably brought about an extremely dirty environment, sewage everywhere, the whole camp was extremely smelly, the disease was epidemic, the women were withered, wearing tattered clothes and skirts, and the children were naked, running and rolling in the camp, but everyone's face was full of joy, not only did they have the hope of returning home, but just an hour ago, they finally had their first full meal in years, and the soup was a little oily.

Li Yanqing was immediately not far away, looking at this slave camp with a heavy heart, at this time, more than 100 old men walked out of the camp tremblingly, knelt in front of Li Yanqing together, and before they could speak, they couldn't help but fall to the ground and cry.

Li Yanqing hurriedly turned over and dismounted, helped up an old man led by him, and asked his own soldiers to help up the other old men.

Li Yanqing asked: "My father-in-law's surname, how many years has he been living in Western Xia?" ”

The old man said with tears: "The little old man's surname is Yang, a native of Jingzhao Mansion, and he was also the head of the border army of the Great Song Dynasty, in the second year of Yuanyou, our castle was broken by the Western Xia army, and all the brothers were arrested as slaves in the Western Xia, and it has been almost forty years, I thought that I would not be able to return to my hometown in this life, but I didn't expect to finally usher in the Song army, and the little old man could also be buried next to his parents." ”

After speaking, the old man trembled, grinned and cried silently, Li Yanqing hugged the thin old man tightly, and his tears couldn't help but flow, "It's because we're late, and we've made everyone suffer for so many years!" ”

At this time, more than 1,000 big men came out of the camp, and they all knelt down and said: "We are willing to join the army to avenge the death of our relatives, please ask the general for permission!" ”

Li Yanqing nodded, and said loudly to everyone: "If you want to join the army, I will definitely meet your requirements, and now the top priority is for everyone to pack up their things and return to the Great Song Dynasty, once the Western Xia Iron Harrier is killed, I'm afraid everyone will not be able to leave." ”

"We don't have any property, as long as we give us some food, we can go at any time!"

"The food will be given to everyone, everyone will take away the tents, and they can also shelter from the wind and rain along the way."

Everyone went back to pack their belongings, and the tent began to disappear one by one, at this time, Wang Gui came with dozens of people on horseback, hugged his fists on the horse and said: "Qiyu is the capital, the warehouse has been occupied!" ”

Li Yanqing was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "How much copper and silver?" ”

"It's too many to count, there are Si Cao who are counting, please go over and inspect it."

Li Yanqing arranged for the commander Gong Zuwen to lead 5,000 troops to help Song Nu prepare for the south, while he himself turned his horse's head and led hundreds of his own soldiers to follow Wang Gui to the distant warehouse.

The warehouse of the Western Xia army is located at the foot of the Baitong Mountain, close to the Lingzhou water, it is a warehouse group composed of thirty large warehouses, the warehouse is built with white granite stones, it is very strong and square, there are walls built around it, there is a guard tower on both sides of the gate, it looks very guarded, now the warehouse group has been controlled by the Song army, and the gate is full of Song army sentry posts.

Li Yanqing entered the warehouse wall, then turned over and dismounted, he looked at the warehouse and said with a smile: "There are so many warehouses, it should be more than just copper and silver!" ”

Wang Gui also said with a smile: "There is everything in it, there is wine and meat, frozen beef and mutton are full of three warehouses, and 50,000 leg of mutton were just distributed this morning." ”

"Do you have armor?"

"There are 10,000 pairs of leather armor and matching knives and spears, and 10,000 soldiers from the Song slaves are considered to be recruited."

Li Yanqing shook his head, "10,000 soldiers is too little, at least 30,000 soldiers must be recruited, and there are tens of thousands of sets of armor in Lingzhou City, which should be enough." ”

"Ignorance, understood!"

The two of them came to the copper and silver warehouse, which consisted of a total of eight warehouses, two of which were silver warehouses, and the other six warehouses were copper warehouses. ”

Li Yanqing waved his hand, "No need to be polite, but the inventory is over?" ”

"Probably the inventory is over, there are 200,000 coarse copper ingots, each weighing 50 catties, blister copper has 10 million catties, 30,000 silver ingots, each weighing 20 catties, and there are 600,000 catties of coarse silver ingots."

This amount really surprised Li Yanqing, 600,000 catties of silver, equivalent to 9.6 million taels, even if it is refined, it will be 8 million taels, this amount is really terrifying.

Li Yanqing asked with some puzzlement: "How can there be so many?" ”

"Qiyu Dutong, this is the inventory of three years of mining and smelting, and Western Xia has not been transported away, so it has accumulated a lot."

Speaking of transporting away, Li Yanqing was a little embarrassed, how to transport away so much copper and silver inventory?

Ma Wenxiao understood the worries of the capital system, so he smiled slightly: "The warehouse was built next to the Lingzhou water, of course, for the sake of taking the waterway. ”

Lingzhou water is the famous Maling River, originating in Helan Mountain, flowing into Guanzhong, flowing into Jingshui in Xinping County, Pizhou, and finally flowing into the Wei River, this river valley is also an important commercial passage from the Great Song Dynasty to Western Xia.

The Maling River Grand Canyon was originally garrisoned by 10,000 people in the territory of Western Xia, which was under the jurisdiction of the Xiazhou Metropolitan Division, and at present, these 10,000 people have been wiped out by the Jingzhao Army together with the Xiazhou Army, and if there is a ship, it can be transported directly to Jingzhao Mansion by water.

Li Yanqing frowned slightly: "I know that I can take the waterway, but there is no boat by the river, how can I transport it?" ”

"Qiyu is unified, and Western Xia waterway transportation generally does not use ships."

Li Yanqing suddenly came to his senses and hurriedly asked, "Is there a sheepskin raft?" ”

Ma Wenxiao smiled and nodded, "The people of Western Xia have thought of this a long time ago, and they have filled the five warehouses with deflated sheepskin rafts, which are enough to form thousands of large sheepskin rafts to transport supplies. ”

Li Yanqing pondered for a moment and asked, "Ma Lianshui seems to be in a hurry, will it be dangerous?" ”

"Qiyu is the capital, and I know the hydrological situation there very well, if it is spring and summer, the water flow is indeed turbulent, but now that it is autumn, the water flow has calmed down a lot, and there is no problem at all for sheepskin rafts to transport materials south."

Li Yanqing was overjoyed, this was the most exciting news he had heard, and he immediately said to Wang Gui: "Strive to blow all the sheepskin rafts to the full extent before dawn tomorrow, and distribute the grain and mutton to the people, and if there are surplus sheepskin rafts, let the old and weak women and children ride, and set off for the south tomorrow morning." ”

Wang Gui hurriedly bowed down and agreed, "Obey the order!" ”

After arranging the means of transport, the 8,000 Song army began to operate at full capacity, first recruiting 20,000 soldiers among the slaves, equipping them with armor and weapons, this new army was commanded by Wang Gui and Yang Wenyi, Li Yanqing then distributed part of the grain and meat to nearly 200,000 slaves, ensuring that every household could get five buckets of grain and ten catties of meat, and the rest of the grain was distributed to them after entering the customs.

In the evening of the same day, tens of thousands of old and weak women and children took the sheepskin raft and went south, escorted by Gong Zuwen with 5,000 soldiers along the way, and the next morning, the Song army carried all the copper, silver, coarse ingots, grain, meat and other materials onto nearly 1,000 large sheepskin rafts, and Wang Gui led 20,000 new soldiers to escort the south, and Li Yanqing led 3,000 cavalry to return to Lingzhou City.