In the cold winter, for the weak tribes, it is basically a ghost gate, and the grass head Tatar loses a quarter of the population, and seventy or eighty percent of the cattle and sheep.

When spring blooms, they desperately need a robbery to make up for their losses.

It's like a hibernating animal that crawls out of a cave and must quickly fill its stomach and regain its strength, otherwise it will become food for others.

When they were choosing their prey, they didn't know that Wang Shao had already reached out his claws.

The Shanzi battalion has passed through the territory of Caotou Tatar twice, and has already figured out their situation.

This time, the Yamaji battalion took the lead, and they burned the last pastures of the grass head Tatar, burned all the cattle and sheep to death, and wiped out 500 samurai.

The elite of the grass-headed Tatar is gone.

The next thing is completely a one-step thing, Wang Ninghong led 5,000 men and horses, and easily subdued the grass head Tatar.

There was little fighting in between, and the grass-headed Tatars, as their name suggested, were a group of wallgrass.

The benefits of surrendering to the Great Song were many.

The Hexi Corridor was closed, and entering the Western Regions from Qingtang became the best trade route.

The strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, the merchants and soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty, if they want to enter the Western Regions, they can't do without logistics support.

A large number of grass-headed Tatars laid down their weapons and became coachmen and libas.

Drive horse-drawn wagons and carry grain and goods.

Although they were not used to turning from robbers to workers, they were quickly reaped by the relatively generous remuneration.

Solve the grass head Tatar, and the rest is the yellow head Huifu.

After Zhao Zongjing led his troops to Puchanghai, the first target of the attack was Huangtou Huifu.

There is no way, the persimmon picks up the soft pinch, looks around, only the yellow head Hui is the weakest, and if they are solved, the southern part of Puchanghai will be safe.

Fighting a war is like playing Go, you have to occupy at least one corner, so that you can slowly figure it out and not end up with enemies on all sides.

So when Wang Ninghong called, Huangtou Hui was on the verge of collapse.

It is logical that these two tribes, nearly 30,000 people, all fell under the control of the Great Song Dynasty. According to Lu Huiqing's arrangement, Caotou Tatar and Huangtou Hui obtained the status of second-class people, and they quickly integrated into the entire system.

The most important thing is that the Longyou Metropolitan Protectorate and the Western Regions Metropolitan Protectorate are finally connected.

The road is still difficult, and Zhao Zongjing and the others don't have much material to get. But it doesn't matter, the hundreds of technicians promised by Wang Ningan entered the Western Regions.

After these people arrived in Puchanghai, they were overjoyed.

The Western Regions is not to see thousands of miles of yellow sand, the impression is very barren, in fact, the wind and sand here are big, but the wind can also bring rich nutrients, all of which are deposited on the ground, plus the temperature difference between day and night is large, the sunshine is sufficient, it is the most suitable place for crop growth.

As long as the water source problem is solved, what is planted grows!

Fortunately, there is an abundance of water around Puchang Lake.

Liu Yi spent a month planning five irrigation canals and cultivating 300,000 acres of fields at the same time.

As long as it is autumn, 300,000 acres of land can harvest at least 500,000 stone of grain. After deducting the farmer's rations, at least 200,000 stone can be collected, while Zhao Zongjing's people are only 20,000, with an average of 10 stone of grain per person, even if the belly is broken, he can't eat it all.

In addition to grain, there are also teachers and students of the Agricultural College, stocking fish fry in Puchanghai and ordering a moratorium on fishing, and in the autumn, at least one million catties of fish can be provided here.

In addition, Puchanghai also has pastures, which can breed cattle and sheep, and the Song people also brought many piglets, all of which were also raised in captivity.

Liu Yi wrote a report to Wang Ning'an.

According to his estimates, as long as it takes three years and no large-scale war and destruction, they will be able to create a city suitable for 500,000 people in the Western Regions to survive and supply 50,000 horses for fighting.

The Western Regions are different from the Great Song Dynasty, where it is very common to draw one out of three dings and one out of two dings, and there are even all the soldiers of the whole people, and when Khotan is at its worst, even women are asked to go to the battlefield.

Ten people send one soldier, which is very kind.

Of course, if you want Pu Changhai to prosper, you still need the support of the Great Song Dynasty.

For example, the imperial court needed to stipulate Puchanghai as a key node on the Silk Road.

The merchants of the Great Song Dynasty trafficked goods and had to deliver them in Puchanghai.

In this way, the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty and the merchants of the Western Regions will gather in Puchanghai.

The Western Regions are chaotic, but they have also cultivated everyone's beast-like instincts. When a stable area appears, it is profitable, and merchants from all over the world will gather.

Many Khotanese people turned into restaurants and opened restaurants.

The women who had to struggle to survive became bosses, the Uighurs became their companions, and the beauties of the Western Regions sang and danced in their restaurants to delight their guests.

The speed at which the Khotanese climbed from hell to heaven was the speed at which their loyalty to the Great Song increased...... Today's Khotanese people are all proud to marry soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty.

If you can promote a family affair, everyone will sing and dance, and celebrate for three days and three nights, which is even more lively and fanatical than catching a son-in-law under the list.

The changes in the Western Regions are miraculous, and in just a few months, the world has been turned upside down.

Nothing is accidental, and the success of Zhao Zongjing and others is entirely due to the full support of the Great Song Dynasty.

Di Qing commanded the army and stormed the front line of Hengshan, and all the 300,000 people in Western Xia were contained, of which 100,000 captured the army and supported it to the death on the side of the Great Song Dynasty.

Of course, Li Liangzuo wanted to eliminate Zhao Zongjing, but the problem was that he couldn't draw any troops at all.

The only 2,000 Iron Harriers were reluctant to be sent to Hengshan to deal with the Great Song Dynasty, and could only be used to deal with Ye Liyu.

The old fox cultivated in Qingtang for a year, he expanded the number of men and horses to 15,000, and he made a lot of black money by smuggling and even robbing through trade.

All this money was given to Wang Ning'an, and a lot of ordnance was purchased.

To put it ironically, Wang Ning'an seized the armor of the iron harrier, of which only 800 pairs were returned to Li Liangzuo, and the remaining more than 2,000 pairs were sold to Yeli Yuqi at a discount.

For Da Song, this was a windfall.

But for the old fox, it was a bonus.

Iron Harrier's armor, he is very familiar with it, how many times, he has led Iron Harrier, broke through the battle formation of the Great Song Dynasty, killed the Song army, and looked at it.

Twenty years later, he actually had to spend money to buy the armor of the Iron Harrier from the hands of the Great Song Dynasty!

There are so many ridiculous things in this world!!

Ye Liyu couldn't care about his feelings, he picked out two thousand elites from his subordinates, put on the armor of the iron harrier, took the sabre and bow and arrow purchased from Hebei, and went to fight with Li Liangzuo's iron harrier.

Until now, I can't tell who is right and who is wrong, all in all, it has become a pot of porridge.

Western Xia was weak, and the result was that the southeast and southeast sides of Zhao Zongjing were relieved.

As for the Western Uighurs, they were already scattered, bullying the weak and fearing the hard, and they couldn't help the Song soldiers at all, and as for the greatest enemy, the Qarakhanids, they didn't know what was going on, so they didn't move.

I don't know if I'm admitting defeat or holding back my big move.

Zhao Zongjing and his subordinates were like a full seed that fell on a rich soil.

Sunshine, rain and dew are very abundant, and in a short period of time, they have achieved savage growth and rapid growth.

In April and May, after the spring ploughing was over, Zhao Zongjing was ready to transfer people and cooperate with Wang Shao to take down Shazhou.

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"Sage, please see, if you take Shazhou, it is equivalent to holding the westernmost end of the Hexi Corridor, to the east, you can attack Guazhou, Ganzhou, threaten Liangzhou, even if you don't fight, you can contain the forces of Western Xia, so that they will be embarrassed."

Wang Ningan explained the entire battle situation to Uncle Zhao.

In fact, the entire Western Xia is nothing more than the two most important places, one is the Hexi Corridor and the other is the Hetao Plain, as long as the Hexi Corridor can be opened up and the Western Xia can be defeated, it will be a matter of time.

When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty attacked the Xiongnu, he did the same.

"Jingping, what do you mean is to let Di Xianggong focus on attacking the first line of Killing Niuling and cut off half of the wall of Western Xia in the next step!"

"Your Majesty."

Wang Ningan casually sent a little sycophant.

"The minister thinks that the focus is to maintain strong pressure, the national strength of the Western Xia is limited, the last time for the reparations, it caused chaos in the country, this time the all-out war, the burden of the Western Xia is heavier, and it will definitely fall on the people. The minister has already ordered Li Congjian and others to send personnel at any cost to say that the people on the front line of Hengshan will surrender, and it is not surprising that 100,000 people will return one after another this year. ”

"This big war with Western Xia doesn't have to be aimed at how much land to seize, at least not for the time being. If we can afford it, we will drag the men and horses of Western Xia on the front line of Hengshan for a year and a half, and the Western Xia will naturally be in chaos. ”

Wang Ning'an's choice of tactics is definitely the most conservative and uncreative, and any famous general will sneer at it and disdain it when he sees it.

But this method is the best for today's Da Song.

The risk is small, and he speaks completely by strength, and does not give Western Xia a chance to exploit loopholes, nor does he give Da Song a chance to make mistakes.

In this battle, there are currently two types of weapons that shine brightly, one is the Divine Arm Crossbow, and the other is the Fierce Fire Oil.

In addition to the Iron Harrier, the Mountain Bazi is also fierce and powerful, and everyone knows it, and it can be called the most elite mountain infantry in the world. In order to deal with them, the armies in the northwest were equipped with 30,000 divine arm crossbows in half a year.

This is another crazy number, even if the Great Song Dynasty is rich and rich, where did you come from so many craftsmen to make tens of thousands of them in a short time?

Could it be that the gods are helping you?

Of course, the Great Song Dynasty did not have the help of the gods, but they had more powerful technology than the gods, after so many years of accumulation, Hebei's ordnance workshops can completely achieve standardized production, and all the parts are of the same size.

Each workshop contracts a part of the parts, then assembles and tests them, and as soon as they pass the acceptance, they are immediately sent to the front. The long-range and outnumbered Divine Arm Crossbow put an end to the myth of the Yamabako.

Whether it is a field battle or a siege, the divine arm crossbow can suppress the mountain bar, and then the soldiers carry the fierce fire oil to attack, which is almost invincible.

The most proud infantry of Western Xia, in the midst of the fire, wailed in despair and cried out in pain...... Zhao Zhen closed his eyes, and the scenes of the battlefield seemed to flash in front of him.

After a while, he opened his eyes and said with relief: "It seems that within two or three years, it is still certain to defeat Western Xia!" ”