For today's plan, Xia Weibing felt that he could only drive Li Jiqian out of power first, and become the lord of Western Xia by himself, and with strength in his hands, he had the bargaining chips to fight with Zhao Gu. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

She wouldn't hope that after Zhao Gu destroyed Western Xia, Zhao Guangyi would kill Zhao Gu, and then she would find a way to restore the country, who knows if Zhao Gu would have a way to escape Zhao Guangyi's murder. If Zhao Guangyi couldn't kill Zhao Gu for the rest of her life, wouldn't she be able to recover the country for the rest of her life.

Almost instantly, Xia Weibing made a decision.

"Okay, I agree to form an alliance with you, as long as I can be the lord of Western Xia, I can support you as much as I can, and I will not kill Li Jiqian. But you'd better ask the gods and Buddhas to bless you, you won't die in the hands of Zhao Guangyi, otherwise I will definitely break the contract and kill Li Jiqian, and when my strength is enough in the future, I will definitely go east to the Great Song Dynasty. ”

Hearing this, Zhao Gu suddenly felt that he seemed to have become very important, but he didn't expect that he was just looking for an ally, and he became the umbrella of the western frontier of the Great Song Dynasty.

"Okay, okay, then the girl will pray with me and the gods and Buddhas, so that they can bless us for a long time, and we will be white-headed together." Zhao Gu said with a smile.

Xia Weibing naturally heard the banter and abuse in Zhao Gu's words, and her face turned slightly red, but she quickly turned around, took out a pen and paper and made a covenant with Zhao Gu, and then directly made a gesture of please.

Zhao Gu was also very helpless about this incomprehensible sister, put away his own covenant, and went directly out of the tent and went back to the barracks with Ergouzi.

Back in the barracks, Zhao Gu took out the covenant again with a solemn face, and after making sure that there was no problem, he took it back into his arms again.

Leaning back on the stool and sitting down, Zhao Gu pondered.

This alliance was something that Zhao Gu didn't expect, although it seemed that the alliance was very beneficial to him, but it was based on the fact that he could abolish Li Jiqian, only if Li Jiqian was completely abolished, he could establish Xia Weibing as the lord of Western Xia, and if he was abolished by Li Jiqian, then naturally don't talk about anything.

Another point is that even though Zhao Gu established the lord of Western Xia this time, Li Jiqian was temporarily protected by him, but once he returned to the Great Song Dynasty, what should he use to adjust the situation in Western Xia?

He didn't think that the 50,000 soldiers and horses in his hands would still be under his command after he was defeated, so if he wanted to keep Xia Weibing and Li Jiqian from betraying him forever, he must have an army that was completely loyal to him.

But where to find this army?

If you want to conjure up an army of at least 50,000 or more out of thin air, it is almost comparable to the difficulty of ascending to the sky, Rao is Zhao Gu is so meditative and hard, he really can't come up with a way.

But fortunately, this matter is not to be solved in a day or two, and there is still plenty of time for the time being, so Zhao Gu simply put it aside and solved the biggest problem of the moment first.

Now that the Great Song army has entered the Western Xia for several days, but not a single Western Xia soldier has been seen, it is obvious that Li Jiqian's army is hiding from Zhao Gu, and if Zhao Gu wants to abolish Li Jiqian, it is inevitable to fight with him, but Li Jiqian has been avoiding him, even if Zhao Gu wants to fight, he has no fight.

If you venture into the hinterland of Western Xia, the logistics support of the army will be unsustainable, and if you are cut off by someone, it will be really dangerous.

In desperation, Zhao Gu had to think of a stupid way, that is, to disperse the 50,000 army and surround a large area of the grassland, it is impossible for the Western Xia to hide all the time, if they don't graze, they will starve to death sooner or later, as long as Zhao Gu guards their grassland, sooner or later the Western Xia people will show up.

Although Zhao Gu's 50,000 soldiers could only surround a small part of the grassland, 30,000 of them were cavalry, which could fight guerrilla warfare.

In old fashion, this ploy is a desperate one.

In this way, Zhao Gu and his party have been walking through the prairie for three months, not to mention, they have walked all the way, and they have really met many Western Xia herdsmen, with their cattle, sheep and horses grazing on the grassland.

For this kind of people, Zhao Gu's policy is that the cattle, sheep and horses are left behind, and people leave, as long as they obediently leave the cattle, sheep and horses, Zhao Gu will let them go.

Who called the cattle, sheep and horses on the grassland are the food of the herdsmen, without cattle, sheep and horses, people will starve to death, and a person without cattle, sheep and horses will naturally take away other people's cattle, sheep and horses, so that the cattle, sheep and horses on the grassland will only become less and less.

Although there is farmland in some areas of Western Xia, compared to the huge population, this amount of land is really not enough for anything, so most of the Tangut people still live by grazing.

In three months, Zhao Gu led the army to almost plow the Xixia grassland, except for the desert, most of the people have been there.

Gradually, some tribes that couldn't stand the hunger began to send a small number of soldiers and horses to test the reality of the Great Song army.

Like the Liao State, although the imperial court occupied a dominant position, because of the habit of grazing, people were still accustomed to taking the tribe as a unit, because there were also private soldiers among the tribes, and these private soldiers would return to the tribe on weekdays, and in times of war, they would respond to the call of the imperial court and go to war.

For this part of the people who did not listen to Li Jiqian's orders, the scouts sent by Zhao Gu had already found out their whereabouts and found out their tribes according to them, but Zhao Gu was not in a hurry, he was investigating these tribes.

But any country, most of them can be divided into three kinds of forces, one is close to the people in power, one is against the people in power, and the other is not to help each other, such as Li Jiqian and Xia Weibing in the Western Xia, that is, the people in power and opponents, these two people are now impossible to use for Zhao Gu, Zhao Gu wants to develop the kind of Western Xia tribe that does not help each other, to complete his plan.

First of all, if Zhao Gu wanted to conquer Western Xia, it was impossible to rely only on his own 50,000 soldiers and horses, and recruiting troops in Western Xia had become a must-do.

For example, the 100,000 Western Xia soldiers convened by Mi Dechao before is the best proof, if the Great Song Dynasty wants to conquer the Western Xia, their help is indispensable, this strategy is Zhao Gu, and Zhao Gu naturally knows the key.

Besides, the soldiers and horses in Zhao Gu's hands are the soldiers and horses of the imperial court, and he wants to play in Western Xia, so he naturally cannot do without soldiers in his hands.

The only problem is that if you want to co-opt this kind of people, you must be extremely cautious, if it is leaked out, Zhao Gu will not be able to escape the charge of recruiting troops privately, and Zhao Guangyi will definitely raise a butcher's knife against him at that time.

As a result, plowing the fields on the grassland while observing the tribes emerging behind them became Zhao Gu's main job.