The war in Hexi had actually ended a long time ago, but the 40,000 cavalry brought out by Yang Yi could not be withdrawn.

The Hexi Corridor is more than 1,000 miles long, and even if the cavalry does not fight and runs 300 miles a day, it will take five or six days to walk from east to west.

In addition, now that Hexi has just been defeated, the people's hearts are not attached, and if one is not careful, there will be a rebellion, and he needs cavalry with strong mobility, so although Yang Yi knows that the imperial court has begun to seek the Hetao, he desperately needs cavalry, and he can't help it.

In fact, Gyeonggi and Hebei combined the Great Song Dynasty still had tens of thousands of cavalry, but the Great Song Dynasty cut 210,000 forbidden troops last year, and this year it will cut 200,000 Xiang troops, these are also great sources of chaos, and it is necessary to use heavy troops in Gyeonggi Town, so the pressure on the country is also very great, and it is impossible to draw troops from Gyeonggi and Hebei!

Yang Yi thought about it again and again, and now the Hexi Corridor needs to guard against the Huangtou Uighurs, Tubo and other tribes, but if these tribes want to touch the meat in the mouths of the Great Song Dynasty, they always have to think about the subsequent retaliation of the Great Song Dynasty, so it is unlikely that a big war will occur.

The newly formed 50,000 cavalry in the winter of the previous year, Renduo Baozhong and Wei Ming Ah Wu had also trained for more than a year, and it should not be a problem to send 20,000 to garrison Hexi.

No matter how much they train in the interior, if they don't have some actual combat tempering, they won't be able to become elites, and now let them come to Hexi, a bitter cold place, to garrison them, there will be no big wars, and there will always be small wars, so it is just right to train troops in actual combat.

In this way, Yang Yi could draw 20,000 from the 40,000 elites he brought out to participate in the battle of the Hetao, even if 10,000 cavalry entered the Hetao, the situation would be very different.

Yang Yi found Li Dafeng, the head of the Kasai Group of the Vocational Pavilion, and asked him to use carrier pigeons to transmit his suggestions back to Tokyo in the fastest way.

Next, he could only wait patiently.

The officials sent by the imperial court to govern Hexi have to walk from Tokyo to Yumen Pass, and I am afraid it will take a long time. During this period, Yang Yi naturally could not be idle, and the wealth obtained by the "clearing" of the remnants of the enemy in each city was roughly counted, worth about 14 million guan, Yang Yi had to sigh, Western Xia was indeed poor; The families of bureaucrats and wealthy merchants in the entire Hexi region were almost scraped to the bottom before they made up 14 million yuan, which is really disappointing even if they were counted together with cattle and sheep and other livestock.

Fortunately, the cost of this expedition to Hexi is not large, and the loss of grain and grass materials is roughly two million, of course, now the rewards and pensions of the soldiers have not been calculated, if these are calculated together, the cost of this battle of Hexi will probably reach about six million.

The remaining 8 million guan is not enough to resettle the immigrants, but fortunately, the greatest value of recovering Hexi is that it has gained more than 400,000 people, and there are countless cattle, sheep, horses, and camels; Although the imperial court will not directly deprive the people of these properties, since then, the situation of the lack of cattle and horses in the Great Song Dynasty has been completely changed.

In addition, the golden passage of the Silk Road has been opened, and the officials sent by the imperial court to govern have not yet arrived, and the endless stream of caravans has already arrived in Liangzhou.

The caravans from the Uighurs, the Black Khanate, and the Tibetan tribes in Xizhou had already arrived at Yumen Pass in large numbers, and Yang Yi had to put down other work at hand and began to prepare for the construction of the field in Gua and Shazhou; And select some available talents from the local Han people, and manage them, to put it bluntly, mainly according to the tax rate of other border fields in the Great Song Dynasty.

Because the merchants from the Great Song Dynasty had not yet arrived, it turned out that Hexi, which was ruled by Western Xia, was so poor that there was nothing that people could look up to, and there was no trading for the time being.

No matter what, collect taxes first, pay the money! Pay the money!

Looking at the caravans arriving one after another, Scholar Yang was like seeing a flowing river of gold, and it felt very beautiful.

As for the management of the nomadic herdsmen in Hexi, it was still very extensive, and Yang Yi mainly sent soldiers and local families like Zhang Yiyang and Cao Jing to appease them, clearly telling them that in addition to changing their status from Western Xia herdsmen to Great Song herdsmen, their cattle, sheep and property were still theirs, and the Great Song Dynasty would treat them well, although they would graze with peace of mind.

For the Xia army prisoners, Yang Yi was not so polite, after those young people were screened out, they immediately sent troops to escort them back to the east, and the Great Song Dynasty was in need of labor!

I don't want you to work in vain, pay back 20 clerks a day for food and lodging, and after a year, you will be allowed to return to the farm, and the court will be properly resettled when the time comes.

Yang Yi is now busy and busy, and he is idle and idle, the key depends on whether you want to be a shopkeeper, if you ask about everything, you can be busy and crazy, if you don't care about anything, sit and wait for the court officials to arrive, then you will be idle like a melon.

On this day, Yang Yi planned to give himself a day off, after getting up in the morning, he practiced the Tu Na method as usual, and carried the Damascus treasure knife to practice the knife in the back office, and there were two beautiful maid rings standing on the side of the corridor, waiting for the basin and other things, one is called Nalan, the other is called fine jade, although the person is very beautiful, but waiting for people to be clumsy; As soon as Yang Yi asked, he knew that these two were originally the eldest ladies of the wealthy family, and the family was also copied by Hua Qingtian, so they were selected to wait for Yang University.

Hua Qingtian ...... Uh, that's Mulan watching from the side.

While practicing the knife, Yang Yi casually asked, "How many sheepskin rafts have you collected?" ”

"Guasha states collect together, enough!" Mulan replied casually, as if the two were talking about a trivial matter.

"Have you let the soldiers practice crossing the river?"

"I'm practicing!"

Yang Yi asked her to pretend to be a villain, she is still a little angry, looking at his slow movements, she couldn't help but hum: "At first glance, you can know that it is a flower shelf!" ”

I thought that this would make Yang Yi unhappy, but who knew that Yang Yi kept moving the knife, and said with a smile: "Of course, compared with Hua Qingtian's tiger head, I am a flower shelf." ”

In a word, Mulan almost drew a knife to fight him.

"Why are you staring so big? When I didn't know, you and Han Qing actually used the channel of the staff pavilion to send autumn waves to each other, you are embezzling national resources, you ....... hey! I'm not done, what are you running? ”

In terms of Hetao, Zhang Kai finally adopted Zhe Keshi's suggestion and decided to raise 50,000 troops to attack Yinzhou.

Previously, Zhang Shiyong, the second general of Hedong, and Zhang Cheng, the second general of Yanyanlu, had also sent 20,000 troops to attack Yinzhou, but that time was to contain the Hetao troops and cooperate with Yang Yi to attack Hexi.

This time is different, the 50,000 troops are pointing to Yinzhou, and they are planning to seize the five states of Dingyan.

The imperial court gave Zhang Kai 70,000 men and horses this time, and the other 20,000 horses, Zhang Kai ordered Chong Pu to lead the attack on Qinggang Gorge in the north of Huanzhou, open up the line from Guidechuan to Yanzhou, and connect with Yang Zhi's "Helan Righteous Army" occupying Yanzhou, so that it can not only contain the Xia army on both sides, but also form a two-sided encirclement of the five states of Dingnan.

At the same time, Zhang Qi requisitioned 50,000 strong men to transport logistics supplies.

In the middle of April of the first year of Wenchang, the grass on the ground in the northwest was abundant, and the sunshine was not **, after half a month of intense preparation, the 50,000 troops in the northwest finally gathered in the rice fat, and the grain and grass in the city were piled up.

Lu Huiqing personally sat in charge of Mizhi and dispatched logistics grain and grass, and after Zhang Qi swore an oath, he took the 50,000 Northwest Army to officially embark on the journey of conquering the five states of Dingyan.

The army of 50,000, like a red wave, rushed straight to Yinzhou along the Wuding River, and Zhang Kai gathered Zhi Keshi, Yao Xiong, Guo Cheng, Zhang Shiyong, Zhang Cheng, Liu An and other brave generals of the Western Army.

The speed of their advance is not fast, this time Zhang Ji's strategic intention is to destroy the living forces of the Xia army, and the siege is paved, so the more Xia troops can be attracted, the closer the battlefield is to the Song realm, the better, which can reduce the difficulty of logistics and supply.

Garrisoned in Yinzhou is the Xia general A Bury, A Bury can be said to be the only remaining good war general in Western Xia, got the news that Zhang Qi's army attacked Yinzhou again, A Bury also gathered 30,000 troops to prepare to defend Yinzhou, he understands, now the Xia army is demoralized, and the number of troops is scarce, and the Song army is not wise to fight a field battle.

With the help of the defense of the fortified city, perhaps the soldiers still have the courage to fight, if they can drag the Song army under the city of Yinzhou, after a long time, it will be the turn of the Song army to be demoralized, and it is wise to counterattack at that time.

But he would never sit idly by and watch the Song army easily walk to the city of Yinzhou, he sent four thousand cavalry, divided into several groups, to invade the Song army's grain road day and night.

In the short distance from Mizhi to Yinzhou, because there was no cavalry to pursue these Xia troops, Zhang Ji had to send tens of thousands of troops to ensure the safety of the grain road.

At this time, in Huanzhou, the 20,000 Great Song Dynasty led by Chong Pu and Xie Jingting and others had already attacked Qinggang Gorge, and as long as they crossed this pass, they could go directly to the north of Hengshan and look at Yanzhou in the distance.

In the battle between Qinggang Gorge, the Qiang people of Hengshan who belonged to Chongpu climbed up from the two rock walls and threatened the two wings of the Western Xia defenders.

After they climbed to the top, they bombarded the Xia army in the wall with grenades, and a group of fire rushed up, and the wall was soon covered by gunsmoke, and the Xia army guarding the pass was supposed to use the dangerous pass to block the Song army, but they did not see the Song army attacking, and they were first bombed to cry and cry for their mother.

At this time, Chong Pu ordered the Song army to launch a fierce attack, and thousands of Song troops carried the ladder and surged up, shouting and killing through the sky, and it took less than an hour to Qinggang Gorge to be owned by the Song army.

At this time, the 20,000 Xia army led by Liang Gefang was storming Yanzhou City, this time he was really ruthless, and he personally went to the front of the battle several times to supervise the battle, and he brought the most elite palace guards in Western Xia, vowing to get rid of Yanzhou City as quickly as possible.

Yang Zhi and the generals in the city did not hide the camel army of less than 7,000, but also had to prevent the party and people in the city from moving, this battle was very difficult, the attack of the Xia army was like a tide, wave after wave, as if it would never stop, and Yang Zhi led the men and horses after all lacked serious military training, and there were often loopholes in the defense, and the situation was precarious.

Fortunately, at this time, Chongpu finally broke through the Qinggang Gorge, and the troops pointed directly at Yanzhou, Liang Gefang was still in trouble, and he didn't know whether to step up the attack on Yanzhou or should meet Chongpu.

Attack Yanzhou, in case it can't be attacked by then, and the 20,000 troops of Chongpu have arrived, there is a strong city inside, and there is a siege outside, and my 20,000 tired soldiers will collapse without fighting.

But if you don't capture Yanzhou, and wave your army to meet Chongpu, the back road will be copied by the "Helan thieves" in Yanzhou City at any time. Then there will be only a big defeat.

Is there only one way to retreat? Liang Gefang looked at the crumbling Yanzhou City, and he was really unwilling.

(To be continued)