According to Tubu Lihua's confession, Zhou Peigong's judgment was correct, and there were indeed changes within the Tangut people, and the huge emerging empire was not as solid as a rock, but full of crises, and when the emperor personally conquered the east, the hinterland of the empire gave birth to a rebellion, and the emperor's own uncle Chu Hubu Ubashi rebelled.

Emperor Galdan resolutely ordered the whole army to return westward, and the natural danger of Tongguan had already given him a headache, this Xiongguan made him think of the Diaoyu City in the Southern Song Dynasty, how many Mongolian athletes were needless under this city, anyway, there are opportunities in the future, and now the task is to pacify the civil strife.

The cowardly Xue army was the first to retreat, and two months ago it was killed back to the Tianshan Mountains, and the new annexed army as a rearguard force remained in Shaanxi, and made a feint attack on Tongguan every other day to show the existence of the Western Xia army in Shaanxi, so that the Ming army in Tongguan did not dare to advance westward, and it was because of Liu Ziguang's rash assault out of the city last time that the new annexed army was forced to embark on the road of retreat.

The 10,000-strong team of Tubu Lihua has been wiped out, and in front of it is Chang'an City, a thousand-year-old capital that has fallen to the enemy, and it has been eight months since it became poisonous, and it is difficult to imagine what it will look like in order to avoid such a tragedy as Shengweinan, Liu Ziguang ordered the army to advance lightly and rush into Chang'an overnight.

The Red Shirt Army, which entered Guanzhong through the Yellow River waterway, only had more than 15,000 soldiers, 3,000 light artillery, some ammunition, and dry food were not sufficient.

The red shirt army is all good at riding horses and operating artillery, the war horse is the cavalry, six thousand knights galloped wildly and went straight to Chang'an, Liu Ziguang's rear team of the Chinese army used all means of transport, followed by the steam ironclad chariot was hung on more carriages, and drove forward at full horsepower on the land of the Guanzhong Plain, but due to the towing of too many vehicles, the ground could not bear the heavy front of the car, and drove out of the fifty-mile fort not far into the loess, and could not drive, the red shirt army simply abandoned the ironclad chariot, removed the weapons on it, shouldered and carried on, Weinan to Chang'an was not very far, after a day and a night of galloping, finally saw the majestic Chang'an city wall in the early hours of the morning。

Like Weinan, Chang'an City is also full of wolf smoke, the city gate hole open hussar battalion and forward battalion have controlled all parts of the city, Zhou Peigong rode alone to report to Liu Ziguang: Chang'an has become an empty city, the city has ten rooms and nine empty, but there is no sign of a massacre, the remaining citizens of Chang'an are all old, weak, sick and disabled, according to them, young adults and children have been kidnapped by the Tangut people, and all the property that can be carried is also loaded and pulled away, and now Wang Fuchen has led 2,000 people to chase over, and ask the marshal to give further instructions.

"Chase! All the cavalry went out in pursuit, and they must stop the people. Liu Ziguang said. Zhou Peigong walked away as soon as he surrendered his hand.

"Handsome! Let's get on. Liu Ziguang heard an anxious cry in his ears, and when he looked back, it was his own guard, and the young men's eyes flashed with hatred, and the hands holding the reins were exposed, and they could hear the teeth clattering.

The sack of Chang'an by the Western Xia people and the ransacking of Bianjing by the Jin people in the Northern Song Dynasty have a striking similarity, the only difference is that there is no shame of the capture of the second emperor Jingkang, this tragic history is one of the most frequently talked about in the historical and cultural training courses of the Red Shirt Army, and it naturally aroused the indignation of the soldiers at this time, and even the personal guards of the marshal could not help but go into battle to kill the enemy.

"Morale is available." Liu Ziguang secretly said that he immediately ordered that except for the necessary logistics personnel to stay behind and establish a military station, all soldiers should go forward lightly to rescue the people of Chang'an.

Eighty miles west of Chang'an, on the official road, the mighty procession, hundreds of miles of ox carts, mule carts, carriages, and carriages dragged from Chang'an plundered gold and silver, fine soft, silk and satin, and even pots and spoons, tables, chairs, benches, next to the convoy is a herd of cattle, sheep, pigs and dogs, driven slowly forward by the Western Xia cavalry, the people of Chang'an were tied into a long rope, like animals, walking forward, some weak people walked a little slower, and were severely whipped by the leather whips of the Western Xia soldiers.

Although the Tangut people established an empire, but in their bones it is still the savage nature of the nomadic people, cutting off the heads of their enemies, plundering their wives and children and property is their tradition since ancient times, and it is also the most happy thing to do, invading Guanzhong to let their ** be the most enjoyable, the rich Han settlements have wealth beyond their imagination, if it is not for the emperor, they simply want to live here.

The march of the team is very slow, because there are too many things, which is equivalent to the whole Chang'an City, and there are 300,000 people captive, including a large number of women and young children with small feet, these Han people with fine skin and tender flesh are a little hurried, and they are bitter, and they hate the roots of the Western Xia soldiers' teeth, but then again, although these little ladies are not stronger than the women in the desert, they can work, but they are white and tender and really good-looking, and they are snatched back and locked in the tent, and the taste of being refreshed in the morning and evening is still incomparable with the women of this nation.

At noon, the brigade stopped to rest, the Xixia soldiers sat cross-legged together, made a fire and roasted meat, grabbed a sheep from the flock at random, peeled it neatly and roasted it, and ate it, the soldiers threw one or two pieces of meat into the captives from time to time, and walked for two days, and the captives who had not entered the water and rice frantically coaxed them to see them, and even the sentry who was in charge of monitoring on the war horse laughed and bent over, but this did not affect his duty, when he saw that two captives quietly untied the rope and broke away from the team, and wanted to take advantage of the chaos to slip away, the sentry immediately opened his bow and arrows and nailed the two to the ground alive.

After eating enough mutton, the soldier took off the leather bag hanging on the saddle, poured a pass of mare's milk wine, and then wiped the two oily hands on the placket casually, walked into the captive team, and saw the handsome woman, then dragged it out to enjoy the woman's husband or father and brother came to help, while dragging the woman back, while begging the soldier to be a soldier, he couldn't understand the Chinese language, he was anxious, he pulled out a scimitar, and cut off a few heads, these people were honest, let the Xixia soldiers snatch the woman away in the open space on the side of the road, and then they opened their clothes and hard, and the rest of the Xixia soldiers laughed while watching, and some couldn't bear it, and they also broke into the captive team to choose a woman who looked passable, and cried and pleaded for a while, and became simpleThe kind-hearted people of Guanzhong, where are the opponents of the savage and fierce Western Xia soldiers, they can only watch them humiliate their wives and daughters and sisters on their own land, and the bloody man's eyes are about to erupt with fire, but they are forcibly pulled by their own old people, and they can't come forward to fight hard.

The car was in a commotion, and a horse galloped to give an order: to give food to the captives to ensure that they had enough strength to continue their advance. So the Western Xia soldiers giggled and took out the naan cakes, broke them into small pieces, and threw them into the crowd, like a feeding mouth, and put food once every two days, which was the rule formulated by the commander of the Western Xia army, which not only maintained the energy needed, but also did not rebel because of the full food and sufficient physical strength.

As these small pieces of naan were thrown out, the captives were still looting, but after snatching them, they did not swallow them themselves, but offered them to the elders in the procession, and the elders did not want to eat them themselves, so they had to stuff them in the mouths of the children. Seeing this scene, the Western Xia soldiers just sneered: The Han people are hypocritical, this is hungry and not ruthless enough, hungry is ruthless, that is, the meat of the mother and Lao Tzu is eaten.

There was a Western Xia soldier who could speak a little Chinese and teased the hungry people with naan cakes: "If you shout Dad, you will give a piece of bread to eat." ”

The crowd was silent, and finally someone couldn't bear the pain of hunger, stood up and shouted, Dad, wanted to get the cake, but was kicked over by the Xixia soldiers, "Kneel down and shout!" So the man had to kneel down and shout again in a humiliating voice, and then he got a small piece of moldy bread, and after eating it, he couldn't help but burst into tears, and his ears came from the arrogant laughter of the Xixia soldiers.

The victor has all the power to abuse the captives, these people can only blame their own army, the Xixia people attacked a year ago, the Shaanxi army held Chang'an for several months, the casualties were heavy, and finally Kaicheng surrendered, until the collapse of the local government in Shaanxi, the imperial army that has been hesitant in Tongguan only opened up, and I don't know what agreement was reached with the Xixia people, the soldiers regained Chang'an without blood, I thought that the world was too peaceful, how do you know that the good days did not pass a few days, the Xixia people made a comeback, and occupied Chang'an again.

The days of foreign rule are like endless dark nights, and there is no light, even more cruel than the Zhou Zhenglong regime that levied taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the Xixia people killed people in the street like killing dogs, and they directly grabbed anything they fancied at will, and killed them if they didn't give it, and they also controlled all the relevant roads, no one was allowed to pass, and the people endured humiliation and stealing their lives, hoping that the Tangut people could get out of the city as soon as possible, and the imperial army would kill them back as soon as possible, but when the Xixia people began to set fire to the city, looted all their property, and escorted them on the long westward journey, they realized that the court did not want them, and Chang'an could only remain in memory from then on。

The team walked slowly, but the Tanguts were not worried, because they left behind a strong force of 10,000 men to stop the Ming army, and the Guanzhong Plain was a narrow strip of east-west direction, and 10,000 cavalry was enough to hold back the pursuers long enough if the Ming army really dared to pursue.

The Western Xia soldiers played unscrupulously, laughing, and laughing, every time they stopped to rest or camp, it was their carnival time, just when a few rough soldiers were lying on the ground and insulting the Han women, they suddenly paused their movements, exchanged puzzled eyes with each other, and then jumped up naked, put their ears on the ground and listened.

Thunder is the thunder of thousands of galloping horses, the desert was born on horseback, and the men who grew up on horseback are all too familiar with this sound, but who can catch up so quickly?