The city of Xingqing Mansion was in chaos, and the influx of hundreds of thousands of party members and ordinary people overwhelmed the capital, including tens of thousands of party members sent from Xiping Mansion.

The Western Xia court was still in a kind of confusion at a loss, they had never encountered this kind of crisis, and made a lot of wrong decisions in the panic, the biggest decision mistake was to transfer troops to King Qin, until the 80,000 troops arrived at Xingqing Mansion one after another, the Western Xia court reacted, and they actually gave up the five states of Ding, Shun, Jing, Huai, and Ling to the Song army in vain.

Immediately, hundreds of thousands of people poured into Xingqing Mansion, making the Western Xia court even more at a loss, should it accept it? It was the Empress Dowager Liang who issued an order to open the city gate and let hundreds of thousands of people enter the city.

In the monastery, on the streets, and in all the open spaces, the party and the people who had been driven from all over the country were crowded with people who had been driven from all over the country, setting up tents, crying, shouting, and making a noise.

Hundreds of guards protected the Empress Dowager Liang to inspect the refugees in the city, and the people who accompanied the Empress Dowager Liang on her tour of the streets were the general Du Luo Wei and the deputy prime minister Li Zhongming.

The street stinks, and Empress Dowager Liang frowned and said to Li Zhongming: "How can it stink like this?" ”

Vice Prime Minister Li Zhongming hurriedly said: "Empress Dowager Qiyu, the main thing is to eat and drink Lazar on the street, it will definitely stink, there is no way to do this." ”

"What do you mean by no way, what should I do if there is an epidemic when the heat is coming?"

Li Zhongming looked embarrassed: "There is really no place for them to live, the population of Xingqing Mansion has reached 1.1 million, and the entire city is about to be crowded, a little smelly and dirty is a trivial matter, the key is that the food is only enough to last for a month, what should I do after a month?" ”

Empress Dowager Liang snorted heavily, "Then search out all the food of the people, implement a strict rationing system, and ensure that the military food is guaranteed, so that ordinary people can eat less and not starve to death." ”

The great general Du Roman said: "Weichen has a suggestion that can be soothed a little." ”

"What advice?"

"Queen Mother, there are still more than 100,000 Han people in the city, they all have houses and shops, simply drive them all out of the city, first of all, the people on the street have a place to live, and secondly, they can also reduce the consumption of food, and their property can also be confiscated to the soldiers, improving morale, it can be described as killing three birds with one stone."

Du Rome has long wanted to do this, many Han people in Xingqing City have quite a lot of property, Du Luo Wei has long been fighting their idea, driving the Han people out of the city, it must be carried out by the army, and the wealth of the Han people will first fall into his own hands, and today he waited for this opportunity.

Du Luo Wei added: "This is not only the suggestion of Wei Chen, many party magnates want to do this, the Song army drove out the party and the people, then we should also drive out the Han people." ”

Empress Dowager Liang knew that she had no choice but to agree, otherwise the party magnates would accuse herself of sheltering the Han people, so she nodded, "Quasi!" ”

"Wechen obeys!"

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The tens of thousands of troops in Xingqing City were immediately dispatched, they forcibly drove all the Han people out of their homes and shops, opened the south gate and drove them out of the city directly, the chickens and dogs in the city jumped, the cry shook the sky, and the hundreds of thousands of Han people in the city did not even have a chance to clean up, so they were forcibly driven out of the house, and then were driven out of the city by the cavalry with whips.

In just one hour, all the 140,000 Han people in the city were driven out of the city, they were full of grief and indignation, but they were at a loss, and the black and oppressive crowd helped the old and the young, stretching for several miles, crying and crying to Jingzhou, thirty miles to the south.

As soon as the Han people were expelled from the city, a team of 2,000 people began to collect all kinds of wealth in the mansions of more than a dozen Han people, and all the valuable wealth such as jewelry, gold, silver, copper coins, silk and other precious wealth was transferred.

Then, tens of thousands of ordinary soldiers went door-to-door to search for grain, cloth, livestock, pig iron, and other supplies, and finally the ordinary people who slept on the streets were arranged to live in Han homes.

After walking for several miles, 10,000 cavalry of the Song army appeared, and after understanding the situation, the cavalry escorted more than 100,000 Han people to Jingzhou.

Fanning arrived in Jingzhou when it was dark, and the city had quieted down, and hundreds of thousands of people had found empty houses to live in, received relief grain and rice, and had a full meal, and most of the people were so tired and exhausted that they had fallen asleep.

As soon as Fan Ning entered the city, a soldier brought the shopkeeper of the Song brocade silk shop to meet him, Zhang's real name was Zhang Fu, and he was appointed to join the army in the intelligence battalion.

He stepped forward and bowed, "I was incompetent, I was kicked out of Xingqing Mansion and can no longer perform my tasks." ”

"Zhang is not to blame for joining the army for this matter, whether the other brothers are safe."

"It's safe, but there is still a lot of information hidden in the store, and we didn't have time to bring it out, it happened too suddenly, the soldiers rushed into the store and forcibly drove us out, and if we didn't obey, we were whipped with whips, and we didn't even have a chance to go to the backyard, so we rushed straight to the street, and we were immediately escorted out of the city."

Fan Ning sneered and said, "This is the Western Xia Army trying to make money!" ”

"Yes! There was nothing wrong with it, everyone was empty-handed, they didn't even have time to clean up, only the little jewelry on the woman's body was not robbed, and all the wealth was lost. ”

"Could there be any Western Xia spies among these people?"

"I'm not sure I don't have it, but I personally think it's not too likely, generally Western Xia doesn't trust the Han people very much, if they are used as spies, they will be deployed in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and if there are party members in the team, they will be identified and killed immediately, if the prince is cautious, it is not wrong."

Fanning nodded and asked, "How many troops are there in the city?" ”

"Originally, there were 50,000 people, but then 80,000 people came one after another, and now it should be 130,000, plus 10,000 palace guards, then there are 140,000 people."

"Will we continue to expand our forces?"

"Definitely, there are still a lot of leather armor weapons left over from the past in the arsenal in the city, and I judge that at least another 100,000 troops can be armed, and it is very likely that an attack will be launched on Huaizhou in the next two days."

"Why?"

"Because of the shortage of food in the city, the granary is mainly outside the city, and it was burned down by the Song army, and it will not last long to support the food in the city, and they will definitely come out to grab the grain."

"Then why is it Huaizhou?"

"Xianggong should know because."

Fanning smiled: "Is it because Huaizhou has the most grain?" ”

Zhang Fu nodded, "Jingzhou is thirty miles away from Xingqing Mansion, but Huaizhou is only twenty miles, not only close, everyone also knows that Huaizhou produces the most grain and has the largest grain depot, so the target of the Western Xia Army will definitely be Huaizhou." ”

"Is there any information you want to give me?"

"There is still a lot of information, I originally wanted to send it out in the next two days, but it turned out to be an accident today, but fortunately, the content of this information is known to the lowly position, and the lowly position is willing to report it in detail."

Fan Ning immediately took Zhang Fu to the official office, invited him to sit down, and asked the soldiers to serve tea, he smiled slightly: "Don't be too nervous, let's just chat and talk slowly." ”

Zhang Fu took a sip of hot tea, thought about it and said with a smile: "I don't know how much Xianggong knows about the party members." ”

"I know well, tell me about it."

Zhang Fu continued: "The party is actually composed of two parts, one part is called the party item, the other part is called the familiar party item, the party item is scattered in the Western Xia throughout the grazing, composed of countless large and small tribes, their army is mainly cavalry, and the familiar party item lives in the city, also called the Chinese party item, their living customs and the Han people are not much different, the infantry of the Western Xia army is composed of them, the number of the two party items is about the same, and now the familiar party items are basically concentrated in Xingqing Mansion. ”

Fan Ning thought for a while and said, "You mean that the Sinicization party item is easier to be subjugated and assimilated?" ”

"It's also right or not, assimilation is easier, but the premise is that the Western Xia will destroy the country, because the familiar party item is more identified with the Western Xia, and the raw party item is not."

"Why?"

"Because the familiar party has more concept of family and country, they identify themselves as Xixia people, not Song people, on the contrary, Sheng Dangxiang is very indifferent to the concept of family and country, they identify with their tribe more, in their eyes, the Xixia emperor is just the big chief of the tribe."

"It makes sense, where do the students live?"

"Scattered all over Western Xia, the most at the foot of Helan Mountain."

"What about the Hexi Corridor?" Fanning asked.

"The Hexi Corridor is the territory of the Qiang people, Li Yuanhao originally wanted to move some of the Dangxiang people to Zhangye, but the result was unsuccessful, only there are a few Dangxiang tribes on the side of Juyanhai, which is the salt-producing land of Western Xia, where tens of thousands of Han people are salt slaves, and there are about 10,000 defenders."

At this time, Fanning found that Zhang Fu already had a sleepiness on his face that could not be concealed, so he immediately arranged for the soldiers to send him to rest, and it would not be too late to report tomorrow.

Fan Ning paced back and forth in the room with his hands in his hands, Zhang Fu said that the Western Xia army was likely to send troops to Huaizhou to grab grain, Fan Ning recognized this guess, Huaizhou City is low, easy to attack, if you grab food at night, it is indeed easy to succeed, but if you are guessed by yourself, it is not the same thing, isn't this a good opportunity to annihilate the enemy army?

A bold thought jumped out of Fanning's mind, he closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, considering the plan, and gradually, the idea in his mind became clearer and clearer.