The shouting and killing in Xingqing City also alarmed the Song army outside the city, and some soldiers rushed to report to Fanning, Fanning and Han Qi led the generals to the outside of the camp, where they could clearly hear the shouting and killing in the city.

"Fan Xianggong, this should be an infighting in Western Xia!"

He said with a smile: "Empress Dowager Liang listened to the government, which caused the royal family to be extremely dissatisfied, and they demanded the implementation of the regent system, and the contradiction existed a few years ago, and it is estimated that the death of Wei Minglang caused this turmoil." ”

Wang Zhenxing, the commander of the capital, said in a low voice: "Fan Xianggong, this is a golden opportunity to seize Xingqing Mansion. “

Fanning sighed slightly and said: "Although the opportunity is exciting, the epidemic is unavoidable, so let's be cautious!" Try to take Xingqing City at the lowest cost. ”

He immediately said to everyone: "Let's wait patiently, in the past two days, we must especially prevent a large number of soldiers from storming the Song camp, surrender is okay, but you must not get close to the camp, and those who dare to get close to the camp will be killed!" ”

Everyone bowed down to the camp, and everyone returned to the camp.

The mutiny in the city was fought all night, more than 20,000 Western Xia soldiers died tragically in the internal strife, tens of thousands of people were also involved and killed, even the general Du Luo Wei also died in the chaos, the army that supported the Empress Dowager Liang finally gained the upper hand, and the more than 30 royal families who organized the mutiny were all captured, and the remaining more than 3,000 people also put down their weapons and surrendered.

More than 30 royal family members were escorted to the Empress Dowager Liang, the leader was Li Chengyu, the old man was covered with blood, his appearance was particularly hideous, his arms were tied back, and his neck was also strangled by a rope, the Empress Dowager Liang pointed at him and reprimanded: "I treat you well, but you openly rebel, are you worthy of the trust of the first emperor?"

"Phew!"

Li Chengyu spit on the Empress Dowager Liang with a mouthful of bloody spittle, gritted his teeth and said: "You are a slut who can be a husband, you have defiled the Xixia Palace and the reputation of the first emperor, I just want to kill you with my own hands." ”

Empress Dowager Liang was furious and ordered to the left and right: "Behead them all, and all the soldiers who participated in the mutiny will be executed!" ”

More than 30 royal family members cursed, were pushed down by the wolf-like guards, and in a moment, all of them were beheaded under the wall, and the remaining more than 3,000 surrendered soldiers were all executed.

After the execution of all the royal families in the city, the stinger on the back of the Empress Dowager Liang was finally removed, and she ordered: "Burn all the corpses and bury them deep to prevent the epidemic from spreading further." ”

Zang Wenmu led the order, and Liang Yi buried himself and said: "Queen Mother, during the infighting last night, many houses were broken into by soldiers, but they found that the whole family was sick and dead, which is terrible. ”

The general pipe next to Ouchi: "There is one more thing to report to the Queen Mother, the epidemic has entered the palace, and seven infected people have been found in the palace!" ”

"What!"

Empress Dowager Liang was stunned, and after a while, she said to Liang Yi very weakly: "You come with me!" ”

Empress Dowager Liang took Liang Yibury to the secret room, sat for a long time and said, "You negotiate with Fanning!" I want three conditions, first, the wealth of the Baoliang family; second, be kind to the son of the Western Summer and not be humiliated; Third, the people of Western Xia must not be slaughtered, as long as these three conditions are agreed, I can surrender the city, if I don't agree, then the jade will be burned. ”

Liang Yizhu breathed a long sigh of relief, and he immediately said, "I'll go to the Song Army barracks." ”

"Go ahead!"

Empress Dowager Liang was extremely tired, waved her hand, and let Liang Yi bury it.

There was an epidemic in the palace, which was the last straw that overwhelmed the Empress Dowager Liang, and she had been forced to the edge of the cliff with no way out.

...........

Liang Yibury came to the front of the Song army's camp, and the guard tower soldiers shouted: "Stop, don't take a step forward." ”

An attendant shouted: "Western Xia Liang Xiangguo asks to see Fan Xianggong, please report!" ”

A patrol general rushed up and hugged his fists and said: "Please forgive me, the Song army camp is extremely strict in preventing epidemics, no one is exempt, please follow me to the isolation camp to wait, someone will arrange Liang Xiangguo, I will report to Fan Xianggong." ”

Furious left and right, Liang Yi stopped them and asked, "How many days do you need to stay in the quarantine camp?"

"For about two days, as long as there is no fever and diarrhea, you can leave the isolation camp,

Liang Yi was not angry, he knew that it was necessary, so he nodded and said to an entourage: "You go back and tell the Queen Mother that I need to quarantine for two days before I can meet Fan Xianggong, please don't worry, there will be results soon." ”

The retinue turned around and went back, Liang Yi buried his horse, and walked towards the isolation with an entourage of the general.

He asked in a low voice, "Is there an epidemic in the camp of the Song army?"

"Not yet, and there is no one in the quarantine camp, please rest assured Liang Xiangguo, there were many sick Western Xia soldiers who deliberately came to surrender before, and they were all shot and killed by the patrol sentinel, and my family Fan Xianggong is very strict in the management of the epidemic, and there is not a single case of infection in the 600,000 army."

Liang Yi sighed, "Fortunately, your court is not confused, if you change the commander, I'm afraid the epidemic will be raging in the barracks." ”

Liang Yibury and his entourage bathed and changed clothes in the isolation camp, and the clothes they wore were burned, and he only stayed in the isolation camp for one day, and then he was led to the Chinese army's big tent.

Fan Ning asked Liang Yi to sit down, and ordered the soldiers to serve tea, and said with an apologetic smile: "I'm a little snub to Liang Xiangguo, please forgive Liang Xiangguo!" ”

Liang Yi sighed and said: "It's right to do this, if the city had been isolated like this earlier, the epidemic would not have been so rampant, and I won't hide it from Fan Xianggong, there are too many people dead in the city." ”

"Including the royal family"

Liang Yibury shook his head, "There is no longer a Western Xia royal family in the city, and they have all been executed for rebellion the night before yesterday." ”

Fan Ning and Han Jiang next to him glanced at each other, and sure enough, it was what they expected.

Liang Yibury said again: "Although the food in the city can still support for a while, I also persuaded the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother promised to surrender, but she had three conditions, please agree to the two ministers as appropriate." ”

Fanning asked people to prepare pen and ink, and Liang Yi buried the pen and wrote down three conditions.

First, protect the wealth of the Liang family.

Second, treat the Son of Heaven Li Bingchang well and not humiliate him.

Third, the people of the city should not be slaughtered, and every effort should be made to treat the people infected with the disease.

Fan Ning nodded, "These three conditions should not be excessive, I can agree, but there is one thing I want to tell, Liang Xiangguo, I don't have the idea of abusing the soldiers and people in the city, just to prevent and control the epidemic, I must implement the strictest management, please everyone must follow the arrangement." ”

"Can you tell me what the prime minister plans to do?"

Fan Ning said: "I have vacated Jingzhou, Shunzhou and Huaizhou, and the people who have not yet been infected have been sent to Jingzhou and Shunzhou, and the infected people have been sent to Huaizhou for treatment, and when there are no more living people in Xingqing Mansion, then burn them down, otherwise, Xingqing Mansion will always become the source of the epidemic." ”

Liang Yibu suddenly knelt down and pleaded: "I implore Fan Xianggong to treat the sick people and not to leave them in the city and burn them to death." ”

Fan Ning hurriedly asked him to get up, pointed to Han Jiang next to him and said with a smile: "Both of us are civil officials, not murderous butchers, we can't do this kind of thing that people and gods are angry about, we will try our best to treat it with medicine, and if we can't save it, we won't burn it to death." ”

"Good! I believe in the commitment of both of you. ”

Fan Ning then signed the surrender conditions, which was a written promise to the Empress Dowager Liang.

Early the next morning, Zang Wenmu led tens of thousands of soldiers out of the city first, according to the agreement, they did not wear armor, nor did they carry weapons, they walked out of the city with their bare hands, escorted by 5,000 cavalry, to the open space ten miles south of the city to wait for screening.

All the soldiers who escorted them wore masks, wearing deerskin gloves, which were masks sewn from nine layers of kapok, and bamboo charcoal powder was placed in the middle, which was considered the oldest gas mask, and the Song army prepared a total of 55,000 sets, including masks, gloves, and boots.

The main thing to screen is whether there is a cough and fever, in fact, there is no need for the Song army to screen, the Western Xia soldiers themselves will push out the symptomatic soldiers, which is related to everyone's own vital interests, and no one will be ambiguous.

The army left, followed by the Empress Dowager Liang taking the Son of Heaven Li Bingchang and her personal palace maid out of the city, no more than 20 people, as well as civil and military officials, their parents, wives and children, and could not bring domestic servants and maids.

The Song army held a brief surrender ceremony outside the city, and Fan Ning accepted the national seal and military talisman presented by the Empress Dowager Liang on behalf of the Great Song Dynasty.

This is what has been said before, not a humiliation, but a prevention of the epidemic, and they will take a boat to Bianliang, Tokyo after two days of observation in the quarantine camp.

The third step, and the biggest challenge, is to clean up the people in the city, all the 50,000 soldiers who participated in the clean-up operation have taken Quyansan for at least ten days, and they have a good ability to prevent themselves, they all wear leather helmets, masks and gloves, wear white short clothes, and only carry a war knife to defend themselves.

First, nearly 500,000 uninfected people came out of the city and went to the open space in the south for screening, and when the people were finished, 40,000 Song soldiers entered the city from the four city gates with quicklime and fire oil in carts.