"Besides, we have elected Empress Zheng as the empress, so you will die of that mind!"

Zong Ze and Zhang Shuye directly drove the Jin envoy away, and they tore up the letter written by Tong Guan and others to surrender without even bothering to read it.

At this time, the Western Xia did not know about the Jin people's deflatedness, and after the envoy brought back the news that the Liao people had increased their troops in Taiyuan, the whole country was overjoyed, and Li Qianshun, the lord of the Western Xia, sent an envoy to persuade Jiang Chen to withdraw his troops at the first time.

Jiang Chen did not receive him as usual, because at this moment he was receiving Uighur and Tibetan envoys, as well as merchants such as Pan Shishan, Zhu Qu, and Cheng Chengjin, outside the city of Lizhou.

The Uighurs were divided into the Xizhou Uighurs and the Yellow Head Uighurs, all of whom were Xinjiang Hui people, and after the Western Xia became strong, they not only robbed the Great Song Dynasty, but also did not let go of the Uighurs, and the two sides were constantly in friction.

In addition, when Li Yan came to Bianyu, he specially befriended them at the behest of Jiang Chen, so after getting Jiang Chen's invitation, he came over with the Tibetan envoy.

Jiang Chen warmly entertained them, but did not talk about business, but directly launched an attack on Lizhou City!.

The reason why he waited until now to attack the city was to establish his authority in front of these envoys, and then go to talk to them about the conditions for the joint extermination of Western Xia and Jin.

For Xinjiang and Tibet, Jiang Chen planned to incorporate the territory of the Great Song Dynasty in a peaceful way, first inducing them to cooperate with the Great Song Dynasty to send troops, and then sinicizing them by doing business and propagating the teachings of Limen.

So he has been arranging this battle for a long time, and it is impossible to negotiate peace with Western Xia at all!

Pan Shishan, Zhu Qu, Cheng Chengjin and other shareholders of the Royal Chamber of Commerce were the first batch of war merchants developed by Jiang Chen.

As they continued to penetrate into Western Xia, the Song army captured more and more.

In addition to the easy-to-carry gold, silver, jewelry and other items, other things such as some high-end furniture, antique vases, exotic flowers and plants, the Jimin Army simply did not have the energy to carry.

Moreover, the number of plundered Western Xia women is getting bigger and bigger, and the soldiers of the Song army can't "digest" it at all.

Therefore, Jiang Chen asked the shareholders of the Royal Chamber of Commerce to act as a middleman, and considering the cost of transportation, almost all valuable utensils were sold to them at a price of sixty percent.

This made all the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty very active and excited, and when the men were not enough, they hired the plundered people of the Great Song Dynasty, and when the cattle and horses were not enough, they spent money to buy them with Jiang Chen, and directly emptied all the valuable things in the captured land of Western Xia.

Since they are all paper money transactions, every time the transaction ends, Jiang Chen will distribute the money according to the ratio of three, three or four as soon as possible.

Under the supervision and review of Fang La and other Mingjiao law enforcement, no one dared to embezzle this money, and it was distributed to the soldiers.

This made the whole army grateful to Jiang Chen at the same time, but also fell in love with this way of warfare, and even some Song Jun was worried about the brothers and elders who did not marry a daughter-in-law at home, or wanted to take a concubine, and also found Pan Shishan and other businessmen who wanted to buy the Western Xia woman they liked and dragged Pan Shishan and transported them back.

After Pan Shishan discussed with Zhu Qu and others, he thought that this business was very profitable, so he opened the earliest express delivery service in the Great Song Dynasty and delivered his daughter-in-law to the door.

This time, they came over, first, to help Jiang Chen transport strategic materials, and secondly, they were eyeing the wealthy Lizhou, as well as Xingqing Mansion behind Lizhou, preparing to continue to make a fortune, this kind of business they felt was faster than picking up money.

There are also countless fierce men from the northwest who came with them, driving cattle and horses over, pulling whatever they saw, and if they were lucky, they could "pick up" the fleeing Xixia women and wealthy families, and if they were unlucky, they would also move some tables, chairs and benches back.

Some people even demolished the beams of other people's houses in Xixia......

This made Jiang Chen, who was determined to occupy Western Xia, very helpless, but after hesitating, he did not stop it, after all, it was not a bad thing to let the Confucianized Great Song Dynasty be wild at all.

He even issued an order: all the seizures of the people belong to individuals, including weapons and foreign women, and in the future, it will be legal for the people of the Great Song Dynasty to hold weapons and bows and crossbows! If anyone is worried that they will be released by the people, then don't do anything wrong!

Under his indulgence, as the horn of the whole army to attack sounded, countless fierce men from the northwest surrounded them one after another on horseback and holding firewood knives

came over, and their mothers-in-law and children followed closely behind with ox carts, all staring at the city with green eyes.

This spectacular scene made the Western Xia army at the head of the city tremble!

Helian Lin, who was in charge of guarding Lizhou in Western Xia, also expected the envoy to persuade Jiang Chen to withdraw his troops, but what he didn't want to wait for was the news of Jiang Chen's siege.

But he wasn't too worried, because Lizhou was the last barrier of Xingqing Mansion, the capital of Western Xia, so they had already gathered nearly half of the Western Xia elite here.

In addition, they continued to strengthen the city walls, block the city gates, and even built countless huge wooden shields at the head of the city to target the artillery and crossbows of the Song army.

But what he and the Western Xia never expected was that the direction of Jiang Chen's main attack was not the city gate surrounded by the southeast and north at all, but the west gate that the Western Xia never dreamed of.

The west gate is next to the Yellow River, not only has a moat nearly five zhang wide, but also the narrow river bank is within the range of the bow and arrow at the head of the city, and there has not been a war here since the day the city was founded.

In the eyes of the Western Xia people, fools would not dare to attack the city from here, and Jiang Chen did not send a single soldier over.

Therefore, not only did the city wall of the West Gate not be reinforced, but there were only 3,000 soldiers stationed there.

When the Great Song warships rushed along the river, the entire Ximen garrison was in a state of bewilderment.

"Huh? What's that?"

"Is it a ship? Why does it keep smoking?"

「……」

"Babysitting! That's Song Jun! They're coming by water!"

"Warning, warning!"

After the Xixia soldiers reacted, they hurriedly warned Helian Lin, but unfortunately, it was too late at this time......

"Boom, boom—"

With the collapse of the West City Gate and several city walls, the Jimin Army landed directly and entered the city of Xuzhou.

When the artillery sounded, Zhou Tong also waved the order flag for the first time, and the infantry continued to surround the city of Lizhou on three sides, while the cavalry arranged not far from the west gate rode their horses and galloped straight towards the west gate at the first time.

In addition to the cavalry, there were also all the heavy infantry of the Chinese army, and after Jiang Chen captured a large number of golden war horses, he immediately improved the mobility of this infantry ace.

"What's the situation?"

"How can there be cannon fire at Simon?"

"There's obviously no Song Jun there!"

The Western Xia Army looked confused, and Helian Lin was dumbfounded!

After realizing that it was not good, he hurriedly mobilized the army to rescue the Xicheng Gate, but in the face of the musketeers of the Jimin Army, who had already occupied the commanding heights and hid behind the obstacles, the Western Xia Army could only become a living target.

When the heavy infantry arrived, and cooperated with the musketeers and cavalry to fight all the way to the south gate regardless of life and death, and removed the boulder sandbags blocking the city gate, a feast of firearms against cold weapons began.