Chapter 140: Great Xia Invasion
Yongzhou, Li Changqing stood on a hill, watching the soldiers below slowly hurry, before Li Changsheng suppressed bandits in Yongzhou, killing those horse bandits without the power to fight back.
After nearly a month of encirclement and suppression, all the bandits in Yongzhou have been exterminated, and as for those who are scattered, they will be handed over to the local officials to arrest quickly.
After tens of thousands of bandits were suppressed, the army of Yongzhou also increased by tens of thousands of people, all of whom were bandits and a small number of young people, and now they have gone to Pingzhou, and the people and horses of the King of Xiliang are at war, and the King of Xiliang has also continued to expand his troops in the past few months, in addition to the initial 30,000 Black Wind Army, there are 70,000 people, known as 200,000 to the outside world, and the King of Xiliang and the King of Zhennan have laid down two-thirds of the territory of Pingzhou.
But the good days of King Xiliang came to an end, things in Yongzhou calmed down, the imperial army chased after him, and sent all the men and horses to kill Xiliang, to end his lair.
"Second Brother"
"Sixth, what's the matter?"
"The latest news from the imperial court, Great Xia has committed a border, and the King of Xiliang has surrendered to Great Xia"
"Traitors and thieves, everyone will be punished"
Li Changqing shouted angrily, even if he had known this result for a long time, he was very angry, these kings with different surnames were really white-eyed wolves who couldn't be raised.
"Second brother, Great Xia invaded, and our Great Wei is one against two"
"What's this, what are you afraid of, back then, Da Xuan Neng pressed the two countries so much that he couldn't raise his head, why can't we Dawei?"
Li Changqing sneered, before the destruction of Da Xuan, the martial arts of Wenzhi reached its peak, and fought against Da Liao and Da Xia, and almost rarely defeated, even the current Beizhou, more than half of the place was taken from Da Liao, and Da Xia was beaten by them for many years and did not dare to offend.
Now that Great Wei has inherited the legacy of Daxuan, and after decades of peace and the blessing of Xianmen, the national strength far exceeds that of Daxuan, and naturally it is capable of overpowering the two countries.
"That's the case, but if you can't end the war in two or three years, the Xianmen side..."
"Sixth, today is different from the past, do you understand, if it is impossible to destroy the rebel king for three years, it is our Li family's incompetence, but now it is the invasion of the two countries, it is different, for my Li family, which one of the Great Wei can guarantee that it will be able to repel the two countries, and the Xianmen will not embarrass us"
Li Changqing said with a smile, the temporary change of battle will be a taboo for the soldiers, Xianmen will not understand this truth, now that Daxia and Da Liao are invading at the same time, which family dares to guarantee that they will be repelled, at this time, the change of dynasty, Da Wei will definitely lose the country, the territory will be divided by Da Liao, and the loss is Xianmen, so the meaning is completely different.
"Okay, second brother"
"King Zhennan"
"also followed the rebellion, Nanzhou is about to fight, their masters are too few, they can't resist at all, so they simply surrendered with King Xiliang, and Pingzhou is about to be defeated by them"
King Zhennan is the weakest of the three rebel kings, not only the prince was assassinated, but there are too few masters in his hands, Dawei has soldiers and horses all the way from Gyeongju to Nanzhou, and has laid down more than half of the territory, if they don't surrender, then they will soon be wiped out, so they have to surrender again.
"Next, we should fight against the masters of Great Xia, and I don't know how much the masters of Great Xia have improved over the years."
Li Changqing nodded, it was also expected, he was now looking forward to fighting with the masters of Great Xia, in the past few decades, he had been practicing hard in the palace, and he also wanted to try if he could cut immortals.
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"Lin Sheng meets the Three City Lords"
Pingzhou, the camp of the Xiliang army, Lin Sheng, the king of Xiliang, was visiting the envoy from Great Xia, and he was also a high-level of Great Xia.
Great Xia is different from Liao, the terrain of Liao is dominated by grasslands and deserts, while Bactria is dominated by high mountains and plateaus and deserts, in this kind of terrain, it is more difficult to establish cities, it is said that in the entire Great Xia, there are only about a dozen cities, and the rest are the same as Great Liao, all exist in the form of tribes.
Therefore, in Great Xia, the city lord is extremely noble, a city can radiate and cover a very wide area, and in Great Xia, only the royal family and powerful can serve as the city lord.
The ranking of the city lord was given by the Great Xia Emperor, and the Great Xia Emperor was evaluated according to the population, geographical scale, and resources of each city, so the third city lord was also equivalent to the third most powerful person in Great Xia, with a very heavy power, and the Great Xia Emperor was also related, so Lin Sheng had to give full respect.
"City Lord Lin doesn't need to be polite, now the Holy Lord of Lin City is the fourth city lord of Great Xia, and we will be brothers in the future"
The three city lords said to Lin Sheng in the broken Dawei language, he came to canonize Lin Sheng this time, Xiliang is a very poor state capital in Dawei, but if it is placed in Daxia, it will be ranked in the top five, of course, this is only from an economic point of view, in terms of combat effectiveness, Daxia is still a completely defeated Xiliang Prefecture.
"Thank you, this is a little bit of Lin Sheng's heart, please smile at the saint"
Lin Sheng didn't say much, but handed over a secret book, there were still a few immortals who escaped from the Ask Immortal Pavilion on Xiliang's side, since they decided to betray, then betrayed to the end, and enshrined the Ask Immortal Pavilion's cultivation method and handed it over to the Three City Lords.
The Three City Lords took the cheats with a smile, and this kind of low-level cheats Daxia also has, but this also shows the sincerity of King Xiliang.
Next, the three city lords had a friendly conversation with Lin Sheng, and there were many contents, such as sending Lin Sheng's heirs to live in Great Xia, sending Lin children to the Immortal Hall in Great Xia to cultivate immortals, and so on.
And Great Xia also exchanged courtesies, this time sent hundreds of immortals and hundreds of warriors into the Great Wei, and the main people and horses were stationed on the side of the King of Xiliang to help them resist the encirclement and suppression of the Great Wei.
During this time, the king of Xiliang was very miserable, they were going to attack the defenders of Pingzhou head-on, and they were chasing and killing by the soldiers and horses of the Great Wei who were chasing from Yongzhou, fighting at both ends.
The key is that there are too few of their masters, Li Changsheng led a large number of masters to raid and assassinate them, so that Xiliang's men and horses suffered heavy losses, and they were about to be unable to hold on, forcing Lin Sheng to surrender to Great Xia, if he didn't surrender, at most half a month, he would be completely wiped out.
"Three City Lords, I don't know where my soldiers and horses of Great Xia have gone"
"20,000 pioneers have arrived in Xiliang, and the follow-up soldiers and horses have arrived in Dingkang City, and they can enter Xiliang in half a month at the latest, and the city lord of Lin will hold on for a few more days."
The three city lords replied that the territory of Great Xia is not lower than that of Da Liao, and it is also a land of ten thousand miles, but the population is also sparse, and the land is vast and sparsely populated, so it is difficult to gather troops, and it has been more than a month before more than 100,000 people have gathered.
Yes, they gather the population, but it doesn't matter, Daxia is a place where all the people are soldiers, and the people and herdsmen under them are very poor, and they have to fight with the sky and the earth for a bite to eat, and they also have to fight with people, so they are all fierce, even if they are ordinary young and strong, they are also elite soldiers, so these hundreds of thousands of people also have huge combat effectiveness.
"I see, Lin Sheng once again thanked the Holy Lord for saving his life"
"Haha, Lord Lin is polite, Lord Lin, I'm also new to Pingzhou, why don't you send a few people to take me to see the scenery of Pingzhou?"
"Yes, Lord of the Three Cities"
Lin Sheng agreed, and sent a son of his very like to lead the team, and took the three city lords to play, and the king of Xiliang still occupies more than ten counties, which is not small.
The group walked out of the camp and looked at the place occupied by the King of Xiliang in the rear, Lin Sheng's son did not understand the Great Xia language, and the three city lords were constantly communicating in the Great Xia language.
"This is the rich country of the Wei people, just one Pingzhou, it is so rich"
"Lord of the city, Pingzhou is very poor in the Great Wei, only a small number of plains are richer, the three states in the south of the Yangtze River in the Great Wei are the real rich places, there are a lot of fertile fields that can grow a lot of grain, there are exquisite porcelain, there are silk like the skin of a girl..."
A staff member told the three city lords about the scenery of the three states in the south of the Yangtze River, which made the three city lords extremely fascinated and made him extremely coveted.
Great Xia was very poor, and the biggest reason why their soldiers and people were not afraid of death was that they were too poor to risk their lives for a bite to eat.
And Dawei is extremely rich in their opinion, even if it is Pingzhou, it is better than them, although Pingzhou is a big mountain, but Pingzhou will not lack water, the mountains can also grow some miscellaneous grains, as well as rich animal and plant resources, the key is that there will be no snow deeper than people in winter, Pingzhou is already very rich in their opinion.
"It's unfair that such a rich land doesn't have an inch of our territory in Great Xia, so God gives us a chance this time, the civil strife in Great Wei is the best time for us in Great Xia."
"Lord of the city, the Liao army is fighting with the Great Wei in Tongzhou, and our men and horses are also about to arrive, when the time comes, will we go north to attack the Wei army with the Liao army, or come to Pingzhou to open up the connection with the king of Zhennan"
"Of course, it's going north, the king of Xiliang and the king of Zhennan, let them fight slowly, drag the soldiers and horses of the Great Wei, consume their soldiers and food, what we want is to annihilate the soldiers and horses of the Great Wei, eat the hundreds of thousands of people of the Great Wei in Tongzhou, the north of the Great Wei will not have a large army that can fight with it, and then we can go south, of course, it is best to break through the Yongdu City of the Great Wei, I heard that the Yongdu City is the richest city of the Great Wei"
The three city lords replied that before leaving, the emperor of Great Xia had told him that this time the invasion of Great Wei was to annex the entire Great Wei, and the main purpose was to annihilate the soldiers and horses of Great Wei.
A dynasty has no soldiers and horses, that is, fat mutton, let them slaughter, but did not defeat their soldiers and horses, but occupied their territory, only to be driven away by them in the end, the court of Great Xia is not without capable people.
"The Lord of the Castle is Wise"
The strategist exclaimed, he also wanted to suggest this, they should join forces with the Liao State, and focus on annihilating the living forces of the Great Wei, but quickly, and not let the Great Wei give full play to the advantages of national strength.
Otherwise, in a protracted war, the two of them would not be the opponents of Great Wei, because their two countries were too poor.