The reason why Ami was defeated, in the final analysis, is still a national issue, between the Khitan nation and the Dangxiang nation, there was not much friction during the occupation of Xiao Ming, but after Chongzong was killed, the turmoil in Xingqing Mansion caused by Ami's series of policies made a large number of Western Xia soldiers and civilians killed, and Xingqing Mansion became almost an empty city! The contradictions between the two ethnic groups suddenly became acute.

After Li Cunzhong got the news, he felt that this was a great opportunity, and it was a great opportunity for him to rise up in chaos, how could he miss it? In the past two years, Li Cunzhong has relied on the abundant resources and grain reserves in the Zhongning area, rapidly expanding his strength, and has never stopped conscripting enough troops, so far there are nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses, but it is said that it is a force that cannot be ignored.

Li Cunzhong's intervention made the situation in Xingqing Mansion even more chaotic, and a large number of people either fled to Song Jingnei, or fled north and east to Dingzhou and Xiazhou, and the arrival of a large number of refugees also increased the pressure on Cao Ju! But when they heard that Li Cunzhong, the former general of Western Xia, was coming, the soldiers and civilians of Western Xia were immediately overjoyed and gave Li Cunzhong great support.

The Khitans controlled Xingqing Mansion in their hands, Li Cunzhong learned that Chongzong was killed, and Ami ascended the throne as the Empress of Western Liao, and immediately published an article, counting the sins of the Khitans and Ami's crimes, calling on the Western Xia soldiers and civilians to overthrow this empress who drank human blood, and he also proclaimed himself a rebellious general, launched an attack on Ami's Khitan army, and prepared to drive away Ami and the Khitans in the name of crime!

The battle between the two armies and the southern suburbs of Xingqing Mansion, Li Cunzhong's army was first defeated by Hanlu's iron cavalry, but who knows, the people of Xingqing Mansion actually burned the Khitan people's grain and grass and camp tents behind, Li Cunzhong took advantage of the situation to attack, the Khitan people were defeated, Yelu Dashi returned to the rescue from the Zhongwei army, covered Ami's escape from the palace, Li Cunzhong successfully took Xingqing Mansion, and then drove the Khitans to flee north.

Ami led tens of thousands of tribes, young and old, under the escort of Yelu Dashi, to the north and went straight to the Khitan Sticky Bage City, not to mention, just said that after Li Cunzhong took the Xingqing Mansion, he couldn't get carried away and declared himself: "King of Great Xia"! And began to purge the Khitans.

The original Western Xia nobles and royal descendants, did not expect Li Cunzhong to claim himself king, so they objected, refused to give Li Cunzhong any official position, and conspired against him, so Li Cunzhong finally revealed his heroic nature, he immediately started to arrest the operation, Xingqing Mansion once again set off a bloody storm, in just a few days, the original Western Xia royal family and royal nobles were arrested and killed as many as 10,000 people!

Things have evolved to this point, Dingzhou City Governor Yin Cao is remorseful, but now it's too late to say anything, Li Cunzhong's army at that time in order to expand, absorbed a large number of bandits, horse thieves and prisoners, these people are not good people, and now with Li Cunzhong, they have actually obtained the flowers and rivers of the entire Xixia Kingdom, and their natural original form is exposed, showing their fangs to the people below!

So the people of Xipingnan and Pingping in Xingqing Mansion were plundered by Li Cunzhong's army, and the soldiers burned, killed, and looted all kinds of evil, and they showdown down with all kinds of taxes, and if they didn't do so, they were immediately killed with a knife, and their property was confiscated! The people were miserable and fled to the Great Song Dynasty. At this time, the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty also began to act, sending troops to seize a lot of Western Xia territory.

At this time, Xiao Ming defeated the review and the Western Xia coalition army and returned to Xingqing Mansion, before he arrived in Xiping, Li Cunzhong sent someone to negotiate with Xiao Ming, claiming that the people of Western Xia were unwilling to be under the rule of the Khitans anymore, and hoped that Xiao Ming would be attached to him and become the subordinate of the King of Great Xia, otherwise he would leave the Western Xia Kingdom, otherwise the swords and soldiers would face each other, and this condition made Xiao Ming laugh angrily!

It seems that Li Cunzhong has eaten too much, so much so that he no longer knows what his surname is? Xiao Ming sent Li Cunzhong's envoy back without saying anything, and then arranged for the deployment of the whole army for war, he didn't clean up Li Cunzhong last time, Xiao Ming was also in the consideration of stabilizing the political situation in Western Xia, and now that the entire Western Xia Kingdom has been broken, what do you care? After cleaning up Li Cunzhong, it is enough to sweep the entire territory of Western Xia to the west.

I have already drawn a piece of the autonomous region in Liaodong, and now it is not too much to draw a piece in Western Xia, so I think people like Li Cunzhong must be cleaned up. The soldiers of the Golden Legion pressed the border, and Xiao Ming sent a letter to Li Cunzhong to ask him to surrender, if he surrendered now, he could still save his life, otherwise he would definitely die without a place to be buried.

After receiving Xiao Ming's letter and learning that the Golden Legion soldiers were pressuring, Li Cunzhong was not flustered, he had nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses on hand, in addition to the men and horses who stayed in Zhongwei, this time he brought no less than 80,000 people, since war was inevitable, he simply did it vigorously! He sent someone to give Xiao Ming a war letter, and planned to fight to the death in the twenty-mile Gobi Desert in the Xiping Wilderness in three days!

After Xiao Ming received the battle letter, he replied with four words: "As you wish!" ”

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Three days later, the two armies faced each other on the twenty-mile Gobi Desert, Xiao Ming added more than 10,000 people in Yang Qizhong this time, and there were more than 40,000 horses, and 40,000 against 80,000 was still half of the opponent's number, but he fought a lot with less and won more, and he didn't care at all, not only he was Yang Qizhong, but the battle with Xiao Ming was almost always the result of winning more with less.

Since he succeeded Xiao Ming as the commander of the entire Western Expeditionary Army, he has also fought several battles with the Uighur army, all of which are won with less, all thanks to the cannon and the Black God crossbow in his hand, so he also devoted himself to studying this tactic, if it were not for his anger after his father was killed, even if the Hanlu cavalry was not there, I believe that he would not have been defeated by the Uighurs.

Ye Lihong and Sigdali were very worried that the enemy was too numerous and it would be difficult for the army to win, but in the last battle against the enemy Uighurs, 30,000 people completely annihilated more than 70,000 people on the other side, and there were no cannons, so they were impressed by Xiao Ming, and this time there were so many cannons!

After Qian Baguang got Yang Qizhong's seven cannons, plus the six infantry guns he carried, it seemed that the artillery regiment had been formed, and now he had thirteen artillery pieces with different distances in his hands, two steel cannons, five bronze cannons, and six bronze cannons, within the scope of firepower, it could cover basically a large area of open land, and the depth of the artillery fire was enough!

So Qian Baguang is the most proud, because Xiao Ming handed over all the most important battles this time to him, this kid now has people under him, all of them are gunners who have followed him, experienced and tacit, except for the lack of ammunition for the bronze cannon, there is no other problem, and Xiao Ming means that this time there is no need to save shells, let him have a good time!

The two sides set up a position to prepare for war, Li Cunzhong was very cautious at first, because he didn't know what Xiao Ming's army was like, although his side was all cavalry, but it was also a miscellaneous majority, and there were more than 20,000 elites who really belonged to him, which was his old foundation, so his arrangement was to let his miscellaneous cards impact the opponent's formation from three sides, and wait until the opponent's formation was chaotic, and then finally pressed on the 20,000 people who sent him.

His plan should also be correct, tens of thousands of cavalry charges can be described as shaking the ground, and there are almost no enemies who can face and not flee, but he still ignores one point, that is, Xiao Ming's cannon, although someone has reminded him many times, but he really has no real understanding of this legendary weapon, everything has been heard and forgotten by him selectively.

Xiao Ming's pre-battle discharge was still the more than 10,000 infantry in Yang Qizhong, everyone hung heavy armor, held spears, and stood in a tight formation, but this time they chose higher ground, Li Cunzhong stood on the carriage and watched the other party, only to see Xiao Ming's army formation scattered, and the soldiers standing in the front row actually stuck their spears on the ground, and the armor on their bodies was also taken off, and even many people sat on the ground to rest!

He couldn't help but be overjoyed, and said in his heart that according to Xiao Ming's practice, he actually found such an army, didn't he come to send him to death? In any case, under his cautious arrangement, this battle was won and not lost, and the distance between the two sides was less than two miles, which was a good opportunity for the cavalry to charge, and he immediately gave the order to attack! Prepare to break Xiao Ming's formation in one go.

Li Cunzhong's Chinese army began to drum and blow the trumpet, which was the signal of the opponent's attack, and Qian Baguang's artillery was also ready, when Li Cunzhong's cavalry began to line up and jog in broken steps, the shooting yuan and ruler of each run had been completed, Qian Baguang excitedly took off his shirt and used his goggles to observe the opponent's movements.

Smoke and dust rose on the battlefield, and Li Cunzhong's army used four batches of cavalry charges, and launched a charge at Xiao Ming from the two flanks of the front, the war horses galloped, and the hooves sounded like thunder! The sun was dim and dim in the yellowish dust, and just then the cannon rang out!

Qian Baguang's cannon chose three ranges of firepower, using steel howitzers at a long distance, bronze cannon salvos at medium distances, infantry artillery salvos at close range, and finally being able to run to the front of him was still able to rely on the crossbow arrows of 10,000 infantry, and the direction was a cross-dimensional firepower coverage, and the artillerymen below him also took off their shirts, threw off their arms and worked hard, constantly filling the shells and shells into the magazine! Then shoot it out, and come back after it is unshelled.

However, the design of the bronze cannon was earlier, lacking the necessary air conduction and heat dissipation devices, and after two or three salvos, it was necessary to put on a wet cloth to cool down, otherwise there was a danger of exploding, compared to the two steel howitzers, there was no problem with this, it fired one after another in an orderly manner, knowing that the barrel was red! Then come back after cooling down!

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Li Cunzhong still lost this battle, although his miscellaneous cards are all outlaws, all of them are experienced horse thieves and bandits, although he still retains 20,000 elites, but these people have no immunity to sudden shells, the thunderous sound shook no one's nerves, how many people can be killed by cold weapons in ancient wars, why do most people die in vain? That was actually trampled to death by his own people! Li Cunzhong's 80,000 cavalry soldiers were defeated like a mountain, and there were countless casualties in the rout!

Li Cunzhong was also running away under the protection of his entourage, and when he saw tens of thousands of cavalry in golden armor suddenly rushing up, he knew it was over! It turned out that the real main force of Xiao Ming's command was this Golden Army, the army that had just annihilated the 70,000 Uighur army, and all that he had tried so hard to grab was all in ruins, and he galloped towards Zhongning Mansion to flee for his life.

But in fact, Xiao Ming was not willing to let him go at all, he ordered the Golden Legion to follow the pursuit, be sure to capture Li Cunzhong, live and not dead, the heavy cavalry covered all the way, and chased until Zhongning Mansion, Li Cunzhong abandoned Zhongning and continued to flee south, but did not want to run to the territory of the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty, and then there were chasing soldiers and interceptions, Li Cunzhong surrendered to the Great Song Dynasty in desperation.

The commander of the Western Army is not a fool, Li Cunzhong's surrender is not good for him, if Li Cunzhong surrendered when he was the "King of Great Xia" before, it still has a bit of effect, and now he is like a lost dog, and even his guards are not hundreds of down-and-out people, he naturally will not befriend Xiao Ming for this, so it didn't take long for Li Cunzhong's head to be sent to Xiao Ming's eyes.

At this point, the Western Xia Kingdom, which had been in turmoil for a long time, finally stabilized, and after Xiao Ming swept away all the armed forces in the eastern part of Western Xia, he decided to continue to march westward, but what should Xingqing Mansion do here? And then what if Bing'er is there? The worries really haven't decreased, and Xiao Ming still has a headache!