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Li Cunzhong's problem was solved, Xiao Ming led the army to re-occupy Xingqing Mansion, and now Xingqing Mansion is not as good as before after these several tribulations, this ancient city of more than 200 years is now almost unrecognizable!

The population of Xingqing Mansion is also plummeting, the current population is less than half of the original, due to a large number of people fleeing, many of them fled to the Great Song Dynasty, more than half of them are the original Han people, and a large number of people fled north to Dingzhou, so that Dingzhou's Cao Zhi felt quite pressure, I heard that Xiao Ming drove away Xingqing Mansion, Cao Zhi came to Xingqing Mansion to see Xiao Ming.

"What does the king want to do with the Western Xia royal family in Xingqing Mansion?" Cao asked.

"I was about to ask you this question, what should I do in the current situation?"

Cao Ju sighed and said: "The Great Xia Kingdom has fallen apart, although there are heirs of the former emperor who claim to be kings in the west, but I think they are just puppets of foreign races!" Now that the national capital is in ruins, and the royal family has been slaughtered by Li Cunzhong, Daxia no longer exists! ”

Xiao Ming said: "This situation is really what I don't want to see!" Originally, the Great Liao Kingdom had perished, and now that Great Xia no longer exists, and the Uighurs in the Western Regions are eyeing each other, I think that in the future, not only the Han people will suffer, but also the other ethnic groups will be unable to live in peace! ”

"So the king wants to go west again to solve this problem?"

"You've guessed it, and I won't hide it from you, it may take a long time for me to come back from this expedition, but everything here can't be left unattended, so I hope you can give me an idea!"

Cao Ju shook his head and said: "The king is not polite, in fact, you already have a way in your heart, why bother to let the old man talk more?" ”

Xiao Ming said with a smile: "Lord Cao is not an old fritter!" It seems that nothing can be hidden from your eyes, right, you took the initiative to come to me this time, you must have something to say, why don't you say it first! ”

"King, please tell the old man your conditions first, and then I will say my method to see if I can satisfy the king!"

"Lao Cao!" Xiao Ming suddenly smiled, he glanced at Cao Yi meaningfully and said to him: "Lord Cao, you are a good official, you cherish the people, but you are also very cunning, you can protect the safety of the people in Dingzhou in such a chaotic situation, I think there is also an ulterior agreement between you and Li Cunzhong, I don't care about these, to be honest, I need you, you come to Xingqing Mansion to manage everything, I entrust everything to you, I hope you don't let me down!" ”

Cao said: "The king trusts the old man so much, the old man is very moved, but the old man is originally a Xia Chen and a Han Chinese, and he will inevitably be disliked by others when he manages the entire state affairs. ”

Xiao Ming said angrily: "I won't talk to you if I go around in circles again, you better go back to Dingzhou."

Cao Yi panicked and said: "The king is angry, in fact, the old man did come to give the king an idea this time, and the king may remember the person who recuperated there with me when he was busy with military affairs?" ”

Xiao Ming immediately understood what Cao Yi meant, and he asked, "You mean Bing'er?" ”

Cao Ju nodded and said: "Authentic royal blood, if there should be a queen, we actually have a queen, Li Cunzhong just drove away the queen so the honor guard and dress are all ready-made, the king nodded, and the old man will do the rest!" ”

Xiao Ming said: "Do you want to blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes?" ”

Cao said: "The king is serious, I just pity the princess's life experience, let her recuperate in an environment that I have been familiar with since I was a child, I think it should be the best treatment for her!" Besides, the king asked me to take charge of state affairs, and the old man also had a guard of honor, so that everything would not fail! ”

Xiao Ming thought for a while and said: "Okay, according to what Lord Cao said, everything you do cheaply, I can't leave you with soldiers and horses, you can figure it out yourself, and this time I captured more than 30,000 people, these people brutalized the people, they can't be spared, all of them are pressed to the coal mines in Dingzhou to work as coolies, this matter is also handed over to you, I will send troops as quickly as possible, there may not be much time!" ”

Cao said: "Obey the king's orders, and rest assured!" ”

Three days later, Xiao Ming issued a decree to merge Xingqing Mansion and Dingzhou Mansion to be called Ningxia Mansion, and the first chief executive was Cao Yuan! The people who had taken refuge in Dingzhou could return to Xingqing Mansion with peace of mind, and he also exempted the people of the two prefectures from paying taxes for one year, and opened the economic and trade ports with the Great Song Dynasty, encouraged industry and commerce, adopted a policy of low taxes, supported agriculture and animal husbandry, and all the expenses for the reconstruction of Ningxia Prefecture came from the profits of Xiao Ming's private coal mines.

At the same time, he also announced that the princess of the royal family surnamed Li of the Great Xia Kingdom is currently returning to Xingqing Mansion, ascending the throne in the palace, and becoming the queen of the entire Great Xia Kingdom, Cao Ju is the regent of the prison country, and all state affairs are handled by Cao Ju, Xiao Ming is the self-proclaimed Prince of Nan, in charge of the military!

As soon as the announcement of the people came out, the people of Western Xia finally slowly regained their calm, and the various prefectures, counties, villages and tribal grasslands in the entire Eastern Xia region also showed support for Xiao Ming and Cao Zhijian regents, and the entire eastern region of Western Xia was slowly recovering, and the war seemed to be over!

But in less than half a month, Xiao Ming completed the reorganization of the Golden Legion and the original Western Expeditionary Liao Army, this army has basically no trace of the Khitans, all of them are composed of Han and Dangxiang people, Yang Qizhong's more than 10,000 infantry has now become a cavalry and archery class on horseback, the spear is thrown away, but the chain armor is not thrown, no one has two bows and crossbows and a saber, because Xiao Ming's supply line is too long, it is impossible to form a real firearm projectile unit, and can only use primitive cold weapons.

However, he arranged for a large number of merchants to come to Western Xia through the way of flying kites, carrying a large number of cannonballs for him, and then going west was to directly attack the Uighurs in Xizhou, and artillery was the only reliance on his conquest, and the replenishment of cannonballs was directly transported to Chang'an by balloons from Xuzhou, and then sent to Western Xia by fast horse-drawn carts.

After Xiao Ming finished replenishing the first batch of shells, he ordered the army to move westward and kill Liangzhou directly, Liangzhou is now basically like an empty city, Li Renxiao was taken to the sandbank by the Uighurs, and at the same time took a large number of Liangzhou people, so that Xiao Ming could hardly see a few people two weeks after his arrival, this is a tactic of fortifying the wilderness, but it has little effect on Xiao Ming.

The baggage of the Golden Legion is all pulled by carriages, they are not short of grain and grass, only fresh water, as long as there is water in Liangzhou, Yang Qizhong is pregnant with his father's hatred, and he is anxious, so he asked Xiao Ming to let him take the vanguard to attack Xuanhua Mansion, an important town in the northwest, because he heard that Yelu Xiaoju Die's army is in Xuanhua Mansion, Xiao Ming agreed to his request, let him lead 10,000 horses as a vanguard, the Chinese army has Han Lingshou and Zhao Yanwen A large number of cavalry archers to follow, and he took Ye Lihong and Sigdali's 20,000 horses to delay.

The so-called soldiers are fast, but they are not in a hurry here in Xiao Ming, their marching speed is not much slower, the speed is about two miles a day, all of them are horse teams marching more and more desolate along the way, when the army marched to the periphery of Xuanhua Mansion, the forward Yang Qizhong had already finished a battle!

Yelu Xiaoju Die did have a 6,000-strong man stationed in Xuanhua Mansion, but it had been defeated by Yang Qizhong, and the other side fled west to Guazhou, Xiao Ming's brigade easily occupied Xuanhua Mansion, and then continued to advance westward, the Golden Army's westward expedition had reached the Uighurs and Li Renxiao and others who were on the sandbank, and Yelu Xiaoju Die had completely surrendered to the Uighurs at this time.

It's not surprising to say that Yelu Xiaojudie's mother is a Uighur from the Western Regions, and Ami and Yelu Dashi can't control Yelu Xiaojudie at all, this person's purpose is the entire Western Xia Kingdom, and the Uighurs also agreed to his request, but the Uighurs arranged a good show to watch, and they actually forced Yelu Xiaojudie and Li Renxiao to make a fire merger!

Li Renxiao's army is now only left with his own guards and 12,000 men and horses of the Xiping Military Division under the Shun Soldiers and Horses Division of the Left Chamber, but Yelu Xiaoju Die successfully persuaded these 12,000 men and horses to rebel against his own emperor, Renzong Li Renxiao and his guards were all killed by Yelu Xiaoju Die, poor Emperor Renzong, since he was put on the throne of the emperor, it was only two years and one month to be killed, so far the last emperor of the Western Xia Dynasty established by the Tuopa clan is gone!

Due to the appearance of Xiao Ming, the Xixia Dynasty, which had dominated the northwest for nearly 200 years, died early, which is a big event, but who can pay attention to it? Even Xiao Ming himself didn't pay attention, because they finally entered the desert!

The climate of the desert is drier and hotter than that of the Gobi Desert, the marching speed of the army has finally slowed down, and the water source has become the top priority, the troops march at most one hundred and twenty miles a day, and it is generally ten miles, and the most important task of the scouts is to find water sources, and drinking water for people and animals has become the most important thing, fortunately, Xiao Ming's army is all living in the arid areas of the northwest all year round, and it has been very adapted to this climate.

But Xiao Ming is an authentic southerner, although he is also attracted by the desert and Gobi scenery in the northwest, but the dry climate still makes him have a nosebleed in the morning! This kind of dry throat, dry nose and dry mouth may continue, Xiao Ming can only grit his teeth and insist.

The battle of Guazhou started soon, Yang Qizhong's troops attacked the city unfavorably, but the other party did not dare to go out of the city, relying on the strong city for defense, Yang Qizhong did not attack after attacking once, he had to wait for the arrival of the large group of men and horses, he knew that the best use of artillery to attack the city, not cavalry, so he did not waste manpower!

Although Guazhou City does not love it! But it was made of rammed earth, and there was not even a single green brick in it, so how could it withstand the bombardment of shells? After only one round of artillery bombardment, the gap was blown up, and Yang Qizhong led the team to rush into the city first, beheading 7,000 people in this battle, and Yelu Xiaojudie's army has been disabled!

Guazhou had fallen, and the intensity of Xiao Ming's attack on Xiao Ming had been completely despaired by Yelu Xiaoju Die and the Uighurs who had retreated to Shazhou, and it seemed that they had to retreat to the Uighurs in Xizhou, because Guazhou was less than a hundred and fifty miles away from Shazhou! The Uighurs then set fire to the city and prepared to retreat.

Shazhou is Dunhuang, Xiao Ming has always wanted to come to the place, Shazhou is named Shazhou since the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Chengfeng of the late Tang Dynasty Jianzhou Jiedu envoy established himself as the king, established the "Western Han Jinshan Kingdom", called himself "Jinshan White-clothed Son", and then lost to the Uighurs, Shazhou Governor Shi Cao Yijin replaced the position of the Jiedu envoy, and led the two states of Gua and Sha, until the Song Jingyou period Shazhou was occupied by the Western Xia.

This was the largest city in Western Xia at that time, the historical monuments and cultural inheritance of Dunhuang have always been adhering to the mantle of the Central Plains culture, and the Uighurs could not be damaged, so Xiao Ming ordered a rapid march, quickly occupied Shazhou and extinguished the fire, it seems that Xiao Ming had already done a big thing to protect cultural relics at that time, and he himself felt more proud!

The army occupied Shazhou, temporarily rested, Xiao Ming also took the time to go to Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes and Mingsha Mountain, to pay homage to cultural relics and Buddhist holy places, but the next step is to march out of the border of the Western Xia Kingdom, Xiao Ming has completed the main purpose of the western expedition, but Yelu Xiaoju Die did not give the head, Yang Qizhong will not agree to collect the troops, Xiao Ming decided to talk to him.