Among them, especially grain, after resuming production for more than three months, a lot was harvested during the autumn harvest, and Ye Tianlong only collected 20% of the tax, and obtained enough grain for his army to fight for most of the year.

Of course, this is under the condition that Ye Tianlong sent a large number of players to supervise in various places, otherwise, those officials don't know how much they want to embezzle!

In the past, the Great Song Dynasty suffered greatly, and the regular taxes of ordinary civilians had to be paid to more than fifty percent, plus all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, so they went straight to seventy or eighty percent, and the grain that the peasants could leave in their hands in the end was simply not enough to eat, so there were so many refugees every year.

And even after collecting so many taxes, Song Huizong Zhao Ji still always felt that the money in his hand was not enough to spend, which was because of the corruption of officials and officials at all levels.

Ye Tianlong naturally couldn't change the corrupt atmosphere of those officials in such a short period of time, so he had to send those players to supervise.

During this period, it was also discovered that many officials tried to embezzle, and Ye Tianlong's attitude was to find one and deal with one by one, no matter how big the official was, he could not be exempted from the crime.

Because of his actions, he became a tyrant directly in the mouths of those officials.

This also strengthened Ye Tianlong's determination to replace these former Song officials immediately after cultivating his own talents.

In addition to the bumper harvest of food, Ye Tianlong also recruited and trained many soldiers and created a lot of weapons and armor during this time.

Among them, the regular soldiers did not increase much, but only made up for some of the previous battle losses, so that their number recovered to as much as 500,000, and the militia recruited a lot, so that the total number of militias in the country has exceeded 5 million, and now any small county town, there can be at least 2,000 militia garrisons, such as some remote mountain villages, and at least 50 militiamen can be stationed, which is definitely enough to guard against ordinary bandits and bandits.

Ye Tianlong, who was full of soldiers, had the intention of going to war again, but before he could send troops, Wang Qing and Tian Hu sent him a letter, saying that they wanted to attack those Southwest Yi who had come to attack with the Dali people before, so that these barbarians would know that the Heavenly Empire was not so easy to mess with.

The two of them had sent small units to the territory of the Southwest Yi many times to conduct various reconnaissances, and they had almost touched the details of it, and the two were confident that they could completely eliminate those Southwest Yi with the 20,000 people in their hands.

Ye Tianlong read the letter, but felt that 20,000 soldiers were still a little less after all, so he sent 30,000 horses to Wang Qing and Tian Hu to support, so that the two could completely let go of their hands and feet to eliminate those barbarians hiding in the mountains.

And Ye Tianlong himself also thought about where his next goal in the first battle was, that is, Zhao Ji of Song Huizong who was entrenched in the Shuzhong region, and the faint monarch relied on the dangerous terrain in Shuzhong to block the attack of the Western Xia army before.

However, this time it was Ye Tianlong who made the move, and Song Huizong Zhao Ji's good days may be coming to an end.

After making a decision, Ye Tianlong immediately began to set off with troops, of which he brought 270,000 regular soldiers and as many as 500,000 militiamen.

At this time, Zhao Ji, who was regarded by Ye Tianlong as the target of the attack, still did not realize that his end was approaching, and he was still rampant in Shuzhong, and then relied on the people's fat and ointment scavenged from the people, enjoying his luxurious and comfortable life.

After more than half a month of marching, Ye Tianlong finally led the army to Xingqing Mansion, and from here, he was about to go to Shuzhong.

However, the road to Shu is not easy to walk, and the poet immortal Li Bai has written a poem to tell about the difficulty of this Shu road.

After Ye Tianlong went to investigate in person, he found that the dangerous plank roads leading to Shuzhong were basically demolished by the Song army, and there were still traces of burning in many places.

It was the last time the Tanguts tried to repair the plank road during the attack, but it was burned by the Song army's rockets.

Without these plank roads, the army could not enter Shuzhong at all, and it was easier to destroy than to repair, the Song army only needed to send dozens of people to guard the opposite side of the demolished plank road, and when they saw the enemy army to repair the plank road, they would put rockets to burn it.

This time, those Song soldiers obviously wanted to continue to use this trick, Ye Tianlong and they had just appeared, and the Song army crossbowmen on the opposite side fired arrows at them one after another.

Fortunately, Ye Tianlong and the others were all fully armed, and these arrows were directly bounced off when they landed on the armor, and they were not able to cause any damage to Ye Tianlong and them at all.

And after Ye Tianlong carefully observed the terrain here, he really didn't find any other paths that could enter Shuzhong except for the destroyed plank road.

So he quickly led his men back to the camp, called his sappers, and prepared to ask them to help him build a plank road made of reinforced concrete, so that he would not be easily destroyed by the enemy.

However, in the case of those Song troops making trouble, it may not be so easy to build this new plank road, so Ye Tianlong is also ready to get rid of those Song troops first.

And this matter is to be asked by Shi Qian, he asked Shi Qian to form a 'war cat special combat team', this special combat team, as the name suggests, is to be as silent as a cat, and will not let the other party notice when infiltrating the enemy army, but at the same time it is deaf and clear, and can see everything clearly even in the dark.

Because the requirements for soldiers to join this special combat team are very high, the number of this special combat team is very small, and there are only more than 500 people so far, which is not one out of a hundred, but one out of 10,000, after all, Ye Tianlong now plus those militiamen, there are already more than 5 million soldiers and horses in his hands.

After receiving this new mission, Shi Qian couldn't help but feel very excited, after all, most of the tasks they received before were to spy on the enemy, and they didn't fight the enemy head-on, and they killed less than ten enemies. Even these enemies were forced to kill when they were about to be exposed, and they had to keep a low profile and not kill people at ordinary times.

I haven't made a move for so long, Shi Qian really feels a little itchy, and it just so happens that the task they received this time allows them to kill these 'war cats', Shi Qian can not be happy!

After dark, Shi Qian set off with more than 300 special combat soldiers, all of whom were wearing tight-fitting black leather armor, even their heads and faces were wrapped, completely blending into the night, for those ancient soldiers who mostly suffered from night blindness, it was completely invisible.

But even so, they are also cautious in their actions, which can be regarded as a habit of these 'war cats'.

Under the cover of night, they came to the destroyed plank road, and then took out special hooks and put them on the palms and soles of their feet, so that their hands and feet seemed to grow sharp claws out of thin air.

Relying on these steel claws, they were able to move forward little by little on the steep mountain wall.

After carefully walking the more than 100-meter road, Shi Qian found that there seemed to be no enemy troops stationed at the other end of the destroyed plank road, maybe it was getting late, and those Song troops thought that the enemy army would not attack, so they went to sleep lazily.

Soon under the leadership of Shi Qian, more than 300 War Cat Special Combat Team members jumped down from the mountain wall and landed on the plank road that was still intact.

Everyone cautiously walked out more than 200 meters away, and saw a Song army camp from a distance, which looked like there were more than 2,000 people inside.

With so many enemies, Shi Qian felt that it was still difficult for the three hundred of them to eat easily, so he sent a dozen of his men back to pick up his comrades, while he continued to watch these enemies here, and waited until the friendly troops came before attacking together.

However, they only waited for a few minutes before the two Song soldiers came to the woods where they were hiding and began to release water.

A special combat team member was accidentally discovered by him during the process of releasing water, so Shi Qian had to fight with the special combat team member and kill the two Song soldiers.

After these two Song soldiers were killed, a smell of blood immediately began to spread slowly along the night wind, and at the same time, as time went by, if these two people never returned to the camp, it was easy for the enemy generals to find out that something was wrong.

So after thinking about it for a while, Shi Qian decided to attack in advance.

And just when Shi Qian led his men to slowly approach the Song army camp and was about to launch an attack in advance, the dozen or so special combat personnel he sent to pick up friendly troops also relied on some parts they carried to quickly assemble several small ballistas, and these ballistas fired giant crossbow arrows with iron cables behind them.

The friendly troops on the other side of the plank road had been waiting for a long time, and when they saw these crossbow arrows coming, they immediately fixed them on the boulders or trees, and then sent some militia to quickly pounce on the wooden planks that had been prepared long ago on the iron cables.

In this way, a makeshift and rudimentary road was erected, and a large number of regular soldiers, who had long been heavily armed and ready for battle, immediately rushed to the opposite side along this temporary road.

At this time, Shi Qian had already led his subordinates to the front of the Song army camp, and dozens of special combat team members raised their crossbows and aimed at the Song soldiers who were standing guard in a complex manner, and pulled the trigger almost at the same time.

The large steel nail-like crossbow arrows shot lightning into the faces and throats of the Song soldiers in the night, and when the arrows were hit, most of the Song soldiers didn't even react to what was happening.

Moreover, these crossbow arrows were also quenched with severe poison, and those Song soldiers quickly died of poison a few seconds after being hit by arrows, and there was no chance to warn their comrades in the camp at all.

After eliminating the sentinels, they quickly climbed over the low wall and entered the camp, where they encountered the enemy along the way, and immediately killed them with their repeating crossbows and shot them before they could react.

However, even though the crossbow firepower in their hands was strong, when they were about to approach the center of the camp, there was still a mistake, and a Song soldier hid behind his companions when the crossbow bolt came, temporarily dodging the catastrophe, and then opened his mouth and shouted, so that all the remaining Song troops in the camp were alerted and knew that there was an enemy army infiltrating the camp.

Although the Song soldier was killed by Shi Qian in a few seconds with the special recurved blade short knife with iron rope in his hand, it was already too late.

Looking at the Song soldiers who had already grabbed their weapons one by one and began to wear armor, Shi Qian knew that they could only fight hard next, and they had only killed about 500 people before, so at this time, there should be about 1,500 Song troops in the camp, far more than them.

"Gather all the remaining crossbows and arrows, make more torches for the first few rows, and the others will work with me to prepare for the fire!"

Under Shi Qian's order, the remaining crossbow arrows were concentrated to more than 100 special combat members in the first few rows, and these special combat personnel took the crossbow arrows that had just been gathered from their teammates, and they all frantically pulled the trigger one by one, and quickly put down the Song soldiers who rushed one by one, so that more than 200 Song soldiers died and could not rush over.

However, soon the generals of the Song army also reacted, and immediately sent more than 100 elite hoplites armed with large shields and wearing iron armor to come up, and the continuous crossbows of the special combat team members were not powerful enough to penetrate those large shields and iron armor at all.

Fortunately, at this time, Shi Qian and they also quickly made hundreds of torches in the back, and then Shi Qian took out the gasoline they carried with them, and sprinkled it on those elite hoplites of the enemy army, and before those enemy soldiers could react to what the liquid that was spilled, one by one the torches had already smashed on them.

Soon the fire raged on them, and the elite hoplites could no longer maintain their formation, and they all began to run around, and some of them even rolled wildly on the ground to extinguish the flames on their bodies.

It's a pity that their efforts were ineffective, but instead caused many surrounding camps and friendly troops to be ignited by them, and the fire became bigger and bigger, and the Song generals couldn't stop the chaos with desperate pressure.

And when they took advantage of the chaos of the enemy army, they relied on their excellent light skills one by one to quickly crash into it like cheetahs, and then these special combat soldiers waved the quenched short knives in their hands and slashed wildly at the enemy soldiers.

Shi Qian even shook the recurved blade short knife in his hand, and threw it at the opponent after aiming at the Song army general.

The general of the Song army was choked with tears by a burst of smoke, and he didn't notice this scene at all, so he was quickly hit by the short knife, and was entangled in the neck by the iron cable on the short knife.

With the Song army general being killed, the remaining Song soldiers were even more chaotic, Shi Qian also brandished his two short knives into the enemy formation, and began to harvest the lives of the enemy soldiers happily.

By the time Yang Zhi arrived with hundreds of hoplites, there were only more than 200 Song troops left in the camp, and more than 200 were not because they couldn't kill them, but because the casualties were too great, they chose to surrender to them.

However, in this bloody battle, the War Cat Special Combat Team under Shi Qian's command also suffered more than a dozen casualties. After Ye Tianlong learned about it afterwards, he was also very distressed, after all, it is not easy to train the soldiers of this war cat special combat team! I lost a dozen of them at once, and I don't know when I will be able to make up for them.