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The Yellow River in the east, Yumen in the west, Xiaoguan in the south, and the desert in the north, covering an area of more than 20,000 miles.

However, more than two-thirds of the country in Western Xia was desert, and the water source was mainly groundwater formed by the Yellow River and snow water from the mountains.

Originally, both the Liao State and the Song State had the national strength to annex the Western Xia, but with the help of the situation of the Three Kingdoms, the Western Xia declared itself a vassal to the Liao State and the Song State at the same time, and the national Zuo was continued.

At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Tong Guan, the great eunuch under Zhao Ji of Song Huizong, led 200,000 Western troops to conquer Western Xia, and almost knocked Western Xia to the point of destroying the country.

Although Tong Guan has been in charge of the army for 20 years, he is one of the [Six Thieves] under Zhao Ji of Song Huizong, and he knows nothing about military affairs.

The so-called soldier bears a nest of bears.

The extent to which Tong Guan, an incompetent waste eunuch, was able to defeat the Western Xia and destroy the country, and how weak the Western Xia army was, is really visible.

Later, the Jurchens of the Jin Kingdom rose and destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty, and they could have annexed the Western Xia, but unfortunately, the rise of the famous anti-Jin general Yue Fei crippled the Jurchen iron cavalry of the Jin State, causing the Jin Kingdom, the Southern Song Dynasty and the Western Xia to fall into the strange circle of the Three Kingdoms again.

Although the state of Western Xia has continued to the present, the economy of Western Xia has been controlled by the Jin State, and there is no possibility of reflexivity.

After Temujin unified the desert, the Mongolian iron cavalry would also use Western Xia as a place for military training, and attacked Western Xia six times before completely destroying the Western Xia.

After receiving Yan Honglie's letter, Yang Ming and Wan Yan Kang led 10,000 soldiers on two horses, and ten days later, the army left Chang'an and entered the Yinzhou Mansion in Western Xia.

If you want to raise an invincible and strong army, in addition to the extraordinary strength of the soldiers themselves, they must also be allowed to experience the baptism of bloody battlefields.

Before entering the desert and becoming famous all over the world, Western Xia was undoubtedly a good place to train soldiers.

After Yang Ming and Wan Yankang led the army into the territory of Western Xia, the siege of the city along the way was like entering a no-man's land, and the Western Xia soldiers heard that it was the emperor of Dajin who led the army to attack, and the number of people who opened the city and surrendered was countless.

Three days later, on the night, an army of 10,000 had arrived outside Xingqing, the capital of Western Xia.

At this time, 100,000 troops had gathered in Xingqing City, and the city walls were full of soldiers patrolling the night, which could be said to be well guarded.

If you want to use 10,000 troops to break through this Western Xia capital, you will only kill yourself by hitting the stone with an egg.

But Yang Ming has mastered black technology far beyond this era, and of course he will not be stopped by a mere Xingqing City.

After handing over the 10,000 troops to Commander Yan Kang, Yang Ming held a lantern-sized explosive bag and took advantage of the night to perform light exercises and approach the gate of Xingqing City.

In this era, artillery siege has not yet been used on a large scale, and the city gates are mainly made of solid wood and some metal.

Even in the face of artillery sieges, such a gate is enough to withstand several artillery attacks.

But what Yang Ming wanted to do was to wrap the explosives on the gate of Xingqing City and detonate them directly.

Such a thing is by no means something that ordinary soldiers can imitate.

First of all, after the explosives package was detonated, ordinary soldiers had no time to escape.

Even if they have the consciousness of sacrificing their lives for righteousness, the defenders on Xingqing City are well patrolled, and before the ability of ordinary soldiers can get close to Xingqing City, they will be found by the defenders and shot to death with random arrows.

Yang Ming exerted the light technique to the limit, like a black ghost approaching the gate of Xingqing City, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

After tying the explosive bag to the city gate and detonating it, Yang Ming immediately used his light technique to quickly retreat, but he only flew out of more than ten meters, and heard a huge explosion [boom], and then the hot heat wave chased after him.

Although Yang Ming already had the strength of a super-first-class master, and his light martial arts body technique was comparable to that of the four masters, he was still shocked by the heat wave of the explosion, and he suffered a little internal injury on his body.

But his goal was also successfully achieved.

The power of the explosion of the explosive pack not only blew up the city gate, but even the city wall was shattered, and the defenders on the city wall were killed and injured heavily.

Now Yang Ming and Wan Yankang have some tacit understanding.

Seeing that the gate of Xingqing City was successfully blown up, Wan Yankang immediately led a large army to charge over.

"Everyone listens! After entering the city, no matter what else, as long as the Tangut people resist, whether it is a soldier or an old and weak woman, all of them will be killed!"

The purpose of attacking Western Xia was originally to train troops, and naturally it was to let the soldiers kill as many people as possible.

It's a pity that the resistance of the Tangut people is too weak, and after the army entered the city, after a devastating killing, the king of Tangut sent a letter of surrender.

After Yang Ming and Wan Yankang were welcomed into the Western Xia Palace, they saw Xia Huanzong Li Chunyou leading the Wenchen military generals to kneel in front of the palace gate to greet them.

The external strength of the Western Xia Kingdom and the weakness of the soldiers are only known to the king of the Western Xia in his heart.

Yang Ming directly took Wan Yan Kang into the palace where the king of Western Xia presided over the government, and let Wan Yan Kang sit on the throne of the king of Western Xia.

Li Chunyou and the military generals of Wenchen dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, and they had to kneel in the main hall to respectfully plead guilty to Wan Yankang.

"Li Chunyou, a subordinate of the subordinate country, visited His Royal Highness the Emperor Taisun of the Dajin Kingdom! I don't know what the subordinate did wrong, and let the imperial grandson personally raise troops to fight?"

Sitting on the throne of the king of Western Xia, enjoying the feeling of looking down on the ten thousand civil and military officials, Wan Yankang said with some smugness.

"Li Chunyou! His Royal Highness will tell you directly! Our Dajin Kingdom heard that the Naibarian tribe in the western part of the desert has a heart of disobedience, so His Majesty the Emperor ordered me to lead an army to conquer the Naiban tribe, and His Royal Highness led the army to attack the Western Xia, and wanted to temporarily borrow the three major military divisions in the north with you as a place for our Dajin Kingdom to raise troops. ”

After Yan Kang finished speaking, Yang Ming took out a map of the territory of Western Xia and threw it in front of Li Chunyou.

On the map of the Tangut territory, there was a red diagonal line dividing the Tangut territory into the north and south halves.

Li Chunyou was heartbroken, but fortunately, half of the northern territory is basically a desert land, and it is not unacceptable compared to the disaster of the country in front of him.

After Li Chunyou signed the letter of state and lent half of the territory of northern Western Xia to the Jin State, Yang Ming and Wan Yankang continued to lead the army westward, from Western Xia into the western part of the desert.

Now the desert is also a three-legged situation, nominally Wang Han of the Kereh tribe is the co-lord of the desert, in fact, Temujin's Mongol tribe is the strongest, and the tribe of the barbarians is even weaker than Temujin and Wang Han.

Although Zamuhe is also a hero, his Zamuhe tribe has long been crippled and abolished by his righteous brother Temujin, and now he is just relying on Wang Han's role in playing soy sauce.

This time, Wanyan Honglie went to the desert to canonize Temujin's official position, and he would be besieged by an army of 50,000 of the barbarians.

It was on this occasion that Guo Jing and his archery master Jebe would shoot the two leaders of the Nabarians respectively, and then Temujin defeated the 50,000 army of the Naibarians with only 10,000 troops, swallowing up the tribesmen and livestock.

The purpose of Yang Ming and Wan Yankang leading the army into the western part of the desert was to conquer the Nai barbarians before Temujin, and then use the 50,000 army of the Nai barbarians as a base to annex the tribal populations of Wang Han and Zamuhe.

As long as you hold half of the desert in your hands, you can then play with Temujin, a generation of heroes, like a cat playing with a mouse.

To be honest, Temujin deserved to be a man who was favored by Providence.

The strength of the barbarians in the desert was weaker than that of Temujin and Wang Han, but in order to ask for a worthless official position from the Jin State, they poured 50,000 troops out of the nest to besiege Yan Honglie, Temujin, Zamuhe, and Sangkun, and offended Temujin and Wang Han at the same time, which was clearly self-defeating.

After Yang Ming and Wan Yankang led the army to arrive, they completely leveled the camp tent of the barbarian tribe and captured 200,000 old and weak women and children.

Leaving 2,000 soldiers to guard the camp tent of the Naiban tribe, Yang Ming and Wan Yankang took the 8,000 army and the wives and children of the two leaders of the Naiban tribe to the east overnight, rushing towards the Mongol tribe of Temujin.

Wanyan Honglie and Wanyan Hongxi sent an envoy to the desert this time, leading 10,000 elite soldiers, all in brocade robes and iron armor, the left team held spears, and the right team held maces, stepping off the high-headed horses, and the sonorous sound on the iron armor was heard inside and outside.

When it approached, I saw the splendid brocade clothes, the armor was bright, the swords and guns were shining, and the military appearance was extremely prosperous.

Temujin's Mongol tribe also had 50,000 iron horsemen at this time, and he asked the eldest prince Jochi to lead an army of 10,000 to meet the Wanyan brothers, and the remaining 40,000 horses were laid out on the steppe.

At this time, the Mongolian army was all clothed and unarmoured, and compared with the elite soldiers of the Jin Kingdom with bright armor, it was like standing in front of the local tyrants.

If you only look at the surface, everyone will think that the elite soldiers of the Jin Kingdom are ten times more elite than the Mongolian army.

However, when Temujin led an army of 10,000 to escort the Wanyan brothers to Wang Han's Kereh tribe, he encountered a siege of 50,000 troops from the Naiban tribe, and the 10,000 elite soldiers of the Jin State showed signs of collapse.

However, Temujin's army of 10,000 was like a tiger and a wolf, and the soldiers asked for battle.

Although the soldiers of the Mongol army were not afraid of death, in order to minimize casualties, Temujin selected two archers, Jebe and Guo Jing, by comparing arrows, and asked them to shoot the two leaders of the Naiban people, and then the 10,000-strong army was divided into two teams to attack the Naibarians from the left and right flanks.

Guo Jing was born in the desert, he ate mutton and drank mare's milk, except for learning the martial arts of the Han people from the Seven Monsters of Jiangnan, he was no different from the Mongols.

In order to repay Temujin Khan, he was willing to risk his life like other Mongol soldiers.

Wanyan Honglie and Wanyan Hongxi sent an envoy to the desert, in addition to bringing 10,000 elite soldiers, Wanyan Honglie also brought Sha Tongtian's four apprentices, the Yellow River and the four ghosts.

The four ghosts of the Yellow River are the eldest [Soul Breaking Knife] Shen Qinggang, the second [Chasing Gun] Wu Qinglie, the third [Soul Snatching Whip] Ma Qingxiong, and the fourth [Death Axe] Qian Qingjian.

The Seven Monsters of Jiangnan have now become the Six Monsters of Jiangnan, except for the eldest Ke Zhenwei and the second Zhu Cong who have cultivated to the realm of first-class masters, the martial arts of the other four monsters and the four ghosts of the Yellow River are all in the realm of second-rate masters.

Although Guo Jing has practiced the internal strength of the Quanzhen Sect for two years, if he fights alone, he is not the opponent of the Four Ghosts of the Yellow River.

In the original work, Guo Jing was able to defeat Yang Kang, in addition to Qiu Chuji and Ma Yu teaching him the martial arts of the Quanzhen Sect, it was all thanks to Liang Ziweng's snake blood that Guo Jing increased his internal strength for twenty years.

Although the four ghosts of the Yellow River are only four second-rate masters, in this Mongolian desert, they are enough to protect the Wanyan brothers from the encirclement of the barbarians.

Although Temujin was confident that the 10,000 Mongol army would defeat the 50,000 barbarians, the Wanyan brothers thought of fleeing.

Just as Guo Jing and Jebe were about to shoot the two leaders of the barbarians, the sound of a large army fighting came from the barbarians.

Suddenly, Guo Jing and Jebel could only put down their bows and arrows and return to Temujin's camp to see what was going on.