Rebirth: Overthrow Song Dynasty

"I didn't expect this Xingqing Mansion to be so difficult to attack!" Zhao Chen said.

"Originally, we were able to take down Xingqing Mansion two days ago, but we didn't expect all the women in Xingqing Mansion to come out to defend the city! These women are too tenacious, even more tenacious than those men! So it is difficult for Xingqing Mansion to come out now. Conquer!" Li Xianzhong said.

"Your Majesty, the leading woman is Ren Yuqin, the imperial concubine of Xixia! That day, she was the first to come to the city wall! With her encouragement, the rest of the Xixia women came to the city wall to participate in the defense of the city! "Yu Yunwen said.

These days, they also captured quite a few Xixia prisoners, and some people recognized the identity of Ren Yuqin above.

"Oh! This woman is not simple." Zhao Chen nodded.

"Your Majesty, she is Ren Dejing's daughter." Yu Yunwen said again.

"There is such a thing? She is a Han woman, and she actually helped the Xixia people defend the city." Zhao Chen snorted coldly.

"Your Majesty, besides Ren Yuqin, there is another person in Xixia City, the prime minister named An Hui, who suggested that all the people in the city join in defending the city! Before we came, he had already laid out the defense." Yu Yunwen said.

Zhao Chen nodded.

"Your Majesty, we have suffered heavy casualties these days." Qu Duan said.

"How many soldiers died?" Zhao Chen said.

"The number of dead and seriously injured probably exceeds 50,000." Qu Duan said.

After hearing this number, no matter it was Zhao Chen, Yu Yunwen, Li Xianzhong, Liu Qi, Zhao Zhe and others, their faces were all unsightly. For the Song army, this was an unprecedented huge casualty.

Zhao Chen stood up and walked out of the barracks, frowning tightly.

Qu Duan, Yu Yunwen and others also walked out.

"If you do whatever it takes, how long will it take to take down Xingqing Mansion!" Zhao Chen said after a long time.

"I'm afraid it will take half a month!" Qu Duan said.

"Half a month? How much will our loss be!" Zhao Chen said again.

"Our loss is probably more than 100,000 people, maybe even more than 150,000 people." Qu Duan said.

"There are so many!" Zhao Chen couldn't believe it.

"Your Majesty, we didn't expect that Xingqing Mansion would be so difficult to attack. We can't afford such a big loss now." Qu Duan said.

Zhao Chen nodded.

Indeed, Song Jun can't afford too much loss now. They used tricks to contain the Jurchens and King Kang's army in various places in Hedong and Jiangnan, but the Jurchens and King Kang's army will return sooner or later. At that time, if Zhao Chen's army loses too much, it may not be able to stop the two attacks. In this way, the plan to attack Xixia is meaningless. Although Xixia was destroyed, more than half of the more than 200,000 troops were buried here, and the gain outweighed the loss.

"Your Majesty, we have to think about other strategies." Qu Duan said.

"I am very unwilling in my heart." Zhao Chen said.

"Think twice, Your Majesty!" Qu Duan said.

Yu Yunwen, Li Xianzhong, Liu Qi and others next to them did not speak. They also knew that the fight could not continue now, and the army could not tolerate too much loss. But they were also very unwilling in their hearts, but they suppressed their unwillingness with reason.

"I understand! But even so, we can't let Xixia go! Let's implement the second plan formulated by the General Staff Headquarters!" Zhao Chen thought for a long time, and said very unwillingly.

Qu Duan nodded.

They still discuss it together.

Before dawn the next day, the army started to move!

Qu Duan led 30,000 soldiers of the Northern Shaanxi Imperial Army to the west, Liu Qi led the 30,000 Huanqing Army to the north, and Zhao Zhe led the 30,000 Jingyuan Army to the south.

Zhao Chen led the remaining 100,000 troops to sit in Xingqing Mansion, and the soldiers of the Production and Construction Corps also came to Xingqing Mansion one after another, and continued to encircle Xingqing Mansion.

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Hundreds of miles away from the capital of Xixia, this is the wealthiest place in Xixia!

The ancients said that "the Yellow River is full of evils, but the only one is rich", and there is a saying that "the Yellow River is rich in Ningxia"!

From the Qin Dynasty to the later prosperous Han and Tang Dynasties, the Han people ruled the frontier and diverted the Yellow River for irrigation, turning this place into "the south of the Yangtze River"! After the rise of Xixia, it occupied this place, and more than half of the millions of party members lived here, so the population here is larger, and this place has become richer!

At this moment, in a small town with a population of 5,000 people, more than 200 miles west of Xingqing Mansion, Qu Duan led an army here!

There is no defense in this town, and the number of men in the town is extremely limited! They practiced that all the people are soldiers, and most of the able-bodied men have already joined the army. In Wudaotan, the main Xixia army was wiped out, and many of them came from this small town!

"Pass the order! Within an hour, all party members will leave here! After an hour, the army will burn this town! If anyone stays, it will be their own responsibility!" Qu Duan said coldly.

At the moment, 30,000 troops rushed into this small town, and they delivered Qu Duan's order to expel the party members here!

Countless party members are crying, they don't want to leave here, but in the face of the sword of the army, they can only leave!

There are also some party members hiding in their homes, hoping to escape!

An hour passed, and more than 3,000 people came outside the town!

At this moment, fires ignited everywhere in the town!

When the fire ignited, countless people ran out crying and shouting.

The number of Xixia people who came out finally reached more than 4,000. Qu Duan gathered these 4,000 people together, put away their weapons, and then sent people to drive them towards the south!

At this moment, on the Yinchuan Plain, such things are happening in all directions from southeast to northwest.

Countless villages and towns were breached, and countless party members were expelled towards the south. No one knows what their fate will be, and they seldom meet people who resist. After all, situations like Xingqing Mansion cannot happen anytime and anywhere.

In just ten days, Dingzhou, Huaizhou, Shunzhou and other places were conquered one after another, including all the people in the city were ordered to go south. Countless cities were engulfed in flames.

In less than half a month, more than two million party members on the Yinchuan Plain were forced to go south and leave their hometowns.

This is the second set of plans formulated by the General Staff Headquarters. If Xixia cannot be wiped out smoothly, or the loss is too great, then all the people on the Yinchuan Plain of Xixia will be expelled to Guanshan, just like the grass valley of foreigners. All towns and villages on the plain were destroyed. Destroy the most populous and richest place in Xixia, and fundamentally attack Xixia's strength. Xingqing Mansion is extremely strong, but other places cannot be as strong as Xingqing Mansion!

The population of Xixia is limited, and all Xixia people on the Yinchuan Plain were expelled to Guanshan. Although there are still populations in the northern, western, and eastern parts of Xixia, they are less than one million, and it is extremely difficult to recover. And the lack of population will cause huge disasters, such as the shortage of food will be huge. The Yinchuan Plain has been turned into ruins, the grain fields have been completely destroyed, and there are no people to grow grain. Under such circumstances, Xixia will fall into a huge disaster. There is only one isolated city in Yinchuan remaining on the Yinchuan Plain, which is meaningless.

The prestige of the Xixia court will be greatly reduced, and independent Dangxiang tribes will appear again in the northern and western parts of Xixia. At that time, Dangxiang was no longer a threat to the Han people.

On April 23rd, the two armies of Qu Duan and Zhao Zhe came to the city of Lingzhou together!

This Lingzhou City is the second largest city in the northwest after Xingqing Mansion. During the Han Dynasty, Emperor Han Hui built the city here, and it has a history of thousands of years. During the rebellion in Anlu Mountain, Tang Suzong ascended the throne in Lingzhou. At that time, it was the largest military town in the Tang Dynasty and the political and military center of the Tang Dynasty during the counter-insurgency period. This is the big city in the northwest, but unfortunately it was stolen by the party members.

Although Qu Duan and Zhao Zhe had 60,000 troops in their hands, they were still worried that they would not be able to capture Lingzhou City.

However, less than an hour after the army surrounded Lingzhou City, Li Yuanshan, the guard of Lingzhou City, went out of the city and surrendered! This big city of Lingzhou was taken down so easily!

"The order of the military department is to completely destroy the Yinchuan Plain, not to leave a village, a single person, a grain of food for the Xixia people, and fundamentally attack the strength of Xixia, so that even if Xixia can continue, it is only a small country that is not worth mentioning! Lingzhou City is also on the Yinchuan Plain, so it should be destroyed logically. It’s just that this is a big city built by us Han people, and it has a history of more than a thousand years. It would be a pity to destroy it.” Zhao Zhe stood in Lingzhou On the city wall of the state, with the breeze blowing, he spoke.

"Yes, it's a pity! I don't think it's better than this. First drive out all the party members here. I'll write to His Majesty to see how His Majesty will deal with it. In fact, we can arrange troops here, or send people from the Production and Construction Corps The young people are placed here. After Xixia experienced this battle, even if they will not perish, their strength will be greatly damaged, and it will be difficult for them to take down Lingzhou City. This Lingzhou City is also a barrier to prevent the remnants of Xixia from continuing to go south. In the future, wait until After Jurchen and King Kang are completely defeated by us, we still want to recover Xixia at that time. Lingzhou City is still our city." Qu Duan said.

"Not bad!" Zhao Zhe nodded.

Now Qu Duan wrote a letter to Zhao Chen, and then Qu Duan and Zhao Zhe led the army to drive out the party members in Lingzhou City, and then Qu Duan left a thousand people to guard here, and they continued to lead troops to various parts of the Yinchuan Plain. Not to mention the expulsion of party members, the destruction of cities, villages and towns in various places, and the destruction of grain fields.