C259

Chapter 259 - Second package

"I never thought that the Xingqing Mansion would be so hard to attack!" Zhao Chen said.

"Originally, we were able to take down the Xingqing Mansion two days ago, but we didn't expect that all the women in the Xingqing Mansion would come out to defend the city! These women were too tenacious, even more tenacious than those men! That's why it's hard for the Xingqing Mansion to get ahold of it right now! " Li Xianzhong said.

"Your Majesty, the woman leading is called Ren Yuqin, she is the imperial concubine of the Western Xia! That day, she was the first one to arrive on top of the city walls! With her encouragement, the rest of the Western Xia women all came to the city wall and participated in the defense of the city! " Yu Yunwen said.

In these past few days, they had also captured quite a few Western Xia prisoners, and some people recognized the identity of the person on top, Ren Yuqin.

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

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

"There's actually such a thing? She is a Chinese woman, and she actually helped the Western Xia defend the city. " Zhao Chen coldly snorted.

"Your Majesty, other than Ren Yuqin, there is another person in Western Summer City. He is the Prime Minister, Wei Minganhui. Before we came, he had already set up his defenses. " Yu Yunwen said.

Zhao Chen nodded.

"Your Majesty, we have suffered a great number of casualties in the past few days." Curved End said.

"How many warriors died?" Zhao Chen said.

"If we add the dead and the heavily injured, I'm afraid there are more than fifty thousand people here." Curved End said.

After hearing this number, the faces of Zhao Chen, Yu Yunwen, Li Xianzhong, Zhao Zhe and the rest all became ugly. To the Song Army, this was an unprecedented heavy casualty.

Zhao Chen stood up and walked out of the living quarters.

Curved End, Yu Yunwen and the rest also followed him out.

"If at all costs, how long will it take to defeat the Xingqing Mansion!?" After a long while, Zhao Chen said.

"I'm afraid it will take at least half a month!" Curved End said.

"Half a month? How much will we lose? " Zhao Chen said again.

"I'm afraid our losses will exceed one hundred thousand people, or even one hundred and fifty thousand people." Curved End said.

"So many!" Zhao Chen was in disbelief.

"Your Majesty, we did not expect the Xingqing Mansion to be so hard to attack. We can't afford such a loss right now. " Curved End said.

Zhao Chen nodded.

Indeed, the Song Army could not handle too much loss right now. They had used a scheme to confine the Nvzhen to the east of the river and the south of the river, but the Nvzhen would come back sooner or later. At that time, if Zhao Chen's army lost too much of its forces, they might not be able to stop the attack of the two families. Thus, the plan to attack the Western Xia was meaningless. Although the Western Xia had been destroyed, more than half of the two hundred thousand soldiers had died here. The gains were not worth the losses.

"Your Majesty, we need to think of other plans." Curved End said.

"I am extremely unwilling." Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty, please reconsider!" Curved End said.

Yu Yunwen, Li Xianzhong, Liu Qi and the rest did not say a word, they knew that they could not continue fighting since the army would not last for long. However, they were also very unwilling in their hearts. However, they used their reason to suppress their unwillingness.

"I understand! But even so, we can't let the Western Xia go! "Let's carry out the second plan that was formulated by the staff officer!" Zhao Chen pondered for a long time, and said while feeling extremely unresigned.

Curved End nodded.

They were still discussing together.

The next day before dawn, the army began to move!

Curved End led the thirty thousand Shanbei Forbidden Army soldiers to the west, Liu Qi led the thirty thousand Tsinghua Army to the north, and Zhao Zhe led the thirty thousand Jingyuan Army to the south.

A few hundred miles around the Western Xia Capital, this was the most prosperous place in the Western Xia!

The ancient people called it "the Yellow River is full of harm, only rich one set", and it also said "the Yellow River under the heavens is rich in Ningxia"!

From the Qin Dynasty onwards, until the golden age of the Han and Tang Dynasties, the Han Chinese governed the border territories. After the rise of Western Xia and their occupation of this place, more than half of the millions of Party member resided here. As a result, this place had more people and became richer!

At this very moment, more than two hundred kilometers west of Xingqing Mansion, in a small town with a population of five thousand people, Curved End had led an army here!

There was no defense in this small town, and the number of men in the town was extremely limited! Most of the strong men had already joined the army. In the Five Way Beach, many of the Western Xia's main forces had been wiped out, and many of them had come from this small town!

"Pass down the order!" All Party member s must leave this place within two hours! Two hours later, the entire town was on fire! "If anyone stays, they will be conceited in life and death!" Curved End said coldly.

Immediately, thirty thousand soldiers charged into the small town. They passed down the order to the Curved End, to expel the Party member from the small town!

Countless Party member were crying. They were not willing to leave this place, but in front of the swords and sabers of the army, they could only leave!

There were even some Party member who were hiding in their own homes, hoping to escape this calamity!

Two hours later, over three thousand people had arrived outside the little town!

At that moment, the whole town was set ablaze!

When the fire started, countless people ran out crying loudly.

The last Western Xia people that came out numbered more than four thousand. Curved End gathered these four thousand people together, put away their weapons, and sent people to drive them towards the south.

At this very moment, on the Yinchuan Plains, such things were happening in all directions, north, south, east, and west.

Countless of villages and towns were destroyed, and countless Party member s were driven towards the south. No one knew what kind of fate awaited them, and rarely met with anyone who resisted. A situation like the Xingqing Mansion was, after all, impossible to happen anytime and anywhere.

Within ten days, the cities of Dingzhou, Huaizhou, and Shunzhou had been conquered one after another, and all the citizens of the city had been ordered to go south. Countless cities were engulfed in flames.

In less than half a month's time, over two million Party member s on the Yinchuan Plains had all left the south.

This was the second plan formulated by the staff officers' headquarters. If they were unable to smoothly destroy the Western Xia, or if the losses were too great, they would expel all the citizens of the Yinchuan Plains of the Western Xia into the Guan Shan. Just like the grassy valleys of the outsiders, they would completely destroy all the towns and villages on the Yinchuan Plains. Destroy the most populous and wealthiest place in the Western Xia, and it will fundamentally damage the power of the Western Xia. The Xingqing Mansion was incredibly tough, but the other parts of his body could not be as strong as the Xingqing Mansion's!

The population of the Western Xia was limited, all of the Western Xia people on the Silver River Plains had been expelled to the Guan Shan. Although there were still people living in the northern, western and eastern parts of the Western Xia, they numbered less than a million. A lack of population, for example, would cause huge food shortages. The Yinchuan Plains had already been turned into a wasteland, and the grain fields had been completely destroyed. Without any people to grow grain, Xixia would have already fallen into a disaster. The only thing left was Yinchuan's lone city, which was located on Yinchuan Plains. There was no meaning to it.

The prestige of the Western Xia Imperial Court would be greatly reduced, and the northern and western regions of the Western Xia would once again have independent party tribes. At that time, the Party was no longer a threat to the Chinese.

April 23, the Curved End and Zhao Zhe's armies had arrived at the bottom of the Spirit State City together!

The Spirit State City was a large city in the northwest, second only to the Xingqing Mansion. During the Han Dynasty, Emperor Huidi built the city here, which had a history of more than a thousand years. At the time of the Anlu Mountain rebellion, Tang Su Zong ascended to the throne in Lingzhou, which was the largest military town in the Tang Dynasty and the political and military center of the Tang Dynasty during the period of the Pacification and Rebellion. This was the Northwest City, but unfortunately, it was stolen by the Party member.

Although Curved End and Zhao Zhe had an army of sixty thousand, they were still worried that they wouldn't be able to defeat the Spirit State City.

However, the army had surrounded Spirit State City for less than two hours, and the Spirit State Guard Li Yuanshan had actually left the city and surrendered! This Spirit State City had been taken so easily!

"The military order is to completely destroy the Yinchuan Plains, not leave any villages or towns for the Western Xia people. A commoner, a grain of food, will bash at the Western Xia's strength, and even if Western Xia can continue, it will only be a small country that is not even mentioned! The Spirit State City was also in the Yinchuan Plains, so it was reasonable to say that they should have destroyed it as well. It's just that this city was built by us Han Chinese, and has been around for more than a thousand years. It would be too much of a pity if we were to destroy it. " Zhao Zhe said as he stood on the Spirit State City's wall.

"Yeah, it's a pity!" I think we should first drive out all the Party member here. I will write a letter to His Majesty to see how he will handle this situation. Actually, we can arrange a garrison here or place the young people of Production and Construction Corps here. After the Western Xia went through this battle, even if they didn't perish, their strength would be greatly reduced, and it would be difficult for them to defeat the Spirit State City. This Spirit State City was also a protective barrier that could prevent Western Xia's remnants from continuing to go south. In the future, after Priestess and Emperor Kang are completely defeated by us, we will still have to take back Western Xia. Spirit State City is still our city. " Curved End said.

"That's right!" Zhao Zhe nodded.

Then, the Curved End left a thousand people behind to guard the place. They continued to lead troops to all parts of the Yin Chuan Plains to expel the Party member, destroy the cities and villages everywhere, and destroy the grain fields.