"In addition, we have elected Empress Zheng as the Empress, so you will die!"

Zong Ze and Zhang Shuye drove away the Jin envoy directly, and tore them up for the letters written by Tong Guan and others to summon them.

...

Xixia did not know about the defeat of the Jin people at this time. After the envoy brought back the news that the Liao people increased their troops in Taiyuan, the whole country was full of joy. Li Ganshun, the ruler of Xixia, sent an envoy to persuade Jiang Chen to withdraw his troops as soon as possible.

Jiang Chen did not meet as usual because he was receiving Uighurs and Tubo envoys, as well as merchants such as Pan Shishan, Zhu Que, Cheng Chengjin, etc. outside the city of Xiangzhou.

The Uighurs are divided into Xizhou Uighurs and Huangtou Uighurs, both of which are Hui people in Xinjiang. After the Western Xia became stronger, they not only robbed the Song Dynasty, but also did not let the Uighurs go. The two sides continued to have constant friction.

In addition, when Li Yan came to discuss the situation, he made special friendship with them at Jiang Chen's instructions, so after receiving Jiang Chen's invitation, he came with the Tubo envoy.

Jiang Chen warmly welcomed them, but did not talk about the main business, but directly launched an attack on the city of Xiangzhou!

The reason why he waited until now to attack the city was to establish his authority in front of these envoys and then talk to them about the conditions for jointly extermination of the Xixia and Jin Kingdom.

Regarding Xinjiang and Tubo, Jiang Chen planned to earn the territory of the Song Dynasty in a peaceful manner, first tempting them to cooperate with the Song Dynasty to send troops, and then Chineseize them by doing business and promoting the doctrine of the School of Reason.

So he had arranged this battle for a long time, and it was impossible for him to negotiate peace with Xixia!

Pan Shishan, Zhu Que, Cheng Chengjin and other shareholders of the Royal Chamber of Commerce were the first batch of war merchants developed by Jiang Chen.

As the Song army continued to penetrate into the Western Xia, more and more seizures were captured by the Song army.

In addition to the easy-to-carry goods, such as gold, silver, jewelry, etc., the Jimin Army had no energy to carry other things such as high-end furniture, antique vases, strange flowers and plants.

Moreover, the number of Western Xia women plundered was getting bigger and bigger, and the soldiers of the Song army could not digest them at all.

So Jiang Chen asked the shareholders of the Royal Chamber of Commerce to be intermediaries. Considering the transportation cost issue, almost all valuable items were sold to them at a price of 60%.

This made the merchants of the Song Dynasty very active and excited. When they were not enough, they hired the people of the Song Dynasty who were plundered. If they were not enough, they would spend money to buy them from Jiang Chen, and directly valued the land occupied by Xixia. All the things were emptied.

Since they are all banknote transactions, Jiang Chen will distribute the money as soon as possible in the ratio of 334 every time the transaction ends.

Under the supervision and review of the Ming sect law enforcement by Fang La and other Ming sects, no one dared to embezzle the money, and it was distributed to the soldiers in real amounts.

While this made the whole army grateful to Jiang Chen, they also fell in love with this way of war. Some Song Jun even thought about his brothers and elders who had not married a wife at home, or wanted to take a concubine, and even came to Pan Shishan. Wait until the merchant wanted to buy the Xixia woman he liked, drag Pan Shishan and transport them back.

After discussing with Zhu Que and others, Pan Shishan thought the business was very profitable, so he opened the earliest express delivery service in the Song Dynasty to deliver his wife to his door.

This time they came here, one was to help Jiang Chen transport strategic materials, and the other was to focus on the wealthy Yangzhou and Xingqing Mansion behind Yangzhou, and to continue making a big deal. They thought this kind of business was more than to pick up money. quick.

There were countless tough Northwest men coming with them, who drove cattle and horses over, and they would pull whatever they saw. They would be lucky enough to pick up the Western Xia women and wealthy families who fled. Those who were lucky would also bring some tables, chairs, and benches back.

.

Some people even demolished the beams of Xixia...

This made Jiang Chen, who was determined to occupy the Western Xia, very helpless, but hesitated but did not stop it. After all, it was not a bad thing to make the Confucianism-oriented Chinese style a thousand years ago.

He even issued an order: All the people seized will belong to their own, including weapons and foreign women. In the future, the people of the Song Dynasty will hold weapons and bows and crossbows. If anyone is worried that the people will shoot cold arrows, don't betrayal.

thing!

Under his indulgence, as the trumpet of the entire army attacked, countless fierce men from the northwest rode their horses and held hatches, while their wives and children drove their ox carts and followed closely.

Afterwards, everyone stared at Xiangzhou City with green eyes.

This spectacular scene made the Xixia army on the city wall frightened!

Helian Lin Lu, who was in charge of Xixia, came to guard the state of Wuzhou, was looking forward to the envoy to persuade Jiang Chen to withdraw his troops, but what he didn't want to wait for was news of Jiang Chen's attack on the city.

But he was not too worried, because Yangzhou was the last barrier to Xingqing Prefecture, the capital of Xixia, so they had already gathered nearly half of the elite Xixia soldiers here.

In addition, they have been constantly strengthening the city walls and blocking the city gates these days, and even building countless huge wooden shields on the top of the city to target the Song army's artillery and crossbows.

But what he and Xixia never expected was that Jiang Chen's main attack direction was not the city gates surrounded on three sides of the southeast, north and south, but the Xixia that Xixia had never dreamed of.

The west gate is next to the Yellow River. Not only is there a moat nearly five feet wide, but the narrow river bank is within the range of bows and arrows on the top of the city. There has been no war here since the date of its founding.

In the eyes of the Xixia people, even fools dared not attack the city from here, and Jiang Chen did not send a soldier or soldier.

Therefore, not only did the Ximen City Wall not be reinforced at all, but there were only three thousand old and weak soldiers in garrison.

When the Song Dynasty warships rushed towards the river quickly, the entire Ximen defender was in a state of confusion.

"Huh? What is that?"

"Is it a ship? Why is it still smoking?"

“…”

"Bao your grandma! That's the Song army! They attacked from the water!"

"Show warning, alert!"

After the Xixia soldiers reacted, they hurriedly warned Helian Linwu. Unfortunately, it was too late at this time...

"Boom boom boom boom--"

As the Xicheng Gate and several city walls were collapsed, the Jimin Army landed directly and entered the city of Xiangzhou.

When the artillery fired, Zhou Tong waved the flag at the first time, and the infantry continued to surround the city of Xiangzhou on three sides, while the cavalry arranged not far from the west gate immediately rode their horses and ran straight to the west gate.

go.

In addition to the cavalry, there are also all the heavy infantry in the central army. After Jiang Chen seized a large number of Jin war horses, he immediately improved the mobility of this infantry ace.

“What’s the situation?”

"How come Ximen has a cannon sound?"

"There is obviously no Song Jun there!"

The Xixia Army was confused, and Helian Lin Lu was also stunned!

After realizing that it was not good, he hurriedly mobilized the army to rescue Xicheng Gate, but facing the Jimin Army musketeers who had already occupied the commanding heights and hid behind obstacles, the Xixia army had no choice but to become a living target.

When the heavy infantry arrived, they cooperated with the musketeers and cavalry to fight to the south gate without considering life and death. After moving the huge rock sandbags blocking the city gate, a feast of massacres of cold weapons began.

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