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Chapter 723 The First World War

World War I began.

This is not the nature of a traditional world war, but the interweaving state of various situations. Bianjing, the center of the current world, is sporting a "wine pool, meat forest war" between bureaucrats from several countries.

In the farthest northeast, the Liao Kingdom also faced the unstable factors of the weak and brave Jurchen Aguda. The Jurchen Aguda tribe has integrated the power of some tribes and is calling the Korean people dads.

Under the instigation of people like the Stump Stick Guan Qi, Tubo is also fighting each other for their own battles.

Cha Ge has lost power, and now there are Gao Fangping and Xiao Heda, who are facing the competition for ownership of the Hexi Corridor.

Yes, Gao Fangping did not officially enter the Hexi Corridor, but in the current competition, once the main force of Xixia was severely injured by Gao Fangping and Xiping Prefecture was in a hurry, Xixia would be unable to survive the distance, so the Zhong Shidao Department could easily eat Xiliang Prefecture and the Gansu Military Office.

In that case, the Hexi Corridor will officially break away from the control of the Xixia people. The dumping caravan from Jiangzhou will also rely on the Hexi Corridor to go further away. A shit-scratch stick like Guan Qi will have a bigger stage.

So the current situation is a world war in Gao Fangping’s world...

Xiao Heda, the upstart general of the Western Xia Dynasty, crawled devoutly in Chengtian Temple.

As a Liao native, he didn't believe in Buddhism. However, the only way is that Buddhism is the Western Xia national religion, and even after Chage's strong promotion of sinicization, the Western Xia system is still a bit strange. There is really a national teacher in Xixia, and the status theory of the national teacher is higher than that of the prime minister and the Privy Councilor. This is the "charter" of Xixia.

It is better to think that Li Qianshun is a bit more vulgar. After listening to Cha Ge's promotion of the Chinese rituals, it would be better. If the Emperor of Xixia who went further forward would be granted the title of the National Master, in addition to being granted the title of the National Master, he would also be granted the title of the Emperor. His status was much higher than that of the Grand Master of the Song Dynasty.

In fact, the national master did not dare to be too arrogant to this upstart Xiao Heda, so he talked about friendship with his peers and politely invited Xiao Heda to sit down and start drinking tea with him.

Moreover, the national master invited the Tripitaka, the treasure that governs the temple, to protect the temple. I don’t know if this is considered a pre-war prayer?

"Please ask the Ming King." Xiao Heda said respectfully, "I have never been able to sleep peacefully recently. Old man woke up from his dream at night, but he couldn't recall what he was afraid of?"

The Ming King of Dazang looked solemn and wrapped the Buddhist beads in his hands and put them together with his palms: "The so-called thinking about something on the day will lead to dreams at night. Xiao Xiang, you said you can't know what you are afraid of in dreams. Obviously, that is the problem you are most reluctant to face during the day. I don't know what you are afraid of, but you must ask yourself when you wake up during the day, what are you afraid of?"

Xiao Heda was stunned and spread his hands and said, "What am I afraid of? I am not afraid of anything."

"That's good. Otherwise, the army of Song State was about to reach Xiping Prefecture, and Brother Cha had already stepped down from the altar. If you are brave and good at fighting, you will be afraid of your fate in Xixia," said the Ming King.

Xiao Heda was annoyed. The old monk was probably wearing a pair of pants with Brother Cha. He said that he was afraid of Gao Fangping and could not beat Gao Fangping?

Thinking of this, Xiao Heda, who was eager to show himself, was becoming increasingly more and more quick to fight and decide.

King Ming carefully put his expression in his eyes and sighed, no longer saying anything, but looked at the sky and said, "The rain has not been seen yet, maybe... the drought this year has become a settlement."

If it were in Liao Kingdom, Xiao Heda would have lifted the table and cut off the Ming King, but here he could only swallow his anger, get up and leave with a squint.

After leaving Chengtian Temple, Xiao Heda felt that monks could not trust. They pretended to be mysterious and secrets all day long and liked to be horrifying. They were not direct enough at all. God knows what the old monk was talking about?

However, despite this, what the Ming King seemed to say makes some sense. There are many rumors that are still supporting Brother Cha, saying that Xiao Heda is afraid of Gao Fangping and dare not respond, and that Xiao Heda is afraid.

This is the problem that Xiao Heda is most reluctant to face. It is just like the reason cannot be found in a dream. In fact, in reality, Xiao Heda doesn’t know whether he is afraid of Gao Fangping or is he afraid that others will say that he can’t beat Gao Fangping?

Then he looked up at the scorching sun, then looked down at the cracked land. It was still not raining, so the old monk didn't say anything, which was not a good sign. If it didn't rain again, the fatal problem that arises is that the entire Hetao area has a large lack of forage this year.

When the forage was short, the herdsmen's cattle, sheep and horses were of course crying. The Western Xia was not the Song Dynasty who had the ability and financial resources to raise horses with agricultural and animal husbandry technology. Then, under the drought food crisis, they faced the destruction of the Western Xia cavalry culture, because a large number of war horses would be killed and eaten by the herdsmen, instead of leaving them to the court to fight.

This is nothing wrong. The people of Xixia simply have to make a living. In the past, as long as they had food, they could collect their war horses and serve the country. However, in such a year, they could not get horses. If they had no food and even took away their cattle and horses, they would likely use a knife to help Gao Fangping cut off the Xixia government. That's the reason.

The most hateful thing is the damn horse thieves from Huiqiu. They are the real robbers without any bottom line. They are even more vulgar than the Xixia people. They always harass the Xixia Hexi Corridor for decades, burning, killing and looting. Just because they are guarding against them, the Gansu Military Office is firmly stationed in Ganzhou and cannot move.

Hesitating, Xiao Heda turned his head and asked his confidant beside him: "Tell me truthfully, what time can the food and grass in Xingqing Prefecture support?"

The confidant whispered worriedly: "Return to Xiao Xiang, it's enough...it's only enough..."

"Answer me!" Xiao Heda suddenly held his collar.

"It's only enough for two months, and looking at the situation, the harvest this year will be extremely limited. Weizhou, an extremely important grain-producing land, has now fallen into Gao Fangping's hands. The situation in Xiazhou is not optimistic and is strategically besieged by Liu Yanqing's troops. As for other regions, you know in your heart that there is not much grain to produce." The trusted subordinate whispered, "The grain reserves last year were collected and used for hundreds of thousands of troops to enter the Song State after being collected. However, unlike in the past, Cha Ge failed to bring back more supplies from Song State this time, and only brought back scars. This is because Song State produced Gao Fangping."

Xiao Heda's mentality is getting worse and worse now, and he hates others' names mentioned by Gao Fangping more and more.

Originally, he was counting on the boy who entered Xixia and massacred it, which was just enough to gather the hearts of the people of Xixia, and then let the Xixia court fool everyone to contribute all their strength to the national war and swear to resist Gao Fangping's invasion to the death. However, on the 1st, he served the people of Xixia better than the Xixia government.

After thinking for a while, Xiao Heda suddenly pulled out half of his waist. This scared the surrounding bureaucrats to kneel on the ground.

Xiao Heda smiled grimly, "Although you were not a big harvest in the last year, you did not lack food. The introduction of hundreds of thousands of troops of Chage's troops seemed to be huge, but in fact, there were many supplies from the occupied areas of the Song Dynasty. How could the Xixia be consumed by the expeditionary army with all the strength of the country? Where did the money and food go?"

The subordinates were frightened and dared not say anything.

However, after Xiao Heda put the knife around his neck, a bureaucrat who almost pissed his pants swallowed, "There are places to go. When the Chage tribe was unable to win Gao Fangping, the powerful people in Xingqing Prefecture had a premonition of the crisis and began to store grain and collect grain. In addition, the Ming Dynasty of Dazang also requested an order to expand and repair Chengtian Temple, asking for huge demands, but His Majesty also approved..."

Xiao Heda was almost so angry that he spit out an old mouthful of blood.

I wanted to curse the traitors, but I looked around and looked at the majestic Chengtian Temple behind me, and finally left without saying a word with a blue face.

It’s not that he doesn’t want to say it, but that he can’t say it. The powerful people in Xingqing Prefecture are not something that he, Xiao Heda, can move outsiders from the Liao Kingdom. Those people were the heroes who followed Cha Ge Li Ganshun to quell the civil strife of foreign relatives. The Chengtian Temple behind him, the sage King Dazang Ming, who pretended to be a ghost, was even more of the national teacher.

With the climate of Western Xia, the Ming King just couldn't bite Cha Ge, but a word not only allowed Xiao Heda to step down, but even caused a lot of trouble for Xiao Heda's mistress Yelu Nanxian!

"In the future, those who are in trouble in the world will definitely be these traitors!" Xiao Heda thought with dark eyes. Before he could go to the battlefield, a burst of blood was pouring out.

A confidant warrior was a Khitan warrior who came from the Liao Kingdom. His real confidant, so he leaned closer and whispered: "Xiao Xiang, is Brother Cha still controlling the remote control and stumbling to you, do you want to take him..."

As he said that, the ruthless man gestured to wipe his neck.

Xiao Heda sighed and shook his head, as if he had just gotten aged a few years in an instant, whispered: "This is not his brother Cha's fault. If something happens to him, Xingqing Mansion will not be able to suppress the powerful people who harm the country and the people. Perhaps our Princess Ancheng will also be implicated. After all, Brother Cha is His Majesty's younger brother. Secondly, if the decisive battle between Benxiang and Gao Fangping fails, Brother Cha has to come out to wipe his butt, otherwise Xixia will be in danger of destruction."

After the group quickly entered the Privy Council, Xiao Heda entered the state, stared at the military area map on the wall, and finally sighed: "It is hard to cook without rice. Brother Cha is right. In fact, we can only guard it tightly and it is not appropriate to dispatch the last main force commander to go south to fight. However, civil strife is about to arise, and the people of Xingqing Prefecture and Xiping Prefecture are panicked. Now, when the food and grass are less than two months of use, we cannot wait any longer. Otherwise, we will collapse without fighting. We must take the initiative to fight against Gao Fangping's troops. After defeating Gao Fangping, we will obtain his food and grass equipment. Then the Baima Qiang Town Military Office needs to move southeast as fast as possible to defeat Liu Yanqing's troops in Xiazhou. The way for Xixia is: before the autumn harvest, the siege of Xiazhou, the largest grain-producing land, was lifted!"

The others were all fierce and ready to beat the ball. I heard that they were going to take the initiative, but now they are happy.

They are not Cha Ge and Xiao Heda, so they don’t care about why they should be careful about food and grass. In their concept, if there is no food and grass, just go out and kill the people with food. What’s the difficulty? Killing the people is much easier than killing Gao Fangpingbu.

Khan, they really thought so. This is why Gao Fang-Heibu doesn't need to be too good to win the hearts of the people.

After hurriedly dispatching the White Horse Army and the Right Chamber to the south under the command of the Privy Council, Xiao Heda began to recall the dream again, recalling the old monk who was infatuating the crowd.

When talking to Cha Ge, Lao Xiao did not say anything. As a foreign minister, he could be valued at this time and had the opportunity to compete with Gao Fang, a famous general of Song State, which was the honor of Xiao Heda from the perspective of a soldier.

But the mess that Cha Ge and Li Ganshun had been in trouble was a Xixia, which was in trouble and internal and external troubles. He could not prepare at all, so he could only rush to fight Gao Fangping in advance.

Although this is difficult, it is also an opportunity to be famous for its history. If Gao Fangping can be defeated, he will gain a reputation and glory that surpasses Cha Ge back then.

And this opportunity was achieved by the mistress Princess An Cheng Yelu Nanxian.

Xiao Heda knew very well that in fact, Li Ganshun was a vulgar political figure, very treacherous, and he would not trust outsiders easily. This time, Xiao Heda was reused because Princess An Cheng came forward to persuade Liao and asked Liao to help suppress Song.

Moreover, Brother Cha was defeated too badly in Song, so Xiao Heda had the opportunity to come to power to preside over the battle between Xia and Song.

"Gao Fangping and I, who are the dragon and the tiger, will hand over the answer from the battlefield after the fierce war. It is too early to be afraid of everything about him. If Brother Cha doesn't do it, it doesn't mean that I, Xiao Heda, can't do it either!" Old Xiao punched the table and shouted.

The generals of Xixia knelt on the ground and bowed their heads...
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