Chang'an City is indeed the most magnificent building of this era. After two hundred years of five dynasties and ten kingdoms, the Liao, Xia and Song dynasties, there is still no building that can surpass it.

However, Chang'an City has been a little dilapidated. After all, such a huge building would soon become dilapidated if it were not the center of the regime and without a large amount of capital and manpower to maintain it.

But even so, this is still a heroic city.

However, this heroic city has changed hands now.

The generals guarding the city were loyal to Zhao Song, but in the face of new technologies that transcend the times, they still failed.

Faced with the rogue fighting style of Di Hu's army directly using explosives to open the way, the Song army had no way to resist.

When Chang'an City fell into the hands of Xixia, the army from the middle road went west to attack Fengxiang Prefecture, Weizhou, Qinzhou, and Minzhou, blocking the important road leading to Lizhou Road, and taking all Qinfeng Road into his pocket.

Zhong Yi's army divided the side troops, joined forces with Di Hu's army, and attacked Hezhong Prefecture together. Hezhong Prefecture was the front line of the Song army's resistance. If Hezhong Prefecture fell into the hands of Xixia, then Xixia could directly threaten Kaifeng.

In fact, when Chang'an was lost, the Song Dynasty was already numb.

Kaifeng Road in Chang'an is only 500 kilometers. Xixia leaves from Guanzhong east, but it takes only eight or nine days to reach the city of Bianjing. How can they not be afraid?

Therefore, the Song Dynasty seized the time to allocate troops to gather in Hezhong Prefecture to resist. On the other hand, Chaotian was fiercely arguing whether to stay in Bianjing to resist, take back the lost land, or immediately pack and run to Jiangnan, and then slowly plan it.

There is no need for too much debate here for Ouyang Bian. Of course, discussion is necessary, but the grand strategy has been decided, and the river must be defeated.

The concerns of the Song Dynasty were the same. Hezhong Prefecture was too close to Chang'an. If Hezhong Prefecture was not defeated, Ouyang Bian would not be able to sit in Chang'an with peace of mind.

After all, Hezhong Mansion is closer to Chang'an!

Hezhong Prefecture was already the last obstacle for Xixia to control the Shaanxi Sixth Road. After all, all the Shaanxi Sixth Road was occupied by Xixia.

But this is also a tough battle.

The Song Dynasty had gathered at least 200,000 troops in the river. Even though Ouyang Bian repeatedly defeated the Song army, he still had to be cautious when facing the 200,000 troops with city guards.

In order to win this battle, the three major war gods in the Western Xia army, Wang Shao and Di Hu gathered on the front line to discuss how to conquer Hezhong Prefecture with the minimum loss.

If Wang Shao and the others go, Ouyang Bian don’t have to worry. If they can’t fight, then there is no point in going through it.

Ouyang Bian was in Qingzhou and began to coordinate with Su Che, Lu Bing and others to adjust the civil affairs of Qinfeng Road and Yongxing Jun Road, and also focused on the reorganization of the surrendered Song Army.

There were more than 100,000 Song troops surrendered this time, and they belonged to Zhong Yan's subordinates and were taken away by Zhong Yi. After all, Zhong Yi was naturally able to command the troops.

The other surrendered Song troops had to be dismantled and reorganized before they could come in real use.

The Qingzhou Industrial Park has reopened. On the one hand, it is committed to developing civilian products, and military products also need to be produced in large quantities.

Civil goods are supplied to the people of Xixia and the sixth routes in Shaanxi. Of course, the majority is still export-oriented. Lingzhou Industrial Park has not been established for a long time, which is just to respond to emergency response. If you really want to create a lot of wealth, you have to Qingzhou Industrial Park, the world's largest industrial center.

Ouyang Bian’s current work is mainly three, one is to start the industrial park to ensure the economic recovery of Xixia and ensure the logistics of the army;

The second is to organize the civil affairs of Shaanxi Sixth Road. The local government has been strengthened, but it must be well managed and digested so that it can truly become the rear base supporting the Xixia grand strategy.

Ouyang Bian is very clear about the importance of Shaanxi Sixth Road. Only with the population, fertile land and industrial capabilities of Shaanxi Sixth Road can we truly dominate the world.

Third, reorganize the army. The surrendered Song army must be reorganized as soon as possible to truly become the power of Xixia. This step is very critical. Ouyang Bian wants the number of Han people in the Xixia army to form an advantageous force as soon as possible and make the Dangxiang army a minority force. This is the foundation for the solidarity of the Xixia army. Otherwise, once the dynasty is announced, the Xixia country may still be a little unstable.

After all, the Dangxiang nobles killed were only a small part, and the remaining nobles still had the possibility of rebellion. Although it might not lead to a major disaster, there may still be major problems if there are great enemies outside and internal strife inside.

In addition to making these three things easy to resume production in Qingzhou Industrial Park, the other two are not simple. Fortunately, Ouyang Bian has always been good at coordinating and has many capable people under his command.

In the army, Zhe Ju, Ju Jiyang, Rao Zhiying, Lan Shaohua, Sang Zhongliang and others were responsible for the reorganization. In the civil affairs, Su Che, Zheng Yong, Liang Tao, Lin Xi, Zhang Qi, Wu Juhou and others were assisted, as well as Jiayou scattered on the Sixth Road in Shaanxi and officials from the Central Bank.

In the same year of Jiayou and officials from the central bank, some were loyal to the emperor and patriotic. After being captured at first, some people were still seeking death. However, after Su Che and others met and chatted, they agreed to join Xixia.

This process is not simple, but what Ouyang Bian proposed convinced them. Ouyang Bian pointed out that this was not an invasion of alien races, but a war of unity within China.

This doesn't seem important, but it is very important to people of this era.

If it is an invasion of foreign enemies, it is national hatred and family hatred. But if it is an internal unified war, it is something with a sense of honor and is completely incomparable.

After all, one is a traitor and the other is a national hero, which is simply different.

In the same year as Jiayou and the officials of the central bank department have already taken important positions in recent years. With their support, all prefectures and counties have basically returned to normal under their auspices.

The Hezhong Prefecture on the front line continued to confront each other, and the heavy wind and snow in the northwest were getting heavier and heavier, which was more in line with Ouyang Bian because he needed time to sort out these things well. The heavy snow forced both sides to temporarily stop military activities, and gave both sides a chance to breathe.

While Ouyang Bian was sorting out his internal affairs, the Song Dynasty was arguing about grand strategies, and also began to carry out internal pursuing activities.

The situation within Xixia cannot be completely blocked. The Jinshis of Jiayou's second year list, such as Su Che, Zhang Dun, Wang Shao, etc., are in high positions in Xixia and controls military, politics and finance. It can be said that Xixia is already under the rule of these people, and the Jinshis of Jiayou's second year list in the Sixth Road in Shaanxi probably have surrendered.

There are also the figures of the Zhong family, the Zhe family, and the Di family, which makes the Zhao Song court very nervous.

Zhao Xu was shocked three times a day. Now he saw the officials on the second year of Jiayou Jinshi list and always felt that they might vote for Xixia at any time. Therefore, Zeng Bu was even neglected.

Zhao Xu promoted Cai Que as the chief political affairs officer and Cai Jing as the Hanlin Bachelor, and the two Cai formed a check and balance against Zeng Bu.

As for the Chief Censor Su Shi, he was sent to the prefectures and counties after being sent to the prefectures and counties, while Lu Huiqing and others were transferred to some inconspicuous positions.

The generals of the Zhong family in the Hedong Army were removed from their posts and replaced by generals who had nothing to do with the Zhong family, the Zhe family, and the Di family. The army underwent a major change.

But even so, Zhao Xu was still restless day and night, especially when there was a news from the front that shocked the Zhao Song court and was shocked - the so-called Prime Minister of the Western Xia Kingdom, Ouyang Jun, was actually the dead Ouyang Bian!

The news was not officially confirmed, but Zhao Xu had a strong premonition - that was Ouyang Bian!

Zhao Xu was extremely frightened.

He understood very well that with Ouyang Bian's ability, the Song Dynasty was in danger!

Zhao Xu immediately sent someone to control Ouyang Bian's family, but was shocked to find that Ouyang Bian's family was missing.

Previously, Ouyang Bian's three brothers, Ouyang Fa, Ouyang Yi and Ouyang Fen, all resigned from their posts and went to help Ouyang Xiu guard the cemetery. Ouyang Bian's wife also came back there, but she didn't expect that Ouyang Xiu's cemetery had been empty.

At this time, what else can I doubt? Ouyang Jun, the Western Xia army, was the former Ouyang Bian!

Sure enough, when it was snowing in the Song Dynasty, news came from Xixia that Xixia had officially recognized that the Secretary of the Secretariat of the Western Xia was Ouyang Bian!

The whole country was in an uproar in the Song Dynasty.

However, this is not the most shocking thing. What is most shocking is that Xixia not only carried out land reforms in its original territory, causing bloody storms, but also carried out reforms in six roads in Shaanxi. Many landlords who fled in panic flocked to Bianjing City, and the news was completely spread!

In the mouths of these landlords and gentry, the Xixia people were very cruel. If they were unwilling to hand over the land, they would either get out of the sixth route in Shaanxi or lose their heads. The Xixia army was cruelly causing a bloody storm!

These news made the civil servant group of the Song Dynasty extremely angry.

They all shouted that they must take back the lost land and organize a huge army to drive the Xixia people out, so that the Xixia people would not be able to further the Xixia people.

Zhao Xu couldn't help but feel excited.

If everyone can work together, the world of Song Dynasty will not be in chaos.

So when Zhao Xu asked what to do, the civil servants expressed their opinions one after another, but Zhao Xu became darker the more he listened.

The civil servants’ opinion is to go to the south quickly.

The reason is that the people of Xixia are so cruel that the landlords of the Song Dynasty will definitely resist tenaciously. As long as the court of the Song Dynasty exists, they can continue to resist. The people of Xixia will not be arrogant for long.

However, the primary premise is that the Song Dynasty court must learn to protect itself. Bianjing City has no dangers to defend, so it is better to go to Jiangnan to ensure safety.

Zhao Xu couldn't help but get angry when he heard this.

Isn’t this the escape theory?

However, Zhao Xu also agreed in his heart, after all, safety is the first priority.

Therefore, when the imperial court recruited troops on a large scale, the southern tour was already underway.
Chapter completed!