In October of the first year of Yizhiping in the Western Xia Dynasty (22).

Xingqing Prefecture, Imperial City.

Empress Dowager Liang looked at the peace treaty of Song Xia who arrived from the left wing Shenyongsi.

Then, she solemnly picked up the golden seal of the king given to the Nanman and used it on it.

Then, she stood up, hugged Xiao Wuzhang left and right, and came to her.

Empress Dowager Liang picked up the young Ganshun, looked at the ministers in the hall, and said, "I have already represented the soldiers and agreed to a peace agreement with the Southern Barbarians."

"After the peace agreement, after the exchange of alliance letters, the two countries will defend their borders from today!"

The ministers knelt down one after another, stroked their chests and saluted: "Promise!"

Queen Mother Liang nodded, looked at the ministers, and then said, "You and others will make peace talks. Send someone to inform the Prime Minister and ask the Prime Minister to withdraw his troops."

"Dabai Gaoguo can no longer afford to fight!"

Speaking of this, she shed tears: "A piece of silk in Xingqing Mansion has reached two thousand papers!"

"The people of Liangzhou Prefecture are now having a hard time eating."

"In Xingqing Mansion, even ten families cannot get a man of Cheng Ding."

"Please send the messenger to the Prime Minister..."

"Please leave a bite for the children and women of Dabai Gaoguo!"

"Please leave some vitality to Emperor Jingzong, Emperor Yizong and Emperor Huizong!"

But she completely ignored it. At the beginning of the war, she and the nobles in Xingqing Mansion supported her.

Even the civilians in Xingqing Prefecture support them.

When Liang Yibi started his army, a large number of young and strong men who were tortured by drought were dying, cheering and cheering, pushing the cart, carrying bows and arrows and livestock, and voluntarily joining the army.

They all looked forward to being able to tear off a piece of meat from the rich Nanman.

Even if the food and wealth he seized and the people he plundered were enough for many of them to get rich overnight.

But reality was hit by the head and blood.

Not only did they lose troops and generals, they were useless to consume national treasury, and they even did not capture any large city of the Southern Barbarians.

All the results of the battle are small villages and small outposts.

On the contrary, on his own side, the Shizhou Military Supervisory Office was defeated to collapse and almost completely lost all the cities on the junction of the Southern Barbarians' Fuyan Road.

The direction of Youzhou is also a big loss.

The three villages of Bai Bao, Jin Tang and Houqiao were taken away again.

Even the military supervisor and the prince-in-law were captured.

The Xihe Dingxi City, which the Prime Minister has been working hard, has not been taken down for more than a month.

Instead, he fell into minced meat with the Nanman Mountains throughout Mazhi Mountain.

This battle is getting worse!

Must stop loss!

Fortunately, the terms of the peace are quite decent.

The restrictions on the entry of green salt into Shaanxi were lifted, and the demand for the Jiaozi trade was also agreed - although the Dabai Gaoguo needed to exchange gold and silver.

At the same time, three market trading places have been added.

With these policies, everyone can go to Nanman to purchase a large amount of silk and tea, and sell these intimate goods to Western Regions merchants.

At the same time, you can also rely on Qingyan to continuously make high profits from Nanman.

Although it's not considered winning.

But at least it's not a loss.

...

Liang Yibi looked at the mountains in the distance.

The Southern Barbarians still did not give him any answers.

But his army could no longer hold on.

Food, armor and morale are all exhausted.

The most important thing is that the weather is getting worse and worse.

The north wind was already whistling, blowing from the Loess Plateau and the Ordos Plateau.

Hail started to fall at night.

It's not far from snow.

Once it snows, his army will have to retreat in the snowy night.

A torrent of hundreds of thousands of people, hundreds of thousands or even more livestock.

Enough to cause a disaster in the cold winter!

A disaster that was far beyond three years ago when Bingchang ruled Lanzhou, but was attacked by Song general Wang Wenyu at night, causing the camp to roar, the army collapsed, and more than 100,000 people rushed to escape. As a result, the Yellow River cracked and tens of thousands were buried in the glacier.

Because Bingchang was in front of Lanzhou, and behind him was Liangzhou.

The army can retreat calmly, and the food and fuel reserved in Liangzhou city are enough to support the needs of the army.

But now, his logistics base is the Nanmuhui surrounded by Tiandu Mountain, Hengshan Mountain and Roulang Mountain.

The Yanmianshan Road, which is close to a hundred miles, is enough to make all logistics supplies a nightmare in the cold winter.

The army retreated and it would be even more difficult to move forward.

"It's time to withdraw..."

His reason told him countless times.

But he dared not retreat, nor could he retreat.

Withdrawal is not an easy task.

This is especially true when the defeated army retreats.

There are more than 100,000 young and strong women in his army!

Some were drawn from the tribes of the Dabai Gao Kingdom, and some were forced from the Qiang tribe of Hengshan.

If one is not good, the entire army may collapse.

More than one hundred thousand people will become the flesh at the mouth of the Southern Barbarian cavalry.

Not to mention, in order to continue the war, he forcibly detained and placed a house arrest in the leader of the rich clan such as the Po Chou Family and Wuniu Family.

Once these people return to the Nanmu Association... Once they are free, they will leave with their troops and will never listen to his orders again.

"Prime Minister..." His confidant general Liang Yisheng came to him and whispered: "The food and grass sent by Nanmuhui is only five hundred trucks..."

"It's not enough to eat and use the army."

"Each ministries are slaughtering livestock..."

Liang Yibi listened, nodded and said, "I understand."

"Wait a little longer..."

He is waiting for a hope!

Nanman agreed to his hope of peace!

Once this is the case, he can withdraw his troops calmly, and with victory.

He could tell all the ministries of the Central Committee of the People's Republic of China that these conditions were all obtained by me, and I forced the Nanman to agree with a knife.

Under the scourge of interests, the Wuniu family and the Zhujue family will also pinch their noses to approve.

Now, it is undoubtedly much more difficult.

But he could only wait for a miracle, or a voice he didn't want to hear.

Fortunately, he has already made a backup plan.

The three elite troops of Iron Harrier, Bu Bazi, and Poxijun have been firmly controlled by him.

In addition, the elites from other departments were also won over by him.

As long as the army is in hand, everything is possible!

...

November is getting closer.

The temperature in Bianjing City is getting colder and colder.

Fortunately, the Baibo Transport Department and the Yuhe Canal Transport Department filled all the carbide fields inside and outside Bianjing before the Bian River was cut off.
To be continued...