Not only were all the Dangxiang nobles in Shunzhou City looted by the Song army, but all the Xixia cities captured by the Song army were like this. This constitution had long been concluded in the Political Affairs Hall of the Song Dynasty. Three-quarters of the Dangxiang nobles' property collected was for the military expenditure of the Song army. If there was any excess, they would return to the position of the state's fiscal revenue that year. Half of the remaining quarter was controlled by the commander, used to fight fiercely by the soldiers, and the remaining half was used to wait for them to return to the court when they won the victory and returned to the court. Song Ting praised the expenses.

Influenced by the custom of hiding gold in the Han people's homes, there was a very special team among the robbed team. Their task was to immediately preserve various documents and archives from the administrative agencies of the Western Xia in the city after the siege of the city for future governance; there was also a type of craftsmen who were proficient in architectural structures, and their main responsibility was to help the robbed team conduct a carpet-style search of the homes of the Dangxiang nobles and find the hidden gold hidden in hidden places. Of course, the last one was sent by Xiao Wang's prince consort, who specially collected various books from the Western Xia.

For Wang Jinghui's original intention, destroying a country is not a difficult task. The key is how to destroy this civilization. Only in this way can the aliens in the newly recovered territory be quickly assimilated into Han people at the fastest speed. However, he was very clear about the destructive nature of the war, and it was inevitable that many precious classics disappeared. Therefore, he installed his own people in the plundering team and searched for all the books written in Xixia. He moved them to Biandu, where special talents were responsible for sorting out these classics. Wang Jinghui wanted to understand everything about Xixia in order to lay a theoretical foundation for future actions.

The plunder of the Dangxiang nobles made the Song army far exceed everyone's imagination. In addition to the full pockets of the soldiers who participated in the search process, the value of the concentrated land after the booking was also more than 10 million yuan. Such results made everyone excited--the surrounding big cities are nothing in the eyes of the Song army. Its prosperity is nothing compared to the large county towns of the Song Dynasty, but how much wealth will there be in Xingqing Prefecture, the center of Xixia?!

Originally, it was not easy for everyone to be able to plunder more than 5 million coins from the Dangxiang nobles, but this wealth of more than 10 million coins almost knocked out the ministers of the Zhengshitang. The court has invested only 40 million coins in finance since the launch of the War to Destroy Xia. Unexpectedly, the occupation of several big cities turned the war into a profitable transaction. All the locals couldn't help but think of the memorial in the hands of Emperor Zhao Xu - the secret letter of the son-in-law.

"The Western Xia Kingdom was established for decades and plundered the Song Dynasty and its surrounding areas. Only the Liao Kingdom could win it. After that, the Liaoxia peace was peaceful, so it accumulated a lot of wealth. The main sources were three - the income from launching war plunder; the income from exporting cattle and sheep and trading to the Song Dynasty; the goods traveling to and from the West were charged 40% of the fees and then resold them to the Song Dynasty or the Liao Kingdom. The accumulation over the past few decades will not be a small amount. If the Song Dynasty did not take it, it would be a favorable way to rebel well, then these property would be used for the rebellion in the future. Therefore, in order to completely destroy the potential of the Western Xia, peace in the northwest must be completely destroyed!..."

It is not a secret for Wang Jinghui to have how many wealthy Xixia can have - the Intelligence Bureau of the Song Dynasty and its own commercial network can provide him with a very good result. In particular, the commercial network built by Xu helped him provide him with a lot of information about the economic of Xixia. Xixia was much more serious than the wealth uneven situation in the Song Dynasty, and 90% of the social wealth of Xixia were concentrated in the hands of aristocrats who accounted for less than one percent of the total population. If Xixia had not occupied an extremely important geographical location and its specialty - livestock and horses, relying on this as a basis for commercial trade and continuous wars to the outside world, the economy of Xixia would have collapsed long ago.

So much wealth is concentrated in the hands of so few people, which creates conditions for plunder, but the real motivation is to reduce the cost of war. Wang Jinghui's approach to defeating the Huns like Emperor Wu of Han, the country's economy fell on the verge of collapse was extremely opposed to the practice of launching wars. The goal of launching wars to the outside world is to demand resources, and the ultimate reaction is to make the people live a better life. The country's economy is in trouble because of the war, so it is better to fight unnecessary wars less. Wang Jinghui does not want to defeat the national economy poor because of the Xia War, and then the confrontation with Liao will be delayed for a long time in the future. Since history has taken a major turning point, he does not have to wait for the rise of the Jin Kingdom to attack Liao Kingdom and then attack Liao Kingdom from north to south. The best result is that the Song Dynasty destroyed Liao alone, occupying favorable resources and terrain to deal with the challenges from the northern nomadic peoples in the future - a complete change of history!

When Wang Jinghui received this information about the robbery of the total wealth, he just nodded secretly. The ministers of the Political Affairs Hall were already scared of poverty. Millions of coins were already huge in their eyes, and in Wang Jinghui's eyes, this was not even half of them. The more exciting part was waiting for the Song army to fight for in Xingqing Mansion! Thinking about the Liang clan's extremely luxurious life, he hoped that the Song army who attacked the city would not be stunned when they saw it. However, in order to avoid the excessive accidental loss of the spoils, he still wrote a letter to Zhong Yan, telling him that the wealth in Xingqing Mansion was very huge and that no "accident" would happen if it was protected as much as possible.

Just as Zhong Yan, Yang Chongyue and Wang Shao's army were all moving towards Xingqing Prefecture and completing the siege of Xingqing Prefecture, in Dingzhou City not far from the north, Wang Shun and his senior brothers were very interested in watching a prisoner - Liang Geqi, the messenger whom Queen Dowager Liang asked for help from the Liao Kingdom, had been caught by them. Of course, the letter submitted by Queen Dowager Liang to the Liao Kingdom Emperor Yelu Hongji was also intercepted by them. The Khitan text above did not cause much trouble for them - the prince consort had sent someone to teach them a lot, and they had already figured out the content of the letter.

Wang Shun took enough information from Liang Geqi's mouth. After the transcript, he sent a team of personal troops to escort Liang Geqi and the intelligence to Zhong Yan. Then he ordered the Dingxi Army to quickly assemble and continue to move north. More than 400,000 Song troops had been concentrated around Xingqing Prefecture. With powerful firearms to attack Xingqing Prefecture, which became an isolated city, it was really a knives to kill chickens and slaughter a knives. His Dingxi Army really had no need to share this with Zhong Yan. The credit was not only better than being more beautiful in appearance, but also no benefit to the overall situation.

After accepting the surrender of the Dingzhou garrison five days ago, Wang Shun did not rush his troops to attack Xingqing Prefecture, but sent cavalry to the surrounding area of ​​Xingqing Prefecture, cleared all the small towns and tribes around him, and took away all the things that could be taken away, and did not make any attacks. Instead, the vanguard continued to go north and captured the Shengwei City on the intersection of Dahe and Luotuo Port. The troops were 500 miles away from Dingzhou and the Baimaqiang Town Office 800 miles away. The total Dangxiang Army was only 40,000, and they were not very combative. The only cavalry that could be praised was just a meal in the eyes of the Dingxi Army, which was formed with the Poxi Army as the foundation.

Not to take the initiative to attack Xingqing Mansion. It was also the advice Wang Jinghui gave him - Wang Jinghui paid the most attention to his disciples. The rapid advance of the Frozen made him extremely pleased. Before attacking Xingqing Mansion, the most powerful military achievements of the Song army were Wang Shun's Dingxi Army. This was a good thing, but it was bad because Wang Shun was once his student. Then after Ding Cheng, Pei Cheng and Ji Cheng also came to Dingxi Army, the army was vaguely marked as "The Prince Consort". Although the emperor did not think so, he had to be guarded against it. If Wang Shun really went to fight

Xingqing Prefecture. Empress Dowager Liang could not withstand the pressure of the Song army in Xiancheng surrender. What should I do if Zhong Yan? Of course, with Wang Jinghui's understanding of Empress Dowager Liang's behavior, the possibility of Xiancheng surrender happening is not high. But we have to be careful that this contribution should be taken. There is no need to have conflicts about this to destroy the relationship between him and the Conservative Party. Wang Shao of the New Party and Zhong Yan of the Conservative Party both valued the honor of breaking Xingqing Prefecture more than the sky. It would be unfavorable that even if the emperor issued an edict to withdraw his troops at this time, they would resist the order. Wang Shun was involved in it.

Wang Jinghui pointed out a road for Wang Shun - heading north towards the Hetao Plain, destroying everything there, turning it into a pile of ruins, horses, livestock, food, and even population. All things were taken away, and all those that could not be taken away were destroyed, leaving only a piece of ruins for the Khitans. Wang Jinghui wanted to see if there was not enough population and how the Liao Kingdom developed the Hetao Plain. Even if the Liao Kingdom was reluctant to give up this fertile land, after the Liao Kingdom spent more than ten years restoring the Hetao Plain, the Song army would have already taken action against the Liao Kingdom!

Wang Shun had no special desire to conquer Xingqing Prefecture and win honor, but he would never violate Wang Jinghui's instructions. After receiving the letter, he immediately sent a vanguard to advance north. Shengwei City was just his first target, which was also considered as establishing a supply base and starting point for the northward attack. As for the right wing Chaoshun Army and Baimaqiang Town Army on the way to the Hetao Plain, he did not take it seriously at all, but was just delaying more time. The key is what kind of borrowing Wang Shun should use.

Heading northward, after all, the 100,000 Dingxi Army was a considerable force in the war to destroy Xia, and Dingzhou was a strategic location. It was directly blocked the escape route to Xingqing Prefecture to the north. It was easy to sort out if you were happy unless you attack Xingqing Prefecture, otherwise the mountains and clearance of Dingzhou would definitely be impeached. Although Wang Shun knew that now, all the generals of the Song army hoped that the monster of Dingxi Army would not participate in the siege of Xingqing Prefecture, they should find a suitable statement. Liang Geqi's letter of help from the Emperor of the Great Liao gave him this excuse.

Wang Shun could no longer wait for Zhong Yan's general order. In addition to the 20,000 Dingxi Army who had already attacked north from the 20,000 Dingxi Army, which had already been attacking north, the remaining 80,000 were also withdrawn from the occupied cities, handing over the defense forces to the plundering troops behind, all gathered in Dingzhou, and after bringing enough supplies, he advanced to the north in a mighty manner.

The Dingxi Army, which was reorganized with the Paoxi Army as its foundation, has very strong combat power. On the land of Xixia, whether it is the Dangxiang people or the Song army, if the number of people is equal, the Dingxi Army itself can defeat or even completely annihilate the enemy without hurting its vitality. At this time, the fangs of this "monster" - the van of the Dingxi Army, the nearly 20,000 vanguard cavalry of the Dingxi Army were in a lightning speed and opened the way for the main force in front, and had not yet waited for Wang Shun to arrive in Shengwei.

On the other side of the city, the vanguard troops had occupied the Right Xiang Chao Shun Army Division. After Wang Shun arrived at the Right Xiang Chao Shun Army Division, the vanguard had defeated the main force of the Baimaqiang Town Army Division in the Gobi Desert near the desert. These two military divisions were in the hinterland of the Western Xia and were close to the desert, so the West Xia did not station heavy troops here at the beginning. Even the city wall was only a symbolic earth wall of more than one person high. Such fortifications could not stop the footsteps of the Dingxi Army.

The destruction of the Shun Army Division of the Right Chapel and the Baimaqiang Town Army Division provided safe guarantees for Wang Shun's logistics. On the fifth day, the vanguard troops captured the southern gate of the Hetao Plain, Hue Du. Two days later, Wang Shun's 80,000 main force of the Dingxi Army also arrived here.

The Yellow River is divided into two tributaries not far from the north of Hue Crossing. Between these two tributaries is the Hetao Plain. Since it is the northernmost end of the Yellow River, the river speed becomes very slow due to the influence of the terrain. There are countless tributaries of the Yellow River between the two DCs to nourish this land, making it an important agricultural and animal husbandry base in Xixia, and horse herds and livestock herds can be seen everywhere.

Wang Shun and his Dingxi Army were not in a good mood to see the beautiful scenery of the Hetao Plain - this time they came to this land to act as destroyers and destroyers. The orders Wang Shun gave to his soldiers were very simple. Anyone who was running on four legs was taken away except for military rations; all the people who saw them were killed by weapons, and those who dared to resist were killed. The rest were moved away; all the food that could be eaten was taken away to the greatest extent except for military rations, and all those who could not be taken away would be burned!

Under such orders and guidance, the vanguard troops that Wang Shun arrived in two days had been broken into pieces and scattered everywhere to carry out orders. All ships in Huhuadu were requisitioned to transport the spoils of Dingxi Army - livestock, horses, food... and population!

The Weifu Army Division of Heishan and the largest city here are nearly 800 miles away from Huedu. When the Dingxi Army began to make smoke everywhere in the western part of the Hetao Plain, the Dangxiang people stationed here had not received any news. The troops stationed here were mainly to guard against the Liao Kingdom, but because of the special relationship between the Xixia and the Liao Kingdom, and the two countries had been peace for decades. In order to show their obedience to the Liao Kingdom, the senior leaders of the Xixia ruler did not station many troops here, and they only symbolically stationed troops to indicate that the fertile land of the Hetao Plain belongs to the Xixia. That's all.

If the Battle to Destroy Xia simply from a military perspective, the Dangxiang forces used to pacify the Hetao Plain do not need to go out in full swing, but the Hetao Plain is too close to the Liao Kingdom. If the Liao people suddenly send troops to Xixia, it will bring great pressure to the Song army in the Hetao Plain - this is not only a consideration of combat effectiveness, but also because the final result of the early military operations against the Liao Kingdom in the Song Dynasty was absolutely at a disadvantage, that is,

In the battle of the Yuan Alliance, both sides suffered losses and signed a "year-old monies" that made the Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers unable to raise their heads. What embarrassed Emperor Zhao Xu was that Emperor Yelu Hongji of Liao had lived long enough. According to the Emperors of Song and Liao, the Song and Liao countries of the Yuan Alliance, he wanted to control Yelu Hongji as "uncle", which was absolutely unbearable in the eyes of the arrogant Zhao Xu. The pressure on the Song Dynasty was not only from military forces, but also from huge mental pressure!

After receiving the letter of Liang Geqi and the letter of help from Wang Shun, Zhong Yan felt indescribable about the Dingxi Army going north to fight into the Hetao Plain. The Dingxi Army did not participate in the battle of Xingqing Prefecture, which made all the Song generals breathe a sigh of relief. The unknown Wang Shun captured four big cities in one breath. The combined results of all the Song army's busy work for almost a month were not as good as those of this one. Now he finally won a game in Xingqing Prefecture. However, looking back, the only thing among the Song army was the Dingxi Army, the Liao Dynasty, was even more.

There is a chance of winning, and they have to admit that they still have a certain fear of the Liao army. After learning about the specific situation of the Western Xia, the Liao Kingdom, no matter what the outcome of the Pingxia War, would definitely have to do the Liao Kingdom's actions to send troops to pick peaches. It doesn't matter whether they can withstand the Hetao Plain. At this time, no one of the generals of the Song army had a clear understanding of the importance of the Hetao Plain. Even if Wang Shun's Dingxi Army was not as good as possible, he could firmly defend the Hue Du to ensure that the Xixia territory south of the Great River was controlled by the Song Dynasty.

"Dingxi Army? Dingxi Army! It really responds to the emperor's words. Whether the Song Dynasty can laugh to the end of the northwest situation depends on the result of the Dingxi Army's battle to enter the Hetao Plain this time!" Zhong Yan slowly thought to himself.
Chapter completed!