Poor Family Chapter 971

  Chapter 971 Xixia destroys the country

Little by little time passed, and Xixia never intended to surrender. On the top of the city, Li Cha's eyes were determined. Xixia could perish, but he would never surrender. The ancestors of Xixia would not surrender to the Song Dynasty. It was like this when the country was founded. It was the same in Guoshi, he would rather die than shame his ancestors.

In the distance, three huge catapults of the Song Army were approaching the palace. Brother Li Cha knew that these three catapults would pour countless kerosene into the palace and burn the palace completely. Perhaps this is what he hoped for. Let Xixia live forever in the fire.

   At this moment, an **** ran over and whispered: "His Royal Highness, Your Majesty invites you to go to the ancestral temple for the last farewell ceremony!"

   This is a must, the last time to sacrifice to your ancestors.

  Brother Li Cha nodded, walked quickly up the city, and walked quickly to the main hall of the ancestral temple with more than a dozen personal soldiers. The front of the main hall was full of guards. There was a melodious bell ringing inside, as if some kind of ceremony was being held.

  Brother Li Cha waved his hand to stop the soldiers. He tidied up his clothes and hat, and walked quickly into the hall.

But just as Brother Li Cha entered the hall, the door behind him was slammed shut. He suddenly felt something was wrong, turned around and pulled out his sword, only to feel a sharp pain in his back, and more than a dozen arrows shot through his chest. On the back, the sword in his hand fell to the ground with a clatter.

  Brother Li Cha turned around slowly, only to see more than a dozen members of the Li family appearing in front of him, glaring at him one by one.

   "It's you?" Brother Li Cha was extremely shocked, the person who killed him turned out to be his clan.

   Li Renzong stepped forward with a sword in his hand, gritted his teeth and said: "You want to die but let us be buried with you, so we have to let you die first."

  Brother Li Cha slowly shook his head, "You are ashamed of the ancestors of Xixia!"

"go to hell!"

   Li Renzong pierced Brother Li Cha's chest with a sharp sword, and Brother Li Cha fell slowly, and finally died in the hands of his own people.

Li Renzong touched Brother Li Cha's breath, nodded to more than a dozen clans, and everyone walked quickly to the ancestral temple, and when they came to a hut, Li Renzong said: "Your Majesty, Brother Li Cha has been killed in battle, everyone They all hope to surrender and preserve the descendants of Xixia lineage."

   "I don't have any opinion, you can do whatever you want!" Li Qianshun's deep voice came from the room.

   Everyone turned around and walked quickly outside the ancestral temple, "Your Majesty has an order, put down your weapons and surrender! Your Majesty has an order, put down your weapons and surrender!"

  At this time, a ray of light shone into the room, and there was no Xixia son in the room, only a monk who became a monk.

In late May of the third year of Jianyan, Li Yanqing led an army of 80,000 to capture Xingqing Mansion, the capital of Xixia. Under the leadership of Li Renzong, the royal family of Xixia surrendered to Li Yanqing. As the melodious bells rang in the city, the century-old Xixia Kingdom finally came to an end and perished under the attack of the Song Army.

Although Xixia was destroyed, the war was still going on. Li Yanqing immediately divided his troops into four groups and rushed to various places in Xixia to destroy the embers of Xixia. At the same time, the Qianxi Xia Army secretly completed an arms deal with the four tribes of Mobei, exchanging 100,000 sets of armor for 5 million cattle and sheep.

  At the beginning of June, Li Yungui, the Xixia clan guarding Hetao, heard the news of Xixia's demise, and led 5,000 troops to abandon Hetao and flee eastward, and went to Datong Mansion to join the Jin soldiers.

   Three days later, 20,000 Song troops arrived in Hetao and occupied the last piece of land in Xixia.

  At this time, thousands of herdsmen drove five million cattle and sheep to appear on the grassland north of Hetao.

These days Li Yanqing is extremely busy. First, the whole city of Xingqing Mansion was under martial law for three days, searching for soldiers and generals who slipped through the net. restore order.

The next step is to clean up Xixia's treasury grain and grass, and verify various assets and land. All property and land belonging to the Xixia royal family and princes and nobles will be confiscated, and another standard will be set. The Song army will not confiscate the items below the standard.

  Early this morning, Yang Zhaohe came to see Li Yanqing.

   "Yang Tongsan can still adapt to the new position!"

   "Thanks to the low-ranking officials are all reused. Although there are many things, they can still be handled well. It's just that something happened last night, and the subordinates are very embarrassed."

"whats the matter?"

Yang Zhaohe said with anger on his face: "Last night, more than a dozen soldiers were drunk and broke into a Xixia official's house, demanding money and prostitution women. The officials arrived in time to stop them. , As a result, they became furious, beat up the subordinate official and several of his subordinates, and walked away. This matter has spread, and the Xixia officials dare not speak out."

   Li Yanqing was furious, he slapped the table and ordered his soldiers: "Go and find me Wang Gui and Liu Kai!"

The soldiers rushed away, Li Yanqing was annoyed, and paced back and forth in the big tent with his hands behind his back. He had repeatedly emphasized military discipline, but this kind of thing still happened. After the country is destroyed, it is first necessary to stabilize politically and disintegrate the Xixia people psychologically. The resistance to the Song Dynasty gradually made them accept the reality. After a long time, everyone gradually forgot Xixia.

   But at this time, my soldiers are doing this kind of thing, extorting money, and wanting to **** women. This is unbearable, and it will ruin my own affairs.

   Not long after, Wang Gui and Liu Kai hurried into the big tent, bowed and saluted, "See Dutong!"

  Li Yanqing slapped the table, "Whose army was on duty in the city last night?"

  The army did not have a holiday, obviously it was done by the soldiers on duty.

  Wang Gui didn't know what happened, so he hurriedly said: "Yesterday, a subordinate of a humble job was on duty."

  Li Yanqing said to Yang Zhaofang: "You tell him!"

  Yang Zhao conveniently recounted what happened last night, and Wang Gui was also taken aback. Drinking while on duty is already a serious violation of military discipline, and going to the door to steal money and humiliate others is a capital crime!

  He was sweating profusely, "I'll go and investigate the humble post, and I will definitely punish it severely according to military regulations."

  Li Yanqing said to Wang Gui again: "Take Yang Tongsan to identify people together, and we must kill them once to warn others, and we are not allowed to do it again."

   "The humble job understands!"

  Wang Gui saluted and hurried away with Yang Zhaofang.

   At this time, Liu Kai hesitated and said, "There is a saying, I don't know if I should say it or not?"

   "Just say it!"

   "Dutong, recently there have been some rumors in the army that Dutong is too lenient towards the Xixia nobles, and he doesn't feel like destroying the country."

  Li Yanqing had also heard these rumors, and when Liu Kai mentioned this matter again, he couldn't help but sneer, "What is it like for them to destroy the country? Let me relax military discipline and let them burn, kill and **** in Xingqing Mansion?"

  Liu Kai sighed, "Man died for money and destroyed Xixia, but the brothers didn't get any benefits. It's inevitable to have some complaints."

   "I'm ready for their benefits!"

  Li Yanqing said indifferently: "Fifty sheep per person will be delivered to their homes one by one after they are transported to Jingzhao Mansion, so that the whole family will be happy."

  Liu Kai understood, "These sheep are the sheep exchanged with several major tribes in Mobei!"

Li Yanqing nodded, "Do you think I didn't consider giving benefits to the soldiers? Why did Xixia destroy the country? Isn't it because the country is weak and unable to support the war, so it was finally defeated? You have also visited Xixia's treasury, it is empty, gold Less than 200,000 taels, less than a million taels of silver, all kinds of cloth and silk are gone, and only a million pieces of sheepskins have been seized, what should I give to the soldiers?"

   After a moment of silence, Liu Kai said again: "At the beginning, Dutong wanted to wipe out the Xixia royal family, but in the end he let them go!"

Li Yanqing shook his head and said: "It's not as simple as we thought. I just got the news from Xixia. It was their envoy stationed in Lin'an who sent a letter. The emperor has ordered the Song army to stop attacking Xixia immediately. The two sides will negotiate." , to end the war."

   Liu Kai was taken aback, "Is the news true?"

"It should be true. The emperor's decree can only be said to be forced and helpless. In fact, I can also guess that the Supreme Emperor and his party members used various methods to exert pressure. The basic point is that the Song Dynasty is in danger of being destroyed. Forbearance to destroy other countries, no benevolence and no righteousness, this is very powerful! Without the brand of benevolence and righteousness, the official position will be unstable, and I, Li Yanqing, will also be put on the moral judgment stand, so I think twice, try my best Kill less, don't let the Taishang Huang and others grasp the reason for our brutal killing. This is a political struggle. Everyone is flaunting themselves with benevolence and righteousness, but desperately looking for excuses for the other party's lack of benevolence and justice. At this time, we can only destroy the country and not Tu country."

  Liu Kai suddenly realized that he understood Dutong's good intentions.

  At this time, a soldier reported outside the tent, "To the capital, General Wang Gui has captured the twelve soldiers who were drinking and making trouble last night. The situation is true. General Wang, how should we deal with it?"

   "Cut!"

  Li Yanqing ordered coldly: "Use their heads to show the public!"

  (end of this chapter)

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