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Chapter 246 Attacking Xixia (1)

Secondly, Zhu Qi chose to fight the Xixia Empire openly and openly to buy time for Emperor Xiaokang to govern the northern region.

At the same time, it was also to consume the soldiers from the Song Dynasty on the battlefield!

Xu Da recruited too many soldiers from the Song Dynasty. The Ming Empire would not raise so many soldiers!
Zhu Qi wants these surrendered soldiers to completely surrender to the empire in the battle with the grassland barbarians!That's why Zhu Qi chose this kind of frontal attack that took a long time and suffered heavy losses!

In addition, Zhu Qi's majestic march also confuses the five grassland countries!
It’s so amazing that the Ming Empire swallowed up the Song Empire!If the five grassland countries are not given some reassurance, they may not dare to provoke the Ming Empire!

Of course, while the Western Expedition Army confuses the Five Prairie Kingdoms, it also forces the Five Prairie Kingdoms to dispatch their domestic land gods!
As for the Ming Empire's rapid takeover of the Song Empire, the Five Grassland Kingdoms were naturally very frightened!But when Zhu Qi attacked the Xixia Empire, he didn't show many ways to threaten the land gods, and chose to let the Western Expeditionary Army destroy the Xixia Empire!

In order to ensure that the land gods of the grassland countries carry out a beheading operation, Zhu Qi must openly defeat the Xixia Empire and let the grassland countries understand that they cannot defeat the Ming Empire with their armies!

Therefore, the only trump card of the grassland countries is to dispatch their respective land gods to carry out a beheading operation!

In fact, with Zhu Qi's strength, it is not impossible to secretly sneak into the grassland countries and kill the land gods of each country!

But the Ming Empire wanted to unify China. Even if it could capture the western grasslands by assassination alone, it would be extremely difficult to rule the grasslands stably and let the grasslands contribute to the empire!
Only by uprightly killing and subjugating the barbarians will the grassland completely fall into the arms of the empire!
Fearing power rather than virtue, this has been the case in the grassland since ancient times!
Dynasty hegemony is not a vendetta!What is needed is uprightness!
In fact, in Zhu Qi's mind, if it happened again, Zhu Qi might not be able to do the feat of suppressing a country by one person!

If the Northern Expedition army had conquered the territory of the Song Dynasty in an upright manner, it would not have expended much effort!

But the two have completely different views on how the empire will rule the northern region in the future!

If the imperial army attacks, all the original vested interests in the Song Dynasty territory can be successfully wiped out. At that time, the Northern Territory will be a blank sheet of paper, allowing the Ming Empire to paint!

In the current territory of the Song Dynasty, although Zhu Qi used many methods, the imperial army also caused a lot of killings!But the original powerful gentry in the Song Dynasty still had huge influence!If the Ming Empire wants to completely digest the Northern Territory, it will need to expend a lot of energy and effort in the future!

But it’s hard to say which of these two situations is better or worse!
Facing the common people of the Song Dynasty, Zhu Qi was unwilling to cause more killings, but he didn't have so many scruples about the barbarians on the grasslands!

Therefore, in the process of attacking the Xixia Empire, the Western Expedition Army did not prohibit killing!
As long as they assisted the defenders of the Xixia Empire in defending the city, regardless of soldiers or civilians, they were all killed by the Western Expeditionary Army!In the cities of the Xixia Empire captured by the army, the Western Expeditionary Army also adopted a high-pressure notice. Anyone who did not surrender to the empire would be killed!

The horrific killings caused by the Western Expedition shocked not only the Xixia Empire, but also the Ming Empire and the Four Grassland Kingdoms!

In the horrific killings, the name of Zhu Qi, the commander-in-chief of the Western Expeditionary Army, became known as the "Blood Wen Sect"!Since the time of the human emperor in ancient times, no literary sage has ever caused such horrific killings as Zhu Qi!

Yanzhou.

It is one of the important military towns of the Xixia Empire!

There were three important military towns at the junction of the Xixia Empire and the Song Dynasty.Yinzhou is relatively in the north, Yanzhou is in the middle and Xiningzhou is in the south!The violent advance of the Western Expeditionary Army has turned three important military towns into isolated cities!
Zhu Qi is ready to completely capture these three important military towns!

With the support of these three important military towns, the Western Expedition army has established a firm foothold in the grassland and can advance step by step!

The Western Expedition army has the full support of the Ming Empire, and its power has expanded tremendously!The first batch of reinforcements sent by Xu Da alone increased the number of the Western Expeditionary Army by half!
Therefore, Zhu Qi directly divided the West Route Army into three!
The left army of the Western Expedition, led by Cao Guogong Li Wenzhong as the main general, and the King of Zhou as the deputy general, captured Xining Prefecture; the right army, with the King of Qin as the main general, and the King of Jin and the King of Yan as deputy generals, captured Yinzhou; Zhu Qi personally commanded the middle route army, with Xin Qiji as the deputy general, to capture Yanzhou!
Cao Guogong Li Wenzhong and Jingjiang King Zhu Wenzheng were both known as the twin walls of the empire. They were rare handsome men. With them leading the troops to Xining, it was easy to capture them!

The three princes on the right side of the Western Expeditionary Army have not experienced many battles and have little reputation!But King Qin and King Yan are both as handsome as Xu Da and Zhu Wenzheng!Zhu Qi let him lead an army to attack Yinzhou, which was just his experience!
As for Xin Qiji of the Central Army, although he has not yet made his mark, he is definitely one of the few fierce men in the world, and he is probably as good as Chang Yuchun!

The Western Expeditionary Army's surprise attack completely stunned the Xixia Empire!

In recent years, because the land god who ruled the country was approaching the end of his life, the Xixia Empire had been tolerant in all external affairs, and its national power had declined drastically!
Even the previous Song Empire could overwhelm the Xixia Empire!This shows the decline of the Xixia Empire!
Since ancient times, the grassland has been dominated by the weak and the strong, and it has never been peaceful!
Although there have not been many wars between the grasslands and Middle-earth in recent years, this does not mean that there have been few civil wars in the grasslands!Melees among the five grassland countries happen almost every day!It is even more common for empires to compete for territory, and tribes to compete for pasture, cattle and sheep!

The decline of the Xixia Empire's national power was more due to internal strife among the grasslands!
Therefore, facing the terrifying offensive of the Western Expeditionary Army, the Xixia Empire responded extremely slowly!
In more than half a month, the Western Expeditionary Army penetrated hundreds of miles into the grassland and captured more than a dozen cities; now it is targeting three important towns on the border of Xixia. However, the Xixia Empire has not yet formed a unified opinion and sent reinforcements. !

The Xixia Empire was used to being tolerant, and the peace negotiators in the court were no less generous than the Song Empire!

The Xixia court was arguing endlessly, but Zhu Qi would not stop the Western Expedition!

Xiaokang at the end of January 11!

Under the terrifying offensive of the Western Expeditionary Army regardless of losses, Xining, Yanzhou, and Yinzhou were conquered one after another!

"Cao Guogong, the left route of the Western Expeditionary Army will take Xining City as its base and continue to advance westward, with Xiliang Mansion as the boundary; King Qin, the right route of the Western Expeditionary Army will use Yinzhou as its base and advance to the Dingzhou line; the middle route army will move towards the Xixia Imperial Capital Xingqing Mansion attacks and advances!"

Zhu Qi pointed at the map and said to the generals in the big tent: "You must remember not to advance rashly! The three armies must advance together, support each other, and finally meet at Xingqing Mansion!"

"The end will obey orders!"

Zhu Qi, who single-handedly captured the Song Empire, now has a very high prestige in the army, even on par with Emperor Hongwu!

No one dared to disobey Zhu Qi's military orders, even if Zhu Qi's tactics indeed caused heavy losses to the Western Expedition Army!

The losses of the Western Expedition Army indeed made the generals quite depressed!

(End of this chapter)