(The general is on the same page) The Queen of Xixia

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The Khitan people, who are usually domineering, never imagined that one day they would die at the hands of the Han people who were like livestock in their eyes.

After all the Khitan officers in the Liao army fell down, the noisy Liao army returned to silence again.

Xixia's cavalry were still surrounding them. They escaped the control of the Liao people, but they might not be able to leave alive.

A brave man walked out of the team, came to the open space where the two armies faced each other, took out the things in his arms and threw them on the ground.

All are the ears of Khitan officers.

He raised his head and looked at Wu En without fear.

"Does what you say count?"

Wu En smiled and said loudly:

"Give you a thousand taels of silver, you can leave on your own, or work for the king."

The man said provocatively:

"Working hard for you? Didn't I just go out of the tiger cave and into the wolf's cave? What's the difference?"

"That is, you Tartars, which of you don't regard us Han as cattle and horses."

Seeing that the Xixia people really didn't intend to kill them, some courageous ones also started to talk.

Wu En was not annoyed either, and said:

"If you don't want to, you can leave. I won't kill you." Wu En pointed to the ears on the ground and said, "Ask the owners of these ears, if you don't want to do it anymore, will they let you go?"

"I'm working hard for you, and you're also a soldier who wants to die?" The man's eyes became serious.

"You have good skill and courage, this king can make you the commander of the army."

"How many people can you command?"

"Thousands."

The man rubbed his hands and his throat moved.

"Okay! I'll do my best for you!"

Chapter 68 Chapter 68

In the fourth year of Qingli, there was a small-scale conflict after Song Xia negotiated peace. Ino, the younger brother of the Xixia King, died in battle, and Xixia withdrew.

Since then, the two countries have quieted down their flags and drums, and there is no dispute for the time being, and they still communicate according to the negotiated treaty.

In the same year, Yelu Hongji died at the hands of the king of Xixia. More than 20 Liao troops rebelled against Liao and entered Xia.

Liao Kingdom up and down, the whole country was shaken.The old emperor Yelu Zong suffered a stroke and lay unconscious on the bed. There was a surge of internal turmoil in the Liao Kingdom. Under the name of Faxia, several clan children fought for military power in the Liao Kingdom.

Taking this opportunity to breathe, Wu En began to eliminate the power of the Xixia tribe, and the old line of Haldun headed by the Yike tribe was uprooted.

After successive rectifications, people in Xixia were panicked. In order to appease the ministers, Wu En only killed the leader of the Yike tribe, and the rest of the leaders were returned to the fief, only deprived of their military power.For those who made contributions in the Song-Xia War, Wu En's promise of rewards did not decrease at all for his crimes.

Under the soft policy, all the tribal leaders gradually believed that the current Xixia king was not a bloodthirsty tyrant, and they all swore allegiance to Wu En.

Since then, although the tribal leaders have fiefs and perform management duties, they have no ownership.

The people of Xixia mount their horses to fight, and dismount to herd them. The soldiers and herdsmen are one, and the people are soldiers.Therefore, the arable land, pastures, farmers and herdsmen all belonged to the royal family, and they were organized according to the structure of ten, hundred, and thousand households. The original tribal leaders served as state officials in the capacity of heads of hundreds of households and heads of thousands of households. The tribal system survived in name only.

Slavery was abolished and former slaves became freedmen.Once this decree was implemented, many slaves ran away, and the landlords and nobles in Xixia complained, thinking that in the long run, Xixia would have no one to cultivate the land and herd sheep.

Wu En ignored it, and instead gave a lot of fields and pastures to those who are willing to stay, just pay taxes on time every year. If the harvest fails this year, it can be postponed to next year, no more than three years.

Owning their own land, the farmers became more active than ever, changed their attitude of being passive and sabotaging work, and even bred many new varieties.Half a year later, Xixia's harvest not only did not decrease as the nobles said, but doubled.

In the north where slavery was prevalent, this move caused a storm among the people. From time to time, slaves from Tubo, Uighur and Liao fled to Xixia, and even tenants in Song Dynasty couldn't bear the exploitation of the landlord and ran to Xixia.

Wu En naturally accepted all of them with a smile, and asked the local officials to collect and record the accounts and distribute them to the fields and pastures.

In order not to completely annoy Tubo and Uighur, Wu En sent people to send some cattle, sheep, camels, gold, silver and jewelry to the two countries.

The Liao nobles had more and more opinions on Xixia, and they wrote letters one after another, hoping to send troops to Xixia.

A year later, when the Liao Emperor was sober, his courtier said, "The Xia people have ungrateful and betrayed their alliance, and I am willing to lead the army to conquer Xixia in one fell swoop."

Yeluzong really listened to the opinions of his ministers and ordered him to lead his troops to march towards Hequ.

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Wu En rode on a maroon horse. After Zhui Feng died, he couldn't find a suitable horse, so he simply found a good horse at random.

"My lord, the fire archers are ready!" Su He said.

The terrain of the Hequ is high in the east and low in the west, which is not conducive to long-distance shooting. Wu En ordered the troops to retreat for nearly a hundred miles and garrison them in the highlands and hills.

Xiao Hui, the leading general of the Liao army, thought that the king of Xixia was about to retire, and led an army of 40 to pursue him.According to reports from the spies, there are only 30 Xixia soldiers. Xiao Hui will not miss this opportunity. He fully supports Yelu Zongzhen's second son Yelu and Luwo to inherit the Datong. Now is the time to make meritorious service.

When there were still a few miles away from the Xixia army, Xiao Hui ordered all the soldiers to dig open the side of the river. Everyone jumped in, soaked their clothes, and poured water on the horses.

Although the weather was dry in winter, the snow had not yet melted. Xixia wanted to use fire to attack with less to win more.

"My lord, the Liao army has appeared in the southeast direction." The scouts reported.

Wu En pulled out the scimitar and held it high.

Su He shouted: "All fire archers get ready!"

Fifty thousand fire archers, with braziers placed in front of them, the soldiers held bows in one hand and arrows in the other, and the arrows were wrapped with flammable moxa and linen and grease.

Wait for the charging Liao army to enter the range.

"put!"

Countless flames poured down, looking terrifying, but they were completely harmless to the prepared Liao army.

Xiao Hui laughed, the King of Xixia is still too young.

"Charge!" Xiao Hui pointed his saber at the sky, but didn't care about it.

"Change!"

The archers changed to another kind of arrows, with cylinders tied to the arrows and cotton threads attached to the bottom.

"put!"

Another wave of overwhelming arrow rain hit, and the Liao army raised their shields without fear.

Something exploded in this plain, and the huge sound made Xiao Hui's ears ring, and when he realized something was wrong, it was too late.Countless soldiers were injured by the arrows on the shields, and those who were unlucky were directly killed. The horses that were not injured were also frightened and ran around, and the neat formation began to scatter.

Wu En is still a little disappointed, the effect of the original black fire/powder is really unsatisfactory.

"Let go!" After the second wave of arrows was fired, the commander waved the military flag and shouted:

"Army attack!"

The war drum sounded, and the Xixia cavalry formed a diamond formation and began to charge towards the middle of the Liao army.It quickly penetrated the loose formation of the Liao army. The cavalry on both wings of the Liao army could not touch the Xixia soldiers, but the soldiers in the middle were slaughtered by Xixia.

Xiao Hui ordered the soldiers on the two wings to gather in the middle to form an encirclement.

The Xixia cavalry, however, did not love to fight, and quickly went out of the siege with an order.

The next wave of arrow rain immediately covered the Liao army, and the unprepared Liao army suffered heavy casualties.

What they are about to face is another charge of the Xixia cavalry.

Under the repeated scouring of cavalry and arrows, the defeat of the Liao army was certain.

Xixia's capture army began the final battle, taking prisoners among the fleeing soldiers of the Liao army.

The Liao army was defeated in Hequ. Xixia captured dozens of ministers including Xiao Hui and tens of thousands of soldiers. Liao was hit hard again.

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More than 40 soldiers were lost in the First Battle of Xixia Hequ, which can be regarded as big and small.Wu En did not give Liao a chance to breathe, and handed over the captives to the reinforcements. Together with the soldiers who came from the rear, he led a total of [-] soldiers and began to approach Liao's Datong Mansion on Xijing Road.