Xixia, Qin Wangchuan.

Although Kaifeng Prefecture is still relatively warm at the turn of autumn and winter, in Qinwangchuan, located in Hexi, the world is already in the early winter. The cold wind is cold, everything is dormant, and tiny snowflakes are falling down one after another.

However, the cold weather did not stop countless civilians from turning the northeast corner of Qinwangchuan into a large construction site.

The city that can accommodate tens of thousands of people and stockpile one million stones of grain and grass is already under construction. People gathered from Xiliang Prefecture and even more west are building walls. They use two boards to clamp each other, fill the soil in it, and pound it with a pestle.

Four walls with a length of several miles have now been built to more than ten feet high! The surrounding trenches have already begun to take shape, deep and wide. The four city gates have also been built, and eight thick and solid city gates have been processed and are waiting to be installed.

There are hundreds of simple grain stocks in the four unfinished city walls, some of which are already stocked up with grain and horse materials, and more grains are being pulled in a steady stream with horse carriages. Every time a carriage filled with grain, soldiers from Xixia would drive the people to come forward and carry the grain in puffs or sacks from the carriages, transport them into the grain stocks and stock them up.

The commander of the Western Xia army, King Cha Ge of Jin was holding his arms at this time, standing on a high platform made of wood, watching the tiny snowflakes falling from the sky full of dark clouds, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of depression.

"It's snowing finally!"

For the panicked Xixia, there is no better news than snow and cooling. Although the cold weather is also difficult for the military and civilians of Xixia, the Song people who are even more unable to withstand the bitter cold will not launch an offensive in the severe cold, which means that Xixia, which is in the storm, has a few more months of breathing opportunities.

"King, maybe the Song people don't want to have a death battle with us, otherwise why wouldn't they take advantage of Renduobaozhong's opportunity to attack Zhuoluo City and Karochuan?"

A middle-aged man wearing a purple robe and burly body, with a Western Regional Hu blood from his face, but his expression was very gentle, followed by Cha Ge, smiling and guessing the intention of the State of Song.

Brother Cha looked at the new Zhuo Luo and the commander of the Southern Army Division, a Han general named Cao Mian, and shook his head and said, "Cao Tongjun, Zhuo Luo Junzheng is not as good as the Xiping Army Division. The enemy he faces is the mortal enemy of our Dabai Gao Kingdom, the Eastern Dynasty! The Eastern Dynasty's monarch and ministers are not willing to die, so we must never relax."

Zhuoluo and the Nanjunjian Office were roughly the original Zhuoluojian Office of the Right Chamber. After Renduo Baozhong rebelled, they carried out some cleaning and changed their names. They also transferred a large number of reinforcements from the Xiping Army Office to the west. The new commander Cao Mian was the original commander of the Xiping Army Office, who had been guarding the western border of Xixia for a long time.

Although he had a face that looked like Bai Fan, he was a Han man and the leader of the Cao family of Guazhou. It is said that his ancestors were the famous Cao family of Qiao County, which was Cao Cao and his family!

The elements of his face came from the matriarchal Khotan royal family, which was the "Tang fan" Li Tiansheng, whose family, had a very close relationship with the Cao clan of the Guiyi army, and almost married from generation to generation. Cao Mian's ancestors had eight Guiyi army governors, who were in charge of Gua and Sha Prefectures for nearly a hundred years. In the third year of Jingyou in Xixia, he was defeated by Wei Ming Yuanhao and forced to surrender to Xixia.

However, although Wei Ming Yuanhao defeated the Guiyi Army and forced the Cao family in Guazhou, he did not kill or abandon the Guiyi Army in Gua and Sha Prefectures, but instead took them for their own use.

The reason for this is that in the eight years before the fall of the Guiyi Army regime, the Kingdom of Khotan, the pillar of Buddhism's struggle against the Tianfang Cult in the Western Regions, was destroyed by the Karakhanate, which believed in the Tianfang Cult. Some of the Khotan royal families also fled to the Guiyi Army. This war was not a simple annexation war, but a religious war!

The defeat of Khotan means the defeat of Buddhist forces in the Western Regions. After the fall of Khotan, the most determined ally of the Kingdom of Khotan and the Guiyi Army, the center of Buddhism, became a bridgehead for Buddhism to resist the invasion of the Tianfang Sect.

The Guiyi Army has long relied on Buddhism to rule, so the wealthy and prominent Guasha families, including the Cao family of Guazhou and Murong family of Shazhou, are actually integrated with Dunhuang Buddhism. If the Han family of the two states are to be eliminated, the foundation of Dunhuang Buddhism will be eradicated. At that time, the Tianfang Sect will take advantage of the opportunity!

For the Xixia regime, which also has Buddhism as its spiritual pillar, the Guiyi Army that has surrendered is not only not a threat, but also an effective tool to curb the infiltration of the Tianfang Cult forces.

Therefore, the surrendered Cao family of Guazhou became a selected family in Xixia, and people served as high-ranking officials for generations. The officers and soldiers under the Xiping Army Department located in Guasha Prefectures were mainly Han people in Guasha Prefectures.

Perhaps it was because of the impeccable Guasha Prefectures, or perhaps it was afraid of the huge and cruel Khitan behind Xixia. After conquering Khotan, the Karakhanate did not continue to expand eastward, so the Xiping Army Office had not encountered any major wars in the past century. At most, it was to attack the Caotou Huihe and the Yellow-headed Huihe who were entrenched on the southern plateau.

Most of the Han generals and officials in the Xiping Army Division were as addicted to Buddhism as their ancestors. Although Cao Mian was tall and mighty, he had a big beard on his face, sunken eyes, and a hooked nose, which looked very fierce. However, he was very gentle and a good general who ate vegetarian food and chanted Buddha's name. There was no one available to him when he transferred him from Guazhou.

Since the era of Wei Ming Yuanhao, internal strife among the top leaders of the Western Xia regime has been very serious. The famous family of the Dangxiang who had founded great things with Yuanhao in the early days has died out in various internal strifes, leaving only Wei Ming's masters as the only one.

However, the Wei Ming family is not prosperous, and the people who can be used are Wei Ming Cha Ge, Wei Ming Anhui, Wei Ming Jingsi, Wei Ming Renzhong, Wei Ming Renli and others. Moreover, no one except Cha Ge has the talent to use military force.

In desperation, the two brothers Qianshun and Chage had to use the Dangxiang people with lower family status and the children of the Han tribe as generals.

"Good General" Cao Mian frowned as if thinking hard, "Is there a trick for the Song people to fight without winning a battle?"

"What a trick!" Wei Mingcha Ge's narrowed eyelids could not hide the gleam in his eyes. "As long as the elite troops who defeated Renduo Baozhong took advantage of the situation to march, before I knew that Renduo Baozhong surrendered to Song, Karochuan and Qin Wangchuan were lost, and the millions of rations of Renshou Mountain City were also returned to the Song army. Now the Dabai Gao Kingdom has to move westward!"

Wei Mingcha Ge's analysis is correct. Although he is proficient in military strategies, he is not a god who can calculate. He only learned about Renduo's loyalty surrender to the enemy seven or eight days later.

If the Song army took advantage of the victory and had Renduo Baozhong, the leader of the road, let alone Wei Ming Cha Ge, he would have to lose a lot if he let Wei Ming Yuanhao survive.

"Then why didn't the Song people advance?" Cao Mian said inexplicably.

Brother Wei Mingcha laughed: "Because they are from Song Dynasty! Over the years, have they made few tricks? If it weren't for these tricks, my Dabai Gao Kingdom would have perished long ago."

"Then what should we fight next?" Cao Mian asked again.

"Wait!" said Wei Mingcha Ge, "When the Song people make another trick, they will hit Qin Wang Chuanjian City!"

Zhong Fu's insane move gave Brother Cha a chance to breathe, but Brother Cha still realized that the Right-Chang Army did not have the strength to defend the enemy outside the national gate, and was not sure of winning in the field.

So he chose the tactic of retreating and decisive battles and building a city to defend the city. He placed the battlefield of the decisive battle at Qin Wangchuan, 150 miles away from Lanzhou, and built a strong city in Qin Wangchuan as the support for the two armies to fight the decisive battle. At the same time, he also ordered the evacuation of the military and civilians on the north bank of the Yellow River and Karochuan, leaving only a few people bluffing. He also transported all the food and grass stocks stored in Renshou Mountain City to Qin Wangchuan City, which was a trump card for Wei Mingcha Ge to defeat the invading Song army!

Because for both sides of the war, there is a problem of difficult logistics transfer when fighting in Qin Wangchuan north of Lanzhou. Whoever has food in his hands can concentrate the most troops in Qin Wangchuan.

"Cao Tongjun," Cha Ge said with a smile, "This Qin Wangchuan City will be handed over to you. If the Song army attacks, you only need to defend and wait for assistance... The city has as much as one million stones of grain, which is enough for 30,000 troops to eat for seven or eight years, and the water source is not a problem. The Qin Wangchuan is low-lying and can be dug out water wells everywhere. If you can hold on here for two or three months, I will all raise the troops in the country to help, and I will destroy all the invading enemies!"

Brother Cha can probably guess the next strategy of the Song army. It must be the east and west to take action at the same time, making it difficult for the Dabai Gaoguo to take care of the beginning and end.

Cha Ge's method of dealing with it is simple, which is to strengthen the walls and clear the fields, build the city and organize a strong mobile corps, and wait for the veterans of Song Junshi to get tired before concentrating on the elite national attack.

On the western front, Weiming Chage chose to build a new city in Qin Wangchuan to resist the Song army advancing north. On the eastern front, there were many castles in the Wuding River Basin, so there was no need to build a new city. However, it was impossible to divide the troops to guard each city, otherwise the 300,000 army would not be enough.

So Cha Ge chose two of the castles to defend, one of which was Xiazhou City located on the banks of Wuding River. Cha Ge moved the Zuoxiang Shenyong Army Office, which was originally stationed in Mida Cave in Yinzhou, to Xiazhou, and ordered the city to be built and prepared for long-term persistence.

The other is Yuzhou City located in the west of Wuding River Valley, which is the garrison of the Jianing Military Office. Chage also issued an order to build a city and defend it to the Jianing Military Office.
Chapter completed!