Time passed little by little, and Xixia never intended to surrender. On the top of the city, Richard looked at him with a firm look. Xixia could perish, but he would never surrender. The ancestors of Xixia would not surrender to the Song Dynasty. This was the case when the country was established, and the same was true when the country was destroyed. He would rather die than to shame his ancestors.

In the distance, three huge catapults of the Song army had already rumbled toward the palace. Brother Richard knew that these three catapults would throw countless turbulent oil into the palace, completely burning the palace. Perhaps this was what he hoped to make Xixia immortal in the flames.

At this moment, an eunuch ran over and whispered: "Your Highness, King Jin, Your Majesty, please go to the ancestral temple to pay the final farewell ceremony!"

This is a must-go, and the last time I worship my ancestors.

Brother Richard nodded, walked up to the city quickly, and walked quickly to the main hall of the ancestral temple with more than a dozen personal soldiers. The hall was full of guards. The melodious bells came from inside, as if some kind of ceremony was being held.

Brother Richard waved his hand and asked his personal soldiers to stop. He sorted out his clothes and hats and walked quickly into the hall.

But just as Brother Richard walked into the hall, the door behind him closed. He suddenly felt something was wrong, so he turned around and pulled out his sword, but he felt a sharp pain in his back. More than a dozen arrows shot through his back, and the sword in his hand fell to the ground.

Brother Richard slowly turned around and saw more than a dozen Li royal families appear in front of him, glaring at him one by one.

"It's you?" Brother Richard was extremely shocked. The person who killed him turned out to be his clan.

Li Renzong walked forward step by step with his sword in his hand, gritted his teeth and said, "You want to die but let us follow us to bury him, so we have to let you die first."

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

"Go to die!"

Li Renzong suddenly pierced Brother Richard's chest with a sword. Brother Richard fell slowly and eventually died at the hands of his own tribe members.

Li Renzong touched Brother Richard's breath, nodded to more than a dozen clans, and everyone walked quickly into the ancestral temple and walked to a small house. Li Renzong said, "Your Majesty, Brother Richard has been killed. Everyone hopes to surrender and preserve the descendants of the Western Xia lineage."

"I have no objection, please do whatever you want!" Li Qianshun's low voice came from the room.

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

At this time, a ray of light shone into the room, and there was no Western Xia emperor in the room, and there was only one monk who became a monk.

In late May of the third year of Jianyan, Li Yanqing led an army of 80,000 to conquer the capital Xingqing Prefecture of the Xixia capital. The Xixia royal family surrendered to Li Yanqing under the leadership of Li Renzong. The emperor Li Qianshun had become a monk and bid farewell to the throne before the demise of Xixia. With the melodious bell ringing in the city, the Xixia Kingdom, which had been founded for a hundred years, finally came to an end and was destroyed under the attack of the Song army.

Although the Western Xia was destroyed, the war was still going on. Li Yanqing then divided his troops into four groups and rushed to various places in Xixia to wipe out the Western Xia embers. He also ordered Liu Ziyu and Gao Chong to lead 20,000 troops and 500 warships to conquer Hetao, where there were 5,000 Western Xia troops. At the same time, he had to secretly complete the weapons transaction with the four divisions of Mobei, and exchanged 100,000 sets of armor for five million cattle and sheep.

In early June, Li Yungui, a clan of the Western Xia royal family guarding Hetao, heard the news of the demise of Xixia, led 5,000 troops to abandon Hetao and fled eastward and went to Datong Prefecture 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 herders drove five million cattle and sheep to appear on the grassland north of Hetao.

.........

Li Yanqing was extremely busy these days. He first searched for soldiers and generals in Xingqing Prefecture for three days to search for the missing soldiers and generals. After the missing fish were almost cleaned up, Li Yanqing appointed Yang Zhaohe as the magistrate of Xingzhou, and began to issue a list to calm the people and restore order.

The next step was to tidy up the treasury of Xixia and verify various assets and land. All property and land belonging to the Western Xia royal family and princes and nobles were confiscated, and a standard was drawn that the Song army would not confiscate the middle and lower-level officials in Xixia, all property of the family was below this standard.

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

"Prime Minister Yang Tong can still adapt to his new position!"

"I thank the general for using the job. Although there are many things, I can still handle it well. It's just that something happened last night, and it was very difficult for the officials to do so."

"What's the matter?"

Yang Zhaohe said with anger: "Last night, more than a dozen soldiers were drunk and broke into a Xixia official's house, forcibly demanded money, and asked for a woman. The lower officials brought people to stop them in time. As a result, they were angry and beat the lower officials and several subordinates and left. This matter has spread, and the Xixia officials dared not speak out."

Li Yanqing was furious and slapped the table and ordered his personal soldiers to say, "Go and find Wang Gui and Liu Qi!"

The personal 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 happened. After the destruction of the country, he first needed political stability, psychologically disintegrating the resistance of the Xixia people to the Song Dynasty, and gradually letting them accept reality. After a long time, everyone gradually forgot Xixia.

But at this time, my soldiers were in trouble such a thing, forced to ask for money and even wanted to have a woman, which made people unbearable, and it would ruin my big deal.

Soon, Wang Gui and Liu Qi hurried into the tent and bowed, "See the governor!"

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

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

Wang Gui didn't know what happened, so he hurriedly said: "Yesterday, it was Bei Zhi's subordinate on duty."

Li Yanqing said to Yang Zhaofang: "Tell him!"

Yang Zhaofan repeated what happened last night, and Wang Gui was shocked. Drinking on duty was a serious violation of military discipline, and he even went to the door to steal money and insult people. This was a death sentence!

He was sweating profusely, "I will go and investigate now, and I will definitely punish you according to military rules."

Li Yanqing said to Wang Gui again: "Take Punishment Yang Tong to recognize people, and you must kill one to warn hundreds of people, and there is no second time."

"I understand!"

Wang Gui gave a gift and hurried away with Yang Zhaofang.

At this time, Liu Qi hesitated and said, "There is a saying that you should not speak or not?"

"You said it!"

"The chief of the commander, there have been some rumors in the army recently that the chief of the commander is too tolerant to the Xixia nobles and does not feel like destroying the country."

Li Yanqing also heard about these rumors. When Liu Qi mentioned this again, he couldn't help but sneer, "What did their destruction look like? Let me relax the military discipline and let them burn, kill and rape in Xingqing Prefecture?"

Liu Qi sighed, "Man died for money and destroyed Xixia, but the brothers did not get any benefits. It is inevitable that they have some complaints."

"I'm ready for their benefits!"

Li Yanqing said lightly: "Each person has fifty sheep. After being transported to Jingzhao Mansion, they will be delivered to their homes one by one, so that their whole family will be happy."

Liu Qi understood, "These sheep are the sheep that were exchanged for several major tribes in Mobei!"

Li Yanqing nodded, "Do you think I didn't consider giving the soldiers good? Why did Xixia destroy the country? Isn't it because the national strength is weak and cannot support the war and finally defeated? You have also seen the treasury of Xixia. It was empty, with less than 200,000 taels of gold, less than one million taels of silver, and all kinds of cloth and silk. Only a million pieces of sheepskin were seized. What would I give to the soldiers?"

After a moment of silence, Liu Qi said again: "The chief minister wanted to kill all the Western Xia royal family, but in the end they were let go!"

Li Yanqing shook his head and said, "Things are not as simple as we thought. I just got the news from Xixia. It was their envoy stationed in Lin'an who came to send a message. The emperor had issued an order to ask the Song army to stop attacking Xixia immediately, and the two sides negotiate and end the war."

Liu Qi was surprised, "Is this news true?"

"It should be true. The emperor issued this order, which can only be said to be forced to do so. In fact, I can guess that the Supreme Emperor and his gangsters used various methods to put pressure on them. The fundamental point is that the Song Dynasty was almost destroyed, and the country was enduring and destruction was not benevolence or righteous. This is a very powerful one! If you lose the benevolence and righteousness, the position of the official family will be unstable, and I, Li Yanqing, will also be taken to the moral judgment table. So I thought about it repeatedly and tried to kill as little as possible, so that the Supreme Emperor and others could not capture the handle of our brutal killing. This is a political struggle. Everyone is using benevolence and righteousness to show themselves, and are desperately looking for the other party to not benevolence and righteousness. At this time, we can only destroy the country but not slaughter the country."

Liu Qi suddenly realized that he realized the good intentions of the Dutong.

At this time, a personal soldier reported outside the tent, "Report to the commander, General Wang Gui has captured the twelve soldiers who were drinking and causing trouble last night. The situation is true. General Wang, what should I do?"

"cut!"
Chapter completed!