In the Song Dynasty, there was no law. Chapter 280 of the main text: He had a big iron cannon, and I had a small steel cannon. In mid-August, on the vast northern grassland.

Countless knights marched towards the Helan Mountains like streams converging into a river.

The king of the Tanguts once again gathered his brave soldiers together to attack their enemies.

From the Baoyuan year when Li Yuanhao was defeated and returned, to the Kangding year when he signed a contract with the Song State, Li Yuanhao summoned troops many times.

However, they were not fighting against the Song Dynasty, but against the Western Regions Uighurs who occupied a small half of the Western Regions, as well as the Yellow-headed Uighurs, Cao-headed Tatars and other tribes in the Haixi Corridor.

Li Yuanhao controlled the Hexi Corridor. If he wanted to compete with Qingtang for business in the Hehuang Corridor, he had to control the source.

Therefore, he attacked the Western Regions many times in order to seize the source of merchants and prevent them from going to Qingtang through the Hehuang Corridor.

The effect was significant. A large number of merchants from the Western Regions returned to the Hexi Corridor, and Western Xia prospered as a result.

After several attacks, many small tribes of Uighurs, Huihes and Tatars along the Haixi Corridor were annexed by Western Xia, and Li Yuanhao's strength increased again.

This time, Li Yuanhao announced to many tribes that he would attack Qingtang to avenge what happened in the past. After hearing this, the leaders of the Dangxiang nobles of many tribes did not hesitate at all and immediately led their troops over.

As long as they did not attack the Song Dynasty, the Dangxiang nobles would easily understand the wise decision of their King of Daxia.

Even though there were a small number of relatively intelligent nobles among them, they were somewhat worried that the relationship between Qingtang and the Song Dynasty was so good that if they attacked Qingtang, it would attract the Song Dynasty's army.

But Qingtang and Xixia are sworn enemies, and hatred has blinded the eyes of most people, so they don’t think so much.

From day to dusk, countless Western Xia knights arrived. Until August 24, Li Yuanhao finally gathered about 80,000 cavalrymen. Under his personal leadership, they marched towards Qingtang in a mighty force.

It took about half a month to gather 80,000 people, which is considered fast.

Nomadic soldiers come from the vast grasslands and often need to go to various tribes on short notice, but a tribe may be scattered over hundreds of square kilometers.

Therefore, the fact that Li Yuanhao can gather nearly half of the country's forces in a short period of time can be said to be a reflection of the improvement of Xixia's comprehensive national strength.

After several years, some young Dangxiang people grew up to be old enough to fight.

In addition, Li Yuanhao also recruited some small tribes of Uighurs, Huihes, and Tatars, gathering about 60,000 Dangxiang soldiers and more than 10,000 coalition forces from other small tribes. His strength should not be underestimated.

A few days later, in Xixia Xiliang Prefecture, at the border between Qingtang and Xixia, in Zhuolao City.

This place was Guangwu County in the Tang Dynasty, located in the area from Datong Town to Hongcheng Town south of Yongdeng County in Gansu Province in later generations. It was the headquarters of Zhuola and Nanjun Division set up by Yuanhao at the beginning of the founding of the country.

Together with the 20,000 local garrisons, Yuan Hao gathered an army of 100,000 to attack Qingtang.

In fact, Zhuola City is closer to the territory of the Song army.

Because this place is north of Lanzhou City in later generations. To the southeast, past the Lanzhou City controlled by Qingtang is the border between Song State, Qingtang and Western Xia. There is a Song army camp there called Guweizhai.

As the name suggests, it is Tongwei County in Gansu Province in later generations. It is located between Lanzhou City and Tianshui City. It is also an important transportation hub for trade between Qingtang and Song State.

If Li Yuanhao attacked Qingtang directly from Liangzhou, he would not only have to cross the Qilian Mountains, but he would also have to be careful about being attacked by the Song army while crossing the mountains. This would obviously be a loss-making endeavor.

Although in the second year of Jingyou, Li Yuanhao crossed the Qilian Mountains and raided the Maoniu City in Qingtang, which was later the Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County in Qinghai.

But the price was that logistical supplies were difficult to keep up. When they had eaten the captured supplies and were preparing to withdraw, they were seized by Zuosilu and were defeated at Huangshui.

Therefore, in order to prevent the situation of logistics from not keeping up from happening again, Li Yuanhao had to bypass the Qilian Mountains and attack from the border of Song and Xia Qingtang.

It is now the end of Yin hour and the beginning of Mao hour, five o'clock in the morning, and it is still dark.

The gate of Zhuo Luo City opened.

Countless horses slowly walked out and headed towards the south.

This was Li Yuanhao's vanguard, composed of soldiers from the Western Regions Uighurs, Yellow-headed Uighurs, and Grass-headed Tatar tribes who surrendered to him.

His main force is currently located in Gaizhu City in the northwest.

It was not until three quarters past midnight, after the vanguard troops set off, that Li Yuanhao led the main force south.

In fact, it is irrational to let these people serve as vanguard cannon fodder, because those who surrender often have low combat effectiveness. If they are defeated by the enemy, it is easy for them to regress and affect the entire army.

However, since there were often slave armies, death row armies, and surrendered armies serving as vanguards in ancient times, there must have been means.

For example, threatening their families.

After these tribes surrendered to him, the life and death of the tribes were controlled by Li Yuanhao, so he could use these people so boldly.

The mighty vanguard army marched southward, followed by Li Yuanhao's front army, central army and rear army.

The army stretched for dozens of miles along the Zhuanglang River towards Lanzhou.

In fact, in the third year of Jingyou, Li Yuanhao defeated Zuo Silu and occupied Lanzhou.

But wasn’t he beaten up by Lao Fan later?

At that time, Lao Fan joined forces with Zuo Siluo to launch a general attack on Western Xia, beating Li Yuanhao to a pulp.

Although Zuo Siluo encountered a tough obstacle and was defeated by Yeli Wangrong.

However, when Yeli Wangrong returned to Xingqing Prefecture to provide assistance, he made a comeback and took Lanzhou back.

Therefore, at this time Qingtang was probably a regime entrenched in the area from Xining, Qinghai to Lanzhou, Gansu, which was located at the easternmost end of the Hehuang Corridor.

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