So there is a question: Did Xixia be consumed to this point in the Battle of Dingchuanzhai? Did the previous wars such as Sanchuankou, Haoshuichuan, and Hedong Road have no impact on the Dangxiang people? Or was it only after the Battle of Dingchuanzhai that Li Yuanhao suddenly felt exhausted and felt unable to do so?

Absolutely not! The consumption of national strength is formed bit by bit, and it is precisely because of the long-term and continuous decline that it has irreparable disadvantages! So, why did Li Yuanhao start a war again in such a situation, exhaust himself and consume him again, and he must seek death?

Li Yuanhao replied with a wry smile: I am completely unable to force myself to do this! It is related to everything that happened during this period...

So what happened during this period?

1 The Song Dynasty redistributed its defense powers in the northwest border. Specifically, Han Qi was the magistrate of Qinzhou, Qinfeng Road was 27,000 troops, Fan Zhongyan was the magistrate of Qingzhou, Huanqing Road was 50,000 troops, Pang Ji was the magistrate of Yanzhou, Fuyan Road was 68,000 troops, Wang Yan was the magistrate of Weizhou, and Jingyuan Road was 70,000 troops.

2 The biggest nightmare of the Xixia people - the Song Dynasty's village construction project began at this time. First, the four northwest roads in the Song Dynasty were connected together, especially the Huanqing Road where Fan Zhongyan and Pang Ji were located, and the Fuyan Road was the most typical. The most important construction was the Dashun City built within 15 days.

This is Fan Zhongyan's achievements, and this incident best reflects his understanding of the outcome of the war at that time. Many people are confused. Fan Zhongyan, who is known as the first person in three hundred years, worked in the northwest for four or five years, but he has never won any battles? He has never fought a war. So how did he get such a great reputation? Could it be a liar who deceived the world and stole the reputation?

You should know that Fan Zhongyan was a minister of the Song Dynasty, not from the Tang Dynasty. He was targeted at the national defense policy of the Song Dynasty, which was mature and established, and you cannot ask him to attack thousands of miles like the top general of the Tang Dynasty, fight abroad, and tie the enemy of the foreign race back to Chang'an. If he insisted on forcing it, he would become Han Qi. A strong scholar with a higher mind and a thin life than paper. His main battle itself is correct, but I understood afterwards that the national defense policy of the Song Dynasty made no one want to promote with military merits! Even Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and others could only briefly shine in the transition between the connection between the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty's history... I believe Han Qi himself also understood. After the Battle of Haoshuichuan, his personality was still so tough and competitive, but in military terms, he no longer had the previous "fighting spirit".

Fan Zhongyan’s greatness lies in the fact that he understood the essence of the Song Dynasty’s national defense policy from the beginning. The so-called “defense in attack, and attack in defense” specifically means building a village. This method was basically used in China and was purely defensive. But as long as it was promoted forward, it became a moving Great Wall... It was expanded step by step into the territory of Xixia. Every time one was built, a combat system of attack and defense was formed, and the territory of Xixia was gradually eroded. This time the construction of Dashun City was the most bold operation to build a village during the Qingli period.

The first and most important point is its location. Its former is Mapu Village in the northwest of Qingzhou, and then advances a little to the northwest, Houqiaochuan. At the beginning of the Song-Xia War, at the end of the Battle of the Security Army and Chengping Village, Li Yuanhao retreated urgently because his rear route Houqiao Village was looted by the Song army... This is the reason why Dashun City is dangerous. It deeply entered the border of Xixia. It said that it built a village, but in fact it crossed the border and robbed a large area of ​​territory. It always pushed the knife to the neck of the Dangxiang people. One day it was happy, it would just stab it out...

So in February of the early spring of the year, Fan Zhongyan was inundated with the slightest sign of the generals of Qingzhou Prefecture, gathered the teams and went out of the city with him. No one was surprised at that time. During the war, it was a basic daily action to lead troops out to patrol. But this time he went a little farther and advanced to the northeast, until he reached the front position. The Rouyuan Village, which bordered the Western Xia forces, had not stopped. After continuing to move forward to the enemy-occupied area, the soldiers were surprised to find that there were so many old acquaintances in front! It was Fan Zhongyan's son Fan Chunyou and Fan general Zhao Ming. They each brought their men to guard the construction materials as high as the hill. These soldiers immediately knew their mission. Work, not only during peacetime, but also during wartime, they had to be a construction worker...

In 15 days, a new city was built. It was racing against time and immediately after it was built, it immediately welcomed the enemy. The people of Xixia were furious. What? After only a few days of attention, such a large illegal building was built at the door of their house? Is that so great? Immediately pulled it out! Xixia gathered 30,000 cavalry to attack the city. After a melee, the cavalry ran back in front of the new city wall. This scene was really exciting. The soldiers of the Song Dynasty were about to chase. Fan Zhongyan stopped them: We were here to build the city, and now we have achieved our goal, and we don’t have any extra benefits at all!

It seems to be careful, even cowardly. But a little analysis will reveal that the Song Dynasty started with the Battle of Youyan by the big bitch, and until now, it suffered a great loss under Li Yuanhao. The military idiotic behavior has always been consistent! And the same thing is to start to gain profits, then chase after them, suddenly fall into a trap, and return with great defeat. It's that simple...

So Fan Zhongyan is so smart. I am not as good as you cavalry, and the spies can’t figure out the enemy situation, but do I have to chase you? The city is built, just wait for me to go step by step and move forward steadily! One day, I will flatten your living space. By then, if you want to counterattack, it will be super difficult and you will have to pull out countless castles along the way!

History later proved the correctness of this strategy, and further proved the sharpness of Fan Zhongyan's vision. These 30,000 Western Xia cavalry indeed set a big trap for the Song Dynasty halfway, but they waited foolishly in the cold wind in the early spring for a long time, but they still didn't have a single figure... Fan Zhongyan had returned to Qingzhou.

The construction of Dashun City broke the pattern of the northwest border. The strongholds such as Baibao City and Jintang City in the Western Xia became precarious. What was particularly terrible is Fan Zhongyan's idea that he would never be fooled, leaving the Dangxiang people with nowhere to exert force and could not find a way to cut people. In this situation, there was the song that has been passed down through the ages: "There is a Korean in the army, and the Western thieves were frightened when they heard it. There is a Fan in the army, and the Western thieves were frightened when they heard it." I personally think that the writing level of these two songs is very high because of their very accurate words.

"A Han in the army is terrified" refers to Han Qi. The Battle of Good Water River failed, but the Dangxiang people were in pain to the bones. Facing such an opponent, who is not terrified?

"A Fan Jingdao in the army" refers to Fan Zhongyan's army who defeated others without fighting. His jurisdiction has always been calm. The people of Xixia knew that they could not fight with this person... How accurate! Without Jingdao, how could there be no war?

The above are the first two events that occurred in the Song Dynasty as a whole, and the last two are related to Di Qing and Zhong Shiheng respectively.

3Di Qing's floating light slightly

Di Qing is a bit like Yue Fei, not that their loyal and brave style is very similar to the tragic life, but that their information is about them. After Yue Fei's death, only twenty or thirty years later, his information became a legend. With the joint cooperation of Zhao Gou and Qin Hui, his life was deleted. There is no more official historical information to prove his brilliant and brilliant life. So now when talking about Yue Fei, there are always all kinds of controversy and doubts, and even many people with ulterior motives want to distort him into a reckless man, butcher or stupid man.

Di Qing, his years in the northwest battlefield are also very vague. Among the people, he is a ghost-faced war god and is invincible. In the official world, everyone admits that there are only two victorious generals in the northwest army: Di Qing and Zhong Shiheng.

But how did Di Qing fight? But there were only a few vague words: "There are 25 battles in front and back, and the 8-way arrows are in the middle. The tribes such as Jintang City, Youzhou, Tusuixiang, Maoluo, Shangluo, and Qingqi accumulated tens of thousands of people, collected 2,300 yuan in 5,700 yuan in Shengkou, and built Zhao'an, Fenglin, Xinzhai, Dalang and other forts, all of which were key to the thieves. When they fought in Anyuan, they were very serious. When they heard that the enemy arrived, they stood up and rushed forward, and the crowd fought for the front. They were disguised their hair, wearing copper masks, and entering and leaving the thieves, and they dared not to be defeated." This is the official record of his glorious years in the northwest. If you want to analyze, you will find that he is not much better than the generals of Sanchuankou in front and the generals of the generals of the Shuichuan River, let alone Zhang Ke from the Hedong battlefield. How did his reputation as a god of war come from?

Speaking of Di Qing's military achievements, this is another depressing thing, and it is still very similar to Yue Fei. Yue Fei's reputation shocked the world, but none of the "Zhongxing 13 military achievements" designated by the Southern Song Dynasty was his. Di Qing was also like this, "porn Jintang City, Yuezhou, Tusuixiang, Maoluo, Shangluo, Qingqi tribes, and accumulated tens of thousands of people, collected his tents of 2,300, Shengkou 5,700, Chengqiaozigu, Buying Zhao'an, Fenglin, Xinzhai, Dalang and other forts" occurred? Which battle? Was he going alone or whom he cooperated with? No one could find out. People who wrote history in the past dynasties could only copy the text as it is, and then jumped directly to the Nong Zhigao rebellion 10 years later...

But as long as you are careful, you can still figure out what time these things happened. For example, Fan Zhongyan, the "Breaking Jintang City" built Dashun City in March of that year. Historical books mentioned that the White Leopard in Xixia, and the two cities of Jintang were in danger, which means: In March, Jintang City was not yet broken by Di Qing. In the intercalary September, the Battle of Dingchuan Village broke out. After this war, the military operations of the Song Dynasty came to an end. Di Qing's attack could only be between March and September of this year. Think about how strong these important strongholds were defeated by Di Qing one by one in such a short period of time, what kind of oppression was it against Xixia? What kind of worries were they against Li Yuanhao?

4 small moves of Shiheng

The founder of the Zhong Family Army was very interesting. After Song Xia started the war, he was idle. Qingjian City was trained to be a super huge, particularly pissing hedgehog, and he also had so many good friends of the Qiang tribe. This created a fact: everyone within a radius of hundreds of miles avoided him. So he was extremely bored and did some very small movements.

He offered a monk like a god, drank and gambled, and there were many beauties, and everything was casual. But suddenly he turned against him, beat him up, and drove him away from the border, but at the same time he asked for merit from the court and asked for his title to be appointed as an official.

It looks messy, but the result is that the Western Xia people's dream of development has completely shattered! Not only has the century-long history of Xixia become sluggish, but even Li Yuanhao himself has suffered!

Let’s start from the beginning. This monk’s Dharma name Guangxin is a typical monk named “Lu Zhishen” who has not cultivated good results in his life and only loves to kill and set fire. Before being discovered by Zhong Shiheng, he has been wandering on the vast grassland between Song and Xia. His range of activities is wide. He knows all the major cities of the Song Dynasty, Qiang, Dangxiang, Khitan and other barbarian tents, and all the roads. As for how he did it, he is not Amitabha at all. He rides a horse, holds a knife, shoots arrows, and goes back and forth to find out.

This immediately fascinated Zhong Shiheng. What we need is this kind of talent! He used a lot of money to collect the monk into the city, and then raised good wine and meat. His indulgence reached the point where he "summoned the disciples, let them do whatever they want, and offered them all in vain". The monk was worthy of his "drinking and doing nothing". But Zhong Shiheng didn't mind at all, but instead treated him better and better. Time passed day by day, and in addition to the corruption-like enjoyment of monk Guangxin's life, he occasionally went out of the city with Zhong Shiheng once or twice to point him out, how could he quietly go around to a few disobedient Qiang camps or the territory of the Dangxiang people who were too close to them and kill him unexpectedly.

Until February of this year, Fan Zhongyan was about to build Dashun City, and Zhong Shiheng suddenly summoned Monk Guangxin very seriously. The location was very hidden, with only two of them. What did they say? Now they can only reveal the second half and the first half. You must understand "this way you will be caught" in the later historical process.

"Yes. Sure," said Guangxin.

"You'll be beaten up badly" "Yes. Sure"

"You won't be able to stand it." "No. Sure"

"Nothing to say nothing" "..." Guangxin's eccentric but rebellious eyes...

The next moment, Zhong Shiheng suddenly became furious and caught Guangxin, beat him up, then beat him again, and then beat him again after he beat him n times, and Guangxin didn't care. It is said that one night the two met again, and then Guangxin disappeared. For a long time, Qingjian City and even the entire northwest border of the Song Dynasty could never see him again: he defected to Xixia...

Considering that Guangxin's work requires very technical content, he has to be given time. This tried-and-tested monk will bring the biggest surprise to the Song Dynasty! Then wait! He will definitely appear again!

These are basically the things in the Song Dynasty. Let’s talk about the Khitans. Even if they take advantage, they have to take advantage. Emperor Xingzong Yelu Zongzhen, who is not satisfied with the number of people.

Yelu Zong really gained fame and fortune. After a brief period of satisfaction, his appetite became bigger. None of you, the brothers in the south and brother-in-laws in the west, wouldn't let anyone run away! He began to speak to Li Yuanhao. But don't think that his professional ethics was very pure. After taking the money from the Song Dynasty, he really did the work for the Song Dynasty.

After extorting the Song Dynasty and then disciplining the Western Xia, this will demonstrate the invincible demeanor of my Great Khitan! So Yelu Zongzhen began to speak according to this idea: First, how did my sister Princess Xingping die? Why did you die after you die? Second, you are my retainer, and I hit you if I fail the Song Dynasty, it is because they are wrong. I have regained your face for you. But when you hit them, you never asked me, what do you think you are?

It is said that the day when Li Yuanhao received the letter, he stared to the north for a long time, his face was very indifferent, but his hands were moving a lot. He touched his nose with his hands again and again. Now it is dangerous. He used to pull the Great Liao to fight the Great Song Dynasty, but now the Great Song Dynasty and the Great Liao Dynasty stand together. If he fights like this, will the Western Xia Kingdom die for a lifetime? But isn’t it just surrendering? If he really surrenders, he is the biggest joke. Without any swords and guns, the Emperor of Liao Kingdom collapsed with just one sentence... How do people think of him?

Li Yuanhao chose to compromise. He took out a large number of treasures and sent someone to Yelu Zongzhen: I'm sorry for your sister, and you, please forgive me if I succeed once?

This is what Yelu Zong really wants. As long as you take out the money and accept it, just like the Song Dynasty, I will be satisfied...

So Li Yuanhao quietly gathered troops to the southeast, and the situation required him to have another major and decisive victory. Only in this way could he continue to challenge Song and Liao, and he and his Xixia Kingdom had the right to survive... This is Li Yuanhao's critical point.

The war began! The first step was proved that the Song Dynasty had the dominance. It was almost the same as usual. They once again "know" the action date of the Xixia side and were able to take the initiative to choose the battle plan again.
Chapter completed!