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Fluttering like a frightening Hong, graceful like a dragon, Rong Yao autumn chrysanthemum, Huamao spring pine. It seems to be like a light cloud covering the moon, and fluttering like the snow of the wind. Looking at it from afar, it is as bright as the sun rising to the morning glow; Forced to observe it, it is like a hibiscus out of the waves.

As soon as Ren entered the Heart Cultivation Palace, Li Yan's eyes lit up!

Ren is definitely a peerless beauty, among Li Yan's 30,000 harem beauties, those who can compare with Ren are afraid that they are no more than ten fingers.

This made Li Yan very surprised, and at the same time, he said in his heart: "No wonder Ren Dejing that old thing dares to ask for my support with a daughter." ”

Ren came to Li Yan, Ying Ying bowed, and then said in a voice like a nightingale: "People's daughter Ren, meet Your Majesty." ”

"The sound is so perfect!" Li Yan said in his heart.

Li Yan said: "Get up." ”

After Ren got up, Li Yan said again: "Raise your head." ”

Ren listened and slowly raised his head.

If the shoulders are cut, the waist is as plain. Stretch the neck of the show, the quality of the dew, the fragrance is not added, the lead Huafu Yu. The clouds are elegant, the eyebrows are trimmed, the lips are long, and the teeth are fresh. Bright eyes are good, Jing assists in inheriting power, beautiful posture, and quiet and leisurely. Tenderness and flattery in words. The hands are like soft wattles, and the skin is like clotted fat. The collar is like a grub, and the teeth are like a rhinoceros. The head of the mantis has eyebrows, and the beautiful eyes are longing.

This Ren, from top to bottom, is not beautiful, it is simply the reincarnation of Luoshen.

This made Li Yan, who was used to seeing beautiful women, couldn't help but be moved!

After staring at Ren for a long time, Li Yancai spoke again: "Your father gave you to me, are you willing?" ”

Ren said unpretentiously: "Marriage matters, the orders of parents, and the words of matchmakers, how can a little woman be in charge." ”

Li Yan heard the words and praised: "What a sensible and good woman!" Glancing at Ren again, Li Yan said again: "It's a rare beauty in the world, huh...... In this way, I won't let you slowly rise from the concubine, and directly accept you as a concubine, and give you ...... "concubine". ”

Actually-

These are all excuses, even if the Ren family is not beautiful or the answer is not good, Li Yan will find other excuses to give the Ren family the position of concubine.

Not only did he give Ren's concubine position, Li Yan also ordered someone to send Ren Dejing a rather generous return gift.

Ren Dejing received Li Yan's return gift to him, and heard the person he sent report that Li Yan had given Ren a concubine and had been turning over Ren's sign before they left, Ren Dejing smiled knowingly.

Soon, Ren Dejing sent his cronies to discuss with Xiao Heda secretly.

At the same time, Ren Dejing began to bloody purge the generals who did not obey his orders, and installed his cronies in various important positions.

After talking secretarily a few times, Ren Dejing and Xiao Heda finally negotiated - Xiao Heda helped Ren Dejing seize Western Xia, Ren Dejing ceded the west of Helan Mountain to Xiao Heda, and helped Xiao Heda recover Liao.

After reaching a consensus, Ren Dejing and Xiao Heda made a bloody alliance, and then joined forces to kill Xingqing Mansion.

All the way to kill back under the banner of "hanging the people and killing crimes", Ren Dejing recruited the rebels all the way on the grounds of Li's immorality and even the anger of the heavens and the resentment of the people.

The rebels in Weizhou, Jingzhou, Dingzhou, Fu'er and other places heard the news and came to join Ren Dejing's anti-Xia army.

By the time Ren Dejing arrived in Xiazhou, there were more than 300,000 troops under his command, and the momentum was so strong that it frightened the Western Xia monarchs and ministers, and made the Western Xia court panic from top to bottom!

Li Renxiao hurriedly invited Brother Richard, Li Renzhong, and Li Renli, who had been estranged from him before, and asked them to find a way to help the general of the building turn the tide!

The veteran Brother Richard, without saying a word, organized the army, and then personally led 20,000 troops to Xiazhou to meet the enemy.

And Li Renzhong and Li Renli also actively assisted Li Renxiao to stabilize people's hearts regardless of their previous suspicions.

thinks that at the beginning, Li Renxiao was to get rid of the control of Brother Richard, Li Renzhong, and Li Renli over him, so he supported Ren Dejing, which led to Ren Dejing becoming bigger, and now it has become a scourge.

At this time, Li Renxiao knew how tender he was, and whether it was his father Li Qianshun who left him as an auxiliary minister was more reliable.

Brother Richard is a veteran of a hundred battles, although he has fewer soldiers and horses, but he defended the fortified city of Xiazhou, which still temporarily delayed the footsteps of Ren Dejing's rebels.

But—

Everyone knows that Richard can only hold on for a while, and it is impossible to hold back the pace of Ren Dejing's rebels forever.

First of all, Ren Dejing's military talent is also outstanding, even no worse than Brother Richard, because Ren Dejing had suppressed many rebellions and uprisings, Li Renxiao wanted Ren Dejing to replace Brother Richard to suppress Xiao Heda's rebellion.

Secondly, Ren Dejing has too many troops in his hands, and if he can't defeat Xiazhou City, which Richard Brother is holding, Ren Dejing is likely to choose to surround Xiazhou City, and then bypass Xiazhou to attack Xingqing Mansion.

Therefore, Li Renxiao, Li Renzhong, Li Renli and others must take advantage of the opportunity that Brother Li Cha finally won to come up with a way to solve Ren Dejing's rebellion.

If you want to solve Ren Dejing's rebellion, there are no more than two ways, either talk or fight.

Judging from the current situation, it is impossible to talk about designation, Li Renxiao is to give all the west of Xiazhou to Ren Dejing, and Ren Dejing is estimated not to do it, the key is that Li Renxiao cannot give all the west of Xiazhou to Ren Dejing - if it is given, Li Renxiao's Western Xia Emperor will be regarded as the end.

So, only to fight.

But if you want to fight, you must have soldiers and horses.

Although everyone in Western Xia can fight, but now this situation is that not everyone is willing to fight for Li Renxiao - Li Renxiao's foundation is too shallow, since he ascended the throne, not only did he not do any political achievements, but also natural disasters continued, the people of Western Xia have doubted Li Renxiao's rule, and even, many people hope that the prestige Ren Dejing will replace Li Renxiao, so Li Renxiao can not form a militia regiment at all.

Can the Western Xia court transfer soldiers and horses?

The answer is...... Yes.

The Western Xia had more than 100,000 troops in the Hengshan region—the most elite troops in the Western Xia, and the most loyal to the Li family.

Moreover, among these hundreds of thousands of troops, there are also three ace troops of Western Xia - Iron Harrier, Bubazi and Poxi Army.

The Iron Harrier is not much to say, it is the strongest iron horse in Western Xia, and it is also the first-class equipped iron horse in the world.

Step.

As the name suggests, this is an infantry force.

But this foot man was definitely not an ordinary infantryman.

Those who walk in and out of the hillside, enter and exit the stream, can most exceed the height and distance, walk lightly, and meet the enemy in the deep and dangerous places of the valley, then use the foot to stab and cover the attack.

To put it bluntly, this step is the same as the Dazhong White Army, which is a mountain special army.

The Hengshan area at the junction of Western Xia and Dazhong is full of mountains, hills and river valleys, and even the junction of Western Xia and Liao and Tubo is also full of mountains, hills and river valleys.

In addition, the source of soldiers of the Western Xia Bubazi mainly came from the Hengshan area, so it is also called "Hengshan Bubazi".

Ponxi Army.

The name is strange, it is clearly a matter of language translation, and as for what it means, no one knows anymore.

The number of the Poxi army was not large, only more than 200 people/horse.

Why does the Poxi Army use "horses" as a unit?

That's because the Poxy Army is a camel army.

It may be asked, camels can also fight?

Yes, on the high slopes of the loess, the camel can fight.

Camels, compared to horses, have no advantage other than better endurance, so people rarely use them to fight.

So how did the Tangut people use camels?

In fact, this is inseparable from the development of long-range attack weapons.

Long ago, long-range attack weapons such as trebuchets and bed crossbows have been widely used, especially during sieges and charges, these weapons have played a great role, and nomads have suffered greatly.

Later, the clever Tanguts were inspired by this, and they made a perfect combination of trebuchets and camels.

Trebuchets have the advantage of being destructive, but they are very large and bulky.

So, the Tanguts thought of making it smaller and making it a pocket version to shoot at the enemy.

There is also the problem of movement, the camel of Western Xia happens to be a mobile machine with a good load, and the two natural humps of the camel can be used to fix the trebuchet.

So the Tanguts came up with the idea of using camels and trebuchets to create a mobile long-range attack force.

This is the Pop Hill Army.

The Western Xia army fought with infantry and cavalry, and cooperated from far and near, first using the whirlwind cannon of the Poxi army to carry out long-range attacks, and then used the iron harrier to carry out a frontal assault, and after breaking through the enemy formation, the infantry was mixed behind the iron harrier to take advantage of the situation to enter the enemy formation.

This tactic of the Tanguts often caught their enemies by surprise.

Of course, the infantry in this is not necessarily a foot soldier - depending on the terrain, the foot foot is mainly deployed in places with mountains, hills, river valleys.

Because Dazhong has been pressing step by step in recent years, Western Xia has deployed its most elite troops, including the three ace troops, to the Hengshan area.

If all these troops are transferred back, they should be able to suppress Ren Dejing's rebels, and at the worst of all, the Li family will have the capital to sit down and talk with Ren Dejing.

But the problem is that if all these troops are transferred back, it will be tantamount to ceding the Hengshan region, which is most important to Western Xia, to Dazhong.

This Hengshan area is not only steep and very difficult to attack, the Xia army can directly block the traffic line from Tianshui to Datong after the Xia army gathers in Hengshan, the long Sino-Xia border line can become the target of the Xia army to break through at any time and anywhere, to put it simply, the Hengshan area in the Western Xia, it is equivalent to the Yanyun region in the Northern Song Dynasty, if the Western Xia loses the Hengshan area, the Western Xia will be the same as the Northern Song Dynasty when the Liao State lost Yanyun, go if you want to, and it is a horse Pingchuan, The key is that this Hengshan area is also the most important base for grain, horse, iron and tea production in Western Xia, and it is also the best and most important source of troops in Western Xia.

If the Western Xia ceded the Hengshan region to Dazhong, then with the powerful military power of Dazhong, the demise of the Western Xia may be a matter of time.

And yet—

If the soldiers and horses in the Hengshan area were not withdrawn, the Western Xia might have perished more quickly.

After weighing the pros and cons, Li Renxiao finally made a decision to withdraw 100,000 troops from the Hengshan area first, leaving only some men and horses to guard various dangerous places.

At the same time, Li Renxiao personally wrote to Li Yan, asking Li Yan to support the Li family of Western Xia - as for asking Li Yan to send troops to help him and kill Li Renxiao, Li Renxiao didn't dare, he was too afraid that Li Yan would destroy Western Xia even if he pretended to kill him.

At the beginning, when he sent someone to return the salute to Ren Dejing, Li Yan asked Xu Guanzhong to inform Wu Jue to pay close attention to the movements of Western Xia, and gave Wu Jue the right to attack: it is time to attack and attack decisively.

In order not to delay the Western Army's summer attack by transferring all the horses of the Western Army to the expeditionary force, the imperial court transferred most of the cavalry of the First Military Region and even Li Yan's pro-army Tabai Army to the Fifth Military Region and handed it over to Wu Jue's command.

Knowing that the imperial court was going to recover Western Xia, and that Western Xia had given Dazhong such a good opportunity, Wu Jue actively prepared and secretly ordered the Zhejia army, which was at the forefront, to pay close attention to the dynamics of Western Xia.

Soon, the Zhe family found out, and Ren Dejing, who went to the west of Helan Mountain to quell the rebellion, rebelled, and united with Xiao Heda to kill him.

After that, there was more and more news of Ren Dejing's rebellion.

In less than three months, the Zhe family inquired that Ren Dejing had incorporated the rebel armies in Weizhou, Jingzhou, Dingzhou, Fu'er and other places, with more than 300,000 men and horses, and fought to Xiazhou.

Next, the Western Xia court sent Li Chage to lead 20,000 horses to Xiazhou City to stop Ren Dejing's rebels from advancing eastward.

Not long after, the Zhe family found that the Xia army in the Hengshan area showed signs of mobilization.

Zhe Keqiu hurriedly sent this important news back to Wu Jue, and sent his judgment that Western Xia might transfer the Xia army in the Hengshan region back to King Qin, as well as his suggestion, that is, to decisively attack and seize the Hengshan region, and send it to Wu Jue.

In fact, at this time, the spy personnel in Dazhong in Western Xia had already sent the accurate news that the Western Xia court was preparing to transfer the Xia army in the Hengshan area back to King Qin, and returned to the hands of the imperial court and Wu Jue respectively.

In other words, Wu Jue only needs to decide whether to fight or not to fight the Hengshan area.

This decision is not difficult for Wu Jue to decide - first of all, this is definitely the best time for Dazhong to recover Western Xia, and it may also be the only chance. Secondly, although Wu Jue has the merit of recovering Sichuan and Shaanxi, how can this merit be compared to the recovering of Western Xia?

Therefore, Wu Jue soon began to deploy and secretly dispatched a large army to the Hengshan area.

It was also at this time that the imperial court sent a letter to Wu Jue - a "handwritten letter" written by Li Renxiao to Li Yan.

In this "handwritten letter" written by Li Renxiao to Li Yan, Li Renxiao cried to Li Yan about the hardships of being an emperor, and said that he didn't want to be an emperor anymore, wanted to be an ordinary person, and then repeatedly begged his uncle Li Yan to send troops to exterminate the "rebels" in the Hengshan area and go to Xingqing Mansion to save him......

Of course, this "handwritten letter" written by Li Renxiao to Li Yan was forged, and the real handwritten letter written by Li Renxiao to Li Yan was just to ask Li Yan to support the Western Xia, condemn and scare Ren Dejing, so that Ren Dejing had some scruples, and let the people of the Western Xia know that Dazhong was still on their Li side, and then calm the hearts of the people of the Western Xia.

But Li Yan, an old rascal, really couldn't find an excuse to send troops, so in the end he could only teach Xiao Rang and Jin Dajian to forge a "handwritten letter" from Li Renxiao on the basis of Li Renxiao's handwritten letter to Li Yan.

This "handwritten letter" from Li Renxiao also became one of the few excuses for later generations to attack Li Yan.

It's a bit far.

The court even found an excuse for Wu Jue, what else did Wu Jue have to hesitate about?

In the autumn of the fifth year of Tietong, when Wu Jue received accurate information that the Xia army withdrawn from the Hengshan area had exchanged hands with Ren Dejing's rebels, Wu Jue decisively ordered an attack, and the target: the entire Hengshan area.

Although Western Xia still left more than 30,000 troops in the Hengshan area, how could this little man and horse completely hold the huge Hengshan area?

It didn't take long for Wu Song to lead the Tabai army to break through the Hengshan area and reach the Western Xia region, and then Wu Song began to deploy defenses on various key roads - to prevent the Xia army from returning to the Hengshan area.

Soon after, Zhe Kecun also led the vanguard of Zhejia's army through the Hengshan area, and then Zhe Kecun cooperated with Wu Song to guard various key roads.

Slowly, more and more Chinese troops passed through the Hengshan area.

When the Chinese army completely cut off the connection between the Hengshan area and Western Xia, Wu Jue ordered: completely clean up the defenders in the Hengshan area and completely occupy the Hengshan area.

As for the battle between the Xia army and Ren Dejing's rebels, let them fight for a while first......

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PS: This is a big chapter of 2-in-1, so, that's it for today.