Chapter 616

It was the arrival of this young man that made the original pool of stagnant water, although it occasionally made waves, but it quickly subsided, the Great Song Dynasty and Western Xia, in the past hundred years, came and went, entangled for a hundred years, although there were mutual victories and defeats.

But in fact, the Great Song Dynasty lost many defeats and won less, and lost a lot of territory, such as Naxia Prefecture, Yinzhou, Youzhou, Shizhou, Longzhou, Hongzhou, Yanzhou and many other territories, all of which were seized by Western Xia from the hands of the Great Song Dynasty.

Although the Great Song Dynasty has always been unwilling, repeatedly fighting, and has also recaptured a lot of territory, such as the current Suide Army, Mizhi and other territories, but, often once the Great Song Dynasty gained the upper hand, the Northern Liao began to press the border, so that the Great Song Dynasty could not attack Xia with all its might, forming an embarrassing repeated and stalemate situation.

And the Western Xia, with the support of the Northern Liao, was like a-stirring stick, which gave the Great Song Dynasty a headache, and even the Great Song Dynasty wanted to give more than 200,000 taels of silver, tea, and silk to the Western Xia every year, hoping to exchange for peace.

Unfortunately, peace is not earned by money, but by strength. It's just that people who know these truths well are difficult to speak in the court of the Manchu hypocrites.

Especially in this era when the literati led the army and deliberately suppressed the warriors as generals, although the generals could get more money and more rewards than the civil officials, they were extremely lacking in the right to speak.

Whenever there was a battle, the court also liked to send some civilian officials who were not familiar with military affairs to supervise the army, and they often commanded blindly, resulting in many sure battles in the Great Song Dynasty that were sure to be won, and the final result was failure.

It can be said that after more than 30 years of enlistment in the army, he has been almost depressed for more than 30 years, after all, since he commanded the army, the Son of Heaven has experienced, except for the period of Emperor Shenzong, who was a little excited, the rest are all a harmonious and precious posture.

The battle of Yongle City also knocked down Emperor Shenzong's self-confidence, and finally suffered heavy casualties and heavy setbacks in political change, and finally Emperor Shenzong was physically and mentally exhausted, and finally died of depression.

Just after the death of Emperor Shenzong, Zhao Xu, the son of heaven, ascended the throne at the age of nine, and the empress dowager listened to the government. The old party that had opposed the reform of the law was returned to the court, and the expulsion of the new party that supported the reform began.

After the old party came to power, the old party, which was inclined to conservatism, abandoned the new party's policy of opening borders, and Sima Guang advocated the return of all the cities, walls, prefectures, and armies occupied by Xifeng in Western Xia.

Maybe the Western Xia will be able to thank the Great Song Dynasty for their benevolence and righteousness, and finally shake hands with the Great Song Dynasty and make peace. For such remarks, even among the old party, there is quite a market, but fortunately, not everyone is so irrational.

The crux of the matter was that no one dared to guarantee that the capricious urine nature of the Western Xia barbarians would be able to maintain peace with the Great Song Dynasty after they got back to the walled city.

On the contrary, I am worried that if the Great Song Dynasty does this, it is very likely that the barbarians of Western Xia will think that the Great Song Dynasty is showing weakness, and in this way, the other party is likely to intensify and attack again.

As a result, there was a lot of quarrel within the old party over this issue, and in the end, with the support of ministers who were neutral and familiar with military affairs, such as Han Zhongyan, and the approval of the Empress Dowager, the Great Song decided to take a compromise line.

Retain Lanzhou as the Xihe Marshal's Mansion, and only return a few walled cities to the Western Xia, so as to examine the attitude of the Western Xia and observe the after-effects. The results soon came out, and the Western Xia, who had obtained those walled cities captured by the Great Song Dynasty, were not only grateful, but very imposing.

is urging the Great Song Dynasty to continue to return more walled cities, and on the other hand, it is stationing troops on the side, and if you don't give it to me, I will kill you.

Under such circumstances, Sima Guang, who had always been known for his conceited benevolence and righteousness, also realized that his policy was wrong, so the main topic of the Song court changed from shaking hands with the Western Xia and singing the song of friendship to how to set up the strategic defense of the Northwest Border Mirror to guard against the intrusion of the Western Xia barbarians who were stunned and only knew how to play big blades and were greedy and excessive.

The defeat of the Suide army can be said to be another heavy defeat of the Great Song Dynasty after the Battle of Yongle City, which is a shame in the hearts of every soldier of the Northwest Frontier Army of the Great Song Dynasty.

After that, the Western Xia was even more ambitious to take the Jinning Army, Linzhou, Fuzhou before the reinforcements arrived, retreated to the Xia realm, and then came towards Huanqing Road, Xiaoliang and then rushed to lead the troops to help, a posture to take the northwest town of Huanqing in the Great Song Dynasty in one go.

As a result, Su Dongpo and this little Lord Wang came, and when they came to Shaanxi Road, they were originally worried that although Master Su was famous all over the world, it was the name of his talent, which did not mean that he was proficient in military affairs.

If the Shaanxi Road Passage is slightly appeased and replaced with Han Zhongyan, who has a family history, it may be able to make Zhi Kexing more at ease.

However, who would have expected that it was Su Dongpo, a world-famous pacification envoy who did not understand military strategy, and this champion of the current department who only heard that he was doing mischief in Bianliang, Tokyo.

Although Mr. Su is not familiar with military strategy, he knows how to make good use of people, and has always been guided by his own subjective opinions, but is good at accepting people's words. And this Wen Zhuangyuan Wang Yang, who once won the champion of science and martial arts in fights, although he is just a seven-grade horse to bear official duties, he is full of clever tricks.

Demolished Suyuan Village, built an exaggerated wall in front of Hongde Village, and put Xiaolianghou and 60,000 Western Xia elites to death, which made the Great Song Dynasty win an unprecedented victory, and even the Queen Mother of Western Xia became a prisoner of the Great Song Dynasty.

And that, it seems that this is just the beginning, in just over a month, there is a big thing in this Dingbian army, that is, to seize Yanzhou, which has always been coveted by the Great Song Dynasty.

In the past, Yanzhou was occupied by the Western Xia, and the salt used in the Shaanxi Road of the Great Song Dynasty could only be purchased from other places. Not to mention the price, it is still a long way to go.

And the Western Xia took the opportunity to do the private salt business, from which to make huge profits, although the Great Song Dynasty repeatedly banned illegal salt, but it is difficult to be effective, and now there is Yanzhou, the northwest border of the Great Song Dynasty, there is no shortage of salt, and at the same time, it is also a source of great wealth in the Western Xia.

The impact of this is definitely not just about getting a Yanzhou, because the land of Yanzhou is only four hundred miles away from Xingqingfu, the capital of Western Xia, and it only takes two days for a fast horse, and if the army marches, it can be climbed ten days slower.

Moreover, from Yanzhou to Xingqingfu, as long as you cross a mountain beam in the northwest direction along the ancient Great Wall, it is a horse Pingchuan, all the way straight into the hinterland of Western Xia.

With such a close distance and no danger to defend, Yanzhou, which was originally the most important salt producing area and wealth blessed land in Western Xia, has now become the most lethal blade for the capital of Western Xia.