Yang Huaiyu came to Zhong Hao today, in addition to bringing this Xingzhou bow with two stones and three buckets, he also brought a major news.

Recently, something big happened in the Northwest Territories. That is, the city lord of Qingjian City, Chong Ge, took advantage of the opportunity of the battle in the Heishui Valley with the Western Xia army with the Western Xia army and the Qingtang army of Jiaoluo, and suddenly sent troops to the hometown of Suizhou, forced the landing of the Weiming Mountain tribe stationed in the hometown of Suizhou, and occupied the ancient city of Suizhou.

Speaking of which, this is not hidden and the master who can't be idle! Since he served as the state minister as the uncle of the seven-year-old little emperor of Western Xia, the Yeli family and the Shanyu family in the Western Xia have always been the biggest obstacles to him covering the sky single-handedly.

However, this time, the target of Pang's troops was not the Great Song Dynasty, but the Luo Qingtang regime in the south of the Western Xia Kingdom. When Li Yuanhao was alive, he attacked the Jiaoguo Luo Department twice, but both of them were defeated. Now that he has no hidden huge power, he thinks that his leading ability is not under Li Yuanhao, so he took advantage of the opportunity of Jiaoluo Luo's old age and illness and his three sons to fight for power, led 120,000 troops, and brazenly launched an expedition against the Jiaoluo Qingtang regime. He desperately wants to prove that his military skills are not inferior to anyone, even Li Yuanhao.

However, although Jiao Guluo was old and sick, his two sons moved to the Hehuang region with some of their troops, and in fact broke with the Qingtang regime, but the Tubo army under the command of the Qingtang regime was not given in vain. Although he didn't hide the momentum, he didn't take advantage of it.

At the beginning, the Western Xia army led by Wuzang Pang won a few small victories, but when they encountered the main force of the Qingtang army in the Heishui Valley, the two sides fought a big battle, and Wuzang Pang was defeated by Jiaoguoluo. However, the Qingtang army of Jiaoguoluo also won a crushing victory, and the army of Western Xia was much larger after all, so the two sides entered a stalemate.

The lord of Qingjian City, Chong Ge, took advantage of the stalemate in Heishui Valley when the Qingtang army led the troops to fight with Jiaoluo in the Heishui Valley, and suddenly sent troops to the hometown of Suizhou, forced down the Weiming Mountain tribe stationed in the hometown of Suizhou, and occupied the ancient city of Suizhou.

Speaking of this Suizhou matter, there is also a public case in it.

During the Jing period, Li Yuanhao brazenly claimed that the emperor was self-reliant, and the current official family was naturally angry, and then issued an edict to cut off Li Yuanhao's official title, and offered a reward for his arrest, and the Song and Xia officially tore their faces, which opened the prelude to the Song and Xia War, and the three-year-long Song and Xia War broke out in an all-round way.

However, in this Song-Xia war, although the Great Song Dynasty had a large number of people, sufficient troops, and a developed economy, it did not take advantage of any advantage in these three years of war, and even said that it was defeated very badly. The three battles of the Battle of Sanchuankou, the Battle of Haoshuichuan, and the Battle of Dingchuanzhai were all lost.

With the defeat of these three wars, some of the original control areas of the Great Song Dynasty were occupied by the Tanguts. For example, Fengzhou, north of Fuzhou, was occupied by the Tangut people in the Battle of Linfufeng after the Battle of Haoshuichuan.

This Suizhou is also one of the territories occupied by the Western Xia people in the Song-Xia War.

During the Battle of Sanchuankou, Li Yuanhao sent a large army to capture the entire Suizhou region and besiege Yanzhou, and defeated the Great Song army that came to the aid of Yanzhou at Sanchuankou. Later, although Li Yuanhao withdrew the encirclement of Yanzhou, this Suizhou has always been occupied, and the Great Song Dynasty has never been able to recapture it.

Although Suizhou has always been painted on the map of the Great Song Dynasty, in fact, this Suizhou has always been actually controlled by the Tangut people.

This is not the same as the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, which had the sixteen states of Yanyun, but was actually controlled by the Liao. Before the establishment of the Great Song Dynasty, the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun were the territory of the Liao State, and the Later Jin Dynasty, which was ceded to the Liao State at that time, was also recognized. Although the Later Zhou and the Great Song Dynasty have not admitted this matter, in legal theory, in fact, the sixteen states of Yanyun are said to be the land of Liao, which is reasonable.

However, although this Suizhou was occupied militarily by the Tangut people, the Great Song Dynasty never recognized it as the territory of the Western Xia, and the Western Xia never claimed that it was their territory, so this Suizhou was still nominally the territory of the Great Song Dynasty. Although the Tangut people did not claim that this was their territory, they had actually possessed it, and if they claimed that this was their territory, the Great Song Dynasty would definitely try their best to recapture it, and the Tangut people would not often lose it, so the two sides also acquiesced to this state.

Of course, in this case, in these areas occupied by the Western Xia in the Great Song Dynasty, the wrestling between the Song and Xia was naturally indispensable.

The Western Xia occupied Suizhou and could threaten Yanzhou, an important town of the Great Song Dynasty, at any time, but the Great Song Dynasty was unable to recapture Suizhou. Therefore, in this context, Song General Chong Shiheng suggested to Fan Zhongyan, who was the governor of Yanzhou and the pacification envoy of the Yongxing Military Road at that time: "There is a late Kuanzhou two hundred miles northeast of Yanzhou, please prosper it because of its abandoned fortress, so as to be Kou Chong." The left can lead to the millet in the east of the river, the right can consolidate the trend of Yan'an, and the north can draw the old Yinxia. ”

Fan Zhongyan agreed to Chong Shiheng's request and ordered him to build a city 200 miles northeast of Yanzhou to prevent the Western Xia from attacking Yanzhou from Qingjian City. Therefore, Chong Shiheng divided half of the city of Kuanzhou, and extended the city to the south to the bank of the Qingjian River by winding the city to the south of the Gangfu Dynasty, and built an earthen city in a very short period of time, and built a new barrier against the Western Xia. After the completion of the city, the current official family personally gave the city the name "Qingjian City".

Qingjian City is terrainous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is based on the Yellow River in the east, around the black water in the west, the bell tower and the official mountain towers before and after, and Yan'an is a dangerous place. The Gangling is overlapped, the Xi Valley is deeply blocked, the left can lead to the millet in the east of the river, the right can consolidate the momentum of Yan'an, the land of the controllable desert in the north, and the rush of the extension.

After the successful construction of Qingjian City, it did play a role in blocking the southern invasion of Western Xia. Because Qingjian City is being built in the dangerous place of Guanshan, it is really a throat place of "one person is the pass, and ten thousand people are not open", so it has the role of "locking the elm in the north and Guanluo in the south". By holding this Qingjian City, the Great Song Dynasty could block the threat of the Western Xia army from Suizhou, so that Yanzhou in the rear could be stable. Since then, the Great Song Dynasty has "guarding the clear stream is Yanzhou An"!

Therefore, this Qingjian City has an irreplaceable and important role for the Great Song Dynasty in the Yansui area.

This Qingjian City was not only a fortress for the Great Song Dynasty to block the southern invasion of the Western Xia army from the land of Suizhou, but also a bridgehead for the Great Song Dynasty to plot to restore the land of Suizhou.

After the construction of this Qingjian City is completed, it will be garrisoned here by Chong Shiheng! It's just that Chong Shiheng died after being stationed for a few years. However, after his death, the city lord of Qingjian City became his son again.

Speaking of this kind of Shiheng and Zhong Hao, they are not strangers, maybe they are not the famous ones now, and they are not so familiar to the people of the Great Song Dynasty, but in a few decades, this kind of family army will be widely known to the people of the Great Song Dynasty, and they will become the mainstay of the Western Army.

Historically, the children of the seed family have served in the army for five generations, and there are generals for several generations, and dozens of people died on the battlefield, which was called the "seed army" by the people of the Great Song Dynasty. In fact, in the late Northern Song Dynasty, the Seed Army created by Chong Shiheng was much more famous than the Yang generals, and the role was much greater than that of the Yang generals, but the Yang generals were later removed from the stage and rendered brilliantly, but the Seed Army entered the thread-bound book and was annihilated by the text, so in later generations, the reputation of the Yang generals was greater than that of the Yang family army.

This kind of young man is in the prime of life, and he is more meritorious and pioneering than his father, because since he became the lord of Qingjian City, he has been looking for an opportunity to recapture this Suizhou region.

However, the Tangut people also attached great importance to this Suizhou. Suizhou is the pivot of the Wuding River in the Hengshan Mountains, and it is a strategic place to shield the Hengshan area.

In the past two years, the official family has a very strong desire to forge ahead in the northwest, and he has also realized that his willingness to recapture Suizhou, the homeland of the Great Song Dynasty, is also even stronger. And this time, he led his troops south to attack the Qingtang region, and Chong Ge finally found an opportunity to recapture Suizhou, which had been occupied by Western Xia for more than ten years.

Since the "Qingli Peace Conference", the Great Song Dynasty and the Western Xia have always maintained a situation of fighting but not breaking. Skirmishes took place all day, but both sides tried to restrain themselves from growing and preventing them from developing into a war between the two countries.

After the attack to recapture the land of Suizhou this time, in order to avoid stimulating the Western Xia side and causing a strong backlash from the Western Xia side, the imperial court did not explicitly reply to the good news of the Chinese people, nor did they reward him on the surface.

In Zhong Hao's view, this land of Suizhou is the land of the Great Song Dynasty, and this time the Great Song Dynasty also kept a low profile after recapture, and the Western Xia was not good at making a strong backlash on the surface, and now there is no hiding Pang is leading troops to confront Jiaoluo in the Black Water Valley, I am afraid that it will not be able to recapture it by force for a while.

But it's hard to say what Pang will do next. According to Zhong Hao's estimation, this person who is not hiding Pang will be stubborn and conceited, even if he is attacked by Da Song so secretly this time, he will not suffer this big loss. It is estimated that it is very likely that Pang will strike with Jiaoluo, withdraw his troops from Heishui Valley, and then fight and counterattack the land of Suizhou.

Suizhou City is in the hands of the Xixia people who only know the destruction and do not know the construction, and it is already dilapidated.

Of course, no matter what, Zhong Hao is naturally powerless about these things. His reaction after hearing the news of the recapture of Suizhou was that he was afraid that the focus of the subsequent struggle between the Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty would shift to the Suizhou region, and the military harassment of the Western Xia army should be less so. This is good news for Zhong Hao.

Of course, Zhong Hao felt that the Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty would start a fierce struggle and struggle in Suizhou next, so the pressure on other places would be much less! Of course, there is a premise for this.

The premise of this is that the Great Song Dynasty and the Western Xia are still in this situation of fighting but not breaking. If Song Xia really has to tear his face, then it's hard to say! If Song Xia tore his face again, in the event of a national war, it would definitely be smoked on the border, and who knows if the Western Xia people would launch an attack from Linzhou?!

However, Zhong Hao felt that this situation of Song Xia tearing his face should not happen. This Suizhou was originally the land of the Great Song Dynasty, and the two sides have been fighting here, when both sides have the upper hand, it is impossible for the Western Xia people to brazenly carry out a national war because they can't afford to lose in such a place. The cost of this Song-Xia national war was too great, and both sides were unwilling to bear it.

Zhong Hao felt that this was not hidden, and Pang, as a mature political leader, would not take this step easily. Moreover, the Great Song Dynasty originally recaptured its own land, and there was no fanfare in this matter to lose the face of the Western Xia people, so he should not be annoyed and angry and tear his face with the Great Song Dynasty.

Yang Huaiyu is also the same as Zhong Hao, and thinks that it is unlikely that there will be a national war in this Song Xia, but this competition in the Suizhou region should be indispensable. The Great Song Dynasty and Western Xia competed in the Suizhou area, and the pressure in the Linzhou area should be less, and the harassment of the wasteland should be less.

Zhong Hao and Yang Huaiyu talked for a while, and they didn't stop talking until Ye Yihan and Cao Keyao came to urge. Anyway, Yang Huaiyu also wants to go to Jingqiang Village with him, and he can talk about it on the way.

From Linzhou City to Jingqiang Village, it takes half a day to ride a horse! Zhong Hao originally planned to go to Jingqiang Village for two or three days, but he didn't plan to come back on the same day, because when he chatted with Yang Huaiyu just now, he didn't care too much about the time, anyway, he could get to this Jingqiang Village before dark today.

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Originally, when he went to Jingqiang Village this time, Zhong Hao planned to find a carriage for Ye Yihan and Cao Keyao, but both of them were willing to ride with Zhong Hao.

Now it is a good season to be lukewarm, the grass grows and the warbler flies, and they feel that it is not bad to ride a horse to Jingqiang Village, and it is not bad to go on an outing all the way.

Zhong Hao was originally worried that Ye Yihan and Cao Keyao would not be able to ride well, and they would not be able to hold it for a long time, but he didn't expect that although Ye Yihan and Cao Keyao looked delicate and eager, their riding skills were actually very good, and they were not tired at all from Linzhou City to Jingqiang Village all the way.

Along the way, Yang Huaiyu and Du Yong, as well as Cui Qi, followed them, but Zhong Hao didn't worry much about safety. These guys are all strong martial arts people, so although there are not many people in Zhong Hao's industry, they are enough to protect themselves. Even if they encounter the attacking party cavalry, they should be able to escape quickly with their excellent war horses.

There was nothing to say along the way, and when he arrived at Jingqiang Village, Zhong Hao was naturally warmly welcomed! Of course, Yang Huaiyu's popularity in Jingqiang Village is not bad at all, and the soldiers of the left battalion of the Pingxi Army are all shoulder to shoulder with him, and they are very familiar with each other.

After the Pingxi Army was upgraded to a forbidden army, the main force of the Pingxi Army has now moved to Yincheng County, but this left battalion was left to garrison Jingqiang Village. After all, Yincheng County is also a county seat, so it naturally needs more troops to garrison, and Jingqiang Village is a military village after all. Once the military fortress in the northwest, if the forbidden army is stationed, it is generally the strength of a battalion. Of course, Xiang Jun's words are another story. Many fortresses were garrisoned by an army of one army, and they were easily broken by the Western Xia army.

The left battalion of the Pingxi Army is the most combat-effective battalion among the battalions in the Pingxi Army in addition to this middle battalion. The left battalion is now very well equipped, and it is assisted by gunpowder weapons such as earth-shaking thunder, so there is no big problem in guarding this Jingqiang village.

As soon as Zhong Hao and his party arrived at this Jingqiang Village, Cao Keyao took Ye Yihan to the Jingqiang Village School, and Ye Yihan was eager to see what the Jingqiang Village School she was going to teach here looked like.

As for Zhong Hao and Yang Huaiyu, they originally wanted to go around Jingqiang Village, but they were dragged by Hou Quan, the owner of Jingqiang Village, and other leaders of Jingqiang Village and the Pingxi Army to go to the Zhizhai Yamen for a banquet. 2k reading web