Chapter 638: Xixia is not a sick cat
Here's the thing, the current king of Western Xia is named Shengwen Emperor Li Qianshun, he was only three years old when he ascended the throne - he couldn't even climb the dragon chair himself, so he had to rely on a few regents to manage the government on his behalf, and then these people were busy fighting for power, forming parties for personal gain, and increasing their own right to speak, so they couldn't care about competing for hegemony with the Northern Song Dynasty and Liao State over the years, so it gave people the illusion of 'well-behaved and soft'.
But the party has always been a fierce people, otherwise it would not be a three-legged place with a corner of the 'Hetao' and the Liao and Song kingdoms, so it doesn't mean that it is a HelloKitty, it's just asleep.
But when Li Qianshun was twenty years old, the lion finally woke up, and over the years, he pretended to be very obedient on the surface, like a perfect puppet, no matter how domineering and tossing the regents were, they turned a blind eye and turned a deaf ear, and just indulged in the sound of dogs and horses every day, so others didn't take him seriously, and they all thought that it was not too late to defeat the opponent and unify the dynasty before they came to clean him up.
Who knew that Li Qianshun had secretly cultivated a large number of dead soldiers, and encircled a group of loyal ministers who were finally the royal family, just waiting for a suitable opportunity, the opportunity finally came, the three most powerful ministers died of alcoholism at one time, and the remaining two families immediately joined forces to divide up his forces, and the two families pinched each other again.
Just when they were inseparable, Li Qianshun suddenly acted, and he didn't make a sound, and he personally led all his elites to break the empty main city of these two families with lightning speed, and all the family members controlled it, and then forced these two factions to surrender, saying that as long as they surrendered, they would not be blamed for the past.
The leaders of the two factions didn't expect this to happen at all, they were fighting in front, but they didn't expect the nest to be copied by this "puppet" emperor, and they couldn't help but look at each other.
At this time, although they have soldiers and horses in their hands, first, their families are in the hands of Li Qianshun, and secondly, they will not continue to have grain and grass, and thirdly, Li Qianshun is in charge of righteousness after all, and they are just 'traitors', if Li Qianshun is mediocre, it is reasonable, but now it seems that he is clearly pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, scheming, and good at strategy, but he is actually a generation of heroes, even if they want to rebel, it is difficult to convince their soldiers.
Therefore, they had no choice but to surrender together with the 'difficult brothers and brothers', but Li Qianshun did not let their families go easily, but ordered these two factions to attack the Song State, at least 5 million or 100,000 people to return to complete the task, and then their families could be released, otherwise they would still be executed.
The leaders of these two factions never imagined that Li Qianshun would have such a skill, but there was no way to return to obedience, so he had to receive an order, and each took 70,000 or 80,000 horses from his headquarters to go all the way east to the border of the Song Dynasty in two ways.
Li Qianshun's hand is very beautiful, these two people are not his descendants in the first place, he sent them to fight the Song Kingdom, and the benefits are his own, and by the way, he can also reduce the strength of these two factions; And if there is a mistake, he will put the blame on the leaders of these two factions, saying that they have betrayed the Western Xia Kingdom and acted without authorization, and he will be able to push the responsibility cleanly.
I have to say that he is indeed a male lord who is good at military strategy, although he is not upright but scheming, he is good at turning unfavorable situations into advantages, and he uses them to the extreme, Song Huizong is simply a scum compared to him.
One of the two brothers is called Li Dezhong - Li Qianshun's uncle in terms of seniority, and the other is called Chamur, who is the boss of a part of the faction in Western Xia that adheres to tradition and refuses to accept Sinicization.
Originally, these paths were also guarded by Song soldiers, but in the past ten years, there has been no harassment in the Western Xia Kingdom, and Yang Jian and others, who are high in the court, think that placing soldiers and horses in this deserted place is a complete waste of food, so they slack off, so this time Li Dezhong and Chamur broke through from here without much effort.
As soon as the border line is the border of Yongzhou, the two of them can't help but be overjoyed, and they can't help but respect Li Qianshun in their hearts, sure enough, this Song Dynasty has been abandoned, otherwise why is the border so careless, it seems that this operation is not only not a dead end, on the contrary, it is very likely to make a great contribution.
The two then divided into two long drives down to Yongzhou's Baiyin Mansion and Jiuquan Mansion respectively, where did these two places think that there would be Western Xia cavalry suddenly descended from the sky, and they were destroyed without having time to take precautions, and then the Western Xia soldiers looted the valuable things in the city, and drove the young men and women to their own country.
In this battle alone, the two teams plundered nearly half of the ' Mission goal', and then they rushed to the southeast non-stop, burning and looting unscrupulously along the way, then Li Dezhong was better, but for the purpose of snatching, as long as he didn't resist, he didn't kill too much, and Chamur was wild, indulged his subordinates to do it to their heart's content, and saw all kinds of lewd women to the fullest, and then held a bonfire party at night to celebrate, so that those plundered Han slaves stripped naked to dance for fun, and the slightest resistance was directly whipped to death, and sometimes tied to the back of the horse and dragged to death, just to make them happy。
The local officials were frightened and frightened, and the letter for help flew to Yongzhou City like snowflakes, and the governor was helpless about this, so he had to send two fast horses to report the news, one way to the small kind of Jingluo Xiang's Mansion, and the other to the capital.
Therefore, when Huizong received the news here, it had been almost ten days since the invasion of Western Xia, and there had already been seven or eight prefectures and forty or fifty county towns that had been plundered, and the cavalry of the Western Xia Kingdom was extremely fast, and they had no intention of stationing at all, just to grab a vote and leave, just like flying locusts, causing great damage.
This news immediately shocked the court, and Huizong had to be pulled up from Master Li's bed again and go to court early - this is too rare for him, his old man usually goes to the court for four or five days at a time, it is impossible, and he urgently asks the hundred officials how to deal with this matter.
At the critical moment, the veteran Zong Ze stood up and answered, and he mentioned three twists in a row, first, strictly investigate the route of the Western Xia Kingdom this time, find out who let them in at the border and then punish them severely; second, to inform the small species to send troops to sweep away the invading enemy; Third, he sent envoys to the Western Xia Kingdom to ask the lord Li Qianshun why he violated the contract between the two countries and attacked the Great Song Dynasty.
(End of chapter)