The Liao State rebelled again, and the fuse was the land occupied by the Song people on the Liaodong Peninsula. Last year, the Liaoguo Tokyo Province once again organized a large army to attack the Liaodong Peninsula, and when the army stumbled all the way through the destroyed road to Suzhou, it was found that not only the trench had deepened, the earthen wall had been heightened, and piers had been built on the earthen wall every other section.

The Liao army once again stopped in front of the trench, although it made trebuchets and siege engines, it was helpless. When the battle dragged on, the fragility of the grain route was revealed, and finally the army had to withdraw in disarray because of the lack of food.

In the spring of this year, the Liao State organized another 50,000 troops to attack again, specially arranged a large number of troops to protect the grain routes, and finally was able to use 30,000 troops to continuously attack the Song people's defenses. But the casualties were also extremely heavy, and as a result, the tribal army that was recruited by the Liao government to be cannon fodder could not bear such a large casualty riot, not only did not attack the Song people, but also fought back, killing many Liao troops. Within a few days, the corpses pillowed all the way from Suzhou to Fuzhou, and the 50,000-strong army fell apart.

And that wasn't all, the rebellious tribal army rushed out of the peninsula and scattered the flames of rebellion in all directions. In the past two years, the Liao State has lost money because of the war and the water makers, and the tax burden is extremely heavy, and the people have already brewed a rebellion. Now that the Liao State is full of smoke, where can I take care of attacking Western Xia.

If the Liao State did not come to make trouble, it was a good time to solve the Western Xia problem. Taking advantage of the victory, Li Buqi asked Hedong Road to emigrate 10,000 people to Linfu. This was agreed with the emperor at the beginning, even if Han Qi and the others were unwilling to help Li Buqi do this favor, they could only pinch their noses and work. If they dare to play any tricks, Li Buqi really dares to pick a son immediately.

Now that the common people know that Shaanxi has won a great victory, and the noble ministers know that the edge of Shaanxi is originally a place to make money, who dares to oppose Li Buqi at this time, then wait to be drowned by spit.

In this era, the population was the combat power, and at the same time as the migration from Hedong Road to Linfu, Shaanxi also migrated from the mountainous areas to Yanzhou and Qingjian City. The confidence of all these actions comes from the abundance of grain and grass on Yanyan Road. In the past, there were no profitable specialties in the border areas, so merchants rarely arrived, and the government could only use salt to lure merchants to transport grain to these places. However, the supply of woollen goods, leather goods, glass goods, meat, and oak for making barrels was in short supply, and merchants who wanted to trade in these places had to transport grain and other goods into it and exchange it for food. This way, the merchants will not come and go with empty vehicles anyway, and it will not be a problem for them.

Naturally, the grain transported to the edge was purchased by the government, and the managers of those factories went to the Jingzhao Mansion to make the yamen receive the corresponding money. As soon as Li Buqi turned his hands like this, he solved the problem of insufficient grain and grass on Yanyan Road. However, this is the unique environment of Yanyan Road, and other marginal roads cannot copy this method, or to develop production on the spot, and therefore, in Li Buqi's planning, Yanyan Road is the main task of attacking Hengshan.

In order to achieve Li Buqi's strategic goal, the staff group formed by Li Buqi operated efficiently, and hundreds of people worked closely together to solve the military food problem in Shaanxi. By sifting through intelligence, Li Buqi would crack down on a local tyrant in a month, impeach an official who had gone too far with clear facts in a month, and when the local tyrants were almost deterred, he would take advantage of the prestige of the Quye River victory in Jingzhao Mansion to start measuring land and determining acres of land in order to increase taxes.

In the Yanyan Road, there were more than 50 staff officers stationed in the border areas in the capacity of senators of the Yamen, and their job was to inspect the land conditions everywhere and use the landless peasants who had been recruited to build the land in the form of farms in suitable places. Li Buqi used the money from Fu'an Qianzhuang to save the famine in Shaanxi when he got a piece of land, and he had successfully operated the farm model, and now these people are also familiar with it, but they have only increased armed protection. Li Buqi was ready to wait for the success of the farm camp on Yan Yan Road, so he pushed it out on the edge of the road.

In addition, Fu'an Money Village has also spread strongly in various parts of Shaanxi, providing low-interest loans to the people to resist the tricks and robberies of officials and businessmen. Li Bu gave up the huge capital, coupled with the support of the emperor, no one dared to be his edge for a while. However, the emperor also seems to have noticed the problem of the monopoly of the Fu'an consortium in the capital market, or someone said something to him, and the letter from the capital said that Bianliang opened four or five money banks in half a year, all of which were the same business model as Fu'an money banks, and poached a lot of Fu'an's personnel and share capital.

Zhao Sheng was also aware of the importance of capital to the war, so he was worried about the competition between other money banks and Fu'an, but Li Buqi did not care. The success of Fu'an lies in the close combination of capital and industry, the investment channel that makes steady profits and does not lose money, and the stable return. Li Buqi expressed skepticism.

At the same time, the 15,000 Xiang troops transferred from Jingdong and Jingxi Road completed their formation and training, formed five engineer regiments, and stationed them in various roads to be responsible for the construction of forts and roads. Since these sappers can work all year round and have a certain combat effectiveness, it is roughly estimated that the number of errands required to build the city each year can be reduced by half.

Seeing that at the end of June, it was the hottest time of the year, but Li Buqi went out of Jingzhao Mansion again, turning around one road after another, checking the homework he had left for the commanders of all roads.

The characteristics of the defense line of the Song army in Shaanxi can be summed up in four words, that is, there are many points and long lines, and once the Western Xia army concentrates its forces to storm a little, Li Buqi will inevitably be in a hurry. This, in turn, was the same for Western Xia. Therefore, only by striving for the initiative can we avoid chaos.

In order to gain the initiative, Li Buqi ordered in April to select three or four points on the edge of the border that could be easily captured, or that must be removed, and drew up a battle plan to seize them in the offensive from the early autumn of this year to the spring of tomorrow. He did not have high requirements for the results of the battle, only asked to be able to confirm the destruction of one to two thousand enemies, eliminate one or two Western Xia strongholds with a relatively large threat, and promised to equip all sides with powerful weapons for this operation. However, he asked for the content of the plan in great detail, such as the local terrain, hydrology, population, enemy deployment, how the Song army would assemble in concealment, how to march, how to deal with unexpected situations, and so on.

This plan alone made the Wulu Marshal miserable, Wenchen couldn't do it, and Wuchen couldn't do it. This thing can't be discussed on the market, so that even a powerful character like Pang Ji is speechless to Cangtian, but fortunately, he has a few reliable generals like Zhang Shouyue under him, so he came up with this plan.

Through this plan, Li Buqi also saw a few good seedlings from officials from all walks of life, such as Yan Zhun of Jingyuan Road, and Jiyi Wenwen Gu Zhi of Huanqing Road are all very courageous, talented, and careful people, and it may be of great use to investigate them. As the saying goes, Maxima often exists, Bole does not often have, if he doesn't let all walks of life make plans, these talents are just afraid that they will be buried.

At the end of July, before the autumn was high and the horses were fattening the Tangut people, as soon as Li Buqi returned to Jingzhao Mansion, he issued an order to all walks of life to crack down on the cross-border invasion of the Tangut people. Over the years, most of the Song border guards were better than less, causing the Western Xia people to blatantly invade and cultivate the Song land, so there was nothing wrong with starting a war under this pretext. Jingyuan Lu was the first to respond, and immediately began to expel the Tangut people, and the Tangut people naturally wanted to resist, so it was justified to start a war. Huanqing Road sent an army of 5,000 to burn three Xixia forts before the Tanguts could understand it.

Most of the villages built by the Xixia people are still wood-plugged villages, which are very simple. Li Buqi equipped all walks of life with fire oil bombs fired with ballistas, and the "tiger squat artillery" imitation of Qi Jiguang's Qi army, the Song army did not need to approach the village, as long as they surrounded the village and threw the fire oil bombs or trebuchets on the wall or the village with ballistas, the village was basically finished. Then the Song army waited for the Tangut people in the stockade to run out and then bombarded them with tiger squats and crossbows.

Naturally, the Tanguts could not ignore this matter, but by the time they gathered their soldiers and horses to kill, the Song army had already withdrawn to Huanzhou and built their own walled fort at a safe distance. This made the Western Xia people not fight, retreated and aggrieved, and were stalemate there for a while.

Then Qin Fenglu suddenly sent troops to attack the border tribes that were close to the Western Xia, and it seemed that there was going to be some big move, so that the Western Xia people had to pay attention.

Then there is Yanyan Road, and then Qinfeng Road and Huanqing Road......

From early autumn to the spring of the following year, smoke rose everywhere on the Song-Xia border.

Because the Song army only aimed at killing and injuring the Western Xia army and destroying its stronghold, it waited for an opportunity to move, and retreated immediately after a successful blow, so that the tactics used by the Western Xia army such as cutting off grain routes and setting up ambushes were useless.

This is a wheel war, the Tangut people are the first time to encounter the situation of the Song army cooperating with each other, completely unclear about the situation, the Xixia army is exhausted, although the battle damage is not much, but it can't stand every day and can't rest. For a country with little potential for war, this slow blood loss is even more terrible.