He was always bored, and he couldn't interject at all in conversations about national affairs, and no one would ask his opinion, but the more he listened, the more angry he became.

The fifteen-year-old lord of the Western Xia Kingdom had the confidence of a young man, and he always wanted to prove that he was an adult, and he no longer had to listen to the lessons of his elders. Full of ambition, I can't wait to take control of the country's politics today, and then command hundreds of thousands of troops in the country, and then have a few good battles of Shuichuan, and beat the aggressive Song army to the point that I dare not look north for 30 years.

But now the queen mother, uncle, and even a cadre of important ministers in front of him, in the face of the aggressive Song people, the war in front of them, they are all cowering, and they do not have the heroic spirit of Taizu [Li Jiqian] and Jingzong [Li Yuanhao] who swept Liuhe back then.

The empress dowager, the prime minister, the privy envoy, and a group of important ministers who were in charge of the military affairs of the Western Xia gathered together to discuss for a long time, but no result was discussed. The only thing that was determined was to increase the defenders in Luowu City, and to strengthen the defenses of Yin and Xia Erzhou at the northern foot of Hengshan. At the same time, we also have to keep an eye on Lanzhou, in case Yu Zang Huama suddenly defects, which catches people off guard.

It's just that this decision is no different from the result of many discussions the day before, the day before, and even more than a month later.

The footsteps walked heavily through the corridor of the harem, and the soles of his boots stepped on the floor, clanging, like a war drum, telling the anger in his heart.

The Son of Heaven was furious, and millions of corpses were ambushed.

In other words, Taizu and Jingzong, when they encountered the idea of the Song people daring to fight Hengshan, whether it was true or not, they would immediately jump on the horse, and rush to the south with the sixth class of the imperial siege and the sanitation iron horse around them, and at the same time blow the horn and gather the athletes in the country. When they arrived at Hengshan, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses rushed into the Song Realm like a flood breaking the embankment, killing a river of blood!

In the stories he has heard since childhood, his ancestors are such heroes.

It's a pity that he didn't even have the weight to speak in the court, so he usually came to the dormitory in a depressed mood. Everything in the Xixia court is to learn the system of the Han people, the main hall is called Zichen, even the guards are called Banzhi, and the name of the dormitory is also imitated, called Funing Palace.

"The concubine visits the official's family." When they arrived at the front of the palace, a richly dressed girl led the palace people out of the palace to greet them.

I often like Han Chinese objects, silk, porcelain, poetry and articles, and of course, titles. He doesn't like the 'vultures' full of Hu Feng, but likes to let the palace people call him an official, just like the palace maids wearing silk and silk in the Kaifeng Imperial City thousands of miles away are the same titles used when they call the emperor of the Han family.

The girl who came out of the temple was only sixteen or seventeen years old, a little older than usual. Because the eyes are too slender, they look a little sinister, and their attractive appearance has become a bit intimidating because of this.

Bingchang stepped forward to help her up, and walked to the hall together: "Why did you come to Funing Palace?" ”

"I heard that the Nanren intended to attack Great Xia, so I came over and asked."

Although she wore the Luo skirt of a Han woman and came out to greet the regular queen Yelu, she still did not get rid of the straightforwardness of the Khitan children. As a queen, Yelu has her own bedroom, but since she is married, she does not have the idea of making a decoration in her bedroom, but intends to be close to her husband, who is a year younger.

Although Yelu is just a clan daughter, without the recommendation of Yelu Yixin, the king of Wei, her relationship with the Khitan royal family is only a little touched, but her current identity is a real imperial daughter, Princess Renshou who was recognized and canonized by Emperor Yelu Hongji of the Great Liao.

Turning into the side hall where he usually lives in his daily life, Yelu said: "You all go down, I have something to say to the official family." ”

only gave one command, and the palace maids in the palace immediately retreated obediently.

The palace people who originally served in the Funing Hall were all arranged by the Liang family, and they informed the Liang family of their daily life day by day. However, when Yelu got married, he found an excuse to kill several palace maids who were too 'loyal' within a few days, and no one dared to disobey her orders since. Even the Empress Dowager Liang herself did not want to be an enemy of her daughter-in-law with a deep background because of small reasons, so she could only let the people she arranged act more carefully.

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Thousands of miles across the mountains, both sides of the Song and Xia Dynasty began the process of arming and fighting.

It's just that on the side of the Song people, we have to beware of the Khitan in the north - the western thieves are just a border trouble, and if the northern captives come, the Great Song Dynasty will be in danger of destroying the country.

Therefore, every few days, Zhao Ji had to ask how Han Gang's plate armor was, although the ordnance supervisor originally reported the production situation in the prison day by day, he still had to ask. This is also the reason for the urgency.

War is imminent, but although the battlefield is in the northwest, a large part of the key to victory or defeat is in Hebei. In order to speed up the plan to replace the Hebei forbidden army with iron armor, Zhao Ji has urged Han Gang more than once to prepare at least 40,000 iron armors as soon as possible, so as to appease the forbidden army of Gaoyang Pass and Dingzhou in northern Hebei and make up for the lack of iron armor - before the plate armor came out, the iron armor rate of the two forbidden armies was only fifty percent, but this ratio has already proved how much the imperial court values the Hebei defense line. Regardless of the party or Khitan, there is only a quarter of the armor at most, and the iron armor is less than one percent.

However, Han Gang didn't just have to worry about armor. All kinds of ordnance and city defense equipment must be produced by the ordnance superintendent. Recently, because of the coking kiln outside the city, coke is available, and there is a lot of coal tar. Now in the prison workshop to see if it can be made into fierce fire oil. Of course, the more important thing is ironmaking, and he is now making a report to Hebei or Jingdong to transport a batch of iron ore over instead of the pig iron ingots in the past.

In the past, the Song court has been encouraging the military and civilians of the world to invent useful weapons, and the divine arm bow obtained as a result is now a sharp weapon that the Song army relies on to overwhelm the two captives in the northwest. And after Han Gang became a military weapons supervisor, he encouraged the invention and creation in the prison even more. Moreover, it is no longer a focus on weapons for quick success, but more attention is paid to the improvement and invention of tools. Although the energy of the craftsmen in the prison is still focused on forging hammers, waterwheels, and windmills, Han Gang believes that perhaps after a while, the appearance of machine tools will be seen.

"I heard that there are another 1,050 iron harriers in Luo Wu City."

During this time, Wang Yan and Han Gang came and went more and more, and came to talk to him every once in a while. Wang Anshi's eldest son has always been arrogant and unscrupulous, and there has never been such a mediocre person in his eyes - his reputation is actually ruined by his bad popularity. But for Han Gang, whose talent and achievements are not inferior to him, Wang Yan has a feeling of sympathy. It's just that half of today's topic about Hengshan is to consult on behalf of Wang Anshi.

"With the previous garrison, the Western Thieves put it in Luowu City are enough for 5,000 horse infantry troops." Han Gang smacked his lips and laughed: "They can afford it." ”

"If you can't afford it, you have to raise it." Wang Yan snorted coldly and asked rhetorically, "Do you dare to give up just yet?" ”

"Maybe the West Thief will retreat all the way to Xingqing Mansion. The wall clears the wilderness, lures the enemy to go deeper, and the most stubborn closes the door and hits ......" Han Gang pursed his lips and didn't say the last word.

"It seems that Yukun, you don't dare to say anything......" Wang Yan suddenly laughed, "It's a pity that the western thief will never be so generous." If they give up Yinxia, the official army will just occupy it. As for Xingling, the top and bottom were not prepared, the food was not in time, and it was difficult to mobilize troops for a while, so how could they dare to cross the Hanhai. In other words, it was a war to prepare for the revival of the spirit and the suppression of the Western Prisoners, but at that time, I was worried that the Western Thieves would do this. ”

As soon as he saw that Luo Wucheng was going to abandon it, he immediately killed in Hengshan, and the large and small Fan tribes in the Wuding River area were also wiped out, and when besieging Luo Wu City, Liang Yi buried it also in order to obtain enough grain and grass, and wantonly squeezed the Hengshan Fan Department.

It's only been four years since the war, and the vitality of the Hengshan Fan Department is far from recovering, where do the defenders in Luowu City get their rations from?

He dared to use Yan Yan all the way as the main force to forcibly take a few years ago, but it was not only because of the strength of the armor and the army, it was far better than before. It is even more because the support received by the party members in Hengshan is far less than in the past.

In the past few years, the Western Xia defenders in Luowu City have to rely on Yinzhou and Xiazhou in Shanbei to support. Now, in order to resist the Song army, Western Xia has added tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the north and south of Hengshan for more than a month. As long as they are stationed for half a year, it is enough to empty the little grain stock that the Yinxia area has saved in the past two years, and the more reinforcements are transferred, the faster they will be empty. When the time came, the war started at the southern foot of Hengshan, and the party people even had to transport grain from Xingqing Mansion across the Hanhai, but it was the Song people who attacked the north who had abundant food.

"As long as you prevent the western thieves from taking the initiative to attack, you can grab the food and go back." Wang Yan added, "The lack of grain and grass alone can force the western thieves to retreat to the northern foot of Hengshan." ”

"No matter which walled city is on the edge of the four roads, it must be on guard now. The temperament of the party members is clearer than anyone else in the Western Army. Han Gang smiled, "The western thieves will definitely take the initiative to come out, they are used to being robbers." Give them a head start, and then take advantage of the situation to attack. In this way, even if the Liao people come to ask, we are confident. ”

Han Gang said with a smile, but his tone was sarcastic. Wang Yan shook his head when he heard this, fighting the western thief, but he also had to guard against the northern captives, and everyone felt depressed.

"Yukun, are you still against the capture of Hengshan?" Wang Yan asked.

Han Gang smiled but did not answer, his reason for opposing the attack on Hengshan has never been a problem on the front line, how can the Liao people be reasonable? Last year, the Liao people came to fight for the northern land, and the Great Song Dynasty ignored it. It's just that if you continue to talk about it, you have to blame the Son of Heaven again.

"The nearest ones are in the north, and you should be careful in the south."

Wang Yan asked strangely, "South?" What can happen to the south? During this time, how can there be any movement? ”

Han Gang leaned back in his chair, his slightly furrowed brows stretched out again. Again, it's been a few months, and there's been no movement on the Cochinese side. Most of the time I thought too much after listening to Su Yan's words, and the problem now is still in the northwest.

"Yokoyama ......," Han Gang said softly.

This time, at least seventy or eighty percent sure that it will be recovered. Maybe the defeat of Western Xia will be in three or four years.