Song Liao was mighty

"Counselor Ma stays." After the first round of discussions, Ma Kuobu walked out of the hall, and Zheng Gangzhong hurriedly caught up.

"Is there something wrong with Zheng Xuanyu?" Ma Kuo asked, turning around.

Zheng Gangzhong's dissatisfaction hung on his face, and he blamed: "How can you make such a request? How can the four states of Hexi that people are willing to give up when they lose their troops and defeat them? It's amazing to be able to take a place in Kyushu! How did King Xu arrange this? ”

Ma Kuo wrote lightly: "The king has his own considerations, Zheng Xuanyu doesn't need to worry, the Khitans will agree." ”

He didn't talk nonsense, at the end of the negotiations between Song and Liao, Xiao Duolu agreed to this request. First of all, the actual controller of the four states of Hexi is now the Liao army, which said that the agreement would eventually return to the Song, but that was after the end of the war. That is to say, it was not until the Great Song Dynasty recovered the Central Plains, Shandong, and Lianghe, and the Great Liao recovered all the land that the four states of Hexi were returned...... Do you know it's the Year of the Monkey? Even then, who knows what the situation will look like? We'll talk about that then.

Secondly, there was a reason why Xu Wei asked the Liao army to take the four states of Hexi, and he himself took Xiliang. Xiliangfu is close to Xihe Road, and it is the east end of the Hexi Corridor. The Western Army is stuck in Xiliang Mansion, what is the use of the Liao Army holding the four states of Hexi?

Finally, the most important thing for the Khitans now is to gain a foothold, and they have done this now. Next, it is to force the Western Xia to rebel, and then prepare to restore the country!

For another route proposed by Ma Kuo, to divide up Western Xia, the Khitans did not agree. There are naturally considerations in this, but more or less, the Khitans still feel a little embarrassed, after all, they used to have a good relationship with the party members.

Song and Liao negotiated with each other, and then sent the news to the party members. At this time, the party members were still eagerly looking forward to the Jurchens coming out to uphold justice.

It is not difficult to imagine that when the Jin court heard that Song Liao had joined forces to march into Western Xia, its shock could be said to be overwhelming. Because of the little joy brought by defeating the Northern Expedition of the Song Army in the Central Plains Battlefield, it was suddenly wiped out. Emperor Jin summoned Zong Bi and other auxiliary ministers for urgent consultations, and demanded that countermeasures be taken as soon as possible.

But until the two sides finished talking, Jin Ting still did not have a unified opinion. Some people advocated sending troops to aid Western Xia to combat the arrogance of Song Liao; It was also suggested that taking advantage of the new defeat of the Song army, he would once again gather heavy troops to attack Xianghan, and Xu Wei would focus on the Central Plains; There are also people who think that we don't care about it, now that we have a lot of trouble, how can we have the leisure to take care of the affairs of the party members?

As a powerful minister who controls the government, Wanyan Zongbi did not make any statement when the ministers expressed their opinions. This really embarrassed him, and in the war against the Song Dynasty, the Jin army was either defeated or unsuccessful, which had a very bad impact on the entire Dajin Kingdom. Fortunately, last year, Wuyan Puluhun thwarted the counteroffensive of the Song army and saved some face.

Unexpectedly, now Xu Wei has picked up the Khitans again, and together they are bullying the party! According to his usual style, he must have immediately raised the army of tigers and wolves to enter the Xia realm and expel the two armies of Song and Liao. But Zongbi understands that the current Dajin Kingdom does not have this ability for the time being. Years of conquest have caused the Jurchens to consume a lot, not only in the death of soldiers and the reduction of household registration, but also in the huge consumption and the inability to make ends meet. What's more, it is impossible to rule the world immediately, and in recent years, the Dajin Kingdom has focused on the southern invasion and neglected internal affairs.

It is precisely because of this that the people of the two rivers have changed one after another, and there are rebellions in the north from time to time. Since the failure of the second attack on Xianghan and the reluctance to retreat, Zong Bi has put his mind on internal affairs. It was intended to carry out drastic reforms to stabilize the Jurchen rule. For example, from last year to this year, he issued many decrees prohibiting the captivity of Han people as slaves; It is forbidden to slaughter slaves and maids at will; Cancel the "killing of those who shave their hair is not as good as style" and replace it with punishment; disband part of the Lianghe Signing Army and make it belong to the cultivated acres; and reduced the tax of the two rivers by thirty percent; and began to support Han officials in the Jin court.

It is easy to see that Zong Bi did all this in order to ease national contradictions, develop production, and consolidate the rule of the Dajin Kingdom.

But from the day Xu Wei left the Daimyo's Mansion, he paid attention to trick-or-treating the Dajin Kingdom. You were just about to rest and recuperate, govern the country well, and you didn't plan to fight anymore, so he called for help and bullied your little brother together.

Wushu can hardly hate Xu Wei now, because if he wants to hate Xu Wei, he will be angry to death sooner or later. Since his second brother was unable to leave the Purple Mountain, Xu Hu'er no longer knew how many good things he had done to the Dajin Kingdom. If you want to sort it out, it is estimated that it can be made into a book.

When Emperor Jin asked him about his countermeasures, Zong Bi replied helplessly: Wait and see. This is tantamount to declaring that Dajin will not send troops to aid the party.

At the beginning of July, envoys from both Song and Liao appeared at the same time in Xingqingfu, the summer capital. At this time, the party members did not know that they had been abandoned by the Jurchen sect master, and Li Renxiao ordered that they refuse to meet with the Song envoy and expel the Song envoy from the country. This is definitely an anomaly in the history of diplomacy, since ancient times, there have been many requests to refuse envoys, but few have not even seen envoys.

But Li Renxiao remembered the original relationship with the Khitans, and reluctantly met with the Liao envoy. However, when the Liao envoy proposed to cut the line between Hexi and Hengshan, Li Renxiao was furious and refused this "unreasonable" demand, allowing the Liao envoy to come and go anywhere.

His move angered Xu Wei, and immediately ordered Xu Cheng, the king of Jingyuan, to go out of Weizhou on the grounds that Xixia had insulted his envoys. And Xiao Heda, who was on one side, was overjoyed when he heard that Song Liao had joined forces, Xu Wei didn't call him at all, and he also mobilized 20,000 troops to attack Xiping Mansion from Xiazhou.

In mid-July, the Liao army broke the reason, which should be the Ningxia Zhongwei in the later generations. After breaking the reason, the three-way soldiers and horses approached Xiping Mansion. Ren Dejing, who was sitting here, was shocked, and while Pegasus reported to the summer capital, he held on to the city.

It's time to die!

This was the first reaction of the ministers of Western Xia when they heard the bad news! Song Liao two ways of soldiers and horses, plus Xiao Heda one way of rebels, three ways into Xiping Mansion, not far from the national capital Xingqing Mansion! Li Renxiao didn't expect to come to the Jin army, but he attracted the three-way tiger wolf, the young emperor who had no master of the six gods, and asked Brother Cha, the king of Jin.

Brother Cha is the younger brother of Li Qianshun of Xia Chongzong, that is, Li Renxiao's uncle, who is strategic, courageous, long-term in command of troops, and has outstanding military achievements. Seeing that the national disaster was at hand, the king took the initiative to ask Ying to lead the troops to Xiping Mansion to meet the enemy. His attitude made the Western Xia monarchs and ministers see hope, and Li Renxiao ordered 30,000 elites, led by Brother Cha, to aid Xiping.

When he set out on the expedition, Li Renxiao personally went out of the city to see him off, and when he was leaving, he took Brother Cha's hand and cried: "May the emperor's uncle remember that it is not easy for his ancestors to start a business, and he will work hard to maintain it." ”

Brother Cha said arrogantly: "The minister will return it if he goes." After finishing speaking, he flew on his horse and led the army to the battle, and his bravery was as good as yesterday.

The reason why Chago is so confident is because he does have the capital. In the Song-Xia War, he made brilliant achievements, and Liu Fa, who was appeased by Yuan Xihe Jingluo, who was known as the "Great Song Dynasty God General" by later generations, was defeated in his hands and died in his hands. This time, the civil violence in Western Xia was also caused by him to send troops to quell the rebellion, and the situation was quickly calmed down.

In short, Brother Cha, a veteran general on the battlefield, led 30,000 elite horse infantry troops to quickly reinforce Xiping Mansion. By the time he arrived, the soldiers and horses had already set up camp near Xiping City, besieging them, but they did not attack.

After Chago arrived, he didn't even take a breath before he ordered an attack. The closest to him was Xiao Heda, who came from Xiazhou. Therefore, Xiao Heda became his first target.

The two armies faced each other, and Chage put 2,000 "Pingxia Iron Harriers" to rush straight to Xiao Heda's central army, and the infantry army followed closely behind to cover the attack. Although Xiao Heda's troops were not afraid of death, it was a pity that they did not have the sophisticated long-range equipment of the Song army, and they were rushed by the iron harriers, and the formation was scattered.

Then the Xia infantry pressed on and fought against each other. Xiao Heda hurriedly ordered to reorganize the formation, but Brother Cha did not give him a chance, and personally led the elite cavalry to attack from the flank, and Xiao Heda's troops were defeated. Because the war ended too quickly, when the Jingyuan army heard the news and rushed to help the war, they only saw that Xiao Heda had run away without a trace, and Chage's troops had successfully entered the city and joined Ren Dejing's division.

Wang Yu and Xu Cheng believed that the Xia army would come to the battle tomorrow with the power of victory, so they contacted the Liao army and agreed to work together to defeat the Xia army tomorrow. The one who led the Liao army was Yelu Tiege, the guard of Yelu Dashi. The guards are the officers of the Praetorian Guard, and Yelu Tiege served as the capital eunuch in the Eastern Expeditionary Army. His people are known as Wanfu Modang, capable of fierce beasts, and brave champions of the three armies. In the war of the establishment of the country in Dashixi, he repeatedly performed miraculous feats and was greatly relied on.

This time, he led ten thousand horses, took Ying Li lightly, and went straight to Xiping Mansion. Seeing that Song Jun came to make an appointment, he happily agreed. On the same day, the two armies of Song and Liao retreated thirty miles to recuperate and prepare for the big battle.

And in Chengxi Pingcheng, Brother Cha also said to Ren Dejing, I tried it with a knife, and I defeated all the way in one fell swoop. Come out of the city with me tomorrow, and destroy the enemy who comes to you. When he defeated Xiao Heda, Ren Dejing saw it really in the city, and saw that the army of the King of Jin was unstoppable, and he thought that he was very sure of victory, so he also agreed.

The next day, the sky was clear. Early in the morning, the harsh sunlight covers the land unobstructed. In the morning, the scorching sun can roast people's scalps painfully.

Cha Ge, who led the army out of the city, told Ren Dejing that if the enemy army did not get used to this climate, it would definitely be defeated. The latter was also full of confidence and urged the troops to move quickly.

When they saw the Song-Liao coalition army, the king of Western Xia and Jin, who had fought all his life, couldn't help but be shocked by the scene in front of them. Although the two armies of Song and Liao did not have an advantage in terms of troops, it was rare for them to have a clean appearance and a rigorous infantry ranking.

The 20,000 soldiers of the Jingyuan army faced the Xia army, while the 10,000 cavalry of the Liao army were placed on the side, eyeing the tiger. Although Brother Cha was shocked, he did not shake his confidence, and after he peeked at the enemy's military appearance, he asked Ren Dejing to deal with the Jingyuan army, and he attacked the Liao army himself.

Ren Dejing used to be the general judge of Xi'an Prefecture, and Xi'an Prefecture was under the jurisdiction of Jingyuan Road, and now when he meets the "old club", he can only bite the bullet. He was the first to take the lead and launch the attack.

He had 700 heavy cavalry in his hands, and he also learned the tactics of Brother Cha yesterday, first let the heavy cavalry go out and charge for a while, and waited for the enemy formation to disperse, and the infantry army pressed and killed. Kejingyuan Army is known as the strongest force in Shaanxi's Sixth Road, which is comparable to Xiao Heda? The seven hundred Iron Harriers were overwhelmed by the thunder and the evenness, and the Jingyuan Army's strict formation was unmoved.

The enemy advanced three hundred steps, the divine arm Qi shè, two hundred steps, chuáng sub crossbow stepped on the crossbow and took turns to kill, rushing to the front, and the whistling sound of the Jingyuan army sounded. Fire dragons burst out one after another, and violent explosions resounded across the battlefield! The war horse is frightened and the enemy is running around! When the iron harrier collided with the strict formation of the Jingyuan army, it was like hitting a copper wall!

Soon, these heavy cavalry lost their mobility, and were surrounded by the Jingyuan Infantry Regiment, picking up the pockets and cutting the horses' feet, and after a while, they were drowned in the sea of people!

Ren Dejing witnessed this tragic situation in the battle, and was inexplicably surprised! The infantry he sent rushed towards the other side with a howl. The result can be imagined, the rain of arrows in the sky poured Ren Dejing's heart cold. Watching the infantry army fall in pieces, and when the short soldiers were in close contact, they were quickly pincered by the Jingyuan army's two wings, and he knew that this was a disaster......

On the other hand, Brother Cha concentrated Ren Dejing's light cavalry, but he was not in a hurry to use it. He saw that the Liao army was full of horse troops, and he would inevitably strike first, so he formed a strict formation and waited for him with a strong bow.

Sure enough, the Liao army was divided into two routes, straight on both wings. Its speed and coordination are so fast that Cha Ge has only seen it in his life. The Xia soldiers had not even come to their senses, and the enemy cavalry had already entered the range of bows and arrows. However, the Liao army did not directly attack the Xia army's strict formation, but took turns to ride shè intrusion, luàn its formation.

The war horses of the Liao army came from the good breed of the Western Regions, and they were not at all comparable to the river meanders used by the Xia army or the Western army. His horses were tall, powerful, fast, and enduring, and soon overwhelmed Tago's army.

Seeing this, Brother Cha urgently ordered the horse army to attack, and the elite cavalry intercepted to attack in two ways, and Tiefutu rushed straight to the main formation of the Liao army! A rare cavalry battle was staged outside the Sai Binh Mansion.

The elite cavalry of the Xia army are all elites who have been tempered by countless bloody battles. But as soon as they fought with the cavalry of the Liao army, they found that there were people on people, and there was heaven outside the sky. The opponent's riding skills are exquisite, and the war horses are excellent, unheard of and unseen. Often after a merger, when the Xia cavalry is in heavy formation, the opponent has already begun to fight back.

And the iron harriers who rushed to the main formation of the Liao army were even more depressed. As soon as the Liao cavalry saw the heavy cavalry rushing over, they ran away, their horses were fast, and the iron harriers couldn't catch up at all, so they kept behind their butts, and the Liao cavalry took advantage of the situation to turn back and return the shè. After running for a distance, the speed of the iron harrier gradually couldn't keep up, so it could only stop.

As soon as they stopped, the Liao army immediately turned around and chased back. Once the heavy cavalry lost its mobility, it could only wait to be beaten, so it was helpless to run again. After repeating this several times, the iron harrier finally couldn't bear it. They were surrounded by the Liao army and cut off their retreat......

In this battle, the two sides invested more than 70,000 cavalry, which is said to be a large-scale battle, which should be fought from morning to night. But before lunchtime, the Xia army was defeated. The Iron Harriers were almost completely annihilated, and the light cavalry also suffered huge losses, and as for the infantry army, it was even more miserable. When the Xia army retreated to the city, it could no longer find the formation, and was chased by the cavalry of the Song and Liao armies, throwing away their armor and abandoning their armor!

Chago was protected by the pro-army and fled back to the city, and was terrified. At this time, he finally realized that the Western Army was no longer what it was when he killed Liu Fa, and the Liao Army was even more powerful than when it was gone!

The Pingxia Iron Harrier that he was proud of was nothing at all in the hands of the Song and Liao armies! The Song army had strong crossbows, strong formations, and firearms, and it was difficult for the iron harriers to pose a threat to them. And the Liao army, there are fast horses, and the iron harriers go to fight them, which is simply to send them to death! No way, this battle can't be fought!

The next day, Xiao Heda heard that the two armies of Song and Liao had been defeated, and gathered troops to come back, and the troops and horses of the three routes surrounded Xiping Mansion! The news reached the Xingqing Palace this afternoon, and Li Renxiao was so shocked that no one was sè! Brother Cha, the king of Jin, is the god of war in Western Xia! The god of war was defeated for a while, how can this be rectified?

Xiping Mansion is besieged, if you don't save it, once Xiping Mansion falls, then the national capital Xingqing Mansion will face the threat! Lee In-hyo has completely lost his sense of proportion! Asking for help in the Jin Kingdom, there has been no response so far, the first line of Hengshan, the Hexi Prefecture, and the hands of Song Liao, is it really the sky that is going to kill me?

At this time, the ministers led by Wang Shu reminded the emperor that the Jurchens had not come with reinforcements so far, and it seemed that they didn't want to wade into this troubled water, and we were abandoned by the Dajin Kingdom!

This kind of words, for Li Renxiao, are no less than a thunderbolt from the sky! He couldn't imagine what Western Xia would be like after losing the protection of the Dajin Kingdom. There are hundreds of thousands of elite western troops in the south, and now there are Khitan wolves in the west! Who else can the party members rely on?

Wang Shu and the others took advantage of the situation to propose, so they followed the advice of the Liao envoy and cut the land, anyway, these areas are no longer in our hands. But Li Renxiao was worried, in case Western Xia cut the land, Song Liao still didn't stop, how would it be good?

Wang Shu had an intersection with Xu Wei since he took the initiative to ask Ying as an envoy to meet with him in Shaanxi, in order to ask Song Liao to withdraw his troops. Li Renxiao was very hesitant, first of all, he wanted to cut the land, Song Liao wanted more than a dozen state capitals in Hengshan and Hexi, which was the lifeblood of Great Xia! Once lost, Great Xia will be completely controlled by others!

The second is to break away from the Dajin Kingdom, and the Western Xia borders on the Jurchens, if the Dajin Kingdom hears the news and asks the teacher, it can't be Song Liao or our party item who is unlucky?

Just when he was undecided, he heard that Song Liao's three-way soldiers and horses were encircling Xiping, and Brother Jin Chage and his grandfather were in danger! After this fright, Li Renxiao did not dare to hesitate, so he took Wang Shu as an envoy and went to Xingyuan Mansion to visit Xu Wei, promising to cut Hengshan to more than ten prefectures in Hexi, and announced that from now on, he would break away from the vassal relationship with Dajin State, join the camp of Song Liao, and jointly deal with the Jurchens!

Wang Shu set off quickly, rushed to Xiping Mansion first, showed his identity as a peace envoy, and met Wang Yu, the commander of Jingyuan, and Yelu Tiege, the capital of the Liao army, and said that Xixia was willing to cut the land and break away from the Jurchen's wishes. Please suspend the use of troops by the two armies, and wait for the ruling of King Xu Jun before making a decision.

Wang Yu and Yelu Tiege came for this, and of course they agreed, promising to only besiege the city and not attack. Wang Shu was a little relieved, and led the delegation into Shaanxi non-stop and rushed to Xingyuan Mansion. At this time, Xu Wei was arranging to set up an administrative organization in Xiliang Mansion and start the affairs of the emcee administration.