As a result, this time, the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang really fell into the plan, this is because if Yinzhou City is lost, Xiazhou will lose a barrier, and the entire southeast of the Western Xia Kingdom will completely lose the barrier of Hengshan.

The situation in Xiazhou City was precarious, which made the Western Xia people who started in Xiazhou feel fear from the bottom of their hearts.

After learning of this situation, Empress Dowager Xiaoliang immediately transferred the troops of the two military supervision divisions from the front to recapture Hongzhou City and Longzhou City, and on the other hand, sent people to ask for help from the Great Liao State.

And Zhang Kai also took this opportunity to seize the opportunity, and immediately sent a large army to Pingxia City as the basis, and then built a large and strong camp near Pingxia City, named Lingping Village. The implicit meaning of these two walled cities was to destroy the Western Xia Dynasty.

Lingzhou and Xiazhou are the foundation of the Western Xia Kingdom.

Hedong Road also took the opportunity to retrieve Jialu Village, and built a new big village - Shenquan Village in the northwest 20 miles of the village in that year. Later, Sanjiaobao was completed, forming a solid defense line shaped like a triangle with the above two villages for the entire Hedong Road to resist the front line of the Western Xia Kingdom.

Zhong Chuan, the envoy of Jingyuan Road, also built four cities on the outskirts of Pingxia City, and he was able to spare his hands, also thanks to the new Lanzhou Zhizhou Zhuangjianzhong. With Lanzhou City to deal with Zhuo Luo and the Southern Supervision Military Division, Jingyuan Road now only needs to deal with the positive Xishou Baotai Supervision Military Division.

The purpose of these four newly established cities was to take full control of Shimen City and the west bank of the Hulu River.

In terms of Xihe Road, Wang Hou ordered the construction of Hengshan Castle on a high mountain near the border of Western Xia. When the city was established, the other tribes that had been attached to the Dangxiang people chose to surrender to Wang Hou in turn. Therefore, in Xihe Road, whether it was building a panzhai or resisting the attack of the Western Xia army, Wang Hou only needed to mobilize the box army and armor to deal with it, and there was no longer a need to continue to recruit militia or hire laborers.

From this aspect, we can know the importance of Lanzhou City to Xihe Road. Now it can be said that the entire Xizhou is already in the rear of the Great Song Dynasty.

In the direction of Huanqing Road, after Zhang Ji obtained the stronghold of Baimachuan to Lingzhou, he built a new city, Xingping City, as an outpost to attack the military supervision department of Xia Wei Prefecture in the west. Immediately afterwards, he sent the Eleventh General to this place to protect this very important Guankou Department.

Under Zhang Qi's recommendation, the general Guo Cheng served as the lord of Xingping City and the commander of the eleventh general.

Subsequently, Zhang Qi also ordered a section of the soldiers of Huanqing Road, advanced sixty miles, and built two more forts at the important pass of Wuyan Gorge, completely blocking the route of Huanqing Road that the Western Xia army wanted to invade from Tiandu Mountain.

Later, according to other barbarians who surrendered locally, there were many trails in the wilderness beyond Wuyan Gorge, and the Western Xia cavalry carried out raids along these trails every time.

In order to solve this problem, Zhang Kai decided to add a new unit and organize it into the twelfth general, and wanted to promote his favorite general Zhi Keshi to be the commander of this unit. In the end, considering Cai Dao's previous evaluation of the next generation of the Zhi family, Zhi Kexing did not agree to Zhang Qi's request.

However, he still recommended a good general to Zhang Qi, and he is the candidate for the next generation of the head of the family that Cai Dao is not optimistic about.

Since he chose to completely release Zhe Keqiu, it means that the next generation of family heads in Fuzhou has already determined the candidate, and he is Zhe Keshi. Instead of folding his own son, or this nephew of his, he could ask for it.

In order to avoid a decisive battle with the Song army under unfavorable conditions, the Tangut people had no choice but to move the army confronting the Song army and the surrounding tribes to the mainland of the Tangut with tears in their eyes.

In Lanzhou City, the construction of the city did not stick to the city, but has always maintained a positive and enterprising attitude. On the one hand, he made great efforts to strengthen the defense line of Lanzhou City and its suburbs, and gradually approached Tiandu Mountain from the southwest.

On the other hand, Chong Jianzhong took advantage of the situation that the whole country in Western Xia took care of one thing and lost the other, and took it by surprise and built a city in Qingshi Gorge.

This is an important passage to cover the supply line of the Xihe Road, and from here, it can directly resist the army of the Western Xia Yanzi Mountain Supervisor. Later, the fortifications of Huining Pass were further strengthened in Chongjianzhong, so that the Great Song Dynasty border could be expanded eastward, crossing Tiandu Mountain and connecting Pingxia City.

At this point, the Shaanxi Five Roads recovered all the fortresses lost since the Five Roads in the Yuanfeng period, and the Song army built a series of solid fortifications in the territory of Western Xia, which had been integrated.

At this time in the Liao Kingdom, Yelu Hongji, the old Liao Daozong, was still drunk and dreaming of death.

Yelu Hongji is a big dumb man, but he is not a fool. From the letter of help from the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang, he naturally saw that the situation in the Western Xia Kingdom was now in danger.

Seriously, the Western Xia Kingdom has now almost reached the point where it may be destroyed at any time.

If at this time, the Liao State did not intervene in the war between the two countries, who would be able to share the threat from the Great Song State for the fight?

So, Yelu Hongji sent an envoy to Bianliang City, ostensibly to 'advise' the Song army to stop the army.

But in fact, from the mouth of the envoy of the Liao State, it has become a complete threat.

According to Yelu Hongji's meaning, the Great Song Dynasty not only had to immediately withdraw its troops, but also immediately exchanged the cities that had been seized from the Western Xia Kingdom.

To tell the truth, even those poor people, after hearing such words, also understood that this was an exhortation, and it was simply an ultimatum.

Because, at the same time, Zhekexing and the state capitals of Hebei Zhulu have reported that the Great Liao State has begun to gather troops in the Youzhou area and the Yunzhou area respectively.

Zhao Xu specially summoned the envoy of the Liao State again and inquired about the matter.

The envoy of the Liao State replied well! Whether such a move by the Great Liao State on the border is to send troops or a normal military transfer depends on the Great Song Dynasty's own response to Yelu Hongji's 'advice'.

The implication is very clear, Zhao Xu agreed to Yelu Hongji's suggestion, that is, normal military transfer, if he does not agree, no one can predict what the result will be.

"Ladies and gentlemen, how do you think we should deal with it?" After sending off the Liao envoy, Zhao Xu immediately summoned his important ministers to discuss the matter.

Zhang Dan's attitude was very resolute, not responding to Yelu Hongji, and asked the two roads in Hebei to strictly guard the city and be on guard. Moreover, Zong Ze and Zhang Shuye were sent there to deal with this situation.

The opinions of others are completely unanimous.

Zeng Bu thought that the opinions of the Liao State should be considered, after all, Bianliang City had already transferred many forbidden army troops to the northwest. The defense of Bianliang City should be relatively empty.