ChineseThroughout the Northern Song Dynasty, it was said that Liao was the greatest enemy of the Song Dynasty, but the Song Dynasty fought the most wars with the surrounding countries at that time was not the most powerful Liao in the north, but the Western Xia. Please search (%¥¥) to see the most complete! The relationship between the Song and Western Xia, which was the most renewable, had to be sorted out first, which was also a headache for the successive rulers of the Song Dynasty.

Since then, Tuoba Sigong and his descendants have changed their surname to Li, and have the power of the feudal towns centered on Xiazhou, including Xia, Slow, You, and Yinzhou, becoming the largest force in the region.

The emperor of the Central Plains Dynasty has always loved face, and the so-called Wanguo Dynasty seems to have infinite scenery, but it is actually a large number of rewards for these so-called pilgrimages in addition to being good-looking, there is no practical meaning at all, and these small countries and small tribes are in the Qin and Twilight Chu, and he will say hello to him when he gives him something, maybe one day he will give less or not give it, maybe he will turn his face.

If there are horses, there will be cavalry, and if there is salt, it is equal to money, it can be said that the Xiazhou party has soldiers, horses, money, and grain, and the power is quite large, and Li Yuanhao can establish Western Xia, which is a necessary foundation.

After the confrontation between Zhao Kuanyin and the Liao State, Song Taizu found that the infantry of the Song Army, which had been invincible before, was struggling to face the cavalry of the Liao State, and began to set up his own formed cavalry, aiming at the northwest region controlled by the Li clan in Xiazhou, and wanted to move the capital from Bianliang, which was not in danger to defend, to Luoyang or Xi'an, and build a road to the northwest, and actively turn the fettered Xiazhou into actual control.

In the seventh year of the Taiping Rejuvenation of the Kingdom, Zhao Guangyi found an excuse to recruit all the Li relatives in Xiazhou to the capital Kaifeng, preparing to eradicate the largest entrenched force in the northwest. However, Li Jiqian, the younger brother of Li Jishang, the leader of the party at that time, had the foresight to know that once he entered Beijing, there would be no chance of turning the tables, so he used the excuse to flee and escape into the vast grassland.

Song Taizong was furious, and sent troops to attack but failed to win, and died when he was ready to use troops again. When Song Zhenzong ascended the throne, due to the pressure from the south of the Liao State, he had to take moderate actions against Li Jiqian, and acquiesced to Li Jiqian's actual control of Xia, Sui, Yin, You (now Jingbian, Shaanxi), Jing (now Mizhi, Shaanxi) Prefecture and other places under the condition that Li Jiqian continued to be nominally a vassal to the Song.

At this time, Li Jiqian had actually broken away from Song Independence, but he did not openly establish the country. After Li Jiqian's death, Li Deming ascended the throne, chose Yinchuan as the capital, changed the name to Xingzhou, and at the same time continued to implement the policy of proclaiming vassals to Song Liao in order to confuse Song Liao, so that Song Liao would not interfere with him, and actively develop towards the Hexi Corridor, which was not only suitable for grazing but also suitable for growing grain.

After that, Li Yuanhao ascended the throne, modeled on the Central Plains Dynasty to establish civil and military officials and a set of systems, after conquering the three strategic places of Guazhou, Shazhou (Dunhuang), and Suzhou (Jiuquan and Jiayuguan) in Tibet, Yu Renzong Baoyuan announced that he would break away from the vassal status of the Song Dynasty and establish himself in the first year of Renzong Baoyuan, and established Great Xia (Western Xia).

During this period, the Northern Song Dynasty and the Western Xia had five wars, Li Yuanhao in order to capture Shaanxi, launched the first Song-Xia War, in the three battles of Sanchuankou, Haoshuichuan, Dingchuan Village, all ended in the defeat of the Song Dynasty, but although the Western Xia won but the consumption was also very large, especially in the battle of Dingchuan, the Western Xia two route armies all the way to a big victory and the whole army was wiped out and unable to move west to seize Shaanxi, the plundering was far less than the consumption, the gains outweighed the losses, and the two sides finally negotiated peace.

After the second Song-Xia battle, the Song general Wang Shaoxi opened the river, directly threatened the right wing area of the Western Xia, and then attacked the summer in the five roads, but because of the defeat of the generals' infighting, followed by the battle of Yongle City, the Song Dynasty was defeated and the city was defeated, with as many as 200,000 dead and wounded soldiers and soldiers, and finally the Western Xia was victorious.

After the end of the Third Song-Xia War, in the sixth year of Yuan You, Zhang Qi served as the pacification envoy of the Huanqing Road, and proposed that the Western Xia was greedy for profit and feared power, and if it was not punished, the border should not be suspended. They should gradually occupy the territory of Western Xia, use the ancient method of cutting the land of the princes, in order to weaken the other party to strengthen their own border defenses, and then send troops from all walks of life to guard their vital points and lead the army to attack Western Xia. The Xia army invaded many times, but Zhang Qi was defeated, effectively curbing the invasion of Western Xia.

At this point, the final construction of Pingxia City was like a thorn piercing the throat of the Tangut people. After that, this tactic immediately became the mainstream of the Song army, relying on the fortress of advancing layer by layer, the Song army without logistical pressure frequently attacked, all kinds of small-scale battles, more than 10,000 beheaded in a year, and the land of Western Xia was constantly encroached.

Speaking of which, I have to mention a person, Tong Guan, one of the six thieves of the Northern Song Dynasty, although Tong Guan is a eunuch, he is by no means an ordinary person. But when it comes to Tong Guan, I have to mention another person, Tong Guan's teacher, the famous military general and eunuch Li Xian of the Northern Song Dynasty.

In the Third Song-Xia War, Li Xian was the only commander of the Fifth Route Expedition who had obvious results, and it was really amazing that he still had to bear the blame for the defeat under Lingzhou City.

After Li Xian's death, Tong Guan, as Li Xian's protégé, began to lie dormant for a long time, until Huizong ascended the throne, Tong Guan and Cai Jing were each other's party, quickly caught up with Huizong, and became the emperor's agent in the army, the prime minister of the northwest six road side affairs, he continued to implement the policy of building + shallow attack and gradually encroached on Hengshan, with Wang Hou, the son of the famous general Wang Shao, as the main general, and he served as the supervisor of the army, launching a series of battles.

The military information sent by Zhao Kai, the king of Yun, to Lotte, was read for several days along the way, and he had a certain understanding of how the Song and Western Xia had a grudge against each other, so that they attacked each other for a hundred years.

It's just that Lotte doesn't understand why Tong Guan, who has always been brave and good at fighting in Western Xia and has many victories and few defeats, fled when the Jin State attacked the Song Dynasty.

In terms of military strength, although the Great Song Dynasty is slightly weaker than the Jin State, it is really hard, and it is impossible to fall into the destruction of the Jin State, at most it is just to form another alliance of the Yuanyuan, there are too many incomprehensions in the middle of the mind of Lotte, that period of history that has become a thousand-year-old scar for the Chinese people, will it be repeated in front of him again?

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