The third of the legendary Li Jiqian - repeated defeats and occasional small victories

Dijinze, according to historical records, is 300 miles northeast of Xiazhou.

"Dijinze", which means a small river pond with a pound of water.

And around the ground is a desert!

There is a small patch of water in the desert, an oasis. Li Jiqian ran out with great effort and came to such a place?

But Li Jiqian and Zhang Pu are optimistic about this place. Although it is the hinterland of the desert, it is an oasis of "good water and grass, easy animal husbandry", and the oasis is the pearl of the desert. There are many nomadic tribesmen living here, and according to statistics, there are about 200,000 people. Although most of them are financially dependent on the market of the Great Song Dynasty, the heart is still on the side of the Tuoba clan. Li Jiqian was previously the envoy of the governor of the Tibetan Empire, although he had no real power, he had many opportunities to contact them, and enjoyed a high reputation among these nomadic Tibetan tribes. In other words, Li Jiqian has no shortage of contacts here. But where to collect the materials for the war? The old way is to rob!

Dijinze belongs to the Hetao area. For a long time, this is the main road from Guanzhong to Mobei. Every summer, many merchants pass here to the Tiande Army and even the Juyanhai area. Since the Qin and Han dynasties, it has been the first line of defense against the steppe nomads in the Central Plains, and it is full of ancient fortresses and castle checkpoints left by the previous dynasties, which have now become fortifications and early warning systems that Li Jiqian can make great use of. Moreover, all around this area is sandy meadows, which is not suitable for large troops to march. If the Song army carried out a clearance, they would face endless yellow sand, a long journey, and unbearable hunger and thirst. Even if he finally managed to kill the earth, Li Jiqian had already run away without a trace. Because further north or east, you will reach the boundary of the Great Liao, and in the border area between Liao and Xia, there are also a large number of party and Tibetan departments. If you can win, you will fight, and if you can't win, you will run, such a place is the "paradise" of rebels.

Back then, Jinggang Mountain, which was found by the Taizu of the Celestial Dynasty, had this kind of environment.

At the beginning, the Great Song Dynasty did not take Li Jiqian, the dozens of people who ran away, in their eyes! The elite of the party and the nobles of the party have all returned to the party, moved inward, and running away dozens of people can set off as many as a storm. Just go, the court still has a few less servants.

As Li Jiqian, it is obvious that he should take advantage of this psychology of the Song Dynasty to recuperate and grow stronger, and recruit troops.

However, at the instigation of his younger brother Li Jichong, in December of the seventh year of the Song Taiping Rejuvenation (982 AD), Li Jiqian heard that the people of Yin and Xia Prefecture had great opinions on the new "central officials" of the imperial court, and thought that this was a good opportunity for a counterattack, so he led a group of people to launch an attack on Xiazhou.

However, in the face of the regular troops of the Song Dynasty, Li Jiqian's people were defeated in just one round, and Li Jiqian's first "Fuxia" operation failed.

This failure woke up the young and vigorous Li Jiqian like a basin of cold water, and made him fully realize that the "great cause of recovering summer" is a long-term and arduous project, which cannot be completed overnight, and he must buy himself enough time.

Let's talk about Li Kewen, who now rules Xia Prefecture.

Li Kewen drove away Li Jizhuo, and finally got his wish and sat in the position of Zhixia Prefecture, but he was not happy for long, and Zhao Guangyi, Taizong of the Song Dynasty, issued an edict, ordering Li Kewen of Zhixia Prefecture and Li Kexian, the assassin of Suizhou, to enter the court. Now Li Kewen and Li Kexian were depressed, they thought that if they drove Li Jixiang out as a shield, they would be safe, but they didn't expect that they would still be able to escape. In desperation, Li Kewen had no choice but to reluctantly enter Beijing. Li Kexian originally wanted to be a scoundrel and refused to obey the edict, but the Song envoy Yuan Jizhong gave him a carrot and stick persuasion education, and he thought about it for a long time and compromised.

After Li Kewen and Li Kexian entered Beijing, the party tribe was completely leaderless, and the party members were already very strong, and there were no prestige people to take care of them, so these people were prone to make some trouble, such as public security disputes, ethnic disputes, and so on. Yin Xian, the governor of Xiazhou, was a rough man, with more than enough martial arts and insufficient literary strategy, as soon as he saw that the party members were making trouble, he personally led the troops to suppress it, killed hundreds of party members, and captured tens of thousands of cattle and sheep.

This can be regarded as a hornet's nest, the party members were completely enraged, and Xiazhou was in chaos for a while. Zhao Guangyi saw that this could not go on, so he had to send Li Kewen back to continue to serve as the governor of Xiazhou to appease the party members.

At this time, it was obviously a bit late to remedy it, because Li Jiqian had already taken advantage of the opportunity of the Xiazhou Chaos to recruit troops and expand his power. His prestige has surpassed that of Kevin Lee.

Seeing this, Li Jiqian began to "show weakness" to the Northern Song Dynasty, and in the eighth year of the Song Taiping Rejuvenation (983 AD), Li Jiqian took advantage of the time when the imperial court conferred Li Ji's envoy to the Zhangde Army, and sent an envoy to pay tribute to the Song Dynasty (I don't know what kind of treasure was paying tribute). He also wrote a recital to the emperor, saying "Be a minister who does not invade or rebel", but the Celestial Empire should return our party's territory to us, and I will be the governor.

Li Jiqian's purpose of this table is mainly to test Song Ting's attitude, and by the way, he also tries to gain time to strengthen his strength. Of course, he also hoped that after Song Taizong received the seal, he would consider the actual situation and really crown him as the governor. How do you know that Song Taizong felt that Li Jiqian was too naïve, and he could even make such an unreasonable request. He wrote a holy oracle and sent Qin Han to Li Jiqian to read it, the meaning of the oracle roughly means, I know that your Li family has been loyal for generations, and has many merits to my Great Song Dynasty, I didn't want to merge your family's territory (and he can say it), it is you who are not angry, do not handle the internal contradictions of the family, and take the initiative to dedicate the land to me. Now that most of the people of your Li clan are officials in the imperial court, what do you say like in a desolate place alone? If you still want to resist reunification by force, and then you will be ruined, no wonder me. You still return to the court honestly, I will give you an official to do, and reward you heavily, when the time comes, you will live a good life for decades with great wealth and nobility, how good it is (there is no way to be the emperor of the soil in Xiazhou)! Whether it's a blessing or a curse, it's all in your thoughts.

The history books did not write what Li Jiqian's attitude was when he heard the holy edict, and it is estimated that he was ambiguous and hummed. At night, Li Jiqian left Qin Han to sleep in his tent, and he was really relieved to enter and exit.

Li Jiqian was at ease with Qin Han, but Qin Han was not at ease with Li Jiqian. He saw that Li Jiqian was not wary of himself at all, so he moved his mind and wanted to take this opportunity to kill Li Jiqian and solve the problem once and for all.

Li Jiqian's cleverness and martial arts at this time were fully revealed. As soon as he wants to make a move, it is estimated that Li Jiqian will come up with a "martial arts trick", and then fall asleep. Qin Han did not succeed in the end, otherwise there would be no later Western Xia Kingdom, and the history of China would have to be rewritten.

Qin Han slipped away, and Li Jiqian came out of Dijinze to lead troops to Yinzhou and Xiazhou, taking advantage of the Song army's inattention, to rob and plunder the people of the Song Dynasty. Later, Zhao Guangyi couldn't bear it anymore, and sent Tian Qinzuo, Yuan Jizhong and others to patrol Yin and Xia with regular troops, and beat Li Jiqian to the point of losing his armor and armor at Jialuchuan and Sanchakou, and could only return to Dijinze in disgrace. These failures also brought benefits to Li Jiqian. Because such a record fully proved Zhao Guangyi's previous judgment, Li Jiqian could not become an atmosphere, so he did not send a large force to suppress it for the time being.

Li Jiqian can learn to be obedient this time, he no longer dares to act rashly, but is effectively strengthening his strength, and gradually more than 20,000 combat troops have gathered around him. It was at this time that the solicitation policy of the Great Song Dynasty began to be implemented. Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty ordered the officials of Sui, Yin, and Xia to lure the fleeing party members to return to their jobs, and the bait was that they could be exempted from three years of forced labor, so many of Li Jiqian's subordinates were also shaken in their hearts.

If there is no war at this time, people's hearts will be scattered. Because he was exempt from three years of forced labor, he would own himself for the harvest of his own grazing, which was a very tempting thing.

But how is this battle fought?

According to Li Jiqian's intentions, he still attacked Yin and Xia Erzhou, he said: "Our land has been abandoned for a long time, and the people who follow us are almost unable to open the pot, who is willing to fight if there is no food to eat." Now that the Zhao dynasty is using money as bait to divide our power, what should we do? In my opinion, only by attacking Xiazhou can we increase our influence and power. ”

At this time, Zhang Pu still did not think that the best time to send troops, because the gathered forces had not yet been trained, and there was no "unified thinking". However, the situation forced him to send troops, so he put forward his own opinion: "The imperial court is heavily guarded in Yin and Xia, and it is indeed impossible to attack, but there is also Youzhou, this place is also very rich, and there is Hengshan as a barrier, we can gather all the troops to defeat it." In this way, we can not only solve the problem of eating, but also stick to the danger again, as a base for the revival of the ancestral industry. ”

Okay, then hit Youzhou.

Li Jiqian gathered about 10,000 people to attack Youzhou, and unexpectedly, the city of Youzhou was strong, and the generals of the Song Dynasty were well arranged. He lost again. Losing troops and losing generals, there is no gain.

Li Jiqian conscientiously summed up the lessons of his defeat in Youzhou, and felt that he was still too short of manpower and should recruit some manpower, so he sent his younger brother Li Jichong to cast nets everywhere to catch fish.

That is, in more than a year, Li Jichong has grown up and matured a lot. It's not that reckless guy who wants to fight and kill anymore. In about half a year, Li Jichong relied on his own mouth to persuade many tribes and the Li Alliance. The biggest harvest is that in May of the first year of Song Yongxi (984 AD), half a year after the defeat of Youzhou, with the hard work of Li Jichong, Li Jiqian ushered in a new force - the party Xiang Bawei department.

The name of their "minister" is "Demon Patient Qi Yasu", which is probably the transliteration of the Qiang language, otherwise, it is too much like the name in martial arts novels. After this demon patient was attached, Li Jiqian carefully analyzed the situation and began to plan an operation, this time his target was Wangting Town in the northwest of Xiazhou. As for why you chose Wang Tingzhen? The reason is also very simple. Li Jiqian now desperately needed a victory to boost his morale, and the royal court was a place where the Song army's defenses were relatively weak. Perhaps it was the annexation of the demon patient that brought good luck to Li Jiqian, Li Jiqian led 20,000 iron horsemen to "blitzkrieg" Wangting Town, and before Yin Xian could react in Xiazhou, Li Jiqian won his first victory.

The history books record that Li Jiqian "captured tens of thousands of people" in this battle, not that he captured more than 10,000 people of the Song army, but horses, cattle and sheep, as well as the original people here, it is absolutely impossible to be the Song army. At that time, the Song army was very strong in combat, and if 10,000 people faced Li Jiqian, it would be impossible for him to win.

However, this battle had a common consequence with the Hundred Regiments Battle of the Later Chinese War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, that is, the enemy knew that the other side also had some strength, which could not be ignored.

Li Jiqian finally won the battle, and was overjoyed for a while, so he gathered tens of thousands of horses and sent Zhang Pu, Li Daxin and others to lead troops to attack and plunder winter materials. Regarding this period of history, I found a problem, that is, although Li Jiqian is young, in his early 20s, the overall policy comes from him. Although Zhang Pu did him the same way Zhuge Liang did to Liu Bei. However, at the critical moment, he called the shots. At this time, it was his idea to send troops to plunder everywhere, and Zhang Pu did not agree. However, Zhang Pu also had to personally lead a team out to rob. Of course, Zhang Pu also adopted a flexible tactic of hitting and grabbing and running, so that the Song army could not catch the shadow, so he took some advantage.

This kind of hit-and-run tactics made Cao Guangshi and other Song Dynasty generals very annoyed, and they planned to find an opportunity to hit Li Jiqian hard and wipe out his gang. They should no longer be underestimated, and should be immediately and severely suppressed.

After the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, the Japanese intensified their attack on the Eighth Route Army and once formulated a plan to completely eliminate the Eighth Route Army. At this time, Cao Guangshi and Yin Xian began to formulate this kind of plan.