The fifth of the legendary Li Jiqian - re-emergence and another fiasco

In the first year of Yongxi, in order to win the support of the Yeli clan, a big clan in the Qiangzhong clan of the party, Li Jiqian formed an anti-Song alliance with them and took the initiative to propose to them. This made Norishi very happy, and he happily married his daughter to him. The key is that the custom at that time was that polygamy was allowed, and after courting the Yeli clan, Li Jiqian asked more than a dozen major clan leaders to marry their daughters to him.

Li Jiqian is the prince charming in the hearts of the beauties of the party, he became famous at a young age, handsome and chic, although he is in a bit of an embarrassing situation now, but he will not be a thing in the pool after all. In addition, Li Jiqian has an extremely noble bloodline, if his daughter marries in the future, he will have a lot of face when he says it. So "Qianghao, Yeli and other tribes are all married to women". Jiqian not only added a few beautiful wives, but also further consolidated the strength of various party departments and increased his political capital and military strength through these political marriages.

According to the author's research, these married women, regardless of dignity or inferiority, can represent the interests of their clan or mobilize the power of their clan. Therefore, if any of them wants to be favored at the overpass, they must mobilize the organic power of their clan for Li Jiqian's use when Li Jiqian needs it.

After a period of struggle with the border generals of the Song Dynasty, the party Xiang Nanshan Ye Li clan stood out, and since then it has entered the ruling center of the Xiazhou regime. From Li Ji to Li Yuanhao, the two families married for generations, creating a famous Yeli family in the early Western Xia.

As far as Li Jiqian's struggle is concerned, some are against the Song Dynasty, and some are against their own clan. After Li Sizhong's portrait was sworn in front of it, most of the party clans remembered the old feelings, and at the same time, they were also involved in economic interests, and they expressed their attachment to Li Jiqian. However, even in the heyday of Xiazhou's rule, there were dishonest people among the Qiang people, not to mention the embarrassing situation of Li Jiqian now. Some tribes opposed all foreign dominating powers, and given the contrast in power between Song and Li Jiqian, they chose to defect to the more powerful Song dynasty. Relations with such tribes can only be built by force. At that time, a Dangxiang Qiang tribe living in Lingzhou was called the Sleeping Nibu, and its leader was called Ankui, and this person was extremely dissatisfied with Li Jiqian and did not take him seriously. In the end, Li Jiqian launched a brutal attack on it, slaughtering more than half of his people, and "plundering more than 700 of his tents with soldiers". In addition, there is also a group of Dangxiang tribes living south of the Yellow River, the leader of Fanru, who also disobeyed Li Jiqian's orders, but fought with Yin Yinxian, the Song Dynasty government, Li Jiqian once tried to persuade him to surrender, and the people sent were beaten back. In the end, Li Jiqian made an armed assault and forced the Ju tribe in the middle of the mud to avoid the north of the Yellow River.

At this point, Li Jiqian finally integrated the scattered party departments into a tribal alliance with a national form through the method of attaching equal importance to grace and power. At that time, except for a few tribes, Li Jiqian had already unified most of the Dangxiang Qiang tribes with Xiazhou as the center, northeast to present-day Fugu and Shenmu County in Shaanxi, southwest to present-day Huanxian County in Gansu and Guyuan County in Ningxia, west to the Helan Mountains on both sides of the Yellow River, and north to the northern end of the Yellow River Hetao.

Now he is no longer alone, behind him are dozens of party tribes, which can mobilize tens of thousands of party members. Will he change the sky in Xiazhou back to its original state? Will he be able to organize an effective offensive after the disastrous defeat at Dijinze?

A fiasco in Dijinze caused him to lose his mother and wife, and it also made him realize his strength. Huang Yangping learned from the pain, worked hard, and Li Jiqian, who couldn't be defeated, stood up again. At this time, he had already faded away from his initial youthful arrogance and began to face his enemies with a peaceful mind.

In the second year of Song Yongxi (985 AD), Li Jiqian, who had already calmed down from Huangyang, received a guest from Yinzhou. This guest is an old acquaintance of his, and when Li Jiqian was the "director of the Minzong Bureau", the two of them often interacted. His name is Tuoba Yu, and he is a distant relative of Li Jiqian. As soon as he saw that the people of the Li family were "invited" to the capital to enjoy the blessings, he didn't want to stay in this barren place anymore, so he asked to move inward, but was rejected by the imperial court.

This no, but it angered Tuoba Yu, so he made waves near Yinzhou and blocked the road to rob. The strict Song army immediately attacked, and the inspection made Liang Zhen lead the troops to rush Tuoba to flee in all directions, running into the mountains and not daring to come out. At this time, he began to miss his "old leader" again, so he contacted Li Jiqian, wanting to join forces with him to win Yinzhou. This request came at the right time for Li Jiqian. Yinzhou is the foundation of the Li family, and from the moment he leaves Yinzhou, he wants to recapture it. However, now he really scared Yin Xian and Cao Guangshi, and the tragic scene of Di Jinze was always in front of his eyes, and he hesitated for a while, and was in a dilemma. So, he summoned Zhang Pu, Li Jichong and others to discuss.

Li Jichong, who has become much more mature, still expressed his position first: "The defeat in the first battle of Dijinze was due to our negligence in defense, not that our combat effectiveness is really so vulnerable. After all, this Mobei is not a place to stay for a long time, and now Tuoba has come to join us, which is a godsend! Such an opportunity must be seized, otherwise it will be too late for us to regret it later! ”

Li Jichong's attitude was clear, and he also won the support of many people, and Li Jiqian still set his sights on Zhang Pu at this time. Of course, Zhang Pu knew at this time that he needed to take Xiazhou, but Cao Guangshi was a famous general, and since the return of Hou Shu to the Song Dynasty, he has always been stationed on the front line. Although Li Jiqian's presence in Huangyangping is no longer what it used to be, if he really goes to a head-to-head confrontation with a regular army like Cao Guangshi, he may still lose on his side in the end. If you want to take Yinzhou and deal with Cao Guangshi, you can only outwit it, not fight hard. If you want to fight, you must be sure of victory.

At this time, he smiled slightly and said, "When Cao Guangshi is complacent, he only needs to be like this......"

A few days later, Li Jiqian and Zhang Pu came to Yinzhou City, where they had been absent for a long time, with more than a dozen retinues. At this time, Cao Guangshi was sitting in Yinzhou City, and he was indeed intoxicated by the victory he had won a year ago and did not pull it out. Suddenly, I heard that someone was coming to report that Li Jiqian was here. Cao Guangshi ran to the city tower to take a look, but no, the city was the Li Jiqian who had repeatedly slipped through his fingers. After a closer look, Li Jiqian brought more than a dozen people, and it didn't look like he was besieging the city, so he asked: "Anti-thief Li Jiqian, I'm worried that I won't be able to get you, and now that you send it to the door yourself, aren't you looking for death by yourself!" ”

As he spoke, he shouted to his followers and lined up his troops. Unexpectedly, as soon as he said this, Li Jiqian burst into tears: "Master Cao, I, Li Jiqian, were confused for a while, and I went out of Yinzhou." Now I've been defeated by you a few times, and even your wife and mother have been taken by you. Now that I have no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the earth, you will raise your noble hand and forgive us! If you are willing to forgive us, I have brought all my men and waited for you to receive them in Jialuchuan (now Jiaxian County, Shaanxi)! ”

When Cao Guangshi heard this, he was stunned at first, and then he was beautiful. He has almost never missed a battle with his own troops, and now when he heard that his opponent Li Jiqian held himself so high and brought his troops to surrender, he was fluttering for a while. He didn't carefully ponder whether Li Jiqian was sincere in surrendering, maybe he felt that Li Jiqian, who had come out of Huang Yangping, was still vulnerable, maybe he was anxious to make a big contribution in front of Yin Xian, so he accepted Li Jiqian's request to surrender.

On the day of surrender, Cao Guangshi concealed Yin Xian, the supreme governor of Xiazhou, and ran north with more than 100 cavalry. When he left the city, he fell for the "deception plan" set by Zhang Pu. If Cao Guangshi, a veteran, was in the city, if there was a whole team of soldiers and horses, Li Jiqian's men would not be able to defeat Yinzhou no matter what. They had just experienced the defeat of Dijinze, and now the people under their hands were numb when they heard Cao Guangshi's scalps, let alone attack the city. Only by luring Cao Guangshi out can there be a chance to encircle and annihilate him. In order to make Cao Guangshi have more realism, Li Jiqian personally went into battle in this scene and took the initiative to send himself to Cao Guangshi's mouth, and Cao Guangshi really got into the trap.

Cao Guangshi followed Li Jiqian to the designated place to take a look, there are really a lot of party troops, Li Jiqian, Li Jichong, Li Daxin, Po Chou Chongyugui, Zhang Pu and others are waiting for him here, haha, seeing that the solution to the Xiazhou problem is just around the corner, Cao Guangshi is overjoyed. But what he was waiting for was not Li Jiqian's surrender, but an ambush in advance. For a time, thousands of arrows were fired, and a poor generation of famous generals died of greed, or he was too light on the enemy. Cao Guangshi died like this, but fortunately he had a nephew, Li Keming, who was extremely brave, and snatched his body in the rain of arrows. Of course, it was impossible for him to return to Yinzhou and flee in the wilderness.

As soon as Cao Guangshi died, Li Jiqian stripped off the clothes and armor of Cao Guangshi and his entourage, dressed neatly, and then returned to Yinzhou City to open the city gate, and successfully captured the important town of Yinzhou.

Returning to Yinzhou is of extraordinary significance to Li Jiqian. Li Jiqian has been chased and beaten by the Song army for three years, and now he has taken back Yinzhou, which is undoubtedly an extremely exciting thing. Those people of the Dangxiang clan who used to see that Li Jiqian had no hope in Huangyangping have now seen hope again, and they have come to join him, and Li Jiqian's strength has been further enhanced.

Victorious, entered the city, and many were dizzy. According to the meaning of Li Daxin and others, Li Jiqian should proclaim himself the king of Xiping, but this title has nothing to do with the original. Now this "King of Xiping" is no longer the "King of Xiping" who is subservient to the Great Song Dynasty, but the "King of the Northwest" who wants to lay down his own sky.

In the face of these people who were carried away by the victory, Zhang Pu came out again to pour "cold water", and he said to Li Jiqian: "Since Li Jizhuo donated the land to the Song Dynasty, the Dangxiang clan has lost an inch of land, and the general has just restored the land of a state and claimed the king, which will cause the dissatisfaction of other tribes, which is not a wise approach. What should be done now is to develop a system to grant official posts to his generals so that they can be managed in the future. For the leaders of the clans that follow your party, don't worry about the states being reclaimed or confiscated, give them the power to rule first, and they will fight to the death for you to retake those states. If we do this, we don't need to fight directly with the Great Song Dynasty, and those Tibetan tribes will be in full swing with the Great Song Dynasty, so that the Great Song Dynasty will be tired of coping. When he really can't cope with it, the northwest will belong to us sooner or later!"

Look, Zhang Pu's knowledge is indeed high, no less than Zhuge Liang. However, many party members feel that they are not king at this time and have failed to live up to the good times.

Li Jiqian thought about it, but finally resisted the temptation, accepted Zhang Pu's suggestion, and still said that the original capital knew that the envoy had fallen, and the right to die was difficult to stay behind. The subordinates were awarded official positions, and meritorious service was rewarded: Feng Zhangpu and Liu Renqian were respectively on the left and right, Li Daxin and Po Chou Chongyugui were the commanders of the Fan Department, Li Guanghu, Li Guangyun and others were the regimental training envoys, and the younger brother Li Yanxin was the marching Sima. And respectively in advance to seal the party Xiang Hao chieftain folded the Eighth Army, folded Luo Yu, Wei Xiba, folded Yu Yu and others, respectively sealed and annexed the state (now Taiyuan, Shanxi), Daizhou (now Dai County, Shanxi), Linzhou (now north of Shenmu County, Shaanxi), Fengzhou (now the eastern part of Hetao, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region) and other states. Of course, these so-called state histories are all "pre-signed" fictitious titles. The goal is for these people to take their own turf back.

Sure enough, none of the leaders of the Tibetan tribe who had been "pre-sealed" could stay in Yinzhou, and they all wanted to reach their own city at once, so that their heads were worthy of this official name. In the midst of this excitement, Li Jiqian began to act again, and the first stop was the northwest fortress - Huizhou (now Jingyuan County, Gansu).

Huizhou, the history books say that it "lives in four places, there are police in Yin and Xia, and Qin and Jing have to go here." It can be seen that after Li Jiqian took Huizhou, he would definitely not be able to defend it, but if he didn't defend it, this was such an important fortress, and it could no longer fall into the hands of the Song army. So, Li Jiqian came with the most practical move, a fire burned the city of Huizhou, I don't want it, don't want it from the Great Song Dynasty (Song Taizong later burned Xiazhou, in fact, he also had this thought). At this time, it can anger the Zhao and Song Dynasty, Zhao Guangyi issued an order, and ordered Tian Renlang, the secretary of the Sifang Pavilion, to go out of Suizhou, to make Wang Yu out of Turbidity Lunchuan, to send Li Jilong, the governor of Dingzhou to go out of Yinzhou, and to train Guo Shouwen and Yin Junbing, the governor of Xiazhou, to Sanjiaocheng, and asked Lin, Fu, Xia and other prefectures as well as Rili, Yueli and other tribes to cooperate in the battle, and the armies from all walks of life moved towards Li Jiqian with great momentum.

Maybe it was the aftermath of the capture of Yinzhou, Li Jiqian was not afraid of the suppression of the Song Dynasty army, and continued to do what he should do. Just when Tian Renlang led his troops to Suizhou, he was besieging the three tribes in Hexi, and the owner of the village, Zhen Yuqi, originally wanted to take refuge in Li Jiqian, so he killed the prison army and surrendered. Just for the "letter of appointment" of the history of the Toyoshu assassin. After defeating the three tribes, Li Jiqian went to his third station, Funing. Tian Renlang looked at it in Suizhou, was happy, and said in his heart: "You just toss, that place in Funing is not like the three tribe villages, don't look at it small, but it is easy to defend and difficult to attack." One day you will be tired of tossing, and then Lao Tzu will clean you up. So, Tian Renlang quietly waited for the opportunity in Suizhou.

At this time, the famous Wang Yu (Shen God) in history appeared. His position at that time was that of the Minmen envoy. He's not a bad guy, but he's just self-serving, and he's happy about his achievements.

The reason why Wang Yu became famous was because he was so happy and forced to kill the old general Yang Jiye, who was known as Yang Invincible.

At this time, Wang Yu took advantage of the defeat of the three clans to impeach Tian Renlang, saying that after Tian Renlang came to Suizhou, he did not move his troops and only cared about drinking and having fun every day, which could make Song Taizong angry and recall Tian Renlang to ask for guilt. Tian Renlang explained: "Cao Guangshi was killed unexpectedly, his old troops are now very demoralized, and they still need to send reinforcements to defend Suizhou, and the three clans are so far away from Suizhou that they really can't be rescued." But now I have made up my mind to capture Li Jiqian, that is, to Huairou Qiang, or to make the chiefs of the various tribes attack him with huge profits. Otherwise, he will become a side trouble. But Zhao Guangyi did not listen to his explanation, but instead used his most practical countermeasures as an excuse to "appease and nurture adultery", and Tian Renlang was finally cut from his post and exiled to Shangzhou, and Wang Yu successfully replaced him.

After replacing Tian Renlang, Wang Yu immediately concentrated his superior forces and launched a fierce attack on Li Jiqian. As soon as the Song army came, Li Jiqian was still a little unbearable, at this time Li Jiqian was leading troops to attack Funing, and when he heard that the reinforcements of the Song army were coming, he quickly withdrew from the siege. Unexpectedly, in the turbidity wheel river (now north of Shenmu County, Shaanxi) and the reinforcements led by Wang Yu encountered, the two armies clashed, and sure enough, Wang Yu did not give in vain, he defeated Li Jiqian, lost more than 5,000 people, and his subordinates folded Luo Yu, folded Yuyu, folded the Eighth Army and others or died, were captured, or surrendered to the Song Dynasty.

This battle was 10 times worse than the defeat of Jinze.

Wang Yu has made great contributions.

Li Jiqian fled in the wilderness, led the remnants of the army and did not dare to return to Yinzhou, and went straight to the Qijia, Luo Yi and other party tribes in Xiazhou, joined forces with them and entangled Wu Yi, Yue Yi and other tribes, but was ambushed by Guo Shouwen and Yin Xian. In desperation, Li Jiqian threw himself into the rolling yellow sand again and started his life as a fugitive.