The legendary Li Jiqian's tenth-please surrender if you are soft, and the country is in hand

Li Jiqian was in the first year of the Song Dynasty, the first month of the fifteenth year of the Khitan unification (995 AD), when the desert was full of sand and cold winds, Li Jilong blocked the food and clothing tightly, and Li Jiqian, who could no longer bear it, began to seek a way out.

Speaking of which, this is the third time he has begged to surrender, and the Song Dynasty certainly has reason not to believe him. Therefore, the Song Dynasty weighed everything and felt that it was not good not to accept it, but Li Jiqian had to show sincerity. What is this sincerity? Two roads, two people, that is, if you Li Jiqian are sincere, either you come to the court by yourself, or let Zhang Pu come, otherwise, it is useless to say anything. Li Jiqian had no choice but to send Zhang Pu to the Song Dynasty court.

At this time, the Song Dynasty and the Western Xia had been fighting and talking for thirteen years, and the Song Dynasty even considered itself the suzerainty of the Western Xia. So, Zhang Pu came to Bianliang, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, to congratulate Zhao Guangyi, Taizong of the Song Dynasty, on the New Year.

After Zhang Pu arrived in Bianliang, Zhao Guangyi used both grace and power, and his mouth was dry, striving to win Li Jiqian's sincere return to the Song Dynasty. In order for Li Jiqian to return to the Song Dynasty, Zhao Guangyi knew that he had to do a good job of Zhang Pu, who was Li Jiqian's first "think tank". As a result, Zhang Pu's official became the doctor of Yinqing Guanglu, the secretary of the Ministry of Inspection, the doctor of Zhengzhou Assassin and the imperial history, and the training envoy of the Benzhou regiment.

These positions are not inferior to those of the founding heroes.

However, there is only one point, Zhang Pu must not leave Tokyo, so he is under house arrest in a sense.

Zhao Guangyi knew very well in his heart that Li Jiqian was a "Rong man", an unruly representative of an uncivilized population, and he did not necessarily have any eloquence. The reason why he was able to make trouble and achieve today's achievements was entirely due to the resourcefulness of Han people like Zhang Pu. Leaving Zhang Pu is tantamount to breaking the main string in Li Jiqian's mind, and Li Jiqian will be easy to deal with in the future. Just imagine, Liu Bei left Zhuge Liang, what kind of fame can he make.

And Li Jiqian, who has been "attached", will not be able to directly intervene if he transports grain and grass to the base area. After the most difficult period of winter, Li Jiqian's restless heart began to stir again.

Since Li Jilong took the "walled fortifications", Li Jiqian has hardly fought a decent city. Now, Te also has no strength to fight the city. As a result, his tentacles began to reach outward, into the remote world of the northwest, where his once most loyal supporters were many of the party's members. After years of war, these scattered party members were either attached to the Song army or wiped out by the Song army, and the only way left was to join Li Jiqian. Guerrilla warfare, the most important thing is the mass base, that is, to encircle the cities from the countryside, and to plunge the enemy into the vast sea of people's war; this is Chairman Mao's theory and Li Jiqian's theory. It's just that he is more ruthless than Chairman Mao, and if he doesn't listen to me, I'll let you die. The Song army was stuck in the walled fort and did not come out, and practiced the tactics of trapping. Li Jiqian was far away from them, and one by one he attacked those Tibetan tribes who refused to belong to him. The basic strategy is very simple, come up and persuade first, fight if you don't listen, fight if you win, and run if you can't win! And in the end, the one I wanted was to turn around and run away as soon as I saw Song Jun!

On the surface, Li Jiqian was attached to the Song Dynasty and restored the name of "Zhao Baoji", but secretly Li Jiqian was doing the work of "targeted elimination" one by one and establishing the government of the border region. Zhao Guangyi turned a blind eye to all this that Li Jiqian had done, immersed himself in the imagination of "returning to his own country and keeping his wealth forever", and even complacent about his wisdom and martial arts. Although Li Jilong understood Li Jiqian's tactics, he had no way to deal with the party members in remote areas. He could only report the situation truthfully to the imperial court.

At this time, Zhao Guangyi was a little surprised to find that Li Jiqian had occupied the first line from Lingzhou to Zhenrong, north of Huanzhou, east of the Yellow River, west of Helan Mountain, and almost all of the large areas of land inside and outside Longshan had "fallen" into Li Jiqian's hands. The Song army now occupied only a few strongholds in Xia, Yin, Sui, You, and Yanbian Prefectures. What's even more terrifying is that in Lingzhou, an important town in the northwest of the Great Song Dynasty, Li Jiqian's longing figure also flashed.

This was the western border of the Song Dynasty, and the importance of Lingzhou cannot be underestimated from any angle.

We know that after the city of Xiazhou was burned down by Li Jilong, Li Jiqian's strategic attack point also changed from blindly recovering Pingxia to expanding westward. In the east, he pretended to be weak and pleaded with Han Dewei, asking Han Dewei to help his brothers attack Fuzhou and contain the military strength of the Great Song Dynasty, especially the military strength of the Zhe family. Han Dewei's vanity was satisfied, and he really needed it strategically, so he continued to send troops to attack Fuzhou, so Li Jiqian had no pressure from the east.

To the west is the main direction of Li Jiqian's development. When all the feudal departments were taken; Li Jiqian began to harass the Qingyuan army and Lingzhou City.

Lingzhou City, its strategic position is important, but it is "far from the motherland". All the food supplies in Lingzhou City had to be sent from Huanzhou through the 700-mile Hanhai Road. Li Jiqian has been studying for a long time, "robbing the grain road" is definitely a way to make money, he must catch it, if he doesn't catch him, he will really become a fool in the eyes of Zhao Guangyi. In this way, Li Jiqian went around the city of Lingzhou from time to time, either really fighting or creating a tense atmosphere. His purpose was to let the Great Song Dynasty strengthen the defense of Lingzhou, send a lot of grain, and dutifully be a "transport captain". The Song Dynasty did its best for the defense of Lingzhou.

In the second year of Song Zhidao, the fourteenth year of Khitan unification (996 AD), in order to solve the problem of Lingzhou, Zhao Guangyi sent Luo Yuan to envoy Bai Shourong to escort 400,000 grains and grass to Lingzhou. Before leaving, Song Taizong specially ordered Bai Shourong to divide the grain trucks into three teams, and Ding Fu issued bows and arrows for self-defense, and escorted the soldiers to advance in a phalanx. At the same time, Song Taizong ordered Huizhou (defending the land in present-day Jingyuan, Gansu) to observe Tian Shaobin to lead troops to help.

It should be said that Zhao Guangyi, who knows Li Jiqian's temperament very carefully, is still very rigorous. Who would have thought that this Bai Shourong thought that the three teams were troublesome, so he simply organized them into a large team, and the servants and sergeants were mixed, and there was no emergency preparation at all. When the grain brigade marched to the Luopu River, Li Jiqian had already ambushed the elite cavalry in the forest, and suddenly attacked, and the paralyzed Song soldiers were not mentally prepared at all. At the beginning, Tian Shaobin, who rushed to support, dissuaded Bai Shourong and said: "Li Jiqian's army is not much, there is nothing to fear. We don't have to go out to fight, he will make trouble, let's make a good formation and walk slowly, he can't help us. ”

Unexpectedly, this white master is now full of only the only thing left to eliminate Li Jiqian and make new contributions to Song Li, how can he still listen to Tian Shaobin's dissuasion. He said to Tian Shaobin: "You don't care about this matter, if something happens, it's mine, and we will share it equally if you make a meritorious service!" ”

Tian Shaobin saw that it was useless to talk too much, so he returned to the Qingyuan army in a fit of anger, which gave Li Jiqian the opportunity to succeed in the sneak attack.

After Li Jiqian robbed these "life-saving food" in Lingzhou, his morale soared, his men and horses became stronger, and he gathered an army to surround Lingzhou City, with a striking slogan - "Return me to Zhangpu"! said that he was willing to exchange grain for Zhangpu.

The 400,000 stone military rations were taken away by Li Jiqian in vain, and they were coerced in turn, how could Zhao Guangyi be so angry. For many years, Li Jiqian has been defeated in front of him again and again, and he has stood together again and again, and now, he dares to threaten him. Zhao Guangyi has always only threatened others, and no one can threaten him. Li Jiqian is like this, he must not be forgiven, Li Jiqian must die. Although this is not the first time Zhao Guangyi has made this oath, this time it is the most real one, and this time Zhao Guangyi is really angry.

He put the issue of pacifying Western Xia on the court for everyone to discuss.

As for how to clean up Li Jiqian and pacify the northwest, there are three voices on the part of the Great Song Dynasty. The first is to stick to Lingzhou, and the Great Song Dynasty sent troops to the city to give Li Jiqian a counter-encirclement; Second, the light cavalry of Fenlinfu, Yanyan, and Huanqing attacked Pingxia directly, destroying Li Jiqian's nest in one fell swoop.

For the first voice, Zhao Guangyi disagreed, thinking that it was too dangerous, what if Lingzhou couldn't hold on. The second voice was raised by Lu Duan, who had just become the prime minister. Zhao Guangyi took into account the actual situation in the northwest and Lingzhou that "there are sand moraines in the surface and in the sea, the summer wades in the Hanhai, the water springs are scarce, and the grain transportation is difficult", and he believes that "no benefits have been seen" and it is also denied. In the end, the third voice proposed by Zhao Guangyi was formed: "The ten states have deployed Li Jilong out of Huanzhou; Rongju observed that Ding Han went out of Gyeongju; In front of the palace, Fan Ting summoned Yanzhou; In front of the palace, they all commanded the king to go beyond Xiazhou; The Xijing workshop made Zhang Shouen out of Linzhou, and the five roads came to the aid of Lingwu. ”

The Fifth Route Army, with Li Jilong as the commander-in-chief, marched towards Lingzhou. According to Zhao Guangyi's meaning, no matter what he does, in short, he will first relieve the siege of Lingzhou, and then clean up this Li Jiqian.

But Li Jilong's vanguard officer, Yinxia Lu Bin, thought that it was too far away, and it was better for the army to go around Lingwu from Qinggang Gorge to Pingxia. Li Jilong considered that this could be regarded as a trick to "encircle Wei and save Zhao", so he followed his advice. In fact, neither Zhao Guangyi nor Li Jilong knew about Li Jiqian. Whether it is Song Taizong's five-way attack or Li Jilong's "encircling Wei to save Zhao", if you want to succeed, you must have a premise - Li Jiqian stood still around Lingzhou, waiting for the Song army to fight. In other words, as long as Li Jiqian is a man and a person who wants to do big things, he should face the battle.

But how could Li Jiqian have so many ideas. He was outside Lingzhou City, and made a detailed report that the Song Army's Fifth Route Army was coming, and if he explored it again, it was still. Li Jiqian didn't even think about it, and directly announced that he would withdraw from Lingzhou. After withdrawing from the siege, he did not return to the area of Wu and Baierchi according to the imagination of the Song army, but plunged into the vast world between Xia, You, Ling, and Yan Prefectures, where grasslands and deserts alternate, although there were no big rivers and lakes, but the locals knew the secret of taking water, and they did not hide it from Li Jiqian. is the strategist Li Jilong, if he wants to block Li Jiqian in such a large area, it is also a fool's dream.

Li Jiqian could not be found in Lingzhou, Li Jilong commanded the army, and struggled to move forward in the middle of the summer when the people were thirsty, and he had to be on guard against the cold arrows of the party members at any time. After more than ten days of overloaded marching, the army basically ran out of water and supplies, and Li Jilong had no choice but to order to return to the division.

Zhang Shouen, who left Linzhou, had all encountered the "guerrillas" of the party item Li Jiqian, so it can be seen that several other armies did not catch up, and he was worried about suffering losses, so he didn't even hand over, so he went back.

The five-way army withdrew to three routes, and the remaining two routes were Fan Tingzhao and Wang Chao's subordinates. These two armies engaged Li Jiqian's subordinate guerrillas at Tiemen Pass (about 25 kilometers east of present-day Yanchi County, Ningxia). In a face-to-face battle, the guerrillas, of course, could not defeat the regular army. The party army was defeated, and Wang Chao and Fan Tingzhao pursued all the way to Wubaichi. The two of them thought that they could join forces with the other three roads when they arrived at Wubaichi, but they didn't expect that what they were waiting for was Li Jiqian's party army that had been in ambush for a long time. Although after a series of hard battles, Li Jiqian lost 27 lords such as the master of the Mimu army and the commander of Yuluo, but in the end, Wang and Fan Suobu were forced to return to the army due to insufficient supplies.

The five-way army went to the third route in vain, and the victory of Wang and Fan Suobu did not shake the foundation of Li Jiqian. This time, the Great Song Dynasty was victorious on the surface, held Lingzhou, and pursued Li Jiqian to the old nest, but in fact, he lost his troops and lost his generals, and Li Jiqian still showed off his might.

After the end of the huge five-way army, although Li Jiqian did not continue to attack Lingzhou, but the "guerrilla warfare" did not stop for a day, Zhao Guangyi was helpless, and when he planned to give Li Jiqian a fatal blow, in March of the fifteenth year of Khitan unification and the fifteenth year (997 AD), the 58-year-old Zhao Guangyi died. Zhao Guangyi's greatest wish before his death was to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun and pacify the northwest, but it was not achieved. It seems that he is not blind to death.

Zhao Heng, the third emperor of the Song Dynasty, succeeded to the throne in front of Taizong's mausoleum.

What Zhao Heng didn't expect was that as soon as he took the throne, Li Jiqian's request to surrender arrived.

This was definitely a novelty in those days. Because the new emperor is often internally unstable when he ascends the throne, it is a good time for foreign enemies to invade, Li Jiqian can at least take this opportunity to harass the border, but he unexpectedly sent a big gift to the new emperor, that is, please surrender!

If at this time, taking advantage of the new emperor Zhao Heng's accession to the throne and the ministers of the Song Dynasty to ruthlessly solve Li Jiqian, continue to use troops in the northwest, insist on not accepting Li Jiqian's "surrender", and use the economic and military strength of the Great Song Dynasty, then Li Jiqian can really be dragged down, and the day when the problem of determination and difficulty will be officially solved is not far away. But at this time, the little emperor Zhao Heng once again followed the path of his father and grandfather, and first considered dealing with the strong enemy Khitan!

It's great that Li Jiqian came to Toucheng - "cut Hexi Yin, Xia Wuzhou with it". What does it mean, that is, all the land that Li Jisheng dedicated to the Song Dynasty was returned to Li Jiqian!

It's been fifteen years, and Li Jiqian has been waiting for this day for fifteen years. In the past fifteen years, he has been driven to hide like a "lost dog" again and again, far away from the desert, and several times he has been reduced to a ghost under the knife. However, with his keen political sense, he constantly adjusted his way of struggle, maneuvering between the two superpowers of Song and Liao. talked about fighting, fighting and combining, targeted killing, and guerrilla attack, and finally brought down Li Jisheng, dragged Zhao Guangyi to death, and coaxed the Khitan Empress Dowager Xiao to turn around. His long-cherished wish to restore the ancestral foundation and revive the five states of Dingyan was completely realized at this moment.

Of course, there was something that made him even happier, Song Zhenzong also released Zhang Pu!

Li Jiqian was so happy that he kept looking up to the sky and laughing!