Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Provocation of Western Xia

"Report, military seat, Xia Guo's secret telegram, on the eighth day of October, Xia Guo will send troops to Lanzhou, the commander is that Liang Yiqi, 30,000 troops are gathered in the Xishou Baotai Military Division, 50,000 are assembled in Zhuoluo and the Southern Military Division, plus reserve soldiers and horses and labor auxiliaries, a total of 100,000 to attack Lanzhou." A communications soldier handed over a secret report from a high-level informant in Western Xia to Wang Xinyu.

"Finally waited for this day, every time we went out, we either suppressed bandits or smuggled with the Northwest Frontier Army, and we were bored to death. The divisions and regiments were ordered to carry out the No. 1 plan to unseal the munitions and various mines stored in Lanzhou. The whole army is assembled in the area of the secretly established fortress group in the territory of the Xia Kingdom, and we are ready to destroy all the living forces of the Xia Kingdom in the next fifteen years at once, and abolish all their forces to resist our smuggling and dumping. After reading the secret telegram, Wang Xinyu directly dispatched all his non-governmental armed forces such as darts and guards to assemble at the pre-prepared battle site.

A year ago, when the people were discussing how to deal with the border defense of the Xia state in the Qilian Mountains and the upper reaches of the Yellow River after the pacification of Tibet, it was difficult to determine the reaction and follow-up actions of the Western Xia to the annexation of Tibet by the Great Song Empire. In the past few years, the endless tricks that have emerged through the crowd have not only dazzled the high-level of the Great Song Empire, but also made the surrounding countries have a new understanding of the strength of the Great Song Empire.

Although the Empress Dowager Liang and Liang Yiqi, who originally tried to consolidate their authority through the victory of the Great Song War, were frightened by the Great Song Dynasty's annexation of 5 million square kilometers of land in Tibet at once, and never dared to do so, the growth of strategic materials and strength obtained from smuggling trade and more commercial trade taxes than the original history also fueled the ambitions of the Liang brothers and sisters.

Unlike the informants and secret spies who traveled through the crowd and went up and down the Xia Kingdom to continuously transmit news and battle reports, the Xia Kingdom had almost no knowledge of anything other than the traditional understanding of the Northwest Frontier Army. This situation of unilateral transparency of information led to the doomed tragic end of the Xia Kingdom.

Strategic fraud is multifaceted, from the 'facial features' around the top who are lurking or being bought to the peddlers and pawns at the bottom, all of which pass through the channels of one-way indoctrination of misinformation.

In the plan to support the forces in the army, the first choice was to install cronies in the Northwest Army, which had the strongest combat effectiveness in the Great Song Empire, and control a ready-made strong army through bribery and other means; The secondary option is to secretly cultivate loyal armed forces in areas with a high proportion of ethnic minorities, such as Shanzhou and the Northwest Frontier; The second choice is that the civilian armed forces despised by the regular army such as the Dart Bureau were recruited into the Northwest Army through their achievements, and slowly mixed with sand.

One of these three options is slower than the other, but the cross-cutting crowd still chooses the three-pronged method of burning money. Wang Xinyu first began to be the captain of the academy's security team, cultivating hundreds of loyal backbones, and then established a military academy in the northwest to cultivate secret weapons, and finally led the major dart bureaus and smuggling teams to become the chief helmsman of an organization named the Heaven and Earth Society by crossing the evil tastes. Some of the earliest cultivated backbones have been promoted to the high positions of the head of Qin Fenglu and the deputy commander of the Ma Army, Zheng Wupin, through marriage and other means. Almost half of the officers in charge of logistics, arms supply, and auxiliary arms at the grassroots level of the entire Northwest military system are cronies and seeds cultivated by the masses.

In view of the fact that the cost of mixing sand to control the cavalry and hoplites with the strongest combat effectiveness is too high, the time is too long, and it is easy to startle the Northwest generals, and the people know that the focus will be on the development of hot weapons in the future, so they gave up the plan to control the core arms of the Northwest Army, which was gradually privatized and enslaved.

As for the most important of the armed forces, the long-range rocket and artillery secret units have been training in the wastelands and deserts of the Qaidam Basin in the northwest. The most capable core feature department, the Spy, has become a killer weapon for just a few dozen people as valuable as gold of equal weight. All the spies assigned to Xia have done all the tasks very well - providing and transmitting information, spreading false information, bribing key officials and nobles of Xia State, preventing espionage, sabotaging communications, organizing our infiltration and smuggling operations, guiding Xia troops into traps, and so on. The narcotics, hallucinogens, drugs, torture tools, maps and drawing tools, precision instruments and equipment, and spy equipment of all kinds are all top-notch products designed and built by the public. Each of the combined kits that can change the course of history is the crystallization of high-tech stored in an anti-brute force lockbox. They are the executors and implementers of the strategic plan that will cross the public to play with the high-level and the palm of the Xia State.

Since the merger of Tubo in the fourth year of Yuan You, Xia Guo's eyes and ears have been manipulated by these spies, although the Liang brothers and sisters are in high positions, but everything they see and hear is the carefully prepared information of the Crossing and the Spy Gate, and naturally all the decisions are in accordance with the cooperation of the plan of the Crossing Public.

This time, the Liang brothers and sisters of the Xia State gathered a large army and attempted to attack Lanzhou again, occupy the transportation hub from Qinfeng Road to the Qingtang region, and wantonly plundered the area of Lanzhou, which had become rich and prosperous due to the development of trade, to further improve their political and military prestige, and divert the dissatisfaction with the dictatorship of the Liang brothers and sisters within the party group. This time it was a premeditated scam to induce Xia Guo to be deceived, and it was not a passive war launched by their brothers and sisters forced by the opposition within the clan, but it was actively promoted by many internal nobles under the continuous interest inducement of the spy gate.