But why did Li Fu say this?

This also starts from Zhao Gu's retreat, only ten days after the Korean meeting, Zhao Guangyi, who has been studying the map of the Great Song Dynasty and the surrounding area, suddenly realized an important matter. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

This thing is that it was already summer at that time, and the Western Xia Kingdom on the western border of the Great Song Dynasty was in a time of abundant water and grass, unlike the spring and winter seasons, or the roads were muddy, or the climate was cold, which was just right for the Great Song army to go out.

Since the second year of Yongxi Dynasty, Li Jiqian occupied Yinzhou and conquered Huizhou, Western Xia was considered to have broken away from the rule of the Central Plains Dynasty.

Let's ask, since the early Tang Dynasty, the Western Xia, who has been a vassal to the Tang Dynasty and even the later Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, but when he was the emperor, he blatantly rebelled, how can Zhao Guangyi, the emperor who loves face the most, feel better.

If this matter was not recovered in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, Zhao Guangyi might have forgotten it, but now that even the Liao State was afraid of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Guangyi naturally had the intention of recovering Western Xia.

Moreover, the Empress Dowager Xiao of the Liao State has also signed the letter of state, and is willing to help from it, and the Great Song Dynasty has such a divine object as the Shenwei Thunderbolt in his hand, in Zhao Guangyi's view, the Great Song Dynasty only needs to send a general to collect it, and it will definitely be able to fight against Western Xia.

So, in the following three days, Zhao Guangyi said his thoughts, and the courtiers discussed them.

But he did not expect that his proposal would be opposed by almost all the ministers.

There is no other reason, at the end of last year, the Great Song Dynasty and the Liao State fought a war, the soldiers suffered a lot of injuries, the consumption of grain and grass was amazing, and the imperial court had to take care of the displaced people who suffered natural disasters on the one hand, and there was not much food in the treasury, which really could not afford the expedition of the army.

Among them, especially Lü Mengzheng and other literati had the highest opposition, but Zhao Guangyi was determined to exterminate the Western Xia, and issued an order to go out despite the opposition of the ministers.

In the following days, Zhao Guangyi found Mi Dechao, who was guarding the sixteen states of Yanyun, and ordered him to lead an army of 150,000 to Western Xia.

The ministers frowned again, but Mi Dechao was punished by Zhao Guangyi to guard the sixteen states of Yanyun for three years, if he was released back like this, wouldn't he be sorry for the Northern Expedition soldiers who died because of his mistakes?

But no one dared to oppose this matter, everyone knew that Mi Dechao was Zhao Guangyi's henchman, and he was also a confidant in the military general's camp, no one dared to talk more about this matter, in the Great Song Dynasty, whenever the army was involved, the courtiers always dared not say anything in order not to arouse the emperor's suspicion.

So, under Zhao Guangyi's dictatorship, the Great Song Dynasty began its westward expedition, and the leading generals were Yi Dechao, who should have been punished in the frontier.

Mi Dechao also lived up to expectations, and took the food saved by Da Song's tightened belt and led the army to the battle.

The Western Xia inquired about the movements of the Great Song Dynasty and immediately asked the Liao State for help, after all, after they betrayed the Great Song Dynasty, they immediately threw themselves into the arms of the Liao State.

The Liao State did not respond to his call for help, but drove the Western Xia envoys out, and then the Liao State sent an army of 30,000 to annex the Western Xia border with Yi Dechao.

Xixia is not calm now, could it be that Song Liao has already abandoned his previous suspicions and plans to destroy my Xixia first?

At this time, the Western Xia is far from the majesty of decades later, Li Yuanhao is not born now, and the current leader of the Western Xia is named Li Jiqian.

But said that this Li Jiqian was also a character, and after learning that the Liao State would not help him, he immediately began to reorganize the army, intending to fight against the Song and Liao sides.

When Mi Dechao led the army to formally attack Western Xia, he once encountered very tough resistance, which caused heavy losses on the Song side.

But after all, the Western Xia is still not comparable to the Great Song Dynasty, and Yi Dechao can get the favor of Zhao Guangyi, although he is stubborn and self-serving, but he also has some skills, under his strict organization, the Western Xia began to retreat, and two months later, the Western Xia has lost one-third of the country.

At this moment, the Western Xia should have been destroyed, and the victory of the Great Song Dynasty was imminent, but the problem of being super anxious for quick success and quick profit had occurred at this time.

Seeing that the resistance of Western Xia was getting weaker and weaker, Yi Dechao was excited, and he couldn't wait to recover the entire territory of Western Xia in one day, regardless of the fatigue of the soldiers, and ordered an all-out attack.

Although Liao Guo promised to help, he did not contribute to the work, and the leading generals did not listen to the announcement, so they could not help at all.

Finally, on a dark and windy night, he captured a Western Xia scout, and learned from the scout that the Western Xia army camp was empty, and the actual strength was only 50,000, so he couldn't help but be happy, and immediately decided to take advantage of the night to enter the Western Xia military camp and fight against the Western Xia.

But I didn't want this time to be a conspiracy of the Western Xia, when Yi Dechao led the army to rush into the Western Xia military camp, he was immediately ambushed by the Western Xia people, and was killed by fire and dark arrows.

By the time Mi Dechao led people to break through, there were less than 10,000 of the 50,000 troops he led.

Mi De was supernaturally angry, and immediately turned back to the barracks, mobilized all 80,000 troops, and was bound to exterminate the Western Xia soldiers.

Li Jiqian had already eaten Mi Dechao thoroughly, and when Mi Dechao returned to the Xixia barracks with people, it was already empty.

Unwilling to give up, he chased out along the rut marks and horseshoe prints, and once again slipped into another ambush.

It turned out that Li Jiqian had already expected that Mi Dechao would go and return, so he deliberately left traces, but introduced Mi Dechao's army into the mountains, caught him off guard again, and suddenly made Mi Dechao lose 30,000 troops.

What's more serious is that Li Jiqian sent another army to burn the grain and grass of the rear army of Yi Dechao.

In this way, the remaining 50,000 troops of Mi Dechao became a lone army, without food and grass supplies, although they occupied one-third of the territory of Western Xia, but they were like a paper tiger, without deterrence.

This situation is similar to the original Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, which is also an army led by Yi Dechao, although it occupies a lot of territory, it is useless, and it will be destroyed at every turn.

The reason why Zhao Guangyi was so angry was precisely because Mi Dechao's military report came, 50,000 troops were not a small number, and the Great Song Dynasty had already lost 100,000 troops by Mi Dechao, and if he lost these 50,000 troops, he would inevitably collapse within ten years.

You must know that the 50,000 army is not only 50,000 people, but also the horses, weapons, armor, etc. under their seats, these things are all to be bought with money, if you want to fill the holes of the 50,000 army, the Great Song Dynasty will inevitably spend a lot of money.

There was silence in the court, and no one spoke except Li Fu, and it was precisely because everyone saw this.