Liang Qitong failed to make a plan and tried another trick, he made Shang Zhicheng's handwriting, wrote a letter of surrender, and deliberately discarded the brocade robe, silver belt and other jewels in the grass on the border between the Great Song Dynasty and Western Xia, so that the border patrol team of the Great Song Dynasty picked it up and handed it to Shang Zhicheng's boss, and deployed the original Daozhen, but the original Daozhen saw through this trick at a glance.

Liang Qitong saw that this plan could not be used again, so he sent a thousand commanders to shout Chenglie, led a thousand men and horses to fight with Shang Zhicheng, and showed weakness, and deliberately surrendered under the pretense that he was captured by the enemy. Shang Zhicheng didn't believe this, so he sent someone to ask for instructions, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy in the Great Song Dynasty, Huanqing Road passed through a little to appease Fan Tong, Fan Tong was a literati commander, and he didn't know anything about military affairs, and everyone called him a big rice bucket behind his back.

After receiving Shang Zhicheng's report, the big rice bucket did not check the truth, but he was complacent that the Tangut people were afraid of the Song Dynasty and surrendered, so he ordered Shang Zhicheng to surrender, with the issuance of the surrender order, the number of surrenders of the Tangut army increased day by day, Shang Zhicheng had to integrate the surrendered Tangut people into his own team, and assigned them to various villages to assist the Song army in border defense.

At the end of the seventh year of Zhenghe, Liang Qitong, the former commander-in-chief of the Western Xia enemy, spread rumors that he would attack Yanzhou on a large scale.

In order to paralyze the Song army, Liang Qitong sent the commander Hu'er to Yanzhou to ask for peace with Dafan, falsely claiming that he was willing to lead his men and horses to submit to the Song court.

The big rice bucket really thought that the Xixia people had really surrendered, and let go of the tightly crumbling heartstrings, and everyone from all walks of life relaxed their vigilance.

Liang Qitong was secretly happy in his heart, and on a dark and moonlit night, he personally led 20,000 horses and horses to suddenly attack the defense line of the Great Song army in Tumen Village, and then pioneered, and then divided the troops into two ways, all the way to attack the security army. Secretly attacked Jinming Village all the way.

When Fan Tong learned that the Xia army was coming, he hurriedly ordered the deputy capital of Huanqing Road to deploy Li Dadong from Gyeongju to the security army, and the deputy capital of Yan Yan to deploy Shi Dayuan's army to rush to Tumen to prevent the Xia army from going deeper.

and sent a fast horse to Jinmingzhai to inform Shang Zhicheng to strengthen his vigilance and strictly prevent death.

After Shang Zhicheng received the order, he dared to slack off, waited for him, and waited for the battle.

That knew that one morning, Jin Mingzhai was in charge of soldiers and horses, Shang Zhicheng was asleep, and the Western Xia army suddenly swarmed in. Blow the horn, erect the ladder, and crash into the full-scale attack.

Shang Zhicheng hurriedly put on his helmet and hung his armor, and climbed to the wall to command the enemy to resist. Shang Zhicheng just climbed the wall on the front foot, and on the back foot, the son of Hu'er, the commander of the Western Xia who pretended to surrender, led more than 300 rebelled Xixia people from behind the wall, and pressed Shang Zhicheng to the ground and tied him up. The other front-line villages were self-defeating, and the 100,000 Great Song Dynasty troops were caught off guard and were disarmed and reorganized.

Liang Qitong led the Xia army to take advantage of the victory and went south to Yanzhou.

When the Western Xia brigade attacked. There were thousands of defenders in Yanzhou City, and Fan Tong hurriedly dispatched Li Dadong, Shi Dayuan and the Song army guarding various places in a panic to rush back to Yanzhou.

After Li Dadong received the order to return to Yanzhou, he immediately returned to the security guard with Shi Yuansun and refused the subordinate general Guo Tie to "suspend the security." Investigate first and then advance", day and night, rushed to help Yanzhou.

Liang Qitong detected the movements of the Song army. Just set up an ambush at Sanchuankou to help, Li Dadong was arrogant and brave in battle, and led an army of 50,000 to advance rashly. As a result, as soon as he reached the mouth of Sanchuankou, he was surrounded by the Western Xia army that had been ambushed in advance. Sanchuankou is a dangerous place between two mountains and a ditch, the Western Xia army occupies the mountains on both sides, condescendingly first kills and injures the Song army with rolling logs, stones, bows and arrows, and then uses cavalry to assault to divide and annihilate the Song army, Li Dadong, Shi Dayuan and others were captured.

Seeing that the reinforcements had been surrounded and annihilated by the Tanguts, Da Rice Bucket abandoned Yanzhou City and fled east to Mizhi.

In this way, the vast area west of the Yellow River in the Great Song Dynasty was occupied by the Tangut people.

After the Western Xia occupied a piece of territory in the west of the river, in order to expand the results of the war in the next step, Liang Qitong began to rectify and reorganize the Western Xia army.

First of all, he took the Yellow River as the demarcation, divided the army into two chamber armies on the left and right in the Western Xia, set up 12 supervising military divisions, and ordered them to be named after the army, stipulating that the Song Dynasty where they were stationed also had similar chamber armies, just like today's "military region", thus improving the command system of the Western Xia army. Secondly, Liang Qitong also developed and fixed several new troops: the Black Eagle Army, the Capture Army, the Garrison Army, and the Poxi Army.

The Black Eagle Army was the most elite cavalry unit in Western Xia, with a total of 8,000 people, led by Luda's old opponent Heiman. Such troops were equipped with the best horses and the finest armor, and the total number of men was 8,000 men, divided into ten teams.

The Capture Army was a specially established unit in Western Xia in order to capture the opposing people's people in the war. are also equipped with fast horses,

This kind of army is the "original" of Western Xia, and the number is extremely large, with 100,000 people, divided into 500 teams.

The garrison was the Western Xia Praetorian Guard, with a total of 9,000 people, all of whom were filled by the children of the Western Xia nobles.

The Poxi army was an "artilleryman", mainly assisting in the attack with stone throwers during the siege, and the smallest number was 400 people.

In addition, the most scheming and immoral Western Xia military system was formed by Liang Qitong from some of the captured Song Dynasty soldiers, with a total of 50,000 people, in modern terms, the puppet army, with these "puppet army" as the vanguard, let them rush in front of the main army of their own clan as cannon fodder, and minimize the casualties of the Western Xia party soldiers.

Not only did the Western Xia have a solid military power, but the most important Empress Dowager Xiaoliang also had a think tank composed mainly of Han Chinese.

At the beginning of the founding of the Western Xia Dynasty, the emperor Yuan Hao at that time had a think tank called "Mastermind", "Mastermind" composed of six people, except for the Western Xia Prime Minister Wei Mingshou was a member of the party, the other five were Han: Zhang Yuan, Wu Hao, Yang Yang, Xu Zongmin, Zhang Yuanwen.

The reason why the Tangut people obeyed the words of the Han people was mainly because the strength of the Tangut was inseparable from the strategy of the Han people.

The backbone of the founding emperor of Western Xia, Yuan Hao, who lured the founding emperor of Western Xia to invade the Song Dynasty with a "rough strategy", were also two Han people: Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao.

Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao were from Dengzhou Mansion in Shandong during the reign of Emperor Renzong of the Great Song Dynasty, and during the founding years of the Western Xia Emperor Yuan Hao and Liyuan, Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao were only twenty-eight or nineteen years old.

These two are young people who grew up together, and they are classmates who have studied hard for ten years, and they have had great ambitions since they were young and want to do an earth-shattering career.

However, some things often backfire, and he took the imperial examination since he was seventeen years old, and he took the examination for eight or nine years in a row, but he fell to Sun Shan second time.

Therefore, Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao, two long-tried readers, who had been trying for a long time, believed in their Chinese Taowu strategy, and originally wanted to join the Song Dynasty border to offer advice and make meritorious achievements, but they were repeatedly excluded and suppressed by some literati who controlled the government of the dynasty at that time. These two buddies were angry, adhering to the idea of not staying here and going elsewhere, they left the Great Song Dynasty and began to wander aimlessly, wandering, wandering, and returning to their hometown that year and month.

The two wandered aimlessly, all the way to the west, because they thought that the west was Elysium.

Of course, Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao's wandering life is a tasteful wandering, in modern terms, people call it self-funded travel, because the father of these two is a rich man, and he is a rich second generation, and there is money, not a problem.

These two rich second generations are much stronger than today's rich second generation, people don't want to live in the shadow of their parents, they want to achieve their ideals and ambitions.

At sunset on this day, the two of them came to Xingqing City, the capital of Western Xia, with the golden sunset above their heads, and walked into one of the most luxurious restaurants in Xingqing City: "Zuisheng Building." ”

The two brothers grinned as soon as they saw the name of this restaurant, haha, just look at the name of this restaurant, "Drunken Life Building" drunk dream death is also a kind of life of the greatest enjoyment and fun. So the two brothers went straight to the high room upstairs, asked for a large table of mountain delicacies, and began to drink and sing. Most of a man's life should be spent with wine, how can a real man live without wine.

So he began to drink wine to the brothers and sisters, drinking passionately, the sorrow and hatred of the world, speaking freely of like-minded ideals, and pouring out the hearts of the fallen people at the end of the world.

This wine is the soul and embellishment of these two brothers. Embellished with their ambition and full of passion.

At this time, it is the Double Ninth Festival. The two of them suddenly sighed with emotion, and they had a sense of losing their souls. Wine is a man's poem, wine is a man's wings, and the two of them are singing while drinking. This chant says: "Being alone in a foreign land as a stranger, thinking of your relatives every festive season." Who knows that Xingqing is beautiful, and there are only two of us drinking. The chant said: "September 9 **** drinking, there is no taste in my heart." It is said that the bright moon in his hometown is beautiful, and the bright moon in his hometown shines on Kyushu. ”

This commotion is most of the night, the dishes did not move a few chopsticks, but the wine drank four or five jars. "Wine is less than a thousand cups of confidants", raise a glass and push the lamp, get drunk, and be hearty.

Wine can make men play the strings of mountains and rivers for the ages. Because of the wine, this brother has the pride of "the wind is sluggish and the water is cold". Drain the wine and fill it up.

The two laughed happily and asked the store for pen and ink.

Zhang Yuan lifted the pen to the snow-white powder on the right side, and there was a wild grass on the wall: "The Great Song Dynasty, Zhang Yuan is here to sing." ”

Wu Hao looked at the haha buddy, you can write, no, buddy also come to leave some ink treasure, otherwise this trip will be in vain. Pick up the pen on the snow-white powder wall on the left side, "brush", came to a official book: "Qingzhou Wu Hao came here to drink." ”

Just when the two brothers were so happy that they got carried away, the shopkeeper quit and came up and said, "Who are you two, how can you scribble on the wall." ”

Zhang Yuan patted his chest and said, "Who am I, I am Zhang Yuan." ”

Wu Hao stepped forward and said, "What, can't you write a word on the wall?" (To be continued.) )