The shopkeeper said: "Of course not, if you are a celebrity, you can attract customers to the small shop." ”

Wu Hao shook his head and said, "No, how do you know that we are not celebrities?" ”

Zhang Yuanyi patted the shopkeeper on the shoulder and said: "Shopkeeper, don't look down on people, although our brothers are not celebrities today, they may sleep and become celebrities tomorrow morning." ”

The shopkeeper snorted and said, "You two can still become celebrities, hurry up and settle accounts with the money and leave." ”

The noisy voices of the three were heard by the Western Xia soldiers who were patrolling the streets, so they took Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao to the prison of Xingqing Mansion and imprisoned them, preparing to hand them over to the local government the next morning.

I knew that after Yuan Hao, the emperor of Western Xia at that time, heard about this, he ran to this restaurant to look at the words on the powder wall, and then listened to the story of the shopkeeper, and suddenly felt that the two were not ordinary people, so he decided to interrogate Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao in person.

Yuan Hao came to the prison and let people lead Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao to the front.

Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao are gorgeously dressed, and they look like talents, although they are tightly tied into a zongzi, but the donkey does not fall down, and their faces do not change color: "Why do you arrest people indiscriminately." ”

Yuan Hao slapped the table and said, "You are Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao from the Great Song Dynasty." ”

Zhang Yuanyi stood up and said: "Yes, the husband will not change his name, he will not change his name, the two of us are Zhang Yuan, Wu Hao, what do you want to do with us?" ”

Yuan Hao said: "Do you know who I am? ”

Wu Hao said disdainfully: "We don't know you or don't know you, and we know who you are." ”

Yuan Hao said: "I am Yuan Hao, the current emperor of the Great Western Xia Kingdom!" ”

Zhang Yuan said neither humbly nor arrogantly: "What is so great about the emperor of the Great Western Xia Kingdom, and we have not violated your royal law." ”

Yuan Hao said angrily: "Although you have not violated my royal law, one of you is called Zhang Yuan and the other is Wu Hao, that is to offend my name."

Wu Hao laughed when he heard this.

Yuan Hao said: "Your kid is still laughing there when he is dying." ”

Wu Haoling said sharply: "I'm not laughing at myself. Am I laughing at you? ”

Yuan Hao said: "What is funny about me. ”

Wu Hao said coldly: "You Yuan Hao don't even care about your surname, why care about your name!" This sentence shocked the murderous demon Yuan Hao, and hit his sore spot: from the five dynasties of the Tang Dynasty to the beginning of the Song Dynasty, Yuan Hao's family has always been surnamed "Li" given by the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and then to this day. The Yuan Hao family also had the surname "Zhao" given by the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, and Li and Zhao were both "given" surnames of the Central Plains Dynasty, which was really a big scar and heartache.

When Yuan Hao heard that Wu Hao had uncovered his old bottom, he smiled without anger: "Haha, well said, well said." As he spoke, he walked over from behind the table and personally untied the ropes that were tightly tied to Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao. He bowed deeply and said, "I'm sorry for the two gentlemen." Can you stay in my Xingqing Mansion to serve? ”

Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao looked at each other, and the two exchanged glances and nodded together.

The monarch is not right, and the ministers vote to foreign countries, which has existed since ancient times, not to mention that the emperor of Western Xia thinks so highly of the two of us. Stay and do it.

Scholars died for the known, where the loess does not bury people.

For the two of us to defect to Western Xia, we may be charged with betraying the country, what traitor is not traitor. Since the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty didn't need us to work for him, then why should we guard a crooked neck tree. And give up a big forest.

Betraying the country, what is a traitor, did Shang Ying betray the country back then, whether Wu Qi betrayed the country back then, isn't it still famous in history.

If we don't leave a name for history, then it's okay to leave a stink for thousands of years.

So the three of them had the intention of seeing each other late. On the same day, he drank and drank happily. gave birth to the sympathy between heroes, and released the previous suspicions; Even if you have never met for the first time, you still have a sigh of why you have to know each other.

So the two brothers slammed the table and said, "It's done, Emperor Yuanhao, our buddy did it with you." ”

Yuan Hao does have the ability to discern pearls.

Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao's two buddies do have real talents and real learning.

The two of them deserve to have gone through ten years of hard study, and they know China's history and military preparedness well.

They strongly persuaded Yuan Hao to use the strength of the country to enter the land on the right side of the Great Song Tong Pass, occupy the Guanzhong, and then advance to the hinterland of the Central Plains. At the same time, he actively persuaded Yuan Hao and Liao Emperor Yelu Yanxi to strengthen close cooperation and joint action, so that the Khitans could attack the Song Dynasty in Hebei, and finally make the Song Dynasty face enemies on both sides.

These strategies are all poisonous moves to seal the throat with a sword, and no matter which move is successful, the Song Dynasty will have the worry of losing the country. "Mo Dao scholars talk emptyly, and their heads are bloody", Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao can also be said to be an outlier among the intellectuals of that era, and an alternative representative among the intellectuals. Later, in Chinese history, there was also a representative of an alternative intellectual, and this person was the well-known Wang Jingwei.

At that time, the main person in charge of the Song Dynasty in the northwest, one was Xia Zhu, the governor of Jingzhou, and the other was Fan Yong, the governor of Yanzhou. Especially Xia Zhu.

Xia Zhu is extremely capable and a capable official with foresight. For the situation in the Western Xia at that time, Emperor Renzong at that time advised the ten major strategies: 1. Teach Xi to be a strange crossbow: 2. Confidant Qiang as a fence: 3. Edict to fight father and son and break the thief. Fourth, the terrain is dangerous and easy to distance and near, the number of fences, and the courage of the sergeants, and the increase or decrease of the garrison. Fifth, the edict of all roads to support each other. 6. Recruit natives as soldiers, one or two thousand people from each state, to replace the eastern soldiers; 7. Add archers, strong men, and hunters to defend the city; Eighth, and the side of the small stone, do not accumulate grain, thieves in a hurry, then abandon the small stone into the big stone, in order to complete the force; Nine, if the people of Guanzhong are tired and make mistakes, they will be allowed to atone for their sins, and one pound of copper will be five buckets of millet to support the side; 10. Loss and consolidation of redundant troops, redundant officers and cavalry to relieve transportation. These ten suggestions were all conclusive and reasonable, but the ministers and border generals of the DPRK and China at that time crowded out and suppressed Xia Zhu, resulting in the failure of the Great Song Dynasty's attacks on Western Xia.

After the failure of the Northern Song Dynasty's large-scale attack on Western Xia, the northwest Jinglu captured Yinzhou in Western Xia, and Xiazhou was forced to give up, and only Mizhizhai was still in the hands of the Song army.

In order to compete with the Western Xia for control of the military stronghold in the Hengshan Mountains, the Song Dynasty decided to adopt the tactics of "building cities and attacking cities, moving villages and attacking villages". It is suggested that Yinzhou be built first, then Youzhou, and then Xiazhou.

So Song Huizong ordered Yu Xi, the army in the matter, to inspect the border defense, and examine and approve the plan for building a fortress.

Yu Xi is not familiar with military affairs, thinking that building a city along the line, costing a huge amount of money, and although Yinzhou is located at the confluence of the Wuding River and the Mingtang River, the southeast corner of the city has been washed away by the Wuding River, and there is a big ditch in the northwest, which is not as dangerous as the terrain of Yongle. So it was decided to build Yongle City first, and then use this as a starting point to extend westward along the Hengshan Mountain Range, and then build other walled cities to control the Hengshan Mountain Range.

Yu Xi and Chen Changxun, the senior local governors in charge of the political and military affairs of northern Shaanxi, and Deputy Yan Yan, deployed Wa Chen, and more than 10 generals to lead 40,000 troops, together with 200,000 servants who participated in the repair and transportation of the city, to set out from Yan'an and go north through Suide and Mizhi, and build Yongle City near Mahuyu, 50 miles northwest of Mizhi, on a high cliff west of the Wuding River, in an attempt to replace the abandoned Yinzhou and control the military passage from Yan'an and Suide to Hengshan in the west and Linfu in the northeast.

This is enough for those border soldiers to be busy, and they will work hard here, and they will have to send troops to fight against the harassment of small forces in Western Xia.

Let's think about it, how can that Liang Qitong be an easy peer, how can you let the Great Song Shunshun build a city and fort there, and you smash the wedge under the nose of my Xixia people, I will send troops to pull out the peg.

In this way, Yu Xi led more than 200,000 people, while fighting, while building, after more than half a month of intense construction, finally a Yongle City as long as fifteen miles wide and eleven miles wide, and reported to Emperor Huizong for approval, named Yinchuan Village.

Although Yinchuan Village faces uncertain Xun, cliffs on three sides, the terrain is steep and the location is important. But the ground is high and waterless, and it belongs to the Jedi of soldiers.

It stands to reason that the city should be pushed forward to the bank of the Wuding River to be built, so that the enemy can be repelled by the river, and the important matter of drinking water can be solved.

However, Yu Xi belongs to the civil and military officials, and he does not understand the military at all, he only thinks that Yinchuan Village, with cliffs on three sides, is easy to defend and difficult to attack, so he committed the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" Ma Yan, and the tragedy of history was staged again.

After the Yongle City was repaired, in order to solve the drinking water problem, Yu Xi ordered the servant to dig more than ten wells in the Wuding River Road outside the city, and built a water village that specifically supplied water sources, but this big fool didn't have to think about it, what should the water village do once it was occupied by the Xixia people?

After everything went according to plan, Yu Xi and Chen Changxun led their troops to return Mizhi to the south, leaving Wa Chen, the deputy head of Yanyan Road, and others to lead 10,000 people to garrison and defend.

At this time, the Empress Dowager Xiao Liang discovered the movements of the soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty in Western Xia, and according to the method of drawing nine out of ten, she requisitioned 300,000 troops, led by the general Ye Weima, to converge with Liang Qitong's troops, and concentrated on waiting for the opportunity to attack.

Knowing that the main force of the Great Song Dynasty was rushing to build Yongle City in the east, Ye Bima sent the black barbarian as the vanguard to lead 80,000 troops to attack Suide first, in order to confuse and contain the Song army, and he personally commanded the main force to attack Yongle City.

After the convergence of the two armies of Ye Qima and Liang Qitong in Western Xia, there were a total of 500,000 horses, and they moved south along the Wuding River and the Mingtang River, and approached Yongle City.

Yu Xi is rash and does not understand military affairs, but he is arrogant and likes to talk about the art of war.

He believed that the Northern Song Dynasty had lost many battles with the Western Xia, all of which were due to the incompetence of the generals and the fear of death without fighting, as long as he was out of the horse, he could easily capture Hengshan and destroy the Western Xia.

At this time, Yu Xi had just returned to Mizhi, and after hearing the news that the Western Xia army was attacking Yongle City in the south, he decided to leave Chen Chengxun to stay in Mizhi, and he personally led 25,000 cavalry to Yongle City to divide his troops and line up under the city.

In order to paralyze Yu Xi, the cunning Ye Bima and Liang Qitong hurriedly led the Western Xia army and retreated without a fight. And deliberately discarded some horses and baggage along the way, pretending to be panicked, Yu Xi thought that the Xia army was cowardly, led 25,000 cavalry, and chased forty or fifty miles before returning to the city. (To be continued.) )