The Dangxiang ethnic group is one of the ethnic minorities in the ancient north, belonging to a branch of the Xiqiang ethnic group, so it has the title of "Dangxiang ethnic group" and "Dangxiang Qiang". During the Han Dynasty, a large number of Qiang people moved to Helong and Guanzhong. At this time, the Dangxiang people lived a primitive nomadic tribe life that did not know the crops and the grass and trees. They took the tribe as the division unit and the surname as the tribal name, and gradually formed the famous eight party items, of which the Tuoba clan was the most powerful. In addition, there are tribes such as the Black Party and the Snow Mountain Clan. Another said that the Tuoba clan was a descendant of the Xianbei tribe, and Li Yuanhao, the founding monarch of Western Xia, claimed to be a descendant of Xianbei. Eventually, with the rise and invasion of the Mongol Empire, the ethnic group was exterminated. This is the history of the Dangxiang clan.

Now, for the Song Dynasty, the biggest trouble on the border is not the Liao Khitan in the north, but the Dangxiang people in the northwest. Although the Yongxi Northern Expedition was victorious in the end, the Liao people also consumed national strength. The Liao Kingdom, like the Great Song Dynasty, needed to rest.

But the party is different, taking advantage of the great war of Song and Liao, the party people got the opportunity to develop, under the leadership of their outstanding leader Li Jiqian, the current party tribe has a strong military strength, has become a disaster in the northwest of the Great Song Dynasty.

In fact, the party was originally attached to the Song Dynasty, and Li Jiqian's elder brother Li Jisheng was originally the leader of the party, and he also accepted the canonization of the Song Dynasty's envoy to the difficult army. Later, Li Jisheng took the initiative to go to Bianjing to meet the emperor of the Song Dynasty to show his submission.

But unexpectedly, as soon as Li Jisheng arrived in Tokyo, his younger brother Li Jiqian immediately established himself as the leader of the party and led the party tribe to rebel against the Great Song Dynasty.

In the blink of an eye, it was March of the fourth year of Yongxi, and during this time, the interior of the Great Song Dynasty was basically very calm. The only commendable thing that happened inside the Great Song Dynasty was that Kou Zhun was promoted to the rank of palace prince. This marked the beginning of Kou Zhun's transformation from a magistrate to a central official.

And Zhao Weiji, who controlled everything in the Zhang Wei incident, was also born during this time. Through Feng Hong's relationship, Zhao Weiji contacted the county magistrate of Huating and the state of Xiuzhou. Then began to invest in Huating County, preparing to transfer the industry there.

During this period, there was another good thing for Zhao Weiji, that is, Chai Yu was pregnant. But Zhao Weiji, who is still immersed in the joy of becoming a father, is about to suffer bad luck.

Because Li Jiqian made a move on Xiazhou.

Of course, the shadow of Liao is indispensable behind Li Jiqian's action this time. In the third year of Yongxi, after the Liao and Song Dynasty Wars, Li Jiqian saw that the Liao State was powerful, so he took the initiative to take refuge in the Khitan, and was canonized by the Liao Shengzong as the envoy of the Dingyan Army and the military governor of Xiazhou.

In the Great War, Yelumo, who made great contributions and became the sixth person in the Liao State, began to take charge of the affairs of the party departments.

When Yelu Mo saw that the Song Dynasty did not send Zhao Weiji to guard Xiazhou, but sent an unknown An Shouzhong, he knew that it was time to encourage Li Jiqian to attack Xiazhou.

In fact, the understanding of the Song Dynasty is not sufficient for the party, and it is accurate that it does not attach importance to it. The party departments were dependent on the Central Plains Dynasty all the year round, which made the rulers of the Central Plains Dynasty seriously underestimate the strength of the party items.

In addition, Li Jiqian actually has an internal response in the Central Plains, that is, his brother Li Jishou.

Just when Li Jiqian sent troops to attack Xiazhou, his brother Li Jisheng secretly gave Li Jiqian all the information about An Shouzhong.

Sun Ziyun: "Knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent will not be defeated in a hundred battles; Knowing oneself without knowing the other, one wins and one loses; I don't know who I am, I don't know myself, I will die in every battle. ”

When the Song army was about to fight with Li Jiqian's party troops, such a situation was presented, Li Jiqian knew himself and the other, and the Song army did not know the other and did not know himself.

Hearing that Li Jiqian was coming, An Shouzhong did not choose to blindly defend to the death, but decided to directly find Li Jiqian for a decisive battle. In An Shouzhong's consciousness, the party army is not enough, although there is Liao State behind it, but its strength is limited after all. If Li Jiqian can be captured in a battle, it will definitely be a disaster forever.

However, An Shouzhong didn't even know how many troops the party had and what the tactics were. And he is not even familiar with his own army. The existence of the more military law made the Song soldiers ignorant of generals and soldiers.

Basically, An Shouzhong, who was black-eyed, led his troops to a decisive battle with Li Jiqian with confidence.

When he learned that An Shouzhong rushed out with 30,000 people to fight him, Li Jiqian almost lost his joy and went crazy. Yelu Mo, who had encouraged him to send troops before, had already told him that the generals of the Song army would definitely bring troops to the decisive battle, but this sentence did not go to Li Jiqian's heart at all.

Because the Dangxiang and Khitan armies also have a drawback, that is, the lack of siege means. Li Jiqian didn't expect that the Song army would make such a mistake and attack the enemy's strengths with his own shortcomings.

In this way, the two armies fought fiercely in Wangting Town.

As a result, it was naturally not surprising that the Song army was directly beaten by the party, and the 30,000 Song troops went and never returned.

Fortunately, the generals who stayed in Xiazhou at that time chose to defend Xiazhou as soon as they learned of An Shouzhong's defeat. With the equipment to defend the city, and the strong city barely blocked the attack of the party. But most of Xiazhou's land has also been swallowed up by the party.

After the news was transmitted back to the capital, the entire court was shaken.

"A small party can also be so arrogant, is it possible that all of our Great Song Dynasty can fight are dead?" Could it really be that if you die, Butcher Zhang has to eat hairy pigs, without Zhao Weiji, there is no one who can fight. At this time, Zhao Guangyi was extremely angry in his heart.

It's just that you can't beat the Khitan of Liao, and now you can't even beat the party? Last time, Cao Guangshi was just because of Li Jiqian's deception and surrender plan, but this time An Shouzhong actually didn't win the head-on battle.

At this time, all the ministers in the hall were at a loss. Quite simply, the only candidate cannot be mentioned.

In fact, it's not that there are no available generals in the Song Dynasty, it's just that many things have changed because of the appearance of Zhao Weiji.

Pan Mei, who should have survived, actually died in battle at this moment. And there is another general who was actually buried by Zhao Weiji inadvertently. That is Li Jilong, one of the twenty-four heroes who entered the Zhaoxun Pavilion of Song Lizong in the original history.

Due to the appearance of Zhao Weiji, Song Taizong put his mind on recovering Yanyun earlier, so after Li Jiqian captured Yinzhou, he did not send troops to recover it. Therefore, Li Jilong, who was supposed to rise in an all-round way in the battle to recover Yinzhou, did not fight this battle. This also caused him to lose the opportunity to participate in the Yongxi Northern Expedition. It's completely buried.

At that time, even Zhao Weiji was strange that Li Jilong could not be found in the troops of Mao Caobin and Mi Xin. He didn't expect that because of the butterfly effect he generated, he buried this outstanding general.

Pan Mei died, and Li Jilong lost the fame he should have, so he was not remembered. Cao Bin was demoted because of his previous defeat, and no one wanted to mention him. As for Cao Bin's two sons who will be very good in the future, they will be implicated by their father at this time, and they will not have any chance for the time being. As for Yang Yanzhao, the ministers all thought that he could not afford to lead an army alone for the time being.

Originally, there was a Mi Xin, but I didn't expect him to be sick at this juncture.

When all the coincidences and reality came together, Zhao Guangyi found that he really had no one available except Zhao Weiji.

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Just when Zhao Guangyi was worried at the court meeting, Zhao Weiji was also worried.

As soon as the news of An Shouzhong's defeat returned to the capital, Zhao Weiji brought all his henchmen over for a meeting.

Through Jiang Yu's analysis, Zhao Weiji also came to the same conclusion as Zhao Guangyi: except for himself, Zhao Guangyi really has no one available.

In this era of the supremacy of imperial power, irreplaceable is not a good thing for being a courtier. When the emperor realized that he could not do without someone, that person was not far from death. The Emperor would never allow such a person to be so important. Especially the generals.

Tan Daoji, Di Qing, Yue Fei. Are there still few such examples in the history books?

"Is there really no reliable general in my Great Song Dynasty?"

Just when Zhao Weiji was worried, Tie Zheng on the side spoke: "I know a person, good at riding and shooting, and more strategic, he should be an outstanding general, but why has no one found out."

"Oh, who is it?"

"Li Jilong."

As soon as Tie Zheng said this, Zhao Weiji also remembered this person: "Yes, there is him." Shouldn't he defeat Li Jiqian in the second year of Yongxi to recover Yinzhou, and then participate in the Northern Expedition? Why didn't I see this person in the army of the Northern Expedition? ”

"Wait, the king. In the second year of Yongxi, our Great Song Dynasty did not recover Yinzhou. I don't know why Zhao Weiji came up with a sentence that Li Jilong defeated Li Jiqian to recover Yinzhou, but out of the duty of a doorman, Tie Zheng still corrected Zhao Weiji.

When Zhao Weiji heard Tie Zheng's words, he was immediately stunned. In the second year of Yongxi, he always focused on the Northern Expedition, and never cared about the northwest at all. Everything he knew was recorded in the history books. I didn't expect that the history at this time would deviate at that time.

"Maybe I'm mistaken, I don't know who told me about such a thing. Maybe it's a rumor. Knowing that he said something that he shouldn't have said, Zhao Weiji immediately thought of covering it up, pretending to be very innocent, and shifted the blame to the so-called rumors.

Since the entire county palace was at stake at this time, the people below didn't bother too much about what Zhao Weiji said. At this moment, their attention was focused on this Li Jilong.

"Where is this man now?" Jiang Yu asked Tie Zheng.

"This person should still be in Dingzhou now." Tie Zheng thought for a moment and replied.

"If the official summons the county king to enter the court, I think the county king should recommend this person to relieve the siege for himself." After knowing Li Jilong's whereabouts, Jiang Yu suggested to Zhao Weiji.

After hearing this, Zhao Weiji also felt that what Jiang Yu said was reasonable, and if a general could rise now, he would inevitably reduce Zhao Guangyi's attention on himself, so as to buy more time for his development.

At this time, it was said that Cao Cao Cao had arrived, and Zhao Guangyi asked the eunuch to pass the decree and announce that Zhao Weiji would enter the palace to meet him.