Liang didn't think about the Song Dynasty at all, because the Song Dynasty was too peaceful, and the Song Dynasty also confused her by hyping about the expansion of the bank's shares. If it is a war of war, how much silk does the Song Dynasty have to prepare, or a small-scale border conflict, it is irrelevant.

Therefore, after imprisoning his son, he quickly killed the anti-Liang group.

But what she didn't expect was that the Song Dynasty really interfered, sent an envoy to Xia, asked Liang what this move was, and asked Liang to let Li Bingchang take charge of the government and eradicate the three Western Xia traitors, Liang Yiburi, Ren Duo Lingding, and Li Yan, in order to thank the world. The messenger is Sun Jue.

He is a student of the great Confucian Hu Ying and Chen Xiang, a friend of Su Dongpo, Wang Anshi, Su Song, and Zeng Gong, and Huang Tingjian's father-in-law, and a teacher of Qin Guan, Lu Dian, and Wang Ling. But no. As a minister, he couldn't get used to Shao Kang's various inactions, impeached Shao Kang, demoted him to a general sentence in Yuezhou, and as a friend of Wang Anshi, he opposed some radical behaviors in the law change, and was dismissed as a Guangde intellectual. Even in history, Han Zhen and Sima Guang ceded land to Western Xia for no reason, Cai did create unjust cases, Zhang Dian had low character, shallow talent, and impeached An Tao for being shallow and ignorant. In his eyes, it is a matter of facts, but because of his character, this child is sad and has drifted everywhere all his life...... also struck Zheng Lang.

But he has quite a political achievement for the government, and he is also quite bold, where he has passed, the people have built a shrine for him, and at this time he is serving as the secretary of the provincial young eunuch, so that Zheng Lang can find out and let him send an envoy to Western Xia.

If you don't have the guts, you can't be the one who performs this.

Liang was furious when he saw it, and shouted: "This is the business of my Great Xia Kingdom, what does it have to do with your Song Dynasty?" ”

"Empress Dowager Qi, although it is the business of your Xia Kingdom, but your Xia Kingdom is a subordinate of my Song Dynasty, how can you say that you will not do my Great Song Dynasty!"

The Liang clan was so angry that he trembled, if he wasn't worried that the Song Dynasty would take advantage of the danger of Western Xia to send troops, he could have ordered Sun Jue to be pulled out on the spot. Sun Jue was not executed, and Sun Jue was blasted out of Western Xia.

This mission is important. At that time, Sun Jue sent an envoy to Western Xia, many people mistakenly thought that Zheng Lang was going to borrow a knife to kill people, but it was actually very wrong, Sun Jue's words were not the kind of-stirring sticks, more of them were on the matter, although he was less scheming, he might be regarded as a good minister, Zheng Lang not only recommended Sun Jue to be an envoy in front of Zhao Ji, but also advised Zhao Ji to reuse this minister in the future. The process of sending an envoy is also a process of saluting first and then soldiering, with this ceremony. This soldier is justified.

Since the Liang family did not listen, the imperial court issued an order, Jingyuan, Huanqing, and Yanyan three roads to the border of Chenbei, except for Jingyuan Road, which was written by Lu Gong and did not understand military affairs, the other two roads were Wang Shao and Guo Kui, all of whom were generals in the epicenter.

But the Song Dynasty's move still looks ridiculous, pulling many soldiers to the border. Only the garrison of Shaanxi was used, and no one from the capital and other regions was transferred to the northwest, not only in Western Xia, but also in the first month of the following year. That is, more than a month later, the news reached the Khitan, and the Liao monarchs and ministers also thought that the Song Dynasty was only a threat.

New Year's Day is coming again.

The Song Dynasty was very quiet, singing and dancing. Including the people of the Song Dynasty who are "knowledgeable" are also analyzing, and they all think that the Song Dynasty is intimidating, but it is not bad. can take the initiative to intimidate Xixia, and has grown better than before. The other is to laugh at the Western Xia, and look at what has happened in the Western Xia over the years, first Yuan Hao robbed his son's daughter-in-law in his son's family affairs, and then his son Ning Lingge killed Lao Tzu and fled to Khitan. and then Uncle Guo did not hide Pang to kill his sister and did not hide the Queen Mother, and Li Liangzuo killed his uncle but did not hide Pang. Now it's Liang's turn to prepare to kill his son.

The Liang family didn't want to kill her son, even if she had Wu Zetian's ability, but Wu Zetian had four sons, two of them were killed, and two were left to buffer, she only had one son, and if she killed them, how could she appease the people of Western Xia?

But in the face of the Song Dynasty's aggressiveness, soldiers were still stationed, just in case. Although it seems that the Song Dynasty is intimidating, if it is not prepared, the Song Dynasty will not mind taking a hard bite on the Western Xia. Then Zhang Qi came to join in the fun, concentrated the army in Lanzhou, and pointed at Liangzhou. However, it seems that there is still no attempt to send troops, besides, the New Year's Day is coming, is the Song Dynasty just the Spring Festival?

Just when the Western Xia was a little careless, the Song Dynasty really began to send troops.

……

Big Bucket Pull-out.

This is a mountain trade road as long as a hundred miles, but the road condition is very bad, the temperature is below zero all year round, the most famous is that Emperor Yang of Sui led 400,000 troops to exterminate Tuguhun, and then went to Zhangye to meet the monarchs of the 27 countries of the Western Regions to meet, although it was June weather when he came back, but when he passed through the Great Dou Tu Valley, the valley suddenly broke out of the wind and snow, the cold was unstoppable, and most of the soldiers froze to death, even the concubine Zhang Lihua of Emperor Yang of Sui and froze to death in that wind and snow.

This is a very important valley road, and it is also a notorious valley road.

But at this time, at the mouth of the valley, one army after another suddenly surged.

Vaxia is divided into a two-step plan, the first step is the Hexi Corridor, cut off its right arm, and the second step will be to use the army to really attack Western Xia.

The Song Dynasty did not transfer troops from other regions to the northwest, but it was not without troops, especially Hehuang.

At this time, if Hehuang is in full bloom in spring, Zheng Lang will not be able to recognize Hehuang when he comes to Hehuang again. Liang Yi was defeated, and the Song Dynasty detained tens of thousands of prisoners of war, did not abuse them, had holidays, provided adequate food and clothing, and even once asked all ethnic groups in Western Xia to send people to visit their safety. But they were not raised in vain, and they were used as the main laborers for the construction of rivers, the overhaul of roads, water conservancy and bridges, the planting of trees, the construction of forts and cities, and the construction of schools and yamen camps.

At the same time, where all kinds of infrastructure construction are repaired, and then where the tribal people are invited to cooperate, this is for the benefit of all tribes, not a harsh move of the people, and the labor problem will also exist, and at the same time save a lot of money. Of course, some rewards are given to those who are diligent, and those who are lazy will be punished.

At this time, most of the roads were expanded and leveled, and many new roads appeared at the same time, and large areas of barren mountains and mountains became mountains and forests or grasslands, and the Tibetan tribes lost their right to independence and independence, but in the past six years, the lives of the people of all ethnic groups have indeed improved.

When Zheng Lang left, the Tibetan tribes could not be called stable, so they left more than 80,000 forbidden soldiers and Tibetan soldiers from Qin Wei to station, to deter the river, and built a large number of fortresses at various key roads, but a few years later, the imperial court invested a lot of money and silk, under the governance of Fan Chunren, the tribes gradually settled down, the military role of these forts declined, and the commercial nature was changed, and the soldiers were more than the tuntian outside the castle, reducing the national supply. In fact, at this time, there were so many troops stationed in Hehuang, and there were more than 30,000 soldiers from various ethnic groups, so the number of troops was too much. But who could have imagined.

Not only all kinds of forbidden soldiers, as well as the soldiers in the Qinwei region and the local soldiers, the strength of Hehuang reached more than 115,000 people, and at the same time, there were 50,000 or 60,000 militia warriors and archers of various ethnic groups in Hehuang. This is what Zheng Lang values most about Hehuang, once the summer season begins, he can get about 100,000 horsemen from Hehuang, who are brave and good at fighting.

Zhang Qi began to order each candidate to summon warriors from various tribes.

Not all the Hou are so obedient, the more weak the Hou is. The more they wanted to get the support of the Song Dynasty, the more they flattered the Song Dynasty, and there were some tribes who had a great good impression of the Song Dynasty, especially the Xigong area, which had the highest favorability of the Song Dynasty. Anyway, it's winter leisure time, it doesn't matter.

But there are still some people who rely on their own power, or have a bad feeling for the Song Dynasty in the past. Strong self-esteem, despite all the preferential policies given by the Song Dynasty, Zhang Qi's orders were still disobeyed. It doesn't matter, this account can be slowly settled after the summer is extinguished. Guan Jian is Dong Yu.

Qinghai is mostly high mountains and snowfields. However, there are also a few plains and valleys, most of the areas west of Chiling, including the famous Niuxindui, Chihai and Dafeichuan areas in the Tang Dynasty, have become the Gobi Desert, and there are also some areas with abundant water and grass, and the land of Jiuqu in the east of Lingdong. Miaochuan, Huangchuan, and Haokang River in the northwest of Ling. Prosper. The people suffered, died, and the people suffered. In ancient times, because of the backwardness of the planting industry, the war was extremely harmful, so the Sui and Tang dynasties were replaced, and the more than 6 million households of the Sui Dynasty were only 2 million households left when the Tang Dynasty was founded, and nearly 100 million people were in Tianbao, and there were only 3 million households when the Song Dynasty was founded. After the Tang Dynasty since the Anshi Rebellion, the people were not happy, and the Tibetan side was not good, although it once expanded to the northwest, the Yinxia region, but then collapsed, and there were wars among all ethnic groups, but in those more than 100 years, it was less harmful than the war in the Central Plains. In addition, the water and soil in Lingxi deteriorated, so the people were mostly concentrated in Hehuang.

In order to bring the war to a quick end, Zheng Lang gave Dong Yu a lot of independence and autonomy, including a large area of Huangchuan, Zongge City, Qingtang City and Lijing City, and also allowed Dong Yu to operate, and also recognized him as the spiritual leader of Tubo and the biggest candidate.

Even if the Song Dynasty is dim, with the power in his hands, Dong Yu can rise again. However, the Song Dynasty was not without precautions, stationed a part of the troops in Huangchuan, and at the same time built various forts to guard various key roads.

Because the water and grass in the Huangchuan area are abundant and beautiful, and the three cities of Zongge are important commercial cities, Dong Yu still controls nearly 60,000 households and more than 300,000 people.

Therefore, Zhang Qi ordered Dong Yu to transfer 30,000 troops to cooperate with the Song Dynasty. It is unknown how much help 30,000 soldiers will have, this is to take away 30,000 soldiers and prevent Dong Yu from having some bad thoughts and conditions.

But at this time, Dong Yu's mentality was different from that of Dong Yu, after the Song Dynasty got Hezhou, he didn't have any idea of getting involved in Huangzhou, but only killed the ghost chapter who fought back wildly. The Western Xia side took advantage of the situation to swallow the various forces of Dong Yu in Shazhou to the south. Therefore, Dong Yu sent troops to help the Song Dynasty to fight Xia, as for whether Dong Yu really helped, or wanted the Song and Xia countries to lose both sides, so that Tubo could consolidate itself, that is the benevolent and the wise will see the wise.

But at this time, the Song Dynasty had already taken the entire Huangzhou region, although the Song Dynasty gave him special care, and finally sent people under the fence, as the former lord of Tubo, Dong Yu had no idea that it was impossible. The envoy of the Western Xia sent to bewitch Dong Yu, but Dong Yu did not dare to agree, but he did not want to offend the Western Xia directly.

Therefore, after Zhang Kai gave the order, Dong Yu pushed three and four times.

Led by him, many Tibetan tribes in the Huangzhou region were also looking for excuses and were unwilling to cooperate with the Song Dynasty to send troops.

As a result, there were four roads on the edge, and Zhang Qibing was the latest in Lanzhou.

On the fifteenth day of the lunar month, Dong Yu suddenly received a report from the front, saying that Guo Cheng, Wang Guangzu, Li Hao, Chong Pu, and Qu Zhen led 60,000 Song troops to Zongge City.

Dong Yu was shocked, and thought in his heart, could it be that the Song Dynasty intimidated the Western Xia Dynasty and tested all ethnic groups to be true, this is going to do something to me? With his current strength, he didn't dare to fight against the Song Dynasty, so he hurriedly got up and rushed from Lijing City to Zongge City. Seeing Guo Cheng's face, he asked, "General Guo, why did the army come to Brother Zong's city?" ”

After Zheng Lang's forty generals list came out, there was a lot of controversy, although the edict did not say that it was the ranking, but with the order, it was undoubtedly the ranking, especially the top ten generals, many people thought that Wang Guangzu could not be ranked among the top ten generals, and some people complained for Chong Ge, his ranking was too low, and there were also Chongyi and Guo Cheng, these two became famous and it was a wild run of stealing opportunities, what qualifications did they have to rank before Chong Ge. In fact, this ranking is very fair. Chong's military talent may be above Liu Changzuo, but his selfishness and violent personality are heavy, so his achievements are under Chongyi and Guo Cheng. He is very famous in history, but when you analyze his wins and losses, he is not as good as Guo Cheng and Chongyi.

But in Dong Yu's heart, Guo Cheng is undoubtedly a killing god. Moreover, there is another top ten general Wang Guangzu, a top ten lieutenant general Li Hao, and two Chong Pu and Qu Zhen who are ranked among the forty generals, although the names of the two are not obvious. But it is not easy to squeeze into the ranks of forty generals and be in front of the lower generals.

Dong Yu was very careful when he spoke.

Guo Cheng frowned and said, "Dong Yu, why didn't you listen to Zhang Zhizhou's order?" ”

"General Guo, I'll send troops and horses." Dong Yu said helplessly.

"You don't listen to orders until the army is there? I see that you are waiting for the end of the day. ”

"General Guo, isn't it almost New Year's Day." Cold sweat broke out on Dong Yu's forehead, and he said, "General Guo, don't worry. Within two days, I mobilized 30,000 soldiers to cooperate with the Great Song Dynasty to send troops to Lanzhou. ”

"No, give you four days. Mobilize 30,000 troops, and at the same time dispatch 20,000 people, meet in the Changning Gorge, and listen to a certain arrangement. ”

"Changning Canyon?" Dong Yu is inexplicable.

Forced by the might of the Song army. Dong Yu had no choice but to hurriedly dispatch 30,000 soldiers and 20,000 people to rendezvous at Changning Gorge. Guo Cheng also led the Song army and escorted a large number of supplies to arrive. Then send generals to reorganize Dong Yu's subordinates.

Dong Yu asked puzzledly, "General Guo." What is the intention? ”

"Out of the big bucket valley!" Guo Cheng snorted coldly, at this time, the various levels had been sealed, and Dong Yu still had 50,000 strong men in his hands, and he was not afraid that Dong Yu would reveal the news.

"Big Fight?" Dong Yu finally knew what the Song Dynasty was going to do this time, but he was stunned at the same time.

Guo Cheng did not explain, led 90,000 troops, 20,000 people, and raised the army in a mighty way, and the next evening the troops arrived at Haokanchuan Maoniucheng, and Huangchuan was handed over to Dong Yu, but the entire Haokanchuan was directly controlled by the Song Dynasty, and here the Song Dynasty also prepared some materials in advance. The supplies were gathered, and the Song Dynasty quickly rushed to the Great Dou Pull Valley.

Dong Yu was surprised at the time because of the harsh terrain and weather here. In June, goose feathers and heavy snow can fall, and this is the coldest wax moon, even if Song Jun has prepared a large number of cotton clothes and quilts to keep out the cold, it is so cold that people can't stand it.

Not only is it cold, but many of the mountain roads are covered with thick ice, and people walking on them can slip and fall under the cliffs at any time.

The army stopped at the mouth of the valley, and Guo Cheng came to the front, but before he entered the valley, the howling cold wind blew, scraping on his face like a knife.

One of the guards shuddered and said, "It's cold." ”

Guo Cheng glared at him fiercely, and then ordered to set up camp to rest, and the next day braved the wind and snow to force the Dadou Tu Valley. At this time, crossing the Great Dou Tu Valley, it looks almost like looking for death. But the Song Dynasty had a lot of preparations in advance, not only prepared a large number of cotton clothes, but also deliberately prepared special cotton clothes for the war horses, wrapped the horses from top to bottom, and prepared many non-slip shoes, as well as non-slip horseshoes. Also, bring a lot of raw drill bits. Using the spiral principle, the drill bit is used to drill holes in the road surface to reduce the sliding of ice cubes. At the same time, it also brought some spirits and spicy seasonings to keep the soldiers warm up and keep them warm.

But that's it, it took the Song army four days to pass through the 120-mile Great Douba Valley, and in order to pass through this bad valley road, nearly 5,000 Song troops fell, and more than 3,000 soldiers and people recruited from Dong Yu also fell. Some froze to death, and some slipped under the cliff and fell to their deaths.

But in the end, the Song army miraculously came out of the Great Dou Tu Valley and came to the east of the valley.

At dusk, Guo Cheng ordered the three armies to rest, and asked the medical soldiers to treat the soldiers, not only sacrificed thousands of soldiers, but also some soldiers suffered from frostbite. Including many war horses, they also fell on the mountain road of Da Dou Tu Valley. But the significance of this line is unimaginable, and no one would have imagined that Song Jun would dare to force his way across the Dadou Tu Valley in this cold weather. And it's terrible, it's next to the New Year's Pass again. Neither the rear of Liangzhou nor Ganzhou to the west was unfortified. And Dadou Tugu is only 320 miles away from Ganzhou, and only 300 miles away from Liangzhou, even if it is an infantry, grab a speed, three days is enough to attack Ganzhou or Liangzhou City. Moreover, at this time, the Song army still has a large number of cavalry and war horses, and the speed will be faster!

While the soldiers set up camp, they sent soldiers to control the people of the surrounding ethnic groups to prevent leakage of news, and the rest of the soldiers began to cheer. The four-day journey was like a nightmare, and many soldiers even had the idea that they would rather die on the battlefield than walk again from the Great Dou Tu Valley.

Guo Cheng, Wang Guangzu and other generals smiled.

The soldiers of this line were bitter, and they were also bitter, and in only four days they had many chilblains on their bodies. But at this time, more than a dozen generals all had smug smiles on their faces, and the soldiers cheered that the nightmarish march was over, but they saw great merit in their eyes. (To be continued......)