This sentence said that the Cao family was very tempting, originally she was just a woman who didn't want to participate in politics, with a quiet personality and not so many ideas, but after taking power, she slowly changed, began to think that power was a good thing, began to pursue power, and included a large number of her own family members as ministers and generals, the highest power in Western Xia has been obtained by the Cao family, which means that the Western Xia government has been dominated by the Han people, and the Song army is not fighting against the party members, but against the Han Cao family.

This is not a war between nations, but a war of warlords within their own country!

It is also quite interesting to say that the Western Xia regime was a foreign regime established by the Dangxiang clan, but after absorbing a large number of Han rebellions, until now, the main political power and military power are controlled by the Han people, and the nature of the Song-Xia War has changed from a national war to an internal contradiction, from a war of conquest to a war of counterinsurgency......

This is probably something that Li Yuanhao couldn't imagine until he died, right?

It is also interesting to say, compared with the Liao Yelu clan, the party Li clan is more less concerned about national defense, from the time of Xia Chongzong Li Qianshun, her mother Liang began to assert power, repeatedly launched wars against the Song Dynasty, Song Yingzong Zhezong era of the Song Xia war was not led by the party people, it was precisely the Xia Han people led, the Liang family held power for a long time, and finally forced Li Qianshun to destroy the Liang clan with his own hands.

However, he married a wife who was still Han Chinese, the former queen Yelu Nanxian was a Liao royal family, and when the Liao State was destroyed, he and the crown prince Li Renai died of illness and hunger strike one after another, Li Qianshun could only set up his youngest son Li Renxiao as the crown prince, and Li Renxiao's mother was Cao.

It was just Li Qianshun who was seriously ill and bedridden at this time, and the power was obtained by the Cao family. Cao was just a little woman at the beginning, when she was first entrusted with power. When he held his youngest son Li Renxiao to the court, he was often bullied by the courtiers and cried, and later tried his best to introduce the Cao clan as his help. gradually grasped real power, belittled those party ministers who opposed her, united with those Han foreign ministers, and gradually controlled the party central court and local government through imperial examinations and many other means.

Up to now, the civil officials of the Western Xia government are basically Han Chinese, and even the military generals are filled with a large number of Han officers, and the Han people have begun to occupy a numerical advantage, so some party ministers sighed. I don't know if the current Daxia is the Daxia of the party or the Han people.

There is no doubt that the Han people have mastered the supreme power of the Western Xia government, so in this matter, even if the Cao family fails to employ people, the Cao family still holds the power, she has a reason, after all, the commander Ren Duo Baozhong is a party member, and when the party minister proposes to sacrifice people for peace, he also has to count the old guy Ren Duo Baozhong.

Cao was reluctant. Seeing that he had been abandoned by the party members, Rindo was even more frightened, he was already very old and did not want to die under the sword. Then the only savior is the regent's Cao family, and the Cao family spoke at this time: "No! The Song people are cunning, and maybe it is precisely in this way that they coerce us to surrender. They had just fought with the Jurchens, where did they have so many troops and food and grass to fight with us? That's a bluff! As long as we keep going. The Song army will retreat, and we will have time! ”

Cao came to a conclusion. The Han ministers agreed, and Renduo Baozhong was overjoyed and took refuge in the Cao family, and although Renduo Baozhong lost power twenty years ago, he had deep qualifications, and a considerable number of party officers in the party army had a relationship with him and his family, and the result of Renduo Baozhong's move closer to the Cao family was that more than half of the military was controlled by the Cao family.

The war continued, and Cao Shi issued an edict instead of Li Qianshun, ordering the local guards to recruit soldiers and horses to hold the city, as long as they persisted, the Song army would retreat.

At the same time, the Cao family, with the help of the Han courtiers, began to attack the courtiers of the party group, gradually and gradually encroaching on their power, depriving them of power, appointing Han courtiers to fill vacancies, sharing their power, and gradually elevating the emperor Li Qianshun on the hospital bed.

Western Xia was tied to the chariot of the Cao clan and had to move on.

At the end of June of the fourth year of Jingkang, the Song army captured the important border towns of Longzhou and Hongzhou respectively, and gained a firm foothold in the territory of the Dangxiang state, and then began to retake the offensive road of the year, and the defenders of the Dangxiang were defeated and fled, with heavy casualties, Yue Fei officially divided his troops into two routes, and advanced rapidly along the line of the Great Wall to Xingqing Mansion.

For the high-speed advance of the Song army, the Western Xia government was extremely panicked, and the Cao clan was facing the continuous defeat of the war report, the pressure was getting bigger and bigger, and the oppression and attack on the party courtiers were getting faster and faster, and the number of Han courtiers in the central government accounted for two-thirds! The Western Xia government was already the government of the Han people, and the supreme leader Cao was all Han, and the party members had no right to speak at all.

In such a situation, on July 13 of the fourth year of Jingkang, Yue Fei led the army to capture the important town of Youzhou, and then all the way, all the way to the range of Xingqing Mansion, there was no strong city to block Yue Fei's troops, half a month later, Zhang Xian led the army to capture the important town of Yanzhou along the Great Wall, since then, Zhang Xian's front is also a horse Pingchuan, until Xiping Mansion, there is no longer a strong city can be blocked.

The high-speed advance of the Song army was the countdown to the demise of the Western Xia government, and the Cao family could not come up with any solution, but she tried her best to guard Li Qianshun's dormitory tightly, every soldier and officer was Han, ensuring that Li Qianshun could not contact any party members, but other than that, she did not have any way to save the country.

Zhao Jiang, the minister of the Han people who had offered advice and first attacked, now has no better way, he did his best, but there are indeed not too many people in the party army, the Song army came with 100,000, and the estimated number of soldiers is between 60,000 and 70,000, and the combat effectiveness is strong, the commander is Yue Fei's livestock, and there are many generals who have risen in the Western army in recent years, all of whom are very capable of fighting and gathering stars.

If you don't count the Imperial Forest Army, if you simply count the field army, it is estimated that there are only about 40,000, even if you put all those auxiliaries and the like into battle to die, it will only be 70,000 or 80,000, unless men, women, old and children mobilize and make hundreds of thousands of troops to bluff, so what's the use?

Zhao Jiang could only judge the target of the Song army's march in two ways based on previous experience, one was Xingqing Mansion and the other was Xiping Mansion, advocating shrinking the troops, gathering around Xingqing Mansion, dividing 20,000 troops, and holding Xiping Mansion with a general who could fight well, and then sending 20,000 soldiers to garrison Huaizhou and Jingzhou, and holding the imperial city of Xingqing Mansion with the Imperial Forest Army and temporarily recruited militia, and Huaizhou Jingzhou became a horn, making it difficult for the Song army to succeed.

As Cao said, the Song army has just ended the war with the Jurchens, the treasury is empty, the food is scarce, and it will definitely not be able to support the protracted war of 100,000 people, so as long as it survives the most difficult time, it can force the Song army to consume its own food, so that it has to withdraw the army, and when the time comes, we will still have the opportunity to start all over again and continue to live a good life.

Zhao Jiang's suggestion was approved by the Cao family, so the central government ordered that Renduo Baozhong be the main general, and led an army of 20,000 to fight again, guarding Xiping Mansion to ensure that Xiping Mansion was not lost. Ordered the other two Han generals to each raise 10,000 troops to guard Huaizhou Jingzhou, and urgently recruited 30,000 young and strong soldiers in Xingqing Mansion, and 40,000 troops together with 10,000 Imperial Forest Army, stuck to Xingqing Mansion, and fought to the death with the Song army.

This is the final decision of the Western Xia government, Yue Fei has no way of knowing, but the battle is going very smoothly, the party people shrink their forces to stick to the city, and the troops scattered in the field are greatly reduced, from July to August in a month of marching time, the Song army only fought with the party army twice, the scale of both times was not large, and the Song army did not lose anything at all.

It's just that the weather in July and August is relatively hot, and it is more difficult for the Song army to march, but for the Western Army that has been active in the Northwest Gobi for a long time, this is not a difficult thing.

Li Yuanhao's father turned over through Lingzhou salted fish, and rose during the war between the Great Song Dynasty and the Liao people, and in the era of Zhenzong Renzong, the party was already relatively strong, and Lingzhou was the center to expand the scope of the territory and the number of troops, and finally became the henchmen of the Great Song Dynasty, rising in the northwest, and repeatedly defeated the advance of the Great Song army.

Right now, Yue Fei intends to end this century-old feud.

On August 13 of the fourth year of Jingkang, Zhang Xian led the army to launch an attack on Xiping Mansion, destroying all the withering and decaying along the way, sweeping away all the strongholds outside the city set up by the party army for more than a month, and the troops came to the city of Lingzhou.

Zhang Xian looked at the towering Lingzhou city wall, and said to Han Shizhong with feelings: "In the past, Lingzhou fell, and the party eventually became a big disaster. ”

Han Shizhong pouted and looked at the panicked party army on the Lingzhou city wall, and said contemptuously: "Such an army, but a chicken and a dog, can be completely annihilated in an instant!" ”

Zhang Xian shook his head and said: "This is a siege battle, not a field battle, it's not that easy, I personally command, you take the cavalry to the back, don't go out to fight without permission." ”

Han Shizhong's depressed commander cavalry went, Zhang Xian's expectation was also good, this time, Renduo Baozhong was much more cautious, some military facilities outside were just obstacles, just to make the Song army take it lightly, Zhang Xian sent the army to feint and probe, the party army suddenly exerted force, rolled wood and stones and threw them down without money, and the arrow rain was coming, like a dark cloud.

Renduo Baozhong is still a famous general in the end, although he has not fought for 20 years, in order to survive, it can be regarded as an extraordinary performance, this time, Renduo Baozhong's idea is very wonderful, that is, to give the Song army a head drink, but Zhang Xian is experienced, has long been prepared, feint attack the army is not more than 1,000 people, bluff, just close to the defensive circle of the party army, it quickly retreated, except for a few unlucky soldiers, most of them are safe and sound, retreat to the safety zone.

Rindo Baozhong's hard punch didn't hit the ground, and it was so uncomfortable. (To be continued.) )