Chapter 478: Unlucky Western Xia
The messenger sent was driven back, and Zhao Tianci was furious.
He had never regarded this small land as a thing, so he immediately repaired a letter and handed it to Zhao Cong, the crown prince who was sitting in Kaifeng, and asked him to send people to the Western Front to deploy defenses and prepare to fight against Western Xia.
So the general Wu Jieqin led 100,000 elite soldiers to Dongshengzhou and the place where the Jinning army was located, and began to deploy defenses along the line.
There are usually no major battles in this cold and snowy time. Anyone with normal thinking will think so, and of course he Li Qianshun is no exception.
But who is Wu Jie? He is a figure who followed Zhao Tianci from the south of the river to the sixteen states, and he was imperceptibly influenced by Zhao Tianci, which was not a little bit, so the more ordinary people couldn't think or didn't dare to think about it, he thought he should do it.
Therefore, the vanguard of Wu Jie, neither horses nor camels, but 20,000 infantry with strong bows and crossbows on their backs, "sliding" all the way and rushing directly into Xiazhou City!
How could Song Bing enter the city so easily? On the one hand, the Song army at this time had already changed its guns and had already been reborn, and on the other hand, it was also because the people of Western Xia were not good at city defense.
Zhao Tianci was surprised when he saw the "fence" with a round of earth and stone structure in Shangjing of the Jin Kingdom, but in Xiazhou City, there was not even that fence! The Song army came over, and almost entered the hinterland of Xiazhou with a flat horse.
The Xiazhou Shou General is the cousin of Chongzong Li Qianshun, and his biological mother Liang Chenghai, a clansman of the Liang clan, can also be called a general, but in the face of the sudden arrival of the tiger and wolf army, he can only choose to abandon the city and take this road.
When Wu Jie saw this scene in Xiazhou, he was overjoyed, he still let the advance infantry open the way, and he fell behind with the cavalry, and went directly to Xingqing Mansion, the capital of Western Xia.
His men and horses arrived almost at the same time as Liang Chenghai, who had escaped from Xiazhou, and as a result, Liang Chenghai was so frightened that he bypassed Xingqing Mansion and fled to Xiliang Mansion.
It was as if the divine soldiers had descended from the sky, and there was no warning at all, and when Li Qianshun found the boundless Song soldiers outside the city, he thought he was dazzled! But the earth-shattering shouts of killing were not illusory, Li Qianshun hurriedly ordered the guards in the city to meet the enemy, and he himself fled west with the royal palace people.
So, Wu Jie led his army of 100,000 to play a game of cat and mouse with Li Qianshun in Western Xia.
In fact, Li Qianshun's men and horses had more than 200,000 people at their peak. However, his Western Xia territory was full of Shazhou, and there were not many places suitable for large-scale troops, so his men and horses were basically distributed in the Yan Military Division and Weifu Military Division in the north, the Gansu Military Division in the southwest, and the Southern Military Division in the south, which could not be mobilized at all.
The only ones who can protect him and continue to play hide and seek with Wu Jie, are the Xiangqing Army of Gongwei Jingshi and the Military Division of Baima Town, but all these people add up to less than 80,000, and under the encroachment of Wu Jie's several blockades and pursuits, those who finally fled to Xiliang Mansion with Li Qianshun are not even 20,000 people.
At this point, Li Qianshun suddenly realized that the Song Jun he was facing was no longer the previous Cai Jing and his ilk, and the wild cat with sharp claws had turned into a real tiger that ate people, which was not a joke.
So, he decided to sue for peace!
But...... The question is, in this situation, where can we find someone to talk to? Where the Song general Wu Jie, the wall was clear, and there was not even a chicken left, let alone a person.
That was his Li Qianshun's headache, Wu Jie was very beautiful and excited now, because he received Zhao Tianci's handwritten letter! The little emperor is at the border, and there is only one way to explain him, no matter what method is taken, as long as it can make Western Xia chaotic!
So after experiencing the initial feast, Wu Jie began to change his style, divided 100,000 horses into ten, and went deep into all parts of Western Xia.
In this way, Li Qianshun couldn't stand it at all. If the two armies were facing each other, he could still see each other's appearances, but now he didn't know where they were at all, and the most important problem was that they had destroyed the country's logistical supplies and productivity, and the army and people of his Great Xia Kingdom were out of food!
Li Qianshun even thought of surrendering, but ...... To whom to surrender? I couldn't even find anyone, and several groups of messengers were sent, but all of them were never heard from, and there was no return.
Just when he was anxious and couldn't help but retreat, the good news finally came.
Someone took the initiative to come to him for peace talks!
But what he didn't expect was that the person who came to him for peace talks turned out to be a woman.
Red Aya's Chiying army had deviated from its original direction since it entered the territory of Mongolia, and had been wandering on the border between Mongolia and Western Xia. After reconfirming their respective positions, the eight decided to divide their troops and enter the border area of Western Xia and Western Liao.
Why are they doing this? It's easy to say, after entering the southern region ruled by the Klee Ministry, they find it more difficult to find a person in this place than to find a rabbit, and the vast expanse is full of no man's land.
According to the current state of affairs, no one is nothing to them, but a voice hidden in their hearts keeps telling them: Find someone! Homicide!
They have been hesitating at the border, that is, they are not sure what Zhao Tianci's arrangements will be, and they are worried that their unauthorized actions will disrupt his deployment. However, when they learned that Wu Jie's "rampant and unscrupulous" in the territory of Western Xia, they no longer hesitated, and the eight battalions entered the territory of Western Xia.
At this time, the men and horses of the Yan Military Division and the Weifu Military Division, which were originally stationed in the north, were all transferred to King Qin, so there was a defensive vacuum along the northern route, and Hongya and others took advantage of the situation to enter, but they were not discovered.
She came to negotiate with Li Qianshun, but in fact, she didn't really want to negotiate peace with him, but for another purpose: they needed a guide!
So, when this majestic and murderous female hero appeared in front of Li Qianshun and put forward his own request, Li Qianshun's last hope was completely shattered. Want to play a balance trick in a safe corner? No more!
If you don't want to be wiped out by the people of the Great Song Dynasty or starve to death, then there is only one choice, follow!
This is the condition of "peace talks" of Red Aya!
For the stormy Li Qianshun, he had no choice.
So, when Wu Jie became more and more troublesome, he finally discovered one day that something was wrong, there seemed to be no enemy in the entire Western Xia territory!
After many investigations, he got a news that shocked him, the eight-color camp appeared here, and also "kidnapped" most of the people of the Western Xia royal court.
Shocked, he immediately sent an urgent document to inform Zhao Tianci.
At this time, Zhao Tianci was still waiting for news at the border, and he was also taken aback after receiving Wu Jie's letter, they kidnapped the people of the Xixia royal court and went west, what is the place in the west? That's where Xiliao is!
But even if he knew where they went, he could only do anything, and the eight people had refused to open a communication channel with him until now, so he had no choice at all.
In fact, a considerable part of what Wu Jie said in his letter was his own speculation. In the eight-color camp, only Hong Aya and Fan Ting'er, Mei Xiangyu's men and horses entered the Western Liao border, Gu Hong'er and Wang Po, and Wang Zhan'er's men and horses went south into the Tubo Department, while Shen Mingzhu and Lin Fengxian remained in the territory of the Keli Department and did not leave.
This is also the result of careful consideration by the eight of them, whether it is to the west or to the south, after all, they are the ones who make the decision on their own, and they have not communicated with Zhao Tianci, whether it will have an adverse impact on the entire battle situation, they are not sure. Zhao Tianci initially asked them to enter Mongolia in the west, and their main purpose was to make a front stop and explore the truth.
Now that the major affairs of the Jin State have been decided, Zhao Tianci has turned his focus to the west, and their task seems to have not been completed, so after discussion, it was decided to let Shen Mingzhu and Lin Fengxian's two battalions continue to stay in place to carry out the unfinished task, and the others will go another way. Because they believe that Zhao Tianci will definitely follow.
Hong Aya and the others repeatedly told Shen Mingzhu and Lin Fengxian that they couldn't let Zhao Tianci find them no matter what. In the vast desert, the emperor of heaven and earth, less than 20,000 people are scattered among them, and it is not easy to hide from one person? Shen Mingzhu and Lin Fengxian agreed, and everyone went separately.
Of course, Zhao Tianci couldn't fully believe what Wu Jie said, and Hong Aya and the others all went west into the territory of Western Liao, because he knew them too well. There must be still some of their men in the Klee Tribe, but they are not sure who they are or where.
In fact, in the whole process, the most unlucky should be Li Qianshun's royal court, or Western Xia.
Li Qianshun, who was still ambitious to expand his territory and become the overlord of a generation, was shattered almost overnight, not to mention the loss of the country, and the dignified royal family was reduced to the subordinates of those Song soldiers in various costumes.
In fact, by now, the Western Xia or Bactria Dynasty did not exist.
After receiving Zhao Tianci's reply, Wu Jie immediately stopped his operations in Western Xia, and sent small teams of men and horses to infiltrate the Western Liao and Tubo divisions, with only one purpose, that is, to track the whereabouts of the Base Battalion, and send it back in time after getting the news.
At the same time, according to Zhao Tianci's intentions, Kaifeng Mansion also sent a huge group of magistrates, led by Han Yanzhi, to take over the territory of Western Xia. The word Western Xia was also erased from the map, and was replaced by another state of the Great Song Dynasty, "Xiazhou", and Pingxi Road was set up there.
After doing all this, Wu Jie led his team out of Xiazhou, and his younger brother Wu Lan came to take over the first general of Pingxi Road, responsible for the military affairs of Western Xinjiang.
At this point, Zhao Tianci can finally carry out his own plan with confidence. (To be continued.) )