Dashun City, an important border town of the Song Dynasty, has been surrounded by the Western Xia people for more than half a month.

This city was built during the fierce war between the two countries and was built by the sage Pham Van Chinh.

Many people in later generations questioned Fan Zhongyan, believing that this person, who was known as the most remarkable person in the three hundred years of the Song Dynasty, had not taken the initiative to attack once during his four or five years as a border commander in the northwest, and that he could gain such a great reputation purely because of the propaganda needs of the political machine.

But in fact, Fan Zhongyan's contribution to the resistance to the Western Xia was incomparable to anyone - after the Qingli Peace, the Western Xia could no longer invade the territory of the Great Song Dynasty as unscrupulously as before, all thanks to the strategy he set.

That was the biggest nightmare of the Western Xia people during the Northern Song Dynasty - the Song Dynasty's village repair project.

Chapter 352 and his relatives (II) Fan Zhongyan clearly realized that the Song Dynasty army lacked the ability to fight a decisive battle with the Xia army, and could only adopt an active defensive strategy, that is, the so-called 'defense in attack, defense in attack. To concretize it, it is to build a fortress - to use one fortress after another, connected to form a well-layered, mutually echoing defense line, so that if the Tanguts want to invade, they must face the siege warfare that they are not good at. And it is necessary to conquer and clear the passages one by one before they can invade.

This pinched the life of the Xixia people, who were mainly cavalry and relied on mobility to grasp the initiative on the battlefield.

Moreover, Fan Zhongyan and they were not satisfied with the defense of the territory, and after connecting the four roads in the northwest, they expanded to the territory of Western Xia step by step, and each fortress was built, forming a combat system integrating attack and defense. It encroached on the land of Western Xia step by step.

It can be said that the camp built by the people of the Song Dynasty. Like a dagger, little by little piercing into the territory of the Tanguts. And Dashun City is the blade of this dagger. The location it built is a little further to the northwest, which is the Houqiao Village of Western Xia - in the early days of the Song-Xia War, in the battle of the Security Army and Chengping, the reason why Li Yuanhao urgently withdrew his troops was because of his back road, and the Houqiao Village was sacked by the Song army.

Dashun City was successfully built. It means that the Song Dynasty put the dagger Chapter 352 and the pro (below) against the back of the party members, which made Yuan Hao very jealous and did not dare to act rashly.

Speaking of the construction of this city, it is also full of legends. It was early spring February of that year. Fan Zhongyan suddenly summoned the generals of Gyeongju, gathered the team, and went out of the city with him to patrol. This is very normal, after all, no matter how benevolent Fan Zhongyan is, daily patrols are still necessary.

But this time he went farther, marching all the way to the northeast, and did not stop after crossing the border between the two countries, and a general kindly reminded Fan Shuai: "Have we walked through?" ”

But in exchange for Fan Zhongyan's white eyes. After walking for a long time and completely entering the enemy-occupied area, the officers and men of the Song Dynasty were surprised to find out. Fan Zhongyan's son, Fan Chunyou, and the general Zhao Ming each led men and horses, guarding the bricks and stones as high as the hill. They immediately understood their mission! The soldiers under the command of Fan Gong may not be good at fighting, but they are all first-class masons...... If you don't believe it, look at the dense camps in Gyeongju, all of them are sturdy and sturdy, fully functional, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the pattern is reasonable. They built it all brick by brick!

However, all the previous projects combined, the difficulty and danger factor cannot be compared with this time. Because this is the construction of a castle in the territory of Western Xia!

The Tangut people will find out at any time, and a large army will kill them at any time.

The soldiers soon realized their fate, and either built the camp and put themselves in it, or let the Tanguts storm the site and kill everyone.

So these most outstanding engineers in the world created a miracle for the ages - within fifteen days, a strong city of Dashun rose from the ground.

Almost at the same time as it was built, the Tanguts arrived. When they found that a nail had been wedged in their territory, the Tangut people were stunned, and immediately gathered 30,000 troops that could be concentrated, and came to demolish them violently.

As a result, in front of the newly built castle, he hit his head and bled and had to withdraw his troops.

The Song army created a miracle and held the city, naturally the morale was high, and the soldiers asked for orders to pursue, but Fan Zhongyan categorically refused, he still strictly adhered to the established principle of 'only defensive battles, not allowed to go out of the city for field battles', and did not change because the situation was good.

This is the most criticized place for Fan Wenzheng, but it is also the most helpless place for the Western Xia people. Because Fan Zhongyan has always shrunk in the eight shells of the king, they are helpless.

In fact, the 30,000 Western Xia cavalry really set up an ambush on the way, waiting for the Song Dynasty to chase them, just waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting until the flowers were also thanked, and they didn't wait for a single figure.

Therefore, the construction of Dashun City broke the pattern of the northwest frontier, not only made the important strongholds such as Baibao City and Jintang City in Western Xia precarious, but also made the Western Xia people dare not go east with all their strength before capturing here.

This is the reason why he did not hide the favor and fought with the Song Dynasty for several years, but it was only a small fight and never caused a real threat. Now Li Liangzuo is taking advantage of the power of chaos and rectification, leading a large army of 100,000 to come, shouting the slogan of 'either marry the princess or take Dashun', and surround Dashun City.

But perhaps it is the will of heaven that it is Fan Chunren, the second son of Fan Gong, who is guarding Dashun City at this moment. Now that Fan Gong's second son met Yuan Hao's second son, he did not disgrace his father at all, and under the fierce attack of the Western Xia people, he firmly held Dashun City.

After several failed attempts to attack the city, but suffered heavy losses, Li Liangzuo had no choice but to slow down the offensive, gather civil and military ministers, and discuss countermeasures in the king's tent.

The official system of Western Xia was similar to that of the Liao Dynasty, and it was also divided into the system of Fan officials and Han officials, with Fan officials all shaving their heads, wearing large earrings, long-sleeved scarlet clothes, and black crowns. The Han officials were no different from the civil officials of the Song Dynasty, but they had no feet.

At this time, the meeting had been going on for some time, but the atmosphere in the temple was becoming more and more silent. The young Emperor of Western Xia sat cross-legged on the Sumeru seat, his gloomy gaze swept over the tent and civil affairs, and finally fell on his uncle Wei Minglangyu. This brother of Yuan Hao is proficient in the art of war and is well versed in strategy, and last year, Li Liangzuo was able to overthrow the Wuzang clan in one fell swoop, which was to get his full support.

Otherwise, Li Liangzuo, who has not grown his hair, will not be able to fight the old treacherous and cunning who has not hidden his favor.

After holding the power, Li Liangzuo was naturally grateful, and was promoted to Ning Ling...... That is, the 'great king' in the Dangxiang language, is the highest prince in Western Xia. and gave him honors such as not entering the court, praising and worshipping without a name, and it can be said that his status is so high that he is only under one person.

On the other hand, Li Liangzuo did not give him any actual sends, but only ordered him to be by his side to 'Pingzhang military affairs'. To put it bluntly, I just don't worry about him, I'm worried about knocking down a 'no hiding' and standing up a 'Wei Ming'. Wei Minglang met with outstanding intelligence, and experienced the treacherous Yuan Hao and the period of not hiding the favor, so he was naturally able to understand the emperor's precautionary heart.

But what made him angry was that after the young emperor took back his authority, he quickly showed his stubborn side, and he couldn't even listen to his own contrary advice. For example, he resolutely opposed this attack on the Great Song Dynasty, but the emperor still insisted on going his own way in order to show his strength inside and outside the Western Xia.

Although he was not dissatisfied, in order to reassure the emperor and clean up the situation, he still went out with the army. It's just that his face has been gloomy for several days, so that the young emperor doesn't dare to look at him.

At this moment, Li Liangzuo finally had nothing to do, so he had to think of his imperial uncle, glanced at the black face of Wei Minglang, and smiled warmly: "Uncle, what kind of charter do you say?" ”

Wei Minglang said in his heart, you finally thought of me, cleared his throat and was just about to start, when he suddenly heard an urgent report outside the tent: "There are envoys of the Song Dynasty who are begging to see outside the camp!" ”

The envoys who held the festival were naturally the emperor of the Song Dynasty, and when they heard the words in the tent, they immediately changed from stagnant water to boiling porridge.

"Haha, the people of the Song Dynasty were really frightened and took the initiative to send an envoy to sue for peace!"

"I thought they would last a few more days, but I didn't expect them to come so soon."

"Your Majesty's clever calculations and heavenly power are like mountains!"

"Yes, yes, Your Majesty is really better than blue, my Great Xia will regain its prestige, just around the corner!"

"Thank God for giving us an immortal hero!"

For a time, the princes and generals were relieved, laughing and scolding, and the words were flooding.

Li Liangzuo's expression was also obviously relaxed, and he no longer looked at his emperor's uncle's stinky face, but asked a young Han official: "Yi buried, what do you say we should do?" ”

This Han man is only in his twenties, and he is born with a dignified appearance, and he looks like a person. He is too young, ranking first among Han officials, all because of his meritorious service and surname Liang. He is the brother of the Liang family who destroyed the Tibetan family. Li Liangzuo attached great importance to this loyal brother-in-law who was good at scheming, and this time he sent troops to punish the Song Dynasty and establish his authority, which was to listen to his opinion.

So the battle situation has been scorched so far, and the pressure on Liang Yibury is the greatest, and now seeing that the Song Dynasty sent an envoy to sue for peace as expected, he naturally breathed a sigh of relief, got up and said: "Now that we have firmly grasped the initiative, we can naturally concoct them at will." He said and laughed: "For example, scare and scare them...... Once the Han people are frightened, they will agree to any request. ”

"yes." Li Liangzuo said happily: "Come on, line up in a big array to welcome guests, I want to let them, they will be scared and weak if they can't walk here!" ”

"Your Majesty is a golden body, of course you can't let them see it easily, let's let Weichen go and meet them first." Liang Yibury hurriedly dissuaded: "Bluff them a few words, probe their quality, and then Your Majesty will be in your chest, so that they can feel unpredictable!" ”

"Hmm," Li Liangzuo nodded, "It's okay." ”

Wei Minglang Yu shook his head secretly, since the other party came with a festival, it was on behalf of the emperor of the Song Dynasty, what is the matter with you sending a minister to meet him.

But the young emperor has no taboos, he is enough to annoy him, there is no need to touch his head again for this little 'little thing'.

Thinking that the people of the Song Dynasty were so easily subdued, he couldn't help but sigh secretly, it seemed that he still overestimated the Song people, they were already greedy for pleasure, and they didn't even have a little backbone......

Perhaps, this is really the age of young people.

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