A slight red appeared in the sky, and under the pursuit of the Song army, seeing that the sky was about to dawn, more Xixia people were afraid and panicked, and fled one by one. It can't be lit, and it's easier to catch up with a lit up.

It wasn't until Tiandu Mountain that a Western Xia army rushed from Huizhou to resist Yeli Yuqi for a while, so that Yeli Yuqi could get out of the predicament, but the 2,000 fresh troops who rushed to it were quickly annihilated by the Song army with high morale.

In this battle, Yeli Yuqi's army, including the Tiandu Palace, mobilized a total of more than 38,000 people. The Song army, including Fan Zhongyan's army and the archers who participated in the battle and built the village, mobilized a total of 65,000 men. Since the war between the two countries, the Song Dynasty has truly outnumbered each other nearly twice as many troops.

The results are equally impressive.

In addition to the enemies killed by Di Qing, at least more than 16,000 enemy troops were killed, and more than 6,000 enemy troops were captured. Some of them took off their armor and lost their weapons to become civilians, and were later taken prisoner by the Song Dynasty again, along with nearly a thousand others.

However, the army brought back by Yeli Yuqi was only more than 8,000 people, and nearly 7,000 people ran away one by one. Some were captured by the Song army, and some fled back to the various departments, lost their souls. Some of them were requisitioned again by Yeli Yu beggars, and some of them fled into the mountains and forests to avoid military service.

A total of nearly 9,000 war horses were obtained in this battle, of which at least 4,000 were intact, and about 2,000 were only slightly injured.

The Song Dynasty lacked horses, the peak was when Song Taizong, there were 170,000 horses, after the loss of the Yinchuan Plain, the number of horses seriously declined, only a little more than 100,000, Song Shenzong used the horse protection method, restored to 150,000. But this horse is only a number, and most of them cannot go to the battlefield at all.

There are less than 30,000 war horses that can really go to the battlefield on the four roads of Shaanxi, and if you add the number of war horses of the soldiers, it will not exceed 40,000. Zheng Lang got more than 10,000 war horses on Jingyuan Road, and the city changed them back for a batch, and the ethnic policy was done well, and some soldiers took the initiative to bring horses to join the army, so that more than 10,000 war horses were gathered.

How many horses there were in Western Xia, no one can count it, although it is not as good as the 700,000 war horses at the peak of the Tang Dynasty, but there are many war horses exported, almost all of them are cavalry in each battle, and there are at least more than 300,000 horses. Jin Guoshi was even more powerful, only going out to the army once to requisition 600,000 war horses. It was requisitioned, and there were still many war horses in the rear that were not used.

The six thousand war horses that can really go to the battlefield are likely to be the sum of all the official horses on Qinfeng Road and Huanqing Road.

The harvest is not only here, there are many Qiang people here, but in fact it is not, there were many Qiang people and Han people, and the policy of the Tang Dynasty led to the successive migration of many Dangxiang people, Turkic people, Tiele people, Uighurs, and Tuyuhun people. Later, the Tang Dynasty declined, and this place was submerged into the hands of the Tubo people, and many Tubo people were embraced. But the main body is still the Qiang people, and the Qiang people have a significant feature, the two sides of the Qiang, the one side is strong, and it will fall to the other side.

There were not many tribes that were truly loyal to the Western Xia, but the arrogance of the Han Chinese, the arrogance of the Han officials, and the military decline of the Song Dynasty caused many tribes to either wait and see, or take refuge in the Western Xia.

This victory broke the traditional concept of these tribes in recent years.

Zheng Lang is not a traditional military general in the true sense, to be precise, civilian duties are what he is best at, including ethnic policy.

Using the army to capture the fleeing enemy prisoners and intimidating them again, many tribes bowed their heads to the Song Dynasty and led their tribes to the south. But it didn't end, Di Qing led the army to plunder Tiandu Mountain for four days, without resisting or killing the people, but he had to go with me, if he didn't go, he would take all the livestock away and burn down the village.

Within a few days, a total of nearly 20,000 ethnic groups were forced to move south one after another, but Zheng Lang was not at ease with these people, so Antun went to the junction of Jingzhou and Qinzhou, at the end of Jingyuan Road.

This coercion not only made the north of Tianshengzhai almost a real no-man's land, but even many areas in the western summer mountain became a no-man's land.

In the process of coercion, he even set aside four military camps in Tiandu, so that Yeli Yuqi could sleep and eat restlessly for four days.

I had no choice but to write a letter to Yuan Hao.

It is not said that he was careless in defeat, but that the Song Dynasty Jingyuan, Huanqing and Qin Feng joined forces to dispatch a total of more than 100,000 troops, making him defeated.

He also talked about Zheng Lang's agreement with him and asked Yuan Hao what to do.

The letter soon reached Yuan Hao's hands.

Yuan Hao was furious.

It took a while for the anger to subside. Now that the Yeli brothers are in charge of the left and right compartments, and their power is huge, he is quite jealous.

He came to crusade against Fulin with all his elite soldiers, and the rear troops were empty, so it was reasonable to lose this battle.

Now his situation is very good, with the siege of Linzhou, Linzhou is seriously lacking in materials, Zhi Jimin had to risk leading a thousand or hundreds of soldiers to escort winter clothes, arrived in Zhongwei Village, Yuan Hao sent 10,000 thousands of Western Xia troops to attack. There was no miracle in this battle, and he was defeated, and all the winter clothes were obtained by Yuan Hao.

The imperial court did not know anything about other news, but this battle spread very quickly, and quickly spread to the capital, Zhao Zhen did not get Zheng Lang's letter, and he did not know the truth, so he issued an edict to succeed Min as the envoy of Rujing, and the history of the assassination is still the same.

If you use black belly, it can only be said that Yang Kai in the rear is too black.

It was not until the end of November that Zhang Kang won a series of battles, there was a gap in the siege of Linzhou, and Gao Jixuan returned to Hedong, and the imperial court let Gao Jixuan replace the incompetent Yang Kai to train the envoy of Enzhou and Hedong Road to pacify the border envoys.

Now Gao Jixuan is still trapped in Linzhou.

However, Linzhou was short of supplies, and Zhi Jimin asked Hao Zhen, the governor of Fuzhou, and Ma Tianfei, the army of Linfu, to lead the army to protect the army and food to Linzhou, and encountered thousands of cavalry and plunder. Hao Zhen pioneered the battle, beheading hundreds of horses. But when he arrived at Baigu, he was blocked by the Western Xia with a trench road, so he had no choice but to repair Ningyuan in the cold ridge behind him and choke the Western Xia to rush, which was actually self-preservation. It can't be said to be a wall, it can only be said to be a fence, and some fences were inserted into the remnants of Ningyuan, which was originally destroyed by the Xixia people, as a military camp.

This shows that Linzhou is now not only short of water, but also has little food, less clothing, and less military supplies. Nothing is missing.

At this critical time, can he lead the army back?

So he wrote an order to Yeli Yuqi, quickly transferred 50,000 troops from Xingqing Mansion and Lingzhou to Tiandu Mountain, feinted to attack the Shimenxia village, and took the main force of the Song army in Shimenxia to attack Zhenrong Village and Langgan City, and encircled the point to send reinforcements. As for my foolish son, you don't have to worry about him. If that Zheng Lang of the Song Dynasty gives you Shimenxia, where do you build a village and guard that gate. Before I take Linzhou City, you must give me an explanation.

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In the early morning, a thin layer of ice formed on the Shimen River.

The ice ridge shone with scales, and if you look closely, there are flowers, clouds, brocades, and animals on it.

Suddenly there was a roar, the flowers were trembling, the clouds were running, the brocade was dancing, and the animals were fluttering.

The iron cavalry kicked up dust, and Di Qing led the army back.

Theoretically, the enemy in Tiandu Mountain did not have much strength, and even if he mobilized troops from the rear, it would take several days, but Zheng Lang was very careful and only gave Di Qing four days to plunder. Later, Yang Wenguang, Guo Kui, and Zhao Xun led the army to the territory of Huizhou, which was controlled by the Western Xia people, and plundered for two more days, retreated from Huizhou to Langgan City, and came to join the main army.

The qualifications of the three are good, which is a kind of training, so that they can grow as soon as possible.

Di Qing jumped off the war horse, strode over, and said, "Zheng Xianggong, the last general is served." ”

He complemented the old species, and the main strategy was still thought out by Zheng Lang.

It's not that Zheng Lang came up with it, it's just that Zheng Lang is comparing with history and finding Yuan Hao's loophole. If Linzhou doesn't give Yuan Hao an illusion to take down at any time, or if his son is appreciated by Yuan Hao, then Yuan Hao will immediately lead the army back, and the gains may outweigh the losses.

"It just so happens that General Seed and I are waiting for you to come back to discuss the specific plan." Zheng Lang said.

The three of them came to a high slope, and below them were soldiers working on the work.

This stockade will not last long, and when it is finished, it will be completely destroyed. But to cope with the process of grinding meat, at least it is stronger than an ordinary camp. There were some small problems in the middle, and Ge Huaimin made some small tricks and tricks in the rear to make things difficult.

Zheng Lang sent someone to gallop to Weizhou and directly told him, if you delay the military aircraft, I will kill you immediately.

No, the archers on the other side are not in tune.

Lao Chong once again persuaded Zheng Lang to get Ge Huaimin away, but Zheng Lang still didn't listen or explain.

The three of them looked at the busy construction site and sat on the withered yellow turf to deliberate.

Then Zheng Lang came to the big tent of the Chinese army, and first wrote to Han Qi, Fan Zhongyan and Pang Ji.

The imperial court also stationed more than 20,000 forbidden soldiers on Qinfeng Road.

Zheng Lang didn't understand very much, what was he doing with more than 20,000 forbidden troops on Qinfeng Road? How about dealing with the? Or blind felt, what day can blind felt jump out? It turns out that Qin Fenglu has no soldiers? Moreover, Blind Felt also surrendered to the imperial court.

I don't know what these bigwigs think, how much burden will it bring to the country if they support more than 20,000 forbidden soldiers in the northwest?

But thinking about Han Qi's surname, Zheng Lang was silent. I can't say it directly, but I can't say it directly, but at this time, I am at war with Western Xia, and the army is difficult to support all the way, Han Zhizhou, please support me with 10,000 soldiers.

Without these 10,000 soldiers, Jingyuan Road could also support the past, and of course it was better.

The main credit is too great, he can't swallow it alone, let's share a point.

He wrote to Fan Zhongyan again to express his gratitude, and asked tentatively, because the prince is in Shimenxia and will attract most of the Western Xia, are you interested in sending troops to Yanzhou in Western Xia, you can't really attack Yanzhou City, but there are some small military camps of the Xixia people from Leshan East to Yanzhou, and there are also people, cattle, horses and sheep, which further weakens the national strength of Western Xia.

I don't know if Fan Zhongyan will listen.

If you listen, it will not leave a fatal and serious wound on the Tangut people, but it will leave a deep wound.

If there are too many wounds, the national strength will decline.

He also wrote to Pang Ji. Yuan Hao's main army was dragged by the defenders of Fulin Road, don't you really have a little interest in Hengshan?

Let's make meritorious contributions together, so that others don't have to look at me red.

If the three armies attack together, it will have a good effect, Zheng Lang does not expect Yuan Hao to destroy the country, but after this battle, Western Xia will be even more embarrassed.

It also achieved his goal of consuming Western Xia.

In the end, he wrote a recital to the imperial court, first wrote out the battle process in detail, and then solemnly wrote one thing.

This is the first battle, and there is a fierce battle to come. Therefore, I did not wait for the decree of the imperial court, but first took out the money earned by the city and used a part of the state treasury to reward and comfort the soldiers and their families. I beg your Majesty's forgiveness.

It must be made clear, even if it is the money of the market.

Otherwise, some ministers will say, what do you want to do if you reward soldiers privately without the permission of the imperial court?

Wang Shao made a serious mistake, look, I earned all this money, and I don't use a penny from the imperial court, I have merit.

Outcome......

Not only made it clear, but also said that when this battle really subsided, how to reward, and wait for the court to finally speak.

This is only a temporary commendation, in order to lay the foundation for the following battle, ladies and gentlemen, don't give me small shoes.

I didn't write about wearing small shoes, but I wrote a sentence, the war is fierce, and I hope that the ministers will not say the advice of the tiger and do the same.

Pang Gong, the minister of Wei, accompanied the prince as a hostage, went to Handan, Zhao State, and said to the King of Wei before leaving, someone said to you, there is a tiger in the downtown area, do you believe it? The king of Wei said I didn't believe it. Pang Gong said again, what if two people say it. Wei said I didn't believe it yet. Pang Gong then asked, what if three people say? King Wei said, everyone says so, then I believe it. Pang Gong said that how could there be a tiger in the downtown area, because the three of them said that there was a tiger, and it seemed that there was really a tiger. I am far away from you, Handan is far from here than to the market, there will be more than three people who speak ill of me, please think twice. Later, the king of Wei really listened to the opinions of others, and when Pang Gong returned from Handan's meritorious service, he no longer summoned him.

It's still good. The worst is Wu Zixu.

Wu Zixu almost single-handedly sent the husband into the ranks of the Spring and Autumn Overlords, because Bo Yao got the benefits of Gou Jian, and desperately slandered in front of the husband, and let the husband be killed. However, the retribution of the husband soon came, and he was directly destroyed by the Yue Kingdom.

Zheng Lang was also afraid that these people would slander him.

The slander of the Song Dynasty was very terrible, and it was also named the righteousness of the ancestors and the name of a gentleman, which could deceive history.

So they just shut their mouths.

And Zheng Lang is not only to boost morale, think about the humiliation that Han Qi was subjected to. More than 3,000 soldiers died in this battle, and there will be more people killed in the future, and there may be fewer people than in the Battle of Good Water, but it will not be less.

If something like Han Qi happens, thousands of fathers and elders in Weizhou will surround themselves and ask, Gong Zheng, my son will go to the front line with you, will you bring my son back?

How do you answer yourself?

So he ordered Zhang Fangping and Teng Zongliang to come to the door in person in the rear instead of himself, and many soldiers also sacrificed, not only to give them rich pensions, but also to do comfort and praise, so that the people are pleased.

This is the real Zheng Lang.

It seems to be very bold and aggressive, but it is actually very careful.

Be careful to make the rudder, not a bad thing.

Then another old story was reported.

The truth about the murder of the Shan family.

Many prisoners of war were captured in this battle, several children of nobles, and some enemy generals, who could know some of the truth of the year. It turned out that it was not the Yeli brothers who were in charge of the left and right compartments of Western Xia, but Yuan Hao's uncles Shan Yu Weiliang and Shan Yu Weiyong brothers, and Shan Yu Weixu was also around Yuan Hao as a confidant.

Wei Liang did not approve of Yuan Hao's desire to invade the Song Dynasty, saying that China has a lot of soldiers, Guanzhong is rich, and Huanqing Yan is in danger of all borders. It is better to keep the vassals, enjoy the wealth of the legacy, and the blessing of the country.

This is Zheng Lang's main goal in writing this.

Isn't it rummaging through old accounts and looking for trouble with Guo Quan, but he has already gotten to Lingnan, do you want to break the ancestral legal system of the Song Dynasty and kill the scholars?

What Zheng Lang values is this forbiddenness.

Yuan Hao hated Wei Liang for not cooperating with him, so he ordered Wei Xu to falsely accuse Wei Liang and promised to give Wei Liang's official title to Wei Xu after the matter was completed. Wei Xu couldn't bear Wei Liang being killed, and secretly told Wei Liang. Wei Liang planned to defect to the Song Dynasty, but Wei Yong persuaded that there was no one in the Southern Dynasty, and he didn't know what Wuzhu did, so he would not believe in his brother, and his brother would be in trouble.

Writing this, Zheng Lang sneered again.

Although he didn't want to trouble Guo Quan, Zheng Lang was really sorry to mention this matter, not to mention that the various departments of Western Xia were twisted into a rope because of this matter, just said that Shanyu Weiliang himself, that was the number one military governor in charge of the left and right compartments of Western Xia, and Yuan Hao's uncle, what else did Western Xia not understand?

Sure enough, the whole court is as Weiyong said, and I don't know what Wuzhu did.

Wei Liang didn't listen, and sent someone to send tens of thousands of treasures to Li Shibin to surrender, the matter was known to Guo Quan, and asked the reason for the matter, Li Shibin coveted the treasure and flatly denied it. Guo persuaded him to be unconvinced, put on small shoes for Li Shibin, deliberately distorted, so that the court could misunderstand, and issued an edict ordering the border affairs to be quiet. At this time, Wei Liang was on the bow, so he had to send it and ask his mother, who said that you are planning for yourself, I am more than 80 years old, and I can't go with you, and I will be a burden to you, so I should be left at home and set fire to it. Wei Liang cried, set fire to the house, and took his wife Yeli Luoluo and son A Yu, that is, to appreciate Zhang Qi, the general of Western Xia, and dozens of relatives, with countless treasures and famous horses to seize Guo Quan.

Guo persuaded him to be timid and afraid, and even after Weiliang reported all kinds of misdeeds of Yuan Hao, he still did not accept Weiliang. Wei Liang refused to go back, Guo persuaded Han Zhou to forcibly escort him back, and Wei Liang cried all the way, but was still sent to the border by Han Zhou and shot all of them.

It's Han Zhou again!

Zheng Lang even doubted that Fan Zhongyan was bent on making peace with Yuan Hao, and whether he was bewitched by this person.

Many of the truths in this are not known to the imperial court until now, and this is the first time that Zheng Lang has really told the story.

Whether Zhao Zhen will blush, and whether the bigwigs in the DPRK and China will be ashamed, God knows. But Han Zhou will definitely be very sad.

After the tragic encounter of Shan Yuweiliang, think about it, what nobleman is willing to surrender to the Song Dynasty again? Finally, Yuan Hao worked together and unanimously decided to crusade against the Song Dynasty.

Guo Quanquan alone should be worth 100,000 soldiers. It was not the Song soldiers, but the Western Xia soldiers.

But to turn this matter out in detail, it is not to deal with Guo Quan, one is to discuss the importance of Western Xia, and the other is to ridicule the imperial court's Gou and seek peace.

Next comes another thing.

Through interrogation, it was also the first time that the Song Dynasty had obtained so many prisoners, and a lot of useful information could be pulled out of their mouths.

In order to get more information, Zheng Lang sent 300 intelligent soldiers to take turns to torture and extract confessions.

These messages continue to be coerced confessions, but one thing is reported first.

After several years of war, the economy of Western Xia was on the verge of collapse, due to the conscription of many young and middle-aged laborers, these laborers were not the conscription system of the Song Dynasty, but pure military service, the people were not allowed to cultivate and live, the land was barren, the harvest failed, the livestock died, and the people could not survive. There are even people in the country who sing songs that are not as good as ten songs. The Song Dynasty was not happy, and the Western Xia was even more unhappy.

If Linfu Road persists, Jingyuan Road will be victorious, and Western Xia will be even more difficult.

Here, Zheng Lang said some debatable news by the way.

The main income of Western Xia is to sell horses and salt, and there were also annual gifts from the Song Dynasty in the past, and the normal annual gifts plus some rewards are also a lot, tens of thousands of yuan a year. But some are discussed to be taxed, and some are forbidden quantities, such as salt. Li Deming encouraged private salt traders to expand the number of exports in exchange for wealth. That is, stealing the market and smuggling, which amassed a lot of wealth for the Tangut people. The amount of trade with the Khitans was not large, and the products of the two countries overlapped somewhat. But there is also the Silk Road in the Hexi Corridor, which has amassed a lot of wealth for Western Xia.

What is this wealth used for?

It became the biggest capital that Yuan Hao originally used to fight against Song.

However, after the ban of the Song Dynasty, the theft of the market and smuggling still existed, the scale was extremely reduced, and the discussion was prohibited, and some merchants in the Western Regions changed to the Southern Silk Road from the territory of Tubo to make a detour, and the income of the Western Xia was also seriously declining.

Zheng Lang deliberately wrote the three heroes of the Western Han Dynasty, why Xiao He is the first, it is logistics. Without Xiao He's operation in the rear, after four years of Chu and Han disputes, Liu Bang was defeated and defeated, and the Han State would have collapsed long ago. The battle of logistics is no less than the military war on the front.

You are inferior to the Tangut people in war, but you must not be inferior to the Tangut people in terms of economy.

But it's hard to say that economic warfare is also a foreign war, and when it encounters a foreign war, any demon moth can happen.

I don't know if it has any effect, but I wrote them one by one, handed them to the capital, and further asked the capital what arrangements it made for this prince.

You can drag it up, I can't afford to wait.

The day after the fold was handed out, Yeli Yu begged to send a messenger to come.

Zheng Xianggong, you said that you want to fight in a righteous and bright way, so you must not plunder the people in our territory, and the army has arrived, and there must be material supplies, please allow me to build three villages from Wuyan Gorge to Shimen Gorge to ensure that the materials can pass smoothly to Shimen River.

made a request to build a fortress, and did not allow the Song army to plunder the people and materials in the Western Xia, but did not say that he did not plunder the people and materials in the Song territory. In other words, the state officials were allowed to set fires, and the people were not allowed to light lamps.

Di Qing was speechless and asked, "Do you want to be shameless when you meet the king in your family?" ”