Yelu Yange stopped at Mingtang River, but he was still unwilling, and sent an envoy to Lingzhou to ask Zheng Lang why he demonstrated to the Khitan.

Zheng Lang replied indifferently with a few words: "If you want to come, you will come, why bother!" ”

In fact, if it's really here, Zheng Lang will have a headache.

This is Zheng Lang gambling, betting on Brother Yeluyan's character, but whether he can come or not, Brother Yeluyan doesn't dare to call the shots, but whether he can come or not depends on what Brother Yeluyan will write on the report. If he writes that the Song Dynasty was afraid of the Khitan intervention, and even did not hesitate to intimidate the Khitan army, then the consequences would be serious. The army led by Yelu Yange was mainly from Xishan, and there were many people living in Xishan, and it was impossible to urgently summon 100,000 people, but it was still possible to summon 20,000 or 30,000 troops. The Khitan then sent a large army from Youyun to threaten Hebei and Yanmen Pass, and the two countries would inevitably go to war.

But if Yelu Yange writes about such and such difficulties, the Khitan monarchs and ministers will have disputes, and when the decision is made, the overall situation of Western Xia has been decided.

The former is unlikely.

Brother Yelu Yan is wise and cunning, and another word is suspicious.

As the prime minister of Nanfu, he led 30,000 troops into Western Xia, most of which was a thankless effort, which was also the suppression of Yelu Yange by some Khitan people after Yelu Yixin lost power.

did not disappoint Zheng Lang, Brother Yelu Yan's 30,000 soldiers and horses stayed in Mingtang River, and stayed until more than a month later.

But the arrival of this Khitan army brought some trouble to the Song Dynasty, and Yelu Yange was afraid that something would happen and did not dare to march, but he swaggered to receive the envoys of the various tribes of Yinxia in Mingtang River. At his instigation, the rebellion of the various ministries was further motivated.

Luckily, they were stopped in the Mingtang River, otherwise as the Khitan army continued to advance, even some neutral tribes would participate in the wave of resistance. Zheng Lang had no choice but to let Wang Zude lead 2,000 cavalry scouts to move around the Khitan camp, and when he saw the envoys of various departments, he immediately intercepted and killed. Brother Yelu Yan did not show weakness, and also sent scouts to protect him. Every day, there is a tense situation in the Mingtang River that can be misfired at any time.

Zheng Lang was watching him. He was also watching the Song army, not only waiting for news from home, but also grain, grass and weather.

The Song Dynasty used both grace and power, grace was graceful enough, power was fierce enough, and those who did not accept it died!

It can't be said that it is wrong, for example, the ethnic policy of the Song Dynasty in the south is kind enough, and the result is. Including later generations, many people blamed the salt politics of the Song Dynasty for causing the Luzhou Barbarian rebellion. But how did Zheng Lang do it, first, allocate funds to build roads. Improving the living environment of the people, communicating with the outside world, and increasing the business atmosphere are the second is to suppress and suppress. No salt administration was moved.

Can't be moved, the annual income of the salt monopoly in the Song Dynasty is only 10 million yuan a year, but in fact, there are still officials' greed for ink, local invisible expenses, and other reasonable and unreasonable gray income, and the salt monopoly is gone. Then these gray expenditures will immediately become miscellaneous taxes and be imposed on the people. In this case, how can the Luzhou Great Salt Well not be controlled by the state?

Even if there is no salt monopoly, and all the big salt wells cannot be handed over to private individuals, this is not the big merchant and big landlord in the Central Plains. It's not the share deed of the Hehuang Waiting Supervisors, which only has the right to shares and dividends, but no right to operate, and the lifeline is controlled by the imperial court. If these large salt wells are handed over to local private individuals. Instead of handing it over to the people, but transferring the benefits from the hands of the imperial court to the hands of the major barbarians, then Luzhou Jiangnan will produce countless Nong Zhigao.

Enwei is used together. In order for the Song Dynasty to rule here safely in the future, the foundation was laid. But now, it has become a problem for the Song Dynasty.

One threat, leading to countless rebellions, with endless soldiers.

With one grace, it is necessary to come up with more materials, grain and grass to help the people.

It was precisely because of the grain and grass problem that the Song Dynasty stopped by the Yellow River.

Also, when the time enters September, it will immediately rush to October, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in the Song Dynasty will eat, wear, and live, but when the cold winter comes, plus the resettlement costs of the people, it will also be a disaster for the Song Dynasty.

Liang also had this idea.

The party is not useless, not only tenacious, but also has a pride in the heart, there is a party poem called "Song Shidian" in Xixia: why not go with Xiqiang (Tubo), Xiqiang has bowed to me, I dominate mainland affairs, and government officials are assisted by the assistant. I have not been under the control of China, China has bowed to me, I have been in the royal family uninterrupted, and the crown prince of Mi Yao (the name of the Western Xia family in the Tang Dynasty) has been passed down from generation to generation.

When Zheng Lang heard it, he couldn't help but be happy.

From this poem, he immediately thought of the spirit of the stick YY in later generations.

In order to raise grain and grass on the Song Dynasty's side, from the generals in the front to the bigwigs in the capital in the rear, their hair was almost gray. The Western Xia side was very calm, first sending heavy troops to guard more than a dozen ferries on the Yellow River, and then sending people to harvest the autumn grain, and even calmly sowing winter wheat for the next summer grain harvest.

There was also fighting, some tribes in the Yokoyama area resisted, that scale was not large, most of the area was drilled around in the Yokoyama. There are casualties every day, but Zheng Lang doesn't care too much, most of the suppressed armies are for training, and at the same time, the Guishun tribes also produce a large number of casualties, and in the future, these tribes will have hatred with those rebellious tribes, then those tribes will lose their living space in the future, and if there is no living space, the harm will not be great.

Either Zhang Kai took the army to recover the Beihetao, and the Western Xia stationed some troops here, but mainly to prevent the Khitan invasion, in fact, there were not many people here, and there was desertification in the western region, rather than the original Yin Mountain, the sky was blue, the wilderness was vast, and the wind and grass were low to see the scene of cattle and sheep. The Western Xia also transferred the main army and materials to Xingqing Mansion, so Zhang Qi's army was not so much to recover the Beihetao, but to advance in the Beihetao, and then successively divided the troops and stationed. There are battles, and they are all small.

The rest of the day began to be quiet.

Fast forward to late September, and the weather officially cooled down.

The army of Chongyi entered the Bingzhou area, and the cavalry of Qu Yao and the others also arrived in Hebei, and only Zhang Yu's army was still halfway through Taihang Mountain.

Hearing the news, Zheng Lang made up his mind.

This is the result of personal style, Zheng Lang also liked to take risks when he was young, and later dealt with more things, and his personality became more and more cautious, coupled with an accident on Jinghu South Road, and later reform, every decision implicated the fate of countless people, so his character became more and more stable.

This kind of steady character may not be very good, who dares to say that it is 100 percent victorious in war, in the case of little difference in national strength. In moderation, you need to take some risks. Therefore, from a military point of view, Zheng Lang may have done many successful things and won several battles, but each time he won a great victory, there would be many casualties and great consumption. This point is far inferior to Zhang Qi and Wang Shao. Especially against the Khitan, Zheng Lang's character is nine times out of ten, and he will end up in Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition.

I can't say that it's bad, although it's too steady. But there will be no mistakes or surprises. At least to deal with Jiaozhi and Western Xia, this kind of character is enough.

With these troops stationed in Hedong, Hebei, even if the Khitan army is dispatched, it is impossible for the Song Dynasty to put up a big formation this time, so it will be able to drag the Khitan army for a while.

At the same time, Zheng Lang also lamented the decline of the Khitan, if Xiao Yanyan was alive, he saw that Western Xia was in such a crisis, and he didn't need to use any conspiracy, and 100,000 troops would have been in Hebei Sanguan long ago.

Zheng Lang's eyes focused on Hexi.

The offensive begins.

An attack from a place that Western Xia did not expect.

Tatans.

To the west of Helan Mountain is the desert. That is, the famous Tengger Desert in later generations, but before the deterioration of water and soil in ancient times, the Tengger Desert not only had large lakes such as Juyanhai and Shiyang Lake, but also many oases.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, it led to the four roads of the Western Regions. The first is the Liangzhou Road in Lanzhou, the other is the Southern Silk Road in Tibet, and the second road in the north, and the other is the road from Helan Mountain to Juyanhai. There is also a road from Yinshan to Juyanhai.

By the time of the Divine Sect, there were fewer and fewer oases in the desert, but there were still ones.

On these oases live a number of very different nomadic peoples. Because it was difficult to manage, the Tangut people could only be restrained, causing these ethnic groups to be unruly. To the west of Helan Mountain, there is a large tribe called the Tatans.

Li Hao and Qu Zhenbing went out to live in Yanhai, and the Western Xia people didn't care too much, so when the Song army was under the city of Lingzhou, Qu Zhenbing went out of Helan Mountain to contain the Western Xia army. did not really attack Helan Mountain, but only played a leading role. The Liang clan had to divide their troops and garrison Helan Mountain, and Qu Zhen made a small circle, from outside Helan Mountain, to the bank of the Yellow River, crossed the Yellow River, and joined the three armies.

This military operation seems to be aimed at containment, but in fact there is another intention, that is, to get in touch with the Tatans outside Helan Mountain, and leave some of the supplies among the generals to the Tatans for bribery and wooing. Qu Zhen crossed the Yellow River lightly.

Qu Zhen left Helan Mountain, Lingzhou was lost again, and the Liang family had to put grain and grass and other materials in the rear Helan Mountain and send troops to guard it.

But the Tanguts did not expect that when the Tatans took advantage of the heavy troops of the Tangut generals stationed on the front line, they suddenly crossed the Helan Mountain and attacked the granaries of the Tanguts.

After hearing the news, the faces of the Western Xia people were like earth. Winter is coming, the Song Dynasty army is difficult, and they are also difficult, even if there is still grain and grass in Xingqing Mansion, what will they do next spring?

Of course, in the future, this Tatan clan will also give Zheng Lang a headache, but for now, don't worry about them for the time being.

The most terrible thing is not how much food the Tatans burned and looted, but a piece of news circulated among the soldiers and civilians in Hexi.

Since the beginning of May, the actual war started earlier, since last winter, the two countries began to fight each other, the front line was deadlocked, and the Song army regained Hexi, which had to waste a lot of materials.

And this news is precisely aimed at this, the Song Dynasty not only wants to raise an army, but also to raise some people in Hedong, some are temporarily settled in Guanzhong, some stay in the same place, the number of these people is not small, from Yinzhou to Huizhou, such a vast area, close to two million people.

But it's not much, Xining seven years of drought, the peak of the disaster reached more than 20 million, that drought, before and after lasted for nearly two years, the Song Dynasty passed safely, and also in the middle of the recovery of Hehuanglanzhou.

Could it be that this little material is stumped by the Song Dynasty right now?

In fact, feeding 20 million disaster victims in the Central Plains may not be able to feed 2 million people in Western Xia, but where do the common people know the difference?

The news spread, which somewhat weakened the morale of Western Xia.

The Song army began to force the crossing of the Yellow River.

In fact, it was only at this time that everyone understood the reason why Zheng Lang was cautious.

The Song Dynasty's preparations for this summer attack are not inadequate, political, economic, military, logistics, weapons, seasons, people's hearts, intelligence, as well as various conspiracies and conspiracy, national policies, and the front has indeed succeeded, and the Western Xia is only compressed on a large area of land within a radius of several hundred kilometers in the west of the river.

But in the face of the country's life and death, the Western Xia soldiers fought a bloody battle with the Song army on every inch of land.

From the east of the river to the west of the river, there are three major ferries of Hue in Huaizhou, Lu in Lingzhou, and Guojiadu in Xiongzhou, as well as more than a dozen small ferries.

After three days of strong attack, the Song army captured the two small ferries of Dingyuan Ferry and Bipu Ferry.

However, the casualty rate of both sides, the Western Xia was much higher than that of the Song army.

Although the Yellow River was in danger and many fortifications were built on the other side of the river, the Song army was so powerful that it even directly carried all kinds of weapons to the ship and bombarded the opposite bank. As for how much silk would cost to bombard every day, the Tangut people would not have the heart to calculate, what they saw was how many people died every day in the bombardment of the Song army.

On the fourth day, the Song army captured two small ferries.

Liang was anxious, and sent an envoy to Lingzhou to negotiate with Zheng Lang, willing to obey Zheng Lang's request, and return all of them to Li Bingchang, while dealing with a group of so-called treacherous evils.

But before the envoy arrived, the two generals of Western Xia, Li Duanming and Li Kaitai, began to discuss with their cronies.

Under further pressure from the Song army, the Liang clan will inevitably make further concessions. But these two followed Li Yan and Ren Duo Ling Ding with their cronies to kill Li Qing and imprison Li Bingchang, which is also one of the so-called treacherous evils, Ren Duo Ling Ding is the head of the Western Xia clan, and the Liang family is in charge of the left and right compartments, the Liang family will not deal with Ren Duo Ling Ding, but they will definitely take Li Duanming and Li Kaitai, who are not loved by their father. If the Liang clan does something to the two of them, it will inevitably do something to their cronies.

In response to this situation, the two asked these cronies what to do.

In the end, under their intentional or unintentional inducement, their subordinates decided to support the two to rebel against the Liang clan, kill them back to Xingqing Mansion from the front line, execute the Liang clan, and support Li Bingchang, so that they could fight with the Song army to the end, and retreat to sue for peace.

After the discussion, the two immediately abandoned the defensive Hue Du, and led the army to Xingqing Province.

didn't get merit, and even the gate of Xingqing Mansion didn't enter, but this time, the whole Western Xia was in chaos. Moreover, the Song army easily took Hue Ferry and forced it to Xingqing Mansion.

Li Duanming could not attack Xingqing Mansion, and the Song army was forced over, and under the "force", under their intentional or unintentional inducement again, his cronies took the initiative to persuade Li Duanming and Li Kaitai to surrender to the Song Dynasty. So far, Feng Gao and the four of them have survived for decades and finally returned to the embrace of the Song Dynasty, but their identities still cannot be exposed. Under the pressure of their generals, more than 30,000 troops surrendered. With this surrender, the rest of the army no longer had the will to fight, including Renduo Lingding, who was guarding Lüdu, and also surrendered.

On the seventh day of the first month of October, Zheng Lang led the army to the city of Xingqing Mansion.

At this point, in a certain sense, Zheng Lang is about to realize the lack of horses in Helan Mountain written by Yue Fei and Jiang Hong. (To be continued......)