The whole clan is in danger, and the party god of war is born! This can't help but remind me of the Great Liao God of War who was also born when the whole clan was in danger. That name is a long time ago, but it has always been alive and shining in the long river of history - Jerehugo! But let's be honest: these two gods of war really can't compare...

Liu Changzuo held his breath, so he felt very comfortable when he saw the Western Xia reinforcements. It is every man's dream to have someone to fight when he is bored. He led the people to cut it down, and laid down the formation that won a great victory in the last field battle - the shield wall, the divine arm bow, the crossbowmen, and the cavalry! These settings still worked, and the Western Xia people almost stepped on their corpses and rushed up, until they finally came ashore, and after breaking through the first three interceptions of the Jingyuan army, they met Guo Cheng's cavalry!

That day, Guo Cheng showed the biggest face in his life outside Lingzhou City, and at the same time encountered the biggest failure. At that time, there was a Western Xia warrior riding a white horse in the battle array, Liu Changzuo was very unhappy when he saw it, and shouted who was going to cut him down? Guo Cheng slapped the horse and met it, and cut the opponent under the horse in one round. This is the greatest glory of a cavalry! The horses crossed shoulders, the heroes flashed back, and the enemies were in different places... But before he was happy, the overwhelming Xixia people poured up, he played with his life, and after doing his best, he found that the tide had passed, he was still alive, and the Xixia army had crossed him, broke through the defense line of the Jingyuan army, and rushed to the Huanqing army of the tall relatives...

The Jingyuan army was in a very complicated mood, and it was not possible to stop the enemy, which meant that they had failed, but this had a very good effect on the Huanqing army. This resistance battle was still very successful, and even Renduo Lingding himself was hit by several arrows, presumably the overall combat strength of the Western Xia army also dropped significantly. As long as the tall relatives are able to endure and withstand Lingzhou City with their backs, the Jingyuan army will be able to pounce again, and eat this reinforcement inside and out! But in the blink of an eye, the entire Jingyuan army was dumbfounded, and the tall relative was a person who created a miracle. I saw the Tangut people pounce on them, and then disappeared. The gate of Lingzhou was opened, the Xixia people entered, the door was closed again, and the Huanqing army was still under the city... That is to say: Not only did he not eat it, he didn't stop Ren Duo Lingding, and even the other party's city gate was opened, but he couldn't rush in!

What's the siege about? It's not fodder for war at all, it's just tens of thousands of wastes gathered together! Although it is a waste, it is still a superior. Liu Changzuo collected all the baggage of the Western Xia reinforcements that he had snatched. sent to Gao Zunyu's big account, hoping to have a good relationship. Unfortunately, he hit the muzzle of the gun again. He doesn't understand the same thing, and the superior and the subordinate are often two understandings! Just like giving a gift at this time, not only is he wrong. Even the future Yue Fei missed it like this. The chief is on fire, and the more things are delivered. The more I feel that my subordinates are showing off. Slap him in the face!

Gao Zunyu was furious and said Liu Changzuo, you are defending on the periphery, why didn't you stop the enemy army and ruin my siege? Come on, push him out and cut him!

After this order was given, the entire barracks boiled. Gao Zunyu, you dog relative, you are a bully, and the brothers did him! It's about to mutiny... To be honest, if you are really going to mutiny. Maybe it was still a good thing for the fate of the Song Dynasty? It's a pity that Liu Changzuo's personality is characterized by taking into account the overall situation. He took the initiative to go out and persuade his subordinates: First, take state affairs first, and not infighting...

The infighting did not occur, and the Song dynasty continued to attack the city. It's just that no matter how hard you try, you are doomed to achieve nothing. The opportunity has been missed! Heaven has given the Great Song Dynasty two excellent opportunities! Once Liu Changzuo was about to break through the city gate, and he was a hundred. Unexpectedly, he was blocked by a military order outside the wide-open gate of Lingzhou City! The second is to block Renduo Lingding, even if you can't take the opportunity to seize the city, at least you can't let reinforcements in!

After missing both times, Lingzhou City was not only strong, but even the number of defenders increased sharply. After the rise and fall, the Song army no longer had the slightest advantage. But Gao Zunyu is not giving up, he wants to continue to try...

On the 19th, Lu Fu and Peng Sun transported their baggage to Mingshachuan and encountered Western Xia ambush soldiers. Three battles and three defeats, this is the only defeat of the Song army in the offensive process in the battle of the Five Roads Expedition! However, it determines a qiē... In the late November of the lunar calendar, the northwest land was dripping into ice, and the Song army not only did not have enough provisions, but also did not even have enough warm clothes! Can't capture Lingzhou City, which is high and deep, the only choice left for the Song army is to retreat!

On the 21st, he retreated to Suojiaping, Xiazhou, where the army was divided, and the 30,000 forbidden troops transferred to him from the capital could not stand the bitter cold and hunger in the northwest, and they fled. And in order to survive, this huge group of deserters not only took away the combat power of the Yan Yan army, but also made a mess of the rear of the planters! In order to find something to eat, they no longer care whether it was the residents of Western Xia or the Great Song Dynasty, they robbed them all! This chaotic army was resolved by Shen Kuo, who was the general head of the rear of the Western Expeditionary Army. However, due to the severe cold and long distance, he really could not provide for the planters.

At this time, in the northwest land in the deep winter, the seed army has been in a desperate situation, if you don't get out in time, wait for the Xixia people to surround you, doomed to the destruction of the whole army! The military genius of the seed has been tested in actual combat, and it is also an art to change the timing of the attack and retreat. In the face of the Tangut people, who have always been untrustworthy and cunning and ferocious, Chong Ge played a small trick: send people to challenge the Tangut and fight to the death after 3 days!

The Western Xia side immediately mobilized in full force, gathered troops, and remained vigilant, who knows if the fox-like seed will suddenly attack? After surviving for three days, they rushed out of the camp gate and arrived at the agreed place. As a result, the left and right and others had not yet come, and they sent people to urge them, only to find that the Song army camp had already been empty!

He ran away as soon as he sent out the challenge... Back in China, he brought the best news to Song Shenzong. Among the 5-way army, only he and the great eunuch Li Xian attacked the city and brought back some results. Such as Lanzhou City, Mizhi, Yihe, Wubao, Saimen, Futu and other villages. As for the 5 states of Yinxia? Although the Yan army has been captured, its troops are limited and it cannot be kept...

On the 24th, the tall relatives had been stationed under the fortified city and besieged it for 18 days. More than half a month has passed, Gao Zunyu is in a hurry, and he can't take Lingzhou City, so he continues to take Liu Changzuo out of anger. There's nothing wrong with that, he's going to kill the coach of the other way, the deputy who is only one level worse than him! The result can be imagined, the Jingyuan army is furious again! The people were not killed, and the morale of the army was further depressed... After repeated bullying and torture, Liu Changzuo finally became ill with grief and fell ill in the barracks...

In the depression, another fatal news came, and the Mingshachuan grain road was robbed. So immediately retreat! The tall relatives didn't faint this time, and they listened to him no matter how his subordinates persuaded him. But he forgot who the people in the city were, it was the party god of war, Ren Duo Lingding! He is the most military-gifted general in the party since Li Yuanhao, and he has also inherited the cunning and cruelty of the party and the nation. He didn't lead the army to take the opportunity to kill it, but did something ruthless: open the Yellow River...

At the end of November of the lunar calendar, the water of the Yellow River is icy and biting. Rushing to the Song army camp with Bingling. Fortunately, the water volume of the Yellow River in this season is not the most abundant, and the baggage of people and horses is not completely destroyed all at once... The Song army retreated urgently, looking back as they walked, Lingzhou City was left behind like this, but it should have been recaptured! But there is no way to control so much at the moment, the most important thing at this time is to be vigilant and keep an eye on the chasing soldiers at any time!

They were too worried, and at this time, Renduo Lingding still did not leave the city, and the bad luck brought by the Yellow River to the Song army had just begun. In order to give full play to the water conservancy benefits of the Yellow River, many canals have been built in the Lingzhou area. These aqueducts crisscross the country. Spread all over the surrounding land, as long as the Yellow River water flows out, it will be filled one by one, which is a natural barrier. The Song army wanted to cross over, so they could only destroy all kinds of ordnance to build a pontoon bridge. Slowly pass it in phases and batches. If you want to speed up, unless you swim in the ditch? That's it. Gao Zunyu Huanqing army was in front. Liu Changzuo's Jingyuan army could only give him the queen of the palace, and behind them, the gate of Lingzhou finally opened again!

The party god of war Ren Duo zero Ding appeared! The Song army was forced to speed up the retreat, and a small half of the Jingyuan army really jumped into the ice water and swam across the long canal. After climbing up, the elite soldiers of the hundred battles also began to tremble, and in front of them. Long canals and short canals, how many canals! One night, they were forced to camp between a large canal and a small canal... The two corps of Huanqing and Jingyuan have separated, and the opportunity that Renduo and Dingding have been waiting for has finally arrived!

At night. The Western Xia attacked in a big way, and the Jingyuan army fought alone, shivering in the cold wind, while wielding the knife desperately, and finally repelled the Western Xia people, but no one in the whole army was happy! They're all veterans, and they all know this. Renduo Lingding did not want to swallow them all at once, but constantly consumed in the cold, lack of food, ice water, and retreat, and tortured the Song army to death little by little! The shape is stronger than people, and I know that I have to go down this road... It was easy to cross the canals, and the second attack occurred at a pass, and this time the Huanqing army of the tall relatives had a conscience attack, and sent the generals Yu Xin and Ren Cheng to support, and all of them were killed! Yao Lin, the deputy general of the Jingyuan Army and the Yao Family Army, went out to fight and barely passed. The third attack was under the city of Weizhou, and the hungry and tired Song army rushed into the city, but was robbed by the Western Xia, and many people died...

It was not until early December that the two teams withdrew to the Song realm. At this time, they had already used guns and bows and arrows to heat the fire, and the whole army was cold, hungry, wounded, and suffering heavy losses!

The Huanqing army entrusted the blessing of the tall relatives, and the loss rate was about 1/5, and it was the Jingyuan army that was hit hard. From beginning to end, it almost rushed to the front, retreated behind, and carried the burden of the Western Expedition on its shoulders alone. Such a huge consumption made more than 50,000 soldiers and 5,000 horses at the time of the expedition, only 13,000 people and 3,000 horses came back, and more than 2/3 of the troops were reduced!

Liu Changzuo was overworked with grief and anger, fell ill under the city of Lingzhou, and was bedridden for a long time after reluctantly struggling to return to China.

On the 29th, 2 villages of Saimen and Futu in Yanzhou were placed. On December 30, it was placed in Yihe Village, Yanzhou.

The eyes turned to the Great Liao State again: on December 15, the second traitor Zhang Xiaojie was reduced to a civilian position and died a few years later. On the 19th, the first traitor Yelu Yixin was prosecuted for the crime of embezzlement in a foreign country, that is, and should be executed according to law, but Yelu Yange of Yixin's party said that Yelu Yixin, as the king of Wei, should be commuted with "eight discussions". So the first traitor was tied with big chains and imprisoned in Laizhou...

On January 19, the 5th year of Yuanfeng (1082), Song Shenzong rewarded and punished the crime, and the 'female Zhongyao Shun' strongly demanded to punish his unscrupulous uncle! Gao Zunyu was demoted to the deputy envoy of the Yingzhou regiment, and Liu Changzuo was demoted to the jurisdiction of the Yongxing Army. Only the seed is promoted because of merit. On the 29th, the great eunuch Li Xian was promoted to Jingyuan, Xihe, and Lanhui to pacify and control the envoys. In February, Tubo Zampu Dong Yu was awarded the title of King of Wuwei County. As for the great eunuch Wang Zhongzheng? He didn't do anything, huh? So no reward or punishment...

The most disappointed person is none other than Song Shenzong. From the beginning of the war, he was on the watchful day and night, and he ordered the Northwest War Report to be reported to him as soon as it came, day and night! Now the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, the emperor wanders alone in the dark palace in the deep winter, countless thoughts rise and fall in the depths of his heart, the old grudge, more than 10 years of hard work, the national fortune of the empire, has it failed like this? This is not only a military failure, but also the economic and national strength and people's morale that have struggled with a lot of hard work. Correspondingly, the cries of the opposition, and even obstruction from the depths of the palace, will follow... Could it be that God does not bless the Great Song?

This thought made Song Shenzong suffer intensely. From this moment on, he knew deeply: really failed? The dignified Song Dynasty and the Huanghuang Celestial Dynasty were really humiliated by the Northwest Jumping Clown! He, Song Shenzong Zhao Ji, like Taizong, Zhenzong, and Renzong, is not a genius or a famous master of Zhongxing, but just a mediocre person with great ambitions and talents!

Be strict with others and even more strict with yourself, which makes Song Shenzong strive to be young and promising. But this kind of character has a huge self-torturous nature, so that he can't ignore failure and recover quickly. He was caught in a whirlpool of depression, unable and unwilling to peel it off...

But may I ask: Is the Five Roads really a failure? It depends on how you define it!

If the success or failure of Lingzhou City is judged, then the Song Dynasty is indeed losing. If the war itself is concerned, the Song Dynasty has the upper hand anyway!

With nearly a hundred years of grievances with the party members, the Song Dynasty fought several stages in the war. At first, it was a cannon bombardment of mosquitoes, and with the abundant military strength of Zhao Guangyi of Song Taizong, he couldn't catch Li Jiqian, who was as slippery as a loach, which was a lack of mobility. Later, during the field war, Li Yuanhao fought all over East Asia, and although a large number of famous generals such as Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi, Zhang Kang, and Di Qing appeared in the Song Dynasty, they were also at a disadvantage, barely maintaining the border, which was too poor in field ability. And Li Liangzuo was shot like a hedgehog during the siege of the city. It's just a pity that the national strength of the Song Dynasty declined at that time, and there was no capital for expeditions...

Song Shenzong's five-way expedition to Western Xia, no matter how it is evaluated in the traditional history books, just look at the battle record: the combat effectiveness of the Song army, especially the field ability, has completely overwhelmed the Western Xia people! In the 5 roads, except for Wang Zhongzheng and the Song army, except for the failure to capture Lingzhou, all the rest of the records were all victorious!

Even in the Battle of Lingzhou, the defeat of the Song army was not caused by the Tanguts. The first is, of course, the tall relative's brain show is funny, and he plays to death the imperial dream alone. Second, the Song army was actually defeated by the weather! Prefer to send troops in the bitter cold season in the northwest, unless they destroy the withered and decayed, and break through all the defense lines of Western Xia without hindrance, otherwise they will have to face heavy snowstorms outside the fortress. But this can't be blamed on Song Shenzong, who let the Western Xia Kingdom infighting at this time?

Look at the record and then lose it! This is a relative question, not that the loss of the Song Dynasty means defeat, but to see what happened to the Tangut people at the same time. The losses of the armies of the two sides are basically the same, the difference is that the Tangut people were killed by the Song Dynasty, while the Song Dynasty people were killed by the weather and the Yellow River. Aside from these, since the war was fought in the territory of the Western Xia, all the consequences were borne by the Western Xia side alone. Historical records record that after the war, the Western Xia "captured more than 50,000 people, the rest of the old and weak were involved, the cattle and sheep were corrupted, and the losses were innumerable" Objectively speaking, the Yuanfeng period of Song Shenzong (Xia Huizong Da'an period) was a turning point in the weakening of the military and national strength of the Western Xia! This is the advantage of taking the initiative to attack, even if the war itself is a disgrace, it can still inflict heavy damage on the opponent and devastate the enemy. With the end of the war, these battle reports were presented to Song Shenzong one by one, and his sensitive and self-injured soul began to gradually recover...

This was his first personal battle. In the past, Wang Anshi was in charge of the Xihe Kaibian and Jiaozhi battles, and all he needed was to observe and learn. At this time, it was different, and the outcome of driving such a huge empire to fight alone would not only have an impact on the country, but also on his personal soul. (To be continued......)