The snow kept falling, the river in the Wulong River began to thaw, and a large area of Western Xia troops appeared on the east bank of the river. The soldiers of the Song Army back then should have seen a scene that they couldn't believe: Li Yuanhao's army was so numerous! There were 150,000 people... It is not an exaggeration at all, there were 70,000 party cavalry when he invaded, and the other half were the original party and Qiang mixed troops in Jinming Village. They turned their heads and attacked the Great Song! History records how bland it is "when the snow is flat for a few inches, and the peace and the thief are all confronted by the glaive array", but in reality, it is more than 10,000 people against 150,000 people!

The first battle of the three great wars of Song and Xia - the Battle of Sanchuankou broke out! The Western Xia army began to cross the river, and the Song army seized this golden opportunity to attack first! Remember the name - Guo Zun! He and his subordinate Wang Xin took the lead and attacked the Western Xia army formation. The Song army behind swarmed up, and finally wedged into the Western Xia position! A scuffle, killing nearly 700 enemies before retreating...

The Western Xia army continued to cross the glacier and gathered more and more. Finally, they took the initiative. sent a warrior to name Guo Zun to fight alone. Guo Zun immediately accepted the challenge. A few rounds later, the party warrior was smashed to his head with an iron pestle, and his bravery shocked even soldiers accustomed to blood and death. At this point in the battle, Li Yuanhao finally stopped having any illusions, and used a must-win trick - give full play to the advantage of numbers and charge in groups! He ordered the Western Xia army that had crossed the river to put up a big shield, waiting for the whole army to cross the river and fight a decisive battle with the Song army, and decide the winner or loser with strength!

Li Yuanhao thought wrongly, the Song army once again preemptively launched an attack, and the history records that "the Song army defeated it, seized the shield, killed and drowned more than 1,000 people" The Western Xia army drowned in the water, indicating that the Song army had advanced the battle to the river and completely defeated the Western Xia army formation!

Of course, the cost is also extremely high. The main general, Liu Ping, was wounded by arrows in the neck and ears, and he was drenched in blood. Song Jun has gone all out. Even the main general personally charged!

The sun is sinking in the west. In the twilight, some of the Tanguts fled back to the east bank of the river, while others struggled by the water, and the battlefield entered a temporary lull. Liu Ping nervously watched the enemy situation in pain, but he didn't know that the real danger had arrived...

Suddenly, a large number of subordinates rushed over, it should be said that they were all blood-covered warriors, carrying the heads of Western Xia people to ask for merit: General, this is a war merit, please reward us...

Liu Ping's reaction was to shout to his subordinates, "The battle is urgent, you remember it yourself." After the war, I will reward you so much" how loyal and brave, but what a pity, he only thought about the battle, and did not notice the subtext of the soldiers...

Soldiers are also human beings, and they need to rest, and after six or seven days of rapid marching, coupled with the fierce fighting just now, everyone is almost at the limit. General, should we... No one said retreat. But as the main general, you should wake up. The enemy on the opposite side is more than ten times his own, do you really want to fight to the end?

History did not give Liu Ping a chance to hesitate, because Li Yuanhao on the other side of the river launched another attack! He's going crazy! Previously attacked Jinming Village. Plundered a large number of fresh troops, and then let Li Shibin's mother and wife flee into Yanzhou City, stimulating Fan Yong and making him desperate to recruit reinforcements. Send fake spies again to ask Liu Ping to disperse the army... There was only one of all the moves: to make the Song army tired and exhausted, until he besieged the city outside Yanzhou City and sent reinforcements. Annihilation in one hit! But now it's such a result, absolutely not!

The Western Xia army suddenly sent light cavalry, quickly crossed the river, and assaulted the Song army. Song Jun was caught off guard and was forced to retreat more than 20 steps. This mere 20 steps has become a nightmare for the Battle of Sanchuankou...

In a panic, Liu Ping suddenly felt that something was wrong behind him. When I looked back, I saw that my troops were in the midst of a rout! Who? He saw Huang Dehe on the run and... He couldn't believe his eyes, the position moved forward and retreated during the battle, it was normal, why would Huang Dehe escape?

But I didn't know that the coward was not refined in a moment, and after the battle, Huang Coward had been hiding behind the formation and almost did not participate in the battle. He didn't rush to Tumen to meet Li Yuanhao like Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun. He was originally a new force, but he chose to flee when the battle was a little unfavorable!

Escaping was like a plague, which quickly spread among the Song army, and the battle collapsed in an instant! All Liu Ping could do was to send his son Liu Yisun to chase after the deserters, and stop Huang Dehe no matter what. Liu Yisun grabbed Huang Yifu's horse and begged bitterly, "When the soldiers are returned, and the thieves are resisted, why not lead them away first" Huang Yisun ignored him, and coerced Liu Yisun to run all the way, and ran to Ganquan before stopping...

Liu Ping has always been at the forefront of the battlefield, he did not escape, and ordered his own soldiers to pull out their knives: fight for the country, and those who retreat die!

But Li Yuanhao will not give Liu Ping another chance, the Western Xia army is constantly rushing across the glacier, and at this moment, there are still people who completely disregard life and death, and rush towards them single-handedly! Let's pay tribute to the hero: Guo Zun!

Guo Zun knew that he would die, but he still fought alone in the enemy formation! In any case, it is necessary to earn precious respite for Liu Ping behind him! During the battle, Guo Zun threw away the iron pestle and charged the battle with an iron spear, invincible, and more than 100,000 Western Xia troops were scattered by him alone! He changed to a heavier iron lance and went deep into the enemy line again, this time the Tanguts had a very insidious trick, and secretly laid a horse rope to capture him alive. But Guo Zun is like a god, and the stumbling horses and cables were cut off by him one by one, but Guo Zun is not a god after all, and he finally fell in the Xixia people with his horse and ten thousand arrows...

Behind him, Liu Ping finally succeeded in retaining more than 1,000 people, once again blocking the front of more than 100,000 Xixia people. The battle is not over!

Li Yuanhao smiled bitterly and shook his head: What is this? All right! Then fight again! But what Li Yuanhao never dreamed of was that the combat effectiveness of the more than 1,000 warriors of the Song Army, who had been put to life and death, was so strong that they once again forced more than 100,000 Western Xia troops back to the east bank of the river...

This is how the battle of the day and the night ended. Liu Ping led the army to retreat to a hill in the southwest and set up 7 camps to protect himself. Suddenly, outside the fence someone asked, "Where will your Lord be?"

These despicable Tanguts are still fighting ghost ideas! Angry, Liu Ping warned his subordinates not to answer. And so there was silence... But after a while, someone actually called the door. The person who came reported his identity and said that he was the messenger of Yanzhou City, and Master Fan Yongfan sent an order...

Get lost! You only used this trick yesterday, when the people of the Song Dynasty were idiots? Liu Ping didn't say a word, pulled out the lun, and cut it!

At this time, it was already four watches in the night, and the party members surrounded the camp tent of the Song army, shouting and shouting, "A few remnants, what to do if you don't surrender", and what they got was Liu Ping's sharp answer: "Dog thief, if you don't surrender, why do I want to surrender?" Help will arrive tomorrow. It is the time of your death."

At dawn on January 24, the party members directly asked, "Will it fall or not?" If you don't surrender, you will all die" is still a dignified rejection! To this point, to persuade to surrender again is to bring humiliation upon yourself! Li Yuanhao transferred a large number of men and horses from Hedong, surrounded the mountains on all sides, and began to attack. The Song army, which couldn't run, was destined to have only one fate - to hold on. A miracle can never happen again, Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun are all wiped out, and there is no life left!

The first battle of the three great wars of the Song and Xia Dynasty, the Battle of Sanchuankou, came to an end. Strangely, Li Yuanhao did not take advantage of the victory to attack Yanzhou City and opened the west gate of the Song Dynasty in one fell swoop. Instead, they suddenly retreated.

Li Yuanhao retreated, which has a different opinion in history. Some say that it was the first time he attacked a super huge empire like the Song Dynasty, and he was still psychologically immature, so he accepted it when he saw it. Some of them boiled down to the heavy snow that year, and the nomads were also people, and they came to fight and brought insufficient cold equipment, for fear that it would be too cold after the snow and the people and horses would get frostbitten. So it's best to retreat. What's more, it is said that some battle reports misled Li Yuanhao, saying that the Song Dynasty had sent troops again and killed him in his lair like last time, and he was afraid that the backyard would catch fire. I had to go home...

First, since you enter the restaurant, are you afraid of too much food? Li Yuanhao had already destroyed the Uighurs and fought the Tibetans. It turns out that he is a conqueror with the goal of destroying the country, and a mere capital city of the Song Dynasty can make him weak? Joke!

The second is even more unreliable. Nomads are known to wage war only in the cold winters. The reason is the most classic annotated in the words of Genghis Khan later - horses are fat in winter, and soldiers want to fight! Another subtext is that the southerners are afraid of the cold, and everyone is fighting in the same area, how can there be a matter of the Han people not freezing to death, but the northern barbarians first?

Third, it's really sad and speechless. Where are there any reinforcements? Liu Ping fought desperately in the heavy snow for a whole day, Yanzhou City was besieged for seven days, and there were no reinforcements, where did the Song army enter the territory of Western Xia? You must know that Yanzhou City is not a security army, if the marshal mansion of Yanyan Road is lost, even if 1/4 of the Western Xinjiang of the Great Song Dynasty completely collapses, the Western Xia people can kill into the hinterland at any time!

There was only one reason for Li Yuanhao's retreat: that was Liu Ping's pride, and the soldiers of the Song Dynasty made him frightened! The reason why Yanzhou City can be preserved is also due to the credit of these thousands of Song army soldiers. The history of the Song Dynasty has a conclusive conclusion that "the thief is very strong, and if he fights in peace, he is bound to not be depressed." Yanzhou is a lonely base, and if the siege is not lifted, its city will not be defended"

It can be said that Liu Ping is still glorious despite defeat, and he is still alive even though he is dead! But such loyalty and courage are exchanged for slander and anger.

The battle ended on the 24th. On the 28th, the battle report was transmitted by Fan Yong from Yanzhou City to Kaifeng. But he was late. A day earlier, the Emperor had already informed the news. In the early morning of the 27th, Zhao Zhen was pacing outside the hall, and in the cold wind, he suddenly heard a sweeping veteran sigh, "Alas, it's a pity for Mrs. Liu" Zhao Zhen was horrified and alert, and immediately asked, "What are you talking about?"

The veteran replied: "Don't the officials know the way?" Captain Liu Ping was killed in the northwest" Zhao Zhen was shocked and asked him where he got the news. The veteran took out a letter from home, "The minister has a letter saying that the soldiers of the first battalion of the West Tiger Wing in Yanzhou have been wiped out, and the minister's son-in-law has also been killed."

Zhao Zhen was stunned, the war broke out, such a fiasco, he was still kept in the dark! Seeing his bleak face, the veteran couldn't help but persuade a sentence of "Wangsheng is relieved", Zhao Zhen was sad and angry, and shouted, "It's like this, is it still a relief?"

The next day, Fan Yong's battle report arrived. Zhao Zhen's reaction was to immediately send troops to surround Liu Ping's family and kill his entire family! Don't miss a single one! Because Fan Yong said: Liu Ping was defeated and humiliated the country. What is even more hateful is Huang Dehe, who "fought the battlefield and survived", said: Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun surrendered to Western Xia and rebelled before the battle, which led to a great defeat!

At the critical moment, the privy deputy Xia Shouyun stepped forward! Defend it! And Zhao Zhen also quickly calmed down, this is because of the bloodline. From Zhao Guangyi to Zhao Heng to Zhao Zhen, the Zhao Song Emperor has a similarity: they all have a crazy side, but they can always suddenly calm down at the most critical moment! Therefore, he was able to turn the corner under unprecedented crises such as the Gaoliang River fiasco, the Yongxi fiasco, and the Lanyuan War, and Zhao Zhen also continued this characteristic. Unlike the evil consequences after the bloodline was cut off, Zhao Zhen had no son and was forced to pass on his nephew. The people in that bloodline, alas...

At this time, Zhao Zhen suddenly calmed down and sent Shi Wen Yanbo, the palace attendant, to Yanzhou to investigate the situation on the spot. As a result, the truth was revealed, Huang Dehe was extremely resolute when he fled, and he was extremely well-informed, so he immediately decided to bite back. What a scum! Zhao Zhen issued an order to cut Huang Dehe in half on April 22! At the same time, the soldiers who surrounded Liu Ping's family were recovered, and Liu Ping, Shi Yuansun, Guo Zun and others were posthumously rewarded.

After that, Zhao Zhen threw away the sign that was promulgated a few days ago that it was not allowed to overstep his duties, anyone can say anything, and the emperor himself must listen...

On February 2, Xia Shouyun was sent to the Northwest Front to supervise the military administration of Shaanxi. Song Zhen, the governor of the political council, proposed to set up a heavy defense in Tongguan, but Fu Bi objected to "the Son of Heaven guarding Siyi." Now to protect Tongguan, do you want to give all the land west of Tongguan to Li Yuanhao" On the 4th, the eunuch Wang Shouzhong was appointed as the jurisdiction of Shaanxi Lujin, and Fu Bi opposed "The Tang Dynasty used eunuchs to supervise the army, which was the beginning of the disaster. Now with Wang Shouzhong, don't you repeat the mistakes of the past" But unfortunately, the emperor didn't listen...

On the 5th, he sent an envoy to contact Nuoluo, wanting to take advantage of Li Yuanhao's vitality to attack his lair. But if you can't be safe inside, how can you be safe outside? The split of Tibet at this critical moment was really Li Yuanhao's luck...

After that, a real big man stepped onto the Northwest Battlefield - Han Qi!

On the 12th, everything is military! It also restored the system of the early days of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Privy Council needed to consult with the Zhongshu Province for all important military matters.

On February 28, 1040, Fan Yong was moved from Yanzhou to Anzhou, and since then he has been far away from the battlefield, so don't add to the chaos! Under Han Qi's strong recommendation, another real big man stepped onto the northwest battlefield - Fan Zhongyan! Shaanxi Metropolitan Transport Envoy Han Qi was in charge of Jingyuan Road, and Shaanxi Pacification Deputy Envoy Fan Zhongyan was in charge of Yan Yanlu, and began "There is a Han in the army, and the western thief is frightened when he hears it." There is a fan in the army, and the western thief is shocked when he hears it"...

On March 19, Fan Zhongyan's friend Yin Su came to Jingyuan Road to serve as a judge in the shogunate where Ge Huaimin was deployed.

To be fair, Fan Yong has no bad intentions, he is just stupid, and he is a literati outside the battlefield. It is not so much that he committed a crime in the war, but that the man who sent him to the battlefield had already committed a crime... (To be continued......)