Zhao Yan actually went to the western frontier, and Zhao Yan couldn't help but ask with concern: "What's the matter, what happened between Western Xia and Liao, which can affect our plans for Western Xia?" ”

Huang Wude couldn't help but sigh when he heard Zhao Yan ask about the changes in Western Xia and Liao, and then told the story in a low tone, but Zhao Yan couldn't help but be angry after listening to it.

Last time, Yelu Chongyuan was defeated by Yelu Jun's hands, and the army suffered heavy losses, and then Yelu Jun commanded the army to advance step by step, and it seemed that Yelu Chongyuan was about to be forced into a desperate situation, but at this time, Li Liangzuo, the lord of the Western Xia Kingdom, who had long colluded with Yelu Chongyuan, finally sent troops and defeated the champion of Liao on the border in one fell swoop, crossed the entire Xijing Mansion, and rushed towards Zhongjing in the heart of Liao State.

Originally, the Great Song Dynasty, who had been watching the fire from the other side, hoped to see a good show of snipe and clam fighting, but he didn't expect Li Liangzuo to be far more cunning than they imagined, he led the army to the border of Zhongjing in Liao, and even stood still, Yelu Jun saw this situation, and could only withdraw the army that attacked Yelu Chongyuan, and turned back to confront Li Liangzuo, and the war did not break out for a long time, which made the Great Song Dynasty also very disappointed.

However, just before Zhao Yan was kidnapped, the confrontation between the Western Xia and the Liao army finally ended, and it was not the Western Xia as the attacker who took the lead, but the Liao army as the defender, mainly because Yelu Jun found that when he confronted the Western Xia, Yelu was already dying by himself. Chongyuan was slowly recovering his strength, and even Yelu Chongyuan was ready to attack him back and forth with Li Liangzuo, which made Yelu Jun unable to wait any longer, so he launched a preemptive attack.

Yelujun fought with the idea of a quick victory, so at the beginning of the war, he almost did his best, sending Yeluren and other henchmen to lead several large armies to attack Li Liangzuo's military camp. In this regard, Li Liangzuo had already prepared, and he had been unable to hold out, with the help of a strong camp and Yelu Jun's death, anyway, as a defender, his daily casualties were much smaller than those of the Liao army.

Li Liangzuo came from the Western Xia expedition, and the country was a problem of supply. Naturally, it is impossible to lead too many troops, in fact, he only led 50,000 Western Xia elites, but don't underestimate these 50,000 people, they are definitely the elite of the Western Xia army, almost worth 150,000 ordinary troops.

However, although Li Liangzuo's 50,000 elites were extremely strong in combat, Yelujun saw the shortcomings of the opponent's too small number, so he used all his troops to attack the Western Xia military camp day and night, in order to exchange casualties for casualties. When the casualties in Li Liangzuo's hands exceeded his ability to bear, the Western Xia army would naturally retreat.

However, although Yelujun's plan was good, the tenacity of the Western Xia army was far beyond his expectations, after attacking for half a month, the casualties of the Liao army had already exceeded 10,000 people, although the casualties of the Western Xia side were less than those of the Liao army, but at least a few thousand, and these were the elite forces of the Western Xia. Every loss of one person will make Li Liangzuo feel distressed, but even so. Li Liangzuo still showed no signs of retreating, which also made Yelujun extremely anxious, because he was almost unable to support such a large number of casualties.

Yelujun's plan was originally very adventurous, consuming the number of Western Xia troops at the same time, but also consuming the power in his hands, but he considered himself to be fighting on his own soil. The endurance is far stronger than that of the Western Xia, but unfortunately this time he miscalculated, in this kind of war of attrition, it was he who was the first to be unable to support it.

Of course, Yelujun also thought about stopping the attack, but if this was the case. He had paid so many casualties in vain, which made him very unwilling. In addition, if he stopped attacking, he would let Li Liangzuo know that he couldn't hold on, and I was afraid that the next would be a desperate attack by the Tanguts, and he also firmly believed that the Tanguts could not hold on like this all the time, so in the end he could only order the army to continue the attack.

Sometimes I really can't help but believe in the statement of the Mandate of Heaven, such as the current situation of Yelujun, seeing that he is about to be unable to support it, but at this critical moment, a sudden heavy rain allowed Yelujun to get out of the unfavorable situation, and at the same time saved the national fortune of Liao.

The place where Yelujun and Li Liangzuo confronted was located near a tributary of the upper reaches of the Luan River just now, and Li Liangzuo's Western Xia army happened to be stationed not far from the river, and the terrain of the camp was relatively low.

Yelujun saw that the Western Xia military camp was full of water, and immediately thought of a strategy to break the enemy, and that night he personally led an army of 2,000 to the upper reaches of the Luan River tributary in the heavy rain, and then dug a ditch leading to the Xixia military camp, as a result, the surging river rushed into the Western Xia military camp, and the entire military camp became a Ze country.

Li Liangzuo is also a very decisive person, when he saw the flood rushing into the barracks, he immediately realized that he lost this war in the right time and place, so he immediately ordered the army to retreat, but unfortunately Yelu Jun would not let him leave so lightly, and immediately ordered the army to brave the heavy rain to besiege and kill the Tanguts, and the two sides started a bloody battle in the rain.

Although Li Liangzuo's army was elite, but after being hit by the flood before, it had lost a considerable part of its troops, and the remaining soldiers were all panicked, and they had no intention of fighting at all, and as a result, they were defeated by Yelujun's army, and tens of thousands of people died in the battle alone, plus the soldiers who died in the flood, and finally lost more than half of their troops, so it was not easy to escape back to Western Xia from Yelujun's pursuit.

Li Liangzuo was defeated, and Yelu Chongyuan, who was an ally, immediately received the news, which made him also shocked, but Yelu Chongyuan was also an old fox, and when he saw that the limelight was wrong, he immediately rushed westward with the 20,000 troops he had just gathered, and fled all the way to the junction of the Northwest Road Recruitment Division of the Liao State and the Wugu Enemy Lie Commander Division, in fact, it was the Mongolian area of the later generations, although it also belonged to the Shangjing Road of the Liao State, but the Liao State's rule over it was very weak, and it was still in the era of tribal warfare. This is very similar to the Jurchens in the north of Liao, with the strength of Yelu Chongyuan, he can occupy a piece of territory there and become a soil emperor, maybe there will be a chance to make a comeback in the future.

With the defeat of Li Liangzuo and the escape of Yelu Chongyuan, Yelu Jun finally temporarily pacified the domestic war, but after two years of rebellion, the Liao State also suffered great damage in the country, especially in the heart of the Zhongjing area, which is the main battlefield of the war, which makes it almost everywhere the war is everywhere, and the accumulation of hundreds of years is once dispersed, it can be said that the Liao State has been greatly injured because of this, and it is estimated that it will take at least ten years of recuperation to recover, which also makes Yelu Jun not only unable to retaliate against the Western Xia, He couldn't even destroy Yelu Chongyuan.

Compared with the vitality of the Liao State, although the Western Xia lost tens of thousands of elite divisions, and also lost a large number of military resources and grain and grass after the defeat, at least the country was not involved in the war, so this kind of loss is still acceptable for the Western Xia, and even only needs to recuperate for two or three years before it can be completely recovered, but what everyone didn't expect was that Li Liangzuo made a decision that surprised everyone after the defeat.

Li Liangzuo actually began to increase troops to the border of the Great Song Dynasty, and when Zhao Yan heard the news, he couldn't believe his ears, but this was the case, and according to the information obtained by Huang Wude, this increase in troops in Western Xia was not for show, but really ready to make a move on the Great Song Dynasty.

For such an abnormal behavior of the Western Xia, Zhao Yan, who was a little incomprehensible at the beginning, quickly figured it out, in fact, the reason why the Western Xia used troops against the Great Song Dynasty was very simple, that is, they suffered huge losses in the Liao State, in order to make up for this loss, so they figured out the guò war to plunder the Great Song Dynasty, that is, to feed the war with war, which is also the old habit of the Western Xia people, and even every time there was a natural disaster or man-made disaster in the Western Xia, they would launch a war against the Great Song Dynasty, on the one hand, they would rob the materials they needed, Second, it can also divert domestic attention.

Thinking of the above, Zhao Yan, who had already regarded himself as a Song man, also felt humiliated, the Western Xia was defeated by the hands of the Liao State, but he dared to use the defeated remnants of the army to launch a war against the Great Song Dynasty, this practice simply regarded the Great Song army as nothing, and it also showed that in the eyes of the Western Xia people, the Great Song Dynasty was a fat lamb, and they could go up and cut a piece of meat at any time.

"King Jun, the Western Xia people have been increasing troops on the border, and they may attack our Great Song Dynasty at any time, but our preparation plan for attacking Western Xia is still partially unfinished, and Western Xia has arranged a large army on the border, if we launch an attack in advance, I am afraid that we will not be able to decide Western Xia in a battle, so His Majesty sent King Ying, on the one hand, to stabilize the morale of the army, and secondly, to make a temporary decision." Huang Wude finally concluded.

"I see, no wonder the eldest brother left in such a hurry, but the Tangut people are too arrogant, I hope the eldest brother can teach them a lesson, and when we are fully prepared, it will be the day of the destruction of the Tangut!" Zhao Yan also gritted his teeth at this time and said hatefully, although the army of the Great Song Dynasty has many problems, and the cadets of the military academy have not officially entered the army, but after being equipped with all kinds of weapons he invented, the army of the Great Song Dynasty has also greatly increased its combat power, if the Western Xia people dare to come, the Great Song Dynasty will definitely give them a profound lesson.

Just when Zhao Yan and Huang Wude were discussing the shape between the three kingdoms of Song, Liao, and Xia, they walked north along the palace, and finally they passed through the northernmost back garden of the palace and went out of the palace, and got on a carriage from Jinglongmen out of the city, the carriage drove about ten miles to the northeast, and a low hill appeared, at this time, I saw Huang Wude pointing to the hill and said in a low voice: "King of the county, this is the burial place of Xu Dezu, and it is also the burial place of most of the eunuchs in the palace, if I die in the future, I am afraid that I will also be buried here!" (To be continued......) R1292