On October 25, Zhao Tan led the generals in Hedong to bid farewell to the two roads of Shaanxi, at this time, the Lingzhou Song army was reduced by half, not to mention the attack, even the defensive force was inevitably overstretched, and the generals were inevitably depressed, but the bad news was more than that.

The scout camp roaming around the periphery of Lingzhou intercepted a messenger sent to Western Xia by Wanyan Zongwang, the marshal of the Jin State, and said in the book, "The Liao State has exhausted its strength, and advises the Western Xia to recognize the situation, as long as it professes to the Jin and captures the Liao Emperor Yelu Yanxi, the Jin State will cede the land north of Zhizhai in the northwest of the Liao State and south of Yinshan to the Western Xia." In the letter, he tried his best to coerce and induce him, and at this time, the Western Xia lost a large amount of land, and the promise of the Jin State was extremely tempting to the Western Xia!

Jingzhong Shunzi also sent back the news in due course, and he found out that the purpose of the Western Xia mission was to lobby the important ministers of the court and the central government, negotiate peace with the Western Xia, and stop the western expedition. And the targets of their bribery were Wang Huang, Li Bangyan, who were newly in charge of the government, and Bai Shizhong, who returned to the court, and the gold, silver, jewelry, and dung were scattered like dung, and the voice of the court changed greatly.

Liang Shicheng mentioned the matter of the first dynasty to the emperor many times, saying that the Great Song Dynasty attacked Western Xia, and he always couldn't escape a strange circle, that is, at the beginning, it must be a good news, and there will be a huge pit waiting there in the future. He also mentioned the example of Yuanfeng's five-way expedition to Xia, and began Li Xian to lead a large army to conquer Lanzhou; Wang Zhongzheng attacked Youzhou; Seed of Rice Fat; Gao Zunyu captured the Qingyuan army; Liu Changzuo defeated Liang Yi and buried the main Xia army at Moqi Pass, and the Song army entered Beijing with five victories. However, the siege of Lingzhou City lasted for 18 days, but it could not be captured for a long time. The Western Xia army poured the water of the Yellow River into the Song camp, and cut off the grain route of the Song army, and a large number of Song troops froze and drowned. Only about 13,000 people survived.

Later, in the fifth year of Yuanfeng, in view of the lessons learned from conquering the Western Xia states during the Western Expedition and not being able to defend them, Shen Kuo, the pacification envoy of the Yan Yan Road, and the deputy envoy Chong Ge suggested that a city be built in the Hengshan area as a bridgehead to overlook the Western Xia. Shenzong immediately sent Xu Xi and the eunuch Li Shunju to manage the matter. But the result was a great defeat in Yongle City, with a huge loss of 100,000 soldiers. Lingzhou and Yongle were defeated twice, and 600,000 people died in the battle of the Song army's civilian servants and the border annexed Shuqiang, and the cost was even more astronomical.

Liang Shicheng's words were like 'Daigo empowerment', and Zhao Ji remembered the events of the year, as if they were right in front of him. The father had high hopes for the battle of Lingzhou. In the middle of the night, when he heard the news of the fiasco, he got up and walked around the bed, and could not sleep all night, so he contracted a disease; Yongle was defeated. The Song Dynasty once again lost its troops and returned home, and Shenzong received the news of the fall of Yongle City, and wept with grief and indignation, and did not think about eating. In the early dynasty, he cried bitterly in the face of the auxiliary ministers, and the ministers did not dare to look up. The battle of Yongle greatly stabbed Shenzong, and the history said that "Yongle fell, and knew the difficulty of using soldiers." So he also decided to conquer". Since then, Shenzong has not only lost his spirit, but his condition has also worsened. His physical condition took a sharp turn for the worse, less than three years. He said goodbye to the world in deep disappointment.

Even more than ten years ago, Zhao Ji, who had just ascended the throne, wanted to take advantage of the victory to take the Western Xia after capturing the Tsongkha Kingdom, as a result, although he had achieved a lot of victories over the Western Xia, but, after the Western Xia people and the remnants of the Tibetan forces combined to launch a counterattack, he failed to hold on under the pressure of the Liao State and hastily negotiated peace with the Western Xia.

Wang Hao and others also borrowed stitches and needles to instigate the courtiers to write a letter to prepare for the invasion of Liao, saying that the Western Xia was just a 'moss on the skin', and the Liao State was the 'trouble of the heart', and that the victory of the Western Expedition should conform to the situation, accept it when it is good, negotiate peace with the Western Xia as soon as possible, reach an agreement, and mobilize the Western Army to prepare for the invasion of Liao. And Zhao Kai, the king of Jia, took out many illegal things in the northwest of 'Zhao Ta' collected by the Imperial City Division in a timely manner, saying that he was suspected of supporting the army and separating the northwest. Although the prince didn't say anything, he also privately expressed his concern about Zhao Ta's rise, worried that it would endanger his position, and he couldn't escape the suspicion of secretly fueling the troubles. Under the attack of many parties, the emperor Zhao Ji began to hesitate to continue the westward expedition and seize Xingzhou......

Zhao Ta knows his father very well, he is a guy who thinks he is smart and wants to become a hero, however, in addition to being shrewd and ambitious, he also needs to have a resolute heart that can withstand blows and pressure. But he lacks the qualities that a person who has achieved great things should have, his mind is full of fantasies and fantasies, he lacks resilience in the face of danger, and once things go up and down, he often changes his mind with softness and plays some self-righteous cleverness, but he often does not know the truth of 'greedy for small gains and big losses'.

But God seemed to be testing Zhao Tan's strong nerves, and the two worshippers of the palace, Lu Xiaoyao and Wu Song, came back, and brought back a reason why he had to give up continuing to fight - Fang La's 'uprising'.

Zhao Ta was not surprised by this result, and has been waiting for this day to come, of course, he also hopes that it is best not to come, for this reason he has also made efforts to clean up the Jiangnan officialdom, and to show grace to the people is to prevent the people from revolting, and at the same time strictly order the government at all levels to strictly investigate Manichaeism. After arriving in the northwest, he was still not at ease, and at the beginning of the year, he sent the two major worshippers of the palace to Jiangnan to visit Fang La, wanting to have a 'beheading operation', but now it seems that it was all in vain.

"Brother Lu, what's wrong with you, are you evil!" After Lu Xiaoyao and the two finished washing, Zhao Ta had already put on the banquet to wash the dust for them, but he found that Lu Xiaoyao's attitude towards him was much more respectful, and he no longer had the informalistic appearance of the 'merry gentleman' back then, he asked in wonder.

"Lord Wang, he is evil, after Jiangnan heard that Fang La rebelled, he became a god and a god, always saying that the prince is not a person, but a god or something nonsense!" Wu Song was still the same as before, drank a large bowl of wine, picked up a piece of meat and said while chewing.

"Prince, the past is wrong, listen to Xiye they said that the prince can know the world, only when they are touting the prince, this Jiangnan and his party know that the prince is a true god, as early as two years ago when he went down to Jiangnan, the prince sent people around to find Fang La, at that time I thought he was offending you, that is, this time we were sent to kill him, and it was still as I thought before, but when he rebelled, I knew that it was not a personal vendetta at all, but I knew that he was going to rebel!" Lu Xiaoyao respectfully saluted and said, "It's just that his subordinates didn't do anything well and failed to kill him, and I ask the prince to punish him!" ”

"Alas, I can't blame you for this, the country is in great trouble, there will be demons, I wanted to be able to change my life against the sky, but the will of heaven is difficult to disobey, it seems that my Great Song Dynasty should have this catastrophe!" Zhao Tan sighed and waved his hand, he now has a small drum in his heart, after the Western Expedition defeated the Western Xia, he thought that he was already changing history, but he didn't expect that the wheel was still pressed from his feet, Fang La's rebellion shook the foundation of the Song Dynasty, and he was one step closer to the Five Kingdoms City, it seems that the struggle is not enough.

After three rounds of drinking, Zhao Ta asked the two to talk about Jiangnan and his party, and from the conversation between the two, he figured out that Lu Xiaoyao and the others were not stupid, they had been infinitely close to Fang La, but because they provided too few clues, there were deviations, which caused the two to miss the opportunity and finally failed the mission.

Zhao Ta has always been looking for people in the name of Fang La, but his correct name is rarely known in the countryside, and he is called Fang Thirteen, and this secret society with a religious nature is also working underground, and its members are called by their religious names, and they do not know each other's true identities. And he thought that Fang La could quickly gather tens of thousands of people to rise up, and he must be a big hero, a good man who fought for righteousness and squandered money, and he could see from the information they brought back that he was outrageously wrong.

In fact, Fang La is just a little witch, at the beginning of the incident, Fang La's wife was dressed like a mother, and then embellished with a large bronze mirror on the chest, gently moved the lotus step, walked towards the sun, looked at it from afar, dazzling, the people did not know, and it was rumored that Fang La and his wife had auspiciousness. Later, he took advantage of the situation that the Song court wantonly collected flowers and stones in the south of the Yangtze River, expropriated and oppressed the people, and with the help of the power of the congregation, he rose up in a hurry, and finally became a prairie fire. …,

After the Fang La uprising, he killed Cai Zun and Yan Tan, the two Zhejiang road supervisors who went to suppress them, lost 3,000 soldiers, and then went down the Xin'an River to kill under Qingxi City. After seizing the county seat, Fang La was elected as the new monarch, the Holy Prince, Jianyuan Yongle, his wife Shao Shi was the queen, and his son Bo Er was the prince; He also took Fang Fei as the minister of state, Wang Qifo and Chen Hoop as military advisors, and Tong Dagu, Tong Xiaogu, Fang Baihua and others as generals.

After that, Fang La led the army to break through Muzhou, occupied Xiuning County, and approached Shezhou City. Li Ke, the governor of Shezhou, abandoned the city and fled at night, leaving only the southeast general Guo Shizhong still holding on to the city. More than 10 days later, the people of Tonglu, Fuyang, Shouchang, Sui'an, Yuqian, Changhua and other counties obeyed the orders of the 'Holy Father' and took refuge one after another, and their army snowballed and rapidly grew to more than 200,000 people.

There are a total of 15 military states on the two Zhejiang routes, and a total of 19,000 infantry troops are stationed, and less than half of the troops can fight in mobile battles, except for garrisons and messengers. Although it is a regular army, it is basically not trained in peacetime, but it is often used to escort flowers and stones and serve labor.

"The officials and soldiers are incompetent, they have repeatedly lost land, and after the thieves broke through the city, they were also extremely cruel to the captured officials, who were often buried alive, cut out their hearts, cut off their limbs, shot to death with arrows, and boiled into anointing oil... The tragic situation is unbearable to witness! Lu Xiaoyao said with a sigh.

"Alas, the reason of heaven is clear, the cycle of cause and effect, the people of the southeast are suffering from the ping-pong of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and they are also self-inflicted on their own end!" Zhao Tan sighed and said, the extremely unsparing approach of the 'Righteous Army' proves from the side that they have suffered from the brutality of the government, and the people already hate them to the core, and he is not sympathetic to this, but now he can't even see the former killer leader, which shows that his methods are too cruel, and using this extremely vicious ability to vent his grievances will also lose people's hearts to a great extent.

But what makes Zhao Ta depressed is that they make trouble but they have affected themselves, and a new regime will not be overthrown, and the suppression of the Western Army in the south is a foregone conclusion, and peace talks with the Western Xia are imperative, and he has to give up the victory in front of him, and he will fall short, this may also be providence! (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )