"The Struggle of the Reborn King"

【Introduction】

"The king is not like the king of people, he is not like the king of the king, the pain of old age, the prodigal son of smelting, and the hearts of scattered people to change greatly, all of them are bound to die!" At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Ji ascended the throne, exhausted the traitors in the world, filled the palace with demons, the building was about to fall, and the prosperous and wealthy Song Dynasty was in turmoil.

The special forces from the modern era possessed the second prince Zhao Tan, in order not to be a prisoner and die in the city of the Five Kingdoms, he had to work hard!

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"See, you've brought all the military and geographical records about Lin, Fu, and Fengzhou!" Zhao Ta looked at it for a long time, turned his head and ordered to see Xidao.

"Yes!" Seeing a happy sound, he knocked twice on the wall of the carriage, the carriage immediately stopped, and the convoy immediately stopped, he got out of the car and came to a car behind, felt out and opened the door, quickly removed the box, let Xifu send it to the prince's carriage, locked the door, and pulled the lock twice before returning to the car, and ordered to get back on the road.

Zhao Ta opened the box and took out a volume, and on the cover it was neatly written "Hedong Road Soldiers' Geographical Chronicles", and from the table of contents, the book is divided into eight chapters, namely, the observation of soldiers, topography and geology, meteorology, transportation, health, camping and provisions, residents and settlements, religion and thought, and a large number of appendices, schedules, drawings and other items. The book consists of three volumes, each of which is more than two inches thick.

Sun Ziyun: Knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent will not be defeated in a hundred battles. Zhao Ta made a lot of effort on this, in order to compile the military gazetteer, he rummaged through the exposition notes of his predecessors, looking for clues, after having a caravan, stationed among them in the main book, one of the main is to collect information from all over the place, and later with the restaurants and shops, the information they collected is also regularly sent to Zhao Ta, after he analyzed, compiled into a book. But his previous goal was Liao, and Western Xia was still second, but as things developed, he had to shift his focus to Western Xia a year ago, unfortunately due to haste, some things were incomplete and needed to be constantly replenished!

"Hedong Road is between the two captives, if the end and the end are combined and the inner Kou, then it is greater than the Guanbei Beihe East Road jurisdiction is mainly east of the Yellow River, roughly equivalent to most of the present-day Shanxi Province, and the jurisdiction is now the Shaanxi Economic Strategy to pacify the envoy and the middle. The country prepares the east of the river, and the heavy war is just in the Lin and the government, so that the Lin and the government cannot control the thieves, then who can defend the east of the river? Therefore, Lin, the government is in the merger, the generation, and the leader of the arm. The opening summary of the book is a quotation from a passage by Chen Zhizhong, the original knowledge of the Yongxing Army, which points out the importance of its geographical location.

The geography of the three prefectures of Lin, Fu and Feng was extremely important to the Song Dynasty government. First of all, in the Song and Xia wars, it was an important obstacle to the east road of the Song River, where the north controls the desert, the valley is dangerous, the Yellow River takes its south, the Great Wall surrounds its north, and the land is upstream.

Secondly, the area of Lin, Fu and Feng is suitable for agriculture and animal husbandry, especially the fertile land in the west of the Quye River in Linzhou, the land is fertile, and the river water can be diverted to irrigate the fields, which is the main grain producing area in Linzhou and Fuzhou. Lin and Fuzhou will recruit people to cultivate it on the spot, and they can make up the side fee. In addition, good horses are also produced here, which is a place for importing war horses for the Central Plains government, which does not produce horses.

Third, the Qiang soldiers in northern Shaanxi are brave and good at fighting, "the soldiers outside the river are cowardly and rare." However, the Hengshan area is in the Tibetan region, east to Lin, Fu, west to Yuan, Wei, more than 2,000 miles, people and horses are vigorous, accustomed to fighting. Xia Yuanhao relied on these Fan soldiers to defeat the Song army repeatedly, and the Song Dynasty also formed the subordinate tribes into Fan soldiers and archers, which became a new force in the Northern Song Dynasty against the Western Xia. Therefore, protecting the Lin and Fu areas is a major matter related to the safety of the East Road of the Northern Song Dynasty. …,

Similarly, the Lin, Fu, and Feng regions were also important to Western Xia. Western Xia has Xia, Sui, Yin, You, Jing and other prefectures in northern Shaanxi, and its northeast is Songhe East Lulin, Fu, Fengzhou, and Song Yanyan and other roads. If the Western Xia obtained the two prefectures of Lin and Fu, it would not only completely eliminate the difficult situation in which the Western Xia had been in the battle in northern Shaanxi, but also had great significance for the Western Xia to attack the East Song River Road.

The west and north of Lin, Fu and Feng are Xia Tu, the northeast is the Khitan border across the river, and the east is the East Song River Road. Once the Western Xia seized the three prefectures of Lin, Fu and Feng and stationed heavy troops, the armies of the Song River East Road and the Volcano could all plan for it, and they could take the river as a danger and advance and retreat freely. Therefore, from the beginning of the founding of the Western Xia Dynasty, the three states of Lin, Fu and Feng of the Northern Song Dynasty were eyeing each other, and they were bent on annexing them and clearing the way to attack the east of the Northern Song River.

In addition, the native products of Xixia are mostly barley, long beans, barley, seeds, ancient vines, alkaline land pengshi, cistanche seedlings, small turnips, mat chicken grass seeds, rehmannia leaves, Dengxiang grass, shallots, wild leeks, ash rejection, white artemisia, alkaline pine fruit, in the Central Plains, these things are just feed for livestock, but these wild vegetables, native products in Xixia are the main reliance of the people's daily life, from these it can be seen that there are not many fertile fields that can produce rice and wheat in Xixia, and the grain is not rich.

The natural environment of Western Xia is relatively harsh, and the only arable land in its territory is the Ningxia Plain, northern Shaanxi and the Hexi Corridor, and most of the land in the northeast and northwest is the Gobi Desert. Even though there are Xing and Ling areas in the territory, grain production cannot meet the needs of the people's livelihood. In particular, the fertile land in the Quye River basin is the main grain-producing area in the Lin and Fu regions, so in order to obtain arable land, the Western Xia constantly provoked wars against the border areas of the Song Dynasty, and its purpose was to seize the cultivated land in the border areas of northern Shaanxi, and the three prefectures of Lin, Fu and Feng became its preferred targets.

In order to prevent the invasion of the Western Xia, the Song Dynasty also conspired against the five states of Yin, Xia, Sui, You, Jing and other states of the Western Xia, and incorporated the urban castle areas of the five states into the jurisdiction of the Song Dynasty.

However, those urban areas are very south-eastern; The vast desert grasslands and mountain forests in the north and west of the land of the Five Prefectures were not effectively controlled by the Song Dynasty. As a result, Western Xia took the opportunity to establish a stable "big rear" in the northwest desert region. However, the Song Dynasty did not have a clear and sober understanding of the advance base of Western Xia. In their concept, the Northwest Desert is a desolate and barren land, so why did the Western Xia raise troops and grow?

In fact, although the northwest region of Xiazhou is a desert area, it is also a transportation artery of the northern grassland. Many merchants from the Western Regions and northern steppe tribes would concentrate on this area at a fixed time to trade in the weak water and Mu Us desert. The Western Xia occupied this place, and although the land itself produced nothing, the profits from the relay trade were considerable. In addition, the vast desert area in the northwest of Xiazhou, the lack of food, coupled with the Song army's unfamiliar geography, made the Song army dare not and could not go deeper. Therefore, the Western Xia was based on the great desert in the northwest of Xiazhou, and was basically invincible in the confrontation with the Song Dynasty.

Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, the areas of Lin, Fu and Feng have been inhabited by party members, and were later acquired by the Song Dynasty. Dangxiang is a cautious nation, the Han people have a saying that "if you have a revenge, you don't take revenge on your husband", the Xixia proverb says: "Eat ten bags of beautiful fruits and have revenge, and ten daughters are not considered to have a queen", if you have a relationship with others, then this revenge must be avenged. Before the revenge, they were unkempt, wore no shoes and did not eat meat, saying that if they did not kill their enemies, they would live a normal life. …,

However, there is also a traditional habit in the party society - not to take advantage of the danger of others, and if the enemy has something murderous, he will stop attacking. If they are weak and cannot take revenge, they mobilize the women of their families to go to the enemy's house and set fire to the other party's house. The party members regarded fighting with women as an omenous omen, so the enemy allowed the women to set fires, while their own people had to avoid them. The meaning is probably the same. If the feud between the two sides can be reconciled, a ritual is to be held: the blood of chickens and dogs is mixed into the wine, and both sides drink together, and swear: "If revenge is revenged, there will be no harvest of grain and wheat, men and women will be bald, six animals will die of the plague, and poisonous snakes will be in the account."

When the Song Dynasty wanted to dominate the five states of Hedong again, Western Xia was not idle, and wanted to recapture its homeland. In the first year of Qingli, the Western Xia and the Northern Song Dynasty had just ended the battle of Haoshuichuan, Li Yuanhao gathered tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to launch the Lin, Fu and Feng campaigns, the battle of Lin and Fu Erzhou survived by virtue of the dangerous terrain, Fengzhou is located outside the river, its northeast is connected with the Khitan, the northwest is adjacent to the Xixia border, the terrain is lonely but was captured by the Xixia because of its ineffectiveness, and the two sides have been fighting for decades, the battle line is stable on this line, and the Song Dynasty is unable to recapture Fengzhou City!

In order to own this land, the government of the Song Dynasty adopted a policy of restraint, adding officials to the local chieftains, allowing the hereditary chief to be the head of one party, and transporting food and salary, and establishing a vassal relationship; In order to protect their own vested attachment to the Song Dynasty, these party nobles became the main leadership force in defending the northwestern frontier of the Song River East Road.

At that time, in Lin and Fuzhou, the local Hao chieftains had the party Xiang Ren Zhe clan, and Fengzhou had the party Xiang Tibetan talent clan Wang clan. "Fold since the end of the Tang Dynasty has Lin, the land of the house, at the beginning, the ancestor of the Tang Zhenwu army Yuanhe five towns are known soldiers and horses, and his son Lun is the history of Linzhou Thorn, Sun Congruan, from Ruan Zide, successively according to Fugu, five generations of Zhou thought that the Yong'an army was a festival, defending the Rong captives, and relying on it for generations." In the second year of Jianlong, Song Taizu defended the border with Zhede Fence, and the edict ordered Zhede Fence to enter the Hajj, and was treated well, and was repatriated to the town. In the second year of Qiande, he was killed by virtue and attacked by his son. The Zhe clan was loyal to the Song Dynasty and resisted the Western Xia, so the Western Xia hated the Zhe clan to the bone. Fengzhou Party Xiang Tibetan Cai Wang family lived in Fengzhou, Kaibao two years, its leader Wang Jia returned, Song placed Fengzhou to deal with it. Wang Jia, Song Yizi Wang Chengmei knew the state affairs, and awarded the Tiande Army Fan Han Du Commander, and later awarded the Fengzhou Assassin History. Wang Chengmei died, and his grandson Wang Wenbao was recorded as governor of the state.

The Song government adopted this kind of restraint policy, and entrusted the party leaders in the Lin, Fu, and Feng regions with important tasks to resist the Western Xia, and as for the benefits of entrusting the local tyrants to the imperial Xia, Ouyang Xiu had an incisive discussion in the "On the Matters of Linzhou": "The so-called local tyrants are the ones who are brave and unique, and they are both prestigious, feared by the enemy, and can understand the enemy's feelings and hypocrisy. Whoever defends in battle, does not take advantage of it. If a state is entrusted, it should regard itself as a state as home, be its own weal and woe, fight bravely, and defend itself. And it is a native people, and its customs are in touch, people rely on their bravery, but also like to attach to it, then the people of the Han Dynasty can gradually recruit themselves, they can defend the thieves and defend the outside, and the people can be gathered to the real side, save money and reduce troops, and there is no inconvenience. Compared with the order of the officials, everything depends on the court, and the benefits and disadvantages are a hundred times greater. ”