But Li Yuanhao's army didn't come, it was his messenger He Zhen who came, groveling and panicking into Yanzhou City, bringing Li Yuanhao's pain - you can do well, bring a message to Your Majesty for me. I was beaten very painfully, and I knew that I was wrong, and I... I want to get back together.

Well, Fan Yong listened very carefully, and then used Confucian classical theories to confirm his thinking, and felt that this matter was very reliable: we are the Celestial Empire, and the small state barbarians rebelled for a while, and they will naturally sober up after beating them. If you wake up, you will still be a good comrade, and in line with the principle of magnanimity and education, Li Yuanhao should be given a chance to be a new person. So Fan Yong rewarded the Western Xia envoy and asked him to go back and tell Li Yuanhao: There is hope for reunion, and now all you have to do is continue to show the sincerity of surrender...

Sincerity arrived: many Tangut people fled the border and surrendered to the Song Dynasty, strongly demanding to live and work in peace and contentment, never to return. As for the place of settlement, Yanzhou City does not dare to hope for extravagance, but I really want to be closer to Mr. Fan, so I chose Jinmingzhai.

Let's talk about Jin Mingzhai and its guard Li Shibin. It makes sense for the Tangut people to choose him, and he is also a member of the party, which gives the Tangut side a great sense of belonging. But his loyalty to the Song dynasty was unquestionable from his father, Li Jizhou. Since Song and Xia's friendship, he has made Li Yuanhao himself depressed many times.

is the same party member, can you come back? Li Yuanhao sent someone with a large sum of money to Jinmingzhai to get in touch with him, but he was cut off by Li Shibin, but the money was left.

Li Yuanhao then sent someone to bring more money, plus the official standard clothing of Western Xia, and then went to Jinmingzhai, but deliberately lost everything on the way. The location of the loss is very particular, it is the territory of Xia Sui, the deputy capital of Yanyan Road and Li Shibin's top boss Xia Sui at that time. How? In addition to money and officials, Li Shibin is about to rebel!

But Xia Sui just didn't believe it, I know who Lao Li is, and there is another point, the strength of Jin Mingzhai is destined for its price. With 100,000 soldiers, Jinmingzhai is the strongest fortress on Yanyan Road. Li Shibin himself is known as the "Iron Wall", which is the copper wall at the forefront of Yanzhou City. The most important point why it is called "Iron Wall" is that the "pure" Li Shibin, father and son, have guarded Jin Ming for two generations, and the soldiers under his command have become real descendants. A veritable Li Jiajun!

Faced with the surrender of the Western Xia people and the need to live in, Li Shibin refused without thinking about it. His method was to move all those who surrendered into the interior, and then disperse and resettle them into pieces. But the problem is that Fan Yongfan, the supreme military and political chief of Yanyan Road, is in a very good mood: Li Yuanhao has surrendered, the Western Xia people have defected in large numbers, and the situation has suddenly opened up, Li Shibin, what about your courage? No matter how many people come, they will take it all! Just plant it in your Jinming Village! Isn't there a total of 36 sub-villages in Jinmingzhai? Each stockade is scattered a little. Isn't that the same as being scattered in the interior? And there is still the cost of the road, which has enhanced the strength of Jinmingzhai!

Speechless! The layman has to lead the insider. But... Li Shibin actually agreed... Of course, this has the bad influence of the basic national policy of the Great Song Dynasty's 'using literature to control force', but also because of Li Shibin's overconfidence.

The self-confidence accumulated by the father and son of the iron wall made him look down on Li Yuanhao at all, since the Song and Xia Dynasty became evil, the Western Xia soldiers haunted near Jinming Village, Li Shibin waved his knife and rushed out, basically he could only see the back of the party cavalry, those people ran and shouted - as soon as the iron wall came, our courage fell to the ground! This has happened a lot. Coupled with Li Yuanhao's recent combat achievements, Li Shibin despises the other party very much...

So as Lord Fan wished, and even more as Li Yuanhao wished, a large number of Xixia people were scattered and resettled in various key places in Jinmingzhai...

On the night of January 17. Just after the Shangyuan Festival of Jinmingzhai is still immersed in the atmosphere of festival celebration, Li Shibin took his son Li Huaibao to inspect the villages, this night came to Huangdui Village, safe and sound. Night. Li Shibin lives here.

In the early morning of the 18th, Li Shibin was awakened by a siren, and he instinctively shouted to prepare the horse. With horses he can play. But the worst thing is that after riding out of the road, he realized that it was a bad horse that couldn't run!

The Iron Wall was betrayed by his subordinates in his own camp! He could not run, his command was ineffective, and he was captured alive by the enemy. It was only then that he found out who his opponent was. It was actually the war madman and Western Xia Emperor Li Yuanhao himself! In this battle, the 100,000 elite soldiers of Jinmingzhai were annihilated, and they were not wronged.

said that the injustice was caused by such a consequence, and the real responsible person was not him, but the old master Fan! Say it's not wrong, as a border general, you have been fighting for generations, and you don't understand what Fan Yong doesn't understand? Why don't you object to the end? The impregnable Jinming Village is full of spies, and it has been disintegrated from within! Also: This time Li Yuanhao led the army to raid, entering from Tumen on the border, Jinmingzhai is nearly 300 kilometers away from Tumen, and it is by no means possible to arrive overnight. Jinmingzhai, a Lianzhu village with a master and a secondary, integrated attack and defense, can't even do the least remote early warning?

It was too late to say anything, Li Shibin's father and son fought bloodily that day, and Li Huaibao died on the spot. And before Li Shibin was captured, he did a major event that was crucial to the entire battle situation. He sent his subordinates to flee to Yanzhou City immediately with his mother and wife, one to flee for his life, and the other to report the military situation to Lord Fan: the Western Xia people have come in, and Jinmingzhai has been breached... But he never dreamed that this was the biggest mistake he had made in his life, and its tragic consequences would be thousands of times more serious than the fall of Jinmingzhai!

Fan Yong should have known the news of the invasion of Western Xia. The evidence is that before this, he had ordered the deputy capital of Yan Yan and Huanqing to deploy Liu Ping, and the deputy capital of Yan Yan to deploy Shi Yuansun to kill Tumen, which was the entrance of Li Yuanhao's army invasion.

But when Li Shibin's mother and wife miraculously escaped in the chaos of thousands of troops and horses, they fled all the way to Yanzhou City. Let Fan Yong know the criticality of the battle situation at the first time. Fan Yong's reaction was to refuse to believe. But immediately after that, the Western Xia cavalry appeared under the city of Yanzhou, and Fan Yong immediately cried in fright.

Therefore, although Li Shibin lost Jin Mingzhai, he reported the news in time and fought bravely to the last moment, and he had fulfilled his duties as a soldier of the Great Song Dynasty. But the question is who he sent the message to. If it was Chai Rong, Zhao Kuangyin, and even Zhao Guangyi and Zhao Heng back then, their reaction would not have been to hug his subordinates like this old master Fan with white hair and a saintly temperament! After crying bitterly for a long time, Fan Yong began to exercise his powers and duties. Ordered all the troops that could be mobilized in Yanyan Road to immediately assemble in Yanzhou City! No matter where you are or what you are doing, come and save me now!

Miraculously, his order was sent out from the city of Yanzhou, and the herald crossed a distance of several hundred kilometers to the Song-Xia border, which was the entrance of Li Yuanhao's invasion, and handed over the reinforcement order to the hands of Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun.

These two generals led their troops to Tumen, in order to intercept Li Yuanhao. But it's a pity that the news got late, and Li Yuanhao had already rushed into the hinterland of Yan Yanlu. After receiving the order, the rescue soldiers were like fighting a fire, and the two of them immediately led the troops to rush back. However, Liu Ping's station, which was originally Gyeongju, had previously marched for four days and rushed to the security army, where he joined Shi Yuansun, and the two armies merged and killed Tumen. At this point, I would like to ask three questions:

First, the level of exertion. At this time, it is the first month of winter in the northwest, and how much will their combat effectiveness be discounted when they go back and forth like this?

Second, the number of people and horses. This is an extremely strange point. In the history of the Song Dynasty, Liu Ping's strength was recorded: three thousand! And after that, they will merge with the other three generals: more than 10,000! In other words, the strength of the two of them should only be about 5,000! The Great Song Dynasty is known as a million forbidden army, why did the two deputy commanders of the military region fight for Lu, but there are only 5,000 men and horses, and they are still mixed with foot and horse? The reason for this is not explained in all the history books!

Third, and most importantly, this is the point. Have you thought about the two generals? Li Yuanhao had surrounded Yanzhou City at this time, and how far was it from Yanzhou to Tumen, and how brave did Fan Yong's heralds have to be to pass through thousands of troops and horses and hand over the reinforcement orders to you?

On the 20th, they returned to the security forces. In the face of all kinds of difficulties, Liu Ping encouraged his subordinates to "go to the urgent needs of the people, and the soup is still flat, and the state affairs are still on the ground" No matter what, we must rush to Yanzhou, save our boss, and annihilate Li Yuanhao!

After that, day and night, march with all their might. On the night of the 22nd, they arrived at the periphery of Mikawaguchi. On the same day, it suddenly snowed heavily, and in the cold winter season, people were sleepy and horses were tired, Liu Ping decided to rest here, and the camp site was selected 10 miles west of Sanchuankou. After all, Yanzhou City is about to arrive, and the big war is about to start, and the army must be given a respite.

At this moment, he suddenly received a second urgent report from Fan Yong. ordered them not to rest, and quickly drove to Yanzhou overnight. And in order to prevent the Tangut people from taking the opportunity to sneak into the city, he was asked to break the team into pieces and enter the city in batches. The military order was like a mountain, and Liu Ping had no choice but to comply. After releasing the 50 squad in a row, he suddenly realized that something was wrong! There was no reaction from the front, and his army looked like it was missing, and if he looked for the herald again, he was also missing. Fooled! Liu Ping reacted instantly.

Can't be saved. Liu Ping could only stabilize the remaining cavalry, and rested in the camp 10 miles west of Sanchuankou, quietly waiting for the arrival of the infantry behind. The night passed like this, and after dawn on the 23rd, the infantry still did not catch up, and Liu Ping decided to retreat with the whole army. With the big war ahead, we must muster all our strength!

After going backwards for 20 miles, I encountered infantry who were hurrying day and night. The only good news is that the number of troops has suddenly increased by several thousand, that is, Huang Dehe, the governor of Yanyan Road, and 2,000 people, Wan Qizheng, the inspector of Yanzhou West Road, and Guo Zun, the inspector of Yanzhou West Road, who were also recruited by Fan Yong from the station, and now Sanchuankou has met Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun.

With such a mix of infantry and cavalry, Liu Ping finally raised his strength to more than 10,000 at the beginning of the war. On the same day, the Song army marched 5 miles east and reached the Wulong River at the mouth of the Sanchuan River. It was a little-known river before, and then it went down in history! Because the Song army failed here! Painful humiliation, but also a glorious and heroic defeat! (To be continued......)