So there is a question: Was the Western Xia consumed to this point in the Battle of Dingchuan Village? The previous wars such as Sanchuankou, Haoshuichuan, and Hedong Road had no impact on the party members at all? Or was it only after the battle of Dingchuan Village that Li Yuanhao suddenly collapsed and felt powerless?

By no means! The consumption of national strength is formed bit by bit, and it is precisely because of the long-term and continuous decline that it has caused irreparable disadvantages! So may I ask: In this situation, why will Li Yuanhao go to war again, prostrate and prostrate again, consume and consume, and must find death?

Li Yuanhao replied with a wry smile: I did this because I couldn't force myself! It has to do with everything that happened during this time...

So what exactly happened during this time?

1. The Great Song Dynasty reassigned the defense authority of the Northwest Frontier. Specifically, Han Qi knew 27,000 troops in Qinzhou and Qinfeng Road, Fan Zhongyan knew 50,000 troops in Qingzhou and Huanqing Road, Pang Zhiyanzhou and 68,000 troops in Yanyan Road, and Wang Yan knew Weizhou and 70,000 troops in Jingyuan Road.

2 The greatest nightmare of the Tangut people, the Song Dynasty repair project, began at this time. First of all, the four roads in the northwest of the Song Dynasty were connected together, especially the Huanqing Road and Yanyan Road where Fan Zhongyan and Pang were located. One of the most important constructions was the Dashun City, which was built in 15 days.

This is Fan Zhongyan's merit, and this incident best reflects his understanding of the victory and defeat of the war at that time. Many people are confused, Fan Zhongyan, who is known as the first person in three hundred years, has worked in the northwest for four or five years, and he has not seen any victories? He hadn't even fought a war, so how did he come to be so famous? Is it a liar who deceives the world?

You must know that Fan Zhongyan was a courtier of the Great Song Dynasty, not of the Tang Dynasty, and in view of the national defense policy of the Great Song Dynasty, which has matured and stereotyped, you can't ask him to go thousands of miles like the top generals of the Tang Dynasty, fight abroad, and tie up foreign enemies back to Chang'an. If you have to force it, it will become Han Qi. A strong scholar whose heart is higher than the sky and whose life is thinner than paper. His main battle itself is right. But it became clear afterwards that the national defense policy of the Great Song Dynasty made no one want to rise with military merits! Even if it was Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and others later, they could only briefly shine in the transitional cracks between the history of the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty... I believe Han Qi himself understands. After the Battle of Haoshuichuan, his character was still so tough and competitive, but in military affairs, he no longer had the previous "fighting spirit".

And Fan Zhongyan's brilliance lies in the fact that he understood the essence of the Song Dynasty's national defense policy from the beginning. The so-called "defense in attack, defense with attack" is specifically repair. In the past, this method was basically used in the country, purely defensive. But as long as it is promoted, it becomes a moving Great Wall... Step by step, it expanded into the territory of Western Xia. Every time it was built, a combat system integrating attack and defense was formed, and the territory of Western Xia was eaten away step by step. The construction of Dashun City is the most daring repair action in the Qingli years.

First and foremost, the most important thing is its location. It was formerly known as Mapu Village in the northwest of Gyeongju, and a little further northwest is the Houqiao River. At the beginning of the Song-Xia War, at the end of the battle between the Security Army and Chengping, the reason why Li Yuanhao urgently withdrew was because his back road Houqiaozhai was ransacked by the Song army... This is the reason why Dashun City is dangerous. It entered the territory of the Western Xia Dynasty deeply, saying that it had built a stockade, but in fact it had crossed the border and grabbed a large piece of territory. And always put the knife on the neck of the party member. Which day to be happy. Just poke it out...

So in the early spring and February of this year, Fan Zhong drowned the slightest omen, and suddenly summoned the generals of the Gyeongju Mansion to gather the team. Go out of town with him. At that time, no one was surprised, and during the war, he led his troops out to patrol around. It's a basic day-to-day action. It's just that this time I went a little farther, all the way to the northeast diagonally, until I reached the position of the former enemy, and the Rouyuan Village, which borders the Western Xia Force, has not stopped. After continuing to walk forward to the enemy-occupied area, the soldiers were surprised to find that there were a lot of old acquaintances in front of them! It was Fan Zhongyan's son Fan Chunyou and the Fan general Zhao Ming. The two of them each led men and horses to guard the building materials as high as a hill. The GIs immediately understood their mission. Let's work, not only in peacetime, but even in wartime, you have to be a builder...

In 15 days, a new city was built. Race against time, and immediately after the cover is completed, the enemy is ushered in. The Tangut people are in a hurry, what? I haven't paid attention for a few days, and such a big illegal building has been built in front of my house? Is this worth it? Unplug it now! The Western Xia gathered 30,000 cavalry to attack the city, and after a scuffle, the cavalry ran back with a big bag in front of the new city wall, which was really exciting, and the Song Dynasty soldiers were about to chase it. Fan Zhongyan stopped them: We are here to build the city, and now the goal has been fully achieved, and we don't want any additional benefits!

Look is careful, even cowardly. But a little analysis will find that the Great Song Dynasty started from the Battle of Youyan of the Great Slut, and until now it has suffered a big loss under Li Yuanhao, and the military idiocy is simply consistent! And the cookie-cutter is to start profiting, then chase fiercely, suddenly ambush, and return with a big defeat. It's as simple as that...

That's why Fan Zhongyan is smart, I don't have as many cavalry as you, and the spies can't figure out the enemy's situation, but do I have to chase you? Once the city is built, you just wait for me to move forward step by step! One day, I'll flatten your living space. At that point, if you want to counterattack, it will be super difficult, and you will have to uproot countless castles along the way!

History has proved the correctness of this strategy later, and it has also proved the sharpness of Fan Zhongyan's vision. These 30,000 Western Xia cavalry really set a big trap for the Song Dynasty people on the way, but they waited stupidly for a long, long time in the cold wind of early spring, and there was still no half-sight... Fan Zhongyan has returned to Gyeongju.

The construction of Dashun City broke the pattern of the northwest frontier, and the strongholds such as Baibao City and Jintang City on the Western Xia side became precarious. In this situation, there is the song that has been passed down through the ages: "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 thieves are shocked when they hear it" Personally, I think that the level of writing of these two ballads is very high, because the words are very accurate.

"A Han in the army is frightened" is talking about Han Qi, the battle of Haoshuichuan was a failure, but the party members won it to the bones. Who wouldn't be afraid of such an opponent?

"A Fan in the army is frightened" is about Fan Zhongyan's soldiers who surrendered without a fight. His jurisdiction has always been peaceful, and the Tangut people know that they can't fight with this person... How accurate! If you are not frightened, how can there be no war?

The above are the first two events that occurred in the Great Song Dynasty as a whole, and the last two are related to Di Qing and Chong Shiheng respectively.

3 Di Qing's floating shadow

Di Qing is a bit like Yue Fei, not that their loyal and brave style is very similar to their tragic life, but their information. After Yue Fei's death, it was only twenty or thirty years. His information became legendary. With the full cooperation of Zhao Gou and Qin Hui, his life was deleted. There is no longer enough official historical evidence to prove his brilliant life. So when talking about Yue Fei now, there are always all kinds of controversies and suspicions, and even many people with ulterior motives want to distort him as a reckless man, a butcher or a stupid person.

And Di Qing, his years in the Northwest Battlefield are also very vague. In the folk, he is the ghost-faced god of war and invincible. Officially, everyone admits that there are only two victorious generals in the Northwest Army: Di Qing and Chong Shiheng.

But how did Di Qing fight? But there are only a few vague words: "25 battles before and after, 8 in the middle of the arrow." Breaking the Jintang City, Luoyouzhou, Tu Suixiang, Maoluo, Shangluo, Qingqi and other clans, the burnt accumulated tens of thousands, collected 2,300 accounts, 5,700 Shengkou, and the city Qiaozi Valley, built Zhao'an, Fenglin, Xinqi, Dalang and other forts, all of which stifled the thieves. Taste the war Anyuan. was wounded very much, and when he heard that the enemy was coming, he stood up and galloped forward, and the crowd fought for the front. Facing the enemy. Wearing a bronze mask, entering and exiting thieves, they are invincible and dare not be" This is all the official records of his glorious years in the Northwest. If you want to analyze, you will find that he is not much stronger than the generals of Mikawaguchi and the generals of Okamizukawa in front of him. What's more, there is Zhang Qi from the Hedong battlefield, so how did his reputation as a god of war come about?

Speaking of Di Qing's military exploits, this is another depressing thing. It's still very similar to Yue Fei. Yue Fei's prestige shocked the world, but none of the "Zhongxing 13 War Exploits" appointed by the Southern Song Dynasty was his. Di Qing is also like this, "breaking Jintang City, Luoyouzhou, Tu Suixiang, Maoluo, Shangluo, Qingqi and other clans, accumulating tens of thousands, collecting 2,300 accounts, 5,700 Shengkou, Chengqiaozi Valley, building Zhao'an, Fenglin, Xinqi, Dalang and other forts" What time period did it occur? Which campaign? Will he play alone or with whom? I can't find it. Generations of history writers can only copy the above text as it is, and then jump directly to the rebellion of Nong Zhigao 10 years later...

But if you are careful, you can still slightly deduce when these events occurred. For example, Fan Zhongyan, who "broke the Jintang City", built Dashun City in March of that year, and it was mentioned in the history books that the two cities of White Leopard and Jintang in Western Xia were in danger, that is, in March, Jintang City had not been broken by Di Qing. In leap September, the battle of Dingchuan Village broke out. After this war, the military operations of the Song Dynasty came to an end. Di Qing's attack could only be carried out between March and September of this year. Think about how hard it was to oppress Western Xia when these important strongholds were broken by Di Qing one by one in such a short period of time? What kind of worries are you about Li Yuanhao?

4 small actions of Shiheng

The founder of the Seed Army is very interesting, but after the Song and Xia wars, he was idle. Qingjian City was trained by him to be a super large, extraordinarily piercing hedgehog, plus he also had so many good friends of the Qiang tribe who were so iron. This led to the fact that no one within a radius of a hundred miles avoided him. So he was bored, and he did very small, very little movements.

He offered a monk like a fairy, drinking and gambling, a group of beautiful women, everything was casual. But suddenly turned his face, beat him fat, and drove him far out of the border, but at the same time, he also asked the court for merit and asked for an official title.

Looking at the mess? But the result was to completely shatter the dream of the Tangut people's development! Not only did the history of the hundred years after the Western Xia become sluggish, but even Li Yuanhao himself suffered from it!

It all started at the beginning. This monk's legal name is Guangxin, and he is a typical "Lu Zhishen" who does not cultivate good fruits in his life, and only loves to kill people and set fires, this monk's eldest brother has been wandering in the vast grassland between Song and Xia before being discovered by Chong Shiheng, and has a wide range of activities, whether it is the major cities of the Song Dynasty, or the tents of the barbarians such as Qiang, Dangxiang, and Khitan, all the roads are clear. As for how he did it, he didn't have Amitabha Buddha at all. He rode a horse, carried a knife, and shot arrows, going back and forth to rob houses and houses.

This time he was fascinated by Chong Shiheng. That's what we need! He used a lot of money to collect the monk into the city, and then raised it with good wine and meat. The degree of indulgence has reached the level of "summoning his subordinates, doing whatever he wants, and providing for nothing", and the monk is also worthy of his "drunkenness, doing nothing", there is nothing he does not do. But Chong Shiheng didn't mind at all, but treated him better and better. Time passed day by day, and in addition to erosive enjoyment, the life of the monk Guangxin was to occasionally go out of the city with Chong Shiheng once or twice, and point him out of the way, how to quietly go around a few disobedient Qiang camps, or the territory of the party members who were too close, and kill them by surprise.

Until February of this year, before Fan Zhongyan was about to build Dashun City, Chong Shiheng suddenly summoned the monk Guangxin very seriously. The location is very hidden, there are only 2 of them, what did they say? Now we can only leak the second half, the first half, and we will only understand in the later historical process, "so that you will be caught," said Chong Shiheng.

"Yes. Definitely," Koshin said.

"You're going to get beaten badly" "Yes." Definitely"

"You're going to not be able to make it up" "No, you won't." Definitely"

"Empty words"..."Guangxin's obedient but unruly eyes...

In the next moment, Chong Shiheng suddenly became angry, arrested Guangxin, beat him badly, then beat again, beat again, beat again, N times, Guangxin didn't care. It is said that the two met again one night, and then Hikari vanished. For a long time, Qingjian City, and even the entire northwestern frontier of the Great Song Dynasty, never saw him again: he defected to Western Xia...

Considering that Koshin's work is very technical, he has to be given time. This tried-and-true monk will bring the greatest surprise to the Great Song! Then wait! He'll definitely be there again!

That's basically what happened in the Song Dynasty, and now let's go back to the Khitans. It is the Xingzong Emperor Yelu Zongzhen who takes advantage of it and wants to take it again, and he is not satisfied with how much he occupies.

Yeluzong's true fame and fortune were both gained, and after a short period of satisfaction, his appetite became even greater. Brother in the south, brother-in-law in the west, don't even think about running! He began to speak to Li Yuanhao. But don't think that his professional ethics are very pure, he took the money of the Song Dynasty and really did things for the Song Dynasty.

After blackmailing the Song Dynasty, and then disciplining the Western Xia, this can show the invincible demeanor of my Great Khitan! So Yelu Zongzhen began to speak along these lines: First, how did my sister Princess Xingping die? Why do you report the funeral after you die? Second, you are my retainer, and the Song Dynasty beat you without passing me, it was they who were wrong. I've got your face back. But you went to beat them, and you didn't ask me, what are you to me?

It is said that on the day Li Yuanhao received the letter, he stared north for a long time, his face was very indifferent, but there were many movements in his hands. Again and again, he touched his nose with his hands. Now it's dangerous. In the past, he dragged Da Liao to fight the Great Song Dynasty, but now the Great Song and Da Liao are standing together, and if they fight like this, won't the Western Xia Kingdom die for the rest of their lives? But do you give in? He really gave in, he was the biggest joke. Without any swords and guns, the Emperor of Liao only used one sentence, and the Emperor of Western Xia collapsed... What does this make people think of him?

Li Yuanhao chose to compromise. He took out a large number of treasures and sent someone to Yelu Zongzhen: I'm sorry for your sister, and you, please forgive me for once?

Yes! That's what Jerod really wants. As long as you take out the money and soften it again, just like the Song Dynasty, I will be satisfied...

So Li Yuanhao quietly gathered forces to the southeast, and the situation demanded that he must have another major decisive victory. Only in this way can he continue to call out Song Liao, and he and his Western Xia Kingdom will have the right to survive... This is the tipping point of Li Yuanhao.

The big war begins! The first step proved to be the superiority of the Song dynasty. Almost as usual, they once again "knew" the date of action on the Western Xia side in advance, and were once again able to take the initiative to choose a battle plan.

War broke out again in Jingyuan Road! On September 1st, after a little pacification and recruitment, Wang Yan ordered the deputy capital to deploy Ge Huaimin from Weizhou, the capital of Jingyuan Road, to the north to meet the enemy! (To be continued......)