Zhao Ta collected a large number of Yuanfeng and Xia during the war as early as before the war, in order to understand the tactics of the Xia army, which was also the only time that the Song army and the Western Xia entered the Gyeonggi region of the Western Xia in the hundred years of war, but unfortunately ended in a fiasco, causing the Song Dynasty to change its strategy against the Western Xia, and the large-scale attack was changed to a shallow attack.

At that time, the five-way Song army of the Xia Dynasty, only Jingyuan and Huanqing arrived under the city of Lingzhou, and the Western Xia was defeated by the method of clearing the field with strong walls and irrigating the camp with river water. However, it was not that the Song army did not have the opportunity to capture Lingzhou at that time, but the opportunity was missed in the infighting and useless suspicions, so this also prompted him and Tong Guan to settle a peace alliance, and both armies obeyed the rules of their dispatch.

In addition, one of the reasons why the Song army besieged Lingzhou for 18 days but did nothing is said to be that 'there are no attacking tools in the army', that is, an army preparing to attack the city did not carry siege equipment, and there were no military craftsmen in the army who knew how to make siege equipment. Even if he wanted to reluctantly cut down local trees to make some simple tools such as ladders, he encountered the problem that the trees outside Lingzhou City were 'small and unusable'.

These led to the siege of Lingzhou Song soldiers have no attack tools available, want to go to the city can only take a ladder of the tragic situation, but the Lingzhou city wall is as high as three zhang, for the soldiers who have not practiced acrobatics is indeed a little more difficult, so they are unable to launch a large-scale siege battle, can only shout to the Xia army in the city, "Why don't you land quickly", the Xia army is not a fool, as soon as you scare him, open the door and surrender, they didn't say anything unpleasant, just asked the Song army, 'I haven't tasted rebellion, nor have I tasted war.' What is Descending? The rest of Song Jun was Xia Jun, who was looking at the city and was complacent, and smiled helplessly!

So this so-called siege warfare. That is, there is no plot of generals flying arrows through their arms, bleeding their backs, and struggling to climb first, and there is no scene of soldiers braving rain of arrows to attack the city, until the Xia army released the Yellow River water and invited them to take a cold bath, which is basically over!

Although Gao Zunyu summed up the reasons for the defeat of the Song army after the war, such as the lack of soldiers, the lack of horses, the lack of logistics, and the in-depth lone army, Zhao Ta, through the analysis of the battle situation, felt that he chose an inopportune tactic that was the main reason for the defeat of the Song army, and although the others could not be discharged, they could be avoided.

After careful study, Zhao Ta believed that an important part of the battle was the annihilation of the Western Xia army stationed at Dongguan Town, which was thirty miles away from Lingzhou, and the nearby Xingzhou ferry. In doing so, the whole game is lived. After seizing the ferry, Lingzhou became an isolated city, and the Song army could cut off the passage for reinforcements from the Xia army and hit the morale of the Xia army defending the city; Second, it can make a gesture of crossing the river to the north to capture Xingzhou. Let the Xia army stationed in Xingqing Mansion not dare to act rashly, so that they can get more options.

After Zhao Ta seized Dongguan Town, he could attack and defend, first seized the strategic initiative, and there was a wonderful point, that is, although it was the golden autumn season now, the weather was also cold, he didn't want to take a cold shower, and controlled Dongguan Town, so he controlled the various gates of the Yellow River irrigation area. Even to prevent the recurrence of the tragedy of the Xia army digging the Qin Canal and flooding the Song army, it can also save the hundreds of thousands of hectares of crops around Lingzhou that are about to be harvested from flooding, so that he can have food to collect.

Zhao Tan led the Hedong Army to the west to mobilize 50,000 forbidden troops and ten commanded archers and part of the government army, expeditions of thousands of miles, siege and plunder countless land, but at this time also showed the phenomenon of lack of soldiers and major generals, along the way important fortresses, large state cities, must be divided into troops to garrison. Along the way, the sheep like they left the soldiers behind. And Lingzhou has a wide jurisdiction, only Lingzhou City has jurisdiction over thirty-six fortresses, and you have to send people to do work everywhere, otherwise what should you do if you make trouble secretly, but the Shaanxi army is still blocking the road. He also had to send someone to answer them, so they came. He has 50,000 more soldiers available. So he is besieging but not attacking now, first solve the problem of eating, and by the way, warn the surrounding people of Xixia and let them all be honest, otherwise Lord Yan will become the ...... of Lord Yan at any time,

Because Lingzhou did not expect the iron gate to break so quickly, the Song army chased the defeated army's butt to the city of Lingzhou, resulting in the city's walled cities not having time to urgently obtain income, and a large number of fertile fields outside the city inevitably fell into the hands of the Song army, and most of the crops in the fields had not yet been harvested. In order to prevent Xia Jungou from jumping over the wall and destroying the crops, Zhao Ta first besieged the city, controlled the various walled forts, and then sent people to collect the autumn tax according to the rules set by Yincheng.

Before the founding of the Western Xia, the party society had entered the feudal society, and the clan feudal system became the basis of the rule of the Western Xia. The land system of the Western Xia can be roughly divided into state ownership, aristocratic ownership, monasteries and small land ownership, and the royal family and party nobles also used their power to encroach on the fields, enslaved the landless peasants to cultivate, collected high land rents, and some even directly plundered the land in the border areas of the Song Dynasty and turned it into private land. Under the rule of the party before the founding of the People's Republic of China, compared with the neighboring Song Dynasty, the servitude was already quite onerous.

At the beginning of the founding of the Western Xia, the imperial power institutions established in imitation of the Song Dynasty system were set up with "three divisions" and "the income of the general national plan due to tribute", and later there were "collection divisions", "farmland divisions" and "group animal husbandry divisions" to manage and collect taxes on agriculture, animal husbandry, commerce and handicrafts. Xixia is located in the northwest, the yield of cultivated land is difficult to compare with the Central Plains, and the tax rate per mu of agricultural land seems to be low, but the mu of Xixia is smaller than that of Song Mu, one mu is about 2.7 mu, so it is not at all compared to the Song Dynasty, but in addition to grain, there are also apportioned things such as pampas reed, wicker, monroe, wheat straw, wheat bran, etc., and there are also a lot of exacting taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and even the poll tax is not divided into men and women, only the size of the men and women, plus the use of troops for many years, conscription is a common thing, and the burden of the people of Xixia is heavier.

The Song army adopted a policy of confiscation of all land owned by Western Xia officials and nobles, and the rent paid by tenants was reduced by half; For large and small landlords, it is not levied on tenants, but paid by the owner's family, of course, at a higher point, and doubled; Those whose own fields are less than one hectare shall be regarded as ordinary peasant households and shall be levied at half of the levy. At the same time, the policy of paid expropriation of surplus grain in the hands of the big landlords was adopted, and the price was of course a little higher than that of the free ones.

In doing so, Zhao only harmed the interests of a small number of large landlords and those tax-exempt royal families and nobles in Western Xia, but reduced the burden on the common people, so that they could smoothly collect grain and grass, ease the tension between them and the commoners of Western Xia, divide their relationship with the landlords and nobles they depended on, and lay the foundation for the next step of rule.

After capturing the town of Dongguan, Zhao moved his camp there, which was adjacent to the Yellow River, close to the ferry to Xingzhou, and on higher ground. After arriving, Zhao Ta ordered the tiger general Zhao Yong to lead his headquarters to attack Yaode City, threaten Pule City, and respond to the Shaanxi army going north, and at the same time mobilize more than 10,000 people to expand Dongguan Town, thicken and heighten the original wall, extend it to the ferry to the north, and rebuild it into a fortress to control the ferry, and store the collected grain and grass in the village.

For Lingzhou, Zhao Tan has always hoped to capture it without bloodshed as much as possible, because Lingzhou is not only a military fortress, but also the economic center of the northwest region, which is an important transportation hub to the countries of the Western Regions, and is also a trading place.

Another reason is that the city of Lingzhou is strong, unlike Xiazhou, which only has a small number of garrisons, and the defense is lax, once the war starts, it will be a vicious battle, and the artillery equipped with their own artillery is light in weight and small in caliber, and it is difficult to cause damage to the city, so it is necessary to risk death to climb the city, but then it will require a large number of climbing equipment, which is carefully designed and manufactured, and it will be down with a drum when the fight starts!

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Lingzhou city Xixia's companion capital, is also the barrier of Xingqing Mansion, although the terrain is gentle and there is no danger to defend, but after a hundred years of operation of the Xixia people, this time is not the same as the past, the city wall is as high as three zhang, with the Yellow River as a moat, the wall head of more than ten miles is wrapped with a felt carpet soaked in water at this time, you can prevent arrows from hurting people, and you are not afraid of fire attack, and the city is stationed tens of thousands of elite soldiers, this kind of defense measures in addition to the number of garrisons is not as good as the number of troops in the Song Dynasty in Tokyo, the important town of Taiyuan, the rest of the famous cities in the Central Plains are really inferior to it. …,

After Ming Anhui fled into Lingzhou City, he hurriedly asked for help from Xingqing Mansion in a panic and sent a crime table. But just when waiting for a reply, the Song army had already approached the city, wantonly 'plundering', grabbing grain and grass, picking up Xiao Heda's head, and frequently sending troops to sweep the surrounding fortresses and wreak havoc in Lingzhou. At this time, he also felt remorseful, and if he had listened to Xiao Heda's advice earlier to defend with danger, he would not have lost the iron gate, broken the general, and lost 30,000 soldiers.

As an important minister of the state, of course he knows the significance of Lingzhou to Western Xia, but the current crisis is also caused by his own impulsiveness. In the torment of remorse, he spent the first five days, and he seemed to have aged ten years overnight, at this time he had already made up his mind, no matter what, he would not go out of the city to fight with the Song army, and he could only redeem the sin of losing the iron gate pass by holding Lingzhou, and he was worthy of saving Xiao Heda who broke through to the death. Wei Ming Yasui regained his strength and made up his mind to repay the country with death, patrolling the city defense every day, building city defense equipment, improving defense, boosting the morale of the soldiers, and preparing to annihilate the Song army with reinforcements.

However, the horn of the attack was not sounded for a long time, and the Song army did not attack the city for a long time, but set up camp outside the city of Lingzhou, mobilized people to strengthen the camp every day, and sent soldiers to collect grain and grass in the early and late returns, and made preparations for a protracted war. And although Li Qianshun, the lord of Xia, understood the plan of the Song army, but Western Xia lost ground again and again, and if he lost Lingzhou again, the consequences could be imagined, and he could only fight... However, at this time, the Song army seized Dongguan Town, controlled the ferry, and deployed layers of defenses along the river. Wei Ming Anhui can only stand on the tower of Xicheng City every day and look across the Yellow River, watching the Xixia army gathered on the other side of the river quench his thirst... (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )