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Brother Richard has been defeated repeatedly, and Li Renxiao has not thought about changing generals.

However, who can Lee In-hyo replace?

Not to mention, apart from Brother Richard, there is no second commander in Western Xia who has combat experience in commanding large armies.

This is the same as when Zhao Ji was disappointed in Tong Guan and had to use Tong Guan and even had to give Tong Guan the title of king, he could only complain that his country did not pay attention to the training of commanders before, so that once the only commander was not good, he immediately became unavailable, which is like Li Cun, who has always been balanced promotion and training, so that the generals of the Daqian Dynasty can be the supreme commander, even if there are not twenty, there must be more than a dozen.

Taking a step back, in fact, even if Western Xia still has a commander who can replace Brother Richard, it is useless.

The combat effectiveness of the armies of the two countries was not at the same level at all, which was similar to the battle between the Anglo-French army that completed the industrial revolution and the Qing army, which still used bows and arrows, spears, and broadswords as its main weapons.

As soon as the two sides fought, the Xia army still mainly used the traditional offensive method, directly letting the cavalry come up and charge hard.

But the war horse is a very sensitive animal, once it is injured, it will panic to the point of chaos, which will inevitably lead to the offensive of the cavalry being disrupted, and the enemy is trying to disrupt it, but the result is to mess up itself.

However, before the start of the war, most of the cadres used red-coated cannons and other firearms to open the way -- even if there were no red-coated cannons, there were certainly rapid-fire guns such as tiger squat guns, that is, there were no rapid-fire guns such as tiger squat guns, and there were also more and more flintlock guns.

This formed a natural restraint for the cavalry-dominated Xia army.

As a result, many times, as soon as the cadres opened fire, the horses on the Xia army's side were frightened by the explosion of artillery fire and fled in all directions, disrupting the formation at least and causing the army to collapse at worst.

Seeing this, the heavy cavalry on the side of the Qianjun army was in front and the light cavalry was in the rear, and a charge could completely defeat the Xia army, and then the light cavalry stepped forward and won the victory with one cover.

On the other hand, most of the officers and men of the Xia army (including the Tibetan tribes, the grassland tribes, and the Western Regions countries) had no battlefield experience in fighting the cadre army.

This made the Xia army unable to stand the psychological pressure when faced with the cannonballs and bayonets of the cadre army, and then disbanded on the spot - many warriors of the Xia army (including the Tibetan tribes, the grassland tribes, and the Western Regions countries) who were brave and good at fighting in the past, when fighting against the cadre army, as long as the cannon sounded, they instinctively left the battlefield with their superb horsemanship, and they may still be silently chanting in their hearts: "It's still important to save your life!" ”

In other words, in fact, Xia Jun also has some firearms, and there are not many of them.

- Some firearms were developed by the Tangut people themselves, and some firearms were brought over by the Song army who surrendered to the Tangut, Ren Dejing and Du Chong paid tribute to Li Qianshun and imitated the firearms made by the small court of the Western Song Dynasty, and some were imitated by the Jin people who flowed into the Western Xia from the rout of the Jin army.

A common problem with these firearms is that they are of poor quality.

Needless to say, whether these firearms are fired or not is a problem.

- The Tangut people did not care for black powder at all, so that their black powder was often damp, and only about half of it could be fired.

Even if it can be fired, you must first confirm whether this firearm has exploded and killed and injured a large number of your own people, and then you can see how lethal it is to the enemy.

-- Because the quality of the firearms in the hands of the Tangut people was too poor, and they did not know how to use a fixed amount of gunpowder, the gunpowder of their firearms was loaded more or less depending on their feelings, and in the environment that was very easy to rush on the battlefield, it must have been very easy to cause explosions.

How so?

If those imitation unconscionable cannons can really shoot at the officers and soldiers of the cadre army, they must have a certain lethality, after all, the main thing of the unconscionable cannon is a large caliber, so even if the ratio of gunpowder in Western Xia is not good, and it is not granular gunpowder, it must have a certain power.

However, considering the pitiful range and accuracy of the conscienceless cannon, when there is an absolutely suppressive weapon on the side of the Daqian Dynasty, the red-coated cannon, the conscienceless cannon can really play a very limited role on the battlefield, especially when the two armies are in the field.

There are also those imitation thunderstorms, which are even more problematic - the specifications are not uniform, and the materials and charges are also varied, in short, the quality of gunpowder is poor, the manufacturing process is poor, and most of them can only be blown in half, and they can't be killed if they are lucky enough to hit people.

As for the imitation tiger squat cannon, the power of the soldiers only flashed a little spark on the tweed uniforms of the soldiers of the cadre army, and scratched a little skin, leaving not even a single scar, which made the military doctors of the cadre army very happy, and saved a lot of materials and workload for their medical work.

However, the imitation swarm of rockets, fierce fire oil tanks or something, still has a certain lethality, but they are still not worth mentioning in the face of the red-coated cannons with a longer range and greater power.

Actually-

The biggest problem why the firearms of the Tangut people are useless is that they are still in people.

The soldiers of the Xia army (including the Tibetan tribes, the grassland tribes, and the Western Regions countries) were accustomed to using cold weapons, and they were unwilling to give up their bows and horses to resist the use of firearms, so there were very few Xia soldiers who really knew how to control firearms.

Take the battle of Zhenwu City between Wu Lan and Richard Brother as an example.

As far as the artillery of the Xia army is concerned, the Xia army's conscienceless artillery and tiger squat artillery have never stopped firing in the battle, but their shells all hit the treetops of the battlefield, and one shot did not hit, but the cavalry of the cadre army found the location of the artillery camp in Western Xia and directly served the artillery camp of the Xia army.

In other words, Xia Jun's criterion for judging artillery is whether it can fire a conscienceless cannon or a tiger squat cannon, and does not look at the shelling situation at all.

The reason why the Xia army's requirements for artillery are so low is that there are too few people who can fire artillery in the Western Xia, and secondly, because there are too few people in the Western Xia who are willing to be artillery, after all, the artillery of the Western Xia can cause regimental annihilation from time to time, so unless it is forced to, the Western Xia people are not willing to be artillery.

In short, advanced firearms need the support of the industrial base to ensure the quality and quantity of the birth, how can Xixia have such national strength?

Before the real battle with the Qianjun, Li Renxiao and Junchen were still a little tempered, thinking that today's Daqian Dynasty ignores my Xixia love, and in the coming day, I Xixia will make your Daqian Dynasty unattainable.

But with this move, Li Renxiao and Junchen finally knew why they were as strong as the Jin State, and they couldn't hold out for two years under the cannon of the Daqian Dynasty.

To be honest, that is, the Daqian Dynasty was bluffed by the Zhao Song Dynasty's failure to destroy the Western Xia and was bluffed by the stronger and stronger the Western Xia, and felt that the Hengshan strategy in the later period of the Zhao and Song Dynasty would definitely be invincible, and did not give the Western Xia a desperate bet, otherwise, the Western Xia might not last more than three months and be wiped out by the Qianjun.

Fight, definitely can't fight.

Li Renxiao and his ministers could only hope for Li Cun's mercy.

However, Li Renxiao successively sent nine waves of envoys to the Daqian Dynasty, all of which were like stones sinking into the sea, and there was no news.

How could Li Renxiao not see Li Cun's attitude of recovering Western Xia?

At the same time, on the battlefield, the cadres not only encircled the Western Xia from the Hengshan area, but also did not take action because they had been defending the steppe tribes from the Mongolian Plateau to the south to attack Yundi, but also attacked the Western Xia from the east and west with Wang De and Zheyan as the vanguard, and successfully took the Yinzhou of the Western Xia in one battle, and Wang De even defeated the deputy marshal of the Western Xia general, Li Hai Gampo.

Immediately afterwards, Su Dong and Zhe Keqiu boldly divided their troops, one attacked the Western Xia Shazhou, and the other took Heishui City to the west of Wurazi City.

Later, Orihiko defeated Lehiko Gampo in Helan Mountain.

Su Dong led his main force all the way to Hunntui Mountain, completely blocking the escape route of Western Xia.

On the other hand, Zhe Keqiu led the Zhejia army to take Ganzhou, Shazhou and Suzhou successively.

Seeing the advance of the cadres step by step, Li Renxiao was frightened and helpless.

It was suggested that Li Renxiao flee to Lingzhou for refuge.

Some people suggested that Li Renxiao would defend the wall and clear the wilderness, and then fight with the cadres and troops to the death.

It was also suggested that Li Renxiao send another envoy to the Daqian Dynasty to sue for peace.

Although Li Renxiao is a Ming monarch in history, he is only seventeen years old after all, and he is only a half-grown child who has not fully reached adulthood.

In such a situation where there is no way out, Li Renxiao really doesn't know what to do, so he can only get by.

It didn't take long for Li Renxiao to receive another bad news, Xiao Heda, the commander of the Xiazhou army, surrendered to the Daqian Dynasty, and Wu Jue successfully occupied Yingli, Xiazhou and other places, and decided to besiege Lingzhou.

When Richard learned of this, he personally led reinforcements to help resist the cadres, but in the end he still failed, and he himself was defeated and captured.

After that, the cadres and troops captured Jishizhou, Xining and other places very smoothly.

Until this time, only the last piece of territory left in Western Xia, the capital Zhongxingfu, had not yet fallen.

Seeing this, Li Renxiao chose to go out of the city and surrender, and the Western Xia was officially declared extinct, and the land Silk Road, which had been interrupted for a full hundred years, was restored.

After Li Cun learned of this good news, he changed Xixia to Ningxia and Gansu - Ganzhou is Zhangye, Suzhou is Jiuquan, Li Cun said to the outside world that he took one word from each of the two states to get the name of Gansu, in fact, Li Cun was too lazy to name, so he directly copied the name of later generations.

After seizing Zhongxingfu, the capital of Western Xia, Li Cun ordered Liu Qi to lead 100,000 troops to garrison in Ganzhou to defend against Tubo, Uighur, and Western Tibet from the Western Regions and the western border areas, and appointed Wu Lan to garrison 100,000 troops in Helan to assist in the defense of Tubo, Uighur, and Western Tibet from the Western Regions and the western border areas, Wang Yan stationed 100,000 troops in Lingzhou, and Xingqing Mansion in Xingzhou was guarded by 200,000 people led by Wu Jue, and the various departments pacified the resistance forces on both sides as soon as possible.

At the same time, Li Cun appointed Chen Yu as the prefect of Xingqing and the Xuanfu envoy of the northwest to be fully responsible for the governance of the Ningxia and Gansu roads, and appointed Zhan Du as the prefect of Zhangye and the envoy of the northwest system, and Tang Zhong as the prefect of Jiuquan and the pacification envoy of the northwest.

The Daqian court also selected capable officials, as well as Western Xia Han officials who were willing to surrender to the Daqian Dynasty, as well as Han talents to govern the newly recovered Ningxia and Gansu roads.

Unlike the Liao and Jin dynasties, and even different from the Goryeo Dynasty, the territory of the Western Xia has been a Han land since the Qin and Han dynasties, and during the Han Dynasty, the court at that time emigrated 700,000 poor people from Henan and Shandong, east of Luoyang, to Ningxia and Gansu.

Moreover, Western Xia has never been a fallen area, and the Hu people have not entered.

- During the Anshi Rebellion, Shuofang County and the Hexi Corridor were the rear of the Tang Dynasty, and Tang Suzong was located in Lingzhou, which also shows that this is a Han area rather than a Hu territory, because Shuofang Jiedu was here, and it was originally a defense against the Hu people outside the Great Wall, and during the Anshi Rebellion, the contribution of the Shuofang army to defend the Tang Dynasty was one of the best.

Until the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the Shuofang Army Festival Envoy and the Guiyi Army Festival Envoy still existed, especially Shuofang County, which had been well preserved in the late Tang and early Song dynasties, with no loss of population, and even defeated the invading Tibetans.

The Dangxiang people followed Li Jiqian from Xiazhou in northern Shaanxi to Shuofang and the Hexi Corridor, and it was only more than 30 years since they moved to Li Yuanhao to claim the emperor, and it was impossible to massacre the Han people in the territory and there is no record that the Dangxiang people had slaughtered the Han people in the territory.

Zhao Kuangyin once ordered to move all the party members to the interior, and only moved 40,000 people, and later Li Jiqian rebelled against the Song Dynasty, and was captured by the Song army Two tribes were only 3,000 people.

After that, Li Jiqian went to Lingzhou to attack Gansu, gathered all 44 party tribes, and only gathered more than 13,000 people.

According to the calculation of 2,000 people in a tribe, the maximum number of people in the Western Xia was only about 100,000 when the party was not established.

The Shuofang army had 67,000 people in the Tang Dynasty, and with the families of the soldiers and civilians, the population of Shuofang County should be 300,000 to 400,000.

The Han Chinese population under the rule of the Guiyi Army in Gansu also had a million at the end of the Tang Dynasty.

In other words, the population of Western Xia was originally dominated by Han Chinese, and the party was only about 100,000 in the early days of Western Xia, but even now, it is actually only hundreds of thousands.

The key is that the Western Xia was only separated from the rule of the Central Plains Dynasty a hundred years ago, so even the party members in it are much more sinicized than the other Hu people.

The key to the key –

Since the founding of Li Yuanhao in Western Xia, there has always been a dispute between "Fan Li" and "Han Li".

The two dynasties of Yizong and Huizong often repeated.

By the time of Li Qianshun, the struggle between the "Fan Rite" and the "Han Rite" became more intense.

Li Qianshun admired the highly developed Confucian culture and Han civilization, so he decided to vigorously promote Han culture in Western Xia to change the backward atmosphere of Western Xia.

Therefore, not long after Li Qianshun took power, he advocated Confucianism through the mouth of Xue Yuanli in the imperial history, and said in Xue Yuanli's Shangshu: "The trip of scholars is nothing more than filial piety; The model of the country is more important than Confucianism. In the past Yuan Wei Kaiji, Zhou Qi succeeded to the unification, all respected Confucianism, advocated poetry and books, and covered the legacy of the northwest can not be established and educated. Therefore, only by re-advocating Sinology can the Western Xia change the bad atmosphere of the Western Xia and save the crisis it faces. Li Qianshun adopted the "suggestion of Xue Yuanli" and ordered that in addition to the original "Fan Studies," a special "Chinese Studies" should be established to teach Sinology.

Li Qianshun also selected 300 children of the royal family and nobles to establish a "virtuous service", which was provided by the government with food, set up professors, and cultivated sinology.

Li Qianshun even gave special preferential treatment to those scholars who were good at sinology.

In addition, Li Qianshun himself also likes to be vassally elegant, once borrowed the minister Gao Shouzhong's house backyard to grow Ganoderma lucidum, thought it was auspicious, on the occasion of the hundred officials to congratulate, Li Qianshun made "Lingzhi Song" and the ministers sang it, and Le Shi Zhirui.

Even, some party and aristocratic ministers were dissatisfied with Li Qianshun's emphasis on Han culture, and ridiculed Li Qianshun for forgetting his ancestors, but Li Qianshun did not accept it, and was bent on Sinicizing Western Xia in order to consolidate his rule.

After Li Renxiao succeeded to the throne, the sinicization of Western Xia became more thorough.

The reason why Li Renxiao established the Gang clan as the queen as soon as he succeeded to the throne was only because the Gang clan was smart and knowledgeable, loved to practice Han etiquette, and Li Renxiao's achievements in Confucianism received a lot of help from her.

One of the three fires after Li Renxiao succeeded to the throne was to order the establishment of schools in various prefectures and counties to learn Han culture for the whole people, and then Li Renxiao established a primary school (royal school) in the imperial palace, where all descendants of the clan could be enrolled between the ages of seven and fifteen.

Later, under the proposition of Li Renxiao, the Western Xia imitated the Central Plains system and established Taixue, and Li Renxiao, as the emperor, personally attended the Taixue "release ceremony" (that is, held a grand sacrifice to the ancestors and teachers), and rewarded teachers and students respectively.

In the second year of the establishment of Taixue, that is, at the beginning of this year, Li Renxiao, under the pressure of the war, also respected Confucius as Emperor Wenxuan, and ordered all prefectures and counties to build Confucian temples.

It is worth mentioning that the Confucian Temple in Western Xia was built in a grand and tall manner, like a royal palace.

Due to Li Renxiao's advocacy of cultural governance and attaching importance to sinicization, a large number of Western Xia talents poured into the temple, including many outstanding scholars, such as the university scholars Hu Daochong and Wang Renzhong, Luo Shichang who compiled the "Xia State Genealogy", Jiao Jingyan, who disobeyed the order and did not go to the Jin Dynasty as a traitor, and so on.

That is to say, after the guidance of Li Qianshun and Li Renxiao, the degree of sinicization of Western Xia was not even below the Yanyun region, which had been governed by the Great Qian Dynasty for fifteen or six years.

Moreover, the Western Xia also cultivated a large number of talents proficient in Han culture, and more than half of them were Han Chinese.

Governing the two roads of Ningxia and Gansu, which had such a foundation, was really much easier for the Daqian Dynasty than it was to govern the northeast and Jidi.

And to a certain extent, we must thank Li Qianshun and Li Renxiao father and son.

In view of the fact that Li Renxiao has not done any great evil in history or in this era, and he took the initiative to open the city and surrender, so that the Daqian Dynasty successfully obtained the accumulation of the Western Xia for a hundred years.

Li Cun specially issued an order to let the people who escorted Li Renxiao and the Western Xia royal family and clan into Beijing be more courteous to Li Renxiao......

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