Chapter 220: Pingxia
When Yue Fei led the Yue family army to smash Huanglong and completely swept away the Jin people, Han Shizhong, who was born in the border area of northern Shaanxi, was also launching a large-scale war to destroy the country.
If Yue Fei's lifelong enemy is the Jin State, then Han Shizhong's mortal enemy is Western Xia.
At that time, the party members betrayed the Great Song Dynasty and established themselves as kings. gave Da Song, who was already unhealthy, a stabbing stab.
After a hundred years, the war between the two sides never stopped.
Han Shizhong was born in the border area of Yan'an Prefecture, and he was facing the territory of the Western Xia people.
He has been in the army for twenty years, and most of the time he is also fighting against the Tanguts.
Moreover, the Western Army has been entangled with the Western Xia for a hundred years, and the losses are more than one million, and the hatred has already broken through the sky.
So when Han Shizhong was authorized to be appointed to be responsible for the destruction of Western Xia, the excitement was really frightening.
"It's not that the Great Song Dynasty can't beat the Western Xia." Before leaving, Li Yunze specially hosted a banquet to entertain Han Shizhong, "It's just that people who do things can't do it." I'm talking about the official family and the former ministers, who have nothing to do with the Western Army, you know. ”
"Yes."
Han Shizhong was very honest in front of Li Yunze, and he couldn't see the appearance of splashing skin at all.
After all, he is an emperor immediately, and his authority in the army is very different from that of an emperor who has only heard of his name in the palace.
The land area of Western Xia is not small, but most of the places are either deserts and Gobi or mountains and hills, and the real suitable for living is Hetao and other places known as the south of the Yangtze River.
In terms of food production in this era, a population of more than 3 million is the limit.
When the number of soldiers and horses in the Great Song Dynasty was the largest, the number of sergeants alone was as high as nearly two million.
In terms of strength, Western Xia has no qualifications to fight with the Great Song Dynasty at all.
In the words of Han Shizhong's response, "If it was not Han Qi, Sima Guang and others who commanded the war, but Di Qing and them, Western Xia would have been gone a long time ago." ”
The tradition of the Great Song Dynasty to control the military with literature was the root cause of the Song Dynasty's repeated weakness in wars.
This thing can be summed up in one sentence, the layman leads the insider.
In the hundred-year Western Xia War, the Great Song Dynasty buried millions of soldiers and horses, but there was still nothing to do about the Western Xia.
To say that millions of Song troops are all waste, it is definitely impossible, it can only be said that the big turbans who make decisions are really terrible.
"You only have one thing to do when you go to Western Xia this time."
Li Yunze, who was carrying a wine jug in his hand, walked in front of Han Shizhong and personally poured wine for him, "Erase Western Xia from the map!" ”
Han Shizhong, who got up in a hurry, carefully took the wine glass and took the wine.
After drinking it all, he patted his chest heroically, "Don't worry, although I don't dare to compare myself to Di Xianggong, I will definitely destroy Xixia!" ”
"You did something when you sent troops out of Guanzhong." Li Yunze nodded, "Take the ruffians and splashes from all over Guanzhong to Western Xia." ”
Han Shizhong immediately collapsed when he said this.
He himself was born in a bad way, and he was indeed a little embarrassed to be pointed out in public by the officials.
"Yes, the minister knows."
"When these people arrive in Western Xia, they must be well arranged. Let them be divided into various places to replace the original party members. ”
Li Yunze continued to instruct, "The students who have signed up from all over the country have also begun to gather in Chang'an City. In the place where they were defeated, they were arranged to form a yamen, and then veterans in the army served as officials. ”
"Yes, I know."
"One more thing." Li Yunze's instructions are not over: "I heard that Li Yuanhao once did something to keep his head and not his hair?" ”
"Yes."
Han Shizhong is naturally the door Qing in this matter, "The people of Western Xia have to keep the kind of bird hairstyle of the party members, and those who do not obey will be killed." ”
“XXX!”
Li Yunze directly burst out in front of many ministers, "When you arrive in Western Xia, you will also give me such a play." ”
Han Shizhong was overjoyed, and immediately responded, "Don't worry, the official family will have only one head in Xixia from now on." And Li Yuanhao, the traitor, I must copy the grave! ”
"Ahem."
Li Yunze coughed twice and waved his hand, "What are you talking about, I didn't hear anything." ”
Han Shizhong sent troops with a large amount of military resources supported by Li Yunze.
The number of soldiers and horses is not necessarily much more than when the general attack on Western Xia was in the past. But the quality is unprecedentedly strong.
The Song army, which originally had a very high armor rate, with the support of Li Yunze, had increased the armor rate to more than ninety percent, which was an extremely terrifying level.
Even the Han and Tang Dynasty in the most powerful period have never achieved this level. biquge.biz
You must know that in the period of cold weapons, the armor stomach is everything.
The people can have swords, guns, swords, halberds and even bows and arrows, and the government will not care.
But once someone has a stomach, it will be embarrassing and will be punished directly for rebellion.
Nurhachi started with thirteen pairs of armor stomachs, which shows the importance of armor stomachs.
Because the armor stomach has a strong defensive power, the attack of swords, guns, bows and arrows will not be effective, and it has a decisive equipment advantage on the battlefield.
The Song army, which was almost full of armor, was almost an adult bullying a child when it faced off against the Tangut people.
Western Xia didn't have so much armor and stomach equipment, and it was useless to beat the Song army with a clanging clang, and the Song army could kill them directly with a backhand.
As for the other advantage of Western Xia to resist the Song army, the continuous walled cities built with the help of the Hengshan Mountains were no longer an obstacle at this time.
In the past, if the Song army wanted to seize these walled cities, they could only use human lives to bury them little by little, but now, Han Shizhong has brought a large number of C4.
The power of this thing is huge, as long as it is sent to the city and then detonated, no kind of strong city can stop it.
Han Shizhong did not take a shortcut to Pingxia City, but chose the most traditional attack route, the Hengshan Mountain Range.
As long as you can cross here, it is the core area of Western Xia.
In the past, the Song army always couldn't beat it, in addition to the complex terrain, that is, those walled cities in the mountains were too many and too difficult to fight, and often after losing tens of thousands of people, they could only be unwilling to retreat.
Now it's different, explosives open the city and then the armor soldiers poured into it like a tide, and under the hard-hitting attack, it was the Tanguts who suffered heavy losses.
Their standing army was stationed in the walled city, and after being besieged and breached, they could not escape.
As for several field battles, he was also beaten by Han Shizhong and cried for his father.
can be as famous as Yue Fei, how can Han Shizhong be a wasted person.
After Han Shizhong's troops severely damaged the Western Xia field soldiers and horses and really broke through Hengshan, many nearby tribes turned against each other, and immediately changed their hairstyles and became Song army auxiliaries.
Western Xia originally belonged to the Tang Dynasty, and after the fall of the Tang Dynasty, there was chaos in various places, giving the once inconspicuous party members a chance to come forward, and the scholars and doctors of the Song Dynasty were indeed incompetent, which led to the rise of Li Yuanhao.
When the Central Plains Dynasty sorted out the internal chaos and finally went all out to deal with each other seriously, they couldn't make any waves.
Han Shizhong fought steadily, pushing all the way to conquer the city, and finally hit the front line of Xingqing Mansion in Lingzhou.
This is the real core of Western Xia, and losing it is tantamount to the destruction of the country.
The Tangut people, who were driven to a dead end, mobilized all the forces that could be mobilized in the country, even the women were pushed onto the battlefield.
Assembled a huge army of more than 300,000 people to fight the Song army under the city of Lingzhou.
Back then, they had defeated the Song army that came from Pingxia City and almost wiped out the Western Xia, and it was obvious that this time they still wanted to repeat the past.
It's just that the current Song Army is different from the Song Army at that time.
Han Shizhong took advantage of his calmness and commanded the Song army, which was inferior in number to the Western Xia, and crushed the Western Xia people little by little.
In particular, the target of the attack was on the elite of the Iron Harrier, Bubazi, and Poxi Army.
When the core of these regular armies was defeated, the remaining Western Xia miscellaneous soldiers were also defeated.
The 300,000 army seems to be strong and strong, but now is not the Warring States period, where can its combat effectiveness be compared with the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, where can all the people be soldiers.
Defeating the last main force of the Tanguts, Han Shizhong's troops easily captured Lingzhou and Xingqing Mansion, but failed to capture the lord of the Tangut and his sons.
It is said that he ran away and regrouped.
Han Shizhong's regret is not that he failed to catch the lord of Western Xia, but that he did not catch the princess of Western Xia.
Because when he was drinking and chatting with Li Yunze, he once heard Li Yunze say something about the Vulture Palace, the princess of Xixia or something.
Compared with the serious Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, who was born in a splashy background, is much more flexible.
The princess of Xixia who can make the official family miss her, if she catches it and sends it over...
It's a shame.
He thought about finding a party noblewoman to pretend to, but he gave up as soon as he thought about it.
The official family is not a person who can be easily fooled, once it is exposed, it is estimated that the ending will be miserable.
After capturing Lingzhou Xingqing Mansion and other places, Western Xia was basically destroyed, but the battle was not over.
Han Shizhong's troops will continue to send troops, sweep both sides of Helan Mountain, march north to the Mongolian steppe, and contact the Liao State of Yelu Dashi to the west.
Once the Great Song Dynasty was ridiculed for not being orthodox as the Central Plains Dynasty because it had lost too much land.
Now Li Yunze has made up for these missing places little by little.
After the fall of the Jin Kingdom and the Western Xia one after another, there were no decent strong forces around.
To the north is the Mugyu who have not yet risen, and the Mughal Iron Cavalry after a hundred years is indeed very powerful, the kind that swept the World Island.
It's just that now, it's not a climate.
Li Yunze will not give them a chance to become a climate.
Han Shizhong would reside in the old land of Western Xia, and his main job would be to put pressure on the Muguls until they fell apart completely.
To the east are Goryeo and Fuso, both of which are traditional countries in East Asia.
When Yue Fei stabilized the northern land, he would take action to clean them up.
Li Yunze doesn't do anything like the tribute of the Heavenly Empire, no matter how much he pays, he will occupy all the territory he can occupy.
Didn't you say that the Song Dynasty had a small land area, so let's lay down a large land.
As for Dali and Annan, the recovery of the Western Regions or something is on the schedule, and it is a little bit of slowness.
Li Yunze, who looked at the map, was sometimes very emotional.
Because now that such a huge territory has been recovered, there is still a huge amount of land that has not been recovered. But even if they are all added together, they are not as huge as the territory of the heyday of the Han and Tang Dynasties.
"The prosperity of the Han and Tang dynasties is really desirable. If nothing else, I should have the opportunity to go on a ride. ”
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