It is said that in 1038 A.D., in the fifth year of the reign of Renzong Jingyou of the Northern Song Dynasty, Li Yuanhao, the leader of the Northern Song Dynasty's vassal party, broke away from the Song Dynasty and became independent, went to the Song Dynasty to be crowned, and changed the Yuan Dynasty to "Tianzhu Ritual Law Yanzuo", and the founding name was "Daxia", which was known as "Western Xia" in history. After creating the Tangut script and establishing the system of the Tangut Dynasty, he sent a letter to the Northern Song court in 1039 AD, asking the Song court to recognize the national status of the "Great Xia Kingdom".

Since ancient times, the dynasty standing in the Central Plains has been regarded as orthodox in the world, and the Northern Song Dynasty in the Central Plains is no exception. There is a great Liao country in the north that sits on an equal footing, and the Northern Song Dynasty has lost all its prestige, how can it tolerate another Western Xia kingdom to divide the world.

Li Yuanhao's letter was sent to the Northern Song court, and most of the officials advocated immediately sending troops to attack Western Xia and questioning Li Yuanhao's rebellion. Song Renzong was not stupid, how could he lose the orthodox suzerainty of the Central Plains Dynasty in his hands, and in June of that year, he issued an edict to cut off Li Yuanhao's official title and offered a reward for his arrest.

Li Yuanhao, Jingzong of Western Xia, saw that the Great Song Dynasty not only did not accept him as emperor, but also wanted him as a bandit, how could he swallow this breath. For the dignity of the party and for his own merits, in March 1040 AD, he attacked the Northern Song Dynasty with all his might. On the one hand, he led the army to feint against Jinmingzhai in the Northern Song Dynasty, and on the other hand, he sent a letter to Fan Yong, the governor of Yanzhou in the Song Dynasty, expressing his willingness to negotiate peace with the Song Dynasty, and even proclaiming himself a minister to the Northern Song Dynasty, just to create a false impression to paralyze Fan Yong.

Fan Yongjinshi was born, and the subset of scripture and history should have been involved, when which tendon went wrong, he actually believed the words of Li Yuanhao, the fox, and not only happily wrote to the court to state the matter, but also relaxed the defense of Yanzhou very boldly.

In July of the same year, he sent a large army to surround Yanzhou, beating gongs and drums to attack Yanzhou City, and at the same time using the method of "encircling points and sending reinforcements" to ambush soldiers and horses, just waiting for the Song army to come to the rescue.

The army of the Xia State was approaching the city, and Fan Yong, the governor of Yanzhou, was completely blinded, and he didn't think about it, and while writing to the imperial court, he sent scouts to ask for help from the surrounding Song army. There was an order from the imperial court, and the generals Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun were ordered to go to reinforcements, but they didn't know that Li Yuanhao knew everything about the soldiers and horses in the border villages of the Great Song Dynasty, and had already laid out pockets for the Song army to drill. The Song army just came to the place called "Sanchuankou", the Western Xia army that had been waiting for a long time was heavily surrounded, Liu and Shi led the army to fight hard with the Xia army, although the Western Xia army suffered very heavy losses, but because the Song army was outnumbered, it had to retreat to the hillside near Sanchuankou. Li Yuanhao is not the master who is afraid of sacrifice, while increasing the army, he wrote a letter to persuade Liu Ping to surrender, and finally because Liu Ping and Shi Yuanning died unyieldingly and persuaded, the army was defeated and captured, and the battle of Sanchuankou came to an end.

Before the Battle of Sanchuankou, the Song and Xia armies fought frequently, although the Xia army won more and lost less, but it was only a small fight, one did not affect morale, and the other did not hurt the muscles and bones, at most, the residents of the Great Song Dynasty frontier lost some cattle and sheep, and lost a few people.

But in the battle of Sanchuankou, Li Yuanhao ate tens of thousands of Song troops in one bite, Song Renzong was not only shocked, but also woke up from his sleep. Hurriedly issued an edict, sealing Xia Zhu as the pacification envoy of Shaanxi Road Jingluo, and Han Qi and Fan Zhongyan as the deputy envoys of Jinglu's pacification, jointly responsible for the affairs of facing the Western Xia. With such a luxurious lineup, you can sit back and relax! Song Renzong and Zhao Zhen should think so.

Not to mention, after Han Qi and Fan Zhongyan arrived in the northwest, through a series of measures, they not only reversed the defeat, but also sought victory. With a small victory, with the help of the east wind, expand the results of the battle, and win immortal feats, who doesn't want to!

Han Qi couldn't sit still, wrote to the imperial court, and comprehensively crusaded against Li Yuanhao of Western Xia, destroying the Western Xia Kingdom in one fell swoop.

That's a good thing! The old master, who was accustomed to shouting slogans above the court, suddenly had a whim and fully supported Han Qi's strategy of destroying Xia. Only Fan Zhongyan felt that the Western Xia was too big to fall, and if he wanted to completely cut it off, it was not an overnight effort.

Although Zhao Zhen of Song Renzong also wanted to end the war between the Great Song Dynasty and the Western Xia as soon as possible, he thought that since Fan Zhongyan became an official, he had never done practical things and did not shout empty slogans, so he also retained Fan Zhongyan's proposal and allowed Fan Zhongyan to defend the border fortress and not wade into the troubled waters of Han Qi's all-out attack on Western Xia.

The emperor who doesn't understand military affairs is good in the peaceful era, but if he catches up with the not in the peaceful era, it will be bad if he is not careful.

At the beginning, it was said that Yongxing Road, Huanqing Road, Jingyuan Road, and Qinfeng Road attacked Western Xia at the same time, because Song Renzong and Zhao Zhen did not understand military affairs, after the battle, the four-way army became Jingyuan Road Han Qi, Yongxing Road Fan Zhongyan two roads of soldiers and horses. And because Fan Zhongyan did not advocate a full-scale attack, Zhao Zhen gave Fan Zhongyan another cheap move, and in the end, Han Qi alone took the lead. Han Qi's life was not good, he didn't listen to the advice, and appointed Ren Fu as the front-line general, Ren Fu was greedy for merit, deviated from the marching route, and got into the pocket arranged by Li Yuanhao, and the whole army was wiped out in Haoshuichuan, losing tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.

The defeat of Mikawaguchi is considered a lack of preparation, which is understandable. The good water river is prepared, and the defeat is worse than that of the three rivers, so it is a little unreasonable. The Song Dynasty was shocked, the emperor was furious, and the morale of the frontier soldiers was also low. In order to give an explanation to the people of the world, Xia Zhu returned to the DPRK, Han Qi packed up and left, and Fan Zhongyan was demoted to the governor of Gyeongju.

The change of commander in the battle is not a good thing, the Great Song Dynasty court is happy, and Li Yuanhao of Western Xia celebrates with his forehead, but he is not grateful. As soon as he inquired about the personnel changes in the northwest frontier of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhang Yuan immediately suggested that Li Yuanhao rearm and go south to capture Guanzhong and capture Chang'an. Having just won the battle of Haoshuichuan, although the Western Xia soldiers and horses suffered some minor injuries, this will not affect their good mood of taking advantage of the victory and striking while the iron is hot.

Thinking that Fan Zhongyan's "little Fan Laozi" knew military strategy and was good at defense, and was transferred to Gyeongju by Song Renzong, which hindered the great plan of the Western Xia soldiers and horses to capture Guanzhong, Li Yuanhao and his subordinate Zhang Yuan wanted to get rid of Fan Zhongyan for their own merits. But Fan Zhongyan never appeared on the battlefield, it was impossible to kill him head-on, Zhang Yuan wanted to be clear, then he would come to the dark, and he thought of the White Lotus Sect for the first time.

Fan Zhongyan was a feudal official of the Great Song Dynasty, and assassinating him was tantamount to declaring war on the Great Song court. Dong Xiaowan is not a fool, if she doesn't want to move into the land of Western Xia with the disciples of the White Lotus Sect, and be bullied and at the mercy of it all her life, she has to let the White Lotus Sect fall from now on, and she is not happy. In order to force Dong Xiaowan to comply, Zhang Yuan moved his good friend Zhao Mingxiu out. is both a good friend and a like-minded person, Zhao Mingxiu is willing to serve and force Dong Xiaowan to serve Li Yuanhao in Western Xia.