At that moment, Di Lie arranged for Feng Nandu to accompany Zhou Cheng to sit in the hall, and he took Bai Sheng to see his mother.

Bai Sheng saw Di Lie's mother for the first time, and respectfully knelt down and kowtowed three times. Di Li was his most respected brother and friend, and naturally he had more respect for his brother's mother.

As Zhao Ji's cousin and Di Lie's mother, the age of the county lord of Qinghe is not old, and he looks even a year or two younger than Zhao Ji. After listening to Di Lie's request, the county lord of Qinghe ordered someone to prepare a sedan chair without saying a word.

Because Di Lie told his mother that Bai Sheng's business was his business.

Luo Lida accompanied the county lord of Qinghe to Wang Hao's mansion, Bai Sheng had to stay in the Wansheng Boxing Gym to wait for news, of course Di Lie would not let him wait for him, the housekeeper and the servants had already prepared the banquet.

During the banquet, the guests and hosts were chatting, Bai Sheng talked about the divine arm bow made by Zhou Cheng, and he didn't want Di Lie's face to change greatly after hearing it, so he asked Zhou Cheng to take out the divine arm bow to take a look.

Zhou Cheng assembled the disassembled Divine Arm Bow again and handed it to Di Lie, and after Di Lie took it, he stared at the Divine Arm Bow for a long time and was silent, and tears seemed to flash in the tiger's eyes.

Bai Sheng couldn't help but ask, "Brother Di, what's wrong with you?"

Di Lie wept and said: "Back then, my father was injured under the bow of the divine arm before he sacrificed his life for the country. ”

Next to him, Feng Nandu, Yi Xiao and Shui Ningzhu mourned and wept at the same time.

Seeing this, Bai Sheng couldn't help but feel deep remorse, and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, brother, I shouldn't have let Zhou Cheng take out this thing to make my eldest brother sad." ”

In his dealings with Dilie, he had never heard Dilie talk about his father, and he didn't expect his mother to look so young, and his father had died.

Di Lie closed his eyes, as if to close the tears in his eyes, and when he opened his eyes again, he said: "It's not your fault, even if I didn't see this divine arm bow, I plan to tell you about my father." ”

"Oh?" Bai Sheng knew that Di Lie would not mention such a sad thing for no reason, so he stopped his cup of chopsticks and listened intently.

Di Lie said: "Brother, you are about to go out with the army, and what my brother must remind you is that Western Xia is not easy to fight!"

Di Lie's words made Bai Sheng have a deeper understanding of the mysterious country of Western Xia.

Di Lie's family is a history of the Great Song Dynasty's war against the Western Xia.

To this day, in the 120 years since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, there have been four large-scale wars with the Western Xia, each of which ended in the defeat of the Great Song Dynasty.

During the reign of Song Renzong, Di Lie's grandfather Di Qing caught up with the end of the First War.

Even though Di Qing was brave and invincible, and he participated in more than 20 battles of all sizes, he was helpless at that time, and his soldiers were outnumbered, although the Western Xia people were terrified, but after all, he could not control the overall situation of the war.

The battle was only a part of the battle, the battle was only a part of the war, and what Di Qing, who was the commander of Yanzhou at that time, could control was only the local encounters in each battle.

Not to mention that there are two deputy marshals Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi above Di Qing, and not to mention that there is also a coach Xia Zhu on the heads of Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi. These literati, accustomed to talking on paper, were the executors of war in the frontier states.

It is only said that in the history of the Great Song Dynasty's war against Western Xia, the war brain that ultimately decided whether or not to fight each war and how to fight it could only be the emperor who lived deep in the palace of Bianliang City.

This alone determined whether the Great Song Dynasty would lose or win the war against Western Xia!

At that time, there were neither mobile phones, nor the Internet, nor satellite positioning systems, and it was not to sit in the palace and command hundreds of thousands of troops on the border to fight with neighboring countries?

But the emperors of the Great Song Dynasty, whether they are the benevolent and righteous Song Renzong, or the hard-working Song Shenzong, or the mediocre and incompetent Song Zhezong, their ancestors have been so fond of, and they have pulled the eggs of four wars.

The end result was that the Western Xia, with a population of less than one million, repeatedly defeated the Great Song Dynasty, which had a standing force of more than one million.

During the period of Song Renzong, Di Qing grew up in the first war of Song and Xia, and when he was famous in the West and had the ability to win the Western Xia, the first war had ended, Fan Zhongyan was demoted, and the two countries signed the Qingli Peace Agreement.

The content of the Qingli Peace Conference was as follows: The Great Song Dynasty "bestowed" 50,000 taels of silver, 130,000 horses of silk, and 20,000 catties of tea to the Western Xia every year; in addition, 22,000 taels of silver, 23,000 horses of silk, and 10,000 catties of tea were given to the Western Xia every year on various festivals.

Can this be called "giving"? This is "tribute"!

In the spring of the fourth year of Qingli, Fan Zhongyan went to the edge of Dongting Lake to write "The Story of Yueyang Tower", and the Song and Xia countries entered an era of peace.

Later, Di Qing was slandered and framed by the civil officials led by Ouyang Xiu, and he was finally expelled from the capital, and he never got the opportunity to use Western Xia again.

But since then, the Western Xia has to make inches, taking a lot of coins every year, but they still repeatedly commit offenses, wantonly bullying the Great Song Dynasty, the Great Song Emperor couldn't bear it, repeated wars, repeated, and three major defeats and losses.

During the third war, Song Shenzong and Wang Anshi Junchen were united, taking advantage of the internal chaos of Western Xia - Empress Dowager Liang imprisoned her son - the pro-Song Xixia Emperor Huizong took the opportunity of normal, gathered the strength of the country, named the general Chong Ge as the commander, the five-way army attacked Xia, and the soldiers pointed directly at Xingqing Mansion, but was finally defeated by a woman of Empress Dowager Liang.

This war took a toll on Dilie's great uncle.

By the time the fourth Song Zhezong launched the war, the ruler of Western Xia had become the Empress Dowager Xiao Liang, and when the whole country of Western Xia was not optimistic about this war, the Empress Dowager Xiao Liang personally went into battle, took the lead, and defeated hundreds of thousands of Song troops again.

Not only defeated the army of the Song Dynasty, but also captured many cities and fortresses on the border of the Song Dynasty with the power of victory, and Di Lie's father Di Yong fell in this war.

At that time, Di Yong guarded Huanzhou City, with less than 3,000 old and weak remnants of the army killed nearly 20,000 elites in Western Xia, and finally when the city was broken, in order to cover the people in the city from being slaughtered, he did not retreat according to the city gate, and finally shed the last drop of blood under the tide of enemy charges.

In this battle, the fathers of Feng Nandu, Yi Xiao, Luo Lida and Shui Ningzhu died together with their head Di Yong.

Hearing this, Bai Sheng couldn't help but feel reverence and regret for Di Lie's father's heroic sacrifice.

Looking at the four wars of the Song and Xia dynasties, putting aside the stupidity of the Song Dynasty's command model, it is only said that the two armies on the Loess Plateau faced each other, although the population of the Western Xia side was sparse, but they were experts in guerrilla warfare, and they were always able to avoid the real and attack the weak, and create an advantage in a certain part of the battlefield to fight more and fight less.

When the Great Song army gathered together, there was no trace of the Tangut people at all, and once the troops were divided to search and hunt for them, they would be eaten up by the Tangut soldiers and horses one by one.

Wouldn't the Great Song Dynasty always keep the army assembled, not to pursue those guerrilla troops, and push it all the way to Xingqingfu, the capital of Western Xia?

The answer is also no, because the geographical location of Xingqing Mansion is extremely special, west of Helan Mountain, east of the Yellow River (the Yellow River on the edge of Xingqing Mansion is north-south), the east and west are natural hazards, but in the gap between the north and south, the terrain is narrow and dangerous, not allowed to be pushed and crushed by the army.

Therefore, the Great Song Dynasty was defeated repeatedly, and there was no way to take the semi-nomadic and semi-agricultural country of Western Xia.

Di Lie said this just to tell Bai Sheng that Western Xia is not easy to fight!

It's okay for you to lead a small force into Western Xia to harass and destroy, but even if you can drive straight in and out calmly like Yao Huo in the Han Dynasty, you won't be able to hurt the root of others.

As for how the commander-in-chief army should fight, there is no need to talk about it, because Bai Sheng cannot have the qualifications to command the army at all.