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    The next page of pure text online reading. Please visit the domain name of this website for simultaneous reading on mobile phones. Then Liu Changzuo captured Dingzhou.  Now, only the lonely Xingzhou City and some surrounding small forts are left in Xixia.  The troops of the two armies quickly encircled and successfully eliminated these small fortresses, including the palace on the edge of Helan Mountain outside Xingzhou City, one by one, and officially arrived at the gate of Xingzhou City.  Wang Ju asked Liu Changzuo to lead his men back to Yanzhou, and then back to Yanzhou.  It's hundreds of miles away. Only by arriving in Yanzhou in advance to rest now can we ensure sufficient physical strength in the future.  Otherwise, if we turn back in a hurry and become a tired army, then how about physical fighting?  At this point, almost all the middle and right armies of the Song Army had retreated, and only the middle and left armies were left encircling Lingzhou City. However, even the center and left armies were not as powerful as the center and right armies, and they were still a huge army.  Although there are many Xixia troops in Xingzhou City, the center-left army is enough.  Or it would be best for the Xia army to go out of the city to fight. This Song army is not Linghu Chao¡¯s rebel army, and Liang Yibu is not Zhang Xun!  It¡¯s okay if you don¡¯t leave the city. Once you leave the city, the city will be destroyed faster.  As Wang Ju ordered the attack, he first asked prisoners of war to carry mud bags and forcibly filled up the moat outside Xingzhou City.  However, at the critical moment, Liang Yibu no longer cared whether these prisoners of war were Xixia people, and began to order arrows to be fired.  This forced Wang Ju to order many tower carts to be rolled out. Soldiers stood on the tall tower carts and used divine arm bows to protect the prisoners of war.  Otherwise, if the prisoners of war were shot to death together, we would have to send soldiers and civilians to fill the river.  Under constant whipping by the Song army, it took only four days for tens of thousands of prisoners of war to fill up large sections of the moats outside Xingzhou City.  At the same time, the Song army built a mountain of earth in the rear. This earth mountain had little to do with artillery. It had two functions. One was to provide a clear field of vision, and the other was to allow the divine arm bow to exert greater power.  But the Song Army's fortifications are not over yet. Some Song Army are building up the earth mountain, and another Song Army is digging tunnels. As large sections of the city moat are filled, these tunnels are gradually dug under the Xingzhou City wall.  Although he had an absolute advantage, Wang Ju did not take it lightly. In history, there were too many cases where the enemy army finally retreated due to the obstruction of one city.  For example, Zhang Xun's Juyang battle, but not only Zhang Xun's Juyang defense battle, such as the Qi State's Jimo City defense battle in the Spring and Autumn Period, Wei Xiaokuan's Battle of Jade Bi, and his opponent was the powerful brother Gao Huan!  Liu Xiu's defense of Kunyang led to the rise of a generation of famous emperors throughout the ages.  In Zang Zhi's defense battle of Xuyi, his opponent was stronger, the Great Emperor Tuoba Tao.  During the defense battle of Shule City, Geng Gong had great ambitions to eat the meat of Huns, and laughed and talked about drinking the blood of Huns!  Zhang Liao's Battle of Xiaoyaojin, Wei Rui's Battle of Zhongli, and Li Guangbi's Battle of Taiyuan.  Later in history, there were Wang Jian's defense of Diaoyu City and Meng Gong's defense of Xiangyang. Their opponents were the powerful Yuanmeng cavalry.  Zhu Wenzheng's defense of Hongdu, several battles of Changsha by Xue Yue, the god of war in the era of hot weapons It is impossible for Liang Yibu to reach such a height.  But as long as it takes a few months, the consequences will be serious.  Let¡¯s not talk about anything else. Let¡¯s talk about the Northern Han Dynasty. Zhao Kuangyin was considered powerful, but under the city of Taiyuan, Zhao Kuangyin was often beaten.  Wang Ju estimated that Liang Yibu also had this idea. It turned out that the Xixia people thought that the Song Army could not survive the field battle. However, they quickly discovered that this understanding was wrong. The Song Army defeated the Xia Army again and again in the field battle.  But now the Song Dynasty is attacking and Xixia is defending. We use one city after another to fight against your Song Dynasty army. Even Wang Ju thought that Xixia and Liao Kingdom had secretly made some agreement. In the end, Liao Kingdom sent troops to assist, and your Song Army  He also went back obediently.  The first expedition to Xia was unsuccessful, and the two expeditions to Xia were unsuccessful, but each time cost more than the last. In the end, the Song Dynasty believed in Wang Ju and did not agree to conquer Xia.  But Wang Ju will never let this happen.  So for the first time, an unprecedented, extremely brutal and extremely violent method of siege was displayed in front of the world.  Starting from the tunnels, one tunnel after another was dug under the Xingzhou city wall, but it was different from the tunnel dug by Gao Huan. Gao Huan asked his men to dig the tunnel. The tunnel was very large, and then he used wooden pillars to support the soil above and dug.  After that, they started to burn the wooden pillars with fire, and the soldiers withdrew. At the same time, the wooden pillars were almost burned, and without support, the soil above them and the city wall began to collapse.  There was also Li Guangbi¡¯s Battle of Taiyuan, where he dug a tunnel and used tunnel tactics to deal with Shi Siming, but the tunnel was also very large, except that the tunnel was not under the city wall, but outside the city.  But there is no need for that now, gunpowder is enough.  Tunnels were dug, and wooden boxes filled with gunpowder were dragged into the tunnels by soldiers.  This is a tactic imitating Hong Xiuquan's attack on Nanjing, using coffins to hold gunpowder to blow up the city walls. In fact, the principle is very simple. The main power of the black powder explosion is a huge air pressure shock wave. ThenThe air pressure must rush out from the loose place. The most loose part of a coffin is the coffin lid. In this way, the air pressure hits the top, not the left and right, not the bottom, so the city wall will be blown down.  Of course, this requires a certain amount of luck, because people below cannot judge the location of the city wall. Even if the bomb is aimed at the city wall, if it misses, it will not be able to blow down the city wall.  The Xixia people also saw it on the top of the city, so they dug a trench along the city wall and sent soldiers to listen. If there was any movement below, they dug holes and poured boiling oil into the holes.  Many Song soldiers had their feet burned and had to be carried back by their comrades.  But the sound of cannons above was rumbling, and even if you were lying on the ground, you might not be able to hear all the movements below clearly. Therefore, from time to time, the Song army was asked to successfully send gunpowder boxes under the city wall, and then ignited and exploded.  Only one day later, a city wall was blown up, twisted a few times, and fell down with a loud bang.  The Xixia people immediately blocked the gap frantically, and then dug down the fence. The Song army also brought out a large crash car to hit it. The Xixia people had no choice but to block the mud bag behind the fence wall.  On the second and third days, fierce battles were fought at every collapse.  At least for the time being, the Xixia people behaved bravely, but this was what Wang Ju expected. Not only in Xingzhou, but also in the small area of ????Hexi, the Xia troops in all cities behaved bravely. After all, this area is the core area of ??Xixia  .  But it was only in this area, like the North and South Hetao, and the Hexi Corridor, that almost everyone turned away when they saw the arrival of the Song army.  Even along the line of Hengshan, from Yanzhou to Roulang Mountain, the Song army did not encounter any stubborn resistance.  But it doesn¡¯t matter, this is only underground, there are also those on the ground. As the official general attack begins, all kinds of sharp weapons come into use. Almost every moment of every day, almost day and night, a large number of shells, gunpowder packets, containing poisonous smoke and  The big thunderbolt bullets of iron caltrops, various large stone bullets, and the divine arm bow were like raindrops sprinkled on every corner of Xingzhou.  Wang Ju then sent people to build dozens of large hot air balloons to land in the city. At this time, although the Xixia troops in Xingzhou City were not as strong as the Song army outside the city, there were still tens of thousands of people, and there was also a group of fanatical people.  .  Several hundred "paratroopers" were dropped down to give out snacks.  The reason for using a hot air balloon is that Wang Ju brought several things from the other side, namely sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid, which are laboratory products, are in small quantities, and are expensive to make.  So it didn't come in handy until now.  The soldiers carried some ceramic jars and rose into the sky with the hot air balloon, and then used a simple spray tube made of ceramics to spray the Xia army in the city.  Because the quantity is small, it cannot kill anyone, but it will really hurt if this thing gets on your body.  Faced with this three-dimensional and all-round attack, even Kumamoto Yao Si was dumbfounded.  Seeing that it was almost done, Wang Ju ordered a strong attack and officially attacked the city.  However, I didn¡¯t expect that there were many brave Xixia warriors in the city, who defended the city tenaciously and repelled the Song army time and time again.  At the end of the day, Wang Ju ordered the three armies to rest.  Kumamoto sighed and said: "Taobao, I didn't expect that there are still many Xixia people who are unruly and unruly." This is not unruly It doesn't matter, but in this way, if you want to take Xingzhou City, you have to  There will be huge sacrifices.  Or continue the bombing for a few more daysWang Ju was walking around and suddenly thought of an idea.  Then he issued a series of orders.  For irrigation, Li Yuanhao also built many water conservancy projects, including two famous water conservancy projects on both sides of Xingzhou City, Tanglai Canal in the west and Hanyuan Canal in the east. Hanyuan Canal is also called Liwang Canal and Haoyuan Canal. It is very famous, but not as famous as Tanglai Canal.  However, they are not new canals. There were old canals, but they were deserted and silted up. The Xixia people re-dredged them and used them for irrigation.  Both canals divert water from Qingtongxia and extend to Dingzhou on the shores of Heshanlan.  Wang Ju first sent people to investigate, and then began to build tall earth walls and some ditches outside Xingzhou City.  When Liang Yibu saw Wang Ju¡¯s behavior, he was confused at first, and then suddenly burst into laughter, thinking that Wang Ju had a lot of imagination.  Wang Ju was not very imaginative, but some Xixia people began to have imaginative ideas. The Song army suddenly stopped attacking. What did they want to do with this trick?  Some people have thought that it is almost mid-June, which is when the river water surges. If the Song Dynasty opened the steep gates at the head of Tanglai Canal and Hanyuan Canal, the river water would flow down the two canals. Later, because of the construction of these canals by the Song Army,  The earth wall blocked the flood, so the flood slowly rose outside Xingzhou City.  In the future, Xingzhou City will be completely submerged, but now several city walls have been blown down. Although they are blocked with mud bags and fences, if there is flood water all around, it will inevitably seep in and eventually lead to collapse.  How can we defend the city then?    When thinking about this, many soldiers and civilians became completely confused.  Liang Yibu was furious, how could this happen?  If this situation could happen, how could Xixia build a city in Xingzhou and make it the capital?  Well, due to his power, none of them dared to say anything.  But some people are unconvinced. If it doesn't work, could that guy from the Song Dynasty do such a stupid thing?  He could do such a stupid thing, and he could beat Xixia to such a state repeatedly, and even be about to destroy the country at any time!  Wang Ju didn¡¯t care what the soldiers and civilians in Xixia City thought. He continued to order the attack to stop and continued to build these inexplicable projects.  Suddenly he received news from Yinzhou.  When the emissary returned, Mogusi thought about it for a long time. Although Wang Ju offered very generous terms, this was not a joke, it was a matter of life and death.  But at this time, the Liao Kingdom did not know the situation and sent people to urge them repeatedly. Mogus had no choice but to enter Xiazhou City.  But after entering Xiazhou City, Mogusi didn't move yet because he was still hesitating.  It happened that the Song Army was attacking Xingzhou City, so Mogusi sent people to lurk over to watch. As a result, several scouts were dumbfounded when they saw the Song Army's all-round three-dimensional attack.  This made Mogusi make up his mind. In fact, from the moment he entered Xixia territory, this fate was already destined.  Even if he does not rebel against the Liao Kingdom, the Song army will not be afraid, but Wang Ju's "double insurance" is gone.  By this time, Mogusi had been in Xiazhou City for several days and was very familiar with the situation in the city. He suddenly rebelled, and the Xixia people were caught off guard, and Mogusi succeeded.  Then Mogusi sent someone to inform the Song Dynasty officers and soldiers in Yinzhou, and the two sides slowly handed over.  Accepting the surrender was like facing the enemy, and the handover was also like facing the enemy. First, Mogusi slowly withdrew, and only after they had withdrawn to a safe distance, did the Song army enter the city.  But Mogusi did not leave, but asked the Song army for weapons and armor.  This is impossible to agree to. Once these more than 10,000 divination cavalry are fully armed and stay in Qiliping not far from Xiazhou City, they will pose a serious threat not only to Xiazhou but also to Shizhou.  So the two sides began to argue, and Yinzhou had no choice but to report to Wang Ju.  Wang Ju immediately gave instructions. This is simple. The armor transported from the rear of the imperial court is mainly concentrated in Qingzhou. It is impossible to move the armor from land to Xiazhou step by step. It is too far.  However, there are many weapons and armors gathered outside Xingzhou City, and now there is only an isolated city in Xingzhou in Xixia, or the two prefectures of Hongyou in the north of Yanzhou, but they are both under attack from two sides by the Song army, so they are ignored for the time being.  .  That is to say, the cavalry was temporarily useless, so Wang Ju ordered Mogus to take his men to retreat to Shengwei City and cross the Yellow River in Shengwei City. Wang Ju transported these armors to Hexi by boat, and in Hexi  These armors were handed over to them, and a batch of armors captured from Xixia were also taken out and asked to be brought back to Yubu to strengthen their strength in case of unexpected events.  If you are worried, ask Mogus to send a few envoys on horseback to supervise.  Soon Zhang Kai also sent a message that the scouts had discovered that a large group of Liao troops had entered Dongsheng Prefecture.  But Zhang Kai's tone was very relaxed. It was best for the Liao Kingdom not to send troops. After successfully wiping out Xixia, governance and immigration would be carried out. At most, the entire northwest would be settled in the spring of next year.  But if the Liao Kingdom sends troops, the worst thing is to send troops to Hebei, followed by Hedong, so now Zhang Kai is not in Taiyuan, nor in Yinzhou, the prefecture, but in Ninghua Army, because the imperial court ceded the north of Huangwei Mountain to the Liao Kingdom  , which tore a hole in Daizhou's defense line. Once the Liao Kingdom moved south, the Kelan Army and Daizhou Guoxian would be the first to bear the brunt.  However, if the Liao army wants to attack Hedong, the army must go south from Yunzhou. This is a highway.  It is impossible to go around to Dongsheng Prefecture, then follow the cliffs, turn back to Shuo Prefecture, and launch an attack to the east of Hedong.  But the happiest situation is that the Liao Kingdom places the battlefield in Hexi!  This time the Song Dynasty sent troops to Xixia, a total of nearly 600,000 soldiers and civilians were dispatched, and the West Route Army cannot be counted now.  There were not many real Song troops along the way. They were all strongmen from the Tubo tribes west of Hezhou. If the requirements were too high, it would make these Tibetans dissatisfied.  Moreover, it would be too long to return these soldiers and horses from the distant Hexi Corridor to Nanhetao, not to mention that the Tibetan people were not willing to do so.  Therefore, the West Route Army has basically completed its mission, and some soldiers and horses began to hand over to Hei Khan one after another. However, Hei Khan was quite satisfied this time. This time he sent troops and got a fortune, including some people, cattle, sheep and other materials. The Song Dynasty also  It was clearly stated that the ancient Yumen Pass was used as the boundary, and the east and west were divided from then on. Zhao Xu personally wrote an edict to divide the boundary.  After all, the Han and Tang Dynasties managed the Western Regions many times before. Even a short-lived dynasty like the Western Jin Dynasty established the Western Regions Changshi Mansion and extended its territory to Congling.  After the Song Dynasty destroyed Xixia, the trade routes were restored, which was good news. However, Black Khan was also afraid that the Central Plains Dynasty would extend its hands to the Western Regions like the Central Plains Dynasty in history. ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Black Khan?is really unreasonable. The current Black Khan is not the same as the Black Khan?a few decades ago.Wei Er also lost his ambition, so he was defeated by Yelu Dashi with a group of defeated soldiers decades later.  It wasn¡¯t until the certificate of credence was delivered to the leader of the Black Khan on a fast horse that the Black Khan felt relieved. He gained many people and some wealth. The trade routes were restored and everyone retreated happily.  Therefore, Wang Wenyu has focused his attention on governance and stability and preparing for future immigration. At the same time, Zhong Yi has led the retreat to Hehuang.  But there is still a group of busy soldiers of the three armies on the other side of Juyanhai. Juyanhai is divided into two seas, the east and west. The average passage in the middle is more than sixty miles, and the narrowest part is nearly fifty miles.  So the Song army used this passage to build two cities in a narrow place, one in the south and one in the north. They dug wide ditches on both sides of the castle and poured in the lake water from the two seas, so that the passage between the two cities formed a huge center of the lake.  Island, where the border soldiers and their families can graze and farm, and have enough food and clothing to feed themselves.  So if you are attacked by the enemy in the future, as long as you have enough weapons, you can protect yourself even without external rescue.  In fact, it is impossible for the Liao Kingdom to use troops from here in the future. It is too far and the logistics alone will be too much for the Liao Kingdom.  The main thing to be on guard against is people who are blocking divination, and it has nothing to do with Mogusi. God knows whether Mogusi will turn to the Liao Kingdom again in the future. Besides, Mogusi cannot control all the divination blocking ministries.  With such construction, the Ruoshui River can be guarded and become an important gateway between the western part of Helan Mountain and the northern part of the Hexi Corridor.  There is no hope for the Song Army over there, but there are still many troops and horses in the east of the river. That is to say, except for the West Route Army, the number of soldiers and civilians that the Song Army can mobilize here can still be maintained at about 600,000.  In fact, the concept of the war army and the people is very vague. The so-called people are not really the people. Although real civilians were used, they were only responsible for domestic escort, including the original prisoners of war, and none of them were transferred abroad.  This people is actually composed of Xiang troops, strong men, volunteers, Baoding, and some archers in the rear of Hedong, and some Baojie troops east of Guanzhong and Tongguan. Although they are archers and Baojie troops, because they are in the rear, they have been in the rear for a long time.  Not accustomed to fighting, they were classified as civilians.  "However, these people have been taught by many instructors before, but they have never been on the battlefield. During this period of hard work, most of them have made progress, and at least they can stand on the top of the city and pick up weapons for defense.  But apart from these militiamen, the rest were the strongest army in the Song Dynasty.  With such a huge force, even if Xingzhou City dragged down many Song Dynasty soldiers and horses, and each fort had to be guarded by troops, it could still mobilize more than 200,000 mobile troops to fight against the Liao Kingdom.  Fighting here, the Liao Kingdom does not have an advantage, so Zhang Kai is very curious about how many troops the Liao Kingdom can send to come back without being defeated.  In fact, this time the commander-in-chief of the three armies of the Liao Dynasty, Yelu Ote Lazheng, expressed that he had a headache.  The Liao Kingdom did not fully believe in the peace promised by the Song Dynasty. It was half-believing and half-suspicious. The suspicion was similar to that of Xixia. They thought there was another internal conflict within the Song Dynasty, so they also sent some scouts to sneak into the Xia-Song border, which is the area north of Yinzhou.  area.  But this time the Song Dynasty sent troops too quickly, and the troops had nothing to do with the direction of Yinzhou. Therefore, when the Liao Kingdom heard the news, the main armies of the Song Dynasty had entered Xixia territory.  Officials in Xijing of the Liao Kingdom immediately informed Yelu Hongji, the Daozong of the Liao Dynasty, that disputes began to occur within the Liao Kingdom. Some wanted to fight, some only expressed accusations, and some threatened to send troops, but they did not actually use troops.  But at this time, the Liao Kingdom received good news.  Lu Hui sent all the leaders and their subordinates' families away together. Without any worries, they went out again. At this time, they only had a few thousand people. However, after repeated battles, they accumulated rich combat experience, and each of them became a hundred warriors.  They are veterans and use guerrilla tactics. The small number means they are well concealed and the logistics supply is not difficult.  So under their attack, the Liao army was killed more than a thousand soldiers one after another.  And although the tribes turned against each other and expressed their allegiance to the Liao State due to the coercion of the Liao army, many tribes secretly supported this army, not only sending them information, but also secretly supporting a lot of supplies.  Forced by helplessness, the Liao army came up with a strategy to ask the Yueli Ji tribe in the east of the Five Kingdoms to provide them with a large amount of supplies to win the trust of this rebel tribe first.  It just so happened that Lu Hui took these soldiers and moved in this area, reaching Yueli Jibu and Majiling in the east, and Huntongfu in the west. He did not dare to go further west. The Liao army had too many troops, and further east belonged to the Liao Kingdom.  In the wild area, there is no deterrence and it is impossible to contain the Liao team.  Lu Hui also did not expect that because he had been deceived, Yue Li Jibu not only gained his trust, but also allowed Yue Li Jibu to "support" nearly a hundred soldiers to infiltrate into the rebels, thereby letting the Liao army know all the details of the rebels.  In a forest beside Huntongsa, he was surrounded by tens of thousands of soldiers and horses from the Liao Kingdom.  In this battle, less than a hundred people were killed and fled to the vast dense forest in the southeast. Their whereabouts are unknown, and the remaining people are waitingAll of them were killed by the Liao army, including dozens of generals left on the other side, and nearly half of them died in this battle.  Dozens of people no longer pose a danger, and they have also dispersed, making it difficult to gather again.  So the Liao army ordered all ministries and offered some huge rewards to continue chasing and suppressing these dozens of rebels, and then led the army to withdraw from Liaodong.  This resulted in the main militant faction gaining the upper hand.  As for Goryeo, the Liao Kingdom has really not thought about retaliation for the time being. At most, it will continue to intimidate.  Although this Jurchen rebellion did not last as long as the Mogus rebellion in history, it was larger in scale, sweeping almost half of Liaodong. Tens of thousands of Liao soldiers lost their lives in this suppression, which also seriously dragged down Liaodong.  country's economy.  In addition, the Song Dynasty was aggressive in the northwest, so it still had the intention to retaliate against Goryeo.  At the same time, what Wang Ju expected was that no matter how much he concealed this rebellion, more and more Liao ministers suspected that the Song Dynasty was actually secretly involved.  Moreover, the navigation industry in the Song Dynasty was very developed. It is said that it has reached areas tens of thousands of miles away. So how difficult is it to reach the coastal areas of northeastern Liaodong?  However, another dispute arose over how to support Xixia.  Some people say that they will directly attack Hebei Road, surround Wei and rescue Zhao, and force the Song Dynasty to withdraw from the northwest.  However, some people objected. Although the Song Dynasty did not build any forts on the front line of Hebei in recent years, it successively built many forts on the front line and trained many frontier soldiers.  The frontline defense may have been weakened, but the sub-frontline defense has been strengthened, which means the actual thickness has increased.  There is some truth to this statement. In order not to arouse strong opposition from the Liao Kingdom, the Song Dynasty at the forefront did not build much in accordance with the second covenant made by Song Renzong.  However, following Wang Ju's proposal, the Song Dynasty not only trained many frontier troops on the sub-front, but also built many forts one after another.  Especially when the Liao Kingdom came for extortion for the second time, these forts were almost spread to the south of Zhaozhou, Shenzhou and Hejian Prefecture.  If the Liao Kingdom wanted to send troops, it would be difficult to quickly reach the Yellow River, so it would not pose a fatal threat to the Song Dynasty. However, Xixia could not hold on for long.  Xixia was destroyed, the main army of the Song Dynasty returned, and the Liao Kingdom had no choice but to retreat.  But the consequences were serious. The Liao State directly took the initiative to tear up the treaty. At the least, the Song Dynasty's 500,000-year-old payment was lost, and at the worst, the two countries resumed war.  If that happens, the already very tight economy will be even worse.  Therefore, the second theory is to directly send troops to Xixia.  Sending troops to Xixia can achieve great justice. Your Song Dynasty said that Xixia is the homeland of your Song Dynasty, and the leader of the Xixia Kingdom professed vassalage to your Song Dynasty. But make no mistake, the lord of Xixia also professed vassalage to our Liao Kingdom.  And this time, no matter what excuse you Song Dynasty used, you took the initiative to tear up the peace negotiation.  Therefore, we in the Liao Kingdom have reason to respond to the invitation of the Xixia leader to enter Xixia and assist Xixia.  Fighting in Xixia will not completely break the relationship with the Song Dynasty. Even if the Song army is defeated, the Song Dynasty will be able to step down to some extent.  Fighting in Xixia, although it is not the home field of the Liao Kingdom, the support of the people of Xixia can take advantage of the people.  Xixia has many dryland areas with little rain, and many areas are conducive to cavalry operations.  There is another tempting reason, that is, Wang Ju voluntarily gave up the Xia Youhong area in order to avoid coordination errors among his troops. As long as the Liao army entered this area and joined forces with the original Xixia army,  You can immediately gain an active advantage.  At that time, another envoy will be sent to force the Song army to retreat. If they do not retreat, they will directly attack Yinzhou, Baoan Army, Qingzhou and Yanzhou to force the Song army to withdraw for rescue. Then it is time to use the strategy of encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao.  ¡°You dare to think about this good thing, but you also want to deal with the Song Dynasty, and you want to continue to get benefits from the Song Dynasty Just like Xiao Fei, you also want to seize the South China Sea from China, attracting the US military to threaten China¡¯s security, and you also want to continue to get benefits and assistance from China.  However, due to clumsy diplomacy, most of these strange good things will succeed.  But because of poverty!  At least this year the Liao Kingdom is really poor and has been tortured by the Liaodong Rebellion, so this opinion is supported by most people.  But due to various disputes, the Song army won the most precious time. By the time the Liao Kingdom crossed the Yellow River, it had been almost four months since the Song Dynasty sent troops.  It was precisely because of this plan that the Liao State allowed Mogusi to enter Xiazhou in preparation for the arrival of the main force of the Liao State.  However, Mogusi suddenly betrayed him, and Yeluotara also had a headache.  This is the result of the local terrain. If the army wants to reach Xiazhou from the Liao border, it must replenish its water source from the source of the Quye River, then pass through the Dijinze Desert and Mu Us Desert, arrive at Huangyangping, and reach Xiazhou.  This section of road is not very far, about less than 500 miles. However, the problem is that there is a serious lack of roads in this area.source.  Needless to say, Dijinze, even after passing Dijinze, to Huangyangping and Anqingze, there was still a lack of water sources, at least the small amount of local spring water could not meet the needs of the army.  Until Xiazhou is adjacent to Qiliping in the north, there is a small river, which is a tributary of Wuding River, which can replenish the water source.  Therefore, Xiazhou must be controlled first so that the army will be safe.  But now that Mogusi betrayed the Liao Kingdom and handed over Xiazhou to the Song Army, the future became less optimistic.  So Outela suddenly thought of Fuzhou.  This Liao general's military level is pretty good, and he has passed the test of Liaodong's counterinsurgency.  The first time the general was responsible for countering the rebellion was when Yelu Asi, the king of Beiyuan, was deployed by the Liao Palace Palace. He made military exploits during the Chongyuan Rebellion, but everyone knows the result. Nearly half of the troops were overwhelmed by the Jurchens.  So the Liao Kingdom sent out a large army, and Xiao Tat, the privy envoy of the South Court, went to Liaodong to quell the rebellion. After Xiao Tat arrived in Liaodong, he did one thing: he announced that Liaodong would be exempted from paying tribute for three years. Don't you Jurchens hate paying tribute?  , now waived.  It would be better if he was exempted from the contract. Who would accept your three-year exemption?  Yelu Hongji also agreed. Apart from this matter, there is nothing more.  The Liao State had no choice but to appoint Privy Councilor Yelvouteluo as its second commander and enter Liaodong to use troops. After Uteluo arrived in Liaodong, he divided the various ministries and compressed the space for the rebels to move. Then he used cavalry to repeatedly cut them. Finally,  Lu Fu was forced to take the rest of the people to flee to Bigude.  This year's use of the Yueli Ji tribe to destroy the Jurchen rebels was also done by Wutela.  The Liao Kingdom has been at peace for a long time, so just like when Renzong of Song Dynasty, he didn¡¯t know who could lead the troops in battle.  In other words, rebellions are not too large in scale. Just like the Song Dynasty, if a certain barbarian rebellion on Kuixia Road or a Meishan barbarian rebellion was suppressed by a certain general, would that general be able to defeat the Xixia people and the Liao people?  Therefore, after discussing the troop march plan, Yelu Hongji immediately ordered Wote La to come to Xijing to preside over the war.  In short, all kinds of news made Wutela have a very bad feeling, which made him have the idea of ??overturning the original battle plan. It was impossible to turn to Daizhou. The roads were inconvenient and it was close to the Song Dynasty. The three armies were not ready.  If they move, the Song army may know about it. By the time the Liao army arrives in Daizhou, the Song Dynasty will have already been prepared.  It's not Fuzhou, but Fengzhou. The terrain of Fuzhou City is dangerous, and the Zhejia Army is also a headache. However, with the decline of Xixia, the Song Dynasty not only restored the Fengzhou establishment, but also after the battle on the upper reaches of the Wuding River last year,  The Song Dynasty also snatched Zihe Branch, Nuanquan Peak, and Zhuolun Village in the west of Fengzhou from the Xixia people. Then it sent soldiers and civilians to immediately build six or seven forts. In the spring, they built Quyechuan and Zhuolunchuan.  The river opened up a lot of farmland for farming.  Thinking of this, Ote La felt envious. His grandma, the Song Dynasty was really rich. How much money would it cost to spend such money?  In fact, even the Song Dynasty cannot afford to make such a fuss. If the huge war continues until next year and continues on this scale, the Song Dynasty's finances will also collapse.  Compared with Fuzhou, it is easier to attack here.  However, after thinking about it, he gave up this plan, because even if Fengzhou was captured, it would not pose a fatal threat to the northwest of the Song Dynasty. Fengzhou had not been lost before. When Song Renzong was so weak, it did not hinder the Song Dynasty.  , then it is impossible for the Song Army to cancel the attack on Xingzhou City for Fengzhou.  In short, Nowadays, Outala has vaguely felt that actually attacking Hebei is a good choice.  But at this point, it¡¯s impossible to change the plan, and Xingzhou City can¡¯t wait any longer.  So he looked at the information obtained by the scouts, and some of the information was quite good. The First Song Army still had not taken action against Youzhou and Hongzhou, but only sent troops to station in Xiazhou City.  Second, in the past two years, the Song army successively destroyed many cities in Xixia, including Hongzhou and Xiazhou where the Liao army was about to enter.  Things were better in Lingzhou. More than a year later, Xixia was able to complete the repairs on the city wall in time.  However, Xiazhou and Hongzhou are different. Last year, the Song army destroyed many city walls, and then the Song army retreated.  Xixia immediately sent people to repair it, but soon the sun entered the depths of winter, and the project had to be stopped.  Xixia has not yet started construction this spring, but Song Jun's Third Army has officially begun to conquer Xia.  Although the Song army did not attack Xiazhou and Hongzhou, and the soldiers and civilians of the two cities also made some repairs in a timely manner, due to unrest and short time, the walls of the two cities were not perfect.  This seems to be a good time There is no way, Xingzhou is in danger, forcing Wotela to think of something good.  To be continued.  The fastest update, please read.  
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