"I, Tang Ning, Tang Mingyuan, am the commander of the Zhenjiang Army and the Mabu Army, and I am the chief general of this army. In terms of duty, I am the one who commands you and leads you to victory.

Where will I die, how will I die, and by whom will I be killed. Where will the robes die, how will they die, and for whom...... Do you think I haven't thought about these things?

I didn't think about it all the time, and when I thought about what I would look like when I died, I was so scared that I couldn't even lift my feet.

If I don't even have the courage to fight, what else can I command you? What else can I rely on to lead you to victory?

The battle of Xiaoguan made me understand one thing.

The world we live in is cruel.

No matter where we are, this will not change.

This world has always been a cruel hell.

War is only one of the factors, whether it is our victory, or the victory of Western Xia, or the victory of Liao, this matter will not change in any way.

As long as there are still people, this will not change.

The officers and men of the Zhenjiang Army have completed their tasks brilliantly, and I am very proud of them. I also deeply regret that some of them did not survive. Other than that, I can't, and can't do, anything else.

Isn't the current situation good? Didn't we survive anyway? ”

The soldiers fell silent, Pei Xiantong fell silent, and Shenqian didn't say a word.

But the creaking sound came from the fist of the god dive.

"In the face of these two hundred and forty corpses, it's a shame that you can say this! Why didn't you die in Xiao Guan?! You bastard of this dog day! ”

"Even if I die in Xiao Pass, what can I change? With the power of you and me, with the power of the Zhenjiang army, what can be changed? Wake up, God, and stop looking at the world with your naïve idea of black and white.

Didn't the Battle of Xiaoguan make you grow at all? ”

"What do you mean by that?! I ......"

"Why did we survive? It is not because of the dead brothers that we have been able to survive from hell until now!! ”

The last sentence, Tang Ning almost used all his strength to shout out.

"Don't let them die in vain!! Don't waste the opportunity they gave us!! Whether it is these 240 people, the 14,762 people who died in the Zhenjiang army, or the tens of millions of people who have died in countless wars from ancient times to the present......

No one is willing to die generously so that you can be sad and sigh in this world!! Tang Ning gritted his teeth and said loudly.

Pei Xiantong looked at Tang Ning in silence, tears rolling in the eyes of this man she couldn't understand before.

A soldier of the Zhenjiang Army looked at the immature and pale face at his feet and cried bitterly

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Shen Qian clenched his fists and slowly got up. Stretched out his hand to pull Tang Ning up, threw the dust behind him away, and said softly, "I...... Can't identify with you. ”

Wiping away tears with the back of his hand, Shen Qian whispered, "If I hadn't ...... at the beginning"

"Don't regret it." Tang Ning stretched out his hand, pressed it on Shenqian's shoulder, and whispered, "The memory of regret will drag you down and make you indecisive. We still have a war to fight, and we are indecisive, and there is only one way to die. ”

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The battle of Pingxia City entered the final stage, and Meile Duqi and Wei Ming'a Bury temporarily stayed on Jingyuan Road, on the grounds that Zhang Ji believed that the two had intelligence value, and begged the emperor for amnesty to bring them under his banner.

The Liao envoy entered Kaifeng and urged Zhao Xu to immediately cease the war. Before proceeding with formal mediation, the Liao envoy revealed that the negotiations were in view of the critical situation of the Western Xia, and that the emperor of the Western Xia demanded reconciliation.

The Liang family, the mother of the Western Xia State, was humiliated several times because of her disrespectful remarks to the Liao envoys, and was killed by the ministers who were afraid of the revenge of the Liao State.

The little emperor Li Qianshun resumed his pro-government and sent an envoy to apologize to Song for his crimes, hoping to conduct peace negotiations.

Kaifeng was thus divided into two factions, and the main battle faction led by Zhang Dian believed that the Song Dynasty should decide whether it was war or peace regardless of Khitan mediation.

The Lords and Peacers led by Zeng Bu believed that if the party members still wanted to continue to be the border pass of the Holy Dynasty, then even if the Northern Dynasty came to persuade them to reconcile, they should crusade against them.

And if the party members are willing to admit their sins and obey the instructions of the Holy Dynasty, then even if the Northern Dynasty does not come to persuade reconciliation, they should listen to it.

Lu Huiqing also wrote to Kaifeng, saying that the Holy Dynasty should focus on obtaining practical benefits from the party members and should not further damage the relationship between the Holy Dynasty and the Northern Dynasty.

Initially, Zhao Xu was more inclined to Zhang Dan's opinion, but after a few days of discussion with the Manchu civil and military forces, Zhao Xu still adopted the opinions of Zeng Bu and Lü Huiqing.

Then he issued a letter of state: "Xia Guo is deeply guilty, although he sent an envoy to apologize, he did not open it." Because the Northern Dynasty sent an envoy to persuade peace, he ordered the border ministers to discuss with him, and if he sincerely confessed to his sins and obeyed orders, he promised to reform himself. ”

In addition to these, the national letter also forced the Tangut people to admit that the Liaoxia relationship was different from the Song-Xia relationship, and insisted that the Song Guo was the suzerainty of the Western Xia.

The Western Xia were asked to recognize that the relationship between the Liao and the Western Xia was that of the father and the son-in-law, and that of the Song and the Western Xia was that of the ruler and the people.

In other words, the first purpose of this letter of state was to make the Western Xia and the Liao State admit that the Song Dynasty's punishment of its own people did not mean that it was opposed to the Liao Dynasty.

For the second purpose, the national letter declared that all Western Xia lands were granted to Li Jiqian by Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty and Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty. Therefore, if the Western Xia did not intend to surrender, the Song court still retained the ultimate power to reclaim the right to rule.

At the same time, he also condemned the capricious attitude of the Tangut people, saying that the Tangut people were repairing tribute on the one hand and committing offenses on the other.

However, at the end of the letter of state, Zhao Xu expressed his willingness to negotiate peace with the Western Xia.

The attitude of this letter is very tough, but the conditions are not so difficult to accept.

The Liao envoys also had other purposes, to make the Song state withdraw its troops and horses from the Western Xia, and restore the territory, so as to highlight the superior position of the Liao over the Song and Xia countries.

So he stayed in Kaifeng for thirty-five days, until the middle of January of the second year of Yuan Fu, when the negotiations were fruitless, he accepted the credentials, left Kaifeng Mansion, and returned to Liao.

During this period, the Liao Emperor Yelu Hongji stopped near the Song Dynasty in the name of hunting. According to the report of the Wude officials, Liaoying was only five to seven miles north of Yanmen Pass.

The Liao envoys returned to the Liao state, and the Song dynasty also sent envoys to the Western Xia, urging them to present a letter of apology and return the two war criminals, Jubu Moma and Ling Ji Yuyu, as a necessary condition for peace.

Before the Western Xia fulfilled these requirements, the Song army was carrying out the fortifications of Hengshan and Tiandu Mountains at the fastest speed.

The Western Xia was defeated in Pingxia City, and was caught off guard by the Song army at Tiandu Mountain, and most of Tiandu Mountain and Hengshan completely fell into the hands of the Song Dynasty.

For Western Xia, Hengshan was an extremely important region. It was a natural barrier against the Song army's attack, and it was no different for the Song dynasty.

In the spring of the second year of Yuan Fu, the Song army established a total of five walled forts on the border of the Yanyan Road and the west bank of the Yellow River. In the summer, 100,000 Song troops were dispatched to build another eight walled forts within ten days.

At this point, the Yanyan Road, Hedong Road, Linzhou, and Fuzhou formed a new defensive front, and drove the party members to the desert area for more than 300 miles along the Hengshan Mountain.

Later, in order to consolidate the control of the newly occupied territory, Jialuzhai was promoted to the Jinning Army, and heavy troops were stationed as an important town to defend and control the territory of Western Xia.

Jingyuan Road was not idle, and under Zhang Qi's order, Jingyuan Road frantically expanded its borders. From the north of Pingxia City, it extends to the original site of the Nanmu Association of the Xixia Palace, and the command post of Tiandu Mountain is set up in Xi'an Prefecture.

At this point, the Western Summer Dushan Supervision and Military Division existed in name only, and their territory had all fallen into Zhang Qi's pocket.

In the autumn of the second year of Yuanfu, the fortifications of Huizhou and the other three fortresses were completed on the Jingyuan and Xihe roads, and it was reconfirmed that from Lanzhou to Huizhou via the Yellow River, and then along the north side of Tiandu Mountain through the Wuyan Gorge, and finally arrived at the territory of Pingxia City.

After the completion of this fortification, Li Qianshun sent an envoy to apologize, and his apology letter was humble and sincere, and Zhao Xulongyan was delighted, and held a grand banquet in Kaifeng to entertain the envoys of Western Xia.

At the end of the year, the two sides returned to peace, and the new border between Song and Xia was established.

The Zhenjiang army, which was heading to the Yanyan Road because of the Hengshan fortifications, passed through the Wuding River on the way. More than 2,000 people took a short break by the Wuding River to replenish the water bladder.

Zhang Jingming seems to have picked up a clean bone that has been washed, but he can't tell whether it is a human or an animal.

However, he still unconsciously chanted the poem that the people in the border area knew.

"Swore to sweep away the Huns without regard for themselves, and five thousand mink brocade mourned Hu Chen.

Poor and uncertain riverside bones, like a person in a spring boudoir dream. ”

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