"Old man, Tubo has taken it."

"So fast?" Wen Yanbo muttered.

In his heart, there was no problem for Wang Ju to take Tubo, but the problem was that Wang Ju dragged it out until the beginning of the summer, and then he sent troops to Kuozhou tepidly. If you don't get it right, you won't want to take the entire Huangshui area this year.

In fact, other people think similarly, in their hearts, Tibet is a big country, not Jiaozhi and Dali.

In fact, Jiaozhi is not as weak as they imagined, if Wang Ju does not use a boatload of refugees to sweep, and mixed with the army among the refugees, they will be unified to sweep and fight, even if Wang Ju, want to eat Jiaozhi, I don't know how many soldiers to sacrifice, after actually taking Jiaozhi, the Song Dynasty also spent four or five years constantly suppressing, including Zhang Dian left Jiaozhi, Jiaozhi and local battles, until Wang Ju was the year before last, Jiaozhi territory gradually all quiet.

Tubo looks very powerful, but that was when it was a mess, and it was already in the hands of Dong Yu, as for how Dong Yu set up Ali Gu as the successor, Wang Ju has not yet figured it out, but this move made Tubo lose its strong cohesion again. Therefore, in history, since the Ali bone, Tubo was first taken by the Song Dynasty, the Northern Song Dynasty perished, and then was encroached upon by the Western Xia, and later was appeased by the Jin State, the Yuan Dynasty came, and it became the territory of the Yuan Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty came, and it became the territory of the Ming Dynasty. Without cohesion, Hehuang is just like that.

In terms of individual soldiers, the Tubo soldiers are very strong, but this tribal alliance system lacks cohesion, and it can be said that Tubo is not as good as Dali when Wang Ju sent troops.

But others don't think so, they think that the Tibetans defeated the Tangut many times, many times. No matter what time it is. When it was still Dong Yu. The Western Xia launched a total of nearly ten large-scale invasions, which were successively defeated by the Tibetans, and even caused the Western Xia to suffer a crushing defeat several times.

I really thought wrong, and Wang Ju can't say that he started slowly from the beginning of summer, but in fact, the Song Dynasty had already started from the time when Ali's bone soldiers defeated Taoshui and Dingxi City. In the spring, sending envoys to the various ministries to appease them is also considered to be hands-on.

But Wen Yanbo is in his hometown and is not very well-informed. I don't know the inside story.

Officials in the capital also congratulated Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji said: "Zhuqing, even so, it is far from the time of the Tang Dynasty. ”

Fan Chunren was anxious, and immediately said: "Your Majesty, you must not learn from the Tang Dynasty, when the Tang Dynasty was at its peak, the territory reached Persia (referring to the time of Tang Gaozong, the west encompassed the entire Aral Sea, and the southwest Jiling City reached the territory of Iran), but because it was too far. The whip is beyond reach, only a few years. Several Persian states were lost. Although it later still occupied the river, it was dragged down by the river. Therefore, the ancestors used the jade axe to draw the Dadu River, and I did not want to do it to the west, so as not to harm the power of China. ”

"I know," Zhao said.

In fact, Zhao Ji just said it, and the smile on his face was overflowing, and he could also see his mood.

Indeed, in terms of territory, the Song Dynasty was far inferior to the Tang Dynasty, but although the Tang Dynasty was large, it was mostly a fetter area, although the Song Dynasty was small, there were very few fetters in the area, including the southwest of China, basically more than ninety percent of the area, can be directly managed.

It's hard to say about the Western Regions, but the actual Hehuang area, the area controlled by the Song Dynasty now, is more than that of the Tang Dynasty, did the Tang Dynasty take the Jishishan area? No! Did the Tang Dynasty control the entire Jiuqu region? No! Even on both sides of Qinghai Lake west of Chiling, although the Song Dynasty was forced by the local situation and would not directly send officials to govern in the future, it was also restrained.

He was very satisfied.

But Wang Ju wrote this report, not to report success, of course, it is also to report success, so far, it means that the entire Qingtang City area is included in the Song Dynasty.

But there are four other things besides the success.

The list of meritorious soldiers and sacrificed soldiers was a great victory, but there was a punishment for the defeat of the Gaoliang River, and the rewards and pensions of the imperial court must be issued immediately after the great victory, so that the officers and men of the three armies can always maintain good morale. And this morale is the most important thing in Chenguang in the next two years.

The front line needs to replenish the grain and grass, although this battle will attract the main force to Pingxi Fort, the Qingtang area is not seriously damaged, but the entire Qingtang area has also begun to lack grain and grass, and the soldiers of the three armies are also short of food. These grains should be transported to Hehuang in time, and if the various ministries can survive this winter and spring smoothly, then the people of the various ministries will be further brought to their hearts.

and the candidate of Zampu, and the new interpretation of this Zampu, it is not the king, but equivalent to the king of Hehuang County, nominally higher than Duan Zhengming's official position in Dali, but in fact the degree of freedom is not as good as Duan Zhengming, but the establishment of this Zampu is conducive to the imperial court to appease the people in this area.

It is still very important to pacify, don't occupy the front, and the back will be full of flames again, and the river will be lost, then this time there is no point in using troops at all.

The last thing is to seize the time to immigrate, or to move the army.

After the battle of Pingxibao, Wang Ju forced Ali Gu to lead the warriors of various ethnic groups to fight with the Western Xia, resulting in the battle of 30,000 Tubo only more than 10,000 people remained, and the loss of sixty percent of the troops.

Not only the loss of the Battle of Pingxi Fort, but also the loss of Maoniu City and Ali Gu's Eastern Expedition to Taoxi, which led to the loss of nearly forty percent of Ding Zhuang in the Qingtang City area.

Wang Ju also relocated some nobles and forced them to resettle in Weiyuan, and surrounded them with party members, so that they could never gain power, so there was a large vacuum in the Qingtang region, which was just used to settle the border army.

Qingtang is stable, the entire Huangshui and even Jishi Mountain can be stable, and the most important thing is not the troops, but the food, and even in the year after tomorrow, food is the most important focus. Whether it is directly distributed or labor relief, the people of the Qiang and Qiang tribes in all parts of the province will eat it, so that they will not be bewitched by some well-intentioned people.

More than 40,000 border soldiers and their families ploughed, even if one household produces more than 50 stone of grain, it can also save 2 million stone of grain for the imperial court, think about how much consumption of 2 million stone grain from Weishui to Qingtang City, and even more distant Shazhou area in the future.

This strategy has already seen some results, just like the thousands of immigrants in Beisui Prefecture last year, the thousands of immigrants in Huizhou, and the more than 10,000 border army immigrants in Hezhou. It is the plantation industry that is good at it. It's not animal husbandry. The autumn harvest is coming soon, because the planting of more than 30,000 households has actually saved a lot of grain for the imperial court, and it is still the grain that is at the forefront of the war! Even shipping costs are saved.

But the campaign is not over.

Liang Yikui finally gathered an army of 150,000 and began to set off for Xiazhou.

The two core areas of Western Xia, one is the area from Lingzhou to Xingqingfu, but some people in Lingzhou have forced the Song Dynasty to migrate to Weiyuan. The second is the Yinxiayou region, and the Song Dynasty can't be allowed to dig up half of it, so the Western Xia will be killed.

The army quickly rushed to Youzhou, but the main army of the Song Dynasty has come to Longzhou, and now Liang Yikui has only two choices, one is to divide the troops, the section of the Great Wall built by the Song Dynasty is actually the Great Wall of the ancient Qin and Han dynasties, but this section of the Great Wall has not been repaired for a long time, and there are some remnants left. The Song army took the people to repair it, and it could only be repaired. It is impossible to really build such a long-distance majestic Great Wall, and it is too late in time, so it is possible to directly divide part of the troops and go directly from Xiazhou to Shizhou Yinzhou.

There is also the gathering of the main force and the war with the Song army in Longzhou.

The armies kept coming, and the scouts brought a lot of news. The rear of the Song army heard that Liang Yiqi was leading a large army to come, and he had already let the people of the villages return, and the rest of the troops retreated to defend the forts and cities.

Liang Yikui thought about it again and again, siege warfare is not the strength of Western Xia, and his army of soldiers and horses seems to be huge, and the actual combat effectiveness is far less than the original Xia army. More importantly, the rear of the Song army is Hengshan, this section of Hengshan has been occupied by the Song Dynasty, last year in eight important intersections to build the relevant forts, really no, they retreated to the rear of Hengshan, Western Xia was helpless.

In fact, there is another option, that is, to divide the troops of Fulin Road, at this time, the troops of Fulin Road are very empty, maybe you can play the tactic of encircling Wei and saving Zhao. However, the road was too far, and after Liang Yi's defeat in Dingxi City, he was even more afraid of being broken by the Song army.

Therefore, he did not lead the three armies to Xiazhou, but went straight down to the southeast and approached Longzhou.

The two armies fought across the ancient Great Wall, which was so ruined that it was almost impossible to see.

Liang Yiqi launched several attacks, all of which were unsuccessful, and Zhang Kai launched several attacks, which were also unsuccessful.

So the two armies were deadlocked.

But this stalemate is very unfavorable to Western Xia, because every day of stalemate is equivalent to a large amount of consumption, and where can Western Xia withstand such a huge consumption now.

Then came the news of the defeat of Pingxi Fort, after Wang Wenyu took Maoniu City, the entire Qilian Mountain was blocked, but when Renduo Baozhong and Ali were fighting, some timid Western Xia soldiers began to flee blindly, most of them were captured one by one after the battle, but there were a very few...... Because some of the soldiers had no food or drink halfway, they were lost in these mountains and rivers, and starved to death, only a few dozen people were lucky to escape, and they still escaped from the vast mountains of Qilian Mountain. Therefore, it has nothing to do with cleverness, it can only be said that they are unlucky.

It wasn't until Wang Ju arrived in Lanzhou that the tragic news from the front reached Liang Yikui.

After receiving this news, the three armies of Western Xia were all depressed. Although the rank-and-file soldiers below did not know about this news, their morale was equally low. An even more fatal Song army arrived, the Song army on Huanqing Road. Liang Yiwei is not defenseless, from Longzhou to Hongzhou this section of Hengshan is still controlled by the Xixia people, opposite is the Great Wall Ridge of Yanzhou, this section is also controlled by the Xixia people, it has become the only Hengshan area controlled by the Xixia, and now the Xixia has strengthened its vigilance in this area, and even rebuilt some tall forts last year.

However, instead of sending troops from the Great Wall Ridge, he sent troops directly from the Dingyuan Army and went straight to Hongzhou.

Hongzhou's troops were also relatively empty at this time, and Liang Yizhu had to immediately divide his troops to defend Hongzhou, but when he arrived at the city of Hongzhou, Zhang Shouyue and Qin Gui led two cavalry to kill.

After the first battle of Pingxi Fort, the Song army successively captured nearly 30,000 war horses, in fact, from now on, the entire Hebei Hedong including the cavalry of Shaanxi Road and the Fan Luo army can do one person and one war horse, of course, those cavalry in Hebei Hedong is to get war horses, want to form combat effectiveness, it will take several years, but there is no problem for the Fan Luo army, they have war horses, that is, a qualified cavalry soldier.

The disadvantage is that there is a lack of relevant cooperation, but the army on the Western Xia side is also scattered, especially the army organized by these conservants. It's not even as good as those lazy forbidden soldiers in the capital of the Song Dynasty.

Two armies were under the city of Hongzhou. Face the music. The Xia army was defeated.

The seed master Dao took the main army, and then killed and took Hongzhou City.

Liang Yiwei felt that something was wrong and wanted to temporarily withdraw to Youzhou, but Zhang Kai showed his sharp teeth and launched a fierce attack on the three armies.

The Xia army was defeated and fled to Youzhou one after another, and the cultivator Dao had long known this result. His tens of thousands of military horses did not go to Longzhou to join the main army of Zhang Kai at all, but directly along the west bank of the upper reaches of the Wuding River, directly copied the back road of the Xia army, part of the Xia army escaped, but the division of the road in time copied most of the Xia army that fled behind, this battle, Liang Yi 150,000 soldiers and horses, in the end less than half of the people who could escape back, the rest were either killed by the Song army, or captured.

Zhang Qi asked the army to set up a large camp on the bank of the Wuding River. Split the army and attack Xiazhou again. After taking Xiazhou City, the people outside the ancient Great Wall, including the people in the Hongzhou area, were expelled to the Nanhetao.

At this time, at the end of July, it was impossible for the Song Dynasty to take Western Xia this year, if the greed was insufficient, when winter came, in case the Liao State sent another large army to help, it would become a fiasco of the previous summer war.

And Wang Ju and Zhang Qi are just people who are not greedy.

Therefore, this year, it still occupies this side of the ancient Great Wall, and then before the harsh winter comes, this section of the ancient Great Wall will be slightly repaired, and the poor people in Hedong will be mobilized to migrate to this area again.

However, it is much less difficult to mobilize the people this year, after all, everyone was a little afraid last year, but with the arrival of autumn, the people who migrated over have a harvest, which will make more people excited. In his letter, Wang Ju deliberately used the other side to explain this matter, and there were also wars and indigenous threats on the other side, but in order to survive, there were still many desperate people who were willing to migrate to the other side. Therefore, as everyone's life becomes better, they can write letters to their families and relatives, and then there will be many desperate people in the rear. Moreover, the proportion of people living in extreme poverty in the Song Dynasty was so large, so there was no need to worry about the number of immigrants.

In this way, this tuoba's nest will be seriously diluted by the Han people, and it will not become a hazard to the Song Dynasty in the future. And with the arrival of these immigrants, although they have spent a lot of money on resettlement at present, by next year, they will be able to buy a lot of food from these people, and the cost savings will also offset this year's expenses.

In fact, this is mainly to shake the foundation of Western Xia, not to occupy the territory, in addition to the Hengshan area around the Great Wall Ridge, which must be occupied, including Hongzhou and Youzhou, Wang Ju is not interested in this year, the same way, the Kaluo River area in the west of the Lanzhou River is also rich, but after the war, Wang Ju did not send troops to Hexi to recover the Kaluo River.

There's another nice thing about that...... That is the Liao State.

Why the expulsion to the South Loop?

Nanhetao is the famous Mu Us Desert in later generations, but the current terrain is always different from the terrain of Wang Ju's later generations. Although the terrain in the northwest has deteriorated badly since then, it is still not as bad as that of later generations.

Just like Juyanhai, there are only a few small lakes left in later generations, and now the area of the two "seas" is almost equivalent to the area of Poyang Lake when it was flooded, so it is called the sea.

There is also the Shiyang River in the north of Liangzhou, its upper source comes from the two Shiyangze in the Tengger Desert, all dried up in later generations, but now the area of the two lakes is almost the same size as Chaohu Lake. Several large deserts in the territory of Western Xia were rarely populated in later generations, especially the Tengger Desert and the Badain Jaran Desert, but now there are a large number of nomads living in the three deserts, and these nomads sometimes harass the Western Xia, so the Western Xia also placed three castles in the Badain Jaran Desert to deter these few nomadic groups in the desert.

However, this kind of terrain was very unsuitable for the Song army, including the Liao army.

Therefore, Liaoxing Zong's summer invasion was defeated in this desert, and when Li Jiqian rose, he used this desert area to hide from the Song army, and after the defeat, he sent an envoy to surrender and fled into the desert himself, and the Song Dynasty was forced to have no choice, so he had to watch Li Jiqian grow stronger day by day.

In the future, it will still be one of the most troublesome areas in the Song Dynasty.

So since last year, the Song Dynasty has been continuously expelling people to this desert.

These people were expelled to the desert with nothing, and they had to eat and drink, so forcing them to fight with the tribes in the desert would also weaken the tribes in the desert.

In fact, it is a scaled-down version of Wang Ju's tactics of attacking and attacking Jiaozhi.

The stalemate continued on the front line until the beginning of October, when the people of Hongxia and Xia were almost expelled together. And Zhang Qi also asked the sergeant to harvest the crops planted by the people of the two states. The ancient Great Wall over there is almost finished. Three or four forts were also built on this section of the Great Wall Ridge, and the Song army slowly withdrew the army and ended the stalemate.

However, this stalemate undoubtedly made the economy of Western Xia even worse.

At this time, Helan Shi also attacked.

In fact, it was a good attack last year, but Ali Gu betrayed and forced Wang Ju to postpone the summer time, so it was placed this year.

Han Yun began to sell a large number of Helan stones.

The reason why the price of a good Helan inkstone even exceeds that of Duan inkstone now is that Wang Ju and the imperial court jointly hyped it up. The second is that its output is very low now, ninety percent of it is either circulated in the market, or hoarded in the hands of Han Yun, not that there is no Helan stone, but with the technology and manpower of Western Xia, it is no longer possible to mine more Helan stone.

However, millions of Helan stones were thrown into the market at once, and if all of them were made into inkstones, they could ensure that the literati and writers of the Song Dynasty had two or three pieces of Helan inkstones, and they would talk about what was rare and expensive.

It was only a month, and the price of Helan stone was beaten back to its original shape. Even the best Helan inkstone is not as expensive as a piece of Yi inkstone.

This sell-off has affected countless people.

Especially Western Xia. The Western Xia also issued copper coins, and the workmanship was not bad, but because of the lack of copper, the amount of coinage was very small, so it was almost equivalent to saying that the Western Xia was a country without its own currency.

Therefore, the equivalent amount of this wealth is not standard compared to the Song Dynasty, and the copper coins issued by themselves are negligible, too few, mainly copper coins from the Song Dynasty, gold and silver, cloth, their own livestock skins, and jade from the Western Regions, and now they have to add one of the most important things, that is, Helan stone.

With the failure of the war, the people were struggling to make a living, and the prices in the Western Xia were also soaring, including tea, cloth, and porcelain in the Song Dynasty.

As a result, many tribes and nobles were hoarding Helan stones, and most of the chiefs also specialized in the science of identifying the advantages and disadvantages of Helan stones.

Now the hard pass of Helan stone far exceeds that of livestock, and even exceeds the copper coins and silk exchanges of the Song Dynasty, and it is virtually equal to the most important currency of Western Xia.

Think about the impact of the depreciation of fiat currency on the people during the Republic of China, or the impact of the collapse of the Soviet Union on the severe depreciation of the ruble at the end of the Soviet Union.

Some nobles even borrowed a lot of debts in order to hoard Helan stones. Even in the treasury of Western Xia, he also controlled a large number of Helan stones, and regarded it as the most important wealth.

But in the blink of an eye, Helan Stone has depreciated hundreds of times, or even nearly a thousand times, how much impact will it have on Western Xia? The wealth of the entire Western Xia can be said to have shrunk by more than half, and some nobles were forced to commit suicide...... The rest of the nobles, more than half, because of this incident, they are no longer worth a nobleman, almost the same as the commoners, not as good as those tribal leaders who still have some cattle and sheep in their hands.

Not only the Western Xia, but also some merchants in the Song Dynasty were forced to die because of this impact.

However, no one sympathizes with this, you follow the paddling and speculation, the price of Helan stone has risen, you are rich, and Western Xia is also rich.

The Song army retreated, and Liang Yiqi immediately retreated the three armies and hurriedly returned to Xingqing Mansion to discuss with Xiao Liang.

"Big brother, you can't count on the Liao Kingdom," Xiao Liang said.

With the Song Dynasty sending troops to Yinzhou again, the Western Xia sent an envoy to the Liao State for help, and the Song Dynasty sent a large army to destroy the Western Xia, hurry up and save us.

But Yelu Hongji is now having a headache for Liaodong, and Wang Ju is using troops to Tubo, and he came to fight Xia. Well, you'd better fight slowly, we don't have the heart to care about you.

However, Xixia didn't know that there had been changes in Liaodong, so this pair of baby brothers and sisters hated the Liao State as a big pimple, and they also had no hope for the Liao State.

Liang Yikui was worried, at this time Wang Ju had come to Lanzhou, and often went to the front line to inspect, and even rode to Xiaoguan to inspect in person, which shows that the Song Dynasty basically pacified Hehuang, otherwise Wang Ju would not be able to pull out.

But the Western Xia is getting worse and worse year by year, although the Song Dynasty did not occupy Xiazhou Yinzhou again, but Xiazhou Yinzhou basically became a pile of ruins, in these two or three years, it is not recoverable, although some measures have been taken to make up for it in the Yanzhou area of Lingzhou, the same vitality is greatly damaged.

What's even worse is the Helan stone attack, which led to the destruction of many families, including the Xixia treasury also shrunk by half, the autumn harvest was not long over, there were many people who could not eat, and many people at the border took the initiative to flee to the Song Dynasty, but for some reason, this time the Song Dynasty did not take in the people of the Western Xia, on the contrary, they were expelled back.

Think about what the situation will be in Western Xia when the spring of next year comes.

Liang Yiqi walked a few steps and said, "Little sister, it's really not good, let's surrender to the Song Dynasty." ”

"Surrender?" Xiao Liang shouted sharply.

"It's not really surrender, it's surrender."

"What's the difference?"

"We sent envoys to the Song Dynasty, first, to ask for guilt, second, to cede the territory, to recognize that the Song Dynasty occupied the Yinzhou Longzhou Huizhou area, third, not to give it to the year, and fourth, to promise the Song Dynasty 10,000 war horses every year."

"No way!" Xiao Liang immediately vetoed, this woman is even crazier than Da Liang.

"Little sister, listen to me, this Taibao is too powerful, we are all invincible, so we have lost consecutive battles, and the voices of nobles and tribes who oppose the war in the country have also become stronger, in this case, we continue to fight with the Song Dynasty, maybe the country will rebel itself, and the Liao State will not support, and the destruction of Great Xia is imminent!" Liang explained that this is also the result of his reflection during this time.

"We put forward such humiliating conditions, and the Song Dynasty still doesn't agree, then all the tribes of our Great Xia Kingdom will unite, and at the same time, we can pass these conditions on to the people of the Liao State to let them know the seriousness of the matter."

"The Song Dynasty lacked horses, we don't want to give them a lot of horses, and some ministers will be moved. Moreover, there will be many ministers in the Song Dynasty who are unwilling to go to war, so that the Taibao will not be supported by many ministers. Under the rise of one and the other, the Taibao will still force the war, and our country will meet the enemy with the spirit of mourning the army, and the morale is high, maybe the Liao State will send troops to help at that time. The Great Xia Kingdom will be able to survive this dangerous period. ”

Xiao Liang was still not happy.

Liang Yikui said again: "Little sister, is the so-called commitment really important? ”

Well, this sentence made Xiao Liang's eyes light up.

The Song Dynasty and the Liao State still attached more importance to this promised thing, but for the Western Xia, it was like a fart.

"Also, do you know the phrase "Gong Gao Zhen Lord? Why did the Taibao say that for three years, he made the Song Dynasty rule, and now he has destroyed Tubo, and the credit has reached this point, he can't stay any longer, so he says three years. ”

"Why did he do that?"

"Broad literati popularity!" Liang Yiqi said disdainfully.

But he didn't know that it was this kind of integrity that made this nation stand tall, even if it was the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but this spirit was unthinkable in their Han people, or they couldn't understand it.

"And we can also send scouts to release some rumors, for example, that Taibao is ten times more powerful than Liu Yu......"

"Who is Liu Yu?"

"Little sister, you have to read more books, Liu Yunai is the founding emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, he was originally a military general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and his ability to lead the troops may still be above the Taibao, and later took the Jin soldiers to take Guanzhong, because of the high merit, some ministers in the Eastern Jin Dynasty were dissatisfied with him, so he immediately replaced the emperor of the Jin Dynasty with a large army and became the emperor himself."

"Huh......"

"As long as these measures can be implemented, then we will survive the difficulties in the past two years, and as soon as the Taibao leaves the Song Dynasty, our Great Xia can be reborn from the ashes!" (To be continued.) )